The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-05
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apprentices to Destiny" by Lily A
Long. Merrill x Baker "A Fifth avenue,
New York. Cloth ST. This is a western
novel, and deals with cultivated people
THE scene opens in that capital of the
middle west Chicago, but soon shifts TO a
pretty little town which seems to be about
hundred miles away. Between these
two the drama is played out. 1t is a story
with beginning, middle and an end,
and the interest grows steadily until the
last page is turned. But the author has
put her strength upon the characters
rather than upon the plot. There are
many characters and they maintain a con-
sistency which attests their individual
truthfulness. But it is a far cry from
such realism as this to the realism that
finds truth only in the unlovely side of
human nature. There is truth in these
pictures of natural, well-Dred people, who
differ materially from the western ecceu-
tries supposed to be characteristic of life
beyond the Alleghenies, but it is a real
ism that is at one with good art and gen
tie tastes.
"Tales from Town Topics" The Town
Topics Publishing Company, q West
Twenty-third street, New York Paper,
80 cents. Tie leading story in this num-
Der is An Eclipse of Virtue" by Cham
pion Bissell, 1t is a very interesting
story, and one that has already won a
good deal of popularity. There is also d
large number of short stories, poems and
bright paragraphs.
Dixie Poems" by Orie Bower The
Bower Book Company, Denver, Col
Paper, so cents. These poems deal with
scenes and events of the war of secession,
and are written IRON q southern stand
point. Most of them are well worth
reading.
MAGAZINES
The Century for March bristles with
points, having a number of articles on
novel and unique topics written by per-
sons specially qualified TO treat them.
The opening article is a sketch of life in
The Tuileries under the Second Empire. -
by Miss Anna L. Bicknell VINO was an
inmate of the Iuileries as an instructor of
the children Of one OF the court families.
Earthquakes and How to Measure
Them is the subject Of q popular paper
by Prof. Edward S. Holden Of the Lick
Observatory 1t explains the principle of
the seismometer. and records The latest
word of science in regard to these phe-
nomena. Among the illustrations is a
curious map of the Charleston earth
QUAKE, showing the lines of equal shock
and those of Co-incident shock. The arti-
Gle deals with the noted earthquakes Of
the last twelve years. Mrs. Sophie How
ard Ward contributes a find" in the
shape of the story of the "Mischianza, - or
the famous farewell banquet given in
Philadelphia in l77S in honor of sir Will
lam Howe, then comm nder-in-chief Of
the British armies in America, Mrs. Ward
supplying the preface, and the main story
of the fete being from the unpublished
manuscript Of Ma or John Andre The
FOREGOING are only a few of the good
things in the number for this month. The
Century Company Union square, New
York.
The March issue Of st. Nicholas is like
a modern army-not few paladins and
an accompanying rabble, but congrega-
ton of effective units, with an officer
where needed. Every article can look the
Juvenile or adult world square in the
face and give a reason for It's being. A
running comment ugon the contents will,
perhapes, best acquaiut the public with
the grounds for this opinion. Mother
ing sunday" claims the trontispiece and
the first article, and is a short statement
designed to explain a name that has out
lived its origin: an American finds
THANKSGIVING Day a satisfactory sub
stitute. 'Owuey, Of the MailBags'' de-
scribes little cur who has sworn al
legianue to the ~. S. NJ" and travels
from Dan to Beershoban without ceas-
ing. Harriet Monroe, in Broken Friend
ship tells little fable with iliustra-
tions by +. :. Church, pointing out That
Aspiration and Grubbing are an ill-sorted
couple-or, if that isn't what she means,