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TR CEXICAGU TRIBUT 1C BOOKS. e targaret Pormain o, ranaiidoqs by Loinn ohald cniloctn ek, indorgarion & thot musiens moth- “aidran. so_dosrly Tido. boat American s 0 nifiny canes, ATV AN D FUNER prasors GTEETS 40 CEOAIES X ) etn, or 6 per ('1012!;) o eurried 1 i N -t Ryt JoI A LT ' 2 tholr N, llhvl‘?;;v.l‘!lml Homance by Itnu. ALBUM OF SONGS, i Whubisdt Ak D W of the very best of Gorniin wuids ovor wll:: l;runt—.\ new Sunday-Sehnol Hong Book. Apy Tiools malleil post free, fur vetnll price. LY0Y & TEALY, Chicago, TIL OLIVESL BETSUN & €O, Bastan, —_— > wn Tirltish book- nd viuahie honks, ¥ oo 1% cutnlop iy Noruge Co, e . eu ot 114, Alctioneer, JAY GOULD. the RKifw of the Great Financier. 3 wee tivand ltaplds Times, 1huye W Phnes upon several presious ocensions Dits of news coneerning Jay Gonlil, the most famous wan o his way futhe wortd, Bul he I8 never less thun an fteresting study to me, and 1 would like to wateh the man for weeks stend of minutes, e s ut once the most and least known man fn Amerea to-duy, L know two or three men who tre with Jay Gould almost daily, qud they tell me e I8 mote of an enizmn (o thiem than o stinngers. Many speculitors are In certaln of thy s 5 tpon which Inctdents 10 Il builds the colossal operations that i nume aid power, but ke never Ay fnco nny seheme in 1ts emirety, Is his endef safepunrd: without it ver in Wall street and raflvond e ago lave been lu other hamds, Juy Gould I3 generaliy vegarded pyaman hird o3 fron and as.colds In re- there Is no mun in the conntry who s practiced upon or who 18 so robbed Torn and reared i pov- 15 ratsed Blmsell to o finunelal con- il {0 that of no an in the world, Thinking that readers of the Times, who day stter dny see nllusions to this wman and his —_— Eeliet ho for yeavs huve read and heard Hedi3 of b, 1 ike to know nbont his person- oy ality, | hve b ¢ fndebted to a hrother b journalist for much of the following puper: FRA ‘The fatiier of Juy Goull wi 1rons operited sl phnee in Rux The section i which this farm wi ation 15 notedd us belugg produetive of han The elder L was poor, His son' rly sserra eduention Wi ted, The fueilltles for learning w rounded bl werc of the nm most primitive type, and his wark on the I farm prechuded him from tnlklige rull ndvan- n of th As uboy lie longed for onal work, Leavimg the furin ho iloyment in tho County Surveyor’s y Gould was sent out to survey Tenssefaer nnd - Surato; Countles, and did bla work well. His map of Albany may bestill be seen i severnl of the older oflices yo llo mude SLO00 elear In this sehieme, uid with 1t bought a tunmery in Goldsboro, Pn. Here he necmmuluted money m»l«uf'. Ml wis soon enabled to buy up i majority of the stock of the Rensselaer & Sarntoza Iallvol, which was on the market atalow tizure, Here it was that he showed Bisfirst ability as n vailway manager, and not many momhs elapsed before ho brought his company Into » flonrlshling condition. At the outbrenk of the War he went hito Wall street, wis b(y skilled manipulation of stocks and the ubsolute secreey of con- ihneting operntiond, he soon woun i forémnst aee, ~Uhe suine inethods e pursued at thst are bls now. “rhey make il the most din- gerous of antagontsts, for Gonld never uuerees fram the Imekground until he hns cavrieal his polnts und won the gnme, Early I his caveer he fixed his eyeon Erle. 1n 18 Fisk and o nuwber of friend. controlled st ot the road 3 a few thousand shaves were outstand . ul’.lny(iunhl thoy had nover beard, “Tracing up the stock ” which was beeded to give them absoluty power, they foundd 1t Tw Gould’s hands, From small to linnense offors were niade hiim for the shares, Lut e would not sell. "The nnl{ wui' o get tie stark, hees: was to et him Into the wibination, £ tln-?' were obliged to do, : following July he was made Presi- sri Ruilrowd, It would il tng 1 of Jay Gonld’s management of enterprise. Most of Ity history Is y known, twenty {cnrs ago Mr, Gould married ler, Whosa futher was of the firmof wholesale grocers. They have . In the winter they.dive In the ut lonse on the northwest corner of tue ud Forty-soventh street, and fathe sunmer the Gould family go to the ey estdence |% urrytown, whuse &»uwm-xm-rmlorr urned lust week, Jay ol Iy '\-mlm'lllly wman of habit, At the L\w of husiness he ridey directly home, ey diner with the fudly and passes the f\enlnu In the study. In this room are his l§t’xnu.h operator and priviate seeretary, fitate wires ennble him o communienie = INDAY, "\[NII Uiy brokers and ulds at all hours l"‘ k"m day amd night, No man orks harder than he,” Reading mod Teokluge it tyisy mugnificent pietnres a 4 nly recreati ! T o it ine nud tobacco aro for- it puests, e 13 0 generous, opens ,}‘“-'Iflvd big-minded, unostentations man, u‘:]']' adly My, Gould 18 devotedly ute m’e' @ rurely travels, eithor for bust- u-u‘ or Ylunsuw. unless aceompanied by mnen\n(_hs children, ‘'They have anything s everyllig they want, anddo just us they ”,nie, Yesterduy Alr, Gonld was dressed In m: hew Albert cont of wine-colored mute- e kuuy trousers of striped eloth, @ ehoap f Uheouth padr of shovs, wid ablack neek- o Atnll thmes e by th inest of men, tionli 13 15 years of age 'ut [} 3 i e, ha earrles. his g‘lfif{w wellthat | shoutd think him younger, BT Imlq"',h o sllght tinge of gray upoh hix AI.S eitsely-hlack “beard, and s~ high, full TS und sharp, dark eyes at t notice, 'Bntv 4} ety tetl me that within a year or two Jicag> ,_!"fli ('\l_muuml Wls methods of ‘dolng busi- teagd, gy hiero hie used to mnntpulste stocks D H“mt“wr. they say ho [ now exelusively Analys b Km @i the” establlshment and. munogoe 5 of great telegraplh and. raliroad enter- SLEM Who SuLit won's do to apparenply rely of tha Y upon the appurent stiling m!‘r:”x”m holds the stock market by the ol who ean ehoko shekels out of it thever hie nppenrs to be i the mood, o e ngllen Srory nuity, “Tho follow} g curious bit of Informntion ap- k*"'x:’f; o Lutity Teleyrayh of Londo I Hipegnicin Izenulty, stimuinted 10 atmost fin cllurts of conception by the fuvor- 4 of tho experimonts soceniy mudo Qaanerjin0f tunneling tho bud of the Britdsh “'mcmium Jut forth an wmazing project for Bty ok Great Britaiu with the Unlied Sectin u“u tranentiantio rallway, — Ro- Wanel g o, PoHoR - of drivig a Expug 'm-“x"nr tho ocenn ns too tedious and {ngig por tHe devisors of this sehome proposo Thige it tho Athtntle bod un Iron tube sowo o mn.lf;‘f'm’ tmiles long wnd twontyesix fuet |,“r|_““t‘rl‘ trough which two trulns inight gy py I eaaly witl perfeet couvenience Y ;ilh;;w:n'ur.‘ this tube wnuml\m i PIOF WAlgr pressuro equul to gl wbuut 12y nummmfunl-u ita cusln'u will W lewnt cighteon inchos thick. Tho Lonsist Of sectons, ench 1 and 13 to bo lald down Click (nanber: Five such vectuus Tated tgether upon rmly-nnchiorod £ Sk s ':t.um]n 4 tho leugth this prepared Sk sy (1 g hermotienlly closed, but In Thiey gy, (w8 1G5 cun bo opoued Trom within, Iu\.u|""wl'lm‘uuluvur(mulll. B feet fong, 18 Hatglf prf 10 tho ew Ly steel chalny, 8o that iy gy, m:‘ e bottum iu tmincdlnte prox- Ty Junctygy *eton It i3 destined 10 Jolu, £- gt Will, ol courv, Lo etfceled ey *hiar "n" workmen; uud the pro- ey B9 euricd” on Cwiit undovie Sy Ty Hlurtlng from the Amercan ¥ oS00 of Irghind shull Lo ut= {HIk0Ly tube, Mewuwhito the luys i Lyruph wires, dguting and voie e tus, rud o forth, will go Inskly o by, £10We ouiove uhd lurkor. i, 0ty - 3t Bo can perfect un electria bel gy A0 LU0 tentn nlong through the St o e, i fud T y ng-stock fncluded, v lfi'u.,g_..‘mu a0 Bundred wud isty wililons of Amerlcan Inges LITERATURE---ART--- SCIENGE, Life of Sir Anthony Panizzl= Familiar Talks on English Literature, The Exploration of New Guinea—Sir William Herschel—English Gram- mar—Corporator’s Manual, History of New York—Thirty Years— Hudson's Shakepeare—Theo- logical Works—The Pa- per World, Magazines—Books Recelyved=Literary, Arty and Scientifle Notess LITERATURE. LIFTE OF 81t ANTHONY DPANIZZT. Sir Authony Panlzzl wus the Prineipal Libravlun of the Irltish Musewn., 1lis eareer wns In some respeets an eventful ane, amd I many ways an interestiug one, Hiy 1ife was one of incessant aetivity, and con- neeted with nlt the stirrine publle events of the most netlve perlod of our age, [t was moreover filled. with adventures which would hardly be surmised by those who only knew himas the oceupnnt of the oftics lie held for so many years, The history of his Hfe has been written by Louls Fagan, for nearly twenty years nn assochute of Panizzl’s I the Musewmn, und the Awmerlean edition Is anfd to contain an addition by Henry Stovens, of Vermont, containing his pevsonnl and bibHographieal reminiseences of Panfzal aud the British Musgum. We have recelved MMr, Fagan's two volumes from the Ameriean publishers, ‘They nre handsomely manu- factured and entertwining to the reader, In these volimes nre found many letters from the wost celebrated wen of the thuwe,—Thicrs, Cavour, Palmerston, Dlekens, Clatendon, Gladstone,~which give them ndditional worth, ** Men have not lived In vain ” says the blograptier, *when, cither by Indomi- table spirit they have left Lehind en- coarngement for their fellow-men to enter- ug keenly ns themselves into the battlo of Hite, or have proved {n theirown persons how* striet integrity and undevinting reetitudo tinadly bring thelr reward; and such an ex- ample, we venture todeclire, was the subject of this memolr.” Antonlo Geneslo Marla Panizzi was born at Bresceello, In Modena, on the 16th of Sep- temper, 1907 111y father was the sonof o Juwyer, but Mr. Fagan fails to suy what s own employment was. 1o went to sehool at the Lyceum ot Regelo, and In 1814 entered the University of Parmua. In 1818 he ob- tained the Duccalnureat, with the titls of *Dottor” Panfezl. e soon obtained an offl- clul appointment from the Duke of Mortenn us Inspeetor of Publie Schools, lils char- ueteristics at this thme nre thus deseribed: “In temper somewhat hot and hasty, but of el and even Judgmont, which commanded respeet and caused him to be looked up to by all. Nis powers of cloquencs were of no menn order,” and he was endowed with o remarkable wemory and tho ability to work hard and constuntly, 1lo beenme o inember of the polltieal organization known as the “Carbonari,"—an organlzation wiich de- rived s name from a shwmllar organization which had Jong existed In Germany, where the necessity of ufTordimg aid to one another indueed the eharconl-burners who inhabited tha vast forests of Germany to unite ngalngt robbers and encinies, "Che 1tallan organiza- tion wus estabilshed fu Italy by one Maghella, o Genoesy *of low extraction.’” By thoe year 1820 Carbonarisim had beenme synonymous with treason In the opinlon of the rullng powers, and Panfzzl wus arrested Oct. 22, 182, By the ussistanco of n friend he Jumped opt of the window amd made his way to the frontler, From there ho went to Lugans, in Switzerlaml, snd while there wrate his o boolk entitled * Processt di Rublera,” Rublera belng the nune of o Jortress between RBegelo and Modenn, whers the prosecutlon of Madenese politicnl offend- " ers was conducted before n tribunal nomi- nated ad we, The ehnracter of Panlzzl's writinga provoked the Austriun Governnent, nnd he wus urdered to move to Genova, But there was no rest for him hore, ns tho representatives of Austria, France, and Sardinia Inststed - on his exs pulsion, By way of the Rhine -and the Netherluids ho {uunwwtl to London, and arcived therain May 15: s finnnees had reached o pretty low ebb: ** ‘Theauthor clearly recolleets hearing Panizzi narrato that. in these duys of his fitdlgence, fourteen- penco was ull he allowed himself for break- ast and diuner, and how well he remem- bered spending one portion of an afternoon In guzlng throngh tie windows of & cook- shop, watehing witl hungry eyes the more fortunnte mortnls who weig suusrymt: thelr appetites withing and this reminiscence gadned ndditlonal zest from the fact that it wasrelated at n banquet,” While in En- gland Panizzl was wied, tound guilty, and sontenced to ddeath for - Carbonarlsm, ut Maodena, The sentence was executed on his eftiey, \\'hh‘rh must havo been satlsfactory to Panfzzt, From Lowdon he soon woved to Liverpool; and earned a Hvelihood s teacher of Itallun, Tlero he veceived u leitor from the tax-gutherer at Regglo whosent him an necount of tho expenses attondant on his trinl und sentence, and wanted him to remit 225 franes, Including the usual fee for tha heengman,. ‘Phis demand he answerod in " humorons vein ot somy length, Il lotter Is duted: *Realm of Death, Elysian Flelds, 10th™ May, 184." Among otlier things ho says: “Now 1, In compliunco with your solicitation, have to tell you that, windful of the muxim ntors mnatle xotvit, 1 do not conslder that since mf«lupunum I have un[v longer nssots or Hay- bilities hu that wisernblo world of yours,"” ARd he closes by wishing the tax-gntherer o deatts such as mine, and 1 eoncludo without further ceremony, Doth for tho sake of fol- Jowlng your examyple, and beeause steh ob- servanges aro not much affected in this re. rubllc." Lunizzl was n warm friend of Count Anntis, also a politleal exile, In tho summer OF 15%3 {t appenrs tint both ind smnathoughts of gottllug In New York, Manlzzl, howovei remarked that, *from the Amerieans, who wors u proud people, thore wis, # fortlorl, but seant courtesy to be expeeted, and but little mdvancenient to bo hoped for fn - thelr coun- u-{." Linabls’ answer was: “1 do not agree with you in what you sa: n.-spwllnf: the North® Amerleans, for holf the population consists of adventurers, and the system of eolonization belng sn active, there will bo no diftieulties in becoming a cltizen, whereas In Englana _you will remain o furelgner for ever,” In May, 1828, Pauzel nceopted an appolntment ns Professor ot Italinn_ltern- ture ut the University of London, Tn (837 ko reslgned this positfon, In 1831 he beeaino extin Assistant Librarinn of the British Mu- soti, and by 185 hud worked hlimselt up to tho positlon _of Principul Libearian, 1lo wrote freely for tho reviews, nnd also pro- pured # Iixtracts from Itallan Writers ' on “Elementary Itullan Grimmar," und soie othor works, including o nine-volume edition of “Orlundo _ Immmorato di - Bojurdo and Orlando Furiosv of Arlosto,” ~ Mr, Fugnn devotes considorable spacs to an uc- eount of tha Britlsh Ausuinn fiselt, The orle- inutor_of the Nutlonnt Collectlon was Sir Hauns Sloune, who died in 1783, Tho Charter of Foundatlon was passed by Darlianent in. 175 the chief ofticer, Mr ‘agnn says: “He I8 styled Princlpal Librariun, which Is to a certain extent o mis nomer, a8 Lo has no more to do with the bouks than with the otlier portions of tho eollection; e derives his appaintment feom the Crown * under sizn-minual, and s in- trusted with the enre and custody of the Mu- soum, his duty belwe to ses that s}l the sub- ordinate offcers uid sorvants perform theie respective duties properly.” “The secount of the rise and progress of the British Mu- sewn 18 an futeresting one, calling to mind old pdaxe nhout * great onka ' and “littlo aeorns.” Punizal becamo a nuturalized En- ghishman in 1858 - Dunlzzf's fdeas of what the MMusonmn should bu are thus summed up By bis blog- raphsrs . j‘. The Museum Is not a show, but an Instl- tution for the ditfuslon of culture, . 1L 1t i3 a departuent of tho Civil Service, and should he conducted In the spiritof other pubiie departnients, ILL 1t should be manmged with tho utmost possible llb(:mllli!. 1t wis us guaridinn of *a nationnl empo- rimin of the world’s trensures ™ that Panizl regarded bis trust, Lo 1845 Panizzl wade [ juurna{ to Italy, and nlso revisited Mo- denn. In 1847, through Pantzzl’sintlnence, the Musaum acqulred the Ure Livrary of 20,038 volumes. In 1830 ths library con- talned 1,300,000 volumes, ‘The second volume of these “Memolrs® eonslats largely of nlur“'sunndcncv. and endy with, Panlzzi’s death, My, Fagan uppears fo have had an alimost un- Hroslted simonnt of erind ot iy disposal, aned to have nsed the erind udleional and to wood purpose, Whether these wimes wiil prove ng resting o1 a8 readah fo Ameriean veaders as they will to Puile; Tetlow-eitizens 1s doubtfal, - Uhe Br It Musemn By so swholly wi Bnslish institution, and this work bus S0 nigel to say about 188 rise, progress, wl history, that we donbt not many pages Wi e pussed 1 by them ng A{u‘t‘l”l\' s possibie, My, Steven’s “contribu- tion does nob uppear 1o torn an Integral part of the worlk, nithongh deseribad on the title page, [Ldues not secompuny the two vol- umes already recebved. 'y l(‘_uhllnlu.-(l Inn Boston by Houghton, Minlin o, FAMILTAR TALKS ( ERATURYE, The Intentlon of the nuthior of this book, it we have construed the statements In the preface arlght, I3 to glve n briet but compre- hensive survey, of English literature—or rather of that hraneli of it which she defines a8 polite literntare—in o fudliar style forthe espeeinl benelit of the young, by whom it 1s hoped that the work will be used ns o class- haok, 'I'his attempt wus in one sense not a dittienlt task since 1t did not reauire origin- allty or research, I'hat is to sny: works on English ltarature being abundant gnd cove erhiyg the entire field, it was unuecessary to consult orlginal manuscripts in order to oh- tnin un opinlon as to the posttion and tnflu- ence to which the enrller anthors were en- titled. On the other haud, us Mrs, Riehard- son propused lo arbitrarily omit all histo- rlans, divines, and sclentists and all other writers exeept such as sho conshdered to “have had a muerked Influenee upon litera: ture,” the work of selectlon requirved the erelse of good Judgment and gkill, She pro- fesges *to show the growth of Hierature from its beglnninge down to the end of the first third of - this centary,” but she does not *give blographleal sketehes of these wrllers” And shu omlits the perlod which I8 most Interesting to the yonmg, and with which It §s most Important, per- haps, that they should be thoroughly fmnfllar, The ** hiving men ™ have not as yet, perhaps, “hiad their place agsigned In the arehives of llteruture,” but were Mrs, Richardson’s book neeepted as o standard, it wonkl he diftienlt to assign the pluee * In the archives of literature ™ to which many of the nuthors she hns written ubout belong, “The erltleal opinion i3 often left to the reader to form for himself, and @ great deal ean be sald about Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Wilson, Theodore 1leok, Marryatt, Horace Swmith, Miss Mitford, Mra. Gore, Miss Martineau, G, % R Jumes, Lever, Lover, Mrs, "Trollope, Mrs. Cratk, Dulwer, Charlotte DBronté, Colling, Reade, Macdonnld, Black, Yates, Mrs, Oliphunt, ~ Mlss _ Yonge, Rhodn Broughton, Charles Kingsley, Thom- as Ilughes, Trollope, I A, Frecman, Ilardy, Tennyson, Browning, Swinburne, and other wrltery, without attempting 1o st then oty thelr peers.’ . Lrae 1t Is that this work has been done by others, and well done,—as by MeCarthy, for Instance,— but w0 has every teature of ‘the buok before ug, “I'nine, Cridk, Litg, Collier, Allihone, Wl hlll Thllam, Shaw, Armoeld il NGLISITLIT- il others written admirable treatises on En: E{ authors and_thelr works, =~ As o eliss- buok the merlts of the book wonld have been Vll!ll“ Inerea and its purpose better filled Tl Tt also embraced the writers of o Inter period. The work Is, of course, largely composed ol gquointions nnd of extraets. Whether the shost entive omlssion of Dlographieal notices was n wise olan or not 18 doubtfal, for In lterature it §s espeeindly difiienit 1o entirely separate the nuthor from s book, nnd the true eritle of his work must ennsult and tracy the infingnces of the writer's 1lte in order toglve a living Interest to_his subjeet. MMrs, Richardson has heen for some years leeturing on Enxlish literature to young wotnen, and it I8 suhflcct with whien hay she (s famiilnr. In her prefaee she clilms that this book Is not a re- port of those talks. A sentencs like this one, however, sounds very mnel as though used. for the henefit of one distinet portion of our mee: “ It Is useless for nny one to read poetry merely for the snke of saying she has read it, and I cectainty should advise no one to reisd the poent wiiless ghe remds it purely for the enjoyment of it A work built In decordunee “with the plan of this one I8 necessarlly incomplete, and could Twrdly be used us a text-book. It 1s intended for tho yuuni.'. il g0 comes into direct com- parigon. with' Colller’s work, O the two works the futter wiil still hold its own for sehool use. ** Fumiling Talks on English Lit- eratire seem o us, thoretore, incomplets in purpose—not broad cnough 'to eover ade- qui clr the object forwhich they wore pro- essed(y written,—and incomplete In treat- ment, in that the Intluences affecting the nuthor’s composition or the cireumstances of s lifo by which his . anthorship was controlled “are not sufliclently set * forth to show the truth or tho reasons for tho criticlsms piased upon his work, In the words of an eminent writer, * the color and the flavor of that wondertul mind-fruit called o Book dependd upon the atnosphere In which it hns ripened, and the soil whenee its sweet or'sour - juices have been drawn, and these Important Intluences einnot bo overlooked I tracing, however slizhtly the growth of o literature,” G Mra. Richardson Is of tho opinlon that eritl are very poor oracles Ul lmpuh\r Judgment comes to set them right,”” In spita of that doetrine wa venture to believe that her book will be found 1o be plensant, ons; and instructive reading; her . style gracelu simple, nud elear, and_her langunge well chosen and offective. . Whatshe hins done lins been well done, and her commonts and judg- ments are fufr and based on zood authorlty, There Is no danger of the nequirement of too great a famllinrity with English llieraturo by reason of the multiplication of warks on that subject. Aud it is, perhaps, wise fo sep- arato It fnto branches aml to have an Interesthne and candid presentation of ench branch in order to nttract dilferent clnsses of readers, and thus Increnss the nnbor of tiose familiar with the history of their own Hternture, Mra, Richurdson treuts of ‘‘polite literntura” oniy,—of poetry, vssays, fiction,—nand this s o very important branch of we general subject,” Soime names aro omitted to which we might lnve ex- weted some referonce, sieh as Ancurin, iday, Aleuin, wd }\Idlu'lm, durlng the Anglo-Saxan puriod; Ansel L Seol Occan; de Hautevitle and Josopl of Exeter, after the Roman conquest; Nalnot (the first orlginnl English_poet) and Rolle, before Chitreer; and Gascoyns snd Bucekluyst, after Dlin. - In the Elizabothan age, the brotheys Fletehur, Barbour (wha wrote ** Tho Bruea™), Dunbar (whom Waiter Scott )l]m;t‘l)l und 51)10 lImml lu( "Sufitlsn poets), ang ong] who e Pne:lcu\ tranalntion o Virgll's . stneld nto the Scottlsh dinlect are not nlladed to, Later, H(lV\\'ou(ll TAlly, Tate (one of the Imels laureute) Colley Clbher, Lundys, amd Fairfux,—we find no mentlon of these, nor of llabbes, Locke, Burton, and Browne, all ousitylsts In tho best seiiso of “Lhe terin Telrd Savoge, Ferguson, Churehlll, Berkeloy, Hogge, Woire, and ‘Thomas Hood, one of the strongest of tho poets of the tine, ‘The elimination hus beon somewhat arbi- muf and to somoe_ oxtent unjust, for ce tafnly brilllant Luurence Storus and tho ruey memolr-writor 1loraco Walpole, tho gruce- ful Rowers and_1logge, the * Ettrick Shop- hord,” Felicln Jiemuns and Joanns Balllle among woman, wero entitled to at Jeast honorable montlon in a work on English lterature! Whils thinking, thon, that its seope Is more limited than its Jlx‘rulumlons, wa muy cheerfully conunend *Talks™ as a sufo gulde and a'inost entertainingly-written wirk ns fag as It goes. Mrs, Rlchardson hitg evidontly Destowed upon It 4 greul. deal of timo und earw, for it “shows the wnrks ot thought and enreful compoaition, — 1ler studies have well quallflod her for her work, and whut scem to us dofects n her book ara due ggrhupa to o different judgmont as to the .3t othod or us to the propsr scope of i work ol 80 Important & subjoet as the ony she has chosen to illustraté, St gives us bright, plensant reading, und_ought thore- foro 1o find hosts of readers; I is one of the fow books whigh 1t was o privilege rather than a tusk to read to tho end, 'I'ho publish- ety have presonted the wurk 16 o neat and attructlve form, One or two typographicul SATURDAY, JANUARY Ittis ' for “nunc The rors—sitch _ag ** nane dll tis"—ara perhaps univoldnble, s full nnd satistactory. l’l;lnllsl|cd In Chicago by Jansen, McClurg & Co, NEW GUINFEA. Mr. L. 3. D'Albertis left Genoa on the 25th of Novamber, 1571, to explory the sav- ame amd unknown country of apus, and during the pext five years was pretty eotis atantly engaged In eaploring expeditions in that dlstant b, better Known ay New Gulnen, “The necount of the trip hind heen kept i the form of o dally Journal, aid iy as little like the record of an explor inz expedition ns ean well be e apined. . 1t 18 dilled with trifing connnents ond guotations, and the author is eomtinually “paking himself”? someqnestion, {1 answer to whics the reader has not o par- ticle uf futerest, Sometlmes here I8 ng- gravating ahaenee of detall, and then agabn there 18 a sttperabundanceol it A * primeval forest ” geamns to have been i hobby of the lter's, On the first puge, he 1s erazy to “Journey to n land of ever verdunt primeval forests,” which he apparently conslders synonymous with “u reglon of perpetual cestasy,” although the whys and wheretores urenot stated, On the sccomd page he be- holds “In his mnd'seye® a great many lings, nmong others, * Pipun, the land of primeval forests,” which have now beeome equal to “the land of primitive mau—the Taned of the bird of puradise.” On the ning- teenth puge e has lnnded In New Guine and his Orst thought iy, * Atlust I was romn Ing through u primeval forest,” and on tho twentleth page he 18 “so pleased” at fuding Nimselt Wi primeval forest”” that he “wants to run about ywhere,” At the botfom of the same pigo hie has come: to the conclusion that “a primeval forest 1s not an enrthly paradise”] I'he ehfef value of M, 1’ Albertls’ work lies in the contributions he.was enabled to mnke to natural history, ornitholngy alone having been enrlehed with sixty-one new specles, belonging to forty-lwo distinet genera, of which two are new, e nlso obtalned con- siderable Informution ahout the wative pop- ulation sl the geographical featinies of the fnterlor of the Islud, Ile obtalned severnl skulls and *iwo complete skeletons,” The innavitans wre nefther cannibals nor Idol- aters, but belleve in. o future state iyl in evilspivits, i are very suporstitivus, The i nothe two voltines are very y tl olored plates of birds, ally works of art. But the - g nlong and becomes very tedion hng suid: * As a whole'the work entertalning, s'hlumr ratlva dra As nnothe can seareely he enlle D'Albertis infaht ¢ iy fnto one, with r selentifle Inte move rendy trnde Althongh tho teaflio Iy #laves hns not assumed. hero the 3 which It has uitalned fo e [wic], 1t Is sutliclently u I for the attention of Lnrapenn’ Gov ments, us it nbers muny vietms every year. 9l , who elnlm 1o bo musters of s territ it surely, for the honor of civiliz foremost in putting down the sinve trade here—nnless, indeed, they wierats 1t from poliey, 1 it means of keeplg in subjee- tion the chlofs who carry on Urt infamous trutfie, 1f tho inbubltints " along tiw const of Now Gujnen, from Saron to’ the Straits of Dourgn, huve fuch nn uversion to strangers, it nuy Tairty, I think, bo aecounted for by thy fuet thut for eent pust_they hnve bhedn exe posed to tho Ineursions und raplive of tho rud whoure depetdent o the Sultnn of Tidor and thu Duteh. Who daes not know that_there aro Alnve-imrkets In Ternate, §n Miao, in ‘Mluor, 1 Ke, i) Aren? 15 tho negroos of Afrien ius splre £o itich intorest, why shoild those of New Guinen be forgotien? "'The Dutch Govermment and tho officers of the Ditell uavy, whn aftiolnily visit Arrat, Gorun, Cernin, Ko, arid many of the tslunds which forin archipolugoes in the west of Now Guino, ought not 1o iguore what ove oue who visits those isluds sees elearly, (1, W) AMr, ID’Aluertls’ fivst voyago was the least successful of any of his expeditions, us o Tl to contend against slckness, being un- acethanted, deserton by his ollowers, and his entive fnorance of tho country nil fts inhabltants, 1is explorations were confined almost entirely to the northwestern portlon, the missionary stations nt Dorel and Andad, and & jonenvy iuto tho luterlor fawn of Hortau, e also epent someshne at Sorang Island and at Ramoi, und then, nan Italing man-of-war, followed. the const down to Orungerle .lim‘. at Lrn extrem- Ity of the Islond. Islnud fn the world, w Australln, and yet other reglon of equul Although thers uve been missionury sta- tions for twenty-five yems In the noithern vortion, Mr. D'Albertis and his companlon, Dy, Becearl, were thu first to penetrate the interlor reglon. The author-of these. vol- wnes sums up his observations st tho end of each voynre, New Guliea 13 a mountainous fstand, With a hot, damp elivute and fre- quent rainfulis, ‘The chavacter of the peo- plo varles with the loeality, At Hawmol ey seem 10 be the poorest people fn the world, and the gloomlest, 1 was there o fortnight, nul never saw one of them Inneh, They cultivate the carth and hunt with Dy sl spear’ And of the Pupuans general “Pereciving tho grent difterences hoth in type rud hy_custons, he will: be convineed that ho has before him o mixed race.” On his second visit to Yule Island, In 1875, ha bad twenty companlons and seryants, ‘Tho climato here is more tempernte, and the Islnnd is under partint cultlvation. The villuges nre numerous ail populous, and the mnnners and customs of thu inhubitants * entle” They pmcllcuuollrkmny. and are undor the rule ot chilefs or fand-owners. I8 a pleasunt deseription of thelrmode 1 Tho enrly hours of Lhe morning are devoted to cleaning the houses and the romd, which the women keen clean, ench in front of her own door, The young men attend to the eare of thelr own persons, adorning them- selves with plumes and feathers and paint- ing thotr toces with different colors, 1t {s not uncommon to_see: the young of both soxes parmding the villnze stroets In tho afternoon, Inden with every ornminent they possess, and puylng vishs, Thelr naturil ption” of s known than any ent on tha earth, dlspositlon 18 gentle wad plaeid, — They Ika to spend thefr thme in talk- Ing and gamnes, In which wen and women take an cqual share, Playful and freo ‘of speech, they nuvertheless do not transgress the bounis of modesty, either in word or deed. Waouan and ehildren aro in- cluded 1n every conversation, mnd oftth take rurt i the publie diseussions, whieh aro held u the evonlng. Women nre alwiys roe- spected, and In somo villnges especlally they -enjuy a certaln supremicy, although the. fiuvemmmw‘ul the house belongs to 1o hs- and, Labag niay bo fulrly snid to’ be fairly divided betwden tho two sexes, and thoy nre aeenstomed to work from their earllest child- haoad, 'I'he nore futhanng fold-werk, orsur- rounding the fields with pulisndes for protee- tion nwainit -anhnnls hurtiul to the planta tlons, falls to tho share of the men, . Sowing, gathering, providing :Iull{y what 18 necessary for the lumllf(', s tho business of the womoe ‘I'ho men raake tho nets for hunting and fish- g, and bulld the canoes and houses, ‘Lho woinen cook, but the men propave, the flesh- wmeat for them,™ ‘Lhe sccond volume deals alumost entirely with the third and most lntoresting of all the expeditions undertaken by v, 1)'Albertls, Outhigtrip, by nmeans of a sall steam- luunely, he was™ sunbled to penctrate lnto the very heart of tho country, Munnd\nr’ the *Fly " River—tho only oneot any size In the Islund—to its source, "T'hls was uot ns pace- blo an expedivion usthe others, forthey found some hostile trlbes: of nntives, and wery obllzed to fleht thetr way llmmfzh. His ob- servations mnde ou these Lust trips led bl to the fallowing conclusions * What 15 re- uired IS the unfon or nssuciation of natlve [abor, In order that the whito man way profit by tho vlches of “the conulrl)'. 1t would be neeessury, inmy opinlon, . that the natives, stimulnted by “our European productions, should bo induced to k, and to produco on thelr slde, for the 130 OF oxchanging with us; nud thls exchinge, a¢ first very tritling, would every year nequive laraer pro- portions through the'inereased cupldity snd growig wants of the natives, , . " Plo neers should bo sent out to teach the natives to cultlvato the carth by means of ma- chinory, to sow aund lo reap, ut the proper seasons for - hoth, and to preserve thess productions of the eartl wiy thoy could bring to u sure market, Rieo, cation, tobacco, coffee, muscutol nuts, ole., wonld very soon, there can bu no doubl, rieh- 1y ropay the tirst cost, o o o “Fho prople ot the *Fiy " ure uore barous and Bavegy than m),".nllmru Inhubiting this great jsland, « oo This dsland, whose riches have as yet been of-uo benelit to Euroueans, might be colonizod, The fertility of Ity sofl, s wide pluing, and it abundint water offer fucill- thes . for the greatest vesults, If the right weans aro tuken ut the beginning,” 1t 18 Impossible to glve a very uccurats ldea of o wark like this, where every day hud its {ncidont, nud yot whero no result of uny geu- 1881—SIXTEEN eral Interest was attafued for It 13 midonbtedly the best and_fullest neconnt of this Island " and ity peoples vet published. But even then it leaves an hinmense sinount of territory still unexplored amd unvisited, ng will he meen by s reference to the mup ae- companying the second volume, ‘The most recent work on. New Oulnea, prior to this one, was publinhed in London in 1875 hy J. . Lawson, entitled * Wanderings i the Tne terdor of New Guine " This gentlemnn ap- his visit 'to an exvlo~ ¥ the Maeussar or ux- ter—andd his neeounts are ridicuted by 1A )- bertds, and - bz diseoveries cevtatuly do ot rmondze with those e by the Tatter, The Gerinn patoralist Moy New Guinen adter the dite of fiyst visit, bt nedther he noe Wallace more than sevatelied the surface of the sofl worked Ly the Nallan. ‘There buve been many other expeditions o Pagata sinee Its diseovery by the Portugnese fn s xteenth ury—hy the Dutel In o nghisly men-ot-war in 1545, J846, 18 amt 1874, und by the Dutel uguin —but nll ‘these expedi- tuns contied thetselves to visiting portions of the coust and generally only where there were gomld harbors, “Fliere is one thing we notice that seel need further explanntlon, An expedition on the Isitlsh ship Rattlesuake in 1918 dise e ol inetntiahig, one peak of w 005 feet above the sea, In t ol ratlon of o peninsile. of the island, This ransze, mtlml prominent of any in the 1 Cal anid, was il by thet the * Stanley?” ranee, and 1y forred to by subsequent explorers, cer- y by Moyt apte Motesby, 1Al bertls does refer to the “Stuie ley™ runge, bhut elaling to have fiscovered and numed e snmo range Gy und to- have glven it the nume fetor Emmurnuet Runae,” and as suel itis down on his map, 1'Albertis speaks of having seen these mountalng wl miles nway from them on the Rive Then whoever named them the *8 runge must have gone equall; although probably from a ditfere of approach, “Which Is the e, hen, for geographers to With the exception of ¢ of style aud the prolixity to which we have already alluded, this work I8 an buportant addition to the Hiternture of travel and explo- rutlon, mul I8 another contribution to ‘the world's history, 1t I8 attruetively presented to the publie Bt Ky covers, on good or, and Iarze, cleartype, s pricels at what it ouuiit to be, and places it beyoud- the reach of the general publie, Five'dollars o volnme for a cloti-hound hook Is too mueh, especklly when the book 13 1 tended to evénte an Interest fnan unkno Inndd, andd to aid In the development of its » sutruus and the civilization of its Inhabit- unts, Published In Boston by Houghton, Mifilin & Co. hot ndopt ¥ crtain peculintities SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL, Prof. . Holden, lateof the Nutional Ob- servatory at Washington, and reeentiy chosen us stiecessor, of the lumented Prof, Wat- son at the Washburn Observatory, Madison, Wis., has written on necount of the life and work of the elder Herschel, 1e has done it well. e has given so much of the personal history of the great manas s of interest to the great mujority of readers, and has groupel together in satlsfactory order the leading fuets in hls astronomdeal work, The latter part contains a sreat wany statements which will be new even to many who are moderates Iy well resd i astronomical lterature, nnd 151 double measure of justice to the memory of Hersehel, by not only stating what he dil and wrote,hutalso furntshiig the basis for cor- recting not o few popudar uipressions in re- gard to his views, 'The sketeh lhas the merit of beiniz well digested; not full enough to be wearisome, nor so - deeply learned that it requires n high order of education to anderstand it. The book contains just enoukh of reference to the work of ofher astronomers to enable the reader to under- stand the character and relaiive importan of Hersehel's work, wad 1s not Joaded dow with v of the man whose “memory |s dear to all lovers of . scientifie investization. Pablishied by C, Scribuer’s Sons. Advance sheaty, ENGLISH GRAMMAR, ** A Shorter Course in English Grammar and Composition,” by W, IL. Wells, A, M., Is the title of a little book which unght to tuke high rank in educationnl clreles. ‘The au- hior, who was for muny years Superintend- ent of T'ublie Schools In this elity, and subse- quently L'fesident of the Board of Educn- tion, hins almed to present a book of pro- eressive exercises In speaking,and writlng English, accompnnied by a constant applica- tion of the prineiples nud_rules by which the longuage I8 governed, Tle doesnot present thase tules ns abstraet principles, but in their practleal applieation. h is due to him to say that in followlng out this methol he' hus entirely avolded the diffus ness which generally marks tho 1llus- tratlve style of conveyine Informatlon, He has renlly compressed n great deal into little spacet and his statements are maodels of conelsy correetness, indlenting thint every renitence way thoronghly digested aud seratinlzed by the author belfore belng connnitted to print, THE CORPORATOR'S MANUAL, "This Is a vahuable little handbook which does not pretend to be, what it is not, a genernl treatise on the taw ot corporations, Itis non-technienl, and yet contalns abund- unt veferences to nuthorities, so that it wilt bo found to be a useful adjunet to a lnwyer's lbrary, The plan of Its preparation i3 thus stated by the nuthors * Flist: Al fragments of the general law of Hlinofs having vefer- ence ta the organization, malntennnee, and dissalutlon of corporations (ather than com- [es for hanking, rallrond, and insitranes pllrpnscshenunn e through thy pages’of the Revised Statutes and the subsequent sesafon Inws aro brought together. Seeond: These nre arranged, uccord- ng to the classifieation © adopted hf' the Leglslature, wider the di- vislons of corporutlons for pecuniary profit; - mot for pecunliry 4 profit § wul for religlous purposes, 'Third: 'l'fm see tlons of ench nct are brought into logleal se- lsllcll(}l" toshow the manner of organizing, the powers ol tho compan| thelr operation under, those powers to thelr” deat her by efdux oftimo or dlssolution l’f Rurrender or forfelture of franchise. Fourths Bach sec- tton of the uets wihich have pussed under ro- view, by themselves or thelr’ equivilent, of tho Supremme Court of this orany nther Stute, or of the Unlted States, has _appended to it he substatien of tho views of such courts,” HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW 7, YORK, Mrs, Lamb has finished the elaborate work on which she lins been for so lopg engaged, and it Is not only n credit to its author, but will bo found of great interest to the general publle, - The historyof the City of Now York Is nn fmportant clement 1o the history of the United States, And Mes, Lamh has mfdde falthful researches nmong orlzinal records and manuseripts Besldes consulting all the authorities alrely published on the subjects of which she trents, The second volume, ko s prede- cessor, I8 complete In sixteen purts, the lust purt covering sueh toples as the Introduction of Croton Water, ks, Moneyed Institu- tions, Prisons,, Clty Chufities, Penny o wllainy Halinn Opers, Poets of INIT, Mug- netie Telegrnph, Great Flve of 1845, Harboy of New York, Antor Librury, Churel Arehil- tecture, Amerlean Geogrisphical “Soclety, Drafl lllol. ote. Eanch purt has been tully Hinstrated, and smong the artlsts wo find tho nuines of Charles S, Iteluburt, Altred Fred- erleks, I O, C l)nrlng' Anuust I, C, 3 Parsons, and others, Mrs. Lutmb hnplies that the work may by continued, ¢ ! *Thy fmmanse wealthof interesting minte surily excluded from thelr strietly prese 1mits, spgests othor voluties o the future, Eluboration ot speclul subjects, and the plet- urof tho fnst halt-contiry dlnmined with tha eleetrle Hght ot detail, aro among the possibititics, Such o sores would fur natura) sequel, but in no_ wise uffeet the In- dividuntity of this work.” B LIFE AND SERMONS OF DR. 1L W, THOMAS=PIE LORI'S PRAYER, We have beforous u small voluwe with the above tiije. In It we find u sketeh of Dr, ‘Thomas' Iife, followed by several ser- mans, D, ‘Thowmas was born In West Vig- gintn in 186582 His educatlonal advantages In early Jifo wore limlted; and while he sue- ceeded afterwards in pursulng o cousy of study I an academy and o seminary, ho never graduated from s college, e, how- wver, improved hils subsequent opportunities of reading and study, mud enteved ghe minis. try of tho Methudlst Church before ho wus 10 yeary old. Frow that tivie to tho present e PAGES he has attracted much attention thinker and a forcible preacher, notwithe standing his feeble health, which has on some oeeaslons run very low. In his bold- ness of inguiry hie has often scemed toodeflant of his Chureh and its suthorities and too con- temptuous of received thaological opintons. But after reading his sermons with some care, we cinnot re gard him as having lost nll evangelical anchorage. ' On three subjests Dr. Thomas‘dppenrs to lidve diverged cons siderably from the fnlth of the Chureh, what- v anay be said in rezavd tothe direetteach- Ings and necessaryiimplications of the Method- st articles'of religlon, The standard au- thory of the Church, whose teachungs ure, we betieve, treated as n part of.3ts doetrinal au- thurities, are -unguestionably at Issue with Dr. "Phowmas touehing the Inspieatlon of the Seriptnres, the doetrlne of the Atonement, amd the eternul punishment of the wicked. Dr. Thomns holds with many evangelieal inen on the Continent of Europe, Great Brit- win, aned e nited. States, that the Bible fenches the truths of Divine revelation, but Is not intallible in all Its parts, cither us now found, or ay orizinally written, This the Mothodist Chureli Bas never been nnder- sl to Dol - Apnin, ag to the Atonement, he not only denies the pensl nature of Christ’s — sufferings, 1 whiclt angelieal thenls UL seems to reg; the sutferings of Chilst as only designed to sutisfy Divine justlee by so commending the Tove of God to the hearts of sinpers as lo bring them hack to God,—substaniinlly the view of Dr. Bushnell. Hae does not avpear to reeianlze 1L w tevealed fiet thut God, for some reeson unexpinined In Seripture, aceepts the sutferings of Jesusnsan adequate substitute for the fust penaly of Taw In the eitse of every bellever, nnd thiy to stistaln the Ifluence amd authority of the Divine governnient us well ns to bring the offender to repentanes, It will be contended that jn refecting untensble inman theorles e also Teaves aut of view a great revealed faet on the Godward side of the =~ Atone- ment, In regurd to future punishment, Dr. Thowmas not only ~ diseards the old teachings respecting thie physieal sullerings of the lost, hut expresses himsell ng unwitl- Ing Lo afirm the eternal punishment of any soul ns o reveiled fuet, nml evidently ketns toward the doetrine of universal restoration- ism. In this vegard he certainly does not ngree with the vast mnjority of nifnisters and lwnplv In thy hadlst Cintrelt, SInce read- ng the seruiony in this volume we have come to regard “Dr. Thomas as mueh more ann- Ivtien] and diseriminating e Lis thinking and reasoninus than we lind formerly glven him cradit for, But mony of his statements In regnd to historieal faets will be thought un- ({1 nnd questionable, His diseonrses deserve 1o be “remd with - serlons aitentl while his eonelusions will not ulways be proved by diseerning minds that symipathize witl his nin h_ur;]nw. “T'he Rev. Wushington Gladden, of Mas- snehusetts, has v published n sl volume on tl rayer, whick, conslsts of disconrsey suggested by several letters of Mr. Johin Ruskin, that appeared not lonz slnee i the Confemporary Review. Doth Mr, LRuskfuand Mr, Gladden seent to regard s Prayer as an epitome of the spel, In thisthey will not be found in rd with nearly ail thonghtful students of bl stinent, Iden writes in a fresh rnd Interest- , and diseusses his toples elenrly and With hiy view of the contents of r, e will he thought by many to have presented o very Inndequate zronnd for the forgiveness of shits, In his Immlli'un the fifth petition. But as a4 whole, we deem the volne a valuuble contribution to our re- liglous literature, (Life aud Sermons of Dr, H, W, Thomas {Crayon Portrudt) : Including the Disconrses in Which He Is Charged with 1leresy, Dy Austln Blerbower, A. Chicago: Smith & Fobes). * {'The Lord's Prayer. Washington Gladiten Mitllin & Co.). IUDSON’S SILAKSPEARE. “King Richard the Third® and A Win- ter’s Tule” are the latest additions to the Annotated English: Classles Serles, editerl by the Rev. Ilenry N Hudson, mud intended for use in schools wnd neademles. There Seven Homllies, By Boston: Houghton, RW. P hinve already been published in thls series the followhys plays in (ilulh, 65 eents ench: L4 “1mwlet,” *Richard “Ring Lear,” “Jullus of Venlee,” “The Tempy * Macheth,' Merchant t,"" * Much Ado " About Nothing,?' *Midsuminer-Night's Dream,” ‘s You Like It “Twelfth Night” and “Kmg John.” The utllity of ‘this edition for the purpose for which It was published has heen general- Iy nelmitted, 1t I3 not required that o text- ook of-this kind should contain all that s known on the subject treuted, but only all that 1t is necess f to know {n order to study the subjeet intelllzently, This tnformation, it compuet form and clearly witten, Is glven In this series, ‘T'he notes cover some of tho disputed pointy, und the Introduction, giving the history of 1he play, dute, and perlods of its netlon,” relntion of the play to history, source of the historie matter, ete,, ote., nre the Dest featires of this work, Moreover, it Isclieap In price and handy b form, and has, therefore, wany elements’ to recominend it to the general student. THIRTY YEARS, This Is a collection of pocis the majority of whiel uve reminders of the once famillar Lluec-und-gold edition fn which they tirst ap- penred. Thelr author is Mrs. Craik, better Lnown perhaps as the writer of *John Hall- fax, Gentleman,” than as o writer of song. The verses are full of delieate, tender senti- ment, flowls along In a gentle,—sometimes monotonons,—oven stream which is always musteal to the ear. Many of the poems are of n rellglous character, amd n number of them are intended for children, Bt Mes, Cralk denls with an Infinit variety of sub- Jretsand bhandles them all with skill and Doetle ability, It s difiieult to find any one extrnet that will r'h'e wfulr lden of the work of this nuthor, Perlups n couple of stanzas from *'The “Unfinishied Book ™ will inswer the purpose us well us any others: Tuko it, reader, illy passing, Thiy, likw otwor il liness Tuko t, crjtie, grent at clussing Rutitte geulis and its signs, Ihtt, O render, bo thou duinb; Critle, let no sburp wit comes For the hund thut wrote nnd blurred Wil not write another words Anilthe soul you georn or prize, Now thun ungels ls nors wise, ‘T'ake It, heart of man or woman, ‘Cisls untinished broken stri, Whether it Lo poor OF cammon Or the nobleste work of hraing Lot thut good heart only sit i Judiement over it Tenderly, us wo would read=— Aty ond, of any oreed, Any chnrehyurd g igp Ly “ Suered to the muewory,” Altour bighest aspiratio And our closest lovo of lovesy Our moat seerot reslgnutions, Qur best work thut mun upproves, Yet which Jenlously we keep In our mute heart's deepest deep, Boof 1hid poor broken song ot 1o eelinoes Bere prolotes For the siuger's vole b known In tho Heaven of heaveus alune, Thers 13 nothing. stirring, or epirited, or rnnluulurl_\' oviginal, i Mz, Cralk's muse, hut it is n-n'f morul e senthiient il easy and gracetul In oxpresston, One nuticeable Improvement Js nado In the sewlng of the book, — Wires huve beon substituted | for thrends fisueh a way thut the covers uf thy book can b doubled Lack without Injuring It in tho least. ) B Published in loston by 1loughton, Mintin & Coy & SCIHOOL MANAGEMENT, Phis volwmao Is by an educator, who hins Juidd much experiomcee und who has given in this book muny valuable bints to nssist the tencher In the trylmg elrcnstnnces that surround him, o believes the way to wanage w sehool T4 to render the puplls man- ageable, ‘Phe book hins un Introduction by Thomas Hnnter, Presldont of the New York Normul College. It discusses the subject somoewhat 10 the objective style—visiting o sehuol nnd pointing out its excollent features, It shows how that kool government in- erenses the mnuhlnf power of the teachor Shows the principles thut underlfe it, und ninkes yalunble sugiestion us to the mode by, wihich regular attendunce -and the codperu- tion of the [uuplls can by sveured. Discipe fine, penalties, modes of interestug and emploving bis puplls_are treated Ju un en- Jightened munner. The volume will be of bonwilt mmx?' toncher, 16 espeetally shows how tho puplls may by led to codperate and Lot the .crom {:flp forward tha school Instend of retarding i — TIIE PAPLER WORLD. This 1sa speclal Journal of information, ele,, 8 to paper and the leading men engaged in Its manufacture and use, It §s published by Clark V. Sryan, Esq., for many yenrs assoclated with the late Snmuel Howles in the Springtield (Masa,) Hepublican, ‘The rnbllvmtlml nrice, 18 S per year; fssued at Inlyoke, Muss, The guurnul has met with marked sueecess for the past yenr, Eneh number containg n biography, with por- « tralt, of some leading publisher'or manufae- turer, with finely w: ted portrait. The ¢ has ona of the Inte Jamnes t., amd of Bennett, Jr., iy of thetr lives, and n short his- tory of the Feraid and u full deseription ot ts office and uppiinnees, It rends almont ilke w deseription of fairyland,, The Paner - World 1 benutifully printed, “very ably edited, nid deserves, as it hins recelved, tho liberal patronage of the publie, z MAGAZINES, The North Amerlean Review for February deserves espeeinl mention, not only for its general excellence, but also on account of n;; openinge artiele, written by Gen, U, 8. Grant, un “The Nieavazua Canal.” This i n thoughtful, well-considered essay, and wiorthy of preservation. It Is very evident that Gen. Grant has enrefully considered the subject, and_entertaing no doubt 1n his own | mlnd s to the fensibility of the schemne orof 1ta superlority over the plan proposed by De Lessops il the Panamn Canal Company. Gen. Grant takes strong Amerlean groutd,— un Amerlean canal controlled by Amerleans, —and will have the hearty sympathy of the mugority of his renders. “Ihe other urticles in the magazine are also likely to nttrnct at- tentlon, ux It is a noteworthy nunber of this most excellent perlodieal. Oliver Wendell olmes, “the.genfal humorist,” contributes an artlele on “Fhe ulpit and the Pew.” Heo broadly asserts that, **trom the settlement of the conintry to the present time, the minis- ters have furnished the highest typo of chir- neter to the people mnong “whom they hav Iived, “Fhey have lost to'n cuushlunl{)lu ex- tent the position of Jeaders, but, if they *are in our times 1nther to be lovked upon a8 rep- resentatives of thelr congregations, they yepresent what Is best mnonge those of whotmn they ure the speaking organ.” Mr. Holtmes thinks that the elergy and the doctord oughit to uraw neorer fopether Instead of getting further npart. Sowe mlght consider thls a yery sienlficant sugeestion. 1o coneludes hisartlele with this paragraph: ““The pul- plt s long helped the worlil, and is still one of the chief defenses agaiust the dangers Is \\'ortllly 13 that threnten sovety, and it now, as It always has been best representation, of all aud But mnny of Its professed ereeds b tvely demad sion, and the pews which el for it must be listened toor the preacher will by and by find himself congremation of hoditess Tourgee has an il Senator John ) ship in the rtisin- preme Court,” showing the estlt from the p ovils that mny pariisan cliny- aeter of that Charnay con- tributes the sixth pape: The Rulns in 1 and -describes the pyra- leo, aml Walt Whitian Tio Poetry of the Future,” the list of contributors Is y rong one, and renders the ehrinry n especinlly attractive and worthy of preservation. —The Catholic Worlid for Februar: the followin table of contents: 1 esls of Fulth ™ (coneluslon), by the F. Hlewits *The Wraith of the Ach by Wiltlan * A New Bookon Fre nt Proseiviisi in Ireland, % ¢ A Life's De- Thowmas 8. Pres- - e sl Press In Germany fore the ‘Reformatlon,’” by Ludy Bluneho Murphys *The Flzht with the Dragon™. (poem), froni Sehillers “A Woman of Cult- s 1 3 by John Talbot 31 e Ithetarke,” by the Rev, J. V. 0Conor; *Catholies and ™ Protestants Aurealnz "1“ Illlm hool Question,* by the —The February Atlantic opens with two chpters of Miss Phelps’ ndmirable serial story, © Friends: A Duel” William M. Rus- I his secotd paper on “ Wives of the Pocts,” tells brielly the story of the wives of La Fontaine, Moll¢ Racine, Lessiug, lirzer, Goethie, Schiiler, and Heine, Rich- Ky tinzg aceount of the Credit-Unjons.” John yvans?’” and then iy the hearty puzzled them- over the query, 2Aluj, Ben: Perley e contintes his anthenticund: entertuin- Rewmlniscences of Washington ” with o it PNM. on the ‘Taylor Administration. Richard Grant White reiurns to his Engzlish rtielo entitled **In Loudon ys are both_entertuining ! vutlon, Other ¢ssiys, tories, reviews of new hooks, o well- Contitbutors' Club,” and a running it of the buoks of the month, concludo lent nutiber of this magnzine, Penn Monthiy for February treats cunl and Keformatory Institutlons,” by Josepls G, teseigrten s © Climatie Influ- ences ou Mankid,” by 8. I, Buckley, P, D,y “A Plea for g Strouz Navy," by Sumuel W, - MeCally mrd *The Other 8, 1, G AL —dAppletons’ Jowrnal for February hns n varied tablo of contents. The second In- suliment of Erekwnun-Chatrian’s novelet, “Thoe us of Yesterday,” and o very by Rudolph Lindau, entltied - Feud,” glve to thy d(-yluu‘tmcut of unusnal interest, Mi: Bird’s M ptinn Lomwanees, and Jennings' * Parllnnentary Anvedotes,” are the books - selected for ssion, Then, in the department v * Rumbles Ano) ly trom tho pen of 1 corative Decorntions,” by Shakspeare’s - Lradu by the Rev. 1, I, Hlaw r ot **The lrish Ll Question,’ ** Buddhists nud Buddhism fn Burmah,” and one on *'The Photephone,” come under the classifleation of — artie of Informntlon. . ** Notes for Rewders,” the now editorfal e« partment, Is interesting and *The Editer's T'able” f3supgestive, the toples lmluxi " Al teggedd Deellne in the Handiemfts,” * Recent Awerien, of Cow writes abo As will be o unusually romancs “Wanderings in Jnpan,” Ebers’ A Bookbindliyg" * Awmerlean Woud-Ens "i’m" "g'," ond *The American Thysicul ypuo ' —Lippincott’s Magazine for Februnry 18 tho second number wb e now series, aud gives ovidenea of the Improvements promised e tho thne of the ghange, **Down the Ited Itiver of tho North,” l?( Alico Hgunfritz, I8 o produsely illustrnted sketeh o€ n trip throngh the provineo of Manltoba, In A Celestinl Coluny” n graphic deseription Is glven by C. Unldwin of that part of Sun Franelsco kuown ns Chinatown, with qu accountaf the lito of ita Chinese Inhabitants, Fictlon 18 represented by the serial *Lilith,” and thres eapital short stories SMonsiour Paul's Ieroism,” by Loulse S, Houghton; **Tho Kournwoits,” by Vera Lapoukhyns and ' Aidwinter’ Rowunee,” by L. K Black, The nove kotid articles of the number wro nu tms l)’"l'ill deseription of * Welsh Women,” by Wirt 5§ discussfon, under thy title of SPrower-Centres,” by an ald journallst, ot tho varlouy types of jonrnals, and the wh and the wherefors of thelr existence; a erltl- elsm of Sural Detnhardt in her vilous chnvaeters, by M. (. Vin Rensselaers | ui o Among the Cherokees,” an ucconnt of thas tribe, with ohservitions mado during a vislt, by A. ML Willlums, A sketen. entitfed A Country ‘Pavern In Winter,” by l\lnv¥ Dean, two poems, With the usual varioty of #Month=- snip ¥ Therary eritlelsms, form the of the contentsot this number of thy muguzine, A porusal of the table of contents of tha Midwinter (Februngy) Seribner showsitto | bea number of winsuul varlet: [ popular interest s, perhapy, Mrs, os 11, Biirnett’s setial, ©'A Fale Darb ehnn,” wihileh i3 veprinted from “Peterson's, This is n vecent story, tho * falr burbarian’? helng u lnlmmm Ameriean glily who rulses a flutter o an English tow “ Norway’s Constitutlonul Struggle,” by Bj0rnstieing | IjGrnson, the Norso ppet, will have special Riterest from the author's present sojonrn to his country, and from the contumely he has recelved at' the hands of King Usear for iy pronounced - ropublican views; it is 4 elear stutement 'of ©othe . attempts wi . to _override - the i far wil. %o Musle of ~ Niagura,” by Fugens M. Thayer, the Boston organist anid usiein, §3 o cutjous paper, contatnbne # thorough analysis aml unbotation of tho aetunl wusical notes produced by the greut \\-ululi,ml| I, ‘whlch"llhla ‘:ufi hg"fq my"l ";l:‘:tel.ml(!?\‘l Toitr but singy, ow the New™ T Cumo Dn\vnq to Us? is by I'rof, Geotge P. « '

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