The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-29
BOOK NOTICES.


''The Dogs and the Fleas," by One of
the Dogs, Douglas McCallum, 80 Wash
ington street, Chicago, Ill. Cloth 81 pa
per so cents. This is satire. the volume
containing $50 pages and SO illustrations.
II deals with public men and events of
current history.
MAGAZINES.
A prominent feature of the rMidwinter
Century is its fiction, which has not lit
tie variety of scene and style. There is
the first part of a four-part story by Mary
Hallock F'oote, entitled Occur d'Alene., ),
dealing with the labor trouble in the
mining regions of Idaho. The story plum
ges in the midst of love and peril, and has
illustrations by the author "A Romance
of the Faith" by Herbert D. Ward is a
piece of fiction, the scene of which is laid
IN Ur of the Chaldees, the hero being
Abraham, Father of the Jews. February
being the birth-month of Lincoln and
Washington, the number contains ma
terial relating to both. 1t presents two
heretofore unpublished portraits of Wash
ington, one a newly discovered miniature
by Ramage, made in October, 1889, and
the other portrait in black-silk embroid-
cry on white-silk ground by Rowlinda,
daughter of James Sharpless, the English
artist. The two articles of UNIQUE sort
are The American Tramp at Home" by
Josiah Flynt, which gives the writer's
personal experiences among tramps along
the line of the New York Central rail
way, and which is illustrated by Pape and
Baker; and paper on Indian Music"
by Professor John c.. Fillmore, of Mil
waukee, in continuation of Miss Fletch-
er's Investigations of the subject printed
in January. There are many other
good things in the number. The Century
Company, Union Square, New York.
All readers of the January St. Nicholas
who remember how Kipling's hero,
''Mowgli," threatened to get even with
the great tiger, ''Shere Khan" have only
to turn to the sequel, "Tiger! Tigerr' in
the current number, in order to know how
completely Mowgli wreaked his vengeance
upon his striped enemy. Brander
Matthews, in his set of papers upon
American men of letters, takes up Ben
jamin F'ranklin's career, and in few
pages puts together an admirable critical
sketch of perhaps the most interesting
American of the colonial and revolution
airy period. ''Good Neighbors' is a fanci-
full story by Tudor jerks, and tells of
suburban resident who lived next to
family of giants-real giants. Itiuis ex-
cellently illustrated by Bense1. William
7. Hornaday continues his natural history
studies by an Introductory article upon
THE QuadrupedS of North America"
and then gives the more important facts
about all THE Monkeys of North Amer
lea" The illustrations to the series are
of remarkable merit. "Babette," by
Mary A Winston, is the story of a brave
girl, in the time of Frederick the Great,
who outwitted band of Cossacks, and
thus became heir to her fathers estate.
The foregoing are only few of the things
that make the number a valuable one.
The Century Company, Union Square,
New York.
Harpers' for February has an excellent
collection of fiction in the number for
February. 1t contains five short stories
One of Mr.. Matthew'S Manhattan vign-
cites; an American story on italian soil
by Miss Woolson, entitled "a Trans
planted Boy;' one of Richard Harding
Davis Van Bibber tales, entitled IAN
Anonymous Letter." story of the
French revolution by William McLennan
entitled IAN Adjustment of Accounts"
and 1.-THE Flower of Death, sketch by
Flavel Scott Mines. Fiction, in fact,
leads the table of contents this month,
with Mr.. Du Maurier's ''Trilby." The
more serious features are well up to the
standard set by Harpers'. Frederick
Remington's ''In the Sierra Madre with
the Punchers" is one of these, while
Others are Lord Byron and the Greek
Patriot" by DIR. Henry Hayman "a
Bar of Iron" edited by r. r. Bowker,
and walking Sticks" (the insects, not
canes), by Samuel H. Scudder. Other
contributors are w. d. Howells, Zone of
his popular farces), Edward Eggleston,
~ nd w
New York.
Three notable articles appear in the
February number of Scribner's Magazine,
They are Cessna Monkhouse's study of
Burne-Jones and his pictures, Philip Gil
bert Hamerton's critical essay on The
PRAYER of the Humble" byJean Geoffroy,
and Mr. A. Stiles article on orchids. A
reproduction of Geoffroy's painting Illus
trates MIR. Hamerton's article reproduc-
lions of some of MIR Burne-Jones' most
characteristic paintings illustrate Mr..
Monkhouse's; and exquisite drawings of
orchids by Paul de Longpre serve to
adorn Mr.. Stiles. The number contains
other interesting articles. An article of
dition by Joel Chandler Har-
ris THE Sea Island Hurricanes" of the
coast of South Carolina. It was this
strange region which was devastated by
the great storms last autumn which killed
1000 people and left 10000 homeless and
suffering. Among them for the past few
months Miss Clara Barton, with staff OF
workers from the Red Gross society, has
been dispensing much needed relief
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
The February number of Godey's Mag
azine appears in a new and most attrac-
tive cover, and with many innovations
and improvements in the inside
of the magazine. In every respect
this number is the most attractive ever
issued by the Cooley Publishing Company.
II has a choice and varied contents, the
opening article, GLOW to Make Money in
Wall Street" being from the pen OF
Henry Clews. There are the opening
chapters of a novel, This Man and This
Woman" by Margaret Lee, with illustra-
tions by Paul Nimmo Moran; short
story, SThe Worlds Gain" by Henry
Milford Steele; "Superstitions OF the En-
rlish Miner" by S. p. Cadman; Zero
line" short story, by Lucy c: Lille;
.'The Valley of Roses" by Prof. A. l..
Rawson THE Royalty of Hawaii, p" by
Herbert Stanley Renton; American Wo-