The maximum, 169, is reached this month by two competitors, Miss S. A. Brown, Unadilla Forks, N. Y. (ruled out, having taken prize in Aug.), and Miss Bessie M. Pond, Belfast, Me., who takes first prize. The next highest count, 155 (an unusual break) is reached by James A. Morrow, San Francisco, Cal. (ruled out, prize in Sept.); the next, 153, by Mrs. J. J. Soule, Edina, Mo. (ruled out, prize in Oct.); the next, 150, by T. L. Wood, Montpelier, Vt. (ruled out, prize in Aug.), and Mrs. Wilber Cook, Burke, N. Y., who therefore takes the second prize. The next count, 148, is reached by Mrs. L. H. Bassett, Lovell, Me. (ruled out, taking prize in Aug.), and Robert Mohr, New York City, who takes third prize. H. S. Moore, Muscatine, Iowa, and A. A. Long, Oakland, Cal., divide the fourth and fifth prizes with a count of 145. The lowest count is 24.

Prize Question No. 169.

PRIZE QUESTIONS

LITERARY MISCELLANY.

SURVEY OF CURRENT LITERATURE:

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Section B. Section C.

General Literature

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Books for the Young

27. W. H. Hyde.

2. G. F. Barnet.

3. J. C. Beard.

PRIZE QUESTIONS.

THE main object of the LITERARY NEWS is to aid in the dissemination of good literature; and to further this object, the prizes are awarded in books only. They are selected by the winner, and we desire, if possible, to have them bought at the local book-store, or from the bookseller who supplies the LITERARY NEWS. There are five prizes (amounting to $12 on each question), distributed as follows: $4, $3, $2.50, $1.50, $1, for the five winning answers.

Cards must be mailed in time to reach us by the 20th of each month or they cannot count.

4. W. D. Beard. 5. A. F. Bellows. 6. R. Birch.

7. W. P. Bodfish. 8. Geo. H. Boughton. 9. F. S. Church. 10. T. Cole. 11. Kenyon Cox.

12. F. O. C. Darley. 13. F. Dielman.

14. George W. Edwards. 15. Rosina Emmet. 16. Sol Eytinge. 17. Harry Fenn.

18. Mary Hallock Foote. 19. A. B. Frost. 20. E. H. Garrett. 21. W. H. Gibson.

22. R. S. Gifford.

23. W. St. John Harper. 24. E. P. Hayden. 26. L. B. Humphrey. 25. Aug. Hoppin.

28. Irene Jerome. 29. W. J. Johnson. 30. W. A. Kelly. 31. E. W. Kemble. 32. W. H. Low. 33. E. J. Meeker. 34. F. D. Millet. 35. T. Moran. 36. Gray Parker. 37. Alfred Parsons. 38. J. H. Pennell. 39. Howard Pyle. 40. C. S. Reinhart. 41. W. A. Rogers. 42. Walter Satterlee, 43. F. H. Schell. 44. W. L. Sheppard, 45. Walter Shirlaw.

46. F. Hopkinson Smith. 47. W. L. Taylor. 48. Emma H. Thayer. 49. Elihu Vedder. 50. A. C. Warren. 51. J. D. Woodward, 52. R. F. Zogbaum.

Prize Questions Nos. 170 and 171.

Subject: BOOKS OF THE MONTH.

Select books of our monthly list in accordance with the rules on Book Prize Questions printed in this issue. Selections from October issue due November 20; from this issue December 20.

The following rules apply to the Prize Questions on the Books of the Month:

The object of these questions is more particularly to elicit answers as to which of the new books can be safely recommended for reading or study.

The answers shall consist of six titles, selected from the classified list of the "SURVEY OF CURRENT LITERATURE (found in each issue of the LITERARY NEWS), given under two sections, viz.: three titles under A, restricted to Fiction, Humor and Satire, Poetry and the Drama; three under B, selected from the other departments. New editions of books and books mentioned for reference only (usually indicated in list by brackets) are excluded.

The titles should be arranged and numbered under each section, in the order of their estimation by the competitor. The vote on each book is determined by the number of lists which contain it. Thus if a book is found on ten lists, it counts ten. As a full account is given of all the books that receive more than one vote (that is, appear on more than one list), every one can readily estimate the standing of his list by ascertaining the number of votes each of his books received, and adding them up for the total vote.

DESCRIPTION.-American, "Mount Tacoma,"*

by Dr. C. D. Hendrickson; " Cyclopia," by P. D. Nott; "A Dancing Party in Virginia," by John S. Gibbs.-Atlantic, "An Old Road," by Bradford Torrey.-Century," Homes and Haunts of Washington," by Mrs. Burton Harrison; "Mount Vernon as It Is,"* by Mrs. Sophie B. Herrick; "Sugar-Making in Louisiana,' by Eugene V. Smalley.-Eclectic, "Story of Zebehr Pasha, as Told by Himself," by Flora L. Shaw. Harper's, "A Santa Barbara Holiday," by Edwards Roberts; "Chantilly," by Theodore Child; "The Winter Climatic Resorts of Three Continents," by Wm. S. Brown; "The Other End of the Hemisphere," by Wm. E. Curtis.-Lippincott's, "Social Life at Amherst College," by R. S. Rounds.-Scribner's, "In Grand Kabylia," by Henry M. Field; "The Viking Ship," by John S. White.

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL.-Popular Science, "About the Wedding-Ring," by D. R. McAnally.

EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE.-Catholic World, "Leo XIII. and the Catholic University of America;" "A Case of Naturalization," by S. B. Gorman.-Popular Science, “Geikie on the Teaching of Geography," by Frederick A. Fernald.

HISTORICAL.-American, "The Grand Army of the Republic," by Gen. Lucius Fairchild; "The Christening of America," by Abby S. Richardson.-Atlantic, "The Adoption of the Constitution," by John Fiske; Historic Points at Fort George Island," by S. G. W. Benjamin.Century, Grant's Last Campaign,"* by Gen. Horace Porter.-Eclectic, Masaniello."-North American Review, Battle of Petersburg," by Gen. G. T. Beauregard.

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Helped Me," by Brander Matthews; " Caterpillar Critics," by James L. Allen.—Lippincott's,“ Story of a Stanza," by John R. Tait.-North American Review, "Those Wonderful Ciphers," by A. D. Vinton.

NEW SERIAL.-Century, "The Graysons-A Story of Illinois,"* I., by Edward Eggleston; "Au Large," I.,* by Geo. W. Cable.

PHYSICAL SCIENCE. American, "Autumn Flowers," by Sarah F. Goodrich and Edith M. Thomas.-Eclectic," A Fossil Continent."-North "Possibilities of Animal InAmerican Review, telligence," by Wm. H. Ballou.-Popular Science,

"Food and Fibre Plants of North American In

dians," by Dr. J. S. Newberry.--Scribner's Physical Characteristics of the Athlete," by by Dr. D. A. Sargent.

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POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL, AND SOCIOLOGICAL. Atlantic, "The Red Cross," by Helen H. S. Thompson.-Catholic World, "Free Night-Shelter and Bread in Paris," by L. B. Binsse; "Disturbance of the Social Equilibrium," by Willibald Hackner-Century, "The Last Appeal of the Russian Liberals," by Geo. Kennan.--Forum, "Warfare against Society," by F. A. P. Barnard; "Should Fortunes be Limited?" by Edw. T. Peters; Use and Abuse of the Veto Power," by John D. Long; "Is the Negro Vote SuppressBecome a State?" by Geo. T. Curtis.-Harper's, ed?" by Sen. A. H. Colquitt ; Shall Utah The Young Criminal," by Chas. F. Thwing.Lippincott's, The School-Boy as a Microcosm," by John Johnson, Jr.-North American Review, "Possible Presidents: John Sherman ;" "Primitive Simplicity," by Gen. Lloyd Bryce, M.C.; Meehan.-Scribner's, "A Diplomatic Episode," "English Taxation in America," by Thos. F.

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by Olive R. Seward; "What Shall We Tell the Working-Classes?" by Francis A. Walker.

RELIGIOUS AND SPECULATIVE.-Eclectic, " The Service of Man," by P. F. Willert.-Forum, Christianity and Communism," by H. Van Dyke, Jr.

SCIENTIFIC.--Popular Science, “ Agassiz and Evolution," by Prof. Jos. Le Conte; "Specialization in Science," by Prof. G. H. T. Eimer; "Science and Revelation," by Prof. G. G. Stokes; "Astronomy with an Opera-Glass: Stars of Autumn."* by Garrett P. Serviss ; istry of 'Oyster-Fattening,'" by Prof. W. O. Atwater.

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Jewett.-Catholic World, "Three Hundred Dollars and a Cow," by T. F. Galwey.--Century, "A Little Dinner," by Wm. H. Bishop.--Eclectic, 'An Idyl of Ischia."--Harper's, Story of Arnon," by Amélie Rives; "A Man and Two Brothers," by Geo. P. Lathrop.-Lippincott's, "The Terra-Cotta Bust," by Virginia W. Johnson; "A Sketch in Umber," by Arlo Bates.Scribner's, Tirar Y Soult," by Rebecca H. Davis; "A Complete Misunderstanding," by Margaret Crosby.

WOMEN.-Eclectic, " The Age of Woman."

"The earliest glimpses we have of the ugly duckling-an unconventional and apparently unattractive girl who develops into a superior womanare excellent; and there are true and natural touches in the delineation of the forlorn heroine as she appears at the outset, but the whole thing ends somewhat disappointingly and with manifest weakness. Nevertheless, the author shows so much talent that he should be unquestionably heard from again."-London Academy. HATTON, JOS. The great world: a novel; being the confessions and strange experiences of the Hon. Eric Yorke. Harper. 4° (Harper's Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

A story of London and of the double lives led by some of its apparently most respectable people. A great philanthropist turns out a forger, and is discovered to have been connected with the robbery of "The white star," a diamond of a wonderful size found in Africa. A love story, scenes from fashionable life and also from prison life, some detective business, and a criminal trial are the leading incidents.

[HOWARD, BLANCHE WILLIS. Aunt Serena. 25th ed. Ticknor. 16° (Ticknor's pap. ser.) pap., 50 c.] [HOWARD, BLANCHE WILLIS. Tony the maid: a novelette. Harper. 16° $1.]

The characters of importance are Miss Amelia Vanderpool, a lady of uncertain age, and "Tony," her maid. Tony" is a most clever character study, full of fine lines and also a fine humor that seems almost of French origin, in place of being purely American. The scene opens in Luzerne, the whole of the story not straying from Switzerland. Tony's management of her mistress and her affairs and her wise generalship where she herself is concerned are quite new in fiction. [HUGO, VICTOR. Les misérables; from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood. Illustrated ed. Crowell. 5 v., il. 12° $7.50; hf. cf., $15. Same, Popular ed., I v., $1.50.]

To be noticed in our Christmas number. [HUGO, VICTor. Les misérables: from the

First appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, and met with so much favor that this reprint was encouraged. A young Englishman of twenty-five and a French girl just from school are the actors in a romantic love story. After all ends happily the curtains rises for a moment after six years have elapsed and the little glimpse of life given, the author says, is founded on fact.

PEARL, FRANCES MARY. Madame's granddaughter: a novel. Harper. 4° (Harper's Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 15 c.

Notwithstanding the dislike Madame Merrillon inspired she made her marked individuality felt by all who surrounded her. Marcelle, a strong character in herself, so completely succumbs to the elder lady's strange influence that her personality becomes merged in Madame's and she is known as " Madame's granddaughter." Madame Merrillon's ruling passions are greed and sordid meanness; these and remarkable shrewdness befuture and secure Lambert Solignac's fortune; come prime factors in a plot to assure Marcelle's her plan failing, she has recourse to revenge, which causes strange scenes to ensue, and brings about an unexpected termination of the story. PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART. Jack the fisherman with il. by C. W. Reed. Houghton, M. 8° 50 c. First appeared in the June number of the Century. The scene is laid in Fairharbor, which seems to be Gloucester, Essex Co., Mass. Jack was a fisherman and the son of a fisherman. Miss Phelps is a literary artist, but seldom has done so effective a piece of writing as in this realistic picture of the curse of heredity, which is full of humor, tenderness, and irresistible pathos. The illustrations are new and are by C. W. Reed. The binding is a combination of rough paper and white cloth, which is striking.

POOL, MARIA LOUISE. A vacation in a buggy. Putnam. 16° 75 c.

"A very sparkling, entertaining narrative of the adventures of two ladies who started with a buggy and a horse 'warranted sound and kind in all harness,' for a trip through Berkshire. The weather was intensely hot when they started, they had a variety of amusing adventures, and the description of real scenes and towns is very lifelike. It is witty and humorous, but very natural as well. There are ten chapters, which were first written as letters to the N. Y. Evening Post. The two women were very plucky and had a good time, as they surely deserved it."-Hartford Religious

Herald.

& Co. Library ed. $7.50.]

To be noticed in our Christmas number.

JERNINGHAM, HUBERT E. H. Diane de Breteuille: a love story. Harper. 4° (Harper's Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 15 c.

12° $1.25.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

[ROE, E: P. The earth trembled. Dodd, M. 12° $1.50.]

RUTHERFORD, MARK, [pseud. ?] The revolution

in Tanner's Lane; by Mark Rutherford; ed. by his friend Reuben Shapcott. Putnam. 12° $1.25. Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

STOCKTON, FRANK R. The hundredth man. Century Co. 12° $1.50.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Greek, Dutch, and Latin poets, is selected and arranged (and annotated we may add) by Mr. Samuel Waddington; the second, entitled 'Sonnets of this century,' is selected and arranged from the English poets by Mr. William Sharp, who is a poet, in a way, as Mr. Waddington is, and whom we remember as the writer of a memoir of Ros

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

TOLSTOI, Count LEON N. The invaders, and other stories; from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Crowell. 12° $1.25. Contents: The invaders; The wood-cutting expedition; An old acquaintance; Lost on the Steppe, or, the snow-storm; Polikushka; Kholstomir, a story of a horse."

[WALWORTH, JEANNETTE H. Southern silhouettes. Holt. 12° $1.25.]

Sketches of Southern life and characters in ante-bellum days; they were first published in the New York Evening Post. They are "not," the author says, "the work of imagination," "but accurate outlines of actual entities, written with the loving desire to do away with some of the misconceptions that have militated against a true appreciation of what is noblest and best in the people of whom they treat."

WARDEN, F. Scheherazade: a London night's entertainment. Appleton. 16° pap., 25 c. Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

POETRY AND DRAMA.

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Poems. Family ed. Houghton, M. II. 8° $2.50.]

MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE. Garden secrets; with biographical sketch, by Louise Chandler Moulton. Roberts. por. 16° $1.

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The photograph of Mr. Marston, which opens the volume, and the sympathetic sketch of his sad life by Mrs. Moulton, add materially to the value

and interest of this little volume of verse. The young poet's place in literature is too well defined not to gain for this collection the same appreciation in this country it received in England. Mrs. Moulton quotes a letter of Rossetti's in which he wrote: "Only yesterday evening I was reading your 'Garden secrets' to William Bell Scott, who fully agreed with me that it is not too much to say of them that they are worthy of Shakespeare in his subtlest lyrical moods."

MILLER, JOAQUIN. Songs of the Mexican seas. Roberts. 16° $1.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

SONNETS of Europe; a volume of translations, selected and arranged, with notes, by S: Waddington. Whittaker. 24° hf. cl., 75 c. SONNETS of this century; ed. and arranged with a critical introduction on the sonnet by W: Sharp. Whittaker. 24° hf. cl., 75 c.

"Mr. Thomas Whittaker has just published two dainty little companion volumes, which all lovers of poetry will want, not so much for immediate reading, though they are worth that, as permanent additions to their bookshelves. They both deal with a subject which has attracted a good deal of critical comment within the last decade or two-sonnet literature-and which they help to ilustrate fairly. The first, entitled The sonnets of Europe,' an anthology from the Italian, French,

Sonnet, concerning which they have well-defined ideas, Mr. Sharp contributing to this collection an introduction of fifty or sixty pages. No previous editor, except Lofft, ever went so largely into European sonnetry as Mr. Waddington, who has left little or nothing for any subsequent gleaner in the same field. Mr. Sharp's anthology is as good a one on the whole, perhaps, as the materials would allow; if he sins at all it is in the inclusion of rather too many minor poets, who fail to fulfil the conditions of correct sonnetry, but who are probably personal friends, friendship occasionally covering in books like his a multitude of poetic sins. The notes are admirable."—N. Y. Mail and Express.

B-General Literature.

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. BAYNE, P: Martin Luther, his life and work. Cassell. 2 v., 8° $5.

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"An unusually important work is announced by Cassell & Company. It is Martin Luther; the man and his work," by Peter Bayne, LL.D. Dr. Bayne's sympathy is as great as his literary skill. The men and women of whom he writes

are alive. One who has seen the early pages says of this work that it is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive and accurate personal histories of that great promoter of the general democratic movement of modern times, and also a capital record of the notable chapter in spiritual evolution.'"-Buffalo Express.

CONE, HELEN GRAY, and GILDER, Jeannete L., eds. Pen-portraits of literary women by them. selves and others: with biographical sketches by Helen Gray Cone. Cassell. 12° $3.

Mason's "Personal traits of British authors" suggested this work. The arrangement is the same, the contents consisting of extracts from well-known literary biographies and correspondence so arranged as to present a brief view of the

subject's life and work. The introductory biographies with list of works, by Mrs. Cone, are very helpful. The volumes supplement Mr. Mason's work, as they embrace the literary women excluded from his series. The names of the subjects: Hannah More, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin, Mary W. Goodwin, Shelley, Mary Lamb, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austin, Joanna Baillie, Lady Blessington, Mary R. Mitford, Harriet Martineau, George Sand, E. B. Browning, Margaret Fuller, Charlotte and Emily Bronté, and George Eliot. Cox, S: S. The Isles of the Princes; or, the pleasures of Prinkipo. Putnam. Map and il. 12° $2.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

FREITH, H: The seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. Cassell. por. 12° (The world's workers ser.)

notable life, and his many efforts in Parliament and out for the amelioration of the condition of the London poor; but the facts will be found in this volume amply and authentically recorded, and so succinctly that its contents are easily mastered in a few hours' reading.

STONE, JA. S., D.D. The heart of merrie England. Porter & C. 12° $1.75.

"The record of travel of a student and thinker, and addresses the most cultivated taste. It is in the remote midland districts-around Shipstonon-Stour, Oxford, Watlington, Thame, Canterbury, Stratford-on-Avon, Edgehill, and other

HALE, Rev. E: E., ed. Lights of two centuries. Barnes. 12° (Standard biographies.) $1.75. Brief biographies of celebrities in art, literature, and science during the last two centuries; intended principally for the use of schools, but of interest to all readers. Contains the lives of IO artists and sculptors; II prose writers; 10 composers; 10 poets and 9 inventors. Each group illustrated with a page of portraits. "The volume falls into certain general divisions of Artists and sculptors,' Prose writers,' Composers,' 'Poets,' and 'Inventors.' Among the men written of are Watteau, Hogarth, Rey nolds, Canova, Thorwaldsen, Turner, Millet, and Bastien-Lepage; Swift, Voltaire, Rousseau, Scott, Carlyle, Emerson, and Dickens; Bach, Handel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Wagner; Goethe, Schiller, Burns, Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning; Watt, Stephenson, Whitney, Edison, Bell, and many others under each division. There is no special effort made for fine writing or for critical estimates; but the plain facts of their lives, which every one desires to know, are given in clear and simple style, and the result is a book most valuable as a compendium of biography. Illustrated with fifty portraits."-Boston Traveller.

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(English worthies.) 75 c. "The latest contribution to Lang's English worthies' is a memoir by Mowbray Morris of John Graham, Viscount of Dundee, better known by his territorial title of Claverhouse,' who, by the way, is not an English worthy at all, but a genuine Scotsman. Few characters in modern history have been more variously estimated. Called by Scottish Whigs Bloody Claver'se,' by Jacobites 'Bonnie Dundee,' he was held by the one party to conceal under a face of delicate almost feminine beauty, framed in the long, full love locks of the period,' a ruthless and implacable nature; and by the other to combine in perfection the best qualities of the loyal gentleman and soldier. If Mr. Morris has not entirely succeeded in reconciling these opinions, he has given good reasons for supposing that Claverhouse was not the monster depicted by his enemies. When judged by the general manners of the age, he says, the circumstances of the time and his position, he does not appear to have been cruel by nature or careless of human life. One of the most curious, and, at the same time, one of the most indisputable points in the life of this singular man,' he adds, is the contrast between those public actions which have had so large a share in moulding the popular impression, and his private character and conduct,' both of which were almost irreproachable. The narrative is clear, compact, and, on the whole, impartial, and many readers will be glad to see that the hero of Killiecrankie leaves Mr. Morris' hands in no slight degree morally rehabilitated, if not perhaps arrayed in the glowing colors which Aytoun and other panegyrists have portrayed him."-N. Y. Sun.

nature with a poet's love, now attracted by the human, now restoring in imagination old characters, scenes, customs, and lore, and now adorning his thought with recollections from choice books. Thus one may accompany him with the most alin this thither England, the treatment comes near luring intellectual pleasure. To the Englishman, the heart, awakening early and tender memories it may be, or stirring the home feeling which intensifies the English love of kinship, but surely making him the better Englishman, with its knowledge of the spirit and meaning of English country life. With the exception of a few places book of travel, but every place has been dealt all the spots are described for the first time in a with in an entirely original way. The book is bound in the neat style that its contents merit." -Boston Globe.

TOMKINSON, E. M. Sarah Robinson. Agnes Weston, Mrs. Meredith. Cassell. 12° (The world's workers ser.) 50 c.

Short popular biographies of three Englishwomen, whose lives were spent in good works. The first was known as "The soldier's friend," the second as "The sailor's friend," and the third as 'the prisoner's friend." TYLER, MOSES Corr. Patrick Henry. Houghton, M. 16° (American statesmen ser.) $1.25. "Professor Tyler's excellent little book is entitled to be regarded as the first real biography of Patrick Henry that has yet been prepared. The fame of Henry chiefly rests on his fiery speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and he has never yet had the proper popular consideration given him as a statesman of great gifts and usefulness and as an estimable citizen. He has succeeded in making such a representation with regard to Patrick Henry as will remove many of the misapprehensions that have existed with regard to him, and that will do much to give him a greater reputation for statesmanship than he has yet enjoyed. He is particularly successful in representing Henry as something very different from the shiftless and inconsequential man of words which he has too commonly been supposed to have been, and as describing him as a typical Virginian of his time, who was only second to the greatest of the Americans of his period in his abilities, in his services to the public, and in his claims to respect and admiration."—Phila. Evening Telegraph.

DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL, ETC.

CARPENTER, ESTHER BERNON. South-county neighbors. Roberts. 16° $1.

"Eleven short sketches by Esther Bernon Carpenter, all of which have appeared, at different times, in the Providence Journal. They were, however, well worth collating and publishing in their present more durable form. The sketches are peculiarly strong in drawings of characters who flourished in the Narragansett country some forty or fifty years ago. The dialect is handled with skill and discrimination, and the author's style is of that pleasantly confidential