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ow 80) CHICAGO TRIBUNE NEW LICATION®: RO written for a political purpose.” A PRIVATE: CHAPTER OF THE WAR. © By GEO. W. BAILEY, gate of Second Division Stall, wth Army Corns, Cloth,12mo. Price, $1. From the Wisconsin State Journal, «The recital tn this book of experiences such as these is too veallstice to allow any charge of romancing or exag- gevation; the reader feels tt to be true. ?? Aspecial claim of Mr. Bailey's book to attention is that he is probably the ONLY NE of thousands who participated on the UNSAFE BIDE in such experiences as he relates who escaped to tell the tale. Those who participated on the SAFE SIDE are not wont to tell the story. Q. I. JONES & CO., Publishers, aro and 212 Pine-st., ST. LOUIS. 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For ‘The Chicago Tribune, Mp recent intorviow with Luwronce Harrett, ho Mer The it Soon ee weste! varature uf suo Now World tuat Not to the crowded East, LN, ‘hero, in a Woll-worn Broove, fe the harnossed wheel of n gront machine, wit tramineled mind must move— } Thought must follow tho fashion of 0 ought, be countod vutgar, and sot at naught, Not to tho lahgutd South Mhero tho inariners ut the brain Aul wrecked either Whore Thoughtis rocked, on the sweot wind's vant, Ton torpld stcop that ends in death, But to tho mighty Wost, Want choseet ream of God, AGN ature roaches her bands to men, Whore Mind ie Ick tng maid Eaton is nnughts re shall tho New’ World look for Thought, To tho Wet, tho beautiful Wea! pibosnatt Jook, and not in vain put nt Ha broad and Hole Meas flere and nerve, and brain, Let the bards of the Hust und tho South bo For otitis ‘rout of the West shall tha Poats como, ‘Thoy shall como with souls us great ‘A the radio where they Ww 7 rookod; Thoy shall come with brows tusk ‘feo tauchod Like tho Gods ith whi bey bi H They shall cots, a ith whom they bayo walked; ‘rom tho Wost, in royal state, ‘The Singora and Thinkers for whou! wo waits? Euua WuseLgn. ns ‘ A Great Truth. ming tgoimaster endeavors to insti! into the as of bis pupils tho yroat truth that you ies Aad count a bundred slowly bofore faye and i¢ it is anything Very linportunt After pee takes bis stand ty tho stove, an his somo mlautes observes that the ips of.all Scholars are moving slowly and noiselesly. Jiteeeutly and elmultuncously they all break out: drodi Buwdred aud ninety-nine! Five buns ter your cuut-talls are all ou tire!’* LITERATURE---ART--- SCIENCE, Edwin Arnold’s Pooms—The Immortal Life—The Creation, British Thought and Thinkers—Learning to Draw—Tribulations of a Chinaman, German Thought—Children’s Books— Notes on Now Books—The Viking Ship. Magazines Rooks Received —Klterary, Art, and Sclence Notes. LITERATURE, EDWIN ARNOLD'S POEMS, This nent little volume ts ncollection of the earlier ‘poems by the gifted author of “The Lightot Asin’ Mr. Arnold needs no {ntroduction to Aineriean readers. 111s first published work won for him tho fame it morlted in both hemispheres, 11s seholar- ship, skill, and true poetic fervor are equally marked tn the book before us, ‘Tho most important of the poems jn this collection, and also the longest, is 0 transia- ton from the Sanskrit. poem, the " Gita Go- vinda” of the poet Jayndeva, which Mr, Arnold styles “The Indian Song of Songs.” It isn Mittle pastoral drama, in which the human soul is displayed alternately in its relntions with enrthly and celestial beauty. Atrighna~nt once human and divine—ts first seen, attracted by the pleasures of the senses, and wasting his affections upon the delights of thelr illusory world. Radha, the spirit of intellectual and amoral beauty, comes to frea him from this error by enkinding tn his heart a desire for her own. survassing lovellness of form and ehnracter, Under the parable of a hiunan passion, the gradual emancipation of Krish from sensuous distractions and his union with Radha tna high and spiritunlized happiness aro portrayed. Jinyadeva, the poet, was a native of Kendoll, In Burdwan or 'Lirhoot, nud wrote about 1150.4, D, Of the “ Gita,’ Mr. Arnold says that i 1s to this day very popular in India, and the author hopes that Hf its’ transtation “something, however slight, may be done towards tho closer Acquaintance of England and India’? ‘The great yarlety of measure in the original fs indicated by frequent variations in the metre of the paraplirase, ‘The workinanship throughout shows the samo skilitul hand that fashioned the “Lightof Asia’? tis a warn, scnsudns story, most eloquently and ellectlyely tald, Aga sample of one metre take a verse from the passage where one of Radal’e maids is deseribing Krishna pursuits to her sntstresss Iknow bee toate passes those hoursof blue ard wold, ‘Whon parted lovers sigh to meot and greot and arate hold» Mand fust fn hand; and evory branch upon tho Vakul-treo Droons downwird with a hundred blooms, in every blvon a beos He is duncing with tho dancers to a Inughter- moving taue, In tho soft nwakoning spring-time, when ‘tis hard to live atone. Then averse 1n another metre describes nore gracefully Krishna's leisure moments: Krishna, mado for heavenly things, 'Mid thoso woodland alnyora alnyga; With those danevra, dances featly, Gives buck soft etnbraces sweet! Smiles on that one, toys with this, Glance for gianco and kiss for kiss; Meets the merry damsels Curly, Plays the round of folly rarcly, Tapped in milk-warm speing-tlino wenther, > Ho and thous brown girls together, And slill another verse, In which Is told the ineeting of the two lovers: : Coy as ho grows fond, sho nicota him With n modeat show; > Bhuning truth with truthful seeming, While hor Inugh—light, low— And hor subtio mouth that murmurs, And bor silken chock, And her eyes say, shodissombles Plain as speech cauld spoak. TI nt longth, n fata! victress, + Of hor triumph vain, On his neck she ios and smiles thoro:— Ab, iny Joyl—tny Paint . Among tho miscellaneous poems ts “Tho Feust of Belshazzar,” which gained theNew- digate prize in Oxford Untyersity n.18h2. Jo thus deserlbes the handwriting on the wall: ‘There cometh forth 9 hund—upon the stone, Graving the symbols of n speech unknpwn; Fingers Itko mortal Xngors leaving thera ‘The blank wall Hashing characters of fear; und atill fe gtideth allantly und slow. Aut srill beneath tho apeotral totters grow— Now tho scroll endoth—now the seal 16 sot— ‘Tho hand is gone~tho record tarrics yot. ‘Lranslations from the Greek poets constl- tute the latter portion of this little ‘vook, which, In a’small compass, contains somo marvelous geing of thought and fancy, No random extracts can do its author justice, Poems. By Edward Arnold, Boston: Rob- erls Bros. Irice $1.) THE IMMORTAL LITE. In these days ut provalllng mutertalism, the doctringof hnmortality Is widely and enrnest- Ie assailed, Evolutionlsts are to n grent ex- tent skentics on this subject. But thera are some marked exceptions.” ‘he late Dr. John. Welss, of Boston, was probably a Darwliian evolutionist, but ho held firmly to the fm- mortality of the soul, Ie based hls falth in this doctrine not so much on the Bible as on certain rational considerations which he re- Rarded as conclusive, We have before usa sinall volume, consisting of ten chapters, written by Dr, Welss, but published since his death, In these ehapters he discusses sone toples not very closely connected with the auestion of Immortality, but still having a bearing on It In the first chapter fw treats of “Tho Work of Religlon,” and in tho second of ® Modern Material ism.” In these chapters he revlivs to many of the arguments agilnst immortality that fire (Red by skeptics, and asserts fis con- vietions on this subject in forcible terms. In the subsequent chapters ha discusses" Mod. ern Spiritism,” “Survival of the Fittest,” “The Idea of Hereafter 7 Tragedy in Nac ture,” Comedy In Nature?" Pesstmisin,” “An Act of Faith,” and “ ldealisui.? In tho article on Pessimism ho malntains that Christ expeeted to come again and destro: the present order of Uhings before the natural death of some of his follawers, and that Jesus wasn Pessinist. De. Welss ovidently dd not believe tn the doctring of the future lite as astute of rewards and punishinents,” He seoms to have regarded afn_as only a mils. take of ignoranes and Inexperlenes, Many of his utterances are transcendental, Aga whole the volume is readable if not ustruct- Ive, Whethor or nut it will bo helpful to doubters 14 more Chan we are able to predict, At times we seem to be coming on the bor- ders of the old faith in regard to the author. ity of conseience und its prophecy of future retribution, But ere we are awate we find ourselves pressed with the conclusion that therg'is no solld ground for the doctrine of future retribation, Stl we arg In pact ro- Heved by the author's sharp dissent from tho Spencerlan. theory that what is commons cullea conselence fy only n hereditary result of the experiences of former generations In the Jong Hue of evolution, Snys Dr, Welas: “Tho moral sense to which wo have nttalned by stages of evolution just havo started from an original tendancy to become sensl- {lve to moral ucts. We chunot say that tho results have established tho tendency any more than be can say that marks of design have originated a designer; that an oye, for Jnstanee, developed Haht, or that Haht ere- uted a Mghtinnker, We can ont say thatthe Haht developed the eye, as rightousness of pelty develops conselence,” Che chapter tn Ideallst suggests many formidable objec one to the theorles of the skepticat philoso- phers. * y (The Immortal Life, By John Wels. Boston; Lockwood, Brooks & Co, Price § 1.60, oP, * THE CREATION, Prof. Chapin has attempted to discaver, and to set forth Ina popular way, what ts certain or definitly known, what{s probable in the Jight of aglentific discoverles, and what is Improbable, concerning the origin both of earth and ofinan, Ie ts an honest, earnest laborer in this field. Ho makes no studied attempt to reconcile scleuco and re- ATURDAY, OCTOBER Naton, tte rather bellev and so nrgurs, that exel is enpable of se! f-sitstennuce: thal teach, clearly Anterpreted, may eontril Ke {hing to the other “without Invatic ing ts own premises or subverting Its own conchislons.” Popular theorles, therefore, ary left to assimilate, or the ey with out ny altenipe tp placo n foreed ineanliye ona worl, or to draw any conclusions. from sclentitic dint that ascertained favts wil nob Feasonalily warrant.” ‘ Prof, Chapin is not na speciatist. His ob- servations have some advantages and aoe disndvantazes, ic fs more enthobie In thought and opinions; less familiar with “details of processes.” ‘To siimniarize his tenchings Inn few words: Jy aeeepta the Mosnic neeotint of the crention, but rejects any and all nurroweonstrouctions of the Book of Genesis, ‘The Mosale uecount, 13 in hts opinion, the only condensed sefentitic nee count. Orderly evolution he acerpts ng a fact In nature, but ‘rejects the doctrine of evel ion as revealing any connection between ian and the brutes, Adain and Eve are helleved to be “the ftaterte pair, the ones chosen a3 representatives of the wholr.” Trof, Chapin stronaly contends agalust M Darwin's theories, “The “inissing tk: never have been ant never wil be supplied, ‘The author rejects no theories without due. examination and coustderation, Me ty frank and open and free from dogmatism. Ilis work shares these characteristics, Ils selentifie’ researches du not — reveal to oMitin any real antagonism with the Seriptures. Amd so iy lectures leave Ulm fn very contented frame of mind, “The Creatlon and tho early development of mankind” [sy free from pedantry, It Is a poputar and candid presentation of the views of an einitient manon the principles dis- cussed. Ibis a matterof regret that the book shoutd he poorly bound, (The Creation. By Prof, James Hf Chapin, New York: G. Py Putnan’s Sons, Price sib, BRITISH TIOUGUY AND THINKERS, Mr, Morris fs more successful in tis tect- ures themselves than he isin his introdue- tion to them, ‘The Intter ts Inbored and ine volved. itis really dificult at times te ns- certain theauthor’s incanlng. The sentences are long and turgid. Paragraphs are titled in with what imay be ecatled “asides” in brackets, until the real {ntention of the writer is: almost fost sight of. Here is one of the shortest sentences with which, practieally, the introduction opens, Mr. Morris Is deserlbing an experience dur- ing an evening reverie: “All my boyish iders of things seemed as pure erentions of my own fancy, to molt away, and there remained, as the whote sunt and substance of the universe, only the nb- sirnet, but otherwise empty and untustruct- ive, and, by any law of siflelent reason, in- explicable, necessity of being, plus, wdull, con- fused, and yet thoroughly unique, and for this reason indescribable, sensation, as of a chnos of shapeless elements, moving noise- lesly mong ench other,—a plenum of setreely greater yaluo than an absolute vacuun.? ‘Che theme of the introduction, it is hardly necessary to say, Is the “General Philosophical Altitude of the English Mind,” ‘The subject of the author's experience nt the moment of writing fs Schopenhauer's {leal- isnt. "Lhe world ts for me an Idea” Is the creed of the text. ‘This rung thrangh the first chapter. ‘To Mlustrate an instance of the superabundance af brackets already alluded to, take on paragraph from the intraduction.* ‘Tho three sentences by themselves are: “Religion and Science ite pecupy, on the whole, exelisively tha theoretical interests of the English mind, Vhllosophy ... .- is their common waste- basket... 7 ‘This 1s the paragraph as bracieted, “Neligion and Selence (by which Iatter I understand all results of the application of tho mathematico-meehanieal method, or all systematic knowledge of phenomena) oceu- py on the whole, exclusively the theoretleal uterests of the English mind. Philosophy (stigmatized often as metaphysical Jargon) is their common waste-basket. (L shalt have more fitting oceasion hereafter to examine and characterize more in detail the sclentitic attitude of the English mind)” ‘The twelve lectures contained in this vol- ume are founded on public lectures delivered, by the author at the Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, Baltimore, To these has been added 9, chapter on Herbert: Spencer. Mv. Morrls has shown gvod = judgment in tho selection of subjects “for these essays, ‘Taken by chapters, the contents are: Chap, L.—Introductory. General — Phitosophical Attitude of the English Mind. Chap, 11. Mewdlovil Antlelpations of tha Modern E Blish Mind, John of Sallsbury, Roger Bas con, Duns Scotus, Willlan Oceam, Chi iL1,—Knglishmen of tho Renalssanee, Ed- mund Spenser, Sir Jolin Davies, Richard Hooker. Chap. 1V,—Wiiliain Shinkspenre, Poet-Philosopher. Cliap, V.—Francis Bacon, Chap, VI.~Thomas Hobbes, Chap, VIL. John Locke, Chap. VILL—Georze Berk ys inp, IX.—David [ume Chap. X.—Slr Willlam Hamilton, Chap. XL—dohn Stuart I, Chap, XLL—Herbert Spencer, Mr. Morris has given to his task abltity, scholarly tastes and habits, and gencrous sympathy, Asa result, ws have a voluine requiring to bo carefully read In order to be aphreciated, but giving pleasure to. the thoughtful, and vigerous in its mode of treatment, Woe may not aeeept the author's Idealism. We. may object to his style, it may even be adinitted thut tha work: is Srepaenfory satin than exhaustive on wn one of the subjects treated, Nevertheless ft is n book that will be welcomed by many, and fulfills very fairly tho author's desire “to polut the way to correct: views concerning tho essential nature and value of the most conspicious current of abstract thought in the English tangunage,”” (Uritish Thoughtund Thinkers, hy George ‘S. Morris, A. M, Chicago: 8. °C. Griggs & Co, Price $1.75.) —— ‘ LEARNING TO DRAW, ‘This is the Inst of the works of tho gront French englnecr and architect, Viotlet-le- Due. The just sentence in it is the key to the work: “Drawing, taught ns It should bo, Is tho best way to develop the mind aud form tho Judgment; for (hus one learns to see is to know.” ‘This the text to prove which tha book was written. Some will reject that creed and disngreo with the moral, But the book itself is a clever treatise on the art of drawing put in the shapo of o story ant lending | tha novice along by easy steps, up all tho steep arados between f I the first crude attempts to draw a straight line and the finished sketch, It ensbraces a wide range of Information. . ‘The young hero of this narrative fs thoroughly edueated as to hls perceptions and fudgivent, and is. then Joft free to decite what work: hla fneultles best fithim for, Tle chooses the profession off desianer, and his experiones in: prepar- ing hiinselt for his occupation will be of especial value to tho many Amerlean stu. denta who are beginuing to Interest them- selyes in the work of Introducing the petite plesof art into the environments: of Ameri ean houscholds,” ‘The voluine also suggests: to teachers different motes of lastruction, 1 laa valuable, carefully-prepared work, full of practical hints and qunuestions from ona ihe dag ttatitoa predminonce in hls special eldtot work, (Learning to Draw; or, The Story of a Young Designer.” By Viol let-le-Due, Now York: G. P, Putnam's Sons, Price $3.) TRIBULATIONS OF A CILINAMAN, ‘This ig another of Jules Verne’s absurdi- tles, shintlar in. style and treatment to his * Around the World in Elglty Days,’ or hig *frlp to the Moon.” Tho first of tha series must have taken the * Arablan Nights as amodel, In his books lily tn agination runs riot, annihilates timo and shace, makes Ight of Inconsistancles, and revels in wbsurd situations, and in extricat- ing his heroes from tho amost alarming situa- Hons, If one could always separate facts from fictlon thore {s really « pront deal of useful fiformation and scientific truth con- tamed within the several volumes he hus written, + This book, detailing the tribulations of a Chinangn, firat in trying to commitsulelde on necounto€ the loas of his property and his sub sequent attetnpts to provent liluiselt fram be- ing murdered when he finds his toss ufproperty aiistake, contains a good deal of information avout China und Chinese’ customs, with a freat, dval that fs misleading and pured wiagiiary, At-Foo using the phonograph as a ready lottor-writer isa stretch of the Imagtinatlon, while the habits of the Chinese thonselves, being borrowed from reliable authorities, aro accurately described. ‘I’ Nhe hero {8 ag rich as Afente Christo, spends money ns lavishly as f'ogy, and lives as lux. urioubly as any Eastern monirch, | Bo: ton’s lifesaving apparatus plays an impoi tant part in alding the party to escape from threatened dangers. ‘Two Yankeo detect- ives, employed by an insurance company in which Ain-£oo has Insured his tte for $200,- 000, ore his constant attendants, and lead and are led Into perplexing predicaments, 1t iy an ubsurdity long drawn out, yet humors ous In some of its exaggerations, and not un- profitable reading for persons with a super abundance of lelsure. (The ‘Cribulations of a Chinaman.” By Jules Verne, New York: E. 2, Dutton & Co. Price $3.50.) GERMAN VHOUGHT. A volume has been recontly republished in Y York which embraces six Iectures on German thought from the Seven Years’ War to Gucthe’s death, ‘These lectures were de+ livered by Karl 1ilebrand, at the Royal In- sUitutlon of Great Tritnin, in May and June, 1879, ‘The author does not claim any speectal originality in the. development of his subjects but ha makes a philosophical use of his materials, «ant gives a clear outline of tha progress of imental aetivity and inquiry during the period covered by hls lectures, Jn the firstlecture, which is intraduetory, ousiders tho part of Italy, Spain, France, England, and Germany in the work of modern culture, In the remaining lectures he traces the history of eulture and thought fn Germany Itself tron 1018 to 1825, ‘To, the lectures Is added an epliog on “ Yotng Germany” and “Little Germany,’ bringing the history down to 18K). ‘The yolutng contains about 800 duodectine pages, nod presents, perhaps, as cond a view of the Iterature, philosophy, eliics, and religious bought of the modern Germans as can be found within the sane linlts. It will be highly acceptably to thoughtful readers, CHILDREN'S HOOKS. With the approach of the holiday season the wants of the Juvenile members of the community become more and more tinperas tive ant pressing, With a phitanthrople de- sire to gratify these annual longings the various publishers inake unusual e¢iforts to bring out works ‘likely to please the children without regard to nge, sex, previous or pres- enteondition of servitude, Old editions are reissued and yew ones improved; old Hlus- trations retouched to furnish necompanying pletures for a new text, or vice Then, of course, new books are prepared, some with gorgeous bindings, histories abbrevl- ated and made pletorial, and the alfabet served in countless shapes and patterns. ‘The influx has begun, ana some of these books are now Upon our table, —" The Pictorial Tour of the World,” con- faining pen and pencil sketelies of travel, ad- venture, and Incident, in all parts of the world, is a book adapted rather for children than for adults, It is simply aserles of short articles, gandily tf notartistically Hlustrated, onevents and incidents that have occurred In dliferent parts of the world. There 1s a. great deal of interesting mutter In these short articles, ‘The approprinteness of thelr selec- tlon fs not always so evident. "The Advent. ure ot a Road Steamor,” Wustrated, tins Hule connection with the ttle “The Vletorlal ‘Tour of the Workt.” But the book will pleases the pictures aré nbundant, and the cover showy and attractive. —"Ups and Downs" is 2 collection of | Mustrated rhymes for very: soutie children, who will undoubtedly enjoy the Jiudling verses ntl the quaint pictures, It 1s taste: fully xotten up in a style now quite popular, The versification Is equal to the Intelligence of Uhose to whom it 13 addressed,—whieh Is not always the case. —"The Little Folks’ Binek and. White Painting Book” furnishes stories which the children are expected to illustrate, It is the converse of * Write Your Own Stories,” its primary object is to encourage artistic taste among young people, avoliding the use of color, nud Hinittug the tMustrations to black and white. A puzzle frontisplece hag been nadded, all the figures in wiilet are to be cut out and arranged in due order and position on the blank pages at the endl of the book, —" Pictures to Paint” sttpplies tho copy and the outline Mustration to be painted. It pre- supposcs sume Idea of color, Suine of tho he dificult with a Mute cure, tose i ic vith je cure, have the child's work excel the model,’ —"Jack and J? has been ronning through the pages of Sl. Nicholas for so Jong a time, and the magazine itself is so hopular, that this, the lust of Miss Alcott's stories, 1s probably pretty familiar to most of the reading children of toalny, Stila story. in book forin fs easier and pleasanter reading than when doled out by cliapters at monthly intervals. “Jack and dil’? Is termed a vile Inge story, and the Huge”? referred to is Concord.” It Is a clever, well-written story, suinewhat resembling “TAttle Women” [th spit. Miss Alcott knows how to write for elildren,—not an ensy task by the way,—and in this book she fs at her best. Its perusal awl add to the legion of her youthful au- nilrers, —" Dick Chevoloy ” Is n book for boys, and & Bood one for those whose highest ambition is to “sail the ocean blue,” or, In niere ae- ceptable Enylish, to zo to Bea. ‘The hero hast passion for the sua, is offered a eom- mission tn the Royal navy, but. cannot. ralso the hovessary £0 por annum with which tosupporthimself, He tins some experlence in hunting smugglers, and afterwards tildes bhuself nway in'the hold of a vessel going from ugtand around the Horn, Io ts halt- starved and half-drowned before he is dis- covered, and has many theilling and remark- able adventures, which Mr. Kingston por- trays most ylvidly, ‘The work is Wlustrated with a score or more of full-page pletures, and, although somewhat bulky fn form, will surely interest the boy-reader. —"The Men of the Backwoods, True Sto ries and Sketches of the Indians and. the Andian-Fighters,” is an English bool about Atorlean heroes and thelr savage foes, “The backwoods" are taken to muan the once thickty-wooded ‘country between the Alleghany Tange and tho West, ‘Che epoch chosen fs the half-century or so that has the Revuluttonary War as (13 central point. ‘These storles are more or less famillar to Amerfean renders, As thoir facts and foundations are borrowed Eran our own iiterature, the book has fewer geographical, Mistorical, and other inistakes than many books written by Engtlsiimen on transatlane tle subje ‘Tho stories themselves are suf. flelently thettting to arouse thy interest of any reader. ‘Those who read thom for the first time will agree that fact Is often atran- er than fietion, Indian peculinrities and habits nre well Hlustrated, and, although the storles are not connected, they give a good stimmary of the dangers and perlty, as well agsof the courage and heroism, of our early ploneers or “backwoodsmen,” —" Now Bed-Time Stories” would ba more satisfactory, especinily tor those to. whom ft Isnddressed, if it dld not seem to puinta moral that good children die young, ‘That may be true, but itis not consollitns All the young heroes or herolnes in the Httle book eforg us do not die, but there is tuo much suntinentality for the amount of vitality, Mrs, Moulton fs neharming, ensy, pleasant writer, and we would rather see her giving Us somespechuons of active, healthy, naughty children, if FOU Wil rather than the class described in * New Bed-Time Storles,? —"'Tho Fairport Nine” Ike “Jack andl Jill,’ ts a republication of a serial story, that has been runing In St. Nicholas, isan excellont stery for boys by tho author of “The Boy Emigrants.” The “Ning” do a good many things besides playing matel ames with the ¥ White Bears.” “The whole story has a good healthy ring of active, ener- getis boy-life, It will tank’ among the best of boys’ books. NOTES ON NEW BOOKS, ‘Tho advanceshects of * How to Pay Church Debts and How to Keep Churches Out of Debt," aro full of promise that in it pastors and congregations will find the ald and. sug- gestion so universally desired, It gives plans and methods for ralsing money for each and overy departmont of church work. ‘Ihe Jat- ter portion of the volume 1s entitled to and will doubtless recelye more attention than the first part, It is tho moro diiticult to solve of the two problems presented. If solved, tho rest of the work js superfluous, ~The Chapel, and Other Poems," by E, Foxton, abounds in most excellent sentiments and fellcltous thoughts. Itisa book partly composed of religious poems, ‘Cho writer has fervor and zeal; and, as thero are oxceptions to all rules, so there ure some very pretty short poems in this collcctlon, To designate ®& “child” as ono wearing the “swaddllnge bands of Thno” fs anomalous. Time ts gene orally Fopresentetl ‘as an old nan, and has but Hitle to do with ‘swaddiing-bands” or “nursing-bottles,” One muy be more poetic thon the other, but is hardly more appropri- ate, he book 18 very neatly gotten up, clearly and legibly printed on good heavy: Paper, and appropriately bound, ~The Handy-Book of Quotations’ ts the latest addition to the Rentyatrayy Series. It is really a new edition of n foriner work, an it ts. a sinall work, containing only poetical quotations, {ta size prevents it from belng as comprehensive ay other works of We same prairies of the - nature, Aa the value of a reference book de- pends largely on its comprehensiveress, work like Bartlett's would find a more iG priate place Ina library. Still this tele work fas its tises as a substitute for the Targer volume In more portable shape, Jt is vata collection of favorit passages, but of short quotations of various authors, "The Indices to the subjects and principal words ure very full and’ complete, The list of suitors commences with Addison and ends with Young. ‘The full title of Mr. Kedney’s work Is: “The Beutel and the Sublime: An Anal- ysis of ‘These Einotions and a Determination of the Objecttyity of Deantyst It is nota new ninnunl of the sclence of testhetles, but rather wv redisenssion of the fundamental fons which underlie that xel- AS no partleular object was sought by the writer, it’ is diffleult to see what he has ncromplished, He hag dodged a ittle Into Walt a dozen realins of thought. hilosaphy, Phystenl Seience, Matapbystes, y healing, Psychotogy; Kthies, are all atleast touched upm., Ina Critleal Supplement” the author secks to vindleate his theories against those of others. All theories Iiitherte alming to explain beauty and subliiuity, he says, are prodominantly subjective or objective, the former falling to sve that heauty fs Inherent in the constitution of the univ he Iatter establishing It, but failing to anal: cat plistil y the subjective clement or the emotion, Mr. Kedney’s at- tempt Is rather in the Ine of unitiention than ri reconeliiaton in regard to previously-held heorles, = * —" How Hob and L Kept House: AStory of Chicago Hard 'Tines,* is as silly i atory fs ever innde its appearance in print. It 1s short.—which ls a virtue. Two people of untintted wealth marry and live super-ex- travagantly, ‘The fire burns then out, and they take ‘six rooms. nut live happily, It takes sixty-five pages to narrate these facts and to add a metrical “tag.” We hnve recetved the twentieth volume of *The American Decisions.” ‘These yol- times tre belug issued with commendable }rompinuss, considering the magnitude nid inportance of the task undertal The cases re-reported fn this volume are from the State reports of Alabama, Connecticut, In- alana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, ‘Mary: tand, Massachusctts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York. ‘The cases reported are 10 fy numer, ‘The series will form an important addition to any Jaw libaary. —" Invalid Cookery” fsa manual of reci- pes for the preparation of food for the sick or convalescent. ‘Lo this Is added n chapter of practical sugeestions for the sick-room. ‘The work ling been well done. ‘Tho volume isn carefully prepared cook-hook on a limited seale, and itis so arranged as to be of practical value to the most inexperienced in culinary matters, All the reelpes have been practl- enlly tested. Its priee seems tuo high, however, to ‘glye it the general elreulation tt deserves, a — Ainerican Whist” fs a capttal hand- book to the first of all games of cards, [tis clearly written, and contains all. that is nec essary to know, American whist eliminates the features of the English game not recog: nizadle here ns of avail, the counting of hon- orsand the gamblin provensity, "OG. W, 2.” says that: “Whist is not uniike polltics, Thousunds upon thousands take part In the game, Coinpiications “are constantly pre. sented. Few of all tho players see the end trom the beginning. All are ready to give advice und assert opinions, ‘The contestants aremany. The statesinen are few.” —The third volume of “Our Poetienl Fa- yorits”” closes the series. It ts a selection fram the best poems of the English language, containing especially sony. tecent poemsand pleces by new writers, both English and. <Anerlean. ‘Tho three volumes give tn hand- soine and convenjent form an excellent idea of the form and the spirit of the great body of English poetry. One peculiarity of the present volume is, that it recognizes the claims of new poets, and that it introduces a Mniited number of humorous vieces, “Mr. Kendrick has shown.cood judgment tn his selections, and the publishers lave made tho volume uniform with thelr “ Household? Series, —'Mather Molly,” by Frances Mary Peard, {s auother gudition fo the ‘Transatlantic Series. It is a vers. fair story, mildly excit- Ing and entirely unobjectionable. _'The scene fs lal in and about Pry tha tine of the Freneh war. “ Mother Molly,’" the heroine of this posstl “ower true tale,” isan older sister left with the care of the younger members of the family by her mother's death. ‘Tho story of her cares and troubles is well told, and her love eplsode well managed, outh, England, at MAGAZINES. Tho International Review for Noyomber opens with a well written and considered ar- ticle entitled “West Point and the Colored Cadets,” ta which Prof, George L. Andrews, of West Point, fairly reviews the case of the Cadet Whittaker, He also gives much Inter- esting and valuable Information relative to the colored cadets who have at different tines been at West Point. This is followed by an article from Dr, E, de Pressensé, upon “Tho French Republic and the Jesuits.” T. C. Felton writes of the drama at Munich, under the caption of “The Muster Vorstellungen at Munich”; andone'of the editors, Mr. John T.-Morse, Jr, contributes a reminiscent article upon “Boston Lawyers In the Otd Days”? Mr. Charles S, Baker writes upon “The state and the Railroads.” Mr. Robert P, Porter, who ts at the head of the Depart- ment of Public Debts in the Census Bureau, contributes an article on “State Debts and Repudiation.”? —Part tiolfth of the second yolume of Mrs, Martha J. Lamb's Sillstory of the City of New York" opens with a brief aecount of the valuable fmprovements in steam: naviga- tion, for which the work was Indebted to Robert Livingston Stevens. Then follows tho triat of Aaron Burr for treason, a elimpso of the movements of Napoleon, the, embargo of Jeiferson, with its effects upon New York, tho wrangling of politien!] parties, the election of Goy, Daniel D, Tompkins, the beginning of wool-eulture in New York, the Livingston. houses on the Hudson, Minister. Armstrong in Paris, sone of the fashions of the feriod. the election of Madison and George Clinton, tho clouds of war drifting towards America, the ups and downs of tha New York pol- itielans, and the celebration of the two hun- dredth mimiversary of the discovery of Man- attan Istind, —Tho Magazine of sirt for Octobor has the following table of contents: “The Dying Copernicus,” by E. Blair Leighton; “Art inthe Streets,” by Percy Fitzgorald; “On the Attof Illuminating as Originally Practiced,” by Albert Warren; “Our Living Airtints by Jean Léon Gérome; “Artin the herlands,? 11,3) Tapestry Palntine?? wufors In tho ‘srol” by Janlane tho tates HIte bp. heads Seat nts At 1a Cent I by Leader Seat ‘Tieit Only. ilareest, by “Indian Motal Work, ae at ndian etn or by Je OY! “Pietures of the Year.” With the Novem- ber number this magazine begins a new and enlarzed series. More pages will be add ed, and the sizoet the pages enlarged. An etching by Lalawze, entitled ©The Trio," will appeat in the noxt number. With that uninber the periodical ontors on Its fourth year, —The Octobor number of Mr, Waltord’s Antiquary opens with the second part of an iMustrated article on Olt Ginggow,” Other essays are: “ Our Colonies under the Merry Monarch; “Lhe Victorian Revival ot Gothle Architecture, Part 1.” by J. IL, Pare ker, C. 3) Almanacks Three Jlundred Years Ago"; “Stonchengy,” by Brinsley Nicholson; “ Bookbinding,” an interesting article by Zi. 1h Whentioys * Sr. Olnt and the Overthrow of Northern Paganism, Part 1." by Willian Pocters a notles of a curlous work of the fifteenth century entitled, &'T he ‘Treatise of ysshynge wyth an Angie”; “The Nalnt’; *‘Yhe Cromwell Fiauily. ‘The other departments of the magazine are completo and well edited. ; —With the Octobor number, the merican dntiquartan begina Its third volume, For the new volume yaluable contributions in the Hne of aboriginal history and, early ex~ plorations, ulso Wpen native traditions and mytholoxy, are expected, ‘Che Kev, Stephen D, Veot reniains the editor, with the sania as socinte editors, TUE VIKING-SHIP, Arent denl of interest hay been aroused in antiquarian circles by the recent discovery of the supposed hull of a Viking-Ship, A cor respondent of the London <ntiquary gives some interesting facts in regard to the porlod to which it Is supposed to belong, He auys; “Asafricnd resident in tho neighborhood has sent me threo little splinters from this Jong-burled craft, with 9 query as to whether I think it may or may not have belonged to King Halfdan Hyitbeln, or King Halfdan Svarte, it may not beconsidered presumptuous of ue to lay before the readers of the Anti- quary a thought or two that may Interest them, With regard to the Lalfdan Byarte, Snorre SturlassOn relates that hu was drowned, with many of his followers. while crossing the treacherous Ice over Rond (now Raudefjord), in Hadeland, and that because he was so highly esteemed there came tle ehief men of Raumerike, Vestfold, and Hed- emarken to clalm his body for burial in their suveral districts, ‘Theeonclusion of the mat- ter was, as he relates, that Ialfdan Svarte was quartered, and that these several por {tons were burled in Ringerike, Raumerike, Vestfold, and. Medmarken, where thera are vsti! mounds bearing the name of Malfdan’s Hole. ‘the story at Nalfaun WHyitbetn forms a part of the Yuglinga Saga of Snorre, of which the fol- lowing fs the concluding portions “ Finlfdan. Hyltbeinn became a mighty King. Ie mar- ried Ast, daughter of Eysteln Mardrada, King of Upland, who ruled over Hede: warken, Halfdan obtained 4 good deal uf Hiedemarken, Thoten, and Hadetand, and a great partat Vestfold. ie lived to bean old man, and died a natural death in ‘Thoten, Jin was borne to Vestfold, ant *heyor— that fs, was ‘ mounded?—at a place called Skreretd tn Skirlugssal.”” And then Snorre quotes 2 verse from the contemporary Skald Nhjodolf, which L translate as follows: This know all (cyeryhody), that Hnlfdan by his dependents inissed should be, And that the cruel damp of death tho valiunt King seized in ‘Tho- ten. And Skiereid tn Skicingsaal over bla are mor-clad bones resound eth, Now as Skiereid and Seringssal were both, as we are told by C. 1 Unger and other pro- fessors of Norway, In the district of Thjid- ling, by Laurvig, there seems but little doubt butwe have here the ship wiueh at sume tine alsa has contained the remalns of this old and celebrated King. We are told that thore were evident marks of the mound having been onee previously opened, and there may have been some despolling of the relics it contalned, Skrereid ts a portion of the sen; hence 'Thjodolf’s poetic expression of tts waves sliging, ag it were, the requiem over the dead King's grave, We should alsa gather from hig expression, “ armor-clad,’” that the chief tind been entombed—as was Ine deed the custoin—in full armor, ‘To earry this back so far og Halfdan livithetn's tue, is not to oyerreach the evidence adduced, which points ts to the carly fron age, or probably about the year 800,—the period when also the famous Hagnar Lotbrok flourished, from whomso many of the plundering Vikings sprung.’ LITERARY NOTES. Miss Isabella Bird’s “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan’ is delayed by her Illness. Jean Ingelow has her three-volume novel, “Sarah de Berrenger,” in the publisher's hands, —Froude’s recen t article inthe Nincteenth Century on Ireland is to be translated inone of the Russiat reviews. —Lord Beaconstield is writing a new nov- el, In his enforced polities! vacation, the titla of which will be Endymion.” —A volume of Reminiscences. of the tate Ole Bull ts tobe made of materials which the violinist lett with his faintly, —L, R. Mamerstey & Co., Philadelphia, now expect to hava thelr “ Naval Encyclo- pedin”? ready for subscribers by Nov. 15, —There isa report in London that Mrs. Langtry is to give up belng a “professional beauty,” and take to writing poetry, —M. Emile Zola’s ast contribution t Le Figaro deals with M. Paut de Cassagnac, under the sanguinary title, “Ink and Blood.” —M. Bartholemy St. Iitlsire, the new French Minister of Forefgn Affairs, {s the author of a French translation of the" Iliad.” —The following anestion from Onto reaches Philadelphia publisher: “Do you publish a good family Bible of n high moral tune 2"? -—Tho wife of Frangois Bravay, the original of Alphonso Daudev’s “Nabob,” Ins just dicd at Asnidres in astate of nbsolute pen- ury, ~AtCambridge, England, the Library Com initteo reports that during the past year tho Itbrarles have been enlarged by the addition of 1,160 volumes, —M. Leroux ls about to publish a work by M. Plerret, entitled “Le Panthéon Eeyptien.” It will be ilnstrated with 100 unpublished drawings by §. Schmidt, —A romanceof the present century, by Mr W. HL Mallock, the author of "13 Lite Worth Living?” will commence in the Jan- uury number of Belgravia. Tho first volume ‘of Mr. Gladstone's “Gleanings of Many Years,” which deals with constitutional questions, hag been trans- lated Into French by M, Albert Gigot. —The French Minister of Public Instruc- tlon hag caused an editlon of Mr. Uerbert Spencer's work on education to be published for gratuitous distribution in Franco. -—Therearenow belleved tobe in cireuttion no-fewer than 148,000,000 coplea of tho Bible, as agalnat only 5,000,600 coples in circulation at the commericement of the present century, —Vern Sasstlitsch, the Russian. Nihitist, ig nssoclata editor of tho Paris Commune, g rst rrticla appeared recently, signed itizeness Sassulitach.” It dealt with tno revolutionary movement in Russia. —Lady Anne Blunt, whose book on the “Bedoulns of the Euphrates Valley {s- well known, has In the press an necotwnt, in two volumes, of “A Pilgrimage to Nejad,” wich will bo illustrated by drawings by the author, —The alondemy critic finds that out of tho 03 pares of M. Kenan’s published lectures delivered in London in the Hibbert series at. lenst seventy-four pages are perfect frag: ments skillfully plnced to gether from five of his previous works, —Grent Inconvenience sceins likely before long to be experienced In the rending-room of the British Museum, In consequence of the increase inthe number of applications for admission, which, itis stated, have now reached about $,600 in the course of tie year, ~At one of the Inst mectingsof the English Folk-Lore Sneiety a committes was appoint. edto consider and report upon the best means of colleoting, arranging, proving, and comparing the proverbs and proverbial say- ings of all countries, ancient and modern, —A dictionary of tha German dinlects spoken in Switzerland has bean _in propara- tlon for tho last twenty years, Prof. Stub, in Zieh, beng In chatge. ‘The contribu- tions bave now all come in, the material is digested and arranged, and the publication in numbers will begin this year, —Novellsts eometimes go rather far afield for titles for their books, Alphonse Dan. dot's Intest is announced under the nime of “Trougseaux of Layettes,”” When this comes to be translated ‘tor the omnivorous Atuerican reader, 5a3'8 the Hour, It will prob- ably be rendered * Bibs and ‘Tuckers.” —The Revie Oritique of Sent. gives what is belleved to be a more accurate reprodue- tion than any yet, published of the famous speech dellvere Napoleon I. to the mem- bers at the yearn is Reeret aE Comnerees and Mautifactures when they ci te = Falulals Kim on the birth of the King of OINe, —Mr, Androw D, White, our Mintstor to caret i riting a Life of Thomas Jof- forson,” to {¢ ov of, a series of blogru- phies of the founders of the American Ke- public to bo published during tho coming winter. Prof, Goldwin Smith is reported to have tho “Life of George Washington” in hand for the same serles, —M, Alphonso Daudet’s new novel, now In press, Is cated “Numa Roumestan” hn French, and the Gormun transtation for the Vienna Neue #rele Presse will bear the title “North and South.” ‘The book {8 intended to litustrate how the Paris of Soctlng is prin- elpally Indebted to natives of the Southern Vroylnees for statesinen, —A volume containing descriptions of all the presents ever given to a Queen fs cer- tulnfy an-oddity, but it Is said that Queen Victorin proposes to issue such a book, It is to be Illustrated by photographs, and to ine clue not merely costly pitts but simple tokens of affection which have been given by her poor subjects at Balmoral, —Mr, Allan, of Sunderland, who com- bines the writing of yersa with the sakin of marine engines, bias finished a pon 0 5, ines, entitled “A Life Pursuit,” 1t glyos an decount of his blockade-rnaning sud tmprixonment at Washington during the Jato War, ‘The New York Herald suggests to Mr, Allan 9 condenser attachment for those to whom 60 many Hues would be an obstacle, or perhaps a donkey-ongine to help a goo tan kindred spirits ehrough the whole work, —Mr. Ruskin, in a letter addressed to the Conservative students of Glaygow Univorsi- ty, In answer to a note addressed to him in the month of July regarding his candidature as Lord Rector, says: “ What In the Devil's naive have you todo with either Bir, Dis- racll or Mr, Gladstone? You are students SRS Ug Sa Nag re aeas with politics than you have wi -cateh- ing, Had you ever read wan Words of mine 7 with underatanding you would have known that I care no more either for Mr. Disraell or Mr. Gladstone than for two old: bagpipes With the drones going hy steam, but that £ hate all ulperallain as tao tes rebut and hat, with Carlyle, I stand—we twoatone no: in Engtand—for God and the Queen.” ‘4 ~A writer in the Portland Preas recalls an enigram written a half century arco by Maria Lydia Child when she wes Miss Franets, Her subject was her friend, Nathantel Deer- ing, then prominent asa poet and bumorist— now in his 90th year. He had left Portland and commenced the practice of Iaw ne “Cannan,” now Skowhegan: Whoever weds the young Inwyer at 0. Will surely ha¥e prospects moat cheering, For what mist hia person and Intellect be, When even bis nnme i¢,"'N. Deering "? —The death of Thomas Jamteson, of Mel- rose, says the London News, once game. ecper to Sir Walter Scott, breaks one of tho few links with the great age of this country’s Iiterature, Mr. ‘Trelawny atill survives, and, there are other aged men who knew Shelle at school and roamed In the Levant with Byron; but those who knew Seott In his prime are very few and frat. It ts partly as f sportsman, © fearless rider, a falr shot, a breeder of “ grewa,"” as the country fulk call Freyhounds, aud a guod companion over n bnwi of toddy that Scott is remembered on the border. BOOKS RECEIVED. Po#us, By Edwin Arnold. Boston: Roborta Bros. Price $1, i —Tit Swevexnona Linrary. Vol. VI. Phile adelphin: £, Claxton & Co, —Ura Ayp Downs. By M. J, Tilsley. Now York: U.P. Dutton & Co, Price $2, AMERICAN OR BTANDAND Wrst, Dy Ge We P, Boston: J. it. Osgood & Co, Prico $1. ~INvatip CookEny. By Mrs. Citzn Pitkin, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 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ANT NOTES, Samuel Colman etched seventeen plates, chictly out of doors, while at Ensthampton, LA. —In portraiture {n Groat Britain, accord- ing to tho London Times, “the most beautl- ful of children are apt to be the very worst sitters,” —A grand monument to Plus IX, In the form ofastatue, Ittle Tess than twice the size of Ife, hasbeen erected by private sub- seription in Milan Cathedral, —The Edinburg Town Council aro about to expend the sum of £1,200 in placing statue ets of characters in the Waverley novels In the thirty empty niches of the Scott Monu- ment, —Hellqvolst’s largo painting of Bishop Som nayader and Provost Knuts entering Stock- holm, has been donated recently to the Mot ropolitan Museum of Now York by Mr, Wille in I, Osborn, —Among those who have promised their cobperation to the London <trt Journal under Its new ealtorsiip are Mr, Ruskin, Prot. Colvin, Mr, Burne Jonas, Sir Fredoriok Leighton, and Mr. Holman Hunt, —Dotaille Is at work on the cartoon for the painting, ordered of hin by tha Franch Gov. orninent, representing the “ Distribution of the Flags.” The painting will bo five metres Jong, and contain many portraits, —M. A. Yvon Js said to be preparinga large anoramic picture representing the battle of luni, and it Isto be exhibited tn London In May next. Jt is furthor said that this pore tent Will be stretched on a wall of 180 feet cireuniterence. —A memorial cross of granit, ten feet high, {n the form of a monol{th, has been erected on tho Surrey Downs nt Evershed's Rough, near Dorking, In memory of Dr. 3, Wilbarforee, Bishop of “Winchester, who was killed on that spot by o foll from his horse in 1873, —Mr, Georga Komp, of New York, pure chased white abroad this summor the largest work Vasini evor painted. "Marché du Lund sur Ja Place do Ja Mosqué de Jeni- Djiaml (Constantinoply),” as it Is called, was one of the artist’s eleven exhibits at the Paris Exposition of 1878, . —The competition for the proposed monu- montto Victor Emanuel has been thrown open tosculptorsof all nations. ‘Thy cost, when completed, Iy not to exceed $1,300,000, rea prizes of $10,000, $0,000, and $4,000 are to bo ilven respectively to the authors of the three best models, these models to remain the property of the State, —A lady whom Mr, fomerton describes as of'* penetrating and original intelligence,” contributes to bis Portfolio a8 essay to prove that Albrecht Dijrer’s pleture, “ Mulencelia,” isin no way. concerned with molancholy, aud that by placing the word melencolia” {n the claws of a bat the artist “warned us against so characterizing the theme our solves.” ¢ —A full-page engraving of Leroux's statue of Jown PAT, vite i was unveiled at Com- Hezne on the wth Inst. is givon In Liltiue- Iration of the Uth. She holds aloft in hor left hand the French atandard, as she marches with lylng hair to battle, and secing fo give an order or polnt to the flag with her right hand. Sho wears a sword, culrass, and leg armor, —The danger from firo to which the colleo- tlons cf the Louvre have been exposed by the burning of a considerable portion of the up- per floors of the Pavillon de Flore on Satur lay Jast has excited much alarm. It is de plorable that a building which ts, on the whole, the greatest trensure-house of art ia the world should still ba exposed to risks of this nature, aud be In unbroken connection with houses Iu which fire is constantly —Mrs, Josuph Harrison, Jr. of Philadek hia, has offered to present to the Unit portratts and curtosities, w! blaue iustorie interest: many ‘of the Ulbug ’