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THE WRONG MAN.

In Dorothea Gerard's new book, lust
issued in the Town and Country Library,
it is shown how 1t is the fate of some men
never to De IN the right place. The
Wrong Man" opens with duel between
Stepan Milnovics and Alfred Radford
both officers in the Austrian army.
Through misconceptlon Milnovics re-
spends to a challenge from Radford.
Stepan is wounded in the encounter, and
he then discovers that Radford, far from
seeking the duel on the score that was
imagined, had demanded satisfaction
really on account of some surring re-
marks, the use of which Milnovics now
hastened to deny. Radford traces them
10 their source and finds that Steran had
been mIsrepresented by a revengeful
woman. The wounded man leaves the
army. He falls in love AMI is on the
point of marrying. At this juncture Rad
ford comes in and seeks TO help Stepan
in his suit by bestowal of praise, when the
girl falls in love with Radford, and again
fate deals Milnovics blow. To his double
sorrow he was the wrong man in two
cases. But Radford is noble fellow and
his actions win Stepan's respect as we'll
as the love of Stepan's old girl New
York: d. Appleton & Co. For sale by
Doxey; price so cents.
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Kayakers Throwing
Reproduced from Greenland Icefeds]

even in babyhood, Showed gcrminal
symptoms of his LIES dominating pas
sion," to the JOY of his father and disgust
of his mother When George becomes of
an age to go to school be rebels, but is
quieted by the assurance that if he does
not devote himself to study ne will very
likely be cheated out of his property.
On arriving at years of discretion the
hero secures a position in a mercantile
concern, at the same time making the
acquaintance of the son of the principal.
This son, Herbert Lord by name, pos
sesses out-of-the-way socialistic IDEAS
touching the equal division of wealth and
kindred matters. His theories are not
favorably accepted by his father, who,
after cursing him, dies of apoplexy. Then
appears on the scene Siegfried the Mystic
who. it appears. is the parsonage who is
responsible for Herbert's views. Sieefried
is fanatic with supernatural powers, and
his influence over young men is we'll pic
tured.
AS a piece of writing Siegfried the Mys-
tic may be favora bly, regarded. But it is
difficult to see what purposes are served by
works OF this character. They are the pro-
ductions of idealists, visionaries and
'dreamers Of Dreams" and advance ex-
ploded notions and theories impossible of
practical execution.
Boston: The Arena Publishing Com
pany. For sale by The Cre:ghtons, Turk
street; price so cents.
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GREENLAND ICEFIELDS.

Greenland Icefeds and Life in the
North Atlantic is the title OF a new
volume by G. Frederick Wright, DID,,
LID, author of the "Ice Age in North
America, and Warren Upham, A. NJ, late
of the United States Geological Survey.
In the summer of 1894, Rev. Mr.. Wright
made a trip to Greenland along with an
excursion party, on board the steamer
Miranda, and in connection with that
voyage arose the immediate impulse to
the preparation OF this book. The Miranda
met series OF misfortunes, colliding with
glacier at one time, and then running on
rocks and suffering damage that forced
crew and passengers to abandon her at sea.
DR.. Wright declares that the varied and
exciting fortunes OF the Miranda, while not
sufficient to form the framework of the
volume, were still of no small value in
giving vividness to ones conceptions
of the unique condition of Greenland,
enabling one who shared them TO enter
with better understanding into the de-
scriptions given by others, and to combine
them into a more satisfactory general
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mony to be transmitted. Psychical con-
dltons of more power than we realize,
spiritual attitudes attained only through
suffering and desSair, unknown to the
healthy animal, do we barter for the ma
terial.' Mr.. Halcourt is guest in the
same household with the madame, and he
is dying with consumption also. He IS
young and single, and man of talent and
retinement but he knows that his battle OF
life is nearly done and that oblivion will
shortly swallow him. He laughs away
all hope and is happy because there
is nothing to bind his love to life.
Now, Norwista longs to love and be
loved-to have an ideal husband. She
is brought into Hale ourt's sphere, and
they are attracted to each other
from the moment their eyes meet. On
the brink of the grave Halcourt yields,
even against his own reason, to the love
that for the first time rushes into his soul,
and Norwista's soul RESPONDS to his. AT
this supreme moment he breathes his last.
Then, in her loneliness, Norwista has no
belief to console her, and she is bewalling
the emptiness OF life, when the dying
madame confesses her errors and begs
Norwista to return and cling TO her relig
ious ideals. Boston, Mass; Arena Pub
fishing Company. For sale by The Creigh-
tons, 10 Turk street.
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NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

In the North American Review for April
the first article is lengthy one by David
A. Wells, LID, treating of Great Brit
ain and the United States: Their True
Relations" Professor Wells thus sue
cinctly sums up England's foreign policy
Wherever her sovereignty has gone two
blades OF grass have grown where one grew
vanced has benefited the country over which
II roats and has carried with 1T civilization,
the Christian religion, order, justice and pros
perity: England has always treated con-
quered race with justice, and what under her
rule is the law for the white man is the law
for his black, red and yellow brother. =
England would never have told neighboYing
country desiring reciprocal trade relations, S
the United States told Mexico in 1866, 18th at
TO speak OF permanent desirable commercial
relations" with her sis without hope of sue
cess or promise OF substantial results
Mayo w. Hazeltine reviews the present
situations of the Governments of the
United States and Spain in possible
Complications of the Cuban Question. !"
1t is believed the writer thinks, that "a
review OF the international situation will
show that the drift of events is likely to
force the Madrid Government to declare
war against this country, and that it will
strive to gain the active cooperation of
either France or Germany, hut that the
effort will fail through the interposition
of either Russia or ENGLAND, both of which
powers desire the goodwill of the United
States"
"Pygmy Races of Men" are entertain
ingly treated by Professor Frederick Starr
of the University of Chicago.
Seaton Munroe describes with force the
events which took place on that notable
April evening in 1865 when Abraham Lin
CON was assassinated.
The fourth installment of s'The Future
Life and the Condition of Man Therein"
by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, is
given in this numb r and deals with specu-
lations on the future of the righteous and
unrighteous Of mankind.
The perpexing problems which remain
to be solved in South Africa are discussed
by Karl Blind.
T. A. Riokard, State Geologist of Colo
rado, contributes an interesting article on
''Gold-mining Activity i'll Colorado
The approach of the National Republi-
can Convention lends interest to sympo-
sium entitled Governor Morton as
Presidential candidate" The contribu-
tors to the discussion are ex-senator T. C.
Platt, Chauncey NJ. Depew, ex-senator
Warner Miller, Edward Lauterbach. and
c. w. Hackeit, chairman Of the New York
State Republican Committee
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LAVENGRO.

The new edition of George Barrow's
bible in Spain," published a short time
since, met with demand that induced the
republication of Barrow's other important
work, "Lavengro: the Scholar, the GYPSY
and the Priest" The latter volume was
written when the author was in the prime
OF his mental vigor. 1t bears the charac-
teristics of all his works-''carelessly writ
ten, impatient, petulant. and in parts repel.
liant, but instinct with character and mood
and wayward fancy" "Lavengro" did not
meet the success forty years ago that it is
expected to attain to-day-it pleased
neither the religious nor the polite world,
and yet 1t is said to have had MANY mas.
sionate admirers. Barrow led a sort OF
vagabond existence for years and his ex-
periences are strikingly told in the gypsy
narrative of "Lavengro." Augustine Bur
rell, NJ. P, las an interesting introduction
to the work and it is illustrated most arts.
tically by E; j. Sullivan. [London and
New York: Macmillan & Co., publishers.
For sale by A. NJ. Robertson; price ST Is.
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THE SHOWS or YEsTER YEAR.

This story, by Wilbertine Teters, is built
upon ideas that border on the theosophi-
cal. 1t is a peculiar story ano life goes
through it with the hue of death on his
cheeks The scene is at a Colorado health
resort, here a brilliant woman who had
once charmed the crowned heads of
Europe with the magic of her voice is
slowly wasting away with consumption.
Her fame had been in her voice and her
voice had been all she cared for. When
that was taken away, she thought she
wanted TO die, and yet the longer she
lived the more she clung to life. She had
never intended TO marry; yet she had mar
rled and her husband had taken her de-
spite the apparent disadvantages of such
union. This woman, known as "The
Madame who believes that God is nature,
exercises power over the life of beauti-
fal and intellectual girl, "Norwista''--a
power that wears away the girls religious
beliefs like the imperceptible washing of
constant waters against not too firm bar
rier. Norwista is led to look at things
from the madame's standpoint. A love
story OF a rather spiritual kind runs through
the volume. The madame asserts that,
IN comparison with her Ego, her body
is as nothing to her, and She launches
forth this view OF marriage: "a man and
woman whose temperameuts are in per-
feet accord meet and love each other but
because there happens TO be some disease
back IN one of the families thew 20 differ
ent ways, perhaps to live lives of terrible
discord with others. And for what? The
physical perfection of future generations.
Thus did the decadence of the Greeks be-
gin. We do not think Of the mental har-
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THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND
FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

A new edition of Gibbons celebrated
work has just been published in this coun-
try by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. of New
York. 1t is to be completed in seven
volumes, under the editorship of j. B.
Bury, NJ. A., professor of modern history
in the University of Dublin.
Under date of February l, 1875, Edward
Gibbon wrote diffidently of his la bors ::
Il have ventured, perhaps too hastily, to
commit to the press work which, in every
sense of the word, deserves the epithet of
imperfect" And again: 81 dare not pre-
sumo TO give any assurances (regarding its
| final completion).
"The execution OF the extensive plan
which have described would connect the
ancient and modern history of the world /;
but it would require many years OF health,
OF leisure and OF perseverance"
That Gibbon was spared to complete his
elf-apportionedtask is matter for which
all students OF history are deeply grateful.
Professor Bury, the editor of the present
edition, contributes alengthy introduction.
He comments on the fact that Glbbon is
equally well regarded both in the history
OF literature and as a great historian; and
that Gibbons work has not gone the wav
of Hume and Robertson, ''whom we laud
as classics and leave on the cold shelves. "
This, the editor opines, lis due to the
singularly happy union of the historian
and the man of letters.'
From careful observation Professor
Bury submits many illustrations of the al
most painful care and attention given by
Gibbon to style. Particularly is this no.
ticeable in parts of the first and second
editions. There are also cases where some
thing is added, in the second edition,
which, without changing the general
sense, renders a statement fuller, more
picturesque or more vivid.
The editor of the present work ventures
the opinion that if Gibbon were alive and
writing at the present day his history
would be very different. This may or may
not be so, but 1t is certainly quite reason
able to suppose that if he were writing at
the present day his attitude toward the
Christian church would be greeted with
much less of opposition than it encoun-
tered at the hands of Dean Milman. New
York: Macmillan & Co. For sale by Will
liam Doxev: price 50
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IN THE BLUE PIKE.

This, the latest work of that master
of fiction, George Ebers, is well worth read
ing. 1t is called romance dealing with
German civilization of the sixteenth CEN
tury, ana the scene is laid in Nurem berg.
picturesque material to Ouida, as well as
to other English writers.
"The Blue Pike" is an old inn in the
German city. at which, in the opening
chapters of the book, sundry savants and
scholars are assem- bled. Among these is
one Lienhard Groland. This man be-
friends poor ropewalker or acrobat dur
ing his tenure of a magiSterial position
The circum stances under which Groland
acts the part of a friend to kuni, the
acrobat, are peculiar. She is in a crowd of
people who are watching wedding pro-
cession, and is impressed with the noble
bearing OF the bridegroom. Groland. She
picks up jeweled rosary dropped by one
OF the crowd, is arrested and brought be-
fore the benedict of yesterday and his
colleagues.
Groland intercedes in her behalf, secures
her release, and obtains for her the posi-
ton OF domestic in the house of a good
natured German woman. Disliking the
life she goes back to her former occupa-
ton, that OF a stroling player.
But Groland's kindness to her has won
the heart OF Kuni. His image is con-
stantly before her-sometimes alone, some
times with that of his bride, whom she
envies. For his wife she conceives a feel
ing akin to hatred, and some time after
ward the strolling troupe of which Kuni
is member is engaged to perform before
the Emperor Maximilian.
While preparing to go upon the tight
wire kuni observes Groland in the audi
ence. She is Immediately fred with an
ambition to perform feats deemed almost
impossible OF performance. She is greeted
with the widest applause from the vast
audience assembled below. Suddenly she
looks down and sees that her hero is not
regarding her with that attention she
thinks is her cue. A feeling of jealousy
seizes her. She feels stim ulated to per.
form still more difficult feats, in the midst
of one of which she falls to the ground.
MANNED for life.
The story is cleverly and powerfully
told. The love ot the poor acrobat for her
magisterial benefactor, hopeless as it is. is
prettily described, and the romance Will
doubtless add fame to it's author and
credit TO its translator, Mary ]. Stafford.
1t is one of the best BOOKS of the season.
New York: d. Appleton e. Co. For sale
by William Do1ey; price 40 cents.
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view. The volume contains carefully pre-
pared maps of Greenland, Labrador, the
regions about the north pole and the
giaciated areas in Europe and North
America, besides large mum Der OF excel
Jent illustrations, mostly from views taken
with camera in the land of ice. The vol
ume contains not only study of the
coasts, but of the animals and plants OF
Greenland; the Esquimaux of the North
Atlantic; an account of explorations OF in
land ice, and a discussion on the causes of
the ice age. Professor Joseph LIE Conte and
Professor E. W. Hilgard of the University
of California are quoted among the promi-
nent authorities in the work The book is
thoroughly interesting, and is valuable
contribution to the literature of science.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., pub
fishers. For sale by DoxeY: price s.
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LID. The book is elegantly printed and
attractively bound, and contains maps and
numerous illustrations. Eight years ago
the first edition was published, and a sec
ond edition followed, without any change
in the body of the WORK, nine months
later. The present edition is thoroughly
revised, and all facts relating to the south
ern part OF the State are brought down tc
the latest date. In a new preface DR..
Llndley refers to the Los Angeles real
estate boom of 1SS6-87, in this manner:
1--WE did not see it then, but we can see
it clearly now, that the fall Of 1887 marked
the beginning OF the end of that wild era
of speculation, which did much good as
well as evil in pushing forward Los Ange-
les and the surrounding country within
three or four years to an extent which
they could not have otherwise reached in
three times that period.
sit was prophesied by many that after
the sutsidence of the real estate excite
ment this section would relapse into a
moribund condition. 1t might have been
SO in any other section of the United
States, but the marvellous resources of
Southern California were sufficient not
only TO tide this section over the natural
reaction from a period of crazy imitation
but to establish 1t on path Of still more
remarkable and permanent progress"
The census of 1890 gave Los Angeles a
population of $4,000. DR.. Lindley claims
$1,000 to-day. Among the improvements
of that city noted are three systems of
electric street railroads. an ocean outfall
and internal sewer system, 100 miles OF
streets graded and paved, buildings to the
value of $20,000,000 erected and good
commencement made in establishing
manufacturing industry, to which the dis
covery of petroleum within the city limits
has lent much assistance.
In the country the progress has been
no less remarkable. On every hand
orchards of citrus and deciduous trees
have been planted by thousands upon
thousands of acres. A beet sugar
factory which utilizes the product of
5000 acres of land is in successful opera
ton. Boom-cities. which We're laid out
merely on real estate basis-such as Mon
rovia, Whittier, Fullerton and others
have grown to be fourishing, productive
centers of population. Towns which had
scarcely an existence when the first edi-
tion of the book was published-such as
Pasadena and Redlands-are now cities
with brick blocks, banks and other appur-
tenances of modern business life. DR..
Lindley says that it is evident that the
progress of the past ten years in Southern
California is but an indie of that which is
in store for his section. In fact, he might.
with equal truth, have declared the same
thing of California without regard to sec
ton. The volume will be fine advertise
ment for the southern counties. New
York: d. Appleton & Co., publishers For
sale by Doxey; price 81.
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RETROSPECT.

LOOK back moment-how they glowed,
That wonderful array OF poppes
Across the hedge, hard by the road.
vision of vermillon light,
Too suddenly shut out from sight,
By waySide wall and clustering coppice
Waist high, wild roses held the trees
In tangled passion of embraces;
And by the pathway, skirting seas
OF heaving grass or arrowy wheat,
Iris and death-pale meadow sweet
Raised to your fairer face their faces
saw you tread that narrow track,
Midway between the grass, and noted
How straight the crowding spears stood back
Green as those waves which at command
Rose like a wall on either hand
To let Gods chosen pass dry-footed.
The year had climbed to mid July
A nd stayed moment glad and glowing
To flash aero the exultant sky
Her white and azure, gold and rose
Alas-what sadder hues she chose
To hide her desolate out going.
III should search the old year through,
From first to last, should discover
Headache and heartaches not few;
And yet that moment-fowers and trees
Sunset and you! She gave .le these
And for their sake and yours-I love her.
Pail Mall Gazette
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THE STUDY OF HOMER,

William Cranston Lawton's "Art anG
Humanity in Homer is group of essays
intended to aid in stimulating readers to
a wider course of Homeric study. The
subjects of the essayist are: 1.-The Iliad as
Work of Art" "Womanhood in the
Iliad, CLOSING Scenes of the Iliad, "The
Homeric Under World" ''Plot of the
Odyssey" "Odysseus and Nausicaa," and
"Accretions to the Troy Myth, after
Homer" Acquaintance with the Had
and Odyssey are necessary to a thorough
appreciation of NJ. Lawton's work, al
though he has endeavored to make his
ess ays. as far as possible, mplete and in
telligible In themselves. New York:
Macmillan g. Co., publishers. For sale by
William Doxey; price 75 cents.