The herald., 1897-05-02
ures were Of young, robust and daring
ooking women, while the real Mrs. Til

lures were Of young. robust and daring
looking women. while the real Mrs Til
ton was under-sized, angular, sickly,
and from child wore very large-bowed
spectacles. with immense lenses, owing
to q congenital eye trouble. No doubt
II the cullers of old newspaper cuts had
known these facts they might have sup
piled the glasses, but not knowing this
their performance stands forth in all
its shamelessness.
TWO WOMEN. BY Sigmund B. Alex
ander. Laird & Lee.
This is number 50 Of the "Pastlme
Series" The alternative title of the
story is "A Moral Blot" This series is
issued monthly at So per year.
THE PLANT WORLD; ITS Ro-
MANCES AND REALITIES. BY
Frank Vincent, M. A. d. Appleton
& Co.
In this popular treatise we have one
of the new Home Reading Books" ed :
tied by William T. Harris, LID, United
States commissioner Of education. The
series will cover the following depart
ments Of knowledge: Natural history.
including geography and travel: phys
les and chemistry; history, biography
and ethnology, including ethics and NOR
ais; literature and art.
The first volume was the "Story Of the
Birds" The present volume is number
two Of the series. These are sold at the
low price Of go cents q volume, and ought
to be valuable and popular.
MIR. AND MRS. HANNIBAL HAw-
KINS. BY Belle c. Greene. 12mo.;
219 pages; illustrated; paper,25 cents;
cloth, rs cents. New York. American
Publishers Corporation.
Belle c. Greene, author Of 1.-THE Ad-
ventures Of An Old Maid" Of which book
over 100000 copies have been sold, is the
author of "Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal Haw-
kins." Mrs. Hawkins, formerly the Old
Maid Of the previous story, and Mr.
Hawkins, to whom she Is married, are a
couple Of interesting rustics likely to be-
come famous for quaintness of char
acter.
THE OPEN MYSTERY. "A reading Of
the Mosaic story. BY Mrs. A. D. T.
Whitney, author of Faith Cart
ney's Girlhood," Patience Strong's
Outings" 1.-THE Gayworthys." etc
16mo.; SLIPS. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co., Boston.
This book Is partly story and partly
treatise, and he who reads 1t will find
himself interested In Old Testament his
tory as.never before. 1t is not learned
book, but 1t is very satisfactory one.
The scholar could get along without 1t,
but the average student Of the Penta-
teuch will find In this simple narrative
the most helpful aid to a familiar under
standing of the Mosaic story. The whole
subject Is treated in modest, sensible
way, and there Is freshness and charm
about the volume that will commend it
to every household
THE DAY OF HIS YOUTH. BY Alice
Brown, author Of Meadow Grass"
"By Oak and Thorn" etc. 16mo, 81
Houghton, Miffin & Co., Boston.
This is recital Of the events of young
mans life, mainly through letters. 1t is
a striking history, perhaps all the more
striking because of its unusual form.
There are no conventionalities. no tricks,
no SITUATIONS" 1t seems exactly as If it
were true, as II the letters were 90 many
chapters taken out Of life, despite the
strangeness of It all.
Francis Hume Is taken into the deep
New England woods, upon the death Of
his mother, the father finding 1t imposei-
BILE to stay in the world of affairs; and
there father and son dwell till the child
has grown up strong and beautiful
youth Of twenty. But camping party
comes one summer to the shore of the
lake, and among them ID fair-haired
sirl. The young man sees her and is
mad with love for her. They meet and
talk. and when they do not meet they
lsavs lettera for each Other h I hollow