JUNE 15, 1866. At Paris, on May 19, aged seventy-one the Rev. FRANCIS MAHONY, author of "The Reliques of Father Prout." He was a native of Cork, and belonged, in London, to the rollicking literati of "Fraser's Magazine," of which Dr. Masson was leader. His translations of Moore's Irish Melodies and other popular lyrics into various languages, modern and dead, were wonderfully clever. The death of PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY, author of a recent and excellent translation of Homer, is also mentioned. He had published the "Odyssey," and intended to transfuse the "Iliad" into English verse. GERALD MASSEY ON SHAKSPEARE.-Mr. Massey He was pupil and successor of the celebrated has taken Shakspeare sonnets and written a Gesenius, and at least as good a Hebraist and critic. volume of six hundred pages about them. He Mr. JOHN C. PRINCE, who had obtained some repudivides them into the Southampton Sonnets and tation in his native Lancashire as a writer of local into the Herbert Sonnets-claiming that Shakspeare, poetry, and had great facility in verse-making, friend of Lords Southampton and Pembroke (Her- died on the 5th of May, aged sixty. He was emibert), wrote these for these noblemen; not in his nently one of the working-class, and always stood youth and poverty, but in the fulness of his fame, up for his "order." after he had become " a prosperous gentleman," at Stratford-that Southampton, who once gave him a thousand pounds (equal to five times the amount now), had employed Shakspeare to put a series of real incidents into verse, to write a number of sonnets expressing Southampton's passion for his mistress, Elizabeth Vernon-others expressing Elizabeth Vernon's love for Southampton-and others again expressing Elizabeth Vernon's jealousy of Lady Rich. This theory is very ingeniously worked out. MARIE-ANTOINETTE'S LETTERS.-Last year a number of letters were published, said to have been written by the unfortunate wife of Louis XVI. Reference having been made to Louis Blanc, as to their authenticity, he has written: "No sooner did I glance over them than it struck me how little, in many respects, they were in accordance with the idea I had been led to form of Marie-Antoinette, by a patient and strict investigation of all the facts referring to the part she played during the French Revolution. I was not, therefore, surprised at the authenticity of those letters being called in question; and I feel bound to say that, after having paid due attention to the controversy to which they have given rise, I am most decidedly under the impression that they are not genuine." These letters were purchased, for 80,000 francs, from M. Feuillet de Conches, Imperial Master of the Ceremonies in Paris, by Count Vogt von Honolston, who believed, of course, in their authenticity. It is now imputed to M. Feuillet that he was concerned in the production of seventeen letters from Racine, lately sold at auction and since proven to have been fac-similes of an equal number in the Imperial Library, which he (M. F.) had retained in his possession for nearly two years. JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.-Already there have been published eight volumes of Froude's "History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth." Six of these, to the Death of Mary I., have been republished by C. Scribner & Co., New York, and all the volumes have passed into a third edition in London. Volumes IX. and X., being the third and fourth of Elizabeth, are now advertised as in the press, and will be published by Longman & Co., London, during the present summer. As Elizabeth Tudor reigned for forty-five years, and governed in a most important era, the annals of England during that time are necessarily exten sive. "ECCE HOMO."-This is the name of a new nonclerical biography of Christ, published anonymously in England, extremely popular, attributed to a great many distinguished writers, and republished by Roberts Brothers, of Boston. It has been assailed as unorthodox by the Earl of Shaftesbury and the "Quarterly Review." The title is not new. In 1813, one Mr. Houston put forth an "Ecce Homo; a Critical Inquiry into the History of Christ," which, being legally declared to be blasphemous, cost him £200 fine and two years' imprisonment in London. In 1860, Saunders and Ottley, London publishers, issued a second "Ecce Homo," and the title has been repeatedly used by German and Italian authors. OBITUARY.-Dr. HUPFELD, of the University of Halle, in Prussia, one of the best Hebrew scholars in Europe, died on the 24th of April, aged seventy. MISCELLANEA. COSTLY ENGRAVINGS.-At a recent sale of engravings collected by the late Mr. Curling, a Welsh gentleman, a proof before letters of Guido's Aurora." engraved by Raphael Morghen, brought $240; Raphael's "Fornarina," same engraver, $230; and Da Vinci's "Last Supper," $285. A proof before letters of Sir Edwin Landseer's "Bolton Abbey," engraved by S. Cousins, brought $125. In each instance the purchasers were print-vendors. MUSIC. It is reported that the British governLondon, at the head of which will be placed Dr. ment propose to establish a great music-school in Sterndale Bennett and Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, musician, but best known as Jenny Lind's husband. PERIODICALS. Harper's New Monthly Magazine. June. Personal Recollections of the War: First Paper De Rebus Ruris : No. 1. An Old Style Farm (D. G. Mitchell).-The Patriotic Record of Yale College (Rev. J. W. Morris).-The Passion Flower.-Come to Me.-The Little Preacher.-Tischendorf's Biblical Researches and Discoveries, narrated by himself; translated from the German.-Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character (J. A. Froude).—Before the Spring.-The Last Twig of the Tree (Mrs. S. J. Pritchard).—Life in a Southern Village.-God's Quiet.-A Visit to the English Universities: concluded (Prof. J. M. Hoppin).— The Sculptor and his Child (Miss M. E. Atkinson).— The Christian Statesmen of America: No. 5. John Jay (Rev. E. H. Gillett).-Jane Gurley's Story: Chapters VII. and VIII. (Miss E. Stuart Phelps). -An "Advanced" Dog on the Origin of Species (Mrs. Charles).-Lt.-Gen. Grant.-The Lady of Fernwood.-James Montgomery (S. C. Hall).Books of the Month. New York: C. Scribner & Co. Contemporary Review. June. Philosophy and Theology (Mansel). -Montalembert and Monasticism in the East and West JUNE 15, 1866. (Lake).-Ecce Homo (Vaughan).--Ancilla Domini: Christian Art (Tyrwhitt).-Schubert and Chopin (Haweis). Zoology (Tristram).—Book Notices. The Social Science Review. January-April, 1866. Mr. Haye's Report.-Political Economy.-What is Free Trade.-International Almanac (Delmar). Catalogue of Works on Politico-Economical, &c. Subjects, 1865 (Müller). Church Monthly. June. Book Notes by a Parish Priest (Rev. J. H. Ward). -The Moderate Episcopacy of Leighton (Rt. Rev. A. C. Coxe).-Bishop Whittingham's Church Hymnal (Rev. Hall Harrison).—A Primitive Church (Rev. E. B. Chase).—Beggar Jacob.-Prayer Answered. Henry M. Parker, Esq. (Rev. H. N. Hudson). Book Notices. Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co. Fiction and Reality.-Hymns from the German (Rev. N. L. Frothingham, D. D.).—The Future Life and the Christian's Hope (Rev. Charles Lowe).— In Tenebris, 1864 (E. Foxton).-The Pestilence that Walketh in Darkness (Rev. H. C. Badger).-The Hermit of Concord (Rev. W. R. Alger).—God's Free Forgiveness as declared in the Parable of the Prodigal Son.-Life Tapestry.-Random Readings. -Literary Notices. Boston: Leonard C. Bowles. Catholic World. June. Problems of the Age-the Belief in God as the First Article of a Religious Creed-A Month in KilKenny.-Banned and Blessed.-L'Abbé Gerbet.Our Neighbor.-Jenifer's Prayer: concluded.— Saints of the Desert.-Christine: a Troubadour's Song: concluded.-Eve de la Tour d'Adam.-Bury ed Dervish in Turkestan.-Unconvicted; or, Old the Dead.-Religion in New York.-A PretendThorneley's Heirs: Chapter I.-Peace.-Two Pictures of Life in France before 1848.-Of Dreamers and Workers.- Miscellany.- New Publications. New York: L. Kehoe. MILITARY. BOOK NOTICES. Electro-Ballistic Machines and the Schultze Chronoscope. By Brevet Lieut.-Colonel S. V. Benet, Captain of Ordnance U. S. Army. Quarto, pp. 50. New York: D. Van Nostrand. London: Trübner & Co. This is a quarto monograph of about fifty pages, elegantly printed on fine paper, with broad margins, and illustrated with steel engravings and diagrams. It is a precise description of the several methods practised by scientific military men in order to ascertain the relocity of projectiles thrown from cannon and firearms of all kinds. The subject is traced from the crude ballistic pendulum of Robins in 1740, to the exquisite and accurate pieces of mechanism used in the present day by experts in the seience and art of gunnery. Of these there are clear descriptions of the machines of Navez, Vignotti, Benton's Electro-Ballistic Pendulum, Leurs's two-pendulum machine, and Schultze's Chronoscope. With these devices gunners are enabled to ascertain the initial velocity of a bullet, shell, or shot at the moment when thrown from the gun, and its velocity also at any period of its flight. So accurate is Schultze's chronoscope that it will register divisions of time as infinitesimal as the five hundred thousandth part of a single second, and with its aid and that of the other machines referred to gunners are able to measure exactly the time taken by any projectile in traversing any single foot of its range of several miles. It is the precision given to practice by the aid of the devices described in Captain Benet's book that enabled General Gilmore to fire with such destructive certainty at Pulaski, and Porter to throw his shells and shot with such accuracy at Forts Jackson and St. Philip. The Rebellion Record. Part LVI. By Frank Moore. New York: D. Van Nostrand. This part is devoted to a continuation of the Rebel official reports of the "Seven Days' Battles" near Richmond in McClellan's campaign of 1862. Proceedings of the Century Association in Honor of the Memory of Brigadier-General James S. Wadsworth and Colonel Peter A. Porter, with the Eulogies read by Wm. J. Hoppin and Frederic S. Cozzens. December 3, 1864. New York: D. Van Nostrand, A pamphlet, beautifully printed on the finest tinted paper, in memory of two gallant soldiers of the republic, and who were moreover two such admirable characters in private life that their histories should be known in all circles where noble traits are valued. NAVAL. Illus A Method of Comparing the Lines and Draughting Vessels propelled by Sail or Steam, including a Chapter on Laying Off on the Mould Loft Floor. By Samuel M. Pook, Naval Constructor. trated by numerous diagrams. pp. 75. New York: D. Van Nostrand. London: Trübner & Co. Mr. Pook in this volume gives to shipwrights the benefit of an accumulation of his own experience as a naval constructor and shipbuilder over a period of twenty-five years. The prime object of the book, as we read it, is to demonstrate to shipwrights that the exquisitely beautiful water lines of the best vessels are not the results of fancy or mere empirical guesses, but that they are mathematical lines reducible to system and plan, and that can be reproduced with mathematical precision. This he illustrates by both the text and numerous diagrams. LEGAL. The Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America from December, 1863, to December, 1865, Arranged in Chronological Order, and Carefully Collated with the Original at Washington. With References to the Matter of each Act and to the subsequent Acts on the Same Subject. Edited by George P. Sawyer. Vol. XIII. pp. xxviii., 866. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. index, and good binding. This indispensable digest Well arranged, well printed, with a first-rate has and deserves to have the official sanction of Congress. FICTION. The Orphans and Caleb Field. By Mrs. Oliphant. pp. 133 (minus 18). Philadelphia: T. B. Peter son. Armadale. By Wilkie Collins. With illustrations. pp. 320. New York: Harper & Brothers. Except that Collins locates his scenes on the earth, he leaves everything unfettered by every known law of this globe of ours, from the law of gravitation, upwards, downwards, and sideways. They are r impossible and as extravagant as the Arabi Nights, but fully as fascinating. He makes JUNE 15, 1866. PHILOLOGICAL. A good most blasé reader feel like a boy-all the old-devour- | Its great success is easily accounted for. ing eagerness which consumed the story and was index puts its treasures still further at the control almost consumed by it, the passion of excited curi- of the reader. osity to which probability and nature are simply nothing. In producing what old Browne might call "pendulosity," Collins is a master-though Armadale can hardly be considered fully up to "No Name" and the "Woman in White." The strong characters in Collins' novels are nearly all bad, but he makes them most unlovely, and the moral drift of the whole is admirable. BIOGRAPHY, A Brief Biographical Dictionary. By Rev. Charles Holl, B. A. With Additions and Corrections by Wm. A. Wheeler, M. A. pp. xvi., 453. New York: Hurd & Houghton. This compact little volume belongs to a rare class of good books-books for constant and rapid reference. Most of the biographies are compressed within a line, and a line well used will, for the most part, tell us just what we want to know, on the instant, of most men. Mr. Wheeler has done his part as an American editor very well, and this volume and his "Noted Names of Fiction" will form very natural and very valuable companions. The Mormon Prophet and His Harem; or an Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children. By Mrs. C. V. Waite. pp. x., 280. Cambridge: Riverside Press, and for sale by Hurd & Houghton, New York. We have seen no book which appears so clearly as this to reveal the internal workings of the beastly system of Mormonism. It presents a general history of Mormonism under the dynasty of Brigham Young, and gives very full particulars in regard to his wedded life. Mrs. Waite has handled her theme with as much delicacy, on the whole, as the subject would admit-but we seriously doubt whether the spreading of this sort of thing indiscriminately before the public will help good morals-unless, as we hope it will, it may prepare the way for putting Brigham Young into the penitentiary for life, as it seems there is no law by which he can be hung several times, as he richly deserves. Thirty wives, more or less, "O hevings!" Lives of the Popes. By the Chevalier D'Artaud. Translated from the French. Edited by Rev. Dr. Neligan. Nos. 18, 19, and 20. New York: D. & J. Sadlier. SCIENCE. Life; its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena. By Leo H. Grindon. pp. 578. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. This well-printed volume is not unworthy of its profoundly interesting theme. It shows both reading and thinking, and yet we do not blame the author for it-the deepest impression its pages make upon us is of the utterly elusive character of that most familiar of facts, that most absolute of mysteries, coiled up in the word life. Mr. Grindon writes best upon the "varieties and phenomena of life." That is relatively the easy part of his subject, but on the "nature" of life he fails; but then, who has succeeded on that? The volume is very instructive and decidedly readable. The Silver Sunbeam; a Practical and Theoretical Text-Book on Sun Drawing and Photographic Printing. By J. Towler, M. D. Fifth edition. pp. viii., 443. New York: Joseph H. Ladd. This volume is a manual, at once thorough and popular, of all the processes of photography. It is simple and lucid enough for the learner in his first lessons, yet has a practical exhaustiveness which will make the most finished photographer prize it. A Plea for the Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling. By Henry Alford, D. D. Tenth thousand. pp. xvi., 287. London and New York: Strahan. This pleasant little book of popular philological gossip is, for the present at least, a classic in its way; and allowing that every objection made to it is valid, it is still well worth reading and well worth having. Its popularity is attested by another edition, which lies before us. Reprinted from the second London edition. pp. xvi., 287. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald. It is not easy to compete with Mr. Strahan for the typographical laurel, but Dick & Fitzgerald have certainly not disgraced themselves in their effort to do it. A companion volume to,it is : The Dean's English; a Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the Queen's English. By G. Washington Moon. Fourth edition. pp. 180. New York: Strahan & Co. Mr. Moon has given the Dean some very hard hits, some of them, beyond all question, well deserved. Nevertheless, the Dean's book is a good book, and his English is good English. Mr. Moon has gone over the book with a microscope-a process which few books (and his own is not one of them) will bear. DEVOTIONAL. The Catholic's Vade Mecum: A Select Manual of Prayers for Daily Use. Compiled from approved Sources. pp. 416. Philadelphia: Eugene Cummiskey. A very complete and convenient little volume, thoroughly fulfilling the promise of its title. The Angels' Song. By Thomas Guthrie, D. D. pp. 141. London and New York: Strahan. A beautiful expansion, in Dr. Guthrie's noble and impressive manner, of the Song of the Angels at the birth of the Saviour of men. It is a Canticle of Redemption. The Gypsy Series. JUVENILE. Gypsy Breynton. By E. Stuart Phelps. pp. 276. Boston: Graves & Young. A fresh, pleasant book, well adapted for the delectation of boys and girls. Dick Mason, or the Boy Who Trusted in Himself. 108. Phila.: Presbyterian Board of Publication. Minna Croswell, or the Girl who was Afraid of Being Laughed At. By Nellie Grahame. pp. 142. Phila. Presbyterian Board of Publication. JUNE 15, 1866. in the title, treat of some supposed consequences of First Lessons in Numbers. By John H. French, little ones into the first meshes of arithmetic. Bos opens with "The Consultation," from the French of De Bernard, an admirably written tale, full of humor and pungency; following which we find "Goody Gracious," an exquisite fairy story, by John Neal; "The Double House," by Dinah Muloch Craik; "My Friend the Dutchman," by Frederick Hardmann; "The Picnic Party," by the celebrated Horace Smith; "Judith, or the Opera Box," by Scribe; "Without Dowry," one of About's amusing sketches; "The Iron Shroud," and sundry other tales-lively and pathetic-all well worth reading and worth preserving. Besides these there are poetry and entertaining essays, the capital travesty of Boswell's Johnson, entitled "Boz and Poz," by Chalmers; a complete collection (here, for the first time, published) of Praed's famous Lyrical Charades, and, interspersed with all, numerous brief poems of great merit, most of which are entirely new to us. Emerald is the first issue of the Gem Series, under which general title we are promised companion volumes of similar character to be called the Sapphire, Topaz, &c. &c. Each volume is complete in itself, and the whole series, if we may judge by the specimen before us, will furnish a library with a complete collection of the best things in modern periodical It literature. Zriny von Korner. With English Notes for transla- MISCELLANEOUS. T_Emerald; a Collection of Graphic and Entertaining Tales, Brilliant Essays, and Fugitive Poems. Edited by Epes Sargent. Published by This handsome volume presents variety enough in its rich table of contents to suit all tastes. The BOOKS WANTED. [Advertisements inserted in this column at 10 cents per line.] Letters, stating price and condition, to be forwarded to the Advertisers. GEO. W. CHILDS, P. O. Box 517, PHILADELPHIA, Wants No. 1, Vol. VII. of the American Publishers' Circular. 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