their different courses of life as shaped by circumstances and inciination. There is strong moral fibre in it, and there are scattered through its pages apt suggestions as to the vital things of life which cannot but set readers to thinking.

TICKNOR & Co. have just ready a work entitled "Whist Universal: an analysis of the game improved by the introduction of American leads," by G. W. P., author of "American Whist." They will publish shortly "Culture's Garland: being memoranda of the gradual rise of literature, art, music, and society in Chicago, and other Western ganglia," by Eugene Field, of the Chicago Daily News. Mr. Field has recently attained fame and notoriety as a humorist and journalist His book will be issued in cloth and paper editions.

CASSELL & Co. have recently published the second volume in the series of Hawthorne-Byrnes stories, to be entitled "The Great Bank Robbery." This is to be shortly followed by a thrilling account of a famous forgery, under the title of "An American Penman." The first volume of this series has been well received by the press and public. Though on the market only a few weeks, a fourth edition has already been called for, and the book is likely to run on into an unlimited number of editions, as there seems to be an inexhaustive craving on the part of the reading public for this particular story.

GEORGE H. ELLIS has just ready "The History of Medfield, Mass.," by W. S. Tilden, fully illustrated, with views of all the old landmarks and historic personages; also " Essays," by George Bachelor, some of which have received marked attention during their publication in The Forum; "Science and Immortality," the Christian Register symposium, revised and enlarged, edited by Samuel J. Barrows-the work enriched with

additional contributions from Prof. A. Graham Bell, A. W. Greely, Prof. Jos. Le Conte, and others; and "Critical Essays," by the late Ezra Abbott.

ROBERTS BROS. announce that they are already publishing a second edition of Judge Tourgee's new book, "Button's Inn." to enable them to fill advance orders. This fact promises wide popularity for the latest literary effort of the author of "A Fool's Errand," which is a study of the first developments of Mormonism in this country, and the locality on the Chautauqua Hills and Lake Erie shore from whence it sprung. They have ready a new edition of F. C. Burnand's amusing "New History of Sandford and Merton," with Linley Sambourne's graphic illustrations.

REV. W. W. NEWTON's new book, "The Vine Out of Egypt," upon which he has been working for the past five years, will be issued early in September, by Thomas Whittaker. The volume is a history of the growth and development of the Episcopal Church in America, with especial reference to the church life of the future. The author gives a history of the movement towards federated unity which resulted in the formation of the con

gress of churches. The last chapter is an appeal to the church not to risk its leadership by the perilous policy of a change of name. The volume will undoubtedly create quite an interest among the thinkers of the day, and its advent is awaited with eagerness.

MRS. SARAH K. BOLTON will put forward not less than three books during the coming fall.

There will be two prose works, one treating of Some Successful Women," giving sketches of famous women who have ascended the ladder of fame; while the other will deal with such successful authors, dead and living, as Irving, Lowell, Holmes, Aldrich, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Howells, Mark Twain, Will Carleton, and a score or more of others. Mrs. Bolton's third work will consist of a volume of poems entitled "From Heart and Nature," jointly written by herself and her son, Charles K. Bolton, a young Harvard student, who has succeeded in gaining entrée into the pages of several of the leading magazines with his clever and musical verses.

"MR. MATTHEW ARNOLD is now engaged on his autobiographical reminiscences," says London Truth, which, I hear, will include many new and interesting facts concerning his distinguished father. There was nothing which Lord Melbourne regretted more after his fall from power than his having omitted to make Dr. Arnold a Bishop. The Doctor was nearly getting Salisbury in 1837, but a shuffling colleague frightened the Prime Minister, by assuring him that Archbishop Howley would refuse to consecrate Arnold, and that a contest with the Church' would inevitably prove fatal to the Whig Government. Dr. Arnold had excited the rabid fury of the Tories and High Churchmen by a scathing article in the Edinburgh Review, which was entitled 'Oxford Malignants.'

A. C. MCCLURG & Co. have just published, simultaneously with their issue in London, two very handsomely illustrated works of travel of general interest, viz., "The Queen's Highway from Ocean to Ocean," by Stuart Cumberland, and "Shores and Alps of Alaska," by H. W. Seton Karr. The first is devoted to description of the new transcontinental railway route, recently opened through the British Dominion, between Victoria, on Vancouver's Island, and Halifax, on the Atlantic Ocean. It is written by a very competent and experienced hand, and opens up some very picturesque portions of the continent. The writer does not confine himself to a description of the railway route, but gives a very complete idea of the whole Dominion of Canada. The second work gives a detailed description of the wild and picturesque coasts, the lofty mountains, and the vast glaciers of our little-known Territory of Alaska, and also an account of Lieut. Schwatka's attempt to ascend Mount St. Elias, in which attempt the author participated.

"I CAN hardly tell," says Mr. Hubert Howe Bancroft in The San Francisco Examiner," how I came to devote my life to history rather than anything else. Looking back it seems to have been accidental. The motive was neither a longing for wealth nor a thirst after fame, while the development was easy, gradual, and natural. My history is nearly finished now, and about half of the force which has been continuously employed been retired, yet there are still before me several at my library for nearly twenty-five years has years of historical labor. A temporary interruption was occasioned by the burning of the book

store and the attention to business affairs that disaster invoked. So soon as the establishment in a great measure to our history, which embraces is entirely rehabilitated I will again devote myself seven volumes on California, six on Mexico, three on Central America, two on Oregon, two on the Northwest Coast, and one each upon the other Pacific Coast States."

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pears at the outset. It is very difficult to write on Emerson, particularly for readers very few of whom could possibly enjoy a page of the great New England seer. Mrs. Bolton's article is excellent and fairly throbs with human interest. She has seen and heard Mr. Emerson. The article on Longfellow deals with his simpler work, but contains also the extravagant statement that he wrote no line which he had not a right to be proud of. Mr. Longfellow has written volumes which cannot possibly add to his fair fame. Nor is it likely that his "Divine Tragedy" will be much read. But he is emphatically the good poet for plain people, for they will always understand him. The article on Dr. Holmes is delightful. Mrs. Bolton might have added a page or so on Dr. Holmes' literary workmanship. Very few people have any idea of the great care Dr. Holmes takes with the pettiest piece he publishes; and it is well to let the world know just how a true man of letters plans, weighs, considers, views, and polishes his work down to vowels and consonants, assonance and dissonance, the very sound and color of his syllables and words. For a poem that is to live fifty years must contain enough strength to last as long, and that strength has to be put in on much the same plan as Mr. Corliss makes engines. The chapter on Mr. Higginson alludes to his honorable record as a citizen and reformer. Mrs. Bolton might have enlarged the subject, and called attention to the fact that with hardly an exception all our chief poets and authors have been and are good citizens, good neighbors, and good men of affairs. In this respect do other nation presents as good a record. The lives of many men eminent in English, French, or German literature are not those of model citizens. Indeed, the world has almost concluded that an eminent writer is apt to neglect his accounts, his sidewalk, and his duties as a citizen. America shows what the leaders in literature may be, and we all owe them honor and gratitude for the good example they have set. The article on Mr. Gilder is good reading. Indeed, a good part of Mrs. Bolton's volume rests on personal knowledge. As usual, all that she says is sunny, warm-hearted, and at times perhaps a little too enthusiastic. But the book will please, it will help, and it might entertain many a reader who thinks himself or herself the peer or friend of the good and eminent men sketched by Mrs. Bolton. (Crowell. $1.50.)

Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Extract from the N. Y. Evening Post. The lovers of Emerson have a great happiness in store for them, in the reading of these two handsome volumes. Mr. Cabot has taken a modest view of his duty; he has not attempted an estimate of Emerson or of his just place among the men and the spiritual forces of his generation

He has rightly judged that the time has not yet come for that. Speakers and writers are not wanting who have thought it well to enter upon that topic, but they have seldom had much success in it. Mr. Cabot is not such person. His cool and lucid mind has justified the confidence which Emerson reposed in it, and we have here something very different from the rhapsodies of the Concord "School of Philosophy." Emerson knew just what he was doing when he named Mr. Cabot as his literary executor-a friend of many years, whose severe, accurate, and just habits of mind he greatly valued.

'My object in this book," says the writer, "has been to offer to the readers and friends of Emerson some further illustrations, some details of his outward and inward history, that may fill out and define more closely the image of him they already have, rather than to attempt a picture which should make him known to strangers, or set him forth in due relation to his surroundMy aim has

ings or to the world at large. been to use these opportunities to furnish materials for an estimate of him, without undertaking any estimate, or interposing any comments beyond what seemed necessary for the better understanding of the facts presented. Where I may seem to have transgressed this rule, I am in truth for the most part only summing up impressions gathered from his journals and correspondence, or from the recollections of his contemporaries."

What we find, then, in these volumes is an admirably stated narrative of the facts of Emerson's uneventful life, some account of his ancestry, large extracts from Emerson's journals, of which there is a full series from his college days [the junior year, 1819-20; vol. i., p. 55] onwards, almost to the end of his life," and a considerable number of his letters, Interwoven with these are accounts of Emerson's nearer friends and of his relation to some of the leading events and movements of his time. In touching what used to be known as Transcendentalism, and in considering Emerson's persistent desire and effort to deal with what he called the "Natural History of the Intellect," we have instances of that apparent transgression of his rule not to venture upon any estimate of Emerson, or to interpose any comments beyond what was necessary to an understanding of the facts, which Mr. Cabot lays down in the above-quoted passage from the preface. Such, then, in general, is the nature of these two small octavo volumes.

Interesting as this memoir proves itself in its details of Emerson's life and habits and daily surroundings, its chief attraction lies in the light which it throws upon Emerson's writings, his aims, and his way of thought. One remarks the quiet and level-headed way in which he settles down before his problems from time to time and looks at them on all sides; his largeness of mind; the persistence in his aims; his secure and absolute faith in the highest doctrine that he in