The National tribune., 1892-07-21
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Nlury. Published by Laird K Lee. Chicago. H.
Price 80 cents.
This IS bish-spiced French story. with
realistic descriptions of poisoninKs, detective
work, sensational treats, etc. 1t is we'll written
and full OF interest.
CoRTLANDT LAsTER CAPITALIST ANovel
By Harley Deene. Published by laird 4 Tee
Chicago. Price 20 cents.
This novel too's the $1,000 cash prize offered
| by the publishers for the best novel by an
American author. 10 is distinctly original in
plot characters. and general makeup and the
author, until now unknown in the world of
| literature is certainly thinker and strik-
iGgly-talented writer.
TIE ARITHMETIC OF ELECTRICITY gv
OConor sloane, PHI. ID. Published BY Norman
w. Henley & Co. 80 Nassau street New York
City Price 81.
An illustrated practical treatise on electrical
| calculations Of all kinds reduced to a series of
| rules, all OF the simplest forms and involving
| only ordinary arithmetic, each rule illustrated
| by one or more practical problems. with de-
/ tailed solution OF each one This is followed
by an extensive series OF tables including these
| subjects: All kinds of units Of measurement
| Of electrical and mechanical work, energy, and
heat; relations Of different systems Of all
/ kinds OF units; relations of different Wire
cages, American and foreign; electrical proper
| ties OF wire of different sizes specific resist
ances; tbermo-chemical and electro-chemicai
| equivalents; useful factors, etc.
Magazines and Notes.
| The North american ReuieD for July contains
| Lynch Law in the South. by Frederick
| Douglass; Politics and the Pulpit, Bishops
| Doane and Mallalieu; Italian Situation, Signor
| Crspi; Organized Labor in the Presidential
Campaign Samuel Gompers, President of the
| American Federation of Labor; Abraham Lin
| coin as Strategist, Archibald Forbes The
number will also contain n symposium. What
| Shall the Ratio Be? referring of course to the
| question OF the coming international conferences
on silver The contributors to this are Senator
| Stewart, of Nevada; Representative VIM. III.
| Springer, OF Illinois; Senator H. C.. Hans
brough, of North Dakota Represent atiye r.
p Bland of Missouri, and Representative John
| Dalzell, of Pennsylvania.
/ The National Popular RecisU is the name of
new and high-class periodical published at San
/ Diego. CAL, and devoted to practical sociology
| and preventive medicine. It is edited with
more than usual ability. and discusses every
| day topics in the spirit of the highest common
| sense. without any limitations of priestly super
stitiou or conventional prejudices. Price 81
year, or % cents a number.
In order to stimulate American composition.
The Ladies' Home Journal has just made public
attractive series of liberal prizes for the best
original musical composition by composers resi-
dent in the United States and Canada. The
prizes call for waltz, piano composition, a
pleasing ballad and a popular song. an anthem,
| and the four best hymn tunes. The COMPETE
ton is open until Nov. next The opportu-
nifty has an additional attractiveness, since the
prize compositions will form part of series for
which Strauss Is writing an original waltz and
Charles Gounod and Sir Arthur Sullivan each
an original song.
The August number of Short Stories Is even
| stronger than some of its predecessors, and has
ho Pi1xkA oil afr
reading. Among the most striking features
may be noted An Artists Holiday, the win
ner OF prize for the best story of every
day life; The Ghostly Concert, weird and
powerful story from the Russian Thorn
bright's Surprise, one of Habbert0n's clever
novelets; Rutherford the Twice Born, tails
of gloom and mystery, by Edwin Lester Ar
mold Gypsy and Count stirring Hungarian
romance; Lieutenant Louisa, an interesting
love story by Julian Hawthorne; The Duel &C
Frog Hollow, by w. y. Harlem, an amusing
sketch of duel between negroes. and the
famous story, Father Tom and the Pope or A
Night at the Vatican. Current Literature
Publishing Co., so, 81 Lafayette Place, New
York.
The number Of Harper's Weekly published
July Is contains great variety Of timely and
attractive articles. Mrs. McGlasson's absorb
gly-interesting story of kentucky life, An
Earthly Paragon. is continued. There is an
a full page picture, by w. P. Snyder, Of An
Ocean Racer Starting on Voyage; fine view
of the Yosemite Valley; portrait OF the late
Prof. Theodore ID. Dwight aHd many other
features of literary and artistic excellence.
Jersey Villas is the title of Henry James's
last story, the opening chapters of which win
be found in the July Cosmopolitan The Mid
summer number is something worth carrying
off on your outing. Sturgeon Fishing in the
James, handsomely illustrated, is q seasonabis
article. st. George Mivart's second article.
Natural Selection, carries the reader q step
further with that celebrated thinker in his
series on Evolution aud Christianity. The
poets represented are James Russell Lowell,
Graham K. Tomsou, Duncan c. Scott, John
Vance Cheney, Lorimer Stoddard, Frederick
Peterson and Edith NJ. Thomas.
The July Magazine of american History is q
charming Summer issue. This important
magazine is ahead of all its great contempt
raries in its wealth of useful information worth
preserving for all time. Its several depart
ments of miscellany this month are excellent.
Price So year. Published at 743 Broadway,
New York.
Current Literature is fortunate in being able
in its July number to give the first adequate
account of the process of photographing in
colors. This remarkable discovery by DR..
Lippman, Of Psris-one of the triumphs Of
modern scienee-is based upon the principle of
recording the vibrations of light and color, just
as the phonograph does those of sound, and
emitting these vibrations again to the eye so as
to produce the very cOlors seen in nature. The
experiment is fortunately simple one, and
may be performed by any photographer with
little more than the implements in common
use.
Harper's Magazine for July contains: How
the Declaration was Received in the Old
Thirteen, Charles ID. Deshler; the Growth Of
the Federal Power Henry Loonis Nelson; As
to American Spelling, Brander Matthew's; the
Capture of Wild Animals in Mysore, z. Cation
Woodyille; Marlowe, James Russell Lowell;
the Cars Western Frontier. POultney Bige-
low; ALPS Well That Ends Well, comment by
Andrew Lang; Ancient Gold Work, Cyril
Davenport; From the Black For
est to the Black Sea part VII, F. d. Millet-
The Proceedings Of the First Annual Meeting
of the National Conference on University Ex-
tension is the title Of timely volume issued
by ]. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia price
$3.50. giving an account, together with
the addresses, of the meeting held in Phil
adelphia last December under the au-
spices of the American Society for the Ex.
tension of University Teaching. The rels-
tion of the movement to education and the
various educational agencies is discussed at
length, then its development, and, finally the
qualities requisite to success in organizing and
local center. Such important and
practical topics as the lecturer, the class. the
syllabus, etc. are ably treated by men whose
experience ranks them as authoritative. Owing