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8 LITERATURE. | A Frenchman’s History of Russia--- The New Nation. caren BAGEHOT’S JIFE AND STUDIES. Religious Biographies—Bishop Cum- mins and Dr, Fuller. MEN OF THE TIME---BOOK CHAT. RAMBAUD'S “HISTORY OF RUSSIA.” M, Alfred Rambaud's “History of Russia,” which was received with such complimentary notices from the foreign reviews when it appeared in the origival French a short time since, deserves equally flatter- ing attention in its English dress, (Sampson Low & Co.) ‘The translator, Leonora B, Lang, tells us that the present volumes contain a number of emenda tions by the author, who has also written many ad- ditional pages, M. Rambaud begins with the earliest history of Russia and comes down to 1877, His style is dignified and his statements apparently unbiased. Although a Frenchman, he can speak in compli- mentary terms of the admirable traits in Russian character, and is quick to acknowledge the genuine- ness of many of the recent reforms, ‘The foreign policy of Russia, he says, has never allowed itself to be turned from the three aims which she has fol- lowed since Ivan the Great—the conclusion of the Quel with the Polo-Lithuanian State for the hege- mony of the Slay world; the struggle with her west- ern neighbors to secure the freedom of the Baltic and the Black Sea, and the revenge for the Tartar yoke, whether taken on the Turanians of Central Asia or those of Constantinople. He speaks with enthusiasm of the new path that has been opened to her by the civilizing reforms of the cighteenth century and by the emancipating reforms of the present reign, She has conquered her place among European States; but, he says, she has yet to secure her rank among free nations. The history of the Russian people is now beginning. He concludes by saying:—‘With the Russian State France has often been at strife; her sympathies with Russia are growing since she has found in hor a nation.” M. Ramband begins his history with the geography of Russia, whose productive parts he says are the prairie, the black land, and in the zone of forests, the agriculiural and industrial region of Novgorod, Mos- cow, Nijni-Novgorod and Kazan, Were the northern part of the poliessa and the barren steppes of the south to be wiped out nothing would be taken from the real force and riches of Russia, The ethnog- raphy of the country is then treated. Russians are, it seems, remarkable for the possession of that in- stinct which drives men to emigrate and found colo- nies. They do i the far East of Europe what the Western races do in the far West of America, They belong to the great race of pioneers and backwoods- men. The domestic slavery of Russian peasants and the seclusion of women during the Moscovite renaissance is graphically portrayed, and the history of the Romanoffs occupies several intoresting pages. The second volume begins with the reforms of Pettr the Great, and there is no more entertaining chapter in the book. From the time he became Czar of Russia, in the first flush of his vigorous manhood, to his singular marriage with the serf Catharine Skavronski and to his sudden death in the prime of a cruel but useful life, we are again spellbound by his wonderful personality. He bent to his will men, things, nature and time; he realized his end by despotic blows, and tor along while yet, M. Ram- band thinks, Russian and foreign historians will either hesitate to pass a final judgment on him or will advance contradictory opinions, Another Russian ruler whose career this historian dwells upon at length is Catharine II, Notwithstanding her enmity, M. Rambaud thinks that she was useful to France, having overreached herself in her jealous projects, He views the reign of Alexander I. calmly, shows its shortcomings and its accomplishments in the way of literary advancement. The “Iron Em- peror,” Nicholas L., receives better treatment than he deserves. M. Rambaud simply says “he was a tan of another age, an anachronism in the new Europe.” The reign of Alexander Il. is not criti- cised to any extent. The author merely states facts and waits for results, He does not hesitate to give the country credit for what it has done in the way of public improvements, but says that it is far behind every other country in Europe in the matter of primary education, though rapidly making progress. M. Rambaud naturally sympathizes with the un- happy lot of Poland, and condemns the manner in which that country has been treated by Russia, To- day, he says, the “kingdom” of Poland is nothing but a name. Kussia, sketched out by Rurik, dis- persed after Jaroslaf the Great, reunited by the dynasty of the Ivans, Europeanized by Peter the Great and Catharine IL, delivered from serfage by Alexander LL, now, says this historian, “enters into a new phase of her history.” BAGEHOT'S “LITERARY STUDIES.” The appearance of the essays of the late Walter Bagehot, in two handsome volumes, under the title of “Literary Studies” (Scribner & Welford), has awakened a new interest in the author. A prefatory memoir of Richard Holt Hutton has increased this interest. Bagehot was a man of letters as well as a political economist and banker, Amid the duties of a busy mercantile life he found time to read care- fully and write learnedly, In Mr. Hutton’s memoir we are told that Bayehot came of a good English family and was a graduate of Oxford, He was a Roman Catholic and an admirer of Louis Napoleon, He was in Paris in 1851, shortly before the coup deat, and wrote a defence of his action, which is published in these volumes, Besides being a scholar he was a wit, and it is said that one seldom asked him a question without his answer making you either think or laugh, or both think and laugh together, It was he who invented the phrase “padding’’ to denote the kind of articles with which a judicious editor will fill up some three-quarters of his review. He used to say banter- ingly to his mother by way of putting her off at a time when she was avxious for him to marry, “A man’s mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.” The essays or studios that fill these vol- umes, while they go over familiar ground, giv proof of originality and freshness in each instance, Ue begins his study of Shelley with this idea—that it is half a comfort to think of a poet as to whom our information is but seanty. The few intimates of Shelley, he says, seem inclined to go to their graves without telling in accurate detail the curious cir cumstances of his life. Certainly Trelawny has told wil he knew. About his accuracy there is some dis- pute. “No writer,” we quote, “has left so clear an image of himself in his writings; when we remen ber them as a whole, we seem to want no more. No on the other hand, has left so many alinsions whieh wo should bo oxplaine He has not attempted a plete criticism of Shelley, but has only aimed to show how some of the peculiarities of his works and life may be traced to the peculiarity of his nature, Another original idea is the pointing out of @ resem- Diance between Shakespearo and Walter + t. The study of Lady Mary Wortley Montagn is made to prove that “nothing is so transitory as second class fame.” A generation ago the Lady Mary was known all over Great Britain; to-day she is unknown to the t mass of English readers, While ho admires her intelleet and culture be says that she was “that most miserable of human beings, aa ambitions and wasted woman.” The study of Dickens is careful and appreciative, and the author takes pains to in- vestigate the causes of his great popularity. Hecon- siders the famous novelist utterly deficient in the of reasoning, and that he is without that evsy and various dty which gives a unity to ail whieh it touches. study of Howry Crabb Robinson is very amusing, and shows the humorous side of Mr, Bagehot. He knew Robinson personally for twenty years and he has considerable to ray about bis per NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1879,—TRIPLE, SHEET, ness about Robinson, and, unless you liked it, you lost the best of him. In his memoirs he is called, and very properly, Mr. Robinson, but Mr. Bagehot tells us that no one ever called him anything but “Old Crabb.” You watched with interest and pleasure his singular gestures and his odd way of saying things, and muttered to yourself, as if to keep up the recollection, “And this is the man who was the friend of Goethe and is the friend of Words- worth.” “Old Crabb” was famous for his break- fasts. Just as he was sitting down with his guests he would find that he had forgotten to make the tea, thea he could not find his keys, then he would ring the bel! to have them searched for; but long before the servant came he had gone off into “Schiller. Goethe,” and could not remember what he wanted: The most astute of his guests used to breakfast before they came, He was a great talker, and punctuated his conversation with his chin, pushing it out just at the point of a story and then slowly drawing it in again, so that you knew just where to laugh. There is no more thoroughly enjoyable study in these vol- umes than that of “Old Crabb.” Wordsworth, Ten- nyson and Browning are made the text for an essay on the pure, ornate and grotesque art in poetry, There is not a page of Mr. Bagehot's studies that is not filled with original thoughts exhibited in an original manner, and while he writes like a scholar he amuses like a man of the world, BISHOP CUMMINS, OF THE REFORMED EPISCO- PAL CHURCH, It is to be regretted that the life of the Rev. George David Cummins, D, D., first bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church (Dodd, Mead & Co.) should have been written by one biassed by such a bond of sympathy as that of a loving and devoted wife, Such a work should not be a mere record of the local commonplaces of a clergyman’s domestic and pa- rochial life, yet it is not too strong a statement to say that at least two-thiras of the book are devoted to local matters of little or no interest except to the small circle of intimate family friends of the sub- ject. Born in 1822, in the town of Smyrna, Del., and joining the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of seventcon, to become a circuit rider at the age of twenty, his early life seems to have been uneventful until, his two years of probation in the Methodist Church circuit having expired, he decided to leave his chosen sect to join the Protestant Episcopal Church, ginning his work in the Episcopal Church as assistant pastor of Christ Church, Baltimore, he gradually rose, after diligent service in the South and West, to be ordained in 1866 Assistant Bishop of Ken, tucky. It is not improbable that the elation excited by this honor provad as a firebrand to the liberalism smouldering latent within him, even at that time, for it was only a few months afterward, at the con- vention of the House of Bishops in New York, that the newly elected Bishop startled his associates by introducing an uncalled for resolution concerning the sending of Protestant children to Romish schools. Considering tho stand afterward taken by Bishop Cummins this resolution shonld have been printed in connection with his reference to it, but the author, either designedly or inadvertently, omits quoting so important a paper, which proved to be the focal point of the new departure finally consum- mated five years later, " At the same time Bishop Cummins wrote in op- posing ritualism:—‘All that wecan do is to plant ourselves upon the Prayer Book as it is, for thus we can save any movement, Romeward or Greekward, by any changes in the Prayer Book.” How the author of these words who penned them after a twenty years’ experience in the Episcopal Church found when his radical views had placed him without the pale of his associates that he must unsay them, isa matter of record, and, if he shared the fate of other iconoclasts in severe censure from those who disagreed with him, it is futile to attempt to gloss over by specious apologies the discrepancies that exist between his theory and his after practice. These were natural enough when it is considered that the man who uttered these sentiments in 1868 then held a prominent office in the powerful Episcopal Church, while in 1873 he had lost his influence and position so far that he could comrmaand attention only by advocating the most extreme and revolutionary views. i Finding that his broad interpretation of the Prayer Book had provoked the hostility of most of his brother bishops, snd that many of his parishioners passed him upon the street with averted faces, Bishop Cummins, weary of his hopeless battle for reform within the Church, in a letter, dated Novem- ber 10, 1873, formally severed hia relations with the iocese of Kentucky. His principal reasons, as stated in his letter of resignation, were bis repug- nance to conducting services customary in some ritualistic churches in his diocese, his belief in the necessity of a thorough revision of the Prayer Book after the model of that recommended by the com- mission appointed by royal authority in England, in 1639, and, finally, his unwillingness to surrender the right to join in the communion with clergymen of other evangelical sects, After resigning his office Bishop Cummins worked with a will to realize what seems to have been the ambition of his life, to be known as the modern Cranmer. He issued a circular letter to his Episco- pal brethren of the Church, calling a meeting to or- ganize a new church on the basis of the Prayer Book of 1785. He writes: — “The chief features of that book, as distinguished from that generally used, were: “1, The word ‘priest? does not appear in the book, aud there is no countenance whatever 10 the errors of Sacerdy- talism, “2. The ba tismal offices, the confirmation oflice, the eate- jer for the administration of the Lord's Shpper cont sanetion of tho errors of baptixmal ro. goneratjon, the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the elements of the Communion and of a sacrifice offered by a priest in that sacred feast,’ At the first meeting, where he was elected to pre- side over the new organization, there were but seven clergymen and about twenty laymen to form the nucleus of the new church. In five years, by dili- gent and almost incessant work, Bishop Cummins had consecrated five other bishops and rallied around him ninety clergymen and a proportionately increased number of laymen. He died in the midst of his work, scarcely past the prime of his life. The graphic pictures of his domestic life given portray personal attributes of rare worth. A LIFE OF RICHARD FULLER, D. D. Sheldon & Co. have published a biography of a Southern clergyman, prominently known in the Baptist Church, written by J. H, Cuthbert, D. D., pastor of tho First Baptist Church, of Washington, D.C. The biographer states that Rey, Dr. Fulter never kept a diary or any personal memoranda, as did men like Chalmers, Guthrie and Frederick Robertson, and then diligently set about to prove the statement unfonndel. Dr, Fuller may not indeed have left, like the late Bishop Cummins, an available diary, rendering the work of his biograp! amere pastime; but the story of his career lay before the writer of the memoir like an open book. ‘There werd no mysteries to fathom, no doubtful complica- tions to disentangle, Dr, Puller’s life, indeed, seems to have proven an immunity from vicissitudes exeption- ally rare in a preacher so prominently known and at- | taining to so advanced an age as seventy-three years, Born in Beaufort, 8. C., in 1904, young Fuller early enjoyed the advantages of excellent educational trains ing nnder Dr. Brantley, who presided over the Bean- fort College, the high school of his native city. So thorough was his study that he had no difficulty, at the tender age of sixteen, in securing admission to Harvard University, and, spite of the disadvantages of months of severe illness, he graduated with honors. With the Fuller family the profession of preaching was hereditary, and it was not a matter of surprise that, after a brief career in the law in his native city, he decided to follow in the footsteps of | his grandfather and ncle, Ho was still a young man when, in 1832, baying been rebaptized in the Baptist Church, t iu a comparatively feeble state in the South, he was ordained as a recognized minister of that denomination. He was established as pastor of the old Baptist Church of Beaufort, and for ten years labored faith fully in building up a congregation that, at the end of that time, had become powerfal enough to war- rant the undertaking of a new edifice which, two | years later, was duly mpleted. The divine'’s life | seoms to have been uneventful during the first seven years of his pastorate. He won a, local reputation, specially trom his success in dealing with his col- red charges, in whom he took a deep and nobie in- forest. It was in 1839 that, in connection with # mocting of the Princo William Temperance Society, Poualily. Hy ways thas there was a cortaia grotenqie liv became involved i @ coutroversy with the Right Rev. Bishop England, of the Roman Catholic dio- cese of Charleston. Dr. Fuller wrote a lengthy and scholarly letter in reply to Bishop England, which at once drew the attention of the whole country toward him. This letter, whatever the opinion as to the justness or wisdom of its conclusions, was a mas- terly effort in controversial writing, which secured for the writer the respect aud admiration even of those who utterly differed with his views, Between the prelate and the preacher there existed the most cordial relations. With Dr. Wayland, the author of “Moral Science,” Dr. Fuller measured weapons in a controversy on slavery. The distinguished philoso- pher appreciated the abilities of his opponent, while disagreeing with his views, and he once said to the Rev. Dr. Chapin that he would give all his learning and philosophy to be able to preach as Richard Ful- ler did, Early in the year 1846 Dr. Fuller accepted a call to build up the leading church of his sect in Baltimore, and for thirty years he remained a leader among Baptist divines, associated with this church and the new congregation that sprang up under his minis- trations in that place, It was in January, 1851, that Dr. Fuller, who in the controversy with Dr. Wayland had been accepted as achampion of slavery, made an eloquent plea for the liberation of the slaves at an eventful meeting of the American Colonization Society, at which Henry Clay presided. In his peroration Dr, Fuller said:— If something cannot be done nothing will save this country from the agitation of the slavery question and from civil—I put my finger to my lips; I can- not go on, I cannot look at it, Icannot speak it; but I see it, I see it, that nothing will save this country from the agitation of the slavery question and from civil conflict. * * * Llove my country. wilt my whole heart. I can say with the Roman, “Would that I had a hundred lives to give to my country!” [love this Union with my whole heart. May God spread over it the banner of His protection! But much as I love my country, I love man even more, and it is as the highest achieve- ment of philanthropy that colonization has my de- voutest prayers for its success. In this light it has dignity, it has grandeur, transcendi! the language of thought. Its end is the noblest which can be pro- posed by any human mind. During the war of the Union, while remaining true to these sentiments, Dr. Fuller personally aided friends upon both sides impartially. Among others he procured a pardon for General Elliott, one of his own relatives, in command of Charleston Harbor dur, ing the memorable siege. The account given of the condition of the defeated rebel at this time is one of the most touching incidents recorded in the book. He had been wounded in the siege and his left arm was paralyzed, and here he was now living in a pre carious way at Port Royal, within sight of the rich plantations once owned by his family, toiling cheer- fully with oar and line to secure the bare moans of support. And yet he could write unrepiningly to his relatives:—"An occupation not very aristocratic, but quite in the legitimate apostolical succession.” The work of the biographer has evidently been labor of love. Dr. Fuller was an impressive preacher and a truly good man; but it is tobe doubted whether the world will agree with Rev. Mr. Cuthbert's eulo- gium of his subject as a preacher who must rank with the foremost of any age. MBE. FROTHINGHAM'S SERMONS. The latest volume of sermons by Rev. O. B. Froth- ingham has just been published, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, under tho title, “Visions of the Future, and Other Discourses.” The contents, like those of other volumes by the same author, are largely of the nature of comparisons of the old faith with what, for want of @ really distinc- tive titlo, is called in some quarters the new, faith. In these sermons there is much to admire, enjoy and retain, as there always is in the utterances of an honest critic; but as any reader familiar with the |. pulpit work of the day and the leading beliefs of the faithful turns Mr. Frothingham’s pages he will mar- vel to see how ignorant an intelligent man may bo of what is going on in his own neighborhood, particu- larly if a sort of armed neutrality exists between him and those with whom he once fraternized. “Life as a Test of Creed,” which is the titlo of the first sermon of the collection, has been preached thou- sands of times andin thousands of ways in New York churches, both Roman Catholic and orthodox Protestant, while the religion of humanity, which Mr. Frothingham nobly and persistently urged, is preached every Sunday in many churches from texts which were the most earnest injunctions of Josus, and from the greater text which is found always in the life history of the founder of Christianity. ‘THE MODEL PRAYER.” The Bev. George David Boardman, D. uthor of “The Creative Week,” has put forth a series.of nine studies of the Lord’s Prayer (D. Appleton & Co.) with an appendix and notes. The book is an ex- haustive treatise upon its fruitful theme, and although many will disagree with the writer in his conclusions, few will gainsay his profound stady of his subject or question the sincerity of his views as presented. A summary of the topical headings of the studies will best convey the scope and charac- ter of the author's treatment of his work:—1. “Our Heavenly Father.” 2. “Our Father's Name.” 3. “Our Father's Kingdom.” 4, “Our Father's Will.” 5. “Our Father’s Bread.”” 6, “Our Father’s Forgive- ness, 7. “Our Father’s Temptation. 8. “Our Father's Deliverance.” 9, ‘“‘Recapitulatory.” The chapter on temptation is one of the most original and striking interpretations of the significance of this line of the prayer that has been presented. Altogether the book is one that will have more than @ passing interest. “SIGNING THE CONTRACT.” One of the recent offerings in the list of new pub- lications of Dodd, Mead & Co. is # sensational novel by Martha Finley. Its title page bears the motto from Shakespear ‘The web of our life is of a mani- fold yarn, good and ill together.” The enterprising authoress evident!y regards this text as justifying the manifold yarns she has told with no especial deftness or skill under a caption that affords her more than reasonable latitude for the narration of a harrowing anecdote thickly studded with lurid and improbable incidents. A deserted wite, nearly per- ished from exposure, meets in her distress a philan- thropic couple, who offer to adopt her only child, » little girl, Feeling death imminent she yields to the persuasions of the travellers and signs a contract giving the child to them, Sho recovers, and, with returning strength and better fortune, devotes her- self to the recovery of her child, of whom she has lost all trace. Meanwhile the Caughter grows to womanhood, Her adopted father acquaints her upon his deathbed with the true story of her birth and tells her as be expires that she will find his will making her his heiress and the con-, tract that will give her the clew to her mother. ‘The daughter, after encountering the traditional maze of complications iucident to novels of this class, brings her quest to a successful culmination | through the accident of meeting a picture at the | Centennial Exhibition in which her mother’s face is found, Ofcourse, the picture is by the “poor and proud” young lover of tho heiress, He possesses, of course, all tho desirable information necessary tor the identification of the original of his picture, and, having led her readers through 350 pages of | reading that cannot be said to require preservation within cloth covers, she pronounces the inevitable | «Bless you, my children,” and pnts the contract in the fire, where it willdo no more harm, and where, indeed, it might have been put in the first place, without causing any serious loss to the novel-read- ing world, “MEN OF THY ‘TrIMtR.” A tenth edition of that well known manual “Men of tho Time; a Dictionary of Contemporarios, con- taining Biographical Notices of Eminent Charac- ters,” has been published by George Routledge & Hons, London and New York, the preface bearing date January 1, 1879, The ninth edition appeared in | the summer of 1875, the eighth in June, 1872, all under the editorship of Thompson Cooper, F. 8. A., | author of “Athenm Cantabrigionses” and of a very | good Biographical Dictionary, In the interval from 1872 to 1875 no less than 208 of the “Men of tho Time” died, and in the petiod from 1875 to January, 1879, not less than 342. A useful “Necrology,” at the end of the volume, gives the dates of birth and death of these individuals. In the preface to each of these purposes anew book.” ‘This statement, we regret to say is wholly unjustified by the facts, While there isa | slight inerease in the number of pages (1,054 to 1,070) editions it is claimed that it is “to all intents and | and the English articles have been brought down to date with considerable care, all other portions of the world have been inexcusably novlected. and the present edition is, “to all intents and purposes,” the" same as the preceding, save in the omission of de- ceased persons. The additions have been few, even of English names, and surprisingly ill selected, The eighth and ninth editions enjoyed the benefit of & considerable number of American biographies, very well prepared by Dr. L. P. Brockett and Mr. A. H. Guernsey. These have rarely been added to, and the only new American biography we have noticed is that of President Hayes, Some of the biographies have not been altered for twenty years, and seve: venerable campaigners have had their namss pre- served by a kind of positivist immortality for a quarter of a century or more after their earthly euthanasia, Very few of the present chief magis- trates of countries outside of Europe are to be found in this volume; we may instance as conspicuously absent the late and present Presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Chili and the Argentine Republic. Our Vice President and several members of the Cabinet at Washington are missing. A list of conspicuous living characters not found in this book includes the names of Edison, Graham, Bell, Elisha Gray, Premier Stremayr, of Anstria; the metaphysicians H. Sidgwick, 8, H. Hodgson and ¥. Hartmann; the scientists Haeckel, Clausius, Men- dcleef, Du Moucel, Cailletet, Pictet, Janssen, Jeblochkoff, Werdermann, Paul Bert and J, H, Glad- stone; the theologians, Knenen, Tiele, Cheyne and Robertson Smith; the historians J. R. Green, 8. R. Gardiner, James Gairdner, Dr. E. Guest and Max Duneker; tho poets Symonds, Dobson, W. B. Scott and Augusta Webster; the artists Whistler and Sey- mour Haden and in other departments Premier Tisza, of Hungary; the commanders-in-chicf in Afghanistan and Zululand; the travellers Yule and Prejevalsky, Paul Heyse, Gustave Droz, General Martinez Campos and a multitude of equal fame. ‘To sum up the merits of this unhappy Manual, one half of its “men of the time” havo no claim to such & place and should give way to a svill greater number of men of real eminence who will be sought in vain. MODERN RHYMES, It is to be presumed that Mr. William Entriken Bailey dubbed his humble offering of 100 pages of equivocal verse, “Modern Rhymes” (J. B. Lippin- cott & Co.), feeling the decided necessity that existed for some explanation of his intentions in the writ- ing of what he is pleased to call poetry. The publi- cation of such works can do no possible good, and is, indeed, calculated to work positive harm in en- couraging other amateurs to bare their literary nakedness to the public view. The title pago affords the following suggestive information in ‘“verse:”— Somo said, “We'll print ity” others satd, “Not so.” Some said, “It might be good;” others said, No.” “We'll” should have heeded the advice of tho “others.” It 1s invariably prudent to do so in all such instances, Mr. Bailey, we should judge from the above specimen and other similar effusions in the book, had gained his experience in verse princi- pally as the composer of sentiments on bon-bon lozenges, which, from our earliest day, we have seen lettered crosswise in carmine ink upon discs of pink sugar. But perhaps we are wrong. He has also turned his mournful lyre to obituary strains, as wit- ness his lover's lament for Maud:— Bug yet he cannot, cannot deom, ee otherwhere for aye; To conquer sorrow is to seem Thee back some future day. LITERARY CHIT CHAT. Miss Helen M. Stanley, who translated ‘‘Philo- méne’s Marriages,” is a New York young lady who has made her home in Paris. Sho lives with a friend, a Boston lady, who married a French nobleman. These two ladies give receptions every Thursday afternoon, at which Henry Greville is always to be found, Busch jismarck,” which has received extended notice in the Hxratp from the German edition, will be published in this city by Charles Scribner's Sons at an early date. The translation was made in Eng- land, where it will be published by Macmillan & Co. The friends and admirers of Mr. Bret Hurte, says the London World, propose to entertain him at a public dinner, in recognition of the delight which his admirable humor and pathos have afforded to thousands of English readers, and to bid him wel- come to this country. The date has been fixed for Saturday, the 15th of March; the chair will be taken by the Earl of Rosebery. Jeff Davis’ autobiography, which has been in course of preparation for a number of years and an- nounced at various times for publication, will, we are assured by Mr. Davis, be ready in August. Mr. Davis has promised to have all his “copy” in by June. He isaslow writer at best of times, but is doubly careful with such an important work. The death ot his son and the yellow fever scourge in the South have been the immediate causes of delay in tbe publication of this book. Another Southern book that will be published by D, Appleton & Co, is “Destruction and Reconstruc- tion: Personal Experiences of the Late War,” by General Richard Taylor, of the Confederate Army. General “Dick” Taylor is better known abroad than almost any of the Southern generals. He is an in- timate friend of the Prince of Wales and other men of rank. It is said that he pitches into everybody and everything in this work, which will be published about the 5th of April, both here and in London. D. Appleton & Co. will shortly publish the ““Fairy- land of Science,” by Arabella B. Buckley; a new. edi- tion, entirely rewritten, of “Cooley’s Cyclopmdia of Practical Receipts,” in two volumes, and, in the “Health Primers,” “Personal Appearance in Health and Disease” and “Baths and Bathing.”” The author of “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye’’ and other novels of the Rhoda Boughton school, Mrs. Helen Mather Reeves, recently sent her photograph to her New York publishers. It represents a pleasant look- ing young woman, of some twenty-five summers, arrayed in a white dress and wearing flowers at her throat and belt. She is not at all sentimental look- ing, 48 her stories would lead ono to believe, but has agood everyday English face. R. Worthington has made arrangements with Little & Brown by which he publishes a special edition of Bancroit’s ‘History of the United States,” with stecl plate engravings. The third supplement of Watts’ “Dictionary of Science,” making the eighth volume, is announced by Mr. Worthington, This volume will contain a record of scientific improvements from 1875 until 1878. A second edition of 10,000 copics of Dr. Charles 8. Robinson's “Spiritual Songs” has been published, ‘The book contains all the standara lyrics, with their recognized music, together with new hymus and tunes ot the day excellently and conveniently arranged. A number of important announcements are made by Harper & Brothers. Among them are:—From Egypt to Palestine,” through Sinai, the Wilderness and tho South Country, observations of a journey made with special reference to the history of tho Israclites, by S. C. Bartlett, D. D., LL. D., president of Dartmouth College, and lately profestor in the Chicago ‘Theo- logical Seminary, with maps and illustrations; ao new edition of the Waverley novels, in forty-cight volumes, fully illustrated and handsomely printed, and “How w Get Strong and How to Keep Strong,”” by William Blaikie, of the Harvard crew. Tho next volume in the series of English men of letters will bo “Daniel Defoe,” by William Minto, All the boys and girls will want to read what Mr. Minto has to say about their favorite author. Manudaley’s “Physiology of tho Mind” is to be re- viewed by ©. M. O'Leary, M. D., Lin D., of Man hattan Collegg, in the American Catholic Quarterly for duly. ‘The first two volumes of Gladstono’s essays, under the title of “Gleanings of Past Years” are published by Charlies Scribner's Sons, The first volume con- tains several essays on the Prince Cousort, beginning with an address delivered soon after his death, The remaining essays come under the head of “Consti- tutional.” ‘The second volumo 1s classified as per- sonal and literary, and consists of reviews of several of his best known contemporaries. There will be four more yolames in this series, which is printed in handy volume size and sold at alow price, Mr, Gladstone is very particular about the printing of his books, and reads his proofs with the greatest care. He wants them well printed, but not too handsome, for he insists upon the price being small, #0 that their circulation may be large. He looks more for quantity than quality in his readers. As everything he writes is read by high and low ho | gets both, The essays in these volumes cover a period of thirty-six years, “years,’’ he says, “emi- nently anxious, prolific and changetul.” Mr. Alien Torndyke Rice, the young editor of the North American Review, although @ Bostonian, is an Oxford man and was classmate of some of the most distinguished of the new generation of English writers, “Locusts and Wild Honey” is the title of a new book, by John Burroughs, announced by Houghton, Osgood & Co. A new book by this author is like a burst of sunshine on a cloudy day. Mr. Burroughs lives on a farm up the North River, and knows more about out-ol-doors than any man since Thoreau, He is plain apd simple in his manners and habits, and one would sooner take him for a farmer than a man of letters, He is both; and knows as much about crops as he does about books, Philip Gilbert Hamerton has got # new novel in his head. Mrs, Ole Bull has been trying her hand at translating from the~Norwegian, and has given to American readers “The Barque Fortuno; or, Life in the Far North,” which introduces one to the manners and customs of Scandinavia, _ E.C, Stedman may write a life of Bayard Taylor and he may not, He is, however, thinking about it favorably. Alifeof Admiral Farragut by his son Loyall Far- ragut will be published in the fall by D. Appleton & Co. The book will contain the letters and diary of the late Admiral from his entrance into the Navy at the age of ten years until his death, and promises to be as interesting as it is important. Arrangements have been made with D, Appleton & Co, by Houghton, Osgood & Co., whereby the latter firm will publish the complete edition of Bryant’s poems, uniform with their household edition of the poets. The Southern States will be celebrated in verse in the next volume of “Poems of Places,” edited by Mr. Longfellow. Houghton, Osgood & Co. announce & new edition of their popular Satchel Guide to Europe. o Roberts Brothers publish a volume of “Canterbury Chimes; or, Chaucer Retold for Children,” by Francis Storr and Hawes Turner. The tales are simplified and told in prose. ‘The idea is a capital one, and will Put these delizhtful tales within the reach of many who would otherwise go through life without know- ing anything about Palamon and Acite, Gamelyn, Canace or Constance. The woodcuts are taken from the Ellsmcre mapuscripts, and aro given in all their characteristic grotesquenoss. Lecky writes to his American publishers that he will not have the next two volumes of his “History of the Eighteenth Century’ ready before 1881. Mr. Vincent Ball, assistant in the Geological Sur- vey ot Indis, is engaged upon a work descriptive of his fifteen years’ travels in India, Anbrey de Vere has in press @ volume of poems entitled “Logends of the Saxon Saints.” James Gairdner, the distinguished historian, has been appointed by the Master of tho Rolls to edit the historical manuscripts of the reign of Henry VUL, a task begun by the late Rev. J. 8. Brewer. General Trochn has written o work on French Army in 1879.”” Mr. Browning is about to publish a voiume of “Dramatic Idyls.”” : Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. will issue in eight monthly quarto volumes, “The Hundred Greatest Men” of history, and the introductions will be writ- ten by Messrs. Froude, Matthew Arnold, Max Miller, Helmholtz, Ernst Curtius, Taine, Rénan and R. W. Emerson. It would be curious to know what has been the principle of selection. Probably no two educated men could agree on more than seventy-five per cent of such a list. Emilio Castelar will lecture next summer before the University of Oxford on “Spanish Literature in the Ninetcenth Century.” He will speak alternately in French and Spanish, “The NEW BOOKS RECEIVED. Bir Gibbie, A novel. By George Macdonald, LL.D, J. B. Lippincott & blishers, Philadelphia, ‘Lord Strahan. A novol. By Mra, Wildrick. J.B. Lip. mpirauf the Second Century; or, the A) e. By W. 8. Oapos, Mc A. Two. maps. A pincott & Co., publishers. ‘Tho Roman er opebeiae His ‘of Aniorican History; with n by John Austin Stevens; Mur Bari Ublishors, New York. The Dramatic Works of Moliero, rendered into English. By Henri Van Laun. A now edition, with a prefatory + momoir, introductory noticos and notes. "Illustrated with inctoen engravings on steal. from paintings and do by Horace Vernet. Desoune, Johaunot and Hers jn threo volumes. E. Worthiugton, publi york, Krik’s Guide to the Turf. Part 1. Record of races ran in the United States and Canada. Earnings of all stallions and their progeny, with tndox: Owners und their Colors; sellers and bookmakers; weights carried, tc. published by H. G. Crickmore, No, 35 Park ok manac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Finuneial and Political, for tho Year 1870, ' Edited by Ainsworth R, Spofford, Librarian of Congross, Published by the American News Company, New York. Education as «Science. By Aloxandor Buin, LL. D. D. in Race. A letter to a D.D. D. Appleton & Co. pub- ‘andy—Volume Series.—Thomas Carlyle: His Life, His Books, His Theories By Alfred H. Guernsey. Fairy Talos: Their Origin und Meaning. with some account of dwellors in Fairyland. By John Thackray Bunce. D. Ap- pleton & Co., publishers. BOSTON BOOKS. By ©. 8. Henry, “aT A HIGH PRICE,” A NEW NOVEL—A FLOOD OF ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bostox, March 8, 1879, The first of the spring novels, “At a High Price,” by E. Buerstenbiuder, will be published in the Cobweb Series by Estes & Lauriat in about three weeks. It is a cleverly told story, in which the prin- cipal interest contres about a stern, arbitrary man, genet misunderstood by those about him and Jivin; der the stadow of ® supposed treachery towaré the friends of his youth. He is the governor of a province and rules it despotically, unloved and unloving, until his ward, his former wife's niece, comes to live with him, and then he gives his whole heart to her and wins hers in return. At the very moment when he becomes assured of her affection he is torced to leave her to fight a duel which he has himself provoked, becauso in it he sees the only means of vindicating his honor, and he dies, leaving the women that he loves to merry the man who caused his disgrace and downfall. The story is rather French than German in its style, and is one of the best that this author has published under the pen name of E. Werner, Tho subordinate characters are defined with suflicient clearness. One of them isa young girl, who would be anun and ends by being the wife of a “liberal,” who teases her into marrying him. ‘There is a rea- sonable probability that some of the good persons alwayr on the lookout for evil will find it in the pro- posed marriage o* the hero and his wife's niece, but this happens to be one of tho alliances not forbid- den by any law, human or divine, odd althongh it seemn. Next Saturday ten more novels aro 40 come, but none of them are new, five belonging to @ new illus- trated library edition of Dickens and five to a library edition of the Waverley Novels, to be issued by Houghton, Osgood & Co, The former are to be illus- trated with the original Englixh pictures, the latter by two steel engravings in each volume, A “popu- lar” edition of the holiday “Unele Tom's Cabin” will appear to-day, with all the pictures, and tho introduction and bibliography that were used in the holiday publication, but without the fed line bor- dering the pages. The “Household Bryant,” con- taining the complote works of tho late post, wifl also bo issued to-day, and “Gay's Pootical Works” and “Montgomery's Poetical Works” in the Riverside edition, Next Saturday | the fourteenth volume of the English and Yoroign Philowophical Library will be published. Its title is “Color Sonso; Its Origin and Develepment,” by Grant Allen, Roberts Brothers have nearly ready “Wild Life ina Southern Country,” by the author of “The Gamekoeper at Home,” and will follow it by anew edition of “The Epic of Hades,” and of Morris’ Sigurd, the Last of the Voleungs,” Stuart Sterne’s “Ange is to go through o new edition, the first having been exhausted, Lee & Shepard will bring out “Cobwebs,” Mra. Elizabeth P. Goodrich's operetta, next week, Tho spoken passages that connect the songs in thin little trifle are in just the right vein of fun for children, and the pieces would be very good for Christmas en- tertainments or for the amusement of children at any time of the year. “Resurgit,” edited by Mr. Frank Foxcroft, is an elegant volume of 962 pages, bound ina style that makes it a suitable book for an Easter- tide gift, and unique in connecting Easter hymns and nothing else. The editor in his prefatory note ways that no part of his search for material has boon so disappointing as that which led him among the hymn books, and his collection contains very little drawn from that source, Tho book has on index of first lines. af authors and of translators, so that reference to it is easy, The hymns are arranged chronologically under the head of the language in which they were originally writ- ten, and brief biographical notices of the author of each are furnished ; and as the writers of some of the best hymns are little known these are often valua ble, The text has been carefully purified from the blunders introduced by the persons whom Mr. Fox- croft calls the hymn menders, and in cases where two or three translations offered themselves for choice great care has been used in the selection, Dr. A. P, Peabody, who writes the introduction, takes the op- portunity thus afforded him to affirm the doctrine of the resurrection as forcibly as possible, and suys that even were the Gospels lost or disproved there yet o2- curred, beyond a doubt, in the century to which they relate, intellectual, moral and social developments and changes which can be accounted for only by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. The only other coming book is “Head Gear, An- tique and Modern,” edited by R. H. Wadleigh and illustrated with pictures of styles of headdross,{begin= ning with Egypt in the days of tho Pharaohs aud ending with modern Paris, FINE ARTS, HAMERTON ON CONTINENTAL PAINTERS. Philip Gilbert Hamerton writes in the Princeton Review for March an able and well considered article on “Continental Painting at Paris in 1578,” He opens with Meissonier, of whom he says:—‘From his earliest manhood Meissonier has been a suc- cessful artist, and during the last ten years his pieces (an evident misprint for prices) have equalled those of the most celebrated old = masters.” Of his — “Cuirassiers—1807,” itis said “The picture, though skilful, observant and conscientious, is not a great work of art; it is simply a piece of very remarkable industry.” In his “Philosopher” Mr. Hamilton thinks he was really animated by an artistic motive. “Gerome is another painter whose reputation has nothing to gain and much to lose.” His ‘Eminence Grise” was “the most interesting and dramatic” of his exhibits. “It is really not possible to imagine how the sub- ject could have been more skilfully treated. The dramatic conceptian of the scene 18 simply complete,” ‘he gleam in the es ot his “The Lion’ ‘is not simply light, but fire.” P. Parrot’s “Galatea” is spoken of next and as being well colored, . Jean Paul Laurens would have been a less successtul painter if he had been @ colorist, * * * won @ splendid pos tion by his intellectual conception of his subjects. From the somewhat lugubrious paintings of Laurens “tit is a cheerful change to’ pass to the pleasant comedy of M. Vibert.” Vetter’s Mazarin’ “ig a beautifully painted interior, as highly finished as a Gérome, with better coloring, and | the pathetic interest of the subject touches all human- ity.” Critics: wand artists are taken to task for sneering too much at Toulemouche-and Bouguereau, “The objection, and the only objection, 1 should make to Bouguereau is that he says Hamerton ideal- izes certain subjects, especially rustic subs jects.” * * * “In all these teed (those ex- hibited) o gracetul and highly refined. conception is sustained (Aen rtnt which is absolute perfection in its kind, utiful drawing and beautiful paint ing together, to which, in background decoration of stone and marble, the artist adds the severer task of an architect.” Hector Loroux’s world is a pale world. G. Morean’s painting, in general effect, is something between jewelry and feathers. Juies Breton’s reputation wag certainly increased by his nine exhibits, _Corot's “rather nereased one's sense of the master’s quali ties, which were chiefly a dreamy charm and a care- ful attention to tonic values,” Courbet had ‘a real power in art and a vigorous passion for nature,” aud Daubigny, though a bad draugthsman and ‘often a heavy colorist had ‘a broud manner of painting, great simplicity of purpose and an intense affection tor nature.” Peiotse has “a very deep sylvan tecl- ing, which he expr-sses roughly, but with unques tionable power.” Ot mo Italian painting the writer says:—“The eneral characteristics aro crudity of color, an orig- inal aud direct observation of nature quite inde pendent of the old masters, and a certain playfulness which is oveasionally childish.” Pasini is said to be unquestionably the best Italian painter and De Nittus the most popular. A second article will be given. BAYARD TAYLOR. REHEARSAL OF THE DIRGE BY THE COMBINED GERMAN SOCIETIES—A PROGRAMME OF THB FUNERAL PAGEANT—THE INTERMENT AT LONGWOOD CEMETERY. T e final arrangements for the funeral honors ta take place on the arrival of the body of the late Buyard Taylor in this country were made at 3 meet ing of the Executive Committee of the German vocal societies at the Germania Assembly Rooms last even- ing. The arrangements made provide for a stredt pageant, the rendering of the dirge and delivery of a eulogy at the City Hall. The body is now on its way across the Atlantic, in the Hamburg steamer Gellert, which left Havre on the 2d inst., and will probably arrive here next Wednesday. The officers of the line have given orders that the vessel shall enter the harbor with flags at half mast, and, after the passengers have been landed, the officers and crew of the vessel, in full uniform, shall assist im lending dignity to the transfer of the remains to the civic bodies deputed to receive them, REMEARSING THE DIRGE. Before the delegates of the twenty-three singing societies who are to take part in the ceremonies held their meeting yesterday a public rehearsal of the dirge composed for the occasion was held in the large hall of the Germania Assembly Rooms. An au- dience of about a thousand invited guests listened to aud applauded its measures, ‘Lhe vocal .portion of, the work was under the direetion of Joseph Harrison and the instrumentalists were conducted by Frang Leipold. Eumund C. Stedman represented the dead Minis- ter’s family in regard to the preparations for the funeral, and Aldermen Morris, Strack, Fink, Stewart and Jacobus represented the city authorities. Com- mittees were appointed to attend to the various de- tails, and a gencral programme to be followed was drawn up. Upon the arrival of the steainer Koltes Post, ot the Grand Army of the Republic, willGro- ceed to Hoboken and escort the body to the city Hull, where it will lie in state in the Governor’s Room, ‘The building wall be suitably draped with urnin, emblems. At the City Hall the war veterans wi mount — until the transfer of the body to the pot. railway THE OBSEQUIES, On Thursday, should the steamer experience no delay, the public ceremonies will take place. The various singing socivcties, numbering 500 partici- pants, will leave the Germania Assembly Rooms at two o'clock under escort of Koltes Post and marc to the City Hail, Each man in line will dress in black and wear a white necktie, white gloves and a badge of crape on the left arm. At the City Hall tho body will be placed at the foot of the central stair- case, The public will be admitted by the rront en- trance and after viewing the remains Will pass out ab the rear. Tickets of admission have been issued, ‘They are surrounded with a heavy mourning border’ nd are inscribed as below :— AOOOLO OOM OOLOOOLELELE FO DODEDOLOLE LOLOL OOOO IEEE Bayann Trvcon's MEMORIAL. Admit bearor to City Hall, JOUN M, SCHMIDT. POROLOROLEOEIOLOSOLE TELE DE DEUDIOROLE EE: ‘The dirge will be rendered in the open space im front of the building, the police authorities having agreed to turnish aiorce of 400 officers to keep a clear for the vocalists. Upon the conclusion of this part of the programme rnon §. Sullivan, standing at the head of the staircase, overlooking the will deliver the eulogy. After this the publie at large will be admitted to view the remain TRANSPORTATION TO KENNETT SQUARE. On the tollwwing morning the body will be re- moved to the Ponusylvania Railroad ort of the same organization which will receive it m the steamer, A special car for the family and sar relatives hax been provided by the Phile delphia and Baltimore Central Railroad, and the train wili leave Jersey City at nine A, M. Lt will rive at Keunett Square, Chester count few hour: ride trom Philadelphia, early in the afternoon. At this place is “Cedar Croft,” Mr. Taylor's country seat, and near it ix Longwood Cemetery, in the fam- ily plot of whieh the body will be buried, Tho ser- vices at the cemetery will be conducted 4 the Rey. Dr. Furniws, of Philadelphia, assis by Mr, O. B, Frothingham, of this city, of whose church Mr, Taylor was & momber, and also by the Rev, HL N, Powors, of Conn, The pallbearers will be eight in number an will be selected from among Mr. Taylor's literary associates, Mr. George H. Baker, of Philadelphia: Whitelaw Reid, Richard H, Stoddard and Edmun CG. Stedman are already chosen. Four more remain to be selected. In the homestead at “Cedar Croft” Me. Taylor's parents still reside. They celo- brated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding last year, Curds of adinission to the City Hall to wit ness the civic ceremonies will be distributed to the triends of the late Minister's family at store of G, P, Putnam's Sons, in Fifth avenue, and also at X, C, Stedmu five, No, 80 Broadw FUNERAL OF JAMES W. GRAVES, ‘The funeral of James W. Graves, the well known sporting man and politician, which took place yes terday from his late residence, No, 45 Marion street, ‘was attended by @ large number of persons. The body was enclosed in an ebony casket, mounted in silver and covered with flowers. The pallbearera were Thomas P, Walsh, Patrick Hayes, John Greet J. Dwyer, J. Connors, Patrick Kelly, D, Rielly an Henry Jacobs, About ono thousand citizens form a procession on the sidewalk and secompan! ro mains as far a4 the Twenty-third Street Ferew. body was interred in Calvary we