The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-11
BOOK NOTICES.

rROM MANGER TO THRONE, embracing
New Life Of Jesus the Christ and history
of Palestine and its people, by Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage, D. D., published by the
J Historical Publishing Company, Phiadel-
phia. This is an elegant bound and superbly
| printed volume of over $50 pages. IL is a
deeply interesting volume, not only for the
| information it contains but also for its
| illustrations. There are over two hundred
OF these illustrations, being accurate copies
| OF the famous paintings of the old masters
which enrich the galleries and cathedral3 of
Europe. 1t also contains a grand panorama
| of the crucifxion in twelve colors and ten
feet in length, showing the city of Jeru-
salem, the surrounding country, and the
people and their costumes as they were on
the day of the worlds greatest tragedy.
The book is well calculated to interest all
classes of people.
The BEST FIFTY Books OF THE GREAT
EST AUTHORS, Condensed for Busy People.
| Benjamin R. Davenport, editor. Published
| by Nineteenth Century Book Concern, Buff
falo, N. Y. This volume will be found to
be an extremely valuable one to those who
wish to get some idea of the best literature
OF the world without studying the entire
works of the most famous authors. The
editor, in this book, has collected what
| appears to him to be the choicest bits from
the works Of fifty of the most famous
authors. An interesting feature of the
book is the portraits of the authors from
whose works extracts are made.
MASTER WILLIAM MITTEN; or, a Youth
OF Brilliant Talents Who Was Ruined by
Bad Luck. By Rev. Augustus B. Long
street, d. D., LID. J. w. Burke & Co.
printers, Macon, Ga. All who have read
Georgia Scenes" of which Mr. Longstreet
| is the author, will, in all probability, read
| this book. 1t is a delightful story ana deals
| with scenes and Incidents that appear ia
| miliar to Georgians who are acquainted
with the middle portions of the state.
THE LADY OF THE LENS; Novel. By
Frank Carleton Long. Illustrated. L. E.
Crandall & Co., publishers, 106 Wabash
avenue, Chicago. Paper, 25 cents. This is
| a sensational story and one that is good
| reading for a leisure hour,
MAGAZINES.
Belfords Magazine for May is an I'M
usually strong number. The paper which
will attract the most attention is the OPEN
ing one on "The Thirteen Superstition
Among the Fair Sex" Mr., AbarhauelI.
the author Of the paper, in his capacity of
Archivist OF the Thirteen Club in New
York, sent a circular to 100 Of the leading
women of the country asking for their
views on the subject. He received forty
one replies, twenty-nine of which he
prints with his article, with fac-simile sig
natures. Among these contributors are
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Lille Devereux Blake, Frances z.
Willard, Jenny June. Grace Greenwood,
susan B. Anthony, Amelia E. Barr, Mrs.
Frank Leslie. Marquise Clara LAMA. Fanny
Davenport, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and
Nellie Bly,. There is some very in
teresting reading among these replies
The complete novel is Captain Poison"
by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, the leading
Spanish novelist, translated by Rollo Og-
den. 1t is brilliant love story, full of dry
humor and excellent bits of character
painting, and abs)rbingly interesting from
first to last. Belford's Magazine Company,
New York.
With the May number, which is now
ready, Romance begins its second volume.
Already it has won place for itself in the
affections of the story reading public. The
sixty complete stories in the first volume of
Romance have all of them keen interest
ing, some of them intensely exciting, and
none of them in any way offensive even by
suggestion. The New York Story Club, to
which credit is due for these excellent
selections, has done its work with pains
taking thoroughness; and it has shown, too,
a correct taste and a keen appreciation of
the needs of the story reading world. New
York Story Club, so East Twenty-third
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