The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-02
BOOK NOTICES.


BOOK NOTICES.
ENGLISH AUTHORS; a handbook of En-
glish literature, from Chaucer to living
writers, by NJ. Rutherford, Athens, Ga.
The Constitution Book and Job Print,
Atlanta, Ga. Cloth. This is a valuable
work for the school room or the library.
The author has spared no pains to make it
what it Is intended to be-a guide to stu
dents in the study of English literature.
The whole fie is covered, triefy but care
fully, and one who has studied the volume
cannot fail to have a pretty fair general
idea of the best authors in the English
language. The volume contains quite
number of fine portraits of authors. The
author is to be congratulated upon her
work.
THE DAVIS MEMORIAL VOLUME; or, Our
Dead President, Jefferson Davis, and the
Worlds Tribute to his Memory, by J. w.
NJ. Jones, d. D. B. F. johnson & Co.,
publishers, Richmond. Va; cloth. This
volume is published by authority of Mrs.
Davis, and is dedicated to her. Its fronts
piece is handsome steel engraving of JEFF
ferson Davis as he appeared during the war.
1t is handsomely illustrated with some of
the most striking incidents Of Mr.. Davis
life. Besides an interesting and compre-
hensive sketch of Mr.. Davis life it contains
many of the tributes to his memory.
AN ORACULAR DELUsIoN. By Frank
Howard Howe. John W. Lowell Company,
$50 Worth street, corner Mission place,
New York, publishers. Paper, 25 cents.
A rather strange story and one that will be
read with considerable interest.
KILBURNs; Novel By Annie Thomas.
Frank F. Lowell & Co., 142 and la Worth
street. Paper, 80 cents. This is one of
Lovell's international series, and rather
readable story it is.
KEsTELL OF GREYsToNE. By Esmi
Stuart. Frank F. Lowell & Co., 142 and IA
Worth street, New York Paper, so cents
a. very good story is this, and one calculated
to interest almost any one.
The CoRsICAN BROTHERS. By Alex
andre Dumas. T. B. Peterson & Bros,
Philadelphia. Paper, 25 cents. The fame
of this author and of this story is world
wide.
MAGAZINES.
The June number of Harper's is par
ticularly good one. 1t contains the first in
stallment Of Alphonse Daudet's Port Ia
rascon; The Last Adventures of the Illus
trious Tartarin." In the Introductory
chapter NJ. Daudet humorously alludes to
some of the consequences personal to himself
of his having poked fun, in the Tartaran
stories, at the little province town OF Taras-
con on the banks of the Rhone. Laurence
Hutton contributes singularly complete
article on 1.-THE American Burlesque," re-
viewing the subject from the very begin
ming of the history of the stage in this coun-
try down TO the days of jefferson, Lewis,
Crane, Robson, DeWolf Hopper, Wilson,
Powers, Neil Burgess, Dixey and Goodwin
In the EDITORS Study" w. D. Howells re-
views the recent American drama. He is
severe upon American dramatic critics, but
courageous in his praise of American play
wrights, and incidentally of American act
ing Vicomte Eugene Melclior de Vogue
contributes an article entitled Through the
Caucasus. richly illustrated from dra wings
by t. de Thulstrup. One section of the
article describes Bakou, "the Black City,
with its great petroleum wells, and another
carries the reader to Koutais, where every
man that you meet is a walking statue of
Olympian Jupiter" Harper Brothers, New
York.
Scribner's Magazine for June is Stan
ley number, containing the only article
which he will contribute to any periodical,
and the first authoritative word from him
on many of the most important features of
his great expedition for the relief of Emin
Pasha. This article fills thirty-two pages
of the issue. and is a most graphic and exclt-
ing narrative from first to last. 1t opens
with solemn acknowledgment OF Stanley'i
belief in Gods help to him when he was
helpless in the forest solitudes of Africa.
faaf Y1tfQrlU unahIn u ha
ito attribute our salvation to any other
cause than to gracious providence, who,
for some purpose of mis- own. preserved us"
The larger part of the article is detailed
account of the wonderful journey through
the forest in search of food, and the relief
of Nelson's starvation camp. The iliustra-
tions are unique-presenting the first results
of modern Photographic methods as applied
in places never before seen by white man,
as well as drawings from sketches made by
Mr.. Stanley himself. One of the most
striking pictures shows group of the
Wambutti pigmies-a new race discovered
by Stanley. Scribner's Magazine, New
York.
The question of the hours of labor is dis
cussed by Gen. Walker in the Atlantic for
June The author of the article will be re-
membered as the writer of a criticism of
Mr. Bellamy's Looking Backward" which
appeared in the atlantic and to which Mr..
Bellamy replied at some length. Charles
Dudley Warmers article on the Novel and
the Common SCHOOL, is keen analysis of
the duty of the public schools in the supply
of reading for our young citizens. This and
Hannis Taylor's consideration of 1.-The Ma
tional House of Representatives: Its Grow
ing Inefficiency as Legislative Body" are
the two articles which make up the solid
reading of the number. Miss Repplier has
a whimsical paper called ga Short Defense
of Villains" Houghton, Miffiin & Co.,
Boston.
The Metropolitan for June has a very in
teresting tables Of contents The frontis-
piece is an excellent picture of Murat Hal
stead. An article that will attract great
deal of attention is "Side Chances at Ameri
can Beauty" by Eleanor Woodle. Nearly
ali the pictures are those of southern girls.
Miss Bisand continues the interesting ac-
count Of her trip around the world. ''Some
Curious Phropbecies," by w. S. Walsh, is an
article that is pretty certain to attract at
attention. The miscellany and the fiction
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