The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-08
BOOK NOTICES.


Sergeant. d. Appleton & Co, New York.
publishers. Paper. 50 cents. This is one
of Appleton's Town and Country Library
series and very charming story it IS
It will be found to be an admirable story
for leisure hour at a summer resort OF
on steamer or train.
Fiat Silver" by Robert II. Vickers.
Charles H. Keer & Co.. Chicago. Paper,
% cents. The purpose of this work is to
show the ruinOus effects of fiat silver
as they appear in history.
THE New Psyche" by Irwin Hunting
ton. The Gossip Printing Company. Mo-
bile, Ala. Paper. % cents. This is a
pastoral and a charming little work it
is. 1t is poem in prose.
MAGAZINES.
The American Historical Register for
July is devoted TO genealogy, biography,
history, heraldry and patriotic hereditary
societies. Every article is value and full
of interest. More of the inside histories
OF the American colonies can be obtained
from it than from histories, because the
histories deal almost exclusively with war,
politics and commerce.
The American Magazine of Civics for
with topics that are timely and discuss
them in away that makes them interesting
and at the same time furnishes a great
deal of valuable information. One article,
The Distress of the Nations, by James NJ
Beck, summarizes the terrible effective
ness OF the weapons for war purposes of
the present day. Andrew j. Palm & Co.,
SS Park Row. New York.
spirit in the July number of St. Nicholas.
There is also that breath of patriotism
that seems demanded in July periodicals
in America. The frontispiece, BLACK
boards Last Fight" illustrates Howard
Pyle's serial, Jack Ballisters Fortunes"
which reaches it's climax of interest. The
expedition under command of Lieut.. May
nard penetrates to the stronghold of the
pirates, kills the leader, and utterly routes
the entire band of sea rovers. Theodore
Roosevelt, in his series of Hero Tales
From American History" describes tho
battle of Kings mountain, one of the
most striking of the contests between the
frontiersmen and the British during the
revolutionary war. The effect of the vic
tory of the American forces was to drive
CORVALLIS out of Virginia. "A Daugh-
ter OF the Revolution" by Alice Balch
Abbot, is the story of New England girl
who discovered that she had a revolu-
tionary sire, and who proved herself
worthy descendant of him. The Century
CompanY Union Square. New York.
Most readers will be surprised to learn,
as any one man from an excellent illustrat-
ed article in McClure's Magazine for July,
how the telegraph has now crept into the
remotest crannies of the earth, and is
transmitting its hundreds of millions of
messages a year at a constantly lessening
cost in money and trouble to the public.
The same number contains a dramatic
chapter from the history of Tammany-the
autocratic reign of Tweed, with all its
barbaric and Illicit splendors. splendors
maintained by the theft of untold millions
of public money. An article by Sir Robert
Ball, professor of astronomy in the Uni
versity of Cambridge, England, shows that
recent scientific discoveries tend to sup
port the theory that other planets, as
well as the earth, maintain life. Cleveland
Moffett supplies, from the Pinkerton arch
ives, a history of the stealing of an ex-
press parcel containing $4,000, and of the
discovery of the thief and the recovery of
most of the money after years of search
and pursuit. The publishers announce with
this number a reduction of price to ten
cents a copy, or one dollar year. s. S. Nc
Clure, Limited, 80 Lafayette Place, New
York.