The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-25


As1ATIc BREEzEs. OR STUDENTS ON THE
WING, by OLIVER OPTIC, l. ee & shepard,
Boston. For sale by Edward +. Cook.
This is the fourth volume of the ALI
Over.the. World Library series. and
uniform with American Boys Aaoat.
The Young Navigators, etc. 1t is
handsome book, like all the productions
of this house. Who has not known
something OF this author through actual
contact with his books? To at least
two generations OF readers Mr.. Adams
name and fame have been familiar
guarantee that something good was in
store for all the young people "about
this time" as the almanacs say, to say
nothing OF other seasons OF the year.
The present story tells OF the adventures
OF some Of our young friends of former
books as they sailed the soft seas over,
ending with going through the Suez
canal. The book needs no further word
from US.
WEE LUCY, by SoPHIs MAY, author of Little
Prudy Stories, vols. Dotty Dimpe Series,
vols. Little Prudys Flyaway Series,
Flake Frizzle Stories, Quinnebassett
Stories. Lee & sheppard, Boston. For sale
by Edward T. Cook.
These Prudy Books, as they are uni
versally known, come to us like CLEANS
from the Atlantic. Everybody reads
these stories. for they are as bright as
they are safe and wholesome. Nobody
ever questions either the amusement or
the benefit that any family gets from
this little classic in youthful literature.
Colonel Higginson once declared that
genius came in with Little Prudy." No
delineator of child character on this
continent has gained 90 large an audi
ence as Sophie May, whose real name
has almost been forgotten by her friends,
as we'll az the public. Wee Lucy is GER
tainly one OF the most lovable. as we'll
as cutest of the many little ones the
author has ever caused US to meet.
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MONEY. BY ABBOT KINNEY. For sale by
Stoll & Thayer.
This attractive monograph by Mr..
Kinney. who, by the way. has given
several excellent and timely papers for
the consideration of this community, is
we'll worth careful reading. 1t is
plain and orderly presentation of the
essential points and arguments of the
question of our currency, popular in
style and yet careful and conservative,
a. BELTS theme Of go much import
ance.
The authors conclusions are that we
need gold and silver for use together
"as basis of exchange mediums, upon
. ratio universally recognized" but no
one nation can alone establish such
ratio. Hence the desired bimetsllsm ia
not yet in sight, for there 10 now little
prospect OF such general consent as
would give US its full advantages.
W..
CHILDREN OF CIRCUMsTANCE. by IorA
pp b. 4 Go. For sale by sloll q
issue Of the Town and Country Library;
uniform With A Mild Barbarian, etc.
Wslconisss to a slight feeling of uns
rest at sight of q new book by the author
OF A Yellow Aster.. How a woman can
feel called upon to write out to the bit
ter end all about how q wife heard her
feyer.orazed husband call out the name
OF another woman, and then, when he
gets we'll. 60 and hunt up that other to
take her place, and then die herself to
make = clear field. is a mystery to the
reader who Graves old-fashioned, whole
some love stories. Yet Beatrice eat on
palely" and lived through it, till it oc-
CURED to her that she just loved Geos-
frey and Margaret enough to die for
them. and did it promptly. Few
women could have sat on "palely"
through it all.
PEAK AND PRAIRIE, by ANNA FULLER, G. P.
Putnam's Sons. For sale by Stoll & Thayer.
The Is sketches that make up this
pvaktv volur m al t;tlad
from q Colorado sketch book" and
part of them have appeared in recent
magazines. They were all prepared,
however, for final use as q consecutive
series. and to be made into a volume at
last. THE sketches Of Colorado life,"
says the author, ''are little more than
hints and suggestions caught from time
to time by a single observer, in a com
paratively marrow field of investiga-
tion." But the field had q wide diversity
of scene and incident, and 80 these
sketches and lively to a rather uncom-
mon degree.
AN ALTAR OF EARTH. BY THYMoL MONK
Uniform with Ships That Pass III the Night,
In Varying Moods q p. Putnam & Sons.
For sale by stoll & Thayer.
Here is a fresh and rather charming
story by new writer. with some dis.
tinctively drawn characters and clean,
breezy and Wholesome tone. 1t il neat
volume; will fill pocket and rest o
tired brain to read it. 1t ia not great,
but one does not want great book if he
would rest. Great books are to be read
when the brain is not tired-but alert
and eager to work. This ia uniform
with Peak and Prairie, the othere of
lengthening list of charming volumes.
LUCY LARCoM: LIFE. LETTERS AND d.
AIRY. BY REV. DANIEL d. ADDISON. With
fine new portrait. Houghton, Mifflin &
Every New Highlander living here in
the emile of softer sky than bent above
him in the "Hsnnah's at the Window
Binding Shoes" days, ought to buv this
book and read it in the light of the
times when the great literary and moral
upheavss OF his old home were going
on. Exact dates are of small account,
but there WAS certain quarter of CEN
turv when it WAS almost perpetual
conference week" Cor Was il "snniver-
sary week"?) in and around Boston.
1t was then New England had all the
country on her mind and large part Of
it on her hands. "The mill girl. watch.
ing late and long the shutile's restless
play" Kansas, with her coming troub-
los; the universal trend OF slayerv's
spread-all these and many more vital
things kept the reiormer busy with al-
ternately praying and preaching and
taking off his coat and splitting on mis-