Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-16

Pastures New, are some of the subjects
nature provides for the authors themes.
Field Earrings. by Martha McCullogh Will
liams. For sale by stoll & Thayer company.
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Armaris and Others, is the title of a
volume of three contrasting novelettes
by Mrs. Linden W. Bates, who was un-
til recently resident OF San Francisco.
These stories are all Of exceptional liter
ary merit, cleverly told, by writer who
promises to take rank quickly with the
foremost in the language. They cover
variety of subjects to test the capacity
OF any writer, or to please the fancy of
any reader. The book derives its title
from the name of the principal char
acter, Armaris, the hero priest, in the
first OF the three tales, Winged Victory,
story of incarnation. Taken in at
Oares is quaint story of life in the far
west, the seen. of which is laid in the
state of Washington. A Venetian Pay
ment, romance of love, intrigue and
society, is the third and last, the scenes
OF which are laid partly in Venice and
partly in America. These three stories
form book of exceptional merit and
exceptional interest as we'll.
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The admirers Of Richard Harding
Davis and his Van Bibber and Others,
can now add to their enjoyment by read
ing his latest effort, The West from
Car Window. In this interesting group
OF sketches, Mr.. Davis narrates in an
entertaining style what he saw and
heard during brief tour of observation
in Texas, and in the mining regions OF
the great divide. He started to the
southwest to hunt CARA, the Mexican
revolutionist, and his experience with
cowboys and with troops on the border,
and his Impressions of some interesting
phases OF western life, as seen by an
eastern man, are here recorded, euliv-
ened by many laughable anecdotes.
Mr.. Davis returned to the east after his
failure to find CARA, by the way OF
Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma. His
topics are on wildly distributed SUBJ
jects. The Texas rangers, the great
ranches, the cowboys, bandits desper-
ADDE'S and revolutionists. The Indian
reservations, the Indians, their mode of
living and style of dress, rations and
ration days, how they are handled and
cared for by the officers in charge. The
army posts, with their routine duties,
marches, raids, camp life, amusements
and hardships. He also touches on the
phenomenal capital of Oklahoma, now
but three years old, of the rough and
exciting life in the new mining town of
Creede, Colo. Mentions Albuquerque,
Texas and New Mexico, the sights of
Denver, Palmer Lake and Colorado
Springs. The illustrations are by Fred
rick Remington, the great Indian illus.
traitor and western artist.
The West from Car Window, by Richard
Harding Davis For sale BY stoll Thayer
company.
Robert Leighton, the author of The
Pilots OF Pomona, very successful
book OF last holidays, has written an
Thirsty Sword, story of the Morse in
The scene is laid in that period of Scot
tish history which ended with the fa-
nous battle Of Largo; and it tells how
Roderic MacAlpine, the sea rover, came
to the Isle of Butte; how he slew his
brother, Earl Hamish, in Rothesay cas-
tie; how Alpin, the earl's eldest son,
challenged his uncle to ordeal by battle,
and was likewise slain; how young
Kenric now became king of Butte, and
vowed vengeance against the slayer of
his brother and his father; and, finally,
1t tells how this vow was kept, when
Kenric and the murderous sea rover
met at midnight on Garroch Head, and
ended their feud in one last great fight.
The story is spiritedly illustrated, and
all boys will thoroughly enjoy reading
it.
This is going to be truly Columbian
period for the next IL months, and q
great deal of space is being given to this
all-absorbing subject in the different
magazines of the United States. Harper
for October very appropriately devotes q
great amount Of space to the commem-
Grafton of the discovery of America by
Columbus. One of its most valuable
articles is sketch OF the life OF Colum-
bus, with q very concise estimate of his
life and character and services rendered.
It is by Professor DR.. 8. Ruge, of Dres-
den. This article embodies the results
of the latest and most careful researches,
and presents the Genoeee discOverer as
he really was, awarding him due praise
for his great achievements, while at the
same time removing from the story
of his life much that may be re-
garded as purely imagination.
Another article which is in this line of
thought is by Frank Fl. Mason, entitled
The Baptismal Font of America. This
article will probably attract more atten-
ton than the former, as it ia the story
of the manner in which the western con-
tinent received it's name. In this num-
ber we also find Lawrence Hutton's sec
ond paper on Death Masks, Lowell's
fifth chapter on the Old ERglish Dra-
matists, part sixth of Jane Field,
Mrs. wilkins story of New England,
Paris Along the Seine, by Theodore
Childs, the eighth installment of How
ellis World of Chance, Woodville's cap
ture Of Wild Elephants in the Mysore.
A cop yof the map used by Columbus on
his first voyage, and facsimile Of the
page of that curious book, the Cosmo-
graphie Introductio, in which the name
America was Rrst applied to the new
world. It is number well worth buy
ing, and also keeping, in commemoration
of the discovery of this now prosperous
country.
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