Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-23

ehC haaic SUCH SOul-SUrTlnR airs the
Arkansas Traveller" "Black-eyed Susie, .
the Devils Dream" BILLY In the Low
lands, and many other Jig tunes.
There were also some sentimental songs
to themselves IL not after the most ap-
proved style OF more cultivated people
II. L. r.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE THIRD ALARM. A story Of the New Yort
81 u pepetme T ~ James L.FoIu author
New York and Washington: Brentano's
A boys book. and a good one. All the
details Of the working of a great fire de-
partment are made plain In a romantic
story that on no page Is ever less than in
teresting.
NOVEL NOTES. By Jerome K Jerome niustrat.
CO BY u1 y; Gulieh. A. s Royd. Hal Hurst.
New York: Henry Holt 4 Co. WsshinxtoD:
VIM Bauantyne Sons.
Worthy of the authors international repu-
tation. Lovers OF the odd. the picturesque
In language and the horrible win ind just
what they seek here.
TOLD BIZ THE COLONEL. By W. L Alden.
hiusti.tsd S1 R,ehsra JACK 'l and A aI Husss
New York: J. selwin TAFT 4 Sons.
A very choice collection Of stories that
are worth reading at least once.
PARALLELS FROM NATURE BY Mrs. Alfred
Qasty, author Of Aunt Judy's Taies," &C.
Two volume nlustrsted By Paul De Longprs.
Brentanoa
Educational and highly elevating. Ad-
mirably adapted for the betterment of fairly
well developed youthful minds.
ITALIAN GARDENS BY Charles A. Platt. New
1Ss Ia h1rps s, z sr0thsra washinssoa: wood
A delightful specimen Of bookmaling. In
which some Of the best Of italian villa archi-
lecture and landscape gardening u Dor
trayed and described.
PEARS, PICTORIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBER. New
York: The international News Company.
Contains THE Battle Of Life" a love
story, by Charles Dickens. with many Illus
trations by Charles Green, r. /. There are
three supplementary platee-'Macaroni."
by SAM; After School," by Fred Morgan,
and Goldfish" by w. S. Coleman.
THE DAYS OF LAMB AND oorERDGE. A his.
Henry Holt 4 %. Washington: VIM. Balkan
AN OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH READER. On
Mittelenslisches Ubungsbuch. with introduc-
ton notes and glossary. By George Edwin
Language and literature In the universiryy o.
Minnesota. New York: Macmillan & Co.
IN THE LAND OF CAVE AND CLIFF DWELL
ERs. BY Lieut. Frederick schwatka. author
Of The Children Of the Cold. ..Nimrcd IN the
s Arctic or Rsssns and F Hs
York: The oassell Publishing Company. Wash.
ington: Brentanos.
of O6r T.ansDOsas Dian The Wreck of The GTOsve
Pirate." &C. Ne~ York. TSe casss p aSS. n
Ing Company. Washington: Brentano's.
FOR MY OWN SAKE GUM MErNETwnLEy.,
hard Sma sssso rom the German BY Mari. Bern
Stuart Smith; New York: The InternatiOnai
EvANGEINE- By Henry wadsworth Lonefellow.
With biography Of author: critical Opinions and
sp psSs'o s,,. Scte: No l2s q nsynsrds
Merrill & Co. E-Ici,7 - =
REPORT on POPULATION AND RESOURCES
o. Alaska AT THE ELEVENTH CENSUS;
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DIRECT LEGIsI.ATIoN BY THE crTIzESsuR
T THHRR1TGH h. TIE - INITIATIVE II,M AND REFER.
Nationalist Publishing Company.
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A HOUSE
BOAT: By William BLACK Black New and revised
instoa: Woodward q Lothrop.
sssS.S New Yofs: i &. :: fstn asS''s ssa a.
Washington: Brentano's.
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Freemen. New York; q. p. Putnam's sons.
Washington: Brentano's.
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE ,soa
q Published By Harvard uaavsrsiy. Cam
Around the World" Is q new mara zine.
the first number OF which was issued during
this month. 1t is and is to be a magazine OF
tours, travels and explorations. devoted to q
knowledge of the earth and its .nhabitants
Many Of the articles are illustrated in the
highest style Of magazine art. Prof. Angelo
Heilprfn, a scientist and explorer OF ex-
tensive repute and clever writer, is editor;
the publisher is the Contemporary Publish
ing Company of New York and Philadel-
phia-
True literary gems are the half-dozen min
iature volumes recently issued by G. p Put.
mans Sons. and for sale in this city a,
Brentanos. They make excellent Christmas
gifts, either in allopathic or homeopathic
doses. They are THE Eve of st. Agnes
and Scnnets," by John Keats: "She Stoops
to Conquer" by Oliver Goldsmith; THE
Study Of Poetry" by Matthew Arnold: .'Ths
House of Life" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
ideas of TRUTH" by John Ruskin, and
Conversation" by Thomas De Quincy.
In his New High School March. Mr.. Geo
J. Becker offers the public a bright and
catchy bit Of piano music, which has botf
the vivacious spirit and the simplicity
compositions in this field. The small boy
who signs for something new TO whist.
should find strains to his liking in it.
Columbia is My Home is the title of =
new martial composition by Louis Orten
stein. The patriotic mood which evidenti,
animated the composer for this undertakins
is very well expressed in the music, MT
Ortenstein has also written two other songs
ION the Midway" or the Jolly Bum
Bum" comic description of sights at IN,
ment, and open the Kingdom OF Love I,
AL" work of much musical excellence
The 8. Brainard's Sons Co. of Chicago pub
lish On the Midway" and the Chicag,
| Music Co. the others