Hero of Cowpens,' a Revolutionary sketch by Miss Rebecca McConkey, is a vindication and also a tribute to the bravery and heroism of General Daniel Morgan, of Revolutionary fame. In the preface the author says she has emphasized the point that Benedict Arnold was not a great general, that be performed no essential or valuable service during our Revolutionary struggle, that he appropriated the laurels fairly won by Daniel Morgan, and has worn them for a hundred years.' Graham's 'Life of Morgan' was largely drawn upon in the preparation of the sketch, which is not only well and interestingly written, but especially valuable from a historical point of view. Incidental details are introduced relative to Washington and his generals, Benedict Arnold, Horatio Gates, and the various campaigns of this date, ending with the surrender at Yorktown.' Boston Commonwealth.

MORRIS, E. E. The early Hanoverians. Estes & L.; Scribner. 16° (Epochs of modern history) $1. SNEAD, T. L. The fight for Missouri, from the election of Lincoln to the death of Lyon. Scribner. 12° il. and maps; $1.50.

Col. Snead gives as his reasons for writing this book: "Because it was my duty to write it; because, too, I fancy I know more about the events that are narrated in it than does anyone who will ever take the trouble to write about them; and because I am the only living witness to many facts the remembrance of which ought to be preserved." He was a prominent actor in all the scenes he describes, being during the time the political manager of the St. Louis Bul letin. Besides the columns of the Bulletin, he has had many original and official sources of information open to him. It will be generally conceded that he has succeeded in his aim of telling plainly and impartially the story of the fight made by the slavery and anti-slavery parties for Missouri in 1861.

LITERATURE.

BYRON, G. G. N., (Lord.) Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Cassell. 24° (Cassell's national library,)

pap., 10 c. DURFEE, C. A., comp. Index to Harper's New Monthly Magazine, alphabetical, analytical, and classified. V. 1 to 70 inclusive, from June, 1850, to June, 1885. Harper. 8° $4; hf. cf., $6.25. In this edition of the index some new features have been introduced. To render the alphabetical sequence more conspicuous, all groups of titles under headings or names of authors have been set in nonpareil type, while the headings and names of authors appear in brevier antique. The table of final pages in each number, showing the month and year corresponding to volume and page references in the index, will be especially useful to those who have unbound sets. The index contains fifty one thousand references. While the new material, referring to the last ten volumes (1861-70), covers one-seventh of the magazine text, the new matter introduced in the index forms one-fifth of the present work, including a large number of new references to the earlier volumes not inserted in the previous editions. Each contribution appears under author, title, and subject or class heading. Cross references are unusually full and elaborate. Printed only on one side of the sheet.

GRISWOLD, W. H. A general index to the Nation, V. 31-40, Oct., 1880-Oct., 1885. Q. P. Index. 8° (Q. P. Indexes, no. 18.) bds., net, $2.50. LANG, ANDREW. Letters to dead authors. ner. 16° $1.00.

MACKENZIE, H. The man of feeling. Cassell. 24° (Cassell's national lib.,) pap., 10 c.

RAYMOND, G. LANSING. Poetry as a representative art. Putnam. 12 $1.75.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

WALTON, ISAAC. The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation. Cassell. 24° (Cassell's national lib.,) pap., IO C.

RELIGION, THEOLOGY, SPECULATION. CLOUGH, W. O. Gesta Pilati. The reports, letters, and acts of Pontius Pilate: being the official records of Pilate as made to Tiberius Cæsar, emperor of Rome, concerning the apprehension, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth; tr. chiefly from Tischendorf's MS. acts. With an introd. and notes. Rob. Douglass. 8° mor., $2.

FARRAR, F. W., D.D. Sermons and addresses delivered in America; with an introduction by Phillips Brooks, D.D. Dutton. 12° $2.

"Archdeacon Farrar has so lately returned home from his visit to this country that suggestions for agreeable remembrance, rather than for critical review, come from the volume of sermons and addresses now published. These fourteen sermons, four addresses, and two lectures, to which American audiences listened gladly and graciously, abound in the characteristics which give his style a fascinating individuality. The rhythmic grace, the affluent grouping of telling adjectives, the ample periods, the frequent if not profuse use of striking passages from history, all mark these contributions to the edification and instruction of the great company who heard him. The Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks writes an introduction to the volume, and the contrast in the

literary methods of the two leaders can be readily

noted. One of the best sermons in the collection is the discourse preached in Trinity Church, Boston, on All Saints' Day."-Boston Advertiser.

FRADENBURGH, Rev. J. N. Witnesses from the dust; or, the Bible illustrated from the monuments. Cranston & S. 12° $1.60.

The many important discoveries and revelations made in this progressive age by scholars and explorers, bearing upon the authenticity of the Bible narrative, have been popularized and gathered together for the benefit of the Bible student and general reader. The cities, monuments, and records of Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, and other Bible lands that the spade of the archæologist has uncovered, with their decipherable hieroglyphics, throw unexpected light upon the sacred records, and confirm many important passages. References are made throughout to accessible sources of information, that the reader may prosecute his inquiries farther. McCOSH, JA., D.D. Religion in a college; what place it should have: being an examination of President Eliot's paper, read before the Nineteenth Century Club, in N. Y., Feb. 3, 1886. Armstrong. 12 pap., 25 c.

"Unless Christian sentiment arrest it," says Dr. McCosh, "religion, without being noticed, will disappear from a number of our colleges—that is, from the education and training of many of our able ana promising young men." This is the key-note of his discourse.

TULLOCH, J., D.D. Movements of religious thought in Britain during the nineteenth century. Harper. 16 (Harper's handy ser.) pap., 25 c.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

pap., 10 c.

C-Books for the Young.

ADAMS, W. H. DAVENPort. Famous caves and catacombs, described and illustrated. Nelson. 16° 80 c.

ESOP. A child's version of Esop's fables. Arranged by J. H. Stickney. Ginn. 16° bds. 40 c. The author has prepared this edition of Æsop's Fables to serve three purposes: first, a reader; second, a means of language culture; and last, a partial manual of practical moral training and ethical culture; and in the work has chosen such words to clothe the ideas as can be readily understood and retained by children eight or nine years of age. Its contents include, besides the fables of Esop, a few whose authorship is of less consequence than the lessons they teach, and a supplement presenting selections from La Fontaine, the great French fabulist, and from Krilof, a celebrated Russian writer. There is also a short sketch of the life of Æsop subjoined, which may serve to interest children in the historical events of his time, and an appendix added in which are several hints worthy the consideration of all teachers. It is just the book which will prove an invaluable aid to teachers who have to deal with pupils of the age for which it was intended. It is well printed and neatly bound."-School Journal. ALDEN, Mrs. Is. M., ["Pansy," pseud.] Browning boys. Lothrop. 12 75 c. The story of two boys who are suffering great poverty, through their father's illness and loss of work, and who desire to do something to help keep the family together. What they achieve through their own earnest efforts is well told. Each chapter aims to illustrate a Bible text.

The

ARCHIE'S chances: [also] A child's victory; by the author of "The Spanish brothers." Nelson. 12° 60 c.

The story of Archie Lyndon, who is early left an orphan, dependent upon his uncle's kindness. His uncle is in "trade," and Archie, whose father belonged to a good family, revolts at the prospect of earning a living behind the counter. A brother of his father comes on the scene, a man who has amassed an immense fortune in the Fiji Islands. He gives Archie the chance of becoming heir to his wealth and business, which the young man refuses after deliberation, as he finds out his uncle is an infidel. He then crushes his pride, goes into the shop, does his duty thoroughly, and finally becomes a missionary, in which capacity he stands beside his uncle's death-bed, some twenty years afterward. ART for young folks. Lothrop. 8° $2.

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To people mathematically inclined, who are fond of odd style and odd illustrations, and who like to travel so many (Gordian) knots an hour, Mr. Lewis Carroll's new wonderland'-'A Tangled Tale' (Macmillan)-will prove a delightful treat. The first glimpse into its chapters-conveniently and appropriately designated 'knots'-leaves one with the feeling that this is absolute foolishness. Glimpse No. 2 leaves one with a dawning sense of clearness, like the first chapter of Genesis: things emerge; they take form, shape, color; a sentence here and there appears coherent; the talk is no longer twaddle or unintelligible nonsense, as it appeared at first; light percolates through here and there, and the darkness little by little vanishes in so charming a manner that one is left high and dry' in the wonderland of conjecture, no longer insulted or provoked, but simply perplexed and meditative. The book is made up of as many knots as one has fingers, each knot dextrously twined and tangled' out of mathematical questions-in arithmetic, algebra, or geometry, as the case may be. The mystification is so well managed, the problem is so adroitly beclouded, that at first trying to solve it is like trying to solve the geometry of a dissolving dream. the mathematics of an ever-changing cloud. The elusive proportions escape one, the algebraic formula melt into mists, the effort to sum up quotients is like trying to count the spangles on moonlit water in motion. But the quotient comes."-The Critic. F., S., and C. W. Lessons on practical subjects for grammar-school children (money, banks, strikes, taxes, etc.). 2d ed. Little, B. 16° 40 c. GRAY, LOUISA M. Dunalton: the story of Jack and his guardians. Nelson. 12° $1.25.

Dunalton is the name of the picturesque Scotch village where Charlie Hepburn begins his career as tutor to little Jack Wentworth, who enlivens the story with his pranks, while a love affair is developing between Charlie and Gretchen Grant. GREEN, EVELYN EVERETT. Winning the victory; or, Di Pennington's reward: a tale. Nelson. 12° $1.25.

children, keep yourselves from idols;" the story Diana Pennington reads in the Bible, "Little illustrates this text thoroughly, giving glimpses of the Penningtons and their special "idols" which are broken by the influence of Diana, extending beyond her own household into the home of the St. Barbes,

BIBLE birthday record: a text-book for the young; by the author of Hymns from the land of Luther." Nelson. 16° 50 c.

BINGHAM, JENNIE M. Annals of the Round Table, and other stories. Phillips & H. 12° $1. The "Annals of the Round Table" occupies the larger part of the volume. It is the history of a club of young girls, who organized for mutual help and improvement. They have Longfellow and Whittier evenings, in which recitations are given, and brief essays read on the life and writings of the poets. Other evenings are devoted to Bible characters, a day in London, etc. Suggestive and helpful to young girls desiring to form a similar club. Nine short stories complete the volume.

CLEMENTS, M. E. Cords of love; or, who is my neighbor. Nelson. 12° 60 c.

Through the simple adventures of Charlie Bright, "odd-boy" to Thomas Fair, the gardener of Mr. Goodbody, a rich Englishman, boys are taught les

Pennington's chief reward.

HOARE, Rev. E. N. Seeking a country; or, the home of the pilgrims. Nelson. 12° $1.

Opens in England 1620; tells the story of the sailing of the " Mayflower" from Southampton, and the landing of the pilgrims at Cape Cod, their first home, and the various incidents connected with it. While strictly authentic in its historical details, there is a thread of fiction which makes it more acceptable to young readers.

HOLBROOK, DWIGHT. A select list of books for the young; carefully selected and classified, with a short description of each book: a guide to selecting books for school libraries and home reading; with an introduction by B. G. Northrop. Reprinted from the School Journal. Kellogg. 16° pap., 10 c. MARSHALL, Mrs. EMMA. Salome; or, let patience have her perfect work. Nelson. 12° $1.

Salome is sixteen when the story opens. She is the eldest girl in a family of six young people, who

have just lost their father, his death having been caused by the shock of discovering he is on the brink of financial ruin, through the failure of a large firm with which he had business dealings. The family are obliged to change their entire way of living, and go into lodgings in a neighboring town, where their father's brother lives, with his numerous boys and girls. The cousins are all well described, and their several characters brought out very well. Salome is the patient, cheerful spirit of the household, helping every one, and suffering continually from the selfishness of others. She is a bright, clever girl, with much talent as a writer, which bears fruit in a little book that is a decided financial success, and a great help to the embarrassed family.

MARSHALL, EMMA. Under the Mendips: a tale. Dutton. 12 $1.25.

Life at Fair Acres Manor, an old English homestead nestling under the shelter of the Mendip Hills, is beautifully sketched in the opening chapters. "Joyce," the pretty heroine, just budding into womanhood, her weak and extravagant brother **Melville,” just home from Oxford, the little lame boy Piers," Mrs. Falconer, the English mother, and the dogs Nip" and "Pip," all unite to form a charming picture of rustice peace and happiness. The aged Hannah More is a conspicuous character in the tale, and the closing scenes are taken from the Bristol riots of the autumn of 1831. A healthy story for young girls, teaching an excellent lesson. RAND, E. A. Yard-stick and scissors. Phillips & H. (Up the-ladder club ser., round three: Store.) 12 $1.25.

This volume finds the members of "Up-the-ladder club" stepping upon the round of active life. Charlie Macomber becomes a clerk in a dry-goods store, and acquits himself with much honor. The other members of the club also try commercial life, and have their successes and failures, but come out all right. SCANNELL, FLORENCE. Sylvia's daughters; il. by Edith Scannell. Warne. 16° $1.50.

Story opens in France, where we meet Gabrielle, Sylvia, and Renée, the children of the Marquis de Kerguven and Sylvia Clifford. Sylvia had incurred the displeasure of her father, Sir Roger Clifford, by her marriage, and the result was an estrangement which did not end until years after the death of Sylvia, when Sir Roger is forced to have compassion on her daughters, whom he meets in England as French refugees. Daintly bound and illustrated with quaint figures clad in the costumes which were in vogue during the French Revolution.

NEW VOLUMES.-"Four living poets," says the N. Y. Mail and Express, are soon to have monographs in the series of English worthies-Mr. Edmund Gosse one on Raleigh, Mr. Austin Dobson one on Steele, Mr. J. A. Symonds one on Ben Jonson, and Mr. Andrew Lang, the editor, one on Izaak Walton. Mr. Walter Besant has undertaken Lord Peterborough, and Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson-of all men in the world-is to grapple with Wellington."

WRITING BIOGRAPHY.-"I think I would rather

have written a great biography," says Dr. Phillips Brooks, than a great book of any other sort, as I would rather have painted a great portrait than any other kind of picture-at any rate the writing of a biography, or, indeed, the proper reading of it requires one faculty which is not very common, and which does not come into action without some experience. It requires the power of large vital imagination, the power of conceiving of a life as a whole."

Carlyle

CARLYLE'S MEMORIAL TABLET.-"The memorial tablet recently set up in Cheyne row, Chelsea, could not be placed on the house so long inhabited by the Scotch sage. It was found impossible to obtain the necessary permission. It is remarked as not a little curious. says the N. Y. Times, "that the house of this great denouncer of quacks should now be the property of the proprietor of a quack medicine. Perhaps the reason for the refusal grew out of the quack proprietor, after buying the house, taking to reading Carlyle's works for the first time from simple curiosity, and suddenly coming

"A picturesque religious romance of the struggle in Scotland between the covenanters and the Stuarts in the seventeenth century. It tells a pathetic tale of domestic life in a village of Scotland, and the spirit and sentiment of the time at which the story is laid are skillfully and ingeniously reproduced. It is written in a vigorous style, and its characters are very cleverly sketched. As a historical novel it will take rank with the best of recent publications."Beston Commonwealth.

THY kingdom come: a tale for boys and girls; by the author of "Little Snowdrop and her golden casket." Nelson. 12° 60 c.

Deals with the trials of a young girl who loses her

mother when she is about fifteen; her father is a scientific man, who looks upon her as "only a girl," with little knowledge or judgment. She becomes so helpful, however, with her young brothers, and is such a useful part of the household, that before long her father recognizes her worth; her brothers' adventures and a couple of innocent love stories brighten he narrative.

which quacks are lashed with fury."

GEORGE ELIOT'S WORK.-"I have finished my book (Middlemarch ')," wrote George Eliot to Alexander Main, "and am thoroughly at peace about it -not because I am convinced of its perfection, but because I have lived to give out what it was in me to give, and have not been hindered by illness or death from making my work a whole, such as it is. When a subject has begun to grow in me I suffer terribly until it has wrought itself out-become a complete organism; and then it seems to take wing and go away from me. That thing is not to be done again -that life has been lived. I could not rest with a number of unfinished works on my mind. When they-or, rather, when a conception has begun to shape itself in written words, I find that it must go on to the end before I can be happy about it. Then F move away, and look at it from a distance without any agitations."

MEANING OF INDIAN NAMES.-"That a large part of our names of States, rivers, lakes, etc., are of Indian origin," says the N. Y. Examiner, "is well

known, but how many of us have any idea of what the names meant originally? Mrs. Zerviah G. Mitchell, born in 1807, and said to be the last Massachusetts Indian of full blood, writes to the Boston Journal to explain the following Indian names: Dakota means 'united,' the word for 'tribes' being dropped. Michigan means Elk Eye. Ohio means beautiful. Minnesota means water-turbid. Sioux means enemy in the Dakota language, and was never used by the Indians we so name. Kentucky means 'head of the river.' Nebraska means 'flat,' Kansas means 'smoky.' Illinois is a corruption of a word meaning mankind,' and is probably the same as Esquimau innui,' or 'inute.' Missouri means 'great muddy,' with 'river' dropped."

MRS. MORGAN'S BOOKS.-The prices brought by the late Mrs. Morgan's Books have been such as to astonish all acquainted with the real value of most of the works. A few sets extra illustrated no doubt justified high prices, but the rate at which ordinary standard books sold has been far too high. For example, a set of Appleton's "Cyclopædia," the like of which can be bought new for $90, brought $137. The price paid for a copy of Spence's "Anecdotes,' a book of the most insignificant literary value, was preposterous. The Rembrandt's Works, published by Quantin, was cheap at $114 when the original price (1000 fr.) is taken as a test, but the work can be procured to day in the second-hand stores of Paris for less than half the publishing price, and therefore this was no great bargain. Walpole's "Compendium" for $203 was another extravagant purchase. The book of miniatures, which fetched $400, was probably better worth the money than half the books beside were worth the much smaller sums they sold for. Competion among buyers ignorant of the value of books kept the prices up, but the truth is that excepting the extra illustrated books there are very few in the Morgan catalogue duplicates of which cannot be obtained without going out of New York for from 50 to 75 per cent of what they brought at this

sale.

HOWELLS' MEETING MISS MURFREE.- My first meeting with Miss Murfree was very droll,' said Mr Howells, as reported in the Chicago News, with a hearty laugh. She had been writing for the Atlantic a couple of years. One day Osgood dropped in at my library. 'Craddock's in town,' said he. He will dine with me to-night. Can't you join us at dinner?' I told Osgood I had an engagement for that night, but would surely put in an appearance if only for a few minutes. You see, it had never occurred to any of us that Craddock' was not a man, and I had often given free rein to my fancy in imagining how he would look and

act.

After Osgood left me he hunted up Aldrich and told him about it, and Aldrich said nothing but death would prevent him being present, for if there was one man in the world he wanted to see it was Craddock. Then Osgood told Lawrence Barrett about it and Barrett promised to be there, too. It so happened that I was the first of the men to arrive. I saw two strange ladies in the drawing-room, but no Craddock. Osgood enjoyed my disappointment a moment and then he said: Mr. Howells, let me present you to Miss M. N. Murfree, whom we all know as Charles Egbert Craddock.' The other lady was Miss Murfree's sister. Of course I was greatly surprised and they all laughed heartily at my confusion. There was more laughter when Aldrich came in and then we waited to see how Barrett would take it. I think he was the most nonplussed man I ever saw. could do nothing for a few moments but grin-yes, actually grin. Think of it! that model of elegance and dignity grinning! But he did it and he stammered and hesitated so when he attempted to speak that the entire party roared until their sides ached."

He

JOHN RUSKIN'S HOME.-"Three miles away from the village of Coniston, and on the opposite side of the lake, lies Brantwood, the home of Professor Ruskin a large, beautiful, rambling house, with spacious rooms and low ceilings, commanding a view which," says the Pall Mall Gazette, “is certainly unsurpassed in England for picturesqueness and poetic beauty. Down the grassy slopes and across the placid, mirror-like lake the spectator looks up at the Old Man of Coniston, rising majestically from among the lesser hills which form the middle distance. The village lies away to the right on the opposite shore; to the left no habitation interrupts the view for four miles and more, save the ivy-grown Coniston Hall. On such a picture, rich with evervarying color, fascinating and peaceful, the great art critic loves to gaze throughout the summer twenty times a day. Mr. Ruskin was walking in the extensive grounds adjoining the house when I arrived, and pending the announcement of my visit I was shown into the drawing-room to await his coming. Dwarf and other book cases stood against the walls, which, moreover, were adorned with beautiful examples of Prout, D. G. Rossetti and others, as well as Mr. Ruskin's well-known drawing of the interior of St. Mark's, at Venice, one of his most important efforts. Cases of shells, in infinite variety, and of minerals revealed another and less generally known phase of Mr. Ruskin's taste, and a volume of Art in England'-his last series of Oxford lectures-lay upon the table. I was still examining the handsome bindings upon the shelves (for the professor delights in worthy examples of the bookbinder's art), when the door opened and he entered the room."

TALMUD LEXICON.-"It will surprise many people," says the New York Examiner. "to learn that a complete lexicon of the Talmud,' and other Jewish extra-canonical writings, has waited long for a publisher, and has at last found one in New York. The Literary World gives the following interesting particulars about this great work and the enterprising publisher who has undertaken it: Clergymen and the students of Hebrew literature generally, whether they have heard Canon Farrar's recent celebrated lecture on the Talmud" or not, will be interested in knowing that Mr. Townsend MacCoun, of New York, has in press a complete Aruch, or lexicon, of the Targum, Talmud, and Midrasch. One thousand copies only will be printed from type, five hundred for sale in Europe, and five hundred for this country. The work will consist of eight quarto volumes, in half binding, at $10 per volume; the first volume was issued in December, and the rest at intervals of three months. It will be sold to subscribers only. The work is by Dr. Alexander Kohut, the learned rabbi, who has just come to the Lexington Avenue Synagogue in New York from Vienna, and who is regarded abroad as the best living Talmudical scholar. In this great undertaking he has had the assistance of the scientific academies of Vienna, Berlin and Budapest, as well as that of the leading archbishops, bishops, and Orientalists of the East. The lexicon is based on the celebrated Aruch of Rabbi Nathan Ben Jachiel, of the eleventh century, and contains an accurate, critically studied, and improved text of the old Aruch as compared with seven of the earliest manuscript copies, and an early commentary on the "Talmud," discovered by Dr. Kohut among the Vatican archives; besides supplementary articles never before printed, and existing in manuscript only. The old Aruch never worked out the third part of the Talmudic writings. remaining two-thirds, giving to the world for the first time the whole in lexicon form, have therefore been left to Dr. Kohut, in the estimation of European scholars one of the most important labors of the nineteenth century in this department.'"

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