biographical introduction to the first volume, now issued. He bases this edition, intended to fill six volumes, on Mr. John Forster's, published in 1876, following his classification and order. Most of the notes relate to the more important changes made by Landor. This author yet remains "caviare to the general," but the publishers have made the external features of this edition so pleasing that it cannot fail to increase the number of his readers and lovers. - $1.25. Switzerland is a favorite subject of consideration by the students of comparative politics in these days. An extra volume, No. IX, in the Johns Hopkins "Studies in Historical and Political Science," is a scholarly review of State and Federal Government in Switzerland, by J. M. Vin cent, Ph.D., Librarian of the Baltimore University. Dr. Vincent lays stress upon the study of the cantonal institutions, and as it is the latest, so his book is in several respects the best to consult on the political order of this most interesting State. Johns Hopkins Press. $1.50. Chicago and its Environs is a handbook for the traveler, compiled and published by L. Schick of that city. It is a book of very uneven execution, some portions being well done and others being decidedly poor. The historical account is altogether too long. Mr. Schick can improve his work greatly in a second edition; he should omit the pictures of private residences entirely. The one hundred and fortieth thousand of Our Country, by Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D., is a new and revised edition printed from new plates. The census of 1890 has supplied the statistics, and much additional matter has been introduced; there is a new chapter in particular on Religion in the Public Schools. - Baker & Taylor Co. The Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi and the Midrashic Literature, compiled by M. Jastrow, Ph.D., has been received with favor by Hebrew scholars who are at home in the two Talmuds, the Targums, and the Midrash. Parts III and IV have been issued, in quarto form. The page is attractive from its бос. Mr. J. P. MacLean has rewritten and enlarged a report made in 1887 to the Smithsonian Institution, which he now sends out as An Histori cal, Archæological and Geological Examination of Fingal's Cave in the Island of Staffa. The forty pages are fully illustrated. Robert Clarke & Co. 75c. The Genesis of Nature, by Thomas H. Musick, is an attempt, not without point, to set forth Evolution as necessarily a spiritualistic philosophy, in opposition to the materialistic implications of which Mr. Spencer has not fully divested his exposition. — John B. Alden. Stories in Song is a pleasing collection of rhymes for the kindergarten, school and home, edited by Elizabeth U. Emerson and Kate L. Brown, who are the composers of most of the words and music. - Oliver Ditson Company. 75c. Sound-English is a pamphlet presenting Mr. Augustus Knoflach's scheme of "a language for the world" on the basis of a revision of our tongue as printed to make the characters correspond with the sounds. G. E. Stechert. 25c. Art Topics, Mr. Charles S. Farrar's useful volume of subjects and references in the history of sculpture, painting, and architecture, appears in a third edition, revised and enlarged. - Chicago: Chas. S. Farrar & Co. Mr. George Moore's Impressions and Opinions, which we noticed at length some weeks since, has been brought out in a neat American edition by Charles Scribner's Sons. —$1.25. out of a felonious alliance with "Gen. Draycott," and now endeavors, after his death, to deprive his innocent young widow of her fortune. House and Pet Dogs is a sensible pamphlet on the selection, care, and training of them, with numerous portraits of prize dogs. - Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 5oc. PERIODICALS. The September Century opens with a speaking portrait of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which is accompanied by an article on his poems, written by Frank Dempster Sherman. An impartial review of a living poet is scarcely to be expected, and this one will seem to many readers to have no particular critical value. "A Winter Journey through Siberia," by George Kennan, is an example of padding. The writer spreads out his material very thin and makes the most of it. The ability to do this, Mr. E. W. Howe tells us in his article on "Country Newspapers," is the first requisite for an editor; but it is not so necessary in a writer for the Century. "The Faith Doctor" is continued but not concluded; it grows more interesting as it approaches the final chapters. To Mr. Stockton's "Squirrel Inn," on the contrary, we are glad to say good-by. Theodore C. Williams gives us an excellent sonnet, “De Morte Beata," and Matt Crim an admirable short story. The problem of a flying-machine attracts Professor S. P. Langley, who considers seriously "The Possibility of Mechanical Flight." A charming article by Elizabeth Pennell is, of course, illustrated with dashing sketches. Some more beautiful engravings of "The Italian Old Masters," with notes, will attract all art-lovers, while the more practical will enjoy "The Question of Pensions" and "The Progress of Ballot Reform," considered briefly in "Open Letters." The latest issue in the fascinating series of Knickerbocker Nuggets" is that classic in Oriental travel, A. W. Kinglake's Eothen. — G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.00. -A circumstance of unique interest in the lit wide spaces and clear typography.-G. P. Puterary and dramatic world was the début of David nam's Sons. Each, $2.00. The Antiquities of the State of Ohio is a slender quarto reprinted from Mr. Henry A. Shepherd's Popular History of that commonwealth. It describes the inclosures, defensive and sacred, and the mounds, with the antiquities found in them, which are so numerous in Ohio, without going into elaborate detail. The book is of value as a general survey of the field, ― Robert Clarke & Co. $2.00. Christie Murray, the novelist, both as dramatist and as actor at the Globe Theatre, London, on the evening of August 27. Murray's play is entitled "Ned's Chum." It is a story of Australian life, and the critics agree that the author demonstrates unusual dramatic talent, while his abilities as an actor are far above the average of actors of the English-speaking stage. Murray's part was that of "Square Jack," a scheming rascal who, with one "Stuart Willoughby," a private inquiry agent from Scotland, has made money The September issue of the Cosmopolitan Magazine is a "woman's number," so far as the The authorship of its articles is concerned. opening article, on Edouard Detaille," is by Lady Dilke, and is profusely and beautifully illustrated with reproductions of the famous artist's most noteworthy paintings. "A Forgotten City," by Eleanor Lewis, is a romantic description of the ruins of Soluntum, the Sicilian | Pompeii, embellished with photographs. “Malmaison in the Market," by Mary Bacon Ford, describes the waning fortunes of the house celebrated for the residence there of the illfated Empress Josephine. Julia Hayes Percy describes the Ladies' New York Club in an entertaining article to which Harry Fenn has contributed illustrations. Elizabeth Bisland writes of Tattersall's, the great London horse market, and the family who have given it name and fame. Molly Elliott Seawell contributes "The Romance of Count Königsmark," the titled adventurer for whom the wife of George I of England spent thirty years in prison; and the Countess Ella Norraikow writes of "Woman's Share in Russian Nihilism," her article being illustrated with portraits of many fair conspir ators. The September issue of St. Nicholas is introduced by "The Song of the Goldenrod," written by Grace Denio Litchfield, and illustrated by Laura C. Hills, whose frontispiece drawing has proved a successful "trap to catch a sunbeam." Charles F. Lummis begins in this number a series of Tee-Wahn, or Pueblo, Folk-Stories which are truly remarkable. "To Malcolm Douglas" is an echo of the little man who "bought him a big bass-drum." "How the Great Plan Worked," by Victor Mapes, is a bright story of boy-life, excellently illustrated; and the "Two Lads of Block Island," whose adventure is told by Sarah J. Prichard, will also make friends among the bright lads who live a whole century later. "Lost in a Cornfield," by Kate M. Cleary, is a simple story of the wanderings of a tiny girl in an enormous Western cornfield. Other pieces for younger readers are "The Old Clock's Story," a clever bit of fun by Annie L. Hyde, and "A Formal Call," an unpretentious account of a child's fascinating make-believe, which is prettily illustrated by Jessie McDermott. Eleanor Sherman Thackara, a daughter of General Sherman, tells feelingly of a childish experience, showing how "The Isle of Skye" received its name, and then there are the clever serials, numerous bits of verse by old favorites, bewitching pictures, and bright paragraphs such as all St. Nicholas readers exact and receive from the editor as a matter of right. The idea of university extension had its first expression at Oxford as far back as 1845. Since then its advance has been constant, and of late years very rapid. Though Oxford was the first University to give a form to the widespread desire for higher education, it was almost the last to enter upon the practical details of the work. That it now has by far the larger number of extension students is due in great measure to the energy and skill of Michael E. Sadler, Secre ton, of the faculty. The Review of Reviews for September equals any preceding issue in the number and interest of its contemporary portraits. It gives fine portraits of the late James Russell Lowell; the Richard Cantillon, the writer of "the first treatise on economics," according to Jevons. Mr. D. F. Schloss considers, with the aid of several tables, "The Increase in Industrial Remuneration under Profit Sharing." Prof. C. F. Bastable writes of "Taxation through Monopoly," Prof. F. W. Taussig gives a candid history of the "McKinley Tariff Act," and Mr. Sidney Webb replies to Mr. Leonard Courtney in his paper on "The Difficulties of Individualism." There are nearly fifty pages of Notes and Memoranda, and twenty of reviews of important books.- Macmillan & Co. $1.25. NEWS AND NOTES. -Albert Delpit, who was born in 1849, is an American transformed into a Frenchman. His father, a rich tobacco merchant in New Orleans, sent him when a boy to the college of St. Barbe at Paris. His education finished, he was recalled to the United States to learn his father's business; but a few months were sufficient to convince him that literature had more attractions for him than tobacco. He returned to Paris, where he began to write with much success for various newspapers and magazines. During the Franco-Prussian war he, like so many other famous men of letters, fought with glory, and was rewarded with the rosette of the Legion of Honor. - Strand Magazine. - T. Fisher Unwin, II Paternoster Buildings, London, has in preparation in the "Adventure" series: A Master Mariner, being the life and - INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT IN PRACTICE. It is, of course, a matter of no little complexity and difficulty to set in operation at a given date a law necessarily so complex, and in this country so novel, as the International Copyright Law, which went into effect with the first of the last month. As already stated, it has required conjoint arrangements on the part of the President, the State, Treasury, and Post Office Depart ments, and the Librarian of Congress, to get the law into working operation, and to devise Warrior, translated from the Greek by Mrs. and start the machinery necessary for the pur-tobiography of an Emigrant Dane; The Escapes Edmunds; Adventures in Queensland, or, the Aupose. One of the most vexed questions already raised in connection with the new law is the desire of the music publishers in this country to adventures of Capt. R. W. Eastwick, edited by Herbert Compton; Kolokotrones: Klepht and of Latude and Casanova from Prison, edited with an introduction by P. Villars; Hard Life in the Colonies, edited by C. Carlyon Jenkins: in the "Children's Library," The Brown Owl, by Ford H. Hueffer; The China Cup, and other fairy tales, by Felix Volkhofsky; Stories from Fairyland, by George Drosines; The Little Princess and other fairy stories, by Lina Eckenstein; and a collection of German Fairy Stories, translated by various writers: in the "Pseudonym Library,” Some Emotions and a Moral, by John Oliver Hobbes; Our European Relations, a Tyrolese sketch by Talmage Dalin; and John Sherman and Dhoya, by Ganconagh: in the "Cameo" Cats, a book of verses by many authors, selected series, A Minor Poet, by Amy Levy; Concerning and edited by Graham R. Tomson; and The Poems of Robert Surtees. tary to the Oxford Delegacy, who, in the current obtain a ruling that music must be printed in number of University Extension, discusses the this country to obtain copyright privilege here future of this movement in England. Other arti- a construction which was certainly not within cles show the relation of this work to the com- the intent of the reprinting proviso as it was mon school-teacher and to American women. framed. A very unnecessary discussion has been One of the most successful experiments of last raised about a paragraph in the law of evident season in extension teaching was at Providence, meaning and intent, viz., that uncopyrighted forin connection with Brown University, and it is de-eign books, even though an English translascribed in this August issue by Professor Apple- tion is copyrighted, shall not be left out. The first list of books entered in the Library of Congress under the new act seems to be ludicrously small, but for the reasons that July is the minimum month in the publishing year, and that publishers have not yet got in the habit of sending It is pleasant to note the increased good feeling their deposit copies with their entry of copyright. already evident in England as a result of the - Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. publish passage of the act. The dinner which is reported this day: the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, elsewhere afforded happy opportunity to English new large-paper edition, in thirteen volumes: authors to express their pleasure in the new law, Vol. I, The Autocrat at the Breakfast-Table and incidentally their opposition to the endeavor (with a new steel portrait of Dr. Holmes), of some of their countrymen, chiefly the printers Vol. II, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (in and papermakers, to obtain retaliatory legislation boards, with paper label, limited to 275 copies for against our reprinting clause. To do this would America); The Being of God as Unity and Trinbe to set back the hands of progress in England, ity, by Professor P. H. Steenstra of the Episwhereas it is the hope of America that in the copal Theological School of Cambridge, Mass.; course of some few years the present law will Points of View, essays by Agnes Repplier, author of Books and Men; The Birds' Christmas Carol, work so well that the reprinting clause may no longer be considered necessary, even by its pres-by Kate Douglas Wiggin, a new enlarged edition; ent adherents. Doubtless, on the further representation of goverments of other nations, the President will be enabled to add other nations to the roll entitled to the privilege of copyright in this country, and it is the reasonable hope of all friends of copyright progress that, before the The second number of the able Economic Jour-century closes, the United States may be joined nal, the organ of the British Economic Associa- with other civilized nations in an international tion, opens with a careful study of the "Probable convention of the broadest sort, even better than Effects of an Eight-Hours Day on the Production of Coal," by Prof. J. E. C. Munro, who concludes that the product would not be decreased. Mr. Henry Higgs reviews the life and work of late George Jones of the New York Times; Mr. Clarkson, the new chief of the Republican party organization; Mr. Watterson, the Democratic Warwick; a series of portraits of the editors and great cartoonists who have been connected with London Punch, which has just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary; the President of the Swiss Republic which is this month celebrating its six hundredth anniversary; the Queen of the Sandwich Islands, together with the most prominent men of her kingdom; a large portrait of Mr. Pillsbury of Minneapolis, the great miller; pictures of Professors Adler, Toy, and Adams, who conducted the recent Summer School of Ethics and Economics at Plymouth, Mass.; a fine full-length portrait of the young Crown Prince of Italy, now on his travels; the faces of Prince Albert and his bride, Princess Louise; and various other contemporary celebrities, both men and women. the present Berne Convention, insuring to brain- - The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, popular edition, in eight volumes; The New Astronomy, by Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, new edition, at a reduced price; The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, family edition; The Lay of the Last Minstrel, by Sir Walter Scott, family edition; and The Minister's Wooing, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the "Riverside Paper" series. - The parts of Mr. Lowell's will which relate to his library and manuscripts are as follows: "I give to my friend Charles Eliot Norton a book from my library at his discretion. I give to the corporation of Harvard College, for the library thereof, my copy of Webster on Witchcraft, formerly belonging to Increase Mather, president of the college, and also any books from my library of which the college library does not already possess copies, or of which the topics or editions in my library are for any reason whatever preferable to those possessed by the college library. I give to my friend Charles Eliot Norton all my manuscripts, correspondence, and papers, to dispose of the same at his discretion, hereby constituting him my literary executor." - Thomas Hughes has written an introduction -The Century Magazine will celebrate the four landscape - a great merit, I think, in these days. hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Amer- Above all, she is also discreet in dialect, using it ica by publishing a Life of Columbus, written es- for a flavor, but not, as is the wont of many, so pecially for that magazine by Emilio Castelar, the oppressively as to suggest garlic. She has a gift famous Spanish orator, statesman, and author. of quiet pathos and of its correlative equally - Mr. Percy Fitzgerald has written a life of subdued humor. I remember once at a dinner James Boswell of Auchinleck, with an account of the Royal Academy wishing there might be a of his sayings, doings, and writings. It will form toast in honor of the Little Masters, such as Tentwo volumes, with four portraits, and will be pub-niel, Du Maurier, and their fellows. The tiny lished by Messrs. Chatto & Windus. woodcuts traced by those who gave rise to the name, attract an affectionate partiality which the spacious compositions of more famous contemporaries fail to win. They were artists in the UNVEILING OF THE BUST OF THOMAS CARLYLE.- Scotsmen all over the world will be glad to hear that a bust of Carlyle has now for the English edition, in one volume, of Lowell's been placed in the Hall of Heroes of the Wallace best sense who could make small means suffice poems, which the Macmillans are about to bring Monument at Stirling. On the occasion of the for great ends. It is with them that I should out. - The Fleming H. Revell Co. publish at once, under the title of Nuggets from Northfield, '91, the more important addresses delivered at the College Students' Summer School and the Conference for Bible Study convening at Mr. Moody's home this summer. unveiling Professor Masson performed the cerehonor of the great Scotsman. Professor Masson, mony and delivered a sympathetic address in from his intimate acquaintance with the man and his well-balanced appreciation of the prophet, was well fitted for such a task. "Not all litNa-erary celebrities," he said, "stand being seen and known closely, but Carlyle did. For an adequate conception of him, indeed, it is almost necessary to have known him to some extent — Mr. E. C. Stedman's lectures on "The ture and Elements of Poetry," delivered last spring at Johns Hopkins University, will be pub. lished during the coming year in the Century The lectures will be repeated at Columbia Col lege during the coming winter. - Roberts Brothers will publish on the 15th inst. a new volume in Miss Wormeley's series of translations from Balzac's works, entitled An Historical Mystery, being one of the Scenes from Political Life; a complete edition of Burnand's Happy Thoughts, and the first American edition of the same author's More Happy Thoughts; the third volume of Renan's History of the People of Israel, treating the subject from the time of Hezekiah till the return from Babylon; a collection of the Sermons of Dr. Frederick Henry Hedge; and Four and Five, by Edward Everett Hale, which is a continuation of the "Ten Times One series. personally." 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His style I do not like, nor do I always concur in his opinions, nor quite fall in with his hero worship; but there is a manly love of truth, an honest recognition and fearless indication of intrinsic greatness, of intellectual and moral worth, considered apart from birth, rank, or wealth, which commands my sincere admiration. Carlyle would never do for a contributor to the Quarterly. Carlyle is a great man, but I always wish he would write plain English." The name of Hawthorne is to remain on the list of American romancers unto and in the third generation, for Miss Hildegarde Hawthorne, granddaughter of Nathaniel and daughter of Julian, has written a story which the Harpers will soon publish. - The "Popular Vellum" series of booklets - of which Professor Drummond's Love was the first - not only attained an immediate popularity, but they appear to hold a place of favor. Ten booklets are now embraced in the series issued by Fleming II. 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