if not to conviction. This edition has many illustrations gathered from various indifferent sources; it is well printed; but has no index. [Estes & Lauriat. $2.50.]

Agriculture," has had a great circulation in epistle to Can Grande, and also all the rerefFrance, where the plantation of forests in the ences found in the "Convito" to the other interests of agriculture has been systematically writings of the author. Full consideration will and profitably pursued for the last twenty-five also be given by the translator to the different From L. Couquet, Paris, we have the Sylvie years. In eight dialogues between the school- theories concerning Beatrice. The work is of Gerard de Nerval, got up in the most ravish-master and the farmer, Pierre, all the advan- expected to be in readiness in about a year's ing style on "petit papier vélin du marais," tages to be gained by re-wooding the bare time. with forty-two etchings by M. Ed. Rudaux. pastures are expounded, to the conviction of the

conservative old farmer who naturally preferred
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The delicacy and charm of these illustrations
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Nerval's untimely fate: "He was a poet, and versity gives an account of the college for the
prose killed him." The typography of the lit-first century of its existence. Its principal topics
tle book is beyond praise. Only one thousand are the little now known about John Harvard,
copies were printed, and the plates have been whose bequest of about £750 and of his library
destroyed. [New York: John Delay, 23 Union of 325 books rendered possible the opening of
Square.]
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but they do not, in a general way, offer very
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On

Catherine Owen's Ten Dollars Enough, or was first published in 1832, and it has held its "Keeping House Well on Ten Dollars a Week," own in the esteem of scholars, and has no suc-is a cookery book in the guise of a story. cessful rival in English, although a condensed the narrative of the daily life of a young married version in prose, made by Helen Zimmern from couple are strung more than two hundred tested the French, is a work of decided merit. Atkin- recipes, of which the cheery mistress Molly and son's rendering, however, is regarded favorably, her German servant Marty made use in concoctas retaining much of the spirit and Orientaling delicious breakfasts, dinners, and teas that flavor of the original. At the close of the vol-made the life in the cottage almost an ideal one, ume, the story of Sohráb is given in full in so far as the cookery element goes. [Houghton, sonorous pentameters. The book is one the Mifflin & Co. $1.00.] student of literature cannot afford to neglect. [New York: F. Warne & Co. $1.00.]

Das Kalte Herz, Wilhelm Hauff's charming tale, edited, with English notes, glossary, and a grammatical appendix, by W. H. van der Smissen, on the same lines as the same editor's previous selection from Grimm's tales, is printed in Roman type, and according to the revised German orthography, while the words are accented in the glossary, which, as well as the notes, is compiled with care and accuracy. The appearance of the book is a pleasure to the eye distressed by the old-fashioned Gothic character. [D. C. Heath & Co. 8oc.]

Rev. Julian K. Smyth is a Swedenborgian minister of Boston. Under the title of Footprints of the Saviour he has collected some "devotional studies in the life and nature of our Lord." They are based on extreme literalism, and have little contact with modern ideas or the modern spirit. The devotional temper is mediæval. [Roberts Bros. $1.00.]

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Two series of Stockton's Stories have been issued in companion volumes, collecting into a permanent form many favorites from the magThe moral difficulties in the Bible considered azines, including "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Dr. Newman Smyth of “ Andover heresy" tantalizingly unfinished, the " Story of Assisted fame in The Morality of the Old Testament are Fate," the absurd "Tale of Negative Gravity," such as serve the standing army of assailants of the preposterous attempt of "A Borrowed Christianity. Dr. Smyth takes first a broad Month," "Thomas Hyke" and "My Bull Calf," the creepy "Transformed Ghost" and "Spectral Marriage," and not the least characteristic "My Wife's Deceased Sister" twenty-one in all. Mr. Stockton's resources of comic, grotesque, and ludicrous invention seem inexhaustible. [Charles Scribner's Sons.]

In The Forest Waters the Farm; or, The Value of Woodlands as Reservoirs, we have a translation, by Rev. S. W. Powell, of a prize essay by a French inspector of forests, M. Antonin Rousset. The original, entitled "The Studies of Master Peter about Forests and

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SHAKESPEARIANA.

EDITED BY W. J. ROLFE, A.M., CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.

Did Shakespeare Visit Scotland? A friend in New York sends us four "cuttings" from the Evening Post in which this question is discussed, and asks that we will "settle the controversy." The discussion was started by Fleay's statement in his recent Chronicle History of the Life and Work of Shakespeare (p. 232) that the earlier (1601) form of Hamlet "was evidently hurriedly prepared during the journey to Scotland." It is quite like Mr. Fleay, who sneers at former biographers for giving mere fancies as facts, to treat an idle conjecture—which Halliwell-Phillipps, on whom he is particularly severe, does not think worthy even of casual mention—as something so well established that it needs no evidence to sustain it. His remark on p. 43 that the additions to Hamlet, "alluding to the theatrical war and the popularity of the Chapel Children, to which the travelling of the company is attributed "show that "Shakespeare was one of the strolling detachment," can hardly be regarded as such evidence, though Fleay appears to be satisfied with

it.

One of the writers in the Post takes the ground that a London theatrical company was not likely to have visited Scotland in Shakespeare's time, on account of the difficulties and dangers of the journey. He says of the supposed tourist on his way to the North:

He would have to foot it, or ride on horseback around the firths, and keep himself not only provisioned and watered for the trip, but armed to the teeth. As to sleeping-places, he would have to protect himself against wild beasts as well as against the weather. According to the libraries, Mr. Daly could take his company to Wrangell Land for a professional season with profit than William Shakespeare's taking his less expense and labor, and more pecuniary London company to Scotland.

It is certain, however, that Master Laurence Fletcher did take his company from London to Scotland in 1599, as another company had been taken ten years earlier, in 1589; but there is no evidence whatever that Shakespeare went thither with either of them. Knight devotes an entire chapter (pp. 419-443) of his Biography to the question, "Did Shakspere visit Scotland?" and endeavors to prove that, though he probably did not do so in 1589 or 1599, he did in the autumn of 1601; but his elaborate argument seems to us inconclusive, and, so far as we know, has convinced none of the critics.

For an excellent résumé of the discussion, see
Furness's "New Variorum" Macbeth, pp. 407-
410. As we have said again and again, that edi-
- Miss Kate Hillard, who for some years has tion is a condensed library of Shakespearian lit-
been making a special study of Dante, and who erature for the plays it includes. Every question
is now residing in Rome, has in preparation a in any way connected with them
translation of the "Convito." The edition will posed Scotch visit with certain details in the
include translations of the notes and comments text of Macbeth - is exhaustively treated in
of the best Italian editors, and of the dedicatory those encyclopædic volumes.

-as this sup

No scholar

H

least of all one who ventures into a controversy
in print
can afford to do without them.

PERIODICALS.

sody on "Men and Trees," and Margaret Van-
degrift's charming little allegorial tale of "The
King Who Went Out Governing."

FOREIGN NOTES.

printed in various tints on Japanese paper, and the binding, of imported vellum, is of significant merit. The edition is limited to one hundred numbered copies at $50 each.

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Century Magazine for January maintains the even level of excellence, and has rather more The Duke of Argyle has a new book ready pronouncedly than usual the American tone, called Scotland as It Was And as It Is. -D. Lothrop & Co. have in press Poems in which is one of its popular characteristics. The Mr. W. A. Croffut's book about The Vander-Many Tones, by Professor C. E. D. Roberts of life of Lincoln treats of Lincoln's removal to bilts is published in London by Griffith, Farran King's College, Windsor, Canada; Christmas Springfield, his relations with the Speeds, the & Co., and is pronounced by the Spectator "in- Eve and Easter Day and Other Poems, by Robmarriage of Lincoln, and his part in the Clay cam-teresting because the subject is interesting," ert Browning, edited with notes by Heloïse E. paign of 1844. The Anne Rutledge episode, with the opinion added that "there is as much Hersey and provided with a preface by W. J. which some biographers have dwelt upon as flunkeyism" in it "as if it were the life of a Rolfe; Dame Heraldry, a popular account of significant, is passed over in six lines. More is Royal Duke written by a Gold-Stick-in-Waiting." heraldic devices, by F. W. S., with nine fullsaid of the "young lady from Kentucky," to A History of the Life and Work of the mar-page plates in colors; and, in the "Spare Minwhom Lincoln proposed marriage after a curious tyred Bishop Hannington, of Eastern Equato- ute Series," a volume of compilations from Ruscourtship, and whose refusal had a serious effect rial Africa, by E. C. Dawson, is out in London; kin, by Rose Porter. upon him. Very little is said of Mrs. Lincoln, an addition to the literature of Christian heroism. and it is evident that she is to play a slight part [Seeley & Co.] in the history. Elsewhere in this number ProOur readers have heard of Sir Richard Burfessor Langley, we are glad to see, renews his ton's famous translation of the Arabian Nights, fascinating account of "The New Astronomy" made for scholars, and limited to a thousand with a paper on "Comets and Meteors." Mr. copies. Lady Burton, aided by Mr. Justin McCable's Louisiana story of "Carancro" has in Carthy, has now prepared a “Household Ediabundance what it was once the fashion to speak tion" of the same for popular reading, marked of as local color. Edward Atkinson reveals in by a good deal of abridgment, of course, but skillfully arranged diagrams and statistics the for which Miss Amelia B. Edwards vouches in vast material resources of the United States, and the Academy, “not merely as a suitable gift for predicts that the possibilities of competition thus young folk, free libraries, and mechanics' instiensured will force a general European disarma-tutes, nor even as an inexhaustible storehouse of ment. Mr. Henry James gives a fine and dis-Oriental legends, superstitions, proverbs, poetry, criminating analysis of the histrionic talent of manners, customs, and the like, but as a most Coquelin. George Bancroft is the subject of a remarkable tour de force in the way of literary sketch by George M. Sloane, who treats his workmanship." A singularity of the style is subject with becoming dignity and a certain the rhymed cadence into which it falls, after the amount of reserve. The frontispiece portrait of Arabian manner, of which the following paraBancroft, drawn by J. W. Alexander, is strongly graph is an example: conceived, and is bold and free in its execution.

- The Atlantic Monthly for February will contain a poem by James Russell Lowell, filling about five pages of that magazine, the general trend of the poet's thought being a protest against the materializing tendencies of the times. In the March number of the Atlantic will appear the first part of Dr. Holmes's narrative of his recent European outing—“Our Hundred Days." - Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have in preparation The Millionaire, a story by Bret Harte; Talks about Law, a popular exposition of what law is and how it is administered, by E. P. Dole; and a new edition of W. W. Story's Roba di Roma. On the 15th inst. this house will publish Mr. Bishop's Golden Justice, Pioneer Quakers, by Richard P. Halowell, and, in the 'Riverside Literature Series," part second of Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales.

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- After three years of persistent work in the preparation of text and illustrations, Cupples, So Nur-al-Din thanked him and rose, he and Upham & Co. have just ready Rambles in Old Two serial stories begin in the Atlantic for the damse), and followed him into the garden; Boston, New England, by Rev. Edward G. and lo! it was a garden, and what a garden! January. "The Second Son," in which Mrs. The gate was arched like a great hall, and over Porter, the illustrations, of which there are Oliphant and Mr. Aldrich coöperate, deals with walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of upwards of one hundred, having been engraved the fortunes of an English country family, and many colors; the red like rubies, and the black from sketches by George R. Tolman and printed like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of in a warm-toned brown ink. This book is to be is quite in the Trollopian vein. In "Paul trellised boughs, growing fruits single and comPatoff " Mr. Marion Crawford promises to reg-posite, and small birds on branches sang with sold exclusively by subscription. In connection ister another success; the scene is Constanti- melodious recite, and the thousand-noted night with it, should be mentioned a little brochure by nople, and the leading characters are two ingale shrilled with her varied shright; the Samuel Adams Drake on the Old Boston Taverns Russian brothers, with a mysterious dark-eyed bird whistled like human wight, and the ringturtle with her cooing filled the site; the black- and Tavern Clubs, with eleven illustrations of woman in a yashmak moving in the background. dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight. signboards pertaining to the most noteworthy of Agnes Repplier writes of "What Children Read," The trees grew in perfection all edible growths, these ancient hostelries. A portion of the narand laments, not without reason, that the mas- and fruited all manner fruits which in pairs rative was originally read before the Bostonian terpieces of imaginative literature are no longer almond apricot, and the apricot were bipartite; with the camphor-apricot, the "Khorasani" Society, but most of it is now first made public; regarded as suitable intellectual food for young hight; the plum, like the face of beauty, a good deal of the material employed was colpeople. "After reading a few modern stories," smooth and bright; the cherry that maketh lected by the late S. G. Drake. says Miss Repplier, "one is troubled with teeth shine clear by her sleight, and the fig of three colors-green, purple, and white. There

Professor E. C. Smyth's argument in The

serious doubts as to the moral usefulness of also blossomed the violet as it were sulphur on Andover Heresy trial, and The Creed of Andover

adults;" and she has much to say of the selfrighteousness and independence of the favorite types in the books now popular with children.

Mr. Hamerton continues to discuss

Theological Seminary, by Rev. D. T. Fiske, D.D., are two pamphlets bearing the imprint of Cupples, Upham & Co.

fire by night; the orange with buds like pink coral and marguerite; the rose whose redness makes the loveliest cheeks blush with despight; and myrtle and gilliflower and lavender with the "French blood-red anemone from Nu'uman hight. The – Sons and Daughters, a novel by the author and English" with lucidity and impartiality. leaves were all gemmed with tears the clouds of Margaret Kent, is in the press of Ticknor & Mr. Hamerton remembers when Englishmen had dight; the chamomile smiled showing teeth Co., who will also publish this month, Happy that bite, and Narcissus with his negro eyes first began to wash themselves all over every fixed on Rose his sight; the citrons shone with Dodd, by Rose Terry Cooke, and The Lay of day, and says that the custom is not now as fruits embowled, and the lemons like balls of the Last Minstrel, edited with notes by W. J. extensive as many foreigners believe. The gold; earth was carpeted with flowers tinctured Rolfe. French, he says, are becoming a cleaner people, infinite; for Spring was brightening the place but the English are only about forty years in with joy and delight; and the streams ran ringing to the birds' gay singing, whilst the rustling advance of them in this respect. The most breeze upspringing attempered the air to temserious and weighty paper in this number of the perance exquisite (pp. 331, 332). Atlantic is that by George Frederic Parsons on "The Saloon in Society," which deals with the The édition de luxe of The Book of the Tile too familiar truths of the drink evil in an origi- Club is without doubt one of the most notenal and impressive way. We must not fail to worthy productions of the book-making art in mention Miss Edith Thomas's Arcadian rhap- America. All the full-page illustrations are

- We print the following note as it comes to us from the publishers: "A work which is reported to be of a remarkable character will be published by Roberts Bros. in February. It is called Through the Gates of Gold; and though by a well-known author, it was submitted to that house under conditions of the strictest secresy, and nothing concerning the writer's identity or nationality is to be revealed. As Roberts Bros.

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