The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-08
.lpments since Sept. l.
BOOK NOTICES.

October Book News gives a portrait of
George Du Maurier, the artist-author of
the famous "Trilby," with a sketch de-
scriptive of his life and works.
The Boy Captain" by Capt. Nautilus,
c. Eldridge of Chicago publishers This
is a very sensational story-so sensational
that it justities the statement that Truth
is stranger than fiction"
THE Flute Player" and other poems
by Francis Howard Williams. G.. p. Put
MANS Sons. New York, publishers. Cloth
rs cents. All of the poems of the volume
are well worth reading, and some of
them are certain to have more than a
temporary popularity.
odd European Jewries," by David
Philipson, d. d. The Jewish Publication
Society of America. Cloth 81. This volume
is charmingly written and contains a very
large amount of valuable historical in
formation. Each chapter is full of in
terest-so full of interest, indeed that
one finds it as entertaining as the most
popular novel.
Genesis and Semetic Tradition" by
John D. Davis, Phi. D. Charles Serb
ner's Sons. Cloth $3.50. This volume pre-
sents many subjects of interesting study
1t is a small volume, but a profoudly in
teresting one. The chapter on the Tower
of Babel, and that on the deluge-indeed
all VI llt IOullc chapters are IepleLe
with interest and scholarly thought and
research.
The October Arena has an excellent
table Of contents. All of the articles are
of a high order of merit, and by writer's
Of established regulations. b. o. Flower
has a notable article on Plutocracy's
Bastile and Heinrich Hensoldt, Phi. D.,
writes entertainingly about occult science
in Tibet. There are two symposiums
Ian 1aV, nd h.
THE Unemployed" The Arena Publish
ing Company, Pierce Building, Copely
Square, Boston.
One always is sure to find something
timely in Donahue's Magazine. The DC
tober number, coming out inthe midst of
the political campaign, has for it's lead
ing features, three articles in answer to
the question, (Which Party Should Be
Supported?" Josiah Quincy, ex-assistant
Secretary of State of the United States,
answers the question for the democrats,
Eliot Lord, the journalist, for the repub-
licans, and George H. Cary, populist can
didate for governor of Massachusetts,
for the Peoples party Donahue's Mag
azine Company, GIL Washington street,
Boston.
Latham, Alexander & Co of New York
have just issued the twenty-irst edition
of their annual book of cotton movement
full tables of receipts, stocks, exports,
consumption, acreage, total supply and
fluctuations and much original matter
compiled in a concise form. In addition
to the firms review of the cotton trade
for the past season, the book contains
an article on Lancashire and Her Com
petitors, by the Liverpool statistician, Mr.
Thomas Ellison. 1t also contains a full
text of the income tax law, which is con-
venient for reference. The book is not
intended for sale, but is issued for
gratuitous distribution among the
friends and patrons of the publishers.
The most timely article in The Century
for October is probably the interview with
the prime minister of China. in the con-
Guiding paper of the series Across Asia
on a Bicycle" which has the additional
interest Of being fully illustrated with
half-tones after very unique photographs
made by the bicyclers Messrs. Allen and
Sachtleben. A wood engraving Of Ii
Hung Chang. from a photograph sent TO
the writer's by the prime minister, ac-
companies the article. A paper of wide
interest to American readers is THE
Real Edwin Booth" consisting OF IA
miliar letters Of this tragedian TO his fam
lily and friends, with an introduction by
his daughter, Mrs. Edwin Booth Gross
mann The letters cover a very wide
range. and show the character and per-
sonality OF Edwin Booth as never before
revealed in print. The fiction Of the Oc-
tobcr Century includes the fourth part
Of Mrs. Burton Harrison's contempt
raneous" novel, - Bachelor Maid" In
which the heroine's dream OF a separate
household approaches realization, and
there is continued consideration OF the