The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29
BOOK NOTICES.

I II Is full of dramatic power. however
ana those who read II will feel they have
not wasted their time. It may be regarded
I go a. a 55lteIsry agate, in which the varied
en.saos OF mining life are clustered and
tutllhed IKE the messy threads in the pre-
sSINins stone II shows the daily life Of
ne marcy mountaineers and mining men
OF the Highlands OF the West the lights
ana shadows fitting over their checkered
I iiNes, the toll, hardships, anNieties and
ussngers mat ever keep step with them in
/ ground climbs.
How to Make Money. Although a wo-
/ man, by Irene W. Hartt ]. S. Ogiivie
Fuoiishing Company, 81 Rose street. New
/ YORK. Paper 50 cents. This volume is well
calculated to inspire young girls TO nobler
| eHortS- Il points out that every girl having
/ a ta.r amount of intelligence can BY per-
slstenee and patience make a success of
/ her life.
Under the Man-Fig." by NJ E. NJ. Da-
Wis. Houghton, Mifiin & Company New
York. Cloth. SIPS. This is a charming
story. Its pen pictures of phases Of
southern life are graphic, and the por-
iLrayai OF character shows a thorough
knowledge OF the people among whom the
scenes of the story are laid.
The Marriage of Esther" by Guy
Boothby. D. Appleton & Co.. New York,
publishers. Paper, so cents. This is one
OF Appleton's Town and Country Library
series and is charming little story.
MAGAZINES.
Conspicuous among the contents of the
May Atlantic is Percival Lowelrs first
paper On Mars. The subject is the AT
mosphera of Mars" and it is treated with
such skill that the reader finds new in
terest in the scientific information given.
Two papers of unusual historical inter
est are THE Political Depravity of Our
Fathers" by John B. McAIaster and ''Dr.
Rush and General Washington" by Paul
Leicester Ford. Two other papers, which
may be spoken of naturally together, are
''Tramps With an Enthusiast" by Olive
| Thorne Miller and "A Week on Walden's
Ridge a Tennessee sketch, by Bradford
| Torrey. Houghton, Miffiin & Co. Boston.
Scribners for May contains a unique
feature in magazine fiction-the first part
| OF the only serial story that Mrs. Hum
/ phry Ward has ever contributed to a
\ magazine. 1t is entitled THE Story of
Bessie Costrell," and is a most realistic
| and dramatic study of life among the very
! poor class of English farm laborers. This
/ novelette, viii run through the May, June
and July issues 1t has this difference
! from Mrs. Wards longer novels, that
| there are almost no passages of sociologi-
! cal or philosophical discussion, the purely
/ human side of the tale moving rapidly
! and with great dramatic intensity to its
I closing scenes. The special frontspiece
| of this number is a remarkable engraving
| by Pannemaker. who is also the subject
| OF short descriptive article Another
| art article Is about the "Impressionists, .
| by Rahaelh, the distinguished French
painter, who was one of the original group
! OF young men who started this artistic
! movement twenty years ago. Charles
! Scribner's Sons, New York.
The May Century opens gayly with a
novelette,. THE Princess Sonia" by Miss
! Julia Magruder. in which the writer's
/ lightness of touch is supplemented with
striking sketches by Charles Dana Glib
son. The irrigation movement in the west
| finds a new platform in The Century
for May to which Mr.. William E. Smythe,
| secretary of the National Irrigation Asso-
| citation, contributes an article entitled
The Conquest of Arid America" An ar
ticle of general interest, which is also of
| special interest to musical people, is a
| sketch of "Rubenstein: The Man and the
| Musician" by Alexander Macarthur, cor
| respondent in Paris of The Musical Cour-
| Ter, who was for many years his friend
and pupil, and who writes of the. great
! pianist and composer from intimate knowl-
edge, making a well-rounded study of his
musical theories, admirations, and preju-
dices, and of his personal qualities. The
| readers of Casa Braccio," who expected
to find a falling off in the interest of the
narrative after the intense dramatic ac-
ton of the first part are likely to be agree
ably surprised by the chapters in which
Mr.. Crawford narrates the fortunes of
the second generation of his characters.
In addition to the serial stories by Mrs.
Burton Harrison and Marion Crawford
there are three pieces of complete fiction
Lucinda" by Langdon p. Mitchell; Two
Shadowy Rivals" by Col. Richard Nal
colin Johnston, and Regret by Kate
Chopin-the first serious, the second hum
orous and the last pathetic. The Century
Company, Union Square. New York.
Julian Ralph writes entertainingly in
the May Harper's of Sunny Mississippi"
including the home of the late Jefferson
Davis, at Biloxi, now falling into decay.
The guessing regarding the authorship
of personal Recollections of Joan of
Arc" still continues. The second install
ment of the serial offers no clew that the
first did not furnish, and the favorites
among guessers are unchanged. The field
is limited to American writer's. Alfred
Parsons series of charmingly illustrated
papers on Japanese life and landscape
ends Some Wanderings in Japan" in
which travel in the empire of the mikado
is delightfully."- described. What is thus
far Owen Wister's most ambitious story
appears in this number. 1t derives its
title, La Tanaja Bonita" from a spring
around which cluster the tragic elements
foregoing are only a few of the good
things in the number. Harper's Maya
zine, New York.
Twenty-three portraits of Bismarck,
covering a period of sixty years. from his
student days down to the present time,
are the most striking feature of McClure's
Magazine for May, all of the portraits be-
ing very interesting. and number of
them rare. But quite as remarkable in its
way is an illustrated paper by E. ]. Ed
wards, reciting the dramatic events of the
period when the Ta1nmany society first
began to gourmandize on the spells of Of
fice and when the notorious Marshal Ryn-
ders and his ''plug-uglies" held the city of
New York under their violent sway. A
paper on Journalism" by Charles A.
Dana, editor of the Sun, New York gives
the opinions which Mr.. Dana has gathered
from his own remarkably full experience,
regarding the opportunities journalism Of
fers to generous-minded and well-edu-
Gated young men, and regarding the best
preparation for newspaper work. S. S.
Mcclure. No. 80 Lafayette Place, New
York.
ST. Nicholas for May provides the usual
diversity of contents for it's youth
full readers. 1t opens with
quaint story of the land of bikes
and windmiIls. what Befell Melaatij."
by George Wharton Edwards. full of