The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-06-21
SUMMER READING.
Books to Take to the Coun-
try to Fill Up the Time
Between AmmuSe-
ments.
THE SHORT STORY CRAZE.
Notes on the Doings Of Jersey City
Society People in the Wan-
ing Season.

Visions of q beautiful country, green
with the freshest. sweetest foliage that
casts delightful shade about, gently
babbling brook murmuring soft iullabies,
and a big, comfortable hammock rocking
TO and fro in pleasant breeze, have
probably come to every one compelled to
remain In the CRY during the recent hot
spell. People are hnrryino away hoping
TO find the summer elysium.of their Wis
ion. After the place is found and one has
become thoroughly settled in 1t,
the question always arises. "How
shall amuse myself all day longSp
Tennis, boating and bathing. riding and
driving and picnics are all among the
summer pleasures, yet each day has
numerous spare moments. especially in
the middle Of it, when physical exertion
is impossible. Then it is that good
book, a hammock or comfortable chair
and shady nook are especially welcome.
With many who go away to stay all
summer, or even part OF the summer,
little thought is given to idle time that
always comes after dinner, and when
few good books have not
IN q remote part of the
trunk, 1T after happens that time hangs
heavily on ones hands, as in many of the
country places 1t requires considerable
time and trouble to obtain the literature
wanted. A little discretion should be
used In selecting the books to be taken,
for heavy reading is scarcely what is
wanted
SOME DELIGHTFUL BOOKS
Among the recent publications there Is
Simple pleasing stony with flavor or
love in it by John Habberton, called
fully entertaining. Another sketch
OF country life. with a sprinkle
of romance in it is "Rgle's Open
Gate by Mrs. Susan Teacle Moore. Both
of these are books that can be read TOR a
time, and then dropped, and when re-
sumed the interest IN them remains nm
abated. The Earlier Stories" by Mrs.
Francis Hodgson Burnett are being re-
published in two volumes. The first
volume contains three interesting Stories
.eThe0," Miss Crespiny'' and 'Lindsay's
Luck. The second volume has hup two
stories, pretty Polly Pemberton' and
Kathleen" These stories are written in
the natural entertaining style character
istic of this writer. and are pleasing sum
mer reading. Among other volumes Of
short stories Is q new one which Includes.
besides others, story by Bret Harte, "A
foaDpuO OIL OEeCu springs.
Eighteen clever short stories are con-
tanned in ssTiukleton's Crime, " by George
r. Sims, and Fourteen TO Onen avoluyle
of four stories bv Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps Ward is O book well worth read
ing. A most ingenious plot and an inter-
esting story are found under the unique
head of Fifty Years. Three Months, Two
Days. by julius Wolff. The stogy is
one of the Neckar Valley and is cleyeriy
told
A light pleasant work Of fiction is off
She VIII. She WHIP ny Mary A. Denison
and for those who enjoy the highly sensa-
tioHai, Not to The Swift by Lewis II.
Watson will prove good reading. Nam
monp by Mrs. Alexander is also
a pleasant story Of fictien.
Those who enjoy highly romantic
reading matter will Ike "The Sardonyx
Sealv BY Belle Gray Taylor. It Is 9 story
OF Normandy well told, romantic. but
improbable. George Meredith's recent
work, zone of Our Conquerors," Is a
most interesting story brightly written.
a new book by Edgar Fawcett. "a New
York Family and "A Field of Tares !"
by Clio Graves, will find favor with the
lovers of sensational literature, and those
who like the dramatic in fiction will be
interested IN Brooks Daughter" BY
Adeline Sergeant.
sATIRIcAL AND HISTORICAL.
A clever satire ON the absurdities OF the
DsvchOl9QIcal SCHOOL has just Deen pup
iished II as called "Fantasy" and is
written by Matilde Serao. Those who
enjoy something little heavier In the
reading line than the above will be In
terested in monk and Knight" By Frank
w. Gunsaulus. 1t is a story of the six
teenth century, and is replete with his
torical events. News From Nowhere"
a photographed work by William MGR
ris is somewhat after rte style of Bel
lamy's Looking Backward" The work
is prophetic and treats Of Socialism.
SHORT STORIES.
For readers who wish something new
in stories. nothing can be found better in
the way Of periodicals than the magazine
which bears the title of Short Stories,"
and. as the name suggests. is full OF
bright. interesting stories. Not only are
new stories found in it each month, but
many of the famous stories by great au-
thors are also revived. Recently Bull
wer,s ssTbe Haunters and The Haunted"
was reprinted under the title OF 1.-THE
House and the Brain" Another periodi-
cal which appeared soon after Short
Stories.n and is SO closely fashioned after
it as to suggest literary piracy, Is "Ro-
nance (which particularly excels in The
TRANSACTIONS of short stories OF famous
French authors. All of these books and
magazines are delightful summer read
ing, and will prove pleasant companions
iO' '1'e 'u''''D7' N EIDDA.