The National tribune., 1893-05-18
RECENT LITERATURE.

LOST IN GREAT CITY. By Amanda NJ
Douglas. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Price so
cents
Miss Douglas is one of the novelists whose
hold upon the public is never lost. She has
written more than 90 novels and her reputa-
tion has constantly increased. Lost in Great
City was eminently successful account of
strong situation and continuous interest.
SIMPLICITY AND FASCINATION. BY Anne
Beae. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Price 30 cents.
The above has just been issued in the Good
Company series Of paper-covered novels. It is
narrative of country life in England, with
glimpses of London and India While it is a
simple, quiet, unobtrusivs story, free from the
Objectionable features which are so prominent
in many modern novels it is also thoroughly
charming tale, well worth reading and worthy
of place in any household.
THE MASTER OF ST. BENDICT's. BY Alan
st. Aubyn. Published by Rand, McNally & Co.,
Chicago. Price so cents
This is q new story by the author of "Trol-
lopes Dilemma" "a Fellow Of Trinity" For
the Old Sake's Sake" Modest Little Sara"
etc, and, we think, destined to be much more
popular than his previous works. 1t is a
charming story, pure and sweet.
Magazines and Notes
st. Nicholas for 1892. published by the Century
Company, Now York, comes in two volumes,
bound in its usual handsome cover of crimson
and black. Among its contributors are Robert
Howe Fletcher, John Kendrck Bangs Joaquin
Miller, J. T. Trowbridge, Lieut.. Frederick
Schwatka, Mary Halleck Foote, John Bur-
roughs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Eudora s. Bum.
stead, Bessie Chandler, Celia Thaxter Tudoy
jerks and many other familiar old friends of
the children. Tom Paulding, by Brander Mat
thews and Two Girls and a Boy. by Lieut..
Fletcher, are the principal serials. 81. Nicholas
has its usual large number of beautiful ilustra-
tons, and continues to be the first and best
children's magazine in the world. The artists
are X. b. Birch, j. McDermott, Palmer Cox, II.
A. Ogden, C. T. Hill, w. A. Rogers, ]. G.
Francis, Oliver Herford. and host of others
whose drawings are well known to old and
young readers of ST. Nicholas.
brakes Illustrated Magazine monthly de-
voted to good reading and general information.
Published at No. IL franklin ST., New York.
Price 10 cents.
The PhrenoEoqical Journal and Science of Health
An illustrated magazine of human nature.
Published at 81 East First street, New York.
Price Is cents.
description oil" Paris in the Last Days of the
Second Empire" by Edith Stanforth, in April
number of the Catholic World, pos a SEES the inter-
est of the narrative of an eye-wit,yss 1t gives
graphic picture of the period of panic and con-
fusion which set in after the great defeat of
Sedan. and the pathos of the story is heightened
by severel touching incidents of real life. Pub
lished at 100 West Sixtieth street. New York.
Toaettes for May is special children's num-
Der, and contains full illustrations of all the
latest ideas in dress. Published at 126 West
Twenty third street, New York. Price 10
cents.
Storiettes is the catchy title of a new popular
fiction magazine. the advance sheets of which
are just out. The first number contains no
fewer than IA original copyright tales, incluG-
ing stories by Julian Hawthorne; John Hab-
berton: VIM. Perry Brown, who is familiar to
our readers; "The Duchess" Miss Machar,
the new Boston novelist; Count Zubof, and
other successful writer's. St0rietteS is llustrat-
ed. is nicely printed. bound in handsome
wrapper, and is altogether a marvellous dimes
worth. 1t is issued by the Storiette Publishing
Co.. 1I9 Potter Building, New York.
The idyllic and historic Bronx Valley, SYM
pathetically described by one of its residents.
DR.. Peter MacQueen, and illustrated with
score of charming views, occupies with vernal
seasonability the front place i'll Frank Leslies
Popular Monthly for May. Another timely pa
per, bearing as it does upon the question of a
National Quarantine for the United States, is
the graphic sketch of Caribbean Quarantine
experience, by Henry Arthur Herbert of Muck.
ross. An exciting narrative of the ascent of
Mount Etna is accompanied by numerous views
of the great Sicilian volcano, and its recent
eruption.
The Cosmopolitan for May is filled with arti-
Giles of striking merit and interest. The prin-
cipal one of these is Omega: The Last Days of
the World, by Camille Flammarion, the emf
nent astronomer. Everything in the magazine
is superbly illustrated. Published at New
York. Price % cents.