St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-01
ON THE BOOK TABLE.

The April Scribner is full of good
things, and is out in new and eX-
tremely artistic cover. The frontis-
piece is a wood engraving by W. B.
Closson from a painting by L. H.
Tompkins, 1.-The Worshipers." The
most attractive feature, however, of
the entire number is the four Easter
pictures. "a New York Easter, by w.
T. Smedley, palm Sunday at the
Madeline, Paris by Albert Lynch;
an illustration of an old English Gus
tom, the queen and her ladies creep
ing to the cross on Good Friday, by E.
A. Abbey, and a drawing illustrating
Easter at the Holy Sepulcher in Jer-
usalem, by Edwin Lord Weeks. The
second paper in the historical series
by E. Benjamin Andrews on THE Last
Quarter Century in the United States"
appears and treats THE Greeley Cam
paign" at considerable length. This
series will continue throughout the
entire year. George Meredith's story,
1.-THE Amazing Marriage" is continued,
and a brief sketch of American wood
engravers. with some illustrations by
William B. Closson, makes the number
besides several short stories, and w.
d. Howells' serial, entitled "a Circle
in the Water" is concluded.
Julian Ralphs article on "Our Ma
tional Capital is the leading feature
of the current number of Harper's
Magazine Then illustrations by T.
De Thulstrup, T. Dart Walker, and
Lucius w. Hitchcock, besides num-
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E. Schladitz and W. NJ Altman, serve
to enhance the value of the article as
a special magazine feature. In this
number the first part of a series of
Personal Recollections of Joan of
Arc" translated from the French by
Jean Francois Alder appears, the article
being illustrated by F. V. Du Mond.
Richard Harding Davis writes for
this number of how the Parisians
mourned the loss of the chief officer
of the French Republic, when he was
shot down last June, and if his picture
of Paris in Mourning" is a true one,
the population of that city on one oc-
casion at least, forgot to be demon
stFative. The ceremonies connected
with the celebration Of Easter in
Venice" are described by Arthur Sy-
mons. with illustrations by Guy Rose.
The serial, Hearts Insurgent," runs
through several chapters, and there
are short stories by Harriet Lewis
Bradley, Maurice Thompson, and Jul
ian Ralph contributes People We
Pass or "Cordelia's Night of Ro-
NANCE" to the number.
The frontispiece of the April Pail
Mall is an excellent photogravure of
1.-The Itinerant Musician" a picture
by Van Ostade in the collection of the
corporation of Glasgow, and the leading
article of the month is by Charles
Geard, and is entitled Yachting in
France" The Westminster papers con-
tinue, this number containing the eighth,
which is illustrated by w. Patten. Be
sides this there are ch&pters of Joan
Haste" Rider Haggard's serial, and
short story by C. j. c. Hyne, who
contributes odd Lardar's Son-in-
Law" H. Gordon Casserly gives a
very graphic description of a pig-stick-
ing expedition in "a Griffin After
Pig" which is illustrated by photo
graphs taken by himself while in India.
The table of contents in the April st.
Nicholas offers the greatest variety of
interesting matter to the elder as
we'll as to the more youthful readers
of that magazine that could be de-
sired. The leading article is entitled
Along Newfoundland and Labrador"
by Gustav Kobbe, the Illustrations be-
ing by NJ. J. Burns, from photographs
A complete story by Virginia Wood
ward Cloud, 1.-The Black Duck" will
delight the little readers of the maya
zine, as will also Mr.. Hornaday's paper
on wild Mice, Rats and GOphers" in
the "Quadrupeds of North America"
series. Albert Stearn's story, Chris
and the Wonderful Lamp" is con-
tinued; two more chapters of Elbridge
S. Brooks story, "a Boy of the First
Empire" appear, and Jack Balls
ters Fortunes" runs through several
more chapters. Besides all this, the
number contains verse by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, who contributes The Tee
Hee Girl" THE Clever Princess" by
Margaret Johnson, and 1.-The Song of
the Metro-Gnome," by Elsie Hill.
A talk with the author of '"Trilby,"
George Du Maurier, reported by Rob
ert Sherard in McClures Magazine for
April, tells as good a story, with as
charming a candor and cordially as
''Trilby" itself The son of a man of
talent whose ready projects were al
ways disappointing the hopes in which
they began, Du Maurier's youth was
full of wanderings and adventures.
These he relates with the same humor-
Gus frankness with which he confesses
his surprise at finding himself today a
novelist on the BOOM" incidentally
glimpses are given of his present home
life and of his way of working, both as
artist and novelist. Portraits of him
and pictures of his home accompany
the article. Miss TarbeIs Life of
Napoleon covers, in this number, an
excellent account of the retreat from
Moscow, the exile to Elba, the tri-
umphant return, the defeat at Water