THE LITERARY WORLD. BOSTON, JULY 1, 1876. S. R. CROCKER. EDITOR. Our rates for advertising in this paper are fifteen cents per line for the second, third, and fourth pages of the cover, and seventeen cents per line for the first page. TO SUBSCRIBERS. The expiration of every subscription is indicated in the printed address on the wrapper. Papers are forwarded until an explicit order is received by the publisher for their discontinuance, and until payment of all arrearages is made as required by law. THE REVOLUTION IN BOOKS. moralizing, we frankly expressed an opinion need of special sketches of phases of that life. to that effect, and warned our readers against He has brought the latter within the focus it. Soon came from the author a vitupera- of his historical glass, and the impression protive letter, denouncing our criticism, and im- duced is of a whole nation seen at a glance in puting to us vile motives, even implying that all its attitudes and relations. He has thus we were instigated to disparage the book by anticipated the throng of scribes who counted some enemy of the author. The latter took upon a harvest of dusty reminiscences in the pains to belittle our paper, affirming that it dim archives of the past, leaving them only had no circulation or reputation, and that it meagre gleanings. was called in some quarters a 66 black-mail For this reason, which covers many minor sheet." To these imputations we had but one ones, no writer should turn his steps toward answer, dignified contempt. Finding little the Revolutionary past unless he is sure of profit in abusive letters, the author resorted to bringing back something novel and precious. the public press, and having secured notices We should welcome spirited ballads of those in some obscure papers which embodied puffs troublous times, and finished biographical of the book and offensive reflections on the sketches of its active figures; but the many Literary World, scattered these in the form of namby-pamby novels which drag into halfadvertisements throughout the country. light the men and women of the last century, We do not complain of this act as an injury and array them in unnatural posture and with WE have already referred to the current to ourselves or our paper, but as a wrong in adventitious surroundings, are a burden to revolution in book-making as a signif-the abstract, so far as it is an invasion of the the educated and fastidious reader. We have icant fact. By this revolution, we mean the critic's rights. A publisher — we take pleas-been disappointed in the average quality of ure in saying that, in the case above stated, the Centennial literature thus far issued; the the publishers of the book had no hand in the poets, especially, have failed to do justice to onslaught on ourselves sending a book to a their opportunity. journal for review, submits it absolutely and without conditions to the reviewer's judgment, to be commended or condemned. The author has no relations with the reviewer. By entrusting his book to the publisher, he impliedly instructs the latter to forward its disEng-tribution and sale; and to this end the publisher employs the usual means. By universal consent, the reviewer is permitted to tell what whether this truth be favorable or damaging he believes to be the truth about any book, WE abstinence of publishers from the issue of new books, and the flood of old ones reconstructed, to it. Were it otherwise, where would be the value of literary criticism? how could the public trust to literary reviewers for guidance in the reading and buying of books? Our Thus a chief stimulus to native genius is policy has always been to render an unbiassed withdrawn, and we gradually lapse into a state of indifference to native productions, opinion of all books that are sent to us for notice in this we have been sustained by the and dependence on the source which we have aspired to rival. Even granting that the in-highest literary authorities, and by liberal clination to write is still strong among us, it, despite the malignity of writers who depublic patronage; and we purpose to continue what encouragement does the author find in the present condition of things? He sees original productions crowding the counters of the book stores, while reprints and new editions monopolize the feeble stream of trade. So liberately invite censure. You CENTENNIAL LITERATURE. OU can hardly take up a paper, a magalong as publishers pursue this policy of virzine, or a new book, just now, without entually ignoring living native genius, and imcountering the adjective, if it be an adjective, posing on the reading public books which which heads this paragraph. There are Cenlack the freshness of the present and fail to har- tennial sermons, orations, odes, stories, &c., monize with the universal movement of prog-in such multitude as is almost tedious. This ress and improvement, so long will American literature languish. THE RIGHTS OF THE CRITIC. THE STUDY OF SCIENCE. N reviewing the publications of the last five years, one cannot fail to notice the ever increasing respect that is paid by writers to science in all its departments. This field of knowledge, not long ago the close preserve of the learned few, is now open to the public, ous inquirers. Books on science, if they do and multitudinous has been the influx of curinot rival novels in number, are surely, if slowly, encroaching on the latter's domain; and the day may not be distant when, among the most cultivated classes, at least, the reading of books of fiction will be only an occaWe have not room to sional recreation. speculate as to the consequences of this possible reform; but its probable influence on our ture is the great repository of knowledge, national character it is easy to forecast. Na from whose inexhaustible resources man may draw all information that is needed for his earthly perfection; and his welfare, it is reasonable to assume, will be enhanced in proportion to the extent to which he avails himself of Nature's teachings. The history of the last three centuries goes far to prove this proposition: the enfranchisement of conscience was speedily followed by that of intelligence, and man emerged from darkness into everprofusion is natural enough at this time, when spreading light. The cry that science is hosevery thoughtful person reverts in imagination to "the days that are no more." But it is possible to overdo this retrospective business, and, it seems to us, this error has been Thanks to Mr. Bancroft, who, WE have recently had occasion to vindi- committed. cate the rights of the critic, and our in his compendious and noble history, has experience has suggested some thoughts that almost literally photographed the life of our it may be well to put on record. Finding a forefathers for the twenty-five crucial years book sent to us for review to be grossly de- of our controversy with Britain, there is little tile to religion is growing fainter, and representatives of nearly all the faiths of Christendom join in a welcome to science as an ally, not an enemy. The state of the editor's health compels will be absent during the month of July. him to take a respite from his labors, and he The Literary World for August will be mainly made up by other hands. NOTES AND QUERIES. -“J. E. H.," Altamonte, Fla., informs us that “The Ballad of the Rain,' for which • C. E. B.' inquires in the May number, [that correspondent did not inquire about that poem, but about The Face Against the Pane"], was written by Mrs. Juliet H. E. Campbell, and published in the Home Journal about twenty years ago, when Willis compared it to Poe's Raven." "Also what author is the best Grecian Historian?" This poem, our correspondent adds, was "This is one of those popular sayings, like ." R. E. W.," San Jose, Cal., writes: is its own reward,' that, like Topsey, never Be good and you will be happy,' or, Virtue "In number for May, C. E. B.' writes was born, only jist growed.' your From the earfor information relative to the literary career of Mrs. C. F. Alexander, author of the Burial of Moses.' In a late number of the Dublin University Magazine, in a life of her husband, a bishop or dean of the Episcopal Church in Ireland, a short account is given of Mrs. C. F. Alexander." "B.," Louisville, Ky., writes: "I think that you are wrong. Consistency, thou art a jewel,' undoubtedly comes from an old Scotch' song, in Muirhead's Collection. In that song, a Scotchman is endeavoring to persuade a girl to marry him, that would be in harmony with her life, instead of looking to marriage with one so much above her. In that song, while speaking of pictures in frames far beyond any thing she had seen, he uses the phrase, A jewel consistency is;' and from that we derive the phrase." 6 liest times, it has been the popular tendency to "Learned, and loving learning well; Mid easy converse, polish'd, blithe, and boon, Our correspondent only repeats a story that was long ago set aside as untrustworthy. It is like the ingenious fiction of "The Greenwich Magazine for Marines," of 1704. Now, "H. B. T.," Prairie City, Ill., writes: did our correspondent ever see "Muirhead's "Do you have back numbers of the World on Collection"? Did he ever know any one who hand? The Index in the last issue reminded had seen it? Does he know when and where it me that I lack several numbers of Vol. 6. was published? Will he help us to a sight of I find it just the thing to keep me posted on it? We have sought in vain in "Phillips's current literature, and am gratified to know Biographical Dictionary," Allibone's, and there is one magazine that preserves its indeother works of like character, for the name of pendence in reviewing. Please inform me, Muirhead in a poetical connection. There are Notes and Queries,' the price of the cheapa dozen theories as to the origin of the phrase, est form of Michelet's France,' in French." and most of them are quite as plausible as our A complete edition of Michelet's "France," correspondent's. If he will prove to us that in twenty-four volumes, paper, will cost here "Fetching Water from the Well' is to be found in William Cullen Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song,' among the anonymous poems." 66 "G. J. S.," Vicksburg, Miss., asks: 'Who is the author of a poem which begins: "There is no death; the stars go down '?" Our correspondent must have had in mind the stanza of Longfellow's "Resignation," which reads, "There is no death: what seems so is transition; Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, —“ J. G. R.” Boston, writes: "Will you kindly inform me, if possible, through the columns of the World, if there has ever been a life of Paul Revere published; or, the title of any book which has any thing like an extended account of his life and his services during the Revolution?" The most extended notice of Revere, of which we have any knowledge, was written by Mr. Buckingham, and may be found in the Annals of the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association, Boston, 1853, or in its in supplement. reference, but who will find the book? Until Also, a good history or manual of French some one can do this, it is simple folly to cite literature.' The same correspondent questions our statement that Mr. Calvert had no historical warrant for representing Benedict Arnold's "Van," Clinton, Iowa, writes: "Will wife as portraying the advantages of an you please state in your next number who the espousal of the British cause, and refers us person is who contributes a great deal for to Parton's "Burr." "H. A. B." must have a Harper's Weekly and Monthly, and signs Eu- queer idea of historical authority; Parton's gene Lawrence?' Is it not an assumed name?" statements, in cases where imagination may be Our correspondent will find an answer serviceable, are about as trustworthy as his under the head of Literary News. judgment of the Massachusetts marriage law. -"H. C. W.," Savannah, Ga., writes: "Through my friends, John M. Cooper & Co., of this city, I enjoy monthly your valuable Literary World. The justness and independence of your criticisms, with the judicious extracts given, constitute its merit, and enable the student, or book-reader, to select his literary aliment with judgment. I regard the Literary World as a necessity for a library, public or private. "Fifty years ago, when a small boy at school, I accidentally came across a number of a magazine published in Philadelphia, called, I think, The Casket,' but of the name I will not be positive. In it, however, I read some lines, that so impressed themselves upon my boyish homesickness (for we had no ocean steamers nor railroads in those days, and letters were twenty-five cents the one-half ounce), the opening lines of which have mained with me through life, as follows: "There is a bond that spirits know, A spell that binds the soul; Oceans may flow, or deserts roll, But far as pole from pole, Love, love its living watch will keep, 66 first chapter is mainly occupied by an account in bad taste, but absurd: “ To Alfred Tennyof the drift-deposits in France, and contains son, who, had he not elected to be the greatest The climate of poet of his time, might easily have become its but little matter that is new. Europe, the author thinks, was much colder at greatest critic." The blunder is in the use of the date of these deposits than it is now: yet the elected." Did Shakespeare "elect " to be discovery of bones of the cave-lion, elephant, the greatest dramatist of the world? If Mr. and other natives of a warm region, would seem Fleay is right, then Providence is relieved of to favor a contrary view. This chapter in- all responsibility as to the careers of mortals. cludes a summary of the discoveries of Boucher Will he give us the date of Tennyson's de Perthes and others on the river Somme, in election? With this blundering start, he beFrance, and minute descriptions of the ani- gins the compilation of a learned and useful mals coexistent with man during the drift. book, which must be, indeed, indispensable to The old story of the Tungusian hunter and all students of Shakespeare and the early Enghis mammoth is reproduced. It seems that lish drama. We are glad, by the way, to note the race of aurochs of the old time is still rep- his adoption of what we deem the only correct resented on the earth; the Russian govern- form of Shakespeare's name. The author's ment has preserved a herd, numbering several biography of him contains nothing new, and hundred at last accounts, in a forest of Lith- omits much of the stock material. He prouania. The author says of these animals, pounds a theory as to Shakespeare's marriage, a few also occur wild in the Caucasus moun- which is injurious to Anne Hathaway, and for tains." The verb is felicitous-run at. In which he gives no grounds whatever. The value the second chapter, a very interesting account of the work is mainly in its statistics and its of the exploration of caves in several Euro- extracts from the literature of Shakespeare's pean countries is given. The author's expla- time, in which allusion is made to him. The re-nation of stalactites and stalagmites seems notes to the plays are full of interesting matunnecessary. To the Troglodytes two chapter, but the author's dicta as to the authenters are given, probably the most entertain- ticity of the plays seem often very summary. ing in the book. The author rejects Ovid's His judgment of Henry VI. is a case idea of the Paradisaic happiness of primitive point."Romeo and Juliet." he says, is man, and assigns to the latter the position of " certainly Shakespeare's earliest tragedy." a savage far below the Pawnee. This work, Shakespeare makes Cæsar be killed in the though fragmentary, is useful, and gives one Capitol" sounds odd. The Taming of the a good general idea of what has been learned Shrew" the author credits to Shakespeare and (or assumed) about primitive man. It con- Marlowe. A list is given of twelve plays tains many illustrations, and is printed from which have been attributed to Shakespeare, large, clear type. [Harper & Brothers; but are, the author says, spurious. TheatreLockwood, Brooks, & Co.] goers will enjoy the brief account of a play at the " Curtain," in 1596, and the annals of the stage from 1584 to 1595. [Macmillan & Co.] Smile with our smile, or with our anguish weep.' "These are all I remember. Perhaps circumstances may have invested the lines with more interest than they really merited, in my young mind. Still the sexagenarian would like to see them again as one of the pleasures of his youth. Can you, or any one of your readers, say by whom they were written, and where to be found? "You are a little hard on Macaulay, but we must recollect that egotism is almost inseparable from greatness.” "E. J. McD.," Chicago, asks where he can find the poem which contains the sentiment, "Off with the old love before you are on with the new." We must refer him to our correspondents. MINOR BOOK NOTICES. 66 in -The Fall of the Stuarts, and Western Europe from 1678 to 1697, has been added to "Epochs of History." It is the work of Rev. - We can think of no question of more Edward Hale, who is not a brilliant writer. general interest than " Is Eternal Punishment He gives, considering his title, far too much Endless ?" which is the title of a very small, space to affairs on the Continent, and his nar- but important, volume. It was written, says rative of events in England is rigorously con- the author, who is an Orthodox clergyman, cise. But the book conveys a reasonably for the eye of a lady curious as to the belief clear idea of the causes which led to the due from her touching the future state. We downfall of the Stuarts. In its characteriza- can believe that she was comforted by her tion of the principal figures of the time, it is teacher's conclusions, but are skeptical as to deficient, the author's portrait of William her enjoyment of the processes thereto, for of Orange being meagre. We find in it, these are very theological, hermeneutical, however, many important facts not familiar to indeed, and that's worse. The whole grand the average reader; the origin of the habeas question, are the wicked to be damned and corpus act, for instance, in 1679, and of the tortured for ever, - that is, for a period which names Whig and Tory. The first was orig- has a beginning but no end, this question inally applied to Scotch Covenanters, and in turns on an ordinary and harmless-looking Galloway was a synonyme of sour whey. Greek adjective, known as átóvtov, which the Tory was borrowed from the wildest Irish author translates conian. The meaning usuoutlaws. Many of the Cameronians were cru- ally given to it in English theology is eternity. elly persecuted by the Duke of York, in 1680; The author denies that this meaning is by any those who were not executed being sent to means general, and enforces his denial by "the Plantations," which was equivalent to many quotations from the Scriptures, showing slavery, or to a regiment in the Spanish that conian sometimes means a long time, service. There are some blunders in the book. sometimes a short time, and, again, a period On page 193, we read that " Ginkell, an ex- not longer than a spasm. The discussion of perienced Dutch officer, had been placed by this word will no doubt be keenly enjoyed William under command of the English," &c. by students of theology; but we have found Corruption reigned in British political circles it advisable to skip the processes and seize in 1695, as it now reigns in American. The the conclusions. We examined the evidence Speaker of the House of Commons, confessing adduced sufficiently, however, to warrant the the receipt of bribes, was expelled from the opinion that the author has the best of the House. Of course, a little volume of 248 controversy. He gives the great theological pages cannot furnish a satisfactory sketch of authorities - Prof. Stuart, Dr. Hodge, Prof. twenty years of English and Continental his- Bartlett, and others what a contemporary tory; but, as far it goes, this work is remu- aptly calls a dig," the pertinence and penenerative. The narrative of the struggle of trating power of which are admirable. The the allies against Louis XIV., though frag- great Dr. Hodge (or Hoge) makes the dolementary, is interesting. [Scribner, Arm- ful declaration that "we have, therefore, the strong, & Co.] direct assertion of the Word of God that the sufferings of the lost are unending; on which the author snaps out, **A more founded statement could hardly be made." Prof. Charles Rau's papers on "Early Man in Europe," which originally appeared in Harper's Monthly, are now published in an octavo volume. They do not purport to record original investigations, but are rather a summary of recent discoveries, and furnish a mass of general knowledge touching early Man, that will suffice for the average reader. In the five chapters of the book are treated The Drift, The Caves, the Troglodytes (in two chapters), Kitchen-Middens and Lake Settlements, Neolithic Implements. The author shows that the Stone Age was not a fixed and common period to all existing races, but that while it prevailed in one part of the world, the Age of Metal may have been in progress in another. The comparative advancement of the North American tribes, and of the Mexicans and Peruvians, is cited in proof of this proposition. The use of iron on this continent dates back no farther than the arrival here of European colonists. The “ - Mr. F. G. Fleay's dedication of his Shakespeare Manual” seems to us not only 66 un His final conclusion about the word is: "To affirm that it always implies duration without end, is as contrary to fact as to affirm that it never does." In the second chapter, it is questioned whether the misery of the wicked in the future state this state being assumed to be a finality - is relative or absolute. The author argues vigorously in favor of the relative condition, sharply examining the famous passage, Matthew xxv. 46. There is much good criticism in the book, and much good sense; but, while it will either anger or fascinate the theologian, it can hardly attract the general reader. It is an argument for schools, not for the unlearned masses. [Lockwood, Brooks, & Co.] 66 We have had pleasure in praising "Susan Coolidge's" "What Katy Did," &c., and are favorably impressed by her new volume, For Summer Afternoons; but it must be pronounced inferior to its predecessors. Most of the stories that occupy its pages are bright, natural, and pleasing; but "Edson's Mother" is repulsive, almost coarse; and "The Gibraltars" is commonplace. In "Lota's Missionary Field," we find a sharp, and, no doubt, in former times well deserved, satire on the practice, at a well-known seminary, of parading the young ladies in presence of missionaries looking for wives as a part of their outfit. We know one lady who got a husband of rather poor quality, by the way in this manner; but the usage has been virtually abandoned. "An Easter-Egg" is a very pretty story, that leaves a pleasant impression in the reader's mind. Martin" is quite touching. In "A Camp-Meeting Idyl," a pair of lovers exchange vows while kneeling to be prayed for, -a very daring coup de theatre. Blue Beard" is a lesson for "nagging" husbands, which ought to be supplemented by a lesson for wives who have the same habit. Several poems are scattered through the volume. In one In Time of Solstice" is this rather obscure passage: "Sweet airs, sweet harmonies of hues, Surround, caress me everywhere; The magic of the dusk and dews, My senses steal, my reason wooes, And sings a lullaby to care." 66 The last three lines present a singular ambiguity as to subjects and predicates. [Roberts Brothers.] Against Fate," by Mrs. M. L. Rayne, is one of those books which illustrate the policy of doing evil that good may come. It is the story of a young country girl, who wins the admiration of a gay young man from the city. He contrives to have her seek employment there, and ruins her. The narrative of her career is painful, and its moral is weighty, or would be if the meretricious character of the action did not blind the reader's eyes to it. Some of the scenes are too high-colored for the pure-minded, and the general effect of the book is unwholesome. It has considerable dramatic power and literary merit; but we cannot commend it. [W. B. Keen, Cooke, & Co.] - Two volumes have recently been added to Osgood's neat and handy series of Mr. Emerson's writings,- The Essays, First Series, and Miscellanies. The first contains some of the author's best essays; the second, his public addresses. A woman's name is seldom found on the title-page of a work so practical as "Two Years in California," by Mary Cone. She seems to have traversed that State with the determination to see every thing that was worth seeing, giving the preference to material subjects. She writes intelligently of the climate, agriculture, the Chinese question, &c., and has made a very instructive book. [S. C. Griggs & Co.] sible for the growth and consequences of not of a high order of merit, is readable. 66 - Several papers on religious topics, written by George S. Merriam, have been collected in a volume called "The Living Faith." They are short, clearly written, and eminently practical. Mr. Merriam is a man of liberal views, and earnest in the cause of true religion. We would specially commend the essay on " Religion in the Future," in which his general policy is outlined. He looks forward to the time when "it will be recognized that to think with perfect honesty that is, with perfect freedom is not only a right, but a Christian duty. When that is fully understood, exclusion from the Church for opinions will be unknown." The essay on Neglect of Worship" is rich in important truths and suggestions. In it is the point that men of to-day do not go to Church to be instructed, but to exercise themselves in devotion, a point which he expounds with great felicity. These essays are suited to all classes, and are especially admirable for their simplicity. [Lockwood, Brooks, & Co.] 66 - Mr. George H. Calvert is one of the most persevering American writers of verse. His -The new edition of Ralph Waldo Emer- poems breathe a truly patriotic spirit, and son's works is in all respects attractive, though thus make a claim on the people even stronger some readers might dispute the clearness of than that of those who have higher quarters on the type. As to its literary value, it is too Parnassus. His latest volume is in a patriotic late to urge an opinion. His writings are ever vein, and is called "The Nation's Birth, and fresh; indeed, improving with age, and the Other National Poems." In the first, the two volumes just issued: "The Conduct of course of the colonists is traced in the career Life," and Society and Solitude," represent of Washington, who is made the moving spirit some of the best efforts of his mind. Fate" of the Revolution, and to whom the author the opening essay of the first-named volume, pays eloquent and deserved tributes. The we have always regarded as one of his most metre is irregular, and not always musical; but characteristic and substantial essays. The the effect of the poem is elevating. A shorter pages 14-23 are hardly equalled by any pas- poem on Washington embodies a touching insages of equal length in our literature in hard cident of respect to his memory by a British sense and suggestiveness. [J. R. Osgood & naval officer. [Lee & Shepard.] Co.] 66 -All Miss Coolidge's books have been "A Century of Gossip," by Willard G. popular and deservedly so, though none of Nash, is a sketch of life in a rural town of her later ones have been equal in merit to "A Maine. It is vivid and reasonably faithful to New Year's Bargain," and "What Katy real life, though some of the personages are Did." "For Summer Afternoons," comprises exaggerated. The principal character is thirteen short stories, most of which are very Deacon Wells, a compound of all human vil- bright and good, Lota's Missionary lanies, which are illustrated in his conduct Field," The Gibraltars," Blue Beard," and with considerable skill; but we know enough Polly's Pies" being, perhaps, the best. Mr. Simeon Nash is not, we think, of Maine to convince us that no man so vile" Edson's Mother" we do not like; it is coarse widely known as an author, but there is com- would be tolerated as a church-officer in any and repulsive; jesting about death is never mon-sense and wisdom enough in his Crime town of that State. There is a good deal of in good taste. [Roberts Brothers.] and the Family" to furnish a score of volumes humor in the book, generally coarse; but some of average weight. He writes with a deep of the anecdotes are very funny, and rustic insight, with sympathetic earnestness, and a characteristics are set forth with singular sharpprofound sense of the importance of his sub-ness. There is a love-story, in which a project, and gives ample evidence that he has digious young lawyer, son of the Deacon, studied it à fond. He finds the origin of champions an oppressed orphan girl, and, of crime in the family, and holds parents respon-course, has his reward. The book, though 64 "The Atonement of Leam Dundas," by Mrs. E. Lynn Linton, is one of the most powerful novels of the day; in brilliancy and effectiveness of plot it is surpassed by no recent work of fiction; and in point of portraiture it is wonderful. Reginald Dundas, one of the aristocratic residents of a remote probable, are yet possible. The opening of the called "The Chinese Problem." They conEnglish neighborhood, brings home a Spanish story is dramatic, and enfolds the secret of the stitute an earnest protest against the increasing wife, whose nature proves to be hardly better mysteries that are to follow. Staunton, a man proscriptive spirit manifested by Californians than Satanic. An adventuress arrives in of the world, and long a foreign resident, find- against resident Chinese. He shows that town, representing herself as a Marquise, and ing himself near death, sends for Miss Morgan, treaty obligations compel us to receive these fascinates almost every member of the high a lady whom he had loved in youth, and to her strangers, and grant them their rights; that society. Dundas, who hates and with good hands entrusts his young daughter, Delphine. they are industrious, prudent, and, in effect, reason-his Spanish wife, falls desperately in When the latter approaches womanhood, a set a worthy example to men of other races. love with the new-comer, and takes her into woman, apparently French, comes and claims As to their filthy habits of life and anti-sanitary his house as governess for Leam- his wife to be the child's mother. Her story is strongly practices, Prof. Townsend pertinently sughaving suddenly died. She soon brings him supported, and, despite her maternal title, she gests that the task of curing these falls on the to her feet, and they are married; but their is, strangely enough, permitted to become the very people who cry out against them. The wedded bliss is brief, for Leam, the Spaniard's child's teacher. Max, Miss Morgan's brother, pamphlet contains much information as to the daughter, poisons her stepmother. The lat- has fallen in love with Delphine, which fact efforts that have been made to ameliorate ter left a little daughter, Fina, whom Dundas lends a new measure of interest to the com- the condition of the Chinese. The problem is adopted. By and by, Major Edgar Har-plication. A Frenchman - the strange wo- a grave one, and the author has thrown a rowby, the magnate of the community, comes man's accomplice - comes on the stage, and strong light on it. [Lee & Shepard.] home, and is generally expected to marry Ad- the course of action, which eventuates in the elaide, the daughter of Dr. Birkett, the rector. exposure of the criminals and the marriage of But he catches a glimpse of Leam, now grown the young lovers, constitutes the body of the into an exquisitely lovely woman, and makes story. We should be glad to notice it more desperate love to her. When he declares his at length; but, for want of space, can only passion, she stuns him with the avowal that commend it as natural, rapid, and impressive she has murder on her soul. She disappears, in movement, and quite ingenious in the conand, in due time, he marries Adelaide. Trav-ception and development of its plot. We are elling in Scotland, the unloving pair encounter glad to commend its purity at this time when the missing girl, whom death soon snatches vice is exalted in feigned essays on behalf of from a life of trouble. The episode of Alick virtue, by female writers of fiction. [W. F. Corbett, a boy who has loved Leam from her Gill & Co.] childhood, contributes a strong element of pathos to the story, which, though distinctively material, is intensely interesting. The relations of Edgar with the poisoned Marquise may easily be guessed at. [J. B. Lippincott & Co.] 66 Philadelphia and its Environs" is a guide-book remarkable for the number and excellence of its illustrations. By its help, one can get a fair idea of the appearance of the city and the Exposition buildings, not being within physical view of them. [Lippincott & Co.] a - E. E. White's "Manual of Arithmetic " is designed to accompany the Graded-school Arithmetics. It comprises two parts the first elementary, and the second devoted to the so"A Story of Three Sisters," by Cecil lution of the more difficult problems in the Maxwell, has not a little merit, but is not en- author's higher books. It illustrates what is titled to high praise. It is evidently the work called the natural method of teaching, of an inexperienced writer, who lacks the union of the analytic and inductive methods, knack of writing rather than the material. the peculiarities of which are clearly deThe scene is laid in an English country-town, fined. The exposition of this method is very The fourth edition of "Bachelder's Pop- the tameness of whose ever-present life and interesting, and will reasonably command the ular Resorts and How to Reach Them" has scenery is rather wearisome. The characters, attention of teachers. The gradation of the just been issued by Mr. Bachelder, whose with one or two exceptions, are commonplace, lessons seems to be judicious and fitted to office is at Lee & Shepard's. It contains and the finale is sad and disappointing. Pa- lead the learner by easy steps to a thorough plans of thirty-two routes, which cover almost mela and Harold have well-defined individu- acquaintance with arithmetic. [Wilson, Hinevery section of the country; and many illus-ality; their attachment, though suppressed on kle, & Co.] trations add to its usefulness and value. both sides, is sincere, and poetic justice should have conciliated the reader's desire to see The next volume in Holt & Co.'s Leisure - Miss Fischer (Christian Reid) has fa- them happily united. But Pamela dumbly Hour Series will be “Ida Craven," a story of vored the public with a novel bearing the yields to the persuasions of her sordid grand- life in India, by Mrs. Cadell. Harper & paradoxical title of "The Land of the Sky." mother and inert father, and promises her Brothers will presently publish It is a narrative of the adventures of some hand to George, the boyish son of Lord Lyn- Carrier," by Blockmore. tourists in the mountain regions of North Car-ton. He is an honorable young fellow, and, olina, and is as volatile as floating island," seeing unmistakable evidence that Pamela though not unpleasant reading. There are loves Harold better than himself, abandons two or three young couples in the party, who his claim. Harold, who, believing that Pamake love after the usual fashion; there are mela was to be Mrs. Lynton, had married a jealousies and wanton flirtations; there are perils and promenades; anger, fun, tears, and laughter; in fine, all the vicissitudes of a tourist's experience in a rough, but romantic, region. The book is of light weight, but it will pleasantly while away an hour or two. [D. Appleton & Co.; Lee & Shepard.] 66 66 poor girl in pity, plunging into the river, saves Miss Lucy Larcom has compiled a pretty - No. VIII., in the Science Primer Series, volume of verse, which will be a welcome treats of Botany, the author being J. D. companion to the summer tourist. It is called Hooker. It is quite elementary, but is valuRoadside Poems," and has a neat dress, able as a preparative for the learner. It conwith a red-line title-page. The poems tell of tains sixty-eight illustrations, and a full index natural scenery, mountains being especially of plants to be used in the process of instrucfavored; but sea and sky, and sun and flow- tion. [D. Appleton & Co.] ers, and forests and fairies have reverence; and through the pages Nature smiles with all -The revised, two-volume edition of Dr. her faces. The selection seems to be judi- John W. Draper's "History of the Intellectcious, American writers having a generous ual Development of Europe" will receive a representation. The general effect of the hearty welcome. This work long ago became collection would be improved by the introduc- standard, and its merit has recently been rection of a few lighter, more riant pieces. [J.ognized by the American Academy of Science R. Osgood & Co.] in the bestowal on its author of the Rumford medal. Its character is too well known to Miss Haderman's new story, "Heavy require explanation at this day. [Harper & Yokes," contains the essential elements of Brothers; Lockwood, Brooks, & Co.] exciting fiction in full measure. Nearly all human passions are illustrated in its pages -Several papers written by Prof. L. T. through a series of events, which, though not Townsend have been published in a pamphlet, 66 66 Cripps, the Mr. Rolfe's edition of Thomas Gray's Select Poems gives evidence of his careful study of earlier editions. He seems dissatisfied with these, but generally contents himself with affirming their faultiness. The selections are only seven in number, including, of course, the Elegy "On a Distant Prospect," &c.; 'On the Death of a Favorite Cat," &c. His notes are quite profuse. He does not quote, we notice, Dr. Johnson's words about the ode on the Prospect of Eton College," — very bitter and Johnsonian words they are. Wordsworth once tried to show that the language of the Elegy is unintelligible. As a small specimen of Gray's Poems, this pretty volume is valuable; but we question the policy of restricting the great poets to so inadequate a representation. [Harper & Brothers; Lockwood, Brooks, & Co.] 66 -A most fitting and timely collection of verse is "Morning Songs of American Freedom," by C. F. Orne. The poems treat of nothing outside of American history, and mainly of events of the Revolutionary War. One of the best of them is "The Minute-Men of Barnstable," in which the spirit of the volunteers has a firm, yet subdued, expression. These opening stanzas are full of feeling: "The news came down to Barnstable, |