that shall be fairly representative of all the many classes of poems [contained in the Greek anthology] except those that, for obvious reasons, are untranslatable, and in every case the translator has aimed at literal fidelity to the original. To have imitated the Greek metres would have been a rash experiment in English, and even if successful would have been monotonous. It has therefore been deemed advisable to use, instead of metres familiar to the ancients, those familiar to ourselves."-Translator's preface. TOLSTOI, Count LYOF N. The fruits of enlightenment: a comedy in four acts. United States Book Co. 12°, (Seaside lib., no. 1835.) pap., 20 C. WILKINSON, W. CLEAVer. The epic of Saul, Funk & W. 8°, $2.50. The author, formerly of Rochester University, N. Y., adheres to the Scriptural narrative of the lite of St. Paul, but allows his imagination full sway where the narrative is silent. The epic is in blank verse, divided into fourteen sections or books. The 8000 lines describe Sau! of Tarsus, brought up at Jerusalem, a pupil of Gamaliel, who set out as an eager but pacific controversialist in public dispute against the preachers of the gospel, and afterwards changed into a virulent and cruel persecutor of Christians, until he abruptly became a Christian, after the vision on the plains of Damascus. For seven years Mr. Wilkinson has been at this great task, and portions of his work have from time to time appeared as separate poems in The Century, The Independent and other journals. WILSON, I. McC. The fate of the leaf. Cushings. 12°, $1. The poem is sung by the leaf of a maple-tree that first rejoices in its birth, its summer, its autumn splendor, and then lies shrivelled on the ground questioning the use of its creation. Its thoughts are answered by a solemn pine-tree, which teaches him that "all things, everywhere existent, form component parts of one creative plan." The pine-tree also points out the lessons of life to man, 'the image of his Maker." WINTER, W. Wanderers: a collection of poems. Macmillan. 18°, $1.75. WORDSWORTH, W. Poems chosen and ed. by Matthew Arnold. Harper. 24°, pap., 50 c. Matthew Arnold, in making this little collection, said: "To disengage the poems which show his [Wordsworth's] power, and to present them to the English-speaking public and to the world, is the object of this volume." He said further in his preface: "I by no means say that it contains all which in Wordsworth's poems is interesting. But it contains, I think, everything, or nearly everything, which may best serve him with the majority of lovers of poetry, nothing which may disserve him." MAGAZINE POETRY. ciation at the fourth annual meeting, Wash., D. C., Dec. 26-30, 1890. American Economic Assoc. 8°, (Publications of the American Economic Assoc., v. 6, nos. 1, 2.) pap.. $1. 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The epic of Saul. Funk & W. 8°, $2.50. Scribner's. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Present Revolution in Theological Thought. Arena. Conflict between Ancient and Modern Thought in the Presbyterian Church. Arena. Christianity and Socialism. Buckley. Harper's. BRET HARTE'S new story, "A First Family of Tasajara," will appear in Macmillan's Magazine. THE Countess Tolstof has recently visited the Czar and had an agreeable audience, her imperial host promising to protect her famous husband henceforth from the annoyances of the censorship. KINGLAKE, the historian, was as precise in memory and epigrammatic in remark as ever, says a writer in Blackwood's Magazine, and his observations continued to be no less quaint and uncommon than those we had long recognized as peculiar to him. The present writer, sitting at table with him one evening when one who long was a leading advocate of an important policy entered the room, observed: "I suppose, Kinglake, you knew Mr. when you were in the House?" "Yes, yes, I knew him-clever man till he destroyed his intellect." "Good heavens! How? Surely not- We were about to venture on a wild surmise, when he continued: "Destroyed his intellect by reading the newspapers." CLASSIFYING CONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS. There William S. Walsh, writing in the Illustrated American of comparative merits of contemporary novelists, classes Thomas Hardy, R. L. Stevenson, William Black, Henry James and W. D. Howells together as "elegant triflers." Well, exclaims The Beacon, in fiction, as in other things, there is no accounting for tastes. are people with some claims to critical discrimination who rank Thomas Hardy as incomparably the greatest of living English writers of fiction, after him George Meredith-whom Mr. Walsh regards as supreme-and then in the order named, Mr. James and Mr. Howells. And William Black? A stylist, nierely. Mr. Walsh should give a day and a night to reading "The Return of the Native." SCIENCE SNUBS POETRY.-Shortly after the publication of Tennyson's famous poem, "A Vision of Sin," the laureate, says the Chicago Standard, was somewhat startled to receive from Mr. Babbage, the renowned arithmetician, a letter which ran as follows: **DEAR SIR: I find in a recently-published poem from your pen, entitled 'A Vision of Sin,' the following unwarrantable statement: "Every moment dies a man, I need hardly point out to you that this ejaculation, if correct, would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. 1 would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man And one and a sixteenth is born.' I may add that the exact figures are 1.167; but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre. I have the honor to be, sir, yours sincerely, C. BABBAGE." M. ROMANTICISM vs. NATURALISM.--Since Alexandre Dumas penned his article against excessive naturalism in literature and hailed the revival of the ideal and the romantic, says the Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph, an enterprising editor has taken a census of opinion on the whole question. Most of the leading littérateurs have been consulted, and their answers to interrogatories are both amusing and full of suggestions which cannot fail to be productive of profit to the young and budding authors who may care to peruse them. M. Alphonse Daudet does not think that M. Marcel Prévost, the rising young man whose book, A Lover's Confession," was so lauded by M. Dumas, has struck new ground, considering that the same soil has been worked admirably by the late Octave Feuillet, Delpit, Ohnet and others. M. Daudet scoffs at the idea of labelling or ticketing novelists and classifying them in schools. The author writes according to his temperament, tastes, sensations, preoccupations and perception of art. If the book be good, sincere and written in a conscientiously artistic manner, it will always be read-so far M. Daudet. Next comes M. Georges Ohnet, an author who has gauged public requirements in fiction better, perhaps, than any man of his time. He says practically the same thing as M. Alphonse Daudet about the romantic in French fiction. The phrase Roman-Romanesque, observes the author of "Le Maitre de Forges," is a pleonasm. Why, even Zola, the head of the Naturalistic school, has infused his pages with the breath of romance! In M. Ohnet's view young authors are too much afflicted with pessimism, and the public wants neither the glare and glitter of the old school nor the "Roman cruel" of the new. To interest people, novelists must paint the different aspects of humanity and select honest as well as villainous types as their models. M. Ludovic Halévy speaks something like M. 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