ing the judiciousness of her advice about bringing up children, about books and dress: By all means curb her [her god-daughter] if she is too forward in giving her opinions, a conceited man or woman is abominable, but a conceited girl is insupportable. Mrs. Clayton and I had a furious argument about reading books of a bad tendency; I stood up for preserving a purity of mind, and discouraging works of that kind; she for trusting to her own strength and reason, and bidding defiance to any injury such books can do her. The vanity and impertinence of dress is always to be avoided, but a decent compliance with the fashion is less affected than any remarkable negligence of it. For the entertainment of her sister and friends, she often described the costumes worn on great occasions, and as a sample of fashion, here is that of the celebrated Lady Huntingdon, at a royal "birthday :' Her petticoat was black velvet embroidered with chenille, the pattern a large stone vase filled with ramping flowers. . . between each vase of flowers was a pattern of gold shells, and foliage embossed, and most heavily rich; the gown was white satin embroidered also with chenille, no vases on the sleeve, but two or three on the tail; it was a most labored piece of finery, the pattern much properer for a stucco staircase than the while the Elder Edda presents the Odinic faith whole Teutonic race. Thus enthusiastically introduced, the work, which contains more than has ever before appeared in English, and all that is of any importance except to the Scandinavians, awaits the reader. A "Foreword" and If any fault is to be found with these two volumes, it is that there are too many descriptions of clothes; one is oppressed with them; and some of the letters which merely express sentiments of friendship might have been left out without loss, and so might many of the rather pedantic notes of the English the number of fifty pages, a glossary, and editor, who repeats herself a great deal. an index, so that the book is very complete, The index is provokingly incomplete; for and as satisfactory in arrangement as it is example, the name of Lady Huntingdon in mechanical execution. The general reader does not appear in it at all; and although there is an anecdote about the Duchess of Marlborough, it is impossible to find it by any reference to the list. The portraits show two noble faces, that of Mrs. Delany, from an original by Opie; and one of her sister, Ann Granville (Mrs. D'Ewes), from a drawing in crayon by Mrs. Delany herself. THE YOUNGER EDDA.* THIS has made his home in this country, Hjalmar venerate the institutions of the past - a patriotic appeal being made to Prof. Anderson's own countrymen not to forget the religion of their ancestors. The Younger Edda contains the systematized theogony and cosmogony of our forefathers, captain_had gotten the ship full he wanted to stop the mill; but no matter how he worked and no matter how he handled it, the mill kept grinding as fast as ever, and the heap of salt kept growing larger and larger, and at last the ship sank. The mill stands on the bottom of the sea grinding this very day, and so it comes that the sea is salt. CURRENT FICTION. lin." [Henry Holt & Co. $1.00.] Probation. By the author of "The First Vio Young Mrs. Jardine. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." [Harper & Brothers. $1.50 and 15c.] Figs and Thistles. By Albion W. Tourgee. [Fords, Howard & Hulbert. $1.00.] The Twins of Table Mountain. By Bret [D. Appleton & Co. 30c.] Di Cary. By M. Jacqueline Thornton. [D. A Gentle Belle. By Christian Reid. [D. Appleton & Co. 50c.] A Mysterious Disappearance. By Anna Catherine Greene. [G. P. Putnam's Sons. 50 cents.] Through Winding Ways. By Ellen W. Olney. [J. B. Lippincott & Co. $1.25] Women's Husbands. $1.00.] [J. B. Lippincott & Co. « Afterword" accompany "The Fooling of His gaze never left Adrienne, and the longer had slumbered in his mind throughout these he looked the deeper became the charm. There years of toil and striving, a latent, dormant ideal of loveliness, purity, and fitness for worship, and touched the keys, that the door of Heaven was it was as though when Adrienne's fingers opened, and a ray, falling on her fair head, pro claimed her his soul's dearest wish. He had no time to ask how to regulate it; Mrs. Craik's last story has a continental he went to his ship as fast as he could, and when episode, but is chiefly English in its scene, he had gotten some distance out upon the sea, being occupied with the quiet history of an he got his mill out. "Grind salt both fast and ordinary family. "Young Mrs. Jardine" is salt, and that with all its might. When the a very lovely person, strongly marked with The Younger Edda. By Rasmus B. Anderson. well," said the captain. The mill began to grind Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. $2.00. dignity and grace, and of pronounced religious character, whose career becomes interesting because of the unreasonable opposition shown to her by a worldly-minded and ambitious mother-in-law. Roderick Jardine had always lived the commonplace life of his family, until Silence Jardine crossed his path, with her unconventionality. She was the fulfillment of all his dreams, and for her he gave up everything, even the regard of his mother, who cast him off, and would not be reconciled to him until the birth of a grandchild awoke again the maternal sympathies and once more united all hearts. The story is one of this author's purest and best, and will deeply interest every lover of her writings. Readers who have enjoyed Edward Eggle ston's excursions into the land of Roxys and Hoosier Schoolmasters will like Judge Tourgee's Figs and Thistles; which is a story of life in the Western Reserve, told with quite as much careful attention to realistic detail and faithful reflection of rough and rollicking character as works of this class are usually to be credited with, and with rather more literary ability. And we must confess that it has often made us laugh, in spite of our tastes and principles, which are steadily set against slang and profaneness and coarse dialect, however true such touches may be to the life. Such books have a function in preserving local traits that are fast disappearing with the changing landscape; and they are choice food, we very well know, for certain palates; though for our part we prefer fiction of a different quality. covered no special object in the book, be- but there is little of that reserve of power, that suppression of color, that artistic self-control, which marks true work in this difficult line. The author has tried to be intense, and she has too often narrowly escaped being absurd. In Di Cary we have a delineation of the We are confident that Miss Greene, if she fortunes, or misfortunes, of Southern life at will give herself time to plan with deliberathe close of the war, during the period of tion, and to elaborate with pains and care, reconstruction. The scenes are natural and reducing her outlines and toning down her lifelike, and the general effect is good. We colors, has the faculties which will enable have said Southern life; we might better her to produce a work in her chosen field of have said Virginian, for it is the Old Do- a very high order of merit. But she must minion which mostly furnishes the material. subject the results of her imaginative and The tone of the author is enthusiastically constructive skill to tests which in the presloyal to the genius of Virginia, but the spirit ent instance she can hardly have stopped to and temper of the work are excellent through- apply. out, and we have observed none of those lapses from good taste which are so common in such tales. Its literary merit is above the average, and leads us to hope that a longunworked field is not much longer to lack the attention it deserves from those best qualified to do it justice. A Gentle Belle opens in Florence, with an English gentleman dying, leaving a pet daughter behind him. Her life the story follows through the usual variety of joys and sorrows, to a happy termination. She has, in some respects, a marked personality, with a strong mind, and very cultivated tastes, and the development of her character under discipline is the author's leading motive. There is always a catastrophe in Miss Olney's stories, so far as we remember, and there is one in this, her last, Through Winaing Ways; but its ending is better than common. The interest does not flag at all, though we have found ourselves giving a sigh of relief at its turning out so well. There are some unhappy things in it, but the characters are generally noble, saving the one exception of Georgie Lenox, who is as heartless a girl as we remember ever to have met with in fiction, and who grows into as heartless a woman. Three stories are bound up in the volume entitled Women's Husbands, all of them having appeared in Lippincott's Magazine. There is nothing remarkable about any one of them. CURRENT POETRY. The author of The Leavenworth Case has succumbed to the temptation which besets every author of a first successful novel, namely, of producing a second too soon To the readers of magazine verses, a Pretty much the same we feel disposed to after. It is reserved to the few great gen- new volume by Mrs. Piatt [Dramatic Persay of Mr. Bret Harte's last book, a "Little iuses of literature to write two or more great sons and Moods. Houghton, Osgood & Co. Classic" only outwardly, which takes its books in quick succession. In her first Miss $1.25] needs little introduction. One of title, The Twins of Table Mountain, from Greene did show a good deal of talent, of a the poems which it contains, “A Wall the first and most considerable of the five peculiar and uncommon kind, and gave prom- Between," appeared in a late number of stories it contains. One of the five, indeed, ise of an even greater success in a second. the Atlantic Monthly; and another, "De"Views from a German Spion," is not a We do not like to consider her second, A nied," in a late number of the Youth's story at all, but a little sketch of some things Mysterious Disappearance, now before us, Companion. The peculiar excellences and German as they struck the author at his as a fair specimen of what she can do. It defects of her verse are easily recognized in present point of observation. The other of is hardly worthy of her. It has interest, of all her work. Rarely does one find among the two Germanic contributions to the book, course; all mystery has interest, and that is contemporary poets an equal depth and in"A Legend of Sammstadt," is a story prop- one great advantage which the writer of fic- tensity of feeling, or superior tact and delier with a farcical turn. As for the rest, Mr. tion of this class always enjoys. The atten- cacy in the choice of subjects. Her expressHarte chooses his scenes and figures from tion of the reader is secured at the out- ion, too, is often forcible and always terse. Pacific coast sources, and they are of the set. But it will not do to rest satisfied What could be better in this respect than same old sort; picturesque, striking, im- with simply stimulating curiosity by mys- these lines? pressive in what appeals to the eye, but low, terious manipulations of golden hair, bits often vulgar, and sometimes offensive to one's better sense. Still there are good hearts under rough skins, and Bret Harte can help us to see them if anybody can. As the tree falls, one says, The sun and stillness of its leaf-green days, of calico, and creaking windows in old tumble-down Vermont houses. Miss Greene has undeniable constructive power, but a more unnatural and improbable situation, or Her dramatic power is also unusual, and Mrs. Annie Edwardes's writings have series of situations, than she lays before the compares not unfavorably with that of modnever left a very definite impression on our reader in this book, it would be difficult to ern English masters whom she seems to mind, but we remember nothing of hers imagine. Here is its defect. Truth is sac- have studied. To Robert Browning she apwhich has pleased us more than Vivian the rificed in the attempt to produce startling pears most deeply indebted, but she has copBeauty. It is the simply-told story of sim- effects. No real characters of the sort pre-ied him more closely than could be wished. ple life in a German castle, with little Jeanne, sented would talk as these talk, and one's her tutor, and the housekeeper for chief reason revolts—at least ours has, over and figures. "Vivian the Beauty" is an Eng- over again, at the train of circumstances used lish actress, one of a party subsequently in the development of the plot. The conditions certain cases her thought is completely introduced upon the scene. We have dis- of the melodrama are pretty much supplied; | beclouded by a dexterous use of parentheses, Her verse betrays too much of that affected obscurity which becomes more and more a marked characteristic of his writings, and in 66 dashes, and marks of interrogation. "A "This is the house. Come, take the keys. With satin sandals, fit alone To glide in air, she touched the stone. A thing to fade through wedding lace, From silk and scents, with priest and ring, Floated across that earthly place Where life must be an earthly thing. As a grammatical curiosity we notice Mrs. sometimes it is hard to follow her. Her young reader. The book is profusely illus- Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, And when a snowflake finds a tree, I'll rest, and call my comrades here." In The Street Singer, by a musician [F. Her Lover's Friend, the initial poem in Nora Perry's little volume [Houghton, Osgood & Co. $1.50] is written in the form of a soliloquy. The speaker finds himself W. Helmick. $1.00], we have what the struggling with an unconscious affection author calls " a poem," but what might more which has sprung up between himself and a justly be called a story in verse. It has betrothed maiden, and finally overcomes the more of sentiment than of true poetry. The temptation to his honor by the strength and versification is often faulty, and there are no purity of his love. The same sad tone of flashes of poetic light. The story is of an disappointed hope breathes through much of unfaithful husband, of his afterward penithe book. "From a Convent" and "Lady tent victim, and of a forbearing and forgiving Wentworth" betray it in a large degree, wife; with the duty of charity to the erring while it reaches a tragic climax in "Barba- for its moral. The whole might have been ra." "The Rebel Flower" first appeared told just as well in prose, if told at all, so in A Masque of Poets, and was then accred- saving the labor of putting it into rhyme. ited by the critics to various authors, includ- Poems by Henry Abbey. [D. Appleton ing Bayard Taylor, if we remember aright. & Co. $1.25.] This is apparently another of Of the shorter pieces, "In Extremis," "In the volumes, so common in this departthe Dark," and "Prophecy" may be named ment of literature, which are published on as the best, though even these are little the author's account. Mr. Abbey is more above the level of the average magazine ethical than poetical. He is didactic, and poetry. Miss Perry has a certain lightness what he writes is written to point a moral and ease of style, but the subjects she rather than as an irrepressible expression of chooses are slight, and her treatment shal- thought and feeling which can find an outlow and diffuse. The very smoothness of let in no other form. her verse is a dangerous, almost a fatal, gift, and she might well learn from Mrs. Piatt the art of terse and vigorous expression. Idylls and Poems. By Anna Maria Fay. [G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.] This little book of a hundred pages contains a variety of verse, ranging from snatches and refrains addressed to "Young Friends," to the real idyll of truly Tennysonian dimensions and shadowiness. The author, we should say, has been a diligent reader of the best poetry, and has not studied in vain; but she needs a greater definiteness and precision of purpose. As it is, she takes us too much into that mystical region where it is the fashion of some master poets to abide, and CHILDREN'S BOOKS. A few Christmas books for children remain awaiting our attention. The Serpent Charmer, by Louis Rousselet, is a well-written, subdued, but thrilling, tale of the famous Sepoy Rebellion in India, the country which this author knows so well, and of which he has already given us such brilliant and attractive descriptions. The "serpent charmer," who is the hero of the volume, is instrumental in saving a young lad and his sister from a cruel fate at the hands of the natives, and their strange and exciting adventures during a very trying experience are narrated with great skill, and in a way to fascinate a Moyr Smith's peculiar style. There are - Nimpo's Troubles, by Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, is a capital book for girls, depicting the character of a little girl who thought she could get along without her mother, and found out that she made a great mistake in so thinking. It is especially good reading for any child who exhibits symptoms of too. much independence and a restive temper, and is written in a charming style. [E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25.]-Two companion books are Oliver Optic's Going South, and Mr. Shillaber's Cruise with Captain Bob, the one an account of a yacht voyage from Detroit down through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, and by the Atlantic coast, to Florida. And the other, an old salt's yarns to a company of boys gathered about him, full of the romance of sea and shipwreck. [Each by Lee & Shepard. $1.25.] MINOR NOTICES. The History and Poetry of Finger Rings. By Charles Edwards. [A. C. Armstrong & Co. $1.25.] Mr. Edwards rings many changes upon a subject which may be said to be endless. Starting off with a preface by R. H. Stoddard, the book is divided into five chapters under various heads. These are again subdivided into innumerable accounts, historical, fabulous, and poetical, of all noted rings; from the ring of Suphis, who lived two thousand years before the time of Christ, to the comparatively modern one presented to our late President Pierce by some citizens of California. The book is a very interesting one from the varied scraps of historical facts interwoven into the subject, as well as the occasional gems of poesy one finds amongst the rings. In the first chapter we have, in connection with a ring Talk not of gems, the orient list, The jewel she, and the foil they, She hath-a-way Anne Hathaway, To shame bright gems Anne hath-a-way. An interesting feature to many will be the space devoted to precious stones. The author gives an alphabetical list of them, with their French names, and a sort of cal endar with the stones, and their influences, corresponding to each month of the year. Then, too, we have a full list of the superstitions connected with the various gems, and their influence upon the wearers. Altogether the book is replete with information upon the subject, and full of gossipy stories of historical personages as well as of their rings. Causerie. From the Boston Evening Transcript. [Roberts Brothers. $1.00.] The French say causerie, but the reader must not mind it. It's only a way they have. If they had had a good English education, they would say chit-chat. Causerie and lingerie go together in the Boston young woman's vocabulary. And as the evening Transcript is the Boston young woman's paper par excellence, there seems a peculiar propriety in giving the title of Causerie to the dainty little paragraphs on men, women, and things with which the columns of that estimable journal have been graced of late. A selection of them has now been gathered into a tasteful booklet, quite worthy of a place among the choice volumes of any well-regu lated family. The author of these editorial waifs is understood to be no less a person never guesses the medicine he is taking. One leading characteristic of the book is its "Yes," observed a friend, the other evening, "she certainly is very highly cultivated, she is very stylish, plays well, sings well, talks well, dances well, and rides well, and succeeds admirably in private theatricals. In fact," he added, "she is just one of the kind of girls you'd like one of your friends to marry." "Then you wouldn't care to marry her?" "By no means, my dear fellow. What I am looking for is a real nice girl." Great Authors of All Ages. By S. Austin Allibone. [J. B. Lippincott & Co. $5.00.] Dr. Allibone, now assistant librarian, in charge of the catalogue, of the Lenox LiKing. [Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. public by his useful series of works in EngThe Egotist. Essays of Life. By Henry T. brary, New York, is best known to the $1.50.] Here is a very original book, rugged lish literature, comprising (1) A Critical with native power, unpolished like a block Dictionary of English Literature and Au of granite fresh from the hills, with many thors, in three volumes; (2) Poetical Quotacrudenesses of style and some grammatical tions from Chaucer to Tennyson; (3) Prose errors, but thoughtful, serious, frank, uncon- Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. To ventional, and suggestive, in a marked de- this series the volume before us is an addigree. The author, whom we judge to be a tion. It is an octavo of moderate thickness, Philadelphia lawyer, maintains no reserve made up of prose extracts from toward two with his readers, but takes them at once hundred authors, all of whom the compiler into his fullest confidence. He tells them includes under the general description of how his book came to have its being in "great." The "greatness" is certainly relthe reflections which have occurred to him ative rather than absolute, and if some of while sitting at his desk, which he wrote those included belong of right in the list, down just as they occurred, without any we do not exactly understand the omission What constitutes the "greatattempt to make an orderly arrangement of of others. them. Originality has been lost," he re- ness" of an author? The number of his marks, "in bad imitations." "The world books, their quality, or the acknowledged does not need books made from books." He fame he has attained? In the main the 66 It very truly says: "If the writer has no selections here are judicious, but there are thoughts, no experience, no views of his some commonplace names for such a comown to give, if he has nothing to tell of what pilation. The volume seems to differ from he has seen and felt, let him be silent." the third in its series in giving much longer This is good advice, and we think that extracts, and fewer of them, and in classijudged by it Mr. King's book deserves to be. fying them not according to topics, but One always takes up a volume like it with a apparently according to their time. good deal of distrust, lest he should get his is therefore not so truly one of quotations, mouth full of tasteless platitudes and stale in the ordinary sense of that word, as it is age than Mr. Wm. A. Hovey himself, the commonplaces. But this is distinctly not of samples, so to speak, capable of giving veritable editor of the Transcript, who has that kind of a book. We recognize its gen- the reader an idea of each author's style. A varied the onerous duties of his position by uine quality at once. Its title does it injus- short biographical and bibliographical sketch throwing off from day to day these entertain-tice; it is not egotistical in an unpleasant precedes the extracts from each. The book ing paragraphs, which fall from his pen as sense at all. The author admits us to the is very well made and is thoroughly indexed, airily and gracefully as the crisp and curling place he occupies, and asks us to look at life as of course it would be, coming from Dr. shavings from the turner's lathe. None of as he sees it. His opinions are pronounced, Allibone's hands. the topics touched-they are only touched and are colored with much of his perare very important, but then one does not sonality; but, as he says, "to be of any use look for, nor even ask for, importance in in this world, you must be an egotist." Some lightsome work of this sort. He wants to be of his sentences are worthy of being written entertained a moment at a time, just as he on the heart. This for example: picks at a plate of nuts and raisins, and sips his sherry after dinner. And yet, Mr. Hovey is a truer preacher and a better moralist than some of the theologians. He is full of anecdote and reminiscence, but he makes every item tell in pointing a duty or illustrating a truth. And it is all done with so much good nature, with so pleasant a smile, and in such a merry tone of voice, that the taster until he has measured the full capacity of a Or this: of those you have, and brings no others. And this: vited to take a front seat will see the play from SHAKESPEARIANA. [EDITED BY W. J. ROLFE, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.] Mutilated Quotations. We have received the following note from C. M. Ingleby, M. A., Hermeneutics, or the Still Lion, and as the editor LL.D., well known as the author of Shakespeare of Shakespeare's "Centurie of Prayse: The protest (vol. x. No. 23. p. 362) is amply justified by the lazy habit of slip-shod quotation. But the protestor and corrector should himself be accurate : for quomodo ipsas correctiones corrigentur? Unfortunately the beautiful lines from Burns's Tam O'Shanter are marred by oneline as blemish. He could not have written such a Or like the snow-falls in the river, Or like the snowfall in the river, thus avoiding the cacophonous zin, and binding all the syllables in one graceful and harmonious rhythm. I proceed to note a few of the more disastrous instances of misquotation which I have met with in modern literature. In Russell's Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti, 1858, p. 213, we read: The starving meal, and all the thousand aches Which patient merit of the unworthy takes. Was this meant as a quotation from Hamlet, or what? Again, in John Stuart Mill's Examinations of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy, 1865, p. 39, he quotes, as from Hamilton's Discussions, p. 13, a line from Paradise Lost, book iii, with an error into which Hamilton did not fall: "all we know, is known as— Won from the cold and formless infinite," "cold" being an error for "void." Somewhat later in the same work Mill quotes again from Paradise Lost, and also with an error: Cycle on epicycle, orb on orb. miss the exact words of the passage, but he could For the benefit of readers who may not be For contemplation he and valour form'd. Reports on the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878. It is prepared by skilled workmen in the different branches of fine manufactures it represents; among these are pottery, terra cotta, glass in all its forms, ornamental iron work, plaster work, jewelry, watch and clockmaking, furniture, iron and steel, woven fabrics, etc. Horticulture, printing, mechanical engineering, the making of Mr. J. Crosby calls our attention to the fact machine tools, agricultural implements, and that Milton's To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new (Lycidas, 193) is almost invariably quoted: other branches of industry, are included in the list.- The Hogarth and Rubens recently brought out in the series of "Illustrated Biographies of Great Artists," are among the most interesting volumes yet issued, and are especially attractive To the Shakespearian misquotations we may in their illustrations.- Sala's Paris was in such add Lowell's (Among My Books, p. 185): There is a willow grows athwart the flood, for There is a willow grows aslant a brook demand that the importation was at once exhausted and many orders left unfilled.—A pamphlet containing Notes by Mr. Ruskin on Samuel Prout and William Hunt contains some of the (Hamlet, iv. 7. 167); and John Weiss's (Wit, latest and most striking art criticism by Ruskin, Humor, and Shakespeare, p. 81): Dost thou not suspect my ears? In the Churchman's Family Magazine, July, for Dogberry's 1865, p. 62, the line: To unwind all thy harmony, is said to remind one of Milton's Untwisting all the hidden strings Whereas the couplet in L'Allegro is: Untwisting all the the chains that tie, In the Sunday at Home, September, 1865, p. 552, we have a curious misquotation from the Two Gentlemen of Verona: Making sweet music to each little sedge Giving a gentle kiss to every sed e In the Quarterly Review, January, 1873, the sapient reviewer quotes from Antony and Cleopa tra the amazing lines: Age can weary her, nor custom tire "wither" and "stale are, of course, the words Once more, in the Times, November 4, 1873, in a report of Mr. Gladstone's speech at Edinburgh, that great statesman is made to quote from Paradise Lost the ridiculous line, the first man, remember, being the subject: For contemplation and for valour born! We print Dr. Ingleby's note precisely as he has written it. The article that suggested it was not ours, but we fully agree with him that "the protestor and corrector should himself be accurate." And now shall "the enginer" be "hoist with his own petar " Whether our friend's Latin is a quotation or not, he is too good a scholar to have written "ipsas" unless by a slip of the pen. He doubtless meant to write ipsa, or else to use an active verb; but in a case like this he should write what he means to write. Dost thou not suspect my years? (Much Ado, iv. 2. 79). There is no authority and ears. The “moral" is, Be careful in your quotations, and beware of trusting to memory; and be particularly careful when you are correcting other people's misquotations. NEWS AND NOTES. -J. B. Lippincott & Co. will soon contribute to pastoral theology a 12mo volume by the Rt. Rev. Gregory Thurston Bedell, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio. It is entitled The Pastor, and has for a motto, "Experientia Docens, Docet, Docuit." -M. & H. Burgheim, of Cincinnati, have recently brought out a number of new publications; two of which are German almanacs for 1880; two more are of local interest, one being an album of views of Cincinnati, the other a guide map of the city-A work of fiction is called Leisure Hours, and they also issue the Poems of Fred Hassaurek. - Sheldon & Co. are to bring out The First and academies. Particular attention has been - Scribner & Welford have a very attractive pocket edition of Dickens in thirty 16mo volL'Alleumes, printed in clear type. Each set comes in a tasteful little book-case in the form of a box with two shelves and "chapel" doors, covered with cloth to match the binding of the volumes. The line from Paradise Lost, viii. 84, he only The price, $16, is reasonable, and a more accept Again, he miscorrects the couplet from gro, the second line of which should be: The hidden soul of harmony. half corrects: Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. We suspect that the quotation in the Quarterly Review (we cannot look it up at this moment) reads, "Age cannot weary her," etc, unless the omission of the not is a misprint. One might and is of great interest. It was called forth by a loan collection of drawings on exhibition in London, and contains some of his most telling utterances. -The Memoirs of Prince Metternich, if it fulfills the expectations awakened, will be one of the most important publications of the coming year, and a valuable contribution to the history of the time of the first Napoleon. The Prince Metternich of that day, from his connection with politics and his residence in London, Berlin, and Dresden, had opportunity to know the inner workings of diplomacy, and to view the questions of the day from several sides, and thus is able to cast considerable fresh light upon the career of Napoleon; so much, in fact, that his relatives were enjoined from making use of the papers he left ready for publication until after the expiration of a certain time. This date being passed, the book is now being made ready. It covers the important years of 1800-1815, and contains an autobiography edited by a son of the writer and prepared by a grandson, the present Prince Metternich. It will be published simultaneously in Germany, England, France, and America; Charles Scribner's Sons having it here. - - Charles Scribner's Sons have in press two works by college presidents; a treatise on The Emotions, by Dr. McCosh, and Dr. Woolsey's work on Communism and Socialism. Dr. Robinson will have a book for Bible classes, and Bible readers in general, called Studies in the New Testament; and Dr. Marvin R. Vincent a volume of sermons under the title Faith and Character. All these will probably be ready in January. -The Life of Alexander Duff will not be ready as soon as expected, as there has been some delay in the preparation of the second volume. It will, however, appear early in the year, brought out by A. C. Armstrong & Son, - Modern Thinkers, Principally Upon Social Science; What They Think, and Why, by Prof. V. B. Denslow, is the new volume Belfords, Clarke & Co. have in hand. It is illustrated with portraits, and has an introduction by Ingersoll. able present could hardly be found. They also -G. P. Putnam's Sons have made arrangehave complete in twelve volumes the new series ments to issue two new editions of Irving's of Tales from Blackwood, that are always in works, the "Spuyten Duyvil Edition," which will demand. A thick octavo volume that will ap- include his humorous and lighter writings, and peal to cultivated artisans and to lovers of fine the "Geoffrey Crayon Edition," which will le work is called The Society of Arts; Artisan complete, and will be brought out in handsome |