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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV 3o 
D RESS for November—December, con¬ 
tains a continuation of the articles 
on “Physical Culture” with rhe different 
exercises illustrated by diagrams. These 
exercises are intended to produce normal 
development of the entire physical system. 
Mary A. Livermore, under “Health and 
Woman’s Dress,” gives a very sensible talk 
on the folly of the prevailing system of 
dress, which she thinks is largely respon¬ 
sible for the prevailing weakness of women 
of the present day. Many if not most of 
the physical conditions surrounding women 
and girls have vastly improved since her 
girlhood days; but the physical stamina of 
the American people does not improve. She 
attributes this largely to the unhygienic 
dress and bad habits of life of the young 
women, and the tobacco, alcohol and other 
pernicious habits of the young men. “ No 
young, growing girl should be allowed to 
wear corsets.” The magazine abounds in 
directions and suggestions for dressing hy- 
gienically and at the same time fashiona¬ 
bly. It is, in short, an exponent of fsishion- 
able dress-reform. One criticism of the 
Jenness-Miller system, as well as of other 
dress-reform systems, is that it is too ex¬ 
pensive for the class who need it most. 
Their reply is that they have, sought first 
to interest the fashionable element, realiz¬ 
ing that it is the society leader’s dress that 
the average young woman watches most 
closely. It certainly should cost no more 
to dress healthfully and comfortably than 
fashionably and uncomfortably. Begin¬ 
ning with January, the magazine will be 
issued as a monthly. Jenness-Miller Pub¬ 
lishing Company, New York. 
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G ODEY’S LADY’S BOOK, the delight 
of so many of our mothers, 
and grandmothers has now been pub¬ 
lished 60 years without missing an is¬ 
sue. No better proof could be given that 
it meets the wants of its large list of read¬ 
ers. The November number, now before 
us, consists of over 90 pages, besides a full- 
page engraving, a colored fashion-plate and 
a page of architecture. The fiction consists 
of a Thanksgiving, a Hallowe’en, and a 
humorous story, three other short stories, 
and the closing installments of two serials: 
“ A Model American Girl; ” and “ A Wom¬ 
an’s Way.” A half-dozen poems, “ The 
Beautiful Home” Club, Chats with Our 
Neighbors, Household Department and 
Work Table, Book Reviews, etc., fill out 
the varied contents of the number. The 
Work Table gives an unusually pretty pat¬ 
tern for the new and popular Roman, or 
Guipure embroidery. The fashions are 
from the latest Paris models, and by a sys¬ 
tem of coupons, sent with the magazine, 
each subscriber has one choice from all the 
patterns of the month. This month there 
are 28 to select from. Sample copy, 15 
cents. The Godey Publishing Company, 
Philadelphia. 
BOOK REVIEWS. 
H OLIDAY books multiply, and as a 
matter of course, a large proportion 
of them are for the young people. Three 
good examples of these are before us this 
week : Little Miss Weezy’s Sister, by Penn 
Shirley, is a pleasant little child’s story. It 
is rather bright and funny, and will suit 
the ten-year-olds. Cloth ; 5x6% inches ; 159 
pages ; price 75c; Lee and Shepard, Bos¬ 
ton. 
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B etty Leicester is a fresh and 
simple little story for girls, by Sarah 
Orne Jewett, which was published earlier 
in the season in serial form in St. Nicholas, 
under the title: A Bit of Color. While not 
at all of the goody-goody style, it is help¬ 
ful and sweet, and all the girls will love 
Betty. Bound in scarlet and white cloth ; 
287 pages; 4!Jx6 inches; price §1 25; Hough¬ 
ton, Mifiiin & Co., Boston. 
A SUMMER IN A CANON is a rather 
more pretentious volume bound in 
green and gold, and decorated with cactus 
and camp-kettle, containing a merry, 
breezy story by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 
written for those in their “ teens.” It tells 
of the gay doings of a bright half-dozen or 
so of youngsters, who, with the parents of 
two of them, lived in camp all through one 
of California’s delightful summers. “Cal- 
ifornia boys and girls never have to say 
‘wind and weather permitting’ from 
March or April till November.” The fun 
and frolic in “Tent Chatter” and “Tent 
Clatter” are woven in skillfully with fine 
descriptions of the trees and flowers and 
canons, and with some of the old-time 
tales. The book is exceptionally healthy 
in tone, and will be read with pleasure by 
both old and young. Cloth, 272 pages: 
5>&x8 inches; price $1.50; Houghton, Miff¬ 
lin & Co., Boston. 
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T HE LIFE, LETTERS AND JOUR 
NALS of Louisa May Alcott, are 
brought out very fitly at this time when she 
was wont to have a holiday volume ready for 
the young people. Memoirs are often 
thought to be rather dry reading, but per¬ 
haps no volume^of fiction was ever read 
with more eager interest than will be 
given to this life of Miss Alcott. Though 
edited by Ednah D. Cheney, the book is al¬ 
most an autobiography, as the editor has 
had the rare grace of almost effacing her¬ 
self, and has allowed the letters and jour¬ 
nals to tell the story. And so thoroughly 
like Miss Alcot.t’s style of public writing is 
the style of these papers, especially the 
earlier ones, that one almost feels that he is 
reading a new story from the pen of this 
loved writer. 
Though it was known that she supported 
the family by her work, the great world 
outside of the family friends will be sur¬ 
prised to learn through what straits and 
sacrifices she was obliged to fight her 
way on her path of duty. The woes of th 
“ March ” family become almost joys be¬ 
fore the more pathetic ones of the AlcottS. 
Louisa’s one aim, kept always in sight , 
was to make the family comfortable and 
pay the debts, which she finally did, edu¬ 
cating her younger sister May (the “ Amy ” 
of Little Women) and assuming the sup¬ 
port of the elder sister’s children after 
their father’s death. In one of her 
“moans ” in her journal she says: “ When 
I had youth, I had no money; now I have 
money, I have no time; and when I get 
time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to 
enjoy life.” In another place she hopesher 
life may help others. Her hope will be 
realized; for this real story of duty faith¬ 
fully done, through trial and sorrow and 
years of painful suffering from overworked 
body and brain, will touch all hearts, and 
will lead to nobler living many whom no 
imaginary tale could stir. The volume is 
uniform in size and binding with Miss Al- 
cott’s novels, and is inscribed to Mrs. Anna 
Pratt, (“Meg”) her only surviving sister. It 
contains two fine photogravures, one as she 
appeared at 30, and one in later life, which 
shows very plainly the softening effect of 
the trials at which she so often wondered. 
Cloth; 400 pages; price $1 50; Roberts 
Bros., Boston. 
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N A FAIR COUNTRY is inscribed in 
gold and brown on the cover of a gilt- 
edged, bronze-bound treasure lately from 
the press of Lee and Shepard. The Fair 
Country is our own, lying all about us, and 
it is so beautifully pictured in a series of 
essays by Thomas Wentworth Iligginsou, 
with illustrations by Irene E. Jerome, that 
it is difficult to tell which are most charm¬ 
ing. Mr. Higgiuson is on visiting terms 
with flower, and bird, and every form of 
country life. The text consists of: April 
Days, My Out-Door Study; Water Lilies; 
The IJfe of Birds; The Procession of the 
Flowers, and Snow. Mr. Higginson says: 
“Most people resign themselves to be decent¬ 
ly happy in June; they accept it; they 
compliment its weather, etc. But it is 
time to chant a hymn of more liberal grati¬ 
tude. God offers us yearly a necklace of 
12 pearls.” He quotes a child’s definition 
that an idiot is one who doesn’t know an 
arbor-vitae from a pine. Two of his say¬ 
ings might be taken to point toward the 
national flower question, though evidently 
written with no thought of it: “I is im¬ 
possible to create a popular name.” “ The 
Eplrjcca is really the wild flower for which 
our country people have a hearty passion.” 
Every second satiny page has an illustra¬ 
tion breathing the spirit of the text. White 
all are charming, perhaps those of Water 
Lilies; My Out-Door Study; and the Pro¬ 
cession of the Flowers are especially so. 
There are about 100 pages of text, making 
a thick volume. Fortunate indeed is he 
who receives this elegant book as a holiday 
gift. Nine and a-half by 13 inches; price 
$6. Lee and Shepard, Boston. 
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A DRIFT, by Julia Ditto Young, is one 
of those novels that make one won¬ 
der for what earthly purpose they were 
written, although the scene and the in¬ 
scription of the book to William D. Howells 
lead one vaguely to suspect that the author 
was trying to create character studies, 
“ after” Howells. Many would say that it 
is not a bad novel, but that cannot be 
called good which leaves the reader, as this 
one does, cynical, evnuyt, “adrift.” That 
all the married people should become in 
love (?) outside the pale of the law; and 
that the only unmarried woman should 
steadfastly refuse marriage under any cir¬ 
cumstances; while the work closes with a 
double tragedy, makes it an impossibility 
for the book, viewed purely as fiction, 
to give the reader any pleasure. At the 
same time it helps to swell the list of books, 
already far too large, that lead to a light 
conception of the sanctity of the marriage 
tie. Every character in the book is a study 
which makes rather too much of it, though 
some of them are quite good. The one 
thing in the book that might serve to point 
a moral is the common feeling voiced by 
the weak woman who has just listened to 
words of passionate endearment from a 
man who is not her husband: “I didn’t 
know I should ever again be precious to 
anyone; that any one would prize as a 
lover does, my smile, my glance, my fool¬ 
ish little ways.” Careless husbands might 
find a lesson here if they would. Cloth, 275 
pages; 5% by 1]4 inches; price $1.25 : J. B. 
Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 
H eroes of the crusades by 
Amanda M. Douglass, is a collection 
of historical sketches, 10 in number, of men 
who made themselves famous in these holy 
wars. Among them are Tancred, Godfrey 
of Bouillon, Saladin, and Richard Cceur de 
Leon. With a wealth of material compris¬ 
ing so much invincible valor and so much 
romance, it would seem that these tales 
might have been made more entertaining. 
Perhaps the best parts are the stories of 
Richard and Saladin, and the summing-up, 
in which the author says: “Blood and 
treasure had been wasted for the Kingdom 
of Jerusalem, but who shall say that it had 
not saved Western civilization from the 
forays of an intruder, and held in check the 
lords of Islamism who, later, made them¬ 
selves masters of Constantinople,” Cloth, 
349 pages : 5}4x7}4 inches; Lee and Shep¬ 
ard, Boston. 
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