The National tribune., 1894-06-14
RECENT LITERATURE.

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RECENT LITERATURE.
A TRAGIC BLUNDER. BY Mrs Lovett Cameron
Published by the J. B. Iippineo,t Co. Philadci.
| phia aud for sale by Brentano, Washington, D.
! c. Price 81. -
Mrs Cameron's novels. /" In Grass Country
IA Daughters Heart" "a Sisters Sin,
"Jacks Heart" etc, have shown a high skill
| in inventing interesting plots and delineatina
character. All her stories are vivid in action
and pure in tone. This one is equal to her
| best.
| THE QUEEN OF LOVE. By 8. Barring Gould
| Published by J. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia,
Pa, and for sale by Brcntsno. Washington, ID. c.
| Price 81.
| Mr.. Gould is one of the very foremost oil
| English writer's, and his previous novels
Court Royal" +" Richard Cable" THE Grave
| rocks" etc, have had unwonted success This
| work contains q charming description of life
among the salt-makers in Chestershire, Eng
| land. and has running through it a beautiful
| love story. The characters are all well and
| strongly drawn.
THE LONE HOUSE. By Amelia F. Barr Pub
| lished by Dodd. Mead & Co.. Boston, Mass. and
| for sale by VIM. Ballaniyne & Son, Washington.
ID. G. Price Sl.25.
| 1t seems hardly worth while discussing one
of Mrs. Barr's stories. Millions of readers know
and eagerly wait for the announcement Of q
new work from her talented pen 1t is enough
to say that this latest story is fully equal to the
very best of those with which she has hereto
| fore favored the reading public.
THE MYSTERY OF THE PATRICIAN CLUB.
BY Albert ID. Vandam. Published by j. B. Lip
pincoit Co., PIiade phia and for sale by Bren-
tano, Washington ID. G. Price ST..
Mr.. Vandam is the author of IAN English
man in Paris" which has made such sensa-
ton in the reading world. This work is de-
tective story in which are interviewer charm
ing love story, and some wonderfully accurate
descriptions of high life in England and in the
aristocratic clubs. 1t is powerfully written,
and will much enhance the authors literary
reputation.
OSCAR IN AFRICA. BY Harry Cas,lemon. Pub
lished by Porter g. Coates. Philadelphia.
This is the third volume of the "Hunter
Series" Oscar is resolute young American,
who is sent to the wilds of Africa to procure
specimens of animals for university museum.
He returns successful after numerous adven-
lures in making up his outfit and in his en-
counters in the field.
Magazines and Notes.
LIES Calendar for June is something with
which to counterfeit :" that tired feeling" which
comes when the heat makes one feel that moth
ing can interest him. He will get new zest
for life from its funny pages. Published at %
West Twenty third street, New York. Price
10 cents.
The North american Review for June contains
articles by w. II. Mallock, DIR. w. A. Ham,
mond. Sir F. Ashmead- Bartlett, The Bishop of
Albany, Gen. o. O. Howard, Superintendent
Byrnes. DIR. Alvah II. Doty, Sarah Grand.
Prince Iturbide John +. Hume tho Governors
of Colorado and Nebraska, Prof. NJ. F. Egan,
and others. Published at No. 3 East Four.
teenth street. New York. Price so cents.
Among the contributors TO Home and Country
for juno are: Hamilton. Rodier Cochrane,
Clarence Hawkes., Mrs. G. F. De Fontaine,
Frances Smyth, w. C. Campbell. George Ethel
bert Walsh. John Fowler, Hezekiah Butter
worth, William Lansing. A. L. Packard, Isaac
Irving, Edward Pigot Nj. D., Rose Gautier,
Clarence Frisbe, Arthur Miller Easter L. N.
Case Henry w. LipmaD, Charles Hills, John
w. Townsend. Alice Reeves, and A. II. Convent.
Tho June number of The american Journal of
Politics which closes the fourth volume of this
magazine, contains 13, vel wrtten articles Of
interest to all students Of the political ques-
tions that now agitate the public mind. Among
the topics discussed are: Economic Co-opera
ton. by Stoughton Cooley Defense of the
Goddess Schools of the State, by W. w. Quater-
mass; Plums in Politics. by Henry E. Foster;
The Schools of New York City, by the author
of Preston Papers, and Are the New United
States Bonds VOdabe2 by A. G. Houston.
Hdrpers Magazine for June contains "a pic
lures Few books have so many. But the
charm OF these pictures is not in their number.
Itisin their beauty and variety. as well as their
appropriateness TO the text.
Perhaps the shortest of short stories is a car
toon for at glance, and sometimes without
single word. it must truly characterize all the
people itdepicts and make sure that you do not
miss The moral. The political story of week
of month is told in the cartoons that from
time to time stand upon the first page of Har-
per's Weekly.
The June number of Tales from Town Topics
contains complete novel called An Unspeak-
able Siren, it being story of modern society
in New York. The heroine is highly original
character, and the treatment of the subject is
clever throughout bright collection of short
Stories sketches. POEMS and witticisms, taken
from Torn Topics, accompanies the story, the
whole volume making tempting Summer
book. Torn Topics Publishing Co., 20S Fifth
avenue New York City.
The June number of Arena contains very
remarkable paper on tho recent discoveries of
experimental psychology In regard to psychom-
etry as key to the development of sixth
sense. 1t is written by Paul Tyner and is
cram fall Of suggestiveness. To those who
have some inherited prejudice against these
discussions it is worth while to say that the
contributions of natural science to this oues-
tion by Psychologists and ex perimenters on the
relations of mind and body are the prep0nder-
ating facts of contemporary inquiry.
The June Overland is to be q noteworthy
number. The new editor, Rounsevelle Wild
man, is to print another of the Malsyan stories
that have attracted much attention. This time
it is to be called "Amoki" and it tells of the
love affair Of young Malayan man and girl
which ends traeicaliy in the suicide of the man
by the traditional method of bis race, running
amok. The word is familiar to every body and
yet few people have understood how q Malay
runs amok, and still less why. That is what
this story will show in a striking manner.
DIR. Frederick c. Howe's paper OIL Federal
Revenues and the Income Tax +" should prove
very interesting reading just now, since Con-
gress is still debating as to whether the United
States is to try the income tax once more
Published at Philadelphia by the American
Academy of Political and Social Science Pub
LEGATION No. Ito. PIP. %. Paper, svo, % cents
The June number of Catholic World has: The
Pablo Rights of Women-a Round Table Con-
Conference; Adirondack Sketches, by Walter
Leckey; The Universal Doctrine of Restora-
tion, Very Rev. A. F. Hewitt, D. D.; Glimpses
of Life in an Anglican Seminary, Rev. C. A.
"A. l..