The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-12-21
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

LONDON STREET ARABS. Bv Mrs. II. NJ.
Stanley This dainty volume can hardly claim
attention as q literary work, as with the eXcep-
tion of a few DISQUALIFICATION pages of intro.
duction it consists of n series of sketches of Lon
don street life. These sketches appeared origi-
nally as illustrations to accompany serials and
short stories in a number of English publica-
tions and were collected and issued in the pres
ent form about the time the engagement of the
artist, Miss Dorothy Tenant and Explorer
Stanley was announced. Mrs. Stanley is an art
ist of much ceverness, and her rendering of
London street life is deft sympathetic, and
seemingly truthful There are strength, action,
and lifelileness in herfigures of the little gamns
of whom she coniesses herself so fond, and the
volume before us will be found interesting far
beyond what might be expected from its scope.
1t is published by Cassell s. Co., and is for sale in
Washington at Brentanos.
SONGS FROM AN ATTIC. By John Ernest
MCCdnn From a New York attic, unmistaka-
bly,, these songs came, and the evidence Is abun-
dant that the attic not far above the street
as to escape the contamination of the common
place life surging ceaselessly and tumutuously
below. MIR. McCann sings with persistence and
at length, and on great variety of subjects, but
his voice is not notably mellitluous, and it fire.
Quently gets way off the key. In other words,
Mr.. McCnnn's verse is occasionally rocky in
rhythm, and there is not in it a suflicieucy of
poetic feeling nor ideas to atone for this techn-
cal defect, which our New York poet has in COM
mon with other poets of greater renown. Still
John Ernest's volume contains some things
worth reading, and it has been beautifully gotten
up by the Brentanos who publish it, and at
whose establishment in this city it may be had.
The Frederick a. Stokes Company have issued
in ornamental bindings and with a profusion of
Photographic process illustrations 1.-The Priu-
cess and other poems of Teunyson and John
Anster's translation of Goethe's Faust" The
volumes are well adapted for holiday gifts The
illustrations in the Tennyson volume are dis
tinctly modern in style and tone, and the photo
them of softness. The paper used is of very
fire quality, and the pages are bright and hand
some. They are for sale in Washington at Rob-
ert A. Miler's and Brentano's.
One of the most remarkable lists of contribu-
tors ever brought together in single number Of
a magazine will be presented in the January
issue of the Ladies' Home Journal, of Philadel-
phia. The authors in that number will include
Henry NJ. Stanley, DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
eX-President Hayes, Hon. John Wanamaker
Joseph Jefferson, james Whitcomb Riley, Gen.
Lew Wallace, George w. Childs, Robert j. Bur-
dette, Edward Belamy, George W. Cable, Julian
HAWTHORNE Mrs. Lyman Abbott, and nearly
twenty others.
An artistically bound holiday edition of Miss
Cynthia L. Cleveland's we'll known story of Army
life entitled His Honor; or, Fates Mysteries"
has just been issued and may be found in all the
book stores, 1t VIII form a very acceptable
Christmas gift.