New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-03

in letters from many OF the most famous people OF
this century.
A USEFUL PRESENT.
In Salads Sandwiches and Chatting Dish Dam
ties" Janet Mackenzie Hill has aimed to make
practical and reliable treatise on these fascinating
branches OF the culinary art. Due attention has
been given 10 the A B OF the subjects and great
care exercised 10 meet the actual needs OF those
who wish to cultivate taste for palatable and
most capricious appetites The Illustrations show
the artistic effects that may be produced ~ various
combinations o. simple materials.
The Sword OF Justice is romance by Sheppard
Stevens in which he deals with the events described
by Parkman in the first portion OF Pioneers OF
France in the New World beginning with the
and ending with its ayenging by Dominique De
Gourgues. The author follows history with &C
Under. Three. Flags in Cuba" IS by Captain
George Clarke Musgrave VINO was tormefy an OF
correspondent for prominent English paper,
capped death several times. He describes lie in the
Cuban Spanish and American camps with the
authority OF an eye witness
CHILDREN PROVIDED FOR.
Little, Brown & Co. have not neglected the boys
and girls. "A Flower OF the Wilderness" by A G.
Plympton. is a story OF Massachusetts in the old
Colonial days. The author has embodied in the
story much valuable information for young people
regarding the fauna and fora OF New-England.
with Fife and Drum at Loulsbourg." illustrated by
Clyde o. De Land, and written by ]. Macdonald
Oxley opens with an account Of Boston In Colonial
times. The chapters devoted to the expedition
against Louisbours give the writer a chance 10
The Iron Star" a wonder story FOR girls
and boys is the work OF Mr.. and Mrs John Preston
True. respectively, as author and illustrator. II
aims TO give children series OF historical stories
so connected as to suggest the growth OF civil
Trough ' the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages to
the days OF Myes standish and by thus bridging
book 10 awaken In their minds taste for historical
reading 1t accomplshes this by following the
Say which are assumed TO have been handed
down from father to son Tor century after century
beginning In myth and ending in history.
MUCH NEW VERSE.
Little Brown g. Co.'S list is rich in verse. II In
cludes 'Voices" new volume OF sonnets by kath-
arine Coolidge; ''Out OF the Nest. new volume
OF poems by Mary Mcneil Fenoliosa; The Night
Has a Thousand Eyes" lyric by F. W. BourdIl-
lon Illustrated: selections from Keats and Shelley,
illustrated with sixteen original designs by Ed
mund H. Garrett; Elizabethan songs in honor OF
love and beauty collected and illustrated by Ed
m TnS a. and Uniform with it. victorian Songs
lyrics OF the affections ana nature also coiise,ed
Prominent among the firms new editions OF Of
Memoirs OF Aiphonse Daudet." newly ira slated
by katharine Prescott Wormeley. Charles De Nay,
Jane Minot sedewick and others printed n clear
pieces. Novels OF Irish LIE" new series o.
Charles Levers famous stories, illustrated with
numerous fun page plates by Hablot X. Browne
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'fThe Coincide Humane" OF Honore de BalZac.
translated BY Katharine Prescott Wormeley, and
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Mot Georges CAIN Adrien Moreau, George Roux
Desrousseaux. Girardet Maxlmllenne Gqlyon. Al
bert Fourie Jules Meunler Gustave Bourgain
Duez Outin and others.
In The field OF biography besides those already
Mentioned there ia "a Study OF Elizabeth Bar
rett Browning" by Lillian Whiting For TWO
summers Miss Whiting lived In Florence. an'a 'ho