Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — The Library Corner [ARTICLE]

The Library Corner

Four sermons by Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson, of Mississippi, on the personality and responsibility of God and man, delivered as the Bohlen lectures/ for 1895, have been collected and are. Issued with the general title, “Tho World and the Wrestlers.” —i An excellent book to put in" the hands of a lad is “Turning Points in Successful Careers,” by the Rev. William M. Thayer, which T. Y. Crowell & Co. publish, , It gives important chanters from the lives of a mimberjpf famous men who may well be taken as models in many respects by the rising generation. The unhappy critic is said to “catch it” iu Marie Couelll’at:* forthcoming book, “The Sorrows of Satan.’L And., what is*worse, the English reviewer will be obliged to buy the book if he wants to know liow dead lie is—because the fair writer has gi ven strict orders that uo press copies shall be sent out in England. .■ —- The personage for whom Clara Louise Burnham has named her latest novel, “The Wise Woman,” is a delightfuliild spinster, an unmarried woman of social position and comfortable fortune, whose native wit and kindliness have been developed* by a wide social experience. The scenes are laid on Long Island and iii New Jersey, aifd the story presents a very truthful and ~ed and well-dressed American men and women. There are no thrilling incidents in the story, but the personages attract one’s sympathy and their talk is bright-am! entertaining. -