The morning times., 1896-03-29

been imagined, and will make sub
Stantial and valuable addition TO the
body OF her WOrE, alike III prose ana
poetry, Il large numbtr OF hitherto unknown
letters having also been recovered. \
biographical volume Will Dc published,
entirely made up or fresh matter, and re
pealing nothing that has alfeauy appeared
III Mrs. GaSkell's biography.
A period OF Lincom's n1c which has not
heretofore recCi~cd the consideration de-
served is his boyhoCd, youth and early
manhood, covering the PERIOD up to the
time OF his IITSJ entrance into public lie.
Happily this deficiency ID historical bog
rapuy. has been Temedied by the MCCIureS,
VINO have issued a handsome little vol
ume entitled The Early Lie of Lincoln.
1t is handsomely put up I'D buckram and
gold, and the first eCltion, now about
exhausted, was $4,000 copies. ('Early
Life OF Lincoln" Mcclure, Limited, New
York;
a scholarly detective story is what THE
Temptress," the latest story by the pro-
llIIc William lie QueuX, might be called.
This writer is well known 10 an extensive
reading public by his popular 'Zoraida." :"
In this last story he has succeeded in Gre
ating q condition OF affairs which seizeS
readily and firmly upon the sympathy and
interest OF the reader, and the power OF
the narrator is evidenced in the 1lrmness
with which he holds the reader to the
prospective dissolution or his plot. The
UNOh IOl tllS HtS slIOus StLtldI lhltlGSlt
but the style is pleasing, and unusually
graceful in its vigor for this class OF novels.
The publishers nave given it attractive
dress. ('The TemptreSs, William lie
Queux. Fred X. Stokes, New York;
Prince Lobanoff, the Russian minister OF
foreign affairs, has not oniy found time
to WIN the greatest diplomatic triumphs of
this decade, bat he has also just completed
for publication " lie Dictonnalre dcS Eml-
gres,'' on which he has been engaged for
twenty years. The work has involved
prodigious amount OF labor. The prince
has traced the fate of 12,GOO refugees,
driven from France during the revolution
into England, Germany, and Russia. de
has found that tWo-thrds or THESE eXlieS
periShed i'll foreign lands and left no de
sCcnuantS whatever, which Is rather hard
on those families VINO assumed names ana
titles on the most slender claims under
the Bourbon restoration. The princes
other literary hobby is Mary, Queen of
Scots His devotion TO her memory is
something Chiyairous. He has in his Ii
brary every book which i'll any way bears
upon her life and death.
The Illustrator Il handsome new mag
azine comes from Atlanta, Ga. 1t is OF
recent establishment. The opening num-
ber has set Il standard OF excellence that
ought to bring success if maintained. The
letter press, engrav7ngS and literary matter
is all first class. An illustrator ) magazine
from the South is tcsty experiment. and
the publishers realize it. They say they are
conscious that they are entering field
where others have met defeat, but they
believe that they Will be able to maintain
first-class Illustrated magazine, with
literary ana historical features, not Ge
voted to or limited to the South, nor
sectional in any sense, yet OF the South.
Subjects treated in an interesting and In
telligent manner in the opening number are
Andrew Jackson "Sherman's March 10
the Sea-" and Henry W. Grady" There
are several stories. (The illustrator. At
lanta, Ga.)
Gertrude Atherton, the author OF two
delightful sto ries, The Dooms woman
| and Before the Gringo Came" has con-
tributed third interesting morsel of
| fiction to the book shelves, or rather to
| the library table, for the dainty ard artistic
| little volume is much too pretty to be
| hidden in the cases. Her last story is
! called "A Whirl Asunder,' and though
| comparative trifle so TAR as intention
| is concerned, it is really clever little
| narrative OF a not impossible case. In
| sixteen chatty chapters is told the case
| of MIR. Give, young English barrister,
| At the very beginning another woman
! element to the very end. There is a long
| struggle worked out with much clever
| ness, and the readers curiosity is stimu
| lated throughout TO know whether il Is
| 10 be Miss Gordon or Miss Belmont WHO
| Will go across tue sea q barriSter's bride
! The denouemeDt is unexpected, though mol
| conviDcingly original. GA Whirl Asun
| DER Gertrude Atherton. Frederick Stokes
| For sale by BrentaDO.)