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GERMAN NATIONAL WE have before us a number of volumes forming part of a collection of reprints of German standard works from the earliest times to the present day, now in course of publication by Mr. W. Spemann, of Stuttgart and Berlin, under the title of "Deutsche National Literatur." The scheme of this work is formed on a gigantic scale, and it is intended to omit no author of importance from the Collection, which will comprise at least 200 volumes. The publisher has found it practically impossible to begin with Volume I., which will probably contain the very earliest literary produce in the German language, if not even the Gothic bible-version of Ulfilas, and then to bring out the following volumes in the same succession as they follow upon each other in time, but promises to complete the publication of the works of one author or one period when once commenced as rapidly as possible. The spelling of the works of modern authors is according to the rules of modern German orthography, and where it varies in the original editions, a note is added, giving the original spelling. This rule could of course not be carried out in works of the anti-classic period, and all works before the 18th century are scrupulously reprinted as they were first issued. Under the text of every page notes are to be found, partly critical and partly explanatory, written by the first authorities and greatly adding to the value and interest of this most remarkable series. On completion a full register is to be issued of the whole, which will undoubtedly show many hitherto unknown coincidences and analogies, and will give us for the first time a full and clear insight into the whole wide range of a literature abounding in works of incomparable beauty, in many cases hitherto only too little known. The "get-up" is extremely good, the volumes being printed on a stout, slightly tinted paper, in a large legible type, the lines being numbered down the pages in order to facilitate December, 1884. LITERATURE. quotation, and the pages are adorned by numerous authentic illustrations, such as portraits, original plates and title-pages, autograph-facsimiles, etc. The volumes are tastefully bound in strong half-morocco, the exceedingly low price of each being 4s. The first of the published volumes in the order of the series is No. 26, containing: "Lucifer's Königreich und Seelengejaidt" by Aegidius Albertinus. Edited by Rochus Freiherrn von Liliencron.-The editor gives us in a short and precisely written introduction a very clear sketch of the time, the contemporaries and the conditions under which the author wrote this his opus magnum. Little is known of his life, beyond the fact that he was born in 1560, at Deventer. and died at Munich in 1620, but he has left a lasting record of his existence in a very large number of works, chiefly translations, of which the present volume includes a complete bibliography. Besides a portrait, after an engraving of Lucas Kilian, executed ten years after his death, there is also a facsimile reproduction of the very curious title-page of the original edition, the extreme rarity of which and the fact that it has never before been reprinted put us under great obligation to the editor for presenting us with this cheap and handy re-issue. Vols. 29 and 30 are the fourth and fifth of the volumes assigned to the "First Silesian School of Poets." Opitz, the founder of the school, will be included in the first three vols., which have not yet appeared. The first of the present volumes contains the works of "Gryphius," that clever author of the "Horribilicribrifax," and the second contains the works of Simon Dach and his friends, and of J. Röling. Vol. 32 contains Moscherosch's "Geschichte Philanders von Sittewald," edited by F. Bobertag, with all the original woodcuts, and vols. 33 to 35 Grimmelshausen's works, whose celebrated "Simplicius Simplicissimus" well deserves to be better known and more read in this country than it is at present. The first edition was published in 1669, the author veiling himself under the nom de plume of "German Schleifheim von Sulsfort." It is, according to Solling,* "the best German novel of the 17th century, both as regards conception and execution, and enjoyed great popularity, because the subject treats on the stirring events of the Thirty Years' War, and the episodes of the author's own adventurous life. He seems to have bestowed upon this work his best intellectual powers; the language is highly graphic and humorous, and it must be considered as the forerunner of the numerous succeeding versions of Robinson Crusoe,' among which the first were Adventures of the Spaniard Serrana' related in Happel's Mandorell' (1682) and Defoe's work of the year 1719." The "Second Silesian School" is up to the present represented only by one (the second) volume, which contains, besides a few specimens of novels of the 17th and 18th centuries, a reprint of Heinrich Anselm von Zigler's" Asiatische Banise," originally published in 1707. Prof. Bobertag tells us in his interesting preface that this is the only novel of that period which on account of its length could possibly be included in this collection. It extends over only 500 pages in 8vo. while most novels of that time fill numerous volumes of that size. ance as showing the development of the German drama and poetry. They are far from beautiful, but they are a basis on which others could build. The long and weary controversy between Gottsched and Bodmer was productive of some good at least, inasmuch as it interested people who had previously cared but little about literature, and it may well be considered the threshold of a new era, as the dawn of a new-the golden-age of German literature. When Gottsched died, Klopstock was a young man of twenty years, and, four years later, the three first cantos of the "Messias appeared. We are anxious to see what the editor intends including in the three volumes which are to follow on Gottsched, immediately before Klopstock. We certainly hope that he will give a good share of the space available to Gellert's Poems, and that Gleim, as well as Hagedora, may be well represented. The two volumes which contain Klopstock's Messias are edited with the most exquisite care by Dr. Hamel, whose introduction and life are nothing short of masterpieces. Only the second volume of Wieland's works (Vol. 52) is issued, containing "Oberon" and a few other poems. The four, or rather three bound in four, volumes (58-60) of Lessing's works published contain his poems and dramas. These have already been noticed by us in Nos. 11 and 12 of our last volume (p. 139). The next volume (Vol. 72) bears the perhaps misleading title, "Lessing's Jugendfreunde," for we cannot see why men like Weisse, Cronegk, Brawe, and Nicolai, should be thrown together into one volume, and be known as Lessing's school-friends. The editor -Dr. Jacob Minor-admits in his preface that the only coincidence which brought these men into mutual relation was a prize competition for the best drama, in which they all took part, and we might as well add the fact that Lessing criticised the works of all of them with the most cutting sarcasm in his Hamburgische Dramaturgie." He remarks that hobbles were running a race, and even the winner was lame. For all this we must thank the editor for his careful work, and be glad to have reprints of several almost-forgotten pieces which once were the talk of the literary and dramatic world, and were considered superior even to the works of Shakspeare. • Diutiska, p. 130. Vols. 38 and 39 are devoted to the adversaries of the Second Silesian School, of which Günther occupies the first volume, and Weise. Brockes, Canitz, Neukirch and Dernick the second. Prof. L. Fulda's well-written introduction to Vol. 38, which contains a short but very useful life of Günther, is followed by a selection from Günther's Geistliche Gedichte; but by far the greater part of the volume is devoted to his Weltliche Gedichte, some of which (chiefly those addressed to Lenchen and Leonore) are quite unique specimens of erotic poetry in Germany during the earliest part of the eighteenth century. Abraham a Sancta Clara's Judas der Ertz-Schelm, parts of which are given in Vol. 40, is a quaint and uncouth piece of didactic humour of its time; while Gottsched, Bodmer, and Breitinger's works, selections from which are contained in Vol. 42, are interesting only on account of their great import 44 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN.-Mr. Kauffman, of Cairo, has, with the assistance of the celebrated African traveller, Dr. Schweinfurth, compiled a very complete and useful map of Egypt and its Dependencies in Equatorial Africa. It is on the scale of 1: 3,000,000, and has been prepared by one of the first cartographers of Germany. The routes followed by all the travellers in Equatorial Africa are shown on it, among them being Dr. Nachtigall, Wysmann and Dr. Junker. The latter gentleman has been for three years in Central Africa, and the journal of his most recent discoveries lately came to hand at Gotha, via Tunis. This map is constructed on the information given by these celebrated travellers, as well as on information supplied by the Egyptian Government and the British military authorities, and is therefore the most complete and reliable detailed map which has appeared up to the present time. The price of the map is £1. THE LITERATURE OF THE PUNJAUB. On Thursday, December the 11th, Mr. Thornton, C.S.I., read a paper before the National Indian Association, at their rooms in Adam Street, Adelphi, on the Languages and Literature of the Punjaub. Sir Barrow H. Ellis, K.C.S.I., presided. Mr. Thornton commenced his paper by giving an account of the physiography of the Punjaub, its history and the races inhabiting it. He gave a description of the ten languages spoken in the region, together with the literature and the chief works of interest and importance to be found in them: at the same time, he lamented the neglect with which, until lately, scholars had treated this literature, owing to their having considered these languages to be patois. Mr. Thornton pointed out that Capt. R. C. Temple, by publishing" Punjaub Legends" and "Notes and Queries," was doing good service towards putting Punjaub literature on a proper basis, and giving it the prominence it deserves; he also adverted to Mr. Denzil Ibbetson's Punjaub Census Report, as illustrating the history, races, languages and literature of the province. The lecturer read specimens of the different classes of the literature he described, and made some remarks on the effects of British rule on the vernacular literature and the intellectual status of the people. There remains much to be done in educational work in the Punjaub, as out of every thousand of the population of all ages, only fifteen are under instruction, as compared with twenty-eight in India generally, and one hundred and twenty in England. Dr. Leitner and his fellowworkers at the Punjaub University have been for many years labouring to remedy this state of things, and to restore, as far as possible, the educational standard of the time of the British occupation of the province. The educational machinery then in existence was completely unhinged, and nothing was substituted for it, the Punjaubees at that time having been a fairly educated race. There are twenty-six literary societies in the Punjaub, and we think, with Mr. Thornton and Sir B. H. Ellis, that by utilizing the love of the population for poetry and tales, they might do more towards the cause of education and developing a love of knowledge amongst the people, than the Department of Education has been able to do up to the present with its dry and unimaginative school-books. BENARES AND KUMAON.-Life and Work in Kumaon, by James Kennedy, M.A., 1839-1877 (T. Fisher Unwin), is a narrative of the missionary work of one of the missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the sacred city of the Hindoos and amongst the hill tribes of the Himalayas in the tea-growing districts. The book is well illustrated, and Sir William Muir writes an introductory note, he having known the author and his work in India. The work gives a good picture of life in India, and contains an account of the trying times of the Mutiny, and the author says if it had not been for the faithfulness of their native Christian servants, they would probably have starved. The author of course stands up for the native Christian converts, but we do not see that he proves them better, if so good, as the unconverted native; probably the missionaries do not get hold of the best natives for their operations, but mostly those who are looking after the loaves and fishes. A CHINESE-JAPANESE DICTIONARY.-The Rev. J. Summers, formerly Professor of Chinese in King's College, London, and late Professor of English Literature, etc., in the University of Tokio, Japan, is preparing a Chinese-Japanese Dictionary, which he will publish by subscription. All intending subscribers must forward their names to Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill, before March 31st, 1885. (See Advertisement.) This Dictionary will be on an entirely new plan, which is quite original, and by which any particular Chinese character can be found with great facility and economy of time. A greater number of characters will be explained in it than in any other; it will contain all the meanings given to the Chinese characters by the Japanese, who have always used them in their classical written language. The various syllabic equivalents of the Chinese, according to Dr. Chalmers' " Concise Kanghi," will be given in Roman letters with tonal marks; a vast number of compound words, scientific terms, and modern accepted terms in science will be included in this work. CUST'S INDIAN LANGUAGES. We have before us an epitome of Mr. Cust's work on the Indian languages in modern Greek, published at Corfu. THE MADONNA DI SAN SISTO.-Mr. D. M. Dewey, of Rochester, New York, who has just returned from a tour in Europe, has published a small brochure, giving an historical sketch of this great masterpiece of Raphael Sanzio, the motive of which is found in the legend of St. Barbara. This world-renowned picture was painted for the church of St. Sixtus at Piacenza, where it has been over the altar for nearly two centuries. Mr. Dewey says "it is justly regarded as one of the grandest productions of the great master. Probably no painting in the world is better known, and possibly no work of art so commonly seen is so little understood." Mr. Dewey has secured a few copies of Mandel's engraving of this great picture, proofs before letters. This engraving took ten years to complete and is the greatest work of art of this century. Trübner & Co. will give particulars of terms, etc., to any intending purchasers, and take charge of any orders for the same on behalf of Mr. Dewey. THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY, UPSALA.-We have received from Mr. Claes Aunerstedt, the Editor, "Redogörelese for Kongl. Universitet et I Upsala under läsären 1877-1883," an historical account of the Royal University of Upsala for the six years from 1877 to 1883. SCANDINAVIA.-This monthly periodical, the only one in the English language devoted to the interests of Scandinavian literature, art, politics and science, has just completed its first volume and commenced its second. The first issue of the second volume contains: "The Colony of Bishop's Hill," by John Swainson. "Mr. Gosse on Norwegian Literature," by Clements Petersen. "The Joms-Vikings," Icelandic Saga. "November Fancies," by Frederick Petersen. "Wives Submit Yourselves Unto Your Husbands," by Kristopher Janson. "A Slip of the Pen." "A Letter," by Dr. Tilbury. "Notes and News," etc. We cordially recommend this periodical to the notice of Librarians of Free Public Libraries; it will keep their readers conversant with what goes on in the Scandinavian world. The Norseman has left his impress on the shores of England, both in the language and manners and customs of the inhabitants; so that a publication of this sort should find quite a host of patrons in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and other coast counties of England. AGRICULTURE IN MEXICO.-Report No. 13, New Series, of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Statistics-for November, 1884, gives the yield of crops per acre in the United States, Agriculture in Mexico, a review of the products and resources of Mexico, by Col. Richard J. Hinton, who is well versed in the subject, and also gives the transportation and freight rates in the United States. GERMAN PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS. -The third volume of "Griggs's German Philosophical Classics for English Readers and Students." under the editorial supervision of Prof. Geo. S. Morris, Ph.D., has appeared from the press of Messrs. S. C. Griggs and Co., Chicago. This work is a critical exposition of Fichte's Science of Knowledge" by Dr. C. C. Everett, of Harvard, and contains a careful and scholarly analysis of Fichte's philosophy and methods of thought, such as has never before appeared in English. The position of Fichte in the development of German philosophy from Kant to Hegel, his relation to Kant as the first great continuator and elaborator of the Kantian system, and his germinal relation to Schelling and Hegel, his great successors, these things, added to the heroic grandeur of Fichte's moral nature, unite to render the study of his philosophy at once inspiring and indispensably important to all students of modern thought. Probably no man in America has given to the works of Fichte so thorough and intelligent study as Dr. Everett; and the knowledge of this fact, together with the author's well-known eminence as a thinker and writer, will insure for his work a warm reception. The preceding volumes of this series are "Kant's Critique of Pure Reason," by Prof. Geo. S. Morris, of the University of Michigan, and "Schelling's Transcendental Idealism," by Dr. Watson, of Queen's University, Kingston. Other volumes will follow shortly. GERMAN PRONUNCIATION.-Dr. Wilhelm Vietor, Professor of English Philology in Marburg University, has written a handy work on German Pronunciation, practice and theory. The method used is to specify an English word in which the sound required occurs, and to print it in a phonetic character, which is afterwards printed in each German word where the sound occurs. Prefixed to the book is a chapter entitled "The Best German." It is published by Messrs. Henninger Bros., Heilbronn; Trübner and Co., London; and B. Westermann and Co., New York. ORTHOEPY.-Another organ advocating spelling reform has been started by Mr. C. W. Larison, of Ringos, New Jersey. It is a monthly periodical printed in phonetic type, but not that used by Vickroy, Pitman, or the S.R.A. The great drawback to spelling reform is every advocate of it riding his own hobby and having his own ideas of an alphabet. By taking the one at present in use, with a few additions in the way of upset letters, the present compositors would not have to re-learn their art. We receive with this magazine a list of the members of the Spelling Reform Association according to the records of the ninth annual meeting, July 10, 1884. LAKE MOERIS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PYRAMIDS. -Mr. F. Cope Whitehouse, at the last meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers, held at Buffalo, read a paper on "The latest Researches in the Moeris Basin,' which has been published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography for October last. A limited number of this paper has been printed in pamphlet form (London: Trübner & Co.). Mr. Whitehouse made three exploratory visits to the region he describes, the last was about a year ago, and he is, we believe, the only white man who has ever been there. He has succeeded in rescuing the accounts of ancient historians of this lake from the realms of fable to which they had long been relegated, and to establish on an historical basis the existence in former times of a stupendous work of engineering and irrigation, of which the pyramids formed a part. BABY LINGUISTICS.-A very interesting article by Mr. James Sully, on what seems to be a trifling subject, but what is really of scientific interest, appears in the November number of the English Illustrated Magazine" under the above heading. It treats of the first attempts of an infant to manufacture words, and the gradual development of a child's brain in the mechanism of speech. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.-In commemoration of the centenary of the death of the literary leviathan, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mr. T. Fisher Unwin, of Paternoster Square, London, has added to his elegant little parchment series an edition of his "Table Talk," to which is prefixed an account of his life and works, edited by Dr. James Macaulay, the editor of the "Leisure Hour." THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE LIBRARY.-The thanks of the reading public are due to Mr. Elliot Stock, of Paternoster Row, for his enterprize in rescuing from oblivion, and rendering easily accessible, the lore contained in the "Gentleman's Magazine" from 1731 to 1868. The volume before us is one on Popular Superstitions," edited by George Laurence Gomme, F.S.A. SIR WILLIAM THOMSON'S LECTURES.-By invitation_of the Johns Hopkins University, Sir William Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., L. and E., Professor of Natural Philosophy in University of Glasgow, Scotland, gave a course of eighteen lectures, before the physicists of the Johns Hopkins University, on Molecular Dynamics, in October, 1884. Stenographic notes were taken by Mr. A. S. Hathaway, B.S., Cornell University, lately a Mathematical Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University, and these notes (with additions subsequently made by the lecturer), have been carefully reproduced by the Papyrograph plate process. A bibliography of the subjects considered will also be given with the lectures. In all there will be about 350 pages, quarto. The edition is strictly limited to 300 copies. THE POISON TREE.-Mr. T. Fisher Unwin has presented the English-reading public with one of the best means of gaining an insight into Hindoo life by publishing a translation of Babu Baukim Chandra Chatterjee's novel, "The Poison Tree; a Tale of Hindoo Life in Bengal." The author of this novel is the first living writer of fiction in the Bengal Presidency. Mr. Edwin Arnold, C.S.I., who writes a preface to this English edition of the Babu's novel says, that five years ago Sir William Herschel, of the Bengal Civil Service, had the intention of translating this Bisha Briksha; but surrendered the task, with the author's full consent, to Mrs. Miriam S. Knight, who has performed it with remarkable skill and success. Besides her knowledge of the vernacular of the novel, Mrs. Knight is well acquainted with Bengali religious, social, and domestic customs, so that apart from what any original must necessarily suffer in a translation, Mrs. Knight has produced a very interesting and readable novel, containing many vivid pictures of modern Hindoo life. THE ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA.-Not the least interesting of the publications of the Archæological Institute of America is its "Papers-American Series II," a report of an Archæological Tour in Mexico in 1881, by A. F. Bandelier, recently published (London, Trübner & Co.). Mexico, besides being rich in antiquities, possesses such exceptional resources, that if its people were of the AngloSaxon race, it would have been before this richer in material wealth than it is in antiquities. The Anglo-Saxon has, however, extended a helping hand to it, railways are being made, and it will, if all goes well, emerge from the obscurity in which it has laid so long, and show its capabilities as a country which has been particularly favoured by nature. Mr. Bandelier's volume appears most opportunely, as everything relating to Mexico is now being eagerly sought after. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHEOLOGY.-A highclass Quarterly Journal under this title is about to be started in the United States, which will be devoted to the study of the whole field of Archæology-Oriental, Early Christian, Medieval, and American; and the Archæological Institute of America will recognize it as its official organ. Among the specific objects of its editors will be:-I. To afford to American scholars the means of taking active part in the progress of archeological science by the publication of papers embodying the results of original research. II. To provide a careful and ample record of archæological discoveries and investigations in all parts of the world, and to furnish reports of the proceedings of archæological societies, summaries of important papers, reviews of books, etc. III. To bring to notice and illustrate important works in the domain of archæology contained in public museums and private collections, now little known. The field of Archaeology is so wide, and the objects of study in it so numerous and so varied, that, in order to secure thoroughness in the work of the journal, each leading branch of the science will be, so far as possible, in charge of a special editor. The following is a list of the editorial staff, so far as at present formed:-Advisory Editor, Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard College; Managing Editor. Dr. A. L. Frothingham, of Johns Hopkins University; Special Editors, Dr. A. Emerson, of Johns Hopkins University; Mr. T. W. Ludlow, of New York; Prof. Allan Marquand, of Princeton College; Mr. A. R. Marsh, of Harvard College; Mr. Charles C. Perkins, of Boston. The Journal will be published four times a year, and the numbers for each year will form an 8vo. volume of about 360 pages. Each number will be illustrated with plates and figures. The London agents will be Messrs. Trübner & Co., 57 and 59, Ludgate Hill, who will give every information to intending subscribers. FLORIDA ANNUAL.-The Florida Annual for 1885 is the second year of its issue; the information contained in it has been carefully collected by its editor, Mr. C. K. Munroe, and may be relied on by all classes of intending settlers in the flowery State. It is very few nooks and corners of this globe of ours that present such attractive features as this favoured State. Florida has a magnificent set of natural water-ways not to be found in any other quarter of the globe. Although comparatively flat, as a country where long navigable rivers abound must necessarily be, it is exceptionally healthy; this we think may be attributed to its peninsular formation, which gives it the benefit of constant sea-breezes across it, either from the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean. Its climate in the winter is simply deliciously perfect, and in the summer it is not so hot but that Europeans can work in the open air from morning till night. Capitalists, emigrants, invalids, and sportsmen will find Mr. Munroe's "Florida Annual" a necessary portion of their outfit. It contains an excellent map from the latest authorities, and every detail in the way of information they are likely to want. It may be had in London of Messrs. Trübner & Co., Ludgate Hill, who have already found that it is duly appreciated. THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION.-General John Eaton, U.S. Commissioner of Education, has presented his Thirteenth Annual Report to the Secretary of the Interior. The communications sent out in connection with this numbered 30,745 and those received 67,875. The number of documents distributed by the department numbered 323,592. From this it may be gathered the enormous labour connected with the production of this valuable and useful report. Circulars of Information No. 4/84 contains the Proceedings of Superintendence of the National Educational Association at its Meeting at Washington, February 12 to 14, 1884. The Commissioner on recommending these Proceedings for publication says "several of the papers are of a universally high order." The facts connected with "Indian Education as expounded by the Hon. J. M. Haworth, U.S. Superintendent of Indian schools, are particularly interesting and go far to prove it is not at all impossible to make good citizens of the Red Men. Circular No. 5/81 is suggestions respecting the Exhibit at the (New Orleans)" World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition." INDEX CATALOgue of the LIBRARY OF The SurgeonGENERAL.-Dr. Billings has just presented to the SurgeonGeneral (Robert Murray) of the U.S. Army the fifth volume of the Catalogue of the Library of the Department. It begins with Flaccus" and ends with the subject of" Hearth," numbers 1055 pages, and includes 15,555 author titles, representing 5755 volumes and 12,596 pamphlets. It also includes 8069 subject titles of separate books and pamphlets, and 34,127 titles of articles in periodicals, making a total in the five volumes of 50,986 author titles, which represents 30,722 volumes of books and 40,075 pamphlets, and 49,552 subject titles of separate books and pamphlets, and 183,864 articles in medical journals and transactions of societies together with 4335 portraits of medical men. This great work of Dr. Billings progresses steadily and surely and when completed will be a model for future bibliographers. The Nation, New York, says of it:-"The wonderful minuteness of this infinitely laborious and meritorious work is illustrated by an entry which strikes our eye as we glance at its compact pages, naming a certain physician only to record that he was a coeditor of a certain medical journal in certain years. The division Great Britain' fills more than thirty pages, the earliest document being of Henry VIII.'s time-' an acte concernynge the approbacion of phisicions and surgions,' and one 'concernyng unlawfull oyles to bee serched and seene that they be good and lawfull’(Ă.D. 1511-12). The titles in the vernacular under Greece' are scrupulously printed. Hæmorrhage' fills upwards of thirty pages. Hay-fever' occupies but a page and a half, and the earliest date we have detected is 1819; the name does not appear to occur earlier than 1829, though doubtless in common use before that date. The 'Head' required some sixty pages; the Heart' one hundred. 'Guiteau' and his trial occupy more than a column; 'Garfield' not less. But there is no end to the interesting revelations of this orderly array of titles." THE PUBLISHERS' Trade LIST ANNUAL OF THE UNITED STATES. This bulky and valuable volume for 1884-which is its twelfth year of issue-comprises the lists of 93 contributors, mostly publishers, but also those of some few connected and allied to the bookselling trade. It also contains the "Annual Record of Books" published from July, 1883, to July, 1884, and the "Educational Catalogue" for 1884. There are some publishers who never put their lists in this annual and others who only occasionally do so; this may be for their own convenience, but we think they ought to waive that consideration when the public weal is concerned. The late Mr. F. Leypoldt, who was always working for the benefit of the trade, wished this volume to be a complete encyclopædia of publishers' catalogues, and though "the labourer is worthy of his hire," no great profit could ever accrue to the compiler of this volume. BEACON-LIGHTS FOR GOD'S MARINERS.-This is an exceptionally tastefully-printed little work, compiled and illustrated by Elizabeth N. Little (Boston: S. E. Cassino & Co.; London: Trübner & Co.), consisting of thirty-one cards (one for every day in the month), printed on one side only, each card containing texts from the Bible and verses from well-known authors, with coloured illustrations taken from Boston and other harbours on the Massachusetts coast, the whole being strung together in sailor fashion in a silvered paper binding. Quite an unique and charming booklet. MESSRS. J. R. OSGOOD AND Co.'s PUBLICATIONS." From Opitz to Lessing: a Study of Pseudo-Classicism in Literature,' by Thomas Sergeant Perry, is an essay to trace the progress in German literature since the Renaissance. Mr. Perry considers that the different nations of modern Europe kept step together, so to speak, in their literary development, and the volume before us is offered by the author to show how like were some of the early movements in different countries."John Rantoul," by Henry Loomis Nelson, is the story of a painter who falls in love with a married woman and makes his passion an incentive to win fame in his profession, paints his grand masterpiece, writes to the woman he loves to come and see it and they then both separate for ever. There is considerable originality in the plot and the story is well written and ends 'as satisfactorily as the peculiar plot will allow of."The Evidence of Faith" by James S. Bush, is a volume of sermons intended to present Christianity divested of accumulated error and to restore it to its pristine condition of the time of the Apostles, before it was patronised by the State. The author says it is his unwavering belief that the Church of the future will be one holy and catholic, in which liberty shall be reconciled with unity. "In Bridget's Vacation," by Mrs. Susan Anna Brown, author of "Forty Puddings," will be best described by the preface which is as follows: "This little collection is intended for the help and consolation of housekeepers during those trying interregnums which occur now and then in the kitchen domain. Plain The directions are given for twenty-one simple meals. BOOKS RECEIVED.-Reports of the Mining Registrars of the Gold Fields of Victoria for the quarter ending June 30, 1884. -Public Opinion in Great Britain and the United States on the American Exhibition of 1886.- La Familia Bogota, Octubre, 1884.-Dobell (Mrs. Horace), Poems (in 18 vols.), vol. 5.-Green (W. L.), The Volcanic Problem from the point of view of the Hawaiian volcanoes, Honolulu, Aug. 25, 1884.-Speech of Charles Reemelin at the Annual Festival of the German Pioneers of Cincinnati, May 27. 1884.-Bulletin of Boston Public Library, Autumn, 1884, No. 69.-Harvard University Bulletin, No. 29, completing vol. 3.-Tenth Annual Report of the Public Library of the Borough of Swansea.Catalogue of the Loan Book Exhibition held at the University of California, May 26th to 31st, 1884.-Thirty-second Annual Report of the Manchester Free Public Library, 1883-4.Thirty-second Annual Report of the Boston (U.S.) Public Library, 1884.-Anales de la Instruccion Publica en los Estados Unidos de Colombia, No. 44, Augosto de 1884.Howell's Indian Tracts. Part 4. The Massacre of the Black Hole, by J. Z. Holwell, Esq., edited by Lál Gopál Goswami. En Memoriam. BROWN.-By the death of Mr. C. P. Brown in his eightyseventh year, we have lost one of those old-fashioned thorough Oriental scholars which the East India Company's service frequently produced in bygone times. Southern India was the field of Mr. Brown's linguistic studies, and he was probably better acquainted with Telugu than any other Englishman. Mr. Brown used to rise at four o'clock in the morning, and commence his studies before the sun had gained enough power to render them irksome, and in his own case proved that by living a careful and temperate life an Englishman can live in India and need not despair of living to a good old age. He was the son of the Rev. David Brown, of Calcutta, and in 1817 entered the Madras Civil Service. In the early days of his service he was a considerable time at Masulipatam, where he first made acquaintance with Telugu the language of which he afterwards became such a master. He was the preserver of a very valuable collection of Sanskrit and Telugu manuscripts, and many editions of celebrated Oriental classics were prepared for the press by native Pundits under his supervision, some of which were printed with Telugu prose commentaries. One of these works, printed at Madras in 1829, was an edition of Vemana's verses, moral, religious, and satirical, in Telugu and English. This edition was, however, not a complete translation, as the erotic passages which are to be found in Vemana were omitted; a fuller translation of Vemana was left in manuscript, with the said passages in Latin, and was presented by Mr. Brown to the Madras Literary Society. For upwards of twelve years Mr. Brown was in the revenue, magisterial, and judicial service. In 1838 he was appointed Persian translator to the Government, and in 1846 he was appointed Postmaster-General and Telugu translator. In 1855 he resigned the service, and accepted a Telugu professorship in London. Besides contributions to various journals, the following works of Mr. Brown have been printed:-Telugu and Sanskrit Prosody, Madras, 1827; Vemana's Verses, Moral, Religious, and Satirical, Madras, 1829; Cyclic Tables, Chronology of the Telugu and Kanadi Countries, Madras, 1850; English and Hindustani Phraseology, Calcutta, 1850; Telugu Reader: a Series of Letters, Private and on Business, and Revenue Matters, with English Translation, Madras, 1852; Telugu-English and English-Telugu Dictionary, Madras, 1852-3; Vakyvali: or, Exercises in Idioms, English and Telugu, Madras, 1852; Zillah Dictionary in the Roman Character, explaining the words used in business in India, Madras, 1852; Carnatic Chronology, the Hindu and Mahomedan Methods of Reckoning Time, explained with Symbols and Historic Records, 1863. Sanskrit Prosody and Numerical Symbols Explained, 1869. CHANNING.-The Rev. William Henry Channing, who died on the 23rd of December, at Kensington, was the nephew of the celebrated Dr. William Ellery Channing. He was born in Boston, on May 25th, 1810, entered Harvard University 1829, Cambridge Divinity School 1833, and was ordained at Cincinnati May 10th, 1839. He lost his father, Francis Dana Channing, when he was very young. After officiating as minister to several Unitarian congregations in various parts of the United States, he came to Liverpool to succeed the Rev. James Martineau in the Hope Street Unitarian Church. A daughter of Mr. Channing is the wife of Edwin Arnold, Esq., C.S.I., etc., the well-known author of The Light of Asia." Mr. Channing was a contributor to, and editor of, various periodicals at different times, amongst them we may mention the" Western Messenger," "Present,' Harbinger," "Spirit of the Age," "Examiner," and "North American Review." He also published a translation of "Jouffroy's Ethics," "Memoir of W. E. Channing." "Life and Writings of James H. Perkins," "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli; " besides sermons, reviews, and miscellanies. He was an eloquent preacher and great social reformer. 66 NEW AMERICAN BOOKS AND RECENT IMPORTATIONS. Abbott (C. C.)-A Naturalist's Rambles about Allen (H., M.D.)-A New Method of recording American Catalogue, 1876-1884: Author-and- Baby World.-Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures, Barrows (Rev. J. O.)-On Horseback in Cappadocia; or, a Missionary Tour, together with some things which they saw who made it. 16mo. cloth. With Map and Illustrations. Boston. 6s. 6d. Bolles (A. S.)-Practical Banking. 8vo. cloth. pp. xii.-316. New York. 15s. Boussenard (L.) - The Crusoes of Guiana; or, This story opens in the penal settlement, French Guiana, in South America, from which a political prisoner makes his escape, and joins his family, together with whom he finds a safe retreat in the wilder. ness, and builds for them a home. |