The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-06
BOOK NOTICES.

Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves"
Poems of James Barrow Hope. Selected
and edited by his daughter Janey Hope
Mart. West, Johnston & Co., publishers,
Richmond, Va. Cloth, $1.25. Those who
read this collection of poems will find in
1T much that will give them pleasure and
very little to criticise unfavorably.
James Barrow Hope was called "Virginia's
Laureate" and he well deserved the title
He was a poet the people could and did
appreciate. His poems have the power
of genius and they touch the heart and
fire the Imagination. They present "a Iiv-
ing succession of concrete maps and pic
lures. The poems OF this volume We're
collected by the authors daughter and
the work was well done.
MAGAZINES.
The Cosmopolitan for January appears
with new cover, colored and well drawn,
and the list of contributors to it's fiction,
facts and illustrations includes, as usual,
some of the best writers and artists Ar
thur Sherburne Hardy gives a romance
in verse, entitled THE City of Dreams"
and illustrated by Eric Pape "Amateur
Photography of To-day" by w S. Har-
wood, will persuade to this delightful pur-
suit as much through the examples given
as through the very clever text.
James Lane Allen, in the serial story,
Butterflies; a Tale of Nature" illustra-
ted by Alice B. Stephens, lays upon us
anew the spell of his poetic, delicate fan
cy. "A Tragedy of the Great North Road
by Robert Louis Stevenson, increases IN
interest Julien Gordon deals summary
with other critics in her paper WAS
George Eliot a Hypocrite?" and rebukes
cenSure and scandal. Letters Art and
Science receive discriminating and fun no.
tice, and the reproductions of noted mod
efl pictures deserve praise The Cosmo-
pOlltan, IrVington- on-the-H Hudson NeV
York.
Christmas and New Year articles are
49,. -Es.
Der of "Leslie's Monthly" OF these the
article entitled English Christmas and
Scottish New Year" by Mrs NJ. e. Lei
cester Adds is easily first, in style and
matter; in it we learn of many old customs
and rites which, handed down from the
mother country, still survive with us de-
spite the rigor of Puritansm and climate
"A BY gone Bohemia" by A. S. Rawson
is an entertaining account of the "Bohe-
mians," who, in the ffties, congregated
at Pfaff's restaurant for fellowship, and
the flow of soul. Great Ship Canals
by Arthur Vaughan Abbott; "A Day with
taa funny Fishers" by Charles Edwar-
des;" Pierre Lott in Morocco" THE Lit
tie Blackbird," by Howard Paul, together
with poems, stories and illustrations, sup
ply ample entertainment to readers
Frank Leslie Publishing House, ~ Bond
street, New York.
The first edition of the January Nc
Clure's is 100000 copies-an increase of
10000 in three months. 1t is easy to I'M
derstand these great strides in circula-
ton when one has read. in this number
the remarkable story of Lincoln as the
manager of Denton Offutt's saw mill and
country store at New Salem, the victo-
rious wrestler against the champion of
Clary's Grove the student between
Whles. of Kirkham's grammar a candf-
date for the legislature, and a captain of
raw recruits in the Black Hawk war; and
when one has inspected the twenty-five
pictures which help to witty this most
engaging chapter of Lincoln history. We
have been advised heretofore that the his
tory of Lincolns early years was lost
This can be said no more; for Miss Tar
bell has recovered 1t for McClure's down
to its smallest detail To further justify
the 800. 900, there is the beautiful article on
Eugene Fields intimacy with the children
reproducing the best of his child poems
with portraits, from his own collection,
of the real children to whom the poems
relate Besides the foregoing there are
many other good things in the number.
S. S. Mcclure, Limited, 80 Lafayette Place,
New York.
The artists who have shared in making
my Pet Subject" by Arthur Hoeber, in
the Monthly illustrator and Home and
Country, for January. an interesting study
for other artists and thing of beauty
to those who admire talent, have succeed
ed we'll And the author of the text which
frames the pictures, has done good work,
foo The originals of the illustrations, the
subjects being thirteen in number are by
twelve different artists, as follows:
Everyday Folks" from a drawing by
Marc Iucas: THE Oldest Inhabitant"
from a drawing by c. f. Dusenbury; MY
LADY Fair" from a painting by Charles
Won Saltza; "a Stormy Voyage" by c.
McKnight smith; "A Stolen Tete-a-Tete,''
from a drawing by G. B. Drake; The
BEND of the River" from drawing by
II. Irving Marlatt; "A Noble Building
by Ora Coitman; by the Old MIL" from