The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-31

and color, brilliant group indeed, and
| among the welcome portraits given are
those of Owen Maredith, author of
LUCILLE" and NJ. Jules Simon, whose
''Nouveaux Memories" Just now attracts
an admiring public. A timely paper fol-
lows on romantic episode in the worlds
history, which concerns us all more or less,
by Emanual Spencer, entitled "Courtship
and Marriage of Queen Isabella" which Is
accompanied by the fair sovereign's refined
looking portrait. The frontispiece to the
number Is another in this magazines gallery
OF rare portraits of Columbus, being the fac
siInile of an engraving made in Holland in
1911. There Is large number of other
valuable articles. Magazine Of American
History, 743 Broadway, New York.
The September issue of st. Nicholas is in
troduced by ''The Song of the Goldenrod,"
written by Grace DEMO Litchfield and illus
trated by Laura c. Hill, whose froutispiece
+ drawing has proved successful trap to
catch a sunbeam" Perhaps if this illus
trated poem had been in time TO serve as
campaign document the result of the vote
Tor state flower in New York might have
been less pleasing to the advocates of Queen
Rose. Charles f. Lummis begins III this
number a series of Tee Wa aim, of Pueblo
| Folk stories which are truly remarkable.
| OF unknown age, these tales are abo-
as eagerly examined by wise professors
skilled in such lore as by their chubby
children who Gaze nothing for compare
tive mythology" but know good story
when they see it. The Ilstrating by George
Wharton Edwards is remarkable for its
force and originality of motive. The fore
| going are only few Of the good things in
the number. The Century Company, Union
Square, New York.
| ha 81 -
voted to steamships appears in the Septem-
Der number, and relates to the famous lines,
including those which England sends to the
east. These papers will now be made into
| a handsome volume. An article on "Odd
| American Homes" by John r. Spears. is an
account of such habitations as one finds in
the Adirondacks or In the far west-the
cabin and the "dug-out.n 1t makes an at
tractive feature of the number. James
Ricalton contributes an out-of-the-way
paper of travel-"The City of the Sacred
! Bo-Tree"-the same being an account of an
ancient and once>populous city of Ceylon
| Mr.. Moscheles' Browning paper is an inter
esting feature and so is ga China Hunter
in New England, !" by Alice NJ. Earle. Serb
Iler, as usual. is readable all the way
through. Charles Scribner's Sons, New
| York.
many articles for family reading, is full of
the sort of stories children find satisfaction
in; of course everybody reads 1.-THE Pep
pers," first, for just what Polly will do is
as yet mystery to us all, but the short
stories will be read next. Mrs Clara Doty
Bates RED Lilies" is without doubt taken
| from life. 1.-TWO Fishermen" by Rowland
| E. Robinson describes q Quaker boys holi-
| day. What happened IAN Because Blue
| bird Sang" is eloquently told by Mrs Maud
Lincoln Langley. Aunt Betsey's Cap
Box" is an amusing family incident. by
| Clarissa Potter. THE Sovereign of As" is
perhaps the best story yet written by Mrs.
! NJ. e. W. Sherwood. D. Lsthrop Company
Boston, Mass.
In the September number of the Atlantic
there is story by Rudyard Kipling, en-
tiled "The Disturber of Traffic" 1t is in
an entirely new vein. Another short story,
"An Innocent Life" is contributed by
Lille B. Chace Wyman, whose Poverty
| Grass" is remembered as a collection of
| powerful short stories on social questions
| The number contains a collection of re-
markedly good articles, and one hardly
knows how to pick out the chief plums
from the pudding. Octave Thauet has a
second paper on "Town Life in Arkansas, u
which will amuse everybody, even the Ar
kansans. John Burroughs has left his fields
for "A Study of Analogy" Houghton,
Miftlin & Co., Boston.