The herald., 1897-08-29

.2&xA&1SE2 Co.,
M lpTwsEMES V5Z
to the use of lady" The souls of SEN
sible folks have long been vexed by
clerks and conductors of street cars con-
stantly addressing every woman as
lady" So objectionabl BILE has this ridic-
ulous term become that several street
car companies have issued orders tha;
every female is to be addressed as
madam" this being thought safest and
best, the average conductor not having
grace and tact enough to use madame
and miss happily. The colored porter,
giving his experience said: Il always
call young ladies Mrs, because the
younger they are the better they like It.
and the older ladies call Miss because
the older they are the better they like
| it."
At any rate, the reform does not begin
too soon, for nothing SO entirely objec-
tionable as the present habit must be
tolerated. When will the reform reach
Los Angeles?
THE DEEMSTER. By Hall Caine.
Rand, McNally & Co.
'GAINST WIND AND TIDE. By Nellie
u, oil p
Co.
These are the two latest volumes in
the Globe library series, in paper covers,
and will be accounted seasonable con-
tributions to the summer fiction. The
first one is old and good, while the other
is new and not bad-a story of pushing
American life, with some political in-
triguing.
ON THE OUTER RIM BY Mrs. Geo.
E. Wright. Alfred C. Clark, pub
Usher, Chicago.
This little volume contains s4me sto-
ries in what the author calls the minor
evolution and is an earnest and
thoughtful treatise on one Of the great
est questions of the day. and deserves a
reading.
A NEW HOYLE. Fosters Complete
Hoyle. By R. F. Foster. Cloth, PIP.
| 625, 50. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Co. For sale by c. c. Parker
An examination of Mr.. Fosters new
edition of Hoyle shows it to be most
thorough and up-to-date w~rk. There
is absolutely no indoor game worth nam
| ing that is not treated of authoritavely
| here. 1t is one Of the most perfectly con-
structed works conceivable, having be-
| sides its index a complete list of all the
technical terms employed In all the
games, and each descriptive paragraph
throughout the volume is preceded by
catch words in heavy-faced type, adding
| greatly to the value Of the text. The
author has minimized the difficulty
found by readers of such treatises by the
simplicity of his plan, and has given to
the public very much needed new edi-
tion of a standard work.
The games are arranged in families
First, for instance, comes whist, which
in its 172 pages covers it's progeny of
duplicate, drive, dummy, humbug, mort
bridge, cayenne, solo, Scotch Boston,
| Boston de Fontainb bleau, French and
| Russian Boston, and German and Chi
| nese whist. Fifty pages are given to the
ramifications of poker, followed by the
| hearts, the euchre and bezique families
| ETC., including binocle, which orthogra-
| ply Mr.. Foster adopts (although admit
ting that pinocle is nearer the correct
| spelling than any other form) in prefer
ence to binochle, pinochle, pinuchle, pin
| ucle, penuchle, penuckle and pinuchle
| all of which may be found in various
works on card games. A clever idea is
the grouping under the head of Nation al
Games of six games which he, has not
! put into any particular family, as they
as he says, stand apart from other
games and have been played since their
| hrst Invention with only trif1ing varia-
| tions, giving rise to offshoots bearing
| other names. These are usually the most
popular games with the middle and lowe
classes in the coun tries in which they are
| found, and may be considered as dis
| tlnctly national in character. Games
| that become popular with the masses al
ways last longer than others, and the
rules governing them are much better
| understood, and more firmly established
In the course of a century the English
aris stocracy have run the gamut of quad
| rifle, ombre, whist, ecarte, bezique
piquet, rubicon and bridge; while the
| middle classes have stuck steadily to
| cribbage for nearly two hundred years"
These six games are skat (German)
lcribhage (English), piquet (F'rench), con-
quian (Mexican), calabrasella Otalian)
and casino (American). The 500 pages
given to cards end with chapters on Old
Games, such as old maid, speculation
Pope Joan, solitaire, and even fortune
telling, and on Banking Games such as
vingt-et-un, baccara, blind hockey, Chi
nese fan tan, faro, rouge ct noir and rou-
lette. The last hundred pages are given
to chess, checkers, backgammon, dom
inoes, billiards. pool, etc. Handsomely
bound in cloth, 81.
| + =
THE CHRISTIAN. By Hall Caine,
author of ''The Manxman," 1.-THE
| Deemster' and 1.-The Bondman." D.
Appleton & Co.
The publication of this story in book
form is a literary event Of first conse-
Quence. and for the first time If will he