The morning call., 1893-10-01
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FAMOUS VOYAGES AND EXPLORERS
This neat volume from the pen OF Mrs.
Sarah K. Bolton is timely contribution
to current literature. Beginning with
Columbus, to whose voyages attention has
been generally attracted in this COlum bian
year, Mrs. Bolton gives very readable lives
Of many of the great commanders aud dis
coverers. No romance could exceed Id
interest the adventures of Marco Polo,
Magellan and Sir Walter Raleigh. The
story Of the long-continued search for the
north pole and of the onsequent relief
expeditions furnishes lesson of heroic
endurance and patient endeavor of
rare value to the young. The strange
yet true tale tolu by Perry on his
return from Japan. then terra incog-
nito. is briefly related. and will doubt
less be read for the first time by many of
the rising generation. The efforts of
Livingstone and Stanley to discover the
sources of the Nile, suppress the slave
trade and throw the light of civilization on
the Dark Continent are more familiar to
boys and girls, but are OF unliring interest.
The book contains 800 pages and is illus
trated with ten portrais and map.
New York and Boston: T. 7. Crowell
q Co. For sale at the bookStores.l
THE TRANSLATION OF SAVAGE
This story by Gilbert Parker is one of the
best of the season. Francis Armour, a
young Englishmab. willis in the Hudson
Bay country. received news from homo
that young lady whom he thought be
loved, and to whom he was engaged, had
accepted the attentions of a stupid but
rich nobleman and married him. Armour
imagined that in some way his family were
to blame in the matter, and decided upon
what he conceived to be wholesome
scheme of revenge. He went off instanter
and was married To Lali, the daughter of
Chief Eye-of-the- Moon. A few days later
Mrs. Frank Armour. under charge of a
shrewd Scotchw6man as maid-com-
panion, was under way to England.
tune. How the young Indian girl
was received by the proud old English
family; how she gradually became civil
lied and developed characteristics which
won for her he love of her husbands peo-
pie, and finally, when she was introduced
into London society, makes her one OF the
attractive figures of the season-all these
things are told with fres ness and inter-
est that never flags. In the meantime the
husband, gnawed by the paugs of con-
science, neglects his Indian Princess, and
for nearly five years remains in the wilds
of the Northwest Territory. Finally he re-
turns to England, and happy reunion
with the wife whom he had scarcely
known and married only in pique brings
the story to q pleasant ending New
York D. Appleton & Co. For sale by the
Bancroft Company.]
CHANGED HEARTs.-Thls novel by May
Agnes Fleming is rather readable and
much in the style usual to her. There is
the lady-killiDg military man and the
heiress who is not an heiress at all, hav-
ing usnrppd the place of the genuine heir
ess, and there is murder with the wrong
man accused of 1t, and altogether there is
sufficient of plot and intrigue for half a
dozen ordinary novels. Withal the. tale is
not badly told. New York: G. W. Dill e.
ham. For sale by the Bancroft Company j
GoLD.-Doubtless Laura Daintrey was
attempting something more than usually
am bilious when she wrote "Gold." She
had gathered somewhere the trite notion
that great wealth is necessarily great
curse aud, having clearly had no expert
ence herself as to whether 1t is not, pro-
ceeds to argue from the standpoint
of ignorance upon grave problems
Of social economy that have appalled, the
greatest thinkers of the age. The story
drags. of course. as it would drag did you