Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-15

noble General Gordon, and the taking
OF the great town of Khartoum of Emin
Pasha aud the country of Hatlastivs; of
the pigmies or dwarfs, whoare generally
believed to represent the original people
who inhabited the forest which extends
over the whole OF Equatorial Africa.
A very pretty story is told by little
Zanzibar boy about Mahomet and bis
visit to God in the seventh heaven;
about his horse, Ell Borak, and the re-
ceiving of the commandments.
The story of the lion and Mr.. Hunger
reminds US of Uncle Remus and his
Bre'r Rabbit stories. The story of Kin
tn is very pathetic one, and contains
powerful moral directed toward the
respect due old age from the young.
The story of Daoud the Fisherman, and
The Story of Kilindi, and of their idea
of the origin of the white men, ends one
of the most interesting books ever writ
ten for the young generation of the
present decade.
In magazines Harper's seems to be
very interesting January number, con-
tanning The Old Way to Dixie, by Julian
Ralph. description of trip down the
Mississippi from st. Louis to New Or
leans, fully illustrated; Proletarian
Paris, by Theodore Childs, illustrated
by P. Renouard, gives descriptions of
Bijou and the Pere La Gloire, A We'd
ding Party in the Bois de Boulogne, and
several other spectacles of Partisan life.
The first part of Horace Chase, novel,
is contributed by Constance Fennimore
Woolson, and brisk little farce, en-
titled The Unexpected Guests, is fur
nished by William Dean Howells.
Richard Harding Davis writes story of
The Romance in the Life of Hefty
burke, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ward story of The Rejected Manu-
script. In travels, Poultney Bigelow
gives Why We Left Russia, il
lustrated by Frederic Remington.
Annie Fields is the author of
tribute to Tennyson under the came
title. Editors Study, by Charles Dud.
ley Warner, contains several good
things, and the Editors Drawer con-
tains bunch of editorials by Thomas
Nelson Page, E. A. Opper, etc, alto.
gether making it very complete and
interesting number.
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feel it pleasure as we'll as duty to
call the readers atten ton to the Janu-
ary number of The New Californian,
published in this city aud ably edited
by Louise A. OFF, assisted by Marie l..
Carhalt. 1t is monthly journal, de-
voted to philosophy, ethics and psy.
chology. Its motives are to manifest
the soul of science by the methods of
science; to hasten a practical realiza-
tion of universal brotherhood, without
distinction Of sex, race or creed; to
make men familiar with the intrinsic
wealth of oriental as well as occidental
philosophy and science, and to contrib
ute towards the investigation of the
occult laws of nature and the psychic
forces in man. This particular number
is rich in good things. Annie E. Che.
ney discourses on The Nirvana of Ma
hayana and Hinayana Buddhism,
Its Principles and How 1t Is Under
stood and Misunderstood. Pascal Ger
msin contributes Hercule Mazenod's
Opinions, sketch from life in French
Canada. Louise A. OFF has q poetical
tribute to Aunie Besant of two verses,
which is quite touching. Astral Light
is explained in steps towards It's scien-
tific basis, by Alpha. The subject
seems to be we'll analyzed, and readers
will do well to read it carefully and
thoughtfully. Notes from Ladakh, by
Count Wachtmeister, lie description of
The country of Ladakh. in Central Asia.
He describes the average Tibetan, the
Kashmiri's and Baltis, The native wom-
en-, their mode OF living and the work
they perform, their dress and love of
jewelry, the influence exerted by the
Mohammedans over them. He gives
fine picture OF the city of Leh, of its
bazaars and the trade of it's great shops,
OF different nationalities and costumes.
He touches on Buddhism, when it was
introduced into Ladakh, of its reform
and the present mode of worship, of the
great Dalai Lama in Lhassa Gan in
carnation of Manjusri) who might
be called the pope of Llamaism.
1t is very interA ting chapter.
A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, en-
titled Invisible Potencies, A Scientific
Analysis of the Units o5 Water, by DIR.
w. H. Masser; The Land of Dreams, by
H. I. Patterson, and an essay on Con-
centration by Elizabeth A. Kingsbury,
F. T. S.. concludes very interesting
and scientific number of monthly mag
azine whose motto is, "The whole world
was created that the whole world should
study it."
All the above books for sale by the stoll &
Thayer company, 139 South Spring street.
Book Chat.
new novel by Maria Louise Pool.
the author of Roweny in Boston, entitled
Katharine North, will be issued by
Harper Bros. this month.
Morocco As 1t Is. by Stephen Bonsal,
jr., in which will be given an account of
Sir Charles Evan Smiths recent mission
to Fez. whom Mr.. Bonsal accompanied
on the journey, will be issued about the
1st of next month.
William Hale White has now acknowl.
edged the authorship of Mark Ruther-
ford and other works. These books are
now being issued in new edition,
which will include Mr.. Whites transla.
tion OF the Ethics of Spinoza.
Mrs. Mcleod Stewartis writing a book
which will appear in the spring in Eng
land, Canada and the United States, un-
der the title of Twenty Years of Social
Life at the Capital, the capital being
Ottawa.
The fourth OF the Columbian histori-
cal novels, by John r. Musick, is Po-