Goneril retorts with the taunt against his manhood:

Milk-liver'd man!

These points are all charmingly illustrated by Spanish, factura in Latin, from facere, to make. thy feature." And it is in the same strain that quotations. Mr. W. Wilkins, of Trin. Coll., Dublin, has recently pointed out that "feature" also formerly meant a literary work, a poem, a drama, etc., just as we now call such a work a "composition." Ben Jonson uses the word in this sense, when he says of his creation, the play of Volpone, that two months before it was no feature:

Shakespearian Motto for a Public House. A correspondent of the London Sanitary Record

writes:

Many years ago, a prize was offered for the best sign for a public house, about to be erected. I never heard the result, but it has just occurred to me that the following Shakespearian lines would not be inappropriate, though I doubt if it would have obtained the prize:

An if a man did need a poison now,
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.

Of course our readers are aware that the English
"public house" is virtually a grog-shop.

'Changed" bewitched, be-devilled: Cf. M. N. D. iii. 1: "O Bottom, thou art changed!" But what can we make of "self-cover'd"? The

pitiable attempts to force a meaning upon this epithet by some, and the various substitutes given in the Cambridge Shakespeare — that have been suggested for it by others, show what a stumbling-block the word has been to the com

mentators. There is one conjecture, however, not mentioned in that edition, which I recently found in a German Glossary, published at Leipsic, in 1826, that deserves a word of notice. It is there stated that Voss proposed fell-covered," referring it "to the expression of satanical, unwomanly character, that covered her countenance like a dark cloud." An ingenious conjecture, certainly; yet "still, still far wide." The poet's word here is "sex-cover'd;" and it is strange it has been missed, when indicated so obviously by the context. Three years ago I ventured to sug. gest it in "Notes and Queries; " and the more think of it, the better it satisfies me. As a presserror, selfe for sexe is one of the easiest and the passage, I think, designates "sex-cover'd" as the right correction from three points of view. First, it furnishes the ground for Albany's taunt

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of shame: Thou be-devilled creature, covered

as thou art with all the lineaments of a woman, and yet guilty of such monstrous, unwomanly

cruelty, "for shame!" Secondly, it gives the

reason why he cannot obey the promptings of his passion, and put her to instant death:

Were't my fitness

To let these hands obey my blood,

To this there needs no lie, but this his creature,
Which was two months since no feature;
And though he dares give them five lives to mend it,
'Tis known five weeks fully penn'd it,
From his own hand, without a co-adjutor,
Novice, journey-man, or tutor.

- Prol. to Volpone, 1607.
(Jonson's Works, vol. iii. p. 168, Gifford's ed.,
1816.)

Various other examples of the use of this
word in the sense of a literary production have
been discovered, even as far back as the time of
Pliny, who, in the preface to his Natural Histo-
ry, speaks of his work as proxima fetura. This
is
because it explains a passage
very interesting;
in As You Like It (iii. 3), never before correctly
understood, where Touchstone, addressing Au-

That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st
Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd
Ere they have done their mischief.

POETRY,

JOSEPH CROSBY.

Last year the editor of this volume issued his Fireside Encyclopædia for adults, and it was an eminent success. The fruit of labors running over nine years, as we were told in the preface, it was a success by right, for it was a mature growth. The preface of the present collection contains no reference to the time occupied in its preparation, and an examination of the contents fails to give In his evidence that it was many years. preface the editor enters a carefully worded caveat against judging the work by the canons of criticism he was desirous to have applied to his former work. Literary excellence is avowedly not the ground upon which any given production has been included or rejected. This is "a comprehensive collection." In another direction, also, he has not exercised the care that marked his former book. There he traced every piece to its source and gave it in its correct text. We note here that he attributes to

drey, asks, "Doth my simple feature content
you?" From the context we find that Touch-
stone calls himself " a poet," and is nettled be-
cause his "verses cannot be understood," and
laments that the gods had not made his rustic
adorer "poetical." Here, instead of asking, as
the question is commonly supposed to signify,
"How does my intelligent countenance strike
you now?" it is evident that, being a Clown of
brains and observation, he had been making love
as he had seen it done "at court," by sending
‘good Audrey" a poetical billet-doux; and his
question means, "How are you pleased with my
love ditty?" He tells us elsewhere that he
"could rhyme you eight years together, dinners,
and suppers, and sleeping-hours excepted;" and
no wonder he felt chagrined that his "simple
feature," as he modestly terms his love-rhymes,"
was unregarded, and all his “good wit" thrown
away, not being seconded with the forward child
Understanding." It was not his good looks that
the clever and sharp-witted fellow was sensitive
about; Audrey could have no trouble to under-
stand them; it was the non-appreciation of his
gallant poetical "feature" that disgusted him,

and struck him "more dead than a great reckon-
ing in a little room."

In the King Lear passage, however, I believe
the word "feature" has yet another meaning,
also in full unison with its etymology, viz., that
of sex or womanhood; that which distinguished
Goneril's making from that of a man. And when

[i. e., were it becoming me, as a man, to lay vio- Albany says, "Be-monster not thy feature," he lent hands upon a woman,]

They are apt enough to dislocate and tear
Thy flesh and bones. Howe'er thou art a fiend,
A woman's shape doth shield thee.

[Note how this last line exactly paraphrases
“ sex-covered.”] Lastly, it supplies the antithetic
point in Goneril's reply:

Marry, your manhood, now!

But there is another word in this passage, which, I believe, has never been explained, yet it still further indicates the epithet in question; I mean the word "feature." In the Poet's day, this term had a much wider latitude of meaning than it now possesses. It was not limited to the facial lineaments only, but meant the whole form, exterior, making of the body, in conformity with its etymology, faicture in French, fattura in

means, "Make not a monster of thy sex," "change
not thy woman's form into a devil;" having just

before said:

Proper deformity seems not in the Fiend
So horrid as in WOMAN.

How happily all these explanations run into
one another, when once we catch the right clue.
As "sex-covered," we behold Goneril as a wom-

an, and as such to be ashamed of herself for the
exhibition of such unnatural cruelty; as a wom-
an, still her "shape" covers, i. e., protects her
from the effects of her husband's just revenge
and immediate fury. He tells her that the de-
formity that so shocks us in the Fiend, seems
less horrid than when it is seen in woman, be-
cause it is the Fiend's own proper inheritance;
and therefore it is that he says, "Be-monster not

Julia Gill" the verses often used in Sunday schools, "I want to be an angel." Now Julia Gill was a pseudonym used years ago by Mrs. Una Locke Bailey, of Providence, who did not compose the lines in question; if we are not mistaken they were produced by the teacher of an infant Sunday school, in Philadelphia, after she had been teaching her little ones about the angels, and one of them had exclaimed, "I want to be an angel!" This lady was living but a few years ago. Julia Gill did write the verses, "The Master has come over Jordan," which are here given with a different title. These were first printed in The Little Pilgrim, then published in Philadelphia, by "Grace Greenwood," and were, by her request, repeated in the New York Independent, she having accidentally omitted the concluding verse. This was about 1857. Several pieces are here attributed to "Marian Douglas," and no intimation is given that the name is a nom de guerre of Miss Amanda Douglas Greene, as it is. We should have been glad to have had the extracts from "Liliput Levee" attributed correctly to Mr. Rands, for there could have been no difficulty in discovering his identity. The ad captandum nature of the volume is shown in the way in which the names of the secondhand engravers and designers of the second

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educating power that it might have been if
a more careful literary taste had been exer-
cised in making the selections, and if less
of the Sunday school style of children's
"poetry
"had been included. We do not

Mr. Richardson has gathered about thirty adelphia offers for sale some 4,000 volumes
original poems upon subjects connected with which have been accumulating on its shelves,
the religious life. The spirit that breathes and has published a Catalogue of the same,
through them all is unselfish, tender, and together with a list of "Books Wanted," the
devoutly Christian. The verse itself, while whole making a pamphlet of nearly 200 pages.
unexceptionable in its general execution, is The books offered for sale represent nearly
not marked by any notable excellence either every department of literature, and are gen-
in form or in thought.
erally in good condition, and moderate prices
have been affixed. A generous discount will
be granted to large purchasers. An exam-
ination of the list discovers the titles of
many rare and valuable works, and the stock
is worthy the attention of collectors and li-

MINOR NOTICES.

The first number of the American Art
Review has been received, bearing date of

hand cuts in the book are ostentatiously displayed on the title-page, as if the pictures had been carefully executed for the work. There is no sin in using cuts that have done service before; but it does not seem to us to be in the best taste to give the impression that they have not been so used. Despite the compiler's protest, most judges of poetry would agree that the volume comprises many pieces that are far removed from "poetry." Unquestionably it comprises many that parents will be glad to put in their children's hands, but it is not so good as it ought to have been. It will not be the November; and we are sorry it did not reach braries. We doubt not that many public us in season to get the full column of notice libraries would find here much material here which it deserves. It is a very hand- which they could secure on very advantawell for the undertaking, which is obviously some and engaging number, and promises geous terms. one of no small outlay and difficulty. Judged by this number, the Review will fully equal in spirit and style the best foreign works of its class. In form, it is a generous quarto, bound in a cover of rich and appropriate design. The contents (which we give elsewhere) comprise descriptive and critical articles, a bibliography, and chronicles, and a large variety of illustrations, ranging from full-page etchings down to merely ornament al vignettes and initial letters. The quality, both of illustration and reading matter, is strong and good, and the only criticisms which we should make relate to one or two minor points. Estes & Lauriat, of Boston, are the publishers, and the price is $12 a year.

object to poetry because it is "good," but if it is only good in its moral precepts, and has no literary merit, it should not be admitted to a volume designed to be "a delight and constant companion in childhood, a pleasant remembrance in after days."

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Mr. Charles Northend's Gems of Thought quotations both of prose and poetry, genermay be described as a collection of choice ally brief, classified by topics in an alphabetical arrangement, beginning with Abstinence, Action, Adversity, etc., and ending with Work and Works, Youth, and Zeal. Use of it is facilitated by an Index of Authors; a table showing at a glance the succession of topics should have been added. Such a book serves various good ends, not the least of which is its function of inciting readers to make their own collections of striking passages. [D. Appleton & Co.]

Dr. Ticknor, as we learn from Mr. Hayne's introduction to this little volume of his poems, was a Georgian of Northern descent, and died in 1874, at the age of fiftytwo years. His verses are arranged under four heads: Martial and Chivalrous Lyrics, Songs of Home, Poems of Sentiment and Humor, and Memorial and Religious Poems. The "dictionary" or alphabetic arrange. The lyrics of the first part are connected ment is the most convenient in a guide-book, with the War of the Rebellion. The author as anyone who has used Murray's Handbook sympathized fully with the feeling of his for Paris can testify. It saves the continual section, and threw his soul into the cause Dr. Huntingford, an English clergyman of reference to the index, which is otherwise with a generous enthusiasm, yet seems to the Established Church, publishes a little necessary for finding what one wants in such have been free from any bitter or malignant volume on The Divine Forecast of the Cora vade mecum. Appletons Dictionary of thoughts of the North. It is the more easy, ruption of Christianity a Miraculous Evi- New York and Vicinity, just published, is therefore, for the reader to appreciate the dence of its Truth. Starting with the prin- on this plan, and, so far as we have tested it excellent quality of his verse, and, regardless ciple that prophecy, if clearly stated and by turning to a variety of subjects on which of political differences, to feel an honest definitely fulfilled, must be divinely inspired, a stranger would be likely to seek informaadmiration for the man behind it. Several he traces in broad outlines the agreement of tion, it seems to be both full and accurate. of these pieces are worthy to be numbered historical fact with the declarations of Christ [D. Appleton & Co.]— The same may with the choicest English ballads. "The and his apostles concerning the future of be said of Mr. Moses King's Pocket-Book of Virginians of the Valley" has already won the Church and its relation to the kingdoms Cincinnati, which, however, would be much high praise, and the "Cannon Song," "Loy. of this world. Interpreting the language of the better for a map, like that in the New al," and "Unknown" deserve as wide a St. John especially in the light of the Hebrew York book. [Robert Clarke & Co.] fame. "Little Giffen," to us the most striking prophets, he finds a clear foreshadowing of

be

poem of all, reminds one, by its terseness the main features in the rise and progress The new illustrated weekly for youth, and vivid force, of the best of Robert of the Papal hierarchy, and of its coming Harpers Young People, is now fairly a-going, Browning's lyrics. The contents of the doom. From these speculative discussions and is destined, we do not doubt, to steady other divisions of the book, though of less he passes to the practical question of the growth until it shall become the worthy interest, display to a good degree the author's rightful relation of Church and State, a ques- peer of the Monthly, the Weekly, and the characteristics, spontaneity and clearness of tion which he considers most satisfactorily Bazar. It has begun in a small and unprethought combined with a facile and graceful solved by his own branch of the church. tending way, and its size does not so far alexpression. He himself proves the truth of The style is clear and forcible, the tone of low much scope for the exercise of editorial his own fine lines: the work is catholic and candid, and those ability, but its appearance is very attractive, who do not agree with the author's views and we find it already an established house

Who walks with Wordsworth, or with Shakespeare's wings can find no fault with the manner in which hold favorite. As to its wholesome quality,

Winnows the gold from this life's dusty cares,

May glean a grace from life's most common things,
And entertain an angel unawares.

We shall not be surprised if another gen-
eration finds in Dr. Ticknor, with his chiv-
alrous nature and his warm and faithful
heart, the Lovelace of the South.

In this little volume entitled The Cross,

he has set them forth. An appendix con- the public will entertain, and rightly so, the
from the Revelation which are of most im-
tains a careful re-translation of the passages highest expectations.
portance to his argument. [London: Bickers
& Son.]

Dresser, McLellan & Co., of Portland, Me.,
will have ready, January 1st, the Maine Digest
The Mercantile Library Company of Phil- State from formation until present time.
of the decisions of the Supreme Court of that

NOTES AND QUERIES.

[EDITED BY FREDERIC B. PERKINS.]

Portland, Oregon.

F. K. A.

-A. D. F. Randolph & Co. are making ready a pretty novelty in the shape of a Christmas bell, a collection of verse suitable to the season, made in leaflet form, with lithographed cover, and tied with ribbon at the top of the bell. It will make a pretty ornament for Christmas trees and an inexpensive souvenir of the Christmas of '79.-They have also a dainty collection of hand-painted,

-George Routledge & Sons have some very charming juvenile publications. Of these, Under the Window, with sixty-four designs, by Kate 221. Hudibras. Please publish the correct Greenaway, is the prettiest, and will take the pronunciation of "Hudibras." children's eyes with its fine colors.- Nearly approaching it, however, is Caldecott's Picture Book, with outline sketches and colored plates. The reading matter appeals to an older taste than Under the Window, as does also that of Children canvas-bound books, including such religious of the Village, by Miss Mitford-extracts from Our Village — with beautiful engravings.

Hew-di-bras, with i short as in pin, a flat or open as in cat, s with full hissing sound, and accent on first syllable.

222.

Ann Hathaway. Can you assist me in finding a poem entitled "Ann Hathaway," read by Mrs. Scott-Siddons a few years ago? The author is unknown. Also the authorship of the quotation :

Glorious devil! large in heart and brain,
Who did love beauty only.

Iowa City, Iowa.

The verses begin with the line:

H. L. W.

Would be taught, ye feathered throng,

ye

-Famous Parks and Gardens is a very handsome gift book describing, by illustrations and text, the more noted open-air resorts in Europe. It will be a royal quarto, brought out by Thomas Nelson & Sons, who have ready a new boys' book, by R. H. Ballantyne, a story of the Eng. lish mails, appropriately entitled Post Haste. Their line of juveniles is very full and attractive

this season.

selections as The Changed Cross, The Shadow of the Rock, and The Chamber of Peace.- Mrs. Prentiss's poems are also offered in this style, and the little volume called Comfort. Auto

graph books are similarly prepared. All these books are also sold unpainted.- Hand-painting has likewise been applied to the cloth binding of the new "Helpful Hour Series" with fine effect. These little volumes, At the Beautiful Gate, Unto the Desired Haven, and The Palace of the King, are understood to be, like the larger volume just issued, Home Life in Song, com-The Authors' Publishing Co. have in prep- pilations by Mr. Randolph himself. They ceraration two new illustrated volumes of the "En-tainly do credit to his taste.- A suitable New chanted Series," Kin-Folk, or What the Bees, Year's gift will be Daily Light on the Daily Path, author is known for the verses, and query, can any printed Birds and Butterflies told Daisy, and El-Fay- being a devotional text-book for every day in the year in the exact words of Scripture. It will come in a cloth case with The Morning Hour and The Evening Hour, and be sold only in the set. A coming book in the "Spare Hour Series " will be Nothing but Leaves, by Sarah Doud

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considerable number in Wheeler's Noted Names of Fiction.
It cannot be said, however, especially now when such
tions as Sisero or Kikero? are up, that there is any one
best accepted standard on the subject.

NEWS AND NOTES.

-Chas. Scribner's Sons will publish Mr. Her.. bert Smith's Brazil: The Amazons and the Coast. It will contain, both in text and illustrations, many additions to the papers which have attracted so much attention in Scribner's Monthly, and will be the more interesting that he makes study of the commercial facilities of the country in its cities as well as of its physical features, and of the life of its people in town and on plantations, of the Indians in their villages, and their myths and folk-lore, natural history, and the more ordinary things that the average traveler notes.

- Messrs. Roberts Brothers have nearly ready the Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, revised from Lady Llanover's edition of 1862, and edited by Sarah C. Woolsey (“Susan Coolidge "); it will be published in two volumes, embellished with portraits. Also One Hun dred Holy Songs, Carols, and Sacred Ballads, not a compilation, but an original work by a well―T. B. Peterson & Bros., as usual, announce known English poet; Aloha, a Hawaiian Salan "entirely new illustrated edition" of Beauti-utation, a book of travel and observation in the ful Snow and Other Poems, by J. W. Watson, Sandwich Islands, by George L. Chaney; Stories which they have made their stock holiday book for years. The Earl's Secret, by Miss Pardoe, will be the thirty-seventh volume of their "Dollar Series."- Courtship and Marriage, by Robert Morris, is a collection of sketches bearing on every-day life.

- The Egotist, a new book of “ 'Essays of Life," just ready at Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger's, has had some good things said of it in the "reader's" report of the MS.; these, for example: "An original book-very original — - Pilgrim's Progress is popular among the full of thought, and spicy;" "it looks at the publishers this year, and will be offered in vari- world from the point of view of a loving reous styles and sizes; but none will approach in former, and it somehow contradicts the convenelegance the edition de luxe imported by Scrib- tional statement made in books about the characner & Welford, containing one hundred illustra-teristics of man;""the impression conveyed is tions by Frederick Barnard and other artists of note. These engravings are full of character and finely executed, and the subscription list of the volume is rapidly filling with the names of book connoisseurs. It is printed on Dutch paper, with proofs on Japanese paper.- Breton Folk is a handsome quarto, made in the best English style, giving the results of an artistic tour in Britanny, the text from the lively pen of H. Blackburn, and one hundred and seventy illustrations from the popular pencil of R. Caldecott. - Scribner & Welford have also ready Berlin Under the New Empire, by Henry Vizetelly, with over four hundred illustrations by German art- - E. P. Dutton & Co. are to bring out a new ists. It fills two octavo volumes, and is sketch-edition of The Influence of Jesus, by Phillips ily written in lively style, giving an excellent Brooks, uniform with his other works. In juview of modern Germany, touching upon every veniles, they have just ready Will Weatherhelm, subject of general interest, including institutions, by H. G. Kingston, and a large quarto, profusely public buildings, inhabitants, manners, costumes, illustrated, called The Favorite Picture Book; with social life, etc. a full line of the English Editions of Kingston's Books for Boys.

- A new brochure on physical culture will be and embodying the best results of his long ex-entitled Muscle-Beating, or Active and Passive perience as a teacher of reading. It is published Home Gymnastics for Healthy and Unhealthy by himself at the College of Oratory, New York. People. It will be issued by M. L. Holbrook.

of War Told by Soldiers, collected and edited by Rev. E. E. Hale; and The Faith of Reason, a book of discourses on important themes of religion, by Rev. John W. Chadwick.

-Henry Holt & Co. bring out three books this week: T. S. Escott's England, The Child's the Young Folks' Encyclopædia, and Probation, by Catechism of Common Things, by the editor of the author of The First Violin.,

– W. H. & O. H. Morrison, of Washington, announce a History of the United States under the Constitution, by James Schouler, of the Boston Bar. In the compilation of the work Mr. Schouler has had all the advantages of the Congressional Library, the libraries of Boston and elsewhere, with access to the public archives, and fresh private materials. The work is designed

in some sense as a sequel to Mr. Bancroft's history.

-It is Ralph Gordon Noel, a grandson of Lord Byron, whom Miss "Kismet" Fletcher is to marry.

-A first complete edition of the Captivi of Plautus, compiled from the MS. in the British Museum by Prof. E. A. Sonneschin of Glasgow University, will soon be published by Sonneschin & Allen.

Kurnberger. In Munich, October, Ferdinand
Kürnberger, an original and remarkable author of novels,
dramas, and essays, little known out of Germany.
Blackwood. In Edinburgh, October 29, John Black-
and for many years editor of Blackwood's Magazine.

Macbeth. In Morganstown, W. Va., October, Prof.
J. Walker Vilant Macbeth; formerly of the University of
Might and Mirth of Literature.
West Virginia, a native of Scotland, and author of The

Belmontet. In Paris, October, M. Belmontet, 82

years; a fashionable poet of the "Third Empire."
Gonzaga. In Italy, October, the Marchese Anselmo
Guerrieri Gonzaga; a successful translator of Horace and
Goethe, and the author of some witty sonnets of delicate
workmanship.

- Mr. Stock's long-promised fac-simile reproduction of the autograph manuscript of the "Im-wood, 61 years; of the firm of Wm. Blackwood & Sons, itation of Christ" will be ready for publication in the autumn. A curious chapter of accidents has delayed its earlier appearance. First, the brightest days only afforded sufficient light for photographing in the quadrangle of the Royal Library at Brussels; then several of the negatives were broken in transit, and others had to undergo a special process after being taken, because of the dim and discolored state of the original manuscript. Then the animal size employed in making the first batch of Dutch paper putrefied in the hot weather of last summer. Then twentyfive of the electro blocks were destroyed by a fire at the printer's, the entire reproduction of which was necessary. Lastly, the second lot of Dutch paper was spoiled by too much wetting, causing the ink to run in printing, and a third lot of paper had to be made. The relation is curious, as it illustrates some of the difficulties in the way of fac-simile reprints. From some sheets we have seen we are glad to say every difficulty hasolutions of New Varieties of Man, by Dr. Daniel Wilson; A been surmounted, and that the beautifully regular Latin manuscript of the original has been reproduced with perfect clearness.- London Book seller.

Reybaud. In Paris, about November 1, M. Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, 80 years; a member of the French Institute, a journalist of merit and distinction, a leading writer in the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Journal des Economistes, and author of Jerome Paturot in Search of a Social Position, a keen caricature of the French society out of which came the Revolution of 1848.

CONTENTS OF THE PERIODICALS.
THE JOURNAL OF THE ANTHROPO-
LOGICAL INSTITUTE of Great Britain and Ire-
land. No. XXVII. Some American Illustrations of the Ev-

Revised Nomenclature of the Inter-Oceanic Races of Men, by
the Rev. S. J. Whitmee, F. R. G. S.; Ethnological Notes on
the Motu, Koitapu, and Koiari Tribes of New Guinea, by the
Rev. W. G. Lawes; Notes on a Skeleton found at Cissbury,
April, 1878, by Prof. G. Rolleston, M. D., F. R. S. (Plate X);
Illustrations of the Mode of Preserving the Dead in Darnley
Island and in South Australia, by Prof. W. H. Flower,
LL. D., F. R. S. (Plates XI, XII); President's Address at
the Annual Meeting, 1879, by John Evans, Esq., D. C. L.,
F.R.S.; Anthropological Miscellanea.

FOR OCTOBER.

FOR NOVEMBER.

MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE. He That Will
ties, No. IV, Prof. Seeley; The Indo-Mediterranean Railway,
Not When He May, serial, Mrs. Oliphant; History and Poli-
Its Political Aspect, Continander V. Lovett Cameron, R. N.;
The Russian Gisies, C. G. Leland; A Mathematician's View
of the Theory of Evolution, W. H. L. Russell, F. R. S.; A
Doubting Heart, serial, Miss Keary; Note on Burns's Com-
mon-place Book, Prof. W. Jack; The School Board for Lon-
don. Mrs. Westlake; The Grain-Producing Power of the
United States, L. B. Sidway of Chicago.

CASSELL'S FAMILY MAGAZINE. The
Tenth Earl, serial, J. B. Harwood; But For Hion, serial;

THE KANSAS CITY REVIEW of Science Prof. B. F. Mudge; British Imperialism and the Antonomie and Industry. Are the Indians Decreasing? If so, Why? Rights of Races, A. Greeley; Magnetic Survey of Missouri, Prof. F. E. Nipher; Aerial Navigation, Dixon; Geographical Engineering-Ancient and Modern; The Aqueduct of Seg via; Geographical Notes: Exploration of Central Asia, The Dutch Arctic Exploration, The Bennett Expedition. The North-East Passage; The Rosedale Gas Wells, Dr. J. Thorne; Pliocene Man; The Wonders of Geological Evolution; Diges tion and Dyspepsia; Ventilating, Lighting and Heating Dwelling Houses; The Saratoga Meeting of the A. A. A. Science Letter from Paris; Astronomical Notes; Book Notices; Scientific Miscellany; Editorial Notes.

BELGRAVIA. Donna Quixote, by Justin McCarthy; Expected Meteoric Display, by Richard A. Proctor; Peter Schroeder, by Bret Harte; The Young Lions, by E. Lynn Linton; The Professor's Declaration, by Linda Villar: Swanage, by James Payn; A Sermon in Stone, by Austin Dobson; Beasts, Birds, and Insects in Irish Folk-Lore, by Letitia McClintock; Helen Churchill's Lover, by the author of "Miss Molly;"'Queen of the Meadow, by Charles Gib

bon.

THE JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY. Mr. W. G. Clark's Notes on Aristophanes Acharnians, Part I; Anoth er Word on Lucilins, H. A. J. Munro; On the Aegritudo Perdicae, R. Ellis; On the Pro Cluentio of Cicero, H. Nettleship; Tone and other Characteristics of Chinese, G. E. Moule; On Licentia Poetica, John E. B. Mayor; On Hemina Sanguinis in Seneca and Jerome, John E. B. Mayor; On Condicio and Conditio, John E. B. Mayor; On the Date and Integrity of a Letter Ascribed to D. Brutus, A Watson; Juvenal, X, 54, 55, Joseph B. Mayor; Adfectus and Adfictus, H. Nettleship; The Number of Plato, D. B. Monro; On the Genuineness of the Sophist of Plato, and on Some of its l'hilosophical Bearings, W. H. Thompson; Princeps on Princeps Senatus? H. F. Fel ham; Catullus' 68th Poem, H. A. J. Munro,

THE TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. Proba tion, continued; A Journey ending with a Moral; With the Boers; The Romance of Pygmalion and Galatea; A Roundean; The Marquis of Pombal; Ballade; Criticism Past and Present; The Sealed Letter; Snark-Honting at Lyme Regis; A Sonnet; The Ballet of the Rat-Catcher; Vivian the Beauty, by Mrs. Annie Edwardes.

THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. White
Wings, Chapters XIV-XVI; The Apologia of Art; An El-
derly Romance; Forms of Salutation; Dinners in Literature;
Chapters XXV-XXVII.
Animal Music, by James Sully; Mademoiselle de Mersac,

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The Public Business of the House of Commons, by Henry Cecil Raikes, M. P.; The History of Money, by Sir John Lubbock; Lorraine Since 1871, by (the late) Leonard Montefiore; CinIs Typhoid Fever Contagious? by Dr. J. T. Maclagan; Alsace derella, by W. R. S. Ralston; The Noxious Gases Bill, by the Right Hon. Lord Midleton; Experiments in Punishment, by Sir Edmund F. Du Cane; Compulsory Providence: a Reply to Mr. Blackley, by Rev. W. Walter Edwards, M. A.; The Book Language of China, by Herbert A. Guiles; The Unity of Nature: a Speculation, by the Lord Bishop of Carlislie; The Spoilt Child of Europe, by R. W. Hanbury, M.P.

THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. On Freedom, by Professor Max Müller; Mr. Gladstone: Two the Revolution in France, by Prof. Von Sybel; What is the A Liberal, II-By A Conservative; The Ancien Régime and Actual Condition of Ireland? by Edward Stanley Robertson; The Deluge: its Traditions in Ancient Nations, by Francois Lenormant; Suspended Animation, by Richard A. Proctor; John Stuart Mill's Philosophy Tested, by Prof. W. Stanley Jevons, IV-Utilitarianism.

LY. The Widow's Two Mites, by A. P. Peabody, D.D., LL. D.; Whence the Words of Eternal Life-The Scientist's and Peter's Answers Contrasted, by Sam'l A. Ort, D. D.;

PREACHER AND HOMILETIC MONTH

TRANSLATIONS.-It may be said of translations from the poetry of another language that "the best in this kind are but shadows." The form of the original may be repeated, and the substance more or less truthfully indicated, but the colour- THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. The Fed-Studies suggested by his "Gleanings of Past Years," I-By ing is apt to be lost. A well-laid-down specimen The Indian Mutiny; Cavour and Lamarmora; The Bohe eration of the English Empire; The Law of Real Property; of a plant in the hortus siccus of a botanist may mians and Slovaks; Prince Bismarck; Lord Brougham; Inexhibit every petal, leaf, and tendril, but the liv-dia and our Colonial Empire; Contemporary Literature." ing grace and perfume of the flower as it bloomed have fled forever, and can only be recalled by the memories of those who are so fortunate as to have enjoyed them in the life. Still it must be allowed that there are degrees of merit, and varieties of aim, in poetical translations, and that the great majority of readers must remain entirely unacquainted with the masterpieces of ancient or foreign literature unless presented to them in their So that the work of the translator, own tongue. fascinating as it is in itself for those engaged in it, must always have an interest and value of its own, and will continue to find votaries to perform it for their own satisfaction, and sometimes to command the attention of the public. The best known and most read translation in the English language is Pope's Homer, and this holds its own against more literal renderings of the original, because the Greek is freely fused and recast in a thoroughly English mould. Scholars may have their recollections of the poems more completely roused by a closer adherence to the words with which they are familiar; but the general taste is sure to prefer that which appears before it in the welcome guise of a readable English poem. A bare tracing or reproduction of a picture in black and white may for some purposes be more valuaPENN MONTHLY. Henry Charles Carey, R. E. ble than a copy in colours, but the last will al-Thompson; The Organization and Management of State Hosways have the greatest attraction for the eyes of the many.- Saturday Review.

The Monthly Rose, sonnet, Mary Taylor; Highland Sports
and Pastimes, W. Gibson; Reading at the British Museum;
How We Made Bread at Home; Frank Ross at Hartford;
Another Little Friend; How Jacques Balmat Ascended Mont
Blanc, Frank Barrett; A Healthy Heart, by a Family Doctor;
The Fisher-Bark, poein, J. G. Watts; A Gossip About Shells;
words by Edw. Oxenford, music by Prof. J. Gordon Saun-
The Art of Washing Clothes; A Line of Light; Whispers.
ders, D. Mus.; A Glance at Glasgow; Coffee Taverns and the
Temperance Movement; The Old Fair Story, a song; What
to Wear; Chit-Chat on Dress, by Paris Correspondent; Tea-
Growing in India, The Gatherer.

THE AMERICAN ART REVIEW. Intro-
duction; The Works of the American Etchers: R. Swain
Gifford, 'by S. R. Koehler; The Washington Monument, Hen-
ry Van Brunt; The Public and Private Collections of the
Wie teles, Barve Bronzes in the Corcoran Gallery,
Wm. Macleod; Landscape and Sheep; Ancient Literary
Sources of the History of the Formative Arts among the
Greeks, C. C. Perkins; Praxiteles' Hermes with the Infant
Dyonysos, Thos. Davidson; The Material of American Land-
scape, W. M. Laffan; Portrait of Murillo; Impressionism in
France; Bibliography; American Art Chronicle; Foreign
Art Chronicle.

pitals for the Insane, G. B. Massey, M.D.; The Present
Position and Prospects of Political Economy, Prof. J. K. In-
gram; Lafontaine and his Critics.

Consecrated Womanhood-To Young Women, by S. V. Leech, D. D.; The Elect Christians, by Rev. G. F. Pentecost; The Noblest Ministry, by John Hall, D. D.; Christ and the Perfect Character, by J. M. Manning, D. D.; God's Providence, by E. A. Washburne, D. D.; The Love of Christ, Known and Unknown, by Rev. G. M. Peters; Description of John Elliot; The Average Man, by Rev. F. E. Clark: The a Service in Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle-Some of the Charac teristics of the Right Way; Wealth in Both Worlds, by Rev. Enriching Power of God, by Noah Schenck, D. D.; The Thirst of Christ, by Rev. Jas. Stuart; Songs in the Night, by Rev. Edw. M. Deems; Children s Service-King Bramble and His Subjects, by Rev. Albert F. Vedder; Preachers and Reporters, by Dr. Deems; Brotherly Talk with Young Ministers, by Dr. Cuyler; Expository Preaching, by Dr. Wm. M. Taylor; Prayer Meeting Service, by L. O. Thompson; Sermonic Criticism: The English Pulpit; Errors in Grammar in prominent Pulpits; Summer and Storrs; Studies in the Book of Revelation, by Rev. D. C. Hughes.

FOR DECEMBER,

HARPER'S MONTHLY. The Fortunes of the
Bonapartes; The New York Cooking School, by F. E. Fryatt;
The City of Atlanta, by Ernest Ingersoll; The Palestine of

To-Day, by Dr. J. F. Hurst; The Iron Pen, a poem, by H.
W. Longfellow; Sea-Drift from a New England Port, by
Lizzie W. Champney; Blossoms, a poem. by Philip O. Sul-
livan; London's Glory and Whittington's Renown, a ballad;
White Wings, a Yachting Romance, by Wm. Black; The
Connemara Hills, II, by J. L. Cloud; Young Mrs. Jardine,
a novel, by Dinah M. Craik; A New and True Ghost
Story, a poem, by James T. Fields; Will's Will, and his
Anerley, a novel, by R. D. Blackinore.
Two Thanksgivings, a story, by Rose Terry Cooke; Mary

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