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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895. 21 PART from the leading novels of the day, 2 works of fiction from the pens of Anthony Hope, Maclaren, Wey- man,Du Maurier and some others, there are not many of the current novels, however, that demand particular atten- tion. L I B B The chief consideration in some cases seems to be a catchy title. That being sup- plied, the story can take care of itself. In many instances the w s have not even a bowing acquaintance with the English lan ge. L B B B If one of this class of writers chances on a ploton which to hang tionalism, nine chances to one in ten s stolen. Plagiarism is as common among them as hastily written En * r ey Often the publishers refuse to handle | the manuseripts of rto unknow t-class but modest n authors, and such shed at the writer's ex- the same time insipid le, thrown together with a scoop- ared with a tapeline und s or enigmatic title, is b f so much a rod. b o A ] dit to the reading classes that geni once discovered, he mth that is suflicient bitterness of his vense, twad ht is ereeted with a wa Tepay to him for and Hope this direct 1stration. r works still lead in the local sales, 1 whatever they write will be read with e of the new books of ve caused even a flutter of in- At least it would seem so in con- trast with the increasing demand for “‘Bonnie Briar B ' “Days of Auld isoner of Zenda' and two sellers. Lk B B of Californians are in good de- Annie The B "ho somewhat from from the Goldea te to San Francisco re popular, ppy truth finds he week b ste Gate,” but both iring the past few nnoticed save in the most casual ng, in a 3 certain very creditable The press- cations is a model n the ca pomphlet form e of e of notable merit. ldine Meyrick, who writes the Fool” that make up the issue time, but is i- took out that she a ly those strong! folly of the fool i as his earnestness, and that is fatal to_the effect which is aimed at by the suit of motley. The songs are not of equal beauty, but there are many lines that are full of beauty and promise, as in the noble ones | that relate how the fool is, “‘Sent Forth on | Errand High” by s royal master. « Sire, T ¢ pi spake: s 1o to de thy jests; n who wears love and 1 s where I way not go. Carry my gri With my trembling hand 1 know not what s crowded round, vished mewell, | Nor heedeth much *Tis but bec Love is not b but for one more quota- Jther Verses” that show Miss Meyrick's muse to bette ivantage han do the “Songs of a Fool.”” We wish ad been more of these ‘‘Other for few though®hey are, they ar: nd spontaneous than the oth- g that the singer is endowed t sympathy with life and nature that aione can the people. THE MINUEE MAN. “The Minute Man on the Frontier” is the title of an unusunally interesting and instructive vol the Rev. William G. Puddefoot, A.M eld secretary of the Home Mission The author and rated constitutes work. ng s nts therein nar- ef value of the of the ex- 1d powerfully ar ohases of frontier life. An 1 0of buoyant humor runs allied narra- umor is ever cl ny of his descript se. i Ticult to lay the ook ting ir never aside after get- o the first chapter. As a cont tory of our Western country these sketches are sure to rece a warm welcome. s are numerous and in ev propriate to the text. [7 Y. Crowell & Co., New York and - DISCUSSIONS 0N THE GIPSIE There has just been issued from the of Edward O. Jenkins’ Son of New two highly interesting and in- tive books under the titles: *‘Discus- ne on the Gipsies” “The Social mar i The former is by John Bunyan and Mrs. Carlyle, and contains a paper, ‘Do Snakes Swallow The GERALDINE MEYRICK. might, in very truth, name herself as an American citizen. In that same year the was appointed a notary public by Governor Markham, being one of the first women in this State to hold such a position. She was for several years assistant to her father in al estate and insurance office, and is successfully carrying on the business herself in Santa Cruz, only her spare time being given to writing. Of late, how- ever, that spare time has been well utilized, as her sketches in Cavrr and other Poems and ries from her pen ha also appeared tly in the New Y Independent, | Chicago Advance, Lippincott’s, the Over- | land Monthly and St. Paul’s Magazine of London. | “The Songs of a Fool” are supposed to | be the utterances of a king’s jester: | K are never tree, Ta local publications will test o'er with the pale cast of thought, but the | poesy and® expression are alike genuine. There is, in fact, thought and feeling, | rather than inspiration, and the light )'o\'- | cusness of the jester in all his songs. The | | His Woman Their Young?” with the “Encyclop=dia Britannica’” on the *Viper,” by James Simpson, editor of “Simpson’s History of ipsies.”” The “Social Emancipation s” is from the pen of the author last named. Both works were boy- cotted in England and all over Eurgpe in 1882.90 from a feeling of caste. The writers, being English, naturally preferred to bring out their work at home, but were forced to have the original plates shipped over here, There is much to entertain and instruct in both volumes. They are printed on good paper and ably edited. [Edward O. Jenkins’ Son, New York. i ’s latest novel, “A Man and nd,” published by Henry Holt & Co. of New York, is bound in the Nora Vynn | fashion of the Buckram series and will fur- nish two or three hours’ pleasant reading. It is a short story, covering only 195 pages, and small pages at that. There is not much of a plot, but the incidents which are crowded into the home life of the highly respectable English family appeal onary, eations of character, and | are tear-compelling, The reader finds | _ Its interest | bution to the his- | to the domestic sentiment. The principal characters of the novel are Cedic Cedics- son and Cicily, his wife, who was & jour- nalist before her marriage and who is two vears her husband’s senior. They go to live with Cedic’s mother-and sister. Cedic and his sister, Irene, who have been con- verted to Romanism, suppose that their father is dead, but toward the end of the story they learn the truth. He was a criminal and had to flee to Spain, where he was still in hiding, Cedic’s mother sent him morey at stated periods. The man who aided the . father to escape has the family honor in his power, and therein is centered the strongest interest of the story. It is well written and the characters are not overdrawn. [Henry Holt & Co., New York. For sale by William Doxey. Price 75 cents. ] THE SOWERS. This is a novel dealing with Russian life, { by Henry Seton Merriman, whose story, | “From One Generation to Another,” has rendered his name familiar to many Amer- ican readers. The Sowers is a story of the efforts of a Russian nobleman to help the people of his | estate. He is handicapped on the one side by the vigilance of the Russian Govern- { ment, which looks askance at all efforts to elevate the people, and on the other by the ignorance, distrust_and apathy of the | people themselves. With others of his class he organizes a charity league, with its object to eaucate the ex-serfs. Tne league betrayed by a spy, many of its leaders re sent to Siberia, but Prince Paul Alexis escapes to England. Here he meets, loves nd marries the woman who was the be- trayer of the charity league, The means she uses to prevent his discovery of the part she p in that movement, and the machinations against Paul of a man who loves her and knows her perilous secret, form the motif of the novel. There are many strong scenes in its pages, but Mr. Merriman writes with a certain cheap and ical flippancy which is sufficiently irri- tating to spoil, for a sensitive reader, what would otherwise be a powerful and striking picture of modern Russian life. [New York: Messrs. Harper & Bros. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco. Price $1 50.] ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Volume V, part 1, of the second series, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, has just been issued. The second part, finishing the volume, will be 1ssued about the middle of January, and if it is as ably compiled as the one under consid- eration the series will constitute a valu- ion to the scientific literature Volume V, part 1, is entirely | | Zaurence Hutton. Woodrow Wilson. “WATCH, AND I WILL RE EBLIS THAT HATH B AL UNTO THEE THE TERRIBLE POWER OF IMPARTED UNTO ME.” [By Willam Le Queux from *Zoraida.”] of history for the object of both strengthen- | ing the memory and affording a ready reference memorandum. Published by | the author. FAITH PICTURES OF CHRIST. In the spring of 1849 M. James Tissot ex hibited in the Champ de Mars a portion o his magnificent illustratious for the “Life | of Christ,”” shortly to be published. Their effect upon those who saw them is said to have been curious. People went away weeping, and women made the tour of the room upon their knees. | Many cume from the provinces in | groups, with return tickets, and the ex- hibition partook of the nature of a pil- | grimage. The pictures have little of the | familiar religious symboliism, being, as | Theodore Stanton says, ‘‘pure realism tem- made up of original matter, the record of rk done under the supervision and | direction of the Academy of Sciences. It |is a bulky volume, containing 800 pages, | including a number of finely executed | plates. For a work of such value it is & mistake not to have had it bound in cloth instead of flimsy paper covers. [California cademy of Sciences, publishers, San Fran- sco.] . B0V’ LIFE OF GENERAL GRANT. number of readable books of adventure for boys, has now prepared a life of General Grant for boy readers. Like the career of | Lincoln, the incidents of the life of Grant are full of interest and inspiration for young people. Mr. Knox has given us a spirited and readable narrative, which the ublishers have put out in very attractive | : ; Thomas W. Knox, who has written a | | orm. [New York: The Merriam Com- pany. Price $150.] —_——— JACK ALDEN. ‘War stories always attract boys. War- ren Lee Goss realized this some years ago and the result has been a series of first- class martial tales from his pen. Theyare all well written and well pictured. The 1 ack Alden,” isa story of the Vir- inia campaigns, and most, if not all the cidents of the book are based on narra- tives of veterans. That famous trip of | the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment through Baltimore in 1861 is told, and there is a thrilling escape by tunnel from Libby Prison. The volume is dedicated to the s and girls of a reunited country. [T. Y. Crowell & Co. New York and Boston.] pol cigh v TARTARIN OF TARASCON. In one of the dainty volumes of their “Faience Library,” with all the beauty attendant upon wide margins, smooth vaper, red letter and gilt illumined covers, Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. give us this month Daudet’s incomparable little classic “Tartarin of Tarascon.” Who does not know and love Tartarin—the gentle braggart, an exaggerated Quixote—simple, shrewd, high-souled Tartarin, with the heart of a child? He is one of the mem- ories of childhood, and one of the aelights of maturer years. The present edition is capitally illustrated with a photogravure and spirited thumbnail sketches. [New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Price $1.] “CRICKET.” “Cricket’’ is a charming story of the haps and mishaps af a little girl and her friends. It is one of those children’s stories that possess an interest for all readers, young and old. Mrs. Harriet R. Richards, the author, is a new writer of literature for children. If her future work fulfills the promise of the present volume her destiny 1s that of a popular writer of juvenile fic- tion. *“Cricket” is a natural, unconven- tional and healthy story. All the pictures are spirited and many of them quite ar- tistic. It is attractively bound and will be a welcome Christmas gift. [Estes & Laur- iat, publishers, Boston. Price, $1. JERRYS ™ FANILY, “Toby Tyler” won for his author, James Otis, the enthusiastic admiration of all young readers, and this new story by Mr. Otis will in no wise lessen his fame as a writer of capital stories for children. “Jerry’s Family’’ is the accouut of how a New York newsboy proved a friend in need to a woman in dire trouble. He suffered a good deal in playing the good Samaritan, but everything comes out delightfuilly in the end. [Boston: Estes & Lauriat. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco. Price $125.] — o THE Bi¢ BOW MYSTERY. A reprint by Rand, McNally & Co. of one of lsrael Zangwill’s earlier stories. [('hic:\]go: Rand, McNally & Co. Price 50 cents. S T S OUTLINE OF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. This is a helpful pamphlet in a series of “‘stepping-stones for students’ feet,” by Elizabeth T. Mills of Martinez. Itis what is known among teachers as a topical out- line and is especially adapted to the Cali- fornia State series of text books. The scholar is expected to jot down here facts Witliam Black. Mark Tuain. Balaam, the Chaldean, had foretold that a | star should rise out of Jacob. When the star appeared he sold his possessions and brought three jewels as an offering to the coming King. Then he set out for Baby- lon to join the three magians, who awaited him for ten days. But he was delayed, and was too late to journey with them; nd for thirty-three years he wandere through Egypt and the Holy Land with- out ever finding Christ. He entered Je- rusalem on the day of the Crucifixion, and died during the earthquake, Mr. Van Dyke has made a very tender and pathetic story of the events of this long pilgrimage. The book is got up in beautiful style, and profusely illustrated. [New York: Harper Bros. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco.] il g RECOLLECTIONS OF LINCOLN. Books about Lincoln will, perbaps, never cease to appear. Certainly we may ex- | pect them while any of his contemporaries | remain upon the earth. | instance it even looks as though we might In the present expect them into the third and fourth | generation of them that loved him, for | this volume is the personal recollections of the great man, noted during his iifetime | by Ward Hill Lamon, and edited by his daughter, Dorothy Lamon. Miv. Lamon was for many years a partner ot Lincoln | in the practice of law, and his confidential e | pered by sincere faitn.” most notable of the pictures, including the *‘Crucifixion” and ““‘Christ Before Pilate,” will be reprodneed in the Christmas Cen- tury Magazine. BEAUTIFUL HOUSES. “Convenient Houses,” is one of the most valuable publications of the month. Itis printed on heavy paper, the type is large and nearly every page contains an illus- tration. The work, which embodies the author’s ideas on the subject, is partly his- torical ana descriptive, but for the most parusuggestive and practical. Mr. Gibson has been abroad since writing his first book, and his writing and illustrations show that he has made a careful study of | the nationzl architecture of many coun- | tries. Any one intending to build a new house or alter an old one can obtain valua- ble information. Mr. Gibson is a scientific architect, and the book will prove invalua- ble to his brothers in the profession. [One vol., 8vo., cloth, 316 pages and 200 illustrations, $3. T. Y. Crowell & Co., | New York and Boston. ] A YELL FROM Tf!} YELLOW. The “Yellow Dwarf” (in the “Yeliow Book’), in an almost incoherent scream against the literary ladies and gentlemen of the day, wails as follows: The bagman and the stockbroker's clerk (and their lady wives and daughters) ’ave usnrped his (the “gentleman and scholar's”) place, and his influence on readers; and the an has picked up his failen pen—the man, sir, or the presswoman! * * * an illiterate howling mob at our doors, and a tribe of pressmen scribbling at our ta- bles, what, in_the name of the universe, can t? What we get; not so? Well, “what we get” is (among other things) the above shrick of the “Yellow Dwarf,” who seems to do his full share of the “howling” he attributes to the *‘read- ing mob,” and who, indeed, might be bet- ter described as the “‘Yeller dwarf.”’—Lon- don Charivari. LIFE OF CHRIST FOR THE YOUNG. This is a volume of questions and answers, prepared by Mary Hastings Foote, and especially adaptea for use in homes, in schools and for the unse of Sun- day-school teachers. It follows the Bibli- cal narrative and endeavors to give every event, miracle and parable in the life of the Lord in strict historic order. The ques- tions and answers are short, concise and strictly to the point and a great deal of study and research has gone into the com- pilation of the volume. The book is very well indexed and contains a map of Pales- tine and a diagram of Herod’s temple. New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by avot, Upham & Co., San Francisco. Price $1 25.] THE NAUTILLS. Laura E. Richards has added another to her famous Captain January series, called *The Nautilus.” It is by far the best work produced by this popular author. The hero of the tale is a little boy. around whom the story is woven, yet the book cannot be strictly termed a ‘“‘jugenile’ one, as it is e}ually interesting to both old and young. It is a uniquely bound vol- ume and contains_illustrations from origi- nal drawings by W. L. Taylor. [Estes & Lauriat, publishers, Boston. 75 cents.] eSS STORY OF THE OTHER WISE MAN. In this beautiful volume Henry Van Dyke has woven the thread of an ancient tradition. The story of the three wise men of the East who journeyed afar to offer gifts at the manger-cradle in Bethle- hem of Judea is known to every child. But Dr. Van Dyke tells the story of the This book by Louis H. Gibson, author of | | Twelve of the as heart as is compatible with the physical facts of fife. Mrs. Munday is cold, sordid and grasping. To make people unhapy is the very breath of her nostrils, and from first to last she is thoroughly unconscious that the world about her do not take her at her own valuation. She is married to an artist, to whom she makes life one long, exquisite torture; but the one ray of com- fort in the whole book is that she neverdis- covers it. The poor wretch has at least the comfort of knowing that the pain of his writhing soul is hidden by her own obtuseness from her curious observation. Detestable as she s, there isa certain zame courage about Mrs. Munday that prevents us from Iosiniz interest in her. She be- comes almost likable while she is facing what seems inevitable death on the scow with Cassie Davenaut, who, man though he is, proves an abject coward. In France Nevill, the author has sketched for usa lovable type of girlhood ‘‘on the borders of Bohemia.” One can scarcely blame Ferdinand Munday for loving her, and one feels moved heartily to echo Mrs. Munday’s wail, the one touch of feeling she betrays throughout the volume, when she discovers that she no longer holds his heart, and moans: ‘I have deserved it.” The book abounds in dialogue that is clever without being too epigrammatically pyrotechnic. [New York: D. Appleton& Co. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco. Price $1 25.] THE KIN6¢ OF ANDAMAN. This is the latest issue in Appleton’s ad- mirable Town and Country Library series. The story takes us back to Chartist times and the movement among the Jaboring classes of England to entrench themselves against the encroachments of machinery. It is a very powerfully conceived tale, and the author, J. Maclaren Cobban, has given us a fine type in the person of the Maister of Hutcheon, hereditary head of the vil- Jage of Ilkastane, who is led by a daring bit of villainy to fancy he has been ap- pomnted by the Queen as King of the Andaman Isles, with the privilege of tak- ing thither, at his own expense, a hoard of poor, hunger-pinched llkastane weavers, descendants of the men who had owed allegiance to s father’s house, in the days when his forebears were Hutch- eons of Hutcheon. The gentle, sincere, unsuspicious maister stands out in strong contrast to his weaker, time-serving, self- seeking neighbors, who look to him to do for them and revile him in the doing, only to discover, when their brutality and ar- rant cowardice have at last wrought him to turn in self-defense, that he is ‘“‘ayea terrible mon” when roused. The story gives to a marked degree the local coloring and feeling of the time with which it deals, and the author is at no trouble to furnish us with a solution, out of hand, of the problems that then confronted and still confront the working people of all lands. New York Appleton & Co. For sale v Doxey, San ncisco. Price 50 cents.] s IXIE. A series of papers by Julian Ralph, de- scribing a trip through the South and pub- lished originally in Harper’s Magazine and Harper’s Weekly, have now been issued in the form of a handsomely illustrated vol- ume ufder the title of *‘Dixie, or Southern Scenes and Sketches.” The course of his travel took the author down the Mississippi River by steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans, where he saw the Mardi Gras festivals, of which he gives a brief but entertaining account. Thence the trip was continued through Mississippi, where a visit was made to the home of Jefferson Davis at Biloxi, and so onwards through Alabama, Georszia, Flor- ida, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington City. The work consists of descriptions of scenery and of noted places, sketches of the characters of Southern people and of Northern tourists, and some account of the natural resources of the country and the industriai development of the last decade. No attempt is made to depict any of the darker aspects of the region or to discuss any of the serious problems that confront the people of that section. The negro is practically ignored except as a picturesque feature of the country. Mr. Ralph writes as an optimist who sees nothing except that which pleases him. His work, there- fore, is more like a guide book of winter travel than an earnest attempt at givin, true account of the South as a whole. Just for that reason, perhaps, it will prove all the more entertaining to the general reader, Certainly it is not in any respect dull. Even the statistics of trade and industry are massed in a way that makes friend during his Presidency. While the book, from a historical standpoint, adds nothing to the admirable work of Messrs. Nicolay and H it will yet, doubtless, find acceptance with a class of readers to whom that literary monument to Lincoln will not appeal. It abounds in fac-simile documents of more or less interest, and contains even more than the usual allot- ment of Lincoln stories. [Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco. Price $1 50. ELFIE AND THE KATYDID. ~Francis V. and Edward J. Austin’s latest work, ‘‘Elfie and the Katydid,” is one of the daintiest child’s Christmas books of the season. It is handsomely bound in cloth and is printed on heavy paper, with very attractive illustrations. The fairy tale deals with Elfie’'s experience with the katydid and a troupe of fairy elves thrown in for company. It is written in an enter- taining style, and the little reader could not find a sweeter companion than the charming heroine, Eliie. [The Merriam Publishing Company, Néw York. For sale by Johrson & Emigh, San Francisco.] CALIFORNIA'S BLUE BOOK. The Blue Book, or State Roster, compiled by L. H. Brown, Secretary of State, bas been issued. It is a complete official di- rectory of the jndicial, executive and leg- islative departments as usual, and is ra- plete with interesting data referable to the State and county governments in all of their branches. The cuts are more attract- ive than usual. [State Printing Office, Sacramento.] THE CARVED LIONS. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. are to be con- gratulated upon the excellence of the new uniform edition, now issuing by them, of Mrs. Molesworth’s stories for children. The present series is illustrated by Wal- ter Crane and Leslie Brooks, and has all the attractiveness that fine paper, clear, pleasant-faced type, embellished covers and moderate {’,’i“ can give to books. Mrs: Moleswort! ’s stories are worthy to be styled classics among juvenile literature. Her children are real, human young peo- ple, and she has a most cosmopolitan ap- preciation of child-nature other than that of her own England. ; Always a favorite with the little people this beautiful edition of “The Caryed Lions,” one of her most charming stories, will prove a welcome Christmas gift to many young readers. [London: Macmil- lan & Co. For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco. Price §1.] A HARD WOMAY. The author, Violet Hunt, calls this book a story in scenes. 1t is told in alternate drama and narrative, an arrangement which, unpromising as the description sounds, is both artistic and effective. As a matter of fact, “A Hard Woman” is a more than usually clever bit of workman- ship, and_the author shows a very clear other wise man who also saw the starin its rising and set out to follow it, but never arrived with bis brethren. Ortaban of the ancient priesthood of the magi knew that appreciation of the human documents from which it has been compiled. Itis a study in the development of a thoroughly selfish, vain and frivelous natare, as little endowed with that human quality known Theodore Roosevelt. Octave Thanet. them interésting, and while there is an unvarying praise of everything seen on ‘he roule, even this is managed in such a way it never becomes monotonous. ‘‘ Dixie, or_ Southern Scenes and Sketches,” by Julian Ralph, illusirated b; W. T. Smedley. New York: Harper Brothers. THE WISH A cheap edition of Herman Ludermann’s famous novel, the authorized edition of which, with translator’s preface, was is- sued in the spring by Harper & Bros. The present issue is of problematic value. The avpreciators of . Ludermann belong to a class to whom the average paper ‘‘library’’ stuff has no attraction, and “The Wish” is scarcely a book to prove profitable for urveyors to the lovers of sensationalism, he publishers have done their best, how- ever, to convey an air of sensationalism in their cover illustration. [Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., Globe Library.] —_—— KYZIE DUNLEE. +Kyzie Dunlee, a Golden Girl,” by Sophie May, is the latest child story by that pop- ular author. Her stories deal affectionate- ly with child character and are refreshing to readers of all ages and both sexes. The tiniest detail of child life at her hands promises an interest which strikes one with the force almost of newness. [Lee & Shepard, Boston. For sale by William Doxey.] THE MAGAZINES. Pleasant Hours. The Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours for Christmas is devoted to the boys and girls. Its contents have direct application to the boliday season, and the stories have been carefully selected. Pleasant Hours is now among the cheap magazines being sold at 10 cents a copy, and the sales are much larger than formerly. The Forum. The Forum for December contains its usual quota of solid matter. Among the leading and most interesting fi‘Be“ are ““The Nature of Liberty,”” by W. D. How- ells; “Editorship as a Career for Women,” by Margaret £. Sangster. There is not a dull paper in the number. The Traveler. The December Traveler is gay in color. Its title page illustration is a study. in lithographic art and a credit to the pub- lishers. The contents are up to the usunal standard, % “Pall Mall Magazine. The Pall Mall Magazine for December contains a profusely illustrated article on Santa Barbara, which the writer, Edward Roberts, characterizes as *‘The American Nice,” and of which he says: “It is gen- erally conceded that Santa Barbara is to America what the Riviera 1s to Europe, and many will declare, as I have oiten heard them, that the California resort has more natural picturesqueness and a better climate than can be found elsewhere in the world.” Lippincott’s. Mary E. Stickney has one of her thrill- ing short novels on Western life in the current number of this popular magazine. “The Ola Silver Trail” is its title. It is done in the author’s most pleasing style. There are also the regular number of con- tributors, their papers covering a wide scope of subjects. California Medical Journal. The California Medical Journal for De- cember contains much valuable matter for the professional reader. Among the most important and interesting papers are the treatise on *'Pain and Its Causes,”’ ‘‘Some Certainties in Medical Practice,” ‘Calo- practice Surgery,” etc., all by well-known scientific authorities. Popular Astronomy. A series of nine very able and instrue- tive papers on astronomy in its different phases comprise the current issue of this popular monthly. The scientific knowl- edge of the writers is offered to the reader in the pleasantest form, and 1nstruction is combined with very pleasant reading. Household News. The Christmas number of Household News is one of the brightest issues of that magazine for the year. Itis full of care- fully selected entertaining matter, and in its variety there is something for every reader. el e BOOKS RECEIVED. A Lrevtesast AT EGutees (Blue and Gray Series), by Oliver Optic. Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston, Ma: 500 pages, illustrated. For sale by William Doxey, $150. A CoMEDY IN Spasws, by Iota. Published by F. A. 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