sons of Yorkshire.- Mr. C. Staniland Wake is about to put to press an essay of some importance on The Classification of the Races of Mankind. The scene of Mrs. Leith Adams's new novel, Aunt Hepsy's Foundling, is laid in New Brunswick. A second edition has been promptly called for of Mr. Wheatley's book on Pepys and His Times, of which we wrote at some length in our last issue. Mr. Elliot Stock is preparing a fac-simile reprint of the original edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, using the Huth copy.-W. Davenport Adams is at work on A Treasury of Modern Anecdote. CURRENT FICTION. The Trials of Raïssa. By Henry Gréville. Tr. by Mrs. Sherwood. [T. B. Peterson & Brothers. 75c.] The Chevalier's Daughter. By Lucy Ellen Guernsey. [T. Whittaker. $1.50.] Thump's Client. By Charles D. Knight. [Authors' Publishing Co. $1.50.] Love and Life. By Charlotte M. Yonge. [Macmillan & Co. $1.75.] Ego. By Harry W. French. [Lee & Shepard. $1.00.] All of Madame Durand's novels which we have read depict a struggle between the worst and the best in human nature, and give to the noblest sentiments a triumph at the end. To this general character her latest work, The Trials of Raïssa, offers no exception; but neither the plan of it nor its proportions allow the good to stand in quite such commanding an antithesis to the evil as is to be desired. Moreover, the evil is so very evil, the incident on which the story turns is so shocking, and the developments out of it are so strange, not to say unnatural, that it is hard for the later and pleasant impressions to drive out the earlier and more disagreeable. Certainly the tale has the merit of originality. A pure and lovely Russian maiden, of the bourgeoisie, is abducted in the streets of St. Petersburg by three half-drunken officers of the Imperial Guard, belonging to the noblesse, is carried off to a house of bad reputation, the Cabaret Rouge, in the outskirts of the city, and there in a darkened room is forced by one of them to undergo "the greatest outrage that can be offered to a woman." Late in the evening she makes her escape, and reënters her home with so tragic a wearing of her involuntary shame that her mother dies of the shock. Henceforth, her poor old father has but one object― to ferret out the villains who have wrought this wrong. The case is given to the police, but investigation is at first stifled through court influences. The picture of Pierre Porof and his daughter groping in the dark for justice is pathetic in the extreme. The friends of the culprits try to buy them off; but so humiliating an offer is indignantly spurned. The affair becomes the talk of the city; in time reaches the ears of the Emperor, and at once arouses his sympathy. He personally espouses Raïssa's cause, orders all the officers of the Guard under arrest, brings Raïssa into their presence, and enables her thus to identify the guilty three. Their estates are confiscated to Raïssa on the spot, and they are ordered to Siberia. But which is the guiltiest of the guilty? Their lips are silent on this point, and only by chance, as it seems, is the chief crime fixed upon Valerien Gretsky. The Czar directs that he marry Raïssa before leaving, and the marriage sat down in the cosy parlor of No. 8 Lunley Lane. The book is hardly good enough to be even Miss Hopkins's, but it is no novice's work. The scene is laid in London, where alone it would seem such odd materials of character and circum ceremony takes place dramatically in the cathedral. From this point on the work of the novel is to join together as true and loving husband and wife the man and woman whom circumstances have thus put asunder. The barrier of external separation, wide though it be, seems nothing as compared with the cruel uncertainty stance are to be found; and it is full of a tender in which Raïssa is left as to whether it really were and pleasant humanity, and a bright and cheery Gretsky who should have married her, and with life. Our chief criticism would be that there is the repugnance which Gretsky feels toward her too much of it. A novel needs to be very good to whom he has been compelled to give his indeed to run up to 504 pages. But it has name and his estates. But the author is equal quaintness enough to entertain the mind, and to the exigency, and succeeds in transform- pathos enough to stir the feelings. ing this unhappy alliance into a true wedlock. The consummation is effected through a heroic journey of Raïssa to Siberia for the purpose of nursing her husband, who has there fallen a prey to the pestilence. Her character is a noble one, and sustains her unfalteringly through all her "trials." We have gone thus largely into the story here in order to save our friends the trouble of reading it for themselves; a trouble which we think they need not take. Uncommon as is its form, striking as are some of its aspects, and delicately and purely as it is told, it has no such combination of excellences as to make it a necessity to the novel-reader. Anybody who has read Lady Betty's Governess will need no urging from us to take up The Chev alier's Daughter, which is by the same author. It is a story of French life in the 17th century of Christian faith under persecution. Worshiping in secret, exile, martyrdom, the fear which comes of the suffering of long-continued cruelties, the courage which is born of confidence in God- these, and like these, are the staple of the book, which has a thread of romance running through it, but derives its chief character from its historical background, and from its picture of the faith and patience of the saints in times that tried their souls. The mother of the Chevalier's daughter is a lovely woman, and so is the daughter herself, Vevette, who is an only child, and who lives to become the example of many virtues. The spirit of the tale is noble and impressive, and, for a book of its kind, it is thoroughly interesting. "Love and Life" would seem to be pretty much the same in Miss Yonge's country as in our own, and her figures are natural and modern, no matter of what "century" their "costume." Her Bettys and Harriets and Aurelias are to be met with every day—the sensible, the silly, and the beautiful. Here we have them coming home from a party to be bantered by their father about their conquests. The chief young man whom there they have met is Sir Amyas Belamour, and he is destined to play an important part in the "love and life" of one of the three. In short, not to tantalize the reader, he marries Aurelia, whom he had loved from the first, but not until both she and he have suffered much at the hands of his intriguing mother, who has some misdoings of her own to cover up. Aurelia and Sir Amyas are happy at last, but there were dark hours before the dawn. We wish American novel publishers could catch the trick of making such tasteful books as this, which is English. It is a refined beauty. An interesting preface is certainly a good introduction for a novel, and Mr. French's Ege has that. Moreover, the story itself is interesting begins well - fastens the reader's attention at once. "Self against circumstance" is the key-note of it. Such a key-note of course involves occasional minor strains, and this book has many that are very sad. It springs out of a Virginia landscape; it has suggestions of slavery and the War of the Rebellion; the "ego" is that of a boy rescued from a hard home, and led out into life to make his own way through it, which he does sometimes painfully, but always pluckily, finding at last the sunshine which he deserves. MINOR NOTICES. "Charles D. Knight," the title-page signature of Thump's Client, is confessedly a pseudonym, and we can think of nobody to whom it is so likely to belong as Miss Isabella T. Hopkins, now or lately of Portland, Maine, whose style, both of thought and expression, comes nearer to an honest and independent likeness to Charles A small volume of eighty-four pages comes to Dickens than any other American writer we us from Chicago, with the title, Unity Hymns know. Very little has been heard of Miss Hop- and Chorals for the Congregation and the Home. kins for some time. Is this story the explana- Extended notice of hymn-books is not in our tion? Whoever wrote it, it is readable; Dick-power, but we can say for this work that the seens-y in subject and treatment; of course an in- lection of its words is such as to give it rank, as vitation and not a masterpiece; but quite well done in its way, and likely to interest the average novel-reader. Thus: a collection of religious poetry, with books like Mrs. Tileston's fine collection, Quiet Hours. Many of the verses are by Whittier, Lowell, F. T. Palgrave, and S. Longfellow; the remainder dinner, relate the news, and do its best before As the Lane turned back to finish its half-eaten are worthy of such a fellowship. A novel feature four o'clock, it saw, turning the corner of the Wil- is the cutting across of the pages between the ton, a peaked hat, short coat, velvet shorts, black hymns and the music, so that any tune may be stockings, and pointed shoes, and beneath and conveniently used in connection with any hymn within all these was Isaac Harold. in the book, without holding it open in two not the Lane, and the Lane, thinking him a mere passer through, heeded not him. He walked places. A selection of chorals is offered for the directly toward the cottage, gently undid the enriching of the present rather bare form of Conlatch, closed the gate, stepped softly along the gregational services. The volume, for its literpath upon the porch, lifted the knocker with respectful firmness, let it drop and awaited a re-ary value, its chorals, and its novelty in combinply. The maid came; Miss Thump was desired. ing all the hymns with all the fit tunes, is worthy A "Come in; I will call her," and Isaac Harold of examination by all, without regard to theolog He heeded The first of these two publications, a pamphlet of seventy pages, contains three admirable addresses by a well-known Unitarian scholar, now Lecturer on Ecclesiastical History in Harvard University. In them Mr. Allen is at his very best, and no one pretending to an interest in a liberal Christianity, from within or without, can find among the publications of the day, great or small, a more significant index of the tendency of rational thought on religious matter among our most cultivated, independent, and religious minds. "Calvinism as a Force in History" is the first address. Rejecting its distinctive doctrines, Mr. Allen calmly traces their origin, shows their fitness to the times in which they appeared, justifies even the Calvinistic hostility to the Renaissance, and declares that the passing away of the system "is a very serious thing, and one not altogether, perhaps, to be received with cheers and shouting." Three great Scotch names are brought up to stand for three phases of this "very difficult question": Burns, "discarding and discarded by the austere creed that had been the glory and strength of Scotland in her heroic days," is one; Thomas Chalmers, "in religious energy, after Knox, probably the greatest son of Scotland," is the second; and "the shrewd thinker, the sad humorist, the cynical philosopher, the marvellous expounder of history, the vigorous declaimer against all sorts of mental effeminacy and self-indulgence, the despairing prophet of England's future - Thomas Carlyle," is the third. These names, brought together precisely because of their unlikeness, illustrate the thoughts that should be present to us when Calvinism is passing away. Carlyle, above all other men of this day, shows to Mr. Allen better than anything else he can call to mind, the immortal soul that survives from a body of opinion intellectually dead. Such mental virility ... confirms the hope that, while the system associated with the name of Calvin must pass away, yet the mental vigor, the moral courage, the intolerant hate of evil under all disguises, the stern loyalty to truth, will remain an imperishable possession of mankind. The addresses on "Unitarianism, Then and Now," and the "Gospel of Liberalism" are equally good with this noble paper on Calvinism, although from the nature of the case, dealing as they do with themes of present controversy, they will not command such full assent as does the first. Under the modest title of Fragments of Christian History are comprehended twelve articles by the same author, previously published in various forms, on such topics as Saint Paul, Christian Thought of the Second Century, the Mind of Paganism, the Arian Controversy, and Monasticism as a Moral Force. Their range in time is from "The Messiah and the Christ" to "The Holy Roman Empire." The short space we can give to this work is out of proportion to its value. It has the strong and winning qualities that mark Mr. Allen's later writings, and should be heartily welcomed by all who believe influence, before Pentecost among Jews and in handling these high matters of thought in a heathen, and since Pentecost among those who way that is at once free, philosophically fair, are outside the Church. The second treats of morally profound, and spiritually catholic in the His special work within the Church as her Illubroadest sense of the word. As he has treated minator and Sanctifier, and as the Source of her Calvin, so here he treats Augustine with justice Unity, Catholicity, and Perpetuity; the third and fourth lectures discuss the Spirit's influence in the soul of the baptized man, by the endowment of Hope, Faith, and Charity, and by the impartation of the Seven Gifts. Dr. Ewer's definition The same candid appreciation is meted out to of the Church is so clearly stated that we quote the Mind of Paganism as to Monasticism. and admiration : Really, it is hard to speak of Augustine's name and influence so as to avoid mere blank laudation. it: According to Catholicity, the Church consists of those bodies which, however they may differ on other points, unite as one body in bringing down to the present day the apostolic ministry in Sacraments, and in holding with consenting regular succession, in not denying the Apostolic heart the same mode of Catholic worship, and the same Catholic faith that the Church held in the first seven centuries of her existence. Self-Culture. By Rev. Dr. James Freeman Clarke. [James R. Osgood & Co. $1.50.] This is one of the wisest and kindliest books of the year. It consists of twenty-one lectures, covering the whole ground of physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual self-knowledge, self-control, and selfbuilding. An introductory chapter is devoted to the education generally imparted in school and The definition, it will be seen, is framed to incollege, showing how far it actually goes, and clude the Anglican, the Roman, and the Greek how much farther it might go by following more communions, and to regard as divinely deterclosely the method of nature, especially by mak- mined truth only that which the six great Coun ing study a pleasure, as it often may be made. cils pronounced fundamental. The passage ilThen follow lectures full of the genial wisdom ustrates Dr. Ewer's position, and gives a key to which Dr. Clarke's seventy years of serenely the interpretation of his volume. To those who active and reflective life have taught him, treat- hold a kindred faith, the book will prove helping successively such topics as Man's Duty to ful and inspiring; while the reader who would Grow ("Very early," said Margaret Fuller, “I learn the essential distinction between the Anperceived that the object of life is to grow "); Self-glican High-churchman and the Romanist will Knowledge, Culture by Reading, and Books; and find these pages candid, intelligible, and instructothers on the Education of the Powers of Obser- ive. The author's spirit is Christian and liberal vation, Reflection, Intuition, Imagination, Con- in the best sense, and, while holding firmly to the science, Affection, and Will. Throughout, the faith he teaches, his manner is neither arrogant book is distinguished by that homely inspiration of exceedingly uncommon-sense, that fullness of thought derived from large acquaintance with men and books, that complete sanity of moral and spiritual temper, that winning friendliness of style and feeling which are traits of all Dr. Clarke's writings. His book covers many important matters belonging to a full cultivation of one's best self which are usually treated in a very unsatisfactory or unwise manner by works of this general class; such as Education by Means of Money and Amusement, and the Education of Hope, Courage, and Reverence. For its breadth of view, its Franklin-like sagacity, and its more tant part of our education is, indeed, that which By the nor harsh. The Credit Mobilier of America. By J. B. Crawford. [C. W. Calkins & Co. $1.50.] In its primary purpose this is a defense of Oakes Ames from the imputations that have rested on his name since the famous revelations of 1872-3. Since those developments it has generally passed for fact that the Credit Mobilier was a great swindle, and Mr. Ames an unprincipled man, who used official position to further private interests, and was not averse to bribing his fellow Congressmen. Mr. Crawford attempts the impossible task of clearing Mr. Ames from all blame, and though, in so doing, he resorts to questionable methods of making everybody else as black as possible, yet, so far as he can reach the public, he will doubtless succeed in modifying the judg ment generally passed on the Credit Mobilier and its chief representative. At all events, as a history of the great monetary transactions grow ing out of the building of the Pacific Railroad, the book is of interest. That the railroad would never have been built without the aid of just such a corporation as the Credit Mobilier; that the profits which that corporation received from itself as Union Pacific Railroad, the stockholders in both being the same, were far less than the congressional committee claimed; and that the The Operation of the Holy Spirit. real profit of 12 per cent. was not too large for Rev. F. C. Ewer, S.T.D. [G. P. Putnam's Sons. the risk and magnitude of the enterprise, is ar$1.25.] At the request of several clergymen and gued with force. Upon the point that the rights laymen of Newark, N. J., Dr. Ewer delivered in of the government were not subordinated to the that city, during the summer of 1879, four "con- interests of the Credit Mobilier stockholders, the ferences" on the Person and Work of the Holy writer fails; since, without regard to whether Spirit. These addresses were afterwards given the government's lien were a first or second mortin Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn, and are gage, if the price paid for construction to A, B, now published under the title quoted above. & C, stockholders of the Credit Mobilier, by A, The first conference treats of the Spirit's general B, & C, likewise stockholders of the railroad, were exorbitant, the loan of the government became of less value by reason of the greater danger of its having to be repaid by realizing on mortgage securities, whose value was largely dependent on the success of the enterprise. As to Mr. Ames, the verdict of history may well be formed on a single passage in one of his letters to McComb: We want more friends in this Congress, and if a man will look into the law (and it is difficult for them to do it, unless they have an interest to do so), he cannot help being convinced that we should not be interfered with. This is not the language of a reckless briber; it is not, perhaps, the language of one who is conscious of wrong-doing; but it is the language of one who sees no wrong in offering pecuniary inducements to an official to do what the offerer considers it the duty of the receiver to do. It is a course of proceeding which will not stand in a court of honor, and which, in Lord Bacon's case, has been both excused and condemned. A Bibliography of the State of Ohio. By Peter G. Thomson. [Cincinnati: published by the author. $8.00]. It is a genuine pleasure to an nounce the actual publication of this important and valuable work, of which we gave some pre other exactly in place. The typography has every ap- SHAKESPEARIANA. EDITED BY W. J. ROLFE, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS. Messrs. Shakespearian Announcements. Antiquity as presented in Shakespeare's Plays "; also an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, with in we do not expect nowadays—if the tribute is not up to a certain reasonable mark, it falls plump from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Springfield Republican thus calls attention to a tumble of the kind in one of the December monthlies : There are two stanzas entitled "Shakespeare;" one compares him to a lark, and reminds the reader unfortunately of the song in Cymbeline, and of other poems by poets that are poets; the other is so extraordinarily descriptive that we must quote it: O poet, thou wast like a flower That opened in the sun and shower Though trodden on by careless feet, Think of the creator of Lear, and Othello, and Mr. Leighton's "Dream of Shakespeare" is "of a higher mood"—as we might expect from devoted student and lover of the poet, and the author of "The Sons of Godwin." It was a a bold attempt to bring in Shakespeare himself as a speaker, with Prospero, Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, Othello, Cleopatra, Shylock, Portia, and liminary account on page 234 of the present volume of the Literary World. Mr. Thomson is to be congratulated upon the successful comple- latter will form one of the issues of "The Parch-many another of his characters; but the result is ment Library." O that these too, too sordid sheds would fall, Its veto 'gainst improvement! Mudford! Mudford! Were Tempe to a pig-run! Blowing hence far from being the failure a critic might have predicted. True, it is not the master's hand on the reins of Pegasus, but the presumptuous rider keeps his seat in the saddle, and is not thrown headlong, like Phaethon, from his airy flight. Much that the personages say is of course like an echo of what the poet makes them say, but it is no weak and silly echo. Some of them explain themselves; as Prospero, for instance, in this address to Miranda : I am a prophecy Of what is ever in the hearts of men. Of spirits of the air, of earth, of ocean; The sovereignty of earthly knowledge,- more: tion of a task which, in motive, plan, and all the details of its execution, deserves hearty praise. As a catalogue of books and pamphlets relating Hamlet in "Punch." For some time past to Ohio, it comprises upwards of fourteen hun- Punch has been belaboring the Duke of Beddred titles, public documents being excluded. ford for the disgraceful condition of Covent Its preparation has been the work of eight years, Garden Market, of which his Grace is the owner, and the compiler has searched nearly every pub- but which he has not the public spirit to devote lic library likely to yield materials, from Boston a small fraction of his vast revenues to improvto St. Paul, and personally examined almost ing. Punch's last hit at him is entitled "Hamevery publication mentioned. It is an interest-let in Mud-Salad Market," and begins and ends ing fact that the bibliographies of only three thus: other States have as yet been published in book form, namely: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Minnesota; and it is a remarkable fact which Mr. Thomson states, that the number of titles relating to Ohio "far outnumbers any printed list of the books relating to any of the other States." But this Bibliography is not a mere alphabetical list of titles. A large proportion of the titles are annotated, some of them at considerable length, and a great amount of curious, and often of interesting and useful, information is given in the notes. The notes are nearly always descriptive, are occasionally critical, and abound with strictly bibliographical particulars. A feature of special value is the record attached to Sundry Misprints. It was curious that, many of the titles, showing the prices fetched by while the last World contained our notice of the But we must not indulge in quotations, or we works at various sales. The commercial history misprint of Viola tricolor in Mr. Hudson's edi. shall not know where to stop. of rare works can thus be traced. There is a copious alphabetical index to the volume, from which it is made to appear that the chief groups of titles fall under the heads of Antiquities, Cincinnati, Indians, Marietta, Ohio (in general), Ohio River, Presbyterianism, Rebellion, Travels, and War of 1812. Externally the work is unusually sumptuous for one of its class. The form is a large octavo, the page is open and clear, the margins are very wide, the paper is heavy and rich, the title-page is printed in two colors, and vignettes, tail-pieces, and initial letters in red increase the decorative effect. The illuminated title we do not particularly admire. It is neat and pretty, but does not seem to us It is not, but it yet may come to, good.- [Exit hurriedly. on tion of the Midsummer Night's Dream, the same Caliban, as Prospero says, is "the type of man- What greater misery than sense The Lippincotts have brought out the book in elegant style a quarto in large type and with liberal margins, and yet sold for a dollar and a half — and we know of no fitter present for a Shakespearian friend at this holiday season. Mr. Cecil Arnold's "Index to Shakespearian Thought." We have space but for brief mention of this handsomely printed octavo of more than four hundred pages, filled with quotaMr. Leighton's “Dream of Shakespeare." tions from Shakespeare, “classified under approPoetry about Shakespeare is rarely satisfactory. priate headings and alphabetically arranged.” We expect it to be worthy of its exalted theme; The work is on the whole done with commendaand although that is not literally possible-un-ble care and good taste. The headings are genless the poet were a Shakespeare himself, which erally "appropriate," though we might here and there choose a different one; fine passages are not too much cut down or chopped up, as is apt to be the case in such books; and repetitions are avoided, while frequent cross-references render them unnecessary. The book is published in London, but Messrs. Scribner & Welford of New York have imported a supply for the American market and make the retail price here $3.00. "Hamlet in a New Dress." This is the title of a short paper in The Dramatic Monthly (New York) for October, 1880, in which Mr. William W. Banger takes the ground that Hamlet was "sick from a debilitated, nerve-prostrated body, and brain weakened and powerless because worn out by overwork and toil." He shows, the writer thinks, all the symptoms of "a person afflicted with general debility.” The theory, in short, is the familiar one of Goethe, with the addition of a pathological explanation. NOTES AND QUERIES. [All communications for this department of the Literary World, to secure attention, must be accompanied by the full name and address of the author, and those which relate to literary topics of general interest will take precedence in receiving notice.] 304. Plutarch's Lives. (To "Utica.") The "best cheap, popular edition" is undoubtedly Clough's, which is published by Little, Brown & Co., in one volume at $3.00. 305. Romola, etc. (To M. L., Chesterville, Pa.) The proper pronunciation of Romola is Ró-mo-la; of Tadema, Tá-de-ma; of Haweis, Howis; of Keble, Kee-ble; and Edwin Arnold is not a brother of Matthew Arnold. Some grave their wrongs in marble; he, more just, This question cannot be answered. The poem was rare ii, 73, year 1756. OUR LETTER BOX. I hardly need assure you that I value the paper very highly for its singular merits, and rejoice in its decided success. It must be a great satisfaction to you to feel that you have fulfilled so well your promises of making the Literary World the valuable organ that it has become, and that so many cultivated people appreciate your successful efforts and the admirable spirit that inspires them. - R. Worthington's list of holiday publications is a tempting one. Leading the handsomer works comes Pompeii, its Art and Architecture, by Sir William Gell and J. P. Gandy, a superb quarto, containing seventy-six fine engravings on steel and copper from designs made on the spot. Together with the descriptive letter-press, these give an excellent idea of the exhumed city and its wonders. Researches and Excavations at Carnac is another finely illustrated archæological work.— English Pictures and Painters, with text by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, contains forty steel engravings of famous paintings, and gives a fair . . . Your journal is a literary vade mecum almost indis-idea of English art.- The Stately Homes of Eng pensable to the man of literary tastes. It is among the land, by S E. Hall and Llewellynn Jewitt, in its most welcome of my periodicals. B. S. ERWIN. new edition, with both volumes in one, will meet Mauch Chunk, Pa. with fresh favor.- Examples of Household Taste, by Walter Smith, will be attractive to all interested in industrial art, and will also make a valuable souvenir of our Centennial Exposition, as its illustrations are taken from the many beautiful articles there displayed. Bridgeport, Conn. NECROLOGY. H. N. Powers. Koch. At Copenhagen, Nov. 2, Peter Christian Koch, 73 years; a distinguished advocate of the Danish cause in 1848 and '64, whose most popular literary work was 220 Danish Proverbs. Arundell. In London, Nov. 5, Rev. Thomas Arundell, D.D., author of an elaborate volume of historical reminis Jenner. In Walner, England, Nov. 7, Rev. Stephen NEWS AND NOTES. Our readers can materially contribute to the freshness, fullness, and variety of this department of the Literary World by sending us promptly such items of news respect. 306. Poor Richard's Almanac, etc. (Toing authors and their works as may come to their imme-pected as part of the Christmas literature, and A. H. B., Hart, Mich.) This almanac, which was diate knowledge through private channels. - Hall & Whiting, of Boston, will publish, in 307. The Three Charleses. (To A. H., Clifton Springs, N. Y.) The three Charleses referred to by Longfellow in his poem "To the River Charles" are understood to have been Charles Folsom, Charles Sumner, and Charles Amory. -A. D. F. Randolph & Co. have in press a new devotional book, by Miss Anna Warner, consisting of passages of Scripture and meditations thereon, having reference to human sorrow. It begins with an allusion to Hagar, and from this takes the title What Aileth Thee? They will also issue, before the holidays, a new book, by Mrs. Smiley, called The Garden Graith, or Talks Among My Flowers, a semi-religious volume, containing many pleasant ideas suggested by flowers. 308. Toru Dutt. A young Hindu woman died about two years ago who was the subject of much remark in scholarly circles through her — D. Appleton & Co. issue Young Ireland, by profound knowledge of Sanskrit, as well as the Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, covering the decade facility with which she wrote not only in her na from 1840 to 1850, and a new edition of the Histive tongue, but in English and French. I have tory of Herodotus, in the annotated English verseen her name given as Poma Bai, and Torusion, by Prof. George Rawlinson, in four octavo Diutt. Can you tell me which is correct? Boston. The following notice of the Hindu lady to whom our Uncle Remus has already run through three edi- a periodical, makes another change in plan as correspondent probably refers is found in the Indian Antiquary for August, 1878: Miss Toru Dutt left this world at Calcutta on the 30th Wycliffe, delivered to the Bible Society at the April (1877), aged 20 years. She was a poetess of great promise, and, besides the pieces scattered in various peri- semi-millennial anniversary of the printing of odicals, is known as the authoress of A Sheaf Gleaned from French Fields. She had just obtained permission the Bible, is to be printed with the author's notes from the authoress of La femme dans l'Inde antique, or in a handsome pamphlet, by A. D. F. Randolph Woman in ancient India, to translate it, when she was overtaken by death. & Co. well. When it appears in a bound volume, it will contain articles from American pens as well as selections from foreign literature. One of these will be a paper on College Education, by Mr. Garfield, written for an anniversary address at Hiram College, some years ago. In Our People Scribner & Welford have a 309. The Monument to Boulter. Where Macmillan & Co. have another fine art book, rather unique gift-book, as we remember no can be found the "Monument to Boulter," by About Etching, with notes by Seymour Haden, other in the holiday list which appeals alone to Dr. Samuel Madden, an Irish poet of the eight-containing fifteen fac-similes of works by the old the sense of the ludicrous. It is a collection eenth century, from which, in his Dictionary of masters, with much interesting information con- from Punch, of nearly four hundred of Charles Poetical Quotations, Mr. Allibone quotes a few cerning the subject. Volumes six and nine of Keene's irresistible sketches. They are handlines, beginning: the Koran, or Qur'ân, as Mr. Palmer prefers to somely printed on the best of paper, with the titles in red lettering, and are richly bound. CONTENTS OF THE PERIODICALS. FOR OCTOBER. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF FOR DECEMBER. to him in the Place Malesherbes, Paris, where he formerly lived. — The British Chronological Association has published a work called Vox HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. A Sketch of the Life of Dei, giving an enumeration and classification of all General Andrew Porter, by William A. Porter; John Ap Thomas and his Friends, a contribution to the Early History eclipses from the Mosaic creation to the present of Merion, by James J. Levick, M.D.; Information and Direction to such Persons as are inclined to America, more time. Maieff, a Russian traveler, is about to especially those related to the Province of Pennsylvania, from the edition of 1682; Descendants of Jöran Kyn, the publish a work on Bokhara, embodying the reFounder of Upland, by Gregory B. Keen (continued); Pennsults of his recent studies and explorations. sylvania Constitutional Convention of 1776, Biographical Sketches of its Members, by Wm. H. Egle, M.D. (concluded); Mr. Ruskin is having a marble bust of himself Descendants of Rev. William Smith, D.D.. First Provost of the College of Philadelphia, compiled from the Life and Cormade by Benjamin Creswick, a self-taught sculp-respondence of Wm. Smith, D.D.; Records of Christ ChurchBurials from 1709 to 1760, contributed by Charles R. Hildetor of Sheffield, whose native talent had attracted burn (continued); Notes and Queries. the attention of the great art-critic. - M. Spasof, aided by a liberal subsidy from his government, is preparing an important work on Russian ornamental art, which will contain the fruits of twenty years of study and collection. It will be printed wholly in Russia, and will form a large folio with illustrations. Mr. Joseph Thomson is soon to give in Good Words an account of his adventures in the unknown wilds of Central Africa.- Lord Brackenbury has gone into a third edition. Mr. John W. Anderson, now or lately - A volume of poems will shortly be pub-in Colorado, is soon to publish a new volume on lished from the pen of Miss Frith, daughter of Fiji and New Caledonia, with glances at other Mr. Frith, R.A. - Gustav Freitag has finished his great work, Die Ahnen (The Forefathers), and the sixth and last volume was to appear the first of December, under the title, Ans einu kleinen Stadt (From a Little Town). Leipzig: S. Heizel. - Among the books of George Routledge & Sons the cunning Kate Greenaway Birthday Book naturally leads the list, as every one wants the dainty trifle.— The Singing Quadrille and Lancers is a quarto filled with music, songs, and bright pictures that will delight the children, and will afford hints for lively occupation for idle hours. The Little Wide-Awake Painting Book has colored and uncolored pictures in considerable variety, and small artists will take solid comfort in making the latter resemble the former. The new Caldecott Toy Book is the Three Folly Huntsmen, and is quite as amusing and artistically conceived as its predecessors. Mrs. Molesworth, who has found her way to the juvenile heart, has written for the publishers a charming story of a little girl, called Hermy. A substantial volume, for older boys and girls, that contains a large amount of condensed information on important topics, is a Popular History of Science, by Robert Routledge, which is rendered doubly useful by the many illustrations which will supplement the text. - "Academy" Notes. Prof. J. E. Thorold Rogers is rather inclined to join in the faint praise of the concluding volume of Mr. Kinglake's History of the Crimean War.-A call is sounded for an inexpensive edition of Pepys's Diary complete, with annotations by Mr. Wheatley, the author of Pepys and the World He Lived In. — Trübner will soon have ready the Life and Remains of Dr. Appleton. It is reported that Brugsch-Bey is rewriting his famous pamphlet on the Exodus. Prof. Lanzone, of Turin, has given up the plan of the publication in England of his great work on Egyptian Mythology, because of his failure to make satisfactory terms with a publisher. Dom Pedro of Brazil has been making a Portuguese translation of some of Whittier's poems. - Prof. DeGubernatis has finished his Dizionario Biografico Degli Scrittori Contemporanei, which is a very full and accurate work of its class. The friends and admirers of Dumas the elder are moving for the erection of a statue tion. islands of the South Pacific. - Lady Martin (Miss "Athenæum" Notes. The late Charles Ten- THE CATHOLIC WORLD. A Commentary upon the Episcopal Convention; The Wife of St. Nicander, Martyr, to her Husband, poem, Edith Cook; The Orcades, M. P. Thompson; A Woman of Culture, Chaps. V-VII, Irish American Colonies, Rev. Stephen Byrne; Public EduJohn Talbot Smith; Placare, Christe, Servulis, poem; cation before the "Reformation,' II, Robert Rea; Transitions of American Literature, Rev. J. V. O'Conor; My Raid into Mexico (concluded), Nugent Robinson; The Writings of Cardinal Dechamps, Rev. A. F. Hewit; Two Letters to the Rev. E. B. 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