out.

- Auguste Vitu, a well-known French dramatist, journalist, and littérateur, died on the 18th inst. He was born at Meudon, October 7, 1823, and began his literary career at the age of nineteen by writing for the Théâtre Joly a little comedy entitled La Jeunesse de Sedaine. He wrote novel, Les Chauffeurs du Nord, under the pseudonym of Vidoq. He was an indefatigable worker, and produced rapidly. He was the most learned of the Molièristes, as well as the best informed of the chroniclers of Paris.

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ecclesiastical. In "The Drama of the Moment," in the Boston Miscellany edited by Nathan Hale, R. Shattuck; The Abbess of Port Royal and H. A. Kennedy discusses some of the latest dra- was his first step in prose. Lowell himself Other French Studies, by Maria Ellery MacKaye, matic elements, with special reference to Ibsen edited the Pioneer Magazine (1843), of which with an Introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higand his plays. Rowland E. Prothero pays a only three numbers were printed. Married in ginson; Handbook of School Gymnastics of the tribute to Théodore de Banville, whose death in 1844, Lowell continued to live at Elmwood with Swedish System, by Baron Nils Posse; Glimpses March of this year was the severance of the last his father; Mrs. Edward Burnett, the surviving at the Plant World, by Fanny D. Bergen; and in link between the French poets of the early part daughter of this marriage, now resides there. the "Good Company" series, No. 12, Osborne of the century and of the present time. The The second volume was Poems (1844), con- of Arrochar, by Miss Amanda Douglas. labor question in Australia is discussed from taining "A Legend of Brittany," and the noble the colonial standpoint by Howard Willoughby. sonnet to Wendell Phillips. The Vision of Sir The present demand for short stories of fine Launfal appeared in 1845, and in 1848 Conversaquality is nowhere better supplied than in the tions on Some of the Old Poets. In the same magazine, Short Stories. It is a monthly, con-year came Poems (second series), which included taining in each number about twenty of the best the stirring verses on "The Present Crisis." sketches and tales from the current literature of The famous Biglow Papers were begun in 1846 all nations; and its editor proves himself a true in the Boston Courier. They were published artist in choice and contrast of his material. in the same year (1848) in which the Fable An for Critics came original feature of the magazine is the EtchingMr. and Mrs. Lowell a scene or narrative condensed into the visited Europe in 1851, and her death came space of soon after, in 1853. In 1855 he was ap -The late Thomas Ball's autobiography may a single page, a study in rapidity and efficacy of diction. Each number contains several of pointed Smith Professor of the French and be looked for before long. The delay in its apthese etchings, and a prize competition in this Spanish Languages and Literature, and Pro-pearance is explained as due in the first instance line of work is announced by the editor. In fessor of Belles Lettres in Harvard College. to Mr. Ball's death on the eve of its intended pubIn 1857 he assumed the editorship of the new lication, and in the second to Mrs. Ball's relucevery number of Short Stories is reprinted one Atlantic Monthly, in the success of which Dr. tance to see it published at once after her husHolmes was his greatest helper. In the same band's death. The book has been for some time year Mr. Lowell married Miss Frances Dunlap, in print, and several copies have been given to From friends. From some of them reviews have been who had been his daughter's governess. 1863 to 1872 he was the editor, with Prof. C. E. Norton, of the North American Review. Fireside Travels (1864) contained only papers written Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. will publish many years previous; but the second series of immediately A Friendly Talk About Revision, the Biglow Papers appeared in the Atlantic being a discussion of the report presented to the Monthly during the war, and then came the last General Assembly, by Edward D. Morris. great "Commemoration Ode" at Harvard, July Lee & Shepard of Boston have in press an 21, 1865. This was followed by Under the Wil-illustrated volume by the Rev. Louis Albert lows (1869); The Cathedral (1870); Among My Banks. The book is a series of realistic studies Books (first series, 1870, second series, 1876); of Sweating, Tenement Houses, and kindred My Study Windows (1871); and Three Memo- evils among the working-people of our great rial Poems (1876). A presidential elector in cities. 1876, Mr. Lowell was appointed by President - Messrs. S. C. Griggs & Co. announce for Hayes United States Minister to Spain in 1877. early publication A Study of Greek Philosophy, He was transferred by President Hayes to the Ly Ellen M. Mitchell, with an introduction by W. Court of St. James in 1880. Most of the ad- R. Alger; a contribution to current polemical dresses published in the volume entitled Democ-literature, entitled Mens Christi and Other Probracy (1885) were delivered in England. Mrs. Lowell died in London in February, 1885. Lowell's diplomatic career came to an end in 1885, and after that year he published only occasional poems. His Life of Hawthorne for the "American Men of Letters" series has been left unfinished.

of the famous stories of various nations; the selection in the September number is Mr. J. S. Le Fanu's impressive "Green Tea." By a recent arrangement with a syndicate, Short Stories is now enabled to include new work by certain prominent English and American writers. No single volume of collected stories presents such a variety of good fiction as does a number of this periodical.

NEWS AND NOTES.

Lowell.

From purest wells of English undefiled,
None deeper drank than he, the New World's child,
Who, in the language of their farm-fields, spoke
The wit and wisdom of New-England folk,
Shaming a monstrous wrong; the world-wide laugh
Provoked thereby might well have shaken half
The walls of slavery down ere yet the ball
And mine of battle overthrew them all.

J. G. WHITTIER.

prepared, thus creating a demand for the book which could not be supplied.

lems in Theology and Christian Ethics, by John Steinfort Kedney, D.D., and Eclectic Shorthand Lessons, by Prof. J. G. Cross.

- Mr. George Jones, the publisher of the New York Times, long a prominent figure in American journalism, died at Poland Springs, Me., August 12. Mr. Jones should always be remem- Dr. Huguet is the title of Ignatius Don-bered with honor for his great public service in nelly's latest novel. It will be issued about exposing the Tweed Ring. September 1 by F. J. Schulte & Co., Chicago, and an English edition will be brought out simultaneously in London by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. The first American edition will consist of 25,000 copies, and at the same time the Chicago publishers will issue the twenty-sixth edition of Mr. Donnelly's Cæsar's Column.

-James Russell Lowell was born in Cambridge, Mass., February 22, 1819, at Elmwood, the family residence, where he died on the 12th inst. His father was Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D., minister of the West Church of Boston. Dr. Lowell was a Unitarian in his belief, and his son has always been counted a member of the same church. The Lowell family has been distinguished in New England history to a very high degree. Lowell's mother was a daughter of Robert Trail Spence, an officer in the United States Navy. From her he seems to have derived his wit and humor; she is the subject of his pathetic poem, "The Darkened Mind." Lowell entered Harvard College in 1834. He was one of the editors of the college periodical, Harvardiana. His class poem was not delivered, on account of an escapade at the time, but it was printed without his name. He soon became engaged to Miss Maria White of Watertown, a sister of one of his classmates, and a pupil of Margaret Fuller. Her great influence upon the young poet is shown in his first volume, A Year's Life (1841). Most all of this volume has been Lee & Shepard have ready The Woman's omitted from the author's works. He had but Manual of Parliamentary Law, by Harriette R. a short experience in the study and practice of Shattuck; The Little Millers, by Effie W. Merrilaw; a paper on "The First Client," published man; Little Folks East and West, by Harriette

- When Dr. Liddon visited Egypt and Palestine in 1889, he was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. King, who wrote a number of letters describing the tour. Messrs. Longman have these letters in the press, and will publish them in the autumn.

- It is said that Messrs. Treves once declined The recently completed fifth edition of Dr. to publish a translation of one of George Eliot's M. Foster's well-known Text Book of Physiology novels, because, they declared, it was so dull will be followed at once by the appearance of a that no Italian would read it. However, they sixth and cheaper edition of the work in parts, have thought it worth their while to print two carefully revised throughout by the author. The volumes by Signor Negri on George Eliot, la sua addition of much new matter to this edition of Vita e i suoi Romanzi. Signor Negri gives a the book will permit of taking out a copyright careful account of George Eliot's life, based on the American edition, which is to be pub-naturally on Mr. Cross' biography, and supplies lished by Macmillan & Co. a careful analysis and criticism of the novels, and a few remarks on The Spanish Gypsy.

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The Right Road, a handbook for parents and teachers," by the Rev. John W. Kramer, will It be issued this week by Thomas Whittaker. is a simple treatment of Christian morals. The same publisher will also issue Canon Cheyne's Bampton lectures on the "Origin and Religious Contents of the Psalms in the Light of Old Testament Criticism and the History of Religions;" Bishop Doane's Graduating Addresses for the past twenty years at St. Agnes School, Albany; and Overcoming the World and Other Sermons, by the late Dr. Edwin Hatch.

- Dr. Ullathorne, who as Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham was the Ordinary, as well as the warm friend, of Cardinal Newman for many years, has left behind him an autobiography of his early life, which is now in course of preparation for the press, together with selections from his correspondence.

Miss Bayly ("Edna Lyall "), the English novelist, is interesting herself to raise a fund to redeem the late Mr. Bradlaugh's property, which is burdened with debts incurred in his parliamentary struggles.

- Dr. Ewald Flügel is preparing for early publication at the Clarendon Press the Life and Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney.

Educational Publications.

THE

HE schools have a literature of their own. Few realize its extent, variety and value. Reviews of school-books are usually brief and perfunctory, because the literary journals devote most space to what is of interest to a majority of their readers, and a small proportion of these are desirous of keeping in touch with the schools. Below will be found notes on the latest important issues in this branch of publication. The books mentioned are published by the AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY of New York, Cincinnati and Chicago, the principal educational publishers of America, and the largest in the world.

IMPORTANT NEW PUBLICATIONS.

An Inductive Latin Primer. For Younger Students. By Wm. R. Harper, Ph.D., President of Chicago University, and Isaac B. Burgess, A. M., Boston Latin School. 12mo, cloth, 350 pages. (Ready about September 1st, 1891.) Harper and Burgess's "Inductive Latin Primer," "Inductive Latin while intended, like the Method" of the same authors, for a first Latin book, is more elementary and simple in character, and is suited to pupils less mature or less thoroughly trained than those who have found

the "

Method

so helpful.

Caesar's Gallic War. Eight books by William Rainey Harper, Ph.D., and Herbert Cushing Tolman, Ph.D., of Yale. 12mo, cloth, 512 pages, $1.20. Designed to meet the existing demand for an attractive and comprehensive edition of Cæsar to a fuller degree than any work of the kind heretofore issued. Although published late in the spring term, the book has already proved an unprecedented success. It may be used with any Grammar, as it has references to all the leading authorities.

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of the leading features of the work: This has its own meaning to the student; the picto-
Peterman's Elements of Civil Government.
volume is not a mere companion to the Gram-rial effect of the figures in Solid Geometry.
mar, but a practical guide for the pupil in the
work of reading and writing Latin; it is at once An Elementary Text-Book for Public Schools,
a book of Latin Exercises, a Latin Reader, and High Schools and Normal Schools. By Alex.
a sufficient Grammar for the beginner; the L. Peterman, late Principal and Professor of
exercises are largely conversational; these exer- Civil Government in the Normal School of
12mo, cloth, 218 pages,
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The distinguishing features are: The
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chapters discuss parties and party machinery,
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Coy's Greek for Beginners. A companion to
the Hadley Allen Greek Grammar; an introduc-
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By Edward G. Coy,
Xenophon's Anabasis.
M. A., Professor of Greek in Phillips Academy.
12mo, cloth, pages xvi, 152, $1.00. The present
'Coy's Mayor's Greek
volume is based on
Lessons," but so numerous and extensive are
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taken upon himself the entire responsibility of
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the foundation of his knowledge of English and
Latin; no Greek words are used in the earlier
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When the
tions either in English or Latin.
pupil shall have reached the end of this book, he
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together with some idea of the constructions of
simple sentences.

a valuable text-book for class use, it is also a handy manual of reference for teachers and other citizens.

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Maxwell's Advanced Lessons in English Grammar. By William H. Maxwell, Ph.D., Supt. Brooklyn, N. Y., Public Schools. 12mo, cloth, 327 pages, 60 cents. Designed for use in the full high school course, it embraces all the thelast two years of the grammar school, or as a The Satires of Juvenal. By Thomas B. Lind- ory and practice necessary for those grades. It 16mo, half is clear, full, judicious, sufficiently conservative say, Ph.D., Boston University. seal, pages xvi, 226. Fully illustrated. $1.00. in its treatment of old authorities, and yet ready A carefully edited edition of this author, pre-to adopt new definitions and new forms when pared with special reference to the requirements the innovation is a real improvement. of schools and colleges. Among the distinctive chapter is devoted to word-formation or derivafeatures are the following: A text that embodies tion, thus restoring word analysis to its proper the results of the latest German critical research; place as a department of Grammar. judicious expurgation; selections of the most important various readings placed at the bottom of each page; full use of artistic and descriptive The notes illustrations in both text and notes. are the result of several years' experience and a careful study and comparison of the views of the best editors, especially Ruperti, Heinrich, Jahn, MacLeane, Mayor, Weidner and Bücheler. In other departments of study the company have issued some notable works, such as:

Waddy's Elements of Composition and Rhetoric. With Copious Exercises in both Criticism and Construction. By Virginia Waddy, Teacher of Rhetoric in the Richmond High School, Richmond, Va. 12mo, cloth, 416 pages, $1.00. This is a practical treatise on Composition and Rhetoric -sufficiently elementary for the lower grades of the high school, and at the same time comprehensive enough to give a fair knowledge of the principles and graces of Rhetoric.

Stewart's Plane and Solid Geometry. By Seth Ray's Complete Algebra. Prepared for high T. Stewart, A. B. 12mo, cloth, 406 pp, $1.12. schools and colleges, by George W. Smith of Professor Stewart has presented the subject Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio. A complete with all the attention to true educational princi- 12mo, cloth, 358 pages, $1.00. ples that characterizes the modern teaching of work in one volume, combining all the principles other sciences. Among the many new features a pupil needs from the time he begins the study are: A more systematic arrangement of the until he enters college, together with additional subject-matter; the orderly development of re- chapters for the benefit of those who do not lated propositions; each book and each section have the advantages of a university education. preceded by a synopsis; an unusual number of Special care has been taken to adapt the book to original exercises; a great abundance of practical the needs of students who are without the aid of work, consisting especially of numerical prob- a teacher; hence every principle of importance lems and manual practice with the rule and is carefully explained and profusely illustrated compass; the use of all approved methods of by examples. Appletons' School Physics. An entirely new terminology and statement; general scholia folOther recent classical text-books issued by lowing several of the books and sections, pre-book by Prof. Silas W. Holman, Massachusetts this company are Harkness's Easy Method for senting important matter not often found in Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.; Prof. Beginners in Latin. By Albert Harkness, Ph.D., text-books of Geometry; an unusual variety of Francis E. Nipher, Washington University, St. LL.D., Professor in Brown University. 12mo, demonstrations; the diagrams so drawn that Louis, Mo.; Prof. Alfred M. Mayer, Stevens each of the various styles of line employed Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.; Prof.

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Francis B. Crocker, Columbia College School of G. P. Putnam's Sons,

Mines, New York City. Edited by Prof. John D. Quackenbos, Columbia College, New York City. 12mo, cloth, 544 pages, $1.20. This book is adapted in style and material to pupils of fourteen years and upward. It has been the aim of the authors to teach not results merely,

but to show how these results are arrived at and what practical use is made of them. No effort has been spared to inspire the learner with enthusiasm for the study of Natural Science. Precedence to the practical is the rule strictly adhered to throughout the work. Instructive diagrams and carefully drawn illustrations in perspective are introduced wherever they can prove of assistance in elucidating the text. Minute directions are given for the construction of cheap apparatus. It is simple, practical, authoritative, entertaining. Sensenig's Series of Algebras. Professor Sensenig's books are the outgrowth of twenty years' experience in teaching mathematics to pupils of all grades, and they possess many special features that will at once commend them to careful consideration. Elementary Algebra. 12mo, cloth, 315 pages, $1.08. Designed to supply the needs of common, high and normal schools and academies, and to lay the foundation for a study of Advanced Algebra. All matter is treated in an elementary manner, so that any ordinarily intelligent student with a fair knowledge of the principles of arithmetic may master it. All broad generalizations and discussions of general problems have been purposely excluded. Advanced Algebra, 12mo, cloth, Part I, 315 pages, $1.20; Part II, 167 pages, $1.08, the examples have been selected with reference to variety of combination. The aim has not been so much to give completeness to the various subjects treated, as to lead the student to a com- Supernatural-Dogmatism-Pietism- Spiritual

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Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States. Pocket Edition. New issue for the

Practical Botanist. I vol., 12mo, full leather, limp sides, 760 pages and plates. Price by mail, postpaid, $2.00 This edition of Gray's Manual of Botany is especially adapted to the working botanist. The plates are the same as those from which the large 8vo volume is printed, but the paper used is thin and tough, and is cut flush. The book is bound in full leather, with limp sides.

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