The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
MAGAZINES.


History for the second quarter of 1898 is
now ready, 1t is a compendium of the
prominent events of the last three
months; while its subjects are, of neces-
sity, briefly treated, nothing of impor-
tance appears to have been omitted. Tn
der the general titles of Leading Topics, ~
international Affairs" affairs in
Europe, p" Affairs in Asia" Affairs in
Africa, " Science. Literature and Mis-
cellany," it details the worlds most re-
cent happenings with singular minuteness,
perspicacity, and fidelity, telling all that
really needs to be known about any one
subject, and referring to all subjects of
consequence in a most intelligent and
practical way. GarretsOn, Cox & Co.,
Publishers, Buffalo, n Y.
The appearance of the full piano score
of set of original waltzes, by Eduard
Strauss, the famous waltz composer and
conductor of the court balls of Vienna, is
one of the many striking features of the
October Ladies' Home Journal This set
of waltzes is called THE Dancing Waves
Waltzes," and will be found quite as
melodious as any gifts predecessors. The
Study of the Voice." by Christine Nils
son, is valuable contribution, which is
supplemented by an interesting sketch of
the home life and personality of Madame
Nilsson, written by the late Lucy Hamil-
ton Hooper. Josiah Aliens Wife" is at
her best in delightful little story, Try
ing the Rose Act" The happy conclu-
sion of Mr.. Howells' Coast of Bohemia"
is more than indicated by Frank o.
Smalps clever illustration. The Curtis
Publishing Company, Philadelphia.
The complete novel in the October num-
Der of Lippincott's is "The Hepburn
Line" by Mrs. Mary J. Holmes 1t is
pleasing tale of an old Kentucky family
and a neglected heroine who comes to her
own at last. The eighth in the series Of
Lippincott's notable stories is "a Deed
with Capital D. by Charles M Skinner.
Other short stories are "Poor Yoricku
by Robert N. Stehpens, and "The Pass'n's
Grip" by Roosevelt Page; both are illus
trated. 1.-TWO Belligerent SOuthrons, - by
Florence Waller, tells of the bloodless
duel between Clay and Randolph, and in
cludeS documents never before printed.
Running the Blockade" by Emma Hen
rY Ferguson, is an interesting account
of a lady's experience on what was per
haps the last vessel to escape from Will
mington to Bermuda. 1t is illustrated
j. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadel-
phia.
ready
Sept. 10, is better than ever. The con
tents is varied and the illustrations are
up to this magazines high standard The
complete novel this month-the feature
of this publications. by Sophie Frances
Baker, and is called The Real Tom Brown
SON. 1t is strong in colOring, treatment
and plot, and is brightly and Interestingly
told The illustra tiOns are by Charles T.
i M
Clocks of Paris. written and illustrated
by Eleanor E. Greatorex; A Princess in
Bohemia, a charming short story by
Sewall Read; Old Prints, a sketch by
John Sheridan Zelie, and A Plea For The
Play-writer, by Fannie Aymar Mathews.
All the departments are interesting and
carefully edited and the exquisite water
color portraits are those of Mrs. Robert
L. Henry, and Mrs. A. Shreve Badger of
Chicago. Godey's Magazine, 81 Park
Row New York
Harper's Magazine for October opens
with the first of Edwin Lord Weeks
articles describing the journey across
Persia, which he undertook last year with
Theodore Child. The illustrate ons from
Mr.. Weeks sketches are unusually at
tractive. There is another of Mrs. Pen
nellS descriptions of a picturesque town
this time it is Toulouse-copiOusly illus
trated by Joseph Pennell Col. T. A.
Dodge of the United States army writes
of the Arabian horse at his highest estate
in his Syrian home, and the article is
generously illustrated. Richard Harding
Davis describes Undergraduate Life at
Oxford" showing some of it's lighter as
poets, and for the text Mr.. w Hatherell
has made five characteristic illustrations.
The Old New York articles are continued
by a study of ''Lispenard's Meadows by
Thomas A. Janvier, illustrated by W. A.
Rogers. DIR. Henry Van Dyke writes
about The Childhood OF Jesus" in an ar
ticle illustrated from famous paintings.
"Our National Game Bird, - the quail,
called partridge south Of Mason and
Dixous Line" finds a biographer in
Charles d. Lanier who describes quail
shooting at its best. There are other in
teresting articles. Harper Brothers, New
York.
w. d. Howells, in a very frank paper
on "The Man Of Letters as Man of Bus
ness. " in the October Scribner's, makes
this striking statement: IL do not think
any man ought 10 live by an art. A mans
art should be his privilege, when ne has
proven his fitness 10 exercise IL, and has
Otherwise earned his daily bread and its
results should bee free 20 all In
trying 10 write Of literature as business,
1 am tempted " begin by saying that