tion is the third, and the author, in his introduction, expresses his surprise that his hasty jottings should have been so well received and we are inclined to agree with him. Mr. Sessions's tour did not take him off the beaten track, and what he saw in London, Paris, Rome, etc., is what no traveller with the usual complement of eyes could have helped seeing. His comments are, in general, as trite as his descriptions. One scarcely needs, for instance, to be told of Westminster Abbey, "Here indeed one may spend a day with great interest"; or of the Coliseum that, "Here thousands of the earlier Christians suffered martyrdom by being thrown into the arena, to be torn and devoured by wild beasts." Mr. Sessions's style, however, is not without originality. He tells us that "Scarcely a foot of Italian soil is other than a pilgrimage," and that he and his friends enjoyed the sea breeze in Venice "with a zeal unequalled since we left home." The illustrations in the book are well chosen and well executed. THE volume entitled "Stories of New France (Lothrop), by Agnes M. Machar and Thomas G. Marquis, will be of interest to Americans chiefly because it presents in historical form what is already familiar in prose and poetical romance. The "Stories" begin with a chapter on How New France was Found," and close with the "Great Siege of Quebec," thus covering a period from the earliest knowledge of America to the day when Montcalm and Wolfe, in 1759, met on the plains of Abraham. The hero of a Canadian Thermopylae, Daulac, has already been introduced to us by Mrs. Catherwood in her "Romance of Dollard," and the same author's "Story of Tonty," tells also the story of Robert de La Salle. Every school girl will feel an impulse to read the story of the Acadian exiles, in order to find out more, if possible, about "Evangeline," and thus the best purposes of the book will be served by leading the reader one step nearer to the great storehouse of Canadian history, Francis Parkman. The authors should consider their work not in vain if it contributes a little toward this end. UNDER the titles, "Helps for Daily Living" and "The Signs of the Times," two volumes have been recently published by George H. Ellis, containing twenty-two sermons by the Rev. Minot J. Savage, the well-known Unitarian divine; and we take pleasure in saying that these sermons are well worth putting in type. A degree of appositeness is given to the contents of each book by selecting for it discourses of the same general trend as to subject matter and intent. The first named contains much strong sense and straight thinking on practical subjects, and will be well received irrespective of the reader's particular "doxy." In "The Signs of the Times," however, Mr. Savage gets upon debatable ground, and treats such subjects as Break-up of the Old Orthodoxy," "Ingersollism," etc., with a frankness that will, we are afraid, displease many readers. 66 BOOKS OF THE MONTH. [The following list includes all books received by THE DIAL during the month of April, 1890.] ART AND ARCHEOLOGY. History of Art in Sardinia, Judea, Syria, and Asia Minor. From the French of Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez. Translated and Edited by I. Gonino. With 416 Engravings and 8 Steel and Colored Plates. 2 vols. 4to. A. C. Armstrong & Son. $14.50. The Problem of the Northmen. A Letter to Judge Daly, President of the American Geographical Society. By Eben Norton Horsford. Second Edition. Illustrated. 4to, pp. 23. Paper. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.00. HISTORY. 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Robert Clarke & Co. $3.50. Asa Turner and His Times. By George F. Magoun, D:D. With an Introduction by A. H. Clapp, D.D. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 345. Congregational and S. S. Publishing Society. $1.50. The Wife of the First Consul. By Imbert de Saint-Amand. Translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. With Portrait. 12mo, pp. 357. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $1.25. Memorial to Robert Browning. Under the Auspices of the Browning Society of Boston, King's Chapel, Tuesday, January 28, 1890. Svo, pp. 64. Paper. Tied. Printed for the Society. $1.00. NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage around the World of H. M. S. Beagle.' By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. New Edition. Illustrated. Svo, pp. 551. Uncut. D. Appleton & Co. $5.00. Characteristics of Volcanoes. With contributions of Facts and Principles from the Hawaiian Islands. By James D. Dana. Profusely Illustrated with Maps and Views. Large 8vo, pp. 399. 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