The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-18

| ~ :o'i5atiou, etc. FOR ministers the
DOCK is full of homiletical material in its
pest shape-of suggestion rather than state
hienE and every Sunday-school teacher
M 7, .,;1 ma It starting him on fresh topics.
o WIZ pc OF practical use to every one who
would De an Instructed Christian.
fasan proverbs also fed some sixteen
pages III the volume, including admirable
| aiticies on the proverbs of the HindoO the
airlcan, the Russian, the Chinese, the
spanish, the Italian, the Scotch and others
,JAaPAN, A SAILORS VIsIT-By Captain
ID. ID. COOK. New York: John B. Alden,
limo, cloth. 1873 pages, 80 cents.) In this
handsome little volume, put forth with
much modesty, the Captain. who says, ION
my Hrst voyage to Japan | became very
| much interested in the people and country
and while there availed myself of every
| opportunity to learn their customs. cere-
monies, traditions and legends, from the
natlVes as well as foreigners" presents in a
s snlaa compass an entertaining and most in
| teIestlns account of sights and people In
| Japan. The facts presented couId have
| peen padded out to make a yery large
| volume, but it is doubtful if it could have
oeei made more Instructive than the Captain
mas made this. 1t is a book that no one will
ever regret having read
| AUNT DoRoTHY-By Margaret J. Pres
| Ton; New York: A. d. F. Randolph & Co.
| Ol9th, w pages, TO centS.) In this little
VoIulhe the authoress, who has written sew
eFal very pleasant works, tells simple tale
4 piduldllOu lie before the
| war. 1t is story of what Christian love
| and affection did for the poor slaves. and is
intended TO prove that the bondsmen and
women were recognlZant when guided by
| one who, though stern, was always Just 1t
also contains, interviewer, neat little love
STORY about the son of Aunt Dorothy and his
cousin, these two being the Solicittlde of
Aunt Dorothy. when at one time she was
very sick, and, 1t was thought. at DEATHS
uoor. she however RECEIVERS and lives 10
see her hopes as to them realized For sale
by the American Tract Society, Market
street.
PAULINE-By Julian Hawthorne. New
Y ork: United States Book Company. $50
pages, cloth and paper) Under one cover
there is presented thlee stories by this we'll
known writer, whose style is original and
vigorous There are three thoroughly en-
loyaDle stories, or more properly three COM
plete novels, CONDENSED, terse and epigram-
matte. The titles are, Pauline" "Ellce
Quentin" and The Countess Ruby" They
are different In marked degree and it
would be difficult to say which OF them is
me most interesting. The story of Pauline"
IS one That II worked up for the stage would
make most acceptable cOmedietta. 1t is
issued as NJ. % of the American Authors
series. 10 be had at all the bookstores.
tIiE FRUITS OF CULTURE - BY Count
Leo lOlstol. (Boston: Benjamin Il. Tucker
Cloth, 1873 pages.) In this volume is pre-
sented a translation by George Schumm of a
author. This book has never been published
IN Russia. 1t is a twO-fo!d satire on cult
ure and splrltualism, and in the comedy
the follles OF the sO-called cultured classes
are exhibited IN humorous picture. fash
IONS, lads and mental freaks. The story
hinges on the effect of modern sprtualism
on an arlstOcra;lc family in Russia.
Marguerite, translated from the French
by George de Peyrebrune is one of the late
Issues from the press of the Bedford Com
ngf "a nj =.
nal Is exceedingly well told, and the trans
lator has given faithful reproduction in
English, but 1t has a strong French flavor
peculiar to sensational novels produced in
PallS. Inc story is that of young, country
girl. handsome as picture but ignorant as
Ignorant can be, who is met by Partisan
musical critic who induces her to leave her
country home and besOtted guardian and
1--we In Paris, where she is, through him, in
structed in the art of reading, writing and
the various ways of the metropolis This
girl taking advantage of her new education
and her beauty uses both to betraySthe man
who had brought her out. The point of the
story Is the wOman's passion for the man
she fancied after leaving the one who be-
friended her. The characters are well
drawn.
LovelPs Westminster Series, No. %, is
sued under the title of Under the Deo-
dars," contains i've neat little stories by
KudYard hipling meant to be read in rail-
way tId'lls, ana dlIdHStu anu duOIUeu LOT
that end. OF these stories the author says:
These ought to explain that there is no
particular profit in going wrong at any time,
under any circumstances, or for any consd-
GRAFTON. But that is large text to handle
ut popular prices; and ii | have made the
first rewards of folly seem too inviting, my
inability and not my intention is to blame"
IT,, BOOK also contains several IF the
AUTHORS departmental ditties. Published
BY tile United States Book Company. aud
TO be had at bookstores generally.
" Payne's Business Pointers" is the title
of handy volume of over 200 pages, pub
lished by the Excelsior Publishing house of
New York. 1t is a compact encyclopedia of
information which deals with subjects that
persons in business have TO know something
about almost every day. Besides numerous
tables giving information upon almost every
subject that business men have anything to
do with there is a dictionary of synonyms
and the new tariff laws
Lady Maude's Mania" a novel. by
George Manvillc Fenn an English writer
who has become great favOrite among tine
people Of England, has been published by the
United States Book Company of New York as
a volume of the Lowell international Series
of trst-caSS books. Mr.. Fenn'S works of
fiction have stood the test OF the eXacting
critics on English periodicals, and are being
appreciated IN this country.