The National tribune., 1892-04-14
RECENT LITERATURE.
ABROAD AND AT HOME. Practical Hint, 70

ABROAD AND AT HOME. Practical Hints FOR
Tourists. By Morris Phi!lip9. Published by
Breniano's New York. Price 81.
Mr.. Phillips, the accomplished Editor of the
Home Journal, has been spending some time
abroad and used his eyes to q good purpose
lie has gathered the results of his observations
in compact little book, which will be of the
greatest value not only TO those who intend
travelling abroad but those who have already
made the tour and desire to recall their eX-
perience OF across the water.
MADELEINE. By Jules sandeau. Published by
u. Il. Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa.
Price % cents.
This is a charming novel, by one of the most
eminent French writers. lie speaks OF his
heroine as one who at 20 represented grace and
reason, good sense and pOesv, with skin like the
camelia, hair of lovely brown, and teeth like
pearls.
Magazines and Notes.
There are some notable changes in Harper's
this month; one is the omission OF the Du
Mauricr cartoon, which has been feature for
years. In tho editorial departments, which
always have been OF great extent and value.
Mr.. Howclls has retired from the Editors
Study" and his successor, Charles Dudley War
ner, enters with graceful compliments TO his
predecessor, and with n thoughtful essay on
Lounsbury's great work on Chaucer. The
" Editors Drawer" has been taken in charge
by Thomas Nelson Page, who opens it with n
capital darby story Of his own. There are con-
tinuations Of HowelIss novel, THE World Of
Chance and of the canoing trip, From the
Black Forest to the Black Sea-" this months in
stalment being by +. ID. Millet. poem by
Walt Whitman is the rGisOn d'etrs of two por-
traits of the old poet. The Shakspere article,
by Andrew Lang and the artist Abbey, is on
THE Tempest"
Current Literature, In its readings from the
latest books, gives strong selection from A
Fellowe and His Wife," the brilliant novel by
Blanche Willis Howard and William Sharp.
Tho gossip of authors both foreign and do
nestle is especially interesting, the paragraphs
of Augustus Thomas and Ambrose Bierce being
particularly timely. In the Book List the
notices Of new books are much longer and more
comprehensive than heretofore, the most i'm
portapt books having evidently been given
preference.
Table Talk, the American authority upon
culinary and household topics. Published
monthly by the Table Talk Publishing Com
pany, I13 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Price 10 cents q copy.
Fourteen years ago a book was published
which caused an instant sensation among the
reading public, and made its authoress, a young
Brooklyn girl, one of the foremost of living
American writers. That book was 1.-THE
Leavenworth Case" and since writing it Anna
haLneflHe JIeen ms Deen preparing nor III
erary methods for story, Cynthia Wake
hams Money which, she believes, will even
exceed The Leavenworth Case" in popu-
larity, and which began in the New York
Ledgey's Easter number, dated April 8.
brakes Magazine. an illustrated monthly.
Published at IL Frankfort street, New York.
Price 10 cents
Contents of the Forum for April: Review
of My Opinions, Edward A. Freeman; The
Crisis of the Democratic Party, by Hon. W. L.
Wilson, Frederic z. Coudert and Matthew
Hale; Our Anthracite Supply and It's Distrbu-
ton; The Germans rs Emigrants and ColOnists;
The Free Trade Tendency of Wilhelm ILL.,; The
Learning of Languages; Reformatory Prisons
as Schools for Crime; The Speech of Monkeys;
Is Iowa a Doubtful State2 The Burial Monop-
oily of Paris. Published at Union Square, New
York. Price 80 cents.
Lifes Calendar for April has Fun for 30
Minutes" and it is full measure of merriment
for much longer time. Published by Life %
w. Twenty third street, New York. Price 10
cents
"But Men Must Work " Is the title OF q very
readable novel in LippsncOtfs Magazine for
April. Besides this, the magazine has q fine
array of articles on various subjects, all well
written all interesting, and all by prominent
writers. Published by the J. B. Lippincott
Co., Philadelphia. Price % cents.