The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-05
BOOK NOTICES.

"a Mormon Wife," by Grace Wilbur
Trout. Illustrated. Charles H. Kerr &
Co, IFS Monroe street. Chicago. The pur-
pose of this story is to show the horrors
| of polygamy and to insist that the Nor
mons have not finally abandoned poly
! gamy.
THE Worm That Ceased to Turn" by
! Gorham Silva. ]. S. Ogilvie Publishing
/ Company, 81 Rose street. New York
Cloth, rs cents. The experiences of the
| principal character in this story with his
! bride chosen from the poor house are pa
| thetic in the extreme, and it is altogether
one of the strongest books we have ever
| read.
I'm Old New England" by Hezekiah
Butterworth. ID. Appleton & Co, New
York. Paper, 80 cents This story is a
romance OF a colonial freside The ro-
mantle side of colonial New England
is pictured. Mr.. Butterworth's intimate
knowledge of his subject and his sympa-
| thetic imagination have given his work
an atmosphere which will delight his
readers.
Life in Dixie During the War" by
Mary A. Fl. Gay. The Foote & Davis
Company. Atlanta, Ga. The book is cloth
bound, contains 299 pages and retails at
Sl.10. The author of this work is a Geor-
gia lady. and resides in Decatur, and the
scenes of the story are in Georgia II
IS a book thar every southerner will find
deeply interesting. II presents striking
pictures of home life during the war
Indeed, 1t is doubtful If anywhere else can
| be found such genuinely true pictures of
| the trials, sufferings, patient endurance
and courage of the women of the confed-
eracy as in this volume. And there are
sensational situations graphically describ-
ed. The book is well worth reading.
MAGAZINES.
The first of a series of new Zenda sto-
ries by Anthony Hope author of THE
Prisoner of Zenda," appear in the Au-
gust number of McClure's Magazine.
There are six of these stories, each com
| plete in itself, but all having to do with
the charming Princess of Zenda Osra
and published under the general title Of
The Heart of the Princess Osra." A new
Jungle story by Rudyard Kiplng de-
scribes very remarkable stratagem prac-
ticed by MoWgi and the wise python Kaa
against the merciless Red Dogs of the
Dekkan, and an all-night fight wherein
the Red Dogs were vanQuished by Mowgli
and the Free People-the wolves The
story is fully illustrated. The story of the
ldTseSl dCAleNeHenl OF the DOldeSt band
of bank robbers ever oTga nized and of
the ultimate detection and punishment
of the band, Is related, from the records
of the Pinkerton Detective Agency An
account of the remarkable growth and in
fluence of the Chautauqua assembly and
its allied institutions, and an intimate
personal study of the principal founder
Bishop John H. Vincent, by Ida NJ Tar
bell, is feature of the number. S. S.
Mcclure 90 Lafayette place, New York
The August number of st. Nicholas goes
to the little ones in vacation season, and
most appropriately it bears with it the
breath of the woods and the fields 1t
opens with one of George Wharton Ed
wards drawings as a frontispiece, a pref
| ty little Dutch girl with cat In her arms:
Some day Pussy, wen go to America"
Cromwell Galpin tells of THE Bronco's
Best Race a gallant struggle in which
he held his own with big thoroughbred.
Prof. Brander Matthews contributes an
apprecative critical sketch of Oliver Wen
dell Holmes. I'm Mr.. Brooks serial "a
Boy of the First Empire Napoleon is
forced to abdicate by the Allies after the
battle of Paris. Ezra Hurlburt Stafford
tells of "Bessies Escape" from a cougar
which dragged her into the woods and
| then left her, expecting to come back for
| a neal at night. A very fantastic fairy
| Afraid Of" by Elizabeth Cummings. There
are many other interesting articles. The
| Century Company, Union square, New
York.
The high-lghts Of the Midsummer Holi-
! day Century are three beautiful wood en-
| cravings by Cole. after celebrated pictures
by Rubens, the cuts having been made
in the presence of the pictures themselves;
a fully illustrated description by Philo n.
McGiffin, of the battle of the Yalu river
between the japanese and the Chinese
| fleets in which the writer commanded the
| Chinese ironclad Chen Yuen; a comment
on this memorable engagement by lne dis
tinguished naval critic Capt. A. T. Mahan
| entitled Lessons from the Yalu Fight"
paper by Nordau. author of "Dcgenera-
tion,' on the criticism of that book; a BIZ
ographcal sketch in the Notable Women
series of Sonya Kovalevsky, the Russian
mathematician, whose recollections and
biography have just been published. 1.-The
Princess Sonia" by Julia Magruder. with
an illustration by Gibson; a charming sto-
ry Of a little Chinese boy entitled 1.-The
Cat and the Cherub." by Chester Bailey
Fernald. also four very short stories by
George Wharton Edwards entitled Tho |