The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-06-06
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THE COMING REVOLUTION. BY Henry L
Call. Published by The Arena Publishing Com
| pany Boston. Mass. For sale by Woodward
Iothrop. Washington, D. c. Price 81.
A study of political economy with discus
sion Of the ills OF our present systems OF gov
eminent and trade and remedies suggested.
VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS. BY Maria
Weed. Published by Laird & Lee. Chicago
Price so cents.
| A well-written story-a romance in which
tho heroine is victim Of the opium habit
The scenes and characters are well drawn, NJ
little exaggerated and on the whole the story
is very interesting.
! THE ZIG-zAG PATHS OF LIFE. By Matilda
Eane Cooke Published by Charles H. Kerr 8
Co. Chicago. For sale by Brenisno. Washing
ton, ID. 9. Price 81.
A story of gossip and chatter Of mistakes and
wrongs, with very little happiness mixed in
Ito make it either natural or palatsble.
A FREAK IN FINANCE. BY j. +. Gargill. Pub
lished by Rand, MeNally Il Co.. Chicago. Price
rs cents.
Another answer to Coins financial theories,
giving history arguments and statistics against
tho free coinage of silver.
THE THREE GRACEs. By the Duchess. Pub
| ltshed by Ltppincott. Philadelphia. For sale by
| Breniano. Washington, ID. G.. Price ST.
Another jolly story from the pen Of the
| Duchess. The Three Gracess. daughters OF
| Squire Grace, and their aunt and cbaperone,
| all have their love stories. and they eud the
| happy story most happily by marrying the
| right lovers all tho way round. There is not a
morbid nor an unhealthy idea in the book.
| The Duchess romauces are always and justly
described rs " frivolous" but they are thou
sand times more desirable than the morbid,
unhealthy Reform" novels that are flooding
the market.
Magazines and Notes.
The chief aim Of Table Talk. the American
authority upon culinary and household topics
is carried out as admirably as usual in its June
number. The special departments are full OF
the newest and most useful hints for the
kitchen, dining-room, parlor, and library, as
well as for the inmates thereof. Those who do
not know this magazine had better send to
Table Talk Publishing Co, Philadelphia, for
sample copy, which Is offered 70 any of our
readers, free.
Life'S Calendar for June is as welcome as the
roses that come with the month. The draw
ings are always admirable, and the stories seem
to get better every month. Published by Life,
New York. Price 10 cents.
New information regarding that most discour-
aging period in Gen. Grants career, between
the breaking out of the and his appoint
ment to q Brigadiership by President Lincoln,
showing that his services were offered to four
States and declined, and that he began his war
service as the humblest of clerks in State Ad-
jutant- Generals Office, will be published in the
June number of McClHre's Magazine. The in
formation is derived mainly from a fellow
t0wnsman Of Grants, who throughout this
time was his almost daily companion.
The special features of the ReUiea0 Of Reviecs
for June, besides the usual careful review of
the money question by The editor, are Chicago
Newspapers and Their Makers College Oratory
in the West, and This Years Passion Play at
Horitz, and Kindred Spectacles. Published at
10 Aston Place, New York. Price % cents.
Lippiacotfs Magazine for June opens with q
superb military novel, quite aprOpos of the
present Napoleonic fad. 1t is The Battle of
Salamanca, tale Of the Napoleonic war, by the
noted Benito Perez Caldos, author of a number
Of widely-read Spanish novels 10 has been
admirably translated by Rollo Ogden, and
gives much more real history than narratives
which claim the dignity of history. This is
only part OF the contents of this number.
Published at Philadelphia. Price % cents.
John Muir, the Californian naturalist and
geologist. has written for the June Century an
account of the discovery of the largest glacier
in the world, in Alaska, which bears his name. |
Mr.. Muir made his voyage at the beginning of
the Winter season. and was accompanied only
by missionary and party of Alaska Indians.
They were called upon to endure many hard
ships, and not few dangers. Mr. Muir thinks
that the rate Of recession of the glaciers is
rapid than is generally believed. He holds
that the Glacier Bay is entirely the growth of
this century, as landowners chart, made q
hundred years ago. has no trace of it.
Science brought down to common compre-
hension Is the keynote of the work OF Sir |
Robert Ball. and it is good TO learn that his |
studies in popular astronomy will shortly be
by the Lippincotts in volume to l
be called The Great Astronomers These are:
Copernius Tycho-Brahr. Calico, |
Kepler, HORROR Huygens, Newton. Flamsteed. |
HALEY, Bradley, John Hersehe. William Her
schel, Laplace, Rosse Hamilton, Adams, and
Schwabe.