Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1881, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCII —_ NEW PUBLICATIONS. e worldafamed SCRIBNERY ~London Examiner. S(RIBNER FOR, APRIL. FAUINE PORNS FOR DECORATION.—A Aug- pestive paperof speelnl interest, contributed by Ann, richly Hinstrated by tho author, 1 IOPIERS' RENLLLION.=Tho bistory of coperatlvo stores, ko atccessiul in England, nnd sow under organization tn this country, Also. (0-OFERATION IN APARTMENT-HOUSES, with plans and suggoestions. Mrs. BurNeTT's bright porelette, *+4 FALL BARBARIAN," Is concluded, Juwill b followed In May by n noveletto by gronas W. Canre—"Madnwne Delphine.” Pishop DUANE contributes a pnper on ¥ Father lyu|nlhe," with u portrait beantifully engraved by CoLE: FuNEst INGROSOLL writes of *The atboun Suwinmer Home® 5 EDWARD BTRAITAN of “greek TerrnoCoftns from Tanngra mnd Elnes where? ;. 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THE BEACON LIGIT! #The true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." The Bencon Klght s an unusually attractive and teautiful Sunday School Eung Buok, by . 3K, Fen- ey ond Kev. E. A, Ioffman, who havo had o yery successful oxperienca s song writers and com- posers. ‘Uhoir buok Is one of tha beat ever mnde, 'The Bescon Light Jins many nobla hymos, and the sweot- ot of melodles. Speciimon coples malled for 830 cents 1 Ilboral roduction for quantities, CANTATAS, Shiolrs ana Bocioties willdo welt s to ond the musleal Keason by per- formint elthera Hacrod Cautata, us Buck’s $6th Panhin il or Clindwiek's aplondld Juscph's Bondago (81, or ulterticla’s Belnhnzzur ($11, or iy tho very cosy ls- ). or_Hout's ulkays populur [aymakers ther () ¢ ), or By s classicul Don Muniv (§L.40). The Emarson Method for Reed Organ, a0, by Emorson and Mnthows, s amani the vory d b 6 good collection of fnutrupiental aud al, oeal wuste. Any book malled, postefree, for retail price. LYON & HEALY, Chicago, lll. OLIVER DITHON & OD., Jtoston. THE CASE OF COL. DWIGHT. Decislon Agalnst the Insuranco Come panles Ronderod by the Court of Ape pealy, ALDANY, March 15,.—Tho Court of Appenls this morniug tbunded down a decislon in tho famous Dwight ilfe-Insurance cuses, thore bLeing seven of them. Tho appenl made by the insurance Jompanles 18 dismlssed with costs. New York Sun, Col. Walton Dwight wns a well-known cltizen of Biughawton, N. Y, e applied to every life- fosurance company lu tho United States in tho mooths of August mnd Soptomber, 1878, and sought to obtuin insurance on his life to the amount of 450,000, Hewucceeded In obtaining $50.000 fnsurnnco in the Equitable Life-Assirance Socioty of Now York, $20,000 in the Mnnbattnn, $15,000 cadh in tho Uermaniu of Now York, Mutual Benefit of Now-, ark, and Northwestern ot Milwaukeo, Wis,: $10,000 ench jn the New York Lifo,Washington of New York, Unitod States of New York, Motro- valitan of New York, Aitna of Hartford, Travel- ers'of Hartford, Unfon Mutual ot Augusts, Me.; Nationnl of Mantpeller, Vt.: Now Eugland Mut- ual of Boston, Btute Mutual of Warcestor, Maaa.; Mutual of Springtlold, and Borkshire of Pltts- fold, Mnss., and 35,000 ench-n the Brooklyn of Now Homo of New York, and Nutional of heago. Tho total of tho policics he obtulned York, was & ments. wasmado known atn re) ncidontaliy ong oficor” mentioned thut Lis compuny hag was - aug, thaf reeeived from I ¥ero effeoted trick. Dwight replicd: "When Lam dead eut me to pleces, and sco what you cun tind out.” Ho innde ninplo arrangemonts for the phyal- Siaus to muke u thorough autopsy of his hody. A reputable undertaker took chargo of the carpse, and fourteen reputablo phystelunssigned Setatement of facts that nppeared nt un autopsy, 0 insuranco cotnpanics were represented nt o autapsy. 'Tho doctors ngrecd as to the Tacts, but they dwagreed us to the conclusion tobo drawn from thonse facts. Dr. Dolufleld, Who represented the Equitablo Compuuy, catng 10 o canclusion that tho mun died of piralysis o the howrt, Dr. John Swinburne conctuded thathedied of msphvxin, Dr.Durr, the attond- ing physfolun, sald that thore was malurinl trouble “und congestivo chill, Thoso different oplnjous wara founded vn the samoe facts, Tho feneral opthfon In Binghampton wus that tho nsurnnce compunics were trylng to evade the l:ymumux i Just debt. Tho Coronor refusod ¢ hold an inquest, Application wia mude to lov, lobiuson, who compolled the Coroner to ‘I'io Corounerscleoted u Jury of doctors, ¥hose verdict was that thero wus noovidence tiat Dwignt dicid of unoaturil cuuses, Tho teorcaentativos 8 of tho {nsurance com- anles were not ntlowed to ask questlons nt tho nqueat, The particulurs of tho cuse were bold one, wilely publishod, The Eguitnble Soclety finally concluded to pas tha wmount of thy cliim n;tiflml“l, und di (|¥1 ollowed suit. Tho Dlhc}' compnules resolved to thght thelr clulus lu . Tho Homo Compuny courts, LIFZ AND I Lifo and I aro lovers, straying often ik to chiliron Maylag 3 n Full of miri and st 0" Life plucks nll tho blooming hours Urowing by the wauy; Biuds thein on my braw ke tigwers Culls mo Queen of May, Then ugaln, in ralny weather, Waalt visen-viy, Plonning work we'll do together A1 tho yours to bo. Bometimes Lifo denies me biisses, And 1 frawn or pout; But wo mako it up with kissos Ery the duy is out, Womun-like, I souietimos griove him, & Try bis trust oud faith, fiuth‘ll shull une duy luave him For bits rival, Deuth. "l’!x‘mx ho Al\Yl:‘yl growa moroe zealous, 0¥ i 0w fox buli Josl et tho worv for o At uil lovors do. ey ‘Tuo’ I swour by stars above him, Aud by Wortds boyondy oo Thut [ 1ove biti—love him—love bim} Tho' my beurs ls fond; Tho' Ld gives me, doth wy lover, Klasuwith cach brotie o S e A &5 \ud roth w cuth. Ella Wheeler (n Denorest’s Muguzine, Mount Pleasant (1a.) Journal 1, l&H'h Geo. F. W, Willey, the widely-known uehier ficre, In responisy to au humlr)"l:lv ’\l\“lrx avuonur coneerniug St, Jucobs UL, sul grent pleasure I bear testhnony to the e ullur healing propertles of 8t. Jucobs Ol y lmumnattfl palis, Huving been a sutforor | - Il)lllls Adistressing muludy for yoars, 1 do Off that the curafive etfects of the St. Jucobs phogt WY casy surpassed those of yny other uf:"?lwcéumedy. wany of which I'bud been e 19, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES LITERATURE---ART---SGIENGE. The History of Gresoe by a Greok —Arrival of the Tug of Tho Great Musicians—The Chaldean Ac- count of Genesis—Religions of China ~Statesman's Year-Book, Aspects of German Culture—The School- master's Trial—Treasury of English _ Sonnets—Sporling Scenes— English Poets. Magazines—Art Publications—Books Received—Literary, Art, and Scientific Notes. LITERATURE. A HISTORY OF GREECE. Mr. ‘Plunyenis—himself n Greek—has produced n two-vohwne manual of Greclan history which hns many merits and many faults. Its merlt consists largely u the fuct that it Is a continuous hislory of Greeee from tho earliest period to 1880, and yetis comprised within thy limits of two moder- Most histories of this land, 8o rich in traditions of an early eivili- zatfon, the most advanced of any, and of & culture In some respeets surpassing that of to-dny, and to which all literature acknowl- edges its Indebtedness, have stopped at the beginning of the Byzantine perlod, In theso two velumes tho history of Greeco Is com- plete, and the best chapter i3 the last fenl history of the Greck people. 1s 30 Inrgely a compilation from the work of othors that it supplies no want not supplied beforo its appenrance, that the style is too prosaic to be entertaining, and that the pln- glarisms in the two volumos aro of the gross- est kind and lower the work below the stand- ard of n second-rato school history. moro evident when wo consider the avowed object of the author in writing the work, In the preface—which s the nuthor's statement to.tho public—ho says: work has been to write n history of Greeco bnsed us fur as possible on the testimony of authoritles contemporary with the events narrated,” nnd to exemplify that point ap- propriates and uses as his own the lunguage of the Rev. Joseph Cook, withont even u quotation mark or o credit In n foot mote, “7he peculiar feature of the present work,” “My purpose In this And then ho uses as his own thé language of Jebb, and Grote, and Gibbon, without ng much ns saying to theso gentlemen, * By your leave, sivs,” view of the work in 8. New York contempo- rary cites afow instances of this manifest plagiarism, which we quote, although any readerat all famitlar with Mitford, Thirl- wall, or Finlay—ns well as with the wrlters we have alrendy mentioned—will | dotect many other even more heinous offenses of First, take tho description of the battle at Gaugamela botween Darfus and Tellenic sourees.” the snmo kind, Timayents, Vol. IT, page *Having been formied by n desortor thut thore were planted in varlous’ parts of thoe ground long Iron 8plkes! to dumayo the Macedo- nhorse, Aloxander iligently avolded theso! tho Hoyal squudron on serter,Aloxanderuveld- od tho pinces whore fron spikes hud beon planted to damnge the Mucedo- Rolf, 4t thao ‘head of tho Hoyul squuadron on tho dlrocuon, Keoplng t,|right somowhat i nd- As ho nearcd tho enomy ho saw tius himself, with tho Perafun Jott contro - medintely opposud to Indlans, Albepling, t:’n marchod somewhat obliquely 1n " thut dirco- slightly in ndvanco. As hoapproached tuo ene- my ho suw tbat ho wi directly opposit Darlus himself, with tho Por-{| slon loft contre cotie osed of the Porsion 000, Eachof thewm was on tho plan of quartorly pay- Tha unusual amount of his Insurante J)wsumuuw mcoting of different companies beld ut the Astor House, for he purpese of forming an assoctution for tho - wout on fnollning tot nterchungo of fuCormntion It BUSPICIOUS Cuses. i o oer s right, and Darlus Rircteliing hls front to- ward tho left tocoun. teruct tho movement, Lut stlil greatl; flanking tho Maced niuny totho loft, Alex- under hiud now got so far to his right that he ground leveled by Di- Tius for tho operations of his charlots in front. 'To check nny furthor moverentin this direo- tlon, tho Buktrian 1,000 horso and the Seythinns in frout of the loft woro ordered to make o clreult and ate ok tho Mnacedonian rlgnt flonk,"” oto, d taken a rlsk that he thought plolous, becenuse he had discovered L the insured man hid concenled tho fact thut he had ralsed blood. Ono after uio thur the ngents of the diffcrent companles vald thoy hrd tuken risks on the same man. This lod to investigation, In onw case the promiuni on tha Orst quarter had not been putd, und an effort Yagmado to proveit the agent from accopting 1t. In anothur case ono gf the campanies mado 8 forual tender of ropayment of ull tho money wight, and refused to receivo Any moro monoy from him. All tho lusurunces otwoen Aug. 18 and Sept, 19, 1. On the 15th of tho following Octobor Dwight was tuken sick. The sccond quartoly R_h.'luhlm had not bLewun pald, On tho 15th of iovember Dwight was roported doud. Tho enke haul then excited wide interest. Ono eom- any sent to Pwight on his slek bed und told im that thoy bolloved he monnt to pluy somo Lunfuns, and Kariane, steadily advancing to tho right, while Durius| steotched bis own front) toward tho luft to op- werg ablu to outtlank the Macedontans on the left; but ns Aloxander, in hiscourse townril the right, had advaneed be- ond theground leveled y Darlus for tho oper- ntlons of his chnrivis in front, the latter deemed It neeessary to chuck) nuy further movemont in “that direction, and thoe oythiuns fu_frout of tho Porsinn loft mako n clrentt and ut- tack tho AMacedoniun right tiank,” ete. On pages 70-71 of this second volume ho takes n full pagoe from pages 67-'8, Next ho *assimi is, Vol 11, p. 335, Ith tue nor publiv serviee) eould cxpiato tho gull] or privito vir tuo nor publie’ sorvico could explute tho gullt of uctiyeo, or oven pnass Ivo, obodience to an ca- tublished Govornment; and duringtho stz years of lils new rolgi ho con- sldored the nx, thacord, nnd tho rack a8 theonly Instruments worthy of enco tu an cs- llshed Governments and durlny tho scven ciurs of his new rolgn 0 cousidered the pux, tho cord, and the rack worthy of roynlty."” Again: Vol IL, p, 478 note, Is literally taken from Gibbon, Vol, VL, pi 527, Vol 11, Is un extract from 1V., page 1043 Vol. 1L, pages 258-300, same us Gibbon, Vol, IIL, page $36, 18 from Glbbon, 3 ol Y., pages 2 and 244, ete,, ote, 11, pngos 401,405, and word tor word from Is a guotation wl rom the Kev, Joseph Cools, ho historian has 4 right: to consuit und profit by the work of earlivr authorities, but not to n wholesnlo upproprintion of thele words and langunge without credit, In u work professedly based ol 1L, B notation murks fi upon *llellenie Mauthorities contemporary with the cvonts narrated.” 1u the lnst part on **Modern Iollonism® M. Timuyensis mukes some very intoresting contributions to our knowledgo of the mod- cru politlieal history of Greece, he snys: *The possession of Constuntinoplo Is the Insurmountable obstacle,—the rock on which all the schemes for tho relstablish- ment of Chrlstlan supremacy | huve thus far been shattered, the natlve races in tho East the only one destined, both by its history prospects, 1 rule Constantinople, is the el For 1200 years that nation made it the seat of 1ts Kmpire, and proeserved it as n bulwark of civilization agalhst numerous powerful enemies. Anditfinolly s not through the power of the Turks, but el by the attaeks of Burope,”' -And ol page 418, he says: h lo In Europe and Asia dMinor ovl- Kither tho Fust dently appronelics will gradunlly bu surrendered to that people has from time to tine ruled it, and even to this day holds a promi- or the rulers which for 3,000 years torritorfes among themselves. a ense they will eroato thore n governient of the many, vlous eanses_of autugon! whereby the Eastern question wi moro complicated than ever before, Mr. ‘Timsyonsis’ speculatlons iy bo part- influonced by an oversanguine Hellenlo spositlon und nature. ‘Lhe oceupation of Conatantinople by Grosce has never beett re- garded us wmong the possibilitles of Euro- pean diplomacy, and, shigle-handed, Greees coild not copu with ‘Furkey suceesstull f the Hospliorus by rikl conguest. ‘The Hellenle yuestion presss tor 1t canpot now he long pthe end somp of Mr. Timoyen- 3 fur his hatlys laud u Do reallzed, bug not In nolyarchia or N rlsu Lo vi- sty and of war, full mensuro of his Apeculations In his “Ilis- tory of Girecce.” Cr}'uhllnlmfl in Now York by D, Appleton & TINE GREAT MUSICIANS, Three volumes have heen ndded to the serles of hlographiesof the greatinusieinny,— * Rossinl and the Modern Halian Sehook,” by 11, Sutherland Edwards; “Schubert,” by H, B, Frost; and ¥ Wagner,” by Francis 1uef- fer. A serles of shuitar works has been pub- lishied In Germany, and some of the volumes have been translated Into English. Of Itos- sinf, many blographies have heen published. All that 1s worth remembering about the mnatter s well summed up In Mr, Edwards' compuct little volume, A st of hls works, with the date of thelr production In publie, Is appended, and 1s not the least mportant partof the work, Schubert’s life was un- eventful, 1lesuffored from lack of recogul- ton rather than from anything else. Con- slderedl In the abstract, his life was that of an obseury Indivldual who galned a seanty livelihootd *first ng o sehool-teachor and afterwards as n musielan, *who ocenpied his spare tine with conpasitions of all kinds which pub- lishers looked upon _ with Indifference, griudeinely accepting n few towards the close of their author's i To-day the maestro 1s recognized a8 facile princeps among the exponents of tho, romantle and poetical In music, Fame was; for him, posthumons, but none the less lasting, Jie was n voluminous writer, nnd the ilst of i workes fills qunl.iu -one poges. **An exquisit faney, n noble fmagination, and a lafty poetical spirit? are the chrracterlstles of Schubert's work, Mr. Frost iy written n work that will surely ipn- terest musle-fovers, nor Is _he overenthugle astic In his pralsp of his hero, Of the three volumies, tho one on * \Wag- ner” will excite “tho most attention, The composer still lives, wud it I8 n rather Dazardous experlinent to sketeh and comment upon the life of o man still fiving, still hard wt work, still vigorous, nnd about whomg there hns been so mich and such varled critieism, anurunrilm result f9 anything but satistactory, and the boole is but anessay after nil. Mr. Tuefler Is very guarded In his opintons; so much so that it 19 often ovident that he does notsay half as much as he would 1ike to, But he does give a great deal of In- formation, in n very pleasant manner, about wmusiciun whose true tank ns an artist ls yet to be nssizned. It I8 both aceeptable and profitable reading, It will surprise many to find that Wagner's literary contributlons tar outnumber his musical compositions. ' 1o I3 now engazed in the compnsition of a now opera, *Pavsifal,” The subject is taken from thocyelo of St. Granl myths, and the xl;gg,onnuncc isto take placo at Balrenthin l"nijllshcd in New York by Serlbner & Wel- ord, THEOLOGICAL WORKS. ©“The Chaldean Account of Genesls,” s tho title of an octavo volwme first published Dy Mr, George Smith, of the British Muse- uny, in 18%. Soon after the appearance of that first edition, Mr. Smith returned to As- syrla to resume his Investigations nmong the ruins of Nineveh and other anclent cities, but soon tled as tho result of his exposures, leaving his great work In the midst. During the five years succceding his death; the study of the inscriptions on the tablots that had been brought to England from Ninevel was continued by other Orlental scholars n Grent Britain and Germany. 'The valuable results that had been reachied by Mr. Smith were In many respeets correeted, and hupor- tant additions were made to them. We have now anew aud greatly improved edition of the orlginal work, which has been edited by Prof, A. 1L, Layceo, of the University of -Ox- ford, 'I'he volume contains n description of the - Crontion, the Deluge, the Tower of DBabel, the Destruction of Sodom, the Thnes of tho Iatriarchs and Nimrod. “Thiere are nlio added Babylonian Fables ond Legendsof the Gods, These Chaldean accounts are tnken from cunciform inscriptions found on tablets and rolls which ntn remote nge wero traunsferred from Babylon to Nineveh. The Inscriptions aro usually arranged in six paraltel columns, Some portions of the tablets are so- badly broken as to make ft lwpossible to obtatn from the inscriptions anythmg lke n con- nected statement of their original contents, But with all the Imperfections tolerable paraliel to the earlier records of oyr (ienesis ismadeout. It is evident, Indeed, that the storles of the creation and the flood are given in the Chaldale nccounts under logendary forms which are far less simule than those of the Iebrew Seriptures, 1ut while they have ungnestionably been horrowed front Tubrew souree, thoy so grently vesemble tho history found in Genesis us to atford strong confirnwtion of the Scriptural record, The followlng 18 taken us w sample from the closing purt of the history of the delwwe: I sont forth a dove and it left. ‘Tho dovo went, it roturned, and u resting-plueo it -dld not find, aud it came ok, 1 sent forth nswallow ond (¢left, The swallow went, It roturned, and restinge place it did not find, wnd it camo baek, 1 sont forth u ruven aud it loft. Theraven weat, and tho eareion on the water it guw, and it did cat, itawam, and turned away, [t did not como Lnels, I sent (the animnls) forth to the four winds, 1sucrificed a sacrifico. I bullt un nitar an tho peak of tho mountiln, by seven vossels 1 placed, at the bottom of thous I sprend roeds, pines, und Juniper, Tho goda smeit the Ravotr, tha gods smelt tho good savour; the vods like flies” over the sncrifico gnmorm]. From afar niso tho great goddess nt hor approach lifted up tho mighty urches (I 0., tho ralinbow) which Anu Ll erentod us his glory, After this prssago o couversation between the gods Is narrated, in which the purpose is exbreased that anothor deluge shall not de- stroy tho childron of man, whutever othor enuses of destruction may be lot laose npon the world, ‘The volume Is exceedingly Inter- esting_and instructive. No studeni of the curle{lh-bnsw history can afford to be with- ontihis Iate and ricti fruft ot Orlental sehol- urship and rvesearch. 'Phe publishery ure Charles Serlbner’s Sons, of New York, Price, $3. —A shiort serles of lectures was dellverod fn the Presbyterlan Collexn of Enwland fn the spring uf 1850 by Jimes Legge, Professor of tho Chinose Lunguage und Ditorature in, ‘the University of Oxford. "The nuhjiuul Wiy “The lwllfilnns of Chlua—Contuelanism, nud Taolsm Deseribed and Compared with Chrlstinnity.” These leetures uve beun pub- 1islied in o volumo of 503 uges, 'There are four of them: The first two, on_ Confuclan- 1wy the third, on Thelam; the fourth, on n Comparism of these rellgions with Christl- anlty, Tho author presents sume new viewsof tha Chiuese religions, but ngrees in the ninin with earlier writers, He maintains that Confucius was u religlons teacher, but thut ho made morality espeelally prowduent in his fnstructions. ‘Ltolsm, ho lolds, hos been smmtly modified by the Introduction of Juddlilsm nto Chinn, ‘The tenchings of Tholsm aro mors definit I - régard to the future Hfo thun those of Confuclanism, but it s more Foly- theistie than | Confucinnism, which came much nearer to the primitive Monothelsim of China. The Confuclunists huve nlways wor- shiped thelr nncestors, but not as diving be- ngs, Tho worship of the 'Confuclunists, howaever, Is not formal among the common pegple, but s performed ut kot times by the Bperor on behalf of the whole people, who only know that such n servieo I8 ronduored for thou, Still thevo Is a sort of stlent worship, *theupward glincing of a oye, the fuiling of o tear,” on the part of muny an individual wmong, the wultitudes, The mornd teach- mgs of Confuclanism und Tholsm are In some reapeets good, but they aretoo Indefinit and general to bo effectlve, " In this respeet, a8 ovoll s in reard to the dactrines of re- lglon, Prof, Logge shows that Christianity 1% vastly superlor both to Contueianism and Fpofem, ‘The lecturo_on the comparison of theso religions with Chrlstinnity is clear und impressive, ‘The entlre volume desorves o widy und attentive reuding, Wo are glad 1t Las been republished by Scribuner’s Sons, of Nuw York, ‘The price Is §1.50, —Wu have on hand 8 smalt yvolumo in paper cover, entitled * Modoration va. 'Total Abstinence; or, Dr, Crosby and 1lis Ite- viewers” Thivis o publication of the Nu- tlonul Temporunce Soclety, Tho contents are us follows: Dr, Crosby’s * Calui View of tha Temperance —Question s o review ol r. Crosby ~ by the Itev, Dr. Mark < ilopkins,—a thought fuland searchipg crlticlvn: Wendell Phil- Lips' reply; o sevly, by dles. J. . Fosters “Jusufih Conk's Puiolt und ‘Temperanee,” b" T, L, Ouyler, 1, 1D.: * Relations of Dlx- tilted and Fermented Adauors,” by Fzra M, Hunt, AL D,,—u careful critlesm of that part of Dr. Crosbys leeture which vertains to th sclentific and sunitury aspoct of the subjoec un open letter by the lev. br, A, J. Gorilung comments of rruns; wihg' Volco of Selence”; and * The Voleo ot Berlpture,” With rezard to suwe Jf these documents thare will be whlo differences of judgment, necordin}; to the different relatlmy of rean- 4 to - tho Temperance question. It has been npparent for Bome: time that opposition to the maodern Temperaneo movement 18 gradunlly -gaining strength among the winedrinkers i soclety, Dr, Crosby and several of our nbly divines fron England and Seotland, suelt as Dra, ‘Taylor aned Oralston, together with less distin- guished American elergymen, are glving In theic adhieslon to this opposition,” OF this elags Dr, Croshy Is tho 1most conapietots, bl as & defender of wine-drinkimg and also us n outspoken ndvoeats of moral reform lu onr eltles, The difference between Dr. Croshy and tlie friends of total abstinenee 1s, that he regards thelr metheds ny impracties ble, and Pas lonestly hedteve that hls methods will I the end, prove worse than fruitless, “Those who wigh to_rewd on hoth sides of this question will find an able pre- sentdtion of the views, pro and con, in the yolume to which we hive 1 Heeinl- ty Dy, Croshy's lecture and the review by Dr, Mark Hopking, Oue manifest diferenee he- tween thess two writers on this subfect Is, that the former Is severe and often denun- ehutory, while the [attor |s ealm, discriminat- gy vl s elear as the light, Both nre ably and fiem fn thelr positions, w. P, LITE STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK, ‘I'iis book Is a statistical and historieal antual of the States of tho ewvilized world, It g for elghteen yours been accented us o standard work of reference, and contains un Immense nmount of statistical and general information. It will not do to accept It as a trnstworthy gubide for the Unlted States in many purticulars, however. 1L professes to be for the year 1881, hut depends for allits more hnportant statisties s to produets, edueation, population, ete., upon the eensus of 1870, We note, morcover, that Mr, Hay 13 saldt to have “served in the Civil War of 1850, and_President Garfleld “took part in Civil War, when e _became a Alajor- Genersl.” — Awmonge the * First-Rates in our nuvy nre placed three vessels which have never left the stocks and In fact only the hull extsts, and not a nall hns been drlven on them during the Inst quarter century. ‘Lhe Michigan is rauked a8 n Third-Rate, although, being only of 653 tons, she 1s o Fourth-Rate, Of the *Ameriean Diplomatic Serviee” only one name is b that of the Minister to England.” Seeretary-of-the- Navy Goff, who ouly hell oflice two monthy, is the only Secretary of the Navy mentioned, Thers are ollier eyrors, none of vital huportance, however. Thus it i3 Implica ot page 663 that Chine had not o powerful gunboat nayy before 1875, wherens a whole fleet of e ent gunbonts bad long before that date salled under the yellow dra- on gi AL page 756 the number of electors the Lower House of Victorin I8 set ot , 725, nlthoagh the population Is 1,000,000, ond “unlversal suffrage” prevalls! 'The brogress of rallwayextension Iy Frunce dut- ng 1670 18 not noted, althoumh the fixures for 1880 ure 1o nceessible: and there 1s no men- tlon of the Algerinn railways opened sinee 1878, For general statisties the work 15 suf- fielently necurnte, and o great umount of tinte anid [abor have been dévoted todts pre- paration. Itls in convenlent foru, flexiblo covers, legibly and clearly vrinted aud pub- lishied by Macmillan & Co. ASPECTS OF GERMAN CULTURE, In this volume the authior, Granville Stan- ey Hail, hns colieeted papers on vavious subjects having reference to the present state of German thought. The majority of the artieles were orighally published n the Nation ns letters trom Bevlin and Lelvsic, and are entitled: Religlous Opinton; Vivi- section Question; "The Passion Play; Sowme Recent Dessimistie Theorles; Thy New Cultus War; Ferdinand Lossalle;” 'Fhe Graphic Method; The Leipzic **Messe”; A Powernnfan Watering-Place; Emperor Wil- helin’s Return g Hermann Lotze; 1s JEsthet- ies n Selenee?; Are tho German Universi- tles Dectlmng 23 Fowler's Lucke and Germm Psychology: Spirltualism in Germuuy 3 Re- cent Studles in Hypnotism; Laurn Bridg- man—ete, ete. The anthor 13 the lecturer at larvard University on Contemporury German Phllosopliers, Mr, Hall's deseriptive, lotters—such a8 A Pomerauinn Watering. Place,” *Phe Emperor Wilheln’s Return.” and “The Passiun PlayYcnre less enter- tnining than these usufiy Written by special corvespondents. The writer 18 overtond of injecting his own speewlntions into were narrative of wetuul events? ‘Che more studied articles are not rennrkuble, What an essny on *Laura Bridgman,” or on *"T'he Percep- tion ot Colar,” on the “ Muscular Per- ceptlon of Space,” ur the writer's “First Impresslonson Returpine 1lome” have to do with ** Aspeets of German Culture ” 1y somowhat diflenlt to understand. The work Is very much ke . pleco of patehwork,— odds and ends eolleeted and worked togethor to form a book, Muny of the subjeets tnken up ean havdly he even fuirly stated within thy limits of 1 chapter. Mr. Hinll Is, however, an Intellbrent writer, iyl gives n guod super- ficlul view of German philosophy. WORCESTER’S DICTIONARY. Tt I8 twenly-two years siiee the orlginal publieatlon of Dr. Worcester's Dietlonary, In this new editlon—rfor u copy of which we ara hndebted to ], B. Lipplneott & Co.—the main body of the work remuing unchanged except by the addition of a brief biographical sketeh of Dr. Woreester. But asupplement has beon ndded whieh contains about 12,600 entries, of which 11,000 nre now words, A carefully-prepuared voenbulury of fiyuuurmxs of words in general use will ho found to bow useful appendix, The pihlishers say: *The supplement hns been prepared with the double purpose of sulylnlylm.' such omissiony s hnve been observed in'the vocabulary of Woreester's Dictlonary, und of Insertingsuch new words s seience, art, wid liternture have contributed to the lunfilmgu sinee the publi- eation of that work, ‘Chis interval hns been cluraeterlzed by unparatleled unurf:y luevery dopartment of “selentille reseaceh, nwl by corresponding activity in the popularization of selence, A vist number of new terms have thus beon brought into comparatively common use; and adthouzh n large propor- tlon of such words ennnot with striet proprl- ety bu suld to form u part of the Bnglish lan- gnnge, yet from thelr, constant recurrence in what mny be termed popular literature, 1t hns_been deamed proper to-explian them, in tho bellef that it {5 ouly to sneln work ws Worcester’s Dietlonary that tho ordinary reader wouldt lnok for n definition of theni, The Inbors of the Early Enlish Toxt Svelety and kindred nssociutlons buve cantributed to awaken u tively Interest in thelr speclal de- partmont of Hickature, mud therefore the lst ol archale (espeelally of Chuueorian) torms and words alrewdy 1o, b found In Woreester has been largely e , being complled chh-llly from the glossaries of standurd works,' The new\editlon Is a masslve volume of ©,058 pages, pu. contalus over 115,000 words i Its voeabnlary, ‘The supplen uun-f work Tuts bron well done, wml the work I8 u losting monnment to the patlent Inbor und ability o ot of the first of Ameriean philolugists, THIE SCHOOLMASTEIR'S TRIAT, This Is tho story of a_school whers the schoolmaster was brought to trial by his putrons and made to unswer for certain ubuses which provatled under his mannge- ments Mo has been following n system which his own good sense tunght him was bLullt on a wrong foundation;: but to which, belng the method preseribed by custom, he hul to conform strictly. In an eloquent speech tho arrafzned teacher clears himsell by convin- cing his nccusers that tho nbuses charged to W ore due to the faully system under which he is compelled to work, antt with a suwdden [nsplration resigns his position, sud then pletures what In his judgment a modol sehoal should be, ‘Lho result s his trivmph- ant aequittal awd the founding of o new school by a vleh mannfacturer, in which now andd practles) theories are brought Into play, The nlnr{ I8 but tho line on which the wuthor's theorles ure hung for publis Inspee- tlon, but It Is o kood, strong line fur ull that, Setool roform I8 evidently somothing of 1 hobby with the writer, who izt eopy with Gafl” Hamllton In her presentation ot tha contradictions and fnconststencles of the Saold" sehgol portrayed fn the first chapters. fler model sehool has w special ot for every subjeet,—not n novel ldew, by uny means,—und would tench about everything, WNot only would [ have caroful nontal tralning,”” says Mr. Joncs, the teacher, ** 1 would liave ‘competent tenchors for svery kind of hundiworic that could be bronzht mto ulu(y. Wood-carving, wood-engrviug, typwsetting, osler-work, cang-work, rattah- work, needlework, luce-muking, \:nmmv. netting, s(rn\mnlum!;;!. cookery, luundrys work, " ete. A8 Me, Jones wol, ayss T Is Ut o ull enthusinse, the author IN y carrled away by zeal. Wo vury much question the aceuraey of the - plication thut * our own schoal-graduutes il . our erhininal lists,” or that our school-system fhas foreed ug lice for although we = xive the writer the bhenclit of the doubt arlsliie from an ignorance of the locality to whicl the word “our” applies, Our gencral ool systeni {3 theo best fu the world, hing clse, 18 suseeptible of nnd must grow with the age atul work of thne in the inureh of DrOETess, STy Selinotmaster's Trial’” I3 worth reading and remembering. g ] youngmen, and subserve thefr purpose admir- to double our po- { ably. No botter glft could bymndeto a young inan or woinan either. MAGAZINES, ‘The Fortnlghtly IReview for March lins the following tablo of contents: olltiéal Forins and Forces,” by Herbert Speucers “tlow to Get Out of South Afrienn DIf- flenitics,”” by F. R, Statham; ** Notes of Travel in Thessaly and Eplrus,” by W, V. Published it New York by Charles Serib- | ghirol; » On the Study of Ilistory,” by Ed- ner's Sons. —— A TREASURY OF ENGLISII SON- NETH. ‘This Is an American repriut of an Engiish waork printed In Manchester last yenr for private cireulution. So far as we know, it merits fts elalin to heing the best collection of sonnets in the language, The sonvets are, hiowever, eonfined to those written by native English poets not Hving, and have been seleetedd only ag they conform to Mr, Main's detinition of o sonnet, which requires that it shidl consist of fourteen rhymed duensyllne bie verses, nnd be o deyelopnent of one fden, mood, feeling, or sentlment,—and one only. 1he voiume I8 divided into two equal pore o tiona~Text and Notes. ‘Uhe first is devoted to sonnuets by those wri who huve at- tained the highest excellence in this 8 3z of composition, and the second, §n il o3 Pcelully for stidents, Is intended to furnish ' w complete eritienl appuratus for the studf(’ of the simnets tn the text,” Ar. Mal's hoo I3 an evidenes of hiy extensive reading and good literary judzment, It contalns 460 son- nets, arrangeil In chronologieal order, and ought to be of great assistnnce to students of literature and n weleome work to lovers of poetry. DPublished in New York by R. Worthington, T'HE ENGLISII POETS. Mr. Wurd has completed his series of “The English Poets; Seleetions, with Critieal In- trodncetions by Varlous Writers, and n Gen- ward A, Freeman; “Lights and Shades of Amerfean Polities,”” by IL M, Hyndmaun; “Folgora da San Gemignano,” by J. Ad- dington Symonds; *The Anti-Jewish Agl- tatlon In Germany,” by Ernest Schuster; “I'he Land Laws,”? by William A, Jevons, —The leadine fentute of sIppletons’ Jotr- nal for April Is the first part of n story of ol Greek life, by Prof. George Ebers, The title of this story Is “A Questton: A (ireek IdyL” The scene s Inld in Syrncuse, on the seashore, and Is confined wholly te pletures of domestic life, ‘I'hls fs followed by an artlel on *“Mysteries and Miracle-I'luys,” by Mrs. Hooper, founded on the recent French work on this thene by Julleville, There Is & long review, with many extracts, of Oliphant’s * Land of Gllead” the account of the ** der- vish miracles,” which Is given in full In the Journal, being. fairly startling. Mr, Robert B. Ttoosevelt hins an amusing paper on the profound questlon, *Why Does the Crab Go Sldewnys?” We have the second of Hetenn Fauelt Martin's papers on *Some of Shak- speare’s Female Characters,” Portla being uow treated; a curlous essay on anclent “Greek Diuners”; a group of selectlons from Ruskin’s just published “Arrows of tho Chuce, under the titls of * Ruskiniuna ”'; and u capital essay from the Country I'arson, eral Introduetlon by Matthew Arnold.” We | called “Concerning the Cheerfulness of the have reecived the third and fourth volunes, and they rully justify a repetition of the prafse bestowed upon the first two at the thmo of their appearance, So far as we know, no other work can compare with this one, and certainly no other otfers such scholarly critletsms, In fact, the writers are author- ftles and the selections made by the editor are adequate representations of “the work of the several poets, The thivd volume covers the eighteenth century sthe fourth begins with Wordsworth and goes down to Dobeil, ‘They contain artieles Ly My, Matthew Arneld on Gray and Kents; by Dean Churel, on Wordsworth; by Dean Stanley, on the Wesleys and Keble by Mr, Gold- whi Smith, on Scott; by Sir Ienry ‘Iaylor, on s old friend, Sotthey, and on Llogers nud Crnpbell; by Lord Houghton, on Landor; by Mr, Swinburne, on Collinsg by Mr. Pater, on Colerldge: by Mr. Mark Taitison. on Pape: by Mr. Jaines A, Sy on Byron: by Mr, ¥, W 1oy by Mr. and on varlons othel oty on Blake: by Mr. Austin Dobson, on Prior, Gay, Matthew Green, Ilood, and ’l‘mud; hy Mr, George Suintsbury, on Thomson aid othors; Ly Mr, Theodore Watts, on Chatter- ton; by Di, John Service, on Ferguson and 5 lan Ramsay and other_ Scotch been intrusted to Prof, Willlam nith und others to Prof, FEd- 1 Mrs, Browning to Mr., W, T Arnold, und some other poetesses to Misy Mary Robinson. ‘The editor has dealt with Cowper und Clongh and some minor elght- centh century poets, It Is the best substi- hulnu !'urnl:umulelc set of the poets yet pub- ENT Mublished ju New York by Macmillun & 0, OLD AND NEW FRIENDS, Many readers will remember * Ruby ITam- ton,” u book published a- year ango, ‘This volume is n continuatlon of that story from .Jnwmes Parton: * The W Ol 'There is o stirrlng novelet, given complete, entitled A Culture-Ghost: or, Winthvop's Adventure”” The editor, in tls departinent, ventures to question the claling of Carlyle to be considered o great thinker. The Nineteenth Century for March treats of the following topies: *“Elghty Years,” by 53 Charlotte G, O'Brien; * Kadleallsm: w illar Collonuy,” by W, 11, Mallock: **Art edlework,” (1) bi' Laudy Mariun Alford, by G. F, Watts, 1t 4.3 *The Creed ot o an,” by Frederiek Inrrlsons * Smoke- htlon,” by Sir Frederick Pollock, Burt.; The State of Parties,’ by T. E, Kebbell The Parsis.” by Prof, Monter Williams, C. L E,; “Our Noxt Leap in the Dark,” by the Rt-Hon, Enrl Fortescue: *'Transplunting to Cotonles,” by W, M. Torrens, M, P’.; 'he Dasutos and Sir Bartle Frere” by Witlium TFowler, M, P, * Long and Short Servlee,” by Lieut. Gen. Sl Garnet Wolse- ¥, G, C. I, G, Co M, Go:* Holland ol the Transviul,” by W, H, de Beaufort, Member of the Duteh States-General, ‘The .Atlantic Monthly for April has n'c‘l startlime features, It I8, however, the Jast number published under Mr. Howells’ su- viston, und My, Aldrich will edit the May The contents of the Atlantle are: ady,"” XXIV,, b o Concernlng Dead Lo y Rose Terry Cooke; *What We Lenrn from Old Aryan Words,” by John Fiske; “The Longing of Clree,” Cameron Munn g “Friends: A Duet,” IX-X,, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; * Valtair chool-Duys,” hy 3 of Poets,” IV, by Willian M. Hlossettl; * Her Gliost,” by Louise Chandler Mouiton; “"The New Sun- dny,”t by Jullus kb Ward; **Sonnet,” by Frances™ M. Irown; * Reminiseences of Washington—X1., 'The Fillnore Adiinlstra- tlon, 1850-1853"" 3+ Seerets,” by Elln Wheelery wohe British Phitfstine,” by Richard Grant White; *Johnson’s Garrison, and Other Bi- ogruphles”: “The Last State of English Whiggery.," Huarper's Magazine for April offers its the sume pen. dMany of the old churaeters » peqary an wiusual variety of entertalning appear in its poages, although the main Inter- est 13 centied upon new ones, the ehitdren of Ruby and _ ber school friends. Dr, Grafton reapponrs in the first chnpter, nnd carrles awuy ITope Hamilton to preside over his household as second .mother to his four littlo children, Hester Wallace, as Jiry, Mason, and her son; ary Ineluded nmom‘ the char- netors, and the greater: part of the nctlon of tha. story is coufined within the Himlts ot these three fumilles, The book containg some churmbiys vletures. of home e, and puinty, Bestdes, In vivid colors the tempta- tlons which assall young boys who wre {lirown Into the soeléty and subjected to tho influences of evil-minded companious. 1Its rcxullmi 11 serve as o wariing, and cunnot but help and strengthen the boy whose lin- pulses are for goud. This is one of the strongest ures of the story, although the prlmary deshgn of the nuthor was to ndapt the volinie to the tustes und necessities of wirl readers, FORESTER'S SPORTING SCENES. “Frank Torester’s Sporting Scenes and Chnrueters,” Just republished by 1. B. Peter- son & Brothers, Philadeiphiy, embraces “The Warwiek Woodlands,” ** My Shootlng Box,” “The Quorndon Hounds,” and “The Deer- stalkers,” by Henry Willlmu Herbert,(Frank Forester), ‘I'hisisa new and enlarged edition, p with n 1ife of the suthor, a new Introductory chapter, Frank Forester's portialt and anto- graph, w full-length pleture of him in his shooting costume, and seventeen linstrations, il exceedingly bad in exceution, amd con- tafnine o variety of ineident, on the road, in the field and in the forest, with the preeepts, practice, and accldents of woodernft, and concarning all the ticld sports of Amerlen. Ilenry Willlam lerbert, tho author of “Frank TForester's Sporting Scenes and Charneters,” was born in London, April 7, 1807, He recelved all the wdvantages of o thorough classical eduention,.being tanght by private tutors untit he was 12 years old, after which he wns transferred to Eton, and lastly to Colus College, Cum- bridge. 1lis pusslon for fickl sports, fuberited {from hi- aneestors, was oxhibited while yet st sehool. 1114 futher, an enthusl- astle sportsnunl, taught **the yonug ldey how toshoot,” Like the young” Perslan of olden thne, the youtl was'early taught *to shoot, to ride n horse, nnd speale tha truth,” thres essential elements in the educeation of the Britlsh gentry, Jlerbert wradunted ab Cambridge 1 the clnss of 182050, with high honors, nid the reputation of high scholars ship, particulary i the clussies, Sir Walter Scott, then in the zenith of his fine both us o ,’Hn:l wd nno was his literury kol Soon wfter leaving Cambrideo youny Herbert vislted Purls, whers for o nie he enjoy the scens, eustomy, and moides of 1ife becnl- far to the gavest metropolis of the world, Aftor n tour of several months on the contl- nent, ho deterinined, for some unknown reis s, to leave honre, kindred, mud station for another ellme, Avriving in the United States In December, 1881, with “no othier purposs than fo meo Amcrien [n all its gth Dreadth,'” to use his own kguoge, o so- oumed foratine in New \url(_Cfi iy, il natly visited Oranpge County, Now \'qu\'. wheris for the tirst tme he heheld *'Tom Draw,” and 1 company with that keen spartsman, shot the quall” and woodeoek in the Warwlek Woodlands, From the qulet valo of Warwlek the sportsuan and tourist Jowrneyed novthward Into Conada, and white there lie became nequuinted with soveral promiuent Northern sportsinen, and after u pleasant sojourn bn the Dominton he retiined to Now York City wnd tuvned hils nitontion L seeuring some employment con ~ gental to his tasto, Tasaon beeiing one of the notables amld the throngs thut pagsed sdown Broadway,” attracting attontion not only us one of tho popular writers of the duy, but as an sccentrio genlus, usunally at- tired fn sporting costimne, aud bearing u “lux- uriunt mustaelio, an appendage asully tubooed in - thoso days, and iiissive Kink Chiavles spurs I his euvaller bonts, At * T Cedars,” his country homey Herbert wis the wonder and sddration of the people, 1n the fluld, with dog and gin, or along the trout streams, with rod i hind, he was hold a model, Frunk Forester's wrltings form u fenture of Amerlenn lteratnvo—dorived not onty from un heroditury zoal amd tasie for fiekl sports, but un ubility In literary wilks, und opportunitles for the practico of the u!mnu ho lovwd, both here and in Burope, which combined to mako him o model sport- g author, RELF=11ELE SERTES, Belford, Clarke & Co. huva published u neat series ol Samuel Smlles’ works, Includ- ing his four bouks entitled respoatively: “Self-loly,” **Duty “Thrin,” *Chr- readime matter, 'The number opens with deseriptive artiele by W, I, Rldelng on “The Green Mountilns In Sugay-Time,” Arthur Gilman, the architect, contributes an instructive illustrated _article on Sallsbury Cathedral, **Indian Education at Hampton and Carlisle’ s the subject of a lnuwr by llelen W. Ludlow, one of the lumptoit teuchers, with fifteeniftusteations. * [talian Llte ln New Yark,” by Charlotte Adums, furnishies Mr, Roegers with a number ot pleturesyiio subjecty for his penell, " Ales- amder F. Oakey’s paper on ** Art Embroid- ary” is full of sugpestions on n mlb{wl of general interest, and 13 iustrated with some exeellent designs. -~ Ernest Ingersoll con- tributes an urticle on Milwaukee. 1llustrated with seventeen engravings, S, IL M. Byers, United States Consul at Znrieh, My Farin m Switzerlnnd ' (Hustrated), conveys some useful hints to our farmers as to the economy of agrientiure, The two serinl novels—"An- ne,"" by Constanee Fenimore Woolson, aud “A Luodicean”—ire continued. Sherwoud strong story, “Two \g i or the title of “An Artist’s Reminiscences,” tells atouche nyg story of his hoyhood, wiilelh he also 1Hus- trates with n chnnnlug pleture. Another sldo of 1ife insuratiee, contrusing with thut glven in nn article on tho subject In thg Jan- uary. Hurlu‘r I3 presented by the Rev. Stephen IL Tyug, Jr. Poultney Bigelow, under the title of * Young Man, Go West,” deseribes the **Cloge Colony ™ in_ lown, and shows what results nre possible for fariming and stock-ralsing in that section, A lhihter paper, of i hwimoreus chareter, cutitled *Darwlnlnn Diversions,” {8 contributed by F. 1L Undorwood, L T, Trowbzidge, in his Pm:m. The Indian Camp,” presents o strik- iz pieture of the American [ndiauof to-ay, Other ponns are coutributed by Walt Whit- man, Paul I Huyne, and William tiibson. In tho Mureh number of the Chicago Med- deal Journal and Examiiter there are threo elinienl lectures, by Drs, Jacobl, Gross, and Davis: threo ortgfunl communiea- “hlural Hydrate, bi‘ 11, 11, Kune, 3 tlons on L M. D.s “Leport of Thres Peculiar Paral; with Recovery In Ench Cse, 1L D Valing M. D & Cse of Acnte Ab- seess of thy Liver, Doeted Througit the Ab- dominal Walls, with Recovery,” by Sumuel J, Holne: ,]l. ™. The elinfén) report (s by C. W. Robblus, on **Metustusls ot Anmps.” ‘I'ho Catholle World for April discusses n grent varlety of topl T'he tabl tents comprises ** Dr. Tyng's Sern S The Mountain-Movers,' " by the Rev. Georige M. Searle; ¢ A Northern A‘xrll'n Stratagew }numwt’. Ly Jolin Acton; * Hea thendom and 1)1 1 ovelntion,” bythe Rev, Henry A, Brann, D, ), % Dies Irw, " o New Eranslation, by Jolin D, Van Buren; *Thomas Carlyle,” by the Rev. J. V. L, 0’Conors * The'Tomb of the C onguista- dor? ;% Young Ireland * and the lretand of To-duy,” by John MacCarthy; * In o Grave. yird ! (poem), froms the German, by Mary Munnix; “The duneo of Death,” by M. I Thomwpson; * The Anglican Church and the Courts of Liw,” by Henry Bullinghan, ML 1% ¢ 4 Revelations of ‘Diving Luve,” the .Sucoml Chapter (poem), by the Rev, Ahnyl Yotme; S Woman ot Coilture,” Chnp, XV.-XV by John ‘Falhot Swithi* The 1L, by the Ttev. A, B, Howits Stato'of the Beletun Sehivol Question”s *'The Prussfan AnilSemitie Leagie,” by ‘Thomus Dun Danlon, 1f tho text In Lipplneott's Magazine was s poor-as ita llustratlons are bad, the perlodienl would be 1L only for the waste- puper basket, - Fortunately” this 13 not the ense, Lippiueott’s Magazine for April prosents i very varled list of contentss * Peep at the Nortli of Lrelund,” by W. Georiee Ueery, and ** Characterlstie Datices of the \\'um\," Ly Amelln E, Darr, entertainlnely written, are_sutllelontly deseribed by thelr thiles, 'The first of o short Hlustmted sorles of puper on ** ZoBlogleal Curlosities," br Dy, Felix L, Oswahl, treats of mountain sheep, b On o Calitornhs Raneh, Jones, I8 o deseriptive sketehs J, Brder Mutthews writes eritieally of the * Present Pondencles of the Froneh Dramns” Lizelo AV, Champney hns an wncedotienl paper, frany unpublished sources, on the Ameriean Loyullsts who, nfter “the * Revelution, found now homes b the Provines ot New Bruns- wick; and Frunk D, Y, r‘muwr Elyes a viry wmusing sketeh of ** Wash Lo,” the lf'p eal Chiinainan of the present duy, i dis- thietlon from Al Sin, who 18 now all but extinet, A now wrlnlulury. with the quaint title of * Cpuque-0™-Dooi,” 18 begun, The pocins are by Muurieo ‘Thowpson, 1ownrd alyndon, and Churlotte Bates, 1 RARY NOTES, Mr. Wil Ihick 03 suid to bo engaged In writlng a short stary, of whiel the seens will Lo Brighton and its viehnty, Laord Houghton has necepted the nombna- tlon to the oftiea of President of the Lowdon Librury, vendered vicant by the death of v, ,? by Luuise Collin ¥y \ acter,” ‘F'he books aro put up bn o box und | Carlyle, ary styled the unthor’s **new and revised edition.” The anecdutal Hlustrations, with which Mr. Sulles’ works abound, have alided to give hiwworks o wido circulition. "They are poumrily Intended oy resdiogs for Tho sermons of Frederie W. Rubertson ave amgng tho most striking of uny in modern times, 8. . Grlges & Co,, Chlengo, nu- nounce for hamedinte fssue a cotupliation by K. B, Tupper of tho most sallent and brille fant features culled from these famoud ser- mons, ) ** A Nnmeless Nobleman® will bo the titla of tho first of the Round Robin Series of anonymous novels. It will be follawed by **A Leason in Love." A transiation of Alfred Barbon’s “ Vietor Hugo " 14 just ready for Issue by C. S, Griggs & Co,, Chicago. 1lis statengnts of fact have been approved by Hugo himself, i . The next volune in the Lelsure Hour Serles will be a novel ealled “ A Lazy Man’s Work,” written by Miss Frances Campbell Sparhawk, of Auburadale, Mnss, The “Life of Shelley,” in the Rlversida edition of the ** British Poets,” though writ- ten by Lowell, has been attributed in the yolumeitself, fortwenty-flve years, to Chatles Iiliot Norton, Nearly all of Bret Ilarte's storles have been transinted Into Uerman, and the Parls Flgaro pays him a handsome sum for the righit to publish each new story simulta- ach;:am with Its appoarance in English and Dr. Trumbull has completed "the eatalog of the third part of the celebrated library ot the Jate Gieorge Brinley. The two pnrts al- rendy sald produced n'total of $81,834.02, copy of Giltenberg’s Bible Is nmong the treasures of this third part, ‘The May Harper will contaln an artlcle on (icorze l-:flot by an Intimate London friend and a'portraft of the novelist will be foun among the liustrations. ‘The snme number will hinve Mr. Conway's recollectlons und conversations with Thoimas Carlyle, ‘The Atluntie for May will have for its inftinl article n remarkable paper on Carlyle by Mr. Henry Jnmes, ‘This will be followed IX)}’ x:d(’lyltlun‘n}‘cyln;uwlrs’;)! L ‘1"lm Portrait of o Ly ? nig Friends s noduet: poems b Mr. )Whlmur. Mr., Trowbridge, nndDMImrs. x The Royal Spanish Academy has offered a premium In the shape of w golit medal for the bust l?‘rlc or narrative eoniposition in honor of Calderon in each of the following Jan- ruages: English, French, or Swedishy Modern Greek, an, Pollsh, Itatlan, Bohemian, and Russtan. Harper & Bros, publish their correspond-, ence with Charles Seribner’s Sons to prove that they had the right to publish L‘nrli_'le’s “Rembilscences” in this country, They make out a strong ease for themselves, and In nu{ case the publle nre the guiners, for they obtain the work at a clivaper prics than could have been otherwlse expeeted, An Alhany poet, of unorthodox norals, furnished what the papers described us *a hymn written for the oceasion ” of dedicating the Second Reformed Chnveh of that . ‘The hymn proves to ne Whitlier's Centen- nlal Iy, bezinning * Our Father’s God, tront out wno's imod the centuries fall ltke graing of snud.” 1n the first verse the word Sand ' 1s ehanged to *chureh,” and n slight Infusion of doggerel into the other versts was sufllefent to adapt them to the new pur- pose.—New York Tribune. The reader who I3 Interested in Duffy’s “Young Ireland,” or in Dr. Livingston's “Personal Life” or. 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Greatbach, after Buron Leys, The pleture is nlesson of the man- ners and customs of the past, in which the wealthy Flemish burgher and his wite, belmg CInvited ont to dine, were distinguished from thelr less well-to-to brethren, not only by thelr mory costly - purel, ‘but by their having in attendanco upon them waltlng-muid and page to carry the winppers, the sword, and the lantern, Baron Leys stuts at the hewd of the moderu pre-Raphnellte school of Belgium, * Gal- atea ' s avery line engraviug by (4 J, Stod- dart atter u statue by Francesep Altinl. 16 18 seldom thut un engraver gives so flue a capy of & work ol seulptire, and equully rave that he hiny so meritorlons n subject to copy, Slg. Altinl ranks deservedly ainoni the firs¢ of tallan scalptors, mud this divinlty of the sen Iy exquisitly ehiseled. “fho artleles I this umber—atl - tlus. trated —are: “ O Battersea Brldge iy K. 8, Macquold; * Tuener in Yorkshire,” by A, W, Munti *Natural lstory in Its Rolatlon to Art?; *“Uhe State and Art,” by Llonel G. Ropinson “Granade,’” by Arthur Grinithsy * Hints to Colleetors: Ivorlos,’ by A Nesbitts und *Our Householt Furnlture: 18 Pusy l\lshu?' undt s Presont Dovelop- ment,” by G, T, Roblnson, -~ Thy most satlsfactory engraving In the el iuber of the ).\quu:hm uf 2Artls Fho Burgonastor,” by Max Volkhart, The re represents o trooper tetling the ster how thoe day went on the bate Tz somo of 4 nuunlgus of tho Thirty Years” War. ‘The great mnn's seercs tary §5 sunyely transtutlge the blunt phrases of “the suldicr, ‘The threo figures the oup nreadindrably contrasted, Mr, Ygames® Ay ftobsart” 14 a fair engravilig ot o fumous wnsterpl The heart-ronding tragedy, ns tolid by Scott, I8 well fllustrated by tho urtfst, ‘I'he lovely wite of the Queon's fuvorit, suevifieed o her husband’s umbitlon, Hos ot the fuot of the stalrs, up which two Twerithal servitors are shrinkuyg bick I ter- ror, ‘Thore nro Lwo othor full-pagu eugrav- Iniges, und many smdler oues, M Day hug some very clever ldeas aa to decorating & Toum, ‘There 13 nothing ealilng for especial coment 1 the other articles, AL NOTES, Ala ‘Pademis hus been decorated by the Emperor of Germany, g ¥ Lord Rosebery has given a comuwission to Bouhin to exeeuts In marble trom a well- known wodel u statue of Carlyle. 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