make a possession which one would care to secure and preserve for the art value alone.

By

THE FAITH THAT MAKES FAITHFUL.'
William C. Gannett and Jenkin Lloyd Jones.
Published by Charles H. Kerr & Co.,
Chicago.

This interesting volume of essays upon a variety of themes, delicately handled, is in its fifth thousand, which certainly is a mark of its popularity. It consists of eight themes, four by each of the authors" Blessed by Drudgery,” “Faithfulness,” “I Had a Friend," "Tenderness," "A Cup of Cold Water," "The Seamless Robe," " 'Wrestling and Blessing" and "The Divine Benediction." The practical wisdom, laid deep in a vein of poetic prose, makes the volume well worth the reading, to say nothing of the pleasure one has in that perusal.

'GROUND RENTS IN PHILADELPHIA,'

By Ed

ward P. Allinson and Boies Penrose, members of the Philadelphia bar.

Number

105

have been made to live with a new and absorb-
ing interest. While the work is for old and
young, it is such as a parent would be glad to
have in the hands of the girls, encouraging
them to new efforts, and emulating them to
honorable deeds.

etc.

THE LAND OF THE NIHILIST; RUSSIA, ITS
PEOPLE, ITS PALACES, ITS POLITICS. A NAR-
RATIVE OF TRAVEL IN THE CZAR'S DOMIN-
IONS.' By William Elroy Curtis, author of
'The Capitals of Spanish America,' 'A Sum-
mer Scamper,' 'The Children of the Sun,'
Published by Belford, Clarke & Co.,
Chicago, New York and San Francisco.
Mr. Curtis' admirable work upon the Spanish
capitals of South America is accompanied in
this volume by a description of his personal
observations and experiences in the land of
which the world has at present so much to say,
and especially so much to ask. In the summer
of 1887, as correspondent of the Chicago Daily
News, he spent some time in St. Petersburg,
Moscow, and other portions of the Czar's do-

three, in the publications of the University of mains, finding many amazing things, and seeing
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

This is an exhaustive, yet clearly understood, exposition of a peculiar phase of property-holding in a great city where the tenement house is practically unknown.

'SUCCESSFUL WOMEN.' By Sarah K. Bolton, author of How Success is Won,' 'Social Studies in England,' etc. Published by D. Lathrop Company, Boston.

Mrs. Bolton has introduced us in this instance to a company of women whose lives have hardly heretofore been given the public in book form-those of the present generation of workers, whose work is by no means done. Juliet Corson, Mary Louise Booth, Francis E. Willard and Mrs. Alden are of the number, with others equally or less well known. A portrait of each of the subjects is furnished, and it is to be regretted that the work of the artist has not been up to the requirements of this otherwise beautiful and artistic work. Mrs. Bolton seems to have been at her besther sketches are interesting, and the characters

many strange sights that only a newspaper
correspondent would undertake to describe.
spread and favorable comment, he was led to
His letters to the News having won such wide-
arrange them in form for handy and permanent
use, and the result is this graphic and fully
illustrated book. The work becomes not only
one of description, but a guide-book as well.
Mr. Curtis writes with a trained and facile pen,
and in the things he has described, both old
and new, he has given us a series of pictures
of charming reality. The endless variety of
fact he has compassed into the space given, is
one of the chief merits of the work, and gives
it an added value-for the world is too busy now
to read a column where a paragraph will do, as
newspapers like the News and writers of ex-
perience like Mr. Curtis long since found out.

IN CASTLE AND CABIN, OR TALKS IN IRELAND
IN 1887.' By George Pellew, A. M., LL. B.,
of the Suffolk bar. Published by G. P. Put-
nam's Sons, New York.

Mr. Pellew spent four months and over, in
Ireland, making a study of the conditions of

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social, political and business life there existing. And if he has not produced a book which all sides will accept as a complete statement of the case, he has at least given the public one that attempts to be fair, and that has the merit of being largely made up of the narratives of those upon the ground, rather than in the language of the author. He set upon every person he met, no matter what might be his views, and attempted to draw him into conversation upon the condition of the country and the reasons that made him oppose Home Rule, or desire it. Full notes were taken of these conversations, and the result is the record of over two hundred talks with officials, landlords, land agents, priests, farmers, professional men, merchants, shop-keepers, commercial travelers and laborers. Of this labor, Mr. Pellew says: Four months is, perhaps, not long enough to find out much about a country so variously If I can, however, interesting as Ireland.

succeed in making the reader feel as though he
had seen and heard what passed in my pres-
ence during those four months, this little book
may have been worth the reading. It will, at
least, suggest some of the difficulties to be
met by any statesman and by any nation that
proposes finally and at once, to solve the group
of problems so long unfortunately known as
"" The work contains a
the Irish question.'
fine map of Ireland. It is a valuable contribu-
tion to the literature of the great question con-
fronting England to-day, and contains many
side-lights of information that
specially within the main scope of the work.

were not

THE MAKING OF HISTORY OF TENNESSEE. Published A STATE.' By James Phelan. Reby Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. ceived of the Burrows Brothers Co., Cleveland.

The historical researches that of recent years have been carried on in relation to the early days of this southern commonwealth, have given it an interest which it did not seem to possess, when overshadowed by the greater individuality of Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio. As Mr. Phelan says: "Although the annals of Tennessee are not filled with accounts of the revolutions which have changed the complexion of the world, yet her history, in addition to the interest which it possesses for her children as giving an account of the achievements of their ancestors, has one claim upon the attention of the thoughtful student of history which is peculiarly her own. In it can be studied, as under a glass and in an hour, the process of

development which in other states is either imperfectly displayed or is spread over a long stretch of time, the periods of which are indistinctly understood, or marred by extraneous In Tennessee we and disturbing causes.

have within the limits of a century a picture of National life as complete as that of England through its two thousand years, or that of Rome, from the kings to the emperors. We can study the process by which wildernesses were turned into gardens, and observe the stages of development from primitive rudeness to civilization and refinement, from disorganization to organization; from the absence of all law, through all the grades of a complete system of laws imperfectly obeyed, to a time when a community of nearly two millions of people live together in the bonds of a sober, industrious and law-abiding citizenship."

The treatment of the subject in Mr. Phelan's work has been carried out in accordance with the above view; and certainly a remarkable record is the result. The ability and fairness of the writer are conceded from the opening chapter, while the research and labor he has given are something wonderful-as the list of authorities consulted would alone show. The state gains a new importance in the eyes of the reader, and he for the first time understands its full and true relation to the history of our country and the west. Many unexpected sidelights of history are also displayed upon almost every page.

'OHIO: A POEM FOR THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, 1888.' By Bertha Monroe Rickoff. Published by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati.

The poem read by Miss Rickoff at the banquet of the Ohio Society of New York, at Delmonico's, on April 7, 1888, has been reproduced by the enterprise of Robert Clarke & Co., in a beautiful form, elegantly illustrated by a series of beautiful pictures that carry out That Miss Rickoff the suggestions of the text. should be naturally possessed of literary talent is no surprise to those who know her parents, her father being Andrew J. Rickoff, who was once at the head of the Cincinnati schools, while both her parents have written much and written well. The poem shows promise of poetic work that time and experience will improve; and as a souvenir of Ohio's centennial, "Ohio" has a special claim upon the public interest aside from any question of poetic worth.

The style of architecture is modern Eng-
lish domestic Gothic, the building being a
frame structure finished outside with white
pine, with an awning roof eight feet wide
which extends all around the building and
is supported by strong and neatly orna-
mented wooden brackets. The exterior
walls are paneled and panel filled with
novelty siding, cut shingles and beaded
sheeting. The roof is slated, with gal-
vanized iron cresting on ridges. The in-
terior is finished throughout in quartered
oak filled with dark wood filler in the an-
tique style and varnished three coats. The
walls are wainscoted to a height of three
feet from the floor and plastered above
this point and beautifully decorated with
cornices, mouldings, etc., which will be
tinted neatly with water colors. All the
interior wood finish will be neatly moulded
and carved. The ladies' room will have
one and the general waiting-room four
open-work bronzed iron ventilators three
feet in diameter in the ceilings. At the
east end of the general waiting-room is
built a terra cotta and pressed brick mantel
and fireplace of elaborate design, giving
the room a beautiful aspect. The whole
building will be heated with a hot water
apparatus of the Baker Heater Company's
make, and lighting will be done with gas
and electricity. The ticket office is con-
venience itself, being supplied with a
complete system of coupon tickets to all
points, and is a bureau of reliable infor-
mation in regard to rates, routes and
connections furnished by courteous and
intelligent ERIE representatives. This new