Life — December 13, 1888 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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‘*LIFE-: 333 MORE THAN LIKELY. **We may call Mr. James a faultless photographer in the ‘ Daisy Miller’ class of his stories, but ORTENSE: What an patna He is at best a French painter in fiction, not a master in the older and larger and awful squeeze there was “Howells distinctly changed his manner and manifestly fell under the influence of Henry at the Von Twiller reception last James, his junior in years, and certainly not his superior in ability, reputation, or mastery of style.” night! | * . . Grace: Yes; George and I HARLES DUDLEY WARNER has become confirmed in the habit of writing had to sit outside, on the stairs. bright sketches of travel, as any one may discover by reading ‘On Horseback ” Hort! ENSE: Didthe squeeze (Houghton). There are, however, drawbacks to even the best of habits: one may continue out there? habitually look at life in a pleasantly humorous way, and miss a great deal that is valuable and entertaining in it. For instance, it is a fair supposition that a horse- I" is quite proper to say of aback ride through the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee might newly-elected sheriff that, yield better literary material than a record (even though “pleasantly humorous”) of he is learning the ropes. unsavory meals, dusty roads, disagreeable people, and hard beds. No doubt these oa were. continually present to the senses of the travelers, and were the frequent occa- VERY cloud has a silver sions of jest and satire, but they were not the main object of the excursion, and lining, except a cloud of might have been taken for granted after the record of the first day. The trip up Mitchell Mountain is the sort of exhilaration that the reader expects to get from dust. 4 sketches of mountain travel. OWN AND OUT—The Droch. empty pillow-case. NEW BOOKS KATHLEEN. A Novel. By Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Philadelphia: T. B, Peterson & Brothers, " Marching Through Georgia. Mustrated, By Heary C. Work, Boston: Ticknor & Co. OT HALF BAD—The Nelly Was a Lady. \llustrated. By Stephen Collins Foster. Boston: Ticknor & Co. Better Times, Stories by the author of “Margaret Kent." Boston: Ticknor & Co. The Sailor Boys of “br. By James Russell Soley. Boston: Estes & Lauriat. On Horseback im Virginia, ete, By Charles Dudley Warner, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The Critical Period ef American History, 17$j-178. By Jobn Fiske. Boston: Houghton, MiMin & Co. Good Things of Vive. Filth Series. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother. The Profewsor's Sister. By Julian Hawthorne, Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co. Under the Maples. By Walter N. Hinman, Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co, Divided Lives, By Edgar Fawcett. Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co. First Harvests, By F. J. Stimson, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Counter Currents, Boston: Roberts Brothers. The Pilgrim's Scrip. By George Meredith. Boston: Roberts Brothers. The Man Without a Country. By Edward Everett Hale. “Illustrated by F. ‘T. Merrill, Boston: Roberts Brothers. The Thoughts of the Emperor, M. Aurelius Antoaius, Translated by George Long. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Three Greek Childre: By the Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, American Literature. \6o7-188s. In two volumes. Vol. 11. By Charles F, Richardson. New York and London. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Parts XXVII. and XXVIII. New York: The Century Co. Nye and Riley's Railway Guide, Chicago: The Dearbora Publishing Co. Old and New World Lyrics. By Clinton Scollard. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, weagtes of Toil. By Carmen Sylva. ‘Translated by John Eliot owen. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, . A SEASON FOR ALL THINGS. R. SCHUYLER VAN ONTWERP (7 surprise): Why, I thought you knew Mr. Mushroon ? Miss ANASTASIA HOLLAND: Oh, dear, no! Mr. SCHUYLER VAN ONTWERP: But, surely, last summer I saw you boating and driving with him at Bar Harbor. It was even rumored that you had accepted him. Miss ANASTASIA HOLLAND (felulantly): Yes-yes, 1 know! But will you kindly understand that we were on boating and driving terms only. : comicbooks.com