Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-07
OUR BOOK TABLE.
WHAT is PRESENTED by THE PUB
IIsHERs THIS WEEK.
The Result OF Literary Work as shown
by the New Books That Are on
the Publishers shelves
Literary Notes.

| the Publishers Shelves
Literary Notes.
Rudyard Kiping's jungle Book" has
achieved the distinction of being chosen
as one Of the comparatively few books
| published for the blind An edition in
raised letters will soon be issued by the
| American Printing House for the Blind"
with the cordial permission Of the author
and his publishers.
When Mr. Crawford once was asked why
his most popular works, the Saracinesca
| series and other Italian tales, had never
been ISSUED in Italian, he replied: You
| can hardly expect these people to be in
torested in what they themselves do and
say daily For the same reason, per
haps, his American series, of which
katharine Lauderdale" forms the first
and "The Ralstons." just about to be
issued. the conclusion. finds favor every
where except in New York city. In the
West and South especially the sale Of
katharine Lauderdale" is still very large
After an experience Of forty years as a
teacher OF English literature and subjects
included therein Professor Hiram Corson
Of Cornell, has given expression IN a
little book soon to be published by Mac
milan Il Co, 10 what he understands to
be the true aims of literary study. What
| he especially insists upon is, that litera-
ture be studied as literature: that true
literary education must be induced on the
basis of literary masterpieces In their alb
solute character; and that all other feat
ures of literary study must be subscrvient
thereto
In Babyhood for January. Or n. Open
helm LAYS stress on the Importance of
teaching children how to exercise their
| lungs properly He shows that right care
| in this direction Will often prevent lung
troubles. Another medical article of gen
1 eral interest deals with the ordinary form
| of Group and tho catarrhal troubles lead
ing UP TO it, The medical editor, Dr. l..
| NJ. Yale, gives practical advice concerning
| a number of ailments and physical pc
| culiarities described by anxious mothers.
| Under Nursery Pastimes' there is an IL
| lustrated article showing how children
may be taught to amuse themselves, and
equally useful hints given under
! Nursery Helps and Novelties" "Baby's
| Wardrobe" and the Mothers Parlia-
ment' contain much matter of interest to
readers of this Indispensable mothers
nursery guide.
Messrs. Houghton. Minlin G Co., of Bos-
| ton. New York and Chicago. will issue i'm
| mediately in the Riverside Literature
Series Nos. 40 and II two books which
| will add vast store of valuable and in
| teresting reading matter to the lower
grades of school work. The books (No.
| iul, y SelSCtlOn from w nIttltf tnlI-lIl1e
in Poetry" and (No. 7D "a Selection from
| Whittier's Chd-Life in Prose-" These con-
| tain the choicest of the poems and prose
| selections from the collection made by
| the poet The great popularity of the books
| as edited by Mr. Whittier has led the pub
| fishers to include these selection in their
| Riverside Literature Series. The two books
are published separately, in paper covers,
a IL cents each, and they are also bound
| together in volume, in linen covers, at
40 cents Milton's "LAlleEro, IL Penseroso,
and Other Poems" make up No r. of the
Riverside Literatures Series, which will be
| published in the middle of January. This
| book will be made more valuable by the
| fact that it includes all OF the poems of
Milton required for admission to the lead
ing colleges of the country.
Mr.. John Fiske, in his History of the
United States for Schools" just published,
gives an interesting account of the early
life in New England. To illustrate this he
gives fine reproduction OF a photograph
of the Whittier kitchen. of which he speaks
as follows: 1.-The above picture of New
England kitchen is copied by permission
from a photograph of the kitchen in the
Whittier homestead at East Haverhill,
Mass, so graphically described in Whit
tiers exquisite poem. 'Snow-Bound.' The
room the right, opening from the
kitchen, is the chamber in which the poet
was born. The house is now under the care
of the Whittier Memorial Association, and
chosen many other illustrations for his
book which are like this, full of meaning,
and which not only illustrate the text
but convey much additional Information.
In this picture, for instance, we see the
braided rug, the old-fashioned chair the
warming pan, the crane, the pots and ket-
ties, the bellows, the pile of wood referred
to in Snow Bound" the andirons, etc.
As per announcement in December num-
ber of the American Journal of Politics,
that journal for January appears under
the title, the American Magazine OF CIV
les No change in ownership or manage
ment has been made and the change of
name is made that the name of the maya
zine may more clearly indicate its pur-
pose and character. This periodical occu-
pies a field peculiar to itself, since no
other is devoted entirely to the discus
sion of the social and economic. questions
That are agitating the public mind. The
January number contains particularly
strong table Of contents. The article on
IAN international Paper Currency" by
John L. Hume, will attract wide attention,
as will also the symposium on The Bene-
fits and Dangers of the Recent Election
by Hon. John Wanamaker, Charles y,
Brinley, Esq, James NJ Beck Esd, HON
William Il. Allison and Hon. William j.
Bryan. The remaining articles are AN
~ reument for the Single Tax by Isaac
Feinburg; 1.-The Doctrine of Malthus as II
Relates 10 Modern Society" by Louis Il.
v, a.
Professor II. a. scomp; What Ais I'm
skilled Labor in American" by II. Vedel,
c. T.; Some of the Dangers of Free Coin
age" by Arthur b. Dale; The Decadenoe
of Home Ownership in the United States"
bv j. A. Collins; 1.-THE Church and the
Labor question" by Henry II. Barber, ID.
D.; "Ethics and Politics." by Howard Mac
Oueary; THE Failure oil Government in the
indian Territory" by Hon, w, NJ Fish
back, l. l.. ID.
The work OF the medieval builders Is
given especial attention in the section on
construction in the celebrated Dlction-
naire Raisonne of NJ. Eugene Emanuel
Vlollet-le-Duc, the well known architect,
archaeologist and philosopher; and al
though its value has long been recognized
both by professional and general readers,
il has never yet been translated into En-
glish Mr.. George Martin Huss, architect,
of New York city, who has been in active
pursuit of his profession for the past
twenty years, had occasion TO make es
pecial use of this section in his scheme for
the proposed cathedral Of St, john the Dl-
vine, now in process of building at Morn
Ingside park, and at that time conceived