ADVANCE BOOK-NOTES. [This department is intended to include descriptive notices, from advance sheets, of all books of popular sale. Booksellers will thus be enabled to order knowingly and confidently on books likely to sell well in their localities, and to obtain such information as to the character of new publications as will "post" them for calling the attention of particular customers to books likely to suit their taste. Advance sheets for use in this department should be forwarded by publishers at earliest convenient date.-ED.] out. The chief source of information has been "A Seven Months' Trip, Up and Down and Around the World," is the title under which are collected the letters written by Hon. James Brooks, M.C., to the Evening Express, of which he is editor, during his late trip. He crossed the continent overland, travelled extensively in China and Japan, and came home, still with his face westward, vra India and Europe. These letters were mere "jottings down" of what he saw and thought, without literary polish, just "thinking out loud on paper," as he says. They give a great deal of information, in very sprightly fashion, especially as to our Asiatic neighbors. The letters are embodied in a 12m0 of 375 pages, soon to be published by D. Appleton & Co. Albert Lunel is the title of No. 376 in the Harpers' Library of Select Novels. It derives interest from the fact that it was written so long ago as 1844, by the late Lord Brougham, though for private reasons of his own, it was not published during his lifetime. The scene is laid in France at the time of the first Revolution; the plot is one of tragedy and love; the conversation is largely political. Albert Lunel, the hero, is a hermit monk; the other persons are of the French gentry and nobility. "Joseph Mazzini: his Life, Writings and Political Principles," is a most important and interesting work, which Hurd & Houghton have nearly ready for publication. It is edited from the writings of the great agitator and some autobiographical notes which he left, and translated into excellent English by one of his most intimate friends and adherents, Mme. Venturi, daughter of a liberal English statesman. The biography thus made up is as thrilling as a sensational romance, for the facts of Mazzini's life are more remarkable than any devisings of the most imaginative fictionist. Mazzini was born in Genoa in 1809; as early as 1826 he began to write liberal articles for the press, and helped to cause the suppression of several periodicals. Not much later, he was initiated into the secret order of Carbonari, as he describes in this book, and was imprisoned for his connection with it. Finding that dead, in 1831 he organized the order of "Young Italy," whose documents are given in full, and exiled in Italy took refuge in France. The French Government also passed sentence of exile; yet he remained hidden in Marseilles, sending thence all sorts of Republican pronunciamentos. "And thus began for me the life I have led for twenty years out of thirty-a life of voluntary imprisonment within the four walls of a little room." The red, green, and white tricolor of Young Italy bore upon its one side the motto "Liberty, Equality, Humanity;" on the other Unity and Independence." Treachery defeated the attempted insurrection, but it led to a consoli- be published by D. Appleton & Co., a closelydation of the European Republicans in the order D. Yonge, on the same principle as his "Three printed 12mo of 572 pages, is a work by Prof. Ć. of "Young Europe "-1834. He became, then, a Centuries of English Literature." The design is universal exile; even the English Government opened his letters. In 1849 occurred the Republi-eral view of the modern history of continental to give, in readable and connected shape, a gencan uprising in Italy, and with that the autobiog- Europe, from 1485 (where Hallam closes) to the raphical portion closes. Mme. Venturi briefly gives death of Napoleon the First. "It is here endeavthe remaining facts. The volume proves Mazzini ored," says the author, by presenting in a one of the most remarkable of men and innocent connected series, a set of sketches of some of the transactions of the most conspicuous interest or importance in the annals of the different nations of often, it may be said generally, is between the Modern Europe, to show how real the connection events of one age or country and those of another, and to induce some readers to follow out for themselves the investigation of the causes of action thus suggested, with greater minuteness, to study the history of different countries, or of some of them, in greater detail." of all bloodshed except open war. His writingsbrief specimens of which are given-are wonderfully eloquent. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, in an introduction, contrasts him with Kossuth, and proves his abhorrence of negro slavery and of the subjection of woman. The book is furnished with a useful index and a photographic portrait from an original negative. It is in 12mo, pp. 366. The Lives of the Saints is the latest undertaking of that enterprising and capable littérateur, Rev. S. Baring-Gould. The work is intended both for Episcopalians and Roman Catholics, and gives under each day of the year brief sketches, fresh with anecdote and therefore anything but statistical or dry, of the several saints whose memory is there commemorated. The plan of the work covers twelve volumes, one for each month, including sketches of 3,600 saints. The volume for January, the only one yet issued, passed immediately to a second edition in England, and will shortly be issued here by Pott, Young & Co. in a well-made 12mo of 472 pages. The data of the work have been freshly and carefully authenticated, and references are made to the authorities through Three Centuries of Modern History, soon to BOOK NOTICES. A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE United States, by W. H. Venable, is just issued by Wilson, Hinkle & Co. of Cincinnati. The book is quite a novelty in its line, and cannot fail to interest pupils in the history of their country. It is evident at the first glance that Mr. Venable has used his long experience as a teacher to great advantage in preparing this little manual, as he has discarded old forms and introduced new ones with excellent discretion. The plan is simple. There is no arbitrary division into periods and eras, but each chapter deals with as sociated events and forms a natural link in an unbroken chain. Important dates are brought out by peculiar type. There is a short summing up of general progress at the end of most chapters, which gives the pupils a condensed and clear account of the civil and domestic character of the country, of its employments and ideas, and other items not strictly connected with wars and politics. Brevity is a special good feature of this book. Comparatively unimportant matter has been rejected and the style is clear and simple, though often embellished with quotation and anecdote. The author has experienced that an apt quotation or striking metaphor will often fix a fact in a pupil's mind which, dryly stated, would make no impression at all. The compilation has been made from most reliable sources and great pains have been taken to verify all statements advanced in the book. A new and very excellent feature are the foot notes, which will serve as a guide to historical literature, biography and fiction, and are selected with great care and taste. The little volume is profusely illustrated, particularly with portraits from Columbus down to Greeley and Hiram Powers; and supplied with maps of extraordinary accuracy and clearness. | They have been printed in the most perfect manner. The whole mechanical execution of the book indeed is remarkably fine, and is fully equal to anything that the East has produced in the line of school books. The book is sure of pleasing both teachers and scholars, and its enterprising publishers will spare no pains to put it in a position to do so. to VIBBERT'S GUIDE TO READING the HebrEW TEXT.-(Draper). The aim of this work is to give the student all that is needful enable him to read the text of the Old Testament, keeping rigorously to the plan stating clearly and precisely everything that is essential to this purpose. This work is not a Hebrew Grammar, but it is a guide and a help to the reading of the text of the Hebrew Bible. One thing is given at a time, with exercises for practice, so that each point may be perfectly comprehended. It is hoped that the book is so constructed as to enable the learner to read the Hebrew text without the services of the living teacher. Nothing has been taken for granted on the part of the student. By a systematic and progressive plan of arrangement, which he must follow closely and steadily, he is lead on from section to section, until perfect famili arity with the forms and sounds of the characters and signs is acquired. STUDIES IN POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY. By J. C. Shairp.-Messrs. Hurd & Houghton have done a good service to the more thoughtful class of readers in reprinting this valuable work, as they also did in reprinting the same author's "Culture and Religion," which latter work has met the warmest approbation of some os our most prominent college officers, among whom may be named President Hopkins, of Williams; Professor Peabody, of Harvard; Professor Fisher, of Yale; President McCosh, of Princeton, and President Harris, of Bowdoin. The present work embraces elaborate essays on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keble, and "The Moral Motive Power." That of Words worth should be carefully read by all loving students of the great poet, and not less carefully by the large class of readers who are more or less indifferent to his works. The unfair treatment which the earlier poems of Wordsworth received at the hands of the great critical autocrat of the day, Lord Jeffery, and the ridicule cast upon them by such men as Lord Byron, are still exerting influence on the general mind, and a large portion of what may be called the popular opinion, may be said to be traditional; and a writer of the critical acumen of Shairp cannot do a better work than to set forth as he has done the great services rendered by Wordsworth to English poetical literature, than whom no poet perhaps ever had a keener eye for the permanent moral relations of the outer world to the human spirit. The Four Essays, though they are distinct in subject, and may each be read independently of the others, are yet pervaded by a unity of thought and purpose. This unity has been well set forth by an English reviewer: "His subjects-Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keble, and the Moving Force of the Moral Life-are all, and not slightly, connected. All four subjects may be said to be concerned with the relation of the divine life to that of man; Wordsworth as the prophet of nature, as the poet who interpreted the relations between the elemental powers of creation and the moral life of man; Coleridge as the thinker, who tried to find, and partially found, a philosophy of the supersensual life; Keble as the singer, who applied both these great worlds of thought so far as they fitted into the limitations of his own ecclesiastical system; and, finally, the subject of Mr. Shairp's last essay-the great moving force which helps man to become what he perceives that he ought to be-is one almost inevitably suggested by the lives of the three men who, from their different points of view, had all been chiefly concerned to discover new links between the life above and the life beneath." A MANUAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By John S. Hart, LL. D. (Eldridge & Bro.)-This volume will prove a valuable contribution to the aids to the study of English Literature, which is every year becoming one of greater prominence in the courses of instruction in American schools. It is a great improvement upon the Compendiums of English literature that have been in use for some years. Extracts from authors have not been made a feature of the work. The work is intended "to serve the double purpose of a text-book and a book of reference." În its latter character it is perhaps superior to any manual that has ever been published. The following subjects have been very elaborately treated, and all who are specially interested in them, together with the general student, will find full and correct information in regard to them: Shakespeare, The English Versions of the Bible, The Book of Common Prayer, English Hymnody. In collecting materials for the work, the author has availed himself of the services of a number of able scholars in their sev eral specialties. And it should be noticed, that the author's strict impartiality, in a religious point of view, has allowed him to render full justice to Catholic writers, of whom there are now a large number in England of great ability. In this he has had the aid of an eminent Catholic Professor. It is a difficult thing for an author, in the preparation of so extensive a work, involving as does, such manifold occasions for exhibiting preferences and prejudices, to maintain the strict impartiality which is so distinguishing a characteristic of the present work. The work contains a copious verbal index,. by means of which any item may be referred to as readily as if the whole were in the form of a dictionary. Dr. Hart's long and varied experience as an educator, and the special attention he has given to literary studies, have well fitted him for the dif tional text-books, namely, a manual of English ficult task of supplying a desideratum in educa literature. FABLES AND LEGENDS OF MANY COUNTRIES. Rendered in Rhyme, by John Godfrey Saxe. (Osgood & Co.)-This pleasant little volume will not only prove very acceptable to young readers, but it will be enjoyed by all readers of a large growth, whase unperverted tastes allow them to derive pleasure from time-honored stories, especially when such stories are presented in a garb of unaffected simplicity as they are in this volume. We would call special attention to the following "Love and Joy;" "The Two Church-Builders ;' "The Beacon-Light;" "The King and the Peasant;" "Love Omnipotent." NOTABLE REVIEWS OF NOTABLE BOOKS. The figures in parentheses refer to the number of the TRADE CIRCULAR containing the full title record. Olrig Grange (17), by Hermann Kunst, is a poem in six books. Each book contains the utterances of a distinct person. The whole is knit into a consecutive story by the loops which the reputed editor supplies in the shape of an explanatory preface to each division. The story itself is very simple, but it is told in powerful and suggestive verse. The composition is instinct with quick and passionate feeling, to a degree that attests the truly poetic nature of the man who produced it. At the same time, it exhibits much more of genuine thought, of various knowledge, of regulated and exquisite sensibility, than is often to be found in the works of immature and merely imitative poets. The reader will, no doubt, readily detect, alike in substance and rhythm, certain echoes and reminiscences of what is familiar; he will perceive a manifest sympathy with the genius of Tennyson and Browning, showing itself in the general tone and in particular tricks of phrase; but he will become aware also, that he is in communication with a richly endowed mind, sensitive to original impressions, and capable of reproducing them in felicitous and resonant words. Thus the volume is both admirable and disappointing. It is so good that the least fastidious critic cannot help wishing it were better. Constantly touching upon a high degree of excellence, it yet falls below the possibilities not only of the author's conception, but of his proved powers. He sees with keen and clear insight into the vexed life of our time; he is acquainted with the problems of cultured speculation; they have so come home to him that he derives his topics from the storehouse of individual, consciousness, as well as from the suggestions of literature and the real aspects of humanity; in dealing with these topics, he exhibits throughout an open and liberal nature, a fine and firm discrimination of character, a glowing and an abundant fancy, a subtle eye to read the symbolism of nature, and great wealth and mastery of language; in a word, he possesses in large measure the artistic faculty, and he has employed it for worthy purposes. Still we are dis satisfied. Amid much that is fine, and moving, and true, alike in bursts of emotion, in brooding sentiment, in the embodiments of ideal thought, and in passages of scornful delineation, there is something lacking. An inch deeper, and you will find the emperor," was, as the story goes, the enthusiastic exclamation of the Frenchman whose wound a surgeon was probing, after Waterloo; and a little more of force and reach, we may say, would have carried this author to the very heart of his central theme.-London Spectator. with such a clear desire to be impartial, that they deserve to be treated with respect, if not to be implicitly accepted." We should not omit to say that Mr. Rae has rendered M. Taine's masterly French into the most delicate, lithe, and racy Eng lish; so that the book is one of the most valuable of recent additions to this class of English literature.-British Quarterly Review. The Lord's Prayer (18).-The republication of any work from the pen of F. D. Maurice must always be regarded as the placing within easy reach of all disposed to profit by it of a substantial and unquestionable benefit. The present is, however, an eminently fitting occasion for bringing out this admirable little volume, which, it may be hoped, will do something toward awakening an interest in the writings of the prophetic spirit, lately removed to a higher sphere of service, whose claims to the respectful and grateful attention of thoughtful readers are not perhaps altogether known to his own generation. Maurice is not a writer whose scope can be learned by extracts. It suffices to say that the princi pal ideas which seem to have been most native and dear to him may be found in this little book. Here are the thoughts and principles which freed him from narrowness and made him the spiritual deliverer of many souls from the desolation of unbelief or the dreariness of servitude to creeds of man's devising. Here we find the rare hospitality of spirit, the breadth of vision, the manly sympathy with humanity in its present conflicts and social and personal needs, and no less in its deepest struggles and highest aspirations, which are impressed on all that he has written. And here, too, above all, shines forth the great faith which underlies and gives power and permanence to his whole labor and doctrine-childlike in its ser enity, invincible in its strength, wise in its open vision-faith in a perfect Providence, an absolute redemption, and in that all-comprehending kingdom of heaven which it was the aim of his life to illustrate and help to make possible.-Boston Advertiser. Prof. Young's The Sun (19).-The present state of knowledge concerning the sun, as modified by the progress of physical research during the last few years, is here set forth with remarkable clearness of exposition and felicity of illustration. Within the compass of a brief essay a great amount of information is communicated, and in a manner which needs only an attentive perusal, even without the discipline of a scientific training, for its intelligent comprehension by the general reader. This essay, which was at first delivered as a lecture before the Yale Scientific Club, is a model of condensation and lucidity. It is now published as one of the University Series, and will doubtless and a cordial reception from studious readers as a suggestive monograph in the branch of science to which it is devoted. A more appropriate introduction to the astronomy of the sun cannot easily be found, and could hardly be desired.-Tribune, May 21. The Desert of the Exodus, by E. H. Palmer, M.A. (19) is a record of journeys on foot in the wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, undertaken in connection with the ordnance survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. It is illustrated by maps and numerous engravings from photographs and drawings taken on the spot by the Sinai surveying The author spent expedition and C. F. Tyhrwhitt Drake. eleven months in journey on foot through all the extensive Country traversed by the Children of Israel in their flight from Egypt, accompanied by eminent explorers and scientific men, and with the additional advantage of a familiar acquaintance with the Arabic language. He says: "I have in every case recorded the impressions received upon the spot, and have carefully avoided all theories, except such as were actually upon by the facts, and were moreover, lateral evidence. In the preparation of the work he had the assistance of men distinguished in biblical and antiquarian learning, and the result is a work which may safely be pronounced the most complete, accurate and circumstantial of any in existence concerning the region of which it treats, of very great value to several classes, and to none more valuable than to the student of the Bible. The book is printed handsomely, and in every mechanical particular is substantial and attractive. Taine's Notes on England (19).-These "Notes on England," originally published in the Paris Temps and in the Daily News, as translated by Mr. W. F. Rae, are M. Taine's social studies for his "History of English Literature." He revised them after a second visit; and we now have them as the most deliberative criticism on English social life which M. Taine can hope to give us. They are keen, brilliant, and vivacious. As a Frenchman of the best type and of the highest culture, M. Taine knows perfectly the tricks of conversation; and these notes are just written talk of the very best kind. He has such a quick eye for beauty, and is so ready to make allowances, to pause and reconsider a verdict. He frankly sets down impressions, asks questions, delicately-Boston Advertiser. hints a possibility; and then passes on to other topics. His efforts to take the point of view of those he deals with is the more perceptible, that outward and determining conditions are, after all, implicitly judged by a French standard. One of the most valuable portions of the volume is Mr. Rae's biographic sketch, which throws not a little light on M. Taine's literary determinations. It is a rare merit in Mr. Rae that he appreciates, yet can discriminate; that he is a devoted student, and yet no blind disciple. He well says that "inability to advocate all M. Taine's pretensions does not imply a want of admiration for what he has performed. He is greater than his method. His own personality is too marked to be concealed under any formula, however abstract; his powers are too rare to fail to extort the admiration of those who may dif fer the most from him on speculative points. His characteristic is a passion for facts, his excellence consists in the skill with which he can turn his facts to the best account. He has a keen sense of beauty; he can convey his impressions to a reader in language of singular felicity. He requires the aid LITERARY AND TRADE GOSSIP. A NEW edition of the autobiography of Horace Greeley, entitled "Recollections of a Busy Life, brought down to the present time, is now in press, and will speedily be issued by E. B. Treat, No. 805 Broadway, N. Y. Copies can be had at The Tribune office. This work, beside its copious details, respecting the personal career of the author, contains a variety of reminiscences of American politics and politicians from the commencement of the Missouri contest to the abolition of slavery. THE campaign edition of Parton's "Life of Greeno method to make his conclusions acceptable. His judgley," brought down to date, has just been issued by nts are formed on so complete a mass of evidence, and James R. Osgood & Co. THE KENSINGTON THACKERAY.-J. R. Osgood & Co. having already two editions-the Household and the Library editions-of Thackeray's works, have begun the publication of a third, called the "Kensington." It will consist of twelye very handsome but not costly duodecimo volumes, and will include both his novels and miscellanies, newly arranged. The initial volume, "Vanity Fair,' shows that this edition will be in respect of typography and general style of execution a very desirable edition for the library, and one altogether worthy of this prince of writers. JOAQUIN MILLER, the Poet of the Sierras, writes the San Francisco correspondent of the Boston Globe, is sojourning in this city, and divides his time between the Bohemian Club, articles for the Overland Monthly, and a novel on which he is engaged. It is said that his novel will be a picture of California life, half historic and half romantic. Beyond this nothing is known of his work, and he is not anxious to make public any more than that I state. Mrs. Lippincott, better known as "Grace Greenwood," is still here, and she tells me that she will remain until the snows have cleared away that she may be enabled to visit that glorious temple of nature-Yosemite Valley. She has been here six or eight months, and during that time has had great success with her lectures. O my THE NURSERY, which more appropriately might be called the Happy Nursery, and which by thousands of little ones invariably is hailed " Nursery," closes, with the 66th or June number, its eleventh volume. This volume, full of charm ing pictures, has told the little ones seventy-six stories and given them forty-three little poems, all within their comprehension, and printed in such large, clear and taking type that it must inspire the little men and women to learn to read, and spare mamma the fiftieth reading of "the nice story, you know what I like the best." The "Nursery" has now 35,000 subscribers, and not one of them can ever be disappointed by its contents. The only improvement that might be suggested to the publishers is to have the paper cut, as paper-cutters are not always on hand in a nursery, and "who shall cut it, mamma!" always needs deliberation and often causes quite lively "nursery pictures." The paper is supported by the young generation, which is very critical, and that it steadily increases in favor, is a sure token of its unfailing beauty and interest. WYNKOOP & HALLENBECK have a new work in press, to be issued in June, from the pen of C. L. Brace, entitled "The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them." The general drift of the discussions in the volume will be gathered from the motto: "Ameiorer l'homme par la terre et la terre par l'homme," from the well-known philanthropist, Demetz. The book will be illustrated with characteristic wood-cuts, picturing the fortunes of the homeless poor in New York. It will probably be sold by agents. MR. O. BROWNE ALCOTT'S CONCORD DAYS, which is rapidly going through the press of Roberts Brothers, is in the form of a journal, and contains a daily record of life in Concord, gardening, landscape architecture, historical scenes and incidents, sketches of notable characters-themselves the life-long friends of the author-Hawthorne, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Emerson, etc. Mr. Alcott's style has a quaintness which reminds one forcibly of Sir Thomas Browne and the old English prose writers. CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER'S NEW BUILDING.-Says he Ledger: "Three of the old est buildings on Market street, probably among the first erected in that locality are now being demolished to give place to a large and handsome business structure. The houses referred to are Nos. 624, 626, and 628, on the south side of the street, a few doors above Decatur. On the site of them is to be erected a five-storied building, the front of which, of ornamented iron, will be 60 feet, and the depth 120 feet. It is to be occupied by the book publishing firm of Messrs. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. EDITORS' AND PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.-The next annual convention of this Association will be held in Watertown, Jefferson county, commencing on Tuesday, June 25th. The Annual Address will be delivered by Mr. S. H. Parker of the Geneva Gazette, and the Poem by Mr. G. C. Bragdon of the N. Y. Financier. A circular is in course of preparation which will contain full particulars of busi ness meetings, excursions, railroad time tables, railroad and hotel accommodations, etc., and will be sent to all regularly enrolled members of the Association by the Secretary, and to such persons desirous of becoming members as may apply for same. EVERY SATURDAY has just begun "The Yellow Flag," a new serial by Edmund Yates, the popular author of "Black Sheep." A NEW novel, "Johannes Olaf," is making a stir in the literary circles of Germany. It is the work of Eliza Wille, the author of "Felicitas," published in 1850. After an interval of twentytwo years, she produces a second novel, of which the historian Lubke writes in the warmest terms of praise. "Johannes Olaf" is said to be remarkable for its powerful character-drawing, its exalted views of life, and magnificent descriptions of natural scenery. Its motto is very striking, and indicates the purpose of the work: "To the brave man, good and evil fortune are at his right and left hand; he makes use of both." A translation will shortly appear from a Boston house. THE Académie Française has awarded the first Montyon prize, of three thousand francs, to M. Ollé-Laprune, Professor of Philosophy at the Lycée Corneille, for his work, entitled "La Philosophie de Malebranche." A NEW Spanish weekly paper, El Americano. which was to have been brought out in Madrid, has been published in Paris, under the editorship of Señor Varela, with the assistance of the most distinguished democratic writers of Spain, and some of the best writers of France. Amongst these latter are mentioned MM. E.Laboulaye, E. Girardin, E. Renan, J. Michelet, G. Sand, Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo, etc. Prof. Paolo Mantegazza, of Italy, will contribute notes on Science. The paper is splendidly illustrated. FORTHCOMING dramatic novelties in Paris are, "Marcel" and "Part du Roi," by M. Catulle Mendes, at the Francais; "Le Fils de la Nuit," revived at the Gaîtée, with MM. Desrieux and Lafontaine, Madame Devoyod, and Mdlle. Page; "Le Roi des Ecoles," at the Ambigue Comique; "Les Cent Vierges," at the Variétes; and "L'Affaire Lerouge," adapted from a novel of M. Gaboriau, at the Theâtre du Château d'Eau. THERE is but one daily paper in Russia with a circulation of over ten thousand copies-the Moscow Gazette-none of the St. Petersburg dailies circulating over four thousand copies. A NEW trade publication, the Warehousemen and Draper's Trade Journal, is announced to be issued fortnightly by Messrs. Emmott, Hartley & Co., of 138 Fleet street, London. MARCUS WARD & Co., of Belfast, have issued from their London house a very attractive Trade Catalogue of leather goods and fancy stationery, with illustrations. The work is nearly all manufactured in Ireland, where a number of natives have been instructed, and their special talents developed by Messrs. Ward. MISS WOOLSEY's (Susan Coolidge) fresh, original and very delightful book, "The New Year's Bargain," will be republished in London by Messrs. Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, who have made an honorable arrangement with the author for this purpose. THE "AMERICAN JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY" is the name of a new organization which proposes to issue books on Jewish Life, History and Literature to its own members specially, who are each to pay three dollars annum dues, and receive one copy of every publication issued by the society during the current year. A VALUABLE book for information and reference is the Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871, edited by Spencer F. Baird, with the assistance of eminent men of science (Harper). The editor has had ample opportunities for the collection of data, the work has been done in a comprehensive, impartial, and careful manner. After a general summary of the progress of the year, the contents are arranged under the following general titles, each of which includes many subtitles: I. Mathematics and Astronomy; II. Terrestrial Physics and Meteorology; III. Electricity, Light, Heat and Sound; IV. Chemistry and Metallurgy; V. Mineralogy and Geology; VI. Geography; VII. General Natural History and Zoology: VIII. Botany and Horticulture; IX. Agriculture and Rural Economy; X. Household Economy; XI. Mechanics and Engineering; XII. Technology; XIII. Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Hygiene; XIV. Miscellane ous. To this is added a Necrology, Index to References, and an alphabetical index. GEORGE SAND is at work upon a "Life of Christ." MR. ALCOTT's new book, "Concord Days," is nearly half printed, and will be published by Roberts in June, in season for the summer tourists and sea-shore colonists. It is in form a diary, dated in the year 1869, but made up by months instead of days. It contains the actual entries in the author's journal, amplified and modified to suit the plan of the work, which involves a series of sketches of persons, places, books, and events, accompanied with much quotation and speculation. Among the persons sketched, more or less fully, are Emerson, Thoreau, Phillips, Horace Greeley, Goethe, Carlyle, etc. J. B. FORD & Co. announce as the first volume of a uniform edition in 12 mo, of Henry Ward Beecher's Works, his "Lectures on Preaching," recently delivered before the Divinity School at Yale College. OVER a million volumes of Oliver Optic's books have been sold in the past ten years! THE CHICAGO LIBRARY.-Some important contributions,says the London Athenæum, May 11, have been made this week to the Chicago Library, Crystal Palace. The proprietor of the Times promises a series of volumes of that journal; and sets of the Art-Journal and Public Opinion have been sent in. Mr. John Murray's donation is accompanied by gifts of Dr. William Smith's Dictionaries (II vols.) and works by Mr. Layard, Dr. A. P. Stanley, and Mr. Smiles, from the authors. Messrs. James Parker & Co. have forwarded a large donation of heir theological and classical reprints. Among the more considerable gifts by societies are the publications of the Philological Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the Statistical Society, the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, and the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, the latter offering to continue their contributions. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, for June 1, contains three pages of pictures illustrative of Horace Greeley at Home. "GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN," is the forcible title of Olive Logan's protest, in book form, against "free-love, free marriage, free divorce, and free lives principles, which clearly it is the aim of certain men and women to engraft upon the woman's movement." Adams Victor & Co., the successful publishers of Talmage's Abominations of Society," will issue the book June 15, at $1.50. The book, of course, will sell. G. W. CARLETON & Co. announce that they have in rapid preparation, and will publish in a few days, a representative life of Horace Greeley, by L. U. Reavis, with an introduction by Cassius M. Clay. HOLT & WILLIAMS have in press "Incidents of My Life," by Home, the spiritualist, a book which has made something of a sensation in England. CONTENTS OF PERIODICALS. after Sir J. Reynolds.-The March of Miles Standish, after Art Journal.-May.-Line Engravings.-The Robin, G. H. Boughton.-The Peri and Child, after C. F. Fuller.Literary.-Art Work for Women, III. How the Work may be Done.-Art in Home, 1872.-The Stately Homes of England: Chatsworth, by S. C. Hall, F.S.A.-Illust. - Cele brated Churches of Europe:-Spires Cathedral and Mayence Cathedral. Illust.-Exhibitions.-Metallic Photographs, etc. The first portion of the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition, 1872, by George Wallis. Blackwood's Magazine.-May.-French Home Life. No. 6, Language.-A True Reformer. Part III.-Church Reform.-The Maid of Sker, Part X.-The Situation in France.-Statesmen In and Out of Parliament. Eclectic Magazine.-June.-Embellishment, "Senater Carl Schurz."-Sir Henry Holland's Recollections.-The Portuguese in Africa.-Wanderings in Japan, by A. B. Milford. II.-About Charles Lamb. After Winter.-The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton, by Wm. Black, author of "A Daughter of Heth," etc. Chaps. X.-XII.-Our Dianers.-The Asrai, by Bobert Buchanan.-Temperature and Movements of the Deep Sea.-Superhuman Dwellingplaces.-A Memoir of Mazzini, by David Masson.-French Novelists. III. Honore de Balzac.-Monks of La Trappe. -Chemistry in the Kitchen.-Senator Schurz.-Literary Notices.--Science.-Art, etc. The Edinburgh Review.-April.-Burns' Rome and the Campagna.-The Royal Institution.-Guizot's Memoir of the Duke de Broglie.-Mr. Miall on Disestablishment.-Letters and Discoveries of Sir Charles Bell.-Oceanic Circulation.-The Works of John Hookham Frere.-The Autobiography of Henry Lord Brougham.-The Claims of the United States. Good Health.-June.--Adulteration and How it may be prevented.-Sanitary Science.-Danger from Lightning.Means of Preserving Health.-Darwinism in Reference to the Eyes of Animals.-Increase of Heart Disease.-Sea-Sickness.-Shall we Throw Physic to the Dogs?-Black Assizes. Weather-wise Animals.-Carbonic Acid Gas.-The Beginning of Summer.-Apparent Death.-Consumption.-Disor ders of the Nerves of the Lungs.-Our Educational Outlook. -Love and Marriage.—Miscellany. Overland Monthly.-June.-Sheep Farming in California. -What was it.-Kodiak and Southern Alaska-The Netherland Nettray.-It Occurred at Tucson.-An American Art. The Electrotype.-The Northern California Indians. No 3.-Patty Dree, Schoolmarm.-Pavy's Expedition to the North Pole.-Woven Threads on Goodness.-The Poet.Omens.-Poetry.-Current Literature, etc. President Western Telegraph Co.-What is the Tariff Ques Phrenological Journal. - June. - William Orton, tion? by Horace Greeley.-Steal or Starve! Sir Francis Crossley, M. P.-Monticello, Famous as the Home of Thomas Jefferson.-Expression.-The Chinese in the Philip pines. Preachers and Preaching.-Boy's Library -Carbon and its Different Forms. Paul du Chaillu.-Life Insurance. A Bad Pen, etc. |