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Hebrew brings them into striking accord. Throughout the work a spirit of judicial fairness is exercised, and only in places are the author's views open to adverse criticism. In the closing chapter twenty-five of the many points of agreement between the two records are given, from which the conclusion is drawn that the Mosaic account of the Creation was inspired of God.

Hector Servadac, or the Career of a Comet. By Jules Verne. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. [Scribner, Armstrong & Co.]

At the beginning of Jules Verne's new book, we have the young French officer, Servadac, with his orderly, suddenly borne from Algeria to an unknown land. After various Crusoe-like adventures, they find several companions in exile, one of whom, an astronomer, discovers that they are on the comet Gallia. The comet, with its startled inhabitants, passes dangerously near several planets, and finally approaches the earth, and the officer and his friends, by means of a balloon, succeed in reaching Algeria again. The book is fully illustrated, and, like all this author's works, is curiously fascinating.

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The wants of all Sunday school teachers and pupils, who follow what are known as the "International Lessons," are well and variously provided for in a number of volumes issued by Henry Hoyt, Boston. Peloubet's Notes is probably the best of the critical, explanatory, and illustrative "helps" to be had. The Question Books accompanying present the same subjects in the old fashioned catechism style. The Sermons by the Monday Club are forty-eight in number, one for each lesson, contributed by the members of a small private association of Trinitarian Côngregationalist ministers, resident mostly in Boston or vicinity. They are fair specimens of the preaching in the denomination they represent. Gold and Gilt is a story after the manner of so much of Sabbath school literature, but with this peculiarity, that each chapter is shaped to illustrate one or two of what are called the "golden|

expansion of several lectures given by the author,
under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian
Association, in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874. Its
eight chapters severally define the relations and
division of responsibilities between the ministry

and the laity in the Christian church, establish
the claims of lay-work as a legitimate province of
church work, define its range and end, discuss
the qualifications for it, point out some of the
mistakes liable to be made in it, and describe the
self-culture which the lay-worker needs.
train of thought is sensible, practical and useful.

The

The Physiology of Mind [D. Appleton & Co.] comprises the first half of Maudsley's well-known work on The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind, but is so fully rewritten and enriched with additional illustration and more profound discussion of the bearing of physiological facts on psychical phenomena, that, from comparison with our copy of the former edition, we feel sure that every one who prizes that will wish to replace it by a copy of this last. — The contents of the third volume of Atlas Essays [A. S. Barnes & Co.], comprising selected papers from the International Review, have for their general theme Labor and the Republic; the several writers being Thomas Hughes, Thomas Brassey, and Edward A. Freeman, all of England; and Dr. Francis Wharton, General Sigel, Prof. A. Walker, E. D. Mansfield, and Judge Cooley, all of the United States. There is no more elegant and convenient Gen-The virtual unity of the volume gives it a certain eral History than that prepared for the use of value. Among the late numbers of Harper's

texts" connected with these lessons for the com

ing year. The plan is manifestly artificial, and
the story is as unlike real life as Sabbath school

Persons, Places and Things. By Popular Writers.
Illustrated. J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Wanderings in Four Continents. Illustrated. J. stories usually are.
B. Lippincott & Co.

In these two heavy and handsome volumes, companions in feature and character, are gathered a variety of papers which have appeared of late in serial form in Lippincott's Magazine. The contents are of that miscellaneous sort which would be gathered by such ramblers over the

earth as Edward C. Bruce and Edward King, who are two of the contributors to the first volume. This volume, if anything, is a trifle lighter than the latter, which is more rigidly held to the purpose of a description of travels in South America, India, European Turkey, interior Asia, Lapland, and Africa. In the two together a vast

schools by Miss M. E. Thalheimer, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., author of other historical works. It is a
volume of less than four hundred pages, well il-
lustrated with engravings and maps, and furnished

with a good index. We think Miss Thalheimer
is more familiar with ancient and medieval times
than with modern history, and the main fault we

find with this volume is that the modern period,

and especially the history of the United States, is
not treated with sufficient fullness. Miss Thal-
heimer does not attempt to arrange her subject

amount of information is given in a manner al-in philosophical periods, but follows the old fashways entertaining and sometimes amusing, with ion of taking up the reigns of sovereigns and famtouches of the romantic in adventure if not of lies of sovereigns as historic divisions. Chilthe thrilling. Both works are of substantial dren ought, on the contrary, to be trained to value, and their form is such as to make them think of the grand march of civilization in history,

attractive to the eye.

The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science. By J. W. Dawson, LL. D., etc. [Harper & Brothers.]

This is a reconstruction, with enlargements and improvements, of a work published by Principal Dawson nearly twenty years since. The author's intellectual position is well known. He is a scientist of attainments and authority, but at the same time a believer in the Bible as a divine revelation. This volume is substantially an exposition, in the full light of scientific fact, of the early chapters of Genesis; a harmonizing of the record of creation, as the author reads it, both in nature itself and in the Hebrew Scriptures.

The Wild Flowers of America. Illustrations by Isaac Sprague. Part II. [H. O. Houghton & Co.]

These beautiful plates are pronounced by competent judges to be the most perfect flower-portraits ever produced by chromo-lithography; indeed, it would be hard to believe that they have

Half-Hour Series are two essays of Macaulay —
The Life and Writings of Addison, and Warren
Hastings; and A Primer of Medieval Literature
by Eugene Lawrence. The latter traces briefly

the progress of literature, and with it of Church,
State, and society, from the twilight of the ninth
to the full dawn of the fourteenth century — from

the court of Charles the Great to Dante. - The

History Primers, of which Mr. Wilkins's Roman Antiquities [D. Appleton & Co.] is one, are similar in form and purpose to the Science Primers

which have been already noticed in these pages. The present volume is a capital one for those who wish a brief but interesting description of Roman life and customs, and is especially valuable to young students who need to be taught by

and not confined to the entrances and exits of such works that the characters of ancient histor
kings and queens, which may or may not have were real men and women, and not vague abstrac
important bearings upon the progress of civilizations.
tion. We have examined the story with some
care, and, so far as we have noticed, it is told
with clearness and accuracy.
Bragg & Co.]

[Van Antwerp,

NOTES ON THE PERIODICALS. -The February number of Harper's Monthly which is heralded by the remarkable statement The Five Problems of State and Religion, dis- that "there has been no year since 1870 when its cussed by Rev. Will C. Wood, are the relation circulation has not been larger than during any of the State to the Sabbath, to the taxation of year of the previous decade," brings the first religious property, to the church; the relation of chapters of new novels by Mr. Black and Thomas State schools to religion; and the relation of Hardy. The latter's, entitled "The Return of State institutions (prisons, etc.) to religion. The the Native," opens upon Egdon Heath in one of volume manifests much logical acuteness and the Wessex counties of England, the description extended historical research, but some crudities of which, and of the figures grouped upon it, is in its style will forbid it to many readers; and as powerfully distinct a piece of word painting as there are critics who will say that the author we have met with for many a day, and in Mr. takes quite too much for granted, and so puts forth | Hardy's peculiar vein. The four chapters are a conclusions which are untenable. [Henry Hoyt.]

Rev. Dr. H. C. Haydn's Lay Effort [A. D. F.
Randolph & Co.] is a little volume made by the

good subject for those of our readers who are interested to study the secret of "art in fiction."

- The February number of Scribner's Monthly is called a Midwinter Number," but beyond the

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cover, which introduces a picture of an open fire
and is flecked with snow-flakes, there is no special
flavor of winter to the contents, unless it be in
the article on "Moose Hunting," which is, indeed,
highly seasonable. The illustrations, some sixty
in number altogether, include a new and strong A fair setting, in the Sullivan ballad style, of
portrait of Abraham Lincoln, striking scenes de- Mr. Whittier's sweet poem, and effective in that
pictive of mining life in California, and a few ex- part which interprets the prayer of the sailor's
quisite cuts showing "the Humming Bird of the wife. Despite some modulations uncalled for by
California Water-Falls" at home. The more the sentiment of the poetry, this ballad is refresh-
important papers are one by Charles F. Thwingingly free from vulgarity.
on "The College Rank of Distinguished Men ;"
one of "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln" by
Noah Brooks; and two on matters of a domes-
tic sort by "Mary Blake," from whom something
is likewise to be found in this number of the Lit-quartette music. The words, too, are weak.
erary World. Fine as the number is we think it
One Christmas Tide. Ballad. By Marion. pp. 2.
would be unjust to Scribner's standard to say cents. [S. Brainard's Sons.]
that it is much above the average, always so high.
The opening chapters of Edward Eggleston's new
serial, "Roxy," have been issued in an 'Extra,"
we may add, with Mr. Stockton's two
"Rudder
Grange" sketches.

- For a brief study of Keats, the man personally and the poet critically, that is a good one which Mr. R. H. Stoddard has published in the December and January numbers of Scribner's under the very vague title, however, of "After Many Days." "I think," said Keats in a letter to his brother George in 1818, "I shall

Rolling Swiftly Down the Stream. Quartette for Male
Voices. By C. Coe. pp. 5. 40 cents. [S. Brainard's
Sons.]

A solo of the Italian school for soprano or ten-portance of the adjustment of faith to its new suror, marred at the close by a long operatic cadenza roundings; and withal, a rational confidence that sadly out of keeping with the spirit of the text. religious belief "may prove itself able to survive The Sailor's Wife. Ballad. By A. Stones. pp. 3. vigorously even in the midst of those theories of cents. [S. T. Gordon & Son.] evolution which constitute, undoubtedly, the general environment of thought in our generation." He modestly expresses the hope that his essay may contain, under one point of view, "a restatement of the evidence of things not seen, somewhat more in harmony with the present condition of our knowledge "than usually prevails, and which may, in some degree, "help on the general movement towards a faith at once simpler, more rational, and more assured." That he is, philosophically, a pronounced intuitionalist should not prejudice a Christian believer against his line of argument for the validity of the idea of God; and this argument is worked out in such accordance with the doctrine of development and with such insight into modern scientific ideas, as to commend it to the consideration of the evolutionist. If these few words show that we read the book with other eyes than those of the November reviewer, that may also appear from the fact that we find one hundred and seventy-one pages where he found only one hundred and fifty. Cambridge.

A flimsy composition, and no acquisition to

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The composer of this ballad evidently aspires to be a second Claribel -a song-writer for the people; but folk-songs should be born, not made. The melody of the trifle before us might have been written a year or two in advance of the words; we fail to find much relation between the

two.

INSTRUMENTAL.

Air. By G. A. Hasse. No. 2 of Selections from the
Old Masters. By N. F. Auerbach. pp. 3. 40 cents. [G.
Willig & Co.]

A stately, old-fashioned melody, carefully fin

...

A. GRAY.

However much the critics may differ con-cerning the truth of the theory of married life on

be among the English poets after my death." gered for the piano, and written in a pure style which Miss Phelps has based her novel, they

"Great Poet," adds Mr. Stoddard reverentially, "the world thinks so too, after many days." With this essay in one hand and Lord Houghton's edition of Keats [Roberts Brothers] in the other, one may acquire by a few hours' careful reading a very satisfactory general knowledge of Keats

and his work.

-The first number of D. Lothrop & Co.'s Boston Book Bulletin was issued in December, and well met the expectations raised by the announcement of its proprietors, who are an enterprising publishing and book-selling firm in Boston. The editor, Mr. C. A. Nelson, has just gone West to a professorship in a Missouri College, but this arrangement, it is said, will not af

which will commend itself to all conscientious
teachers of the art.

Canon en Forme de Marche. Par F. Dulcken. pp. 4.
50 cents. [E. Schuberth & Co.]

must agree that the book is a genuine work of art, and shows great skill in the delineation of the inner springs of human life and thought. It is full of delicate and suggestive touches. A word sometimes is a picture. The subtle delineation of a mother's feeling for her daughter is an unusually beautiful touch of nature. Avis's mother "looked into her eyes for a long moment, with that instinctive assurance of sympathy and impulse of confidence which from the hour when the baby's face is first upturned to hers, a mother Funeral March of a Marionette. By Gounod. Arranged feels at times in the presence of a woman-child." for Piano by F. Dulcken. pp. 6. 50 cents. E. Schuberth & Co.]

Nothing is gained by the absurd habit of printing in French the titles of American issues of new music. This canon in march form is well defined by melodious and uninterrupted imitation, and is a solid piece of writing, proving that its composer possesses an artistic soul as well as a cunning hand.

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fect his relations to the Bulletin, the second of this comically lugubrious composition. The subtle accord with the pathos or tragedy of Avis's

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- We are glad to add to the list of periodicals / the music. The orchestral characteristics are re-fabric of the book, and explains its quaint title.

coming to our office, the unique and elegant Portfolio, whose series for 1878 is likely to surpass that of any previous year, and concerning which our readers may expect to hear henceforth with some regularity. Mr. J. W. Bouton, of New York, is its American Publisher, and the reduction of its price from $12 to $10 a year, just announced, signifies how rapidly it is coming into knowledge and favor in this country.

NEW SHEET MUSIC.

VOCAL.

Ave Maria for Soprano and Alto, with Organ Accompaniment. By Carl Richter. pp. 6. 50 cents. [E. Schuberth & Co.]

This is not a very melodious duet, but it bears evidence of musician-like workmanship. The monotony of the sixteenth-note accompaniment is varied by judicious changes in the harmony. In style it leans to the healthy side of musical art. O Salutaris. By B. G. Fontana. pp. 4. 35 cents. [S.

Gordon & Son.]

produced as vividly as possible in this piano copy.
The Evening Bell. Descriptive Piece for Piano. By
Mendelssohn. pp. 5. 40 cents. [C. H. Ditson & Co.]

A light composition, but bright and beautiful;
therefore, Mendelssohnian. An engraver's error
leaves the first E in the tenth measure on the
fourth page flat instead of natural.

I'll Think of Thee. Waltz. By E. H. Sherwood. PP. 7. 50 cents. [S. T. Gordon & Son.]

Tuneful, and correctly written, but of no de

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Thus the birds are irresistibly and blindly drawn toward the cruel glare of the light-house, just as Avis herself is drawn toward Philip; the wound

ed blue jay she gives into Ostrander's keeping, "lies dead upon his breast; a robin builds her nest in the elm-tree outside Avis's window "with an eye that withdrew itself like a happy secret," in the spring before Avis's baby comes; and a bird, after that pathetic and final parting under the live-oak, rises like Philip's departing spirit, in the day-break out of the depths of the Florida forest. Those husbands and wives who, consciously or unconsciously, are letting their priceless married love slip out of their hearts, might read with quickened insight the story of those days when they too seemed to be alone in a new and strange world, and were gradually winning back their lost love. The scene where Avis hears the petty squabbling of the " Smiths," on the other side of the thin partition, and her heart cries out to them,

"You - it is not too late for you - save your love! Oh! save your married love!"

bught to startle more than one sluggish conscience. The last chapters are disappointing. The prospect that Avis's daughter will succeed where the mother has failed is as unsatisfactory as it is uncertain. Neither is it natural that troubles so patiently and courageously borne should leave Avis with nothing but "a barren brain, and broken heart, and stiffened fingers." We feel rather that she might have seen again the vision of "a face, dim, brightening, blinding beneath a crown of thorns," and that now she might have reverently said, "I am no longer unworthy." MARY BLAKE.

. . I enclose some verses which have struck my fancy, and which you may possibly think worth preserving. They purport to be a version of the original and well-known "Jim Crow," and may interest those of your readers who only know that droll thing in English. In this dress, the piece has never, to my knowledge, appeared in print; it is believed to have been composed by the late Lt. Col. Auchmuty R. Wainwright, U. S. A., brother-in-law of Adjutant Gen. E. D. Townsend. The MS. of which the enclosed is a copy, is in the possession of Mr. W. E. P. French,

of this city.

Washington, D. C.

ELLIOTT COUES.

"JIM CROW."

En Amérique j'ai fait des sauts,

En Angleterre aussi ;

En France j'irai, s'il le faut,
Pour sauter quand je cris—

Je tourne, retourne, je caracole,
Je fais des sauts-
Chaque fois je fais le tour,
Je saute "Jim Crow."

Depuis mon émigration

J'ai vu des choses si drôles,

J'en ferais la relation,

En faisant mes caracoles

Je tourne, retourne, etc.

En Angleterre on aime la bière,
En France on aime la danse;
En Irelande les pommes-de-terre,
Et "visky" à l'outrance-
Je tourne, retourne, etc.

Parmi toutes les nations
Si j'ai une préférence ?
(On a fait l'interrogation),
Voici la différence-

Je tourne, retourne, etc.

Je dis sans hésitation,

Je sens la vérité —

J'adorerai la nation

Qui me donne la liberté-
Je tourne, retourne, etc.

J'ai bien des vers à chanter,
C'est pour demain au soir;
Des contes que j'ai inventé —
Adieu donc!-au revoir!

Je tourne, retourne, etc.

Ada B. Pierce read from the Literary World the anniversary tributes to Whittier of his brotherpoets, Longfellow and Holland. Charles Kortrecht spoke of the Quaker origin of the poet, and of the distinctive principles of the Friends concerning the equality of all men, as reappearing in Whittier's poetry. Judge J. O. Pierce read an essay on "Whittier as a Poet," giving some analysis of his poetry and its peculiar beauties, illustrated with frequent quotations from the poems, and ascribing to him the highest qualities of the imagination. The unassuming poet was described as "America's 'Man of Airlie,' the sweet and gentle-hearted singer of our folk-songs along the whole country side, who does not wait till he is infirm with extreme age, or crazed by years of neglect, before discovering that he is appreciated by his people," All the exercises of the evening's entertainment were devoted to the honor of the modest "Hermit of Amesbury."

Memphis, Tenn.

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NEWS AND NOTES.

- Hon. Elihu Burritt, of New Britain, Conn., who is just recovering from a severe illness, is said to have inaugurated, in the town where he lives, a series of evening entertainments for the people, consisting of readings, recitations, dialogues, essays, singing, etc., to which an admission fee of two cents is charged, merely to cover expenses, and, perhaps, to save a little self-respect on the part of such as attend. Such a plan, with features varied to suit the locality, is an excellent one, and might well be imitated generally. As one result of it we should probably have in time more "learned blacksmiths."

-The last list of civil pensions granted by Queen Victoria includes £150 each to the widows of Mr. George Smith, the Assyrian archæolBar-ogist, and Mr. Edward William Lane, the Arabic scholar; £100 to the widow of Dr. Bleek, the linguist and South African scholar; and £75 to each of three maiden ladies, Miss Mary Ann, Miss Jane Amelia, and Miss Sarah Frances De Foe, the last lineal descendants of the author of Robinson Crusoe.

. . . It is pleasant to know that Mrs. bauld's lines on Life, so much admired by Wordsworth and Rogers, were favorites with Dr. Kirk. But his biographer (Life of E. N. Kirk, p. 420.) has first ascribed them to Mrs. Browning, and then so misquoted them, losing both rhythm and meter, that the poetess herself would scarcely recognize them. Of eight lines quoted, only two are given correctly. Such carelessness is hardly excusable in the case of a poem so widely known and so easily found. Andover, Mass.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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— L. Prang & Co., the noted lithographers of Boston, seem about embarking in a regular publishing business. They announce an American edition of Prof. Overbeck's work on Pompeii, brought down to date, and including all the views and plans of the third German edition, some three hundred and fifty in number; Illustrations of the History of Art, a chronological collection,

(46.) Can you inform me where I can find the indexed, of about four thousand of the best wood

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(47.) I would like to know the author of the letters and sentiments composing the Tribute, following:

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(48.) Is it savants or savans? More frequently of late the first than the second, in the use of our periodical literature; but the CongregationalYour birthday testimonial to Whittier re-ist of Dec. 26, gives it editorially savans, dropping ceived a prompt and fitting response in Memphis. the in the plural; yet Webster says savants; The anniversary was celebrated here, on the but again, on the other side, Soule and Wheeler's night of the 17th inst., by the "Social Union Lit- Manual pronounces this an incorrect English erary Society," which devoted the entire evening usage. Then, which is it anyhow? J. T. T. to the Quaker Bard. The hymn which closes the "Tent on the Beach" was sung by a quartette

Boston.

choir. Col. L. B. Eaton read an analytical essay as this, but we suppose savant to be the correct word. Its We claim no authority in the adjudication of such a point on "Poetry," and J. B. Clough spoke of "Amer-plural is savans; hence is not savan an obvious corruption? ican Poetry" in historical retrospect, from the revolutionary days down to Whittier. Rev. Da- (49.) Can you give me any information convid Waek, of the "Christian" church, read "At cerning a book called Self Training, by Mrs. H. Port Royal" with touching emphasis; and Mrs. | O. Ward, of New York, a compilation from the

were distributed among the pupils for recitation, and the exercises thus provided were extended and enriched by a variety of addresses, music, etc., all relating to the occasion. A full account appeared in the Winona Republican of Dec. 18, occupying several columns of that paper.

- The old New York publishing house of J. B. Ford & Co. has passed out of existence, but reappears in a reconstructed and enlarged form as Fords, Howard and Hulbert. The most faWard Beecher's Life of Christ (namely, books, mous of the assets of the old firm, Rev. Henry plates, contract, etc.) was sold at auction for $1000 to a Mr. Wright; whose use of it remains to be seen. The new firm will occupy itself chiefly with the publishing of subscription books. Its first issue of importance will be Mrs. Stowe's Union as a serial under a little different name. Poganuc People, now running in the Christian

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promises a biography of Christopher Columbus. - Mr. Louis J. Jennings, the well-known London correspondent of the New York Times, is the editor of The Week, a new weekly journal in London. Mr. Thomas Wright, of England, lately deceased, was one of the founders of the British Archæological Association, and an industrious contributor to Frazer's Magazine, the Art Journal, and other periodicals. — Mr. T. Edward, the shoemaker-naturalist of Banff, Scotland, whose life by Samuel Smiles was one of the most interesting publications of the past year, has been elected a corresponding member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, a unique and signal honor.

Mr. Samuel Adams Drake, whose Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex is one of the richest and most delightful volumes of New England antiquities, has in preparation an elaborate history of the same Massachusetts county, which will be published by Estes & Lauriat, of Boston, in two large volumes at $7.50 each, provided a sufficient number of subscribers can be obtained. Subscribers are also wanted, at $2.50 each, for a complete index to the North American Review, | from its commencement, which has been written by Mr. William Cushing of the Harvard College Library.

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