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regs " uTho Fronoh Revolutionary Epooh CODs0L] e t # people,? says Mr. Arnold, & very unambltious Xl B s g | Harver & Bros, Prleo, $1.25) making of the most fageaut deseriotion, 1 iuat | WL 500Ul of nowt of tho dusck | & vaper read by Mr. Uoory, 14 Huslbut ber erc b hms’ partly surrendere deweator, we sould say thal this task hadbeen | pitios proposed fu education s that they aro far ffiro the Lh(cml n‘na;-m_l l!l‘udchv Jct, 15 on < tlon, “snd " hbis later poems FRENCI REVOLUTIONARY EPOCIL | oxcellontly dono, 1t would be ditlleult to find | togambitions.t, T Ay DL Il Rt s ' fanseo the full copass and the richucss of his ly understood. If the attempt 3 : Jeader at srticle ou * An lmperial Conaplrator " Lt gained jn dopthe Wa do not blams Danto | o usyer Pgey oot 1t B ot airendy, uoeept tor fwell the | Nazoa of gbsoleto interest. " New York: Henry o . that he 15 you Aliferd also. (:’,,.tfi“,:‘.fi.'.‘:,“l"‘i?'.{’ul!}“fé’é'n."'lnf}?‘:fifi":‘rfi'fi “t"i""“m. of debata 1 the flouse of Commons | Holt & Co. Large Lo Yrice, $1.75, Pu. | (Princa Jeromo Bunaparte), “The American % 5 HIS CHICAGO TRIBUN udy 'sont of dous T ectionof this from the Begtnning of the | flections as to the conrse of LITERATURD- kind of study js seen In the absolnte ueurary of rench Revolatlon to the End of the Bee- [ new adin ration, Itls am 2 nt th Desert, and tin By p his descriptions of mature. (*Worgsworth: A | ond Emofre. Ry llentl Van Lauo, In two | tance of thue to read the anthor’s enthuainstic | LL.D., Professor of Biblial Leamning i the Blographic, Esthete Study." By (icorge Cal- | volumes, New York: 1. Appleton & Co. | approval of the nolicy of the Britfah Govern- | U Theologleal Seminary, New York. Amer- vert. Boston: Iee & Bhepard,) MACLEOD OF DARE. Mr, Biack’s new noyel, * Macleod of Dare,” 15 not aimply tha best thing hio has ever written; if it were Lbat only it would lhave importance fora large circle of readers; but it Is also, If we mistoke not, the best novel proauced by suy Englisn writer sinee **Daniel Deronda.” 1t fs difMcult ‘(o determino precisely in what the charm of the new hook consists. Its scenery and types of character are familiar, Tho story proceeds throush at Jeast threc-quarters of tho valume ! ulte a conventional way. The action fs ot times cven sluguish. Terhaps the first nolablo fentdre fs tho author's strong pre- Raphaelitisn, _ His suen and women act and talk mswe fccl surc men aud women of cer- taln common temnperaments would act and talk under’ glinllar_clrcuinstances, ‘This method re. celves s shock amounting nimust to disnster at the end of the volume; but, when it is all over, tha vinlence done one's feelings 8 not so creat a8 might have been supposed, We are obllzed to of Macleod's actlon at the end, “ This s madness' ; but, because the action Is no longer rational, we do not hold it down to the laws _of ruvason. Another secret of Mr. Dinck'a success s the contrast of two civilizations and socla) codes which he at- forde, For his herolne he has selected a lavor- jte London actress; for his hero, a ITighland chieftain, nccnstotned to the forms of noiite sou ety, it {8 true, but compuratively uns=chooled in hlg feclings. The one s ul W. McD. Price, £3.50,) ment in acquiring Cspras. We have lcearncd #ince his words were written that ncitheras ‘‘an outpast for the defense of the Suez Canal,” nor as **a protection of the Aslatic terminus of a vossibly future Eupbrates Valfley Hailw: Crprus likely to be of much valie to th Brit- ish Uovernment. ‘This one ot Mr. Lang's sentences reads oddly now: ““The Ormness of British nllglom-cy (at Berltn] was rewarded wath verhaps the moft_ brillant success recorded in history.” Lord Beaconsticld himsell would be hb{my to belicva this, Mr. T.ang hail some practical expericncs of sgriculture n Cyprie. He Juased 1,000 acres, and cultivated part of jLfof ten years. In apits ol twn seara of severe drought, and rescral visiie from locusts, he cleared 8 per eent on his investment, and a_profit of 84,500, 1f he had been able to farin three thmea ag much tand as b did, which ho advises an the best jlan, and to give his personal su- perviaton to the work, dispensing with salarics of sclerk and steward, he would have clearea many tines this stnount. The Jocusts are tow practically exterminated, thanks to the effurts of a late Governor, and It Irrigation worke sre generally Intrixiuced, wa they casily may be, there serms no reason to aporehend bad years for the future. Mr, Lang suffered from the In- capacity of native workmen to uss improved agrleuitural hinplements. He was obligel to return to the primitive ways of the Cyoriotes, In threabing, snnll stoncs are mixed with the graln, so that Engllsh inilless will not have it ot ooy price. A reémedy fot this cannot be found” in the use of * improved threshing- machines, because they leave the straw fn gach a conditton that the cattle, strange to say, will fcan Tract Rovlety, No. 150 Nassau street, New York.) MODERN FRENCIIMEN. Phitlo Gitbert Hamertan's * Modern French- men " includes the Liographies of five eminent nen,—Victor Jacquement, traveler and nator- alist; fenr! Pevreyve, ecclestastic snd orator: Fruncls Rude, sculptor; Jesn Jacques Ampere, blstorian, srchmologist, travelur; Henrl Reg- nault, painterand patriot. These were all Roman- fats. Mr. 1lamerton notlees thisfact In a depre- eatory Mitle preface, as if 1t were necessary fo soften Ameriean prejudice on this seconnt. He {udnu s perhans poorly, and juages not well, Of the five persous mentioned, Mr. Hamerton scleets Rude as alone deserving the epithet *great.’” One or two others of his subjects would probably have deserved Ity ho adds, if they had_ lived bevond middle lfe, Jacyue. mant would havoatouned to indisputable erea nesd Iu sclence, and Hegnault sronld bave taken a great rank in art. Perregye was evidently not a man of great Intellect. “The little tist of five, Me. Ifamer:on explaine, does nat hiy any mesns exhaust the catalorue of modern” Freochinen whose lives he would willlnglv write. It would Le easy to vompose knother volume about other Frenclitaen nnt _fuferlor to these. (** Modern Frenchmen.” Fywve Blograpmes. By Phillp (ifibert flamerton, Boston: Raberts Brothera, Teice, $2.) up Study of Wordsworth” “Macleod of Dare,” by William Black. MADELINE. Jansen, McClurg & Co. have added to their interesting serfes of Taleafrom Forelzn Tonzues astory of French love. There Is somé aporo- pristeness n this selection. * Memories,’ it will be remembored, was a story of German love, * tirazlella' s story of Italian love, and ' Marie? & story of Russlan love. Madeline fs worthy, for its Intrinsic merit. to rank with the other numbers of the eeries. The .suthor I8 Jules Bundeau. The work has heen erowned by the French Academs, snd (¢ ts temarka- bie for its purity of thought and dlction, for the {dylfic tendernens which pervades it, and for the sunple pathos of its namative. Thu modern French writers of fictfon seem to o pointing nuw uninfatakably towaris a revival of decency; and, If this 14 80, the cxample of Nan- deau 18 largely the cause of It 1o bas shown that it 18 pustible nut unly to writs a pure noyel n French, but to write one which shall have u high mural aitn, and not he laughed at, The sonrces from which Sandeau has drawn much of his inapiration would not be difficult to point out. Oncof his characters fn the midat of his wretchedness reads * The Viear of Wake- field"’; and wu scem at onco to know wlicre Sandeau learned to sdwire simplicity of stvle and story, The hero Is at tinies perfiously ucar being a second Werther, with mtch of thst in- sensate fondness for platoling and killing one- self whicn (foethe introduced and made fash- lanable, ‘Thera {8, aain, In ke nituation of ..."" Modeline," by Jules ] Sandeau. “grators and Oratory,” by William Mathews—" Cyprus,” by R. IL. Lang. Johnson and Johnson's Livess: Modern Frenchmene-s=The American Catalogue. A STUDY OF WORDSWORTH. We cannot speak o uutneasured prase of e, Calvert's “Study of Wordsworth.” 14 fs, however, quite appreciative, ‘The suthor s ’ THE AMERICAN CATALOGUE. The first part of the long-vromiked ** Amer- g, flekle, fidv- | v)a herolne nnd her devoted attachment fean Cstalogrue,”? undertaken by Mr. Leypol e s sanant erents In | Haln oalepoien, ‘i sarment” Each Clnnciar | 10, VT, SN 20 BEIC O ol tot tous e, a1 e | L lruct. Toe gl of the casiogue 1 And it ts iy o . ; house, which leads her to follow | yearly perfected machine for L " % 0 {s Incompreticosible to the other, I(‘* knes i) nearly y el & machiy for separat- | to rive descriptive titles of Amerlean books (In- Wordvorti's lfe aro tmbeddea in & mass of | I8 Incompreicusible 1o bue oier, L M KOG | and save him. something that reminds one | ing and cutting straw,.and he (hinks | cluding reprints of Euglish worics and tmpotted irrealstibly of an older und moro famous story told by inany wtiters, hut by none more power- fully than oy Willlsm dnakspeare In **All's Wefl that Ends Well.”! — We sre not snying, hutvever, that Sandeau lins gone consciously Lo these sources, ur to muy other save hils own imagination, for Nhis materlal. He has drawn only st the wuost upon tho world's stock l' and he wordy disquisition which we presume s meant tabo esthetic. Mr. Calvert Informs us In verse and In prose that hie had the pleastre of shak- jog bands with Wordawarth, and of speakiug to bim more than once. Tho verso gives us the {mpreszion Lhat he enjoyed s conslderable me areof converse and friendsbip with Words- this task s’ casily possible of achievement. With reward to tho climate, Mt. Lang, who, It will already have been percelved, I8 a prejudiced withess, streaks in the most seassuring terms. 1t 14 true that au Englishman cunnot go there without constiderable risk durine the summer menths of eatching fever and ague, **But to woulil not trifle witn him. What can bs more sugyestive than such acomparison! It 18 the idea of * Walter Beott more Iully expressed than he cared to express it There {s the rush, tho confliet, the collisjon of the two races, separated by centurles in experience, yet united by cir- cumstances in time and place. Theshume which editiuns), in print and for ssle July 1, 187, This 18 of course a very important and laborious work. 'Thus far it has been carrfed forward only from A to Fdwards. Works are arranged under names of authors wher kuown, under fn- tials and pscudonyms when the real names have i ¢ " usks Mr.. Lang. {rreverentl; primitiyepurlty puts moderndeceittosthe wrong 4 Ay iwhat countrs,” usks 'y o e ‘bt from the prose statement we fnfer | Which dalnty Enelish ciellization suffers at tho e O e e i | i the {1;:,";,;;,";::,‘,;:,5:";';1‘.','J;,"c,':';,m“fg,,{': ey e T ey pacs {hat his Acaualntance was of o rather sbbreviat- | hands of lnuflfig'l!{;’lfl ]“!:l('ei the “f'"l,“‘"f;" matcelous skill, Jove of lieavy eatiig and aleoholle lquors be | ©f ~governments and under names of W chracter. To fllustrate Mr. Calvert’s form | Of both naturcs by, the FoU Yo strencth of ewch | * Tiio suthor altempts to maintaln geneally | gent without Incurring s consideruble risk of nocietics. “The entire work will e com- wepive one of his sentences: = J&um‘gcm“ i and, lmog E'fit Lotk a :x‘.ln:nmr:‘" J'L.}i'.‘;‘,:{:z.‘“'x"fi’: flr;’"fi“u on fni".r: slcknega of some kind{ . . » Itisa fact that 5“-";“‘1 ";L:'f}' “"'{“[{'"';fi"", q;n“fl wl‘-lch. d.h“ 3 .8 B 1, , Maurlee, B 3 uct in itactl, includes the full-title entry (wit ‘The decp, tentlesn uccan which awatties all our | this story o tmbute fo her fiuence; | youa wrong chlofly through idleness, hus wisted Dlivoid at Larace, and went-sbout the irland lcuon-hleco;nchllsntlun).und:rn-me ohu(umr: continents 10 1ta parifylng immensitice, which, 88 suniner ang winter duriog nlseyeurs, snd never for what “but the variation ol species has | big patrlr 1l "] d i ‘ Y " i ¢ universal intercommunication amon, patrimony ko s prodigal, aud fns not the | epjoyed betwer lealth here, M L and also, in the wide range of books known N o e us<honiecr of namapiy: | brouali_poor Macleod of Dare gnd, Gortrule | stomach for husks. Ml resclvemtolkill bimselt, e e o “stmilay | chleny by Utle, nder titlo of book. ‘Th e yon 0ok despondingly and_ angrily at the | Whita to erio ite writer of fietion and | To him. in tho ‘midst of Ui preparations for | experiouce, “The Coneular, chaugds “which secondl yolame—the subject-ndes—is ntended e weean becauss of it dostruction by ts | not tha bhigsiologist e tu bo tho wulde it such | death areives Ifs cousin, & youngriel who loves | I~ witues during iy | zesidence there | to include the Looka in short-ttle entrics under Lemporary stormna? wminrters, “like unto like, “"‘l"‘““ unto white, | him devoledly, Bho liad comna into posscesion | were of three Fredch | Consuls, threa | Specitic aubjects, and 14 to be undertaken on the Une readers will agreo with us that s pro- [ 18 the right rulo of mattimontal alllances, af his ancestral cstates When he squandered completion of the first.,” ‘The material for the entire work was collected in preparing the first volumne, which s cstimated to fnclude nesrly 70,000 entries, coveriug about D00 pages. The 1tsllan Consuls, threo Britisfl Vice-Consuls, two American Consuls; sud the only casualties awong them were the deathof 8 Franch Cou- sul from cholers, and of arr Italian Consul, whet absent from the Island.” The book 18 well writteu; though it Ls s plea, it 1s that of an able mivocate. (*Cyprua? 1ts History, Ita Present ® Resources, and ~ Fufure Prospee By R. Hamilton Lang, late H. M, Consul I ttie Istand of Cypruse With two jilustrations Mneleod falls 1n love swith Uertrude White, 1ot because sha Is an actress, but in #pite of 'it. Ile secs bier first at the house of o common acquafntance, aud she makes her first Impros- them and they wore sold under imorteege. 8ho represents to him that they have been lost through a lawsuit, and throws jiimsalf upon his generosity, She must live. Ho must support aud protect her, Ile agrees to postpone his In- tuntions, - Gradually be Is brought te labor, ‘that slowly intcreats, strengthcns, and saves him. His salvation Is worked out with fear snd trembiing and mapy relupics, M. Bandeau, in- tracted wrestle with polysyllabie moasters lke the Jeviathan we "have flshed out of the “csthetic study’ must be oxhsusting. Mr, Calvert’s method'of esthietic study s wor- fuy of hie form, Wordsworth bas some sweet verees about Heotland, in which he says that tne name of Wallace was ** lefg 1 wild fiow- ¢rall over s dear country.” Mr. Calyert takes this slmple aentiment, a T0. subscription price of the work complete in two volumes is $25,—2% to be pald vn cnteriug the subseription, $10 un the delivery of the first and larizer volume, and #10 on the dellvery of the sccond volume. The work wili be practically indispensable to boukscllers mind librariea, even slon on bhn when_he is totally unawars thmt sho 1s an nttrose, V| tries to draw buck, Itisin When he sees her play he Hlc has read * Pendennis,”” ossible that e should fall fu love with e bates theatage, He neyer dilutes and expands t through a_whole paragraph, till, {ostead of to scc her play, But be visits hier at ler | deed, was too much the master of his art tolet | ypd £ 5 Vork: | the smallest, fur, as the publishers, weil say, it o wild flowor nresented fo our mind, we Tio " takes lunchcon with her. | {i'fal} ‘into the ridlculous throughafimsty ro- | builiag & Co. p,'(;;"‘}':’,f‘m‘,',‘;!' N;"‘""‘ Mace | L Eite stuull tenters und Ntyaries. hat Lave st have s junglo of unprofitable weeds through sliort, ha falls in fove with | pentance and comvleta reformation. Noue the 4 (5 present less means of Information and more which to wade, sa profoundly as nay be. | jesa does e tenderly ostablish and Inalstupon | cornooN AND JOIONSON'S LivEs, | Proportlopate need for such o gulde than the Tut let us not part with Mr. Calvert with cen- She {8 a romantic, susceptible girl, | his apotheosls of labor; and the result proves A I $h et bita AAVES. | Jarger, Tho catalowae will be “hrought up to sore and ingratiiude, Nay, rother, we will | fiattered, of course, by tho love of such a man, | jiaclf well worthy of the eflort. We can almost | Messre. Henry Holt & Co. publish two Inier- | date by snuual or five-yearly supplemente. 14ko leavo of him with thankfulness, for he has | for Macicod is » Baranet, thouh & poar anc, | e fu this, #s the sutlioc ‘confesses, & stow | esting volumes,—* Boswoll's Life of Jotinson, | Communications may be "sddressed to L. E aod the possessor of o proud sud ancient neage, -~ Aftcr a scvers struggle Gertrude White accepts him. 8he agrees to leave the stoge. 1o returns to his home in tho High- lands, and they correspond. Gradually a colduess springs up. 8he Is reluctant to sur- render the stago and all the position, adinirs- tion, and excitement which it gives her, Sho loves her art, If not for Its own sake, becauise it 1# fashionable. ‘Bhe s Irightened, morcover, at the ?mmcut of gulng to live fn 8 dreary old castla {n the Highlands, beatcu by thosca, and cut off from communieation with the world, Theas fears are iotensified on bier vayinga visit to Macleod’s fomly, when abo flnds the situation mucl worse than sho had supposed. Al the wiiile her lovn of art incrouses us her desira for matrimony diminishics, It must be suid, too, that Mr, Black does not treat ber quite fairly at {his point. 1le secms to fear that ber deser- tion of Macleod for the make of art would place her in too amiable a light. Ble mnight o pardoned for uting the bagpipes and for not liking to lve in the gloomy Hizhlands, growth of thoso fdeas which Rousscun mady popular a century ago, when Kivg Louls was a locksmith, and all the grand ladfes of the Courz nursed thelr own bables,—witen * One sex pll?ed at work, tho other at maternity," (andeau’s cpigrauts are uot thd least lively and cheerful taings in tho -book. 1t o¢- curred to the chevaller that he could teach French, “butthe thought that he must tirst learn nnother lmruun upset this beautiful I given us an opportunity of thivking of Words- worth sguini and bhe bas quoted roplonsly from blm whom he has studicd es- ghetically, Aud the reader will find the Worda. wortl fil the book very excellent, 1£ ho be not 60 enthuaiastic over the Ualvert setting. Iy the thoughttul, Wordsworth{snow placed so blgh fu the rank of English poets that e must o back to the Commionwealth to find his possi- ble peer In Milton, ‘Eime wus when apologics had 1o be made for Wordswortn,” And to-iday many who admit his great merits cannot rdfraln from u‘)-mz that ho vrrote g creat deal which {8 somu- wint childish or prosale, and un needlesslymean subjects. ‘The burd Iy charged with degrnding bis muse snd neglecting the pruning-liook, snd the charze 13 founded on tho Lyrical Ballads. I bis famous profaco hy sald he set out to write poetry by * fitting to metrieal arrange- ment a selection of the real lauguage of man In astate of vivid scpsation,” and lie added: * Bo- tweou tho language of prose and that of met- rical composition thero nelther I8 nor can be suy eacotial dlercute.” And stralchtway satire including the Tour to the” Hebrides,” and “Jolmson's Lives of the . Yets,” edited by Matthew Arnold, with essaya. by Macaulay and Carlvle, ‘The Boswell is takén frum tho orig- fnol toxt, which has only been changed by the omission of a few passages o ‘obsolete Interest, This fs as ft should be. We Kant our Boswell now. i we have him st all,/pure and simple. No editor’s notes are requirtd. © No imperti- nent intrusions can ho permitied. Bave Cruker, wlhio has now a melancholy cod historic Intereat for tho flaving bogot from:Macaulay, theso s not an edition of Boswell'ih exlstence worth preservivg, Dut it seems strunge, for all that, to sec Boswell In uew’ fype snd binding. Many will remember bl ds he lives on the shelves of old avd respactabie Hbraifes whero a now edition of Boswell swould bo reicurded as something of » sucrilege, Péerhaps most youngg mon have formed his acyvalfitance first fn the Jones, Manager for “American Catalogue, 37 Park ltow (I.-0. Box 4,25), New York. SCRIBNER'S AND ST. NICHOLAS, Messra. Charles Seribner’s Sonssend us bound volutnes of Seribner's Magazine and St. Nicho'as for 1¥78. This was an Importaut year for both vubilcations. It marked thoe full development ol their artistic life, so to spesk, In runnlug aver the bound volumes one (s dellehted azain by the besuty and varfety of the {lustrations. It is particularly o oleasure to find Wyatt Eaton's ctehlui of Lincoin actiug as the fronts- plece of the nemazive. ‘Tha collected names of the artists cmployed 1 at oncva tribute to Amerlcan ort and to American publishers, Tuere {s nothing In Furopeun perlodical tteru- ture to_compare either with Secdaer’s Monthly or St. Nicholas, Lach Is easily better thun any- thing of the kind In Enzland: und, ot to inake rash statements aliont the Jluurlx',{I St Nicho'as {dea." “ Iu general, I yon wish tothrow dasvulr aud consteruation lnto the haunts of inen who have seen {Iou vorn ana groy up, arrive with your head high and by u utrnYam. ath at suc- cess, honors, and fortune. 1f, on the coutrary, 1t pleases you to difTuse thoran sweet joy, rin into sll pussible errors, that your virtuous fel- Jow-citizens way weep over your ruin. For when our fellow-citizens weep over us it s to hide their laughter.” **The cynic belicvea that lie has sUi1 virtuaily within blinself. the sentf- ments of which ke prufcsses to be divested.” #'The young man I8 to be vitled who knowa ot how to respect his griel. Stravgo romudies for i or for buing dovoted to her art, of for suspect- | thy wouuds of & soul, to wash thom i {8 coutessedly pre-canent fn the teld of publi- '.':;L“(:fn:":";y seiniole Sl éxnisia Aot fuis Maclcod's glonmy disposition. 8o tho au- | {n° tho e utterst o MMaurles seemed | CONCRY Hvrarles, whero Boswell s anuotated by | catjoun of youthful readers. ‘The brice of tho + That prose is verse, and verso ia aimply prose, thior giyea her other and moro sinlstor motives | not so much to blams himself- as | tho penclis of gonerations of students, uud not | fonthiy 8™ &3 per volune (two volumes for the for tresking her cagagement. Ho wmuakos Ler to imaglue he was the poctic victhn’ of the | the lcast instructlve aud, sitosing pare of some | year), and of St, Nicho'us (onc volume for the Ue contended, too, that the languago of 2 th n professor of decorative art, Jities of 1ife.”” There src in the voluine some | of th «8is 0 bo fornd ' on the margin, It | Year) ¥4 the mutntored 'minds I8 moro permanent | A}l fn:lova with r t realities of life. 0 Br f the pages is to be found’ on the margin, 1t | 3 W Milosphic than thiat “whicn " often | Wo with Mr. Bluck liod spaccd this touch. Tonger tassagen whicli nro nar the border-line, | would, huwever, be a sad’siark of the discrlnl = Substiinted dor i¢ by the pocts: Wordsworth | . Mr Black docs not dlsdais having a brosh | so diflleult to pereolve, between pathosand no | oooon o - el 2 thera wers ouough old BIEBE NOTICES, was right i tendency but wrong’ tn'the extremn with the critics, and-a falr one it is, t00,no | writinge .Thie trausiation by Fraucls Cuarlot is, - :‘““ o 0 o Roberts Jrothers have pubilehied o new story to whieh' ho pushed it “HT'!“nmdlce" 2’ doubt, Ile makes hiaactress-heroine fu wiling. | a0 far as we have becu ablo 1o perceive, excol- coplea of ‘Boswall to suppl? the demaud.. Fot- for boys aud girls by Loutsa M. Alcott, ‘Tly Coleridga gl _'_u.w, etver.phun hig prluct'wc 8°| o her Jover describu somp of tho humiltations { lent: the English of the book, at any rate, fs | tunately this is not!vo; forsuntuly ,wlsoy, Mossea. | 4" s i Unaos the Lilacs.” and the prico for baoplls ply & few of. b3 lyrics are iciier's | sbe has liad to suffer from fonorant and bump- | sound. (“ Madchine: A Story of French Love." | Jenry Holt & Co, have undertuken u vew el | o e e e for Laoulj s gupty & fesr of D13 Jariceiro, correst | tious criticlsm, * It sceins that fn Engiaud the | Translated from tho Frenclt of Jules Sandeau, | tiou, and huve put it forth In substautial Lind- oL § s Juveuazeof 'Lhe ydopte; It +18 trud; but 1n spite | UAURLwAY in provincial towns s Tito let the | by Francls Charlot, 8mall 4-to," 248 pacas, red | fuy and clear type, 80 that ft may ip tmesur- | In order to forestall certaln fublishors who yaung literary aspiraut who lias just joluel the oftflee, or thu er compasitor who has been ipromoted to the sub-editor's room, try his haud rat of all at reviewing books, and then turn hin on to dramatic agtl muslcal eriticlam. The pructice is the samo in.too many instances In Amerfes. Mr, Black speaks with” tiie deep fecl- {ng of aman who bas suffered, and also with thut of ono who knows, having been a journalist lhmsolf, There are many other touches of bu- mor und gatire scattered throngh this volume. But these wust be left for tho onjoyment of the ludivldun] reader, to whoin, meanwiile, this book fa tost hearthy commended. 'The en- graviugs have besn mude from sketches spe- vive the wear -and tear of many readers, augd Itself uttaln a poshiion of respectability und age fn the librarics of the future, ; WPhy Cifer Lives of the Poeta! which is uuiform in price und binding with the Boswall, owes jte existence Lo thesuagestion of Matthow Araoldy whu, fu the course of a msgozing article, had sald that an cdition ot the pritelpal lives of the poets by Johnson would prove prof- Itable both to the publishers and the public, Tals 1den was seized upon by an Euglish pub- lsher, and Matthew Armold himsoll wad e~ ployed to give it shiope. Ile hus ncrontinuzly prevaced this volume, prefisine to 1t un intro- ductory caray, in which his mcanlne Is furtber of Wk cancms Jie 141d not-use 1t as the people did, The wotdsaniht bc the sume, but. hie srranged e ju-'a - nunwer that peddlers, “however simple,”randl -peassanes, however “frea from rocial-vaniey;"? nover coald nor did: 118 pocius were to be 1ho real langosge of inen (o ** a stata of vivid seokatlon,.” At :is truesthat fusucha state 9 gricl the uututored mind will spesk in langusge shat .ls emincutly ipathetic ard thyrhmie, ghd ¥ that Yy removfog from it some bivinahes . tho puct will take of it genulac poetry ;- but that languace.uttored in o state of “yivid sensation’? ls caseatially poetic is nat so, el would th¢grum Llings of arheurnatic sufler- er be pavtry, : ‘Phera 1s uothing wrong i select- Mue, ttuted paper, full gilt, Pricoy $1.50. “have printed Mre. Burnett's carler storics with- out her conscut, Mossra, Charles Scribner's Bons, her authoriz&l publishers, have jasued a chieap edition of them in paper covers, The ato- rles ure * Lindsay’s Luzic 7 (80 cents), ** Kath- leen ™ (40 cents), * Prettv Polly Pemberton ™ (40 cents), aud ** Theo ' (in prees). # Muages, J. 85 Lippincott & Co. send through Burrows & Gaw (1% aud 123 Bouth Dearborn etreet) Parts 81 to 85 of the Eueyclopmdia of Chenilstry, sold_only’ by subscription. ‘Theco varry the work forwird to Pottery, the article on which {s not completed. 1n this Installment ORATOIY AND ORATORY, * The ssle of Prof, Willlsin Mathews' books, we arg glad to learn, continucs very large. 1iis “Getthig On In the World" Iv the tirst (- partant success of any Western tublisher; and his ©Qreac Conversers,” * Words: Their Use and Abuse,” “Hours with: Mcu - and Books,” and *Monday Chats ® Lave cofoyed a consid- orable degree of public favor, To this serles ho las now adced & book entitled: *Orators and Oratory.” The method pursued by him in this ‘ ok there are articles on stich fusportant subjects ns L ot S rh P | il ariat b g mocg of B, Dack | "o aTn i sovious i, e | 5B bl %1, S R | O, e, g, LTt 5:.1\' l:e" l‘l’.{lilx:‘q! ects, but :that true poctry can | g “Royghtou, W. Q. Orchardsou, Colin Hunter, [ fooms first to have mado a rough draft | et BON Tor the stidy of Engllih litcrsture, nhoras, Photogruphy, Pizments, Platinuni, and in tuls way is very doubtful, Latet fur lite Wordaworth sald, * The poet’s mis- slon 18 to rectify man's feelings, to render them 10re - sane, pure, und . pleasant, in short mora Potassinm, ‘The paper, Jetter-press, and en- ravings continue of the hizhest ovality, The yarts are sold for £ cents eacly, aud cun’ be ob- tufved of the ngents or from the publishers. J. MacWhirter, C, E, Johnron, J, A. Altken, ‘I, Pord, J, E. Millais, ¥. Fowell, and P. (irabam, ~ta whout the novel I8 dedicated. (% Alacleod of Dare.’ By Willlum Black, New York: of his scheme, and then to have drawn on his menory and his richly-stored commonplace books for material to Al up with.: ‘This (8 boak- 3y themselves they form u text-hook for thy cightecnth coutury perlod which 1t would by diitheutt to surposs, This will secin to most £0 has been printed, and 1a Iikely to have permancnt value. * Irom all the facts of which we uro as sct cogutzant,’’ Mr, Hurlbut believes that *‘ihe dusl of Futher Marquetta still lies onshrouded in the depths of 0 grave whos position is ono of doubt and un- certainty. 'Yho Teasons for doubting the sup- posed discovery of Futher Muarquette's remains at Polnt 8t, Ipnace nre given by Mr. Hurlbut at some longtl, though more briefly than we could wisb. Th> pumphiet {s published by Jansen, McClurg & Co., and sold for 25 cente. ‘Tha six Hves fucluded in this volume arc thoso ot Mittos, Dryden, 8witt, Addlson, Pope, and Gray, Frow one polot of view it 1s unfortunute that the Hto of Bavage was not wlded to tho list. It wasin some senss the hest literury work Julinsou over did. But Mr, Arnold bud good reason for omitting it. Bavazo did not runk with the other puets o lmportance, and thu alm of the sclection Is not s niuch to ex- 1ubit Johwson as to show. tho development of a literary period, 10" says Mr._ Arsold, *wo ot beral fipst clasy simong English writars all theso six personages—Milton. Dryden, Bwift, impress of it. - The poet improves men's fecl- inzy snd’ thoughts, and fuscs the fragments to- yether, ennobles them, Lreathes bis own life Into them; and the power to s 1s the power of the poet and what ralses bin above Lis kind. e ligzhta tho whiolo with his cmotional magine- tion,~ Aud all_this Wordsworth did tn an cml- ment degree. ‘The avplication of Wonlsworth's syatefn Is responsible at feast odd. But this X good, Wordsworth grew fn strength and burst what of the rule was fetters, o dragged his chiains till they strengthened Henrl Van Laun, who will be reincmbered ns the trauslator of Tulnu's English Literature and thé nuthior of a Listory of Fronch Literature, has now put forth A Ilistory of Frauce from the Begloning of the Flvst French Revojution to the Eud of the Becond Empive.” The whole undertoking fs Included in two volumes under tha. titls of “The Freneh - Revolutionary Epoch.” Tho largest share of spsce i given 1o tho first Freoch Revolutiou, tho account of which occuples threo-quarters ol fn the wholo rango of literture a book which contalns au oqual amount of information about orators and oratory, which 1s su flied with anue- dotes of famous vraturs, or which Liustrates the stibject so admtrably, both by precept und ex- wnple. 1t owes mueh to thi Index Rerut, to be sure; but the Index Herum has scldom opened Itsel! for n deflnito purposs more freely or to better advantuge. Mr, Mathews has divided Lis subject into chapters, under such headings as ** The Power and fufluence of the Orator,” ¢ Is Oratory n Loat Artt™ M Qualileations of the Orator,” b burst them. Itwas a bealthy discipline to i b 'Teats of Eloquence,” Pulitizol Orae | Addison, Pupe, Gray—must be vlaced fn it.t PERIODICALS RECEIVED, Bty wod. 168 tnduence fa folt in all EDgIeh | ey toices o tho :,’;f:,'&fl.tf{“::,’l’;:fl‘m’:““l’:'_‘f Lo & Forontle Oratora” and * Puiple Orac | 1L 18 Lok ha ssmo witn Bavaie, Hiy mauio | Tho November-December uuinber of - the };""f" slnte then that 1s” worth mfll"r- Tu bis | yoluino and half the sccond Yolumes so that | tors.” IHe urguics gencrally that oratory fa still | would Do omlited not ooly from **a M- | ifestern, published at St Louls by G, L Joues rave stand- agalust traditional uoetic Saly hall o volume. or something fnore thau | 81 art worthy of cultivation, but udmils that 1t eral firet claes,” but from & Hberul convens tonaljty he “hias ‘done us fvfinlto serviee, and this shoutd. be. remctabered when we lsugh at sowe of the baldest of Lis verses. Wordsworth devold of hawor, This pre- Yented hiin from seeing how ludicrous are some of hls very Wordsworth was formed in- fapable of scelng ooything ridiculous 1o any- thiog that Wordswosth wrute, 'We will nat up- brald bim ‘because _he Lud pot humor nor was but munysided, Uity & Co., has come Lo baud. . The Art Interchangé, oMelal orgun ol tho New York Decorutive Art. Suclety, has now reached {ta ith number, ‘Thfs number has o Loan Ex- hibition supplewent, Its leading urticle is on ©Punel Paintlog.” The oftice s 34 East Nine- teeath street, New York, The Catholie World for Docember has for ity secutd clasa, Me. Aenold bus_bound with the volume Macaulay’s excetiont # Life of Johuson,™ contributed oriyina W the Eucyc opetia Dritannica, und Movatlsy's snd, Carlyle's casuys on Hoawell’s *Life," The:two voluinca togothior form a cowplote summary view of ut leust ooo Branch af the subject, uamely, the e of Johu. “BoU, b Lifs of Bsmuel Johuson, LL.D." Inciudlug the Tour to the Hobrides, By James Boswell.” ‘The orignal text, relioved from pos- iow Igat the churacteristics which madu i shat it wus before the juvention of priutiug and tho diffusion of kuowledge through the newsnapers. 10 orotory ia not a Jost uit, It 18 new art uuder au ofd uame, It has stripped oft its gaudy ornuments, and stands confessed us a plain anid serviccuble means of communicution betwesh tho wiuds of men, It dare uat appeal to the huselous ur draw (ts motives so exclusively ns 'l us¢d to do frum the vmotlous, It must 00 pages, 18 loft for tho reizas of Louls XVIII. Chfles X., aud Louls Fhillipe, the Republle of 1848, the coup d'etat of 1852, aud the wars of 1850and 1870, ‘Thero ls & utrlking want of pro- portion fu this arraugement. We could well affard ta have leas ofithe first Novolutivn, which hos teeu exhaustively treated by masters In all the Eurovean laugudges, and more ubout the yecent events which ara still too new and astou- What hio lacked in vel 640, **Johmson's Unief Lives of the Pouts, Be- wu those ot Milton, Dryden, Swift, Addison, Pope, Gray, and Macauluy’s Lf(n of Johusou," with a preface by Matthew Arnold, Lo walch are appended Macuulay's and Curlyle's essmys un Boswell's “Life of Jonusow' New York: Hewry Holt & Co. Larze dwo. Price, $1.75. Pp. 49.) —_— THROUAH BIBLE LANDS. The poctry of Wordsworth hias one excellent eharacteragle,—it is 1ull of fdvas, Compare It With tha barrenness in this respect of Byrou, of Beuit, or of Bwinburne, But, 1L ho Is full’ of nucatlug, ho ts wald to be ovscure. e mmay not always carry his weaning ou his sleeve; but no lofty (ninker ever did this so that that lssy Feaders might extoust hiw as they ruced along Bia'pages, e must be read aud reread ero you Novel, with Swmples,” *#The Jews In Rome fu Heathen Thmew,” *\What It Costs to Bug Guardtan-Aneel,” ¢ Mine, Do lu Roctefoucsuld, ™ gud * Plala Chant in Lts Relstion to Literuture," ure tho titles of other urticles. The trst number of lrogress, Mr. J. W. Forney's new weekly paper, hus been recelved. It ts amilar n planto the London Worid,— Edmund Yates' puver,—and (s flled with ente talulug Roasip, roviews, criticismis, ax given by Mackintosh,—* A snimated con- versation ov public buainess,' This i3 Frof. Mathews’ view df the present functions of oratory, if we may judge from his ays on WOratory as o Loss A’ and “Tho.Tests of Eloquence ™ ; but we find hiuy noticlng further on the fullurs in the Howse of the Macklnlosi whuse opinfun bo hsa quoted with oppruval, and 8% the very end ol bis Look ho puis A Ples for Oratorical Cualture,” which prosuppaoses went of it ehauld'pe evenand complete through- out, Insteard of Mwelling shinvst to diffuse- ness when the authorities are most abundant, and contructiug to the liwits of a dry and con- densed chromele of events where thire is loss need of compression, For inatance, thirty-five pures are given to the Buttlaot Waterlvo slone, and less than that space to the wholo war be- tween France and Germany {n 1870, Tlie voups d'etat of 1830, 1848, and 1852, are dlsmissed in 4 essays, T, This 1o the Character of tho tUOURNE, AN | focs suna thont 8 Gowodlo 0F tho Fronct lovo. | some further “use * for - it than tho | Anlutercatiog book oftravels 1s Dr. Schaft’s | S0tne Koativs Sv T Rat 1t promlsen 10 o - 2ot abseurity, K Jution, the wholo story of which is tuld by Car- | carrying vo ol nimated conversations | swphrouglh Dible Luuds,? published by the | mediately sucvessful. 'The publiction office is 1t hay been s mattor of complaint that Words- on business.” ‘There scems 2o be, fu the early Worth wunts musie, While ho doea not possess Iyle aiil acali by Talnis 10 b volumes, part of this book, some wuut of thorough diges Amicrican Tract Bo:dety, There 1s no wav in | in Polludelplils, Mr. Von Luun does uot make auy great pre- tha bewitcliug swoetness of Shelley or the mar- v D o et Uotipensation for this | America mure fttod to travol through the Holy | itaemilaw's Mugazina for November hs, Yeloua tunes ‘5( 8winburae, he "‘y Las w,-fl';en :fi:‘;:.l.m}:::k'i';‘flnmtllln‘e) I;‘;::}“-:»J:“*?fi.; v‘,{;“{: wust be souwrkit ui‘ the fateresting allusions with | Land and writo about it thau Dr. Schafl, Ewmi- fl:flg &:I:'e:r 'Illflluh!fi vonlents, un_ articlo on d the Bisth of the Times,” by Veree, % W which for slinple swestuess of sound are Wil Blades; ** A Peew at the Bouthern Ne- which the book 18 crowded, and In the ad- berfect. As funizan Lo kept freo from meta- ke for his learning and bis picty, for bis T Iohin Al Awiars || R e of s ploty, for chiefly based upon the fourdh, fifth, and eixth ol % o ¢ vrofound Luowledge of the Bibls sud Bible- valuaes of the Histolres des Franculs by MAL bhyslcs ba was musical, Argumentative poetr: - Tno sketches of Lord Cbathan g gro' by ‘William Biades; * Bhakspear us_an I b emonth Co-1ha sars bt Tt il want the | 1oyieo gund Loek jHotEn niv Introduc, | SO R aber und Chouto il well ot | history, be can etray ook ubou suy | Adipterst by dvand oot Refuriy o Ty perfoct twusic that bange’ sbout poetry like the | of ° the fret chapter oo mulnly suw- | Pay Verusal, Prol. Aluthews® forfe, it s evi- | of thu plazes made fanflar to his - kurl' by It Hamilton ~Lung: “ A Word for Irrance sound the rose. dent, bs.the writing of bioyra; agioation through his studles without re. | Audr Bhiere All, by 8ir Thowus Douglas matized from M. Taine's sdinirabls book o the Nobody Ancien Hegina. 1 glly. ol could be more successful thau ho o desthn Forsythes sud extructd from a letter of Sie with events, It s to be hoped thist Lo wil) lh:‘-l wrdsworth had no dramatic abllity, He was Gurnet Wolscley vu Cyprus. flections that should by vulusble to tho plv a supremely good tulker of poetical 1 huye alsv been much fudebied ivies de urt. Mich public us well ss to himaself, The (mmudiste ma to the works of Carlyle, de Gouncourt, Michelet, nolagies . i e ha not the draceatic | Lol wOr o G L e wlvo liave ail trcated | 50mo siogly subject iu biograpby wortby of bis | ovcaslon of this jourugyavss to deatlsof wbe- | Sowmy ot tho articles in Sunday Afternoon for Taculiy e bad S 9 riee) o st mansns domrens | o e var o doseribe It | undivided eflots for o U, (" Ordiore aud | Joved 1L O it JOUTUSTA 1eis Now York wich | Decomber uré o toblowiugrs -+ Wial, & Tadital HehagYert ua dyrica which are gemd of beauty, Hee: J‘U‘lmw the true tire of the lyric,—tho cty 4 cannot be stit), but must awel} forth in hinging as tho birds sing. _ [lis souuets aro the e8t aluco Miltou's duy. For diguity of fivtlon, r mission-like words and perfect fiojsh, ol them aro o despalr of admirers and an ed vlory to our Engllieh Mterature. In all b “Various paths of poetry, save ouve, which be estayed to tread, he yoves failed to mike bis vontg good, ‘fuercfore t fs because of the Periely of bis forms ol treatmeut, the nuiw- n'rm flue poews he has given us, 1hy excelleaco execution, the loltiuess ol hls canceptiou, o Urlgiality sud permanency of his words, i the simplicity of spirit liuked with rever- s of miud that we bave choscn to consider i the yreatest Engllsh noct ajuce Suakspeare, Baa fuults. Tnoy are comprised 1n the word Orutory.” By Willlan Matbows, LL.D, Pages 4,800, "Price, $3) CYPRUS The papers ou Cyprus, contributed by R. Hum- fiton Lavg to Macmllan's Nagasine have beea collected, with some otber material, and printed iu & volume. Mr, Lang corrects, fu a prefacy, the atatemeut Lhat be was Brittsh Consul on the slaud for nine years, Ho was Mauagerof tho Iwperial Ottoman Bunk st Laroucs. Whils acting tu that capacity it wes froqueatly conven- fent for the Britlsh Foreign Ofice to call ug;:lx.l ) bils wife aud bis remsiniug duaguter fo Decem- bers 15701‘ reaching New York agalo in 1877, During his sbsencs be wrote s number of famtl far Jotters from the bunks of the Nile and tbe’ teut in the wildurucss sud in Palestine. Out of these tetters the present book Las grown, It divided {nto three parts—Ezypt, tho Slualtic Penlusulu, sud the Holy Lind. We commond it to thoss fntercsted fu the subject, coulldent that everything Dr, Schatl bas to say will by well wortby of utteution. 1t ls smnsiug to resd bis satirleal comments vu th theory of thu wvabolic churacter of 1be Urest Pyramid, His Jiscussion of the contraversy respevting tho site of the Holy Beoulchre will st viee Bx the in- tercst of Biblicat scholsrs, e s luclied to Hud the aite of the truo Culvary ob “a skull-wbuped rocky elevation, u few ninutes’ Y¥ound fu Water stree,” by Helen Cumpbelly “The Art of Almsgiving" by Ucoree T Ladd Desthute gnd Delinguent Chlldren,” by Clara P, Leouand; *Co-opuration sod Shuipiilcas tion,” by Ellzabeth Winthrop; **Poor Re sious sud Thelr Uses,” by Awmclia K. Borej ;'I‘umpur-uwlud tho Laburer,” Dy Juwes L. oweu. . . lwportant urticles o the Populur Scieuce Meudh'y for December on * Edisou’s Telepbunie and Acoustie Iuvenilous,? Ly George B. res- cote; % Fuver Fuctories,” by Dr. ¥. L. Oswal i which au_ wccount (6 given of mauy fai epldemics; the conclidiug number of Frof, | Baln's serics of pupers on “Education #s s setence,” * Explosions from Combustible Duat,' by Prof. Peck, olscussiug o bew problum o scleney rulsed by the bluwing-up of the Minne- wlll be secu, without dguluu furtlier, why Mr, Von Luun-was tempted to treat Lis subject lu au cxpausive way jn the tirat voluwg, aud why Lis was compelled to exorcise the wost rigorous winpression fu thesecond. . Qe of the opiifous that will probably bo sur- 10 most reudors is taken from an asticle uinct {n the Jevue des Mondes, The opluon v thero advanced sud tolerably well- fortiticd, thut Nupoleon would have been beaten at Watcrloo it Blucher bud not comeup, **lhu French found iy tmpossible to acbieve what thev had so gullautlyuttempted, whilst Lhe tonacity of thie English cuabled them to reasla glued to the grouud when the cuvmy lisd dissppesred. “'[eve can bie little doubt that the battle of Waterloo, 84 o battle between French and En- g)ish alove, was lost sud won upon the hights iy to sct 83 Cosaul ad luteriw; and in 1 durjug & period ol recreuchwcnt, ho was wo- vofuted Covsul, with fall powors. Hu left the istaud soou efterwurds, however, Lo aceept u bo- Rt font Baint-Jean, though Its success was ren- walk uorth of the Damsscus Cuts, uot far S Ml Sclence ) :':‘ ual.' ‘Tho absenuce of events in his poems Yl::tfln;;mu;;lu 'J.Y"Ihc arrival ol.thcl’:lu:l.-n:." sition fu coupection with the Imperisl Ottoman | trom the grottu of Jercmish.” ‘This elevation uvfinlla m.llh:| wt]\:q ?\J‘e(m': og‘ymdv ’,w:::."; 0 not decta uy abuclute defect. 116 16 e | SWittor i thall subsziby (0 thls opimion or | Bank lu Egyph. His knowledge of Cyorus was | answers all 1he vequirumcuts of tho Uospel var- gy aud Womau's Riguts,” aud ¢ A otglizéuce,” by Gu ). Romancs. i cataloizus of tho oflicers aud studceuts of Lotpective rathier than retrospective. Lo bas What the gods approye— ualued fu sn unotliclal capacity, and his book Much respeciable authori- th stiould not bu considered elther “porfuuctory or But it uot Is uplmportaut. b fouud for th i yret ratjve better thun avy okber locallty, but it bas ty ta to bo fouud for the opposite view. begn Hittle noticed by she coutruversiallst thow. Tue depths aud pot tho tuwelt of the soul. is ut Jeast true thut Mr, Van Luuo bas brougls !nniuhod. eitber sido of the U Otuer no! Yale Collegs for IN08-'79 bas beon recetved. 1o “.Thm fs 10 zoum to give wny criticlsm of | 1o kreat woight of wuthority to the discussion, Moru than balf of the volume fs vccupied with | parts of thas volume areshechapteryon voutaius the folluwive n\uumnr{ ol studeuis: urdsworth as & poct of Susture. Hat wo swill | 1ia book is a fuir compendium of the cveuts that | 8 hivtory of Cyprus, whicl though not derived | Ology wnd sho Bible,” and_* Tue Mubswiacdan | Depusturent of Theoluzy, 87: Devartiveut of N'n. relrain from yuoting the fullowlug snwdotu | occursed o the period Letween 1750 and 15713 | from sy recoudlle sodrces, will save wuck | Rehiziow” 1tis o ebrewd ouservatlon of Dr. | Mediclne, 835 Departuiont of L .u:z(-mduun ",‘xku lustrates Wordeworth's twethod of work : | but It bas o clslm to the title of sclentife b~ jabor 1o thuse Who may bo interested | Schall that lu the Esst Slohanwedintiem fs the Tustructlon, 03 Usdergrsduate Acadewical ie aid servaut ut Kydai Alount, showiug tho | tory. It {3 rather a populur treatmeat ofthesub- | fu the subjuct, Tbe remaluluir pages wre | religiou of twen and Chslitianity the religiou ot Departnsut, 5373 Shelileld Scleutite School, 1943 ;wm. 10 8 sLruuger, said of the oue which Lo took | ject, tutendud for students and_fuwlly-readiug. | devoted br up.u{u to sn acoount of Mr. | women, because the fusaer debasss, whily tho | School of ~the Fue = Arts, =~ 80i de- a2 the poct's studv, “This fs tho library: mss- "Wrhe French Revolutlouary Evecn™: Belng | Lang’s sxpercuve lo the llaad, gud sows ro- ‘Jatterelovates sad snuobles. woweu. (4 Thronwt | durting ' for mumes wrted ~twiea 24, | The Department has 1 Senfor claea 142, in the Juntor class 13, In the Bopho- more class 147, and in the Freshman clase 174, There are from Chicago in the Freshman class Cyrus Rentles, Jr,, Lewis Ollc Billings, Frank Cnoley Farwell, Horatlo Odell Stone, and Jenry Trumbull. Lippinentt's Magasine fur December continnes Eaward H, Knliht's articles on the Paris Expa-” sition. this paper belng devoted 1o & descrintiod of the machinery. "Edward King, the well- known newspaper corcespondent, a8 & paper entitled * Dangbjan Daye.” M. G, Van Rens- selaer writes of * BEome Aspects of Contempe- rary Art": Prof. T. F. Cranu of ‘A 8panish Btors-Teller”: Tsabella Anderson of " 'The' fireat Earthaualie of 1878 in Venezueln.! The Tota), 1 |1.m2; * For Percival ' |s concltded, snd Eilen :\. In;, 's ' Through Winding Waya " carricd jorwanl. The first number of the Oriental CAurch Maga- 2ine, the quarter]y publication designed to rep- resent the (reek Chureh In Amierica, has been recelved. In an introductory article the cditor, the Rev. Nicholas Bjerring, dcclares the pur- pose of the magazine to be to give to Americans authentic infurmation respecting the Oriental Church. In the body of the inagazina we have six other vapers, of which ** Russia Newlv Dis- covered,” i Western Sfberfa,” ** Modern Gireece," and * The March of Russlan Schools and Colleges,” are likely to prove most attract. Ive to American readers, ‘The International Review for November- December contafns the artiele, * After Specle Resumption, What?"! by Horaco White, siready natfced at Jength In our cditorial colnmps, A new feature 1s'a short and *' Shocklog ** story by Wilkio Collins, Otlicr articles in this number, which show that the inagazioe has in vo im- riant reapect altered its original plsn, srs Prof. Talv's * Does Humnalty Jteguire a New Hevelation!” Georme W. Julian's * Pending Ordeals of Democracy '; A. . BpofTord’s, ¥ The Giovernment Library at {Vashington ; Dr. John Hall's, *“'The Final Phllosophy! (a review). Atberl, Rhodes? **Buecessful i‘hdiwflw J agaln, Lowever, an cssay of a lighter sort. In pudlic discas there sro some Limely papers hy exerts ‘he National-Bank Circu- Iatiou,” by Prof, W. G, Bumner; * Ars Narrow- Gaugs Rallrosda Economicall') by Lorenzo M. Johoson, an cngineer who has bulit both broad and narrow gauges; and a paloter's view of “Artat toe Parls Exposition.” Other papers are * Underaraduste Life st Oxford.” by Ansle Wilcox; “My Look st the Quecn.” by Treadwell Walden; snd “He Ph?'lnz She,"” a light sketel of callege theatricals fn former days., Pocma are contributed by *IL JL.," L. Frank Tooker g uew pan?. Anna Katherino Green, and Henry Cornwel The editor of the Magazine of American His- fory announces that the February uumber will he exclusively confined to unpublisbed Wash- ington matter, comprising original documents, letters, and not ‘The editur will be glad to liear from any person having material of this churscter who may desire {ts pubileation. The conteits of thls miacuzine for December are as follows: Iistorical : Dcvukfivment of Conustl- tutional Governuient in the United States,” by 1leare Osborn Taglor; ¢ Vit of Lafeyette to the United Stafes, 1784, by John Austin Stevens: “The Aboriglues of “the Hosatonic Valley," by E, B, W, Canning, Original Docu- ments: “*Journal of Col, Isracl Shreve from Jer- sey to the Monoungaliels, 1783, comniunicated by 8. M. Burove. Hepramts: * Now York City in 1772, a8 described by 8t. Suhn de Creve Ceeur," translated for the ‘magozine. Noles, Queries, and Jiepiea. Literary Nofices. Charles Eliot Norton gets the firat ptace in the December Atlat'e for his * Florcuco and 8t. Macy of the Flower,"” which, i considera- tior of Mr, Howella' knowledre of thu subject, 18 high praise. J. W. Da Forest has store, *“The Other Fellow." Iiun] Crownenshicld, s member of Sheridan Vireinla, has an article ou * Sherlda cliester,” writtcy, a8 the outhior Lakes pains to sav, without constlting Gen. Sheridan, and withont his kuowledze, but which Sneridan will_find very plessant reading. * Bheridan was,” Mal, ~ Crowucushield writes, “‘the beau fdeal of a Uenoral, and fie undertakes to prove 2. §* Bavime versus Spend- ing ** 18 & politicoveonomle article by Urlel §, Crocker, the ubject of which {s to show that one s supplementucy to the other, and bath, under cortalltcircimstunces, dutles, There 18 a very Jong installment of Mr, Howells' new storr, “Tho Ludy of the Oroostook." Edmund . Btedman writes of “The Death of Bryant" (s poemn), Rickarid Grant White of “The Nature of Musf," und Brooks Adams_of * Oppresatve Taxatlon und Its Remedv.” Tho Contributors’ Cltb 18, I posaible, more entertaining than ever. ‘Te December Seriduer contalns fiction by four Amerlean novelists, viz,: Mrs, Burnstt's “ilaworth's'; “The Great Deadwood Mys- by Bret liarte, » complete story ina Urical -velus » An Irlah Heart,” by T. Digginsung and thoe tith matallinent ot” Mr. Moyesen's ** Falconbere.” The Wlustrations of Dr. Brewer's fourtl: paper on *Bird Architeet- ure” (The Numming-Birds) are regarded by the inunagers of the monthly us smong the most exoulsite cuts yet publlshed by the maga- riue. “‘The drawings are, us usual, by Mr. Rior- dan, the cngraviows by Mr. Marsh, Cote, Mr. King, and otners. ‘The' text {s writton in au untechnical manner, and describes wany curious chsructeristios of American and other huwming-birds. *The Clff-Dweliers," by Emmu Chamberialn Hardacre, embodivs t lutest discoverles regnrdlng the riting of the Bun Juan region ‘nnmu of which arc situated {u the rock at u hlaht of 500 feot), nnd i3 written under the sanction of Prof. Usyden. Granbie drawlugs bs Thomas otan supplement the text, *Caribon-Hunting " fs deseribed [n & personal nurrative by Chorlea C. Ward, whose 4 Muose-Huuting," o year ago, willl be remem- berep by sportsmen: the author and Heory Sundham furolsh the drawings, “The Douglass Squlrrel of Califors has found n Iriend in Johu Mujr, ‘Plere I8 also a shetch of *flora D'latria,” the eminent phtlanthropiat sud svclal writer ot Wallachis, with a portrait after Schiavoul. LITERARY NOTES. The sixth thousand of Phillips Brooks' ser- mons ls priutiug—a remarkaole success! ,Capt. Mayne Reld's books havu experienced a revival In the trade. James Mbiler, who now publishes thewm, has found difficulty at times in meeting tho dewnand, it s sald that the “Work About the Fivo Dials,” to which Carlyle contributed a prefatory note testifying his esteemn and affection for the suthor, was written by the Non, Maud Btauley, Prol, Boyescn bus long been engugod npons study of Guethe and Behiller, which will bu both blographical and eritica) 1o character, Ono feat- ure. of ft {3 an extended commentary on WFaust,” Charles Scribner's Soos will publish the book. Of Miss Btobblns' life of Charlotte Cushman tus Spectator (Loudon) , suxi pleasautly and modestly written, aud, making due allovauco for strang - friendsbip and a cer- taln siwount ol hero-worship, beurs the murks of truth and tidatity, and ol aympatny ou the mr'l.'(l)l tho author with the charscter of hersub- ect. ‘The Nation of Noy. 14 remarks: “Wo are glad to observu thut Me, W, L. Fawcett's * Gold und Debt: An Amcrican Handbook of Finunce ! has reaclied & second editlon (Chicago: 8. C. Griges & Co.). We do not ourseives wholly agrco with tho author's theoretic conclusious, but we know by frequent use the value of the wlatistical purts of his work." A correapondent of Notes and Queries gives the folluwing denvation of the word *caucua ' s sCanikers! meetings, from which the present word 'cuucus ! originated, wers held at night in Bostou to talk over tho wuvs and meuus of help- itz 1o drive out the Enxlm: troops in tng de- cado made famous for Aincrica by the Declaru- tlon of 1776, The wonl s thercfore st least thres gencratious old.™ Nature, which ordivarily doca not have sovere Meeraey notices, sfter comnonding in high terms the articles fu the **Encyclopedia Britauuica on sclentittc subjects, haw this to suy of Principsl “Tulloch’s article on “Euseblus”: *lo every cucyclopedis there muat be 4 eertain awmount v} were compilation by mew who have not made an fndependent study of the subject dealt with, But “tho publlc bus & right to ex- pect that work of this kiud shall uut uppear with the signature of wonof kuown lterury standing. In making this retuark we have an eye on Prncipal ‘Yullocn’s artlcls = Euseblus. The whol¢ articie is the stimmest Hterary tack-work, sud the yotice of Euscblug’ Wurks contalns mis- tukue which cau by best explained by supposing that the writer wus bustlly abrldging trom Snntl.\'-‘Uh-llunuf',’ Irour which several sou- tencss are copled almost word for word,” Tl book of the Berkahiro Chlld-Poets Las Just beeu puulishied by G. P Putnun's Soue. The titloaf 1t Is ** Apule-Blossome: Verses of Two Culldren.” - The Spriuztield Republican vrints u okt enthustastiv uotice, wore thuu a column in legzth, of the volume, Malf the poetus {u the volune are Elaiue Quodale's, Lue other bail Doru's—repregeating -six years of the clder shater’s Mify, three yeare of the youws or'd, bezloning o oeach case at the wue of 0. 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T he Lonaon Zimes, In a recent loog article on the subjcet of cléetric fighting, notices the ra- cent advsnces that have been made iu that di-, rection, and intimates with sufticient cléarness that the use of the pew light for very maby purvases cannot long be deluyed, Two comps- nies, each with o capltul of £100,000, have been formed in London, They have not as yet begun operations. Nedtbor of these coinpsnies seenis to be in posscssion of a katisfactory tnachioc for it purposes. After notinz thesa facts, the mes continues: 1t fs largely supposed that this d:lnly is at- tributable to n hesitation on the port of those who would employ tho light, which hesitstion * 1s & result of the scare which o New York fonrnsl produced by its exciting account of Mr. 7 Edison's discuverics. Thls, however, we may at once say Is not tho case, The demand for the cexistiug systems of lighting is of a most pross- {ug and widcspread character, and while all are looking with Interest fur the disclosure of Mr. Edison's plans, neither private individuals nor public Dbodles are at all generslly suspending tholr operations un - ac count of Mr. Fdison's fmprovements. The. foct, however, at preseat fs that the in- vention of Mr, Edison 48 not befors us, und that aur public corpurutions and other persoas seo no suflicient reason for walting for it, but are prcesing lorward as fast as posstble to give the publie the beuetlt of tuose Improvements which aru known to them, and which most persens, not excluding the ess cumpanies, aro’ fulrly ready tu appreciate and adopt. . Apart from Me, Edisun's fayention, shiere s o wide fleld of oper- atlons lsing before the promoters of clectric lighting, it _can hardly be doubted tbat those who boldly and successfully occupy tuls fleld will draw Mr. Edlson's uud’all other reat improvements after them, . # bince the publication of our article of tha 04 of June," the Times continues, *but litle progress hus uctuslly been miade iu Lbis coun- try i the upplication of M. Jabiochkofl's sys- tem of lighting, ulthough, as belog wmust sw- played fn Frauce, and, therefure, tnost acceasl- \o tq investigators, it has roceived greas atteu- tlon, ‘And 13 likely to be the first sdopted by tiis Corporation and the Metropotitan Bourd o Works for outdeor purposes. The necesaty of cuploying with §t alteruate-current wmachines, and thy [patent] prococdings which for & tine put u stup at Bhoreditch to the uss of guca wschines, may retard stlll longer the ew- plovineat’ of the Jablochkoft light o thu clty, 1t can, howeyer, lardly doabl- e that this ditliculty will Lo overceme, and that the Jubloclikoff light will belore - Jani be suen at work liere, not, 1ot us hope, ubou mparatively unfrequented part of tue T es Embunkueat, but st some publiccross- juz and thuroughfare which is wuch frequented until midnight. We cannot doubt that its out- door application will ba successtul and 50 satis. fuctory as to stimulats mora thau ever the de- mand for the new light. The dissdvantagea o2 tufs form of light, which are the shortnesa of the duration of the Jght from & stoglo cundle, the lowering of the polut of light, the loas ol power from the consumption of the nou-con- ducting substance between the carbons, and the illieultles of relighting whl certatuly nut ba sutllclent to outwelgh jts great advantiges sud the satisfaction with the huproved {liuwinasion ot !ml:lh: places whivn will result. 3 #'Fhe system of AL Raulet, which we de- scribed {nour article of the 84 of Juue, and which was'then only fu its laborstory stage, bas sluty 1nuds Preat progress and 18 now avafuvlo for public purposcs. The stmolicity wnd dis- tributing character of the Raplet! llyhte—wurs thsn tweaty of which cun be worked from oue maschiug, sud which ure easily understood sud readily uged—strongly recomtiend it for trisl ln some of our printluy offices where abuudsut bt without great beat 45 very desirable. . ATraogewents have bven wads sud car tied out scconltugly, and the T bas beeu sctuslly printed by the Rapleflt lgbi. 81x lights, which Is & Joss number thsu 1t was thougbt likely would be uecussary, bave beuw luuus sutliclebt 1o Might the Jarge joom which woutafus the whole of thd Wulter printiug- preddes cuployed fu producing our lisues. Au- other targo roam In which bumeruus com positurs. are emploved f¢ about 1o be lighted by shullar | Rapleff vlectric Jamps worked by the samg druumo-electric machlue. We vonslder the usg of the cleetric light 1u printing-otf 5 Lest of fts Btueas for guueral use, and, &3 wWe liuve found M, iapicit's evateu well adapied or wur purposes, it will deubtless coaiacnd tselt 10 otliers a8 weil < B e — Hard-Money Demoerutic Seators Scarce. Washingion Currespundence Ualoiniore Sun. O e Deinocratic tenatars, Harerd o1 Delawaze, Whyte of Maryland, aud Eatas uf Conuccticut are the only vnes who bave giren forth o uncectsln seunds oo thic uestion vi hooest wmoney. Kven Boustor Keruan, o New York, bas dallicd with tbe subjsch, a3-i8 atrud #.3 oevurnit hiwealf.