an introduction by John S. White, head-master of Berkeley School. (Putnams.) The text is Clough's Dryden. There are good maps and some interesting engravings. Perhaps the introduction to a full reading of Plutarch might have been more attractive if it had been briefer; the bulk is against it, but we have only welcome for an honest and serviceable book like this. - Speech and Manners for Home and School, by Miss E. S. Kirkland (Jansen, McClurg & Co.), is a little story embodying some of the elementary principles of grammar and conduct. It is a photographic reproduction, the author says, of certain parts of school-teaching. There is a good deal of quiet

humor, and much ingenious working in of errors of speech and manners. It is a good book to place in the hands of a hopelessly ungrammatical and ill-mannered child. - The bound volume of Harper's Young People for 1883 makes an annual which it would seem impossible, from its size, to read through in a year, yet its fifty-two parts have probably been no severe tax upon those who have taken this watermelon in weekly slices. Heroes of Literature is the title of a volume for young people, in which John Dennis has endeavored to excite an interest in English poetry by giving running comments upon the persons of poets from the earliest times to the present. (S. P. C. K., Young, New York.) - The small reader will find nothing among the Christmas books of the year more delightful than The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle. (Scribner's Sons.) The old Sherwood Forest legends never had a prettier setting than Mr. Pyle's pen and pencil have given them.

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History. In the important series of Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, published for the State by Weed, Parsons & Company, Albany, the latest volume is Documents relating to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements, principally on Long Island, with a map of its western part, made in 1666, translated, compiled, and edited from the original records in the office of the secretary of state and the state library, by B. Fernow, keeper of the historical records. The volume comprises Indian deeds, patents, letters, court records, and the like, a mine of curious material for the student. All the old quarrels are here fought over, and village scandal becomes subject for historical societies. A new edition of Still's Underground Railroad Records (William Still, Philadelphia) has a life of the author added. Here is a book which contains an inexhaustible fund of anecdote and suggestion for the future novelist who wishes to use, as he will be sure to, incidents of the struggle between freedom and slavery. There is no more human appeal in literature than these annals make. — Of & different sort is the historical work in two volumes, by James D. Bulloch, naval representative of the Confederate States in Europe during the civil war, entitled The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, or How the Confederate Cruisers were Equipped. (Putnams.) The author is probably the only person who could give so full a history of this service, and the reader will be

grateful that he is not long detained over the questions of the conflict, but carried directly into the history of the secret service, which necessarily includes a pretty full study of the relations held to the Confederacy by the government of Great Britain. Historical Sketches of New Mexico, from the Earliest Records to the American Occupation, by L. Bradford Prince (Leggett Bros., New York), should not be slighted because in external appearance it is a little unprepossessing. Judge Prince has collected in a convenient form a great deal of curious and interesting material, arranged in chronological order, relating to New Mexico, and has made his book a useful brief for the historical student. Oregon, the Struggle for Possession, by William Barrows, is the second volume in the series of American Commonwealths (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), and makes an excellent antithesis to Cooke's Virginia. Mr. Barrows goes carefully over the story of the contest for Oregon, and brings out in piquant fashion the various forces at work in settling the Oregon question. His narrative of Whitman's Ride will bring to many readers a new and striking piece of American romance, and his study of Webster's connection with the question throws light upon a confused subject. Newfoundland, its history, its present condition, and its prospects in the future, is the joint production of Joseph Hatton and the Rev. M. Harvey. (Doyle & Whittle, Boston.) The book has a curious little history. The original work was written mainly by Mr. Harvey, who had free access to materials in Newfoundland and the advantage of residence in the country. He was assisted by Mr. Hatton, an accomplished journalist, with access to material in London; the book was published in England, and now is republished here under the editorial revision of its principal author. The book thus has "growed." It is an interesting work, by a painstaking student, who sets about a thorough representation of the country, and if the reader will add Mr. Lowell's New Priest in Conception Bay he will supply the only apparent deficiency, for the authors have left one to infer the social characteristics of the people. The Nature of Positive Law, by John M. Lightwood (Macmillan), may perhaps be included in this section because of its direct relation to historic study. Mr. Lightwood has undertaken to supplement and correct Austin's work by a use of such labors as those of Sir Henry Maine and Von Ihering, and his general results may be summed up in his statement, " Law is a collection of rules regulating either human actions or human relations, which spring from and explain the current rules of morality, and which therefore depend for their support upon the general assent of the people," and not upon Force, which is only occasionally summoned in aid.- Mosaics of Grecian History, by Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson (Harpers), is an attempt to give within a moderate compass a History of Greece, of which the skeleton is the construction of the editors of the work, and the flesh is composed of patches from a great variety of authors. It makes a narrative history, but it fails to explain by its own contents why any one should read history. The

Course of Empire, outlines of the chief political changes in the history of the world (arranged by centuries), with variorum illustrations by Charles Gardner Wheeler. (Osgood.) This is a historical handbook. Beginning with the fifth century before Christ, a map of Europe is given in colored outline, and then follows text, containing a brief statement of the political complexion. The variorum illustrations are short passages from a variety of authors. The plan excludes America from the map, and gives no conception of the real historic course of such an empire as that of England. We cannot highly praise the scheme of the book. — Louis XIV. et Strasbourg, essai sur la politique de la France en Alsace, d'après des documents officiels et inédits, par A. Legrelle (Hachette, Paris), is a third edition, revised and enlarged. It traces the history from the Celtic beginnings down to the end of the First Empire, but the bulk of the work of course is concerned with the period of Louis XIV.

Biblical Criticism and Ecclesiastical History. The fourth volume of Dr. Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament (Scribners) includes the Catholic Epistles and Revelation, and thus completes the work. It is very minute, and to our minds wordy. Hints surely are worth more than full explanations in such works. The second volume of a new edition of Dr. Schaff's History of the Christian Church (Scribners) has appeared. It is devoted to antenicene Christianity, A. D. 100-325. In the revision the author has undertaken to press into service the many investigations of scholars which have appeared since the publication of the first edition. In the series of the Fathers for English Readers, published by the S. P. C. K. (Young, New York), the latest volume consists of biographies of St. Hilary of Poitiers and St. Martin of Tours, by J. G. Cazenove. - Perhaps we may place here Arius the Libyan, an idyl of the primitive church (Appleton) in the time of Constantine and Athanasius. It is an attempt to reconstruct in fictitious form the life of that time.

Literature and Literary History and Criticism. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists (Putnams) is a tidy series of three volumes, containing essays by masters of English style. The editor confines his selection to English and American literature of this century. Irving, Hunt, Lamb, and De Quincey are the earliest, and Leslie Stephen is the latest. It is a delightful collection in attractive form. Classic Heroic Ballads, selected by the editor of Quiet Hours (Roberts Bros.), does not in the main go back of Walter Scott. The selection is certainly good for what it contains, and the editor has kept in mind the two qualities of such ballads, a story and a song. - The English Grammar of William Cobbett, carefully revised and annotated by Alfred Ayres (Appleton), comes upon the heels of a recent edition of the same book, which gave more notice of Cobbett himself. Cobbett's grammar has the merit of being exceedingly practical and direct. The editor has annotated the work very closely. - Mr. F. H. Underwood has followed his biographies of Longfellow and Lowell with one of Whittier (Osgood), which will serve as an accompaniment to his po

ems.- Mr. George Willis Cooke, who prepared a study of Emerson, has now produced George Eliot, a critical study of her life, writings, and philosophy. (Osgood.) Where a writer like George Eliot has written abundantly on a great range of ethical, social, and religious subjects, the task of a critic is largely that of one who should make a concordance of ideas, and this Mr. Cooke appears to have done. He has the patience and charity of a critic, but hardly the penetration which seizes upon a central thought and turns it into an epigram. Slavonic Literature, by W. R. Morfill, is a compilation from original authorities for the use of general readers of the facts relating to the dawn of European literature among the Slavs. (S. P. C. K., Young, New York.)- Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson has edited a translation of the letters of Heloise to Abelard, given in Berington's Lives of Abelard and Heloise, and furnished a graceful introduction. The book is a dainty little volume, as befits the subject. (Osgood.) In Topics of the Time (Putnams), the sixth number bears the title Art and Literature, and contains half a dozen papers from the leading English reviews. - Golden Thoughts from The Spiritual Guide of Miguel Molinos the Quietest, with preface by J. Henry Shorthouse (Scribners), may fairly be brought into literature, -as fairly as the Imitation of Christ. It is more mystical than that work, but, like it, appeals to a fine consciousness. The Valley of Unrest, edited by Douglas Sherley (J. P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky.), is a specimen of bookmaking so unusual that it is difficult to decide on its literary merit, which seems not striking, compared with the brick-red paper upon which the text is printed in black ink. The anonymous writer (obviously the editor), who poses as a schoolmate of Edgar A. Poe, relates a picturesque episode in the boy-life of the poet. Whether or not the story is invented, it has an oddity about it that would charm even without typographical eccentricities. The Macmillans have issued a neat edition of Matthew Arnold's prose works in seven volumes. We shall find occasion later to speak at length of Mr. Arnold's writings, and especially of his poems, which ought to have been included in the present collection. The Sonnets of Milton, edited by Mark Pattison (D. Appleton & Co.), is among the latest of the Parchment series, — a charming set of little books. The writers of poems of fourteen lines would do well to give night and day to the study of the first ten or twelve pages of Mr. Pattison's Introduction to the Sonnets. This introductory essay is admirable, as are also the editor's notes and comments on the Sonnets.

Fiction. Hand and Ring, by Anna Katharine Green (Putnam), is a story which relies on the author's ingenuity in tying a hard knot, and then untying it. Who's to blame? by Henry Fauntleroy (Southern Methodist Publishing House, Nashville), is an attack, in the form of a story of Western life, upon the alleged rottenness of the judiciary. Nights with Uncle Remus, myths and legends of the old plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris (Osgood), is a successor to the jovial Uncle Remus, and enriched by the author's new confidence in his powers. One may be a general reader

and be delighted, or a comparative anthropologist, or whatever it is, and be edified. It is curious to see how sop reappears, and the Greek slave finds an avatar in the African slave. -Judith, a chronicle of old Virginia, by Marian Harlan (Our Continent Publishing Co., Philadelphia), is a tale of the Nat Turner insurrection, and still more a picture of Virginian life, which it represents with firm touches. Belinda is Rhoda Broughton's latest novel (Appleton), in which intrigue is carried to the last step but one. It is a feverish, unwholesome book, with a smirking bow to propriety. Vagabondia, by Mrs. Burnett (Osgood), is her Dorothea-Dolly novel corrected, and, since it must live, given a respectable home and dress. -A Castle in Spain, by James De Mille (Harpers), enjoys some very clever illustrations by E. A. Abbey. The latest numbers in Harper's Franklin Square Library are A Struggle for Fame, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell, and Hearts, by David Christie Murray. Round about Rio, by Frank D. Y. Carpenter (Jansen, McClurg & Co.), is a lively touristnovel, in which a party of Americans visit Rio, and a wedding takes place on the last fly-leaf.

Art. Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture, by Charles C. Perkins (Scribners), is an octavo volume, abundantly illustrated, in which the sculpture before Niccola Pisano is treated as a separate essay, after which, in greater detail, follow three books, The Revival and Gothic Period, The Early Renaissance, and The Later Renaissance. It is a pity that a handbook so convenient and so full should not have enjoyed better printing. - The new volume of L'Art (J. W. Bouton & Co.) does more than sustain its claim to the first place among art publications. The critical and descriptive letterpress is unusually valuable. M. Octave Lacroix continues his charming account of Un Voyage Artistique au Pays Basque. The various papers on the Salon of 1883 will reward the reader. In the critical department is an appreciative estimate of Mr. C. B. Curtis's unique catalogue of the works of Velasquez and Murillo. The excellence of the literature of the present issue is handsomely supplemented by artist and engraver. Several of the full-page reproductions of old masters are exceedingly fine, and there are two etchings, — La Nouvelle Cathédrale, and Le Quai de RiveNeuv at Marseilles, - which the possessor will at once desire to frame. - The Catalogue of the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute (Cupples, Upham & Co., is an ideal catalogue. The volume contains an alphabetical list of 731 paintings, drawings, engravings, etc., and is illustrated by 57 full-page pictures reproduced from the original works by etching, photo-engraving, and the albertype process. In almost every instance the work thus reproduced is worthy of the careful pains bestowed upon it by the editor, who has placed us under further obligations to him by supplementing the collection with a series of well-written papers on various art-topics. Among the contributors to this section of the catalogue are Arlo Bates, E. H. Clement, J. J. Jarves, Charles De Kay, E. A. Silsbee, and Mrs. M. G. Van Renssalaer. The typography and printing of the book do credit to the press of Mr. Arthur Turnure. In mechanical execution the

Paris Salon has issued no catalogue comparable with this.

Biography. Life of Wagner, by Louis Nohl, translated from the German by George P. Upton (Jansen, McClurg & Co.), furnishes one with a somewhat inflated account of the musician's career. It is written by an enthusiastic admirer.Francis Bacon, a Critical Review of his Life and Character, with selections from his writings, by B. G. Lovejoy. (Estes & Lauriat.) Mr. Lovejoy adds on his title-page that it is adapted for colleges and high schools. Perhaps the justification of this is in the author's statement: "The aim of this sketch has been to point out with particularity the frailty of the man, in order to avoid confusing his intellectual excellence with his moral weakness." Will it be believed that this editor, enumerating the editions of Bacon, stops short at Basil Montagu's, which he describes as a nearly perfect collection! - In the New Plutarch series a recent number is Marie Antoinette, by Sarah Tytler (Putnams), which aims to be more personal than historical in its treatment. The queen has her votaries, though they are not as passionate as those of Mary Queen of Scots.

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Poetry. Legends, Lyrics, and Sonnets, by Frances L. Mace (Cupples, Upham & Co.), is marked by much true poetic feeling, expending itself largely upon subjects which do not immediately win the reader. - Stray Chords, by Julia R. Anagnos (Cupples, Upham & Co.), is largely lyrical in its character, with an occasional almost oldfashioned air, as old-fashioned, that is, as Moore. Poems in Prose, by Ivan Tourguéneff (Cupples, Upham & Co.), may fairly be placed here, since the motif is always a poetical one, and the form is often rhapsodical. Little prose bursts, a page or two long, give one no ill-conception of Tourguéneff's sighs and breathings. In Nazareth Town, a Christmas Fantasy, and other poems, by John W. Chadwick (Roberts Bros.), the prevailing sentiment is that of personal friendship and sympathy. Mr. Edwin Arnold has published Indian Idylls from the Sanskrit of the Mahâbhârata (Roberts Bros.), a translation for the first time into English of some of the stories, and inferentially an introduction to the great fountain of Hindu poetry.

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Text Books and Education. American Colleges, their Students and Work, by Charles F. Thwing (Putnams), is a revised and enlarged edition of a useful little book by a recent graduate, who has taken pains to collect trustworthy information from a number of representative colleges of their internal economy and the social life. Modern French Readings, edited by William J. Knapp (Ginn, Heath & Co.), has for its leading object to furnish the student with progressive materials for becoming acquainted with the current language of France, under the influences that are giving it a new phase of development." Thus the earliest author cited is Berquin, and the latest is Victor Hugo. There is a good collection of notes. Miss Josephine E. Hodgdon, who has before compiled leaflets from standard authors, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, and others, has taken up Motley on the same plan, intending the work for the convenience of classes. (Harpers.)

III.

DR. WENDELL had very early acquired a few patients in the widely scattered village. Most of them were poor, and were either mechanics, or else workmen attached to the many woolen mills in his neighborhood. But as time went on he had also attracted, by degrees, a few of a somewhat better class. His manners were gentle and amiable, and manners have a good deal to do with business success in medicine, indeed sometimes insure a fair amount of it even where their possessor has but a moderate share of brains, since patients are rarely competent critics as to all that ought to go to make up a doctor, and in fact cannot be.

Meanwhile, his life was not a hard one. He spent his early morning at the hospital, after seeing any urgent cases near his home; and, returning to Germantown for his midday meal, went back to the hospital to make the afternoon visit.

The next day, after the events we have described, as he came, on his usual evening round, to the beds of Major Morton and Captain Gray, the Confederate officer, he was interested to see that his sister had accomplished her errand, and was standing beside Morton, in company with a lady, and a lad who might have been sixteen years of age.

Glancing at the group, Wendell went first to the wounded rebel, whose face brightened visibly at the coming of the

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I have been waiting to see you," he said. "I don't think I am as well as I was. I feel the being shut up here. It's such an awful change from the saddle and the open air! Please to sit down, doctor, and don't be in a hurry. I must talk to you a little. You doctors are always in such a hurry!"

"It's rather hard to help it," replied Wendell, good-humoredly; "but is there anything especial I can do for you?"

"Yes. I want to know distinctly if I can pull through. It's a thing you doctors hate to be asked, but still it is a question I would like to have answered."

"I do not see why you cannot. You have a serious wound, but you were not hurt in any vital organ. I should say you ought to get well."

"Well, it's a pretty grim business with me, doctor. I am alone in the world with one motherless girl, and I want to get well! I must get well!"

"And so you will."

"No; to tell you the truth, that's my trouble. I don't think I shall."

"Oh," exclaimed Wendell, "you may say you don't feel as if you should; but when you say you don't think you will, I am afraid I feel inclined to laugh, which is perhaps the very best thing I

"I can't explain it," said Gray dolefully, "but the idea sticks in my head that I shall die."

presently."

"No; I have nothing new except a queer sensation of confusion in my head, and then I can't change my ideas at will. They stick like burrs, and —I can't get rid of them."

lightly.

"No; I've taken no end of that, in my time. I know how that feels. Would you mind asking Dr. Lagrange to see me?"

"Oh, of course not; but it is a rule not to call on the surgeon in charge unless there is some grave necessity."

"Well, I don't want to violate any rules. You are all very kind, and for a prisoner I ought to be satisfied; but I am sure that I am going to die."

"I do most honestly think you are needlessly alarmed," Wendell replied; "but if you wish it, I will ask the doctor to look at you."

The assistant surgeon had a faint but distinct impression that this wish implied a distrust of his own judgment, and to one of his temperament this was displeasing; yet knowing the request to be not unreasonable, he at once sent an orderly for the surgeon in charge, and saying, "I will see you with Dr. Lagrange in a few minutes," turned to the

was strange to him. Her husband might have been full forty, and she herself some three or four years his junior; but she was yet in the vigor of womanhood, and moved with the easy grace of one accustomed to the world. Whatever were her relations to her husband, and they had met, as Wendell learned afterwards from his sister, without any marked effusion in their greeting, — for all other men, at least, she had a certain attractiveness, difficult to analyze.

The type was, as I have said, a novel one to Wendell; nor was he wrong in the feeling, which came to him with better knowledge of her and more accurate observation, that the satisfaction which she gave him lay in a group of qualities which beauty may emphasize, but which, like good wine, acquires more delicate. and subtle flavors as years go by.

"Mr. Morton seems better than I expected to find him," she said, "and I know you must have taken admirable care of him. With your help, I am sure we could get him to a hotel; and then in a few days I might open our country house on the Wissahickon, and we could easily carry him there, easily, quite easily," she added, with a gentle but emphatic gesture of shutting her fan.

Wendell had less doubt after she had spoken than before. In fact, his intellectual judgment of the case was unaltered; but although his medical opinions upon a disease, or a crisis of it, were apt, like the action of the compass