St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-26
ON THE BOOK TABLE.

One of the very best efforts OF Max
Pemberton is his most recent s"The
Little Huguenot," a romance laid in
the historic forest o: Fount ainehIeau
1t is SO interviewer with history that
it seems at first a historic sketch and
yet so full of fancy and romance is
IT that it is one of the prettiest bits
of fiction that has been given the pub
lie in many day. Pemberton sketches
the Little Huguenot' herself in a
most facilitating way and when she dis
appears from the scene of the story
the reader regrets her going. The
story is a delicate beautiful concep-
ton, carried out in a mastery way.
The Little Huguenot,'' by Max Penn
berton. Cloth 16 no., rs cents. Dodd,
Mead & Co., New York.
''The Majors Favourite'' is a new
and charming novel by John Strange
Winter, who has long since placed the
reading public far in her debt for the
charming stories which she has pub
l1shed from time to time. 1t is a story
of those who follow the army and its
scenes are laid amid the camp life
of an English regiment, and it is a
p1cdSIiiS DlC Oh story telling.
The Majors Favourite,2 by John
Strange Winter. Cloth 16 mo-, 70
cents. J. Selwin TAFT & Son., New
York.
Jewett and Buchanan, of Chicago,
have placed upon the market a most
tasty edition of Guy De Maupassant S
"Messalina's Daughter one of the
most charming bits of fiction which
has been left the world of letters by the
brilliant and Iamented author The
translation from the French has been
made by Harley Deene, and is very
clever. The translator prefaces his
work by short but glowing tribute
to the genius of De Maupassant,
whose magic power has enchaned
us all for few, also too short, years"
The little book is a dainty bit of press
work with wide margin and pretty
thumb nail sketches.
Messalina's Daughter" from the
French of Guy De Maupassant. Trans
lated by Harley Deene Cloth, Is no.,
70 cents. Jewett & Buchanan, Chi
cago.
In a neat little volume, entitled Obs
honesty and Caste" Ethel Davis has
publlShed half a dozen of essays which
VINO make homes She takes UP the
everyday topics of home life and
treats them in common-SenSe way. She
IS intensely practical, and no woman
can read the volume without getting
very many good ideas from it and at
the same time have some questions
which she has been unable to answer
answered for her in the experience of
another.
na aD,ish92nesty and Caste" by Ethel
Davis. Cloth, so cents. Home Science
Publishing company, Boston, Mass.
''The Grasshoppers" is the latest vol
ume from the pen of Mrs. Andrew
Dean (Mrs. Alfred Sedgwick), Eng
lands latest and very clever satirist.
The "grasshoppers" in question are
the widow and three daughters of a
ruined Londoner who go to live with
some German relatives at Hamburg
rms gives Mrs: Dean a chance, which
she improves to the fullest limit. of
satirizing Fashionable Hamburg. Sew
eral well drawn characters appear in
the story, which is throughout inter-
esting and is a bright bit of novel
writing. The story is illustrated by
Walter Russell.
drew Dean. Cloth. 81. Frederick ei "A A.
Stokes company, New. York.
In the Library of Useful Stories sent
out by the Appletons, Grant. Allen has
contributed a very useful little vol
ume styled '"The Story of the Plants"
Thls is the latest story of the library
and is told in this we'll known authors
best style. 1t is a concise and read
able outline of the subject of plantol-
ogy, and is just the thing for busy
people who desire to be informed on
the general subject of how plants grow
without having the time to read ex-
tended botanical works
The Story Of the Plants" bv Grant
Allen Cloth, 40 cents. D. Appleton &
Co., New York.