The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-25
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


Lee Shepard have issued a new book by that
old favorite. Oliver Optic. Il is entitled "A
Young knight Errant; or, Cruising in the West
Indies" and it Is praise enough to say that 1t ia
fully up to the standard OF the author, who has
entertained and instructed the boys of two gem
erations
new book by J. T. Trowbridge, "The
Fortunes of Toby Traford," is an admirable
story, whose plot it would be wrong to divulge
1t is what might happen in a thousand places
Its scenes and It's people are everywhere: only
few writer's have Trowbridge's eye TO see them.
The hero IL not an impossiby good boy. but hs
has manly instincts; and he 10 kept from foliiss
and mistakes by the counsels OF an excellent
mother and OF his wise and hoble-hearted
schoolmaster. Boys viii follow his career and
his good and bad fortune with genuine interest
Notable among the Juvenile holiday publica-
lions issued by Lee Il shepard 10 new book by
Ingarsoll lockwood, the entertaining narrator
OF the wonderful journeys OF little Baron Trump
and his dog Bulger. 1t is entitled "Baron
Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey"
Mr.. Lockwood's astonishing versatility, unlim-
tied powers OF invention and unfailing humor
were never displayed to better advantage than
in this new wonder book. The Little Baron,
after reading Don Fum's book on "a World
Within World" Immediately starts on a voy-
age OF discovery and investigation. The story
OF his adventures in entering Poiyphemus Fun.
among the Mikkamenkies, Soodopsies. Koltik-
werps and the strange people who live inside
our earth, is q wonderful chronicle of the mar.
veous. running over with bright ideas, quaint
conceits and wholesome fun. Although in
tended primarily for youth, the story will be
enjoyed by Older people who have perception
of satire, as many of the peculiarities of the
outside world are touched up in q very humor-
GUS manner
1.-The Fallow Field" by Julia C. r. Dorr Illus
trated with reproductions of charcoal sketches
by Zulina Delacy Steele, makes a beautiful gift
book. which also comes from the press of Lee &
Shepard. This poem will have a new signii-
canoe to those who possess the Interpretation
by the artist, her daughter. The poem is
purely ideal, and suggests what words cannot
adequately express. The reader who is born
with the power of poetic perception feels what
the lines convey, and yet might find it difficult
TO frame for it what poets in former times called
an argument" The thought aud the scene are
in the spiritual world. The illustrations are
helps. because they show analogous places in
the world OF nature, corresponding to the
subtitle ideas of the poem. "Fallow Field" will
not be merely useless tract OF land to those
who have con sidered the subject; IL will be
fixed in the mind a study of the interior life.
The sketches were made in charcoal and repro
duced III half-:ones, special care having been
taken TO preserve the character of the work.
The volume contains about thirty full pages and
vignettes. The.stanzas are separately engraved
In tasteful style. The volume is commended
to those who enjoy the attempt to unite the
beauty OF art to the beauty of thought
Some very attractive illustrated articles are
announced to appear in the January number of
Hdrpers Magazine Among these Julian Ralphs
account of THE Old Way to Dixie" Poultney
Bigeiow's narrative o! Russian experiences in
"Why We Left Russia" and Theodore Child's
description of life and scenes in "Proietarian
Paris" will enlist the attention of every intelli-
gent reader. Other articles which viii force
fully appeal to the tastes Of a cultivated audi
ence will be paper of personal "reminiscences
OF Tennyson. by Annie Fields, and a compre-
henaive article on pensions by Edward F. Waite.
The number will also be particularly rich in
fiction, including the opening chapters Of two
important serials, "The Refugees" by A. Conan
Doyle. and Horace Chase" by Constance Feni-
moro Wocson: a beautiful Oriental sketch by
Henry Van Dyke. "The story of the Other Wise
Mani" characteristic story by Richard Hard
ing Davis, "The Romance in the Life of Hefty
Burke;" New England sketch, "The Rejected
Manuscript" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward,
and laughable farce bv W. d. Howells, en-
titled "The Unexpected Guests" The editorial
departments will contain q variety of inviting
features.