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PHE DAILY %ki: DECEMUER 20, 'S0, LITERARY NOTES. WOVZN ON THr FFONTII R—By William W. Fowler, M. A. C. B Leach & Co., Chicago, Is NICK PUTZEL, or, ARTHUR GURNEY'S RUIN—Ey George Kochler. C, B. Beach & Co,, Chicazo, Lls. TH+ TRIALS OF RAISSA—A Russian love story by Henry Greville, 1 vol., paper cover, ‘5cnts Peterson & Co. THE INTERNA(IONAL REVIEW — A, 8. Barnes & Co. We have received a copy of Woman on the American Frontier, a volume of great interest, containing an au- thentic history of the heroism, adven- tures, trials, privations and noble lives and deaths of the mothers of the re- public. This book aims to present to the reader in an attrrctive and endur- ing form a faithfal record of the mem- orable lives and works of the noble pioneer women of our history. Itis written in the happiest style ot the suthor, who I8 widely known as a writer of distinguished ability, emi- nently hited for such an undertaking. The book, which contains over 500 octavo pagee, will be sold by subscrip- tion only. Cloth, $2.75; gilt, $3.25, The same firm of publishers, Meesre. C. B. Bead & Co., also fur- nish for review a volume entitled, “Nick Putzel, or Arthur Gurney’s Ruin.” Thie volume gives a graphic picture of the inns and outs of politi- cal life, and in” narrative form shows the devices and frauds practiced by adepts in the art of political wire ulling. It will well repay perusal. rice $1.50, ““The Trials of Raiesa,” a Russian love story, by Henry Greville, pub- lished by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, is a love story full of fascination and power, the more felic- ftous and interesting because out of the common track. Henry Greville bas written many love stories, but none more absorbing, natural and ef- fective than this. The scene is laid in Russia, where Henry Greville is most at home, and the action tskes place in St. Petersburg, the country and Siberla. Thc descriptions are ad- mirable, and the reader is given a number of exceedingly picturesque pen sketches of winter and winter scenery in the dominions of the czar. The plot is well conceived and capital 1y developed. Raissa is one of Henry Greville's best- drawn characters, and no one can fail to be toucked by her sorrows, her trials and her loftiness of purpose. Indeed, s a picture of pure and up- right womanhood, Raissa stands un- rivalled. Count Valerien, Sabakine and Resof are aleo vividly sketched, while the coquettish Princess Adine and the old servant Fadel are notably felicitous creations. “The Trials of Raisgp” has special charms for ladies, whowill find its thorough discussion of & woman’s heart peculiarlyinteresting. Everybody chould read it. The task of translation has been excellently ferfnrmed by Mary Neal Sherwood. t is published in a large square duodecimo velume, paper cover, price 75 cente, in uniform style with Peter- son’s editionsof ‘‘Dosia,” ‘‘Saveli’s Expiation,” “Lucie Rodey,” Marry- ing off a Daughter,” ‘‘Philomene’s Marriages,” ‘“‘Presty Little Countess Zina,” “‘Sonia,” ““Gabrielle,” and “‘A Friend,” by Henry Greville, and will be found for sale by all booksellers and newsagents, and on all railroad trains, or copies of it will be sent to sny one, to any place, at once, on their remitting 75 cents in a letter to the publishers,T. B. Peterson & Bros., Philadelphia, Pa. The International Review was be- gun in 1874, by A. S. Barnes & Co., on a broad and generous basis, with the intent of collecring into it the best thought of the writers of more than one nation, and making it serve as an organ of intercommunication be- tween all English-speaking people. Begunas a bi-monthly, it was pres- ently changed tc & monthly, and has lately been pushed with greater wvigor thanever. At first edited by one of the firm which published iz, * * * the editorial charge has heen assumed during the present year bytwo Boston gentlemen—Mr. John T. Morse, a lawyer, whom a foriune has relieved him from the practice of his profession and Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, one of the younger graduates of Harvard, who have done some excellent literary +work in our own columns amoug others, and isa stalwart young pol- itician, capable of becoming a stares- man, and likely to be heard from in the political hereafter. Edited in Boston and published in New York, The International seems to be striv- ing after an uncommon combination of literary and commercial resources. It has certainly printed much good matter, and has done not a little to introduce English and Continental writers to American veaders. A little vacillation in its earlier numbers tn the direction of lightness, indicat. ing a trifling infirmity of purpose, has been replaced of late by a positive and progressive intellectual character. Mr. A. D. Anderson, suthor of ““The Silver Country, or the Great South-West,” has prepared a brief narrative of all efforts since the time of Cortez to effect inter-o#nic tran- sitacross the Isthmus of Tehuante- pec. The book will be published at nn‘ce);y 'A. Srf Bum}a- & Co. ‘Most perfect ofj juvenile maga. zines” is what The D‘el,er't “ree P:gru calls St. Nicholas. Its growth in England is keeping pace with its suc- cess in this country, and the English Papers are as unanimous in i its beauties as the Amexicng";:-:gzt The" *‘wonderful Christmas ngm. ber,” just issued, the first edition of which is 105,000, is a grandly illustrated holiday book of one hundred pages, containing, be- sides its capital Christmas and ’fuiry stories, nm_i original pictures by the best American artists, the first chap- ter of two splendid seeriale—one, a story of the adventares, in the Amer. ican tropics, of a party engaged in the cn_ptnradnf whxld suimals for a menag. erie, and a humorouns i ai. ter Johnson. eenl iy e A yex‘r’- subscription to St. Nicholas is a holiday gift the influence and joy of which is felt twelve times a year. The North American recently” do- clared, “Tt would puzzle any one to say in what respect St. Nicholas could be improved.” Sub- scriptions beginning with the beanti- fu} Christmas (December) number will commence the two serials men- tioned. Price $300 a year. The | Christmas pumber is for sale every- where for 30 cents. Published by | Seribner & Co., 743 Broadway, New York. RELIGIOUS. At the close of the war there were but two Congregational churches in the south. Now there ara 73. Pennsylvania’s charitable socleties will receive under the will of Mary Shields, of Philadelphia, $875,000. A Sunday movement in Switzer- laud has been the means of changing the market day from Sunday to a week day. Mr. Cyros H. McCormick has given in all to the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago the sum of $200,000. . The northern and southern Presby- terians of Louisville joined in Thanks- giving services for the first time since the the war, last month. There are 639 Baptist churches, white, in South Carolina, with 55-, 183 members, or one member to every seven in the population. Of the 639 churches only 21 haye been preaching every Sunday. The total of contributions for missions the past year was less than §15,000. The gifts already made by Mrs. Valeria G, Stone, of Boston, out of the estate left by her husband, to &3 and endow colleges and seminaries in this country and in missionary fields, amount to more ythan $800,000, be- sides $700,000 to churches, relatives. and friends, and various objects of charity. The Episcopalians of St. Louis are fully committed to the theatre. Their charches clubbed together lately, hired a theatre for a week, paid the manager thy salary of the players, selecting, of course, a moral play, stirred up their friends to patronizs the play, and at the close turned over the profits to the local charity for the sake of which this new departure was made. Thethirteeuth anniversary of Meth- cdist Freedman's aid societyihas just been held at Cincinnati. The secreta- ry Dr. Rust, reported that the year past was the most prosperous in the history of the soociety. More money was collected, more well-tralaed grad- uates were sent out from the schools, and larger additions were made to the echool property than in any previous yeer. The grossincome was $104,376, and the debt wae increased to §22,- 738, of which §13,412 is in the form of aspecial loan. The net receipts were $90,287, an increase of $15,- 126. A London paper says: ‘‘When.ver a member of the royal family is buried, a fee for ‘breaking the ground’ of £250 is demanded by the Dean and Chapter gf Windsor, although not an inch of ound’ is disturbed, but merely a %Bne taken upin the cenire of the choir of St. George's Chapel, which gives entry to the pas- eage leading up to the royal vault or ‘tomb-house,” a spacious chamber, to which the Queen has recently paid more than one vistt. Many years ago, when the Lord Chamberlain happened to be a rigid Presbyterian, (a member of the free kirk.) he pos- itively refused to pay the exorbitant burial fee, and contrived to delay the psyment until more than a year had MUSICAL AND DR;MATIC. Miss Ada Cavendish will play in New Orl-ans next week. McCullough’s receipts in New York have aversged $7000a week. Hermann will be attraction at Mc- Vicker’s following Mr. Jefferson. ‘“Michael Stronghoff,” the latest Parisian spectacle, is to be presented at Booth's theatre in January. Lester Wallack plays “Rosedale” at Haverly’s Brooklyn theatre, after his engagement at the Grand opera house in January. Grau’s French opera company is doing an immense business in Havana. Paola Marie’s recent benefit drew over $4000, *“Widow Bedot” will be played at two different theatres in New York early in February, Burgess runing one and Manager Haverly the other. Mies Emma Von Elner, a sister of Mile. Litta, the well-known cantra- trice of Bloomington, has commenced a course of musical studies under an eminent teacher. A. M. Palmer closes at Union Square on the 1st of May, and he will build a theatre near Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue before Octo- bernext. The German singing societies of Chicago have appointed a ways and means committee to fix upon a popular plan of raising the $40,000 required to meet the expenses of the North American Sangerbund, which is to be held in this city next June. Bernhardt leaves Boston after two weeks, in a palace car for Montreal, stopping one day at Burlington, Vt., and on her return she plays one night at Springfield, Mass.; also Hartford and New Haven, passing through New York without stopping. . Miss Van Zandt, the favorite Amer- ican prima donna, was presented in London with a very beautifal floral tribute by several of her transatlantic admirers. It was made to represent the American flag; the striprs were composed of red roses and white li- lacs, the blue field was made of violets and the thirty-eight stars were made of white lilacs. Mary E. Geistenger, the great German actress, left Hm;zbnrg ngr:eha 19th, appearing at the Thalla, New York, on January 3, in ‘“La Grand Duchess:” She will play the same on alternate nights, all in German. The manager of the Thalla forwarded lt)%ohar at Hamburg, last week, $20,- J. W. Crawford, (““Captain Jack” of THE Bek) has quit the business of Irun:ier t‘;)eatricals, and is now chief scout and prospector ‘for the ¢ and Placer Pr(i R Association,’ of Denver, Col. Jack is is in receipt of the fat ealary, of 200 per month, and has forty men under him. This is much better than barn- storming. A paper recently read before the French Academy of Science concern- parts as Bernhardt, and ‘opera bouffe | pecting and Mining | | ing the changes likely to take p'ace in the hum:n voice in the cours: of centurics, casures Tae Now Yors | Times t» say: *‘The girls of th-fu ture will have a voice like that of Carl Formes in his best days. Sae w1l no longer whisper her love, but will growl 1t 1n tones that will sugg:st the mattering of distant thunder. The silvery 1 ugh of the school girl of the preseat will give plice to the deep diapason of the ‘tee hee’ of bass - voice 1 girle, and the shriek of the frighrened woman who sees a mouse will be as the sound of Niagara when the tu- malt of the hackmen has .empora:ily ceased.” Air Engines for Streetsana Raliway *. The London Times says a prac ical experiment has been made with an air engine at Woclwich, wiich so far affords hope that before long humani- ty and economy may be promo:ed by the abolition of tramway horses, anu that the sufferings cf travelers by the underground railwaya may be mitigat- ed by the substitution of atmospheri- cal power for sulphurous locomotives propelled by steam. The engine, which has been designed by M.j Beavmont, Royal engineers, has becu for some time running on the short lines of the Royal Arsenal,Woolwich, and although weighing but ten tons it bas proved capable of hauling a baorden of sixteen tons up a fair in- cline. Arraugements were made to try its powers in a more exiended run, such as engines of the kind would haveto encounter on London tram ways and rails, The air reservoir, which contains only 100 feet of cubic alr, was charged at the torpedo pump ing-house in the royal arsenal, Wool wich, up to a pressure of 1,000 pounds to a square inch, and with this store of energy it was prcposed torun to and from Dartford, about sixteen miles, Maj. Beaumont was accom- panied on the engine by Mr. C. S. Sears, Assistant Superintendent Southeastern Railway, and several other gentlemen, atd explained the methods which he had adopted in his iovention, the chief feature of which was the introduction of an slmost imperceptible sapply of steam, by which the air, as it is admitted to the cylinder from the reservoir, is largely heated, and, as a matter of course, greatly increased in force. Tte engine is driven by six cylinders and a double set of machin- ery at one eund, and, having no smoke stack, resembles in appearance a loco- motive tender rather than a locomo- tive. It runs on four wheels, and in size is less than an ordinary omnibus. It left the Royal Arsenal station at 12:22 p. m., with a full chargeof 1,000 pounds to the inch, passed Abbey Wood station at 12:27 p. m., with 940 pounds to the gauge; Belvedere at 12:93, with 860 pounds, and Erith at 12:36, with 760 pounds, arriving at Dartford at 12:50, with a remaining energy of 540 pounds on the square inch. Shunting at the station reduced this pressure somewhat, and at 1:36 the return journey.commenced with a store of 510 pounds. Although the minimum for effective working is con- sidered to be a pressure of 200 pundss. Primstead Station was reachsd again at 2:10, but the engine was pumped out, having a pressure of barely 80 pounds remaining. The strange look- ing engine, running without steam or any other apparent motive power, was regarded with amusing wonder by the country people as it passed at full speed, and was naturally an object of unosual interest at the various rail- road stations. It was stated that an- other engine is under conetraction much more powerful, capable, in fact, ofitraveling doubie thedistance with a single charge. The operation of pump- ing the compressed air occupies about tifteen minuces, and it is ca’culated that an air engine on this_principle, asflarge as the usual steam locomotive of fifty tons weight, would be consid- erably more powerful than any loco- motive yet made. The objection to steam that it frightens horses can not apply to this system, as thereis no es- cape of steam visible or audible, and the only noise to be distinguished is a rumbling eound something similar to the rattle of street traffic. The gen- eral belief of those who witnessed the experiment was that the application of atmospheric. power to the science of traveling was a thing of the near fu- ture, —— A Sorrowing Dove. A year or s0 ago a little girl living near Rathboneville, New York, a village on theline of the Ene Rail- way, was presented with a pair of doves. One day, three weeks ago, they were flying across a railway track, when the mule bird came in collisicn with the smokestack of the Pacific express, which passes the spot about 7 o’clock in the morning. The bird was killed by the shock and in- stantly thrown out of sight of his mate. The female circled about the spot for a few minutes, in evident amazement at the disappearance of her mate. She then flew to a mile- post near by and for a long time gave utterance to the m urnful notes char- | acteristic of a dove. Sunddenly she seemed to realize what had carried the mate from her sight, and she rose in the air and flew swiftly in the direction the train had gone. She did not_return until about noon. She alighted at her cote, where she remained the rest of the day uttering her plaintive cries. Next morning, just before 7 o'clock, she was seen to fly away and take a position near the spot where she last saw her mate the day before. Wheun the express train came along she flew at the locomotive, hovering about the smokestack and around the cab as if looking for her mate. She accompanied the locomo- tive for a mile or 8o and then returned to her cote. Every day eince then she has repeated this strange conduct. She goes to her lookout for the train at precisely the same time each morn- ing and waits until the train comes along no matter how late it may be. 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