The times., 1899-09-17

closes with an account of the battle of
Manila, is elaborately illustrated, and will
be found to be of permanent historical
| value.
A veritable edition de luxe is the new is
! sue of Alice in Wonderland" and
Through the Looking GLASS;" which is
just being offered to book-buyers by NJ.
| F. Mansfield Co.
Comptroller Coler, whose recent article
| on the abuse of Public Charity" caused so
much discussion, will take up the question
of The Reform of Public Charity in the
October number of "Appleton's Popular
Science Monthly He believes that a
million dollars can be saved the taxpayers
in 1860 by few judicious changes in the
present system which will work no hard
/ ship to the truly INDECENT.
r. Il. Russell announces for early publi-
cation the Maude Adams edition of Romeo
and Juliet" The book will be beautifully
| illustrated by pictures of Miss Adams and
! her company by Gilbert, Haskell, and 9TH
ers, and attractively bound.
! Perhaps the strongest proof of the interest
! the American people take in the Dreyfus
affair is the fact that the translation Of
| Captain Dreyfus' letters from prison to his
wife is selling at the rate of 900 copies a
day
Two new detective stories by writer's who
! have a great reputation in this class of
literature are announced for immediate pub
| lication by the New Amsterdam Book Com
pany THE Datchett Diamonds by Rich
ard Marsh, author of THE Crime and the
| Criminal, and Samuel Boyd of Catchpole
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e. w. Deming has in preparation for the
holiday season some OF the most important
work that he has thus far done in color.
Indian Pictures is the title of a bound
collection of six facsmiles of his water
colors of the American Indian in his hal
cycn days Shooting the wild swan, pre-
pairing for battle, working at picture writ
ing, winter encampment. moose hunting,
! and recounting the legends of the tribe are
subjects of Mr.. Deming's paintings, and
these are accompanied by exact represen-
tations of Indian picture writings them
selves The facsimiles of these water
| colors are of large size and of great beauty
Of coloring. Accompanying them are brief
descriptions of the scenes represented with
twelve illustrations In black and white
these also being by Mr.. Deming For young
er people Mr.. Demings has prepared a most
novel book, entitled Indian Child Life"
consisting of eighteen pictures. In colors,
and thirty-seven in black and white, each
showing some Characteristic phase of the
life Of the interesting aborigines of this
country, whose manners and customs will
soon be a matter of history only, There
are to- be eighteen stories about
Indian children Of various tribes, telling
of their pets, and of the curious and re-
markable occupations and amusements of
their childhood. Dogs, bears, ponies, puma
kittens, tame crows, tame foxes and other
animals most interesting to children are
brought into many of the pictures and sto-
ries. Mr.. Deming lived for many years
in the tepees of the Indians and has, per-
haps, greater knowledge Of their life
than that possessed by any other living
artist. Such good judges as George Bird
Grinnell, himself an Indian chief, state that
Mr.. Deming's work in this field is of re-
markable truth and excellence
H. A. Dryden has written a realistic
historical novel. mainly of South Africa
at the time of the early Dutch occupation
This story of the forefathers of the Beers
will be of special interest at the present
time. 1t is entitled IAN Exiled Scot" and
has just been published by the New Am
sterdam Book Company.
What has long been much desired, new
edition of the works of Charles Reade, is
coming from the press OF Dana Estes &
Co. 1t is to be in sixteen volumes and
will be illustrated. For the last fifteen
years Reade has been an almost forgotten
author, save for that magnificent piece of
historical fiction, The Cloister and the
Hearth, 1t will be interesting to note the
reception which new generation of read
ers will give to such brilliant and absorb
ing novels as White Lies" Never Too
Late 70 Mend, - and Love Ne Little, Love
Me Long"
The complete novel in the New Lippin-
cott' for September is entitled THE Ouch
ess of Nona,'' by Maurice Hewlett This is
an Italian story of the days of Caesar Bor-
gia. young English girl of simple birth
ascends the ducal throne of Mona and Is
wretched in her rich surroundings. The
passion of an Italian lover brings on a
crisis. Mr.. Hewlett's handling of the plot
is said to be strong.
Fergus Hume in his latest novel, "The
Expedition of Captain Flick" just pub
lished by the New Amsterdam Book Com
pany, narrates the disappearance of an ISL
and in the Indian Ocean by means of
submarine earthquake and his account of
the adventures OF party of yachtsmen
interesting.
Jesse Lynch Williams, author OF ''The
Stolen Story" whose newspaper expert
ence made him familiar with the hooks and
corners of New York has written for the
October "Scribner" a description of ''The
Waterfront of New York; which is ac-
companied with a series of drawings by
the best artists, including McCarter. Peix-
otto, Guerin, and others. The frontispiece
will be printed in tint.
Messrs. A s. Barnes & Co., New York
announce for immediate publication Prof.
John Phelps Fruits Mind and Art of Poa's
Poetry for students of American litera-
ture: also Mr.. Nicholas knights "Quanti
tive Chemical Analysis handbook for
practical chemists and students of chem |
istry. Mr.. Knight is professor of chemistry
in Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa.
Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.'S prelimi-
nary announcements for the autumn in
clude some twenty-five volumes In the
Beacon biographies they will issue Mrs
James T. Fields Life of Hawthorne; q
Life of Thomas Paine, by Ellery Sedg-
wick; of John Brown. by Joseph Edgar
Chamberlin; of Aaron Burr by Henry
Childs Merwin; and of Frederick Douglass
by Charles w. Chesnutt-the volumes to
appear at intervals during the next three
months.
The list of verse includes ''Taliesin, by /
Richard Hovey the fourth in the series
of Arthurian dramas entitled "Launcelot
and Gueneyere;" plain Talk by Ernest
Howard Crosby; 'The House of a Hun
dred Lights" by Frederic Ridgely Tor