Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1881, Page 9

THE CLHICAGG TRIBUNE: BATURDAY, JULY 2 ah 1881—SiXTEEN “No Gentlemen.” “NO GENTLEMEN,” ‘Ao nro soan amused, Intorantod, nnd charmod. Solana to cho claws ur miuries bopninriy rants und. poliabod Judlolonsly at ‘ , Theup Hie ite abnaun oF hatamnocks And ie tis farimore roruablo than ont of pat fe nop ton tueh of a plOE eh jem kenutand. ttory,, an Ee contersution of Jab racy enunyh to” 77° mia ub forwok that ora were, firad Of Vitkoo ~ dintgek aw treated ty Ara stuwo aud ira. Whithoy.,,tutoed, the book is thorouglly + onjoyebie.= "ha Critloy Ne Ye ‘ “NO GENTLEMEN” ‘ fa “Is afreals imple, and natural”"—ioston Jour a EY w ack ‘No. 2. \ .\ Barberine. 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A person from Doaton, named Fanuol, ‘Went pouting, and sut on the ganuol +4, Ca Glon taland yacht," : , >And tho sun grew so hacht- Thetbo yearned for a luger-boor tanual, * » Cremation in Denmark. i “New York Tribune.” oi 6 doctrino of vrumation, while ft langutshes the New World, i@ nak! rapid strides in tha /Te the cromatories fn Milan and Goths soon. be* addod ; one. in Copenbugen, Socwbere..tho movomuut bos met with exuop- 4 » held in -Copenbagen on May 8], it wus sbown that it counted 1,40) mom= é bera“among’ whom were cighty-tbrea phyal- *) Olans.. The original opposition ‘of tho :clergy : bad, toa yrowt extent, coused, and # number of . Olerzymen hud Jolucd tho ‘scclety, that ome © braoed nombers bf, all clussos of soctuty. -Oue of the foremost Danish thinkers, Divhop Mon- ‘log tho War with Prussia, lod tho atairs of the nation as Prime : Ministor, Fecontly declured bimeclt publicly ta favor ot a law compoilling tho substitution of cremation for burial. The evcioty fs tuanctallyztourish= ing, oud urupic, monvy ie on baud for the orvo- tion of & crothutory us soon As tho nageasnry Govorument concession can bo obtained, Ap- Howton ee buon, made, aud-a conference tween Promorers of the: sohomy and tho Bilnistor of Juaticn te to ‘fulluw; toile tho conditions and restrictlung under whlob th sya, tem muy be introduced, io aouloty, foul strony chough to consider the projuct of mumu- rallzuwg the Governinent upun the subject by a opular addtess. 8, prges and tho medical ratornity have taken klidly to tho now luce trine; tho Danis Medioul ‘Society, at its Au- cho sanitary” Guat wveting, ty to discuss formally wepeots of the muttur, Mustrutions of the danger to tho living in the preaont modo of burying tho id have ‘bue: humerous in Denmark, und have helped ta one fora tho arguinonta of the cromutonists, ‘In Elsinore, in 1877, a virulent epidemio nttacked @ cortalu part of tho town, and resisted all of- Torts on the part of tho eauitasy authorities’ to” dislodge it. It was found by analyzing the drinks ior-watur in tho aifocind quarter that it: cone. tained a mass of corruption drainod into the weilg from wn adjoining cemetery, Cortaly cattle disuases wer? found to have been com- muuigated to cows grazing in a Neld whero Creatures that bad died frum the disease had Deon purleu twelve years azo, Veterinary sure goons are waving: to enforce, the cremation of ead autmals, tu Copunbagen, a crowded city of 20,00) Jubabituuts, there ure to thie day four Ohurcbes with yaulta In which burials tako Jace, Eovb vault contuing between 200 and YOU ies in various stugos of corruption, © Intho furnace projected by ine Danish Box clety vorpeca wry to bo reducod to astios i 8 it~ the over Gue hour, and {tlw calculated thut tho ‘cost of inclucration will be reduced to tho inslg-: uidcagt sum of from three to five crownsbi~ tween $1 and $2, ‘This cconomleut feature of the Project bas met with yrcxt favor amuny the: poorer Classes, who complaln that tt i# expensive ive, but Danes ca auch morpy expensive to diy ME ome ee A Dog Dies of Grief, . Carpwact, Tox, June 2t.—At the burial this + eventing of tho Cupt, Joseph Roland, It was Cbserved at wo ‘harnad ves, oleae, toblay with the child walle alive bau followed the while urmuges || remalus to the yraye, and mente were belng Tande Tor the interment uf tho by, the dog bung around tho corpso, muxuine Mot pitcgualy and uthorwiso exhibiting {ta grict. god ween the wrave was opened It Jum i ud rofused to come out for coaxioy or suolding. * a tant dog was tiudqvith a rope and takul row the ground wud secured to i yout {ts yoing Into tho grave ugaiu. Aftor the Murlal e} 8 wore performed, uid tho dog was eased % bo turuod ‘loguo, it was found @ tree to pru- LITERATURE. The Lifo of Gon. Thomas— His Services and Re- wards. A Collection ‘of’ Now Novels—Ty- Jor’s Work-on Anthro- pology. English Colonies in Amerios—Theo- . logical Works—The First of May. tho Cat Disseoted—History of the Gun —The White: Mountains— Glucose. -Magazines—Books Received—Lit- crary and Scientific ; Notes, LITERATURE, LIFE OF GUN. THOMAS, ‘Mn).-Gun, George HL. ‘Thomas wos ono of tho few Generals who enme out of tha Civil War without baving Jost a battle, LHe did tuore than that, Ills record as # command. Ing officer shows no ‘blunders, In overy qualification that constitues a true suldier, 9 skillful General, a greut man, Gon, ‘Lhomas stands drst amony tho oflears of the Unlun army, Pretniineutly way he the American Bayard,—" without fear and. without re- pronch.” A mun of dauntless courage, fer tile In resources, careful of tho Hves uf thos he commanded, cool. and collected in tho midst of the battle’s roar, of rare good {ily ment, quict, modest, und unassuming in prl- vate Ilfe,—such was tha “ Rock of Chickn- mauga,? the ldollzed ‘commander ‘of the Army of tha Cumberlénd. Ils Ifo aud hls serviecs cannot be too often held up before the youth of this grent Nation as 0 iiudo! for thelr funttation; as one who, in tha Inngunge used by the Ruinan Senate in hon- oring tty successtul Generals, “desorved well of his gountry.” Aud when the War was over, ‘and, haying done his full duty as 0 soldier he had earned the promotion he re- cvlyed, to the highest rauk in tho profession to which he belonged, he would accept no furthor rocompense from his grateful fellow- citizens, It hud boun'decided by soiny of bis friends to, raise a large sum Uf imonoy as o presant to him, In recognition of his valuable service during tho War, As soon us Gen. Thomas heard ‘of It, ‘lie wrote at once to those having tho matter in charge that “he could not think -for one moment of necepting o present of *that or ny other character; that the Government: had richly rewarded him for all that he bad done, and that, in fact, he had already reeeivad more thau ho deserved, He requested that all funds ralsed on his necount, or that might be raised, be turned over, In stich manner.as the lboral, generous: donors-might sus proper, to the Widows and orphans inade such by tho War.” When pressed to accept a Presidential nom {yution, aud “after the State Convention of ‘Tennesses had deelured unanimously for hin, he sald enphatically: “1 wlll hays natliiag to do with politics. I am a soldier, and L knhow-my duty; aya politician Lawould ‘be lost. No, sir; noteven TfL were clactud unanimously would: I necept. 1 want to die with’ a fair ‘record, and is i wilt, lo if {*keup ‘out of -the sen of “polltes and-cllay to: my proper: profession.” -And when ho ied the Generalof the army.in a eneral Grdor thus voiced the universal opiti lous © The. General! his known Gen. Thomas Inttmately slice they.sat as Boys on the sai banety, and the qialityin hin whieh hi up. for the vdmiration and example of the young is his complete and: entire devotion to duty, 6.’ In battle he nover wavered, Fism and of full faith In his cause, he knew, it would prevall, and he never sought ad yancumont of rank or honor at tho ‘expense of any one. Wintevor he enrned, of these were his own, and no one disputes his fame, ‘The. very imporsonation. of honesty, Inter- rity,.nud honor, he-will .stand to us as the bean-ldeal of the goldior and gentleman,” 2 ho Story of Gen, "Thonis’ Life has been told nzalin-by Gen, Richard W. Johnson, who was for thirteen ys Intiniately associated with the, man’ of whom he writes,” While doing full justice to the spirit. and motives netting the blographer Jn these memoirs, recognizing his fairness and lis endeavors to’constilt the existing matorial In connec: tion with his: suvject, we cannot consiter this,work adequate in: treatinent, nor regard it as an entirely satisfactory volute in inany rospects, Much of the text belongs properly In an 'eppendix, and to describe a battle by shmnply quoting the official report of the com- inanding officer ts certainly not the true wa: to'show, the work dong Dy tho ofilcer hinself, ‘The Jife'vf thie great Gonoral is a broad theme,’ calling for. ‘skilled. treatment, To do it full Justles requires ffeniee expres: sion and a higher degree of Mtorary expert. ghee: thuh this authoy evinces, “Thomas? history covers three wats, His record during the Civil Conitict necessitates a consideration of the history of tho” Rebsllion, so large and so prominent a partdid he ploy In that btoody draina, His lite is a text for many pregnant sermon, So far #4 it goes, Gen. Johnson's work -Js Intorestine aid important, In, it Gen, ‘Niomny’ servives tear the Cumberlind are for the first tle. told in detall, cleared through the temporate judgment of; thus from hiany misconceptions, "Looking back at tho achfevements of ‘Thomas he ts seen In his true character —an lncorruptible patriot, A bravo, wise, “and -akiliful soldier, And a3 years pass by, and the’ bitter wounds engon- dered by -the Warxhaye been heated, his honored name> wilt be moro. and.-inore venerated by. the people of “Amoriua, as thoy will "sea In his. Wife those nuble traita of character which dis- tluguiah him, in au eminent degree, in every pen od of hls manhood. Lot the young study his character and strive to fmitnts his noble example, No butter model can be place fora them than: that “completely rounded, skillful, judicious soldiar,” that wise, calm sulf-polsad,’ steatfaat chieftain, tho hero of Clicksmauga: and: Nusliville, the able come mnidor'of the Ariuy of tha Cumbarland.”” “2. Pyblished In Pulludolph is by J. B, Lippin- if 4f.73, RECENT ‘FICTION. *yThe'third venture in the “Round Robin” ‘series Of anonymous Works of Hctlon Ly a re fréshing contrast In polut of Iiterary ability ‘ty its Inmmediute predicessor, It is a novel 8 Wof real merit, If siot of remarkable power, “The Georgians” 1s, as Its ttle would indi- cate, © ay story ; of. ‘Southern . life, and deals. with. differoné,+ clemonts.; fram those usually selected -by:: novel-wrltora, The sending {3 uot. altogether sntisfactory, Stine, Orlanof. does nut appoar ilkely to win: “tho happluess with Laurens. which readers of !the .yoJume; hoped to..sco her attain, While Laurens Ja In soine respects a strong clinracter, many-will fail to find him consist. ent throughout,—or,- rather, ‘perhaps he Is too constatent to rotaln the respect, and ads, miration won by his’ spralghtforward, manly conduct ly the first chapters, ‘That the death ‘ofa loved one should” change.“a deyout Chirlstian jnto'a inun-who “cannot ;bray ‘fs neither sntisfactory. nor. probable, "Tho Georgians” Is Interesting without: belng ox: citing, and 1s vo cluvorly written that we are :Jnoljned to bellave its author a writer of con-, aldorable experience. The sudden’ yielding ot the’ fnely-concelyed charucter of Afme, -Orlunoff to the -loye within: her’ for -her: devoted lover before she haw heard of her, husband's ‘death; tho apparition of Kute' Laurens, her miscouception. of - the: scene ahe witnesses, hur death and the subsequent agony and remorse of the beanti{ul Poticia glves a Urauatic turn to the Jast chaptur that would not have been expected from the quiet, oasy, nutural tone of the firey hundred pages, - It ig ag liiticult to properly characterize Mr, Hepworth’s last novel -as it Is to alve it wiltie, Mvideutly the reverend: gentleman / | three interrogation marks, me 6 hale | “Y, has a wenkneas for the uncanny tales of Pac, and has tried to “out-llerod Herod? tn his own pecullar Hine. Here he. has failed, Tha coneeplton and plot: are arigi+ wal nnd startling, tho atyla and mode of treatment weak, and unsatisfactory. Five out of atx people would call ft 1 trashy and nonsensical, aud tho sixth person would pgard Stag a work of unusual power and Interest. We aro inclined to take aides with the. five, and can hardly any that the book Is worlh rendiie, ‘Khere are strong points Init, Gerard Roussel has un earnest defense of the doctrins of Jnoteintaychonts, which {ts well worked out, whether Dr. Hep worth tnenng ond belloves what he says or Hot ‘After tho hero and heroing discover that In another state of uxistence they tive nirendy Nyed as man -and wife under other hanes, morality and propriety requtre that they should continua thelr married lives, even though theyare no longer thu sane pers sons. ‘The closing chapters ure the best, and the scene between Bertha und Gerard In the ehamber where—ns Leopold Wohenattuger —Gerard liad died, and Bertha had witnessed his death ts welrd enough to make one shiver, Butevon the reverend gentloman’s reputa- Hon.ag'a weiter cannot make auch a tople ns hu trents of hore generally interesting, Nor 1 lila historical {formation striclly correct, Yeiting of the miussacry of St. Bartholomaw in Paris, he'snys (p. 16): Alt Parls was. ermzod by tho aight of blood, ven the Emperor was maddened, and shot his own subjects from the winduws of the Louvre? What was the mame of this * Foncor ® The, thres pendents selected ag a title for this work might bo advantageously, chimed: to i ‘or there are many obseure pulnts In the book besides the one elted above. —Mr. Faweett hns tho rare capnelty of col- lecting an album of sketches, ench one o whiel ig un excellent drawing and allot which nro of more thin average merit, Ls Gentleman of Leisure” Is Hittly else than a collection of clever skutehes taken froin Now York suciety, and, any of the churacters are hot monopolized -by tha Metropolls elther, Mr, Faweett [ya close observer, and he has not tasked his ending people so suecess- fully but that they will be quickly recog- nized.” We niny pre perly-dealgnate tho boo! tid a thnely patirical. novelet, weale In plot and strong in ita character portraits, ‘The interest of the book will be found mininly In the typical personages whom iabewrlyhe meets. Ie thus describes Mra, Rodenate! fe the wifo of his hero's banker: “ Walnwrigh soun diseovered that his hostess was, in her way, 8 mistress of platiiade. He found, after a long talk with this Indy, thot her command of cummonplites amounted ton Ustinet talent. She was delightful to watch with her Ideal conipluxion, her sweet, Naud eyes, and her phenomenal dimples. But when you lad separated what she sald front her whasome, mellifious manner of sayhue Ip yan felt that tho division brought about a pitlable result. It was quite hnpossible to define her except in negatives; after you had concluded that sho was low-voleed, of fault less breeding, and exeuptionally. handsome, thore seemed to romnln an incalculable num bor of things that she was not.” "Phat, is enpltal churacter-sketching, with a flavor of Thackeray {nit Here Iya comment ot 60- clety from dfre. Spring, the fast young wife ot 9 New York broker, She telly Waln- avright that he will first Ike New York socl- ety, and then detest It, and proceeds to give the reasons for thiy opinion: It is becnuse great. swalls all {mitata: yours, imitations’ ‘are such — tiresoine Every society) ought to “be original to “have ‘any charm about it. Who wants to go to Turkey and find that all the hookahs, and otromans, and bow- strings, and bastlnudgings have been exter- milunted ? And. pray of whut does our.‘ bust soulety’ consist?) Why, simply uf a general bowhig-down before English customs -and English deas. We're not a bit like the mod- els We worship, but we pretend to be, all the game?’ One mnore extract from this livel; Tittle work. “Walwwright, who. is wv rich young American‘who has been for twenty years living In Enulond, does see a zood dent of New York socloty, and, contrary to Mra. Spring's prophecy,. he rather likes it, And thists his opluion of Aineriean woman and of the Ainerican girl: To spent in general terms, most of the women who le hid thus far met since: his arrival impressed him us original, breezy, buoyant, extilarating, They Incked - the. winsunia, constralnt of: their English sisterhood, and the tender, uncon- gelous prudery: which go often, provious to mnarrlugy, among tis latter, seems to partake of ni effect ay ‘vernal and’ povtie ag dew on young clover.’ But Wainwright's: vigilant observance had suon discovered that the self- pussdssion: of: the’ American girl, her: bold Aights of, candor,-her.saney. assaults agninst conventionalisin, and hor occasional trick of oing- innocent things in a. wise and worldly way wore all resultant: from sn educational systont whore Iiberty of conduct and purity of motive holds :equal control.” 1h the end Watnwright finds: his mate: in quiet, digni- fied Ituth Cheever, but our favorable estl- mate uf tho hero's, good sunso is weakened by his Inat remark.” ” . “Mr Binghamton selzed Walnwright's hand for the third time, *Egad, old fellow,’ he erleds ‘you: shall run-for Congress!’ " Wainwright:-:was silent: acmoment. “I should tke verymuch to run for Congress,” he prosontly said, —Miga Phelps’ story, “Friends: A Duet,” just completed In the Alluntic Monthly, hns wn published in bok form, It is 0 tender, pathetic story; gna of tho few which the world Is batter for having and which will be read cnrofully with the conviction that thie spontin reading. it §s sure not to be tine wasted, Thore are really but two charneters in the book, ‘The heruine is a widow; tho hero, hor husband's ‘devoted friend, who, after being dovoted to her for years, falls in Tove with horand wishes to marry her, His suit at firat. meots. with scant favor, bu when he La‘about to depart forever, tho novel schema’ acvurs to Mra. Strong of sending her dog to bring him back, Then we live this dialog: : * + Roturning, ho askes . *Dld you sond Kalser to call mex" Dutsbo ‘answered him not a word. “Did you sund Kalsor to call ime, puck? I wilt Leanswored.” ."O F didj-£ didi" She bowed hot broken faco, Both hur hands received and shisided it. "It was tou dark’ for him to havo sven its expression uf entreaty, wild as an oter= nal regrot, “An you spoak wy taine? ‘Was it you who culled?” “Odon't usk mol It wag bud enough te sond Kalsor, Jtwas——" it wus Heaven on carth,wtivasttohin, |. 'To make a dog play match-maker fan new expedient for, novel-writers, But her Is what the Jady who sent tho dog had sald to tho man after whom the dog was sont but a Nittle while before: E . ; “Oharlos Nordhall, {t {a ‘natural for a woman to bo true, ‘x you toleave moto myself, 1 Rak you to respect what you cannot understand, 1 havo only thig one thing toguldemo . . that } loved my husband, 1 do not love you lke Tan Jonolys but loneliness ta not love. I want todothe right and noble things it Is not right to marry when ono does not altogether Joye. That fs not a good and beautiful muy lage. “I don't know about you men, but we arc not like that, We should bo sorry; thero would always bo something beyond—: seoms ty ine as If L-whould do world, [I want to'do>, ... Lam seylog + « » tho best and truost; rizht thing, It bo parsiblo to tind the right,—not to be mlatnken, You should not ninder mo, That It nut noble in Fort truth, Mflss Phelps’ horotnes ara slight Aree ages Nevortholeas * Briones mysterious tit! 5 Bl 3 Rina ine beautiful story, to be heurtlly “commended und carefully read, —"Nane'a, Daughtor” is a sequel to “Nana,” but was not written by Emile Zola, itis a Joint fiterury production. -It tuk two Fronclinen to originate the Iden of glviy Nana’a daughter, and then giving , that daughter n history. ‘Che fetter to-Mr, Zula, which faring a sort of preface to the work; 1s the best explanation of the relation of this work to'Zola's, ; Ib Is as tollowss oo” In order to maintain succossfully, if posalblo, the pewuilve of the proposition that ovilinatincts are huroditary, wo bayu borrowed the. nae of your horvine, Nana #0 ably dlusucted by you in wotudy whioh, if It doos not found a schoo), will, wt fouut, mark an e ut, to render this “woman more gilious, wo have takea her. frou tho unretined surroundings sini which you lere her for pearly 600 puyes, and: havo. rulecd bur upon the shisld of Pariviun ule; UURO, pappily, tinprove ‘this change. fonco, fred from thusy nipollshed oxpressions which, doubtiyss, nuymented - the sonuicion oreuted by your book, our work will bo found rujner natural than what ia termod reatistle, And vow,.dour cuntrére, kindly excuse tho areas liberty wo huve taken in bestowing 4 jaughter upow your borolne. . - - : ‘Tho slacero adiuirers of your replue, : : coy, ALYRKD Binven Bnd Ul, LeVERDIER, + In thls story Nane abandons her: daughter Anaree, who fa adopted aud brought up by the Naulela, au upright fawlly belongiog to 0 Wor" Glasses,“ Narug. luda - hor, and atrives to Kali, possession of -hor, her elforta ‘forining the staple of the story... Andree is mupted, . bub .remainy:>trug to :her adopted parents and to-horslover, Lucien: Despretz. 1b is sulliclent to say of-Mhe book thatdtis thoroughly Syench, without bel: as uiclean—" realistic! Is now the proper term for moral leprosy~as Zola’s work, =='The Emperor" ty anothor of thogy ro- mencea of ancient history for which “Dr, Evora is famed. ‘Tho Kumay Emperor Ha- drian le hore the central Bgure. ‘The the te A. D. 120, and the second 13 tald in the Egyp tian City of Alexaddria,: ‘The author ofersa our Now, things, wrong to must Mistery of Hadrtan, lits favorit Antinans, and other well-known historical fietires wlio surrounded him, and also elves interesting pletures of the customs and manners af the iimes of the early growth of Christianity. ‘This 1s tho Jast volume in the series, of which “Unsrda?” pletured tho relgu of Pharaols, a “ Yevptlan Princess? deseribed tho Persian Invasion, the “Sisters?! was n Greek story, and Wie “Homo Sun? of the monastic pe- rlod in the Sinattle ‘Peninsula, ‘Those inter ested In historical novels will fini these works of great lnterest, and being the work ofnscholar thelr Information embodies the reaulis of the Intest selentific resenrehes, —" Contrasts is _n strong, ‘ well-welttart” novel, polished and finished to au ttusual degree, and benring -prtant tarks of the pa {ent labor bestowed upon it by the author. Itis nqtasl-study of Northern and Southern society, life, character, and impulses, and this study gives the title to tha work: It dates back before the War, and tells thestory of two girls born in New Englund of a New Hupient inother and on. Southern father, and ew left orphans, When __ firs Introduced they: are living tt the midst of rigid Puritan surroundings, Later they are adopted by their wrandfather, it rich Ala- hamn planter, aul ga South to live i lis family. ‘The incidents of the story ure dra- nintic, and are chosen to contrast In the strongest imauner possible.“ Northern and Southern life and character, and the tivo types of character presentert by the to girls, one of whom has inherited her predominate qualities from her” New-Englund mother, white the other's tropical nature is an Inher- Itanee front her father.” —In the " 1story of a Parisienne,” Octave Feulllet makes a novel out of the inaterials which fis fluds in, the upper cireles of nristo- cratic society In France. His alm is to show how an aecomplighed, beautiful, and unable girl may be transformed, by, being wedded to a worthless, cynical, atid depraved husband, Into vn. kind: of moral monster, capable of anything and believing In nothing. He lays the blame of the ruin of inany married women to the carelesness or: perversity of thelr mothora in accepting husbands for them who ate not sulted.ty win their hearts or to wu- derstand thelr. suuls,. "The terrible: trans- formation wrought-in the nature ofa pure and noble woman by evil associates and the britallty of a coarse and unscruptlous hus bund, is delineated with skill, Feulllet says that the moral of this olily true story ig “that monsters ure not born; God does not make anys but men make many 3. und this isa fact which mothors ought never to forget,” ANTHROPOLOGY. ‘ Mr. Tylor calls his work “ an introduction tothe study of man and civilization, and does not profess to‘ have furnished a suin- mary of-all anthropology teaches. But ho has really written a populur handbook of the sclonco in its netual development. And in this way. he appeals:to 2 wido circle of readers. Mr. ‘Tylor ngrees with those sciont- ists who hold that historic man has covered but a sinall fraction of the time since mau. kind was first seen on the globe, He suys: “Vhe few thousand yenrs of recorded tis- tory only tnke us back to nprehistoric period of untold Jength, during which took place tho primary distributtoh of mankind over tho earth and the development of the greal races, the formation of speech and the settlement of the great families Of language, aud the rowth of culture up to the level of the Old orld nations of the Eust, the forerunners: and founders of nadern civilized Ite.” His work ly profusely iMusfrated and entertain- Ingly written, itis a volume.to be rend care- fully, but treats of thenes ‘of profowid im- portance and interest tg every buntan being, Mr, Tylor fs reasunably free from prejudices and ready to take part plu and assist all the movements of the age jin the direct line of progress and Improvement, : After chapters on thvantiquity of man and the different races of ijen in natural history, he hag an interesting chapter on the nature and growth of language, which [s traced back to ‘its very begining, Illy account of victure-wrlting, the Ebyptian and Mexican alfabets, tho Chinese characters, and our present letters Is vory Interesting for itself, and fur the example it gives of. the evolution of the elvilized sign«from the rude natural picture, In tho comparative view of lan- guaxes the author notes the extraordinary Ir- remuartty of English {pitsspelting, Husnys: Our orthografy and prgnunointion disagree tt every turn. One cuuse.df this [s-the attempt to keop up the spellings of. the vurlous sources trum whloh eanietiae worda have buon borrowed, ann capectaily the. Norman and French.» Thu for example. we make i §brve.sich contradictur uses_as in the Eagils! apd get and) the French, word genie, Another’ uauso Ys the altempt: to keep up, old: forms’ ior weiting Jone after tho sounds which: thoy rmnresented bayve been dropped: thug, in. through, easke, xcene, tho now. .silent. letters aye - relics of sounds that. were once bean! in ‘Anglo-Saxon Murh, Latin castelium, artd-Greck akene, But Ene glish docs not observe even this principlo with any regularity, - This, for inatance, our preavat word lift doce not keep.up tho lust guttural of Anglo-Saxon tye, nor does English palsy re~ taln letters for the sounds, that’ have vanished fn ita derivation from “breneb ‘paratyste, “Our wrong spolling is tho rasult, notof rule but of want of rela, ind among, its most otrlous cases ro those whore the grainmarians have managed to put both sound and Styanplony wrong at anc, writing gland, rhyme, scythe ‘when thoir foro- fathors rationally wrote dand, rine, atthe. It $8 reckonod that on nn nyernge three years of evcry alia, education is wasted In overcoming i oe ots of tha present mode of spelling Ene gl From this primal art: tho author proceeds to, the consideration of the other simple ‘foundations of civilized invention and selence, » In the quest of wild food and in the exigencles of war he finds the beginuiugs of the comples machinery: and: enginery which to-day make man wluost the master of the forces of nature, Counting with pebbles {g tho parent of modern mathematics, a relle of which {a still preserved in our ealeulate, from caloutus, a stone. ' The use of fire for cooking food wus the .begitming of chein- istry; and the first: weather-man Jaid tho foundations for» modern:;astronomy aud jucteorology, _ ~ Mr, ‘fylor next examines tho developmant of tho knowledge, arts, and institutions whieh make up Clyilization, «Ine, to the stature gf different races he says; > See : in comparing races a8 to tholr stnturo, wo concern ourselves not with the tallest or short- est mon uf ‘ench tribe, but with thy ordinary or avorage-sizod mon who may -ba taken wa Tair representatives of thelr whole tribe. Tho dif- ference of . genurul stature fe well shown whera w tallanda short people come toguthor in one district. Thus, in Australla the uveraye En- Kilsu culonist OF five feet velyht inches looks olear over the hoadsof tho five fect four Inch Chinoso luborors, - Stl moro in Swedun does the Bwodo of five foot soven Inches tower over the stunted Lapps, whose uverage - moagire 18 not intich over flyo fuer, Among tha tallest of mans kind aro tho Patagonian, who seemed « race of glants to tho Europeans who tirst watched them Btridlug slong thelr olitta deapod in thelr skin clonks;. it wag oven doctured:.that ‘tho heade of Magnibaona’ nen hardly reached the wuiat of tho firat Patagonian thoy mot. Modern. travol- ers find, on inoxsnring thorn, that thoy roully oftan reavhalx fout fourinvhos, thelrmoun bight boluy abuut five foer vluven Inohos,—three or Sour Inches taller than average Englishmen, ‘Tho shortest of mankind ura the Bushmen and Pelaead erat In South Africa, with an avorago ight not far oxccuding Cour feot Bix Invhes. A contrat botwoun the tallost and shortest wos of mankind may bosoun In Fix. 1, where 8 Patagonian Is drawn aide by sido with & Hush+ fl whoao hund only reavhos:to his breast. ‘Thus, tho tallust race of man. is loss than one~ fourth blenur than tho ‘shortest, a faut which sound surprising to those not Used to meoxaurcs Inonts, In general, the stature of the women of Aly raoo nay be taken os about one-aixtconth loss than that of the men. ‘Lhus, ia Bagiind mun of five foot elgbt inches and woman of five feot four inches look an ordinary wotl+ mutehed couple, > ¢ gyiibllshed: In Now York, by D, Appleton fa ra THE ENGLISIL hover eae IN AMER- = “TOA *' “The History of the ‘Thirteen American Colonies” is at best fragmentary and proyin- cial, and does not nysume the Inportancuand value of the history: of a uation until the ineating-of the Stamp-Act Congress nt Now York in the year 3705, But whio and what wore tho people that fouxi the war for fue depence and_fourided. thedUnited States— what: was thelr. life, what thelr hablts, thoughts, and -manners—scemed. to me, whwn L bogan my study of Amorican history, questions of tho deepest Interest, They werd questions, too, which appeared to me never to have been answered in’ a compact and comprehensive form, and this yolumne ts an attempt to supply the: deficloncy,” And NO. may, Was: better qualified or could linye completed. the Work oulllned In the extrict quoted above moresatigtuctorily than Li , Lodge, - whose "Short Ws ry” oO! 1 + Colonies.” in Anierica should bo “in: every brary aud In the hands of every carelul ronder, The plan adapted ts a oval ong. “The his- tory of each voluny ts traced by Itself,—its development, territory, olttee wud. towns, government, socint and Jutellectual Ife— all. thesy‘vlemonts are analyzed and illus. fruted, Could such sketches, taken by 4 Te AGS, 4} master-hand, be otherwise than fasclnating? We pass from colony to colony, and ure yer. sonally Jutroduced to {ts inhabitants. We vistt © them in thelr homes, their churches, their public —_ gatherings. ‘The people of New Bneland wero “pure fn race, almplo ani frugal in their Ilves, thrifty. prosperous, aml enterprising, a population of saall frecholders, with slight Incqtinlities of condition, and a widespre nud high averago of education and intelli wenee, ‘Their system was democratic, with it voluntary recognition of aristocracy, From this strong and grent race came many grent leaders. eminent in. anilitary. and elvit’ life, but the great strength was? in the body of the — pennle.’? In tha South: "Despite the indolent life, the boorish amusements, and the too prevalent UNteracy, the mntural genius of the great planters was strong and sound, , ‘They luoked. on themselves ag the. governing elnss,.as the natural leaders of the people, and they pose Besse an unquestioned supremacy, when the shock caine they proved themselves fine solilers, sagacious pollticians, crent lawyers, atul statesiien, Out of this apparently the aristocracy, atceped, as It world seem, $1 pride and sloth, came o set of Jendera who tive done the greatest honor to the Ameri. can nine” Mr. Lodge is an excellent traveling companion. full of Information whieh hu knows how to impart in the most entertaining manner possivle. A journey with hin through the growing plantations, provinces, and colontes, stopping to visit our Ancestors ns we go along, could not fall to be both plensaut and profitable. And the time ds not so remote but that {6 still hugs a Iving Interest for us nll, nor is it so near that. we are fainiliar with the details Mr. Lodge has hunted up for us. He has furnished a book mitch newded, and his work has been well and tharoughly done, Published in New York, by Llarper & Bros, THEOLOGICAL WORKS. “Rabbi Jeshua,” a stéry by an anonymous writer, Js designed to give a somewhat skep- teal, but professedly fair, account of the Ilfe, and tenchings, and death of Christ, whom the author calls Rabbt Jeahwa, ‘The writer, wu judge, regards the Four Gospels as af- fording doubtful authority for the acetracy of thelr statements, while te neeepts many of thelr representations, Evidently he does not belleve tn the supernatural and the mirac- tlous, But he esteoms Jesus as an ascetic person possessed of many noble virtues. We fiud in the volume some traces of Strauss’ mythical theory in regard to the life of Christ, and some tinges of Baur’s theory respecting the Judaizing and Gentile tendencies of the Potring and the Pauline parties, as alleged to be seen fn the Gospels of Matthew and Mark on the ono hand and the Gosvel of Luke on the other hand. But the author does not com- mit himself to any theory, ‘lo those who are familiar with the writings of modern doubt- ers, the present work presents no new sug- gestions. It will, however, interest some readers, and inay Increase thelr reverence for the person who Is styled Rabbt Jeshwa und treated as the hero of a Hebrew story, Henry Holt & Co., of New York, aro: the publishers,’ iE 5 —The Rev, Joseph D. Wilson, Rector of St John’s * Church, Chicago, {s a Reformed Episcopalian, Ue ts a thinker, The Ittle volume with the title, “Studles Upon the Words from the Cross,’ contalns seven of ils. discourses, on ns many different utter- ances of Jesus when Ile was on the cross. In tho first discourse the author presents briefly his views In regard to the nature of sin and atonement, from .the text, “iuther forgive them, for thoy Know not what they do!’ Some. of his thoughts are peculiar, and .canuot - be accepted ‘by all orthodox dlvines. On pare, 15, hw says, siys, in spenklng of sin: “It ly there—what- ever the Instruments originating it—only be- cause He suffers itto exist, “And oxisting everywhere {1 tis vast creation, it frustrates His “onmipresent holiness.- He cannot be holy everywhere -while sip exists upon the tinfest and retmotest speck in His universe,” Aguin, on pave -l8, he says: ‘We may not explain why God did. ng He hay done, but this we know: He suffered tho sinner to exist. Iecared tor him, and cares for blo now, lest he should .perish from tho earth. And He did this at ‘the ex pense 4 of Ills own © omnipesent —holl- yess." for there is one pince where. Ife is not, or where Jie Is not holy, and that, is tho. sinful soul.” Is this Punthelsm, or what is it?. But, whatever it ls, we are soon informed why the author takes this sirango. view of Go's relation to sin, | Ike iinmed|- ately goes on to suy that “Cod boars sin in tho person of His Son”; that “Calvary is Nota momentary ugony, but rather the scence of an agony bexun ages before, and which continues and will confine until the last sin shall be blotted out of existence ’;. that “this. suffering, the suffering which comes from tolurated sin, penetrates to the heurt of Gou Iimselt, and the Man of Sorrows fs tha manifestation thereof upon earth.” ‘The sec- ond discourse fs on the Snvior’s words to tho thief: “ To-iny shalt thon be with Me in Paradise.” Paradise Mr. Wilson-regards ax having been the under-world of duparted spirits until Christ entered It and proclaimed liberty to the long-Imprisoned sulnts there, Sinee His preaching to the-spirits in prison and Lis ascension alt tho departed, saints of the Old ‘Testament. and tha New have been with him: in- Paradiso above,—the third heaven. ‘This theory ho first, found in. some the: apocryphal Fathers, but_hns since found ft ably defended by Dr. EB, 2, Craven, of. Newark, N. Je In the fourth discourse,.page 34, he tells us that It was not physical pain that Jesus shrank from, “It was not the desertion of those whom Ue loved, ~ It was not the lard- heartedness and ribaldry of the multitude, Jt was that Itsy own: Fathor turned agalnst ILhn,—forsook Ils well-beloved Son.” Yot Inthe ith verse of 241 Psalm, commonly regurdedt as‘ Messtanle, from which Jesus quoted the words, “My God, my God,.why. hast ‘Thou forsaken” me?” the Psalmist says, "Ha hath not despised nor abhorred’ the afiietion of tho nfllicted ; nelther hath He- hid Hla face fromhim; but when hoeried Hy heard him.?” All of these short discussions are intorestlug, Whatever any way think of the optnions .advaneed.. At the close uf tho yolume we find an appendix In which tho author defends moro at length than before lis doctrine respeeting Hades, and ua ulti mats extinction of all final souls, Many will regret this development of ylows so far at Variance with the recelved: doetring of the evangelical churches, ‘The spirit of the author is throughout eminently’ kind and Christian, thes a Fairbanks, Palmer & Co., the publishers, —" Tho Fathors of tho Third. Century,” {3 another of tho small volumes by the Rov, Guorge A, Inckson, edited by Dr, Geor: a lilsher, Thesurlus Is styled “ Early Christian, | Literature Primers.” ‘Tho “tirst yvoluwey which we noticed some months: ago, fs ene Tho apostle Fathers and the Apol- ogists, A.D, 95-180," These; vulunes are to bu followed by two niore,—one on the Post-Nicany Greek Fathers, and tho last on the Post-Niceno Latin Fathera. The presont number In the series consists of abstracts of Uo writ{ngs of the fathers in the third cent- ury, stehas Irenvus, Hippolytus, Clement of ‘Alexundria, and Origen, of the Greek rathers, and ‘Lertullian, und Cyprian; of the Latin fatiors. Of course the volume ja much less satlsfactory.than the hirge volumes o: the Ante-Nicons Library, covering the same period, But it will serve to give w goud gene eral knowlodge of the writers of- the third: century to those renders who have not access to the “Ante-Nicono Library, ‘Cha wostracts are futriy aud Falthfully made, ‘tho whole series will proya highly usuful to general students of early Church literature, “or -D, Appleton & Con, of New York, aro’ the’ publishers, = —Churles Saribner's Sons, of Now York, have issued Few caltion of tha two volumes by Dr. Horace Bushnell bearing the tttos, Work and Play’ and Mori Uses of Dark: Things,” aid also a new yolume of mlicol. Jantes called © Religie,” The yoluine styled * Work and Ply” $3 so called from, the Wrst’ articta in it which bears shat tilts, The sul jects of the several csynys are various, stich ng: ‘Tho ‘True Wealth: or Weal of Nations, ‘Tho Growth of Law, The Age of Homespun, Rotlzious Susie, Onv article in the former edition hag beat roplaced by \the discutttse, whieh many will romembor, styled, Barba fam the First Danger, ‘This home-missionary Jesson was unpopular when-first published, anil It will be “Bean by thonghtfal reader now to have overlooked ‘the extraordinary means of fitercommunication between older aud newer -acettons of the land iy our thus. Eilgration now {sa ‘wonderful promoter of: a. better: civilization, carrying, as it e | of Chicago, aro does, -Sto= the newer ~ sections only io principles, and — leaving behind the Unperfeet “forms of | the clyilizas tions embedded in the. ussoclations an stereotyped: uses of older communities, ‘he newer Btates of our Union exert by ro- uellon a powerful modifying and hupraving intluence upon the socloty und even the lege See Islation of the older States, while they re. velve helpful elements fram the older” that continually tend towacds thelr nitimate ele- vation hit every plinsd of clviland religious Ife, ‘The other tupies nea discussed with the freshness and foree for whielt the author I+ so distingilshed——The voltimy on The Moraj-Uses of Dark 'Ihings” wo regard ns one ofthe most atecestivy we havo ever read, ‘The stbjects of these esa or dis- cottrses.are such ast Night and* Sleep: Ob- Mvlon, or Dead History; Physical Pains Now-Intercourse Dutween Worluss Things Uustaitly: fused Disqusttuts Insanity, tractions of-Colors The. Sea. Few | persons have meditated upon the moral uses of suci frets: In, tho history of the, world and of vate kind. -'There ara avenues openud In this vol- de to vast mines of thought, which every ingulring mind will delight to oxplore.—— fie xemalning volume ling hot yet como to and, : > —Tho Roy, Charles Henry Beiahant was born in Boston, sly 27, 1830, Tle araduated at Harvard College in 1830, and completed the course In the Itarvard Divinity School in 1348, Ho f4. said to have been npright in conduct during his college and seminary life, while distingitished for self-nysertlon. “Te was nu earnest Unitarian, and a flthful minister of that perstinsion. ils ministerial life from 1844 to 1865 was spent in a pastorate at Taunton, Mass.- In 1865 he removed ton new charge In An Arbor, Mich, where he rematned until the year 1877, and where lie 1s salt to have been eiflefent in’ the dissemina- tion of “Iiberal sentiments”. among the students of the University. While at Ann Arbor he nected as“ Non-Restdent Professor of Ecclesiastical Wstory and Biblical Arche- ology in the School at Meadville” Pa. In this relation his labors were hilly appre- cinted, In May, 1877, hw preached fis last sermon, and died at the house of his sister fir Brooklyn, N. ¥., on the 19th of February, 1879. Tle was never married, but was hehe ly social in biy tendencies and lnbits, Hio ‘was literary and scholarly tn his taster. He wrote many articles for the reviews, especial those of bis own denomination. Several of those papers, to- peter with a few of his sermons, tre found a Ure volume before t—" Mumoirs and Papera of Charles Uenry Brigham.’ Many of his essnys were sketches of the lives, times, and writings of sugh metas St. Ati brose of Milun, St. Augustine, Gregory the Great, Molainmed, Hildebrand, Abelard, St. Dominic and St. Franels, Corvernicus, Martin Luther, and Loyola. Lin the closing part, of the voltune are essays on ‘The Loelni, The Puritans of England, and Characterlstles of the Jews, besides a sermon on Unitarian Trineiples, and ong on Christianity the Uni- versal Religion, ‘Tho compller has done a good service In giving these papers to tho yas publish Lockwootl, Brooks, & ‘The publishers are Lockwood, Broo! S Co,, of Boston. RW. B TIE FIRST OF MAY. We do not understand that Mr. Walter Crano furnished both text and Ilustrations for “‘Lhe First of Muy: A Fatry Masque? which J. R. Osgood & Co, have just repubd- Ushed In this country. ‘The toxt was written by a Mr. Wise and the pictures drawn by Mr, Crane, The result is n charming vol- ume illustrating tho delicate fancies which seem to continually course through tho artist’s brain and run out from the end of his pencil. The English edition costs $69, and thore are only 200.coples printed, By the hellotype process the ensravings ure re raduced, and the volume ly offered to Amer- ean readers for $2.50, - ‘There is nothing re- markably orlgiual in the drawings, constst- ing, us thoy do, of groups of nude women— we should say of * fairies "—aond of children, But Mr. Crane's tnagination Iy a fertile one, and go out of conventional materiul he forms very pretty and pleasing pictures, ‘The story of the Masgue ls a simple one. | The oul fairies, headed by Atselica, ‘thelr neen, desire to see the world bloom in May, and to wateh over the loves of Lilinn, Queen of the May, and young Laureo, ‘The bad fairies, hvaded by Mundrake, resolve to bring sons players to the Siay festivities, that the chief actress may lead Laurea away from Lilian, A sour old Puritan named Marjory succeeds in’ preventing | the players from appearing, but the ood fairies take thelr pluces, und the plot gues on. Lanreo tyenptured by Angeilea, but, tke a root litte Fairy Queen, she atiickly turns hin over to Lillan, and presides at the nip- tlals, while Marjoy retires, pelted with roses by the len and Mandrake and his lnips ) retlre discoyflited. ‘Chere ure fitty-two dit ferent designs In the volume, which Is pub- lished in Boston by J.1t Osgood & Co, + The full title of Mr. St. George Mivart’s work'is: “Tho * Catz: An Introdtetion: to the Study of Backboued Antmals, Especini- Jy Maumals,’": It was the author's desire tu “select a typo and treat of It In detall,” and the problem he propounded to himself for a solution was to select ns & type for-cxaniinna- tion and comparison an antinal castly obtain ed and of convenient sizo; ‘one belonging to man’s class, andone not so different: from Kin tn .structure but that comparison between 1 and hin (a3 to limbs and other Inrgo portions of * its frame) mony readily suggest - themselves. to the student.’ Tho animal: fulfilling the re- quirements of the problem is tho common ent—nan antinal somewhat famillnr, fro- quently heard from, and’ not half often snough dissected,—whether It Is possible to write an Interesting, volume on such 9 topic is stltl au unsolved problem,” Lt is 9 branch of tho general Inquiry to which Mr, Mivarc sive no uttontion fe professed to write for persons Who are interested In zadlozy, and especially in the aqblony of beasts, birds, reptiles, and. fishes.’ Ifls. intention was broad und generous.. Ie appealed to a wide constituency, He has not lived up to hls professions, Except for a scientist, or a selentifle student, his work {3 altozuiier too techntent, It repels rather than invites “persons who are Interested In zonlony, id otherwise: than as a neeessury element. In their professional life, It wus not to by ox: pected that an ' introduction to tho Study of Wammals” should bea popularwork, But wen done to have something might have Tye It Tuora life; to have purged It of the fininense mays of tvchnieal verbiage under wileh its more important facts are buried, to render ftless dull and more readable ‘for those who aro neither studying medicine or tho art of veterinary syrgéry, ‘The boo! abundantly Wustrated, many of tho cuts be- ing old ones dragged from their repose to fight a new battle, this time in behalt of the cat.- 16 ls handsomely gotten up on ford paper and gloat type, and has a good dex. An English review thus stimsa up the works “Pn mass of it consistsof dul descriptive anatomy, o short summur ot some parts of physlology, Histology, and de- volopiuent, and n techiteal vatulog of the Felide, ‘There isn -genoral discussion on psychology wedged Into the midsic, whilst nt tho end cones 2 sermon on the ' Divine,’ with quotations from St. Auguatiie,” What- aver valuu the work has—nnd It tins tittle or no originality—is for n class for whore It was not Intended or written, Published In Now York: by Charles Serlb- ner’s Sons, * TIME GUN AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. Mr, W. W, Greener hay prepared a sump tuons volume upon “The Gun and Its Do velopment,” with notes on shooting, nnd offers {t lo sportsinon and those Interested In guns and gunnery, The work Is abundantly Mlustrated, and contains n completo history of rearing from tho’ vartloat bomburds to the modern breeeh-londer, It ts the most completa work” of tho kind printed, and “what It ots jiot piae ee nab worth knowing, ‘Tho litter part of the volun curtain statistical tntes of rifle shooting, and tn the * shooting notes”? will be found yaluable-: Information aa. to. game in different countries, and Ue best means of hunting it, Much'of tho history of anelunt arms ftorein contained hia been gleaned. from forelgn writers, and severs! of tho, -AMusteations are taken fromoriginal sketches of aring presuryed In Continental myseuins and. elsdwhore, Tt is ‘a handsome volume oul of fnturesting Juformation, and the author dous nut arin his own 0x" to such an extent as to rive thy work the appoarnnce ofan ddvertising medium. [isan English book of over de paxes, published by Cussull, Petter, Galpiy & Co, witie o eo GENOR DE GESPARIN,: | oy). Howard, of the United States ‘army, finds thine to pay considerable attention to Mterary matters, He has‘pufp just completed ® work entitled “Nezlorca Joseph,’ and now Wo have from his poy a fair trauslatlon of My, Borel's life of Count, Agdnor de Gas pariu. «Wo havo called It’ a fale translation, mul regret that‘it’cannot be more highly spoken af, Lt bears murks of hasty compu sition. ‘Take, for stance, thissentuncys bho countryman, ‘witnessing Uthat: chuse,. might haye thought some bunk-bills cere Aba or this ous; “To rin ‘alter vreclous = sheets, tu catch thom, and rearrange them order, was an operation ta be Witness That sorbof translation 19 too Mteral to pass muster, Count Agénor.do Gasparin was a French writer, who atter many years of pub- clife retired to Switzerland whore ho died in 70, Alls stalwart Protestantism, lila intred. of flavors. sympatlh aries the North, uring 5 ameloss Ife ren ne Dlography Interesting reading. oes — ‘a GLUCOSE. ny The full -titte of this tolume iss’ A Pro teat Treatise on the Manufacttire of Starch, Glucose: Starch-Sugar, and Dextrine.” It has been “prepared. by, Dr, Jullus Frankel. -t9 + based on the Gormnn of Ladisiaus’ von Wag- net, 'and ‘ts edited by Iobert Hutter, It la fully Mlusteated, and ts ai thorotighty nractle cal treatise pon a clogs of listuatries hither. to surrounded by mystery, In fet, tho de. - termination of mantifactirera of glucose has becn to: provent the public from knowing nngthing about their: processes, Access to factories has been barred to all except work- inen, and even the inventors: aud manutacte | Urers of the necessary inachtiery have re fused to furnish drawings of the machines. - This work [4 the only horough one on the subject In the English Inngunge, hag been prepared with great cure, and is nh. valuable ncdition to Industrial Heernture. It ts for sale by Henry Carey Baird & Co,, Philadels, pila, und sent by ninil for $3.59, » TNE WHITE MOUNTALNS, Osgood’s guide-bouks are modeled after Baedeker’s, whieh are, probably, the best in the world, Ilis White Mountain Guide Idan indispensable .compahton for the tounsts who visits that wonderful region for the first tine. ‘The villages and hotels among tha moitntains have been deserlbed with care, and the routes ht their vicinity have also been explained, and recounts of the more remote ~ and lofty: peaks have’ heen’ added for the benefit ‘of mountain-climbers, ‘The ‘most notable results of recent explorations, up to 1881, are given, and thus new routes and new - polis of iuterest are laced before tourists, Topographical mans of special localities and panoramic sketches are also added.to the text. Mr. Sweetser hing worked hard to make tho Guide-Books accurate, relfable, and un- Uiased In favor’ of any particular. hotel or rallroad, and-we see no reason to infer that - he Is not thoroughly fair and finpartial. MAGAZINES. : The numbers of tha Living Age date June 18 and June 2 contain articles on “The: Sword”; Autoblography of an Agnostic”; , “A Lancashire Poets’ Corner’; “A Dialog : on Poctic Morality’: The “Sitver Streak,’ by Admiral Lord Dinsany; “George Eliot’; . “Status; “Spring Wanderluzs” “The Revised New ‘Testament’; “Refugees”; with an Justatlment of ‘The Freve’s,’ by Mrs. Alexander, #*A French Speculntion,” and “ Molly: a Sketch In Three Tones,” and. the usuni amountof poetry; also, the Title and Index to Volume CXLIX, The simerican Naturalist for July has --., the following orlginal articles: “Origin and Descent of the Human Bratn,” byS. V. Clev- enger; “The Eastern Snow-Uird,” by Samuel Lockwood; “ Bacteria nga Cause of Dtkoaso ean Carel s ¥ Je Se ey; FAboriaiunl Stone-Deliling,? ea ae “On the Effect of Impacts and Strains on the Feet of Mammalia,” by E. D. Cops. ‘The historical articles in the July number j of tho Magustie of American History ato on the Return of the French, 178283"; “'The Southern Gunpalen, Tis ny and “The —.., Nelson Mouse, Yorktown, Va.,” with an Mustration, ‘The articles in the Princeton Review for July nre entitled: “Continental and Istand Afe,” by Jolin W. Dawson, LL.D; “ En- lish Portry in the Elzhteenth Century,” by Principal Shalep; ‘The Historical Proofs of Christ anit ‘The Fourth Gospel,” by Prof, ieorze P. Fishers * Phitosoplh! eal Results of Dental of Miracles,” by President John |: Baseom: “Late American Statesmen,” by * Franels Wharton, D. D,, L1.D.; “* Anthropo- porpile by M. Stuart Phelps. It would be dificult to compound a more unpalatable iixture for general readers, H ‘The first number of thd Journal. of the American Agricultural. Association, Just issued, contalns 0 great-variety of orig nat mutter of interest to farmers and those inter- ested in them and: thoir work... We glvo tho full table of: contents «to -show how | varied and . important ey, aro? “ Agricultural Advancement In the United States,” by Prof, C..V.. Riley; “Ageicultural Surveys,” by Prof. E. W. Ulzard; “Corre- Intions of Animal Form, by’ Dr, Man! Miles; “Country Homes, and<Who Shoul join,” by Rear-Admiral Dantol Am- , , | Culture of Watermelons,’’ by tho . Cassius M. Clay: “Fertility.” by E. Lewis Stuntoviye SM. D,3, *Fish-Culture,” by Seth Green; “Holstein Cattle,” by Charles Houghton; “Immigration and Emigration,” by N.S. Batley; “irrigation tn Gallfornin by Alfrod T. Kennady, MLD Is IpChole era ‘That Kills Our Ilogs?”" by Benjamin; Rose; “Jersey. Cattle’ by Richard Good- man, drs “Cand and Axgrlenulture in En- gland,” by ' Prof. ‘J, P, Sheidons Mills? Sys- tum of Ensilage,” by_Francls D. Moulton; - *On Increasing the Fertility of Pastures,” by J.B. Lawes, LL. Dy F. 108.5 *! Produc “4 Sy, ‘ G ey Ivo Industry the Sonresof National Wealth,” * by Dr "Honing P, Janes; * The Ayrshire Breed of Cattle.” by J. D. W, French; * ‘Tho Bovine Lung-Pingne,” by James Law, Pro- f of Vetorlnary Sclonce, Cornell Univer. °° 3“'The Dalry: Its Profits nnd Prose pects,” by’ the Jton. X, oreign Cattle Trude of te United States.” by Col: Robert Bovorley; “The Merino Sheep of the United States,” by Albert Chiap-° mani" The Problem’ of American Land- * holting,” by the Hon. George B. Loring; * Tho Quality of AAmorient: Ruedsy” by Dre AVR. Ledoux; © The Railroad and the Harm er,” by Edward Atkinson; © ‘The Relutions of Forestry to Agriculture,” by. Warder, M. D.3 “ Trichina Spiral is,!” by iL, ¥. Atwouds *“‘Trichinosis 3“ Wheat Cult- ure. by Arthur R. Jenner Fust; * Work Which it National Agricultural Association May Do,” by Prot.;Witiam HH, Brewer; Many of these are nolablu articles, Mr. Ed ward Atkinson's paper on Tho Railroad... «: and the Farmer” [sa very Intoresting ond '-s, thorough statement of what has been done by railroads fu developing the country, and waking lt possible for, the American farmer to cumpete with the English, Mr. Atkinson uses with great elfect ‘the graphic method, the use of which Is Just beghining to be un- derstood fn this country, to present lls facts + to tho eye In atatistical pletures, Mr, Atkins ©. gon is always vivid in what he writes, and 2 this article puts a great deal of Information» within onsy reach, All that Myr, Atkinson clalins for the rafironds for having Increased thelr tragie su towered, thelr churges must”. be allowed, ‘The New -York Central, for Ins. +. stance, In tha eleven years 1609 to 1870 increased Ita trate 280 por cent, but leasened its charges 07 we cent, go that its avarnre freleht charge Is now but one-third what It was 10 1860, Bat Mr, Atkingon goes too far when he puts this forward as a reason why the ratlronds should not be suporyised by et Congress nnd State Lugtalatures, ‘Tho raile . » rons deserve no more credit for these reiuc- tlons thun Mr, Atkiuson does for the Treduc- Hons tu the price of vation cloth, Wey, have reduced mites becanse t oy hid tor While thoy have reduced rates compulsorily, they hinve | L voluntarily given spectit rates to favorit persons and plices, und created odious moe” nopolles, ‘rhe more Air, Atkinson proves of |: the importance of. the rallronds in the tennome davelopment of the country the | more he demonstrates the overwhelming necessity that this inlghty power should be harnessed and driven by tho law, LITERARY NOTES. “Sold for Mulhooly” was written by Rutus E. Shapley, ; ‘Tho books biquenthed by Carlyle to Taw yard Library number about 32 volumes. Boston has glyven $1,000 of ‘the $5,000 being raisutt ‘for a library building for the Rugby Colony, a ; a “Jr, Jermuglinin’s Journal” was written = by Arss Hart, Welator of tho Jato Miss Al. B. Buiedley, « ; a 4 i ‘Tho collected speeches of Princo Bismarck - are HOW blige Ty sorkal ntunbers by F. Kortknmpf, of Bertin, % Ly iran the Rauks ta s Commission.” - , rovieweil {h fast week's TRIBUNE, Was Will tends Lieut J.B, Actund-Trayte. LordtLytton’s “Lucille” was merely 8 Aruplirase,-and in many cies on excl Eandation, nt Laval,” Ly Georgo Sand, Tho fourth’and last yolumout the Memortal * | Listory of Boston: ia belys put in type, und will ot lag far belind the third volume... " gala complaina that he ig pursued day"and —: night by Infuristed Protestants who ‘fora mero noting cull'you a dog or 4 carcass. "Pho tenth ond eleventh volumes of ‘Thiers’ “Parl itary Speeches,” couitoy duwn to sesh Hava. bob, 3 ‘hh publication of