but it must be recollected that, from the time of Ertoghrul almost to our own day, the Osmanlis have been little more than a conquering horde of soldiery, and the greater portion of the work was written before our current historical standards had been generally accepted.

events is brought under notice, and what the reader loses in the matter of perspective he probably gains in the fuller mastery of details and the ampler human interest which can be imparted to a narrative when the personality of the actors as well as the events in which they take part can be indicated with some degree of completeness. It must be admitted, too, that an epoch more crowded with interest could hardly have been chosen, including, as it does, the long, brilliant, and eventful reign of Louis XIV., the achievements of the Grand Alliance, the campaigns of Marlborough and Prince Eugene, the establishment of cabinet government in England, the union with Scotland, the contest between Peter the Great and Charles XII. of Sweden, and the Augustan age of literature in both England and France.

We can hardly say that Mr. Morris has made the most of his teeming subject; but he has used the best authorities throughout, and he gives a plain, intelligible, and trustworthy narrative of salient events, which, if it is seldom vivacious or brilliant, is at least never dull or unin.. teresting. The most attractive feature of the work, and one which will prove especially useful in schools, is the extent to which biographical details are woven with the main chronicle of events. Each new personage of importance is formally introduced upon the stage, his career

Similar in title, but very different in character from the preceding, is Mr. Freeman's "History of the Ottoman Power in Europe," which fulfills the functions of a political pamphlet rather than those which are usually assigned to formal historical narrative. Nominally dealing with Ottoman history, and giving what is undoubtedly a most forceful and effective summary of that history, its chief object was evidently to mould English opinion and influence English action in the political crisis which preceded the outbreak of the present war, and the historical thesis is used mainly to point the moral of the author's impassioned argument against British intervention in behalf of the Turks. Mr. Freeman acknowledges, indeed, that his book is liable to be considered political rather than historical; but observes that between history and politics he can draw no distinction. "History is the politics of the past; politics are the history of the present.. The past is studied in vain, unless it gives us lessons for the present; the present will be very imperfectly understood, unless the light of the past is brought to bear upon it." All of which is unquestion-sketched, and his character summarized; and room is able; but then the public has learned by experience how easily personal bias warps a man's opinions upon current events, and not unnaturally distrusts history which is recited with all the ardor of political controversy. The two books may profitably be read together; when the glamour of military glory which sometimes obscures Sir Edward Creasy's judgment will be more than counter-events; but Mr. Morris frankly acknowledges that he has acted by Mr. Freeman's bitter denunciations of "the barbarous horde which for five centuries has kept the fairest portion of Christendom in bondage."

THE age of Queen Anne is more distinctly epochal —that is, more clearly marked off from the preceding and succeeding periods-than any other in English annals, except perhaps the age of Elizabeth; and in treating of it for his "Epochs of Modern History," Mr. Morris has found his material more tractable than has been the case with most of the previous volumes in the series.2 The defect inherent in the plan of the series-namely, that it tends to weaken in the student's mind that sense of the continuity of history which should be one of the first lessons impressed upon the youthful scholar, and that it parcels out what is really an unbroken series of causes and sequences into arbitrarily-defined plots which correspond with nothing in Nature or human story-is apparent in this as in all the other volumes, and must be understood to qualify any praise that we may bestow upon the manner in which the work is performed; but, aside from this fault, which Mr. Morris considers compensated by the fact that short periods can be studied in this way with that fullness without which history is comparatively unprofitable, the present work is a valuable and interesting contribution to the apparatus for historical study in schools. By so extending the age of Anne as to embrace the era from the commencement of the contest over the Spanish succession to the Peace of Utrecht and the death of Louis XIV., a rounded and nearly complete series of

The Ottoman Power in Europe: its Nature, its Growth, and its Decline. By Edward A. Freeman, D. C. L., LL. D. With Three Colored Maps. London and New York: Macmillan & Co. 12mo, pp. 315.

2 Epochs of Modern History. The Age of Anne. By Edward E. Morris, A. M. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. 16mo, pp. 251.

found for such authentic anecdotes as throw light upon personal character or illustrate contemporary manners and modes of life. The point in which it is most open to criticism from the modern standpoint is the meagre and somewhat grudging attention bestowed upon literature and other matters apart from political and military

not feared the accusation of being a "drum and trumpet historian," war being, as he says, an intrinsic part of history, which always stirs the interest of the young, acting as the bait that may draw them on to the study of other

matters.

The book is well equipped with practical aids to study, containing, besides an analytical index and a chronological table of contents, five excellent colored maps, a number of plans of battles, and several useful genealogical tables.

To the renewed interest in Miss Martineau aroused

by the publication of her autobiography, we probably

owe a new edition of her little book on "Household Education," a work which once had a wide popularity, but which is scarcely at all known to the present generation of readers. It would deserve attention, if for nothing else, for the light which it throws upon the character and quality of Miss Martineau's own mind and upon the circumstances of her early training; but it has a value quite independent of this, and may be confidently pronounced one of the best, as it was among the first, of the numerous treatises of which its subject has been the occasion during the last thirty years. It takes a broad, enlightened, and philosophic view of the ends and aims of education; it advocates no special and, consequently, transient methods or schemes of culture; and if its arguments presuppose a loftier conception of duty and higher moral and intellectual qualities than parents usually possess, it abounds none the less in preeminently practical rules and suggestions, and an appeal to nobler motives is often instrumental in bringing them into action. The reader will probably be surprised to find that Miss Martineau, being herself a "brain-worker" and a "bluestocking," lays so little stress upon merely intellectual culture; but it must be remembered that, as one of her

1 Household Education. By Harriet Martineau. Little Classic Edition. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. 16mo, pp. 366.

invention of the art of printing; a brief version of the story of Evangeline and the Acadians; ballads, anecdotes, and allegories. All these varied contents are ingeniously woven into a narrative of the doings of the Bodley family from day to day, and Mr. Scudder manages his story-telling so well that nothing appears to be lugged in for purposes of instruction, but each new thing is the natural outgrowth of some incident or conversation. The illustrations are as various and almost as entertaining as the reading-matter.

friends has well said, she was a moralist or nothing, and her idea of education is far more comprehensive than that which usually obtains and which confines it to the formal teaching that is ordinarily given in schools or at home. Her formula as to the right aim of education is "to bring out and strengthen and exercise all the powers given to every human being;" and her first step, accordingly, is to analyze and reveal what those powers are, and to insist upon the predominant influence upon the life of a human being of what are called the emotional and imaginative faculties. Strictly intellectual training is subordinated throughout to moral training, though there are wise and helpful chapters upon the methods and objects of mental culture as well as upon the discipline of the feelings, the care of the physical frame, and the moulding of personal and social habits. The book bears the stamp of a rare intelligence and sympathy and insight, and it is a real guide through many of those perplexing prob-ers who are familiar only with Madame Sand's earlier lems which at one time or another confront all conscientious and thoughtful parents.

To say of the new volume by the author of "One Summer" that it is something of a disappointment requires the explanation that the comparison instituted is not between it and the average book of European travel, but between it and the high standard of the author's future work which we had based on that first story, to the charm of which we bore cordial testimony at the time of its appearance. It is seldom nowadays that the European tour produces anything so readable as "One Year Abroad," and it is not a little creditable to the author's skill that, while following the beaten track of what Carlyle calls "the fatal generation of sight-seers," she has found something to record so different from the traveler's routine commentary; nevertheless, as we said at the start, the book is, on the whole, disappointing, chiefly perhaps because it is no real companion-piece to "One Summer," and because it shows a willingness on the part of the author to condescend to mere book-making. The greater portion of the contents of the volume was apparently written as letters for some newspaper, which are reproduced nearly, if not quite, in their original form. Judged as newspaper correspondence-as simple mots d'occasion-they might easily be pronounced excellent of their kind: they are a frank, fresh, unpedantic, and vivid record of the first impressions of a singularly alert mind amid, perhaps, the most variedly inspiring scenes the world has to show; but when presented in book-form the material appears somewhat thin, and the connecting thread of narrative rather attenuated. The most promising feature of the volume is the decided improvement of manner and literary quality exhibited in the later chap

ters over the earlier ones.

MR. SCUDDER's new book for children is a curious literary medley, but it will delight the young folks of either sex, and will introduce them agreeably to several branches of learning which are apt to be distasteful at the start. It consists of tales from history (American chiefly), legend, romance, and poetry; old songs and music; original verse; adaptations of Mother Goose; stories of Indian adventure; negro fables in dialect; descriptions of Arab street-life in New York; dramatically-told sketches of salient incidents in the lives of Patrick Henry, Prescott, the historian, Hans Christian Andersen, and other worthies; an animated account of the

1 One Year Abroad. By the Author of "One Summer." Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. 16mo, pp. 247.

2 The Bodleys Telling Stories. By Horace E. Scudder. New York: Hurd & Houghton. Small 4to, pp. 236.

THE third and fourth volumes of the "Collection of Foreign Authors "1 maintain the characteristic qualities of the previous issues-purity of sentiment, ingenuity of construction, refinement of fancy, and brilliancy of style. "The Tower of Percemont," having first appeared in the pages of the JOURNAL, is known to our readers; oth

stories will be both surprised and pleased to find in it a love-story from which passion in its objectionable aspects is eliminated, and in which love, without degenerating into a mere sentiment, acts as a purifier of feeling and a conservator of character. As a mere story it is extremely interesting and well told, and in none of her works are the author's wonderful skill in the dramatic portraiture of character and the picturesque power of her descriptions of natural scenery exhibited to greater advantage. "Spirite" is a fanciful, almost fantastic prose-poem, dealing with creations which frequently enter the border-land between fact and romance, yet retaining a vital human interest, and written in that charming poetical style for which Gautier was preeminent among the more recent French authors.

FOR upward of thirty years, amid an ever-increasing throng of chronological manuals and similar works, the late Mr. George P. Putnam's "World's Progress: A Dictionary of Dates," has steadily maintained its position as a "live" book, and has even grown in popuBesides incorporatlarity with scholars and students. ing substantially the whole of the Haydn's dictionary of that period, it contained several valuable features peculiar to itself, and, in particular, supplied those omissions concerning American affairs and men which have always impaired the usefulness of other manuals for American readers. Since its original issue it has been revised from time to time, and ten years ago received an additional supplement of one hundred and fifty pages, covering the period from 1851 to 1867. The new edition (the twenty-first), which has occasioned these remarks, has been thoroughly revised by Mr. F. B. Perkins, who has added still another supplement, filling sixty-five pages, and summarizing the world's progress from July, 1867, to July, 1877; so that the work is now not only the freshest and latest in its statistics, but approaches more nearly than ever to being what its compiler aimed to produce"a compact manual of reference to the world's progress in arts, literature, and social life, as well as in politics and government, from the Creation to the present time."

1 Spirite. A Fantasy. From the French of Théophile Gautier. (Collections of Foreign Authors, No. 3.) New York: D. Appleton & Co. 16mo, pp. 247.

The Tower of Percemont. From the French of George Sand. (Collection of Foreign Authors, No. 4.) D. Appleton & Co. 16mo, pp. 227.

The World's Progress: A Dictionary of Dates. Being a Chronological and Alphabetical Record of All Essential Facts in the Progress of Society, from the Creation of the World to the Present Time. With a Chart. Edited by George P. Putnam, A. M. Revised and continued to August, 1877, by F. B. Perkins. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 8vo, pp. 1,020.

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