The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-25
BOOK NOTICES.

A MOTHER. By Schonberg Malot Bel
ford Company, IS and % East Eighteenth
street New York. Paper, so cents. This is
an interesting story, very intense and full
of domestic incidents.
DIsENCHANTMENT. By F. Mabel Rob-
inson. J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila-
delphia. Paper, so cents. This is one of
Lippincott's latest series oflnovels, and is
one Of the best of the series.
THE JEWS UNDER RoMAN RULE By
w. d. Robinson. G. T. Putnams Sons,
New York. This one of the series of the
Stories Of Nations. 1t is illustrated, and
contains in brief and compact form the
leading facts of the history of the Jews
under Roman rule. 1t is volume that the
general reader will find extremely valuable.
MAGAZINES.
Betfords Magazine for September is an
exceptionally good number. 1t contains a
fine table of contents. Quite a number of
the articles are by the best known writer's,
and are not only timely, but of very high
standard. The Bedford Company, New
York.
The Old Homestead is being steaily i'm
proved, and is a much more valuable and
desirable magazine than it was year or so
ago. 1t has great variety of reading mat
ter, much of which is of an excellent
quality. On account of its fashion notes it
is especially popular with the ladies' Davis
Bros, Savannah.
The September number of the Wide
A,OdIe will please the little folks Mrs
l. Ormlston-Chant, the popular English
lecturer, contributes a pretty action
,n.;,1 .1
Leonowens, the famous traveller, contributes
an anecdote article about THE Little
Hohenzollerns," with an engraving of NJ.
Lubke's recent painting of the entire Ger
man royal family. D. Lothrop Co.. Boston.
Mr.. Lowell's Inscription for Memorial
Bust of Fielding" though brief, is the most
remarkable piece of writing in the Atlantic
for September. DR.. Holmes. in his INSTALL
ment OF "Over the Teacups," discoursss on
the fondness of Americans for titles, and
gives lay sermon on future punishment,
and ends 1t, as do MANY preachers. wi tn
some verses. Mr.. Justin Winsor considers
the "Perils of Historical Narrative" aud
Mr.. j. Franklin Jameson contributes a
scholarly paper on Modern European His
Topography :" Mr.. Fiske adds an article on
the Disasters of 1880" and these three
! papers furnish the solid reading of the num-
Der. Houghton, Miffiin & Co.. Boston.
Scribners for August contains some
notable articles. R. F.. Zogbaun, in the
first of a series of articles on the new United
States navy, says Of the relations of officers
and men: Jack and his superiors get on
swimmingly together, and the close COM
panionShip of officers and men, which must
of necessity exist in the confined space of a
ship of war, is productive of a certain feel
ing of acquaintance, not to say friendship.
with one another, that goes a great
way toward softening the harshness of
discipline. Donald G. Mitchell ok. Mar
veD. in an article on The Country House. "
gives a "reminiscences of Washington Irving.
Prof Shaer Of Harvard, in an article on
Mature and Man in America" says: 1T
seems to me that it is rather to the physical
conditions of North America than TO any
primary incapacity on the part Of its in
digenous peoples to take on civilization that
we must attribute the failure of indigenous
man within its limits to advance beyond the
Lowest grades of barbarism. Charles Scrlb-
ner'S Sons New York