The herald., 1895-12-22

stands firmly for standard" money
aud declares that there is no such
thing as that malevolent money DOW
er" of which we hear 80 much in ranks
of discontented laborers and others
who have helped to make up the
marching industrial armies that have
swarmed in various parts of the coun.
try the year or two past. This volume
can De heartily praised as timely and
powerful aid to sound politics.
THE JOURNAL q Gso5uHrEss FRANCHISE
KRASINSKA, Great Grandmother of Vic
tor Emanuel Translated from the Polish
by KAsIMR DzIEkoNsKA: A. c. Nc Ciurg
4 Co.. Chicago. For sale here by c. c.
A gem of bookmaking, uncut edges,
with gilt top, and the daintiest illus
trations, the frontispiece being q port
raft of the countess. Somehow we are
getting to look for illustrations in the
new books everywhere. These illus
trations are really elaborate pictures.
The diary Of the countess-of a noble
Polish fsmily-begins in 1859. she hav-
ing been born seventeen years earlier.
Like all personal recitals of the events
of a peculiarly romantic life, the story
here told is one of great interest.
Countess Krasinska WAS not histor.
ical character in any large way, and
yet her life measured some rare events
in the life of the unfortunate nation
itself. It is a little volume to be
profitably read.
LIFE AND LOVE-. BY MARGARET wAnrn.
MORLEY. Author of Song OF Life, etc. A.
G. McClnrg 4 Co, Chicago. For sale here
by c. c. Parker.
This is an unusually inviting volume
as to arrangement and Illustrations
the latter being lavishly given.
1t is not purely or mainly scientific
work, but treats the theme from all
sides. The author tells US her purpose
is to make it possible. for the reader to
get at the facts and mysteries of the
living being without going through so
many technical forms. "The last fifty
years have been unexampled in the
worlds history in the discovery Of
facts concerning the physical life.
These facts concern every one, and be-
sides being cf unparalleled interest in
themselves, they have direct bearing
upon the guidance of individual life."
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes?
or any searcher know by mortal mind?
Veil after veil will lift. but there must lie
Veil after veil behind.
BEATRICE OF BaHY5St fEcur. By A1ro.
ILGENFRITZ JONES A. c. McClurg & Co.,
Chicago. For sale here by c. G. Parker.
Beatrice was born in the crowded old
French quarter of New Orleans, but
many journeyings awaited the child,
one being when the family
Entered the Teche, where 1t flows
Through the green Opelousas"
1t is story of the real old south,
with visions of Lafitte, the pirate, and
the British soldiers below the city
where the last battles of great war
was fought. And then the scene
changes to thronged seaside hotel
along the Gulf coast.
We do not get many novels of tho
south, but they are generally above the
average in spirit and motif, and this is
no exception. It is not great story.
but it gives US some visions of south
ern society-largely plantation life
that one would not like to ISIS.
& y 4
At last this city is having supply of
books of nearly all kinds and at res-
sonable prices, great Improvement
over recent years. Indeed, the book
trade is now for the first time fairly
established alongside other lines Of
business, and more than this, it is re-
munerative, showing that there are
people here willing and waiting to buy
good books.