MAGAZINE BRIEFS.

Mr. Kennan's Siberian papers will begin in the May Century.

Archæological Review is the name of a new monthly started in London.

The Amateur Sportsman is the name of a new monthly, published in this city.

A new novel from the hand of Amélie Rives, entitled The Quick or the Dead? is the leading feature of Lippincott's for April.

The April number of St. Nicholas contains a charming story from the pen of the late Louisa M. Alcott.

Die Mädchenschule is a new monthly started in Bonn, devoted to the discussion of the education of girls.

The Journal of American Folk-lore, the first number of which will be issued in April, will be published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

The Universal Review will be the name of an international monthly which will be begun in England in May.

Zeitschrift für Handel und Gewerbe, Organ für die deutschen Handelskanmern is the name of a new semi-monthly to be begun in Berlin on April 1st.

A new medical journal will be started shortly in Vienna under the editorship of Dr, G. Riehl. The periodical will be the exponent of the Viennese school of medicine.

The Meister is the name of a journal started by the London Branch of the Wagner Society. Its chief feature will be translations from Wagner's literary works.

Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie is the title of a new periodical published in Leiden, Holland. It will be edited by the well-known ethnographer, Dr. I. D. E. Schmeltz.

With the March issue the Writer has begun its second year. The first number of the new volume is conspicuous by the excellence and diversity of its articles.

Les Langues Etrangères is the name of a new semi-monthly which has been started in Paris. It will be devoted to the study of the English, German, Spanish and Italian languages.

Volapükaflen Joeizik is the name of a periodical published in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The name of the publication, when interpreted, meaneth the Swiss Volapük-friend.

The Classical Review for April will contain a catalogue of the Homer MSS. in the British Museum, compiled by Mr. E. Maunde Thomp

son.

The Western Galaxy is the name of a new monthly published in Salt Lake City. The first number, contains contributions from Mormons, Apostates and Gentiles.

The February issue of Deutsche Dichtung (Stuttgart) contains some letters of von Scheffel in the style of Gaudeamus, and several prose articles from the same hand, under the title Säkkinger Episteln.

The Magazine fur die Literatur des In-und Auslandes has changed hands, and its former publisher will start a new publication, which will be the organ of the modern literary movement in Germany.

In Great Britain there are at present published 2177 Periodicals and Newspapers: 454 in London, 1273 in the Provinces, 82 in Wales, 189 in Scotland, 158 in Ireland and 21 on the Islands of the English Chanel.

The Sturdy Oak is the name of a new monthly, the first number of which will be issued on April 1st. It will be devoted to "The encouragement of individual growth and development, and to the reformation of existing politics." Mr. W. A. Sturdy of Chartley, Mass., will be the editor.

The Portefeuille, of Amsterdam, offers a price of $120.00 for the best design for its mid-winter number for 1888, to be drawn in line and water color, and adapted for reproduction in zincography or chromotype. Besides the price for the best design, two premiums of $60 and $40 respectively, will be awarded. The competition will be closed on May 15th prox.

Mr. E. D.Walker, the author of Reincarnation, has succeeded Mr. F. P. Smith as editor of the Cosmopolitan, which inaugurates the change in its editorial and business departments and the commencing of its fifth volume by an exceptional good March issue. The periodical will henceforth be published by the Cosmopolitan Magazine Company.

The Catholic World for April contains an entirely new feature in the form of a supplement of original sermons for the Sundays of the month-a five minute sermon for the Low Masses of each Sunday, and one longer sermon for High Mass. These sermons, which are copyrighted, will only be sent to clerical subscribers.

Garibaldi's autobiography will be published serially in Harper's Monthly.

BLACK ICE. By Albion W. Tourgee.Percival Reynolds, a well-knows civil engineer, lives at Gladesboro' with his wife and their only daughter Bertha, a wild young girl, fond of athletics, and whose greatest desire is to learn how to skate. At a thanksgiving dinner at his house, to which among other good friends, Dr. Colton, the physician of the village, and Mrs. Somers the school-mistress, are invited, Mr. Reynolds tells an adventure he met with in his youth while skating. The interest of the story centres on a similar experience of Bertha and on Mrs.Somers.-Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1.25. BONAVENTURE. By George W. Cable.Sosthine Cradnago, who, with his wife and only daughter Josephine, lived at Carrion Creek in Louisiana, opens his hospitable home to a poor Creole and her little boy, Bonaventure. In the neighbourhood lives Sosthene's brother-in-law, whose handsome eldest son, 'Thanase, is much sought after for his violin-playing. The war breaks out, and in a fit of jealousy, Bonaventure shows to a confederate recruiting party the road to 'Thanase's house. Stricken by remorse, Bonaventure starts out after the war is over, to find the missing 'Thanase.-Scribner's, 1.25.

BRITONS AND MUSCOVITES, OR TRAITS OF TWO EMPIRES. By Curtis Guild.- Though in no sense a guide-book, this volume on foreign travel from the hand of Mr. Guild gives much information not found in either Baedeker or Murray, and will prove of invaluable service to those proposing to visit the countries of which it treats, while it will afford many moments of genuine enjoyment to stayers at home by its bright descriptions of points of interest generally neglected by tourists, and its pungent observations on the phases of life in Europe which mostly attract the attention of American travellers.-Lee & Shepard. 1.00.

CASSELL'S COMPLETE POCKET GUIDE TO EUROPE. Revised and enlarged.-This volume

contains in a compact form a description of the most attractive routes in Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Russia, giving details of these routes, noting points of interest, and giving explicit information about hotels, fares, etc. Maps of England and the Continent, Paris and London are added, together with a table of currencies and a vocabulary in English, French, German and Italian.-Cassell's, 1.50.

CHAMBERS ENCYCLOPAEDIA, NEW EDITION VOL. I. A. to Beaufort.-Since the completion of the first Edition of Chamber's Encyclopaedia in 1868, many things have happened which call for a completely different treatment of many subjects it contains, new subjects of interest have emerged and many have lost their claim the prominence given to them twenty years ago. A large proportion of the articles has been entirely rewritten, and the others so carefully revised as to be virtually new. Among the contributors to the first volume are Sir John Lublock, Mathew Arnold, Max Müller, Andrew Lang, Prince Bonaparte and Prof. Child.-Lippincott's, 3.00.

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CHIPS FROM A TEACHER'S WORKSHOP. L. R. Klemm, Ph. D.-Without attempting to present a complete system of education to his readers, the author gives many valuable hints to young teachers, which his own experience has suggested to him. The articles collected in this volume, many of which have been reprinted from educational journals in which they originally appeared, are arranged under the headings Open Letters to a Young Teacher, Experiences of a Supervisor, Errors in, and Principles and Practice of Teaching, Arithmetic, Literature and Language, Geography, History of Teaching, and History.-Lee & Shepard.

CURRENT RELIGIOUS PERILS. BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES, VOL. XI. By Joseph Cook.A representation of the result of the latest American, English and German thought on the relations of Religion and Science, the substance of the Lectures, which form the basis of the volume being given in a concise form. A symposium of letters from eminent preachers and professors, giving an outline of the progress of the discussions between Vital Orthodoxy and New Theology from 1883 to 1887, is added together with the Preludes, and answers to open Questions touching urgent issues of reform, which have also accompanied the earlier volumes.Houghton, Mifflin, 2.00.

THE DEEMSTER. By Hall Caine.-Thorkel Mylrea, after the death of his father, indirectly

forces his younger brother Gilchrist to leave Belladonna, the family estate, and to make his way in the world as best he can. By dint of avarice and usury Thorkel succeeds in increasing his riches year by year, and through their influence succeeds in being nominated deemster or judge of the island. He then procures the bishopric for his brother, an act which he afterwards regrets. A certain day, the bishops son kills the heir of Thorkel, and is banished from the island.-Appleton's, .50.

DERRICK STERLING. By Kirk Munroe.-Left penniless at the death of her husband, a mining engineer at the Raven Brook Colliery, Derrick Sterling's mother was forced to keep boarders, to provide for the daily needs of her little family. Anxious to lighten the heavy burden which rests on his mother, Derrick gladly accepts a place in the coal mines, which one of the boarders at his mother's house offers him. Shortly afterward the Molly Maguires try to inaugurate a reign of terror at the mine, and plot to kill the superintendent-Harper's, 1.00

THE FIGHTING VERES. LIVES OF SIR FRANCIS VERE AND OF SIR HORACE VERE. By Clements R. Markham.-The greater part of this biography is taken up by the narrative of the services which the Veres and their compatriots rendered to the Hollanders in their struggle to throw off the Spanish yoke, and of the chief events of the eighty years war, in most of which they took an active part. Notes are added on a story told in Froissart about Robert de Vere, ninth Earl of Oxford, and on the authorities used in the compilation of the work.— Houghton, Mifflin, 4.00.

FIRST STEPS WITH BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS. By Albert F. Blaisdell, A. M.-An Introduction to the English classic texts, aiming at the spreading of the knowledge of what English authors have written, and not of what somebody has written about them. An introductory chapter on literature in general the old and new methods of study and the plan of the book, are followed by selections from Long fellow, Irving. Whittier, Goldsmith, Bryant, Gray, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Burns. Holmes, Scott, Tennyson, Addison, Byron, Cowper, Milton, and Shakespeare. A series of questions on literature, notes and an index are added.-Lee & Sheppard, .75.

FOUR GHOST STORIES. By Mrs. Molesworth. -Lady Farquhar, in the first story, tells of the apparition which she saw twice in an old-fashioned country-house on the coast of Ireland: a quiet, sad-faced old lady, who haunted a store

room in the house, and whose history the narrator learned only much later, The other stories are: Witnessed by Two, Unexplained, and the Story of the Rippling Train. The quiet, unsensational style in which the stories are told, greatly strengthens the impression they make, and is well calculated to carry conviction.-Macmillans, 1.50.

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. By Theodore Roosevelt. The life of Gouverneur Morris is so closely allied to the great events of the period in which he lived, that an attempt at describing the one without relating the other, would result in a very dim and confusing picture of the great American statesman. The headings of the chapters of this biographie: The Outbreak of the Revolution. Independence, Forming the State Constitution, In the Continental Congress, Finances, The Treaty of Peace, The Formation of the National Constitution, etc., conclusively show that the life of Gouverneur Morris and the birth of America's greatness are inseparably bound together.-Houghton, Mifflin, 1.25.

HEARTSEASE AND RUE. By James Russell Lowell.-A collection of poems arranged under the headings Friendship, Sentiment, Fancy, and Humor and Satire. The opening poem, in six cantos, is dedicated to the poet's friend, Agassiz, and the book further contains poems to Holmes, to C. F. Bradford, to Whittier, a 'Youthful Experiment in English Hexameters,” Birthday Verses, Das Ewig-Weibliche, the Prison of Cervantes, Pessimoptisim, Telegraphy, Science and Poetry, The Flying Dutchman, At the Burns Centennial, At the Commencement Dinner, 1886, and other verses.-Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1.25

HERR PAULUS. His Rise, Greatness, and His Fall. By Walter Besant.-Feeling himself hedged in by the narrow confines of a small New England village, Ziphion B. Trinder, the poetic son of the grocery man, goes to New York to fill the world with his fame. Some years afterwards. Herr Paulus, who claims to have been sent by unseen friends to enlighten the searchers after the truth, astonishes the spiritualists in London with his wonders. Paulus loses his power in the same way in which lose theirs.men are supposed to

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HISTORIC WATERWAYS. By Reuben Thwaites. -Instead of spending his brief but valuable vacations at crowded hotels in mountain or seaside resorts, the author, in company with his wife, makes canoeing trips down the Rock, Fox

and Wisconsin rivers, covering a distance of over 700 miles, and narrates in this book the incidents, delights and small annoyances which are always connected with "roughing it" by land or water. The story is pleasantly written, and will probably tempt many to make the experiment. An alphabetical index and table of distances are added.-A. C. McClurg, 1.25.

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HISTORY PRUSSIA UNDER THE GREAT. Vol. II. and III.. 1740-1756. Bv Herbert Tuttle.-An account of the history of Prussia under Frederick the Great, from his accession to the throne till the outbreak of the

seven years' war. Frederic's views of government, his policy and the place which Prussia occupied among the European powers, the Silesian wars, the Union of Frankfort, the Treaty of Dresden, Frederic's private life, and the reforms introduced by him, the relations of Prussia and the German empire, and the causes of the seven years' war are fully discussed.— Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

HOW TO GET RICH IN THE SOUTH. By W. H. Harrison Jr.-A treatise on the advantages which the South offers to people of energy and brain for gaining wealth, telling What to do, How to it, and the Profits which can be realized. While the manufacturing interests of the South are daily growing in importance, and attracting thousands of working men to its cities, its agriculture does not keep pace with this rapid increase, necessitating the sending of vegetables from the North. Farming in all its forms, Fruit growing and Cattle raising, are exhaustively discussed.-W. H. Harrison Jr. Pub. Co., Chicago,

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INTERNATIONAL LAW. By Leone Levi. F.S.A., F.S.S.-A reduction into the form of a code of the leading principles of the Law of Nations, including the portion of that Law resulting from Treaties and Conventions. A discourse on the nature and authority of International Law. the Progress of International relations from the ancient times to the present day, and the Political Condition of States is added together with some of the best known international declarations, regulations, compacts and treaties. Postal communications, Monetary Union, Copyright, Extradition, Private International Law, etc., are all lucidly discussed.-Appleton's, 1.50.

THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA. VOL. VI. From the opening of Pélissier's Command to the death of Lord Raglan. By Alex. Wm. Kingsley. The closing volume of the history of the Invasion, giving an account of Pélissier's tactics,

and of his continuous strife with Napoleon III., of the third and fourth bombardments of Sebastopol, the expedition to Kertch, the wounding of Todleben and his defense of the city, and of the sickness and death of Lord Raglan. An index to the six volumes of which the work consists, is added.-Harper's, 2.00

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IRISH WONDERS. POPULAR TALES AS TOLD THE PEOPLE. By D. R. McAnally Jr.During a protracted visit to Ireland, in the course of which he explored every nook of the island, the author collected the legends and tales which the book contains. The names of the stories are: The Seven Kings of Athenry, Taming the Pookah, Sexton of Cashel, Satan's Cloven Hoof, The Enchanted Lake, How the Lakes were made, About the Fairies, The Banshee, The Round Towers, The Police, The Leprechawn, The Henpecked Giant, Satan as a Sculptor and the Defeat of the Widows. The volume is profusely illustrated.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2.00.

JOHN BULL, JR., OR FRENCH AS SHE IS TRADUCED. By Max O'Rell.-After briefly telling of his early life and the reasons which brought him to England, the writer describes his experiences with John Bull, Jr. and his efforts to teach him French. Mingled with hints to teachers, and some very pointed remarks about the numerous shortcomings of the average French grammar for Englishmen, are personal recollections of boys and startling bits of translation produced by them. The book revives in every reader recollections of a happy time gone by.-Cassell £, 1.00.

LARGE FORTUNES; OR, CHRISTIANITY AND THE LABOR PROBLEM. By Charles Richardson. -An impartial consideration of the moral and social influences of large fortunes and their relation to problems of the day. The subject is classified under nine headings: The Necessity of Labor. The Efforts to avoid Labor in Ancient, Mediæval and Mod rn Times, The Possession of The Means of Production, How Property-owners use their Power, How Large Fortunes are Obtained, The Effects of Riches and Poverty upon the Wealthy and the Poor, Several Conclusions, and the Teaching of Christ.-Lippincott's, .75.

THE LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB. Newly arranged with additions. Edited by Alfred Ainger. 2 vols. This collection of his letters forms with the notes that accompany them, an almost complete biography of Charles Lamb, from his majority to the day of his death, there being but few incidents in his life to which no

reference is made in these writings. Letters to Coleridge, Southey, Thomas Manning. Wordsworth, Hazlitt, John Howard Payne, Thomas Alsop, Proctor and others, all combine to give a many-sided view of their author, care having been taken to exclude letters which are meaningless.-Brentano's, 3.00.

LIFE IN COREA. By W. R. Cable, F. R. G. S. The account of an eighteen months' sojourn on the peninsula and of the personal observations and experience of the author, no conjectures being made about places and customs which he did not see. The system of government, the relations between the King and his Nobles, and between the people and the serfs are only defined through the account of such incidents as happened under the author's own eyes. This mode of treatment gives the stamp of reliability to the interesting geographical, ethnological, political and historical information which the book contains.-Macmillan's, 4.00.

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN WILKES, M.P. By Percy Fitzgerald, M.A., F.S.A. 2 vols. first account of the life of the Lord Mayor of London, of his constant struggles with ministers on the General Warrants, and his contest with the House of Commons for his seat. A less well-known episode of his life, the conflict which raged for years between king and ministers on one side, and Wilkes and the London aldermen on the other, is also for the first time discussed. The work leaves a clearly defined impression of the noisy, unscrupulous, successful and dissipated demagogue.-Brentano's, 7.50.

THE MAJOR'S LOVE; OR, THE SEQUEL OF A CRIME. By Ella Brown Price.-Shortly after the war, Major Norwood, who during the struggle between North and South, had killed his former friend and successful rival, Colonel Fontaine Maury, moved to Western Missouri, and there purchased the latter's estate, Maury's wife and little daughter having disappeared. Several years later the. Colonel's daughter unexpectedly visits Norwood, and her resemblance to her mother is so great that he falls in love with her at first sight, and finds his love returned. -Peterson's, .50.

MAXIMINA. By A. P. Valdes, Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.--Miguel Rivera, a young, Spanish journalist, marries Maximina, a beautiful but very timid and unsophisticated country girl, and takes her to Madrid where he has a position on a newspaper. Although she loves her husband very much, Maximina does not feel happy in the company of her masterful mother-in-law, and her timidity and total igno

rance of the customs of the society into which she is introduced, make her feel very wretched, and sorely try her husband's temper,-T. Y. Crowell, 1.50.

NEW YORK MIRROR ANNUAL FOR 1888 AND DIRECTORY OF THE AMERICAN THEATRICAL PROFESSION. Edited by Harrison Grey Fiske.— An endeavor to provide the American stage with a complete and reliable record. Besides six illustrations, the volume contains: a chronological Dramatic Record for 1887 for America, England, France, and Germany; Necrology for 1888, Dramatic Biliography, giving a catalogue of books and index of articles on Drama and Stage which appeared during the past year, a list of the Star, Combinations and Stock Companies in the United States for the season 188788, a Directory of the Theatrical Profession in America, and a General Index.-N. Y. Mirror.

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OLD SPAIN AND NEW SPAIN. By Henry M. Field, D. D.-Mr. Field's object in writing this book was to show in sharp relief the difference between the old Spain, the land of tyrants, of Charles V. and Phillips I. and the New Spain, the land of freedom, and to engage the interest of American readers for a country which has had a great past and may have a glorious future. History, political economy sociology and religion are happily blended with personal reminiscences and exquisite descriptions of the customs of the people and the places visited.-Scribner, 1.50.

THE ORBIS PICTUS OF JOHN AMOS COMENIUS. A reprint of the first juvenile picture book ever published. In the introduction the publisher shortly alludes to the difficulty he had in obtaining a perfect copy of the first edition of the book (1658), as in later editions the copper-plates had been replaced by coarse woodcuts, and in some many illustrations had been left out altogether. The prints in this edition are all taken from the first edition, as is also the Latin text, while the English text is from an edition of 1727, in which the words are so arranged as to stand opposite their Latin equivalents.-C. W. Bardeen, 3.00.

REINCARNATION. A Story of Forgotten Truth. By E. D. Walker.-An investigation of the doctrine of Reincarnation or Metempsychosis, its origin and true conception. After an introductory chapter and an exposition of what Reincarnation really is, the writer discusses Western evidences of and objections to Reincarnation, the products of poets and prose writers, American and English, European and