Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-06
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

The latest edition OF "Tales from
Town Topics" which 10 No. 6 of the
series, 10 Just published, and with an
unusually large collection of animated
stories, sketches, poems and witticisms.
10 presented an original novelette, by
c. NJ. 8. Mcclellan, entitled 1.-THE Sale
of q Soul" seventy five pages in length.
This story of metropolitan high and
low life 10 full OF character and local
color, and the remainder of the book
is up to the high standard of literary
excellence cust0marily followed by
this pubiication.-TownT Topics, 81 West
Twenty-third street, New York.
George P. Upton, the musical critic
of the Chicago Tribune, contributes an
article on emusic in Chicago" to the
December New England Magazine,
which will be widely read IN every city
of the Union. 1t deals with the growth
Of the interest in music from the
meetings in ''The Sauganash" tavern
of 1926, where Mark Beaublen used to
delight = mixed audience with the i'd
die. Mr.. Upton gives . concise history
of all the musical movements in Chi
cago, down to date. and also in brief
the characteristics of thu notable musi-
clans who have figured in them. Tho
article is we'll illustrated with portraits
of Hans, Balaska, A. w. Dohn, George
b. Carpenter, Carl Wolfsohu, William
l.. Tomlins, Theodore Thomas, Mil
ward Adam, A. Clarence Eddy, Flor
ence Ziegfeld, and with interiors of the
Auditorium, Central Music Hall and
other notable music halls.
IA Fisher Girl Of France" 10 the title
OF an entertaining story by Fernand
Calmettes, which Dodd, Mead & Co.
have recently published. The story 10
realistic type, which George Sand han.
dies 90 charmingly, and certain phases
OF which lola has proved himself such
q perfect master. Many of the climaxes
are vivid. overdrawn perhaps. But it
would not be French story il il were
not over dramatic ct times. Taking il
as whole it 10 very readable. II 10
for sale by Palmer, Mech 4 Co. Price
$3.50.
Frances Mary Steele and Elizabeth
Livingston Steele Adams are the
authors OF valuable little book for
women--"Bsauty of Form and Grace
OF vesture." The book deals entirely
with beauty and how to produce It.
The effect OF different garments in
shaping the figure 10 explained. Bad
forms and good forms are illustrated
by comparative diagrams. The object
OF the work 10 TO remedy the evils of
conventional dress, the diseases it en-.
tails and the abnormal growtns pro-
duced, by leading the reader into the
pa,h IF thu DIAL Tha hook a. r~~ss,t..
illustrated with engravings from the
acknowledged classic representatives
OF the human form divine. Published
by Dodd. Mead n Co. For sale BY
Palmer. Mech b Co. Price $l.75.
Another volums Of Dodd, Mead 4
Co.'S makers of America" series has
been issued. 1t is devoted to the life
and times Of Bishop White. julius n.
Ward 10 the author, and she introduce
ton is written by Bishop Patten of New
York. The career of Bishop White In
wolves the history of the first half CEN
fury OF the Episcopal church in Amer
lea, and his biography contains much
valuable church history. For sale by
Palmer, Mech 4 Co.; price 81.
In "Buffetine" Jeanette Pemberton
has told . distinctly nineteenth cen
tury story. II is the history OF q girl
that belonged to family and . family
that belonged to the 'shsbby gcnteei. .
The heroine of the tale bravely deter
mines to buffet the world and earn her
own living. Her experiences furnish
the motive for the story. Published
by Dodd, Mead Il Co. For sale by
Palmer, Mech a Co.; price 81.