The herald., 1898-03-13

| NODOuy seems TO De aDie TO make Ou'
very clearly what is to be done, except Mr.
Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, whose guest the
Celebrity is, and being out on a pleasure
cruise, Cooke takes his guest across the
lake to the Canada shore, despite the lat
| ter's protestations of his innocence. How
the yacht is chased and boarded by the
officers of the law, and how Cooke beats
them all "by several lengths" the reader
must find out for himself. Meantime he
can take our word for it that 1.-The Cele-
brity' is one of the most entertaining
books of the season. 1t may not live long
in the mind, but it will keep the mind ex-
ceedingIy busy while 1t does live.
A PASSIONATE PILGRIM. BY Percy
White. author of "Mr. Bailey Martin. -
Corruption etc. No. 235, Appleton $
| Town and Country Library. 12mo.
Cloth. 81; paper. so cents. d. Appleton
| & Co.
1.-THE even, strong and entertaining quail
ity of Percy Whites work is illustrated in
| "A Passionate Pilgrim The charac-
ters are drawn with that touch of cynical
humor that marks Mr.. Whites usual atti-
live their brief parts before us, not play
them. - This popular series keeps up
its high characteristic very best fiction at
popular prices.
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ASTRONOMY. BY Agnes NJ. Clerke, A.
Fowler. A. R. c. S., and ]. Elard Gore,
NJ. r. I. A. A new volume in the Con-
else knowledge Library. 12mo. Cloth,
81. D. Appleton & Co.
The aim of this large and handsome vol
ume is to present in concise form a popu-
lar synopsis of astronomical knowledge up
to date. 1t is work of almost GOO pages, il
lustrated by vast number of diagrams
photographs and drawings. Section first
treats of the history of the progress of the
science, and is exceedingly entertaining.
Next follows geometrical astronomy and
treatise on astronomical instruments and
equipments. The whole field of astronom-
ical research has been covered by the
faithful and sympathetic work of able wri-
ters. and the volume is a marvel of COM
pact and thoroughly reliable scientific
knowledge.
THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE. BY
Gilbert Parker. Price, SLIPS. d. Apple
ton & Co.
Frank Armour was a typical tempery
young Englishman who left his home and
family and came to the western wilds of
America-the Hudson Bay country-with
no very definite purpose. He was promised
in marriage to a worthy but rather poor
Sill WlllCu lIe ldIully ulu uOl la
vor, and hoped this long journey would
somehow make impossible. But Miss Julia
Sherwood solved the matter in an entirely
| unexpected way by breaking the engage
ment herself, and this news comes to young
Armour one night in the wilderness.
Being considerably cut up over the IT,
dings, he took some brandy. AS he con-
tinued to think he occasionally took more
brandy, and soon afterwards, seeing a
act % v,f mi CT NY hi he
called him in and asked him to go to Eye
of-the- Moons lodge, where they met the
Indians pretty daughter. The next day
this young Indian girl, Lali, was introduced
to the Hudson Bay country as Frank Ar
mour's wife.
But even this sensational performance
did not satisfy the young Briton's ambi-
ton, and so he sent her to England, his
family being advised of her coming only
day or two before her appearance.
The CONSERVATION of the family upon the
arrival of this little savage, in the garb of
the wild Indian, was very great. but some
how 1t was borne and at last they became
interested in her and proud of her. And
when the wandering husband at length re-
turned he found that it was upon him alone
that the burden of distrust and shame
rested. And the strangest point in the
story is the dignity and spirit shown by
Lali when the question of their future re-
lation to the world had to be considered
and the status of herself and her child set
tied.
The book has a strong and artistic word
ing, and rather improves throughout in the
reading, but it is not a volume to be seri-
ously compared with the ones that gave
the author his fame.
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Mr.. F. S. Child is to follow up his in
81, 4,,,<r @1~ .-I 4.
another New England novel treating of the
period known as 1.-THE Great Awakening" ="
The Ladies' Home Journal received ten
thousand outside manuscripts last year,
and accepted less than per cent of them,
it is said.
"Freshman Composition by Mr.. Henry
G. Pearson, is small and intelligent text
book, provided with an introduction by Mr..
Arlo Bates. Messrs. D. c. Heath & Co.
are the publishers.
"a narrative of the Indian and Civil
Wars in Virginia in the Years 1915 and
1876" as published in Boston in 1914, forms
No. 10 of Mr.. George p. Humphreys S
american Colonial Tracts
The American Book company is the pub
fishers of "a School History of the United
States" by Professor John Bach McMaster,
whose name is sufficient to place the book
in the highest rank among manuals of it's
class
The value of "Chambers' Biographical
Dictionary" and new edition, to date, of
which the Lippincotts announce, is meas
ured by the erudition of it's possessor If
he reads newspaper, magazine and new
book industriously he will be unable to do
without this aid to the digestion of current
knowledge.
Stanley Waterloo's "Story of Abb" though
appearing only at the end of October, has
already reached its fourth edition in the
United States and two in England Messrs.
Way & Williams, the American publishers,
have purchased the plates of the English
illustrations by S. B. Vedder, and these ap-
pear in the late American editions.
Mrs. Julia c. r. Dorr will publish her
new book with Messrs. L. c. Page & Co
of Boston. 1t is entitled ''In Kings
Houses; or The Adventures of Robin San
dys," a romance of the days of Queen
Anne.
Mrs. Craigies "School for Saints" has
gone into it's second edition both in Eng
land and America. The first English edi-
ton numbered 1000 copies.
Messrs. Fl. S. Stone & Co. announce '"The
Londoners,' a novel by Mr.. Robert S.
Hichens, and a small volume of poetry by
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, called
"Priscila's Love Story
The unpublished verses by Mr.. Rudyard
Kipling on the Immortality of the Soul,
will, we learn, shortly appear in print
They We're quoted by a Passionist father
in a church in Rome, much frequented by
English visitors, few weeks ago.
'"Traveling Libraries and Travelling Pic
ture Galleries in the West" by Professor
F. N. Scott of the University of Michigan,