Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-19
BOOKS AND PERIODICALS.

Catalogue of Catholic Books is a new list
just issued by the Catholic Publication So
ciety Company, IL East Seventeenth street,
New York.
An interesting feature Of the Sanitarium
for November is its synopsisof the work of
the international congress of public healt h
at Chicago last month. The Sanitarium,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
The need of impressing upon the old as
well as the young the correct ideas of civic
duty is urged in the October number of Uni
versity Extension. The American Society
for the Extension of University Teaching,
Philadelphia.
The editors of Work and Play are evil
IDENTIFY more at work than at play, judging by
from month to month. The October number
now out is excellent. Work and Play Com
pany, Kansas City, Mo.
Book News comes along this month with a
fresh supply of literary gossip and news,
tid-bits of criticism, odd glimpscs at distin-
guished men and women, portraits of
famous persons aud pictures from the realm
of fiction. A fine portrait of Paul Bourget
accompanies this number. ID. Appleton &
Co., New York.
.Sabina Zembra' is the forbidding title of
u novel Dy Wlllldul IDluCh, uuC u UlOSC olu-
fashioned, conventional, long, slow-going
stories popular with those who have time on
their hands and wish a novel to last through
many hours. Harper & Brothers, New York.
For sale by Megeath Stationery Company,
Omaha.
Atmospheric Refraction at Madison,
Wis !" is the subject of a dissertation by
George c. Comstock in the current number
of Astronomy and Astro-Physics. THE
Jupiter Family of Comets" and Physical
I, 49,. % tl,1 CO. nrn n mo ~ IA Is
treated in this number. Published at Garlic
ton College, Northfield, Mass.
'The Wheel of Time" collaboration"
and "Owen Wingrave,' by Henry James,
form a triplet of short stories issued under
| one binding. The first Of the stories is
rather unique in offering a heroine that is
| not handsome, but the merit of the tale is
altogether in It's good English and the vivac-
ity of the colloquial parts, Harper 4
Brothers, New York. Sold by Megeath
| Stationery Company, Omaha.
A fine portrait of Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
| engraved by G. Kruell, appears as a fronts
piece in the November Bookbuyer and a
charming sketch of this authors career is
also furnished. "Some Books About the
| Vest and New Novels and Short Stories
are very delightful and profitable reading.
| Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
"The Cats Paradise" and 'Jocko's Warn
ing'' are subjects of two short sketches fol
children, written in very simple language, in
1 i uua Ilttl1 bo hktha VI hii,i
| ing the pages of Our Little Ones and the
| Nursery for November. The Russell Pub
fishing company, 1876 Summer street,
| Boston.
edition just out presents an excellent
| criticism on "Mr. Goodwin Smith in the
United States" "Uncle Toms Cabin
Forty Years After" by Rev. Prof. Shoup,
gives q retrospective view OF the change
/ tina has como in the life Of the negro ms
| yiau,od hu a SDuthapnpf The IniVerSltg
Press, Sewanee, Tenn
1.-THE Complaining Millions OF Men," a
novel by Edward Fuller, presumes to touch
on the social problem, but in reality con
tains nothing TO the point and nothing
iustifying the title. The fact is a good
title ought not to be monopolized by a work
that does not fill the bill, for good titles arc
hard to get and should not be debarrec
from worthy writer's by those who use them
as a handle to sell by. Harper q Bros,
New York.
'Education of Business Men In Eur ope,'
by Edmund j. James, Phi. D., is the tit lie of &
pamphlet issued as a report to the American
Bankers association. IL contains an elabor-
ate review OF the various Institutions ~
European cities devoted TO the education OF
business men, which is made far more com
prehensive than in our commercial colleges
American Bankers Association, New YORK
"Peeps Into Picture Land, 4" Illustrated by
j. Pauline Sumter, is one OF the cutes'
fancies ever originated for the child mind.
Reading matter artistically lettered Is min,
gled on each page with the prcttiest colored
EDITORIALS Imaginable, and IT reads m sc
simple and flowing a style that its widest
fancies seem to have a foundation OF reality,
To the budding idea II will have an inestl
mable value. Raphael Tuck & Sons, New
York. For sale by w. I. White, lib North
Sixteenth street, Omaha.
"a Novel Proposition" is suggested in a
pamphlet issued by David Lubin. IL aims tt
reyolutionize the distribution of wealth by
moving farm products as mail matter at q
uniform rate for all distances. If the idea
were carried out our railroads would have
to give up their tracks to long trip freight
trains and would have nothing else TO DO
IL would revolutionize the distribution OF
products from bad TO worse. David Lubin
Sacramento, Cal.
In THE Esquimaux Maiden's Romance,
appearing in the current Cosmopolitan, Mari
Twain writes in one of his happiest veins
perhaps because he describes his experience
in making love TO one OF the guileless heathe'
fair ones Of the north, who chews whale
blubber among the giistening, smiling &c