Sir William Wallace was betrayed into the hands of Edward by Sir John Monteith. It is generally said, and the tradition of the country bears, that the signal made for rushing upon him at unawares was, when one of his pretended friends, who betrayed him, should turn a loaf, which was placed on a table with its bottom or flat side uppermost, and in after times it was reckoned ill-breading to turn a loaf in that manner if there was a person named Monteith in company since it was as much as to remind him that his namesake had betrayed Sir William Wallace, the champion of Scotland. 71. From perusal of a recent work on American copyright, we find it stated that the privileges of securing copyright is limited to those who are either citizens of or residents in the United States. We understand the Courts have held that the term "resident" cannot be interpreted to cover one who makes but a temporary sojourn of a season or a stay of a few weeks or months in the country. But what constitutes citizenship? We should like to know whether according to the laws of the United States or the City of New York, birth alone in America is sufficient to give citizenship in a case say where the individual left the country whilst still young. BOLTON, ENGLAND. COPYRIGHT. (1) Copyright entry is made in the name of any resident of the United States, without inquiry as to permanent or temporary residence. (2) It is also made in the name of any citizen or native of the United States resident abroad, or in any part of the world. (3) The ultimate validity of all copyright entries is determined only by the courts; while one court held in 1838 that permanent residence is necessary to maintain copyright, this has not been affirmed by the court of last resort, i. e. the U. S. Supreme Court. (4) According to the laws of the United States, the birth of a person therein is sufficient to invest him with citizenship, no matter whether the he resides abroad or not. This may be modified by the assumption of citizenship in a foreign country, however. 72. Can you inform a reader where may be found (1) a poem commencing: "Jack, I hear you've gone and done it, Yes I know, most fellows will: (2) "Ginevra," by Susan Coolidge. M. L. H. B. (1) See A Similar Case in Standard Recitations No. 14, page 35, compiled by F. P. Sullivan, published by Ivers & Co., New York. (2) "With the Poets" in BOOK CHAT for Feb. 1887, page 47 shows the poem to have been published in The Voice for that month. NEW SERIALS. The following comprises the serials begun in the magazines for America and Europe for the month. MAY. 1887. Art Behind the Curtain... By the Waters of Babylon.... .......C. Despard-Quiver. MAGAZINE BRIEFS. Wide Awake for June begins Miss Murfree's new tale, "The Story of Keedon Bluffs." A new scientific journal, Centralblatt fur Physiologie, has made its appearance in Germany. The poetry in the English magazines for the next few months will be of a deep Jubilee tinge. A new literary weekly is to be begun in Boston this fall under the title of The Twentieth Century. The June number of Time will contain an important article entitled, "The Raison d'etre of Radical Unionism." It is proposed to begin in Buffalo in January 1888 a quarterly periodical, The Modern Muse, devoted to the poetry of the best known American and English writers, accompanied by biographical and bibliographical sketches. The publication of a new weekly paper called The Sphinx will be begun immediately in London. It is designed to be a medium for the expression of earnest political thought and the circulation of moderate political opinion. Geo. J. Romanes has in the current XIX. Century, an excellent paper on the mental difference between men and women. While there is in it much, "almost brutal franknes," as he himself terms it; there is also deep research and long observation, the results of which are strongly and clearly stated. Women, he says, is inferior to man in the power of amassing knowledge as well as in creative genius, fiction being but the one department of creative thought wherein she can at all approach man. The Darwinian theory is the side-light to which the varying phases of the question are constantly referred. Quite an odd essay is Nature and Books," in the Fortnightiy Review. Mr. Jefferies finds all the books attainable on the subject of botany give but a very faint reflex of it, its accuracy and the possibilities of an exact statement, of which he says, as people have said of the sea, "It makes me feel something I cannot say." There are a million books, and yet with all their aid, I cannot tell you the color of the May dandelion. There are three greens at this moment in my mind; that of the leaf of the yellow iris-leaf, and that of the bayonet-like leaf of the common flag, and that of flower-de-luce. With admission to a million books, how am I to tell the difference between these tints?" Burns, Robert-Some Aspects of Carlyle (Thos.) and Emerson................. Coppee, Francois-"L'Exilée" in English.. Emerson (R. W.) and Carlyle. Free Thought in America... Goethe, Character of... Greek Play, One God in.. Heine, Heinrich-in a Court Suit.. Hugo, Victor....... Hugo, Victor-Romances of.. King, Thomas Starr-Character and Genius.. Lamb, Charles .... Literature, American..... Literature, Office of Literature, Worn-out Types. Lucretius... Milton, John. .3 .3 Moore, Thos.-The Irish "National" Poet Peacock, Thomas Love.. 3 .3 ALEXANDER'S EMPIRE. By Prof. J. P. Mahaffy. A story of the mighty conquests of the warrior Alexander and of the different portions of the great empire that he founded, their growth and development while he lived and the gradual disintegration and absorption in the Roman empire after his death. The influence of Alexander was strong upon the Roman people through the powerful moulding ideas of conquered Greece. 'Twas a period that reddens the pages of history; yet the effects of those years can never die.-Putnam's, 1.50. THE ALKAHEST. By Honore de Balzac.-In the Flemish city of Douai lived Balthazar Claës, with his wife, in a magnificent house filled with the finest works of Flemish and Dutch painters and carvers. A Pole speaks to Balthazar of certain studies in chemistry pointing to a discovery of the Alkahest, the universal solvent of the alchemists. The idea seizes entire possession of his mind; it becomes his life, his present and his future; family, fortune, love, all, he sacrifices on the altar of this mad scheme, and his whole being is changed forever.-Roberts, 1.50 AUNT HEPSY'S FOUNDLING. By Mrs. Leith Adams. Aunt Hepsy, an extremely well-to-do and important maiden lady, owner of the prosperous Reed farm, finds one fine autumn morning on her door-step a pretty baby-girl, carefully wrapped to insure preservation. Aunt Hepsy adopts the child, contrary to general expectation, and calls it Virginia Reed. The characters are easy, natural and happily executed and appeal to our interest through our sympathy. -Lippincott Co., 50. BETWEEN WHILES. BY MRS. JACKSON (H H.) The Inn of the Golden Pear, the opening story of the half-dozen sketches, makes us acquainted with Victorine Dubois, a dashing worldly little beauty, of eighteen, who comes from a convent to live at the Golden Pear, with the hostess, her mother. Her head was full of wild dreams of a wealthy marriage, that would afford means to gratify her every vanity, and to this end she exercises all her fascinating power over the proud and rich William Blaycke. The remaining stories are clever tales of love and society. Roberts, 1.25. THE BLIND BROTHER. BY Homer Greene.Little Bennie Taylor, the blind boy, was dooropener in the Dryden Mine. He looked up to his brother Tom as the incarnation of all honor and nobility. Tom was a bright lad with that chivalry that makes good, strong men as kindly thoughtful to the weaker ones around them as the knights of old were to ladies fair. When he sees Jack Rennie, the burly member of the Mollie Maguires, set fire to the breaker, his impulse is to tell it all. Love for Bennie weighs strongly against his love of honor. The story is vivid, strong and deeply sympathetic.-T,Y. Crowell & Co., .90 CLAY, HENRY. By Carl Schuarz.-The life of Henry Clay was a most important one to the nation he served so faithfully, and a study of it will fix more clearly in the mind many points in the political history of the country of his time. His contemporaries, Webster, Jackson, Calhoun, Randolph, and Jefferson, were most important formative factors in American growth. The war of 1812 and the many acts culminating in the civil war, with the chief events of the administrations, are noted and reviewed.Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2 vols. 2.50. COLONIAL BALLADS, Sonnets, and other Verse. By Margaret J. Preston.-This collection comprises the principal poems written by Mrs. Preston since her last collection, the greater part of them having appeared in the periodicals of the day. The narrative poems are especially strong, chaste and refined in poetic thought and feeling. The verses on the childhood of the old masters are worthy of note.-Houghton, Mifflin, 1.25. CONNECTICUT. By Alexander Johnston.-A critical history aiming to present certain features in the development of the State which have influenced the general development of the State system in this and other countries. The early settlements, colonizations, the action of the State during the Revolution, its growth in financial, ecclesiastical, political, social and industrial aspects are clearly discussed and the facts arrayed so as to best present the lessons of its history.Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.25. CRACKER JOE.-Cracker Joe was born and bred 'pore white folks', yet by his energy, pluck and shrewdness, he acquired a standing of honor and respect, and the reputation of being the richest land owner in Florida. He sells one of his old cottages to Mr. Ainsley, a Northern gentleman, broken down in health and fortune, who moves South with his family. Hermit George, a kindly man, whose life is veiled by a mystery, once owned the lands now held by Cracker Joe. Mrs. Beck, one of the neighbors, had the meanness of four average men, supported by her chronic weakness for borrowing.-Roberts 1.00. THE CRUISE OF A WOMAN HATER. BY G. DE MONTAUBAN.-Fate had with her occasional sarcasm made Bernard Jerves love two women, both of whom proved fickle. Man-like he permitted this unfortunate accident to sour the milk of his human kindness and henceforth he became a most confirmed woman-hater, visiting the sin of the individual on the sex. On the promise of perfect immunity from feminine companionship, he accepts an invitation to make a trip to China, on the ship of his friend Captain Bluson. Unexpectedly to all, the circle is increased by the coming of the pretty young widow, Mrs. Bates.-Ticknor, .50. CYCLING. BY VISCOUNT BURY AND G. LACY HILLIER. 'Tis only of late years that the bicycle has attained its full dignity and honor as a rapid method of motion. The subject is covered very fully in these papers which give an introductory and an historical sketch of cycling, with information, notes and advice on riding, racing, touring, training, dress, clubs, tricycling for ladies, racing parties, the construction of the bicycle and literature of the day relating thereto, very fully and pleasantly written to interest and amuse..-Badminton Library, London, 3.50. DANTE AND HIS CIRCLE. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti.-A collection of lyrics edited and translated in the original metres from the works of the most noted Italian poets of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, in order to show their important relation to Dante. The New Life is carefully noted at length, critically and exegitically, in connection with Dante's sonnets and the productions of many contemporary writers— Roberts, 2.00. THE DEVIL'S HAT. By Melville Phillips.-At the death of his uncle, young Ogden visited the oil fields of Pennsylvania, in the hope of a rich opportunity for the investment of his modest fortune. Here he meets Joyce Selden, an old law chum, with whom he enters into a project to purchase the Devil's Hat, an abrupt rising hill in which they believe is a gushing well. The local characters are cleverly outlined, and the ups and downs of boring and spouting given with realism.-Ticknor, 1.00. ELEMENTARY MICROSCOPICAL TECHNOLOGY. Part I. By Frank L. James.-A manual for students of microscopy, giving the technical history of a slide, from the crude materials to the finished mount, in a clear practical way, working out slowly and carefully the whole plan by explaining each part completely as a preparation for the next step,and wisely avoiding the common error of presuming that the student is fully aware of the information it aims to teach.-St. Louis Med. & Surg. Journal Co. EPISODES IN A LIFE OF ADVENTURE. By Lawrence Oliphant.-Mr. Oliphant has been fortunate enough to be placed in important positions at memorable times and of his adventures, many belong to that class we look back upon with pride and pleasure, but would look forward to with fear and uneasiness. The wide world seems to have been his arena, as he figures. in adventures in England, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia, China, Japan, Egypt, Canada, Central America, India, and in out of the way places known commonly but as names.— Harper's, 1.75. FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS. By Robert Louis Stevenson. The familiarity of these studies is a pleasing contrast to the stilted, autocratic way of some essayists who calmly place the character under discussion into the scales of criticism, hold the balance aloft before the multitude and with the air of one who pronounces the ultimatum, read the standing of the subject as weighed by this unerring scale. The subjects quietly and suggestively develop during the talk so as to enable us to better judge for ourselves. (See "Fugitive Essays," page 122).— Dodd, Mead & Co., 1.25. FINAL MEMORIALS OF LONGFELLOW. Edited by Samuel Longfellow.-A collection of journals and correspondence of the later years of the poet's life that will supplement and fill up in detail the last fifteen years of his life which are but outlined in the Life of Longfellow. Tributes and reminiscences contributed by his friends present characteristic traits and incidents showing the impression left on his friends by the genial personality of the poet. A genealogy and a bibliography are appended.-Ticknor & Co., 3.00 THE FLAMINGO FEATHER. By Kirk Munroe. -About three hundred years ago young Rene de Veaux sailed from France on the colonizing expedition to America fitted out by his uncle. On the arrival at Fort Caroline he became acquainted with Has-se, a brave loyal Indian boy, son of the chief. The flamingo feather braided into the hair of the young Indian seemed to symbolize a bond of fealty between the two boys. The adventures are exciting and thrilling, giving a fair estimate of the relations between the whites and the savages.-Harper's, 1.00. GRANT VS. THE RECORD. By Carswell McClellan.-A critical study of the “ Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant" and a comparison of them with the records upon which they purport to be founded, in order to incite investigation which shall decide the historic value of this widely published work. Gen. Grant's opinions, wherever so stated, are accepted fairly as such, the only discussion being as to certain statements of fact.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.75. THE GREAT HESPER. By Frank Barrett.— Into the town of Southampton wandered one day a ragged troup of four from the rich mines of Africa, bearing with them the largest diamond ever found at the Cape. There was Joe Brace, a Californian who had absorbed the title of "Judge" without serving any legal apprenticeship, his daughter Lola, a wilful affectionate little vixen, familiarly known as the Kid"; a blind Hebrew, Van Holst, and a refined young man, Thorne, with no fortune. They are directed to the residence of Sir Edmund Lascelles where they stay for some time. Under very ingenious, strange circumstances, the diamond disappears. -Appleton, .25. HINTS ON EARLY EDUCATION.-The writer, believing that the earliest moment possible is the best in which to commence the intellectual and moral development of a child, gives some words of advice, suggestion and caution on the virtues to be inculcated and the best methods by which this end may be attained. Never for an instant must the firm yet kindly reins of guidance and government be relaxed for any temporary good. -Funk & Wagnalls,,60. By G. HORSE BREEDING RECOLLECTIONS. Lehndorff.-A study of the best methods of breeding race-horses, which the author, after years of experience, finds to be based on perfect soundness, and with this as a beginning, by careful breeding and development the finest stock can be produced. The genealogy of noted horses is given, with full directions as to the principles of perfect breeding and the proper application.-Porter & Coates, 1.25 HUNTERS OF THE OZARK. By Edward S. Ellis. The Ozark Mountains was a great fur district of Missouri in the early days of the century. Yonug Fred. Linden receives, at the hands of a trusted Indian, a letter from his father urging him to come to the hunting country, a distance of a hundred miles from his home. Accomp anied by an Irish lad of his acquaintance he journeys there and passes through adventures exciting and dangerous.-Porter & Coates, 1.25. AN INDEX TO THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE. By Evangeline M. O'Connor.-An original reference book, giving references, by topics, to notable passages and significant expressions; brief histories of the plays, geographical names and historical incidents; mention of all characters and sketches of important ones; together with explanations of allusions and obscure and obsolete words and phrases. It differs from a concordance as being an index by idea rather than word, besides giving here and there exegitical data.-Appleton & Co., 2.00. IN OLE VIRGINIA. By Thos. Nelson Page.Half a dozen living and strong pictures of life in the South that catch not only the dialect but the atmosphere of the time and people. They have met with popular favor in the Century as happy, realistic sketches. They include Marse Chan, Unc' Edinburg's Drowndin', Meh Lady, Ole 'Stracted, No Haid Pawn, and Polly: a Christmas recollection.-Scribner's, 1.25. JOHN SEVIER, THE COMMONWEALTH BUILDER. By Edmund Kirke.-The life and adventures of John Sevier, which in The Rear-Guard of the Revolution was brought down to the year 1783, is here continued to his death in September 1815. While not intending to write a history of Tennessee, and while telling the pioneer life and difficulties, the political changes, and the development of the State only so far as it is inseparably woven with the story of the life of this remarkable man who was its founder and builder, much valuable history is given.-Appleton, 1.50. KATIA. By Count Leon Tolstoi-Katia and Sonia Alandrovitch lived in the country-house of Pokovski after the death of their mother. Time hangs heavy on their hands, and Katia, young handsome and rich, she falls a victim to a most morbid ennui. This is slightly modified by the appearance of Sergius Mikailovitch, her guardian, who, though no longer young, wins her affection by his calm dignity and delicate consideration.-Gottsberger, .50 LIFE OF DANTE. By May Alden Ward.-A popular sketch of the life and works of the great Italian master. The style is simple and pleasant and free from controversy. The principle works of the poet: Vita Nuova, Il Convito, De Monarchia, The Devine Comedy, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso are well outlined; in a few pages being given a good idea of the story, style, peculiarities and object of each, enabling one at a slight reading to grasp well the motive of Dante's life and lifework.-Roberts, 1.25. |