The herald., 1896-11-08

Carrolls wonderful Alice, but sure 1t is
that he has made a great book and 1t Is
as captivating in its illustrations as 1t
is in its text. Wallypug will have a
great run.
Poverty itself is rich in country
| home" Our upholstery hangs
in our silver brches and bronze chest
nuts. our red oaks and olive pines.
Our Melton and Administer lie in our
clovers and snow drifts. Our Jewels
blaze on the tips of our pine fronds when
the ice storms glaze and the sun OF the
| winter thaw is hot"
The volume is finishing touch to
series of striking literary productions,
and tells us, as is fitting. more OF the
authors inner life and purposes than we
could have otherwise known, and which
we all want to know. 1t is one or the
! few books that one likes to read loan 10
a friend to read, but does not part with,
| for it is written out of the depths OF a
| fine strong life.
UNCLE TOMS CABIN, WITH KEY.
two volumes. Household Paper
| stories Houghton, Miffin d Co.,
Boston.
The three volumes of the fine River
| side edition of Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stoves works have come to mana anu
should find favor. They are splendid
specimens of book making.
| OF course there is nothing new TO be
said about Uncle Toms Cabin. In every
community there are few people VINO
will buy and cherish these volumes,
even in the far west, and so many years
after the time when they told the story
of slavery.
The House and Home papers belong
to all places and all times. and will find
generous welcome.
JTpTAD TEDONIJvC 12EATTTJFI1II
BOOK. BY Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Houghton Mifflin C. Co., Boston,
This striking poem of Mr.. Aldrich
which celebrates the beautiful legend OF
Friar Jerome and the wonderful nnlsh-
ing of his book by angel hands. is issued
in an exquisite little volume which Will
prove one of the attractive giftbooks OF
the year.
In it's last analysis the peculiar fea-
ture of the present presidential cam
paign is the unrest of the agricultural
class. The Atlantic Monthly for NO
vember contains a very lucid eXplana-
ton of the Causes of Agriculture! un.
rest, by Prof. j. Laurence Laughlin of
Chicago, who has given much time and
trouble to gathering the facts and max
ing clear presentation of the whole
subject
The first volume of new edition of
the prose works of Swift, with bio
graphical and critical Introduction by
Mr.. Lecky, will be issued shortly by the
Macmillan Co, in Bohn's Standard Lii
brary. A feature of the edition, which
will probably extend to eight volumes,
will be a complete biography of Swift's
writings, compiled by Mr.. Temple Scott.
The same house announces The Castles
of England; Their Story and Structure,
NJ ID l, fttl1
page plates, illustrations in the text and
plans.
Messrs. Copeland & Day announce
two promising new books, An Outland
Journey and Songs of Exile, by Herbert
Bales.
Dodd Mead & Company will publish
Immediately The Cure of Souls, by Ian
Maclaren (Rev. John Watson). This
work is composed of his Lyman Beecher
lectures on Preaching, recently dellv-
cred at Yale university
The first volume of a new edition of
the prose works of Swife will be issued
shortly in Bohn's Standard Library,
which in this country is published by
the Macmillan Company. 1t will con-
tain biographical and critical intro
duction by Mr.. Lecky.
Herbert Spencer has completed his
| life work with the volume on The Prin-
ciples of Sociology He is now 70 years
old and has been engaged upon this
! work for thirty-siX years, notwithstand-
| ing the fact that he has been an invalid
| for the greater part of his life.
Shade of Horace Greeley! The Tri-
bune with a colored supplement, Sc
rio-comic" one at that. And shade of
Margaret Fuller! The Tribune with q
"Woman's Realm" that is given over to
boudoirs and gossip. The Sunday Tri-
bune used to be the most dignified of
Sunday papers, but now it has taken
on a Recorder annex, and those of us
who enjoyed the simple dignity of its
slightly illustrated columns cannot but
mourn at its fall from grace. The
change does not set easily on the Shout
ders of the newspaper founded by Hor-
ace Greeley. The broad columns seem
to resent the indignity put upon them,
as do great many Of their readers
The Lounger.
It is said that Nine. Sarah Grand has
has almost finished her new novel, the
first that she has written since the phe-
nomenal success of The Heavenly
Twins. Her health for many months
has been very Indifferent, and she has
many times been ODllSeQ TO set ASIDE
writing altogether; but those who have
| read so much of her manuscript as is
| ready declare that it is admirably good,
and that the book has every appearance
| of being as great a success as it's i'm
| mediate predecessor 1t is also report
| ed that Nine. Grand attributes her re-
| turn to health very largely to the eXer-
else she gets upon her bicycle-a deity
| the list of whose votaries would now
| include almost every man and woman
of letters in London.
| The English papers are filled with
| tributes to and "reminiscences of the late
| George du Maurier To writer in the
| Daily Mail he said: "This Trilby boom
| distresses me when think that Thack-
cray never had a BOOM And hold
that means nothing as sign of literary
eXcellence-nothing but money"
Mr.. George w. Gable is about to pub
| lish literary monthly to be called The
| Symposium
| Among the announcements of Hough-
| ton, Mifflin q Co. are the immediate pub
| LEGATION of Miss Jewett's new story. The
Country of the Pointed FRS, Marin Lisa,
| by Mrs. Wiggin, An Island Plant by
Mrs. Lee, and several new editions Of
! older works.
Sir Edwin Arnold will shortly make
| his appearance in the dual role of ar