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MAY 1, 1869.

MESSRS. CLAXTON, REMSEN, & HAFFELFINGER have | Guide in the Designing and Construction of Genissued "The Elements of Theoretical and Descrip- eral Machine Gearing," both by Francis Herbert tive Astronomy, for the Use of Colleges and Acade- Joynson; "Dictionary of Manufactures, Machinery, mies," by Charles J. White, A. M., Assistant Pro- Mining, and the Industrial Arts," by George Dodd; fessor of Astronomy and Navigation in the United and "The Earth's Crust; a Handy Outline of GeStates Naval Academy. The design of this work ology," by David Page, LL.D. is "to present the main facts and principles of astronomy in a form adapted to the course of instruction which is commonly given at colleges and In so comprein the higher grades of academies." hensive a study as that of astronomy, the attempt JOHN WILEY & SON, New York, have in preparation to exhibit, with approximate accuracy and efficiency, the fundamental elements of the science, presup-Fresenius's Quantitative Chemical Analysis,' poses, besides the requisite amount of knowledge, vised by Prof. S. W. Johnson; and Warren Machine no little skill, tact, and practical judgment. The author seems to possess these qualities in an eminent degree; and he has produced a work which, for clearness of description and judicious selection and arrangement of topics, admirably fulfils its The book is excellently printed on fine purpose. paper, and has numerous diagrams, with four very handsome full-page illustrations. It is in all respects a credit to its enterprising publishers.

WM. PARSONS LUNT, Boston, publishes and has for sale many valuable works relating to the early history of our country; town, State, and county histories; genealogies; and many rare and interesting reprints and biographies.

AMONG the works shortly to be published by Charles Scribner & Co. is "Women's Suffrage: the Reform against Nature," by Dr. Bushnell. In view of the extraordinary interest with which, for the past few years, this subject has been regarded, as well in England as in our own country, the forthcoming publication will doubtless attract no incon

siderable share of attention.

MURRAY'S "Adventures in the Adirondacks," published by Fields, Osgood & Co., has won golden opinions, as may be inferred from the fact that it has already reached a fourth edition.

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Mr. A. K. LORING, of Boston, has now in the press, an original novel of "Married against Reason,' social middle class life in Germany, by Mrs. Adelheid Shelton Mackenzie, of Philadelphia.

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., Philadelphia, by special arrangement with the English publishers, have imported an edition of the new issue of "Bagster's Polyglot Bible in Eight Languages." The edition is limited, and it will not be printed again, in all probability, during the present generation. The market value of the last issue rose to nearly three times its original price. The present edition is printed on stout paper, forming two handsome folio volumes, bound in half turkey, price $84 00.

The same firm, in connection with the Messrs. Chambers, have just published Vol. I. of the new issue of "Chambers' Miscellany." The new edition has been carefully revised, with additions. The series will be issued in bi-monthly volumes.

have seen.

"FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS," by Genio C. Scott, lately published by Harper & Brothers, is one of the best American books on the subject that we Written con amore, and with an intimate knowledge of the habits of the finny tribe, it is precisely one of those books which, while it is attractive and instructive to the amateur, is scarcely less interesting to the neophyte in pisciculture. The book is handsomely printed, and contains one hundred and seventy illustrations.

MESSRS. PORTER & COATES, Philadelphia, have added "The Antiquary" to their handsome edition of the Waverley Novels.

AMONG the scientific works to be issued this month by Virtue & Yorston, New York, is Ferdinand Kohn's "Iron and Steel Manufacture," reprinted from " Engineering," and revised and enlarged by the author. They have in press, besides other valuable works, "The Metals Used in Construction," and "The Mechanics' and Students'

Construction and Drawing.

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MR. JOSEPH A. HOFMAN, who has been connected He will with the firm of A. Roman & Co. at San Francisco, passed through this city two days ago. take charge of the business concerns of that house He came from San Francisco by the at New York. in its eastern department, and will be located overland route, and reports that the last rail required to complete the road was expected to be laid on May 1st, amid the exultations of thousands of people.

CLARK & MAYNARD, New York, are to publish to

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day a new work entitled "The Symbolism of Freemasonry; Illustrating and Explaining its Science by Albert G. Mackey, M. D. This work will, withand Physiology, its Legends, Myths, and Symbols, out doubt, be of considerable interest, as there are few writers whose knowledge of the literature of Freemasonry is at all comparable to that of Dr. Mackey.

J. P. SKELLY & Co., Philadelphia, furnish an attractive list of books, just published and to be issued, which are especially suitable for Sabbath School libraries.

FIELDS, OSGOOD & Co., Boston, expect to publish, during this month, "The Diary and Correspondence of Henry Crabbe Robinson;" "Two Years before "Recreations of a Country Parson;" the Mast," by Richard H. Dana, Jr.; "On the Wing;" "Our New Way Round the World," by C. C. Coffin; "Men, Women, and Ghosts," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; "Oldtown Folks," by Harriet Beecher Stowe;" and "Malbone, an Oldport Romance,” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

"ST. LOUIS AND CALVIN," by M. Guizot, author of "The History of Civilization in Europe," will form the fifth volume of "The Sunday Library," published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. in connection with Macmillan & Co., of London.

MESSRS. WARREN & BLAKESLEE, Boston, call attention to their list of new juveniles and Sabbath School books. These are the first issued from their press; and in bringing these issues, and themselves as a new publishing house, to the notice of the book-trade, they say that they offer them for inspection as samples of that class of publications which they purpose for the present to make the special feature of their business. Their books are all issued under the direct supervision of their senior partner, Rev. Dr. I. P. Warren, long known as the editing secretary of the American Tract selection and issue of its entire list of publications. Society (Boston), and who has had charge of the

MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston, announce to the many friends of "Little Women" and "Laurie," that Miss Alcott is now engaged upon a new story of actual experience in New England home life, told with that freshness and truthfulness to nature characteristic of her, which will be published during the summer, in their popular Handy Volume Series.

MAY 1, 1869.

They have also in press a little book by Mr. Spurgeon, entitled "John Ploughman's Talk, or Plain Advice to Plain People." It is said to be written in Mr. Spurgeon's plain and forcible style.

BUNYAN'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.-Messrs. Claxton, | development of the young men of the west is well Remsen, & Haffelfinger have published an edition of recognized. the "Pilgrim's Progress" which will enable the least impressible of its readers to measurably renew some of the most vivid pleasures of their early years It is printed in double pica type, and is illustrated with elegant colored lithograph plates. In this edition, both the adult and the youthful readers of the immortal work will find a never-failing source of delight.

THE Presbyterian Publication Committee, Phila delphia, have issued, since February 15, 1869, the following new books: "New York Bible-Woman," by Mrs. Julia McNair Wright, author of "Almost a Nun," etc. "Tenement Life in New York," cousisting of Shoe Binders of New York, New York Needle-Woman, and New York Bible-Woman. "The Lost Father, a Story of a Philadelphia Boy," by the author of "Chinaman in California," etc. "Tennesseear in Persia: Scenes in the Life of Rev. Samuel A. Rhea," by Rev. Dwight W. Marsh, ten years missionary at Mosul. "Upward, from Sin, through Grace to Glory," by Rev. B. B. Hotchkin. "True Story Library," by the author of "Almost & Nun," etc. "Annie's Gold Cross," by the author of "Nellie Gray."

THE articles on "Words and Their Uses," written by Richard Grant White, which have been published in the "Galaxy" from time to time, and which have already attracted so much attention, are now undergoing a careful revision by the author, and will soon be published by Sheldon & Company in

book form.

WE have received from the publishers, Messrs. S. C. Griggs & Co., of Chicago, a pamphlet of about one hundred pages, entitled "Public Parks: their Effect upon the Moral, Physical, and Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of Large Cities; with special reference to the City of Chicago," by John H. Ranch, M. D., of that city.

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This gentleman was requested by the Chicago Academy of Sciences to prepare a paper on Pub. lie Parks, to be read before the Academy ;" and he has furnished it a treatise which, for knowledge of the subject, and extensive observation and research, reflects great credit upon its author, and upon the members of the Academy for the sagacity they exhibited in their choice of the individual to execute their request. We regret the limited issue of this interesting pamphlet. We believe that many thousand copies might be sold throughout the United States; and we suggest to the Academy to supply the booksellers of our cities and towns with them, and appropriate the proceeds of the sale to the erection of an ornamental fountain or statue in the Park grounds.

JOHN E. POTTER & Co., Philadelphia, will issue, this month, “Living Thoughts of Leading Think ers," by Rev. S. Pollock Linn, A. M. The volume will make about 400 pages duodecimo.

"Cipher," the serial story by Mrs. Jane G. Austin, which was completed in the last number of "The Galaxy," will soon be published by them in book form, elegantly illustrated.

It

THE poem, called "Beautiful Snow," published in No. 100 of " Harper's Weekly," Nov. 27th, 1858, consists of six stanzas, and appeared anonymously. It has been claimed by or for various persons. has been credited to Miss Dora Shaw, an actress; also to a poor outcast who died in the early part of the war in an hospital at Cincinnati, "the manuscript of the poem having been found among her effects after her death." Also to a Mr. W. H. Sigourney, by whom it is said to have been published in New York fifteen years ago. In 1868, Mr. J. Jay Watson, whose address is No. 242 West Twenty-sixth St., New York City, sent a statement and challenge in a country paper, and which he has just republished in the "New York Tribune." It runs thus: "The poem of the 'Beautiful Snow,' about which there seems to be so much diversity of opinion as to who is its author, was composed by Mr. John W. Watson, a native of New York City. It originally appeared in Harper's Weekly,' November, 1858, and was purchased of the author by the Harpers. The idea was suggested in the following manner: Watson and several of his friends were sitting around a table in a Broadway saloon one snowy day, when a poor, half-clad woman entered, and, approaching the party, asked for assistance, at the same time remarking, 'Gentlemen, there is nothing pure about me except the snow.' Watson immediately conceived the idea of the beautiful and touching production which has appealed to thousands of hearts, and will be read and spoken of as long as language exists. It was written in Col. Colt's house at Hartford, Conn., and read there for the first time in the presence of many choice literary friends. No doubt the poor creature in whose possession the poem was found at her death had copied it, as hundreds of others of her class have done; and it would be well if every female in the land would copy it and ponder well its teachings. I am authorized to offer $50 to any person who will produce an authentic printed copy published previous to November, 1858." The writer adds, "This offer is still open. To this may be added the testimony of Harper & Brothers, in the legal transfer to Turner Brothers & Co., of Philadelphia, of the copyright, which was theirs by purchase from the author in November, 1858. It appears that Turner Brothers are about publishing a volume containing "Beautiful Snow" and other poems, by John W. Watson, and it is only fair to publishers and author, as well as to the public, that it should be known that Mr. Watson, and none other, wrote "Beautiful Snow."

WE would direct the attention of our readers to the announcement in our advertising columns of a On the first of last month, in London, some insale by auction at Amsterdam, Holland, on the 21st teresting relics of Burns were sold at auction. of this month and following days, by Mr. F. Muller, They comprised the MS. of "While braes and of an important and valuable collection of ancient woodbines buddin' green," 4 pp. ; a letter in which and rare books, manuscripts, &c., in all depart- he speaks of the "beautiful Misses Bailie;" the song, ments of literature, including a large number rela-"O'er the moor among the heather;" song, "Ye ting to the history of New Netherlands and Brazil. Sons of Old Killie," with some memoranda relatOrders forwarded not later than by steamer of Maying to the poet, bound together in green morocco. 8, from New York, will reach the auctioneer in time. The lot was started at £5, and after a very brisk SHELDON & Co. have in press "Moral Philosophy," competition was knocked down at £45 3s. A copy by Dr. Fairchild, President of Oberlin College. The of the first Kilmarnock edition of "Burns' Poems" beneficent influence of the author in the intellectual was sold for £14, and another copy for £10.

MAY 1, 1869.

A LONDON paper having stated that Miss Braddon had lost her senses, she contradicts the statement, declaring she is busy happily and happily busy, writing a new sensational novel.

Ir appears, from a Parliamentary paper issued by the British House of Commons, on the 6th of April, showing the quantity and value of books printed in foreign countries and British possessions which have been imported into and re-ex- MR. GLADSTONE has appointed a Royal Commisported from the United Kingdom, the quantity sion to inquire, in the British Islands and the Colorose, in the ten years ending 1868, from 5971 cwts.nies, into the existence of manuscripts of historical to 10,695 cwts., and the value from 83,5981. to 137,580. The largest contributor amongst foreign countries was France, which, in 1868, sent over to England 4102 cwts. of books, the value of which was 61,7467., nearly double both in quantity and value the importations ten years previously. The next largest contributors were the Hanse Towns, which sent over last year 2881 cwts. valued at 37,7687.

interest in the possession of public institutions and private persons, with the view to the publication of such of them as may contain nothing of a priexisting owners of property. The idea is to pervate character, or be prejudicial to the titles of petuate such public documents, by printing, as may under other circumstances be obliterated or

lost.

LORD LYTTON's translation of the "Odes and

Epodes of Horace;" Professor Veitch's "Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, the Logician;" and "Mary Queen of Scots, and her Accusers, embracing a Narrative of Events from the Death of James V. in 1542 until the close of the Conference at Westminster in 1569," by John Hosack, Barrister-at-Law, are among the more noticeable works, "in the press," announced by W. Blackwood & Sons, Edin

The United States are third on the list, their ship-
ments being 764 cwts. in 1858, and 1157 cwts. in
1868; but it appears that the quality has not kept
pace with the quantity, for while the declared value
in the former year was 10,697., in 1868 it was only
10,062. England's largest customer for books not of
native production has been Turkey, the "re-expor-
tations" to that country having increased from 19
cwts. in 1858, to 133 cwts. in 1868, and the value from
2667. to 31931. While the demand in France for the
foreign productions imported into the United King-burgh.
dom shows also a falling off, the demand from the
United States increased during the ten years to
more than four times the bulk and more than twice
the value. The books printed in the United King-
dom and exported during the year 1858 weighed
27,385 cwts. Last year they had increased to 61,408
cwts., and the value during the same period rose
from 390,5841. to 684,2437. The United States were
the largest purchasers, the value being 184,6701.;
next to them Australia, whose demand amounted
to 148,4131., and then Egypt, whose demand
amounted to no less than 70,1277., or more than
20,000l. in excess of the value ten years previously.
There was also a remarkable increase in the
British North American demand.

LORD STANLEY, late Foreign Minister of England, is to preside, on the 5th of May, at the 80th anniversary dinner of the Literary Fund, which is one of the most popular of London institutions.

A VOLUME of Miscellaneous Poems, by the Rev. John Keble, author of "The Christian Year," has just appeared in London. It is edited by Sir John T. Coleridge.

THE University of Edinburgh has opened its doors to the fair sex. On March 27th, the Senatus Academicus resolved, by a majority of ten to four, to admit Miss Sophia J. Blake to the botany and natural history classes during the ensuing summer session. The application by Miss Blake was to be allowed to attend these classes without formal matriculation, so as to test practically the question of the ad mission of women to the University classes. The application came in the first instance before the professors of the medical faculty, who, by a majority, agreed to admit Miss Blake, and this decision has been, as above stated, confirmed by the Senatus. SIR SAMUEL BAKER, who discovered the second basin or reservoir of the Nile, has been created Pasha by the Viceroy of Egypt, and is to command a large expedition, including 1500 soldiers, for the suppression of the slave trade of the White Nile, and to establish the Egyptian authority throughout the Nile Basin, embracing the entire equatorial lake system. Steamers will be launched upon the Albert N'yanza. This expedition, which will no doubt prove a great success under the guidance of its experienced leader, cannot fail to achieve results most important to science, humanity, and civilization. As before, Sir S. Baker will be accompanied by his wife.

FROM "The Bookseller" for April, always a publication which is at the head of its class in London, we take the following relative to the book trade in Holland: "During the year 1868 this small country produced no fewer than 2300 new works and new editions, including pamphlets. Some of the books are of considerable merit, but many are merely translations from other languages; Bulwer, Disraeli, Dickens, Thackeray, Marryat, and Miss Braddon being as familiar to all classes in Amsterdam, Leyden, The Hague, or Rotterdam, as to the inhabitants of Manchester. An edition of Tennyson's poems, complete in one fcap. volume, exceedingly well printed in English, has lately been issued at Amsterdam for five shillings, and there is a steady demand for all English books of any value. probable that the heavy duty upon newspapers and advertisements will soon be removed, and that when that takes place the trade, large as it is, will increase considerably. The principal importers of English books are Messrs. Kramer, Robbers, and Krapp and Van Duym of Rotterdam; Kirberger, Amsterdam; Nijhoff, The Hague; and Keminck and Zoon, of Utrecht. In many respects, as regards intelligence and literature, Holland may be compared with Scotland, while the neighboring Belgium, as a reading country, is on a par with Ireland."

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AMONG the latest English publications are "Allan's Prize Essay on Kleptomania" (or the fashionable ladies' crime of robbing shops, which they visit under pretence of making purchases); the "Inaugural Address of Froude, the Historian," Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland; "Chicot, Lecky's "History of European Morals;" the Jester, and Taking of the Bastille," stories by ler's "Song of the Bell;" "Shakspeare and the EmDumas; a translation, by J. H. Merivale, of Schilblem Writers of his Age," by Henry Green, M. A., in 1 vol. demy 8vo. of about 400 pages, and upwards of 200 illustrative woodcuts or engravings.

No. 264 for April, 1869, of the "Edinburgh Review," is to contain Confucius; Edible Fungi; The Competitive Industry of Nations; Memoir of Madame de Lafayette; The Settlement of Ulster; Dilke's Greater Britain; Matthew Arnold's Critical Writings; American Finance; Longman's Edward III.; Campbell's Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham.

MAY 1, 1869.

AMONG the auction sales in London last month THE "LONDON PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR," commentwere fifty pictures, drawings and sketches, the prop-ing on the recent action, Charles Reade versus the erty of John Ruskin, Esq., the art critic including "Round Table," for declaring that "Griffith Gaunt" the celebrated picture of the Slave Ship, by J. M. W. was an immoral novel, says: "If 'Griffith Gaunt' be Turner, R. A., also forty beautiful drawings and immoral, then 'Othello' and 'Lear' must be detestasketches illustrating the different periods of the bly so. Morality does not suffer only from crimes of same great master's work; two very fine examples sense. A political treatise can be, and often is, as of Copley Fielding; four very fine works of W. immoral as 'Casanova,' Justine,' or the worst of the Hunt; and beautiful specimens of D. Cox, Duver-novels of M. Diderot. The question is, does a work ger, and J. Brett. of art leave the reader delighted with or disgusted by vice? If the first, it is immoral; if the second, moral, although its pictures were as true and as ugly as a photograph. And the fun of the thing is, that while New York is aghast at 'Griffith Gaunt,' it swallows with avidity the novels of Miss Ramé, otherwise 'Ouida,' who makes the heroes of 'Under Two Flags,' and other novels, the very slaves of the Seven Deadly sins, and yet holds them (the heroes, not the sins) up to the reader's admiration. The trial was a very important one, and we speak of it thus at length. Morality in art we must have, but it must be true morality, and not any sham subTHE contents of No. 252 of the "Quarterly Re-stitute which would be more immoral than unvarview" (April, 1869) are advertised as Rassam's nished licentiousness-just as the seven devils Abyssinia; Modern English Poets; Geological Cli- were worse than the first one." This vindication mates and Origin of Species; Cost of Party Govern- of one novelist, at the expense of another, is on the ment; Dante; Female Education; Travels in tu quoque principle. Greece; Religious Wars in France; Aims of Modern Medicine; Irish Church Bill.

TRANSLATIONS of the Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. F. W. Krummacher; Emile de Bonnechose's Bertrand du Guesclin, the Hero of Brittany, Constable of France and Castile; L'Homme qui Rit, by Victor Hugo; Wilhelm Ihne's Roman History; Professor Gousmit's treatise on the Pandects; De Rossi's Roma Sotterranea, or an account of the Catacombs, and especially of the Cemetery of St. Callixtus; and Mackenna B. Viculis Francisco Moyen, or the Inquisition as it was in South America, are among the last London announcements.

A NEW book, by George Catlin, with numerous wood-cut illustrations, is announced by Trübner & Co., London. It is entitled "Shut Your Mouth." His first book, on the North American Indians, was published in 1841, and contained the result of eight years' experience, travel, and research.

"THE GUARDIAN," a London High-Church paper, has declined to advertise lithographed or manuscript sermons.

MR. W. CAREW HAZLITT, grandson of the friend of Lamb and first London critic of Edmund Kean, has completed, in an octavo volume, pp. 716, double columns, his great work, "A Bibliography of the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of England previous to 1660."

MRS. DAVIDSON, a daughter of the late Hugh Miller, the geologist, has just published a tale entitled "Christian Osborne's Friends." Her former story, "Isabel Jardine" has reached a sale of over 8000 copies.

MR. WILLIAM SCOTT, a nephew of "The Great Unknown," died at Montreal, on April 6th, aged 64. His complaint was cancer of the stomach. As he was a patient of the St. Andrew's Home, it may be presumed that he was not in easy circumstances. Ox May-day there is to be published, in London, price one shilling, to be completed in nine monthly parts, the "World of Anecdote," an accumulation of Facts, Incidents, and Illustrations, historical and biographical, from Books and Times recent and remote, by Edwin Paxton Hood, author of "Lamps, Pitchers, and Trumpets."

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On the evening of April 16th, Charles Dickens was to be entertained at a public dinner in St. George's Hall, Liverpool. Several hundred persons, including ladies, were his hosts. Sir Henry Houghton and Hepworth Dixon, Esq., presided. Among the speakers were Lord Dufferin, Lord Lytton, and Anthony Trollope. In reply to a remark of Lord Dufferin's that, if he had entered political life, he would probably have reached the peerage, like Macaulay and Bulwer, Mr. Dickens said that after

mature deliberation he had decided to stand and fall by literature, and not enter politics. Thus far he had not regretted his decision. At his present age (he is in his 58th year), it would be too late to change his profession. Mr. Dickens, who has nearly completed the last and farewell series of his public readings, was advertised to preside at the Newsvendors' Benevolent Institution, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on 26th April, and will be supported by the sheriffs of London and Middlesex. MR. HOTTEN, of London, has in the press three volumes, Svo. (price to subscribers twenty-seven shillings, afterwards to be raised to thirty-six), containing the "Life and Uncollected Works of Daniel Defoe," comprising several hundred important essays, pamphlets, and other writings, now first brought to light, after many years' diligent search, by William Lee, Esq., with fac-similes and illusof these volumes will be the curious fac-similes trations. Not the least important of the contents and reproductions of illustrations. The amended catalogue of Defoe's works comprises no less than two hundred and fifty-four works, forming, as Mr. Lee states, the most remarkable list that has ever

appeared of the works of any author.

AN edition of Artemus Ward's Lecture at the

Egyptian Hall, London, with thirty-five pictures from his amusing panorama, with an introduction by T. W. Robertson, the dramatist, is announced by Mr. J. C. Hotten.

THE rumor that Queen Victoria was about visiting Mr. Thomas Carlyle, in Dumfriesshire, with a view of exploring "The Land of Burns," is denied on authority. At a recent sale in Manchester (Eng.), of rare and curious books, a copy of the first edition of Burns' poems, published at 5s., was sold for £13.

MAY 1, 1869.

A NEW "History of the House of Commons," by (J. B. Hodgskin).-The Spanish Revolution (Karl R. F. D. Palgrave, has been published in London, Blind).-Earthquakes (J. D. White).-The Session and supplies a great amount of valuable informa- (H. B. Adams).-Critical Notices. Boston: Fields, tion. Osgood & Co.

Harper's Magazine. May.

Christopher Columbus.-Magdalen.-Glass-Blow-
ing for Little Folks.-The Sacred City of the Hin-
dus.-A Sin of Omission.-Both Sides.-Webster,
Clay, Calhoun, and Jackson.-The Plains Ten Years
Ago.-The Working Men of the Middle Ages.-The
Eve of St. Bartholomew.-My Enemy's Daughter:
Chaps. XIV., XV.-A Brave Lady.-Evening Rest.
Philly and the Rest.-Deep-Sea Sounding.-Edi-
tor's Easy Chair.-Editor's Book Table.-Monthly
Record of Current Events.-Editor's Drawer. N.
Y.: G. P. Putnam & Son.
Atlantic Monthly. May.

Malbone: Part V. (T. W. Higginson).—The Clothes Mania (J. Parton).-Brahmanism (J. F. Clarke).-The Heroine of Long Point (J. G. Whittier).-The Puritan Lovers (Marian Douglass).The Foe in the Household: Part III.-Spring in Washington (J. Burroughs).—Eleanor in the Empty House (T. W. Parsons).—Autobiography of a Shaker: No. II. (F. W. Evans).-Can a Life Hide Itself? (B. Taylor).—The Pacific Railroad, Open: No. II. (S. Bowles).-The Intellectual Character of President Grant.-The New Taste in Theatricals.-Reviews and Literary Notices. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co.

Lippincott's Magazine. May.

May Apples (W. L. Shoemaker).-Salmon Fishing
Beyond the Breakers: Part V. (R. D. Owen).—
(Dr. A. C. Hamlin).-Hans Breitmann in Politics :
Part III. (C. G. Leland).-Rougegorge (Harriet P.
Spofford).-Life in Coal Mines (T. H. Walton).
A Few Curious Derivatives (Prof. H. Coppée).
Dick Lyle's Fee (L. C. Davis).-Spectrum Analysis
(C. Morriss).-Earl Douglas (Dr. B. H. Coates).—
Recollections of Irving (L. G. Clark).—The Argosy
(Adelaide Cilley).-A Real Ghost Story.-Our
Monthly Gossip.-Literature of the Day. Philad.:
J. B. Lippincott & Co.

OSSIAN'S POEMS.-Dr. Johnson's antipathy to James Macpherson, whose so-called "translations" of Ossian attracted much controversy and criticism a century ago, was very great. Johnson denied the antiquity and the merit of the poems, and his reply to Dr. Blair, whether he thought any men of a modern age could have written them, was, "Yes, sir. Many men, many women, and many children." His challenge to Macpherson was: "If the poems were really translated, they were certainly first written down. Let Mr. Macpherson deposit the manuscript in one of the colleges at Aberdeen, where there are people who can judge; and if the professors certify the authenticity, then there will be an end of the controversy." The Erse originals never were produced. David Hume, Malcolm Laing, and John Pinkerton took the same view of the question as Dr. Johnson had taken. Dr. Blair, Lord Kaimes, the poet Gray, and Sir John Sinclair contended for the authenticity of the poems, which, they said, had been written by Ossian, in the third century, and translated by Macpherson from oral traditions in the Scottish Highlands. No doubt they were founded on such traditions, but greatly expanded by free paraphrase. Macpherson was a village schoolmaster in Inverness-shire, and was only twenty-two when he published sixteen of his "translations." The notoriety they obtained for him caused his obtaining several lucrative offices (he was made Surveyor-General of the Floridas in 1764), and he finally entered Parliament, and, at his own expense and request, was buried in Westminster Abbey. Lately, at Edinburgh, the Rev. Dr. Maclauchlan, a very good Gaelic scholar, undertook the defence of Macpherson. He describes him as "a man of real and deserved distinction," and says, "Ossian's poems did exist before the days of James Macpherson. They were written down and transmitted to us. It had been better if Macpherson had given us the poems just as he found them; but he was not the author of the poems of Ossian. Of the first small volume which he published, he is not the author of a single sentence. The ancient heroic songs of the Highlands, singing as they did of Fingal, and Oscar, and Rouarc, and the great Cuchulin, were familiar to the Highlanders for centuries, so much so that when the fact came to be questioned by men ignorant of his history, his language, and his literature, it is no wonder if Macpherson was moved to the exercise of wrath, and not of reason, in rebutting an assault so absurd, and, to him, so manifestly unjustifiable. Our counties have cause to be proud of James Macpherson as the man who first called the attention of the world to the existence of a poetry of which Hugh Miller once said to me that the publication of it exercised a potent influ--Tiny Brook (M. Angier Alden).—Philosophy of The Giant.-White and Red (Mrs. H. C. Weeks) ence on the whole poetical literature of Europe." the Hoop (J. Abbott).-Young Virginians (Porte Napoleon was a great reader of "Ossian's Poems," Crayon).-Rambles in the City of the Grand Turk and the eldest son of his friend Bernadotte was (S. G. W. Benjamin).-To my Little Love.-On. baptized by the name of Oscar, after one of Os- of Twenty Directions.-Wild Life of a Hunter sian's poems. He lived to succeed his father, as South Africa; Chase of the Hartebeest (F. J. Mills) king of Sweden and Norway, by the title of "Oscar-To the Doodle-Bug (Mrs. Mary E. Nealy).-Fai the First." ry's Cradle Song (Annette Bishop).-May Sports i the Olden Time.-The Knight's Tale (Abby Sage) -Sunshine Stories (H. C. Andersen).-Books Merry Month of May. N. Y.: Hurd & Houghton. Young People; Arabian Nights' Entertainments. The Overland Monthly. April.

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