The National tribune., 1894-11-22
RECENT LITERATURE.
BY REEF AND PALM. By Louis Becke. p,
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meuding them to the reader. says: "Ths inter-
ests and passions of South Sea Island life are
neither numerous nor complex. and action is
apt to be rapid and direct. novelist of that
modern school that Ellis its volumes. often
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| feeling, would find it hard 10 ply his trade IN
| South Sea Island society. His models would
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/ they give a look into a kind Of life that is
strange and new TO most of US, and ID IS life it
( is interesting"
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| Comrade Eaton's life, full Of incident and
| interest reads like novel. 1t is smoothly
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try, because they so loved her that they wonld
willing have laid down their lives for her
| The book will he sent postpaid, on receipt Of
| price by James K. Eaton, Redkey, Ind.
| HINTS on PREACHING. BY Rev. Joseph V.
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! principles upon which all elocution, to be
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| works
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Magazines and Notes.
The London Illustrated Ne,rs for Nov. 10 is
very interesting number, with its pictures of
the Eastern war, and of the quaint old cere-
mony of cutting bunch of fagots with bill
hook as payment of rent OF certain valuable
lands held by the City of London. RcPubished
at the World Building, New York. Price Is
cents.
The Arena for November has: The Causes
Which Led to the War in the East, by Kuma
Osbi; The Religion of Emerson. by Rev. w.
II. Savage; The New Slavery by Hon. John
Davis, M. c.; The Brotherhood of India, by A
Student of Occultism; Effective Voting the
Only Effective MoTaIizer of Politics, by Cath
crime H. Spence; The Relation of Imbecility
to Pauperism and Crime, by Martha Louise
Clark; Christianity as it is Preached, by Byron
A. Brooks, and many other articles of present
interest.
Among the leading features of the Overland
Monthly for November are: In the Burst Of the
Southwest Monsoon. by Rounsevelle Wildman
The War in the Orieut, by Gen. Lucius III.
Foote; The Song of the Balboa Sea. by joaquin
Miller Brakes Bay Fishing by j. H. Critics.
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A feature of the November Arena that will
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getting both sides of debatable questions is the
treatment of The Bible and Modern Spiritual
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medical men. they are Henry A. Hartt, NJ. d.
and J. ~ PEBBLES, a. b. NJ d., and both writing
from the orthodox Christian standpoint, they
take Numerically opposite views.
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american AcGdemy which will without doubt
attract wide attention and create much dis |
cussion, is Mr.. II. T. Newcomb's article on
Reasonable Railway Rates" Published at
Philadelphia. Price 81.
Table Talk for November is typical and char
acteristic OF this bright little magazine which |
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this, the late Autumnal and Thanksgiving |
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the Office in Philadelphia.
In the November number of Ba5yhood |
Dr. John Doring explains clearly what is |
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colorsd frontispiece entitled A Rest on the
Way is a feature of the November issue of |
the English Illustrated Magazine. Stanley Lane
Poole has an interesting article, Gagged in
China treating of this mode of imprisonment,
past and present. Published by Illustrated
London News Co., New York Office, World