Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-25
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

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New York.
Book, sir, book' It's the titlei" This
is a reported saying Of a noted publisher
when asked to give the key 10 book selling.
II ia ms good thing to have an imposing
name in literature as well as society. We
are accustomed to approach title some
what rs we do sign post, not hoping that
u will reveal the nature Of the road we are
TO travel, but anticipating that II will at
least enable us TO start in the right direc-
tion. In reading the title OF X. u. Black
more's new novel, Exit and Kitty" and
grasping the idea that II Is the
Christian names of man and a girl we
realize that we have reached our destina-
ton. The scene il laid in England thirty |
years ago; 1t Is a rather lengthy account OF |
Christopher or Kit and his Kitty" whose |
"waist is done around with narrow blue |
ribbon, the color of the sky, as her eyes
are" Kits uncle, aunt, and even the |
uncle's maid servant, seem To have done
most Of the courting between tho two.
Kitty's life being made miserable by a
wicked step mother and two equally
wicked step sisters, she seems to have
done the only sensible thing in her whole
life,--but then most people are clear.
headed in love, even IL muddled In
Otuef UllORS,-TunS OH 10 All, wOOfn zee
marrios. But we are only half through the
novel, for Kitty Is persuaded by lies and
tricks to leave her husband and return to
her father. II almost seems as IL the author
had allowed the story to move along in q
steady stream and finally end In an i'm
menss waterfall, for the conclusion Is
rather tragic. After the reunion of Kit
and Kitty, man, with leprosy, whom we
have never heard of before, appears on the
scene, followed by double murder and
suicide settling tho three villains of the
| tale. Although parts of tho story are
rather prosy and other parts equally exag-
| gerated, there are some very well drawn
| characters, especially the old uncle and
aunt. 1t Is book that most people would
enjoy, even II they had something else to
read"
Mr.. Henry Harland's Sidney Luska)
only essay strictly In the field of Juvenile
literature, "My Uncle Florimond," has so
far received the stamp of popular approval
as to have gone into third edition. He has
| gone to Europe for two years.
"The beautiful Emily Marshall" the
famous young belle of Old Boston, whose
beauty was NO remarkable that schools were
even let out that the children might see hsr
pass, is written about in the March Vide
Awahe by Frances A. Humphrey. The
portrait painted by Harding il the frontis-
piece Of tho number.
As an introduction TO tho more extended
volumes of Parkman the "Stories of
France" prepared by Miss A. NJ. Machar
and Thomas q. Marquis, gives the romance
of Canadian history, including the true
story of that brave Frenchman whom Mrs.
Catherwood has gloritied in her Romance
of Dollard."
ID. Lothrop company have just published
"The Catholic Man." q novel by Mrs. Law
renee Turnbull, and "Storics of New
France "-episodes of Canadian history
written up by Miss A. NJ. Machar and
Thomas q. Marquis.
A fine new portrait OF the late Robert
Browning, detached and printed on plate
paper accompanies the January number of
Book News John Wanamaker, Philadel-
phia). The magazine containsa sketch of the
poets life, and a review of his last work
Asolando," which includes several of his
| new poems.
School boys will be interested in an
offer made by The Youths Companion 10
present bunting flag, o by Is feet, with
forty-two stars, to that public school in
each one Of the forty-two states and terrific
yies, which shall send TO them the best
essay on "The Patriotic Influence OF the
American Flag When Raised Over Our
| Puhlic Schools" These ESSAYS will h,
, received until April 1. The award of the
flag will be made as near June / a. possi.
bic, In order that the successful school NAV
float tho "Stars and Stripes', upon the
Fourth of July.
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The recent change in the New York
Ledger is very significant In that II pre
, sents for consideration tho question. what
is tho most popular periodical literature OF
to-dayY Instead off large paper of eight
| p,yes such as II has beep in hvgono vears
the Ledger is now issued in sixteen pages
and instead of being filed with stories 81,
be continued in our next there are article,
| from the pens of MANY of the best writer's
r Professor w. c. Kitchin. of Cambridge, ha,
picturesque and vivid historical novel en-
5 titled 1.-THE Fall of the Christians. ~ He
. | has made "A speciality of Japanese history
) and tho story is based on manuscript,
which were discovered by the author
7 while he was occupyiug a distinpuisbe,
g scholastic position in Japan.
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thin 10 payes printed In colors win
, cover I'm water color. On the front will h,
|, nautical scenes, and on the back the fun