Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-23
NEW BOOKS And MAGAZINES
New and Interesting Works of Fact and
Fancy for Summer.
SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR HOLIDAYS
Telling story of American MINIS and
Coinage of Gold and siIycr-ItaIian
Boys Book Translated Into Eng
lish-Great story of Crime.

last presidential election, and a vast ma
jority OF voters discovered that they would
have to do a great amount of reading-up
before they could understand the subject
In all it's phases. A demand sprang up al
most Immediately for works on the subject,
but 1t was not to be expected that books
issued during a political campaign could
be free from bias or authoritative. Conse-
quently the great majority Of the books
on money and finance published during the
last two years are not likely to be of any
permanent value. A work OF an entirely
different character and one that bids fair to
be of value to the seeker after Information
is History OF American Coinage" by David
X. Watson. The author divides the history
OF gold and silver coinage in the United
States into six periods. The first embraces
the time from the erection Of a mint by
the colony OF Massachusetts in 1862 to the
adoption of the federal constitution in 1888.
The second period dates from 1889 to 1884,
when the country had the double standard
of gold and silver and all coins were full
legal tender, and the mint was open to the
free and unlimited coinage. of each metal
at the weight and ratio established by the
act of 1892. The third period was from 1884
TO 1853. The coinage of gold during this
period was at the reduced weight OF the
pure gold in the gold coins, as fixed by the
act OF 1884, which brought the ratio to Is
to /. In practical effect this period marks
the first transition from the double to the
single standard. The fourth period was
from 1853 to 1873. The act of 1853 reduced
the weight of the subsidiary silver coins and
limited their coinage to the pleasure Of the
government, and limited their legal tender
power to So, but the silver dollar was not
affected by the act. The fifth period was
from 1873 to 1878, during which time no
silver dollars were coined and the subsidiary
coins were limited in legal tender power to
S.. From 1878 to 1898 constitutes the sixth
period. During this time the important
acts OF 1879, 1890 and 1893, and the act OF
1898, which directed the coinage OF not less
than 1,5OO, 900 silver dollars per month was
passed. These different periods are taken
I'D one after the other and the various laws
passed by congress explained. The author
disclaims any desire to have his book re-
garded as a treatise on existing relations
between gold and silver in the United States,
but rather as a general history OF American
coinage. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
"The Market Place. by Harold Frederick,
has been out but a short time. but a sec
ond edition has already been demanded.
Though in a different field, 1t is thought
by many readers to be quite as strong a
novel as 1.-THE Damnation of Theron Ware.
1t is the story Of a financial scheme IN Lon
don, suggested evidently by the recent dis
closures in the Hooley scandals. rms is MI.
Frederick's posthumous romance. IN IL may
be discerned more or less distinctly several
well known characters Of the English f1nan-
cial world, although placed on other than
their own particular environment. IN
doubtedly the great Rubber King was IN
spired by the personality of the late Mr..
Barney Barnato, but instead OF possessing
South African diamond mines, this aoVen-
turer of finance has a rubber plantation IN
Central Mexico. The Rubber King comes
to London to exploit 1t, and there are IN
troduced the many and varied phases III
the life of a London stockjobber, as well
as that of the great spectators. Inc crush
and the crime of finance and speculation aie
pictured witt startling effects. The hero Is
whirled into the vortex Of gambling anu
debt. and is almost led to commit murder.
Then the romance asserts itself upon tue
scene and redeems him before 1t Is TOO iate'
One of the most realistic efects OF the
book is the establishment OF one OF the MOCK
boards OF stalking horses necessitateo ny
the British law for stockjobbing concerns
which is made up of colossal, purchasable
figureheads of nobility. This strongly re-
minds the reader of the Hooley concern
about which all England was talking LOT
the last year. The strength of the story Is
in the delineation of the characters, ana IN
genious manner in which the scheme Is
wrought to success. Frederick A. Stokes
Co, New York. $3.50.
The latest literary work in which
Sir Edwin Arnold has been engaged
ia a translation Of the famous FER
sian classic, "The Gulistan,' winch toi
over 600 years has been considered
-. .ra,IJ', r,ncfarDiappS. the au-
thor of ''The Gulistan" was a celebrated
Persian sage, Shaikh Sa'di of Shiraz, VINO
was born about 1884 A. ID. and died In l2S4
at the age Of 40 years. having devoted al
most his entire life to philosophy, poetry
and travelling. Leaving home when ohi.
~ years old, he pursued his education al
the famous madrasah OF Bagdad' wnere Ii.
remained for over thirty years. Then a,
the age of AZ he entered upon the per1oc
of his wanderings, and Travelled through
India. Arabia, and Africa for twenty-five
wears. until with full knowledge OF men anc
affairs he returned to Shiraz. where he re-
tired to a charming garden outside the sape'
of the city, and devoted himself to the com
position of his tales and verses 'lhe Hui
istap' is a collection OF proverbial tales IN
terspersed with verses and anecdotes OF I'M
general theme. "Sir Edwin Arnold descltpe'
n as a sort of intellectual pillaw; a literar!
curry, a kabab of versatile genius, wher'
grave and gay, humor and wisdom laugh
ter and tears are threaded together on TN
skewer of wit, and spiced by a soft world
illness gentle stoicism that make the disi
Irresistible, however, faded the mental ap
petite" Harper & Brothers, New YORK
Cloth 81.
One must comprehend Mr.. Clarence fooR
point OF view before venturing to take pleas
,re out of "The Hooligan Nights or I
coudemn 1t. He Is a realist who consider
that whatever ne sees in life he mas a rign
20 set down and distribute promiscuousiy
let the morals be what they may. Grantih
the truth OF this, the book is a perfectl
justihable production, and shows Its autho
10 be a man of considerable power with IN
pen. Mr., Rock declares that thls "orf
with the strange title, is not a novel; or J
any sense, a work OF the imaginatioS
Hoolipan is a London burglar, and the mai
character is a young thief, All by name