The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-18

collection of poems that are far above the
ordinary run of the poetry Of the times.
Many of them are very fine examples of the
poets art, and taken as whole the book is
one that will please the readers of verse and
will make a very acceptable volume for pre-
sentation at holiday time. Offered by the
Bancroft Company.
ELsKET-By Thomas Nelson Page. New
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l2mo. 2OS pp., SD In handsomely bound
volume the author offers to the reading
public five charming sketches, each OF
which is gem in different setting. They
represent pathos and hnmor and form a
collection that no one will ever regret having
read. Offered by the Bancroft Company.
IAN Automatic Wife," tale of the new
code Of honor, is the title OF new novel
written by William III. Ballou of New York
and soon to be issued by w. D. Rowland of
that city. This is the work in which II.
Rider Haggard was to have cOllaborated bad
not the new International Copyright Bill be-
come law. 1t is said that this novel ad-
yances a long way the new type of fiction
conceived by the American author and that
Mr.. Ballou has woven a master dramatic
plot around the foremost issues, political,
social and moral, of the times. The novel is
dedicated t. Christine Nilsson and contains
her authorized and dictated career in two
d
developed by environment as against genius
hereditary.
Tauchnitz Bros, the wei l-known German
publishers, have contracted the continental
rights for German and continental English
edition of Colonel Richard Henry Savage's
interesting and charming novel my Official
Wife" The novel will also be translated
into the French language and published in
Paris.
The Scranton Pa.) Times of recent date
says Sophie Gunsberg, the beautiful Mill
ist, privately executed some weeks ago in
Russian prison, is said to have been the
original of Colonel Savage's novel, My
Official Wife" Colonel Savage is said to
have met the fascinating intriguante in Paris
once and to have been completely taken by
her charms.
Messrs. Dodd. Mead & Co. of New York
have projected new series. intended espe-
cially for girls and women, on subjects of
special and peculiar interest to them. Three
volumes in the 'Portia Series" as it is
called after Shakespeare's model of femn-
inc knowledge and discretion, appear this
autumn. They are: "Chats with Girls on
Self Culture" by Eliza Chester, which the
mon charm and excellence; Physical De-
velOpment and Exercise for Women" by
DR.. Mary Taylor Bissell, aud "The Art of
Entertaining" by Mrs. NJ. E. W. Sherwood.
The DOCKS are limo In size.
Miss Elizabeth n. Little, whose two vol
umes. LOG Book Notes Through Life" and
of the Weather Bow on LifeS Voyage"
have had such phenomenally large sales,
has transferred these publications to
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. of New York,
who issued them this autumn, and who
her, entitled Watch, Ho! Watchl On
LIES Deep Sea-" All the pecullarities of
style and sentiment which have made Miss
Titles drawings appeal to so many people
are to be found in the new volume.
The Lawton Publishing Company of New
York has issued a neat booklet in which
there is offered to the public a story in
verse entitled The Angel of Park Place."
by ''Mai Fai," young lady. who has writ
ten several clever poems. 1t Is story OF
the terrible disaster in Park place. New
York, and the proceeds from the sale of the
booklet are to be devoted to a fund gotten up
for the relief of the sufferers by that ter
rible disaster. The moral of the story Is
that it is wOman's mission to lift men to
noble deeds by noble love.
A very entertaining novel entitled 1.-THE
author Of "The Bondsman" and other
works, has just been added to the Lowell
International Series" 1t is well written,
WIN g0Ou plot, ana IL mas u cnaEm tilaI
holds the reader from the beginning to the
last. Offered by Payot, Upham & Co.
"The Westerton Girls" pleasing short
story by that charming writer, Florence
Warden, is another addition to "LovelPs
Westminster Series" 1t is pretty story
that will not take up more than an hour in
the reading. Offered by Payot, Upham 81
Co.
princess Use" is beautiful German leg
end of the HAITI Mountains, which has been
translated into English by Miss Florence NJ.