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ume is very good. But such a work cannot and zine. As no one of the weekly issues of the Jourwill not be completed in three volumes. Therefore, nal came to hand, the first opportunity for an exwe are dissatisfied with the additional announce- amination of the new enterprise is afforded by the ment that Mr. Godwin has a purpose of writing on two monthly parts now before us. No one can Political Science, which he "intends shall be the take even a casual glance at them without being crowning work of his life." If Lord Macaulay had at once impressed in the most favorable manner. manfully resisted the liberal pecuniary offers to The plan, in comparison with that of other publiwrite several biographies of illustrious political cations of the same general class, is in a marked and literary men for the last edition of the "Ency- degree distinctive. The Journal is in fact, as well clopædia Britannica," he would probably have been as by its title, devoted to Science, Literature, and able to write an additional volume or two of his Art, and it therefore occupies no space with ordibrilliant, if one-sided History of England; perhaps nary news or partisan advocacy, either political or to bring it down to the accession of the House of sectarian. The pictorial illustrations, both on Hanover. When an author has part of a work steel and on wood, are numerous, even more being before the public, he is morally bound to complete performed in this respect than is promised, for that before he turns to another subject. each of the numbers before us contains a tasteful

M. W. DODD, New York, will shortly publish, Art-Supplement. The execution of these engravamong other valuable works, a volume which will, ings is spirited and artistic, and those accompanythere is scarcely any doubt, be received with con- ing the text of "New York Illustrated" are espesiderable favor-namely, " Lamps, Pitchers, and cially attractive. The contents of the Journal are Trumpets." It is to be composed of lectures on diversified; they cover a wide range of subjects, the vocation of the preacher, and illustrated by an- and are written with marked ability. ecdotes-biographical, historical, and elucidatory-lengthy articles, as well as the numerous brief para

of every order of pulpit eloquence from the great preachers of all ages. As the subject is one of general interest, and as the style is said to be very animated, the work will be likely to constitute a repertory of anecdote and humorous story, from which instruction and harmless amusement can be drawn at pleasure.

The same publisher will shortly issue "Uncle John's Flower Gatherers: a Companion for the Woods and Fields," with nine beautiful illustrations; and "Philip Brantley's Life Work, and How he Found It," also illustrated-two works which are likely to afford both entertainment and instruction to our juvenile friends.

D. VAN NOSTRAND, New York, announces a highly valuable list of works on applied science. Among these is a new edition of "Weisbach's Mechanics," Part I., translated from the fourth enlarged and improved German edition, by Eckley B. Coxe, A.M., Mining Engineer. It will form a volume of eleven hundred pages, with nearly one thousand wood-cut illustrations. A new edition of this work has been urgently needed; and the mere announcement of its appearance will be grateful news to many persons who are interested in mechanics and engineering.

REVUE DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL ET DE LÉGISLATION COMPARÉE. We have received from Westermann & Co., New York, the first number of a new quarterly, which has just made its appearance at Paris, the general scope of which is indicated by the title. It is edited by Professor T. M. C. Asser, of Amsterdam; G. Rolin-Jaequemyns, advocate, of Gands; and J. Westlake, Esq., of London. The names of about one hundred contributors on the Continent and in England, and of a few in the United States, are announced. Those named from this country are W. B. Lawrence, Professor Lieber, and Mr. Matile. The present number of the "Revue" contains ten articles, the authors of which are: Jaequemyns, Jozon, Wirth, Holtzendorff, Asser, Westlake, and Fodéré. Mr. Westlake's paper is the first of a series, in which he proposes to discuss naturalization and expatriation, or change of nationality. Holtzendorff's is an examination of the recent publications on penitentiary discipline. The "Revue" will form an annual volume of from 512 to 540 pages, the subscription price being five dollars in gold.

APPLETON'S JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. We have received from the publishers the first and second monthly parts of this new maga

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graphs, are fully up to the most recent phases of the subjects to which the Journal is devoted, and it is easy to see that the proprietors have brought to bear on their new enterprise all the diversified resources, and the full energies of their great publishing house. As a sample of this, we may mention that Victor Hugo's new story, "The Man Who Laughs," has been secured for the Journal at an expense of 300,000 francs. The subscription price, four dollars a year, when the amount of matter furnished is considered, must be regarded as quite moderate. The two numbers before us contain together 288 pages, exclusive of supplements, and they are retailed at fifty cents each. We believe periodical as this, and in the hands of such pubthere is ample field in this country for just such a lishers as Appleton & Co., it cannot fail not only to be an eminent success, but to be a powerful tasteful sentiment among our people. instrumentality in developing a pure, sound, and

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. have in course of preparation two new works by two popular authors, namely: "The Countess Gisela," by E. Marlitt, author of "Gold Elsie," etc., translated by Mrs. A. L. Wister; and a new story by Ouida, author of Tricotrin," "Strathmore," etc.

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"Beatrice," a charming poem by the Hon Roden Noel, which was received with much favor by the English reviewers, has been republished in this country by the same firm, in a neat 16mo. volume.

THE Catholic Publication Society, New York, of which Mr. Lawrence Kehoe is general agent, has its books got up in a very tasteful manner. The illustrations of even the smallest work are admirably executed. We may particularly notice the last two volumes: Lady Herbert's "Impressions of Spain," with its really superb architectural views and landscapes; and "Glimpses of Pleasant Homes," a delightful juvenile story book, with numerous domestic scenes. A great deal is expected from a work in the press, "Roma Sotterranea," treating of the Roman Catacombs, to be illustrated by woodcuts, chromo-lithographis, etc., printed in Rome, under the special superintendence of De Rossi. will be a splendid book, and one which Christians of all denominations will gladly have on their parlor tables and on their library shelves.

It

THE RIVERSIDE MAGAZINE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FOR 1869. The "Riverside" has found for itself so steadfast and enthusiastic a circle of readers, that the publishers, in making the customary announcement of a new volume, state that they feel it unne

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rare.

Bound in full levant morocco, gilt edges, by

Bedford.

Fourth edition. Capitally bound in sprinkled calf, super extra, old style, by W. Pratt.

The whole series are offered for $3500.

A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co., of New York, have imported an edition of a recent London book, entitled "The Golden Chain of Praise, Hymns by Thomas H. Gill, author of 'The Papal Drama,' The hymns are original, and the work is considered a valuable contribution to English hymnology.

etc.

cessary to dwell largely upon what has been done; the spirit and form of the magazine will remain the same, but new life will be infused, and they look forward with pleasure to the numbers for the year 1869, for they are sure that the plans which they have laid will render the third volume a greater success than the two preceding ones even; and the "Riverside" means to make good the saying that it can only be compared with itself. Hans Christian Andersen has consented to become a regular contributor; Mrs. Helen C. Weeks has given the result of actual experience among the Ojibway Indians, in a serial called "White and Red." The "Stories from Shakspeare," which have been a characteristic of the "Riverside," will be followed by a selection of stories, by the same writer, from Chaucer and Spenser. Invention is said to be "The History of the Devil." Daniel and Art will occupy a prominent place, and experts will describe the process of manufacture. Adventure and Travel will be presented in some very animated papers. Ample provision has been made of that light and graceful literature, prose and poetry,

for which the "Riverside" has become famous. The Bible will be illustrated in a manner to keep the young to a right understanding and appreciation of its pages.

THE American Sunday School Union has recently published "An Alphabetical Index to the New Testament." It is adapted to any edition, the references being to chapter and verse. What the author says in his preface will be heartily concurred in by scholars; and though the present index embraces only seventy-five pages, it is poor commendation to say that, for its convenience, it is invaluable to any Bible student who does not possess a copy of Cruden.

THE "Nassau Literary Magazine," which is issued quarterly by a corps of editors chosen annually from the Senior Class of Princeton College, has now been published twenty-five years, and with the number for June enters upon another volume. is in a flourishing condition.

It

THE first number of the new monthly medical journal, to be styled the "Journal of the Gynæcological Society of Boston," will be issued on the first day of July next. As its title implies, it will be devoted to the diseases of women. That it deserves success may be inferred from the professional reputation of its editors.

We have received Part VII. of the valuable work, "A Guide to the Study of Insects, and a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops," by A. S. Packard, Jr., M. D. It is scarcely necessary to state that, for scientific knowledge, for skill in description of the habits of insects, and for artistic illustrations, this work is creditable to our country. It is from the press of the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts.

A GENTLEMAN in New York has in hand for sale a series of the folio editions of Shakspeare's Plays,

as follows:

First edition. This is a perfect copy, as far as regards the text, the two last leaves in most wonderful fac-simile by Harris. Bound in full crimson morocco by Bedford.

Second edition. Very fine large clean copy. Bound in full Russia, gilt edges, by Clarke.

Third edition. This is a copy of the second issue of the third edition, having the seven spurious plays added, their names printed on the title-page. Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, extra, by W. Pratt

GRACE GREENWOOD has sold her "Little Pilgrim" to Alfred L. Sewell & Co., of Chicago, publishers of that admirable juvenile, "The Little Corporal." THE Rev. Mr. Alger's work, not yet completed,

De Foe used that title a long time ago.

A NEW edition of Poe's poems, beautifully printed on toned paper, with portrait and illustrated frontispiece to the Raven, by John Tenniel (cartoonist in " Punch"), is in preparation by W. J. Widdleton, New York.

AMONG the forthcoming works in Roberts Brothers' Handy-Volume Series will be "A Day by the Fire," Hunt: "Poems of Rural Life," in Common English, and other papers hitherto uncollected, by Leigh and illustrated title. We believe, but are not cerby William Barnes, with twelve superb illustrations tain, that two amusing works by Mr. C. F. Burnand, author of "Happy Thoughts," will also appear in this excellent series.

MR. J. R. SYPHER, of Philadelphia, author of the "School History of Pennsylvania," is writing a similar work on New Jersey for J. B. Lippincott & Co.

MR. EPES SARGENT'S "Planchette," which first appeared in Roberts Brothers' Handy-Volume Library, has been republished in London.

MISS ALCOTT, whose "Little Women," two very delightful volumes, is having a great sale, is writing a novel of "New England Life and Manners," which Roberts Brothers, Boston, will also publish.

JEAN INGELOW's new book, "Mopsa, the Fairy," which Roberts Brothers, of Boston, have in the press, is in prose, but is studded with charming lyrics and snatches of song.

THE "Life of John James Audubon," the naturalist, published by G. P. Putnam & Son, New York, was written by his widow, sent over to London with five volumes of Audubon's diaries, &c., worked up into a taking volume for the English market by Robert Buchanan, the poet, and is now brought here with revision and additions. Other volumes, containing the Diary, will probably follow.

ROBERT DALE OWEN is writing "Debatable Land between this World and the Next."

York Tribune," is now in Europe, his second visit MR. GEORGE RIPLEY, literary editor of the "New within a couple of years.

PETERSON'S "Counterfeit Detector and Bank Note List" for June 1st has, as usual, been promptly received, its pages filled with the information of which it makes a specialty. This publication is indispensable to every man in business.

TRUBNER & Co. have begun the publication, in eight volumes, of the Rig-Veda-Sanhita (the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans), translated and explained by Max Müller, Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford. The first volume, Third edition. This is a copy of the first issue of which has just appeared in London, contains the third edition, published before the seven spu-"Hymns to the Maruts, or the Storm-Gods," and rious plays were added. In this state it is very consists of 356 pages octavo.

JUNE 1, 1869.

JOHN NEAL, of Boston, who was a contributor to "Blackwood's Magazine" as far back as 1824, will have his "Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life" published by Roberts Brothers.

R. H. STODDARD, the poet, is editing an illustrated annual for 1869-70, to be published by George A. Leavitt, New York.

Or the Tauchnitz edition of the New Testament, from the three best manuscripts, 25,000 copies have already been sold. This forms volume 1000 of the Tauchnitz republication of works in the English language.

GARIBALDI is stated to have employed his leisure at Caprera in writing a novel, which will be called "Celia; or, Roma Militante."

PRINCE NAPOLEON (Jerome), who is second in the line of succession to the imperial crown of France, is reported to have lately finished a work upon what the Bonaparte family have done since the death of the great Napoleon. Its character may be guessed from "Monarchical Democracy," its intended title. THE writings of Mr. John Ruskin, the art-critic, have been collectively put into twenty octavo volumes by his London publishers. It would have paid them well if this voluminous and variable author had accepted a thousand pounds to abridge the twenty volumes into five. So presented, they would have a fair chance of becoming standard, because popular. As it is, the coming time, unable to take them as they are, voluminous as well as luminous, may drop them on the way.

It is said that Victor Hugo has received 200,000 francs (equal to $40,000 in gold) for his novel, "L'Homme qui Rit." Having read it, in the generally correct translation in " Appleton's Journal," and also in the original French, we cannot avoid arriving at the conclusion that no publisher will ever again run the risk of paying too largely for any work by that great, but unequal author.

"QUIDA," whose story, "Under Two Flags," has been dramatized for one of the London theatres, declares that this has been done without her consent, and that she has not sanctioned "such a piracy" in any way.

Most of the London daily journals have imitated "The Times" in giving a table of contents. Many of the weekly papers have done this for years.

MR. FREDERICK HUDSON, for many years managing editor of the "New York Herald," is said to be writing a book upon Journalism, in which his experience has been extensive.

THE Poems of the late Earl of Carlisle, known in the United States as Lord Morpeth, have been collected by his sister, and published in one volume. They are of the class called "occasional," and were composed between 1821 and 1863, and may be welcome to the noble author's relatives and friends, their character, as we are told by a competent critic, being that they "have light without fire, and form without color."

"HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE AND MANAGE HER" has

been suggested as a title of a book which might be written by an English lady who has produced several works on choosing and furnishing a house, and on living in it at a very small expense.

MRS. OLIPHANT's new story," The Three Brothers,' to be begun as a serial in the June number of “St. Paul's" (London), will be illustrated by F. A. Fraser.

"RED AS A ROSE IS SHE" is the new serial, by the author of "Cometh Up as a Flower," begun in the May number of "Temple Bar."

MR. WILLIAM JORDAN, for over forty years editor of the "London Literary Gazette," and now in his eighty-seventh year, is preparing the unpublished writings of Samuel Lover, author of "Rory O'More," for the press, with a biographical introducLover left a number of songs, and at least one poem of some length.

tion.

A SECOND-HAND bookseller in Dublin has printed a catalogue containing the names of twelve hundred readable volumes by Irish authors.

THE "London Bookseller," discussing the copyright question, says: "An English author has no rights whatever in the United States." But, of the American author: "By a fluke he has secured THE Copyright of "Once a Week," the literary rights which he never dreamed of, and by means of publication established by Bradbury & Evans, Lon- our Copyright Law may obtain privileges denied don, on the cessation of Dickens' "Household him by his own. His plan is simply this: having Words," and the commencing of "All the Year prepared two copies of his MS., he places one in the Round," is to be sold by auction on June 15th. It hands of his Boston or New York publisher, with is edited at present by Mr. E. S. Dallas, who is hus- directions to publish on a certain day; the other band of Miss Glyn, formerly an actress, but now a he forwards to a London house, with directions to teacher of reading and elocution, as she adver- publish at the same time. Just before the day of tises, "to Statesmen, Clergymen, and Barristers, as publication, which is possibly at that time of the well as to Ladies." With the copyright will pass year when Saratoga is an abode more agreeable the right to continue "Once a Week," which has a than the Fifth Avenue, he proceeds to the Canadian respectable circulation. Fifteen hundred first class side of the Falls. Here he spends a few hours, and copyright wood-cuts, engraved by Swain, from draw- then returns, without encountering more inconings by the leading artists and best known book-venience than saving his hotel expenses by buying designers in England, which have been published a suit of clothes, on which he pays duty on his rein "Once a Week," will also be sold. The recent turn. Thereupon he finds that by so simple a prodeath of Mr. Bradbury, of the firm of Bradbury & cess he has obtained copyright in the United States, Evans, is assigned as the principal reason for this in the dominion of Canada, in Australia, India, property thus changing hands. France, Germany, and Great Britain! We can imagine the lively twinkle of his eye as he crosses the Suspension Bridge, to think what 'cute people the Britishers are to have secured all these privileges for him."

A PICTURE, representing Damascus, which F. E. Church, the American artist, has painted for an English collector, is now on free exhibition in Lon

don.

IT having been declared that in the political novel, "Phineas Finn," the character of Mr. Turnbull, a very downright and impracticable as well as clever publicist, was meant for Mr. Bright, now a cabinet minister, a letter from Mr. Anthony Trollope has appeared denying that Mr. Bright was the original.

DR. W. H. RUSSELL, who was not present at Bull Run, accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales in their recent tour in the North of Europe, Egypt, Jerusalem, Turkey, Greece, and the Crimea, and his narrative is to be published, with numerous illustrations, by Messrs. Routledge & Co., London.

JUNE 1, 1869.

THE Count de Paris, eldest grandson of and heir to the late Louis Philippe, Citizen-King of France, has been fortunate in having his book on "The Trades' Unions of England" ably translated by N. J. Senior, and edited by Thomas Hughes, M. P., author of "Tom Brown's School-Days." A work on the Military Institutions of France," by the Duc d'Aumale, one of Louis Philippe's sons, has been translated and annotated, with the author's consent, by Captain Ashe, and, like the other, is published by Chapman & Hall, London.

MR. WILLIAM MORRIS, author of "The Earthly Paradise," is joint-translator, with E. Magnusson, of "Grettis Saga: the Story of Grettis, the Strong," from the Icelandic, just published in London.

PERIODICALS.

Harper's Magazine. June.

The Aurora Borealis.-Too Late.-Winter on the
Plains.-Military Pyrotechnics of Former Days.-
Said Pacha of Egypt.-Deliverance Armstrong.-
A Cornish Carnival.-A Brave Lady.-My Enemy's
Daughter (J. McCarthy).-Leo and Luther.-The
Tragedies of a Feathered Family.-Lucy's Choice.—
Diana Pollville's Prisoner.-British Wild Flowers.
-Pawnbrokers and Loan Offices.-The Primer of
the World.-William Bradford's Love Life.-Edi-
tor's Easy Chair.-Editor's Book Table.-Monthly
Record of Current Events.-Editor's Drawer. New
York: Harper & Brother.
Atlantic Monthly. June.

A NEW book of travels, by Captain Richard H. Malbone an Oldport Romance: concluded (T. W. Burton, has just appeared: "Explorations of the Higginson).-Norembega (J. G. Whittier).-The Highlands of the Brazil; with a full Account of the Hamlets of the Stage.-Earthquakes (N. S. Shaler). Gold and Diamond Mines; also, Canoeing down The Foe in the Household: Part IV.-By the Fifteen Hundred Miles of the great River São Fran- Roadside (Celia Thaxter).-Birds' Nests (J. Burcisco, from Sabarà to the Sea." roughs).-Buddhism; or the Protestantism of the “A COUNTY FAMILY" is the title of a new original | East (J. F. Clarke).-A Carpet-Bagger in Penusylserial tale just commenced in " Chambers' Journal."vania (J. T. Trowbridge).-China in our Kitchen WITHOUT having concluded his biography of (C. C. Coffin).-The Pacific Railroad Open: No. III. Julius Cæsar, the Emperor Napoleon, it is said, is (S. Bowles).-Reviews and Literary Notices. Boswriting a "Life of Charlemagne." ton: Fields, Osgood & Co.

J. C. HOTTEN, of London, has published a popular edition of Mr. John Bright's "Speeches on Public Affairs of the last Twenty Years"-three hundred and seventy pages for thirty-two cents. At present, Mr. Bright is the most popular orator in England.

Putnam's Magazine. June.

Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal (E. de Leon). Upon the Beach (S. W. Duffield).-A Stranded Ship: concluded (L. C. Davis).-Summer Pictures (C. P. Cranch).-My Brass Valise (F. R. Stockton). The Euroclydon (F. Copcutt).—Sum

DUFFY, the Dublin publisher, is bringing out six-mer Snow (A. A. Adee).-A Sibylline Trio (Mary penny editions of Thomas Davis's National Ballads, Songs, and Poems, and kindred popular works, and the sale is said to be very great.

B. Kinney).-To-Day; a Romance: continued (R.
B. Kimball).-Four American Birds (C. A. Mun-
ger). The Scarlet Hibiscus (J. M. Mackie).-Some
Things in London and Paris, 1836-69 (G. P. Put-
nam).-Monthly Chronicle.-Fine Arts.-Litera-
ture, Science, and Art Abroad.-Literature at Home.
New York: G.
-Table Talk.-New Publications.
P. Putnam & Son.
Galaxy. June.

A NEW Volume, by Bishop Colenso, of criticism on the Pentateuch, is on the eve of publication. It appears that there is unremunerative competition among publishers in Dublin, as well as in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Some time ago, Mr. John Mitchel took up an incomplete Irish Put Yourself in his Place (C. Reade).-George History, and wrote a continuation of it from the Eliot and George Lewes (J. McCarthy).—The Throne Treaty of Limerick, in 1691, down to 1851. It was of Louis Philippe (J. S. C. Abbott)-The Duchesne published by D. & J. Sadlier, New York, and was Estate (J. W. De Forest).-To J. R. L. on his 50th republished in two volumes, large crown 8vo. (pp. Birthday (C. P. Cranch).—Animal Food: its Pre1052), strongly bound, by Mr. James Duffy, of Dub-paration for the Table (J. C. Draper, M. D.).—Susan lin. He thus tells what followed: "Some time since I announced a new edition of 'Mitchel's History of Ireland,' printed in large type, on superfine paper, to be issued in twenty-four numbers, forty pages, at threepence each. The announcement of my edition has tempted a Glasgow publishing house to advertise an edition of 'Mitchel's History for the Irish People.' I have, therefore, reduced the price of the work, and will issue it in sixteen numbers, sixty-four pages, for threepence, or four parts, each two hundred and fifty-six pages, at one shilling each." That is, the two volumes, bound in cloth, for five shillings!

Fielding (Mrs. Edwards).-New York Journalists:
E. L. Godkin (E. Benson).-General Jomini (G.
B. M.).—To be Being, or not to be Being; That is
the Question (R. G. White).-Galaxy Miscellany.
Driftwood.-Literature and Art.-Nebulæ. New
York: Sheldon & Co.

The Overland Monthly. June.

A Southern Overland Glimpse.-Medical Art in the Chinese Quarter.-Utopia.-Aunt Margery's Mishaps.-The Story of One who was Hanged.— Incapables. Muscular Christianity. - The Gold Coast of California and Oregon.-Some Account of a Great Western Poet.-A Political Outlook.Easter Island.-California Culinary Experiences.The Locust.-In the Backwoods of Mexico.-Repose.-Miggles. Etc.Francisco: A Roman & Co. Hours at Home. June.

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MR. WILLIAM LONGMAN, author of the recent "History of Edward III.," is a member of the great publishing house of Longman & Co., Paternoster Row, London. To this craft also belong the author-publishers Edmund Cave, founder of the "Gentleman's Magazine;" Dodsley, Richardson, Bohn, Charles Books and Reading: No. VI. (Prof. N. Porter).Knight; John H. Parker, of architectural repute ; | Prussia (Prof. E. P. Evans).—A Vision of Rest (A. Mr. Blades, printer and biographer of Caxton; D. F. Randolph).-Motherless Girls: concluded John Gough Nichols, editor; Albert Cohn, the Shakspearian scholar; William Spottes woode, the Queen's printer and man of science; and, among others, James T. Fields, of Boston, poet as well as publisher.

(Miss Anne Manning).-The Lake and River of Palestine.-G. A. Burger.-Parted (Mary E. Atkinson). -Model_Lodging-Houses (C. L. Brace).— Christopher Kroy: continued. - Castle-Building (Mrs. M. B. Dodge).-University Education (J. A.

JUNE 1, 1869.

Froude).-A Glimpse (Mrs. Ellen F. Lattimore).-
Sunnybank Papers: No.II.-Poultry and their Perils
(Mrs. Terhune).-Leisure Moments.-Books and
Authors Abroad.-Literature of the Day. N. Y.:
C. Scribner & Co.

Phrenological Journal. May.

W. E. Gladstone.-Inequality of Minds.-American Wit.-Phrenology and Religion: continued.Culture of the Perceptives. -J. E. Emerson.Utterly Impossible!-The Lamia (G. S. Burleigh). -Caroline L. Herschel.-Velocipedes.-The Planchette Mystery: No. II.-President Grant and his Cabinet.-Criminals: their Treatment and Reformation. The Earth Cure.-Tobacco in the Pulpit. -Old German Artists. New York: S. R. Wells. Church Monthly. April.

Goulburn on Ritualism.-Harpers and Ritualism. -The Calendar: continued.-Dr. Pusey and the Recent Decision.-Month.-Notes, Queries, and Correspondence.-The Spirit of the Press. Our Reply to the American Churchman.-Catholic Truth and Roman Error.-Catholic Tracts.-Churches where

the Holy Eucharist is Celebrated Weekly. N. Y.:

St. Clement Press.

Catholic World. June.

Spiritism and Spirits.-Daybreak.-Good Old Saxon.-Waiting.-The Supernatural.-Two Months in Spain during the Last Revolution.-The Approaching Council of the Vatican.-St. Mary's.-A May Carol.-St. Peter, First Bishop of Rome.-A Ruined Life. The Philosophy of Immigration.-Vigil.The Geography of Roses.-Spanish Life and ChaRetreats. Catholic Reform. Easter and All- racter.-Filial Affection with the Chinese.-New Souls' Day.-Extracts from Abbé Guettée.-Baptist Publications. New York: Catholic Publication SoQuarterly and Ritualism.-"Fresh and New."- ciety.

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BIOGRAPHY.

BOOK NOTICES.

The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist.
Edited by his widow. With an Introduction by
James Grant Wilson. pp. x., 443. New York:
G. P. Putnam & Son.

of her remarks are quite shrewd. Thus, she says of the palace of the Duc de Montpensier, at Seville, that certain of the rooms, in their beautiful cabinets of rare china, sets of armor, African trappings, and oriental costumes, reminded one " of Sion or of Chiswick." The volume has been very handsomely printed by the Society, and the illuminations, fifteen in number, furnish us with representations of objects, chiefly of an architectural character, which are not elsewhere easily accessible.

This is a valuable and important contribution to American biography. It is substantially the same work recently published in London, with some additions, and the omission of some passages supplied by the London editor, which are said to be objectionable. The manuscripts prepared by Mrs. Audubon were voluminous, consisting, in great part, of the naturalist's own descriptions of his journeyings and excursions. Surely a memoir of one whose works Cuvier declared to be "the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology" cannot fail to be generally attrac-is tive. Its perusal is enough to fascinate one with the wild life of the wood and plain, and none can look on the striking portrait which adorns this volume without instinctively experiencing a feeling of love for the original. The work will be a success, and its perusal will afford keen pleasure to all who can enjoy artless nobility of character and enthusiastic devotion to a favorite pursuit.

TRAVELS.

The New West; or, California in 1867-1808. By
Charles Loring Brace. pp. xii., 373. New York:

G. P. Putnam & Son.

Mr. Brace's plan has been to sketch such features of California and her process of development as most travellers have thus far neglected. Hence he directs attention less to mining than to agriculture, fruit-culture, and vine-growing, and such undeveloped branches as silk-worm growing and wine-making. His sketches of the Yosemite Valley will attract the attention of those who are charmed by the wonders of nature. Impressions of Spain. By Lady Herbert. pp. 272. New York: The Catholic Publication Society. We have a very pleasant volume here. Lady Herbert has a vein of sympathy for the people among whom she is journeying, and she is not on that account always criticizing them in a betterthan-thou spirit, rather than painting them to us kindly, at least, if not lovingly. Her style is spirited. She exercises discrimination in her observation, and her Catholicity brings her in contact with the religious sentiment of the people. Some

ART.

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Italy, Florence, and Venice. From the French of
H. Taine, by J. Durand. pp. ix., 385. New
York: Leypoldt & Holt.
Most people know how acute and vigorous Taine
both as respects expression and thought. The
present volume will delight all lovers of art.
have nothing in English comparable to it in general
characteristics except the disquisitions of Ruskin.
Taine's range of thought strikes us, however, as
wider and more catholic in its sympathies than that
of Ruskin. The work is divided into six books, the
respective titles of which are, " Perugia and Assisi,"
"Florence," "The Florentine School of Art," "From
Florence to Venice," "Venice," "Venetian Art."
The eloquence, the innate appreciation of the beau-
tiful, the aesthetic susceptibility here displayed,
keep the reader in a constant and pleasurable glow.
We are glad to see that there is an index.

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