Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-12-01
LITERARY NOTES.

The following books are announced
as ready for publication by Harper &
Brothers; Prue and l, by George Will
liam Curtis, with one hundred illustra-
tions by Albert E. Sterner; Daisy Mil
Ter, and An International Episode, by
Henry James, illustrated by H. w. Nc
Vickar; The Praise of Paris, by Theo-
dore Child, illustrated; A Tour Around
New York, by John f. Mines, illus
trated; Along New England Roads, by
w. c. Prime; An Earthly Paragon,
novel, by Eva Wilder M'Glasson, illus
trated by w. V. DuMond; and new
revised edition of William Blacks Mac
leod of Dare.
All New Workers who find pleasure
and pride in the history of their city
will welcome the volume of sketches
by the late John F. Mines Felix Old
boy entitled A Tour Around New
York, and My Summer Acre, which
Harper and Brothers will issue imme-
diately. These sketches portray the
life of the city as it was half century
ago, and embrace a rich fund of his
torical and legendary "reminiscences
well worthy of preservation. The vol
ume is very fully illustrated, and the
interesting character of its contents is
sure to make it universally popular.
A new volume by w. G. Prime, en-
titled Along New England Roads, will
be issued very soon by Harper & Broth
ers. 1t is collection of sketches of va
cation rambles and carriage travel
in some of the less frequented but 70
mantle portions of New England, and
to all who have read its authors ear
lier works it will need no commenda-
ton.
The Cincinnati Weekly Gazette and
the Daily Commercial Gazette are pa
pers that take rank with the very best
publications of the country, and are
prime favorites with the reading pu b.
lie. They give the news of the world
and abound in choice miscellaneous
reading and literary matter.
D. Lothrop Company publish. this
week: Down in Dixie, by Allen T. Stan
ton; Famous Pets, by Eleanor Lewis:
Shakespeare Twilights, and the new
edition of Tennvson' Holy Grail,
illustrated by Taylor. They have re-
Gently issued two capital books for the
young people-Jack Brereton's Three
Months Service, by Maria Mcintosh
Cox, and Gulf and Glacier, by Willis
Boyd Allen.
Woman has never had her Christmas
needs SO marvelously well anticipated
and so completely met as in the new
and fresh Christmas issue of the Ladies
Home Journal, which comes robed in
one of the most beautiful and artistic
of Magazine covers Few better illus
trations have been given of the posi-
bility of combining the practical and
the entertaining between the covers of
single magazine. OF course the
opening chapters of William Dean
Howells new novel, The Coast of Bo-
hemia, will attract quickest attention,
and the five chapters given promise
well that this will be the brightest and
liveliest story ever written by the nov
elist 1t is for girls, and is perfect SO
far in its portrayal of American girl
life. Genial Bob Burdette has most
amusing account of Christmas when
was Boy, while A Christmas with
Dickens, by the great authors favorite
daughter, is a charming picture of life
at Christmas as it was celebrated in his
home. Mrs. Burton Harrison will in
terest thousands of girls in her excel
lent way by pointing out the essentials
of A Young Girls Dress in Society,
while George W. Childs tells of the
Girls have Educated. The most SEN
sible article we have read on conduct
ing an Evening Musicale is given by
Mrs. Hamilton Mott, while the illus
trated farce, The Burglar Alarm, is
dangerously close to the wittiest of Mr..
Howells' farces. There is an exquis-
itely illustrated page ON Ecclesiastical
Embroidery by Harriet Ogden Morrison
and Mrs. Lyman Abbott points out the
best Way of Conducting Ladies' Aid
Society. Hamln Garland has a pa
thetic literary etching, Eugene Field
contributes an excellent poem in his
Little Sans Merci, while DR.. Talmage
gives one of the best articles he has
ever penned in telling Why l have
never been Ill. Then comes the wealth
of practical Christmas information
which can not but prove of inestimable
value to women in their Christmas
buying. Not a point is forgotten
, everything is touched upon, the home,
the nursery, the parlor, the dining
room, the festooned rooms, the gowns,
the table, the servants-every phase of
Christmas life is fully and admirably
covered in number which must stand
as the best and most complete Christ
mas guide for women ever issued by a
magazine, and that too at the small
price of ten cents, while a yearly sub
scription is only one dollar per year.
The Curtis Publishing Company, Phil
adelphia, Penn.
The Christmas number of Scribner's