The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-16

tion at this point in the learners pro-
gress, and will prove valuable access
cry to pupils beginning to read Latin.
"Muzzarellis Brief French Course"
prepared in conformity with the New
Laws of Syntax promulgated by the
French government, March IL, 1901, by
Antoine Muzzarelli, officer d'Academie.
Cloth, limo, 1874 pages. Price. SIPS.
American Book Company, New York
This work is prepared on the same
general lines as the authors we'll
known and popular two-volume Acad-
emic French Course and aims at clear
ness combined with completeness and
thoroughness. The grammatical topics
discussed have been wisely chosen, and
all matters of primary Importance are
fully treated. The exercises in reading
and writing French furnish abundant
practice on all points of syntax. 1t has
the distinction of being the first text
book to conform in all respects to the
radical reform Incorporated in the new
laws of syntax officially promulgated
by the minister of public instruction of
the French Republic, on March II, 1901.
1.-THE Great Success" by John Gra-
y,
publishers, and East Sixteenth
street, New York. Cloth, $3.50. In
this volume we have the story of a
man of high ideals battling to sustain
these against the lust for wealth and
the love of luxury, which dominate the
world. An unusual and a striking char
acter he had made this hero, a man
| high pitched, of endless ambition,
strong mind great determination, and
yet, human withal He has launched
| him in the profession of journalism,
| and has carried him forward from a
| beginner in the field of reporting to
| be the editor and owner of the most
| powerful and most popular of the
| newspapers of New York Strange as
] 1t may seem, tn eauthor has chosen
| the vehicle of love to be the undoing of
his hero-and there will be readers
who will feel that he has not been
| quite fair to the woman, and that the
| unpleasant end was not necessarily OF
| her making. However, it is a good
story, one that maintains it's interest
| from the first page to the last, and
| leaves a sense of having been worth
| while when it is read and done with.
THE Lady of Lynn" by Sir Walter
Besant. Dodd. Mead & Co., publishers.
| $40 Fifth avenue, New York. Cloth
$780, The Lady of Lynn is a young
! heiress, whose fortune far exceeds tn,
| amount usually acquired, in the middle
| of the eighteenth century, by mer-
chants and shipowners, the class to
which her father had belonged. During
her long minority, it had been the aim
| of her guardian, Capt. Crowle, to keep
| the knowledge of his wards wealth ii
secret, that she might not fall prey
| to fortune hunters; his ambition is to
marry her to a young man of family
| and position, considering the young
| men of the town quite unfit to be
trusted with so much money or SC
amiable a wife. Samuel Semple, a
young man of Lynn, is discovered by
the captain in an attempt to make love
| to his ward and is soundly cudgelled
| for it. In revenge for this indignity, he
enters into a conspiracy with a certain
noble lord-a ruined gambler and d
| profiigate of the worst kind-to marry
the heiress in spite of her guardian,
| with the avowed intention of dissipat =
| ing her fortune and making her life
| miserable The conspiracy is carried
| out apparently with success; Semple
reveals his true character and leaves
! bis bride almost at the church door; he
| dissipates a large portion of his de-
| serted wife'S fortune, but the remain
| der is saved and the girl herself is
| finally rescued from the clutches of her
worthless husband.
American Trotting and Pacing
Horse" by Henry T. Coates. Henry
T. Coates & Co.. Philadelphia, publish
ers. Cloth, 81. Lovers of trotting and
pacing horses will find much in this
volume to interest them. In IL they will
see the pedigrees of famous horses,
useful hints, suggestions and opinions
on training and conditioning compiled
from various sources; also rules for
track laying, etc. The volume is illus
trated and the style is very attrac-
tive.
1.-THE Composite Man as Comprehend
ed in Fourteen Anatomical Impersona-
TONS" by E. H. Trott, A. NJ. NJ D.,
LII. D.; illustrations by DIR. Frederick
Fl. Williams. No one who reads this
book can fail to be benefited. The
facts are presented so attractively and
yet so interestingly that. the attention
of the reader is held closely from the
beginning to the end of the volume.
Mere anatomical and physiological
facts, as a rule, are dry and meaning
less things, but the true story of the
human tissues can he made more fas-
chatting that the best of novels. DR..
Pratt has made his work more enter
tanning than novel.
1.-THE American Jewish Year Book,
1862, September, 1901, to Oct 1, 1902, D."
edited by Lyons Adler. The Jewish
Publishing Society, 1915 Arch street,
Philadelphia. p. o. Box 1854. The vol
ume of the Jewish Year Book is well
understood. This is the third issue,
and differs from it's predecessors in that
no space is devoted to directories, and
in laying special stress upon the his
tory of the Jews in Roumania. The
number is a very interesting one and
contains a great deal of valuable in
formation.
Magazines,
The Literary Era for September has