SHAKESPEARIANA. [EDITED BY W. J. Rolfe, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.] Shakespearian References. We wonder that Mr. Gilman, in his admirable Shakespeare's Morals, thinks it necessary to give all his references in the following form: Hamlet, Act v. Sc. 2, 1. 230. Why not Hamlet, v. 2. 230? If it were within the limits of possibility that the latter form could be misunderstood, a word of explanation might have been added to the introductory "advertisement," and thus have saved the printer from setting up "Act six hundred times in the body of the book and the index. On the same page with the above from Hamlet, we find "Matt. x. 29." Why not “Matthew, chap. x., v. 29?" And why print "I Cor. i. 27," and "Second Part King Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 2, 1. 153?" Could one mistake the meaning of 1 Henry VI. or 2 Henry IV.? Sc. 1." some five or With regard to the form of the abbreviated reference, we have adopted Hamlet, v. 2. 230 (or Ham. v. 2. 230), as Abbott does in his Shakespearian Grammar. Furnivall (in the Introduction to the Leopold Shakspere, and elsewhere) prefers Hamlet, V. ii. 230; and Furness (in his "New Variorum" edition) gives Hamlet, V, ii, Abbott's form seems to us the simplest, 230. while it is as clear as either of the others. On Much Ado About Nothing.- Mr. Brae has given strong reasons for identifying this play with "Love's Labor's Won," mentioned in Meres's list. I quite agree with him; but of course I do not hold the play, as we have it, to be one of the early productions of Shakespeare. There is no doubt that it was recast circa 1599. The date of Love's Labor's Won I believe no one has hitherto attempted to determine. It would seem likely that it could not be far from that of Love's Labors Lost, which was undoubtedly 1589 in its first form. The author of Footsteps of Shakespeare has sufficiently proved this, and I have quite recently obtained independent confirmation of his statement. We should then expect Love's Labors Won to date c. 1590. That there is internal confirmation of this date in Much Ado is what I shall now try to show. From i. 1. 285, we learn that the day of the month is the 6th of July. From ii. 1. 375 (which takes place on the same day), we learn that the day of the week is Monday. Now, Monday fell on the 6th of July only once between 1584 and -1601, and that was in the year 1590. As in every instance in which dates of this kind occur in plays written between 1580 and 1640 (and I believe I have examined all of them), I do not find one inconsistent with the hypothesis that the poet used the almanac of the current year to take his dates from, I conclude that the year of the first draught of this play was 1590, and that Mr. Brae's theory is strongly confirmed by this determination of the date of authorship. The date of the revised play has been long fixed as c. 1599; a date confirmed by the fact that it is not mentioned under its new title by Meres c. 1598; a date agreeing with the theory that the "Deformed" who had been a thief these seven year was Shakespeare himself. For Greene's well-known accusation, that he purloined the plumes of others, dates 1592. May we not, then, conjecture that this play, in which allusion to the accusation is made, was in its first shape one of the plays in which Shakespeare, being a joint author, gave opportunity to Greene for paper read before the New Shakspere Society, | Play. Merry Wives of Windsor Midsummer-Night's Dream ? Macbeth . . Hamlet. Love's Labor's Won Love's Labor's Lost Titus and Vespasian Romeo and Juliet. 1. Henry VI. ? John (plot only). F. G. FLEAY. BOOKBUYING THIRTY YEARS AGO. OR books of an uncommon sort the scale of high prices had been long ruling in England. Watts traces back the beginning of it to the sale of Dr. Askew's books in 1775, and then for some time it was confined to the classics and to works of foreign literatures. In 1846, it was reckoned by the British Museum authorities that £5,000 was yearly necessary to buy the current publications. These, in the three principal languages, counting everything, were reckoned in 1848 to be 10,000 or 11,000, including pamphlets, for Germany; half as many for France, and say 4,000, excluding pamphlets, for England - no account being made of America. The Museum also asked for £10,000 more for ten years to come, as needful to enable them to fill up the glaring deficiencies of its shelves. But Watts shows how, at this time, the advance in the cost of books would prevent their doing what might have been possible thirty years before, namely, making the Museum library the "finest and completest ever seen, and perhaps finer and com pleter than ever will be seen." The effect of American competition was now beginning to be felt in the European book marts. Dr. Cogswell, who prided himself on his making a dollar go as far as any in the purchase of books, and who was not disposed to be lavish, still in his purveying for the Astor Library gave European librarians their first persistent antagonist. The Doctor is said to have brought away from these Meres's List of Shakespeare's Earlier European incursions sixty thousand volumes, at Plays. This often quoted list, to which Mr. a cost of $63,000, an average of a dollar and five Fleay refers above, appeared in the Palladis cents, and he was buying, too, the books more Tamia of Francis Meres, published in Septem- proper for a reference than for a circulating ber, 1598. The passage reads thus: "As Plau- library. He bought, however, with care, with tus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy | no haste, abiding his time; conditions favorable and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare to good bargains, but not always attending the among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love Labors Lost, his Love Labours Wonne, his Midsummers Night Dreame, and his Merchant of Venice; for tragedy, his Richard the 2, Richard the 3, Henry the 4, King John, Titus Andronicus, and his Romeo and Juliet.” incipiency of libraries. When he was asked in the interests of Boston, at the time they were hoping to emulate New York in the possession of a library, what it would cost to stock one, he replied that, for a collection of 50,000 volumes proper for a consulting library and in good binding, a sum of $75,000 would be necessary, "provided the books are bought as favorable opporSome have supposed that the "Loves Labours tunities offer;" but if bought at once, the cost Wonne" is identical with All's Well That Ends would be carried up to $125,000 or $150,000; or, Well. Rev. Joseph Hunter endeavored to prove in other words, would be nearly doubled. Most it The Tempest, which is now known to be one librarians of experience would agree to this; but of the latest of the plays. Craik, in his English it is by no means sure that the highest wisdom of Shakespeare, suggests that it may be The Tam- always attends the cheaper policy. A very difing of the Shrew, in which the words win and ferent method has obtained in the Boston Public won are several times used in a way that may Library, where it has always been held that a seem to refer to the title of the comedy. Hertz book when wanted should be got. The history berg, in Germany, adopted the same view, but of the two institutions is the best commentary on has been well answered by Elze. Fleay, in a these divergent aims. In fact, the more peremp tory policy has generally prevailed with American buyers, whether for private or public use. That it has had a tendency to raise prices is not doubtful. Thomas Rodd held that the American demand had raised prices in his day twentyfive per cent. Blade, the authority on Caxton, says that "the most successful black letter opponents in the salesrooms and book marts of Europe were for many years Americans or their agents." We do not forget, meanwhile, the reason of Dr. Johnson to the royal librarian, 'Things of which mere rarity makes the value, and which are prized at a high rate by a wantonness rather than by use, are always passing from poorer to richer countries;" or rather to those countries, we may say, where money flows more easily. 66 in his article on Henry James, Jr., in the Literary miniature, and tells us the story of his life; Columbus, Ga. E. F. H. Quotations as above, using the word "manor," can be text maner," cus Perhaps Col. Higginson will contribute a judgment on the and Clarke's Concordance "manner." point? 135. Sequel to Monte Cristo. Is there a sequel to Alexander Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo? If so, please give the title and oblige, Pottsville, Pa. B. N. H. But the average of cost is based rather upon books that are not affected by the bibliomaniacs, and thirty years ago the cost of current books was much less comparatively in America than in England. Large editions and cheaper printing hardly carried the average cost of an American book above five eighths of that of an English one. For the twenty-five years before 1848, it cost an English public library, on an average, 10s. 3 1-2d. to add a book; and Edwards, taking the interval, 1825-1855, and basing upon 209,000 volumes bought by different libraries in England during that time, figured out the average 9s. 5d. Thirty years ago was a favorable time for buy ing books in Europe. The political disturbances threw a great many collections upon the market; and Dr. Cogswell confessedly timed his visit in October of that year to take advantage of the social insecurity of the times, and he landed there One i is correct. Such is the Latin form, and it is best with credit, to begin with, of $20,000, and the to transfer it into English in such cases. first 20,000 volumes which he bought for the Astor Library cost $27,000. JUSTIN WINSOR. NOTES AND QUERIES. [EDITED BY FREDERIC B. PERKINS ] 131. Rotten boroughs; pocket boroughs. Where can one find definitions of such things as "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," relating to English history? Indianapolis. READER. A " 'rotten borough," under that condition of the Engby the Reform Bill of 1832, was a borough where, usually lish representative system which was pretty much destroyed from gradual decrease of population, all the votes were cast by a small number of electors, who were consequently was one so wholly within the control of some patron that he might be said to carry it in his pocket; as in the case of Burke returned to Parliament for Wendover by the Mar for sale at a high price per head. A "pocket borough" quis of Rockingham. to be of some use to the world by such writing as he might do. Of this life the little book before us is one of the fruits. The photograph of Mr. Howard shows the face of a kindly, farmer-like old gentleman, somewhat of the Wordsworthian cast, who might walk arm-in-arm with Whittier; a good, and, in some respects, fine face, we should say, whose lineaments are all prepossessing. Mr. Howard's motives are always pure and tender; his mind is fixed on takes an occasional liberty, and a more carehigh and noble themes. As a versifier he ful attention to punctuation would conduce to the credit of his Muse; but, as it stands, his book is of a sort to give much pleasure to his friends. The South Kensington School of Cookery is already one of the established institutions of Great Britain, and its influence is fast making itself felt throughout the civilized world. Another text-book on cookery therefrom is an evidence of this, and The Art of Cooking, by Mrs. Matilda Lees Dods, is a worthy addition to that housekeeper's library concerning which we dropped a hint to our readers a short time ago. The book is a small one, and looks simple and sensible, the foot-notes to the receipts being a specially useful feature. [G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.] More poetry-speaking, that is, by editorial license, which is quite as proper and far more necessary at times than poetic license. Of his Select Poems Mr. Harvey Rice has published a second edition. [Lee & Shepard: Wells's Natural Philosophy. Revised by $1.50.] The first was noticed on page 43 of W. C. Ford. [Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & our last volume. We have nothing to add Co. $1.00.] We have here a revision, here. Out of the Shadows, by James B. "under the supervision of the original Kenyon [J. B. Lippincott & Co. $1.00], con- author and several experienced teachers," tains "A Song with Variations," namely, a of the well-known standard work first pubsuccession of short pieces, including a good lished by David A. Wells in 1857. Addiproportion of sonnets, with a general com- tions have been made covering all the latest munity of rather commonplace theme, chaste scientific discoveries; and these, with the and pure in spirit, fairly musical and pleas- new engravings and the general modernizing ant to read, but without special individuality of the book, added to the original merits of or the fire that makes itself felt. Rather the work, insure it a prominent place among of Mr. W. H. Babcock's Lord Stirling's more ambitious themes inspire the contents the popular text-books of the day. Stand, and Other Poems. [J. B. Lippincott & Co. $1.50.] An historical accent and mar- "New Plutarch" series have already aptial strain run through them. The form is peared; Judas Maccabæus, by Claude Reigoften that of a ballad, and those who are nier Conder, and Gaspard de Coligny, by fond of tracing the growth of poetic com- Walter Besant. Unlike as the two lives are position will be helped by the chronological in outward aspect, and widely separated in order of arrangement which has been fol-time and place, they are both the records of lowed. Mr. D. H. Howard, whose Poems a brave but unsuccessful struggle for freeare presented to the public in a modestly dom; the one against foreign oppression, printed volume of a hundred and twenty the other against tyranny at home. pages or thereabouts, without publisher's Conder has drawn his historic facts, of imprint, but dated at Brockton, Mass., pref- course, from the First Book of Maccabees 134. To the manner born. Col. Higginson, aces his offering with his photograph in and the Antiquities of Josephus; but the 132. That Wife of Mine. (To S. D., San Marco, Texas.) The story with this title, published anonymously, is understood to have been written by Mrs. Mary A. Denison, wife of Rev. Chas. W. Denison, of Washington, D. C. 133. Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song. Please favor me with your opinion of this The second and third volumes of the Mr. reader's interest is hightened by detailed accounts of contemporary social and religious customs, and by bits of description of the scenery of Palestine from the pen of a careful observer. The importance of the struggle in its relation to general history and to the development of Christianity has not been overlooked. It is the history of an epoch rather than of a man, and the life and exploits of Judas form less than half the volume. Mr. Besant has confined himself more closely to the limits of his theme, and little matter foreign to the hero's life is admitted. Coligny's years of early training, the slow process by which the Catholic noble became at first the protector of the Huguenots and then their fellow-confessor, and the later years of conflict and persecution ending in his tragic death, are sketched with a few bold and skillful strokes. The great Admiral is a character that deserves attentive and loving study, and the author has approached his work with a fitting enthusi asm. Eyesight, and How to Care for it. Geo. C. Harlan, M. D. The Mouth and the Teeth. By J. White, M. D., D. D. S. By W. The Summer and Its Diseases. By J. C. Wilson, M. D. [Lindsay & Blakiston. Each 50 cents.] We attach the greatest importance to the movements now making in so many forms to bring the science of common life within the range of the common people. In this movement the little books above enumerated, with others of the series which we have before noticed, are playing a good part. They are, indeed, as useful "Health Primers" as any we have ever seen; small, compact, well planned, and intelligently written, so that nobody need be perplexed to understand them, or excusable for not remembering their meaning. Popular treatises on the eyesight are not uncommon, and we do not see that Dr. Harlan has added anything of great importance to the general lessons already taught; but all that he has to say is very much to the point, and he adds some particulars which increase the interest of the book. It will be new to most mothers, for example, that the eyes of all infants are at first blue, and that the variation of colors is a matter afterward to be determined. The The latest issue in Mr. Rolfe's series of another edition he should add a paragraph marvelously low, considering its fine quality. The seven single plays of Shakespeare is The Winter's Tale, which is preeminently a play for girls' schools, containing as it does two of the poet's great female characters, Hermione and Perdita, the noblest matron, and perhaps the loveliest maiden, of them all. The play is moreover one of the last, if not the very last, work of Shakespeare, and one of his best. We find that these editions of Shake speare are coming more and more into re quest, not only for school use, but for ordi nary reading, to both of which purposes they are finely fitted. Dr. Wilson's essay on the Diseases of Summer is not at all unseasonable, even now, since there is no better time than the present to be laying in a store of wisdom and a knowledge of safeguards against the dangers that are before us. chapters of the book discuss in turn the general characteristics of the summer season in their hygienic aspects; the ordinary round In the Atlantic Monthly for June last, Mr. of summer ailments; the extraordinary af- W. J. Linton, the eminent engraver, publishfliction of hay fever, and the special care of ed an article on wood-engraving, which inthe skin required in the hot weather-sys- volved some strictures upon certain styles tematic washing is then more necessary of engraving now coming into vogue, esthan at any other time, and the daily bath pecially as seen in the pages of Harper's is warmly recommended. But there is such and Scribner's monthlies, and tending to dea thing, says Dr. Wilson, as excessive bath-preciate the artistic quality and value of ing. results reached by mechanical processes. This publication called forth a good deal of We are glad to see that so good a judge sharp criticism, some of it rather rancorous; of what is suitable for the purpose as Dr. and for a time it seemed a question which Samuel Eliot, Superintendent of the Boston would prove the mightier-the pen or the public schools, has undertaken the provision graving tool. To the strictures passed upon for children's reading of some of the classics his views, Mr. Linton has now replied in a of prose and poetry which are so fitted to little book of a few less than a hundred please and harmlessly to entertain. Three pages, entitled Some Practical Hints in books received from Lee & Shepard are only Wood-Engraving, wherein he goes over the a first instalment, we trust, of what is to be entire field of controversy, handles his critdone in this direction. The first is a collec-ics without gloves, reasserts his own views, tion of Six Stories from the Arabian Nights, with an exposition of the graving art in full, that incomparable and ever adorable volume, and conveys a large amount of information the use of which as a whole is very properly which should not be missed by any whose denied by many parents to their children. vocation or taste brings them into close reAmong the six, are the stories of "Aladdin," lations with the subject at any point. Mr. of "Ali Baba,” and of "Sinbad the Sailor;" Linton is an authority on the subject, and and the text of all has been carefully revised speaks with authority and not as the scribes. and simplified. There are illustrations, and He deserves to be listened to, though we the type is large and clear. [60 cents.] As ourselves should have been more profited by a part of the same general plan, Mr. Henry his book if it had been written in a calmer Cabot Lodge has selected and arranged in and less irritated tone. A disputant who loses a neat paper-covered book the Six Popular his temper loses half his case. Stripped Tales of "Jack the Giant Killer,” “Jack and of its controversial element, the book conthe Beanstalk," "Little Red Riding Hood," tains much instruction, and will help the "Puss in Boots," "The Sleeping Beauty,' careful reader of it to judge more intelliand "Cinderella;" and the publishers have gently and accurately of the art of engravset these off with very dainty and pretty ing and its results. [Lee & Shepard. $1.25.] pictures. The third and most important member of the group is Poetry for Children, of which volume Dr. Eliot is again the editor, and which Mr. Anthony has illustrated in The care of the mouth and the teeth is too the most charming manner imaginable. often neglected. Hardly anything is more There have been many collections of poetry| painful than a painful tooth; and what made for children, but we do not now reoffensive feature of the body is more offen- member one which, to the eye, or the taste, sive than a fetid breath? Upon this latter or the judgment, presents more points of point we are sorry to see Dr. White has attractiveness than this modest and unnothing to say, and it would be well if in heralded volume. And its price, $1.00, is "Practical Suggestions" are excellent, and if they were obeyed there would be fewer weak and disabled eyes. The "coming light," Dr. Harlan believes, is to be the electric light, and he is ready to give it his hearty welcome. CURRENT FICTION. Angèle's Fortune. By Andre Theuriet. Translated by Mary Neal Sherwood. [T. B. Peterson & Brothers. 75 cents.] The Osego Chronicles. By Mary B. Sleight. [A. D. F. Randolph & Co. $1.25.] Avis Benson. With other sketches. By the late Mrs. Prentiss. [A. D. F. Randolph & Co. $1.25.] All authors have their ups and downs, and Theuriet among the rest. The literary of C. Sylvester: Sigurdsson. At Copenhagen, Dec 6, Jon Sigurdsson, worker in the field of ancient Icelandic literature. number of novels, mostly published under the pseudonym Miller's Daughter," the size of the page being the same.—The “English Men of Letters" serieš comes, for the first time, to America for a subject. Its next volume will be Hawthorne, by Henry James, Jr., and will be eagerly anticipated by admirers of both authors. In response to a very general demand for a library edition of Justin McCarthy's History of Our Own Times, one is to be made in two 12mo volumes from the English four-volume edition. The first is nearly ready. years. NEWS AND NOTES. piness and Heaven, by Jerome P. Bates; and a volume of D. L. Moody's sermons in Cleveland, texture of Angèle's Fortune is pretty much the same with Young Maugars, the last book of his noticed in these columns, but it has less poetic beauty, and is less interesting. Nor is it so sweet and pure and fra- tile, productive, and excellent author, whose writings are grant as that charming idyl which sings the love of Etienne and Therese. The Angèle in this story is at first an attractive country girl, but, under an infatuation, she has a fall before the reader's very eyes, and the sad -J. Fairbanks & Co., of Chicago, begin the new fortune of sin and suffering, which proves year with half a dozen new publications, their -At G. P. Putnam's Sons, some books of her actual experience in place of the vast in-new German edition of General Grant's Tour more popular character which have reached new heritance from the Indies which for a time Around the World counting as one. The Eng- editions are, A Strange Disappearance, which dazzled the eyes and turned the head of her lish edition is now in its twentieth thousand.— went through two editions in two weeks; A mother, fills the book with shadow, and ex- They bring out in holiday style, in three different Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, now in its cites sympathy rather than gives pleasure. bindings, The World's Highway to Fortune, Hap-second edition; and Roman Days, in its third. At one time Angèle seeks her "fortune" in which did not get ready in time for the holidays, -A Forbidden Land; or, Voyages to the Corea, Paris, fancying that she has the gifts of an is now in hand, and will prove an extremely inactress and has but to be heard to achieve a teresting work of travel. - Joan of Arc comes triumph; but bitter failure awaits her there, next in "The New Plutarch."— A very importand when to this artistic disappointment are ant work in preparation is the History of Political added the trials of desertion by her idolized Economy in Europe, by Jerome Adolphe Blanqui, lover, and of hunger and illness during the translated by Emily J. Leonard, with an introduchorrors of the siege of Paris by the Gertion by the Hon. David A. Wells. mans, her cup is full. Through all the story runs the one bright thread of Joseph Toussaint's honest and constant love, and there is something inexpressibly noble in his fidelity to Angèle, even to the point of taking her, soiled and drooping as he at last finds her, to his heart and home. The tale is full of the truest and deepest lessons, as indeed is everything which this writer gives us. His pictures, if they introduce wrong doing and its fruits, always leave a final impression for virtue and truth. How pitiable, for exam-jects, among them The Learning among Indian ple, is the last glimpse given us here of the selfish and sensual René ! The latest additions to Randolph's "Spare Hour Series" are two volumes which will - The West is to have a new educational journal issued in Chicago by J. Fred Waggoner, publisher of the new trade paper, The Bookseller and Stationer. - Randolph & English, of Richmond, Virginia, -S. R. Wells & Co. are agents for Madame have in preparation a handsome memorial volBlavatsky's new monthly journal published in ume, The Army of Northern Virginia, compiled Bombay, and christened The Theosophist. It is by Rev. J. Wm. Jones, D. D., Secretary of the a quarto of thirty-two pages, and announces Southern Historical Society, by special request. itself as devoted to Oriental philosophy, art, It will be a subscription work, and will contain a literature, and occultism, embracing mesmerism, steel portrait of General Lee, and a representaspiritualism, and other secret sciences. It is tion in colors of the battle flag carried from issued under the auspices of the Theosophic Manassas to Appomattox. Society. The first number answers the con- The American Almanac and Treasury of undrums, What is Theosophy? What are Theos- Facts for 1880-that almost indispensable volophists? and has other articles on various sub-ume for the library table and office desk - is now ready, edited, as previously, by A. R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress. It comes in two styles, in a popular edition, at twenty-five cents, and in a bound library edition with one hundred additional pages. Ladies, Antiquity of the Vedas, The Drift of - Under the administration of Mr. W. E. Foster, librarian, the Providence (R. I.) Public Library is adapting itself in an uncommon degree to the wants of the people. The "Daily Notes" on current topics are a good illustration of the educating force which a great library may acquire and exert under wise direction. be warmly welcomed by lovers of quiet, re- could ask for. NECROLOGY. Scott. The death has been lately announced in New York city of Mr. Genio C. Scott, well known by his spirited contributions to the press on out-door sports, and still more so by his fine volume on Fishing in American Waters. He wrote this work from an ample knowledge of the subject; there being scarcely a fishing spot from Maine to Florida which he had not personally visited. in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the -Our file of the Portfolio for 1879 is now complete, and a very superb volume it makes, or will make when suitably bound. The announcements for 1880 show that under Mr. Hamerton's energetic direction this art monthly is to lose none of its prestige. Etchings by Murray, Casanova, and Herkamer; a series of finely illustrated chapters on Cambridge (England), by J. W. Clarke, of Trinity College, to include no less than eight etchings; and a series of fac-similes of Albert Durer's drawings in the British Museum; are among the features promised. Every subscriber for 1880 before May 1 will be entitled to a choice of two famous etchings by Rembrandt. Mr. J. W. Bouton, of New York, the American agent of the Portfolio, is to republish here, we notice, The Antiquary, Mr. E. Walford's new English monthly, "devoted to the study of the past." - The American edition of the Memoir of Prince Metternich will have an advantage over its foreign companion, in having an elaborate and careful index. Examination of advance sheets leads good judges to pronounce it the most im portant historical work of the Napoleonic period. It gives the key to much unexplained history. Canon Farrar's Life and Works of St. Paul Charles Scribner's Sons are pushing it rapidly has been one of the notable works of the year. forward toward publication. We probably do not make an over-statement in Gilman's Chaucer has long since passed to calling it the most popular religious work of 1879. a second edition. - Songs from the Published Writings of Alfred Niericker. In Paris, France, Dec. 30, 1879, Mrs. May Tennyson, credited by mistake in a recent issue Alcott Niericker, about 40 years; one of the "Little to Scribner's Sons, will be brought out at once by Women " in her sister's story of that name, and author of Studying Art Abroad. She leaves her infant daughter, Harper & Brothers, who have had it ready some Lloyd. In New York city, Dec. 30, Edward Stuart days. In music, words, and illustrations, it has Lloyd, a caricaturist on the staff of Puck, and the son of a threefold claim to consideration. An idea of a niece of Gilbert Stuart. a few months old, to her sister's care. Wood. The death of Emma Caroline, Lady Wood, its attractions is given in a recent number of was announced Dec. 16, aged 77; author, since 1866, of a Harper's Bazar, which exactly reproduces "The appearance as a contributor to Protestant periodical literature. His paper, as a presentation of a side not usually put before Protestants with such authority, is deeply interesting. 75C. HOW SHE WON HIM: Or the Bride of Charming Valley. Edited by 20C. What Shakespeare Learnt at School, II, by Prof. Thomas S. Baynes; Mr. Gladstone in Scotland; Earthbound: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen, by Mrs. Oliphant. QUARTERLY REVIEW. Methodist Episcopacy; Development of Monotheism among the Greeks; Studies in Shakespeare; The Conflict; Bible Revision; The Problem of Life-The Book of Ecclesiastes; Spencer's First Principles; Providential Uses of Pain; Social Life of Our Forefathers; Literary Notices; Notes and Queries. SIX STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Poetry. A Scientific and Technical. - The next volume of Appleton's International Scientific Series will be The Crayfish, a Study of Zoology, by Prof. Huxley. In the "Handy Volume Series" the long-promised Macaulay on the plan of the Carlyle will be the next issue. 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A Book for the Sick-Room. chological studies afford. This is especially true Williams & Co. of the chapters on sleep and dreaming, hypnotism, somnambulism, and allied states, the causation and prevention of insanity, the insanity of early life, and the treatment of mental disorders; though much of this, it must be acknowledged, is gruesome reading. The Chemistry of Common Life, by the late James F. W. Johnston, is a work that made itself a standard and was the most popular of its kind a score or so of years ago, and always kept the lead it then enjoyed. With lapse of years, however, it got behind the times and required revision. This has been thoroughly given it by Prof. Arthur Herbert Church, and in its fresh edition it has a new lease of life. It is illustrated by maps and many woodcuts, and makes an attractive volume of popular science. - Dr. R. 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