name secured lasting honor in the places where he moved. He was born to the easy position of a man of fortune, and his tastes were those of a naturalist and a lover of travel and adventure. He was active and high-spirited, and had many social gifts; but at the age of twenty-one the religious tendency of his nature asserted itself, and he resolved to enter the ministry. After his ordination he threw himself ardently into the work he had chosen. When the field for missionary service was opened on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza, he was strongly moved to join the little band of laborers who gave themselves to the cause. In 1882 he left his curateship at St. George's Chapel, Hurstpierpoint, where he had ministered faithfully and with signal effect seven years; he parted with his wife and three little ones, and joined the party sent to reinforce the mission at Uganda, prepared for an absence of five years. The hardship and illness from which he suffered incredibly during the inland journey in Africa rendered an immediate return home imperative for the preservation of his life. He reached England a year after his departure; but, recovering his health, determined to renew the undertaking he had reluctantly abandoned. The rest of his story It is told at length by has been briefly outlined. his biographer, and repeats the experience of the heroic men who, animated by the spirit of Livingstone, have borne toil, anguish, and death, in the endeavor to carry civilization to the benighted African. THERE are some books which have for us precisely the interest of clever conversation, which are written exactly as a man would speak, which give us the impression that we are listening to some one's voice rather than reading from the printed page. A book of this description is before us just now. It is called "A Club of One," and professes to consist of "" passages from the note-book of a man who might have been sociable" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co). It consists entirely of talk of a familiar kind indulged in by a dyspeptic of culture and refinement. The culture is not very broad but it is genuine as far as it goes, and there can be no question about the refinement. The man who might have been sociable" is represented as an invalid confined for the most part to his house and his books, with a retentive memory for little things, and an epigrammatic way of expressing himself. Although made unsociable by indigestion and a mild cynicism, he is not without a faculty of shrewd observation, and this he has put to use, as many pages will testify. Here is a characteristic bit: "I hate disputation. My wife-It is not discussion. It is next thing to scolding. Gentlemen ought to be able to talk without disputing; though no gentleman will introduce into conversation a subject upon which gentlemen might differ with feeling. That is the test. A very good man, as the world goes, comes in to sit with me an evening. The politenesses have hardly been exchanged, when he asks my view of something. The view he at once takes to be a deliberate opinion, and falls to combating it, by giving me his opinion of it to the contrary. As if I cared particularly what he thought about it!" We should like to make further extracts from this charming volume. There is a fine descant upon the northeast wind, for example, and a very feeling series of reflections upon amateur musicians which would find responsive echoes in many hearts. Only we have a sort of suspicion all the time that our invalid is something of a malade imaginaire. CASSELL'S "Complete Pocket Guide to Europe" is the little volume which has heretofore been published with the imprint of J. R. Osgood & Co. It is certainly a "pocket" guide, almost a "vestpocket" one; its "completeness" admits of some question. It makes a great effort to cover the whole ground, and even includes Russia, the Scandinavian countries, and Spain and Portugal. It allows the reader just four months in which to see all "the most interesting sections of Europe," including the remote countries just mentioned. It undoubtedly contains more information in proportion to its size than any other guide-book published. One caution, however, should have been omitted. The editor says, "It is not wise to restrict one's self in amount of baggage." But if this is true, the first addition a traveller should make to his impedimenta is a complete outfit of Baedekers and Hares, thus making the "pocket guide-book" quite superfluous. The statements of the book are reasonably accurate and up to date. In a very hasty examination, we have noticed a few errors. The Hotel Splendide at Paris ceased to exist about a year ago; it is still given here. The Goethe collections at Weimar are visible every day of the week but Monday; we are told here that they are only to be seen on Friday. The statement that all steamers now land passengers directly at the Liverpool docks is inaccurate. Some of them still send their passengers by tender to the landing-stages. The page devoted to ocean steamboat fares is very inaccurate. The highest rates on the North German Lloyd and the French line are given as $100 and $110, respectively, whereas they should be $175 and $120. No mention is made of the most important of the Allan lines, that from Quebec to Liverpool. We think that even a condensed guide-book might have found room for a line definitely mentioning the carved stalls of Amiens Cathedral, and Rauch's statue of Queen Luise at Charlottenburg. Instances of this sort of omission might be multiplied; we have given enough to show that the present guide has its failings like all others. 66 THE work of Dr. John Bascom on 'Sociology" (Putnam) aims, in the author's words, to cover a large field suggestively, rather than a narrow field exhaustively." This admission precludes any criticism based upon unsystematic treatment or omission of important subjects, and leaves room only for that which is concerned with matters of detail and with the general tendency of the work. This general treatment of the subject is made all the more necessary by the author's sceptical attitude toward the results claimed by Mr. Spencer and other writers upon sociology. He says: "It is even yet early to speak of sociology. But little progress has been made in the combination of social, civil, economic, religious and ethical terms of growth, into a sociology that shall enable us to understand the orbit of society, and to define, in reference to both the past and the future, the position actually occupied by us in it." While we should dissent from Dr. Bascom's views as to the value of what has already been accomplished in the science, we cheerfully admit that much is being done in an ill-considered way to accomplish a union between departments of sociological science which it were better to develop separately for some time yet to come. He remarks very justly: "The phases of action embodied in society are so distinct-as, for example, those of Political Economy and of Ethics -as to admit of separate, profitable discussion. Indeed, not till we have considered these separately are we ready for their combination in human intercourse. Each one of these fields admits of distinct principles narrowly applied, and has closer terms of union than the entire field." In the variety of subjects touched upon in this volume, Dr. Bascom gives renewed evidence of a comprehensive and philosophically disposed mind, as well as of powers of keen insight, and direct and incisive expression of thought. The work has not only the suggestiveness which he modestly claims for it, but qualities of a much more substantial character. "THE Conflict of the East and West in Egypt" (Putnam) is the title of a valuable monograph of two hundred pages, by John Eliot Bowen, Ph.D. Beginning with the reign of Mehemet Ali, and sketching rapidly the conquests and administrative reforms of this "Peter the Great of Egypt," as he has been called, it brings the history of Egypt, and of England's intervention in the affairs thereof, down to the conclusion of Lord Wolseley's expedition, fruitful only in delays and disasters, for the relief of Gen. Gordon in Khartûm. It traces the miseries and crushing financial burdens which Egypt has had to endure, not to England's rapacity, but to the ambitious and wild schemes of Ismail, which are set forth in detail, and which were undertaken in order "to make a civilized country out of uncivilized materials, and to develop trade where natural resources were wanting, let the cost be what it might." Dr. Bowen attaches some blame to greedy European money lenders, but he shows, by the clear proof of facts and figures, that the chief burden of responsibility for Egypt's troubles rests upon Ismail, and he discredits Mr. Seymour Keay's "Tale of Shame," though the latter "supports his arguments with many italics, small capitals, and exclamation points. England, reasonably anxious to secure and preserve the shortest route to her possessions in India, and not justly chargeable with blame that she looked after the interests of her subjects who held the bonds of Egypt, did what it was right to do, and what any power would have done in the same circumstances; she intervened, at the Khedive's urgent request, in the affairs of Egypt. All the steps leading to and following this intervention, the story of Arabi's rebellion and of the operations in the Sûdan, are graphically described by Dr. Bowen, who, while pointing out the mistakes made by the British Government, says that "never, since his [Gladstone's] accession in 1880, has it been possible or desirable for England to withdraw her influence from Egypt." Dr. Bowen's style is clear and strong, his grouping of facts admirable, his temper thoroughly judicial, and his history of the period covered by his monograph altogether the most intelligent, impartial, complete and satisfactory of any account to be found in the growing literature of this question. MR. M. M. BALLOU'S volume bearing the title "Due North" (Ticknor) is a continuation of his notes of travel around the world, and a complement to the book upon Cuba entitled "Due South." It takes the reader through the northern countries of Europe-Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Russian Poland,-which are not yet so commonly visited and described as to have become hackneyed topics. It touches upon every point which an intelligent and observant tourist, seeking for the largest amount of trustworthy knowledge, would find most significant and impressive. His route ran from Copenhagen to Christiana, Bergen, Lund, and the North Cape; thence across country to Stockholm and Upsala, and so on to St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nijni-Novgorod, and Warsaw. Diversions from this main path were made whenever objects of importance offered sufficient attraction. The most noteworthy observations of Mr. Ballou in Russia and Poland concerned the policy and action of the government. His observations led him to believe that the reports of the hermit-like seclusion of the emperor and his fear of violence from the people are exaggerations; that he is the most liberalminded of the Romanoffs that have yet sat on the imperial throne; that he has the best good of his subjects at heart, and purposes even to grant them a constitution in due time; and that he has modified the penal system of the country to such an extent that exile to Siberia has become a light punishment compared with captivity in European or American prisons. In studying Polish affairs, Mr. Ballou arrived at conclusions similarly opposed to the popular opinion: viz., that the people are much more prosperous and happy, and all classes in a surer line of progress, than they were before the muchlamented partition, or would be again were the old régime restored. THE new volume by Dr. Charles C. Abbott, entitled "Waste-Land Wanderings" (Harpers), possesses the varied and delightful characteristics which have given his books a favored place among the writings of naturalists. His habitual field of observation is in the environs of Trenton, New Jersey, to which he has devoted his leisure hours during a lifetime. Every spare fragment of the day finds him out-of-doors quietly studying the aspects of earth and sky and the indications of animal life about him. In the woods and fields and on the water he is equally at home, everywhere finding new facts to add to his stock of scientific knowledge. Every species of living creature, wild and domestic, attracts his attention; yet he seems to dwell most upon the birds, perhaps because they are more common than other untamed things, and are more pleasing. The records contained in the present volume have been accumulated while boating on Crosswicks Creek, the uppermost tide-water stream flowing into the Delaware river. They show what a mass of intelligence regarding the ways of nature may be gathered within circumscribed limits, and how much and by what simple means the pursuit of such knowledge may minister to happiness and health. tive exercises a fascinating spell to its termination. It is a boon to have the dry materials of history moulded into a form animated with life and beauty. Mr. Rawlinson has the power to effect this transmutation; and in no book of his bas he demonstrated it more clearly. His knowledge of the subjects of ancient history is well known. It enables him to write of them from any point of view with the ease of utter familiarity; but the art of presenting their details in a pictorial light is a gift not to be acquired. It is a native talent, and one of the choicest in the endowment of a historian. The series for which Mr. Rawlinson has prepared the present volume is enriched by the contribution. AN almost ideal holiday is described by Mrs. Anna Bowman Dodd in the book entitled "Cathedral Days" (Roberts Brothers). Six weeks of driving over English roads in a private carriage, of rambling at will through cathedral towns and stopping between-times at home-like English inns, constitute an experience that may be called paradisian. It was enchanting as Mrs. Dodd describes it, every particular being invested in reality or imagination with the felicity of a dream. The excursion was made by the writer and a single companion-her husband, as she leaves the reader to discover through the thinnest of disguises. Mrs. Dodd is an amiable narrator, her only fault being a little excess in the flow of words, causing an uneasy fear of final inundation. She mingles personal incidents pleasantly with descriptions of scenery, architecture, and all else prominent enough to be worthy of portrayal. MR. ERASTUS WILSON'S "Quiet Observations " (Cassell) have filled an attractive nook in the "Pittsburgh Dispatch" for several years past. They have dealt with the common topics of the hour, in a plain, direct, pungent style, which hits the average apprehension effectively. They exhibit a clever diversity of form as well as subject, some being didactic, others partially epistolary, and others again colloquial, and linked together by the identity of the speakers introduced. A spice of wit, a spice of common-sense, evident honesty of conviction, with veins of narrow reasoning, are blended in them, and constitute a popular compound, amusing and not without profit to the daily newspaper reader. IN the Rev. T. L. Bailey's "Possibilities" (Lothrop) there are some hints regarding methods for making work' a pleasure to children, which may repay the practical reader for the perusal of a dull book. The author has not any of the secrets of the skilful novelist, but he has sage ideas about the management of boys and girls in school, so as to waken their minds to the rewards of study, to render them docile and diligent, and especially to develop a love for natural history. Unfortunately, he buries these ideas under such a load of prosy dialogue and prosier theology, that only here and there one will be resolute enough to dig down to them. MR. JAMES BURNLEY'S compilation of facts relating to "The Romance of Invention" (Cassell) is the product of industrious gleaning amid the records of the activity of the imagination bent to practical aims. The author does not evince enthusiasm in his researches, but that plodding spirit His book which delves with a utilitarian object. brings together a mass of interesting details gathered from myriad sources, and is useful as a manual for reference or as an incentive to a more thorough study of the lives of great inventors and the influence of their achievements on the progress of mankind. AN effort to make a play-spell of the study of chemistry, in order to win children to a love of the science, has been made, and successfully, by Lucy M. Rider, in the juvenile named " Real Fairy Folks" (Lothrop). It is as charming as the brightest of wonder-tales, while it is all the time telling a truthful story of the curious nature and behavior of the atoms, alias "Fairy Folks," which compose the elements of the universe. The author has an art of enchaining the attention of young minds while teaching them serious truths, which is quite equal to her knowledge of her subject. AUGUSTA LARNED's "Village Photographs" (Holt) are minute and carefully-wrought pictures of the life of a small rustic community which is removed from the bustle and worry and excitement of the great eager world around it. The pictures are drawn with a clever hand which has noted every feature of the quiet scenery and the passive existences that are essential concomitants in a rural town. The descriptive parts are delicately done, and the portraitures are studies from nature. THE seven stories of "The Children of the Week," which are "truthfully set down by Wm. Theodore Peters, with pictures thereunto by Clinton Peters," are brought out in dainty form by Dodd, Mead & Co. Author and illustrator have worked from a common motive, and the result is a most charming book for little folks. LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS. D. LOTHROP Co. will publish shortly "The Russian Novelists," translated from the French of E. M. de Vogüé. CONNECTICUT is the subject of the latest volume in the series of "American Commonwealths." Prof. Alexander Johnston, of the College of New Jersey, is the writer. TOM MOORE'S "Epicurean," attention to which has lately been revived by Mr. Haggard's "She," will be immediately issued in Henry Holt & Co.'s "Leisure Hour" and "Leisure Moment" series. MISS SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER'S "Rural Hours" is published in a tasteful new edition by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Its cover is decorated with a sundial surrounded by the motto "I mark only the bright hours." MR. BEECHER'S one novel, "Norwood," is just issued in a new and cheaper edition, by Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. This is the story for which Mr. Bonner, of the "Ledger," paid Mr. Beecher $25,000. It had a large success in that paper, and afterwards in book form. AMONG the new publications of Thomas Whittaker are "An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament," by Prof. B. B. Warfield; a Hebrew Grammar, by the Rev. W. H. Lowe; The 66 Growth of Church Institutions," by the Rev. Edwin Hatch; and "Sermons for Children," by Dr. Samuel Cox. The THE familiar imprint of White, Stokes, & Allen, New York, is to disappear from the trade. business of the firm will, however, be continued by Mr. Frederick A. Stokes; while Mr. White and Mr. Allen go again into the publishing business, with the firm name of White & Allen. LITTLE, BROWN & Co. have just ready: "Through the Fields with Linnæus," a chapter in Swedish history, by Mrs. Florence Caddy; "Cycling," a new volume in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes; a new edition of Kugler's “Italian Painting;" and" Before Trial," by Richard Harris, barrister-at-law. A NEW Volume by Edmund de Amiciis, "Cuore, an Italian Schoolboy's Journal," is just published by T. Y. Crowell & Co. Also, by the same firm, "Sigrid," an Icelandic love-story, from the Danish of Thoroddson; "The Picture of Paul the Disciple," by the Rev. H. R. Haweis; and a new and revised edition of Cushing's "Initials and Pseudonyms. " 66 A SERIES of small manuals called "Practical Lessons in Nursing" is undertaken by J. B. Lippincott Company. The first volume is on The Nursing and Care of the Nervous and Insane," by Dr. Charles K. Mills. It will be followed by "Maternity, Infancy, Childhood," by Dr. J. M. Keating; and "Outlines for the Management of Diet," by Dr. E. T. Bruen. HARPER & BROTHERS have just issued a memoir of Charles Reade, the joint work of the Rev. Compton Reade and Mr. Charles Liston Reade, two near relatives of the novelist. The volume is uniform with Harper's library edition of Charles Reade's novels, and has for frontispiece an engraving of the portrait which was bequeathed to the Messrs. Harper by Mr. Reade. PROF. F. MAX MULLER'S latest work, "The Science of Thought," will be issued by Charles Scribner's Sons, in two volumes, at an early day. They announce also "Word-Studies in the New Testament," by Dr. N. R. Vincent; "In Ole Virginia," by Thomas Nelson Page; "Around the World on a Bicycle," by Thomas Stevens; "The Essentials of Perspective," by L. W. Miller; etc. THE success that Messrs. Putnam's Sons have met with in their republication of the works of American statesmen leads them to announce the writings of Washington, in twelve volumes, uniform in style with the works of Franklin and of Hamilton, already issued. In a similar field, the complete works of Abraham Lincoln, in three or four octavo volumes, are announced for publication by the Century Co. PROF. H. C. ADAMS's new work, "Public Debts, an Essay in the Science of Finance," is just published by D. Appleton & Co. They issue, also, volumes five and six of Lecky's "History of England in the Eighteenth Century;" "John Sevier, the Commonwealth Builder," by Edmund Kirke; "Roundabout to Moscow, an Epicurean Journey," by John Bell Bouton; and "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit," a volume of selections from the writings and sayings of Henry Ward Beecher. THE latest publications of Roberts Brothers include: "Dante, a Sketch of his Life and Works," by May Alden Ward; "Dante and his Circle," a collection of lyrics translated in the original metres, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,-new American edition, revised and re-arranged; the collected works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in two volumes, edited by W. M. Rossetti; a Life of Mrs. Siddons, by Nina H. Kennard, in the "Famous Women Series;" "Between Whiles," a collection of stories, by Helen Hunt Jackson; and a new edition for 1887 of Mr. Pascoe's "London of To-Day." THE large space given by our monthly magazines to topics relating to the labor question show that these topics are paramount at present among serious questions of public interest. Thirty-five or forty years ago, as President F. A. Walker points out in an article on "Socialists" in "The Forum" for May, all the leading economists were declaring that "there was no social question, there could be no social question;" whereas now they "fully admit that there is a social question, of a most vital character." President Walker writes, as usual, with admirable force and clearness. "The Forum," by the way, appears to be striving to occupy the place left vacant in our magazine literature when the "North American Review" renounced its honorable traditions and sank to the level of a sensational monthly newspaper. THE new edition of Browning, in course of publication by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., fairly realizes the intention of the publishers to produce "a correct, reasonably compact, and legible edition of Browning's remarkable works." It is printed from entirely new plates, and follows the latest London edition, revised and arranged by the author. Vol. I. contains Pauline, Paracelsus, Strafford, Sordello, Pippa Passes, King Victor and King Charles. Vol. II. contains Dramatic Lyrics, The Return of the Druses, A Blot on the 'Scutcheon, Colombe's Birthday, Dramatic Romances, A Soul's Tragedy, and Luria. Volume III. contains The Ring and the Book; Volume IV. Christmas Eve and Easter Day, with Men and Women, In a Balcony, Dramatis Personæ, Balaustion's Adventure, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, and Fifine at the Fair. Two more volumes will complete the series. The fine steel portrait of Browning, in Vol. I., is from a recent and very satisfactory photograph. THE TEMPLE OF ALANTHUR, WITH OTHER POEMS. By ISAAC R. BAXLEY. 16mo. Cloth, $1.25. "The story is wrought out with unmistakable poetic strength."-Buffalo Times. "There are many beautiful thoughts to be found in the volume."-St. Paul Despatch. "His verses certainly are very beautiful, and there can be no question that he possesses genuine poetic faculty. The gift of vivid expression and a sweet sense of melody."-Baltimore News. "The poems in his little volume are of considerable merit."-Troy Times. "Is as ambitious a volume of verse as the year is likely to give us."-Hartford Courant. "Mr. Baxley has given to it the full poetical fervor. Has the most quiet naturalness and grace."-New York Times. "It would be impossible to deny merit in Mr. Baxley's book. His diction is good and he writes with apparent ease."-Boston Transcript. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 27 and 29 West 23d St., NEW YORK. TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. MAY, 1887. Acting and Actors. C. Coquelin. Harper. Books that Have Helped Me. John Bascom. Forum. 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