The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-03-02
RECENT LITERATURE.
BACK COUNTRY POEMS. By Sam Walter Foss
Published by the Potter Publishing Co.. Boston

literature today ia Sam Walter Foss, New
Hampshire young man. whose reputation as
humorist poet has reached England as we'll as
| spread throughout America. His poems are
copied as widely as those Of Eugene Field
and James Whitcomb Riley. the latter Of whom
he rivals in his verses descriptive of farm and
country life. He Is poet OF the people, and
he takes his themes from the common things
of life and invests thcm with the dignity and
pathos which underlies all human experience.
He writes from his heart, and 30 Is felicitous in
touching the hearts of his readers. He is a
believer in the good which Is in all men, and
has written no melancholy lines; for true
pathos is hopeful, not melancholy, and he has
caught the true ring of it. Besides his humor-
Gus and dialect verse, Mr.. Foss has written
poems of a high degree of merit, many of
which find place in his Back Country
Poems," one of which, Memorial Day" we
particuarize as embodying Mr.. Foss's creed
that the common people are the sayiors and
conservers of the life of the Nation.
DANEsBURY HOUSE. BY Mrs Henry Wood.
author of " East Lynne" etc. With an Introduce
ton by Mrs. Frances e. Willard and Lady Henry
Somerset Price so cents.
This book, written by one of the most famous
noveists of our time, is the great prize tale OF
great temperance society, tho Scottish Tenn
perance League. Its sales have amounted to
over 304 600 copies in England, and it is already
being widely sold and eagerly read by the
American public There is no mawkish senti-
ment about the tale, and the impression gained
from merely glancing over 10 cannot be other
wise than lasting and healthful to all, old a.
well as young.
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM A Series
of Advanced Primers. BY Edwin J. Houston,
A. NJ author of "A Dictionary of Electrical
Words Terms and Phrases" Published by The
w. j. Johnston Co., Al Park Row. Price ST.
The subjects of the different primers relate
g. -k.k
and current electricity, and of magnetism with
practical deductions and applications. Atmos-
pheric electricity and the phenomena Of the
earth's magnetism receive particularly inter-
esting treatment, and the primers the
electromagnetic, electro-receptive devices, and
FRACTIONAL and influence machines very prac.
tical in their scope. While the work is pri-
marily intended for popular reading, the care
Of statement and logical development of prn-
ciples make it valuable work for electricians
who wish to gain q knowledge Of or to review
the principles upon which the science is based.
FIRST DAYS AMONGST THE CoNTRABANDs.
BY Elizabeth Hyde Botume. Published by Lee
Shepard. Boston, and for sale by Woodward q
Lothrop. Washington Price $L25.
The chief interest of the book is in Its minute
and faithful studies of the negroes. The art.
less talk, the naiue conceptions. the queer mix
turo of shyness and freedom, the absence Of
the conventional and Of logic, and the mastery
of emotion, which easily slides from love into
worship and back again-these strange traits.
childish and cunning ut once, make up total
which is found nowhere else among mankind.
The book necessarily records something of the
progress Of the military operations, and shows
how the benevolent intentions of the Washing
ton Government towards the freedmen were
carried out
LET HIM FIRST BE A MAN. AND OTHER
ESSAYS. BY w. H. Venabie, LID. Published
by Lee d Shepard. Boston. and for sale by Wood.
ward d Lothrop, Washington Price 3i25
Incidentally the author treats of what man
is, his physical system his mental possibilities,
and the modes of realizing them. The treat
ment, however, is not dognatic bnt suggestive
and stimulating. Itwould be difficult to name
a modern book On the subject of education
that is moro charming, useful and original.
THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT OF NAPo-
LEON III. Library Of choice fiction. By Gill
bert Augustin Thierry. Published By Laird &
Lee Chicago. Price so cents.
This romance deals with real characters, and
faithfully portrays men and events Of the
Second Empire. The plot is intricate, but
skillfully woven and clsverly told.
FROM HEADQUARTERS By James Albert
Frye. Published by Estes 4 Laurist, Boston.
This collection Of "odd tales, picked up in
the volunteer service" will deeply interest
every old spl1ieEs, All of the stories move with
. fascinatipR, dssss and are full Of stirring sit
uations. The writer served in the Nineteenth
Corps. and If he sojdiered as we'll rs he has
written, he is worthy of attention from his old
comrades and the veterans in general.
DIR. PERDUE. By stinson Jarvis, author of
Prize Novels. Published by Laird & Lee Chi
oago Price so cents.
CYCLE. INFANTRY DRILL REGULATIONS.
Prepared by Gen. Albert Ordway. Published by
tho Pope Manufacturing Co., Boston. Mass.
CYCLISTS DRILL REGULATIONS UNITED
STATES ARMY. BY Lieut.. William T. May,
M. A., Commanding Bicyie Detachment, Fort
Sheridan, III. Published by the Pope Manufac-
turing Co.. Boston, Mass.
The cycle-infantry drill regulations are SINH.
lar to those Of the cavalry service while the eye
lists drill reguat ions are based on the infantry
drill. These books are the first of their kind
published in this country, and the only complete
military Cycle drill regulations published in
the world. To the Army, militia, and thou
sands of cyclists these books are alike valuable
and instructive. In the Cycle Infantry Drill
Regulations is printed in full speech of Gen.
Nelson A. Miles. in which tho necessity of good
roads for military purposes is emphasized. It
may not be generally known that detachment
of Regular troops at Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, have
been testing since December, 1892. tho practi-
cability of the bicycle for military purposes
These tests have been of severe nature over
rough roads, at all seasons of the year, and
have proved the great advantage of the wheel
as means of rapid transportation.
FOIL AND sABER. A Grammar of Fencing in
Detailed Lessons for Professor and Pupil. BY |
Louis Rondelle, Master-at-Arms at the Boston |
Athletic Association and the Harvard University |
Club. Published by Estes e. Lauriat, Boston.
Mass.
Fencing can be INDUCED in by all. Appli. |
cation and skill equalize the chances between |
the short and the tall, the weak and the strong.
The consciousness of improvement in tho art |
lends it fascination, which is increased by the |
pleasure of competition with other fencers. |
Those who learn the art become its devotees. |
The actual results obtained from fencing in the |
case of people in need of exercise have been 80 |
marked by satisfaction that the efficiency of |
fencing as an exercise Is now universally &C.
The author shows that there are |
in fencing principles far deeper than mechani- |
cal movements, and gives those principles the |
intelligent expression to which they are en- |
titled. Tho illustrations are from photographs, |
and add greatly to the value Of the text.
THY NEIGHBOURS WIFE by Albert Ross.
Published by q. w. Dillingham;. New York. |
Price so cents.
That Mr.. Albert Ross did not make his recent
journey to Spain for his own pleasure alone is
we'll proved by the latest addition to the al
batross Novels" One Of the heroines of "Thy
Neighbours Wife" is fair daughter of Seville
who captures tho heart Of q suscepti BILE young
A n, aric trav olar most of ha ofiop