"John Strange Winter" has continued her barrack stories with the same characters introduced in Bootle's Baby. Her next, to be issued as a Christmas annual, is Mignon's Secret, the story of a barrack bairn. G. Manville Fenn, a most prolific writer of sen sational stories, has now ready a new book for boys, Yussuf the Guide, being the strange story of the travels in Asia Minor of Burne, the lawyer; Preston, the professor, and Lawrence, the sick. The accomplished tragedian, James Anderson, has, since his retirement from the stage, been engaged in odd moments upon a volume of reminiscences. It is now ready for the printer, and will be published by Chas. Scribner's Sons, under the title Seven Decades of an Actor's Life On and Off the Stage. Harriet Stewart Miner, author of The Royal Family of Orchids, that appeared last year, has illustrated and arranged The Voices of the Flowers, being colored representations of many flowers with appropriate poetical selections from the poems of Shakespeare, Longfellow, Moore and Whittier. Each author is treated in a separate book. A bridal-gift edition of How to be Happy Though Married, is announced. It would be very handy for a bride to have hung upon a nail like a cook-book, so that if she should have any misunderstanding with her husband, she could refer to the index for the recipe, showing the proper course to pursue. Of all persons, the bride resents advice most. Hon. J. S. Morrill chose a novel and interesting phase of human nature in his consideration of characters, which are thrown into the sunlight of fame by superiority in mental or physical endowments, and the retroversive effect of such elevation upon the character. The title Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons, is apt and fitting. Madame Mariana Monteiro, who has, with patriotic feeling, devoted herself for years to the study and rescue from oblivion of the legends and traditions of her native country, the Basque provinces, has combined the rich material thus collected into a book to be issued at an early date in London, under the title of Legends and Popular Tales of the Basque People. There will also be printed an edition de luxe, limited to one hundred copies, printed on hand-made paper and bound in buckram. 66 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."-LORD BACON. An edition de luxe, revised and enlarged, of Sonnets of this Century, with an essay on the Sonnet by W. Sharp, will be issued this season in England. Darley's illustrations to Longfellow's Evangeline have been issued in a cheap edition, with all the beauty of the originals preserved by the phototype process. What promises to be a sumptuous edition of Rosetti's Blessed Damosel will be issued by Dodd, Mead & Co. Kenyon Cox will illustrate it with original designs in oil. A very pretty gift-book for the holidays will be an illustrated edition of T. Buchanan Read's famous poem The Closing Scene. It will contain twenty-five choice pictures from the best artists and engravers. Tennyson's Dora has just been issued by Lee & Shepard, in a small quarto, with dainty illustrations from special sketches made in England expressly for this work, comprising many charming bits of English landscape and rural life. Mrs. M. G. Van Renssalaer's Book of American Figure Painters, ready shortly, will contain upwards of thirty photogravures of the best specimens of American art, printed on fine plate-paper; the price is set at $25. Owen Meredith's The Earl's Return is to be issued in a handsome edition for the holidays. It will be illustrated with drawings by W. L. Taylor, reproduced by photo-etchings, printed in appropriate colors, and wood-engravings with tinted margins. A dainty edition of Scott's Christmas in the Olden Time has been issued by Cassell & Co. The illustrations are surrounded by a light, marginal background in brown, on some subject allied to the picture and symbolical or representative of it. The seasons have always been productive subjects for the pencil and brush of the artist. A Boston firm will publish Summer, by John T. Trowbridge, with illustrations by Cominski in photogravure. Winter, a photo-etching of Aubert's work, on etching paper, will be published by White, Stokes & Allen. Frederick Barnard's Character Sketches from Thackeray will consist of six new and original drawings reproduced from photogravure, on Indian paper. The subjects are, The Little Sister, Becky Sharp, Colonel Newcombe, Major Pendennnis, Capt. Cositigan and Major Dobbin. A new library edition of the Waverly novels will be issued by J. B. Lippincott & Co., corresponding to their Ashburton Carlyle. Two volumes are to be issued each month. Mr. V. A. Porson, who illustrated Gulliver's Travels last season, has been at work for some time in preparing a new edition of The Vicar of Wakefield, all the illustrations, more than one hundred in number, will be beautifully colored; Geo. Saintsbury will write the prefatory memoir. The Song of Songs will be issued by the J. B. Lippincott Co. in a superb edition, limited to five hundred copies. The illustrations will consist of twenty-six full page original etchings from designs by Bida, etched by Edmond Hédouin and Emil Boilvin, and 12 culs-de-lampes from designs by Gustave Greux. A superb edition of Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel has been issued by Ticknor & Co., under the supervision of Mr. A. V. S. Anthony, who has shown himself capable of fine work in Lucile, Marmion, and Lady of the Lake. The drawings are the work of Harper, Garrett, Myrick, Merrile and Ipsen, the latter having done many of the appropriate head and tail pieces. Of Foreign Etchings, a collection of twenty original etchings, by celebrated artists of France, Germany and England, but three hundred and fifty copies will be issued. Among the artists represented are Unger, Leibl, Paul Rajon, Klaus, Woernle, in their productions from paintings by Rembrandt, Vecchio, Titian, Bonnat, Muncaczy and Max, with biographical matter and descriptive text by S. R. Koehler and others. Lovers of Celia Thaxter's poems will appreciate Idyls and Pastorals, a collection of twenty-four of her original poems, illustrated by an equal number of photogravures by Kate Greenaway, Howard Pyle, W. T. S. Medley, E. H. Garrett, Jessie C. Shepard, Childe Hassam, Joseph Pennell and others. Twenty-five dollars will purchase one copy of the white calf edition, embossed in imitation of antique carved ivory. The fiftieth anniversary of the Pickwick Papers will be celebrated by a jubilee edition containing illustrations of many places mentioned in Pickwick, which the march of progress of London has changed, obliterated or modified past recognition. Brief notes are given in further explanation, to bring the scene of the novel correctly before the eyes of the reader. Chas. Dickens, Jr. will edit the work, to consist of two volumes, ready in November. Mrs. M. E. Blake's character poems on Youth in Twelve Centuries, originally published in Wide Awake, will be reproduced in an elegant edition. There will be twenty-four drawings of youthful race types and national costumes, of both sexes, from Egyptian times 1500, B.C., early Chinese, Grecian, Roman, then modern European and colonial-American, reproduced by photogravure prints in twelve tones. canvas and emerald calf will make an exquisite binding. The silk MAGAZINE BRIEFS. W. D. Howells will contribute a farce entitled "The Mouse-Trap" to the Christmas number of Harper's. The Health Record is a new quarterly published at Corning, N. Y., devoted to popular enlightment upon medical subjects. Pres. Jas. McCosh, in the Princeton Review, discusses the place of realism in the various philosophic systems, ancient and modern. " A very interesting paper on the Rice-Fields of Carolina" appears in the Southern Bivouac, giving a picture also of rice culture in other parts of the world. Mr. M. N. Forney having purchased Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, it will hereafter be consolidated with the American Railroad Journal under the title The American Engineering Magazine and Railroad Journal. To announce and discuss the decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions, and the new discoveries in the history of the ancient kingdoms of the East, there will be begun in England, in November, a magazine to be known as The Babylonian and Oriental Record. It is only of recent years that the marvellous effect of oil on troubled waters has been practically shown. By the use of half a gallon of oil, a lane of smooth water can be made in a few moments; in which safe retreat the vessel can ride in safety, with the tempest roaring round it. Mr. R. H. Thurston gives a very simple explanation, in the Forum, of this phenomenon, with startling stories of its wonders. Grant Allen does not do himself justice in the title, "Falling in Love," he has chosen for his last article in the Fortnightly. The title leads one to believe it is a pseudo-humorous picture of young lovers. It is not that, it is a calm, dignified and sensible plea, presented with well digested arguments, for more marriages for love and mutual regard, and fewer to oblige Mama, or to secure wealth, fame or opportunity for social conquest. Earthquakes have been quite popular this summer in many parts of the world. Was it the awful success of our Charleston catastrophe, or a sympathetic tremor running through the earth, that has caused the "quaking epidemic." Dr. Geikie, in the Contemporary Review, gives a striking picture of the terrible eruption in New Zealand and the desolation that has marked its course. In replying to Ouida's recent attack on woman suffrage, Mrs. Livermore, in the North American Review, treats her with indignant scorn and caustic touches that smart because they are just. Ouida's incompetency to fairly judge woman, is proven from her own words, self-convicted of the creation of a world of sin-loving puppets. "We easily forgive her attack on this reform," says Mrs. Livermore, "from sheer gratitude that the whim did not seize her to advocate it." Miss Gilder, Em'ly, Gath, The Norristown Herald Man, and one or two others, hold a mass-meeting in Lippincott's this month on the subject of journalism. The confessions are bright, entertaining, clever and pointed. They are deficient in dulness, usually characterizing symposia. Mr. Williams objects to being called the "funny man" of the Norristown Herald, because it makes people imagine every word a "funny man" utters should illuminate the room with its brilliancy. These poor people do not think of the humorist as a literary miner, who digs out every joke by hard labor and polishes it afterwards, so as to make it appear unpremeditated. They regard humor as a flowing stream of thought, kept on tap" like water, and ready to run on notice. 22 NEW SERIALS. The following comprises the serials begun in the magazines for America and England for OCTOBER, 1886. ..... Autumn in Mexico. By G. C. Connor. (Travel)..South. Biv. Early English Army, The...... Illust. Naval and Milit. Mag. ....London Society. (Descriptive)....... ...Brooklyn Magazine. Secret Inheritance, A. By J. L. Farjeon. (Fiction) Eng.Ill. Mag. Social Diplomat, A. By F. A. Darling (Fiction) Brooklyn Mag. Studies of Mountains. By E. Ingersoll. (Science)....Chaut. JESTIONS See The Dream by Lord Byron, second stanza, thirtieth line. The lady's name is not given, probably she was some golden memory of the poet's youth. 36. What works on tableaux can you recommend? CLEVELAND, O. A CLIQUE, Artistic Tableaux, with text by Josephine Pollard, illustrated by Walter Satterlee, price 50 cents. Frost's Book of Tableaux, a collection of tableaux, vivants and shadow pantomimes, with stage instructions for costuming, grouping, etc., price 50 cents. 37. In the Humbler Poets, I find a poem on page 160, entitled The Constant Friend, commencing"Human hopes and human creeds Have their root in human needs." It seems to be a fragment. Can you tell me where I can find it complete, and the name of the author? SUBSCRIBER. ROCKBRIDGE, WEST VA. The lines given form the last stanza of The Washerwoman's Song, a very pretty poem that appeared in The Record of the Year for November, 1876. It is signed E. F. Ware, Fort Scott, Kansas. 38. Sometime since, in a conversation with Miss Mary Anderson (as reported in our daily papers), the Prince of Wales remarked that a particular passage in Mrs. Burnett's Through One Administration, was the finest bit of sentiment he had ever met with. The story goes that Miss Anderson, meeting Mrs. Burnett upon her return, endeavored to repeat the passage, but had forgotten it. Will some of your readers kindly give their opinions as to the particular passage referred to, as there seems to be great difference of opinion in regard to it. The books given under this heading comprise the principal books published during October. In the note, the idea has been to tell what the book is about, and the style in which it is written, rather than to give any criticism upon its merits. These brief, chatty outlines are in every instance the result of a careful reading and examination of each book by the editors of Book CHAT, and are not copied from other papers or reprinted from publishers' notices. Any book on this list sent postpaid, on receipt of price, by Brentano Bros., 5 Union Square, New York. ALL TAUT; or, RIGGING THE BOAT. By Oliver Optic.-The doings of the boys of Beech Hill Industrial School, and the opposition to them by the followers of young Tom Topover, make up the sum of "All Taut." The gradual winning over of the Topovers shows the effect of correct discipline, and brings about a more pleasant understanding. Much of the time of the boys is taken up with boating matters and the adventures incident thereto.-Lee & Shepard, 1.25 ANCIENT AMERICAN POLITICS. By Hugh J. Hastings. A series of papers on the politics of America, from the adoption of the Constitution to the exciting election period of 1840. It is a popular view, giving in a pleasant anecdotal and partly reminiscent tone much interesting information of noted persons and politicians of the nation's youth.Harper's,.30 ANCIENT CITIES. From the Dawn to the Daylight. By Rev. William Burney Wright.-A sketch of noted cities of Bibles times, each of which represented the life and habits of some class or sect, or whose history appears to illustrate pointedly some utterances of Christ, throwing light on many places in the Bible narrative. The cities given are: Ur, Ninevah, Babylon, Memphis, Alexandria, Petra, Damascus, Tyre, Athens, Rome, Samaria, Susa, Jerusalem and New Jerusalem. -Harper's, 1.25 BOOK OF ELOQUENCE. By Chas. Dudley Warner.A collection of extracts in prose and verse from the most famous orators and poets; intended as exercises for declamation in colleges and schools. The work is divided into American eloquence, European eloquence, ancient and modern, and miscellaneous selections of poetry-Lee & Shepard, 1.50 A BOSTON GIRL'S AMBITION. By Virginia F. Townsend.-Ambitions of girls run in many directions, but the ambition of Dorrice Dacres placed education as its high ideal, whether solely because she was a Boston girl, or not, we do not know. The affectionate trials and struggles of Dorrice and her brother, and the sacrifices that love made it a pleasure for her to make, are pleasantly and happily told.-Lee & Shepard, 1.50 THE BOY'S BOOK OF FAMOUS RULERS. By Lydia Hoyt Farmer, author of "The Story of Science."-Around the lives of some of the world's most famous rulers is grouped the events and characteristics of the times in which these men were such powerful formative causes. It is a most entertaining combination of history and biography, giving, in a series of graphic tableau presentations, such an outline of the history of the nations, that interest and study are stimulated thereby.Crowell, 1.50 THE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS. ALESHINE. By Frank R. Stockton.-The ocean adventures of Mr. Craig and his two rather elderly protegées is told with a simplicity, directness and honest candor, that exhibits a most delicate and sympathetic humor, by the presentation of a trio that acted so natural, easy and unconcerned, in time of danger. Their Robinson Crusoe existence as boarders on the lonely isle is original and clever.-Century Co., paper, .50; cloth, 1.00 CASTLE NOWHERE. By Constance Fenimore Woolson, author of " Anne."-Nine short sketches of life in the lake counties of the northwest, being bright pictures of rustic character and scenery. The stories originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Monthly, Harpers's Magazine, The Galaxy, and Appleton's Journal.-Harper's, 1.00 CHILDREN'S STORIES OF AMERICAN PROGRESS. By Henrietta Christian Wright.-Graphic stories of days of danger, trial and adventure, in the history of the nation, of the strides made by science in its onward march of invention and discovery, interesting data of territorial acquisition and of struggles against national enemies. The style is bright and colloquial, and the incidents presented give typical views of certain periods of our history.-Scribner's, 1.50 CHILDREN OF THE WEEK; being the honest and only authentic account of certain stories, as related by the Red Indian to Alexander Selkirk, jr., herein truthfully set down by W. T. Peters.-The personality of these characters needs to be noted. A. Selkirk, jun., was the fictitious name bestowed upon a little lame boy with silvery hair by a romantic young "saleslady" who makes three dollars a week selling remnants." In a moment of a charitable extravagence, she gives A. S., jr. one cent, with a Red Indian on it, and it is this savage who relates the story. There is much dainty wit, humor, and sharp observation in them.-Dodd, Mead & Co., 2.50 CHIVALRIC DAYS, AND THE BOYS AND GIRLS WHO HELPED TO MAKE THEM. By E. S. Brooks.Historic slories of heroic actions of the youth of by-gone days in ancient Thebes, Carthage, and Rome, and the modern cities of Europe. Opportunities for great heroism and grand chivalric acts fall to the lot of few, but the truest nobility is the spirit and capacity for great acts shown in trifles. An inspiring book for thoughtful young people.-Putnam's, 2.00 THE CHRISTMAS COUNTRY AND OTHER TALES. -By Mary J. Safford.-Many of these stories, gathered from German and Icelandic sources, have the magic wand of the fairies and the wonders of gnomes, yellow men, and princes, predominating. "The Butter-Maid of Zerbat" is a pretty story of the way in which two good women saved their town by buying the monoply of the butter-trade.-Crowell & Co. COMEDIETTAS AND FARCES. By John Maddison Morton.-Seven comediettas, by the author of " Box and Cox," written with a special view to private performance by amateurs, being admirably suited to the purpose, as but little or no scenery is required. In addition to the ever popular "Box and Cox," are given "First Come, First Served," Pepperpot's Little Pets," " After a Storm Comes a Calm," Express!" "Taken from the French," and "Declined with Thanks."-Harper's, .25 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. By F. M. Dostoyevsky.Raskolnikoff, a student of St. Petersburgh, brutally murders a miserly old female pawnbroker and usurer. His punishment was the frightful phantoms and awful terrors his tortured conscience brought before him, by day to hound his steps, and by night to haunt his dreams. It is a strong, forcible and realistic story.-Crowell & Co., r.50. THE CRUISE OF THE MYSTERY, AND OTHER POEMS. By Celia Thaxter, author of "Drift-Weed."-The initial poem, a strong imaginative narrative of a negro slave ship, haunted by its scores of victims, and condemed like the Wandering Jew to an eternal passage to and fro. Dainty chansons, songs of love and trust, watching and waiting, beauty of nature and her seasons, with outbursts of poetic thought and sentiment complete the volume.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.00 DICK'S COMIC DIALOGUES. Edited by W. B. Dick.Nearly a dozen and a half humorous dialogues for young folks that present their claims for recognition as being short, easy and full of fun, and dramatic situations, and with the least possible difficulties in regard to costume and scenery.-Dick & Fitzgerald, .30. DICK'S RECITATIONS NO. 16.-"The strike at the Forge," translated from Coppée, the opening selection is the most imporant one in the collection. The many new pieces are selected with care in order to secure brightness and opportunity for dramatic or humorous effect. Readers who prefer an effective monologue will find two new ones in this number that may be acted with success.-Dick & Fitzgerald, .30 DOLLARS OR SENSE? By Arthur Louis.-A bright, clever story of society life among the best people of England and America, giving the social life of a family containing three young American girls traveling abroad. In England they are cordially received by the most favored society, and are the belles of the season. To Constance the matrimonial dilemma was proposed-dollars or sense-marriage with a monied man without love, or with a loving man without money. And her decision solved the question.-Brentanos, 1.50 THE EVOLUTION OF A SNOB. By Thos. Sargeant Perry. From the protoplasmic germ of excessive humility and self-abasement, by careful education or plain, simple growth the snob evolves to the summit of his snobbishness and his servile worship of the little tin god, Wealth. In a pleasant easy way, the question to be solved is whether this quality is a constituent part of human nature or a temporary development arising from social conditions. Literature and the world supplies many apropros illustrations.-Ticknor, 1.00. FAMILIAR TALKS OR SOME OF SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES. By Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer.-Pleasant critical talks and comments on The Winter's Tale, The Tem pest, Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Much ado about Nothing, Twelve Nights, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, and Cymbeline. The author has found valuable hints now and then from previous commentators, and has skillfully woven them in with her own impressions, very happily carrying out the title "Familiar Talks."-Roberts Bros., 2.00 THE FAMILY. A Historical and Social Study. By Charles Franklin Thwing and Carrie F. Butler Thwing.-The institution of the family has been ever held as the most holy and sacred of all unions. This careful study beginning with the prehistoric family, follows chronologically the growth of the family through the early nations, in the early Christian centuries, its condition in the middle ages, and thence to our own times. It is considered in its relation to the church, to society and to its individual members. Marriage and divorce, most important questions are fully discussed.-Lee & Shepard, 2.00 A FORTNIGHT IN HEAVEN. An Unconventional Romance. By Harold Brydges.-Captain Geo. Guzzle had a sixth sense which permitted his separating his spiritual from his corporeal existence. He seizes the opportunity thus afforded him to visit Jupiter, and from that point observe the doings on our mundane sphere. He speaks in a brilliant, happy tone of common-sense mixed with humor and sarcasm, on questions of the day, local politics, anarchism, labor troubles, science and art. Taken as a whole, a Fortnight in Heaven is a sustained satire on the argument for government interferance in all relations of life.-Holt, 1.25 A GIRLS ROOM. Bv some friends of the Girls.-To be useful to onesself and to others is the first step in true happiness. This bright little missionary among young girls gives hints and suggestions of many neat simple home adornments, that dainty feminine fingers transform from odds and ends with a little taste and ingenuity, suggestions for home games, care of birds and pets, making a herbarium' or aquarium, and other topics.Lee & Shepard, 1.00 HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE. By Rev. E. P. Roe.-James Holcroft, a plain, rugged every-day farmer, has most difficult times in his domestic economy with female servants, who seem to vie with each other in their thieving ability. Matrimony seems the only solution of the troubles, and despite the shrine of affection and sentiment kept in his heart for his departed wife, he weds another. The courtship, or falling in love after marriage, is original in fiction, whether in real life or not we do not know, nor does it matter anyhow.-Dodd, Mead & Co., 1.50 HESTER, AND OTHER NEW ENGLAND STORIES. By Margaret Sidney.-Quiet, natural sketches of life and people in New England, easy and genial in tone, with the local coloring cleverly handled. The titles to the stories themselves give one an excellent idea of the happy, graceful, gossipy doings of a country town. "Aunt Emiline's Crazy Quilt," 'Siah Wilcox's Ward," "Miss Fairchild's Christmas Stocking," Dorothy and the Old Cabinet," and others.-Lathrop & Co., 1.25 HOLY TIDES. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.-Seven songs of the church seasons, Advent, Lent, Epiphany, Easter, Trinity, Christmas, and Whitsuntide. The poems are deeply reverent in spirit, and tenderly responsive to their holy inspiration, The titles of the poems are most delicately printed in the colors appropriate to each of the festivals of the church, wotthy of perusal, not only on "red letter" days of church history, but at any time during the year.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., .75 A HOUSE PARTY AND OTHER STORIES. By Ouida. -The house party was given by Lady Usk to cheer her honored lord, who has nothing at all to do, but finds even this occupies all his time, and leaves him tired and dispirited, his debts having plunged him into a spasm of economy, in which he sold Achnalorrie, his castle in the highlands. Don Gueseldo, the second story, is of a priest's sacrifice for his love's sake.-Lippincott Co., paper, .25; cloth, 1.00 THE HOUSE AT HIGH BRIDGE. A novel. By Edgar Fawcett. Mr. Herbert Coggeshel, a New York editor, resident at High Bridge, had been guilty of writing seven novels, which the public did not purchase with any sudden haste or fervor. The eighth work, however, was a brilliant success, was praised, talked of, criticised, and became the fashion of the day. A most striking and important part did it play in the lives of three men, and almost brought a frightful tragedy in its wake. The story is clever, original and sustained in its interest.-Ticknor, 1.50 HOW TO WIN. A Book for Girls. By Frances E. Willard, Introduction by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland.-Talks to girls on many subjects, with the intent to render them more serious and conscious of their place in life by centering their thoughts above the time-killing inventions of society. Ideals In womanhood and manhood are spoken of, and the ways in which these ideals may be realized is presented. Bread-winning is touched upon but lightly. Funk & Wagnalls, 1.00 JOAN WENTWORTH. A novel. By Katharine S. Macquoid. -Joan Wentworth, a bright little spitfire, full of young activity, and possessed of a talent for performing her best actions in such a way as to receive blame. Her happy school days at home are interrupted by family reverses. The scene moves to France, detailing boarding-school life there, and the development of Joan into a fine literary woman.-) -Harpers, .25 JO'S BOYS, AND HOW THEY TURNED OUT. By Louisa M. Olcott.-A second look at the little men of Aunt Jo. ten years after our first acquaintance with them, shows them all happy and as eager for fun and excitement as ever. There is much lovemaking, ending in true marriages, and they live happily to the end of their days."-Roberts, 1.50 |