mend it to the liking of that large and grow- The galleries considered are those of Italy, ing class of readers who are at odds with the Belgium, Holland, Germany including Aus"feverish" novels of the day. A rumor cred-tria, Spain, France, Russia and England, inits Mr. Hamerton with the authorship. Dante Rossetti; and the prose translation of Carlyle is freely used in educing light from the mazes of the Inferno, which occupies the cluding in the first-mentioned the Stanze of fourth chapter. Unfortunately Carlyle's litThe remaining works of fiction now before Raphael and the Ducal Palace at Venice, eral translation has not been pursued beyond us must be dismissed with few words. Mr. and in other countries some collections the Inferno, and the editor is obliged to deF. B. Perkins's Devil Puzzlers' is an associ- which are only public through the courtesy pend more upon herself in offering us the ation of a number of his peculiarly original of the owners. All of these, the author tells Purgatory, that place of hopeful punishment, and graphic sketches, published at various us in the preface she has visited in person, which leads us gently up to Paradise, where times; prepared with an entertainingly con- accompanied by her father, one of the most Virgil yields his guardianship of Dante to fidential account of some of this versatile au- celebrated English physicians; and to whom the heavenly guidance of the beloved Beathor's literary experiences. The new edition she confesses herself indebted for "hints trice. The volume closes with a short analyof East Lynne is the best, in paper, type, and guidance" in the preparation of the sis and criticism of the prose works of the and binding, of that novel with which we are work. Preceding the catalogues, and occu- great Italian, who first elevated a common familiar. It is one of the most popular of pying about one-half of the volume, are out- language to the conveyance of highest Mrs. Woods's works, as the many dramatic line histories of painting in all the countries thought, and thus opened a way for the adaptations of it testify; and we are glad to embraced in the catalogues, except Russia. popularization in literature of all the modern see its typographical appearance so improved. At the close of each is a chronological ta- tongues. Panola" and Out of the Depths" belong both ble, giving the dates of the birth and death, to the class of "sensational novels;" the so far as known, of all the painters menformer depicting actual character and life in tioned, with the school to which he or she the South; and the latter being an English belonged. These tables alone are worth the story of sin and shame. The New School price of the book as a convenient reference, Ma'am and Four Irrepressibles" are of the not only to the traveler but to the art stupeculiar breed of books which have multi-dent; and the history itself would serve as a plied at such a rate of late, and have the gen- most convenient introduction to the study of eral characteristics of their companions; and art-history, supplemented by such works as The Anti Biled Shirt Club and My Summer are mentioned at the beginning as authorities in Porkopolis detail certain experiences of consulted. travel and observation in a way that is mod 13 erately entertaining. 15 BRIEF NOTICES. Hand-book to the Public Picture Galleries of Eu rope. By Kate Thompson. [Macmillan & Co.] For the ordinary traveler, who has had but little time to devote to the study of art, this little volume will prove an invaluable guide; while those who know something of the history and progress of painting will be glad of an aid which will bring them at once to the great masterpieces they are seeking. The ponderous catalogues of the larger galleries of Europe are not only expensive, but oftentimes confusing from their copiousness, while, with this convenient hand-book, one may run over the principal works of the gallery before visiting it, note those he most wishes to see if he has not time for all mentioned, and proceed at once to them without any loss of time. The numbers appended to the pictures are given according to the latest catalogues, as well as the artist's name. 9 Devil Puzzlers and Other Studies. By Frederic B. Perkins. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Dante. Edited by Mrs. Oliphant. [J. B. Lip- This initial volume of a series of "Foreign The World's Progress. A Dictionary of Dates. Edited by Geo. P. Putnam. Revised and continued to August, 1877. By F. B. Perkins. [G. P. Putnam's Sons.] We unhesitatingly recommend this stout. octavo for addition to the collection of indispensable books enumerated in the Literary World for May last (p. 197). We can give it no higher praise. It contains (1) a dictionary of dates, arranged alphabetically by topics, and covering with concise mention all the important events of universal history; (2) supplements to the same extending the record down to 1877; (3) a literary chronology; (4) tabular views of ancient and modern history; (5) a brief index of universal biography; and other miscellaneous matter of a kindred sort. The book is one to which any person of intellectual pursuits is likely Alcohol and the State. By Robert C. Pitman, of our busy people whose time and oppor- to find occasion to turn twenty times a day, 10 East Lynne. By Mrs. Henry Wood. Dick and Fitz- and of his adored Beatrice a bodiless emblem Dorsey. T. B. Peterson & Brothers. 12 Out of the Depths. T. B. Peterson & Brothers. 13 The New School Ma'am. Loring. 14 Four Irrepressibles. Loring. nature of Dante stripped of its reality, until 15 The Anti Biled Shirt Club. Authors' Publishing Co. longer imbued with unction for the healing 16 My Summer in Porkopolis. And Other Papers. By Esel Dorf. Cleveland Cooperative Printing Co. of humanity. The translations in this sec- LL. D. [National Temperance Society.] The argument of this work is two-fold: first, to set forth the damage which the liquor traffic does to society, and indirectly to the state; and, secondly, to demonstrate the right of the state to legislate in self-protection. The author, since the publication of it, has been nominated by the Prohibitory Party of Massachusetts as its candidate for the office of Governor. He writes intelligently, clearly, and with candor, his temper being in marked contrast to that displayed by some of his associate leaders. Hand-book of Punctuation. By Joseph A. Turner. [J. B. Lippincott & Co.] We are glad to receive a copy of a "new revised edition" of Prof. Turner's excellent little work. On its first appearance the Literary World gave it a hearty welcome [see Vol. VI, No. 6, p. 81]; and on a re-examination of it we see no reason to qualify the words then spoken in its praise. The contents have been slightly enlarged and re-arranged; one feature of improvement being the introduction of examples, generally from standard publications, illustrative of principles and rules. We have never seen the book or man with which, or whom, we could wholly agree as to the theory and practice of punctuation; but we are disposed to be reverent towards the authority of Prof. Turner and his manual. The Religious Feeling. A Study for Faith. By Newman Smyth. [Scribner, Armstrong & Co.] The reasoning contained in this book, the author in his preface informs us, has "enabled his own faith to survive," and has proved "useful in conversation with friends whose scientific studies had both brought them into unwilling doubts concerning those spiritual truths which give to life its real value, and, at the same time, thrown the prevalent proofs of religion out of all relation to their habits of mind." Its two fundamental principles are: "The religious feeling, like the feeling of existence, is a primary source of experience to be derived from nothing before itself;" and also: "Conscience, as a law of duty, is the perception of the right given. in our immediate feeling of the God in whom we have our being." With proving these, and disproving the contradictory propositions, the body of the book is occupied. The method of the argument is tortuous, and is a about this book was its title. Certainly Economics is a more sensible term for the science it concerns, than Political Economy, being at once less cumbrous and more expressive. The termination indicates that this study of "truths in the rough," as Mill calls the conclusions of Political Economy, demands, at last, to be recognized as a science, with conclusions as certain, if not as precise, as those of optics or acoustics. Though seldom used by English writers of eminence, this word was the title of a well-known work of Xenophon, and to-day finds place in our English dictionaries. The growing use of the noun "economist" and the adjective "economic" ought to prepare the way for its adoption. As to the book before us, we cannot commend it. The definitions are loose and inaccurate, and the treatment of topics displays a lack of close reasoning. It is not utterly devoid of originality; it has some discussions of especial value to the American reader; but its failure in the essentials of a scientific treatment of the subject makes it quite unsafe to be put into the hands of beginners. The Jukes; a Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity. R. L. Dugdale. Third Edition. [G. P. Putnam's Sons.] The genealogy of a large family of criminals is here carefully and patiently followed out, and it is shown that "habitual criminals spring almost exclusively from degenerating stocks." Under the fictitious name of "The constantly complicated by extraneous consid- Following our intelligent guide we ramble in Jukes," an account is given of the immense erations. The thought is, to a large extent, imagination through the streets of Leydeň criminal population springing from one ancommonplace and trite. The style is cum- and Hamburg, and along the quays of Rotter- cestress, better known to the public as bered with metaphors and similes, is oratori-dam and Copenhagen, pausing before the "Margaret the Mother of Criminals." This cal and sermon-like. But in spite of the quaint old churches; making ground plans compilation of sad and startling facts must book's literary inferiority, if one doubts the of hospitals, hotels, railway stations, and be of the utmost value to legislators and phifundamental principles with which it deals, other public buildings; sketching ancient lanthropists. Among other tables given is thoughtful reading of its one hundred and gables, decorated façades, and artistic group- one computing the "social damage" occafifty pages may convert his doubts into ings of tower, and arch, and pillow and win- sioned by the Jukes, estimated in dollars, strong convictions. dow; making sure of a cosy interior when which foots up $1,308,000; whereupon our we can get a glimpse of it, with now and statistician justly remarks: then a bit of odd furniture tucked in; and examining with some special care an occasional farm-house which is well-planned and tasteful enough to serve as a model. As a narrative of travel, this book is fresh and en "Over a million and a quarter dollars of loss in 75 years, caused by a single family 1200 strong, taking into account the entailment of pauperism without reckoning the cash paid for whiskey, or and crime of the survivors in succeeding generations, and the incurable disease, idiocy and insanity growing out of this debauchery, and reaching further than we can calculate. It is getting to be time to ask, Do our courts, our laws, our almshouses, and our jails deal with the question presented?" A Journey of an Architect. From the French of Félix Narjoux. [James R. Osgood & Co.] The aspect of this book is instantly inviting. Its generous dimensions, the quiet brilliancy of its exterior, the breadth and beauty of its page, and its profuse illustrations, captivate the eye. The contents. tertaining, taking the reader as it does into abundantly confirm this first pleasant im- a part of Europe not greatly frequented by pression. The journey described was into tourists, and so not much written of. As a and through Holland, by way of Dordrecht, delineation of the haunts and habits of Rotterdam, the Hague, and Leyden, to Am- strange peoples it is graphic and instructive. A Counterfeit Presentment. Comedy. By W. D. Howells. [J. R. Osgood & Co.] sterdam; thence to Utrecht and into Han- As a study of architectural forms it has a posover; across the Elbe at Hamburg into Den-itive artistic and professional value. There is mark; and so on to the island of Funen and no obtrusion of technical details; the treatas far as Copenhagen and Elsinore in Zealand. The author traveled, sketch-book and note-book in hand; his notes were written to illuminate his sketches; and notes and sketches are complementary in supplying the material of this volume. The sketches number not less than two hundred and twentyfive, of which eleven are outside the text. Mr. Howells's Counterfeit Presentment, though in many respects inferior to its predment is popular rather than scientific. By ecessor, Out of the Question, is certainly a the reading of such books as this the mind very entertaining "little classic," and well acquires useful information, the love of beauty in lines and shapes is ministered to, and purer tastes are cultivated. Economics, or the Science of Wealth. By Julian M. Sturtevant. [G. P. Putnam's Sons.] suited to dramatic representation. The characters are not particularly striking, nor has the story anything deserving the name of plot; but the play is true to life, and gives a vivid picture of cultured American society. Its success upon the stage has been already confirmed by the enthusiastic applause of large and discriminating audiences in Cincinnati; yet, while all critics gladly acknowledge the delicacy and refinement of the little comedy, its lack of power is a disappointment; and we feel that the public is right in expecting from Mr. Howells's hand something more substantial than dainty "Valenciennes lace." clear, and its accuracy and authority we have no reason to doubt.- Dr. Sozinskey's essay on Personal Appearance and the Culture of Beauty [Allen, Lane & Scott] has more sense and less nonsense than is usually found in works on that subject; contains, in fact, a large amount of good advice on the care of the person; and is fully entitled to the recommendation we here bestow upon it.Old Grimes, by A. Reeves Jackson, M. D., Prof. Huxley's American Addresses [D. Ap[Chicago: E. F. Dexter] is an exposition in pleton & Co.] comprise his three lectures on burlesque of the familiar stanzas beginning Evolution in New York, in the autumn of "Old Grimes is dead, that good old soul," 1876, and his discourse on the opening of with a show of analysis, textual comment, the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore; and other processes of the criticism of the to which is added in this volume a "Lecture schools. There are a number of rough illus-on the Study of Biology in connection with trations by Frank L. Blake. The brochure the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus," is intended to be funny, but it has not made given at the South Kensington Museum in us laugh. The Catalogue of the Topeka December following.-We do not think much Library Association comprises (1) a Classified of "Service Books for Sunday Schools," but List of books in the library, and (2) an Alpha- perhaps Rev. F. L. Hosmer's The Way of betical Catalogue of Authors represented. Life [G. P. Putnam's Sons] is as good as the For a library of moderate size such a direct- average. In our judgment the minister or ory as this will answer every purpose. The Sunday school superintendent who is not pamphlet is very well printed. The Topeka competent to be his own service-maker would Library opened in April, 1872, with 639 vol- do well to resign his office to somebody else. umes. It now has upwards of 3,000. Mr. E. Wilder is the President of the Association.- M. Cyr's Receuil de Chants Chrétiens contains twenty-four French hymns arranged to music; the whole suited to the devotional use of congregations, schools and families. There is a pleasant quaintness to both the music and the words. • In his series of annotated Shakespearean texts, Mr. W. J. Rolfe has last published A Midsummer Night's Dream. [Harper & Brothers.] This delightful comedy does not offer as great opportunities for the exercise of critical scholarship as a tragedy like Macbeth does, but it is valuable for use in the class-room, and Mr. Rolfe has done his work Dr. David Hunt's Some General Ideas Re- upon it after his previous manner and with specting Medical Reform [A. Williams & Co.] equal fidelity. — In the Holy Roman Empire seems to be put forth for the purpose of crit- [Macmillan & Co.] we have the seventh ediicising a local medical society in Massachu- tion of a work of whose subject it has been setts for alleged illiberality of administration; wittily said, that it was "neither 'holy,'' Robut the scabbard is too heavy and clumsy man,' nor an 'empire."" Mr. Bryce is neverfor the sword.- Under the general title of theless a well-furnished historical scholar and Strength of Man and Stability of Nations an agreeable writer; his treatise has sub[G. P. Putnam's Sons] Pres. Chadbourne of stantial merits; and the supplementary chapWilliams College has published in one vol- ter on the new German Empire is of special ume five "baccalaureate discourses" to as value to the student of European politics at many graduating classes at his institution.- the present time. - Mr. Morris's The Age of The selections composing Mr. Dick's fifth Anne [Epochs of Modern History; Scribner, series of Recitations and Readings [Dick & Armstrong & Co.] contains twenty-two chapFitzgerald] are both in prose and poetry, ters. The last two, depicting the economic and are classified as "humorous, pathetic, and social features of the England of that eloquent, patriotic and sentimental." Some riod, with contemporaneous English and of them might further be classified as silly, French literature, are extremely interesting. coarse and vulgar. There is much in the We had intended to make an extended use volume which is good and suitable for its of this portion of the volume, but the prespurpose, but much also which we consider to sure on our columns forbids. —The most be just the opposite. As a whole we do not important book in a package of the recent approve of it.—The title of Mr. Thomas L. publications of the American Tract Society, Smith's treatise on The Elements of the Laws New York, is the collection of sermons by [J. B. Lippincott & Co.], which may be found metropolitan preachers, entitled God's Word in full under the head of Publications Re-Man's Light and Guide. We have here ceived, sufficiently describes the book. The some good specimens of every-day pulpit author was lately one of the Supreme Court work. Daughters of Armenia, bearing the judges of Indiana. As an exposition of law same imprint, is a record of Christian effort for the ordinary information of the average in the regions where Russian and Turk are citizen it seems to us comprehensive and now contending. pe PSEUDONYMS-OLD AND new. The following list comprises 239 pseudonyms, a large proportion of which are in current use. In the compilation of it we have derived valuable material from Wheeler's Dic tionary of Noted Names of Fiction, and from the Ameri can ibrary Journal. Acheta Domestica, Alastor, A. J. Barrowcliffe, A. Marc Théotime, Amy Lothrup, Artemus Ward, Barry Cornwall, Bettina, Carl Detlef, Carlfried, Robert Southey. Miss Amanda B. Harris. Edmond de Manne. Miss Charlotte Tucker. Anna B. Warner. Bryan Waller Procter. Elizabeth Brentano. Aytoun. Clara Bauer. Charles F. Wingatt. Carl Ziegler. Charles A. Stevens, Henry Jones. Mrs. C. E. Tonna. Thos. G. Fessenden. Christopher Caustic, C. M. Cornwall, De Stendhal, Dupré, Dow, Jr., Edith May, Edmund Kirk, Sir Walter Scott. Charles James Lever. [?] Rev. Edward Bradley. Baron Adolphe d'Avril. Mrs. Mary Gove. Miss Mamie Wilson. Mrs. Horace Manners, Mrs. Manners, Mrs. Partington, Ned Buntline, Old Colony, Owen Meredith, Paul Marcoy, Peter Pindar, Peter Plumley, Petroleum V. Nasby, Phiz, Porte Crayon, P. P., Clerk of This Miss Anna L. Johnson Mrs. Elizabeth Sara Mrs. W. C. Richards. E. Z. C. Judson. Rev. F. N. Zabriskie. Rev. Charles E. Abbott. · Dennie. Shirley Dare, Sir Morgan O'Doherty, Talvi, Una Locke, Violet Fane, Walter Barrett, Clerk, Miss Susan Dunning. Miss Sarah Woolsey. Mrs. Edward Robinson. [a French lady]. Richard Barham. Mrs. U. L. Bailey. Miss [Mrs. ?] Singleton. Mrs. George Marsh. Joseph A. Scoville. Mrs. Julia L. M. Wood- Mrs. E. Jennings. Lieut. R. J. Morrison. TABLE TALK. I beg leave to call attention to a very remarkable parallelism existing between an article entitled "Robert South," found in Prof. Mathews' last book, Hours with Men and Books, and an essay by Mr. E. P. Whipple, which first appeared in the North American Review for October, 1846, and which has since been published in his Essays and Reviews, vol. i, page 372, with the heading "South's Sermons." I will not assert that Prof. Mathews borrowed his ideas and mode of treatLewis Gaylord Clark. ment from Mr. Whipple's essay, but it is certainMiss Louise de la Rame.ly very singular that one man writing in 1846, and Edward Robert Bulwer another in 1877, should treat a subject in identiLytton. cally the same manner, citing the same sermons (of the person under review) in the same order, and both quoting the very same passages. Strange as this may be, still it is not utterly impossible, and there may be a shadow of probability about it; but the article written in 1877 contains several sentences essentially identical, word for word, with sentences used in the same connection - in the essay of Mr. Whipple, written thirty-one years before. I will give one or two examples of this similarity. Lorenzo de Saint-Cricq. The province of the provincialism of pronouncing short e like short a will have to be considerably enlarged. It was common in my boyhood in Strafford Co., N. H. We always said, "The Alder's madder" for "The Elder's meadow." I have even heard the fish perch called parch. To this day the worst word in the English language for me to handle is every. My vocal organs always frame avery till otherwise ordered. After all, what is this but good old English, as clark for clerk? I think Whitney says there is a tendency in this direction in English speech. I believe this is so. It takes culture or fashion or will to head it off. In Kentucky Breckenridge is pronounced Brackenridge. Lombard, Ill. C. C. ... Mr. Cook ought to have revised his work and expunged a few of his many misconceptions of fact, and of his more numerous blunders in logic. Orthodox ministers had better not endorse him too heartily. It will be a misfortune if none but the unorthodox discern and expose his quackery. "ORTHODOX." Seminary-town. ... A CINCINNATIAN has discovered Raphael's Hours. In Notes and Queries, for September 8, 1877 (p. 195), he thus writes: "The Hours of Raffaelle are in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. The interior space in the chapel as far as the iron gate, is divided by ten pilasters into as many panels of different sizes. The pilasters are covered with arabesques, masterpieces of their kind, viz: The Theological Virtues, The Fates, The Divisions of the Day. The origin and history of these decorations have thus been related by De Quincy." But (30.) Is it "esprit de corps," or du corps? (31.) Can you tell me who wrote, "O consisten- No, and we do not think that anybody can. NEWS AND NOTES. Mr. Bryant will be eighty-four years old on the 3d inst. – Mrs. Lydia Maria Child is now living in Wayland, Mass., at the good old age of seventysix. It is more than half a century since she published her first story, The Rebels: A Tale of the Revolution. - Prof. William Everett, of Cambridge, Mass., has undertaken to write a life of his father, the late Edward Everett, and to this end he solicits the use of any letters of his father, portions of auto biography known to have been given away by him, other manuscripts of his, personal reminis cences of his former friends, and similar material. Such a request should meet with the heartiest response. Lowell Institute, a series of twelve lectures on - Bayard Taylor has begun in Boston, at the German Literature, as follows: Beginnings of German Literature, The Minnesingers, The Epics of the Middle Ages, The Nibelungenlied, Literature of the Age of the Reformation, Literature of the Seventeenth Century, Lessing, Klopstock, Wieland and Herder, Schiller, Goethe, Goethe's Faust, Richter. -The North American Review is to be removed to New York, where it will henceforth be pub(32.) Would you have the kindness to let melished by D. Appleton & Co. We learn also that know, through your columns, the origin of the ex-it is in contemplation to change it to a monthly. pression, "Tell it not in Gath.” Troy, N. Y. P. C. R. (34.) On page 133 of Coronation I find the following: "As the British threw a cannon ball into the walls of old Brattle Street Church and left it sticking half way out." Is the author correct? Boston. A. W. S. (35.) Do you know who wrote a book entitled "The Journal of a Naturalist?" My copy was published by Murray, in 1838, and marked fourth edition. (36.) I should like to read some good review of Allston's "Monaldi." Do you know of such? Salem, Mass. W. G. B. Then follows a long extract describing the Loggie by name. At its close the writer resumes to show from mythology that the Hours were at first three and afterwards five. Passing over the mathematical difficulty of dividing a wall by ten pilasters into as many (ten) panels, we are astonished beyond belief by a feat never before performed. We have been told of the taking down of single frescoes, but the frescoes of the Loggie have been transferred by him by a stroke of the pen to the Sistine Chapel. To be sure Barbazzi's engraving (16 1-2 by 27 inches) after Panini's drawing in 1766, of the interior of the chapel shows us no pilasters nor arabesques. The Sistine Chapel and the Loggie have heretofore seemed to be distinct parts of the Vatican, but now that this writer has made them one and the same, let (37.) "A young man married is a man that's us look for his five Hours in Giovanni Volpato's marred." Who is to have credit for the above Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, 47 plates engraved by him and Ottavianni in 1776, on a scale 2 1-2 inches to one foot. We find "The Theological Virtues," etc., and more. We turn the leaves slowly and more slowly, time passes unheeded, charmed as we are by beauty and grace that satiate us before half has been revealed, but no flying Hours meet our eyes, not one of the twelve attributed to Raphael and made known to us here by the Gray Collection. What a sad set those old engravers were! One shows us the Sistine Chapel the gaiety and brightness of Parisian life. The saying got without pilasters and arabesques; another the circulation through its insertion by Dr. O. W. Holmes in his Loggie divided into 13 parts, but not by as many | Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Thus Boston parts with another of its cherished "notions," and the North American itself with another phase of its former character. In the November-December number, Secretary Sherman, ex-Secretary McCulloch, and others, give their views in regard to the resumption of specie payments. -The Harpers are soon to publish a novel, Col. Dunwoddie, Millionaire; a Story of the South of 1877. Although unaccompanied by any name, it is understood to be by a well-known author, whose previous works have proved the foundation of a national fame. The plot is such as to seize upon the reader from the beginning, and to bear him to the end, delineating, as it does, every leading class, if not character and incident, of that section. The effort is to place upon the camera of its pages the actual men and women who are coming again into the seats of power, and it is written with that energy which flows from a passionate personal interest, an energy which will compel the interest of others also. The novel promises to be a literary event. - A library of several thousand volumes of standard works has been given to Mr. Goshorn, by the citizens of Philadelphia, as a testimonial of their appreciation of his services as Director General of the Centennial Exhibition. The editions selected are choice, and the bindings fine, and each volume contains a book-plate, engraved on steel, and having, besides the arms of Philadelphia, the following legend: Presented to the HON. ALFRED T. GOSHORN, at Independence Hall, May 11th, 1877, by the in grateful remembrance of his faithful, courteous, and efficient services AS DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 1876. |