"Prince Dorus; or, Flattery put out of Countenance,' is their principal city [leur cité par excellence] *the a poem. With nine elegant engravings. 2s. 6d. colored, Hub,' that is the middle (viz., of the Universe)." or is. 6d. plain.' "The late Mr. Crabb Robinson records in his Which is the Favorite? Choosing a Profession, Mr. Shepherd, the writer from whom we quote, finds it not difficult to distinguish between the respective poems of the brother and sister, though no names are appended. The brother's, on his own statement elsewhere, are about "one-third of the whole." Mr. Shepherd copies a number of the poems, with comments. Thus: "The following piece I should unhesitatingly attribute to Charles Lamb, from its similarity to a later acknowledged copy of verses by him on Christian names: CHOOSING A NAME. "I have got a new-born sister; I was nigh the first that kissed her. How Papa's dear eyes did glisten! She will shortly be to christen: I shall have the naming of her. Now I wonder what would please her, Ann and Mary, they're too common; They would say, if t'was Rebecca, What do you think of Caroline? I am in a little fever Lest the name that I shall give her I will leave Papa to name her.' "That the following, entitled 'Clock Striking,' is also by Charles Lamb, a curious parallel rhyme in his acknowledged poem of 'Hester' seems to leave little doubt: "Did I hear the church-clock a few minutes ago, I was asked, and I answered, I hardly did know, I was near her, and saw the girl start She shewed the the sound went to her heart.' "Its quaint humor also induces us to claim for Charles Lamb another piece, entitled 'The Sparrow and the Hen,' in which the former complains of having to seek its own food, while the latter is so carefully provided for. The old Hen's answer to the Sparrow's argument is very characteristic: "Have you e'er learned to read?' said the Hen to the Sparrow. 'No, Madam,' he answered, I can't say I have.' "Then that is the reason your sight is so narrow,' The old Hen replied, with a look very grave. "Mrs. Glasse in a Treatise - I wish you could readOur importance has shown, and has proved to us why Man shields us and feeds us. Of us he has need, Ev'n before we are born, even after we die."" One other long-lost work of Charles Lamb's remains to be found: "And he adds in a note: This is not in his collected works, and, as well as two volumes of "Poems for Children," is likely to be lost. We have found the 'Poetry for Children'; who will find 'Prince Dorus?'"" - Mr. E. C. Stedman's recital of an original poem on Hawthorne, before the Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard College, in connection with the recent Commencement, belongs properly to the record of June, but occurred so late in that month (the 28th) as to make it impossible for us to quote from it in our July number. It is now so late that we must limit our quotation to these four stanzas: Sweet harp of Eastern song, That even in slumber tremblest with the touch Made answer quick as flame, To each breath of the shore from which he sprang, Gray on thy mountain hight, More fair than wonderland beside thy streams, Fair maidens, meet for love All living types that to the coast belong Was it not well that one One, if no more - should meditate aloof, Whereof slow Progress weaves her rich apparel, All consecrate to uses that make fair How should the world discern The artist's self, save through the fine creation So calm beyond-unspoken all its dream. -Schoebel, a recent French writer, in a little work entitled Le Mythe de la Femme et du Serpent, has revealed, amongst other discoveries of a sufficiently wonderful nature, what he supposes the American estimate of Boston. He discusses the well-known habit among unenlightened na tions of each fancying itself placed in the geographical center of the world, cites several instances, traces them all back to a primeval tradition of a central Garden of Eden, and sud denly crowns his climax with Boston, as if he supposed it a metropolis of bragging Indian chiefs. He refers to an article on Boston by one Ratzel, in the Kölnische Zeitung of July, 1874, for his authority, and solemnly goes on thus: Not to deny this complimentary estimate of the standing of Boston, as the only American city at all known to Europeans, we still doubt whether M. Schoebel has fully comprehended the fine spirit of the legend of our ingenious townsman, Dr. Holmes, nor do we think there is quite so full a consensus among all Americans (say, for example, of New York City, Duluth, etc.), as he supposes, as to the Bostonian hegemony. We have found in the Gazette Des Tribun aux, a journal of jurisprudence (Paris, June 13), an interesting decision of the "Cour D'Appel De Paris" in the case of the contested will of Jules Michelet. The judgment was based upon the nature of the revenues accruing from literary property. It seems that Madame Michelet, from the time of her marriage, had given her husband no inconsiderable help in his literary work. He himself wrote: "All my fortune has been acquired during my second marriage. To this my wife has contributed, not only by her economy, but very largely by constant assistance. It has been her custom to review my proofs, and prepare my books of natural history by reading, making extracts, etc., and she has even written considerable portions of these books." It was this fact that formed the ground for the litigation. It is the French law that all the revenues from the property of the wife belong to the husband, but he is bound to restore to her the property which she possessed on the day of mar riage or that has fallen to her since. Madame Michelet, having been married under the rule of exclusion of community of property, claimed on the plea of coadjutorship one half the income of four books as her own personal capital. The court, admitting the coadjutorship, showed that the solution of that question did not include the one of awarding to her the profits of that coadju torship. Literary property must not be confounded with the advantages and emoluments it procures. In the case of authors it consists in the exclusive right to sell, or cause to be sold, their works, independently of all profitable exercise of this right. It is the right only which can be regarded in the nature of capital. The pecuniary benefits resulting from its use should be classed as revenues. Consequently the widow Michelet had no claim on the revenues which had accrued during her husband's life-time. One book, however, La Montagne, had been leased to a certain publisher for 25,000 francs, for twenty years, not yet expired. This price could belong exclusively to her husband only for the portion of time corresponding to their connection in marriage. The wife held the right to claim her half from the time of her husband's death until the expiration of the contract. - Mr. Justin Winsor, probably the most accomplished librarian in the United States, leaves the superintendency of the Boston Public Library, which has grown under his administration to be the largest and most successful institution of its class in the country, for the library of Harvard "This idea [viz., of Eden], though in a degen- College at Cambridge, in the charge of which he "In the list of New Books for Children, pub-erated form, is also to be traced as the basis of the will succeed the venerable Mr. John L. Sibley. lished by M. J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, claim of the Americans that their country is the No. 41 Skinner Street,' already quoted, the fol- center of the world; and of their custom, in ac- In his new position Mr. Winsor will have a surer lowing publication is advertised on p. 12: cordance with this claim, of calling Boston, which | tenure, a larger salary, a virtually new building, generous facilities, highly congenial associations, and a most appreciative community to serve. At Harvard he will come near to being that "Professor of Books and Reading" whom Dr. Mathews of Chicago has lately called for, and he might indeed with truth be so entitled. Mr. Winsor is a graduate of Harvard, where he was, we believe, a classmate of President Eliot. The new addition to the library building is about completed. It will at once be occupied by the removal thither of the library from its present position in the old building; which will then be regenerated so as to be not unworthy of its now better half. -The Caxton Celebration in England has proved a fine success. Not less than 160 copies of 80 distinct works printed by Caxton have been brought together in the exhibition at South Kensington; and of 19 known works of Caxton's ing a book on the education of American youth — Prof. E. L. Youmans is at work on an Ameri- -E. P. Dutton & Co. have in preparation EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. ST. ANDREWS ON THE BAY, Where is that? does the reader ask? I will press 16 are represented in fac simile. Of 18 of open to the map of Maine. Follow the coast the works but one copy each is known to exist. The largest number contributed by any one exhibitor is 55 by Lord Spencer. Copies of the fac simile reprint of Caxton's earliest known book, Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, have reached the United States, and are pronounced to be excellent workmanship. To saunter about these sleepy streets, to peer into the curious little shops, to sit and dream on the mossy wharves and watch the idle tide as it «There is nobody here." And the lover of an ebbs and flows, has proved a perpetual pleasure. out-of-the-way life so takes a secret and mildly malicious satisfaction in looking at the huge modern hotel, French roof and all, away on the point, which somebody began to build and was not able to finish; at present unfurnished with guests, and not likely soon to be ready for any. There is a comfortable village inn here, and a spacious and refined-looking English church, and a governor's summer residence, and a county building or two; but the only point of literary interest I have been able as yet to discover is the book-store of Mr. “J. Lockary,” as the weatherbeaten sign reads over the low door of a dingy dwelling on the main street. Mr. Lockary, it should be said, is a dealer in second-hand books. His stock is small, and is more likely to be thirdhand, or fifth, or twentieth, than second. But I have been entertained in looking it over, and in prowling about behind the old counters and among the dusty shelves, and in chatting with Mr. Lockary himself; whose days of bookselling I stumbled on St. Andrews without seeking for are probably about over, and who in his pictur line eastward. Turn up into Passamaquoddy it. Slipping away between papers for a fort-esque den might well have sat for his portrait night's relaxation, I came from Boston to East- even to Dickens. As regularly, I am told, does port by the comfortable sea-going steamer New he take down his shutters and put them up, mornYork. Here, changing boats as the land traveler ing and night, as if his warehouse had "millions changes cars, the New York went on her way to | in it;" and patiently does he wait day by day for St. John, while the swift and trim Belle Brown the customers who I cannot think ever come. A Shakespeare, HENRY VI: Part I. [Act I, Sc. 1.] bore me past Campobello and Deer Islands heartless visitor would cry "rubbish" as he The contents are as follows: My Friend's Library, A Peculiar Case, Familiar Letter to Housebreakers, Our Village Dogmatist, A Watch that "Wanted Cleaning," Bothersome People, The Pettibone Lineage, Getting Home Again, How to Rough it, Pleasant Ghosts, An Old-Time Scholar, Diamonds and Pearls, The Author of "Paul and Virginia," If I Were a Boy Again. These captions give promise of a series of delightful essays, as indeed we know that all must be from the flavor of several which have been already published in the Atlantic or elsewhere. — Prof. W. T. Harris of St. Louis is supervising the preparation of a series of reading-books for schools which will be published by the Appletons. Apropos to this fact the Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican says: "He should go on from that and edit a manual of philosophy, and also a volume of his own essays and addresses, which have now accumulated so as to make a large book, if he would collect them." Hon. Elihu Burritt has completed his Colo nial History of the Farmington Family of Towns, Collated with the Annals of Connecticut. It contains sketches of Farmington, New Britain, Worthington, Kensington, Southington, Bristol, Avon and Burlington, up to the time of the Revolution; the period since then not being entered upon. - towards Calais and St. Stephen, a dozen miles looked in through the door for an instant and then went his way, but I can certify that Mr. Lockary and his books are edifying company for half an hour. What else is there of interest in St. Andrews? To this I will only reply in words once addressed ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Cross and the Crescent. By Dr. L. P. Brockett. A partly descriptive and partly historical account of the countries and peoples involved in the present war in the East. [Hubbard Brothers, Springfield, Mass.] St. Andrews was founded about a century ago. The site was happily selected, and the town rose rapidly in importance, until in fifty years it had become a leading commercial point in the province. Then the currents of trade, like those of the river and bay, began to shift. St. John sprung up on the one side and St. Stephen on the other. Between the two St. Andrews began to fail. Not even the magnetic touch of a railway (the New Brunswick and Canada, running ninety miles north to Houlton and Woodstock) has had its usual effect. The town has become the emblem of repose. Its wide and regular streets are deserted. Its wharves are neglected. Its warehouses are unoccupied. Its old mansions are in ams, D. D. A volume of Dr. Adams's later serstate of incipient decay. But the ancient look mons preached in Boston and in Charleston, of many of the buildings, the quaint bits of ma- S. C., since his trip around the world. [D. Losonry and framework which one espies here and throp & Co. Early.] there, the air of a former prosperity, wealth and The Four Chatauqua Girls at Home. By the culture which prevails, and the generally un-author of Four Girls at Chatauqua. [D. LoAmerican aspect of the whole, lends to the scene throp & Co.] a subtle and strong attraction for one whose tastes turn away unsatisfied from what is new and a gairish and noisy. Moreover, the town lies open to the southward and the sun in cool weather, and exposed to the bay and its breezes in warm. It is enriched by a noble horizon of hills twined with an almost un broken belt of waters, salt or fresh. It rises Discourses at Even-Tide. By Nehemiah Ad volume of letters written to the Boston Transcript. 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