The National tribune., 1895-06-20
RECENT LITERATURE.

THE IMPROBABLE CITY. BY Max Pember-
ton. Published by Dodd, Mead q Co. For safe
by Brenlano, Washington, ID. q. Price sl.Z'.
A strange story Of adventure and romance,
perfectly impossible, but, notwithstanding de-
iiahtlul reading A beautiful, Impregnable
City. with wonderful devices for It's protection,
strange colony of men and women from all
over the world, and grim pictures of warfare
and death when the island is attacked, make
up thrilling plot. The story is Of an Austrian
Count whose brother was sent to Siberia by
the Russian Government. After resculng the
exile, the Counts only wish was to help other
prisoners and exiles who were condemned
to terrible punishment. He searched out an
island in the South Pacific rich in gold but
almost impossible of access, and there he found
ed his city and brought to 1t all the wretches
whom he thought deserving of pity. The
romance Of the story comes in with his beauti-
full daughter and young doctor vino has been
brought to the island to minister to her sick
ness. Treachery among the very men whom
he has saved brings misfortune to the city. and
the Count and his followers are Obliged to
abandon it after brave defense.
GOLF IN AMERICA. BY James p. Lee Pub
Iished by Dodd Mead & Co., New York, and for
sale by Bren,ano. Washington. ID. G. Price 81.
Golf promises to supersede tennis in the affec-
tiobs of q certain class of lovers of outdoor
SPORTS 1t has many things to recommend it
over that game. 1t can be played by any num-
ber of men and women, it does not demand the
agility nor the continuous exertion, and in
wolves much wider variety of muscular and
mental exercise. This book has chatty re-
sumo of the history of the venerable game and
the fullest directions for playing it.
THE BUILDING OF NATION. BY Henry
Gsnnett Published by The Henry T. Thomas
Company, New York. Price $3.50.
Mr. Gannett, Chief Geographer of the u. 8.
Geological Survey, has gotten out a splendid
book of information about the United States.
It is deserving of enthusiastic praise for many
reasons. 1t is we'll arranged and charmingly
written, though 1t is primarily collection OF
facts most concisely stated. The growth and
| present condition of our country are the main
| topics. and these involve historical, geographi.
CAL sociological, industrial, and hosts OF other
questions 1t would seem as though every
| point of interest to a citizen of our land had
been thought of. Our lakes mountains. rivers,
| and mines; the States and their separate in
| terests; our finances and industres-agricul-
| ture transportation, banking; our laws; our
| churches aud schools; our Government and its
| Departments are only few of the subjects
| of the chapters. 1t will be an invaluable text
or reference book. 1t is of handy size, well
| indexed. printed in good tyne, and supplied
with many maps, charts, diagrams, and tables
| to supplement the text. The frontispiece may
| not be so important part of the volume con-
sidering the value of a reference book. but it is
q most pleasing addition. dainty water
color sketch of Hopkinson Smiths is reprinted
| in colors, and shows the splendid dome of our
| Capitol one of the most wonderful bits OF
| architecture, and worthy of crowning the Gov
ernment of SO glorious a country as our own
United States.
| A VERY REMARKABLE GIRL BY L. III
| Bickford Published by tho To,Un Topics New
| York n. Y. Price 30 cents.
There arc nothing quite 80 bright in modern
literature as the T0wn Topics stories. Every
| volume of them is eagerly watched for by thou
sands of readers who have enjoyed the previous
| issues and long for more of the same sort. Like
| its predecessors this volume has several brill
| Iiantly written novelets and quantity OF
shorter stories, poems. sketches, etc. 1t hasn't
| dull or stupid line in it.
SANS DILEMMA. A Parable Bearing on the
silver Question. and Its Solution. By John Luu-
| die Published by the Star Co., Chicago. Ill.
Price 25 cents.
FOOD AS MEDICINE. BY G. F. Hart, Box 63l,
| hiIadeIphia, Pa. Published by the author
Price so cents.
The author holds that we swallow too many
| drugs and that the rational cure for many dis
| eases is fsod used incidentally. He writes in
terestiugly of tho curative virtues of various
| articles of food in ordinary Speaking from,