The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-03-19
RECENT LITERATURE.

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| THE BLACK LAMB. By Anna Robson Brown.
Published by J. Il. Lippincoit Company. Phila-
deiphia For sale by Brentano, Washington
Price si.2j.
One Of the most interesting Of the new novels,
strongly written. carrying the interest from the
| first to the last chapter with strong characters
| and plot well turned. The chief figure is
| Noel Conway an American lad brought up for
ms first 10 years Of life in india and thoroughly
stepped in ths mysterious beliefs and philosO-
| phies of the East. German colleges, adventures
ON the prairies, skirmishes in Mex CO. newspaper
life in New York do not overcome his mystic
ism. The other characters, his friend Jack
and Jacks sweetheart, Marion; Phillippa, the
calm.eyed maid Clement Frey, the successful
novelist; Andrew. the innoceut-eyed villain.
aud Lady LeBreton, who shields him, are all
we'll drawn. There is happiness in the love
affairs of Jack and Marion, but q sigh in the
end for Noel, who turns his face to the East
! aite- he has seen his chum made happy, and
goes to India TO join the Brotherhood of Bud
dhist philosophers, and thus the story ends.
AMERICA LIBERATA. by Rober. II. viekers.
Published by Charles III. Kerr & Co., Sc Fifth
Avenue, New York. Price 50 cents.
poem recitng the history Of Mexico and
Peru, the glories. wealth and beauties OF those
countries, Spain'styrannieso over them, the wars,
revolts. massacres. and always urging the cause
of liberty. The verse is dignifed aud ringing,
not Shaksperean nor yet Teunysonian, but tits
worthy verse withal.
LIVING TOPICS CYCLoPEDIA. Published by
John r. Alden. New York. Price so cents.
This issue of the cyclopeda covers from
Abbas to po-o,.n. IL is intended to be reli-
able ref rence.boot # the handicst size and
arrangement apd ontlinins current history.
- IS brief. but also handy, and IoVers 'oY. W.
from the world Of art literature, history, poll
tics, aud finance.
CHORD FROM VIOLIN BY winifred
Agnes Hadane. Published by Laird & Lee,
Chicago. Price 50 cents.
A sweet sad little love story told by the old
violin about his brave master. the musician,
his friends, and the girl whom he loved.
Magazines and Notes.
.9arper's Bazaar has just issued very Jolly
bicycle number, with bicycle STYLES bicycle
poem and story and bicycle pictures galore
Besides, are the usual stories. an interesting
romance by Maria Louisa Poole, fashion notes
and articles OF general interest. Published by
Harper & Brothers, New York. Price 10 cents.
The Bookm,an for March has q most interest.
ing article on Mrs. Browning's Opinion Of
Teunyson. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York.
Price 10 cents.
The Health Magazine, edited and conducted
~ 9'CIhtIo, Hdo WI tHo uuuDcE ARTICLES
of interest on public and personal health. emer-
gency rules, suggestions to nurses. and other in
formation likely to help along towards good
health and comfort. Tho Health Magazine
Company, New York. Price 10 cents.
The Public Opinion Company, New York,
announces the publication in book-form of
series of fac simile reproduction of documents
which will be known as 1.-THE Hamilton Fac
Smiles of Manuscripts" The first part will
contain letter from James Monroe to Thomas
Jefferson asking the latter's opinion as to the
of the United States entering into
the proposed Holy Alliance; letter from
Thomas Jefferson in reply; a letter from Madi-
son to Monroe. and notes of historical and cur
reut interest. These old letters promise TO be
very interesting and valuable, indeed especi-
ally just now, when our international policy is
being widely discussed and Nonroes doc
trines SO much disputed.
The article The United States, Great Bril- !
tain, and International Arbitration, by Ben |
jamin F. Trueblood, the Secretary Of the /
American Peace Society, which appears in the |
March number of the New England Magazine, |
is an especially timely article. Warren h. KEEL |
logg, D Park Square. Boston, Mass.
While Whispers of Love. from a painting by I
Laurens Alma radema makes an elegant from |
tispiece for The Monthly illustrator aud Home and /
Country New York, for March, it is but one OF /
many full page illustrations which, with moro |
than a hundred Others, adorn the current num-
Der of this magazine. And these illuminate |
a table of contents made very attractive by |
reason of literary merit
In McCyares Magazine for March is speech |
of 1887 by Abraham Lincoln, which the biog-
raphers until now, seemingly, have known !
nothing OF, though IL contains passages still of
the highest interest. For example, Of poll |
fici. iucoIp cat of -vhn Il
interests aside from the interests of the people, |
and who, to say the most of them. are, taken as |
q mass, at least one long step removed from !
honest men. / say this with the greater free
dom because. being politician myself. none |
can regard it as personal" There are also an
amusngly jud icious love proposal of Lincoln's, |
and some lively "reminiscences of him as the |
leader in a successful manuver to establish the /
State Capital at Springfield.
Mr.. David A. Wells continues his account of |
Taxation in Literature and History in Apple- |
on's Popular Science Monthly for March, giving |
methods employed for raising revenue in an
,ieut Greece and Rome. Under the title The /
Failure of Scientific Materialsm this doctrine /
IS sharply attacked by Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald.
Of Ieipsic. who affrms that it should be- re- /
placed by theory based on energy. Herbert |
spencer contributes to this number chapter
,n the Painter in his series on Professional
Prof. E. w. Hilgard shows that
.he salts in our alkali lands consist largely of