The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-28
BOOKS IND AUTHORS.

PASSION FLOWERS AND THE CROSS.
By Emma HoaUdrd Wight. AS the rather in
felicitous title of the book indicates, this is
story of religion and sin. 1t is an ambitious
essay by an evidently inexperienced hand, but
it is worked out with vigor and determina-
tion that excuses in a great degree the lack of
literary art. The leading characters are a
dashing and unscrupulous woman of the
world, given UP to selfish pleasure: Bernard
Gray, society man whose manhood is sapped
and his character ruined by life of gay self
Indulgence, and Father Faber, a priest who
fails to fly from temptation and so falls into
sin. The book has good moral purpose.
Brentano's have just published "The Bache-
lor's Club" new work of whimsical drollery
by 1. Zangwill, the well-known English humor-
ist and editor of Ariel. In this book Mr. Zang-
will has struck fresh vein of bizarre humor,
and embodied in it a good deal of topical
satire as well as quantity expressed wisdom and
epigrammatic knowledge of the world.
MIR. John B. Grant has written book which
holds peculiar place of its own among books
relating to out-of-door life. 1t is published by
the Scribners and is called "Our Common
Birds" 1t contains sixty-four illustrations
from photographs of the birds, each illustra-
ton accompanied by description of the birds
plumage. habits, and such other information as
sters
Every year brings new additions to Scrib-
ners popular yellow-parer novel series. The
volumes recently issued are Mr.. Cables
"Grandissimes." Mr.. frank r. Stockton's
''Rudder GraDgers Abroad" Mr.. Richard
Harding Davis "Gailegher and Other Sto-
ries," NIT. A. Janvier's Color Studies'' and
"A Mexican Campaign" Mr.. H. G.. Burners
"Zadoc Pine and Other Stories." and Mrs
Burnett's earlier stories.
Mr.. w. T. Hornaday, the author of 1.-TWO
Years in JUNGLE" has recently completed
new work entitled 'Taxidermy and Biological
Collecting" which the Scribners will publish
Immediately. 1t is complete handbook for
the amateur taxidermist. collector, osteolo-
gist, museum builder, sportsman. and tray-
eler, and contains everything that the practical
worker wants on the art of collecting, pre-
serving. and mounting animals, birds, fishes,
and reptiles.
worthington Co.. New York, announce for
immediate publication as No. 10 of their
popular International Series a novel which is
bound to excite more than ordinary interest.
The title is "Columbia: A Story of the Dis
covery of America" ;" by John II. Musick. 1t is
real American historical novel, as its title
imports, containing faithful pen pictures of
the time OF the discovery of the New World.
A love story is interwoven with the incidents,
making it especially attractive. The book is
profusely illustrated.
Mile. V. Prudhomme. teacher of long expe-
rence and unusual intelligence, seems to have
made valuable addition to the stock of French
text books in her French System of Sound,' a
careful development of the natural method of
language teaching. The work is embraced in
six neatly printed pamphlets and its chief aim
is to give the student thorough understand
ing OF the French pronunciation. This is done
by simple exercises in which the sounds are re-
peated again and again until they are 80 inn
pressed on the students mind that they cannot
be forgotten. Everything about the method is
simple, clear, and carefully prepared. and it
seems we'll calculated to give the student the
knowledge sought in the briefest possible time
ELEVEN Possible Cases." Cassel's Sunshine
| Series. is a book written by eleven popular
| authors. 1t is a collection of short stories by
| Frank II. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Henry
Harland Sidney Luska,) Nym Crinkle, Maurice
| Thompson, Brainard G. Smith, Anna Katherine
| Green, Franklin Fyles, Ingersoll Lockwood,
Joaquin Miller and Kirk Munroe. The title de-
! scribes the contents of this clever volume.
| Each author was asked to write the story of a
| possible case, something that could hardly be
| expected to happen and which yet had about
| it an air of possibility. The idea was an in
| Renious one and at once piqued the inventive
talent of the writers. The result is collection
of tales which, for play of the imagination has
| seldom been equaled.