The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-01-14
RECENT LITERATURE.

IMAGINATION AND THE DRAMATIC IN
STINCT. By 8. s. Curry. Published by the
Boston School of Expression, 453 Boyiston
street. Price 81. 25.
valuable textbook for all students of elo-
cution and oratory Offering much material for
study, with valuable analyses of various seiee'
tons from famsss writings. The author has
been for some 30 years teacher of elocution,
and all of his ideas and suggestions are prac-
tical for the student. He works out in the %
chapters of the first part the different purposes
and forms of the imagination, with examples
from the great poets and prose writers. The
second half of the book is given up to a similar
study of "Tbe Dramatic Instinct" with ex-
amples. studies, and rules for the student.
The book opens mp q vide field for good effort
fos elocutionists, and would tend to aid them
in escaping from the cheap, hackneyed ideas
and selections that make the efforts of nine out
Of every 10 elocutionists most tiresome to an
intelligent audience.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE 18th N. Y.
Compiled by c. w. Boyce. Secretary of the
Regimental Organization, Buffalo, N. Y. Pub
lished by the author.
The 23th NY. belonged to the First Bri-
gade. First Division, Twelfth Corps, which is
sufficient to say that it had splendid record.
1t originally numbered 1.010 men, of whom 62
were killed in battle. 43 died of disease, and
218 were discharged for wounds and disabili-
gotten up in the best possible style, vividly
written, printed in large pages on clear, white,
heavy paper, and abuudantly illustrated with
excellent photographs and drawings. 1t is al
together a very creditable production. and the
gallant regiment can well be proud of it.
THE ARKANSAS PLANTER. BY Opie Read.
Published by Rand. McNally & Co.. New York.
Opie Reads new story is entertaining, as his
stories always are. As its name indicates, it is
r. - u.
lovers twain, one q consumptive, to whom she
heroically devotes herself until his death, and
the other, stalwart and successful, whom she
eventually marries but not till after tribua-
tions. incidentally the Major. her father and
his crony, Gideon Bats, are jolly fellows. The
book is bound handsomely and cleverly Illus
trated.
REFORM. By Col. Ralph de Clairmons. Pub
lished by The Arena Publishing Co., Boston,
Mass.
copy of our own and of the Swiss Constitu-
tion is appended to the book.
CURRENT HISTORY Third Quarter Illus
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A convenient hand. book ofcurrent affairs, Civ
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Magazines and Notes.
The arena for January has The Religion of
Burns's Poems, Negro Folklore and Dialect,
The Telegraph Monopoly. A Court of Medicine
and Surgery, Santa Catalina, Finance and Cur.
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Essential to Our Prosperity, He'll No Part of
Divine Revelation. Calves Home and Few of
Her Friends. The Castaway, England's Hand in
Turkish Massacre. Hereditary Influence and
Medical Progress, Restore Metz to France, The
New Old Philosophy Of Life, The Plea of Labor
from the Standpoint of Russian Peasant, The
Herb Doctor, and Book Reviews
The Won,an's Home Companion is an excellent
journal full of stories, poems and pictures and
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nary number is especially attractive. Mast,
Crowell & kirkpatrick, publishers. Spring
field, O. Price five cents.
Clara Barton has gotten out an interesting
report of the Red Cross work in Armenia The
pamphlet includes her own account and de-
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field agents, doctors. and the local missionaries,
with a statement from the Treasurer of the
Association. The report is made very attract
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people, OF the churches, and Of their farming
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Report of Americas Relief Expedition to Asia
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The american Journal of Sociology for Janu-
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Paul Monroe, H. L. Bliss, Lester F. Ward, Ed
ward A. Ross, o. Thon. and others. Published
at Chicago. Price 81 year, So cents
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The January number of Trares contains
among other interesting contributions "Our
Cycling Commissioners in Asia" Published
at 125 Fleet street, London.