Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-09

was elected president. Next year Buf-
faio, N. Y, or Boston, Mass, will en-
tertain the association, and in July, 1913,
during the worlds fair, it will be held
in Chicago. Samples of amateur papers,
circulars and other information concern
ing the National Amateur Press Associa-
tion. will be gladly furnished by writ
ing Enclosing stamp to
CHAs. E. LLOYD.
UNIVERSITY, CAL, August 5, 1891.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
Micheline, by Hector Malot, is a
Parisianized version Of Miss Moulton,
that tawdry play in which Clara Morris
makes sentimental people blow their
noses sonorously and wipe their eyes
furtively. A member of the old
noblesse marries a patent medicine
makers widow for her money, and of
course falls in love with pretty woman
whose husband is in Chile. Result:
baby, as usual Baby is abandoned in
such a way as to fall under the eyes of
the wife, who is easily persuaded by the
husband to adopt it, and thus the child
is kept with the father, while the wife is
ignorant of the relations between the
two. The husbands mistress comes
back and gets position as governess of
her own child. The result is whole
lot of complications, but everything ends
happy.
Micheline: Hector Malot. Donohue, Henne-
berry & Co., Chicago.
to the pen OF Alexander Dumas fills, but
mangled the story that it is hardly
~ tho holt or, -.
reading. 1t is in its studies of Ameri-
can character mainly funny. Mr.. Dumas
touches on boom city OF the west, and
it must be admitted that Westeria is
very reminiscent of number of Lower
California cities of three or four years
ago. He describes frontier shooting
electric light in one of these cities of a
day. The heroine of the book is a
Seminole half breed girl, who devotes
her life to avenging wrongs done to her
father, and in hating men, over whom
her beauty gives her all power. She
marries a man who is kind to her when
a girl. tires of him, gets divorce, and
in the last chapter marries him again
after he has killed the bad duke in an
American duel, and thus set free
beautiful girl who married the villain
for his title, and by his death is enabled
to marry the love of her girlhood.
People who like the modern French
sinthe frappee to a glass of water, will
find some bright things and many ab.
surd ones in the book.
An American Girl in Paris Alexander Dumas
ds. Donohue, Henneberry & Co., Chicago,
H.
Two books which are simply good
white paper spoiled by printers ink,
are The Madonna of Pass Christian and
Was 1t the Woman's Fault? The first
is simply vulgar and stupid and the Sec
ond is purely stupid.
The Madonna of Pass Christian. John F.
Ormsby. Was 1t the Woman's Fault? saville.
onohue. Henneberry Co., Chicago.
NOTES.
The payments to Bret Harte bv his
English publishers last year are said by
the Pail Mall Gazette to have reached
total of $4,000, while in America he
was paid only $1,000.
Julian Hawthorne. the author and
writer, has fad in chicken
raising. He has farm on Long Island,
where he INDUCES his propensity for
roosters and hens, and from which he
makes neat sum yearly in selling eggs
and poultry.
1t is said that although William Gull
len Bryant has been dead thirteen years,
his poems are among the best selling
books on the list of the Appletons, and
net considerable royalty to his family
each year. Even the poets translation
of Homer is steadily selling book with
its Boston publishers.
Mr.. BENZ. R. Tucker, of Boston, will
publish very shortly Russian Traits and
Terrors: A Faithful Picture of the Rus
sia of Today, by f. B. Lanin "a collective
signature, employed by several contrib
utors to the Fortnightly Review. This
work out-Kennan's Kennan in its de-
scription OF the atrocities practiced by
the Russian government, and includes
the ode written by Swinburne in justif-
cation of tyrannicide.
On the evening of July 16, the society
of authors celebrated the adoption OF
the American copyright act at the Ho-
tel Metropole, London. Lord Monks
well presided, and among the distin-
guished men present we're: Mr.. Robert
I. Lincoln, our minister to England;
Prof. Huxley, Prot. Bryce, William
Black, Bret Harte, Walter Pater, Lewis
Morris, Charles Dudley Warner, Louise
Chandler Moulton, Brander Mathews,
Thomas Hardy, Walter Besant, Sir F.
Pollock. Edmund Gosse, Rider Hag-
gard, Max O'Rell, Canon Doyle, w. W.
Westall, Theodore Watts, Oscar Wilde,
Mrs. Oscar Beringer, Justin Mccarthy
and son, Mono Caird. W. G. Wills, Os-
car Browning and Augusta Bierrell.
Amelie Rives has returned to the
United States, where she arrived soon
after the appearance of her latest novel
in the August number of the Cosmopoli-
tan. After nearly two years of silence
the new story of Miss Rives will be re-
ceived with the greatest interest by
those who enjoyed her earlier work.
Married, travelled and in every way
matured, her latest production is said to
be worthy of the talent which gave
such great promise. The scene is laid
in Paris, where the author has been liv-
ing for two years, and the heroine is
Virginia girl who is studying music
abroad with negro servant for chap
erone. The story has been illustrated
by Kate Gfeatorex, one of the most
promising of American painters in Paris,
and charming portrait of Miss Rives
is the frontispiece of the magazine.
No mans life can be fully written by
contemporary. Pace tua, James Bos-
well. If thine angry shade shall threat
en- vengeance, then shalt thou be re-