Hinds, W: A. American communities. "An accurate description of the existing communities in 1876, when he visited them for the express purpose of writing about them. It treats of the Harmonists, Separatists of Zoar, Bethel Community, Icarian Community, The Shakers, Oneida Community, Wallingford Community, etc. He is associate editor of the American socialist." Hinton, J. Life and letters; ed. by E. Hopkins. "He was but fifty-three when, in Dec., 1875, his career of intense practical and intellectual activity was closed by death. But in that time he sowed a seed of moral and intellectual regeneration for society which will not soon cease bearing its fruit. He has contributed much towards realizing that which is the end of the great struggle of modern times, the bringing science, philosophy, and religion into a perfect accord, and that not merely for the philosopher at his desk, but for all men and women as practical actors in the great drama." — S. H. Hodgson in Acad., Apr. 6. "Among the fundamentals of Mr. Hinton's philosophy a marked feature presents itself in his rejection of the atom, for which, with Faraday and other eminent modern scientists, he substituted a centre of force; herein following Boscovitch. Almost of necessity, he who sets out with this hypothesis must discard the sharp distinction which is ordinarily taken between what are popularly denominated matter and mind. Matter may thereby be spiritualized, if we may be allowed the expression; and so it was in all the speculations of Mr. Hinton, which involve nothing which fails to harmonize entirely with the deductions of the most advanced science." - Nation, June 27. ... "Mr. Hinton's style, though undistinguished by any remarkable quality, is nevertheless, in general, sufficiently perspicuous. The fault is the prevailing haziness of thought, the apparent inability or reluctance to formulate a categorical proposition. The speculative, as distinguished from the biographical part of this volume, would be almost an enigma to most readers but for the terse exposition of its leading idea in the brief and masculine preface of Sir W. Gull. By innate bias a mystic to whom all creeds were alike, H. was by profession an orthodox believer. The whole man, on the speculative side, is thus a suppressed contradiction, a contradiction only veiled by the mist of a general indefiniteness. As such he well repays study, fragmentary as are the materials, and unsatisfactory as must be the result. Mr. Hinton's leading thought is thus expressed by Sir W. Gull: "The only deadness in Nature, the only negative condition, was man's selfishness. The same error which led man, from limited observation, to suppose the earth the centre and at rest, repeated itself in a new form in supposing himself to be a living centre surrounded by dead things.' His writings are little else than perpetual variations on this theme, either in its physical aspect of the actual vitality of inorganic matter, or its ethical aspect of the dullness of the selfish instincts in man.' Eram., Mar. 16. A controversy on Hinton's altruism may be found in the Spectator, May 11, p. 595, and May 18, p. 630 and 634. Homerus. Stories from Homer, by A. J. Church. "All professed translations in metre have hitherto, however literal or however free they might be, resulted either in something stiff, awkward, and disagreeable to read, or in something, smooth indeed to read, but so powdered and periwigged à la Queen Anne, like Pope's, or so mock-Miltonic, or otherwise so thoroughly English in tone, as to rob the reader completely of the flavor of the original. On the other hand, à prose version rendering the Greek as near as may be word for word, but ignoring its poetic tone, and straining with painful contortions to transfer to English the vivid, graphic, and melodious long compound epithets of the Hellenic epos, also fails utterly to give an ordinary reader any idea of the poet. The best way for a mere English reader to get an idea of the Iliad' and the 'Odyssey' will probably be through such a book as this, where the poems appear in the form of stories, told in easy, natural English, which any child could understand and enjoy. The tone of the original is carefully preserved. The secret of the author's success lies, we think, to a great extent in the happy rendering of similes, in the simplicity of his English, and, most of all, in his writing in the true spirit of the epic, the spirit of childlike, joyous story-telling." - Nation, May 16. International Congress of Orientalists. Transactions of the 2d session, 1874. Kaufmann, Rev. M. Socialism; its nature, its dangers, and its remedies; founded on the German work "Kapitalismus und Socialismus," by Dr. A. E. F. Schaffle. Keim, Dr. T. The history of Jesus of Nazara. 2 ve "Keim is not like Zeller, the representative of a particular school. He is too conservative for Tübingen (as it was when its criticism lived), but much too progressive and advanced for Leipzig and Erlangen. A model of German thoroughness, nothing that could illustrate its subject has been neglected. Geography, physiography, chronology, history, religion, literature, art, all are faid under contribution. And as the author has spared himself no labor, he spares his readers none. We have his processes as well as his results. It is not a book for an indolent man, or a hasty or ignorant reader, but essentially a book written by a student for students. His interpretations are often violent and arbitrary; his criticism often rash and wayward." Contemp. rev., Mar. Keller, Dr. F. The lake dwellings of Switzerland and other parts of Europe. 2d ed., tr. and arr. by J. E. Lee. 2 v. "Since Mr. Lee first published his translation of Dr. Keller's work, now nearly twelve years ago, numerous discoveries of great archæological interest have been made in many of the shallow lakes of Switzerland, throwing much light on the structure of the old piledwellings, and on the arts of the people who reared them. Not only has he translated the last of Dr. Keller's Reports, but he has drawn upon the works of other explorers wherever they relate to the lacustrine settlements."- Ath., Mar. 23. King, M. Harvard and its surroundings. 2d ed. Illust. Lafon, M. Pasquino et Marforio; les bouches de marbre de Rome. A collection of the squibs, chiefly on church dignitaries, aflixed to the two famous statues, with translations into French. Morbid craving for morphia; a monograph founded on personal observations; tr. Levinstein, E: Lindau, R. Gordon Baldwin and the philosopher's pendulum. "Gordon Baldwin' is a story of striking power, the scene of which is laid in the American colony at Paris. "The philosopher's pendulum', by the same author, appeared two years ago in Blackwood's magazine. The stories are by a German author, but the characters are mainly Americans." - Boston d. adv., June 29. Both stories are sad. Longfellow, H: W. Poems of places. Russia. Lovett. W:, d. July, 1877. The life and struggles of Wm. Lovett, in his pursuit of bread, knowledge, and freedom. "Lovett was the author of the 'Charter'. The work gives an account of the early experiments in co-operation, the associations for the extension of the suffrage, for the abolition of the taxes on knowledge, and the Chartist movement. A healthy, breezy, cheerful voice from the old Radical days.". Examiner. Mag; a story of to-day. Mayers, W: F: The Chinese government, a manual of Chinese titles. Muegge, T. Afraja; or, Life and love in Norway; from the German by E. J. Morris. ago. An interesting picture of life in Finmark a century The descriptions of scenery are vivid and exact, and the book is read by travellers in the north of Norway, as Andersen's Improvisatore is by visitors to southern Italy. Murray, E. C. G. The Russians of to-day. "As a picture of the Russians as they are, the work possesses about the same value as a brilliant French Journalist's sketch of English society in which the common sergeant should be described as the typical English officer, the Lord Mayor as the typical English peer, Sir Kenealy as the typical member of Parliament."- Exam., May 25. "A political pamphlet, false throughout and intended to be false. The character sketches are excellent, but the Russians of the author's today are the Russians of twenty years ago" when he was Consul General at Odessa, and "after a few years was turned out of the service for great 'irregularities' in his accounts". - Nation, July 11. My heart's in the Highlands; by the author of "Artiste". 351 Acad. "Tells its story well and spiritedly.". National Assoc. for the Prom. of Social Science. Transactions, 1877. News, Daily. War correspondence, 1877-78, from the fall of Kars to the signature of the preliminaries of peace. Nineteenth century, June. Contains a paper by Midhat Pasha, 'Past, present, and future of Turkey', which is reprinted in Pop. sci. monthly suppl. for July. "The articleon 'Voltaire and Madame du Châtelet', by Mrs. Clarke,is an opportune picture of the more human side of a man whose destructive work is just now receiving so much praise and blame in France; and the picture is well drawn, with perhaps more freedom of treatment than is usual in the English handling of such themes.". Acad., June 8. Payn, J. By proxy. "A novel of which the plot is so absorbing that we find ourselves longing to read the last chapter before we are half way through the first volume, while the dialogue and the descriptions are so full of wit that it requires an effort to skip a single page." — Exam., May 4. Phillips, Barnet. A struggle. Reprinted from Appleton's journal, Aug. - Oct. 1877. A story of the Franco-Prussian war. Prescott, G: B. The speaking telephone, talking phonograph, and other novelties. Quinet, E. Vie et mort du génie grec. "Les pages inédites que l'on publie aujourd'hui ont été écrites tout d'une haleine le 19 et le 20 mars 1875: la main défaillante s'arrêta au milieu de la phrase commencée. L'idée fondamentale est celle-ci: de la grande journée de Salamine et de la grande journée de Platée sont nés tous les chefs-d'œuvres de la Grèce. Toutes ces œuvres d'art ont nécessairement un caractère commun: celui que donne le sentiment d'avoir vaincu, c'est-à-dire la paix, l'équilibre, la sérénité des immortels." - M. Gaucher in Rev. pol. et lit., mars 9. See an account of Quinet in Flint's Philosophy of his. tory, v. 1. Rae, E: The country of the Moors, from Tripoli to Kairwân. Travels in Tripoli and Tunis, told pleasantly enough except for some unsuccessful attempts at facetiousness "Mr. Rae visited Kairwân, a Muhammadan city with a very fanatical population, which has seldom, and only at long intervals, been entered by Christian travellers."— C. R. Markham in Academy, Jan. 19. "He sees a very fair average number of things, but he has not a sufficient preparation to make much of what he sees. He has read and become imbued with the style of Artemus Ward and Mark Twain, without catching their gifts of humour." Westminster rev., April 1. Ris-Paquot, Manuel du collectionneur de faïences anciennes. Rolland, E. Devinettes, ou Enigmes populaires de la France. "M. G. Paris, in an interesting notice prefixed to M. Rolland's collection of quibbles, shows how universal the taste for conundrums is, and has been, and how nearly the jests of one race resemble those of the most "Plusieurs historiens tels que M. H. Martin, n'hésitent pas à admettre que le génie de la race gauloise s'est éveillé au contact de l'industrie et du commerce des Phéniciens. Et quel est le mythologue qui, en présence du druidisme et de sa doctrine de la migration des âmes, ne recherche point les liens qui rattachent l'Occident à la terre du Nil. L'hypothèse même qui fait des Sémites les civilisateurs de l'Occident date du Chanaan de Bochart, qui parut en 1646. Mais le sémitisme était oublié ou discrédité quand le baron de Donop en releva le drapeau, de 1819 à 1841. Mais bientôt Gésénius appela l'attention du monde savant sur les inscriptions phéniciennes; la conquête de l'Algérie remit en mémoire les traditions romaines et arabes relatives aux origines orientales des peuples de l'Atlas; Raoul Rochette suivit vers l'Occident les traces des dieux et des symboles de l'Asie; Movers publia son grand ouvrage sur les Phéniciens et leur colonies, et Ed. Roeth, Knobel, Redslob mirent en lumière les migrations ou le commerce des Hycsos, des Phérésiens, des Philistins, des Phéniciens dans l'occident et le nord de l'Europe. Le sémitisme, qui recommence même déjà à faire valoir ses droits sur la langue grecque, s'était ainsi assuré sa place au soleil en face de l'école des Bopp, quand parut l'ouvrage du suédois M. Nilsson. qui jusques alors semblait n'être que la thèse favorite de quelques érudits, s'est offert comme la seule solution possible de problèmes archéologiques." -- Préface. Sarcey, F. Comédiens et comédiennes : la Comédie Française. Ce See the review by H. James, Jr. in his French poets and novelists. Smith, R. B. Carthage and the Carthaginians. "Might as well have been called 'A history of the Punic war', or, "The struggle of Rome and Carthage'. Practically we know very little about Carthage save in its connexion with Rome. Mr. Smith's account of the Punic Wars is vigorous and spirited. He writes with thorough enthusiasm for his subject; his sympa thies, though not his reason, are on the side of the Carthaginians." Examiner, May 25. Taylor, Col. M. A noble queen; a romance of of Indian history. 3 v. Written after his return to England, when he was suffering under an incurable complaint, and his brain was temporarily affected. "Not that it is without merits and great merits; but from the author of "Tara' and 'The story of my life', it is a disappointment."- Athenæum, Mar. 23. "His intense sympathy with the people enables him to place their lives before the English reader in a familiar, human way that does more to dispel the common ignor. ance and arrogant assumption regarding the natives of India than all the formal histories that ever were written." -Spectator, Apr. 20. "Originally published in a newspaper. It is impossible for a diligent reader of Scott not to be struck with a probably unconscious adaptation of several notable scenes in the Waverley novels to the camps and palaces of the Dekhan. But it would be unjust to the author not to recognize that for a great deal of the local scenery and coloring he stands indebted to no one but himself. In scenery and manners Col. Taylor is never at fault. His descriptions are consistent, forcible, and correct."- Saturday rev.. May 25. Tenney, E. P. Agamenticus. "Vaut beaucoup par certains détails d'observation délicate, par l'originalité de quelques situations et enfin par le style." - M. Gaucher in Rev. pol. et lit., fév. 23. Trollope, A. Is he Popenjoy? "Is he Popenjoy? belongs to the least pleasant of Mr. Anthony Trollope's three manners that represented by such of his novels as "The Eustace diamonds', in which he is pleased to treat of the seamy side of society." - Acad., June 8. Achard, A. Le sanglier des Ardennes; comédie. Ashworth, H. Recollections of Richard Cobden and the Anti-Corn-Law-League. Arber, E. An English garner. Vol. 1. Contents. The late expedition in Scotland made by the King's army under the Earl of Hertford. 1544. — Sidney, Sir P. Astrophel and Stella. 1581.- Spenser, E., and others. Astrophel; a pastoral elegy upon the death of Sir P. Sidney. 1591. The great frost; cold doings in London except it be at the lottery. 1608.Dennys, I. The secrets of angling. 1613. - Peake, R. Three to one; an English-Spanish combat at Sherries [Xeres] in Spain, Nov. 15, 1625. True relation of a brave English stratagem practised upon a sea-town in Galicia in Spain. 1626. Taylor, J. The carriers' cosmography. 1637. - England's joy, or a relation of the passages from His Majesty's arrival at Dover to his entrance at Whitehall. 1660. — N., N. Narrative of all the proceedings in the draining of the great level of the fens, extending into the cos. of Northampton, etc. 1661. - A relation of the retaking of Sta Helena and three Dutch East India ships. 1673. — Knox, Capt. R. Nineteen years' captivity in Conde Uda in Ceylon, Mar. 1660– Oct., 1679. 1681. Arundel Society. Chromo-lithographs. 1878. St. Blaise and St. John Baptist; St. Giles and St. Jerome; by H. Memling, in the cath. at Lubeck; drawn by C. Schultz. Aubé, B. Persécutions de l'église. [2e sér.:] La polémique païenne à la fin du 2e siècle. Is said to give the best digest of Celsus that has ever been written. Auerbach, B. Landolin; trans. by A. B. Irish. (Leisure hour ser.) Bell, R. Early ballads illust. of history, etc.; also, Ballads and songs of the peasantry of England. Bergsoe, W. The bride of Roervig; tr. by N. Francis. "A carefully imagined story [of a girl who sees visions], readable even through the medium of a rather stiff translation. The scene is on the shore of the Kattegat," and the descriptions of scenery and manners are interesting. Besant, W., and Rice, J. Shepherds all and maidens fair; [fiction].. When the ship comes home; [fiction]. Blavignac, Histoire des enseignes d'hotelle ries, d'auberges, et de cabarets. Full of curious antiquarian research. Brisebarre, E., and Nus, E. M. M. de Paris. Les pauvres "Chas. Reade in his 'Hard Cash', and M. E. Braddon in her 'Rupert Godwin', took the skeleton of 'Les Pauvres de Paris', clothing it each after the fashion that seemed most fit." Broome, Capt. A. History of the Bengal army. Bryce, J. Constantinople. cipale, nov. 1872 - dic. 1877. 5 v. Buonarroti, Michael Angelo, il vecchio, and others. Fac-simile eseguito in eliotipia; raccolta di 120 disegni nella R. Accademia di Belle Arti in Venezia. 2 pts. Cheever pedigree. Broadside. Chodzko, A. Théâtre persan, choix de téaziés ou drames; tr. "In the land of the Shah the stage is still very primitive. There are no regular companies or theatres; the performances are given for the most part in the open air or in the courts of inns, as in England just before Shakspere's day. The actors are apparently amateurs. The Persian play has no action and no climax; it is only an incident mournfully narrated, for as all the dramas relate to the martyrdom of Hassan and Hussein they are all sorrowful. There are a few ambulatory companies of jugglers and acrobats playing in rude farces full of practical jokes, and resembling seemingly a very low form of the Italian commedia dell'arte. But this sort of tema. sha, or farce is but little esteemed in comparison with the religious teazié already referred to, and of these the five specimens in M. Chodzko's little volume scarcely give one a desire to know more." -- Nation, July 11. Claretie, J. A. Les femmes de proie: Mademoiselle Cachemire. "Il s'attaque tres résolûment aux théories de M. Dumas. Il crie, Ne la tue pas! ne la tue pas! Bien navrante, l'histoire du pauvre amiral. M. Claretie l'a égayée en y faisant passer une comedienne de septième ordre et un vieux professeur de déclamation qui disent l'un et l'autre une foule de choses peu utiles, mais assez amusantes. En somme, on lit avec plaisir ce volume, malgré quelques longueurs." Rev. pol. et lit. Conder, C. R. Tent work in Palestine; a record of discovery and adventure; illust. by J. W. Whymper. 2 v. Contemporary rev. "Mr. Cyples has a really interesting review of Dr. Johnson's mind and work, in the paper which he ingeniously calls Johnson without Boswell'. Mr. Cyples is following a right method in, so to speak, flinging Boswell overboard, and going straight to the Rambler and the Idler to seek for the real Johnson there."- Acad., July 13. Craik, G. M., and Stirling, M. C. Two tales of married life. 3 v. "Genre paintings, both good of the kind, and carefully studied." Acad. Miss Stirling's tale "for a story of its length is one of the strongest of the season." — Ilarper's monthly. Craven, Mme. A. Natalie Narischkin, sister of charity of St. Vincent of Paul; trans. by Lady G. Fullerton. 2 v. Dhammapada. Texts from the Buddhist canon, Dhammapada; tr. from the Chinese by S. Beal. ""Thou almost persuadest me to be a Buddhist', one fancies Father Bigandet saying, as one muses over his life of Gautama Buddha. Abbé Huc's admiration for Buddhism was perhaps equally sincere, but it led him into trouble. When he described the tonsures, mitres, and dalmatics, the holy waters, saintly relics, and confessionals, of the Pagan religion, the Holy Father became alarmed, and the Abbe's book was put on the Index. The present work is intended to give general readers some insight into the genius of the religion which has thus fascinated so many western minds. In the verses of the Dhammapada, says Max Müller, we have the nearest approach to the actual teaching and the words of Buddha." Exam., July 27. Deane, C. Lieut.-Gen. John Burgoyne and the convention of Saratoga. Doggett, S. B. History of the Bradlee family with particular reference to the descendants of N. Bradley of Dorchester, Mass. Du Boisgobey, F. Les deux merles de M. de SaintMars. 2 v. "Il semblerait aujourd'hui que l'homme au masque de fer n'était autre que le chevalier des Armoises, se faisant appeler à Paris le chevalier de Kiffenbach, le chef de la grand conspiration de 1673. M. Fortuné du Boisgobey se déclare en faveur de cette dernière version et essaye de la populariser par le roman. Les deux merles sont un roman assez bien construit, avec aventures surprenantes, péripéties saisissantes, et invraisemblances ravis. santes, ce que comporte le genre.”. -M. Gaucher in Rev. pol. et lit., fev. 2. Duff, M. E. G. Notes of an Indian journey. Repr. from the Contemporary review. Mr. Saintsbury continues his notices of French writers with Oct. Feuillet. (Another series of papers on "French writers and artists," by W: Minturn, is going on in Appleton's. The June no. treated of D'Hervilly, and the July no. of Zola and Goncourt.) There are also articles by Matthew Arnold and Goldwin Smith. Prof. Hodgson writes: "Rumour does me too much honor in attributing to me the authorship of the articles in the Fortnightly review on "The political adventures of Lord Beaconsfield'. It is true that they say what I think, but I am not the writer."- Ath., June 1. Franco, G. Habiti delle donne venetiane intagliati in rame. [Venezia, 1610, repr. 1877.] Habiti d'huomeni [sic] et donne venetiane. [Venetia, 1610, repr. 1876.] Nuova inventione de diverse mostre. Venetia, 1596, repr. [Venezia, 1876]. Lace patterns. Freeman, E. A. The Turks in Europe. Histoire politique et diplomatique de Pierre Paul Rubens. "Rubens is intelligent and sharp-sighted in his dealings with courtiers and statesmen; he easily places himself on friendly terms with those whose intimacy it is important for him to acquire; and he tracks out with skill the plans of those whom he wishes to baffle. Thoroughly loyal to his employers, he has no self-esteem to gratify at their expense, no love of finesse to bring him into trouble. But we look in vain for the higher insight of the statesman. The book is intended to afford us materials for forming a judgment on Rubens' character as a politician, but it should be distinctly understood that a satisfactory judgment even on this point cannot be formed without a knowledge of much to which M. Gachard does not even allude." S. R. Gardiner in Acad. German home life. "It is stated that the Chancellor was rather pleased with 'German home life', although it provoked general indignation in the Fatherland." - Ath., May 18. Gozlan, L. Dieu merci! le couvert est mis. "There is no direct version, but, as the subject is identical with 'Eigensinn', a German play by the late R. Benedix, the English version of this, called 'Obstinacy', will fairly give an idea of the French." Grohman, W. A. B. Gaddings with a primitive people. "Sketches of life and manners among the Tyrolese peasantry. The pictures could hardly be better chosen or better drawn. The book opens with a most lively and amusing account of a Paradise Play in a secluded village among the Eastern Alps. Then follows a most interesting and charming chapter on the village priest, and more generally on the popular notions of religion prevalent in the Catholic Alps. Other chapters in the book are given to Alpine weddings, to the mountain beauty who is the heroine of them, to Tyrolese rifle matches, to a Tyrolese peasant's watering place, etc. Many of the marriage customs are very curious; they look like survivals of the old practice of marriage by capture." - Exam., June 15. Guerini, F. Genio ed amore. "Language pure, style quiet and elegant.". - Eram. Guichard, E. Tissus anciens reconstitués à l'aide du costume, des miniatures, et de documents inédits. "The plates, engraved by a new process of photo. engraving, are very strong. They are fair copies of the documents, materials in which the primitive forms are accentuated for the use of draughtsmen for the different ent industries."- Acad. Sue "Side by side with some remarkable essays on Cavour, on the Congresses of Châtillon and Vienna (1814 and 1815), we have a most graphic biography of the father of M. d'Haussonville, based on his own statements. cessively a member of the Chamber of Peers during the Restoration and the Monarchy of July, he was a true specimen of that old French noblesse which, having neither by fortune nor intellect any special part to play in society, was compelled to cling to every power in order to retain a sense of its own importance." - G. Monod, in Acad., Mar. 9. "Ce sont des articles qui avaient paru dans la Revue des Deux Mondes en grande partie. Ces monographies contiennent d'utiles documents pour les historiens, qui leur ont déjà fait, dans ces derniers temps, de nombreux emprunts. Le volume comprend, en outre, enfin les discours qu'il a prononcés à l'Académie Française. Bien charmants ces discours, où la roideur académique est si hereusement tempérée par une aisance aimable et une Tout certaine désinvolture toujours distinguée. aimables et aisés qu'ils sont, ces discours ont le tour oratoire, le geste et l'accent, ce qui est le point." - M. Gaucher in Rev. pol. et lit., fév. 16. -- Howe, J. B. Monetary and industrial fallacies; a dialogue. The political economy of Gr. Brit., the U. S., and France, in the use of money. Hueffer, F. Troubadours; history of Provençal life and literature in the Middle Ages. "The marvellous awakening of the 12th century to spiritual life of every kind, finding its legitimate outflow in architecture and painting, poetry and romance, and its illegitimate expression, also, in the renewed preten. sions of the Church, was one of the most extraordinary movements in the history of civilization. It is a grateful task to review a volume where so firm a ground of schol. arship is under our feet." Eram., Apr. 27. "It is not intended, he says, as a 'scientific and exhaustive treatment of the subject. The time for that has not yet come in England'." Sut. rev., Apr. 20. Hugo, V. M., comte. Le pape. "The work shows no signs of weariness; Victor Hugo seems as strong and as reckless in his strength as he was in the days when the Jeunes. Frances were inspired by the hugolatrie féroce which Gautier describes."-Exam., May 11. "Just as there is nothing so grotesque but he will offer it as sublime, so there is nothing so hackneyed and 'platitudinous' but he will give it forth as profound."Ath., May 11. "A satire of a very peculiar kind, in which the poet only criticises the Papacy by tracing a noble picture of what it should have been, while leaving to the reader the task of comparing its actual state with its ideal. The stumbling-block of the form of satire adopted by Victor Hugo is a peculiar monotony; he has avoided all allusion to real, modern facts; he has confined himself to generalities, always noble, always lofty, which yet lack variety, and which have a tendency to glide off into subjects already treated by the poet. He runs the risk likewise of scoffers saying that this book should really have been entitled 'What I should do and say if I were Pope'." G. Monod, in Acad., May 4. Ideville, H., comte de. Victor-Emmanuel r., sa vie, sa mort; souvenirs personnels. James, H., Jr. Watch and ward. "It is in many respects a delightful story; it has much of the author's splendor and enchantment of style: it is a work of well-defined literary importance: but it is not the Mr. James of to-day.” — Library table, June 22. Johnson, R. Play day poems. Juncker, E. Margarethe, or life-problems. From the German by Mrs. A. L. Wister. Kent, S. H. Within the Arctic Circle; experiences of travel through Norway to the North Cape, Sweden, and Lapland. 2 v. Laurie, S. S. On the philosophy of ethics. "A sensible and acute ethical writer." -J. S. Blackie, in his Four phases of morals, p. 81. Lawrence, E. English literature primers: romance period. A primer of medieval literature. Lefanu, J. S. The bird of passage. A romantic story. Lewes, Mrs. (pseud. George Eliot). A college breakfast party. (In Macmillan's mag., July) "The party is composed of six young men and a clergyman, types of Oxford thought and character, the young men being named Hamlet, Horatio, Laertes, Rosencranz, Guildenstern, and Osric, to show that the types are of permanent and not of ephemeral prevalence at seats of learning and study. The guests have found their creeds, and are eager to do battle for them, and make a convert of wavering, questioning Hamlet. There is plenty of wit as well as wisdom in the poem, though the authoress leaves us in no doubt as to the seriousness of her main purpose. She judiciously refrains from telling us what effect was produced upon the irresolute Hamlet by the conflict of opinions to which he had given so attentive an ear, beyond making him put in a claim for poetry as having a place, though not an exclusive place, in a well-ordered human life. With regard to the form of the poem, it does not convince us against the testimony of George Eliot's previous efforts in verse, that she is a born metrician." Exam., June 29. "Macmillan's magazine contains George Eliot's blankverse debate, - which rises at times into true poetry, among a set of University young men, as to the ultimate source of obligation, or in default of obligation, of whatever æsthetic principle may best take its place, in the human soul. The picture is specially striking, because in every line it assumes, though it nowhere positively asserts, that there is no real spiritual authority in exist ence which is guiding us forward and filling us with the highest of our aims." Spectator, June 29. Linton, Mrs. E. L. Misericordia; a story. MacColl, M. Three years of the Eastern question. 2d ed. Malleson, Col. G. B. Final French struggles in India and on the Indian seas; with an appendix containing an account of the expeditions from India to Egypt in 1801. "Col. Malleson is always painstaking, and generally accurate; his style is transparent; and he never loses sight of the purpose with which he commenced to write. He shows that we were once very near losing all our possessions in Southern India, in which case a French general would have soon quarrelled with Hyder and Tippoo, and have gained a marshal's bâton for the reduction of Seringapatam, - Sat. rev., May 4. -- Manley, J. J. Notes on fish and fishing. This work, besides containing descriptions of all freshwater fish and the modes of taking them, also contains chapters on fishing as a sport, as a fine art, the literature of fishing, nat. hist. of fish, Thames fishing and puntsmen, etc. Mantegna, A. graphs. Triumph of Alexander. Photo Manzoni, A. I promessi sposi; nelle due ed. del 1840 e del 1825, raffrontate tra loro dal Prof. R. Folli; prec. una lettera di R. Bonghi. Mario, Mrs. J. W. La miseria in Napoli. "Her vigorous narrative of her ambulance experiences during the Garibaldian campaigns appeared in Fraser. She undertook a journey to Naples for the express purpose of examining its poorest habitations, its worst dens of misery and vice." -- Acad. Marshall, J. Anatomy for artists. passage from the history of the troubles in Meilhac, H., and Halévy, L. M. M. L'été de la St. Martin; comédie. Frou-frou. "The latest variation on the theme of "The Stranger', and 'A woman killed with kindness'." Molesworth, Mrs. Hathercourt. An interesting story, poorly written. By the author of "Carrots." Montgomery, Miss F. The town crier; [with] The children with the indian-rubber ball. More, R. J. Under the Balkans; a visit to Philippopolis in 1876. Morris, W. Decorative arts; address. Musset, P. E. de. Nouvelles italiennes et siciliennes. 3e éd. Nus, E., and Durantin, A. M. M. Une pèche miraculeuse; comédie. Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. The primrose path. Onderdonk, H., Jr. Jamaica centennial, July 4, 1876; also, recollections of school and college life. Orred, M. Patrick, M. Peard, F. M. Honor's worth; or, The cost of a vow. Madrigal and other stories. "They belong to the same school as Miss Thackeray's minor writings, and are marked with the same undercurrent of melancholy; and also, it must be added, with the same grace and delicacy of execution. Four of the seven have their scene cast in various spots on the continent, and exhibit that close familiarity with the habits and thoughts of the people which the best kind of English travellers have a special faculty for acquiring. The three remaining ones are English, and are as good in their way."- Acad., June 10, 1876. Peking gazette, Translation of the, for 1877. |