The chapters thus applied betray very close observation and unusual vividness of delineation. These qualities, united with strong common-sense, incline us to the belief that the good things he says about the Promised Land of the Pacific coast are quite as true as the few little defects he is obliged to concede. His advice to invalids is not more cheering than what all doctors would be obliged to give if they both knew the truth and told it; but it is not absolutely depressing to invalids who are too rational to wrap themselves in falsely rosy dreams. The publishers of this interesting work are Fords, Howard & Hulbert."-N. Y. Telegram.

HISTORY.

BOYESEN, HJALMAR H. The story of Norway. Putnams. 12° (The story of the nations ser.) $1.50. Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

FREEMAN, E. A. Greater Greece and greater Britain, and George Washington, the expander of England; two lectures, with an appendix. Macmillan. 16° $1.25.

HARLEY, J. K. Topical outlines of the history and constitution of the United States for the use of schools and the private learner. Sower, Potts. 16' 25 c.

LANGMEAD, T. P. TASWELL. English constitutional history from the Teutonic conquest to the present time. New ed., rev. and enl. Houghton, M. 8° cl., $7.50.

PERKINS, JA. BRECK.

France under Mazarin; with a review of the administration of Richelieu. Putnam. 2 v. 8° pors., $5.

"The period covered by the administrations of Richelieu and Mazarin is one of both interest and importance. Yet I am not aware that any full history of this time has been written in English. The career and character of Richelieu are, to a certain extent, familiar, but, perhaps, most have a general idea of his administration rather than a familiarity with what he actually did. Both the character and administration of Mazarin are, I think, little known to most English readers. Yet eighteen years which embraced the Fronde and the treaties of Westphalia and the Pyrenees cannot be deemed unimportant. The accuracy of modern scholarship demands, also, the examination of authorities which, until recently, have been largely inaccessible and wholly disregarded. There are a great number of contemporary memoirs covering this time. Many of the leading political characters have left their own records of their careers."-Author's Preface.

"It is undeniable that these two volumes are a desirable addition to the history of the Mazarin period, containing many facts with which most readers are wholly unacquainted.”—N. Y. Evening Telegram.

LITERATURE.

CASSELL'S National Library. Cassell. ea. IO C.

The volumes in Cassell & Co.'s National library,' for the past four weeks, are Samuel Johnson's 'Lives' of Waller, Milton, and Cowley. These Lives' are his masterpiece, and Johnson liked best his life of Cowley. Not to have read at least the three lives now republished is a positive loss, however viewed. The volume for June 5th contains Burke's Thoughts on the present discontents-and his speeches on the Middlesex election, the Powers of juries, the Duration of Parliaments, and the Reform of representation. It is not necessary to add that Burke is a master of style and of politics treated philosophically as well as conservatively and ethically. The volume for June 12th

contains Jonathan Swift's masterpiece, the 'Battle of the books,' his predictions for the year 1708, and a number of short pieces, none of them surpassed since they were published. The volume for June 9th contains a number of poems by George Crabbe. These four volumes together cost forty cents, and are more amusing, more delightful, and more entertaining than are the ten or twenty latest novels. People in the country and at the seaside who care for the best reading should become subscribers of Cassell's 'National library,' and for five dollars a year they will receive once a week a volume suitable for reading under an apple-tree, in some quiet nook, or to friends-the family circle preferred. The series cannot be commended too cordially to rich and poor alike."—Boston Beacon.

HAKLUYT, R. Voyagers' tales; from the collections of R. Hakluyt. Cassell. 24° (Cassell's national lib.), pap., 10 C. 2 V. Macmillan.

MORLEY, J. Critical miscellanies. 12° ea. $1.50.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

PAGET, MISS VIOLET, [" Vernon Lee," pseud.] Baldwin: being dialogues on views and aspirations. Roberts. 12° $2.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

POSNETT. Hutchison Macaulay. Comparative literature. Appleton. (International sci. ser.) $1.75.

"Mr. Posnett's 'Comparative literature' is a most nourishing book. The world, and especially the world of teachers, is getting notably weary of the dry husks fed them by professional vendors of literary treatises. Volumes and volumes are written, nowadays, about books. Every scholar and every ignoramus is possessed by a common desire to publish his opinions about authors and groups of authors; and each one fails, almost without exception, in making anything which can itself be called a book. Mr. Posnett has not only written a true book, but one which seems decidedly momentous in its relation to the cosmopolitan culture toward which society is progressing as the only culture worthy the name in the future. reader of Mr. Posnett's book is taken at once out of the school-boy atmosphere of adoration of either ancient or modern classics, and is urged on, delightfully yet irresistibly, to think while he reads. It is always a pleasure to be truly taught, to be led upward to a clearer outlook; and it is a double pleasure when one's teacher has so sympathetic a manner and so fair and forcible a style as this man."-Popular Science Monthly.

The

SHAKESPEARE, W. Complete works; with notes by Malone, Steevens, and others, together with a biography, concordance of familiar passages, index to characters, and glossary of obsolete terms. McKay, 24 steel eng., 2 photogravures, 8° $10. SIDDONS, J. H. The Shakespearian referee : a cyclopædia of four thousand two hundred words, obsolete and modern, occurring in the plays of Shakespeare. Lowdermilk. 12° $2.

With original and other explanations, commentaries, annotations, etymologies, etc., derived from a great variety of authentic sources; to which is added translations of all the Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish words occurring in the plays. Prof. Siddons was a grandson of the celebrated Mrs. Siddons, and was an author and an actor of some note. THACKERAY, Works. New handy ed. Vanity Fair, per v., $1; 50 c. Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

V. 1 and 2.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. BARNS, W. E., ed. The labor problem; plain questions and practical answers; with an introduction by R. T. Ely and special contributions by Ja. A. Waterworth and Fred Woodrow. Harper. 16° $1. Mr. R. T. Ely discourses upon Co-operation in

literature and the state;" Ja. A. Waterworth on "The conflict historically considered," and Fred. Woodrow on "Side-lights on the labor problem." There is "A symposium on several phases of the labor question," in which prominent political economists, manufacturers, workingmen, journalists, divines, and others give their views. The greater part of the matter appeared originally in the columns of The Age of Steel of St. Louis. It has, however, been carefully revised and rearranged.

BIETIGHEIM. Funk & W. 12° pap., 50 c.

The unknown author, looking with a prophetic eye into the distant future, depicts the final fate of the United States and Europe. "Bietigheim" is a great battle which takes place in Germany during the war of 1890-'91. This war is brought about by a number of little disputes between this country and Germany concerning the rights of our naturalized citizens. The campaign, in which the European states, with the exception of Russia and Austria, are our allies, is fought in Europe the Americans being the victors. The result is a spread of republicanism throughout Europe, and an almost total ruin of imperialism at the beginning of the 20th century. The moral influence in our own country of this condition of things remedies many of the evils now existing between labor and capital springing from monopolies, the tariff, etc.

BOWKER, R. R. A primer for political education. The Soc. for Political Education. 12° (Economic tracts), pap., 15 C.

Information simply given, in the form of questions and answers, relative to the government of the United States, the civil service, capital and labor, the tariff, the national debt, public lands, railroads, duties of citizens, etc., with a brief history of political parties.

FORAN, M. A. The other side: a social study based on fact. Ingham, Clarke. 12° $1.25.

Presents, in the form of a story, the laborer's side of the controversy between labor and capital; also aims to show the mistakes and errors into which members of organized unions and assemblies of workingmen sometimes fall in the excitement of the conflict now going on. The story is laid in Chicago; the hero's father is murdered and robbed of all his fortune when the young man is a boy; the murderer turns out to be a man of means and a large manufacturer; he represents the odious capitalist, and is made particularly offensive in his dealings with his workmen.

HAIGH, H. A. A plain statement of the laws relating to labor. Co-operative Pub. Co. 8° pap., 35 c. Contains the statute law now in force in Michigan relating to labor, with several chapters from Mr. Haigh's "Handbook of law," touching upon labor questions.

SHOSUKE SATO. History of the land question in the United States. Murray, Agt. Johns Hopkins Univ. 8° (Johns Hopkins Univ. studies), pap., $1.

This work was undertaken in pursuance of special instructions from the Japanese government to the author to investigate certain questions of agrarian and economic interest in the United States. Shosuke Sato was special commissioner of the colonial department of Japan, and Fellow by courtesy, 1884-6, Johns Hopkins University.

TALMAGE, T. DE WITT, D.D. The battle for bread: a series of sermons relating to labor and capital. Ogilvie. 12° 50c.

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. BATTERSBY, J. C. The bridle bits: a treatise on practical horsemanship. O. Judd Co. 12° $1.

Colonel Battersby has had a long and varied experience with horses in both civil and military capacities in different countries. He was Assistant InspectorGeneral in Gen. Sheridan's Cavalry Corps, and also under Gen. Custer; this treatise is not confined to "bits" alone, but treats of the breaking and training

of horses for every use to which they are respectively adopted.

BEAUFORT, Duke of, Mowbray Morris, [and others.] Hunting: with il. by F. Sturgess and F. Charlton. Little. (The Badminton lib. of sports and pastimes, ed. by the Duke of Beaufort and A. E. T. Watson.) 12° $3.50.

This series was designed to give practical information concerning various British sports and pastimes; the first issue is devoted to "Hunting," and the successive volumes will treat of Racing, Fishing, Lawn Tennis, etc. They will all be written by experts, the library in general being dedicated to his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. The present work opens with a chapter on the history and literature of hunting; afterward follow an account of beasts of the chase, such as the stag, fox, etc.; the stable; the kennel; hunt servants; the horse, rider, the otter and his ways, etc. Appendices supply a bibliography, hunting terms, names of hounds, and a list of masters of hounds and servants. Index.

BENEDICT, G. H. Manual of boxing, club swinging, and manly sports; giving full instructions in the arts of boxing, fencing, wrestling, club swinging, dumbbell and gymnastic exercises, swimming, tumbling, etc. Spalding & Bros. 16° pap., 25 c.

BENEDICT, G. H., comp. Spalding's handbook of sporting rules and training; containing full and authentic codes of rules governing all popular games and sports. Spalding & Bros. 16° pap., 25 c. *BENEDICT, G. H., and Smith, A. F. Spalding's manual of roller skating. Spalding & Bros. 16° pap., 25 c.

BREWSTER, EMMA E., and Scribner, Lizzie B. Parlor varieties, pt. 2, being the second series of plays, pantomimes, and charades. Lee & S. 16° pap., 30 c. Contents: The lover's stratagem; Zekle's courtship; Bouquet of rose spirits; Cinderella; Dialogue for five little girls; Beresford benevolent society; The rumseller's exhibit; the bachelor who lived by himself; That boy Tom; Who wins; Carboline.

CHADWICK, H. The art of batting and base running; containing instructive chapters on scientific batting, placing the ball, etc., with new batting_rules for 1886; il. by G. H. Benedict. Spalding & Bros. 16° pap., 25 c.

To which is added the art of base running; with hints on playing points in the game, how to manage a team, etc.

CHADWICK, H. The art of pitching and fielding; a work containing instructive chapters on all the latest points of play in base-ball pitching; il. by G. H. Benedict. Spalding & Bros. 16° pap., 25 c. Contains the best pitching averages and records for 1885, and the new rules of pitching for 1886; also special articles on battery work in fielding, viz., the pitcher and catcher as fielders; throwing to first base; the captain of the nine; and how to captain a team, etc. CHADWICK, H. The lawn-tennis manual for 1886; containing instructions for acquiring a practical knowledge of the game; il. by G. H. Benedict. Spalding & Bros. 16° pap., 10 C.

Contains also the constitution of the Kenwood lawntennis club, and the official code of playing rules for 1886, as amended by the National Assoc. of LawnTennis Players. With special chapters on "How to play the game," "Points of play," "The four-handed game," etc. There are illustrations of the materials of the game and of the dress of the players, as also the lines and measurements of the courts, and the laying out of the field.

DEVEREUX, Mrs. A. F. How to play progessive croquet. Clarke. 24° pap., 25 c.

Mrs. Devereux's little book gives the whole theory and practice of the game. It opens with a word or two of historic review of croquet, and follows with its charms and advantages: how to give a party; invitations; all take partners; score-sheets; the send off; prizes; definitions of terms used; a few necessary rules; hints to the hostess; pointers for players. DWIGHT, JA. Lawn-tennis. Bost., Wright & Dit

son, [1886.] 5+94 p. 12° cl. The first part contains chapters on: How to learn to play: The court and implements of the game; The service; The first stroke; The stroke; The volley; The half-volley; The lob. The second part discusses The game; Match play; The double game; Ladies' and gentlemen's doubles; Umpires and umpiring; Odds; Bisque; Cases and decisions. The last chapter gives a list of winners in championship matches and principal open competitions.

FENNO, FRANK H. Fifty choice dialogues for speaking and acting: with suggestions for their successful presentation, and definite particulars as to costumes, scenes, entries, etc. Phil., J. E. Potter & Co. [1886.] [N. Y., C. T. Dillingham,] 200 p. S. (Fenno's favorites, no. 4.) pap., 25 c.

FENNO, FRANK H. 100 choice pieces for reading and speaking; with marked gestures, analyzed selections and explanatory notes. Phil., J: E. Potter & Co., [1886.] [N. Y., C: T. Dillingham.] 3-204 p. S. (Fenno's favorites, no. 3.) pap., 25 c. FOBES, WALTER K., comp. Five-minute recitations; for school and college. Bost., Lee & Shepard, 1886 [1885.] 199 p. T. cl., 50 c.

Companion volume to Five-minute declamations." Any selection may be recited in five minutes; selected and adapted and abridged from the most celebrated writers.

HOWARD, H. C., [Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire,] and Coventry, Arthur. Racing and steeple-chasing; il. by F. Sturgess. Little, B. 12° (Badminton lib.) cl., $3.50.

A history of horse-racing is the subject of the first chapter; the others discuss the progress of the sport, give a history of the Jockey Club, names of racing officials, an account of "Newmarket" racing in the provinces, breeding, treatment of yearlings, trainers, jockeys, etc. "Steeple-chasing," the second part, has chapters on the origin and development of steeplechasing, the selection of the chaser, schooling, fences and fencing, riding the race, hurdle-racing, etc. An appendix gives tabulated pedigrees of famous English horses. Index.

KUNHARDT, C. P. Small yachts: their design and construction exemplified by the ruling types of modern practice. Forest and Stream Pub. Co. Folio, $7.50.

As the title implies, this volume is designed chiefly for the use of that class of the yachting fraternity which either from necessity or choice are restricted to vessels of small tonnage. The author draws the line distinguishing small yachts from large, between craft requiring owner and friend, with perhaps one paid hand, for ordinary control, and those necessitating the shipping of a crew and a professional skipper. This classification embraces everything in the line of pleasure craft, from the cutter of forty-two feet over all down to the portable catboat of ten feet water line. To illustrate this broad field the author has chosen only the most notable yachts of their class, giving in each case full and accurate dimensions, sheer, half-breadth, body and sail plans, and, in some cases, deck and accommodation plan. With these drafts of yachts of known capabilities for comparison and reference, and chapters on drawing, model-making, and elements of design, the book will prove to be of considerable value to amateur designers.

*MAYER, ALFRED M., ed. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters. New ed. The Century Co. 8° $5.

NATIONAL League of Professional Base-Ball Clubs. Constitution and playing rules, for 1886. Official publication. Spalding & Bros. 16° pap., IO C.

Includes the proceedings of the League Congress held in New York, 1885 and 1886, and the official fielding and batting averages of players in championship games in 1885.

OGILVIE'S popular reading, no. 31. Ogilvie. 1 il,4° pap., 30 c.

Contents: The college boys, by Mrs. Henry Wood; A great journey, by Miss M. E. Braddon; Nine peas in a pod; One-eyed Saul, or, the Tory league of seven ; by Dr. J. H. Robinson; The bald eagle, by Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith; The bride of an hour, and, Why they parted, by the author of "Thorns and grapes." PATTERSON, HOWARD. The yachtsman's guide: a book in three parts, written especially for yachtsmen. The New York Navigation School. 8° $3.

Pt. 1 is a rudimentary treatise on navigation; 2 contains all the rules and workings necessary for finding a vessel's position under any and all circumstances, and for navigating a ship around the world; 3 gives many very valuable rules and hints on yacht organization, which should be carefully studied by all owners and yacht officers.

PENNELL, H. CHOLMONDELEY. Fishing. Little. 2 V. 12° (The Badminton lib.) $7.

utors.

The first volume is devoted to an account of salmon and trout fishing; the second to pike and other coarse fish. The table of contents will give the best idea of the ground covered by Mr. Pennell and other contribV. 1: A chapter on tackle and fishing gear, by H. Cholmondeley Pennell; Natural history of British Salmonidæ, by H. Cholmondeley Pennell; Salmon-fishing with the fly, by Major J. P. Traherne; Fly-fishing for trout and grayling, by H. Ralph Francis; Chalk-stream fishing with the dry fly, by H. S. Hall; Spinning and bait-fishing for salmon and trout and for the grayling, by H. C. P.; Thames trout-fishing, by H. R. Francis, and salmon and trout culture, by T. Andrews. V. 2: Chapter by Mr. Pennell on Pike and pike tackle; Boats; Pike fishing; The perch, dace, and chub, etc.; Roach fishing as a fine art, by W. Senior; Norfolk broad and river fishing, by G. Christopher Davies; The cultivation of coarse fish, by R. B. Marston, and the rearing of black fish, by the Marquis of Exeter. Both volumes have good indexes. RITTER, J. P., and CALL, W. T. Book of mock trials. Excelsor Pub. House. 16° pap., 25 c.

Fourteen original plays, representing humorous court-room scenes, adapted to the limits of the parlor, and arranged for public or private performances. SMITH, G. PUTNAM. The law of field-sports: a summary of the rules of law affecting American sportsmen. O. Judd Co. 12° $1.

The object of this little book is to provide the American sportsman with a succinet statement of the rules of law affecting him in the acquisition of his outfit and in the pursuit of game. A compilation of the statutes of the several states regarding the time and manner of killing and capturing game is to be found in the appendix.

SPALDING'S base-ball guide and official league book for 1886 a complete handbook of the national game of base-ball. Spalding & Bros. 16° pap., 10 C. Contains reviews of the various association seasons, with special articles on base-ball topics of interest; together with the season's averages of all professional associations for 1885, and the college club statistics for 1885; added to which is the complete official league record for 1885, including the playing rules in their revised form, official record of all league games and players, and the official schedule of league games for 1886, as adopted at the meetings of the league.

THEOLOGY AND RELIGION. *GUNSAULUS, FRANK WAKELEY. The transfiguration of Christ. Houghton, M. 16° $1.25 *MACMILLAN, HUGH. The olive leaf. essays.] N. Y., Macmillan, 1886. 6+381 p. S. cl., $1.75.

[Religious

"This volume takes its name from the opening paper, which sets forth the various suggestions made by the 'leaf pluckt off,' which Noah's dove bore in her mouth on returning to the ark. It is a fair specimen of all that follow. The author has a keen eye for all the analogies that obtain between the natural and the spiritual, and great ease and skill in stating them in a graceful and expressive style. He does not deal in dogma nor in exegesis, and in these respects makes no addition to our literature, but he widens our view of the outside world, and sets old truth in a new light by happy illustrations from the realm of nature. There

is novelty and freshness in every paper, yet these qualities do not seem to have been laboriously sought for, but rather to have sprung from the fine imagination and cultivated taste of the writer."-Christian Intelligencer.

SCRIVER, CHRISTIAN. Gotthold's emblems; or, invisible things understood by things that are made; tr. from the 28th German ed. by Rev. Rob. Menzies. Crowell. 12° $1.25.

Scriver was born in 1629. He refused the offer to be court preacher and spiritual guide to the Queen of Sweden, at that time the most powerful Protestant kingdom in the world, prompted by attachment to his sorely afflicted fatherland. The "Emblems," are a series of short sketches, which present the religious reflections of a devout and acute mind in connection with the common objects or occurrences of daily life, such as: A new suit of clothes; good weather; feeding the hens; the pillow; washing the hands; etc. SMITH, H., D.D. Spinoza and his environment: a critical essay; with a translation of the ethics. Clarke. 8° $3.

"The first division [the essay] of the present work, originally prepared by the writer for theological students, as a part of his labors in Lane Theological Seminary, having been solicited for publication, has been carefully recast, and in its present form is intended as a humble 'contribution toward a solution of the causes of modern doubt.' As it is now presented, it is designed to furnish some aid, not to the theological students merely, but to Christian ministers of all Protestant denominations, and to those intelligent laymen who sympathize and co-operate with them, by the pen, by lecturing, and in various other forms, in their efforts to defend the ark of God, 'the faith once delivered to the saints,' from the assaults of scepticism. With this intent, it was thought best to complete the translation of the ethics. True, the chief argument of Spinoza on the problem of the existence of God is found in the first part, but the ramifications of the argument reach to every part of the work."-Preface.

C-Books for the Young.

ALDEN, Mrs. Is. M., [" Pansy," pseud.] Spun from fact. Lothrop. 12° $1.50.

The story is that of a young girl, Jeannie Bartlett, who through a long and painful illness became, as it was supposed, crippled for life. From time to time stories came to her of the miraculous cures effected by prayer, and a hope grows up in her that even her case may not be beyond help. A time is set for a season of united prayer in the sick-room. The friends gather about her in the large arm-chair in which she has been placed. One eager, heartfelt prayer follows another, and at the close the invalid, full of faith, and endowed

with a new and wonderful strength, rises to her feet, and walks with a firm step across the floor. It is no temporary cure; her strength remains, and from that time forth she is whole and well. The author claims that the main incident of the story, as narrated, is

true.

HOCKING, SILAS K. Caleb Carthew. Ward & D. 12° $1.50.

The scene is laid in Brunhill, Lancashire; a seemingly unimportant incident opens the story and really proves the turning-point in Caleb Carthew's life, as it caused him to be expelled from school, brought about the Damon and Pythias friendship between himself and Frank Preston, and finally was the cause of David's becoming a carpenter's apprentice. From this time Frank tells the story which comprises the eventful things in Caleb's career, some interesting things in his own history, their joint romances, and the sad love affair of Kate Carthew.

LILLIE, Mrs. LUCY C. The story of music and musicians for young readers. Harper. 16° (Harper's young people ser.) bds., $I.

This work, Mrs. Lillie explains, is not intended to take the place of text-books, works on harmony or thorough-bass, or lives of the great musicians. Its object is only to interest young students in the technique of their art and in the associations amid which great masters have worked. Only such rules of harmony are given as have a direct bearing upon the subject or composition under discussion, and these have been presented, after comparing them with standard authorities, in as simple a fashion as possible. A large part of the work appeared in instalments in Harper's Young People, where its attractive style, numerous anecdotes and illustrations made it very popular.

OLIPHANT, Mrs. MARG. O. W. Effie Ogilvie: the story of a young life. Harper. 16° (Harper's handy ser.) pap., 25 c.

As the title says, "the story of a young life," made up equally of love and disapointments, ending, however, happily. The scene is laid in Scotland.

RUSKIN, J. Our fathers have told us: sketches of the history of Christendom for boys and girls who have been held at its fonts. Pt. 1: The Bible of Amiens. Wiley. 12 $1.

The first of a series of sketches of the history of Christendom, which when completed will consist of ten parts each illustrating some era in the history of mediæval or modern Christianity. The first part describes the conquest of France by Clovis, and the triumph of Frankish art in the Cathedral of Amiens. TENNYSON, ALFRED, (Lord.) The young people's Tennyson; ed. with notes by W. J. Rolfe. Ticknor. 16° (Student's ser. of standard poetry.) 75 c. A selection of the poems most liked by, and adapted to, young persons; for a younger class of readers than those for whom the "select poems" is designed. With notes and commentaries, and a sketch of Tennyson and his works.

TOWLE, G. MAKEPEACE. Young people's history of England. Lee & S. 12° $1.50.

The

The many able historical works that Mr. Towle has produced make him an authority, and although it would seem there was not a need for another history of England, this volume fills a place and a want. author has another motive in addition to that of presenting clearly and concisely the main facts in the history of England from the Roman conquest to the present time, which is to show the growth of the political liberties and institutions of the English people, and to indicate in some degree the changes in the social condition, and the advance in literature and the arts. He has successfully endeavored to relate events and to describe persons without bias or partiality, and to avoid obtruding judgments of his own.

LITERARY MISCELLANY. GREETING TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.*

By W. E. HEITLAND.

From the London Academy.

Welcome, good friend; your hand! now you're in reach of us,
We'll freely say what else were unexpressed;
For friend you surely are to all and each of us,
And these old walls ne'er held a worthier guest.

No guest more well-beloved, more soul-unbending,
Since the frail Mayflower bore the Pilgrims bold;
Stern hearts, in hard New England still defending
Whate'er was best and noblest in the Old.

Here round your chair unseen in gathering number
Throng eager shades, no feeble band nor few,
Ghosts of a fruitful past, awaked from slumber"
To give their gracious benison to you.

Says rare Ben Jonson, “Ha! one more good fellow!
Od's life, we'll add him to our tuneful quire;'
And bids you stay and pass an evening mellow
With Herrick, genial soul, and courtly Prior.

Then gentle Wordsworth brings his ghostly greeting
Wafted from northern dales and mountains lone,
Beaming with eye serene for joy at meeting
A heart as large and single as his own.

A heart to love mankind with love unchanging-
No shallow worldling there, nor dried-up don;
But through all moods of human life-strains ranging
From tender Iris to the Young Man John.

In love we greet you, friend; in love we speed you;
For greeting soon is o'er, and parting nigh:
And when we see you not, we yet shall read you
In this calm corner, while the world rolls by.

Farewell. By all the benefactors' merits,
Who bade us be, and raised our Johnian towers;
By all the joys and griefs mankind inherits,
That ever stirred this little world of ours;

By all sweet memory of the saints and sages
Who wrought among us in the days of yore;
By youths who, turning now life's early pages,
Ripen to match the worthies gone before;

On us, oh son of England's greatest daughter,
A kindly word from heart and tongue bestow,
Then chase the sunsets o'er the western water,
And bear our blessing with you as you go,

PROF. RUSKIN, always anxious to do and always doing good, has sent a number of valuable books for the Whitelands College library-thirty-six volumes in history, botany, and general literature, among which may be mentioned " Realmah," two volumes, with the author's autograph; Montalembert's "Sainte Elizabeth," Loredan Larcley's "Histoire de Bayard," and M. Paul Lacroix's "Louis XII." The three last are admirably illustrated and beautifully bound. There are also illustrated editions of "Miss Kilmansegg and "The Pilgrim's Progress." He has also sent three very large and fine photographs-1. The grand entrance-door of St. Mark's, Venice; 2. The high altar; 3. The Judgment Angel of the Ducal Palace— by Messrs. Winch Brothers.

SOUTHERN LITERATURE.-"There are, we think, unmistakable signs," says the New Orleans TimesDemocrat, "that Southern literature is about to play its rightful part in the artistic development of the American. Nothing very great or splendid has yet been done, but a beginning has been made, and one may look with confidence to the future prose writers, like Charles Egbert Craddock and others, who have conclusively shown that Southern social life is a mine from which the skilful artist may draw a vast mass of rich material, and Robert Burns Wilson and others have proved, with equal conclusiveness, that the Southern temperament possesses the finest poetic gifts. Miss Rives, in her quaint and beautiful story entitled A Brother to Dragons' (published in the Atlantic Monthly for March), has evinced a rare

*Read at the breakfast in honor to Dr. Holmes in Combination Room, St. John's College, Cambridge, Eng., June 14, 1886.

power to live the life and think the thoughts of other times. Real originality is a boon in this age of subtle commonplace, and it is a consolation that Southern literature, in its earliest period, exhibits no inherent tendency towards servile imitation."

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MRS. NULL FOR THE STAGE." It will be news-and agreeable news"-says the Critic, "that Mr. Stockton is dramatizing his first novel, The Late Mrs. Null.' The work is being done in collaboration with a person who has had more experience than the author in dramatic work-a condition not difficult to fulfil, since he himself has had none; and each act has been planned and blocked out' in consultation. The form of the story will be changed very much; but the general plot and the present idea of the characters will be, in the main, adhered to. It is thought that a good deal can be done with the widow Keswick. Mr. Stockton is sojourning just now at Merchantville, N. J. He is not half blind, as some people imagine him to be, from the fact that he dictates his stories to his wife; but he has the good fortune to possess a very good pair of eyes-good both to look at and to look with.

MR. SWINBURNE." If Mr. Swinburne would only write English prose," says the Pall Mall Gazette, "he would be the most potent and beneficent force in contemporary criticism. Who else has such wide knowledge combined with such quick and catholic sympathy? His hero-worship is generous, even when most excessive. His power of extracting pleasure from all that is greatest in literature is abnormally vivid, untiringly alert; and he has the gift of stimulating and vivifying that power in others. He has few petty fads or irrational antipathies; though he has the controversialist's fatal tendency to see in all unworthy action or utterance the evidence of deliberately base motive. It is mere puerile petulance to say of Carlyle and Emerson that each had failed as a poetaster before he began to yelp at the heels of poets;' but such protervities are rare. As a rule, he is more cautious in blame than in praise. He can scarcely be acquitted of a conscious over-indulgence, from time to time, in the luxury of enthusiasm, a wilful refusal to look into the seamy side of some men and some things; but on the other hand he is generally careful to temper condemnation with a strong statement of extenuating circumstances."

WHAT'S IN A NAME?-"The title of a book is conventionally supposed," says Book Chat, "to be a word or combination of words designating the contents, just as a chemist puts labels on his bottles to enable him to tell at a glance what each contains. This is the ideal meaning, but the real is far different. It was not so in the good old-fashioned days of which the poet sings, when the titles of books were long, full, and extensive, often wandering gently over into the next page to prepare the reader fully for the literary treat in store for him. Of course, they erred in overfaithfulness. To-day, on many of the current works of fiction, poetry, etc., the title is a mere trade-mark or label, and has not the slightest relevancy to the subject matter. A collection of poems, comprising the usual 'Love-songs,' 'Farewell,' 'Ode to Beauty,' 'Sonnet to My Love,' and 'The Sailor's 'Return,' would be modestly termed 'A Bunch of Wild Roses.' An essay on the Irish Question' should, according to precedent, be called 'If Not, How?' or, 'As If It Were!' or any other combination that will catch the eye of the reader to arrest his attention for the moment. This savors too much of advertising, and is not at all the dignified rôle that should be assumed in literature. These are but a species of the innumerable family of titles that might be mentioned."

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY.-" Miss Louise Imogen Guiney," says the Chicago Herald, "is the daughter of Colonel Guiney, an Irishman, who distinguished himself in the late war of the Rebellion. Fancy a