The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-05
BOOK NOTICES.

"a Family Likeness" by B. NJ. Croker.
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.
Paper. so cents. This story is a delightful
one. 1t is one of the authors best.
"Tales FROM Town Topics" The Town
Topics Publishing Company, 81 West
Twenty-third street, New York. These are
all short and bright stories.
1.-TWO Men and Girl" by FRANKLIN
W. Lee. The Price McGill Company. pub
fishers, st. Paul, MINI. This story is
rather startling one. 1t is full of sensations
and will attract attention.
| aladdin in London" by the author Of
the Mystery of Hanson Cab" Hough-
ton, Miffiin g. Co, New York. Wylly
q Clarke, Savannah. Cloth, 81 25. A
bright and charming story, one that will
be read by many with genuine pleasure.
"Uncle Remus and His Friends" by Joel
Chandler Harris, illustrated by A. B. Frost.
Houghton, Miflin & Co., New York,
publishers. For sale by Wyly &
| Clarke, Savannah. Cloth, 81 25. The whole
| country is familiar with the Uncle Remus
series by Joel Chandler Harris. They have
made the author famous They are almost
as well known in England as in this country,
and they are well worth reading.
MAGAZINES.
| The Christmas number of Fetter's South
ern Magazine is an excellent one The ar
ticles are Of high standard of excellence
and the illustrations are good. Fetter &
Shober, Louisville, KY.
Romancs for December is an excelIsns
number. 1t contains nineteen short stories
Of high standard. This magazine is rapid
| ly making its way into popular favor.
| Romance Publishing Company, Astor
place. New York.
The Arena grows in interest. The holt
idAy number is particularly noticeable for
the timely character Of Its articles and for
the vigorous manner in which the different
| subjects are treatel. The Arena Publish
ing Company, Pierce building, COpley
square, Boston.
In the December number Of the Atlantic
Monthly Mr.. Crawford brings bis serial
story, "Don Orsino," to an unexpected and
striking close. The chief attraction of this
number is a ooiisotion of letters that James
| Russell Lowell addressed to w. J. Stillman,
which are very delightful reading. Frank
| Bolles, whose volume. THE Land OF the
Lingering Snow" has given him a place
among the keenest observers of nature, has
/ a sketch entitled ''Alone on Chooorua ae
| Night, and Edward Everett Hales graphic
| papers on IA New England Boyhood" are
| continued, and are as interesting as ever In
their intimate personal sketches OF men aud
landmarks of old Boston days. Houghton,
! Miffiin & Co., Boston.
The ReUteU of ReUieiVs for December
sustains with remarkable enterprise and
ability the great reputation this magazine
has won for timsliness. exact pertinency
and wide range Of interest Among its al
most countless illustrations are groups In
| Guiding some thirty of the newly elected
| governors OF states. No other magazine
could possibly have secured and made such
| illustrations and actually embodied them In
its December number, for in many in
| stances 1t was not definitely known until
| the middle of November who were actually
| elected as governors. The editors review
of the election and his discussion of the re-
suits will attract wide attention. The edi-
torial department, entitled 1.-THE Progress
of the World" is unusually extended this
| month. ID Aston place, New York.
In view of the fact that Sir Edwin Arnold
will very likely be the next poet-laureate,
one turns with interest to his most enter
| tanning article in the December COsnlopoli-
tan on Japanese Watering Place" The
same number contains seven portraits of
Tennyson and interesting views OF his late
home and surroundings. Thomas German
has penetrated she mysteries of the silent
| Trappists' monastery with profane kodak
| Mureb Halstead discusses Varieties Of
| American Journalism" Hermann throws
Light on the Black Art" and Theodore
Roosevelt and Maurice Thompson each con-
| tribute interesting articles. A feature of
the number Ia twenty-four portraits OF
Partisan journalists, with sketches of their
work. There are some other interesting
| articles In the number. The Cosmopolitan,
Fifth avenue. Broadway and Twenty-fifth
! streets, New York.
The complete novel In Lippincott's Mag
dzine for December. "Pesrce Amerson's
WILL" is by Col Richard Malcolm John
ston, and will be admitted to be one of his
finest productions. 1t has perhaps less than
his usual huinor, but it is a solid and cons
scientious piece OF work, and a most life
| like story OF Middle Georgia in the old days
| In the Journalist Series" Maj. Moses p.
Handy tells how he was present at the sur
render of the Virginius, having got ahead
of all the other special correspondents.
"Paul H. Haynes Methods of Composition"
are recounted by his son, William H.
! Hayne. with two portraits. Mrs. Bloom
field Moore explains ''Keely's Present Posi-
tion," and tells lis that he is searching, not
\
Of hydrogen. There is a short story Of
California, illustrated. AN Honest
Heather" by Ella Sterling Cummins, and
brief prose poem, "a Life" by Henry
Russell Wray. j. b. Lippinoott & Co.,
Philadelphia.
The North American ReUietU for Deem
Der embraces a variety Of articles that 60
far towards the solution of the questions
handled and to which the public mind is at
this moment directed. The established poll
ICY of the ReuietU is to secure papers from
those men upon whose opinion and action
the decision of the matters under discussion
largely depend. Mr.. Gladstone, the prime
minister of England, has spoken in its col
umns on the condition Of affairs in Ireland.
his paper being a reply 20 the Duke of
Argyll, and in the December number tue
Hon. Arthur James Balfour, secretary for
ireland in the Salisbury administration,
gives what be claims to be the view OF the
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