The herald., 1896-11-29
mum Calendar the handsomest one yet

mum Calendar, the handsomest one yet
for the coming year.
The Quilting Bee and Other Rhymes
by Langdon Heaton. The first portion of
this collection of poems is Studies in
Homespun, all in dialect which, our poes
says, lis but prose sawed sled-lengtn
to fit the most accommodating of We
hicles." This little volume will be
quoted from later. All these are for sale
by Stoll and Thayer.
JOHN LITTLEJO OF j.. Being in
Particular an Account of His Re
markable ENHANCEMENT With the
Kings Intrigues Against General
Washington. BY George Morgan.
Lippincott company.
Here is straightly told story,
although it be of crooked ways. There is
no posing, no 'study of character" no
leaving the main trail of the narrative
and going off on rabbit track. 1t opens
with the terrible winter at Valley Forge,
and tells of the dissensions among the
officers of the continental army, and of
the narrow escape from betrayal
through greed for British gold. The hap
penings born of conspiracy after con-
spiracy, the intrigues, the arrests ami
the escapes remind one of the liveliest
pages of Stanley Weyman. The calrl
courage of Washington is made to ap-
pear in just proportion. and the troubles 5
with Lee are fairly set forth. The most
striking portion of the story is the de-
scription of the battle of Monmouth
wherein the disaster of the opening cf
the engagement is finally turned into
victory, and the towards and traitors
are sent to the rear There is enough CT
history to bear up the narrative ami
make it of real interest throughout
There is romance, too and at the end
ha hno vi Of a., i
the marriage of Littlejohn and the Qua
ker maid. "Such a wedding you never
see nowadays. oh, no! Such a Wedding
you never see."
The Macmillan company make some
welcome announcements, the most i'm
portant, to our mind, being Miss Lucy
M. Salmon's book on Domestic Service
Miss Salmon is professor of history In
Vassar College. The volume treats of
the economic questions involved in the
whole domain of domestic employment.
Another volume is The Log of a Ma
turalist in West Africa, by Miss Mary
Kingsley daughter of the novelist and
enthusiastic naturalist, the Rev. Chas.
Kingsley.
1t appears that Miss Kingsley's pri-
mary object in making the trip was to
acquire beetles, fetishes, and. if possible,
1t COllttllOll VI llSDtS from rivers nOrtl
of the Congo, but her attention was by
no means confined to these curios and
her book contains new material of value
to the ethnologist and student of folk
lore as well as to naturalists
The geography of West Africa. the
subject of ''fettish' and the state of
labor and trade" in West Africa are al,
discussed, and altogether the book is of
value and exceptionally entertaining
Still another publication is the new
Century Series" the last issue in which
Is Charles Darwin and the Theory of
Natural Selection"
A book by Father Kneipp on the care
of children in sickness and health is be-
ing brought out in England
Mr. Whistler is preparing a new edi-
tion of his famous book. The Gentle Art
of Making Enemies. 1t is to be enlarged
to such an extent that it will be virtually
a new book.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons will soon
publish Ancient Ideals A Study of In
tellectual and Spiritual Growth, from
Early Times to the Establishment of
Christianity, by Mr.. Henry Osborn Tay-
lor. The author has endeavored to pre-
serve a unity of plan in setting forth the
part played by each race in the human
drama.
The London Daily Chronicle says that