Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-24

America, but her sketches and letters have
 been carefully and intelligently edited. The book is handsomely printed and bound, and numerous full-psge i1lustrs- tions add beauty and value to the work, which, it is said, will be sold for the bene-
 fit of charity in which Mrs. Francis was
 greatly interested. Nims & Knight, Troy,
 N. Y. For sale by E. P. Judd.
 According to St. John," by Ameie
 Rives Chanler, published serially in the
 Cosmopolitan, has recently been issued in
 book form. It is story of life in Paris
 and abounds in excellent descriptive
 touches, the characters of the inmates of
 Maison Roget being very sharply and clear
 ly drawn. Yet the author would seem to
 have erred in her estimate of the heroine,
 her own creation. A girl so bright and
 brave as Jean would have had the courage
 to live, striving always to win the entire
 love of her husband; 6 woman with so
 much of Christian faith and confidence
 would hardly have misconstrued the words
 found in the gospel of St. John. Greater
 love hath no man than this, that a man
 lay down his life for his friends" as coun-
 selling and encouraging suicide. So much
 heroism and so much. morbid weakness are
 rarely to be found in the young, the gifted
 and lovable. John w. Lowell Co.,, New
 York. For sale by E. P. Judd.
 Recently issued numbers of Cassell's
 Sunshine series. "Tales of To-Day and
 Other Days," translated from the French by E. P. Robins. The object of the trans lator in grouping these tales was to con- trast the literary methods of fifty or sixty years ago with those of the present. The first four authors on the list, De Ausset, Karr, Gautier and Merimee, represent the former, or classic period, while sketches by Coppee, Bourget, De Maupassant, Clare tie and Zola, exhibit the varying styles, habits of thought and modes of e1pres- sion of the story writers of to-day. GA Girl in the Karpathians," by Menie Muriel Dowie. A cheap edition of that sprightly record of travel and adventure in Ruthe- | mia that brought immediate fame to the young writer. "The New Job," by Leo pold Von Sacher Masoch. Translated by Harriet Lieber Cohen. The work of a voluminous and successful writer, native of Austrian Poland. He is anti-German in his opinions; g student of nature, pro- gressive and independent, and aiming to portray life as he sees it. This story deals with his best-loved subject, the life and characteristics of the Galician peasantry. ''The House of Martha" by Frank R. Stockton. This novel, which has been en- joyed as a serial by readers of the Allan tic, abounds in the quaint and delicate hu- nor which characterizes MT. Stockton'i stories, though the absurd situations and fantastic conceits of some of them are | lacking. The fun is smile-compelling though quiet, fun, and there are some genuine Stocktonian surprises. Hough ton. Miffiin & Co.,, Boston. For sale by E. P. Judd.
 "The Johnstown Stage and Other Sto
 ries," by Robert Howe Fletcher, author ot
 "A Blind Bargain" etc. A collection ot
 short, graphic, picturesque stories, some of the life of the Sierras and the Califor mia slope, one a tale of the sea, and tn.
 last story of artist life in Rome. The | author is contributor to the Century and St. Nicholas, and is one of the most prom I ising of the company of writers on the Pa cific coast. D. Appleton & Co.,, New York. For sale by E. P. Judd.
 "Essays on English Literature" by Ed
 mond Scherer, with portrait and notes
 and an introductory biography by th'
 translator, George Saintsbury. These es | says are selected from the volumes of M | Schcrer's 'Etudes sur Ia Literature Con temporaine," and few of the topics are George Eiot," Thomas Carlyle,
 Shakespeare and Criticism" etc. 'It i: impossible to read criticism of M. Scher | ers," says the translator, "without being | informed, exercised;-it may not be anu | sing, it may be irritating, but if yor know enough about the subject yourself t.
 be able to see knowledge where it exist you can never pronounce it unimportant. Some of the essays are already we'll knowI 1 through the eulogies of Matthew Arnold Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Fol | sale by B. P. Judd.