The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-31
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Home and Country for August.

Homo and Tor August.
Home aud Country, Corporal James Tan
ner, Editor, fer August contains:-"Some
Well-known New York Divines," by Fred
erick R. Coste; ''Games and Their Import"
by William c. Norris; women as Wage
Farmers" by d. NJ. Morrell; ga Natural
Sequence by Cara Barnard; Telling
What the Baby Did," by Samuel Budd;
s.rhe Street Life of Naples" by Gilbert
Prouty ,'Dick Merridith's Fairy" by Homer
Kerr; 'Driving, " by G. j. Anderson; Pre-
pairing for the Future by H. c. johnson;
symbolism of Plants by Harriet Ores
ham; "On Time" by F. Antigua; Glen,
by Percy t. Griffith; MY Two Loves" by
Roland Southern; "Latter-day Cremation
Institutes" by Harold Ford; 1.-The Avowal,"
by William Francis Barnard; I'm the Court
field; ''Talks With q Conjurer-How They
Mystify the Public" by Samuel Jaros;
s'Molly and | and the Classics by Robert
Beers: NHer Proposal" by Clarence
Hughes; diamonds and Diamond Cutting"
by H. Cutting Bouvee; Natures Rondo,"
by Frances Pierson Chace; "Wlthln
the Rebel Lines" by Charles E. Trow.
North American Review for August
The North american Reuieic for August
contains its usual variety Of important
articles upon timely subjects, by writers
whose opinions are authoritative. The Hon.
Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, con-
tributes an important paper on The Re
sources and Development of the South" a
subject on which he is peculiarly well fitted
to write. The recent railroad strikes form
the subject of a most valuable symposium by
four men most competent to deal with the
ouestion-General Nelson A. Miles, U. 5. a.,
who was in command of the Federal troops
at Chicago during the strike; the Hon.
Wade Hampton, United States Com
missioner of Railroads Harry P.
Robinson, Editor OF the RdttUdy
Age; and Samuel Gompers, Pres.
dent of the American Federation of
Labor. Sir John Eldon Gorst, NJ. P, whose
advanced attitude on the labor question has
attracted so much attention in England,
contributes an important and timely paper
on English Workmen n Their Political
Friends The recent discussion about sea
power evoked by Captain Mahan's books
furnishes occasion for a practical article by
Charles II. Cramp, the head of the celebrat-
ed shipbuilding firm. Senator William ".
Allen of Nebraska tells 'tHow to Purify Leg
is~Iation'; the Argentine Minister at Wash
ington, Senior Zeballos, discusses Civil
Wars in South America" and George Far
sons Lathrop deals with Catholic Loyalty"
his paper being in the nature of a reply to
those of Bishop Doane and President Tray
nor of the "a. 2. A." which appeared in
recent numbers Of the Review. Under
the title of MY Contemporaries" Jules
Claretie relates many interesting anecdotes
of famous Frenchmen of the time; the Hon.
Hannis Taylor, United States Minister to
Spain and a ~well-known writer on constitu-
tional questions, writes on THE House Of
Representatives and the House of Com
mons, . and Catherine B. Selden furnishes a
light and timely article on Summer Visit
ors." Mark Twain continues his brilliant
paper sin Defence of Harriet Shelley"
Other interesting articles are: "A Case for
Free Imports by the Marquis of Lorne:
ssToo Many Children" by Kate Gannett
Welles, and '"fhe Late President Carnot,"
by Gen. Rush c. Hawkins.