The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-11-29
RECENT LITERATURE.


Murphy, and of his brother, Vim. J. Murphy"
SIR. Murphy was the founder of the blue ribbon
movement, and the book tell much Of the his
tory of that work
MY STUDY FIRE BY Hamilton Wright Mabie.
Published by Dodd, Mead & Co. New York.
Price $3.50 For sale by Brentano, Washington,
D.
series of short, easily-read essays about
books and authors. There is much quiet,
kindly thoughtfulness about them that will
make them truly enjoyable fireside reading.
TALE OF TWO CITIES. BY Charles Dickens.
Published by Dodd. Mead & Co., New York.
Price $780, For sac By Breutano. Washington,
d.
With so much interest and talk as there is
now about the Napoleonic era and the French
Revolution, this great rove! Of Dickens's sug-
gests itself Immediately. Charles Dickens him
self in his introduction says " 1t has been one
of my hopes to add something to the popular
and picturesque means of understanding that
! terrible time" and with this modest hope he pro-
duced one of the greatest of historical novels,
and the most splendid work in all of his pro-
auctions. Its new binding is extremely at
tractive; even the most ardent of Dckerss
lovers must like it, The outside, asofC-colored
linen with touches of gold, and within clear,
even type. smooth paper and so excellent illus
trations coming into the text just when one
needs them most.
DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS.
BY Mrs. Troiiope. Published by Dodd, Mead
ngton. ID. &. Price $3.50
Mrs. Trolope came over here 60 years ago.
She saw most OF our big cities, New Orleans,
Cincinnati, Baltimore, Philadel phia, New York,
aud others, and saw much Of the country itself
In her long travels by steamboat and sage-coach.
Sixty years does not mean so much always IN the
history Of a European. country as this period
has meant for the United States, as Mrs. Troll
lope's book continually reminds one. 1t is an
Interesting picture OF our worst faults as n
Nation at that time, for though we know the
English woman was prejndiccd and met preju-
I dice continually (for ourselves were not liable
to he charged with being Anglo mania them,
and therefore was douby certain TO have seen
our worst side, yet that she is truthful is gen.
orally admitted. We can always trust to our
innate Americanism and that of our historians
to tell the bigger truh-the good in our
couptrymeu. So Mrs. Trolope scolds at our
lack of refinement, at our lack OF national
literature, music and art, and our seeming in
difference to the comforts and graces Of life.
She is a woman straight from the old cities of
Europe, came here where men were fighting
against nature itself for their homes farms,
and cities; cutting roads through greater forests
than Europe has known; for blowing the earth
for the farms, building houses for quick shelter,
starting factories, slowly building prosperous
Nation, go years is only half the time We have
had since we left the guartiianshi OF the English
King She missed the little giaces and manners
that come with ease and time, rs she compared
the busy pioneers of the West with London
men, without remembering that it is easier to
copy tricks and manners from c0urtIers than
it is to build great Nation. However, she ap-
preciates some OF our rivers and mountain 3, our
flowers aud trees and gives very pretty scrip
tions of the scenery. She gives hint to artists
that they would do wellto remember, in re-
mark about the corn liars in the basement OF
our Capitol at Observation-Disclosures poor, neglect
cd Mill hot ~. II nhn In
hall leading to some of these rooms the cell
ing is supported by pillars, the capitols Of
which struck me as being particularly beauti-
full. They are composed of the ears and leaves
OF the Indian corn, beautifully arranged. and
forming as graceful an outline as the acan thus
itself. This is the Only Instance saw in which
America has ventured to attempt originality.
The success was perfect
Magazines and Notes.
Among the last, If not actually the last, lit
erary work done by Mr.. Philip Gilbert Hamer-
ton. was his article on the new French painter,
Emile FrIahi, whose portrait and picture appear
iii the December Scribner. Mr. Iiamerton had
signed, just before his death, every copy of this
work, OF wf ich only 100 copies printed.
Some important illustrated articles which
will appear in numbers of the Nep England
Magazine for 1895 Old Milk Street by Ham
iltOn A. Hill; Round About Manadnock, by
DIR. Edward Emerson; Horace Mann, by Frank
A. Hill, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board
of Education; Harriet Reecfer Stowe, by Geo.
Willis Cooke; Sir William Pepperei and the
Capture of Louisburg, Old New England Songs,
Dartmouth College TIE Harvard Annex,
Lowell Mason, and Raleigh's Lost Colony. DIR.
Samuel A. Green, of the Massach nsetts Histori-
cal Society, will contribute The Several Places
Called Groton. telling of the old English Gro
ton, the home of winthrop, and the various
American Grotons The history and antiqui-
dollars year; %. cents a number. Sample
free TO any address. Warren f. Kellogg, Pub
Usher, Boston.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for December
is one OF the earliest TO appear, and certainly
one Of the most brilliantly attractive of thu
illustrated holiday magazines. The leading
paper is All original contribution from the ia
nous Psychologist aud romancer. DIR. George
Ebefs, entitled My Tomb in Thebes" pro.
fuseiy iliustrsed with views taken in Egypt
expressly to accompany il. Other notable arti-
cles in this number are Living Pictures on
Broadway, written and illustrated by the
we'll known artist, Valerien Gribayedoff, in his
own vivid style; The Old and the New in
Japan is a timely paper, full of interesting in
formation, by Ernest w. Clement.
The Christmas Hdrper's will surpass in pic
torial effect any previous number of that mag
azine. Among the well-known artists who will
be represented in its 109 illustrations are Ed
WIN "a houey, tiiHoIu taiielOn, a. H. Il rosy,
Charles Dana Gibson, Charles Graham, w.
Hatherell, w. II. Hyde George du Manrier,
Alfred Parsons, Howard Pyle, Frederic Rem.
| ington, w. T. Smedey, Albert T. Sterner, and
r. de Thulstrup
The Youths Companion has never issued a
more attractive announcement than that for
1895. 1t includes contributions by two
daughters of Queen Victoria (the Princess
| Helena and the Princess Louise), MIR. Gladstone,
| the Secretary of the Navy, Robert Louis Steven
son. Rudyard Kipine. J. M. Barrie Clark Rus
sell, and w. d. Howells The other con-
rbutors include Camille Flammarion. Archi-
bald Forbes Charles Dickens, Capt. Charles
King, William Hamilton Gibson. Andrew
Lang, Rev. S. Barring Gould, Dr. William A.
| Hammond, DIR. Cyrus Edison. G. A. Stephens.
q. p. Lathrop, N. S. Shalcr. Harold Frederick,
Thomas A. Janvier, and Eugene Field.
wide variety of topics is treated from the
scientific point of view in The Popular Science
! Dfonthiy for December. The number opens with
an article on Athletics Cor City Girls by DIR.
Mary Taylor BisseIl, who approves tennis and
| cycling, but especially recommends welldi-
rected gymnasium. President Jordan of Stan
| ford University sets fortRTh Need of Educated
| Men i'll a way to encourage and stimulate all who
are fearful about the future of Government and
society. The probable appearance of the cele-
| brated missing link" and his family is
| shown in engraving of the painting by Gabriel
| Max which was presented TO Prot. Haeckel on
| his sixticth birthday. Prof +. Z. Evans dis
| cusses the picture hinder the title Pithecoid
| Man. Prof. James Sully continues his Studies
| of Childhood with a chapter on The Child's
| Thoughts about Nature A subject which few