The record-union., 1899-08-18
SOME new BOOKS.
NUGGETS'-"YALE
NS'-"ROSALBA."

History of American Coinage
military Belle"-"In the Klon-
dike"-"Agatha Webb Etc.
Patriotic Nuggets is a pocket vol
ume compiled by John r. Howland
from the sayings and writings of Wash
ington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Webster and
Beecher. 1t is the first of series under
the quoted title, published by Fords,
Howard & Hubert, New York. The
little book, with some others of similar
character to follow. was suggested, the
publishers tell us, by the popular sue
| cess last fall of Don't Worry Mug
GETS" containing extracts from Epic
tetus, Emerson, George Eliot ana
Browning, compiled by Miss Jeanne G.
Pennington. If the others-to be en-
titled Educational Nuggets" and
'Philosophic Nuggets'-are as we'll Sc
lected and full of pith and moment as
these, the little series will deserve sue
cess. Certainly the Patriotic Mug
gets" offers a peculiarly suggestive,
readable and useful compend of great
| historic thoughts from the greatest
| Americans, who won their fame in
making the history which their words
record.
| From Rand, McNally & Co., Chi
cago, we have a very neat volume, "A
Manual of Parliamentary Law" by
10 TO Of
| the House. 1t is not only a setting
forth Of rules but a series of argu-
ments why they are rules. The reason
is given in about every case why the
rule is what it is. It is a valuable
book; it is, indeed, a treatise and about
| the best we have seen upon the i'm
portant subject.
yale Yarns is collection of anec-
dotes of college and university life, wit
| sentiment and humor. 1t is by John
| Seymour Wood and is No 81 of the
| Hudson Library series issued BIZ
monthly by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York. 1t is freely illustrated The
stories are crisp and full of merry
spirit.
'Rosalba" is a novel by Olive Pratt
| Rayner 1t is No. 80 of the Hudson
Library series issued every other
month by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York. 1t is the story of an Italian
girl and her development. 1t is pos
sessed of sustained interest; the plot
| is strong, but not at all sensational It
involves the life of a woman of strong
dramatic talent and is amusing as well
as entertaining in the revelation of her
ideas of what English speaking people
| are.
"a Military Belle" is the title of a
novel, octave muslin boards, from the
press of F. Tennyson Neely, New York.
1t is by Henry Clinton Parkhurst of the
Sixteenth Iowa Infantry. The author,
a relative of Stonewall Jackson, and
himself a veteran of Shermans army,
is at home with martial themes. The
tale opens and ends in New York City.
| The heroine, a wealthy and beautiful
girl, impulsive by nature and highly
adventurous, though slightly eccentric
at the outset, is nevertheless moved by
mental force and imbued with lofty
ideas of duty and honor A somewhat
warlike achievements leads her to form
romantic attachment for an old and
disappointed military genius-an Off
Ger of the regular army. Despite the
opposition of apprehensive friends she
marries him, and leaves for the wilds
of the far West Immediately before
the breaking out of the Black Hawk
war In the course of the narrative,
L, e L
American nation for seventy years-is
a picture of the transition of the Ohio
and Mississippi Valleys from savagery
and immemorial wildness to civiliza-
ton. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, ST. Louis
and other cities, in embryo, are truth
fully depicted The heroine visits Chi
cago when it contains fifty people, and
revisits it when it has l, 100000. She
has startling adventures on the prairies
of Illinois, and in the primeval pine
woods of Wisconsin, and is even
wounded in battle with Indians. Abra-
ham Lincoln, General Scott, Andrew
Jackson, Black Hawk, Keokuk and
other celebrated Americans figure in
the tale The privations and the ter
rors of garrison life on the old from
tier; the treacherous peculiarities of IN
dian warfare; the strain and suspense
of continual danger, are delineated with
clearness. The story is full of activities
and there is no drag in the procession
of it's adventures and the observations
of the heroine. 1t is not notable lit
erary work but it possesses very novel
interest and is largely historic and Is
rich in information.
A large, finely printed and well illus
trated volume is 1.-TWO Women in the
Klondike," by Mary E. Hitchcock, press
of G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.
The work is of far more than passing
interest 1t bears the evidences of
truth upon it's face, and is apparently
devoid of aggeration-indeed, the
truth as here told is sufficiently ro-
mantle and tragic. Mrs. Hitchcock,
the author of the volume, is the widow
of the late Commander Roswell D.
Hitchcock, II. S. N. She was accom-
panied to the Klondike by Miss Edith
Van Buren,, grand niece of President
Van Buren, and daughter of General
Van Buren, late United States Consul
General to Japan. The volume pre-
sents the record of a journey under
taken in the summer of 1898. The
travellers first took steamer at San
Francisco for ST. Michael The Yu-
kon River was unusually low at this
season, and several of the regular pas