The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-29
BOOK NOTICES.


CHUCK PURDY: The Story of q New
York Boy. By William o. Stoddard.
l2mo. cloth, S1S pages. 81 %. Boston: D.
Lothrop Company. A new story by the
author of Dab Kinzer" is always welcome
70 boys and girls and to the puzzled parent
is often direct solution to the problem
what shall | getw In this story, to which
Mr.. Stoddard has given the odd title.
Chuck Purdy." he has presented an almost
Photographic reproduction of the New York
boy OF to-day-not the impossible creation
that so many writers for the young have
called the New York boy, the creature of
the street, the dock or the home of the So
called gentleman" but real, live, active.
inquiring, go-ahead New York boy, who
goes to school and helps in his fathers gro
Gerry store and goes grabbing in the Harlem.
FAR WEST SKETCHES. By Jessie Benton
Fremont. 12mo, clotl. BOG pages, 81. Bos-
ton, ID. Loshrop CoLI pany. Almost from
her youth hiss Mrs. Fremont been from
tiers woman. As the dauxhGa of Senator
Benton OF Missouri she saw aud heard
much of tbs growing west in the DAYS
wnen her father was a power in the coun-
els OF the nat on; as the wife of Frem mt.
tne Pathfinder" only recently gone to the
great maj )rity, she has been a part of
much that is stirring, dramatic and absorb
ing in the story of the great west. This
collection of Far West Sketches tho
latest contribution TO American literature
from her pen, is based upon what shs has
seen and what she has been part of on the
far western frontier.
MAGAZINES.
The October Arena is a credit to Boston.
progressive wide-awake and scholarly.
The table of contents embraces the names
or many leading thinkers, among whom are
Dr. George +. Shrady of New York. who
writes entertainingly and forcibly against
the death penalty; Prof. James I. Bixby.
who discusses CARDINAL Newman and the
Catholic reaction ii his interesting and
scholarly way. The No-Name paper is on
the "Postmaster General and the Censor
ship OF Morals" and deals with the recent
attempt on the part of the postal depart
ment to suppress Count Tolstoi's latest work.
In manner we'll calculated to arrest the
attention of liberty-loving Americans. w.
IL. h. Murray pleads in his inimitable
manner for an endowed press Thaddeus
Z. Wakenan's papsr on Our Unchurched
Millions" while distinctly radical, is provo.
catlve OF thought. The Arena Publishing
Company, Pierce building, Copley Square,
Boston.
Harper for Octoberjhas for its leading
paper "Antoine's Moose Yard" by Julian
Ralph, who narrates his own experience
during hunting expedition in a remote
part of Canada Mr.. Child continues his
valusble series of South American papers
with an article on the agricultural resources
and methods of Chill. Joaquin Miller's
Newstead Abbey article will interest many
readers, and another literary feature is
offered in. George Ticknor Curtis recol-
lections of N. p Willis and Lydia Maria
Child. L. e. Chittenden's account of the
new moneys of Lincoln's administration
describes their origin, growth, and value,
Prof. j. s. Newberry, in an account of the
first American oil well, writes an interest
ing chapter in the history of great in
dustry. Harper & Brothers, New York.
The Forum for October contains eleven
good articles any one of which to the aver
age reader is worth more than the price of
the number. Bishop Huntington's article
on Social Problems and the Church" con-
tains much food for thought, and the ques-
ton of THE Decadence of New England"
is handled in a uasberly manner by George
s. Boutwell, Edward Bellamy has some
thing interesting to say ABOUT the "First
Steps Toward Nationalist" aud Helen
Ekin Starrett wriSes charmingly about
THE Future of Your Daughters" The
article of Prof. j. Peter Lesley about ''The
Idea of Life After Death" will excite gem
eral interest. The other articles Will we'll
repay reading. Forum Publishing Com
pany, 233 Fifth avenue New York
The conclusion of Mrs Deland's Sidney
occupies the first place in the Atlantic for
October. DR.. Holmes "Over the Teacupsn
relates to marrying and giving in marriage :;
and, moreover, describes a visit to a certain
college for women, not thousand miles
from Boston. The first chap .ers of forth
coming serial story by Frank Stockton are
announced for next month; other
striking papers of the number
are consideration of Henrik Ibsen's life
abroad and his later dramas, MIR. Fiske's
Benedict Arnold's Treason" and Prof.
Royce's paper on Gen. Fremont. Hough-
ton, Miff1in g. Co., Boston.
Scrtbner's Magazine for October con-
tains articles of life and adventure in un-
usual places and circumstances, as on a
cable snip, in the Maine lake region, and on
board the White Squadron in port; others
about interesting natural phenomena like
Prof. Shaler's second paper, and the descrip-
ton of destructive sand waves; articles of
great practical value, like Mrs Sylvanus
Reeds paper on private schools for girls,
and John W. Roots on western city archi-
lecture; good fiction and poetry, and many
TiCu 1iluSUTablOuS. OudTt9S ScrlOQerS OOuS,
New York.
The Cosmopolitan for October is a most
excellent number. 1t is being steadily i'm
proved. Although only in its tenth month
under its new management, is already
recognized as one of the most interesting
publications of the day. 1t is sesking SUD-
scribers everywhere and obtaining then.
The proprietors believe that the CosmopoL-
itdn has only to be examined to secure a
permanent subscriber. The articles in the
October number are all on timely topics aud
are we'll written. Fifth avenue, Broadway
and Twenty-fifth streets, New York.
The Overland Monthly for September
contains a number of articles which are
certain to prove interesting to the general
reader. Nearly all of them have the flavor
of the far west. 1t handles western life as
no other magazine Goes. 4?0 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.
A BAGGAGE MANS STORY.