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Mrs. Sid

Mr. C. Kemble's in Gerrard Street.
"I saw Sir T. Lawrence first at a dinner of
dons was there eating and drinking amongst the
mortals, and uttering a few ordinary words in
Her I will take a
grave, perhaps solemn tones.
slice of mutton if you please,' would have become
Lady Macbeth. It was listened to with awe."

- Silent Love is a poem of about eight hundred lines, which has reached a fourth edition in England, and has now been reprinted in a neat volume by R. H. Ball of Philadelphia. The author is not named. It is the recital of a heart's experience — the love of a man for a woman left undeclared until it was “too late,” by reason of the latter's death. The theme is treated with dignity and delicacy, and the diction is smooth and flowing; but we are at a loss to discover the reason of its popularity at home, or to understand the call for its reproduction here in a strange land. Has it any secret history which gives it an adventitious charm?

Great place is given to statistics relating to home, successively on Harley and Wey- quite satisfying to those who like fiction for Europe. A useful feature is an appended mouth Streets, London, was the constant the sake of the Christian truths it may be list of more than a hundred works in Ger- resort for a long period of years of a wide made to teach. man, French and English, bearing on the circle of distinguished men and women. subject. [Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.] The sketches of these pleasant relations to the professional world he lived in introduce -We doubt if it be generally known that the many figures upon which one never wearies Royal Institute of London provides, during of looking, and abound with delightful anecthe Christmas season of each year, a course dote and incident. What earthly privilege of scientific lectures for boys and girls. This is greater than thus to mingle with the gifted is a very capital idea, and does honor to the people whose names make their days forever intelligence and shrewdness of the man-memorable? Mr. Procter writes: agers. The distinguished Faraday gave a course on this foundation in 1827, and at Christmas, a year ago, the lecturer was Mr. Tyndall; his theme, Electricity. The lectures have now been published for this country by D. Appleton & Co. in a small volume with copious and excellent illustrations, affording not only a very lucid exposition of the laws and the phenomena of the electric force, but a very admirable example of popular teaching. We can imagine with what delight the boys and girls must have followed the lecturer through his course of interesting experiments, and there is many a boy of a scientific turn of mind who would like nothing better than to take this book and go through with its instructions and experiThe expense for apparatus need not be large. A very complete set will be furnished by a New York dealer for about fifty dollars, according to a list subjoined to the volume. The illustrations are so many and so helpful that the reader can get the substance of the book without resorting to any experiments at all. We commend it on many accounts to the parents of intelligent children.

ments himself.

And again, under date of May 17th, 1828: Such a period of special activity among "I met this evening (for the first time) with of the Pioneers,' the 'Spy,' etc. Cooper, the American writer. He is the author some churches as is now witnessed nearly He has a every winter calls for an unusual provision dogged, discontented look, and seems ready to of religious literature intended for what is His eye is rather affront or to be affronted. known as "revival work." We have received deep-set, dull, and with little motion." from Mr. Eben Shute, Boston, several pubFrom this and what follows it is evident lications in tract form adapted to this purthat Cooper did not make himself very agree-pose. The Way and the Word covers two able during his visit in London. Procter tracts, one on "How to Study the Bible," by says "he should be put in a cage and taught civil tunes." Cooper was complimented on his books and told that they had "pleased the English." To this he replied: "It wasn't what I intended." We shall have more to say of this book hereafter, which is no more, we are sure, than our readers will expect.

- The story of The White Cross and the

Mr. Moody, the other on "Regeneration," by an English gentleman, and warmly commended by Mr. Moody. The latter is also published in separate form. My Enquiry Meeting is a setting forth, by Dr. Robert Boyd, of "several plain truths for anxious souls, saved or unsaved." Doubts Removed is by Rev. Cæsar Malan, in the form of a conversation between a Christian pastor and

a doubting disciple. All the foregoing are

published by F. H. Revell, of Chicago. Mr.
Shute also himself publishes The Sin and
Folly of Unbelief, a vigorous address by Rev.
George F. Pentecost of this city.

Dove of Pearls comes to us through the hands of an American publisher from an -The advance sheets of the memoir of Bry- English source, and with the endorsement an Waller Procter, better known as "Barry of a good degree of popularity among the Cornwall," have been received from England readers, whom it first addressed. It belongs by Roberts Brothers, who have the volume to the class of "religious novels," though the -Our receipts of musical publications the in press for early publication. Those who religious lessons which it conveys are with- past month have been confined to bound volremember the pleasant sketch of "Barry out sectarian coloring and need not give umes, none of them, however, very large. Cornwall and his Friends," by Mr. James T. offence to any one. It deals with the for- Their titles in full may be found in their Fields, in a recent number of Harper's tunes of a little girl, rescued at the outset proper place. The Music Reader is an obviMonthly, will await the appearance of this from a captivity among the gypsies by kind ously useful manual for instruction, designed fuller narrative with eager expectations. friends, who are unable to discover the secret especially for beginners, and so simple in its The work has been prepared by Mrs. Proc- of her history. She grows up to woman- methods that it could be easily mastered by ter and Mr. Coventry Patmore, and consists hood, and to be loved by the bachelor clergy- a student without the help of a teacher. The of autobiographical fragments bound together man who adopts her. Him she finally marries, fact that it has reached a fourth edition by a biographical thread, with extracts from but not until after some tribulations, such as attests its excellence and popularity. The correspondence, etc. Mr. Procter recorded the course of true love often encounters. rather obscure vignette of half-clothed women some of his own reminiscences, not enough Her parentage is not discovered till near the which adorns the cover of Asa Hull's Temto cover his whole life, but such as touched end. The strong points of the story are perance Glee Book does not go very well with on several interesting points of it from his its purity, its pleasant pictures of English the conjoined motto in which "purity" is childhood up to early manhood. His actual country life, the effective grouping of a linked with "faith, hope and charity;" sugliterary career was comparatively brief, com- couple of Yorkshire families, the well-drawn gesting that the virtues do not all flock tomencing with his work upon the Literary portraits of the two or three leading charac-gether. The contents of the book are well Gazette in 1815, and ending with his publi- ters, and the dramatic interest, which is adapted to the wants of clubs and societies.— cation of the "Flood of Thessaly and Other considerable. The faults are a defective Garlands of Praise belongs to the already Poems," in 1823. But his literary acquaint- construction, and an unnaturalness in por- crowded class of Sunday School singing ance and friendships continued through all tions of the dialogue. There is no pretense, books; but as Mr. Sankey says fresh music his life, and the account of these constitutes however, to artistic power, and the moderate is one of the sources of life to the churches, the strong attraction of the volume. degree of excellence attained will prove we suppose room must be made for every

His

new-comer.

the late rebellion. It does refer exclusively of Russian life. Returning to America, we
to Baptists and their alleged distinctive cham- are introduced to a distinguished company
pionship of religious liberty. Roman Catho- of sporting dogs, and enlightened as to all
lics, the author claims, are not to be credited the mysteries of the fox-hunt, "retrieving,"
with religious liberty, neither are Calvinists, breaking young dogs, kennel making, etc.
nor Presbyterians, nor the Church of Eng- This, to tell the truth, is rather the most
land, nor Independents, nor Congregational- striking article in the number, the engravings
ists, but only Baptists, to whom Dr. Lorimer being numerous, spirited and fine, and the
concedes the front rank, and possibly the subject-matter quite one side from the beaten
very foremost position in the rank, of those track of magazine writers. Another and
martyr souls who toiled and suffered for the more practical aspect of out-door life is
triumph of this principle. From his point of treated by Mr. George E. Waring, Jr., in his
view, therefore, Roger Williams remains the article on "Farm Villages," in which he pre-
traditional hero he has always been, and Dr. sents the plans and specifications of a system
Dexter's recent supposed settlement of his whereby farmers living apart from each other
place in history is set down as a partisan, and after the common country fashion may hud-
even a "disingenuous" perversion of the dle a little more comfortably together, and so
facts. We are bound to admit, however, secure for themselves some of the social and
that Dr. Lorimer has a spirit of liberty intellectual privileges and advantages of vil-
which is to be commended to the denom-
ination he represents. [Lee & Shepard.]

The collection of Songs of P. P. Bliss-songs by P. P. Bliss would have been the more exact title-shows that this lamented composer had a sentimental, and even a comic, vein running through him; and a large number of the pieces here printed are pitched to one or the other of these keys. Those of a strictly sacred character are quite in the minority. There is much, we think, which would be sung with zest in the family circle around the piano. The memorial preface by the editor gives one or two interesting facts about Mr. Bliss which we have not yet seen in print. He was, Mr. Murray says, an inveterate versifier, and many of his reports to the house of Root & Cady, when he was in their service, were couched in rhyme, humorous and otherwise. He seemed to have had an exuberant nature as well as a religious spirit. His motto might well have been: "Is any merry? let him sing psalms." -We have from T. B. Peterson & Broth- - Dr. William C. Prime, of New York, ers of Philadelphia a little treatise on The whose peculiar antiquarian tastes lead him Laws and Practice of the Game of Euchre. into many untraveled paths, has written a Its title-page ascribes it to "a professor," curious and interesting little monograph who is "a member of the Washington Euchre upon the wood of the cross on which our Club." It therefore must be accepted as Lord was crucified, tracing its history, so far expounding the game-which the author as it can be traced, sifting the traditions pronounces "the queen of all card-games which have grown up in the Roman Church with a certain authority. A glossary of tech-concerning it, and pointing the subject with nical terms is given, a code of laws, and a some sensible and profitable reflections upon chapter of hints to beginners. A supple- the general duty of a greater veneration for ment furnishes similar instructions for play- the past, and for such of its relics as have a ing "Draw Poker." When we remember character. The whole story will be greatly how men of exalted station have not thought enjoyed by people of devout minds, few of it beneath them to play the part of master in whom will care to draw the line too sharply this last-named game, the little book before between the historic fact and fiction that us becomes invested with something of the enter into it. Holy Cross is the title of the respectability and dignity of a volume of volume, which is a very neatly printed one of United States Statutes. 142 pages; and A. D. F. Randolph & Co. are the publishers.

- We advise every one of our readers who owns books, buys books, or ever has occasion to consult them, to buy a copy, at almost any sacrifice, of The Best Reading, Mr. F. B. Perkins's manual of direction to general literature. This latest edition, which is the fifteenth, has been enlarged to nearly twice the size of the last, and in its three hundred pages gives very comprehensive, judicious. and suggestive lists of leading publications upon all branches of learning. Sizes, places

of publication, and prices are also named in

most cases, and the information is brought down very closely to the present time. This book is one of a dozen works of reference which are indispensable to every workman whose bench is a library table and whose tools are books. [Putman's Sons.]

APRIL MAGAZINES.

lage life. The idea is interesting in itself,
and is very invitingly set forth, though we
confess to a feeling that any such geometri-
cal arrangements would greatly lessen the
rural life.
beauty of rural scenery, and one charm of

THE ATLANTIC.-The delights of this first genuine month of spring are also the inspiration of one of the Atlantic's poets, “H. H.," who this sonnet sings:

APRIL.

While yet

"No days such honored days as these!
Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
For some fair thing which should forever bide
On earth, her beauteous memory to set
In fitting frame that no age could forget,
Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
And leave it there, eternally allied
To all the fairest flowers spring doth beget.
And when fair Aphrodite passed from earth,
Her shrines forgotten and her feasts of mirth,
A holier symbol still, in seal and sign,
Sweet April took, of kingdom more divine,
When Christ ascended, in the time of birth
Of spring anemones, in Palestine."

Though in this number of the Atlantic Mr. R. H. Dana, Jr., furnishes some extracts from the diary of a British officer in Boston in 1775, and Mr. John Fiske sketches the races of the Danube, and Mrs. Kemble continues her gossip, and Mr. Howells comSCRIBNER'S. The pages of this magazine pletes his charming little comedy, and Mr. are very full of out-door scene and life, as is Whipple has something to say of Dickens's the bands of winter are being loosed, and we states the condition of South Carolina morhighly suitable under the date of April, when American Notes, and "a South Carolinian ” are turning with some relief from confined als, and an unnamed reviewer gives us an occupations in the open air. So, in mighty yet all these appetizing titles, with more bepursuits around the fireside to more active account of Knight's Mechanical Dictionary, and artist, first to Chincoteague, an out-of-the- come at once to the Contributors' Club, flights, our imaginations are taken by writer sides, most readers, we think, will skip to way island off the northeastern shore of which is full as usual of very piquant and

Virginia, where an untamed breed of ponies delightful chit-chat on literary topics. The divide the reader's interest; thence to Dead-world is going to live under the load of books and an almost equally rude type of humanity first "contributor" wants to know how the wood and other mining precincts of the Black that is being heaped upon it. A second pro-In 1876 Rev. Dr. Lorimer, the popular Hills, where bullets whistle around our ears tests against Mr. William Black's "Madcap minister of the Tremont Temple, Boston, and the scalping-knife of the savage threat- Violet," as being a story which leaves not preached a sermon in Chicago on "Religious ens us at every turn of the page; and thence a household mentioned in it "without its Liberty." He has expanded this discourse to Moscow, where Mr. Eugene Schuyler, of corpse." A third calls for more of the drainto a small volume, which he somewhat am- “Turkistan” fame, lets us look out of his matic form in novels: "What we want is biguously entitles The Great Conflict. It window upon some of the strange scenes that frequent and unobtrusive gliding from might then refer to the electoral count, or to and picturesque figures and quaint customs one form to the other found in the Pilgrim's

Progress and Boswell's Johnson." A fourth raises against the postal card the moral objection that the use of it creates a tendency "to read against your own will postal cards not addressed to yourself." And so on for eight or ten pages. This sort of literary "free and easy" is a great innovation in the pages of the sedate and dignified Atlantic, but a very capital one. None of our other monthlies give us anything like it.

the young women graduates shall do, any more
than about what the young men graduates shall
do. They will go to their own place."

In his article on "The Public Libraries of
the United States" Mr. Edward Howland
has made good use of some of the vast stores
of information packed away into the recent
report upon this subject of the Commissioner
of Education. Many interesting facts are
brought to the light respecting the American
book-world before the Revolution, when, to
illustrate, there were but twenty-six public
libraries in the colonies, of which the one in
what is now Portland, Me., had but ninety-
three volumes; and all together did not put
more than some 43,000 volumes at the dis-
posal of the public.

HARPER'S. - We do not remember the number of an American magazine which has presented us with a more superbly illustrated article than that on "Furniture and its Decoration in the Renaissance," which this month opens Harper's. Pictures like these do not carry away the mind to far distances and engage it with the most noble thoughts, LIPPINCOTT'S.-There is certainly an imbut they are full of a minute and wonderful provement of late in the pictorial quality of beauty, and make the reader bend his head this always typographically-elegant magazine. down low for a close and admiring inspec- The opening article on "The Tartar and his tion. Old furniture has an historic use as Home" gives us not less than eighteen illuswell as an artistic suggestion, and these re-trations, or almost one for every page of productions by the engraver's tool of some twenty specimens, after photographs by Goupil of Paris, are of remarkable excellence. We have studied some of them under the magnifying glass, and they bear the ordeal surprisingly well. Look for instance with your "linen tester" at the Louis XIII. bedstead on page 649, or the armoire of the 16th century on page 641: what effects of solidity and strength are brought out! Nor does the fineness and brilliancy of the work disappear under this test. The article thus richly embellished, which is by Harriet Prescott Spofford, is one of intelligent criticism, and enters into what may be called the great philosophies of rather a small subject. Further on Miss Anna C. Brackett offers a few remarks on a "Liberal Education for Women," of which the following seem to us especially sensible and to the point:

"Because a man has had a college education, he is not necessarily a marked man; but if he has rightly used the opportunities offered to him at any well-ordered college, his whole life will be broadened and steadied, whatever relations he may come to hold to society, and society or solitude will be found to yield to him all its possibilities. And so it will be with the women. They will come back from their college life to their homes with a broader appreciation of the value

of those homes. They will find their own places. Some few will go on into professional life. Schools are eagerly watching to utilize all who may choose to labor in that line for an independent life, and they will start fairly in the work of teaching, and hence not break down physically in it. Some will give us books which will, we trust, savor more of the impartiality and breadth of the writings of the English women than of the flippancy and superficiality of the American style. The majority will organize homes of their own, will become, like the men, heads of families, and their whole lives in all their details will, like those of the men, be broadened and steadied by their college training. They will hold their lives in their own control, and not be swept away by the force of undisciplined impulses. These will be the majority. No inconsiderable percentage, as with the young men, will make no mark. We are not to trouble ourselves so much as to what

text, and several are of striking excellence.
The "Ruins of the Emperor's Summer Pal-
ace" is a very effective picture. There does
not seem, however, to be any very close rela-
tion between the engravings and the article,
and wherever any exists no hint of it is given
by the former. This article and the one fol-
lowing on the "Valleys of Peru" supply a
large amount of narrative of travel and ob-
servation. In "A Chapter from Real Life"
we have a simple and affecting relation of
the experiences of two immigrants who came
to this country in 1870. It is not often that
so-well written and obviously truthful a story
gets into print, and the contrast to the stereo-
typed accounts given by most voyagers is
very refreshing. Our two friends - for such
they make themselves to be-bought their
five-pounds passage tickets and the usual
emigrants' outfit:

sorrows. On reaching New York they passed through the Castle Garden ordeal, and afterwards, with fifteen dollars for their "sole fortune," had a hard time of it getting settled. Finally they found friends who helped them out of the city, and their story leaves them somewhere in the country, their troubles ended. There are various signs of their being women of some intelligence and culture, and many a reader of their entertaining and often touching narrative will have a wish to know who they were. Further on Mr. Robert Wilson, who, in previous numbers of Lippincott's, gave us such pleasant pictures of life along the "Eastern Shore," tells us with equal skill about Wye Island, the home of William Paca, one of the Signers of the Declaration, a subject which is rich in historic scene and incident.

THE GALAXY.- Mr. Richard Grant White is at home from England, and of course resumes his place as one of the regular contributors to this magazine, where a large circle of readers will be pleased again to find him. His subject this month is “ English Traits." As Mr. White is a writer who likes not only to be accurate, but to be thought so, we venture to inform him that he has misquoted Scripture at the top of his very first page, second column, where he attempts to put into the mouth of Sydney Smith (whose first name, by the way, we notice he spells Sidney) the words of Hazael to Elisha [2 Kings, viii: 13] "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" but makes two misses in the twelve words. Is it not quite as well worth the while of the scholar to quote the Bible correctly as Shakespeare? Mr. White reports that the men of England "are on the whole more attractive to the eye than the women." England is their "paradise; for there the world is made for them; and women are happy in making it so." In a succeeding paper Mr. White promises us a word by itself about English women. There are two articles in the number of special interest to theatre-goers: the sketch by Mr. Henry James, Jr., of "The Theatre Français" in Paris; and a second chapter of Capt. Frederick Whittaker's critical discussion of the art-principles which underly playun-writing and play-acting. Those who are

"This consisted of two straw mattresses, two pairs of common gray blankets, a few tin pots and a tin frying-pan, besides some bacon, some coffee and sugar, and a little can of condensed milk (these last, of course, superfluities), and two common boxes painted yellow, rather like sailors' chests than ordinary traveling trunks: we had only a few clothes to stow away in them."

Their ship was a sailing vessel, and this fact of course helped them to have an usual time of it. Says the writer:

familiar with the stage and its literature, and particularly with plays of present popularity, and with living actors and actresses of distinction, will read both of these articles with great interest.

"I lived mostly on pea soup and sugared rice. We had to cook for ourselves in turns, and to wash and "fix" the beef and soak the biscuit. The steward sometimes treated us to a limited quantity of bread, which he baked every two days for the cabin, and the sick occasionally got a little milk. There were two cows and some sheep, THE CANADIAN MONTHLY.-This magapigs and poultry on board, some of the three lat: zine of the provinces on our northern border ter being killed now and then for the cabin; and as there was a butcher among the passengers, he is yet in its infancy, having in its March was allowed some fresh meat in part payment of number completed only the first quarter of his services. The bunks were stiflingly hot at night, and besides this there were worse evils in its second volume. Its typographical appearthe shape of bad language and the unmentionable ance is very good, and its contents do credit infliction of fleas." to the editorial faculty of its conductors and This was, however, only the beginning of the intelligence and taste of its readers.

There is the usual variety of essay, sketch and fiction found in publications of its class, with some elements of local interest. The account of "The House of Commons in Session" is very graphic and entertaining-it being the lower branch of the Canadian Parliament, of course, which is concerned. In "Round the Table" we have an adoption of the idea which finds expression in our Atlantic Monthly in the Contributors' Club. The chief editorial department is a summary of Current Events. The magazine is published at Toronto, by Hart & Rawlinson, at $3.50 a

year.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

-"J. P.," of Jamestown, R. I., asks for the name "of the best work on scroll-sawing, sorrento and bracket work, and fancy wood work." We know of nothing better on this subject than Arthur Hope's Manual of Sorrento and Inlaid Work, lately published by Wilkinson, of Chicago. The price is $1.50.

-"L. Va." inquires whether the expressions “truest,” “more perfect" and "most perfect" are correct? "Can anything be more than true? and more than perfect?" We do not suppose that these expressions have any sanction beyond

that of a thoughtless usage.

-The lines for whose place and authorship "E. O. S.," of Nashville, Tenn., inquires, are in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar, Act iv., Sc. 3; and the passage entire is as follows:

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows, and in miseries."

-"S. A. T.," of Methuen, Mass., asks direction to a work on Mohammedanism, and also "if there is an English translation of Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe?" The "People's Edition" of Irving's Mohammed and His Successors, (New York: 2 vols., 16mo.,) would probably answer our correspondent's first want; though a smaller and later but rather warmly apologetic work is R. B. Smith's Mohammed and Mohammedanism, published in New York a year or two since. There is an English translation of Guizot's History of Civilization, but the full work is in four volumes. The abridgement in one volume will answer the ordinary reader's purpose.

LITERARY NEWS.

- Two literary importations of the month just closed deserve some notice in these columns. These are Mr. Swinburne's new poem, The Sailing of the Swallow, and another installment of Victor Hugo's La Légende des Siècles, a poem of colossal proportions, the early portion of which was published years ago. With this fragment he celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday, and more still is to come provided "the end of the author does not take place before the end of the work." Those of our readers who care to hear about the poem in detail—there are about ten thousand lines of it, in two volumes of more than seven hundred pages-will find an elaborate review of it, with some extracts in an English

translation, in the New York Tribune of March editorial charge of it. It will be heartily wel17. Says the reviewer: comed, we doubt not, by a large portion of the "His leading idea is to paint the struggle of public, who will see in it a pleasant token of a the human race with superstition, kingly oppres- growing fellowship of the spirit among the difsion, and all other woes of the Past and Present, ferent branches of the Church, who will also in a series of detached pictures drawn from all study it as embodying representative utterances lands and all ages. But it is quite impossible to of the Boston Pulpit at an important period, guess what law guided him in his selection of subjects. Many of the poems have not the and who will treasure it up as an appropriate slightest apparent relevancy to the plan; others souvenir of a season of marked religious activieither willfully distort history or overlook the ty in all quarters. But where are Phillips general progress of the race; and the lack of any Brooks, and Dr. Webb, and Rev. J. B. Dunn, advancing solution of human woe and trouble, through the original design of the Eternal Wis and others who might be mentioned as worthy dom, leaves a bitter after-taste in the mouth of to appear in the distinguished company, who general divisions of the poem: The Earth; Suthe reader. These are the titles of the eighteen yet are absent? Were any of them too modWere any too

premacy; Between Giants and Gods; the Van- est to print their sermons? ished City; After Gods; Kings; Between Lions scrupulous to do so for denominational reasons? and Kings; the Banished Cid; Welf, Warder of Is there any other awkward secret which lies Osbor; Warnings and Chastisements; the Seven behind any of these notable absences? PerWonders of the World. [Here the first volume ends.] The Epic of the Worm; the Poet of the Earth-worm; Purity of Soul; the Falls; the Pyrenean Cycle; the Comet; Change of Horizon; the Group of Idylls; all the Past and all the Future; the Present Time; the Plagues' the Temple; to Man; Ábyss.” Elegy; the Little Ones; Above; the Mountains;

- Mr. Swinburne's poem is a much slighter

affair than the foregoing, though having for its subject the oft-told tale of Tristram and Iseult. It is in rhymed pentameters, and runs through about seven hundred lines. How sensuous it is, how delicately phrased, how rich in color, how melodious in tone, may be discerned from the following passage, which, however, is much clearer than the body of the poem. The pebbly bed of fact is not easily to be seen through the swift, tumultuous torrent of Mr. Swinburne's

verse:

"And her heart sprang in Iseult, and she drew With all her spirit and life the sunrise through, And through her lips the keen triumphant air Sea-scented, sweeter than land-roses were, And through her eyes the whole rejoicing east Sun-satisfied, and all the heaven at feast Spread for the morning; and the imperious mirth Of wind and light that moved upon the earth, Making the spring, and all the fruitful might And strong regeneration of delight That swells the seedling leaf and sapling man, Since the first life in the first world began To burn and burgeon through void limbs and veins, And the first love with sharp, sweet procreant pains To pierce and bring forth roses: nay, she felt Through her own soul the sovereign morning melt, And all the sacred passion of the sun; And as the young clouds flamed and were undone About him coming, touched and burnt away In rosy ruin and yellow spoil of day, The sweet veil of her body and corporal sense Felt the dawn also cleave it, and incense With light from inward and with effluent heat The kindling soul through fleshy hands and feet. And as the august great blossom of the dawn Burst, and the full sun, scarce from sea withdrawn, Seemed on the fiery water a flower afloat, So as a fire the mighty morning smote Throughout her, and incensed with the influent hour Her whole soul's one great mystical red flower Burst; and the bud of her sweet spirit broke Rose-fashion, and the strong spring at a stroke Thrilled and was cloven, and from the full sheath came The whole rose of the woman red as flame: And all her Mayday blood as from a swoon Flushed, and May rose up in her and was June." -Lockwood, Brooks & Co. of Boston, have in press for publication, probably in April, "The Gospel Invitation: Sermons Related to the Boston Revival of 1877." Some sixteen sermons compose the collection, contributed by as many ministers belonging to the city or its vicinity. Among them are Rev. Dr. A. H. Vinton and Rev. W. W. Newton, Rev. W. W. Warren, D. D., Rev. Drs. Peabody and Rufus Ellis, Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Rev. A. J. Gordon and Rev. Dr. Lorimer. The volume is the plan of Rev. H. M. Grout of Concord, who has had the

haps the editor will tell us in his introduction. Should the volume meet the expectations of its publishers, they might do well, perhaps, to follow it with another, giving us some of the discourses which have been preached by Rev. E. E. Hale, Rev. M. J. Savage, Rev. Dr. Bartol, Mr. Charles Ellis, and others.

-The following works are also in press for early publication: an elaborate volume on Peru, by E. G. Squier (Harper & Brothers); the Memoirs of Jefferson Davis (D. Appleton & Co.); "Our Theological Century," by Prof. John F. Hurst, of Drew Theological Seminary (A. D. F. Randolph & Co); and a "Talk on Art," by the well-known Boston artist-writer, S. G. W. Benjamin (Lockwood, Brooks & Co.). Prof. Ritter, of Vassar College, is writing a history of Music in America; Mr. D. D. Home a new treatise on Spiritualism; Col. J. F. H. Claiborne a history of Mississippi and Alabama; and Gen. Lew Wallace of "The Fair God" fame, another novel, the scene of which is laid in Rome in the days of Tiberius. Gail Hamilton, too, is said to be engaged on a volume which will be a surprise to the reading public. Mr. Eugene Schuyler is translating Turgeneff's novel "Nov. ;" and Mr. E. P. Whipple has in editorial preparation a volume of Thomas Starr King's sermons.

-Several entertaining books will be carved out of the current volumes of the magazines. Mr. Howells is preparing his comedy "Out of the Question" for immediate publication in a volume of "Little Classics." Osgood & Co., its publishers, will also bring out in May Mr. James's "The American," which has likewise been running in the Atlantic. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. will put Mrs. Burnett's story of "That Lass of Lowrie's" into book form at an early day.- One of the coming summer numbers of this magazine will have an article on Longbow Shooting, by Maurice Thompson, illustrated with sketches by his own pencil. Wide Awake has in hand an instructive paper by Mr. Arthur Gilman, on the literature of the Round Table.

- The more important publications announced abroad include a diary left by Shirley Brooks; a new edition of Matthew Arnold's poems; a monograph on the Ottoman power in Europe, by Mr. Edward A. Freeman; a memoir of the late Mortimer Collins, edited by his wife, a unique feature of which will be a number of Mr. Collins's letters written in verse; a volume of travel-studies by Edmond About, suggested by a recent trip to

Corsica; a handbook to the Old Testament, by
Mr. Cheyne, of Baliol College, Oxford; a series
of papers on the Yorkshire Abbeys, by Mrs. Mac-
quoid; volumes of poems by Mr. William Alling-
ham and Mr. Austin Dobson; and, last but not
least, Dr. W. H. Russell's narrative of the Prince
of Wales's Tour in India. His Royal Highness
is understood to have given this work his "
tion" to the extent of "looking at some of the
proof-sheets." A similar narrative of the same
tour, by J. Drew Gay, the correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph, will be republished in
this country by R. Worthington, of New York.

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Rev. Washington Gladden of Springfield, Mass., published a year ago a little volume for religious inquirers, entitled: "Being a Christian." It met a common want of ministers, and had an encouraging sale. He has since written a companion volume under the name of "The Christian Way: Whither it Leads, and How to Get On." This comprises sensible, useful and practical counsels for all who are beginning a religious life, and is certain to give satisfaction and do good in a wide field. We have not yet learned who will publish it. - Hurd & Houghton have bought of J. R. Osgood & Co. the plates and rights of the extensive series of British Poets, originally published by Little, Brown & Co. under the editorship of Prof. Francis J. Child. Of these there are one hundred and thirty volumes, and a new series will be immediately issued in half that number of volumes, with various modifications and improvements. The new edition will be under the charge of Mr. Horace E. Scudder, who is editing various reprints of the English Classics in new forms now issuing from the Riverside Press.

contains striking contributions from Mr. Tenny-
son, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Lubbock, Matthew Ar-
nold, Cardinal Manning, and others; and for
April the promised contributors include Sir
James Stephen and Rev. James Martineau. Mr.
Tennyson's part in the March number is this bit
of poetical send-off:

"Those that of late had fleeted far and fast
To touch all shores, now leaving to the skill
Of others their old craft seaworthy still,
Have charter'd this; where, mindful of the past,
Our true co-mates regather round the mast
Of diverse tongue, but with a common will
Here, in this roaring moon of daffodil
And crocus, to put forth and brave the blast;
For some, descending from the sacred peak
Of hoar high-templed Faith, have leagued again
Their lot with ours to rove the world about;
And some are wilder comrades, sworn to seek
If any golden harbor be for men

In seas of Death and sunless gulfs of Doubt."

- The matchless collection of autograph letters and manuscripts left by the late Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague has been offered to the State of New York for the Library at Albany, for $30,000. Under no circumstances could the collection be duplicated for that sum, and if broken up under the auctioneer's hammer it would unquestionably bring much more. Congress could better afford to pay $50,000 for it, or even $75,000, and secure it for the National Library at Washington, than allow it to be dispersed. There is nothing like it in this country.

- Not a few of our readers will remember Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore's novel, On Dangerous Ground. The very positive opinions, both favorable and unfavorable, which this book called forth have given it a wide fame, and a fourth edition is announced by the publishers, Porter & Coates, of Philadelphia. For this the author has written a new preface, in which she replies with spirit to her condemning critics, and warmly de-In compliance with the wishes of his chil-fends both the aim and plan of her work. Copies dren, Rev. John S. C. Abbott is devoting much of this preface in pamphlet form are on sale by

A. Williams & Co., Boston.

- A Boston daily paper announces that Johnson's Encyclopedia "is published." It is difficult to understand what this means, for the first volume of this valuable work was issued several years ago, and the fourth (and last) is not yet out.

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of what little strength is left him, in these his re-
maining days, to the preparation of a memorial
volume, of an autobiographic character, for
posthumous publication. It will contain (1) a
brief sketch of his life as a whole; (2) reminis-
cences somewhat in detail of his childhood, pas-
sages of which have been published the present
winter in the Congregationalist and the Indepen-
The author of The Jericho Road is at last
dent; (3) his sketch of the Class of 1825 at Bow-announced by its publishers to be Mr. John Hab-
berton. Both the author and the publishers
doin College, read at the semi-centennial reunion
intended that the authorship should not be
in 1875; (4) a selection or two from his sermons;
perhaps (5) the striking article on Blennerhasset, known, but an indiscreet friend revealed the tham Perry, LL. D.
which was dictated on his sick-bed and printed
As an anonymous book it met with a
success which could hardly have been surpassed
in the February Harper's; and (6) some extracts
from his correspondence. Such a volume will had it at first been declared to be by the author
certainly have a tender interest for the many life- of "Helen's Babies.”
long friends of the author; and at the same time
will not be without some historical value.

-A new monthly review has made its appearance in England, called The Nineteenth Century. Mr. James Knowles, late of The Contemporary Review, is the editor. The Nineteenth Century is to be conducted on "absolutely impartial and unsectarian principles," and the list of announced contributors, which is long and imposing, gives reason to believe that this promise will be ful

filled not only to the letter but in spirit. Mr.

Knowles hopes that his venture will have such a success that in due time the title of the periodical may have to be changed to "The Twentieth Century." The first number, under date of March,

secret.

-Miss Annie T. Howells has published in Quebec, in connection with El Conde de Premio Real, the Spanish Consul General, a small volume entitled, Popular Sayings of Old Iberia. Some of these brief expressions of popular wisdom are much like old English proverbs and sentences, and the collection possesses on this account much interest to those who speak our tongue. In the joint authorship we must presume that the Consul General supplied the Span

The Roman Triumvirates [Epochs of Ancient History.] By Charles Merivale, D. D., Dean of Ely. With a Map. 12mo. pp. 248. $1.00.

Charles Kingsley. His Letters and Memories of His Edition. Crown 8vo. pp. 502. $2.50.

Life. Edited by his Wife. Abridged from the London

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History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in

America. By Henry Wilson. In three volumes. Vol. III. 8vo. pp. 774. $5.00.

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pp. 388.
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ish sayings, and that Miss Howells gave them the the British Museum, etc., etc.
appropriate English dress in which they appear.

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Lewes, are to remove to Surrey, where they
have bought a house that formerly belonged to

12mo.

The Chien D'Or. The Golden Dog. A Legend of Quebec. By William Kirby. 12mo. pp. 678. $2.00.

Beginning Life. A Book for Young Men. By John Tulloch, D. D. 16mo. pp. 318.

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