reference to its birthplace. But did it never occur to our correspondent that there is something in many recent Southern books that invites-nay, compels-hostile criticism? In seven out of ten Southern novels published since the war, there has been open or covert defamation of the Northern character. It is not in human nature to praise them who despitefully use you. No matter how great the literary merit of a book, if it attacks the institutions and the people with which he is most closely associated, the critic cannot so divest himself of his humanity as to view it from a purely intellectual standpoint. The North has erred in this direction as well as the South, and is quite as inexcusable. Suppose our correspondent to be the literary critic of a Southern periodical-would she praise with equal warmth a book breathing scorn and hatred of the South, and one which lacked those characteristics, or exhibited directly opposite ones -the books being of equal literary merit? As we said in our last number, those books whose main purpose seems to be to revive the fading fires of sectional animosity, do a great deal of harm, and deserve reprobation on moral, if not on aesthetic, grounds; and we hope they will receive it, wherever they originate. But we honestly believe that Southern books, which are free from this element of exasperation, will have a fair hearing before all the literary tribunals of the North whose judgments have any considerable weight. So far as this paper is concerned, our readers may rest assured that our judgment of a book will be influenced no more by its sectional origin than by the style of its binding.

- Mr. Ralph Keeler, the author of "Vagabond Adventures," etc., is about to visit Europe. He bears letters of introduction to many eminent literary men in England, and will doubtless travel under more agreeable circumstances than those under which he made his first tour of Europe. Mr. John Swinton, a well-known litterateur, accompanies him.

republished by Little, Brown & Co., in uniform style with the author's other works, 'Discovery of the Great West," "Jesuits in North America," etc.

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-George P. Burnham has told what he knows about hens and other domestic fowl, in the "New Poultry-Book," soon to be published by Lee & Shepard.

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- From George Macdonald's "Unspoken Sermons" we copy these passages as to the recognition of friends in the other life: What! shall a man love his neighbor as himself, and must he be content not to know him in heaven? Better be content to lose our consciousness, and know ourselves no longer. What! shall God be the God of the families of the earth, and shall the love that He has thus created towards father and mother, brother and sister, wife and child, go moaning and longing to all eternity; or worse, far worse, die out of our bosoms? Shall God be God, and shall this be the end? Ah, my friends, what will resurrection or life be to me, how shall I continue to love God as I have learned to love Him through you, if I find He cares so little for this human heart of mine, as to take from me the gracious visitings of your faces and forms? True, I might have a gaze at Jesus, now and then; but He would not be so good as I had thought Him. And how should I see Him if I could not see you? God will not take you, has not taken you from me to bury you out of my sight in the abyss of His own unfathomable being, where I cannot follow and find you, myself lost in the same awful gulf. No, our God is an unveiling, a revealing God. He will raise you from the dead that I may -We stated some time ago that Mrs. Car-behold you; that that which vanished from oline Gilman had made a collection of her the earth may again stand forth, looking out own fugitive compositions for publication in of the same eyes of eternal love and truth, book-form. The volume, which will be hand-holding out the same mighty hand of broth-author of " somely illustrated, will be issued this Spring erhood, the same delicate and gentler yet by Lee & Shepard. To Mrs. Gilman's comstrong hand of sisterhood, to me, this me positions in prose and verse will be added that knew you and loved you in the days gone some pieces by her daughter, Mrs. Jervey, by." of Charleston, S. C.

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-A common and legitimate mode of securing double pay for literary composition is to print the matter first in a magazine and then in a book. But there is another mode, less common and less legitimate-to send the same manuscript to two magazines. A year or two ago the readers of two leading monthly magazines found the same article in both; and very recently the editor of a juvenile monthly who had accepted a contribution, and incurred considerable expense in illustrating it, had the pleasure of reading it in another periodical issued a little earlier than his own. It is not likely that in either of these cases the writer was guilty of intentional wrong. Probably he or she had forwarded the article to one magazine, and remaining ignorant of its fate for a long time, concluded that it had been rejected, and therefore sent a duplicate to another periodical. Such misunderstandings constitute an argument in favor of the plan now generally adopted by the leading magazines, of giving a speedy answer to contributors, and making payment for articles as soon as they are accepted.

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