The herald., 1893-01-29

Whoever buys the book will have the
rare pleasure OF seeing strong woman
depicted by one Of her own kind, and
will also aesist in the placing OF a
memorial shaft over the earthly resting
place of the woman who. like women in
general, waited longer than her con for
any fitting recognition. The proceeds
of the book go to the Memorial associ-
alton.
An Exquisite Fool is one of those ex-
excellent anonymous novels that form
so prominent feature of the Harper
Bros Franklin Square Library The
connection between the title and the
plot is not very apparent, but that does
not harm the story in any way. An
Exquisite Fool is one of those novels
that does not admit of synopsis Of the
plot without destroying the interest.
Suffice it to say that the volume will
afford few hours of unalloyed enjoy
ment to the reader whose taste demands
merit OF style and handling, as well as
briskness and interest of plot.
All the above books for sale by the stoll &
Thayer company 139 South Spring street.
Book Chat.
Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife, by
Sir Edwin Arnold, is play written by
the author during his recent residence
in Toxic and aims at telling in dramatic
form and with faithful adherence to ma
tive manner, popular medieval jap
anese story of feminine virtue.
Bernard of Clairvoix: The Times,
the Man and His Work, Dy Richard s..
Storrs, is book of magnificent interest.
If DR.. Storrs had not been one of the
foremost preachers he would have been
one OF the noblest historians. As it is,
he has written a volume that from be-
ginning to end is crowded with points OF
fascinating interest.
Bret Harte's new story, emitted Susy,
which 10 virtually sequel to A Wait OF
the Plains, will leave the Houghton,
Mifflin press about the 2lst.
W. H. Babcock has written a new
book entitled The Brides OF the Tiger, a
story of the early days of the colony Of
Virginia and OF the methods of supply
ing wives to the planters of that COM
munity.
Juan Valera, the Spanish novelist and
diplomatist, has been refused admission
to the vatican as envoy of Spain by Leo
XIII. The pope's action 10 said to be
due to Valera's novel, Pepita Ximenez,
published in America by Appleton in
1866, the hero of which is candidate
for the priesthood, who abandons his
VOWS for love of woman whom his
father wishes to make his stepmother.
Valera's novels have made him O men,
bes of the Spanish academy, one of the
forty "immortals" OF Spain. He was
minister of Spain to the United States
from 1883 until few months ago.
Jerome K Jerome has written story
with title taken from tombstone: In
Memory of John Ingerfeld and of Annie
His Wife. 1t is love story of Old
London.
Walker Besant's new serial story, en-
titled The Rebel Queen, will be first in
troduced to American readers through
the pages OF Harper's Bazaar.
Chatto & Windus, foreign publishers,
have in preparation new story by G. A.
Henty, entitled Rujub, the Juggler. 1t
is a tale cf the Indian mutiny, in three
volumes.
Last week in mentioning new books 1
alluded to Pierre Lofts Pecheur d.
Islande not as a new book, but as being
issued by the D. G. Heath company in q
new edition, annotated for use as q
school text. This is in reply to criti-
cism stating it was not new book.
Studies OF Religious History, Pos
thumous volume Of fragments by Renan,
has just been published in London.
The first of an illustrated history OF
Norwegian literature, by Henry Jaeger,
has just been published in Christiania.
Mr.. F. Marion Crawford's forthcom-
int novel, The Children of the King, is
cory of Calabria. The author in
tends to give ''A Talk About Calabria, +"
with come extracts from his novel, be-
fore the Twentieth Century club of Chi
csgo, February Sd