The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-28
NEW PUBLlcArIoss.

Mrs. Frank Leslie has written and r.
Tennyson Neely. Of Chicago, publishes
Are Men Gay Deceivers 7" book of 200
pages. As Mrs. Frank Leslie has been
three times married and is now said to be
counting the Marquis de Leuyille, il must
be acknowledged that she 10 competent to
write upon the subject she has chosen.
she thinks better of the men than she viii
admit, and is as we'll qualified TO write
about male deceivers as John L. Sullivan
10 about pugilism. Mrs. Leslie was never
so badly taken in by any one as she was
by Willie Wilde. She didn't know he
wore false teeth till she found his set in a
tumbler one morning. Paper. 50 cents.
+. Tennyson Nicely, Chicago. Publishes
Nance, a story Of Kentucky feuds, by
Nanci Lewis Greene. Thes story is founded
on the Hatfield Mccoy vendetta. and the
principal incidents. like the assassination
of man and woman nj church altar
and the ending Of the feud through a mar
rage, are founded on actual facts. The
story is not truthful. because the writer
was compelled to make the characters less
hideous than in real life, else people would
have closed the book in disgust Tho
ignorant moonshiners who dwell like wild
beasts in the mountain caves and fast
nesses and who murder women and chill
dren from ambush are as repuisive as
painted Indians, and the novelist who
seeks heroes and heroines among them
must draw on his imagination, as Cooper
and Scott did in idealizing ruffians. The
story Nance is very readable. and tells
how the long-standing enmity of the Amos
and Mordreds was ended by the marriage
of Jake Mordred and Nance Ano. Paper,
so cents.
George Barrie. of Philadelphia, pub
fishes THE Art Gallery of the Columbian
Exposition" illustrated with 3S6 relief
gravures of the chief works of art at the
Worlds fair. This is one of the works is
sued By the exclusive official publisher of
all illustrated works relating to the de-
partments OF fine and liberal arts. In the
preparation of this work the directory of
the exposition armed the publishers repre-
sentatives with authority to photograph
and engrave the choicest works of art be-
ing sent for exhibition by the leading art
lists OF the United States and Europe.
Nearly 1000 works of art were photo
graphed on a large scale, and from
that immense collection the chief
of the department of fine arts
professor Ives) selected the subjects
which should best represent the greatest
works of the leading artists of the world.
The work of Professor Ives was supple
mented by his chief assistant, Mr.. G. NJ.
Kurtz. who has added an index which
tells the date and birthplace OF each artist,
residence, the names Of the masters of
each artist, a record of the medals gained
al f,ro In,
which will be found these masterpieces of
the exposition.
The White-Smith Music Company. Chi
cago, publish Home, Sweet Home,n
adapted for quintette, by Herbert john
son. % cents; IF Columbus Had Only
Waited Until 1898" comic song, by Ed
ward Briggs and G. II. Wilder, 40 cents,
and Struck on the Stage" comic song. by
o. L. White. IS cents.
The Kensington Publishing Company,
Washington City. issues prosperity and
Politics." by Allen Ripley Foote. Mr..
Foote thinks that to restore public conf
dence congress must repeal the silver pur-
chase law repeal the national tax on
bank circulation; revise the tariff laws.
revise the pension laws, and revise the
civil service laws. In short he thinks
that the present distress would be relieved
If the Democrats should redeem the prom
ises made in their platform. A majority
OF the people of the country are perfectly
willing that the Sherman law should
be repealed. the pension laws re-
vised, the civil service laws ex-
tended, but it is impossible for
Mr.. Foote or any one else to prove that
the present paralysis of business is not
due i'll large part to the threat of repeal OF
the protective tariff. As for the restora-
ton of state or wildcat banking, the re-
cent bank suspensions have shown the
wisdom OF government control of the
banking system. Depositorsin suspended
national banks are amply protected. and
the receiyership is in the hands of the
governments, while depositors in suspended
private banks are not secured. Mr.. Foote's
book is timely and well-wri.ten. Cloth.
Isl pages. 81; paper. 50 cents.