The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-04
BOOK NOTICES.

The Sons OF Ham, Tale OF the New
South" by Louis Pendleton. Roberts
Brothers, Boston. publishers. Cloth, $50.
This is a pretty story. and a very interest.
ing one. The scenes are laid in southern
and northern city. and are presented
with a good deal of skill.
"Beholding AS in a Glass" by Virginia
d. Young The Arena Publishing Com
pany. Copeley square. Boston. Paper
50 cents. This story has some unusual
features. as. indeed, all the stories have
which the Arena Company publishes.
Readers Of it, however will not be dis
appointed.
Madame Sans Gene. translated from
the French, by l.. r. Hitler. Home Book
Company, New York, publishers. Paper,
50 cents. The play upon which this story
is founded was written by Victoria Sar-
dou. The play is now being presented in
New York, with marked success.
MAGAZINES.
The March number of the Century is
an exceedingly good one. The fiction is
first-class AN Errant Wooing" grows in
interest and Mr.. Edwards story THE
Hard Trigger" is one of the best he has
yet written. One of the most interesting
periods in Napoleon's career-his marriage
with Josephine is reached in Prof
Sloanes life of Napoleon. Prof. Sloane
describes Josephine as a successful in
triguer in matters both of politics and OF
pleasure. and as versed in the arts of
coquetry and dress. He says there is no
doubt that Napoleon was madly desper-
ately in love with the widowed Creole
whose physical charms were already fad
ing. Mr.. c. c. Buel contributes a paper
on "Blackmai as a Heritage; or New
Yorks Legacy from Colonial Days" in
which ne shows that the modern customs
of levying blackmail, as revealed by the
LeXow investigation, and of eXacting pO-
litical contributions from merchants, may
be regarded as outgrowth of practices
which have prevailed in New York since
the time of the early Dutch governors.
The first boss of Manhattan Island was
Cornelius Van Tienhoven, who was Of
the true Tammany stripe. The Century
Company, Uuion Square, New York.
The Monthly illustrator, in pursuance OF
it's announcement policy. is including arti-
cles of more general interest than hereto
fore. The March number contains several
of these, notably one upon early Arts
tic Watches" by George +. Kunz, the
gem expert; another by Ernest Ingerson
describes the quaint architecture and
many curious customs of the Pueblo In
dams; and Charles Turner tells of the
scenery and legends of Killarney. All
these articles are profusely and richly il
Illustrated, as also are the articles upon
certain familiar garden flowers, by Lennie
Greenlee; and c. H. A. Bjerregaard's
philosophical treatment of selected Sc
ries of tropical butterflies. Monthly IL
illustrator, 80, 81 and IS Fifth Avenue, New
York.
The Atlantic Monthly for March con-
tains the opening chapters of 4 striking
serial entitled The Seats of the Mighty,
by Gilbert Parker. 1t will run through
several numbers, and is one of this popular
authors most powerful stories. Fiction
is further represented by the first install
ment of a two-part story by Grace How
ard Pierce entitled Gridou's Pity, and ad-
ditional chapters from Mrs. Wards Sc
rial, A Singular Life. The Secret of the
Roman Oracles is an instructive and in
teresting paper on the methods employed
in Ancient Roman divination. The Attain
tic Monthly, Houghton Miffiin & Co, II
East Seventeenth street, New York.
The complete novel in the March issue
of Lippincott's is "A Tame Surrender" by
Capt. Charles King Departing from this
authors usual field, the purely military,
it deals with the Chicago strike, the riots
and their suppression, and the loves Of
a United States lieutenant and high
minded young lady who works a type
writer. 1t is her tame surrender" after
f1,o fra11 10
title The other stories. all very short,
are 'Fulflment" by Elizabeth Knowl-
ton Carter; 1.-The Luck of the Atl1inses, "
by Margaret b. Yeates, and 'One of the