The National tribune., 1894-11-01

FABLES OF FIELD AND STAFF. By Lieut..
! James Albert Frye. Published by The Colonial
Company, Boston.
( This latest collection of volunteer service
| sketches is an attractive and very interesting
! book OF seven fables and beautiful stories they
are, of the history of an infantry regiment.
| They are seasoned from end TO end with truth,
| and quite equal to previous works of their
author, who is Adjutant OF the 1st Mass and
well known for The Pluck of Capt Fender,
| The Hymn that Helped the Seventh Major.
| etc His new book is very neatly bound in
dark blue and gold and printed on fine linen
| paper in the clearest Of type.
! GRAY ROCKS. By Willis George Emerson H..
| iustrnIed 10y w. Il. GoodsH Published by Laird
q Lee Chicago. Price. cioIh, ST. paper, 80 cents.
! A thrilling novel of mining life in the mid
die West, it brings into prominence phase of
American life of which little is known. The
| plot is clever and intricate. and the character
drawing strong and natural.
| DANBURY FAIR. BY Aunt Derby. Press of the
Danbury Medical Printing Co.. Danbury, Conn.
Filled with Aunt Derby's homeIy Yankee
wit, Der impressions OF the fair will be de-
light 10 all who appreciate her humor. She
dedicates her book lovingly - to all the Yankee
grandmothers in the land"
SONGS OF WEARY PILGRIM. By George
a. Wallace Bowling Green Ky. Price IS cents.
contains many beautiful poems and some
" Idle thoughts about men, women and
things"
Magazines and Notes.
The Ponsy. All illustrated monthly for little
people. Published by the Lothrop Publishing
Co., 120 Purchase street. Boston. Price 81 a
year.
Our Little Men and Women an illustrated
monthly for youngest readers. Published by
the Alpha Publishing Co., Boston. Price 81
year.
An article which will be turned to with great
interest in Chicago circles and throughout the
West is Mr. Henry Latchford's picturesque
sketch of Henry ID. Lloyd, in the October
hreHa, under the caption of A Social Reformer
of the West Dir. Lloyd is one of the most
prominent figures in the social labor movement
IN the West, and he is perhaps the greatest
authority In America on the changes in COM
mercial means and methods of this latter half
of the century.
The November Century will contain the OPEN
ing lnstaliment of the new Life of Napoleon by
Prof. Sloane. Among the many illustrations is
new portrait OF Napoleon, the reproduction of
a crayon sketch made by comrade in 1875,
the original of which was found after a long
search. undertaken by The Century, in a COL
lection OF drawings at the Louvre, not ex-
hibited
81. Nicholas IS to have a story life of Napoleon
1t is called Boy OF the First Empire and is
by Eibridge 5. Brooks. It's hero, French lad,
renders service to Napoleon who makes him
page and finally an aid As such he accom-
panies Napoleon through his great campaigns
1t Is said to be truthful and accurate account,
based upon the best and latest authorities
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for November
describes and illustrates Niagara in Harness in |
an elaborate article written by Arthur Vaughan |
Abbott, c. E., which gives an idea at once clear
aud most impressive of the stupendous achieve |
ment of diverting the power of the mighty |
cataract to mechanical USE Other illustrated |
articles are: To Rio in Sailing VESSEL by |
Henry Wysham Lanier; Costume on the Stage, |
by Percy Anderson; The County Fair, by Thes |
Donnelly; Pixies Peak by Moonlight, by w. c. |
Campbell; Shinnecock Silhouettes, by Don c. |
Seitz; The Struggle for Life in the Deep. by |
Col. Nicolas Pike: and a second paper on Brit |
ish Etching, by Frederick Wedmore.
The Idter for November has the opening chap |
tiers of a new story by A. Conan Doyle-The /
Stark Munro Letters-which promises to equal, |
at least, in power of fascination any of his |
previous stories. Besides this it has number !
of other stories, sketches lone by Jerome <.
Jeromel. many excellent illustrations, aud the
ever-bright "Idler's Club" Published at SO
Duane street, New York. Price Is cents.
The Mcclure series of Napoleon papers and
portraits will open in the November number of
McClare's Magazine. There will be 10 of the
earliest portraits of Napoleon, some of them
very rare, and seven of persons intimately as
sociated with his career, accompanying the
first installment of an anecdotal study of Ma
p0leOn by Miss Ida II. Tarbeil. This INSTALL
ment deals especially with Napoleon's boyhood
and youth. With this series of papers there
will be in all 75 portraits of Napoleon.
The complete novel in Lipptacott's Magazine
,or November is "Dora's Defiance" by Lady
Lindsay, author of The Philosophers Win
iOw," "a Tangled Web" etc. Besides this,
here are contributions by Ella Higginson,
Richard Malcolm Johnston, Edgar Fawcett,
md other noted writers. Published at Phila-
ielphia. Price 25 cents.
Capt. King knows how to tell an army story
rue to lfe interesting to readers of all classes,
md sure to revive stirring memories in those
If the military profession. His new novel,
Under Fire" about to issue from the Lippin-
:ott Press, has the excitement incident to hard
campaigning and sharp Indian fighting, as
lso those touches of sentiment which the
uthor understands so well how to make use of.