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BOOK NOTICES.

Morehead. j. S. Ogilvie Publishing
Company, 81 Rose street, New York.
limo, 1872 pages, illustrated Paper
Bernhard and Eleanora Duse having
based their latest plays upon the ia
nous love story or Francesca da Rim
mi, the publication of this ancient story
will be of interest to all patrons of
the drama, and to all readers who en-
joy fascinating and dramatic story
All the world loves a lover, and every
reader of F'rancesca's history will be-
come her ardent sympathzer Although
the story has received various represent
tations on both the dramatic and oper-
attic stages, this book contains the first
and only available version in narra-
tive form. The leading characters and
incidents are historical and have been
handed down to us, through the inter-
vening centuries, by the writings of
Dante and other ancient writer's.
Food for the Fat" by Nathaniel Ed
ward Yorke-D Davis, licentiate of the
Royal College of Physicians of London.
Cloth, rs cents. Brentano's Publishing
Department, Union Square, New York.
This little volume cannot be otherwise
than interesting to fat people. 1t deals
with corpulency in a scientific manner,
and points out how it may be gotten
rid of without injury to health. 1t con-
tains a large amount of valuable in
formation on the subject with which it
deals.
''Moser's Der Bibliothekar." Edited,
with notes and vocabulary, by William
A. Cooper, A. NJ, assistant professor
of German in the Leland Stanford
junior. University. Cloth, limo, 1877
pages. Price, As cents. American Book
company New York. The English YER
sion of this play, under its title of The
Private Secretary" has won a host of
friends in this country. There is no
local coloring, and hence it is easy OF
comprehension by American pupils. It's
genuine humor stimulates the students
interest in the text, and it has proved
a favorite wherever used in schools.
"Daudet's Tartarin de Tarascon." Ed
tied, with notes and vocabulary, by C.
Fontaine S. es L., l.. en- D., Dewitt
Clinton High School, New York city.
Cloth, 12mo.. las pages. Price, As cents.
American Book Company, New York.
This edition of one of the most popu-
lar and widely known of Daudet's de-
lightful stories, presents the adventures
of the illustrious Tartarin in attractive
form for school use. All the passages
that did not seem suitable for the
class room have been eliminated, and
the needs of teachers and pupils have
been kept constantly in view.
ovo in TIC w
Aiken, No 300, Appleton's Town and
Country Library limo. Cloth $1O0;
paper, so cents. D. Appleton & Co,
New York, publishers. The impression
made by this book, which marks the
authors first appearance, is shown by
the comparisons with Barrie and Ian
Maclaren made by English reviewers
who have seen the advance sheets. A
vivid imagination and command of
humor and of pathos are shown in
these idyllic pictures of Scottish life,
and the characters which appear
throughout are constantly effective
and delightful.
Spindle and Plough" by Mrs. Hen
ry Dudeney. Dodd, Mead & Co., pub
fishers, S72 Fifth avenue, New York.
Cloth $3.50. Mrs. Dudeney never writes
a commonplace story in a common
place way. The heroine of her new
story, Shalsha Pilgrim, is landscape
gardener by profession, with a. nature
that demands some master passion.
Mrs. Dudeney is considered by some
the equal of Thomas Hardy, as she
is his literary congener. She is not
q pessimist-though she draws some
gloomy pictures-her humor amuses
and delights, and her work as a whole
shows an extraordinarily sympathetic
understanding of the human heart.
Three Bells" by Margaret A. Rich
ard. Columbia S. C. From the author,
70 cents. The little brochure of
verse, now in its second and revised
edition, tells the story of three bells
that play a very important part in a
great many lives-the church bell, the
dinner bell, and the COW bell. To one
with poetic Imagination the tfipartite
subject Of these bells Is sufficient in
spiration to a song of devotion, of hope
and of pastoral scenes. Miss Rich
ards song is in three cantos; first of
the old church bell, then Of the glad
dinner bell, and last OF the bell that
'dangled ground the neck of a COW
whose name was Speck." There is
resonance and timbre in the tone of
each bell, which cannot fail to be APP
preciated by the sympathetic reader.
1.-The Leopards's Spots, A Romance
of the White Mans Burden-1SS5-1900 b"
by Thomas Dixon. Jr. Illustrated by 4
C. d. williams. Doubleday. Page &
Co, publishers, New York. Cloth, $3.50.
90 in, .
becomes apparent that the story is a
study of the race question. In recent
years there have been many solutions
Of this question offered 10 the public,
but none of them has been wholly sat
isfactory. Mr.. Dixon. the author of
this volume, is well equipped for the