The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-24
PICTURES OF BATTLEsHIPs

Articles About the Navy and Contri-
buttons From Experts Dealing
With High Explosives Are the
Thing just Now-MliifOns Given
I'm This Country Every Year for
Libraries. Colleges and Museums
Hooks That Arc Certain to Ad :
Over SI.0OO.OO0.
Correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
NEW YORK. April 21.-Still the cry
comes from the book stores that the
war has done great temporary harm
to their trade. Only war news and
war books interest the public at pres
ent Even writers for periodicals make
their complaints. Unless they have
something to offer about navies and
wars editors shake their heads. Some
days ago | met veteran writer, a man
whose articles have been good for &C
Ceptance in a score of offices, and he
bemoaned his fate. MY spring poem"
said he, nobody wants. My articles
on the tariff can make no Roadway
"reminiscences of famous men meet
With IN fferent rec ption. Every edi-
tor I know has his space crowded with
pictures Of battleships, articles about
the navy. and contributions, from ex-
peIts dealing with nigh explosives.
Meanwhile what am 1, who have to
live, going to do about it?''
Such is the plant of the writer,
The : sAiisher, however, has some
sources of recompense. He is almost
certain 70 have on his list naval books,
biographies of great commanders, sto-
ries Of the sea, and they are in great
demand. Publishers make up such lists
in their advertisements Book sellers
prepare large lists from all the cata-
logueS and the buying goes on. Indeed
there has been quite an evidence of this
sort started. Most lists are long ones
from 10 10 100 or even $50 titles. Per-
haps the reader will be glad of a short
er list. Lists of great length are apt
TO be confusing, and especially so when
they are not accompanied by descrip-
tive matter. Their titles are good only
when they show exactly what the book
contains, and this, unhappily, few
titles ever do. I have, therefore, thought
1t would suit readers of The G o b {.
better to have given here a brief list of
selected b0OkS-bookS known to me to
be what they seem and sure to be found
valuable 20 any one now seeking gen
eral or special information on naval
topics. Publishers names as we'll as
prices are given. And first attention
is asked to the following books which
deal with the general history OF our
navy from the period Of the Revolution
to and Including the Civil war, with an
occasional book that deals with the
British navy:
THE History of Our Navy From It's Origin
10 the Present Day" BY John R. Spears
-Four hundred Illustrations. Four volumes
u no. Scribners. SIS.
"History Of the American Navy During the
Great Rebellion" BY Charles B. Boynton.
Two volumes. Svo. Appleton. &C.
IA History OF the United States Navy" BY
e. S. Maelay. illustrated. Two volumes
Svo. Appleton. $3.50 per vol.
NAVAL Engagements, 1S61-1S65." On Battles
and Leaders of the Civil War; BY Union
and Confederate officers. The Century Co.
NAVAL Actions of the War of 1872" By
James Barnes: With twenty-one full-page
illustrations. Svo. Harper. $3.50.
''All Hands" Pictures of Life in the
United States Navy. BY Rufus F. zog-
''The Naval War of 1872" By Theodore
Roosevelt Putnams $3.50.
incidents and Anecdotes of Civil War" BY
Admiral David D. Porter. Appleton. 81.
''Iniuence of Sea Power in History" BY
Influence of Sea Power on the French Rev
cluticn.' By Capt. A. T. Mahan. Two vol
umes. Little, Brown & Co. IS.
'Interest of America in Sea Power BY
Capt A. T. Mahan. Little, Brown & Co.
"WlssCn's Ironclads in Action A Sketch
some account Of the development of the
batleship in. England. BY H. w. Wilson.
Introduction by Capt. A. T. Mahan. Illus
'V-n vol
Co S. ''i'''e' i'io"n ~
''Englizh Sesmen in the Sixteenth Century,"
BY J; A. Froude. Svo. Scribner. s1.75.
Tine China-Japan War" Compiled from
official End other sources. By Jukiehi In
ouye. Illustrations. 4to. Sc
S;peeiel mention should be made of
the books in the above list by Maclay
Spears and Capt. Mahan. They are
about the latest and are easily the best
of their kind. In biography some good
recent books are the following:
Running the Blockade" BY T. E. Taylor
personal narrative of adventures du--
ing the American Civil war. Illustrated.
ScIioner. $250
young Heroes of Our Navy. Commodore
Bainhridse, Midshipman Farragut'' Ply
James Barnes. Decatur and Scmers, Paul
Jcnes Midshioman Paulding, L tile Jar
Wis. By Molly Elliot Seawell. 12mo.
"The life of Nelson. The Embed ment of
the Sea Power Of Great BIi.ain.''' By Capt
A. 7. Aiahen. 10 portraits and plates in
photcgravure. 81 maps and plans. 2 vcls,
$40. Little, Brown & Co. So.
Life e John Ericsson" By Within C.
Church. Illustrations. vols. $40. S rib
ner. Sc
"AdmiraI Farragut." By Capt. A. T Maha1,
Portrait Appleton. $3.50.
Among books of the scientific class.
which deal with the construction CT
modern ships. with guns. explosives
and all the varied facts in modern
naval fighting the following ara en-
titled to attention:
Ocean Steamships; Popular Account Of
Their Construction, Development, Manage
mept and Appliance by Commander F.
f. Chadwick and others. Profusely Illus
trated; Svo. Seribner. SO.
''MGdern Explosives a handbook. by NJ.
Eissier. Svo; Illustrations. Van Nostrand.
"Torpedoes and Torpedo Vessels" by Lieut..
G. f. Armstrong. Svo. Macmillan. s. So.
Naval Gunnery; Description and History
Of the Fighting Equipment of Man of
War" by Capt. II. GARRETT Svo. Mac
milan. $50.
IAN the worlds Fighting Ships" illustrat-
ed: Portrait details of over LOCO war
Brown & CO. $50.
'The Navy Annual" by T. A. Brassey. Il
Illustrated. Svo. Scribner. 50.
In books of fiction, the name is le-
gion, but the following few are good:
ION Many Seas: the Life and EXPLOITS of
Yankee Sailor" by Herbert E. Ham
blen (Frederick Benton Wi.iams). Edited
by his friend. William Stone Booth. Mac
milan. $3.50.
''rbe Port of Missing Ships and Other Stor-
les of the Sea-" by John r. Spears. Mac
Navy Blue" story of cadet life in the
Boyd Allen. Dutton.
1.-THE Naval Cadet" story of adventure
on land and sea. By Gordon Stables.
Illustrations. vo Scribner. SIPS.
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