The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-12-12
RECENT LITERATURE.


stockings of the good little boys aud girls
Here are six books, and If he will but select ona
or all OF them. be will surely delight the ittI,
ones, Tor never were gayer "picture-boOks"
The cover and two or three pages are done in
eolors, and all through the stories, along the
margins. and IN the texts are little sketches.
The bears in the story of the little girl whs
went into their house in the woods-weIl.
We all know she stOTy-the bears are iollv
sad brown. and Goldiloeks is not rao-s
than halfafrsid of them. Jack and his COW
and his beanstalk and gold and the terrible
org giant are all so sympathetieally pictured
that the most critical child will be satisasd
The Little Riding Hood is quite as pretty as 10
can be. the other two stories Of Beauty
and the Beast and her proud sisters and The
Sleeping Beauty and her Prince. Then there
are the three kittens. their mittens--aftsr they
had round them. their pie, and the stern old
mamma cat The story is Just as enthTalling
20 the httIe ones as ever il was Raphael Tuck
& Sons have an International fame for THAR
beautiful printing and these CAV. briobt HOOKS
Tor the nursery are good examples of what thew
can do The stories are bound separately and
are printed on stout paper.
BIRD A B @: FROM A TOZ. ANIMAL, ARo.
TWICE TWO ARE FOUR; MY LADY'S
CARRIAGE Published by Raphael Tuck &
Sons, New York.
The little ones must have their A 3 C books
as surely as the older folks have their papers
and magazines. These, gotten out by Raphael
Tuck q Sons. are especially bright and pretty.
and will please the most fastidious babies The
Animal and Bird A B G books explain them-
selves. From to Z is a little story told along
the alphabet, and every letter pictured pref
tiiy; indeed it is quite the daintiest of the
books, though the babies like TO see all tho
queer animals and birds in the other two. In
the collection is jolly book Of easy aritbmet-
DFObigm9 al
IL, and layishly Illustrated. My LadY's Car
rage IS another Of the books and il is a dainty
nefie story, too, most bewitehingly illustrated
with pictures in soft colors. and Just arranged
Tor some little one to lisp and COO over
AND THE SWORD FELL BY Carrie Goldsmith
Co., Floral Park " Y
The story is told in the pages Of the young
wife's journal. She begins il when she & rst
enters her new hOme-a bride with her stall
Wart husband It Is told simply and naturally
but with much hard thinking over some Of LIES
problems The young wife weavss in with her
own history the stories of her Deighbors her
husbands brothers and sisters. and the account
Oh an unhappy little country girl. She won
ders over the trials and worries and questions
OF life IN gentle fashion, disconnected, per-
maps; bnt that's the way we always wonder
really. Sometimes her descriptions are excel
iently drawn and for an ia teresting. quiet little
story we commend it to our readers
SLAIN BY THE DOONEs. BYRD Rlaekmors.
Published by Dodd, Mead & Co.. New York.
Price Sl.25.
collection of short stories Of the Doones
and their country. the fair maidens and gallant
men. Not so good, mayhaD as that wonderful
romance, Lorna DOone. but still most interest,"
ing stories. The stalwart John Rid himself
sometimes walks into the groups and the fair
Lorna IS not forgotten. So all Black more low
ers will read this new book with pleasure. Il
IS bound-for nowadays we like our books to
be appropriately dressed-pleasingly in brown
linen, with green lines and trimmings making
q most wOOdsy cover There is dainty title
page, wide margins, and excellent print.
THE SECRET OF THE COURT. By Frankfort
Moore. Published by J. b. Lippincott Co. For
sale by Brentano, Washington, d. @. Price SIPS.
A ghostly romance
YOUNG GREER OF KENTUCKY. By Eleanor
Talbot Kinkead. Published by Rand, McNalIy
q Co., Chicago. Price Sl.25.
A romance of the blue grass country.
A YEARS GOOD WISHES. By Martha G. OIL
yer. Published by Raphael Tuck & sons New
York.
A friendly book full of good wishes bound
'rettily, illustrated with II flower pages, aud
veil worth place among the Christmas gifts.
magazines and Notes.
The annual announcements Of the YOUTHS
Companion are always of interest through the
evidence they give of the incessant enterprise
If that popular paper. Not only famous story
writer's. essayists and poets contribute to it. but
llso most distinguished Statesmen, jurists and
chemists whose names seldom associated
With popular literature. For instance, the
iext volume will contain articles on The Bar
s Profession, by the Lord Chief Justice OF
England and Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, of
he Massachusetts, Supreme Court; by Nelson
A. Miles, on his youth in the Army; By the
Secretary of the Navy, the work of the
President; by the Secretary of the Interior, on
Our Indians; by the Secretary of Agriculture,
On The Origin of Arbor Day; by Bishop Dosne
and Bishop Cleveland Coke, on The Faults of
American Children, and by Andrew Carnegie,
telling How / Became Business Man.
Notable features Of Outing for December are:
A River Between, by Florence Guertin; Skat-
ing by Ed. w. Sandys; Hunting the Caiman,
by Edward French An 0ntiGg in Labrador,
BY r. G. Taber; Caribou Hunting. by the late
E. p. Rogers; Lenz's World Tour; Touring
Bermuda Awheel. by T. B. Dowdeu, and On
The Frontier Service, by Lieut.. g. w. Van Deu-
len. The number is beautifully illustrated.
Two very important facts in connection with
he new of magazines are illustrated in the
December Cosmopolitan. Its fiction is by
Stevenson, the last story written before his
ieath; "Onida" Sarah Grand, Zangwill. and
he beginning of James Lane Aliens new Ken
ucky realistic story, Butterflies. Probably
10 stronger array of fiction has ever been pre-
tented in any magazine-mOney could not buy
,etter Nor has any magazine ever had q
arger number of really distinguished artists
Engaged upon the illustration OF single num-
Der.
The plete novel in LippiRcOttS Magazine
or December is The Old Silver Trail, by Mary
J. Stickney, author of Desert Claim, A Pa
ifc Encounter. Circumstantial Evidence, etc.
There is also the usual array of carefully
elected stories, sketches. essays. POEMS ETC.,
" popular authors. Published at Philadelphia.
'rice % cents.
The American Academy of Political and
ocial Science, Philadelphia, Pa has issued an
important pamphlet entitled, Amendments to
he Italian Constitution" by Prof. G. A. Ruiz,
# the University of Naples. Price % cents.
The China Decorator for November has q
ainty brier-rose design in colors for it's main
ttraction. Published by the China Decorator
o., New York. Price 80 cents
Hon. David A. Wells, in AppletOn's Popular
eienee Monthly for December, follows the intro
uctory paper of his series on Principles OF Taxa
ion with a very readable and instructive ac-
ount of The Comparatively Recent Tax Ex-
eriences of the Federal Government of the
United States in which he sets forth the strange
fixture of ways for raising revenue adopted
uring and Just after the civil war III one Of
he illustrated articles of this number Prof. G..
Wright presents New Evidence OF
facial Man in Ohio, which consists in the
nding of q stone knife imbedded in glacial
O. 4. d. Gull