The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-30
BOOK NOTICES.

"a Hidden CHAIN" by Dora Russell
Rand, McNally & Co., New
York publishers. This is a charming story
and it is well told. Those who read it
will not regret having done so.
MAGAZINES.
The complete novel in the April issue
of Lippincott's is ''Flotsam," by owen
Hall. The scene shifts from England to
India and Australia, following the for
tunes of a heroine, who, through a severe
experience at sea, loses track of her past
life, so that her identity is established
only after many months and much diffi-
Guilty. "The Vivisection.st by Carolyn
Wells describes the conduct of a novel;
list whom no scruples deter in the search
for literary material. Lieut.. Thomas II .
Wilson, in Between Reliefs," tells of a
not wholly unTfghteous revenge ION
the War-Path With Kit Carson" by Will
liam Thomson, is a true story, and so prob
ably is Dreaming Bob" by DIR. Charles
c. Abbott. The Drama of One Hundred
Acres, by Calvin D!ll Wilson, is an i'm
aginative sketch of the development of an
Ohio farm. o. L. writes of Holy Week
in Mexico" and Cleveland Moffett of
Paris Swindles." r. G. Robinson re-
in Florida, who caused the war of 1896
80, and the loss of 1,5c0 white lives The
poetry OF the number is by Susie NJ. Best,
Mary Bradley and Madison Cawein. j
B. Dippincott Company, Philadelphia.
McClure's Magazine never fails to make
good its special claim of timeIiness. The
April number has for frontispiece an ex-
cellent portrait of Prof. Roentgen whom
the German emperor has, within these
few days, made baron for his marvellous
discovery of the cathode rays; and the
leading article is almost the first account
yet given of Prof. Roentgen, as seen in his
own laboratory in the actual conduct of
his experiments. The article is illustrated
with numerous photographs by the new
process, as is also a supplementary article
on The Roentgen Rays in America" by
GtpVa1an6 Afnffaff no Anil f..,
romance, begun in this number, promises
to supply the most attractive company of
people and the most enthralling series of
adventures that the fruitful author of
THE Prisoner of Zenda" has yet created
Opening chapters are usually a little slow
moving, but here interest is fully aroused
almost from the first paragraph. One of
its authors best achievements also is the
new Kipling ballad, Soldier an Sailor
Too" 1t has the fundamental vigor and
wide suggestiVeness that only genius is
capable of. S. S. Mcclure, 30 Lafayette
Place, New York.
The Atlantic Monthly for April contains
the opening chapters of The Old Things.
a four-part story, by Henry James, one of
his delicate and yet dramatic delineations
of character DR.. T. c. Mendenhall contrib
utes an able article on The Alaska Boun-
dairy Line. DR.. Mendenhall was one of the
government commissioners concerned in
determining this line. Lafcadio Hearn
seeks to set forth the great consequences
of the Chinese-JapaneSe war and its bear
ing upon western civilization. His article
China and the Western World will be read
with widespread interest. The second pa
per in the series of Race Characteristics
in American Life, is by Prof. Shaler of
Harvard University, on the Scotch E,1e-
ment in the American People The Pres
ldency and Senator Allison is the third
paper in the series upon presidential can
didates. Some Memories of Hawthorne
by his daughter, tell of Hawthorne's life
in Italy. The Atlanta Monthly Hough-
ton. Miffiin & Co, IL East Seventeenth
street, New York
Louisa NJ. Alcott is said to reveal herself
in most interesting way in a number of
letters written to five little girls). which
are to appear in the April Ladies' Home
journal. These letters were written dur
ing the busiest period of Miss Alcott's
life, and present pen picture of the au-
thor, drawn by her own master hand. In
these she talks with singular frankness
of herself, her work, her aims, her home
her spiritual belief and of the influence
that directed her to literature. She never
saw any of her five correspondents. but
their youthful frankness, intense in
terest In all her writings. and
their love for the author and for the char
acters Of her creations, impelled her to
turn aside from her work and cares to find
diversion. in chats with such eagerly en-
thusiastic, admiring and sympathetic
friends. Miss Alcott's first letter Is dated
1872. and the others were written at inter-
walls up TO within a short time Of her