accompaniment, and both German and Italian heathen, and makes it pleasant to pass on to Mr, (3) O, Lovely Naples. By F. Campana. English version by Dr. W. J. Wetmore. pp. 8. 50 cents. [S. T. Gordon & Son.] This is rather a shallow melody, but it has a tripping movement which at once catches the ear, and sets the feet beating with the strongly marked accent. The words celebrate the gaieties of Naples, and a sunny gleam runs through the music. The key is that of two sharps, with a digression into A baritone voice would sing this with good effect. one. (4) Her Image. (Ihr Bildniss.) By Karl Collan. Ar rangement and words by Selma Borg and Marie A. Brown. pp. 4. 35 cents. [Louis Meyer.] playing croquet, or its more recent fashionable rival, lawn tennis." There is a fine old castle here, well overgrown with ivy. Newport would seem to be a pleasant city to stroll around in. Near it is the seat of Lord Tredegar: "A great plain house, old-fashioned, and rather commonplace of aspect in this land of picturesque structures, but magnificent in dimensions, solid, unornamented, but roomy enough for a regiment of infantry. One apartment is forty-two feet long by twenty-seven wide, and is floored and wainscoted from the wood of a single oak tree felled in the park. It is called the Oak Room. The house is crowded with pictures and marbles, many of them by the first masters, and including turies. The family is, indeed, one of the oldest family portraits reaching back through many cenin Britain, tracing its pedigree in an unbroken line to Welsh kings, who were a power on this island before the oldest Anglo-Saxon monarchies had a name in history." Two glimpses are given us in this number of the "good old Colony times." The British officer who obligingly kept a diary in Boston in 1775 furnishes further entertaining extracts from the same for the edification of particular historians of that period; and Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., recounts the setting up of the May-pole at Merrymount. This last is a sort of anniversary paper, the event which it chronicles having taken Passing on to the "Gateway of the Catskills," place-"old style" thrown out—just a quarter we can barely touch upon the striking, and strikof a thousand years ago the first day of May, ingly illustrated, poem of "Israfil" in which the 1877; when "the names of Hampden and Crom-old story of Eden is rehearsed with new touches. well and Milton were as unknown to history as One of the pictures is fitted to these lines: those of Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson.” The story of Capt. Wollaston's settlement on the south shore of Boston's bay is told in an interestMorton, who was the leading spirit in it. Further ing way; though not much to the credit of Thomas on Mr. Geo. E. Waring, Jr., writes instructively (5) Lullaby. Song for Mezzo Soprano. By Adam Geibel. and encouragingly of the "life and work of the pp. 4. 40 cents. [Louis Meyer.] This is one of a long series of "Lays of Sweden and Finland," and has a weird and plaintive tone which gives it a certain impressiveness. The key is D sharp, and the score is within the easy management of an alto voice of fair range. These songs of other lands afford a refreshing relief from the hackneyed themes to which sheet music is so largely confined; and should be made liberal use of to enrich the amateur's reper toire. Eastern farmer," meaning thereby the New EngThis song is dedicated to Mrs. Charles land farmer and his nearer neighbors as contrasted Eliot Furness, a name which ought to be with their fellows at the West, popularly supposed recognized in certain circles of Cambridge to be of a more fortunate lot in life. Cannot Dr. and Philadelphia. The words are taken from Loring, or some of our agricultural societies, obDr. Holland's "Mistress of the Manse," and tain the printing of this intelligent essay in tract the music to which they are set is very sweet form and its wide circulation—by way of sowing and simple, the whole making a really charm-good seed broadcast-among the class for whom ing little cradle song. One can easily fancy a mother crooning over her baby in the strains of its gentle and soothing melody. it is intended? Mr. Longfellow enriches the "She sleeps - she dreams; For now a smile hovers with tender grace Motionless on the warm flush of her cheek; Her lips part softly, as if she would speak, But had in dream-land lost the word she fain would seek; Too blest to share its sister flowers' repose; Falls wave on wave of lustrous golden hair. The articles on the Catskills and its accompanying engravings are full of a rare sylvan charm. It is hard to realize that such wild and simple scenes as these are so comparatively near the great metropolis. Bears, too, and bear traps, and women who go a-hunting! The paper on Florence is superbly illustrated, and may almost take the place and do the work of an actual visit to that enchanted city. Interesting use is made of the diaries of Mr. Samuel Breck, an old This is a well conceived composition, for Philadelphian, of Boston birth, lately deceased, who remembered all about both cities in the days soprano or tenor, embodying no great diffiFrom this point only a critical essay on Wag-closely following the Revolution; while for readculties, and reminding one a little of Abt's ner's Bayreuth Festival bars the way to the Con- ing of a more substantial sort there is a "Popular manner, though not instinct with the pecu-tributors' Club, which is full of bright things; Exposition of Some Scientific Experiments," and (6) Song of the Exile. (Der Verbannte.) By Adam Geibel. pp 4. 35 cents. [Louis Meyer.] liar vitality which breathes in his delightful THE MAY MAGAZINES, AND OTHER “Is Saul also among the prophets?" We cannot answer this conundrum, for the Literary World is not a theological journal; but we must, this month at least, notice the Atlantic Monthly as among the illustrated magazines. Its opening paper, by Mr. Edward H. Knight, begins a delin eation with both pen and pencil of certain "crude and curious inventions" exhibited at Philadelphia last summer; chiefly, now and here, of instruments of "music" from benighted regions of the earth-clappers from China, rattles from Mexico, harmonicons from Africa, and so on. The very thought of the distracting sounds to be evolved from these uncivilized looking appliances is enough to excite anew one's compassion for the "How like a ruin overgrown With flowers that hide the rents of time and to the review of Recent Literature, which is -As is not unusual with Harper's, the most a fair river of England which falls into Bristol "You pass down a pleasant walled and shaded a capital homily on equestrianism. — Lippincott's two illustrated papers this month are on the Valleys of Peru, and the Banks of the Rhine, the latter being the first of a series by Lady Blanche Murphy, which promises to be very good. The strength of the number is contributed ing, Chauncey Hickox, Walter Mitchell and J. by "a quartette of male voices," C. H. HardBrander Matthews, who write respectively of 'Parisian Club Life," of "Schliemann and his Dis coveries," of "Burials and Burial-Places," and of "Damned Plays." This last rather startling title covers a curious chapter of anecdote and reminiscence, which might have been wrought in Mr. Francis Jacox's literary museum, relating to the fortunes and misfortunes, and especially the misfortunes, of stage plays. Play writing is very profitable when it is successful, and success, if reaped at all, is generally instantaneous. "A run of one hundred nights at a New York theater is not unusual, nor is a fee of twenty-five dollars a night at all out of the way; and these represent a profit to the author of twenty-five hundred dollars for one play in one city for one season-barely a quarter of the sum the piece will ultimately net him." Very trivial matters often ensure a triumph or the opposite. Long "waits" between the acts, or one act too many, often set the seal of failure: "Many a time has a weak dénouement removed the good impression left by the first four acts." Here is a hint, we should say, for preachers, and, indeed, for newspaper writers as well. It is set down as a superstition of the stage that a piece which pleases the actors rarely pleases the public: "Some authors tremble when the cast are delighted with their characters, and are not at all disturbed in mind when they but ill conceal their poor opinion." There was a time—that of the old London pit, for instance-when poor plays were "damned in a very downright fashion: and when face-to-❘ face, hand-to-hand fights were fought between the actors and the audience over the question of merit. Is it in one of these antiquated schools that a would-be actress of the present hour has been taking lessons? The first performance of Congreve's "Way of the World" was greeted with signs of severe disapprobation: "In the midst of the hisses the author of the brilliant play came forward calmly, and coolly asked, 'Is it your intention to damn this play?' 'Yes, yes! Off! off!' 'Then I can tell you,' he answered, 'that this play of mine will be a living play when you are all dead and damned.' And he then walked slowly off." — Another phase of this same general subject is taken up by Mr. Henry James, Jr., in the Galaxy, his article in a previous number on the Theatre Français in Paris, being now followed by one on "The London Theaters." When you go to the theater in London, says Mr. James, you buy your eleven-shillings "stall at an agency in Piccadilly, receiving it "from the hands of a smooth, sleek, bottle-nosed clerk, who seems for all the world as if he had stepped straight out of a volume of Dickens or of Thackeray." The price is high, and play-going is correspondingly not popular. The institution is "a social luxury and not an artistic necessity." of being a bone of contention in London society periodical. The present number contains a varisecond only in magnitude to the rights of the ety of historical information, some of it rare and Turks and the wrongs of the Bulgarians. I am told that London is divided, on the subject of his curious. Liberal use is made of hitherto unpubmerits, into two fiercely hostile camps; that he lished documents, and there is a department of has sown dissension in families, and made old Notes and Queries. The form is a quarto of friends cease to speak.' His appearance in a about sixty pages, and the matériel, if we may new part is a great event; and if one has the courage of one's opinion, at dinner tables and adapt that word to our purpose, is exceptionally fine. To historical scholars, and all persons inelsewhere, a conversational godsend.” terested in the early periods of the national life, we should think this magazine would be very acceptable. The secret of Mr. Irving's success Mr. James has not succeeded in mastering: "His defects seem to me in excess of his qualities, and the lessons he has not learned more striking than the lessons he has learned." "English Women" come under Mr. Richard Grant White's microscope a little further on, and the beauties which he discovers in them, we are happy to say, are more than the blemishes, though he is by no means blind to the latter. He does not think they dress well, nor has he found their -The American Library Journal is what no librarian can do without, and we trust the day is not far distant when its fame will have introduced it to the attention, and its merits have secured for in the country, but of every owner of a private it the patronage, not only of every public library collection of books of considerable size. The whole science of handling books to the end of their best popular use is expounded in its pages The wonder is that the library world has done with the knowledge which comes by experience. without such an admirable organ so long. In ex complexions "exceptionally beautiful," but for intelligence and social qualities he gives them the highest mark. Nevertheless, being again at home among his own country-women, he is gal-ternals the magazine bears a general resemblance lant enough to say of the latter: less self-asserting, a little less determined, and a "If they would be a little more gentle, a little little more persuasive in their utterance as well as in their manner, I am sure that, with all their other advantages, they need fear no rivalry in womanly charm, even with the truly feminine, sensible, soft-mannered, sweet-voiced women of England." to the one last named, and is edited in Boston, but its publisher is F. Leypoldt, 37 Park Row, New York. Price $5.00 a year.
- We are indebted to August Brentano, of New York, for a copy of the April number of the new English review, The Nineteenth Century. We do not wonder at the instantaneous popular-The illustrations in Scribner's are, as usual, ity which has attended this experiment. The numerous and well-engraved, but there are one contents of this number are exceptionally fresh or two singular things about the drawing. On p. and strong. Cardinal Manning furnishes a secI is presented "A Jacobean Chair." What now ond chapter of his "True Story of the Vatican adjoins the casement of the French window in Council," and a very interesting and impressive the background? What possible truth can un-story he is making out of it. A Mr. E. D. J. derlie the construction of the table in its desig- Wilson, who must be an American, reviews the nated relations to the book-case on p. 4? Why late "Political Crisis in the United States," and so destroy symmetry in the hanging of the mirror does it intelligently and fairly. There is a tender on p. 6? The drawings which accompany the and appreciative paper on George Sand, by F. article on Smith College are much better in the W. H. Myers. Dr. Carpenter explains "the main, and are beautifully engraved; but it seems Radiometer and its Lessons." Sir John Lub to us there are glaring faults in the "Interior of bock makes an appeal for "The Preservation of Study Room" on p. 12. We venture to say no Sir James chimney piece in any of the buildings of Smith College appears as is here represented; and can anybody explain how the bureau stands? Is it in the corner, or across the corner? The article "Sea Trout Fishing" in Canada waters is an exceedingly inviting one, and, unless we are greatly mistaken, will turn many a summer tourist in that direction. The attention of our country readers we earnestly entreat in behalf of Mr. George E. Waring, Jr.'s exposition of the function and methods of " Village Improvement Societies." on "An English audience is as different as possible from a French, though the difference is altogether by no means to its disadvantage. . . . It is well dressed, tranquil, motionless; it suggests domestic virtue and comfortable homes; it looks as if it had come to the play in its own carriage, after a dinner of beef and pudding. The ladies are mild, fresh colored English mothers; they all wear caps; they are wrapped in knitted shawls. There are many rosy young girls, with dull eyes and quiet cheeks an element wholly absent -Appleton's Journal is now fairly entitled to from Parisian audiences. The men are hand-place and mention among the monthly magazines. some and honorable looking; they are in evening Its literary character is very high, and its pictodress; they come with the ladies - usually with several ladies and remain with them; they sit rial resources are being steadily enlarged. still in their places, and don't go herding out between the acts with their hats askew." Mr. James gives an interesting account of Mr. Henry Irving, who just now is occupying the place of honor on the London stage: "This gentleman enjoys an esteem and consideration, which, I believe, has been the lot of no English actor since Macready left the stage, and he may at the present moment claim the dignity
a Our Ancient National Monuments." Stephen discusses "Mr. Gladstone and Sir George Lewis on Authority in Matters of Opinion." Mr. Grant Duff concludes his instructive interior study of Russia. The Rt. Hon. Lyon Playfair writes "On Patents and the New Patent Bill." And Mr. Henry Irving, the lion of London above mentioned, supplies a "Shakspearian Note" on "The Third Murderer in Macbeth." The most novel and striking feature of the number is "A Modern 'Symposium.'" This is a discussion of "The Influence upon Morality of a Decline in Religious Belief," participated in successively by Sir James Stephen, Lord Selborne, Rev. Dr. Martineau, Mr. Frederick Harrison, the Dean of St. Paul's, the Duke of Argyle and Professor Clifford. Of the first number of The Nineteenth Century 9,000 copies were printed as a first edition, and five subsequent editions, of perhaps 1,000 each, were called for. One American dealer took 500 copies. For aught we know the fortune of this second number has been a repetition of this brilliant success. - We are glad to learn of the assured success of The Magazine of American History, whose May number is the fifth in its first volume. It is published by A. S. Barnes & Co., at $5.00 a year, and its editor is Mr. John Austin Stevens, the librarian of the New York Historical Society. -The history of the Philadelphia Exhibition The resources at his command easily give him a is certain to be well told in the series of papers great advantage in the management of such a by Prof. Francis A. Walker in the International Review, the first of which is given in the number for May and June. This is devoted to what is termed the "Mechanism and Administration," or the external history of the event. The article is statistical and critical, minute, and of course accurate. Politics furnish the themes for two accompanying articles, one on "The American Foreign Service," by Hon. John Jay, the other on "The New Federal Administration," unsigned, but perhaps by the author of the caustic review of President Grant's administration in a previous issue. Mr. Charlton T. Lewis comes to the rescue of "The Life Insurance Question," a Mr. James H. Rigg writes interestingly of the "Disestablishment of the Church of England," and there is a valuable critique of Tennyson, by Bayard Taylor. The review of "Recent American and European Books" is unworthy of the name, the division of "Recent American Books Occupying precisely one page and fourteen lines, and covering only two books, both of which are old. The last title in the Table of Contents as printed on the cover is "Contemporary Events." The "department" so dignified will be found to consist of a single paragraph of twelve lines on the approaching extra session of Congress. CORRESPONDENCE. WHAT seems to me to be the great desid eratum of such a periodical as the Literary World is to make the several articles, as it were, com plete in themselves, so as to be reasonably satisfactory to readers who are without any means or opportunity for seeing the books which are the subjects of them. . . . We can conceive of an article founded upon the contents of a book which would be very interesting and valuable, which would not seem to be a review of the book at all, and scarcely show at all from what source the information which it contained was drawn; and your paper, which I have no doubt you desire in I FULLY understand and approve your I ENCLOSE my subscription for this year. The Literary World answers a demand of long standing on my part for just such a review of the writers and writing of the day. I shall take great pleasure in receiving and reading it, and in bringing it under the notice of my friends. NOTES AND QUERIES. —“J. L. S.," of Jewett City, Ct., asks for the the first two folios, on the family tomb, and in 4. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words. volume, and from this point the list would vary "I AM not a believer in sex in literature; but there are, I hold, certain general qualities which seldom fail to distinguish the writing of men from that of women. Internal evidence in the case of the notice of "Friend Fritz," in the April World, forces me to the conclusion that it was written by a woman's pen. The late President Walker used to tell us that a good guess was equal to half-knowledge. In this case I am quite sure that my guess is equivalent to full knowledge. Am I not right? T." No. ... ONE of my Latin pupils who is an attentive reader of the Literary World, has called my attention to the following paragraph in the article in the April number on "Landor's Imaginary Conversations :" "Ut mihi adhuc refugam quærabant lumina noctem Nec matutinum sustinuere jubar.'" Here Landor's memory failed him slightly. Milton's Sonnets were not written in Latin but in English, and there is nothing in the seventh Sonnet corresponding with the fact here referred a periodical consisting of such articles might be been formed in England called the "New Shak. to, the weakness of his eyes. It is in the seventh very attractive and very valuable to the reader. But this would be very unfair to the author and publisher. spere Society." Elegy of the poet we findthe lines; the Elegies were all written in Latin, but have been elegantly - Referring to the answer in your April number translated into English verse. As it is difficult (p. 178), to query whether "truest" etc., are cor- to see the force of such quotations without the ... I TRUST you will not be afraid to form rect, in which answer you say that the expressions connection, I will mention that the seventh Elegy your own opinions of books and their authors in question are from "a thoughtless usage," describes an imaginary scene where Cupid first and state them fairly and squarely — without askquery: Does not good English usage permit overpowered Milton with his influence, and he ing yourself how this man-this set-this pub-comparatives and superlatives of some terms felt the first emotion of love. It was on a bright lisher or that—likes them. Satisfy yourself and whose meaning is logically incapable of the mod- May day in his nineteenth year. There were, as you will satisfy the public. The Literary World ification? For instance: "full," "straight," Landor says, even then indications of his blindshould be cosmopolitan and not provincial. To "honest." Note, however, that this query refers ness. His eyes were too weak to endure the this end pray give a wide berth to the Boston only to "true" and not to "perfect" in the place morning light, and reluctantly parted with the reM..t.. al Admiration Society, which deserves quoted. That word and "dead," "square," tiring night. The first word of the quotation to be the laughing stock of all outsiders. "round," etc., "eternal," "almighty," etc., are should be at not “ut." ... I HAVE thought that had Mr. Crocker both logically and by usage not comparable. It is a question partly of usage and partly of logic, is it not? F. B. P. been able to continue his work he would have, in LITERARY NEWS. R. L. P. -We have been much interested in looking over the advance sheets of the volume of revival sermons by ministers of Boston and vicinity which Lockwood, Brooks & Co. have in press for immediate publication. Those who like sermons will find among these not a few of more than common freshness and interest; while several are discourses of remarkable power. The titles and names of contributors are as follows: I. "The Christian Believer's Burden." Rev. 2. "The Old Faith and the New." Rev. Dr. 4. "The Soul's Separation from God." Rev. of Boston. 5. "The Decay of Will." Rev. S. E. Herrick, 6. "Coming to One's Self." Rev. Dr. Peabody, of Cambridge. 7. "The Cry for a Cleansed Heart." Rev. A. E. Dunning, of Boston Highlands. lowing touching preface: "The complément of barely passed the age of fifty, and his death was 8. "God's Controversy with His People." Rev. 9. 12. Newton, of Boston. led an industrious and useful life in politics and literature, and his published works, which are several in number, are of recognized value in historical and antiquarian circles.- Robert M. Dewitt, one of the oldest of New York publishers, is also dead. He was one of the incorporators of the New York News Company. 13. "The Door Opened and Christ Within."/has already published. If this be true, he is not tion. Opening it, the contents proved to be the Rev. H. M. Grout, of Concord (the editor of the volume). -On entering to our editorial desk the other morning we found upon it a mysterious package hand which of itself would anywhere arrest attenenveloped in brown paper, and directed in a bold only one of the greatest, but also one of the most fair proof sheets of a new book nearly complete; prolific, writers of the day. The manuscripts of without title-page, however, and with no hint of all his works already published he still pos- publisher's or author's name. A rigorous comsesses—“a fortune" in themselves as Arséne pliance with our rule toward anonymous commuHoussaye says. One Paris admirer of the vener-nications would have promptly consigned this to able poet paid 1,200 francs for a single copy of the waste-basket, but something in the very first the Legend of the Ages printed on vellum. Who sentence stayed our hand. It was this: 17. "The Permanence of Moral Character," a says there is no such mania as bibliomania ? "Monday Lecture," by Joseph Cook. 14. "Faith the Source of Faithfulness." Joseph 15. "Our Two Harvests." Rev. Dr. Rufus Ellis, Cook. of Boston. 16. "The Gospel Invitation." President Warren, of Boston University. 18. "The Prominence of the Atonement." Prof. Park, of the Theological Seminary at Andover. —J. R. Osgood & Co. will publish early in the season two volumes of Joseph Cook's "Monday Lectures," entitled respectively "Biology" and "Transcendentalism;" and later, possibly, a -R. Worthington, of New York, announces third, comprising a selection from the "preludes" "From Ocean to Ocean," the description of an to the lectures. These "preludes," in the minds | expedition across Canada in 1872, and a book of some of Mr. Cook's hearers, have been the which will take readers into a new region of the best part of the intellectual entertainment he has continent of North America. T. Whittaker will regularly spread at Tremont Temple Monday put immediately to press a second volume of mis-noons. Among other spring announcements of cellaneous papers by the late Rev. Dr. Muhlen- Eastern publishers are the following: Goodburg, edited by Sister Anne, the superintendent holme's "Domestic Cyclopedia of Practical Inof St. Luke's Hospital and of St. Johnland. formation," a work intended to cover the whole Henry Holt & Co. have nearly ready a curious and interesting work on "Ancient Society," by Lewis H. Morgan, of Rochester, N. Y.; "Idols and Ideals," with an essay on Christianity, by M. D. Conway; and new editions of Richter's "Hesperus" and "Titan." -Rev. Phillips Brooks's Lectures on Preaching, delivered to the students of the Theological Seminary in New Haven, last winter, on the Lyman Beecher Foundation, are now in press by E. P. Dutton & Co. of New York, and will be published early in the autumn. "Cephas's mother and my mother traded cradles in our infancy, so that we were both rolled on the same rockers." Reading on we came to this: china platter which cost eight dollars; and it has "My mother," said Cephas, "has an heirloom been in her family so long, that, if the money had been put at compound interest, it would now it is not very old either. And I am a firm beamount to more than sixty-five thousand dollars; liever in working miracles by compound interest." Other striking thoughts and ways of putting them, with bold picturings of nature and out-door life, held the interest thus awakened, and before range of household science, industry and art (H. we knew it we had read the sheets all through. Holt & Co.); a "Manual of Practical Directions With no name by which to call the work, and no for Economical Every-Day Cookery," by Miss author's name to mention in connection with it, Corson of the New York Cooking School (Dodd, we can only now further distinguish it by its Mead & Co.); a new volume of Rev. E. Foster's chapter titles, some of which are these: "The "Cyclopedia of Prose Illustrations' Phantom of Tragabigzanda," "The Fishing Vil(T. Y. lage," "The English Helen," "The Essex Crowell); a discussion of the rights and wrongs of the North and South, under the title of "Is Woods," and "Old Harbor;" and by saying that Our Republic a Failure?" by E. H. Watson, of it is a piece of religious fiction of great originality Boston (Authors' Publishing Company); "Rev- and freshness, and of some singular merits. We erend Green Willingwood," a sketch of life have good reason to believe that it is a volume among the clergy by Rev. Robert Fisher (do. of which we have been hearing off and on for do.); a new collection of Sunday School songs several years, as being in hand by a former Mas-The Nineteenth Century is not the only new entitled "Heavenward," containing the best work sachusetts minister of rare intellectual gifts; and, periodical venture in England. Two others have of P. P. Bliss and James R. Murray (S. Brainard's if we are right in this conjecture, and are not misappeared in London, one the Marlborough, a re- Sons); and "Adirondack Tales," a series of hu- taken in our estimate, its publication will be an view of politics and society, and London, a week-morous sketches by Rev. W. H. H. Murray event in thoughtful and cultivated circles. By ly journal of politics, art, literature, music and (Golden Rule Publishing Co.). Messrs. Put-next month we shall hope to be able to speak of the drama. Nor is Cardinal Manning, in the nam's Sons also have in preparation a volume of pages of the Nineteenth Century, the only histo- twelve sermons by leading ministers of different rian of the Vatican Council; Prof. Friedrich has denominations, on "The Nature and Work of been engaged for some time on a comprehensive Christ." Thompson, Brown & Co. announce a work upon that subject, the first part of which is new edition of "Cushing's Manual," revised by now in press, and will appear the present sum- Hon. E. L. Cushing of New Hampshire, a mer. It will contain many documents of the first brother of the author. importance, which have never been published. The Pope, too, is to have his life written, Mr. T. Adolphus Trollope being engaged upon it. The work will be as strictly personal in its character as the peculiarities of the subject will allow. The death of Mr. Walter Bagehot, which occurred early in April, removes one of the ablest writers on political science at a time when his services were sorely needed. Mr. Bagehot was the editor of the London Economist, and the -Victor Hugo sent his last work into the author of a number of works which have had a world on his seventy-sixth birthday with the fol-wide circulation in the United States. He had the volume more in detail. - Mrs. Burnett, the author of That Lass o' Lowrie's, was a Miss Hodgson, and was born in England, but came to this country at an early age. Her home is in Knoxville, Tenn., where her husband pursues his profession as a physician and oculist. She is said to be one of the youngest of the contributors to Scribner's Monthly. -Henri Van Laun, whose History of French Literature is reviewed elsewhere, was born in Belgium, of half-English parentage; and was educated partly in England and partly on the Continent. 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