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4 LITERATURE. Frothingham, Bat there are qualities of earnest- | ness, iresimess and sincerity im the man, pluin- | ness and direct torce of speech, intensity, mach of + | the 8 uty. We can understand Autumn Books from Ameri= | tow ‘those uriet pungent, pregasot sermons . | 1 lar; bodies of ~—iplain can Presses. beet Boss neil as read them in the reserve and silence of the brary there ts @ charm like that in “Lavengro” or George Borrow’s “B.bie in Spain. There is a bang:ag quality, am eqortior sensation, thas looks odd in @ religious essay; but We suspect in this lies much of the power of air. Talmage over in bis Brooglyn Tabervacie, The sermon on,Horace Greeley’s death has many fine passages and a fervent appeal to newspaper men to remember that God wili hold them to a stricier | accountability than any otver class, cud to stop | working at night, “Blackmailing editors,” he in- LIFE ON AWHALESHIP | ©msus, “will be condemned as destroying angels | and sent down to suffer with the millions they | bave damnea.’” The book ts full of waolesome quality and will do good. RDUOATION, G. P. Putnam’s Sons send usa narrative of per- sona: ex; erieace a: German universities by James aiterary immortality, hes aaded tothe reputation | Morgan Hart. ‘This is an exceeding.y valuavle ‘of this conscientious and brave historian; and We | hook, and is mainly confined to tne University of ‘have renewed evidence of this 1a the new edition | Gottingen, where the author siudied, Itis written lot “Philip IL,” the first volume of which comes to jana light, breezy spirit, Tne most useiul chapters us from J, B. Li; pincott & Co., Phiadeiphia, This | gre those which compare the German system of edition is in w popular form, and 18 printed with education with the English aad American—to the good type on clear waite paper, with a fine, in- | advantage of the German largely. Thee ts an in- Viting, open page, and that great comlort to the | teresting episode about Cornell, the management Teading soul, un elaborate table of contents: | of which Mr. Hart severely criticises, It vegan ‘At possesses the advantage of being edited Dy | in extravagance and was carried on with the most John Foster Kirk, well known to scholarly men as | humiliating economy. Money was generally ex- tne author ul a “Life of Charles the Bold,” one of | peuded tor ostentatious architecture. A quarter the best ciucidations that now exists Of the history | ofa million dollars was ex,ended for what need of Burgundy aud the rise of that ancient and re- | not nave cost $75,000, The same mistakes have nowned section of the French Empire, Mr. C. | yeen made in Harvard, Yale, Amberst and Priuce- Edwards Lester, through the United States Publish- | ton, He beitevesaiso in a na‘ional niversity. Mr. ing Compauy, sends us “Tue Life aud Public Ser- | Hart's volume will be of much value to those who eae BAYARD TAYLOR’S TRAGEDY. History, Travel, Poetry, Adven- ture and Fiction. HISTORY AND POLTIICS. ‘The great and justfame of Prescott receives no Wetter assurance than the honors paid to his works | and memory, Time, which deals so harshly with vices of Cnaries Sumner’—a handsome, com- | contemplate sending their sons to Germany to prehensive volume, This work shéws evi- | study; itis likewise a noble tribute to the system dence of hasty preparation, and might | o/ education which has dove so much lor the great- be more fuy described a8 & memorial | ness of Germany. tribute to Sumuer’s ume than as an eXuct esti- HL Peterson & Ob., of Philaceipnia, have pub- mate of Dis Clsracter aud work. One of the mis- i lisned “The Confessions of a Minister ;’’ a foolish jortunes of our public life im America, as leading book, meant to pander to the prurient appetite to insincerity and rashness of judgment, is this | ereated by the Brooklyn scaudal. The United tendency to build monuments to our dead 43 4n | siqe3 Insurance Almanac tor 1874 18 a valuable expression of grief and not as a manifestation of | compendium of ali matters of information ou tn- our just, cold praise.” Mr. | surauce subjects, It is published oy G. KE. Currie, Sumner w.ll always | hold @ marked place in our history—not with the | No, 153 Broadway. Appleton senas us “A Coilec- Washingtous, the Jeffersons or the Lincolns, | ton of Tactical Studies,” by Major Lyman, of the perhaps, but with the Adamses, the Clays and the | reguiar army. ‘The book ts smal in compas, Sewards. Apart, however, irom the personal | neatly printed, and gives us the results of the late biography of Sumner, the book of Mr, Lester cou- | campaigaus in France and Germany. Toere tains apundant aud usetul material tor a proper | ig ap interesting chapter of critical comprehension of those strange and, even now, | gtuay of the tactical forwations employed &imost forgutten days, when the war was waged | quring the recent French and German war. Those agwinst slavery. ‘Tuis time is passing away. ihe | who nave any fancy for military studies and espe- great guif of the war makes all dim tuat lies | ciaiy those wuo are interestea in mulitia organi- beyond, aud we fail to see im the dimness the true | zationg, wiil find the work of Major Lywan of value. Measure of the men and their time. There is@ | 4.3. Barnes & Co. publish @ “slanual of Political fentie and delicate allusion to the domestic in- Arithmetic,” by Dr. ¥eck, Professor of Mathemat- Jelicities of Sumuer, more to be noted how, When | jeg ana Astronomy in Columbia College. This is the couatry is disiressed with the wretched busi- gy introduction to the complete eritumetic, and | bess in Brooklyn. Mr, Lester intimates that Mar- gioqws that much care Las been bestowed upon the | riage destroyed the personal social ireedom | gegnitions and rules. ‘There is a brief and careiul mecessary io the complete development of chapter om mensuration. Samuer’s nature. “It 1s not only possible,” he HEALTH AND MEDICINE says, “but we constantly notice instances wuere While dwelling upon books of education we nave | the highest powers for achievement iu learning, | to note some other interesting volumes which iu exploration und discovery, and im many over | nave accumuiated on our table and which may be fields of use.ul edort are brought Inio play or the | regarded as educational im their character and good of mankind that we should never have | gesign, Putnam contributes a little work on heard of if such capacities and endowments had | «niant Diet,” by vr. Jacobi. It 13 intended to been engrossed in tue endearments of love and | teach mothers how to handie the exquisitely deli- the sweet charities of home. It is altogether out | cate and nervous little morsels that God tias given of the question fur any man todo Juil justice to | to their charge. Tuere are rules about nursing the absorbing cares of married lite, fillumg ail its | ang wholesome directions about fresh air duties completely and geuercusly, to find time for | and cleaniiness and avoiding sugar aud doing his best through a lifetime at anytuing else. | jandanum, soothing sirups and teas, with Love ig exacting, and the instances are very rare | pints avout vaine oatmeal and | in which wowen have been willing to waive de- | parley which are worthy every mother’s | Vvotion to thems:ives that their husbands mignt | attention. lf we are to have true men and women | Accomplish some great purpose.” Mr. Lester for- | in this land we cannot give too much cure to this | tifles this disagreeable position with allusion to | simpie and necessary subject of tolant diet. Dr. | Socrates and Mitou and Columbus, whose wives | wai, the water-cure practioner, sends us, | } | the of se | do not seem to ee been all that could be desred | through s, K. Wells, No. 389 Broadway, a large im the way of amiability, Sumuer, according to | volume on the same subject, “The Mother’a Hy- Mr. Lester, was an.mated by two loves—the love | genic Handbook.” for his mother, which was “pure, beautiial, eD- | tne diseases of women and children and 1s | grossing,” and the other for his fellow man. Al- | especially directed to the foolish custom women i together, Ar. Lester has given usa satisfactory | naye of dressing. Appletons have published the | and useful book, and he deserves our best thanks | stn yo.ame of Dr. Austin Fiint’s “Physiology of baie? reggl= | Man.” This is @ royal, sumptuvus book, printed Robert G, Ingersoll, of Peoria, Mimois, sends us | on the best of paper and with the clearest type, “The Gads aud Uther Lecuices.” This volume 18 | gnq discusses the speciai senses of the body and edicated “to Eva A. Ingersoll, awoman without | tye sanction of generation, It 18 thoroughly superstition,” and is @ course of five lectures on | technical in its character and intended for those The Gods,” “Humpoldt,” «Thomas Paine,” “Andl- | who are interested in the study of medicine. But viduality” ana ‘Heretics and Heresies.” We | pr, mints style is so clear and simple that we can should miler that Mr. Ingersoll is an eccentric per- | yngerstand the immense value of this bookin | son, WO prints (his book at his Own expense, 204 | ocner than professional libraries, In fnisning that he means to do his part toward rearranging | This embraces many phases of Y this work, which, as be informs us, Dr. Flint nas | the universe. We find ourselves overwheimed | been engaged in ‘doing jor eleven years, he must ‘with phrases like these :—“Each nation has created | be congratulated for the patience, energy and | ® god, aud the god has always resembled iS | gcnojarship ne has shown in 1's /ulfliment, creators.” “zach god was intensely patriotic, | We nave aiso to acknowledge an ‘Idiomatic and detested ali nations but his own.” “Few | Key to the French Language,” from Albert Mason. nations have been so poor as to have but one | rhis nook gives the student not so much the theory god.” As tor the God of tne Christians, Mr. Inger- oy the grammar, but the exact meaning of tue 1 rn "1 soll regards Him a “en infinite — ” and the | saioms, of which there are many in French, There Bivle, “horrivle, unjus', atrocious;" and his own | i, 4 vainabie chapter on Isolated idioms, those work is to throw reason “upon the world’s brain” phantoms that terrify the beginners in French, as “king of kings, and god of gods,” Coming to ang an exhaustive conjigation of Paire Faire, as | Humboidt we do not tind one useral fact trom Mr. ' 4 mouei for the use of ail other idioms. Sheldon Ingersol, only a wild rhapsody of ignorance and & Co. send us “The Introduction to Algebra,” crude rhetoric. ‘Tue lecture on Paine 18 no better. | yy Egward Olney. Mr. Oiney is the well known Paine is one of the curious characters of’ our processor in the Michigan University, and his book | history, and wacever wili do for him the work of | y, om a ‘ill be of use to young people entering upon the Carlyle for Maatest or of Macauiay for Machia- hazy study of this Arabian sctence. Velli will add @ great contribution to our kuowl- EPOCHS IN HISTORY. edge, Mr. loge soli raves about nim, but utterly | ‘The enterprising house of Scrioner, Armstrong falls to comprevend either his niguer or his lower | 4 Go, send us three additional volumes in the nature. A wore utterly worthless book we baVe ‘eo ocns of History,” aa edited by Edward E. | Rot read for # loug ime, and we make thisreler- sions phe first is @ “History of the Crusades,” ence to it to sow the paucity and helpiessness of | with a map. It covers a period of history the war upon religion and society. from the capture of Jerusalem in 611 by BAYAKD TAYLOR'S TRAGEDY. | the Persian Khosru to the fall of Acre in James K. Osgood & Co. send us “The Prophet; 4991, ne styie tg clear and pleasing, the author a Tragedy,” by Bayard Taylor, Anything trom telling his story without feeling or prejudice and the pen of this most distinguished and accom- in tbe best historical spirit, There 18 Pushed author tess be regarded as an addition to an interesting account of the rise of Wa-tave pater yee stag literary event in itself. chivairy, and at the end of the book a ave read vais tragedy with interestand oso) index, The author attributes to the Pleasure, The first act isjaid in a New Engiand Crusades the rolling back of Mohammedanism fr State, the remaining four acts in a Western State. Eatope, td ism from David Starr is a Mormon prophet, and we gather | arontion of serfdom, aud the rise of the common his character 110m this song, Which he sings as he law in place of the arbitrary will of noblemen. si cgi Ah rapa | ‘The second volume ts “The Era of the Protestant ibegglineiemst | Revolution.” by Fredertc Seebohm, wo ts well is wurde | known by his work on the Gospels, He shows tne Thougy 1oy¢ is Gret, yet auth uw chief, | rise of the Protestant movement at Oxiord and | Wittenberg, the revolts of Engl Germany, Den- tne weakening o/ the baronial system, the Lord, (believe! help thou mine unbelief. David receives what he Tegards as “gifts of | mark, Sweden and the Netherlands from Rome, miracles and prophecy.” He becomes an outcast | the general results of this revolution im the from his orthodox home, and tue founder of &® | growth of national Iife, the relations of the nations new faitu, The second act, two years later, diss | t4 each other, and its influence on popular covers him leading bis followers across the Plains. religious and domestic manners. The work con: David meets one Livia Romney, @ “worldly Wo- cinaes by an ingenious summary, showing that the man,” by whom he is strangely impressed, and protestant Revolution was the beginning of the under the influence of the .ove sne inspires he is great revolutionary wars which broke into the led to prociaim the doctrine Of polyguiny a3 & J. .50h Revolution. The third volume is a “His- dogma of tue new Jaith, This dogma is proclaimed tory of the Thirty Years’ War, from 1618 to 1648,” in the tempie of the Church, and we may gal0 An | 7145 iy the most thorough of the series, dealing, as idea of Mr. Taylor's mastery of blank verse in the | j, does, with an event in an era, following lines, in which David, the Prophet, an- | and not with events spreading over a nounces to the people the new doctrine :— | century of time, The book begins with the 6 highest faith that tramples down Hous intellect; while this is blind nd even where the solver heart le. in its delicate habit joined ouces of love that first disturhs, t soothes our bosom’s frightened he nestlings and the nest are sa | impertalist victories in Bohemia in 1619, and em. | braves the campaigns tn the Paiatinate, the battle of Fieurus, the ri Richelieu, the troubles between vird. | Charles I. and his Parliament, the advent of@aus ‘ 4 i i | tavus Adolphus and Wallenstein, the battle of ~phagtsbagpiienetce witb ~ bes ee atest Lutzen and the death 0 Gustavus, the treaty of | utioy and the interference of a | prague, the growth of Richelieu's power, the uthorities to suppress polygamy, which ends in | steagete for ahi vise ot waeabe andres: sho death of David, who 1s shot, and the exalta- | © °#e Ma eeey of Westphelts, ‘Thesb have “ation of Nimrod Kraft to the head of the Church. | on gq many tremendous events in the last two le vce Peo hem i a oe aie proche centuries that we are apt to forget tne remark- Press ct thas toine 2 | able period covered by this volume. The Thirty mugher aspects of that religion, its enthusiasm, | 4) warisone of the great events of modern yort) ude und power, and his tragedy, thoroughly | times, and was the beginning of the intellectual atm rican In idea, scope and treatment, t value | ‘ ¢ ad lition to our literature and one of tue best | movement which resuited in Waterloo and Sedaa. the author's graceful and poetic | Bismarck to-day, in nis campaign against the | Roman Church, is siinpiy carrying Out ancther | step io the policy for which Cromwell fought the battie of Naseby and Gustavus lost his iile at Lut uen. s exomples © euius # RELIGIOUS LITERATCRE. We have read with interest and respect Mr. Tal- mage’s new volume of sermons, “Old Wells Dug anxious to discover the quality in the man | TRAVEL AND ADVENTUK.. | honest administration. | Antiquities.” leacy of Storrs, or the cold, deep scholarship of | are aways Pillars of Hercules in our geography and bold men who will insist upon passing them. The impulse recently given to Arctic dis- coveries has been shown in the efforts of the Austrian government to solve the problem of the North Sea, Harper & Brothers send us a hand- some volume oi “Arctic Experiences,” being the Rarrative of Captain George E. Tyson’s “wonder- fal drift on the ice foe,” s history of the Polaris expedition, the cruise of the Tigress and rescue of the Polaris survivors. This book is edited by E. Vaile Blake, of Brooklyn, The typography is un- usually good, and there are about eighty honest @nd attractive illustrations and maps, including Portraits of famous men who have dared the bleak Splendor of the icy North 1m their yearning for fame. There 1s algo an exceedingly valuable chapter of Arctic chronology, giving in concise form the dates of discovery and investigation trom 822, when Gunniborn, the Norseman, satied from Iceland to Greenland, down to 1873, when the Tigress arrived in Brooklyn. For six hundred years the Norsemen were the only naviga- tors who seemed to penetrate the Northern American seas, and it is not until 1496, a lew years aiter Columbus discovered America, that we find the Cabots passing the Arctic circle. It is odd to note tuatin 1776, when we. should have sup- posed all England to be terrified at the idea of the Declaration of Independence and Washington in aris against the crown, there was atill calmness enough in British counsels ior parliament to offer & reward of $100,000 for the discovery of any through passage to the North Pacific, and $25,000 to any one getting within one degree west of the Magnetic pole. Captain Tyson impresses us, from the glimpses we. have of him in this book, as a man of courage, firmuess, good sense and wide knowl- edge of those mysterious northern lands. Toe Harpers send us also @ book that should be One of the books of the season, calied “Ihe Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman,” by William M. Davis."’ It is a smal) compact volume, with many illustrations, Mr. Davis is one of those hardy Long Island mariners who sailed ior the whale in the days belore petroleum, when whaling was an American industry, and Nantucket gat proud in her island home as mistress of the oi! world. But Nantucket has fallea into snuffling, premature old age, her sons and daughtera are in other States, slience apd decay hover over her rotting wharves. The glory of the whale fishing is over, and nothing remains but for William M. Davis and the other Mariners to teil the yarns ol the past. There is mach curious information in this book about the rise and progress of whale fishing from 1690, when the hoats went from the beach to catch whales, un- til 1857, when the whaling feet of the United states numbered 670 vessels, Engiand and France together having only seven. The war, however, gave this commerce @& fatal biow—one Confederate ship bailt with English money, the Shenandoah, bura- ing thirty-four whaling ships alter the war was at anend. Mr. Davis has given us & mos: interest- ing apa uselul book, one tbat boys wiil read with staring eyes through the iong winter nights and think about long aster going to bed. While in these nortnern regions of adventure we Must not overiook Major Butler's “Wild North Land,” the story oi a journey in winter with dogs across Northern North America, ‘Tuis volume is handsomely printed by Porter & Coates, of Phila- delphia, and contains illustrations and a route map. Major Butler is Known to us from his volume, the “Great Lone and,” describing the Red River country. His portrait im the troutis. piece of this work shows an honest, kindly, bull- dog face, disposed to hold on, one would think, once the jaws were clinched, ‘the author seems to travel from the.thirst for adventure. “I cannot rest irom travel,” he tells us on his title page. “I will drink fite to the lees.” “I am become @ name for always roaming with a hungry heart.” The Major started {rom Fort Garry, in Manitoba, pusked north as far as Athabasca Lake, taence along the Peace River to Germanson, and south to New Westmiuster, on Vancouver's Island. His only companion was an Esquimaux dog, and a pare of this journey was @ trail of 350 miles through the dense jorests of New Caledonia, The dog was mained Cerf-Vola, and be quite wius us as we accompany him, We should take him from his picture to be an honest, intelligent dog, “clean-limbed, strong-woolled, deep-chested,” wita “the iargest share of tail,” never fighting a “pitched battle,’ but nolding on to his supremacy, with an immense skill for catching two pieces ol meat at once. His special aversion was a brass band, bis great delight a butcher's stall. The Major thinks so mucn of Ceri-Vola that he writes poems to him, and for our own part we should like to see him a member of Congress or the Governor of some Southern State. He wou'd insure usan The Major's adventures are of a purely personal character, written with freedom and without pretence. He adds a valu- abie chapter as to tue best route for a Canadian Pacific railway. rives is that the true passage to the Pacific lies iar north of the Frazer River, aud that the true pas- sage to the Rocky Mountains hes iar north of the ‘Tete Jeune Pass. We nave received from Sampson, Low & Oo., of London, a work, by Thomas J. Hutchinson, called “Two Years in Peru, with an Explanation of Its This work is in two large volumes, and contains & map, by Daniel Bonera, with nu- merous illustrations, Mr. Hutchinson was for some time British Consul at Callao, and his work 18 a valuable contrioutton to our knowledge of those interesting countries. Weed, Parsons & Co., of Alvany, have printed a hancsome guide book to the Adirondacks, irom the pen of 8. R. Stoddard, full of iniormation to ali who care to visit this wild country. Ta:nbuil Brothers, of Baltimore, bave published “The Ohronicies of Baltimore,” a complete history of the town and city irom the earliest period to the preseat time. The au- thor of the work is Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, @ member of the Marylana His- torical Society. The book is full of information, comprehensive, minute in detail, mainly an ex- haustive compilation of facts iateresting to citi- zens of Baltimore and all who are concerned in the growth of tbat splendid city, These local his- tories are of the utmost value in enabling us to sum up the aggregate of our national power and advancement, and we cannot give too high praise to the patient, modest historians like Colonel Scharf, Thompson Westcott, of Poiladelphia, and others who have achieved those feats of investiga- tion. A city like Baltimore is something more than acity. Itisthe ripe growth aad expression ofa and, in our American economy, s most interesting section of the Union, and these chroni- past and enter more largely into its hopes for the future, AUTUMN NOVELS. and indifferent. The first to interest us is “Idol- James R. Osgood & Co., of Boston. Julian Haw- thorne’s career in literature must always be a matter of more than usual pride to all who re- member the genius of his father and the gre: honor shed upon literature by him. Mr. Haw- thorne’s “Bressant’ was a success in its way; its promise than its performance. Mr. Hawthorne’s style is original, unformed, bat with growth in it. manner, without the subtle grace thas gave him so much power, and at the same time’ without its morbid, unheaithy tendency, We note occasion- ally an Emersonian effort to say oracular things in sentences, Putnams have printed Mary Cowdon Clarke's “Girihood of Shakespeare's Heroin series of tales claiming to trace the probable an- tecedents of the women characters of Shake- speare, This 18 @ pleasant, ingenious fancy, and the authoress has worked it out with freedom and taste. This volume, which ws the first series, contains five tales—‘Portia, the Heiress of Belmont; “The Thane’s Daughter,” who after- ward became -Lady Macbeth; “Helen, the Physi- clan’s Child ;” ‘Desdemona, the Magnifico’s Child,” and “Meg and Alice, the Merry Maids of Windsor.” The tales avoid any special climax, the writer’s object being to anticipate the recorded events of the play and bring each character down to the moment of the play’s actions, Thus Desdemona's ‘The imterest in adventure and travel never seems to die, which has made him one of the most popular and efficient clergymen in Brookiyn, We do not see the nredigious hamor of Beecher, the finished del adventures end with her speech to her father ‘Ynere must be ® craving in the ! before the Senators, when reciting her divided civilized mind to know Whatliea Vevond. There | dntv abe casts her fate with the Moor. her lord, | and lecenda of that celebrated recton, cles will enable us to comprehend more Clearly its | Here are & batch of autama novels, good, bad | atry; A Romance,” by Julian Hawthorne, from | crade and ambitious, however, and more tous in — Now and then we trace resembiances to his father’s | | London: Low, Marston & Searle. Introduction to Algebra. By Edward Olney. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. waite “The Merry Matds of Windsor’’ ends witn the reception of Falstan’s letters by Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, and their meeting to consult over the best means for answering the affections of Sir John, Putnam also sends us “Moonfolk,” by Jane G, Austin, exqu sitely illustrated by that master of the burin and pencil, W. T. Linton. The pook Proposes to give a true account of the home of the fairy tales, and seems to have been inspired by the thought of a child, thus expressed in the dedication— . Do hyn remember, my little Rose, ‘The twilight hour not long ago. When, leaning upon my aes. 70 said, In thoughitul accents soft and siow Are not as nice as the fairy tals “Tho truly stories I think, mamma, Couidn’t we go to whore such things are Tn a magic shiv with enchanted sails?” Long after you lay asleep that night 1 thought of your wisttul questions dear; Wishing, with you, that these tairies bright ‘dagnt be true somewhere it no: just here. Accordingly all the stories are told over again— those murvellous stories that live ke a religion in our literature—“Cinderella,”’ ‘Robinson Crusoe,” “Camelot” and the rest of them. ‘Mooniolk” ‘would seem to be a desiravie book for Christmas, the engravings especially giving ft a value as a work of art, apart irom the jascivation it must possess for children, The Autuors’ Publishing Company send us “Irene; or, The Beach-Broken Billows,” a novel by Mrs. B. F. Baer. This work was written in competition fora prize offered by the company tor the best work of fiction. Tue book is natural, honest and delicate, fuil of lightness, and shows the influence oi D.ckens upon the author’s style. Miss Gardner has written a novel on the old, ola story of “woman’s con- oy,’ published by Carleton, and calied ested,” which ends with a happy marriage ana shows the author’s fondness for Byron, ‘Ather- stone Priory,” by L. N, Comyn, published by Estes & Lauriat, of Boston, is a novel in the sty of Anthony Trollope, @ soothing, pleasant book for the long evenings, with many clouds, but fortu- nutely in the last coapter the shining sun that we are told to see always benind the clouds. “A Fatal Passion; or, Geriaut,” is the name of & novel by Charles De Bernard, which bas beea transiated irom the forty-first Paris edition by O. Vibeur, and pupushed by Carleton, De Bernard is a writer of tue George Sand scnovl, aud the mo-al, whic it teaches in F/ench /ashion, is that marriage, under the most Javorabie circumstances, and even though provided with every requisite of worldly comfurt and happiness, must result in sorrow, if not based upon love. Thi- is a moral well worth studying in America asin France; and this novel is a pleasant text book to those who care to enter upon it. BOOKS RECEIVED. ee The Nationai Cook Book. By Hannah M. §puvier. (Pp. 288) Philadelphia: t, B. Peterson & Uo. ldoiatry. by Julian Hawthorne, (Pp. 372) Bos.ou; James KR, Osgood, Tactical Studies, By Lyman, (Pp. 138.) York: D. Appieton & Co, Toe Motuei’s Hygenic Hand Book. By R. T. Trail, M.D. (Pp. 186.) New York: 5. R. Wells. Mauual of Ar.tumetic. By Peck. New York and C.icago: H. 8, Barnes & Co, Idiomatic Key to the Frenci Language. By E. Lambent and A. Sardou. (Pp. 130.) New York: A. Mason, The Physiology of Man. By Austin Flint, M. D. (Pp. 500.) New York: D. Appleton. The Era of the Protestunt Revolation, By Frederick Seenohm, (Pp. 232) New York: New | Scribner, Armstrong & Co. fhe Crusades, By George W. Cox, M. A. 214.) New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. ‘The Thirty Years’ War, (Pp. 226.) S. R. Gardiner. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, Two Years in Pera. Thomas J. Hutchinson, London: Low, Marston & Searle, Vol. I., 200, Two Years in Peru, Thomas J. Hutchinson, Vol. IL, pp. 330. (Pp. (Pp. 216.) New York: Sneldon & Co, ‘The Adirondacks, By S. R, Stoddard. (Pp. 204.) Alvany: Weed, Parsons & Co. German Universities. By James Morgan Hart. (Pp. 387.) New York: G. P, Putnam’s Sons, Iniant Diet. By H. Jacobi, M.D. (Pp. 119.) New York: G. P, Putnam's Sons, Tested; or, Hop.’s Tuition, A novel. By Celia BE. Gardner. (!p. 230.) New York: G. W. Carieton & Co. Beach Broken Bullow: or, Irene. By Mrs, B. F. | The conclusion to which he ar- | | | (Pp. 203.) | | Actaude, Baer. (Pp. 175) Authors’ Publishing Company. The Girinood of Shakespeare's Heroines, By Mary Cowden Clarke. (Pp. 480) G. P. Putnam’s Sous. The Lost Model. By Henry Hooper. (Pp. 369.) Philadeipnia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Serope; or, Tne Lost Library. By Fred. B. Perkins, (Pp. 277.) Boston: Roverts Bros, Holden with the Cords. By W. M.L. Jay. (Pp. 516.) New York: P. Dutton & Co. Atherstone Priory. By L. N. Comyn, (Pp. 370.) Boston: Estes & Lauriat. Uncle John. By G. J. Whyte-Melville. (Pp. 330). New York: D, Appleton & Co, A Fata! Passion; or, Gerfaut. Sy O. Vibeur. (Pp. 363.) New York: G, W. Carleton & Co, Charteris, By Mary M. Melisse. (Pp. 250.) Philadelphia: J. B, Lippincott & Co. Arctic Experiences. By E. Vale Blake. (Pp. | 478.) New York: Harper & Bros, The Wild North Land. By A. F. Butler. (Pp. 360.) Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. The Chronicles of Baltimore. By Colonel J. Thomas Scharf. (Pp. 725.) Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers. The Confessions of a Minister. By Josephus Leonhardt, D. D. (Pp. 136.) Phitadelpnia: H. Pe- | terson & Co. The Prophet. By Bayard Taylor. (Pp. 299.) | Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. Old Wells Dug Out. By T. De Witt Talmage. (Pp. 426.) New York: Harper Brothers, The Gods. By Rovert G. Ingersoll. (Pp. 250.) Peoria, til. Moonfolk. By Jane G. Austin. York: G. P, Putnam. United States insurance Almanac. 1874 (Pp 202.) New York: G. E. Currie. Nimrod of the Sea; or, The American Whaleman. (Pp. 880.) New Yorg: Harper Brothers. . The Municipal History of Dundee. By J. Beatts. Dundee: Published by the proprietor. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. “THE OHINESE READER'S MaNval,” & handbook of biographical, historical, mythological and gen- eral literary reference, by William F. Mayers, Chinese Secretary to Her Britannic Majesty's Legation at Pekin, has just been Issued, Or all books that have lately ‘thundered in the index” Lord Cntef Justice Cockburn’s much talked of book on Junius is the greatest fraud. We are now told that the book is not even begun. AN exceedingly curious and interesting book has appeared in Paris. It is the compiete works of the Trouvére Ruteboeu!, who was poet at the Court of St. Louis. These unique works contain eignty poems relating to Louis IX., Queen Blanche, the Sorbonne, the schools, the barons, the chevaliers, crusaders and friars of St. Louis. CapTaiIn R. 8, COLLiNG, of the navy, will put (Pp. 200.) New forth @ “History of the United States Marine | Corps.” Mr. W. 8, Livpsay haa in the London press “A History of Merchant Saipping and Ancient Com- merce,” to form three volumes. Mr. MacBRaby's autoviographical reminiscences | witl be published during the coming season, under tne editorship of Sir Frederick Pollock. ‘Yue next book in gastronomy will be Dr. M, L. Holbrook’s “Eating for Strength,” a cookery book dedicated to the queens of our tables. ‘Tas Rev. C. BARING-GoULD has in the press a book on “Yorkshire Manners and Customs.” Tae itfe of Captain Joseph Fry, one of the ex- ecuted captives taken from the Virginius, off Cuba, has been written, trom materiais in the posses- sion of his widow and friends, by Mra. J, Mort- | Walker, and is in press at New Orleans. TuR, prices of books at the recent New York trade tion of business. Very few publications brought half the retati prices. ‘Tur Rev, W. H. BH. MCRRAY has another book on the Adirondacks in press, devoted to the humor { uM oe THE GREAT INSURANCE REVOLUTION Chicago Defies the National Board of Under- writers to Withdraw Risks. The Answer Is, “Get Right Down and Out.” A Proposition to Establish Home Companies— List of Companies That Will Not Obey the Mandate of the National Board. ‘The action of the National Board of Fire Under- writers in deciding to tace no furtuer risks in Cbi- cago has caused a great commotion in that city, aud the press and business men display considerable belligerency. ‘The Chicago Times explatus the feeling of the business men of that city in the fol- lowing head lines to a three-column artile “Go and ’e Damned !—This Ix Chicago's Reply to the National Board of Underwriters—fuey Get Rigut “Down aod Out” Just as Soon as They Are Keady—And This Poor Town Will Be Well Rid of a Rowdy Gung o1 Incendiuries—But there Is No PNpe o: the Caderstrapping Overwriters Leaving Just Yet—Not Wotle Anybody Will submit ‘to Be Piundered by Their Robbery Rates—Lignty-six Out of One Hundred aud Thirty Compames Already Announce Tueir lo.ention to Tarry. Speaking of the jeeling among insurance agents and merchants the Times says:— The general impression and belief was that the last circular was simply an attempt at bluff on the art of the companies and dia uotrepresent im the least the sentiment of the members, It wus conceded on ali sides that the New York com- panies had engineered the affair through, and would possibly endeavor to force the other inter- ests to support their action. A great deul of stress 1 luid upon the fact that New York capital- ists are at tne boctom oi! the entire busiuess, as the Hartiord companies, whic represent possibly a8 great an awount of capital as those of any other city in the Unton, have bitheria stvod by chica,o, and have invested millious oO! dollars in the city on their taith in tts security and prosperity, The Connecticut Mutual Lue Insurance Company, Whose siovkholuers are large.y interested in Lhe Atna Insurance Company, vave t.vested in Cat cago oVer $10,000,000, and it Is to their interest to have the best insurance companies of the country taking risks in the city. From thls iact it has been surmised that the Hartiord interest coud never be brought to ring in with ihe New York Tepreseniativg iM & Combination syalust Chicago, The Times also claims to have knowledge of tha companies that will disregard the order of the Exe.uuve Committee of the National Board, and | says that the fuilowing Companies wili continue to | do business in that city :— Company. Cash Capital, Adriauc, Sew York ora, Aus, ow York. 200; Chicago. cural, W inapia, Pittsourg, & ‘Amazon, Cincipnaw Ame ican, Chic: American Central Atunuc F. au is, Hart : rear F. and M., Cineinnad . Bangor, Bangor, Me ... Den rrankun, allegheny, Black Kiver, Watertown, N. Buualo German, Bullaio, Ciuzens', Newark, N. J Citizens’, 5 Louis: Ouay Fe Coumerce. New Commerce, Albany, Commercial, >t, Lot Commerciai Union, 2, 000 Detroit F. and ai., Detroit, ‘SO Dweilmg House, boston, Mass. 30.00 Eliot, oos.on... quiabie, frovide pike Fame, Philadelpt Pd z 2nju0y 100,000 100,000 Pete d wo od uy Bosion, Mass ae raukin, Bosion. saad | Frankun, St Louls, Mo. Bio rie, Pa. rind Quincy, Mt 127'900 Germania, (ew, York Pa Girard, Philadelpata. Glenn's walls, New York duno Glove, Chicago... nd Hanover, New Yor suo Hamburg-Brem gy Howe, valvesto! 205,00 Huumbuilct, Newark, wlan In urauce Company deiphia. 500,000 Kansas, Leaveuworth bid Lancaster, Lancaster, Peed Lorilard, New York. eer | Mechauics and Trader Ered Mercantile, Vleveland wae Mercantile, Chicago. Says) Mechaules’, Providence, K. I. 2) Merigen, Meriden, Cont. Bali Narrugaasert, Pro’ 1,000 Rational, Pusladetphia saby Wpore Provideuce, i. I. oy New!vork and Youkers, New Lorik Enns] Magara, New Yor ma Dominion, { Pen ja'¥ire, Phuadel Frnt 20):250 800,00 @o,00 130,000 200,000 20,040 20,000 yu,000 10u 000 Koger Wil aNd Royal, Liverpool........ J ape bt sicholas, sew York. iam St. Paul F. & M., St, Pai pid Shoe and Leather, Boston Rend bun, Cleveland. Ub Pod Trade, Camden, N. J. Ned ‘Traders’, Chicago vend ‘Jradesmens’, New York oncrd | Union Mutual, Philadephia. Hohe Western, loronto, C, W ey Westchester, koche ae Williamsburg City. Brookly ae e clearly indicated the general stagna- | The following, it reports, are undecided what course to pursue in view of the recommendations made:— Gon Aina, Garttord American, Phi Armenia, Pittsburg... Brewers’, milwauxee jartiord, H. National, Hartior Faneuil Hail, Boston... ee North Brinsh Mercantile, London. German-American, New York New urieans, New Urleai rving, New York. .. ie, Nasbviile.. ‘aional, New York, jome, New York... New Yor! 950,000 1a dou Panny biar, New York Penisyivania, Phiiadelphte Pred Fire Association, thiladelphia. Bing ng, heading. ‘30 mpe ndon... 4091085 Standard, New Yo py Scotian Commercial, ani Lamar, New York. ey | Crient, Hartford. ’ soon | Lancashire, Manchester, Packs Springteid, Springfield, Mi Tagoriea North America, Poiladelphia. Sais Michigan state, Adrian... wonues Home Insurance Companies. {From the Chicago Tribuue,] ‘The action of the Executive Commitiee of the Nationa) Board of Underwriters in seeking to 1n- fluence as many insurance companies as possibie to withdraw from Unis city, by reiusing to renew existing policies or write new ones, should con- vince the people of Chicago of the necessity of doing something for themselves, The time and | circumstances are now opporcune for the estab- lishment of @ great home company upon a safe foundation, For such a company there is ample room, }nasmach as there js at present a deficiency of insurance capital in the country. ‘The tosses of that capital caused by the Chicago fre of 1871 and | tue Boston fire of the soliowing year nave u fully restored, hardl, enon, in fact, to ‘prodnce @ healthy competition, he market, theretore, Will not be overstocked by she establishment o} such @ company here, There ts, lu fact, uu good | Teasuo why it should not do a large business thioughout the country generally, It 1s ¢ certain thut the basiness rit be proftabien Fer thirty or forty years Chicago has been one of the beat patrons of insurance in this country. Doring all this time the conditions of security Were (he same, and no large fires occurred until Isil. The insurance companies reaped a rich nar- Vest and wade large dividends, The tome compa- nies, 48 well as the foreign, were banudsomely remunerated fur tneir investments, and tneir stocks stood bigh in the market, (bis business Was crippled by the contingencies of 1871 and 1sT2 in this city and Boston, Lt was an anioreseen and exceptional emergency, which is just as iixely to occur in any other city a® in Unicago or Boston, @nd which inay never occur again, In fact, the Safeguaras Which have aircady veon vrovided. and ay | | the head. | tunates who are dis; ——————__—______.. others which are yet to be made, are as complete guarantees as can be furnished agaiose the rect rence ol @ similar disaster here, Not only 18 there room tor such a company, owing to the defictc,1n insurance capital and tas certainty of profit, a3 shown by the history of the past, when the opportunities for profit were leas juan they are pow, but the local conditions are also javoravle. The people are ready lor it, The Promiuent business men of the city will subscribe promptly and largely to its stock, and the requi- site Capital to insure the salety of its operations can be raise! thout dimculty. It ts ouly neces- sary Gree ts sure the people that its administra- tion will be in the hands of careful, capavie and honest men. Second, its capiial should be at lenst $1,000,000, The trouble with our local insurance companies before the fire of 1871 wag tha! tueir capital was toa small. in thts case it should be large enough te meet bar emergenov, and toenabie the company to eo distiibute the risks that a great fre will not tmpair it. y with this amount of capital, administered by cautious and efficient officers, would ve one of the aoe: prodsauie {oves'ments in the country, and foal command a large business at home and abroad, Of course any insurance company has the right to close ou! ita business and move away If so pir posed; but the action Of tive New York commi'tes grows out of the influences brought to bear oy some companies wiich wanted to get out of Chicago aud had not the spunk to Zo out alone, bat must needs take as many others as possible to keep them tn countenance. Under such circumstances as these the people of « hicago must hemp then- selve-, They preserved their credit when their city was luid in ashes and all business was pros- trate. They preserved their credit througa tne finaucial panic, and oow that the city is restored and business ts built ap again on stronger founda- tious than ever they can preserve tt again, FALL FASHIONS, A Stroll in the Park ani on the Avenue. The delightful weather yesterday was enjoyed with keen zest by thousanas of visitors to the metropoiitan garden and myriads more on tue avenue. From Fourteenth street as far as the new catheural Fifth avenue presented @scene ol gayety and atiractiveness in the afteruoon that could scarcely be surpassed on any other thoroughtare in the world. Tie mall, ramble and other beauti- ful resorts in Ventral Park were crowded all aay, and all New York and his wife seemed to be out- doors, enjoying a jew bours ol sunshine. Maoy notable toilets were to be seen, of which @ few are deserving 0! sp-cial mention. A tollet of black auk, literally loaded with jet, hada periectiy plain demi-train skirt, with @ broad, triple box plait down the middle of the back, down which were placed at intervals very eiaborate ornaments of passementerie aud jet. On the .ront was a tabiter of black lace, embroidered with jet, reaching quite to the edges ol tue underskirt and daisked with & handsome jet iringe, Tue ‘cuirass’' basque was of lace, embroidered with jet to maton, worn over @ black silk waist, and snowing the silk sleeves, which were ornamented with bows of “Curdinai” ribdoo, A bow of the same rivbon was placed at the left of the beit and another di- rectly ta front oi the upturned brim ol a light gray felt wat, which was otherwise trimmed with light gray velvet, with pipins of Cardinal color. fhe almost dazzling beauty of a stately blonte was heightened by an exquisite toilet composed entwely of deep Violet and black. A *‘cutrass’? basque and ‘-Lotella’ overskirt 0! black silk, en- urely covered with open Enulisu emorvidery in a novel wheel design, were worn Over a silk dri 01 deep Viviel, the overskirt reaching quite to the edge ol the underskirt both in front aad ia ihe back, and the jacxet, being sleeveless, sawing the violet sleeves, trimmed with biick lace. 1 hat was a black chip, trimmed entirely with violet veivet, aud 0 ack und violet tive. A distingué tuilet was of am exquisite quality of “black” blue silk, the skirt @ demi-train, the tablier shirred perpendicularly, aad the ‘back bor- dered witha shirred flounce. A very deep over- skirt, edged with an elaborate fringe, o1 sik and “piue” steel intermixed, was graceiuily looped in the “Ophe' style, and the suit was completed by a “Matilde” basque, trimmed witn Irnge, to Match that on the overskirt, The hat wasa@ gray Freuch elt, trimmed witn stik and veivet of the color of the dress, “vive” steel ornaments, and an exceptionally fair bird, with @ scarlet breast, which contributed the only point of oright color in the toulet NEW YORK CITY. Peter Flock, aged 48, residing at No. 333 Bowery, was run over on Saturday afiernoon bya light truck amd had his leg fractured. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital. Tnomas Willams, a weigher, aged thirty-one, of No. 92 Orchard street, was very severely injured on Saturday aiternoon, by being crushed under a barrel of sugar, in consequence of a sed: plying. way. He was conveyed to Bellevue Hospital. Memmorial services on tue death of Rev. Dr. B, ! E, L. Taylor wil be held in Calvary Baptist churcn, Twenty-third street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, Tuesday evening, at half-past seven o'clock, with addresses by Drs. Armitage, Bright, Fulton, Simmons and Muller. Jonn Kelly, iour years of age, residing at No. 521 East Sixteenth street, fell on Saturday from tne fourth story window of his residence to the groand, and received some severe contusions of He was removed by Ofticer Lieby, of the Eighteenth prec.nct, to Bellevue Hospi! and is in @ lair way torecover. ee BROOKLYN. Thomas Ross, laborer, residing at No. 99 Gold street, was arrested on Saturday night, on charge of embezzling the sum of $80, the money being the property. of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence clety No.2, The complainant ion the case ts John Maher. The accused will oe suimmoned be- fore Justice Waisa on the 3d oi October, A patrolman of the Twellth precinct arrested Archtbaid McAlpine, @ recently discharged sea- man of the United States Navy, at an early hour yesterday morning, while in the act of distribut- ing $100 in greeubacks on board @ Fulton avenue car. McAlpine was locked Oe oo @ charge o1 in- toxication, and his money is heid by the police until such time as he May become cognizant o1 its value. Kate Riley, who has been an inmate of the House of tae Good Shepherd, East New York, for the past two montha, was arraigned on charge of disorderly conduct and inciting other inmates of suid institution to revolt against the goud ladies in charge of that most excelent home for untor- sed co re orm, ine accused was committed by Justice Riley originally for six months. On Satarday Justice Gartram committed Kate to the Penuentiary for jour months, the balance of ber commitment, This afternoon the Kaignts Templars, Masonic Order, will perform the evolutions laid down in tactics on the Prospect Park Parade Gro Among the commanderies participstiag will be the Damascus, of New Jersey; the Westonester, of Sing Sing; Manhattan, New York; Clinton, of Browkiwa; W. De Payne, of Jersey City St. Blo, of Greeapoins, and De Witt Clinton, of Brookiyn, &. D. The most pervect com- manodery in drill will recetvs @ goid aad silver cup Oi fare design and workinansiip. LONG ISLAND. As the evening train on the Sag Harbor branch ol the Long Isiand Railroad was passing Water Mills on Saturday evening, sume miscreant threw alarge stone through one of the car windows, It lortunately hit uo one, though tt passed wituin un inch of the head ot one oi the passengers, ‘The County Convention of the Suffolk county temperance people bave made the following nomt- nations:—For Member of Assembly. David M. Ka- wards, of Sayville; for County Superintendent of the Poor, Witham 4. Griffin, of East Marion; for Justice of sessions, J. Halsey Youngs, of James- port; for Coroner, Dr, E. E. D. Skinner, pf Green- port. Delegates were also appointed tu atteud a Congressional convention. Large quantities of menhaden were taken in Gar- Gener’s Bay last week, some of the fishing gangs securing as many as 200,000 at a single set. Up to last week the four factories on Barren id had rendered over 30,000,000, Messrs, Hawkins Brothers, of Jamesport, had rendered about 10,500,000, and tueir scrap houses contained an ac- cumiation of some 1,100 tons, The fish, nowever, Nave mostly beeu Of poor quailty, yielding only two to four gations per thousand, The United States survey schooner @. M. Bache, Assistant Charles Husmer, has finished op erations for the season in the Great South Bay. The resurvey of the bay has been completed trom Conklin’s Point (including Fire Istaud toilets) as tar east a8 Howell’s Point, tie westera end OF Belipors Bay, and expects next year to finish that vay and the remaining waters to the eastward. The work thus far is represented to have been done in the most thorougu and scientific manuer. The Grand Jury of the late County Court and Court of Sessions o/ Richmond county indicted the County Jail at Riverhead as @ nuisance and 4 dis. grace to the county, unsafe because of the unsuit~ abieness of its structure, having ho ventiiation, with no suitable way of warming it, and the cella being but “iiving coffins Lo those Who are 60 un fortunate as to reacu them.” The soard ol Su. Pervisors is asked to devise ways and wecans to provide @ more suitable structure. The jail aaa jor @ long time becn Tegarued as Unsale, and Ex- tra Vigilance is reauiredt Lo prevent the excane a som sad irauhoe, of prigouere, —— i 4 a A EE