The herald., 1896-11-29
a, Monterey and San Francisco in
he majors views as to California
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The majors views as to California
wines at dinner are thus expressed
"A dinner with California wines
should be about as follows: Oysters,
ohablis or sauterne from the Wetmore
vineyard, fish and a Los Angeles sherry.
Kohler & Froehling's Gutadel or Riesling
with entrees, good burgundy from San
Jose, Napa, Sonoma. Fresno or Los
Angeles. with the next course; McIver's
Haraszthy's, Kohler & Froehling's Es-
tees, Shilling's or other good claret with
the roast, and afterward Haraszthy's
Dry Eclipse, until the end, topping off
ff spirit or cordial is offered) with
San Gabriel brandy-by far the purest
in America, not excepting most French
importations-or Angelica"
A LOYAL LITTLE MAID. Edith
Robinson. Joseph knight G. Co.,
Boston.
A most thoroughly delightful and in
teresting story wherein the child hero
inc, whose girlish heart is fired with the
Inspirations of patriotism, renders most
important services to the heroes of the
revolution. 1t is little beauty of d
book.
UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE, by
James Otis. Estes & Lauriat, Bos-
ION.
A story of the Boston massacre. This
is the fifth volume in Stories of Ameri-
can History series, which the public has
pronounced success, and which needs
only an announcement to insure sale
The illustrations by l.. ]. Bridgman are
ample and excellent.
From the same publishers also comes
Isla Heron, by Laura E. Rickords. This
is a companion volume to Nautilus, and
is handsomely illustrated by Frank T.
Merrill 1t is a bright and interesting
story of the same simple island dwellers
on the coast of Maine. Laura E. Rick
ords has never written anything not
worthy of praise.
FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS, or Sight
Seeing in the Troics, by Oliver Op-
tic; cloth; illustrated. Lee & Shep-
ard, Boston.
Adams-known to all older young peo-
pie in the land as "Oliver Optic"-is still
abroad, gathering material for other
volumes of the "All-Over- the World"
library. The preceding volume of the
series left the hero, Louis Belgrave, and
his friends at Sarawak, in the island of
Borneo. The four young men here
spent three weeks in hunting and fish
ing and adventure, visiting the Dyak
villages and learning of the manners
and customs of this interesting people,
while the rest of the party proceeded in
the Guardian Mother" to Siam. On
leaving Borneo the explorers decided
to make the trip to Bangkok in the steam
launch. where they arrived in safety.
From there the reunited party went on
to Saigon in French Cochin China, across
the China sea to Manila in the Philip
pine islands, and thence to Hong Kong,
Shanghai, and Pekin in China.
The volume has enough of romance
to maintain an unabated interest, while
it is full of real information. Mr.. Adams
is not a great writer of history or trav-
els, but in his chosen domain we can
hardly think of an author who has done
more for the edification of young Amer
lean readers.
Frederick A. Stokes company put out
the last week three new ventures, as
follows: Little Bellies and Beaux, by
Elizabeth Tucker, author of Royal Lit
tie People, etc. 1t is richly illustrated
in water colors by Francis Brundage,
with decorated borders. The stories and
verses are in keeping with the general
excellence.
In the same general shape and style
as the above Juvenile is the Chrysanthe-