should repay republication-“In Spain” or "In Sweden," to mention two of his pleasant books of travel talk. "The True Story of my Life" is a delightful piece of autobiography, though it only deals with his earlier years he lived until 1875. This has been twice translated-by Mary Howitt (1846) and by Dr. Spillan, A.M. of Trinity College, Dublin (1852)-and there must be many lovers of Andersen who would be glad of a reissue. Readers who would know something of his later years may be interested in "Hans Christian Andersen's Correspondence with the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Charles Dickens, &c.," selected and edited by F. Crawford (1891).

The sixth volume of the series of annotated reprints of "Early Western Travels" of which Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites is the general editor, and the Arthur H. Clark Company of Cleveland the publishers, contains Henry Marie Brackenridge's Journal of a Voyage up the river Missouri, in 1811, and Gabriel Franchère's Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814. These travels were practically synchronous, although the one traveller visited and described the heart of the continent, and the other was an historian of the Astor expedition to the mouth of the Columbia, of which Washington Irving gave so picturesque an account in his "Astoria." Irving wrote purely as an historian: Franchère had the advantage of witnessing and sharing in the adventures which he describes. He told his story simply and directly, yet with something of the Gallic joyousness and vivacity. The translation Is by Mr. J. V. Huntington.

The Academy is of the opinion that the publication of the "unique" unfinished novel by Lord Beaconsfield should burst the Disraeli bubble. It adds sharply:

It was the work of an old and ailing

man; but an old and ailing man who had ever possessed a genuine literary gift could never have produced such chapters as these. Disraeli (there is no concealing the fact) was a vulgar writer. His vulgarity is too clever to be gross, his social experience too great to leave it unvarnished; but it peeps out not only in his general attitude towards the aristocracy, but in the very form and diction of his sentences. Some faint interest may be roused by the question who Joseph Toplady Falconet was meant for. The name contains the same number of letters as William Ewart Gladstone, and Gladstone, shortly before Disraeli's death, had put "Rock of Ages" into Latin verse: on the other hand, Macaulay, too, came from Clapham Common and had belonged to the Clapham sect. We should prefer to believe that Macaulay was the man, for the publication of these unfinished chapters would be less welcome than ever if they proved Disraeli to have been making "copy" of that kind out of a still living political opponent.

The "Flowers of Song" which Mr. Frederic Rowland Marvin has gathered from many lands and translated into English verse are chosen with a catholic taste and rendered with delicacy and grace. They are taken from the classics, from the Persian, Sanscrit and Japanese, and from the Italian, German, French, Spanish and other European languages; and their themes are not less varied than their sources. But they have the human note, and the sentiments and reflections, gay and grave, which they express, voice a universal human experience which places them at no great remove from the thought and feeling of to-day. Altogether it is a unique collection, for which readers not a few should thank Mr. Marvin. The book is a product of the dainty typography of the Merry mount Press and it is published by the Pafraets Book Company of Troy, New York.

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