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NEW BOOKS.


the author and attracted new atten-
tion to her earlier works, which were
already distinguished and which are
so few that they are all likely ID be
greedily devoured.
The alessrs. ID. Appleton & Co. pub
lish a new edition Of Diana Tempest"
with a fine portrait and an interesting
and instructive bioBraphical sketch IF
Miss Cholmondeley. III liz with Diana
Tempest" that reviewers have taken
occasion 10 compare Red Pottage.' IL
was Miss cholmondeley's third book
and was of rather more Importance
than the two ventures that had
preceded II. occupying as II did more
than three years in the writing. The
Danvers' Jewels" had already created
demand for anoth r book from the
same pen, although this was published
anonymously. The Appletons origin
ally published LLAMA e Tempest In
their Town and Country Library, where
so many excellent books have been
born. II was No. i2S. 1t attracted at
tention at the time Ior its brilliancy,
cleverness and skilfulness I'm depicting
human nature. The new edition is
handsomely bound i'm red buckram.
CFor sale by Gregory. Price $l.50)
GARTHOWEN, by Allen Raine:-
"Garthowen" is No 2SS In Apple
tons Town and Country Library. Like
other novels OF this author il is
story of Welsh life and character. In
"Garthowen. with few comparatively
unimportant English exceptions, all the
characters are distinctly and unmis-
takably Welsh. and the types thus pre-
Sented in rapidly moving succession
of Interesting and often highly dramat-
&c incidents are such as the reader will
admire and hold in pleasurable remem-
hV l.. a II.
81: paper 90 cents.)
THE LUNA1IC AP LARGE, by ].
Storer Clouston:-
A novel to laugh over all the way
through is "The Lunatic at Large"
which is No. 2S4 i'm Appleton's Town
and Country Library. 1t appears that
young physician gets a commission to
travel on the Continent with rich
young fellow who is mentally un-
sound. He does not take kindly to the
job and an adventurous friend sets Up
a scheme by which the lunatic is
placed In an asylum and the young
physician and his friend go abroad to
enjoy the money. The story has TO do
with the subsequent adventures OF the
lunatic who proves TO be a remarkably
smart fellow. He escapes from the asy-
lum and has royal good time himself
after a fashion that is bound to prove
highly amusing to the reader. 1t is a
brisk. bright and exceedingly funny
book. Cor sale by Gregory. Price, cloth,
81; paper, so cents.)
The current issue OF "The Dial" is
the twentieth anniversary number ofs
that admirable literary periodical date
of May /. In place of the usual book
notices this anniversary number pre-
sents "A series of articles dealing with
the developments i'm literature and the
aspects OF culture that are encompass
ed by the two decades of The Dial's ex-
istence. Authoritative and altogether
excellent articles on literature, pub
fishers and publishing, booksellers and
booksellng. American libraries. Amer
lean periodicals, etc, as surveyed for
twenty years back are readable and
greatly informing. Not the least inter-
esting Is the sketch provided of the
life. works and ambitions of The Dial
itself for this period. Although. origin
ally founded in connection with the
publishing house of Mcclure in Chica-
go. and since 1892 being independent Of
any connection. the rpen who have
made The Dial and the men who con-
troll. edit and manage it today are the
same that started il. Naturally por-
ton OF this imposing issue Is reserved
to make room for the tributes of many
friends on the completion of the tweri-
tieth birthday.
Harpers Bazaar in its new form pre-
sents a radical change in appearance
from the long familiar weekly newspa-
per effect. The new Bazaar is hand
some magazine Of sixty-four large
pages, exclusive of advertising sheets,
each page divided INTO two broad coll
umns of reading. The illustrations are
as large as those with which readers
are FAMILIAR i'm the o.. Bazaar with the
exception. OF course OF the former full
page fashion figures Many of the IL
Illustrations occupy full pages in the
magazine and look exceedingly hand
SOME and showy. The cover design Is
effective and artistic. The leader in the
new number is the first paper in a Sc
ries devoted to- "Heroines in Nineteenth
Century Fiction" written by William