The Saint Paul globe., 1900-11-04
REVIEWS OF NEN BOOKS
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE A GOOD
PUBLICATION
SOME WORKS OF FICTION
Literary Notes and Comment on "a
Number of the Magazines for
the Month of No
Vember.

The New Century library of Useful
knowledge" has just been issued by
Lee & Laird, Chicago. 1t consists of
I'VE volumes of miscellaneous informa-
ton that is intended for reference, for
education or for general information.
They are bound in full leather gilt, are
of convenient size and each page has an
Illustrated border in different color for
each volume.
One volume, Chambers handy Encyclo-
ped1a Britannica, is a condensation of
the larger work bearing that name The
information it contains was selected with
view of furnishing that knowledge
which is most frequently wanted. 1t is
concise and yet complete, and has all
the latest information.
The Universal Webster is the second
volume of the library. While much
smaller than many dictionaries. it con-
talns all the words in common English
use, including scientific and technical
terms which have found a frequent use
N the development of arts and science.
The Key is simple and the work con-
talns many words of recent format ton.
THE Home and Shop Mechanic tells
of the use of tools, building rules. and
tables, all about electricity ana it's ap-
pliance, rules for instruction Of engi-
peers, and many other details of nechan-
49, "ASNoN5 viii d S5iOSSdty u lGIIlS.
The fourth volume is "The Business
Manual" book that contains d vast
amount of information on penmanship,
writing every day law, social forms
for speaking sen different occasions, and
much other matter of the same kind,
The fifth volume IS THE Priceless Re
c1pes.' This Is divided into seven de-
partments. That Of the. druggist, the
chemist, toilet articles, all trades, the
Iarm and dairy and miscellaneous gem
eral miscellany. The work represents
twenty years of collecting on the part
of the author. The compier's aim was
to furnish recipes and formulas for man.
ulactlrlng as many articles as possible.
used In the every day walks of life. The
whole pubhcation is along the line of re-
cent demands for less bulky and less ex-
penS1Ve books than many of the works.
OF general information recently issued.
1t is an ideal multum in parYo and it is
not too small either to reduce its value.
"a Royal Enchantress.''
"a Royal Enchantress," by Leo Charles
Dessar; Continental Publishing CONF
pany, New York. Price, so.
Judge Dessar, in the preface of his
book, informs us that a brief paragraph
of Gibbons Decline and Fail of the
Roman Empire" introduced him to Ca-s
hina, the beautiful Prop Queen of
the Berbers. 49,
The historians reference to this last
queen of the BerbeFs is of the briefest
kind, but sufficiently. suggestive and in
spiring to induce Judge Dessar to make
exhaustive research for authora tive data
of her reign. Cahina. Prophetess-Q Queen
of the Berbers, during the latter half of
the seventh century united all Northern
Africa into one great kingdom, and then
rather than yieid it up to the invading
Moslems, instigated the greatest con-
Migration Of the world, a confagration
which made of the beautiful fertile coun-
try she governed a desolate waste.
Historians meager accounts of Cahina
and her marvellous influence over her
subjects, made up Of Paeans, Jews ana
Christians, read like a romance, and
Judge Dessar in this story of her life
only departs enough from history 10
soften and beautify the harsher outlines
OF fact.