THE MONTHLY BULLETIN is designed as a medium for the announcement of new and forthcoming books, and as a means of conveying special information in regard to the character and contents of the latest issues from the press. It is published on the 1st of each month, and will be forwarded without charge to Librarians, Secretaries of Book Clubs and Reading Societies, Heads of Colleges and Schools, and all other book-buyers who may furnish us with their address. clares: 'The land is one great, wild, untidy, luxuriant hot-house, made by Nature for herself.' It reminds him of 'the glories of another world,' and though from his memory must fade the remembrance of certain forms of ife and beauty, yet they will leave, like a tale heard in childhood, a picture full of indistinct, but most beautiful, figures.'' A new edition of the "Poet and Painter," HE Boston Christian Register describes Darwin's Voyage round the World as follows: "In the author's own words: 'The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King, in 1826 to 1830, and to survey the shores of Chili, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific, and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the world.' In this expedition Mr. Darwin had opportunities for using all the powers of investigation and ob-published for the first time in cloth binding, is servation that have made him famous as an original thinker, and a man of unusual scientific attainments. He gives, in the form of a journal, the history of the voyage, and many observations of general interest in natural history and geology. Mr. Darwin appears to have noticed every thing of particular interest to the naturalist, as-taking some of the topics at random-the habits of seafish, insects, the clouds and storms, the wild birds and animals, trees and flowers, sand-dunes, rocks, bowlders, and glaciers. He discusses climate, the structure of the land, the causes and effects of earthquakes, the zoology of the Andes, volcanoes, coral formations, and kindred topics. He also gives some pleasing descriptions of the life and customs of the people he meets, and bears testimony concerning the wretched condition of the savages of Tierra del Fuego, the oppressed miners in Central Chili, and the general state of society among the people of South America. Concerning the wealth and tropical scenery, the writer de- Gardening." now ready. This volume is the most sumptuous and richly illustrated of any work of the kind issued in America. It contains ninety-nine steel engravings, of the most perfect execution, printed on the page with the text. The contents of the volume consist of a varied selection of the best minor poems in the English language. The engravings include landscape-views by DURAND, CHURCH, KENSETT, CROPSEY, HUNTINGTON, COLE, and others, and a series of exquisite ideal portraits of women immortalized in the choicest love-poems in our literature. D. Appleton & Co. announce as in press, "Two Plunges for a Pearl," by Mortimer Collins, and "Princess Clarice," by the same author. The Nation pronounces Mr. Frank Scott's "Suburban Homes" the best work that has appeared on the subject since Downing's "Landscape D. Appleton & Co. will publish shortly a collection of poems by Henry Abbey, under the title of "Ballads of Good Deeds, and Other Poems." Many of the collection have appeared in APPLETONS' JOURNAL. Lippincott & Co. will publish, this autumn, a collection of poems by Paul Hayne, and also a volume of verse by Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr. The London Saturday Review speaks of Mr. Rae's "Westward by Rail" (American edition, by D. Appleton & Co.) as follows: "Mr. Rae unites the powers of a keen and thoughtful observer with the tact and skill of a graphic delineator. His impressions of men and manners are lively and Sensible, and his style gives reality and force to incidents which would be otherwise trivial or unmeaning. The evident candor and singleness Nearly all the Chicago booksellers have resumed of purpose with which he writes, make him a business. The Western News Co. have rented a trustworthy guide for those who would weigh store and three basements on West Randolph St.; aright the inducements for or against the longest S. C. Griggs & Co. are located, for the present, at continuous land-journey which is as yet opened the residence of Mr. Jansen, one of the firm; Cobb, upon our planet. Bringing a fresh mind to the Anderson & Co. have rented a residence in Waphysical and social features of the country, he is bash Avenue; Keene & Cooke are erecting a shanty, the better able to seize and emphasize for the be- 50x200, in Washington Street; Woodworth, Ainshoof of uninitiated readers all that is most strik-worth & Co. are at the residence of Mr. W. M. ing or characteristic in the line of route. Many an unamiable prejudice is thus corrected, and many an ideal of perfection brought down to the level of ordinary fact." An admirably-written essay, by Henry T. Tuckerman, on the "Literature of Fiction," which has appeared in three divisions in APPLetons' Journal, closes as follows: "There are two classes who › oppose novel-reading and disparage novel-writing those who profess a high intellectual ideal of literature, and would exclude fictitious narrative therefrom as beneath its dignity, and those who regard imaginary adventures as too frivolous and false to occupy a virtuous, far less a religious mind. The former objectors are, for the most part, ignorant of the progress and purification, the enlargement and refinement, the art and science, the morale and benignity, of this kind of reading which they wilfully ignore; and the latter lose sight, not only of the direct truth and pure sentiment thus inculcated, but fail to estimate the vast moral benefit of that sympathy fostered by the best fiction which wins the thoughts from Self, and opens the mind and heart to a fresh recognition of, and relation to, Humanity." Scribner. D. Appleton & Co. have just issued a new descriptive and illustrated Catalogue of their Medical Publications, which is not only of value to physicians, but attractive, on account of the fine portraits of distinguished practitioners with which it is embellished. Sent free to any address, upon application. James Grant asserts in his "History of the Newspaper Press," just published in England, that Lord-Chancellor Campbell once wrote for the "Romeo and Morning Chronicle a criticism on Juliet," which showed that he did not know the play was by Shakespeare. The correctness of this statement is very naturally questioned by the Athenæum. Literature is quite dependent on financial crutches, after all. Carlyle's works, in the sixshilling-a-volume edition, were having almost no sale, and the old grumbler had made up his mind that the present generation did not appreciate him. But his publishers persuaded him to let them issue a two-shilling edition, and “Sartor Resartus" alone has, in the first three months, The Red-line Edition of. Bryant's Poems has sold 35,000 copies. Perhaps the gentleman will look at the world more hopefully now. been a great success. The first edition was soon exhausted, and an additional number put to press. It is the most complete of the editions of Bryant's works, and the most attractive. Darwin's new book, on the "Facial Expression of Animals," will be freely illustrated, and will endeavor to prove that dogs and monkeys can laugh, smile, sncer, look cross, or throw a deep pathos into their speaking countenances. It will probably not appear before next spring. D. Appleton & Co. have in press: " Milk Treatment of Diabetes and Bright's Discase," by Arthur Scott Donkin, M. D. "The Anatomy of Vertebrate Animals," by T. H. Huxley, F. R. S. "Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland," by W. H. Lecky. Recent numbers of APPLETONS' JOURNAL have contained portraits of William Cullen Bryant and Robert Browning, with an accompanying article in each case, from the pen of Mr. Stoddard. The London Bookseller makes the following remarks about "cut or uncut" books: "The Nation, of New York, in noticing the recommendation offered in our pages, that books sent out for review should be cut open, refers to the unsettled, vexed question between the manufacturers of books and the readers of them, as to whether the leaves should be cut or not.' This question never troubles reading-men in this country, and, as readers are pretty much alike all over the world, we think the question cannot have vexed reading-men in America. Readers like the work of cutting open a book, and all possessors of large libraries are agreed that one of the pleasantest operations connected with the purchase of a new book is that of cutting it open. Those who merely purchase books as articles of furniture, those who only purchase them for the sake of their outsides, enjoy no pleasure of the kind; but a lover of books will hug his newly-acquired treasure, and, sitting down in his easy-chair, will proceed leisurely with the job, and, after spending an hour or so over the work, will have acquired a good knowledge of the contents of the volume, and, having mastered its general contents, will have prepared himself to read the work through, and in reading to understand. But buyers of books buy many volumes for the purpose of reference, they cut them open as described, and never take them up again till occasion arises for the reference; but, in cutting up the volume, they have mastered its general scope and intent, and its subject-matter will have impressed itself upon their memories. With cut edges the case is different: the books, as soon as purchased, are put upon the shelves to await a more convenient time, which never arrives, and they remain unread. With reading-men there is but one opinion respecting cut or uncut,' and with furniture-buyers there is also but one opinion, but the two classes of buyers do not hold the same opinion." ་ At the funeral of Prince Pueckler-Muskau, the celebrated German author, Louisa Mühlbach, who had been his intimate friend for many years, it had been arranged, was to have recited a poem which she had written for the occasion. But, upon arriving at the open grave, the lady was so affected that she was unable to perform her task. Professor Tyndall, in his Fragments of Science," tells us what the study of grammar did for him. He says: "The proper study of a language is an intellectual discipline of the highest kind. If I except discussions on the comparative merits of Popéry and Prostestatism, English grammar was the most important discipline of my boyhood. The piercing through the involved and inverted sentences of 'Paradise Lost,' the linking of the verb to its often distant nominative, of the relative to its distant antecedent, of the agent to the object of the transitive verb, of the preposition to the noun or pronoun which it governed, the variations in mood and tense, the transformations often necessary to bring out the true grammatical structure of a sentence, all this` was to my young mind a discipline of the highest value, and, indeed, a source of unflagging delight. How I rejoiced when I found a great author tripping, and was fairly able to pin him to a corner from which there was no escape! As I speak, some of the sentences which exercised me when a boy rise to my recollection. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear,' that was one of them; where the He is left in mid-air, without any verb to support it. I speak of the English, because it was of real value to me. I do not speak of other languages, because their educational value for me was almost insensible." D. Appleton & Co. have in press: “The Prin ciples of Geology; or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants, considered as illustrative of Geology." By Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., F. R. S. Eleventh edition, thoroughly revised. In two vols. An Austrian publisher will soon issue a daily paper, containing nothing but extracts from standard authors, and advertisements. subscription will be only one dollar.. The annual Germany will have, next spring, a literary sensation, in the shape of a novel written jointly by Berthold Auerbach and Spielhagen. It will be published in three volumes. "No magazine," says the Philadelphia Age, speaking of APPLETONS' JOURNAL, "is wider in its scope, nor draws from more sources of interest." George Sand writes to the Revue Bibliographique that the war has deprived her of half her income, her copyrights having depreciated that much. Messrs. Appleton & Co. have just issued a new edition of Lincoln's Livy. This work contains selections from the First Five Books of Livy's Roman History, with the Twenty-first and Twenty- Hans Christian Andersen has in press a volume second Books entire; also, Explanatory Notes, a of poems, which he dedicates "to the memory of Plan of Rome, and a Map of the Passage of Charles Dickens, the greatest humanitarian of Hannibal. The retail price of the book is $1.75. our age." Announcement of New Books and New Editions to be published in November, by D. Appleton & Co. AND-BOOK of Skin Diseases. The American Tour of Messrs. By Dr. ISIDOR NEUMANN, Lecturer on Skin Diseases in the Royal University of Vienna. Translated from advance-sheets of the second edition furnished by the author, with Notes, by Lucius D. Brown, Jones, and Robinson. Being the History of what they Saw and Did in the United States, Canada, and Cuba. By TOBY. BULKLEY, A. M., M. D., Surgeon to the N. Y. Dispen- The Gladiators. By G. J. WHYTE Melville. sary, Department of Venereal Diseases; Assistant to the Skin Clinic of the College of Physicians and Sur geons, New York; Member of the County Medical Society; Member of the N. Y. Dermatological Society. 1 vol., 8vo, 467 pages, and 60 woodcute. Nicholas Nickleby and David Copperfield, being the seventh and eighth issues of the "Handy Volume" Edition of the Works of CHARLES DICKENS. Published in cloth, extra, handsomely stamped. 12mo. With Illustrations. Previously issued in this edition: "Pickwick Papers," 1 vol., "Oliver Twist" and "Christmas Stories," 1 vol., "Dombey and Son," 1 vol., “Martin Chuzzlewit,” 1 vol., "Our Mutual Friend," 1 vol., “Old Curiosity Shop" and "American Notes," 1 vol. The series to be completed in fourteen volumes. Price, 75 cents per vol. Household Book of Songs: for Four Voices. Collected and arranged by FRANCIS A. BowMAN and CHARLES A. DANA. The design of this work is to bring together, within the compass of a single volume, a collection of songs selected from the works of the composers of different beauty and of an elevated character, and, on the other, nations, that should, on the one hand, be of intrinsic should be within the reach of any amateur of ordinary musical attainment. The arrangement for four voices has been made expressly for the present work, with special reference to use in the family and social circle. 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