We may add, that in the "London Bookseller," of February 28, there appeared a communication from Mr. Strahan, extending through nearly eight columns of that journal. Its length precludes its republication by us, but as a part of the history of the discussion of the subject, and in order that its author may not complain of having been refused a hearing, we append the concluding portion of the letter. "I would ask the American booksellers further to try me by the interpretation of the statute adopted by the New York publishers themselves. What their interpretation is, or rather what it was before any biassing motives came into play, is conclusively brought out in the above-quoted report of the Revenue Commission. With the view of showing how the book trade in America has been affected by recent legislative measures, the Commissioners quote. from a circular of a leading member of the book trade. And this is what they quote: In England, books, papers, &c., are specially exempted from taxation. Here there is a duty of 35 per cent. on sized book paper, and an internal revenue tax equal to about 11 per cent. on books, including the tax on paper, and on the difference between the cost and the wholesale price; while the duty on imported books is only 25 per cent. With all these odds against us, the English manufacturer should be able to pay his duties and land his books in New York or Boston at about one-half the price we can make them here-to wit, his paper costs him only one-third what paper costs here, his labor and materials less than one-half, while we pay an amount about equal to his duties in internal revenue; even more, for he invoices his goods at cost, or nearly so, sending them to his own house here, while our tax is upon every separate item that enters into the book.... An average book would, perhaps, take one pound of paper. 'This in America now costs Other material, say Labor 30 cents. 10 66 12 7" 59" Paper in England Total cost of English books delivered here. This illustration is more effective than any argument. Here is an eminent member of the book trade saying that, a Customs duty of 25 per cent. on net cost satisfies the law, and the Revenue Commission publish his statement without any qualification. "And I would ask the American booksellers again to try me by the practice of some of the leading members of their own body, say by that of Mr. Appleton, the Chairman, or head-centre, of the committee who adjudicated on my shipments. Mr. Appleton is represented in London just as I am represented in New York-or rather as I wish to be, for what with one kind of opposition and another, I cannot be said to have as yet got a resting-place for the sole of my foot. And Mr. Appleton is the publisher of Webster's Spelling-Book,' of which the Revenue Commissioners say, 'At the present time the one article which, above all others, would seem to be a peculiar product of American industry, viz., "Webster's Spelling-Book," is now being printed in large quantities in London for the use of American schools.' Now, one would think, judging from Mr. Appleton's conduct in my case, that he would invoice his little work at something like 500 per cent. above the price it cost him in London-⚫ that being the amount he put upon my book. But (I am almost ashamed to write it) he does not put on 500 per cent., nor 400, nor 300, nor 200, nor 100, nor 50, nor 10, no, not even 1! His invoices contain the bare actual cost, and yet he was the means indirectly, if not directly, of confiscating my goods, and thereby holding me up to the American trade as a smuggler and an unprincipled man. Dr. Macleod and I were in Safed two years ago, we were told by the Austrian consul there that the day before we entered the town a Spanish Jewess was taken in adultery and put to death, one of the rabbis who tried and condemned her being himself the partner in her crime. Since then I have not heard of such a glaring case of inconsistency as Mr. Appleton's. I hope he will be able to explain matters satisfactorily. Mr. Lippincott, too, it is well known, made large purchases in London, and invoiced them at actual cost. These men, so familiar with American laws and customs, interpreted the statute in a more liberal sense than I did; and if any action was to have been taken in the matter, it should surely have been directed against those who sinned against the greater light, and not against a stranger, who had only a public statute to guide him, at 3,000 miles distance. When "The American publishing trade has done me a great injustice in this business, and I appeal confidently to them to put me right. Just now I have neither the means nor the opportunity to fight a long legal contest in America, but their influence can doubtless undo what it has done. Let me remind them that when my goods were locked up in the New York custom-house, one New York firm announced two of my books (four volumes) as being in preparation by them, another firm announced * I may state that I wrote to the Collector of Customs, New York, when I first heard of the detention of my goods, informing him that I thought I did all that was required when I invoiced a little above cost price. But I am given to understand that this letter had a very different effect from what I expected. Unfortunately I cannot now refer to the letter, as it was written very hurriedly to catch the post, and there was neither time to read it over nor take a copy of it. APRIL 2, 1866. one, another firm two, a Boston firm two, while one Boston journal appropriated the leading story of one magazine, and another Boston journal set about reprinting the whole contents piecemeal of a second magazine. Good gentlemen, all, I have never complained of a book or magazine of mine being reprinted, and shall never do so-the law being as it is. But I am hurt at the filching away of my repu-, tation, and shall be very grateful to any of the American trade who may take the necessary steps to get back the money. Not for the money's sake, but to cancel that of which it is the sign! I don't want the money; at all events, I can do without it, and shall be quite willing to let it go to the Freed-reux,' has paid that debt, and when you have men's Commission. But I cannot rest until it is got back from those who have it now. And if Messrs. Harper and Messrs. Appleton would only take the initiative in sponging out the memory of this wrong, they would do a graceful thing to one who can appreciate a right act, even when it comes late." OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, February 16, 1866. THE tarantula of law seems to have bitten a great many people of late. I never before heard of so many lawsuits. M. Ponson du Terrail, the French G. P. R. James, introduced into one of his recent novels a character named Grapillard, and drew it as a most heartless miser. M. Grapillard brought suit to have his name effaced in any new edition of the novel which might appear, and to recover damages of the author. He alleged this act to be a vengeance of, the novelist, who was his tenant for some years. The court (you know we have no juries in civil causes; all our courts are chancery courts) decided M. Ponson du Terrail to be guilty of a sort of libel, sentenced him to efface this name from future editions of his work, and to pay a fine of $300. This decision "perfectly stupefied" the author, who was out of town when it was made. He has appealed to a higher court. The suit brought by the son of Gen. de Moynier against M. Thiers for an alleged inaccuracy in ascribing to Gen. de Segur a brilliant feat of arms, the capture of Reims, which really was performed by his father, has been tried. M. Thiers's version was demonstrated to be the truth. Messrs. Michel Levy have been considering seriously whether they should bring suit against M. Rochefort for asserting they paid only $160 to M. Gustave Flaubert for his novel "Mme. Bovary," which brought them $8,000, and $120 to M. Baudelaire for his translation of Poe's tales, which returned them $4,000 clear profit. They deny the truth of those figures, which I am afraid are only too near the truth, and threatened to bring suit. They did bring suit against Messrs. Adolphe Belot and Crisafulli for inserting in their play "Le Passé de M. Jouanne," a song by Murger, and gained their point. M. Dentu has brought suit against Messrs. Michel Carré and Hippolyte Lucas, for taking the "book" of an opera comique from M. de Lamartine's "Fior d'Aliza," although they had the author's consent. You see it rains sacré pour un sapeur!" was bought for this dish of lentils. The author of the words received ten dollars, and the composer of the music got twelve dollars; the publisher has already cleared about $3,600 from the song! When an author is known he fares better. A few days since M. Ponsard called on his publishers, Messrs. Michel Levy. Soon after the ordinary salutations were exchanged the elder brother of the firm took a great many promissory notes from a drawer, and, after showing them to M. Ponsard, threw them into the fire. "What are you doing?" exclaimed M. Ponsard. "Settling our account. You owe us $6,000. Your play, 'Le Lion Amonpocketed $6,000 more we shall begin to share profits with you." The editions of "Le Lion Amoureux" are sold as fast as they can be printed. A few evenings ago M. Sardou's last piece, "La Famille Benoiton," was played for the hundredth night. He has received from the theatre in Paris alone $15,454, and it will probably run for at least fifty nights more, which will put into his pocket some $10,000 or $12,000 more; then there are the provincial theatres and the copyright on the printed play, both of which are considerable. The play will be worth to him some $30,000. These are the terms of his agreement with the manager of the theatre: He received $2,000 premium the day he gave the manuscript play to the manager; he was allowed 12 per cent. of the receipts at the door; and he received nightly $21.60 for his "author's tickets." This may seem to be a great sum of money for a five act play, for few people conceive the labor bestowed on these quintessences of books. A singular insight was recently given into M. Sardou's habits of labor. M. Alberic Second, a well-known writer here, wrote, a few days after the first performance of "La Famille Benoiton," to M. Sardou begging an autograph for a lady's album. He had written an article of warm praise in one of our newspapers the day after M. Sardou's piece was played; it is to this allusion is made in the first line of the letter I now translate: "My dear friend: I reckoned and still reckon upon calling to thank you for your hearty push. In the meanwhile I send you a cargo of autographs. They are all the rough draughts of "La Famille Benoiton" which I was about throwing into the fire when your note came. I send you paper enough to light your fires all the rest of the winter, if you do not find among it a page fit to keep, and I will, in this event, give you some lines of my best handwriting. But if you think with me there is no better autograph than that which falls from the pen without pretending to shine by fine writing and by wit, you have herewith autographs enough to poison all the albums of your friends and acquaintances. I give you a hearty, a very hearty shake hands, hoping to meet you soon. VICTORIEN SARDOU." To this letter M. Alberic Second adds: "There is nothing more curious, interesting, and instructive than the sight of these different manuscripts. There are some thousand sheets of paper covered with a microscopic handwriting. How many erasures! How many scenes rewritten! How many acts written, rewritten, and written again from beginning to end! It represents at the very least four months of hard work of seven or eight hours of daily labor." While I am speaking of our authors' profits, I may mention M. Paul Feval receives from his books between $10,000 and $14,000 annually; when he is successful on the stage his revenue is doubled. His play "Le Fils du Diable" brought him $22,000, and "Le Bossu" (played in America as "The Duke's Motto") $24,000. In 1848, the political troubles reduced his revenue to $600. He is careful of his APRIL 2, 1866. ... money, and the revenue from his investments is in "Le Constitutionnel;" they will fill the feuilleton probably double the income he receives from his the coming six months; he is paid in advance, and novels. His ardent desire is to go live within sight has received $18,000. It is said he will be his own and sound of the ocean, but his wife is said to be publisher. The remains of the late M. P. J. averse from turning her back on Paris; besides, he Proudhon have been removed from Passy to Mt. has a large family (seven children, the eldest of Parnasse burying-ground; a handsome monument which is not yet eight years old), and his occupa- crowned with his bust will mark his sleeping-place. tions require his almost constant presence here. He The new reading room of the Imperial Library lives as far from the centre of Paris as he can get, will be opened on the 15th August. .. The in the Rue St. Maur Popincourt, hard by Père la French Government has given the cross of officer of Chaise. The house in which he lives was built by the Legion of Honor to Prof. Buschmann, of Berlin, M. de Breteuil for his amorous adventures. In those for his labors with the brothers von Humboldt, and ante-revolutionary days it was far outside of the his works on philology. The effect of the rewalls of Paris. M. Feval works four hours, from 8 cent judgment against the publishers of the Bible o'clock A. M. to 12 o'clock M., every day. He had annotated by the late P. G. Proudhon, has been to for many years secretaries, and he dictated to them frighten our printers and publishers into a panic. as he walked up and down his room; but he has M. Poupart Davyl (the printer of the Bible) has a long since discarded them; he writes every line of work on a philosophical subject set up and ready to his novels and plays with his own hand. He says be printed, but he refuses to print it; the publisher he found the practice of dictation tended to make declines having anything more to do with it, and his novels too long. He never takes a carriage; he the poor author is half crazed to see the cup of litecomposes as he goes about the streets. He is pas-rary and pecuniary success slip away just as it sionately fond of gymnastic exercises, and spends seemed to reach his lips. one or two hours daily in a gymnasium. We have a Latin O tabacum, munus célesté! O! urnula, testa es to the press. I have to record the death of M. Charles Weiss, a corresponding member of the French Institute, and librarian of the of city Besançon; he was 87 years old. His name frequently occurs in the biography of Proudhon. . .ˆ M. Julien Danielo is dead. He was Chateaubriand's private secretary and devoted friend-his Boswell. Chateaubriand M. Viennet, the nonogenarian academician, is redying said to him: You must come to see me on vising the proof-sheets of a history of the Papacy the Grand Bé, and be faithful to my memory. The down to Innocent III.'s days. He began this work Grand Bé is the name of the storm-beaten, ocean-in 1816, has worked at it repeatedly since, and conlashed rock at St. Malo, in which Chateaubriand is pleted it in 1860, when he would have published it, buried. Since this author's death, he has lived a had he not felt some scruples about attacking Rome hermit's life in this great city. He discovered, in when so many foes were assailing it. He threw it the Rue Notre Dame des Champs, not far from the aside until the Encyclical Letters against FreeObservatory, and near Chateaubriand's mansion, Masonry appeared, which roused his anger (he is a hovel at the back of a stonemason's yard. the Grand Master of the Scottish Rite of Free-MaThe stones were disjointed, the window panes broken, the tiles fallen-never mind, it suited sonry in France); he at once sent his manuscript Here is M. Victor Hugo's last him. He moved the little he owned into it, and letter. Like most of his writings, it aims to be grand, here he lived without a servant or a visitor. He and succeeds only in being swollen.. The Gonfacooked his meals himself, and never quitted his lonier of Florence recently sent him Dante's medal kennel except to go to market, or to some circulat-in Italy's name; he made this reply: "Mr. Goning library. He studied and wrote. His favorite authors were the Fathers. He was surrounded by pigeons, who perched everywhere, and had covered everything with their dirt. The Lower Bretons are noted in France for their filth, and he was no exception to the characteristics of his race. He never used a broom; spiders had spun their webs in every cranny and crevice of the hovel; add the pigeon guano, accumulated during twenty years, and you may conceive the squalor in which he lived. It was not poverty which drove him to this misanthropic life, but disappointments of various sorts. He died at the hospital in the common ward. He published last year "M. de Chateaubriand and his Detractors," but the book was so violent as to be unreadable. He has left a manuscript monography of pigeons, which is said to be interesting. M. Victor Foucher, the youngest justice of the Supreme Court of France, fell dead of apoplexy on the bench a few days ago. M. Victor Hugo married his sister, and it was in his house the poet lay concealed during the storm of the Coup d'Etat, and until he could escape abroad. The police knew he was there. M. Victor Foucher was the author or translator of some twenty or thirty volumes, and he contributed legal and literary articles to many of our reviews and newspapers. M. Dora d'Istria has been elected a member of the Imperial Society of Geography. . . . Dr. Veron gets $100 for each feuilleton of his memoirs published falonier, to receive from the Gonfalonier of Florence the Jubilee medal of Dante in Italy's name, is an immense honor, and I am profoundly touched by it. My name is in your eyes synonymous with France, and so you tell me in magnificent language. Aye, there is in me, as there is in every Frenchman, some part of the soul of France; and this soul of France yearns for light, for progress, for peace, for liberty; and this soul of France yearns for the grandeur of all nations; and this soul of France calls Italy's soul sister. Be good enough, Mr. Gonfalonier, to transmit to your noble fellow-citizens my profound gratitude, and receive the assurance of my profound con sideration. VICTOR HUGO." G. S. NOTES ON BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. SCRIBNER & Co., New York, will issue several valuable works during the present month. Among them are an elaborate life of the late Professor Silliman, by Professor Fisher, of Yale College; the second volume of Lange's Commentary, containing Mark and Luke; the fifth and sixth volumes of Froude's England; and a new volume of Stanley's Jewish Church. APPLETON & Co., New York, have in press "A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric," by Alex. Baine, Professor in the University of Aberdeen; edited by G. P. Quackenbos; from advanced. sheets. "The Reunion of Christendom," a Pas APRIL 2, 1866. toral Letter to the Clergy, etc., by Henry Edward | We might go on to a great extent quoting similar Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. "Conver- remarkable prices, of which the above are only a sion of the Northern Nations," by Charles Meri- sample. Few better investments can be named vale. "Dove in the Eagle's Nest," by Miss Yonge, than those made by curious book-buyers ten or author of "The Heir of Redclyffe.' Sherbrooke," even five years since, and the high prices now by H. B. G., author of "Madge." current are bringing numerous collections into the market without apparently lessening the demand. -The Nation, March 22. The MR. Z. BAKER, of the Public Library, Worcester, Mass., has been for several months engaged upon an American edition of "The Chinese Classics," the first volume, of which will be published in this city early in April. The text is from the translation by Rev. Dr. Legge, of the London Missionary Society, perfected and printed at Hong Kong during the late civil troubles in China, which put a check upon active missionary operations for a while. American edition will consist of several octavo volumes, and will contain the books now recognized as of the highest authority by the Chinese, and comprehended under the titles "The Fire King" and "The Four Shoo." The former are the canonical books of the Chinese, which Confucius professed to have abridged; the latter were composed partly by himself and partly by his disciples; together they constitute the nine Chinese classics. The first volume, for which the plates are now nearly completed, will contain the Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean. The succeeding volumes will be devoted to other portions of the classic books. This literary venture of our townsman is the first attempt ever made to make the sacred literature of the Chinese accessi ble to American readers. 66 WALKER, FULLER & Co., Boston, have now completed the publication of Miss Harriet Martineau's History of England," in four volumes, post 8vo., with full index. It is based upon a "History of the Thirty Years' Peace, 1815-1846," commenced by Charles Knight, and finished by Miss Martineau. The same house is publishing, by subscription, a "History of Massachusetts in the Rebellion." F. W. CHRISTERN, New York, has removed to 863 Broadway, between 17th and 18th Streets. Mr. Christern is American agent for numerous large French and Belgian houses, specially mentioned in his advertisement in our present number. THE LATE DR. WHEWELL.-This eminent scholar Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, to which office he was appointed in 1841 (the salary is $15,000 a year), has died, from the effects of a fall from his horse, at the advanced age of 72. He was the son of a humble tradesman in the North of England, and his University career was full of high performance. Previous to his becoming "Master of Trinity," he was Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. He was reputed to be, next to Lord Brougham, the best generally PRICES OF BOOKS.-The late sale of the library of well-informed man in England. Sydney Smith said J. B. Fisher, conducted by Messrs. Leavitt, Stre- of him, "Science is his forte; omniscience is his beigh & Co., which was concluded March 9th inst., foible." His writings were numerous and importis worthy of notice as showing the appreciation of ant, the following being amongst those which have choice books among our collectors. The library attracted the greatest attention: "A History of the was a peculiar one in the superior condition of the Inductive Sciences," in 3 vols.; "The Philosophy books and the care displayed in the selection of of the Inductive Sciences," 2 vols. ; the "Philosophy choice copies. Its principal features consisted of of the Inductive Sciences" has since been expanded works on American history and old English litera-into "The History of Scientific Ideas," 2 vols.; ture, the two branches most especially in demand. American history, however, unquestionably bore off the honors of the day, and prices were realized for articles of this description above any previously known. Among the most noticeable lots, from the sums they brought, were: Lot 657, a unique tract printed at Philadelphia by Reinier Jansen, in 1699, "God's protecting Providence, etc., by Jonathan Dickenson," the relation of an escape from shipwreck, and "The Cruelly Devouring Jawes of the Cannibals of Florida," no other copy known, sold for $85.00. Lot 716, "Easton's Narrative of Philip's Indian War," Mr. Munsell's reprint, Albany, 1858, $50.00. Lot 1,169, "Jacob's Life of Capt. Cresap," Cumberland, Md., $31.00. Lot 1,360, "Martin's History of Louisiana," 2 vols., New Orleans, 1827, $22.00. (We may mention that about 150 copies of this book were bought twenty years since at a cent and a half per volume, and were sold for waste paper by a bookseller who was present at this sale.) Lot 1,449," Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts," first London edition, 2 vols., 1760, in boards, uncut, $40.00. Lot 1,605, Gen. Moultrie's "Memoirs of the Southern Revolutionary War," 2 vols., New York, 1802-two dingy looking volumes that used to be common on bookstalls for $1.50 the set-brought $33.00. Lot 1,883, "Proceedings of the Court-Martial on Major André," Philadelphia, 1780, $31.00. Lot 1,945, "Mad. Reidesel's Memoir," New York, G. & C. Carvill, 1827 (usual price, a few years since, fifty cents), $21.50. Lot 2,029, "Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution, edited by Winthrop Sargent," Philadelphia, 1857, $77.00. Lot 2,262, "Heywood's History of Tennessee," 8vo., Nashville, 1823, $26.00. "Novum Organum Renovatum," 1 vol.; "The Philosophy of Discovery," 1 vol.; "The Elements of Morality, including Polity," 2 vols. ; the Bridgewater Treatise on Astronomy; "Notes on Architecture of German Churches;" "Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England;" "Lectures on Systematic Morality;" "Indications of the Creator," in answer to the "Vestiges of Creation." Besides these he was the author of many educational mathematical works, and some works on university education in connection with university reform; also of a translation of Goethe's "Herman and Dorothea," of Auerbach's "Professor's Wife," of Grotius on the "Rights of War and Peace," and of three volumes of a translation of Plato, under the title of "The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers." Well-authenticated rumor also attributes to him the authorship of "The Plurality of Worlds," an anonymous book which has created considerable sensation. In addition to his other accomplishments, he was well skilled in archæology, and was a contributor to the literature of Gothic architecture. His "History of the Inductive Sciences" was republished in New York, by D. Appleton & Co. AN INVENTOR.-As the names of inventors are sometimes forgotten and even lost, we may here mention that a French photographer named Disderi, claims to be "inventor of the carte-de-visite," patented November 27, 1854. M. Disderi, who has establishments in Paris, Toulon, and Madrid, has lately opened branches in London-one, in Brompton, being for Equestrian photography. He announces that photo-painting, carte-enamel, and photography on silk are his new processes. APRIL 2, 1866. or, The Test of Futurity.-Frederick Hurter.- A FULL-SIZED WORK.-We have observed among tine; a Troubadour's Song.-Letter to Dr. Pusey the English sale-announcements, "A Complete on his Eirenicon (J. H. Newman, D. D.).-Haven't Manuscript Botanical Work, in 158 folio volumes, Time.-The Song of the Shell.-All-Hallow Eve; with elaborately-prepared Calligraphic Catalogue, Journal, &c. The work is illustrated by 35,721 colored drawings, and is accompanied by a full index. It occupied thirty-three years in preparation, and is systematically arranged according to De Candolle's system. Professor Reichenbach, Sen., of the Winter Garden of Dresden, states that it 'conLast Days of W. S. Landor (Miss Kate Field).tains a botanical library in itself.' Dr. Reichen- My Annual (O. W. Holmes).-Were They Crickets? bach, head of the Botanical Garden at Hamburg, Madame Waldoborough's Carriage (J. T. Trowwrites of it as follows: 'It is done with great care bridge).—Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books.— and energy, and must prove most useful to a man Sainte-Beuve (J. Foster Kirk).-De Spiridione Episat the head of a botanical garden, or to any botan-copo (C. G. Leland).-A Struggle for Shelter (Miss ist. . . . The time spent upon the whole must have C. P. Hawes).-Dr. Johns (D. G. Mitchell).-Killed been immense. . . . The handwriting is excellent.' at the Ford (H. W. Longfellow).-The Late InsurFor the use of entomologists there is a large volume rection in Jamaica (G. Reynolds).—Chimney Corner arranged in the same way as the other part of the (Mrs. H. B. Stowe).-The President and Congress. collection. This is also accompanied by a Calli-Griffith Gaunt (Ć. Reade).-Reviews and Literary graphic Catalogue." One hundred and fifty-eight Notices. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. folio volumes make, unquestionably, a wholesale work. National Quarterly Review. March. Galileo and his Discoveries.-Australia, its ProHEINRICH HEINE.-This very able writer, who lived gress and Destiny.-International Courtesy; Mr. so long and wrote so brilliantly in Paris, had a Bancroft's Oration.-Sydney Smith and his Assobrother at Vienna, Maximilian von Heine, Counsel-ciates.-The President's Veto; Rights of the Conlor of State, who is about commencing in the illus-quered.-Lessing and his Works.-Pain and Anæstrated German paper, the "Gartenlaube," recollec-thetics.-British Rule in Ireland.-Notices and tions of the brightest, though not the richest man Criticisms. New York: E. I. Sears. of the family. Salomon Heine, brother of Heinrich and Maximilian, was by far the wealthiest man of his time in Hamburg. PERIODICALS. Harper's New Monthly Magazine. April. ing.-Olive West.-Editor's Easy Chair.-Monthly Record of Current Events.-Editor's Drawer. New York: Harper & Bros. Birds at Home. The Ruined House.-Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men: XI.-The Navy in the North Carolina Sounds.-The Prince of Kung.-ElderHours at Home. April. thorpe's Idea.-Concerning Restaurants.-The Last Major-General McPherson (Major-General W. T. Months of the Taeping War.-Armadale (W. ColSherman).—Jane Gurley's Story (Miss E. Stuart lins).-Concerning "Round Dances."-A Dangerous Phelps).-The Music of Italy (Prof. È. A. Lawrence). Woinan.-A Voice from New Jersey.-The Last -Schiller (J. Dickson Bruns).-An Omitted Leaf Years of Sam Houston.-The Ethics of Adulteration. in the History of Social Manners (J. K. Medbery).-Philip.-Death and Sisyphus.-Dream.-Read-Bertie's Four Years (Miss Phoebe F. McKeen). Two of Our Sculptors: Paul Akers; E. S. Bartholomew (H. T. Tuckerman).-Integrity of Literary Criticism (J. F. Spalding).-Luther at the Sick Bed of Melancthon (Author of " Household of Bouverie"). -Why Weepest Thou? (Augusta Moore).-The Jamaica Massacre (R. A. Johnson).-Something about Woman's Work.-Napoleon's Religious Views and Ecclesiastical Policy (from the French of Dr. De Pressensé).-A Treasured Memory (Mrs. G. H. McLeod). -Recollections of Dr. J. W. Francis (J. E. Cooke).Death, the Coming Horseman.-Three Pictures (Mrs. T. C. Brown).-Upward (Rev. H. Bonar).-Windsor Castle.-Books of the Month.-Index. New York: C. Scribner & Co. The Catholic World. April. United States Service Magazine. April. The Sixth Army Corps (Bvt. Maj.-Gen. M. T. McMahon).-The National Guard Bill.-Notes on Naval Courts (C. Cowley).-Up the Arkansas (Maj. G. M. McConnel).-Major-General H. W. Slocum. The Systems of Fortification Discussed and Compared.-Sketches of Great Captains: No. III.: The Chevalier Bayard (J. G. Wilson).-Ana of the War (C. G. Leland).-Then and Now (E. Y. L.)-In Memoriam: J. G. Totten.-Editorial Notes.-BrevetColonel T. S. Bowers.-Congress.-Correspondence. -Literary Notices.-Staffs: Headquarters of the Armies and Military Divisions.-Official Intelligence: The Army, The Navy, The National Guard. Stations of the Navy. New York: C. B. Rich- The Present State of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.-Saints of the Desert.-Jenifer's Prayer. Proposed Substitutes for the Steam Engine.-Chris-ardson. RELIGIOUS. BOOK NOTICES. The Hebrew Lawgiver. By John M. Lowrie, D. D., author of "Esther and her Times," etc. 2 vols. pp. 288, 353. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. The author of these volumes has made a very acceptable addition to our religious literature. He avoids the recent controversy concerning the Mosaic writings, though he gives us in his preface some general views on that subject. His aim seems to be to present the events in the career of the great Jewish Lawgiver and the traits in his character, in a way which will interest and instruct the general reader. There is no display of mere theological erudition in the work, but we find a clearness of statement, and an appositeness of citation, reference, and illustration, which show that the author is no stranger to the learning which appertains to his topic. The two volumes have been issued in a very neat form by the Board. |