See The Church Porch, by George Herbert. 74. Can you favor me with a list of the works of Mrs. Edw. Kennard, the novelist? PRINCETON, N. J. B. N. R. Twilight Tales, I vol,, 7s. 6d.; Helene, 2 vols. 21S.; Right Sort, a Romance of the Shires, 6s.; Straight as a Die, 3 vols, 31s. 6d.; all published in London at the prices named. Killed in the Open, Franklin Square Library No. 527 and The Girl in the Brown Habit, same library, No. 560 20 cents each. C, H. R. 75. Where may be found the poem containing the following lines: NEW YORK, CITY. And three times round went our gallant ship, And the third time that she went around The lines quoted form the last stanza of "The Mermaid" found in Songs of Yale, edited by Charles S. Elliot, published by Taintor Bros. $1.25. 76. What is the "Romance of the Rose?" NEW BEDFORD. H. R. D. This was a poetical allegory begun by Guillaume di Lorris in the latter part of the 13th century, and continued by Jean de Meung in the early part of the 14th century. The sequel is somewhat longer than the twenty-four books of the Iliad. Mrs. E. B. Browning has written a poem with the same title. 77. Will you will please inform me through "Open Questions" where may be found a prose selection humorously describing the conversation of two girls studying geography? WASHINGTON, D. C. GEORGE. See How Girls Study by Belle McDonald in Excelsior Recitations No. 3, page 56. New York, 25 cents. Denys, L'Auxerrois MAGAZINE BRIEFS. The Western Electrician is a new journal to be begun shortly in Chicago. A new trade periodical. the Bookbinder, is announced to appear in London during July. Modern Life is a new bi-weekly journal of Boston, devoted to the health of the household. In the Swim, a journal devoted to advance the literary interests of Chicago has just been begun in that city, Comme dans un Miroir, a translation of Mr. Phillip's realistic novel, is now running as a serial in La Nouvelle Revue. An Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie will appear shortly in Berlin under the editorship of Prof. Ludwig Stein, of Zurich. The article on Victorian Literature in the current number of Blackwood is understood to be from the pen of Mrs. Oliphant, Spelling, a magazine devoted to the simplification of English orthography, has just been begun by the Library Bureau of Boston, The Technology Quarterly is a new periodical published by and in the interest of the students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Lotus, a new theosophical magazine, has been brought out at Paris by Mr. F. Krishna Gaboriau, under the inspiration, it is said, of Mme. Blavatsky. A review devoted to the popular discussion of mediæval language, literature, history and institutions, will shortly be begun in Paris under the title of Le Moyen Age. The list of bibliographic journals will probably be shortly increased by the publication of the Curio, a magazine dealing with literary bric-abrac and such wares. A new literary periodical is to be begun in New York, in the fall, under the title of The Collector. The name of the publishers has not yet been publicly announced. A new feature in the Catholic World hereafter will be a department entitled "With Readers and Correspondents," in which a variety of personal topics will be briefly touched upon. Thomas Stevens whose narrative of his journey Around the World on a Bicycle has just appeared, will shortly write in Harper's Young People a series of articles called Bicycling in Wild Countries, The Chemical Trade Journal, a new weekly periodical devoted specially to the commercial side of the chemical and allied industries, has just been commenced in Manchester, England. Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, editor of the Magazine of American History, is a member of thirteen learned societies, a life-member of the American Historical Society, and a fellow in the Clarendon Historical Society of Edinburgh. A new periodical has been started in Baltimore, called the Home Journal. The first issue contains contributions by Joe Howard, Nym Crinkle, Jennie June, Garrett P. Serviss, and other well known writers, and illustrations by Cussachs, W. P. Hooper, Parker Bodfish, and Miranda. The Caucasus is about to possess a monthly review of its own. M. J. Mourier, a French gentleman, long resident in Russia, is to bring out at Tiflis, in July, the first number of the Commercial and Industrial Review, the articles in which will be written in both French and Russian. NEW SERIALS. The following comprises the serials begun in the magazines for America and Europe for the month. JUNE. 1887. Art of Making Photogravures.........(June 17) Photo. Times. J. M. W. Turner-Every Boy's Mag. .... Hetty Golding's Garden Party....E. Leslie-Young England. Tinsley's. Menorah. Lucy Farmer-Cassell's. Mr. Tanner's Wards.. Rose of Paradise, The... H. Pyle-(June 11) Harper's Weekly. AN APPEAL TO LIFE. By Theodore T. Munger, author of "The Freedom of Faith."-The aim of these deep, fervent sermons is to set forth the identity of the Faith with the action of man's nature in their natural relations of life, to show that the truth of God is also the truth of man. The writer, feeling this as an interpretation of the human heart, its fears and longings, leans to and finds its complement in revealed religion. This is worked out logically, faithfully and practically.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.50. AROUND THE WORLD ON A BICYCLE. Vol. I. From San Francisco to Teheran. By Thomas Ste-, vens. What a bright observer, a Wheeling man, saw on a trip around the world, is told in this story of travel and adventure, Mr. Stevens deserves a monument for his genuine grit that American virtue which looks the most disheartening positions, disappointments and troubles coolly in the eye and weakens them by a power which overrules their spell. His adventures savor somewhat of Michael Strogoff, and are specially interesting, because we feel they are true.Scribner's, 4.00. ASSYRIA. By Zenaida A. Ragozin.-The story of the rise of the empire to the fall of Ninevah, from the reign of Tiglath Pileser I. in 1100 to the reign of Tiglath Pileser II. in 500, a period covering thirteen reigns and including the reigns of the unknown kings from 1060 to 913 B. C. Much of the historical narrative is of intense importance to the student in placing properly before his mind the inter-relationship of religious and profane history.-Putnam's, 1.50. BAR HARBOR DAYS. By Mrs. Burton Harrison." Dame Trot" was a dog, but like some biographers, he took the liberty of using his intimacy with the family with which he lived, to make capital out of his observations by revealing all he saw and heard in confidence, of course. He tells of the social doings, the hops, the girls and their sequences the young men, the flirting, the boating, the thousand excitements and amusements of the place in a way to make penned-up city people long to be there.-Harper's, 1.25. BEHIND THE BLUE RIDGE. By Frances Courtney Baylor.-The hills and valleys of Virginia with the life of man and nature is the theme. The plot, if such it may be called, is merely the connecting of a series of pictures of characters and local scenes. At the death of his wife, John Shore, stricken by the blow, leaves his home and his infant child and becomes lost to the world, none knowing he still lives. Years later he returns and finds his baby boy a man. Unhappily, however, the latter has married a Xantippe of a pronounced type. The story is told artistically, with realistic delicacy and truth.-J. B. Lippincott Co., 1.25. Mr. Holt, after discussing with his wife of an investment, of the kind Col. Sellers used to say had "millions in it" spite of all her objections, purchased an interest in the aërial disc. Mr. Holt then journeys to the planet Mars by some new rapid transit method, and narrates his life there among the inhabitants, an interesting phase being the courtship of Bellona.-J. B. Lippincott Co., 1.00. CHINA. By James Harrison Wilson.-A study of the civilization and possibilities of China, telling briefly what the country was before foreign influences had materially changed them; what foreigners have done or forced them to do, and what remains for foreigners to do with the prospects for the accomplishment of this work. The facts are clearly presented, keeping the progress of China in its mental, moral, social and commercial phases ever in view.-Applcton, 1.75. THE COLLEGE AND THE CHURCH.-A reprint of the "How I Was Educated" papers and the Denominational "Confessions" from the Forum, where they attracted attention as boldly pointing out educational and theological errors and suggesting remedies therefor. As opinions of men who have looked into, over and around the subjects presented, so as to see each side in its proper perspective, the papers are of value. The "Confessions" are unsigned; here is a place when anonymity is rather odd, though it is easily understood,-Appleton, 1.50. DANIELE CORTIS. A novel, From the Italian of Antonio Fogazzaro. By Mrs. I. R. Tilton. -A story of Italian love and political intrigue. Daniele Cortis is a tall, elegant gentleman, noble in principle, and peculiar and self-willed in action. In the midst of preparation for a political campaign, Daniele learns that his mother whom his father has taught him to believe is dead, yet lives. Killing all feeling of enmity, he determines to go to her. His cousin, the Baroness Elena, has married unhappily, and between them exists an ideal platonic friendship. The mother of Elena is a scheming, mercenary woman, fond of society and conquest. The story is strong and powerfully told.-Holt, 1.00. DEATH OR DISHONOR. By Fortune du Boisgobey-Death is not the greatest enemy that man fears there are those who fear dishonor more. Perhaps this fictional or ideal, perhaps it is not. Such is the motive of this story, in which a man falsely accused of a terrible murder and shameless robbery of the victim, stands firm and bravely accepts the punishment and the shame rather than reveal the secrect. On second thought this does look more ideal than real; it does not happen requently enough to be called popular.-Rand & McNally, .25. DRONES' HONEY. By Sophie May.-By some strange fatality of cupid's post, Benjamin Kirke, a handsome young Chicago lawyer, received a dainty missive, written in a fine feminine hand, no boubt intended for some one else. Not knowing this he opened and found it was a refusal from "Evelyn S." of the hand and heart of "My dear friend." With a wise, and yet romantic determination, he vows to unravel the mystery, so he follows the directions given by the postmark to find the "E. S." who had refused another.-Lee & Shepard, 1.50. FORGING THE FETTERS. By Mrs. Alexander. -The story of the reconciliation of Mrs. Fane, rich, charming and spirituelle, with her husband, who left for India after their estrangement. There is something of an Enoch Arden flavor in his return, and yet it was happier in ending and more fictional in development. In addition to the title story are two other novelettes-" The Australian Aunt" and "Mrs. Vereker's Courier Maid."-Holt, 1.00. HOUSEKEEPER'S HANDY BOOK OF USEFUL INFORMATION.-The evolution of a bundle of newspaper clippings into a housewife's cyclopædia. By a happy idea the articles are indexed under subject: as Abscess, Accounts, Almonds to blanch, Accidents, Ankle, sprained, Ants, &c.; so that at a glance can be found choice recipes, points in domestic economy, items of household lore, popular science, home hygiene, weights and measures, floral languages and other segments and sections of handy wisdom.-Cassell & Co., 1.00. HOW TO MAKE A SAINT. By The Prig.-A satire on the English church in its tendency toward the Roman Catholic rites and ceremonies. The idea is proposed that a number of new saints be added to the repertory of the Church of England by canonizing certain spiritual members. The modus operandi of the evolution is as carefully and critically noted in detail as, if it were a necromancer's formula. To treat this subject successfully one has to be thoroughly inconsiderate of personal feeling and church reverence; this the Prig has not feared to do.— Henry Holt & Co., 1.00. A HUMBLE ROMANCE. By Mary E. Wilkins.— Nearly thirty stories of rural life in New England, of humble people, to be sure, but with a genial sympathy in appreciating their every-day round of work, love and study, and a happy touch in selecting those phases, which will make the scenes and characters real and living before us. The dialect serves to develop the characters rather than as a mere exercise in photographing peculiarities.-Harper & Bros., 1.25. KEATS. By Sidney Colvin.-A biography carefully prepared from a study of the estimates by the best critics and biographers, of the life and writings of Keats, incorporating much matter hitherto unpublished. As a man he was distinguished by his strong good sense, manly spirit and sweetness, unselfishness, noble integrity and warmth of sympathy; as a poetic genius he had a constant eye for the beautiful and ideal in life and imagination.-Harper's, .75. LIFE AMONG THE GERMANS. By Emma Louise Parry. A study of the internal life of the Germans, the every-day habits and customs of the family, their doings and manners of thought. The author dwelt among the people in their families, entered into their ways of living, and thus learned to understand their spirit and traits of character thoroughly and sympathetically. The range of life covered is wide and diverse.— D. Lathrop & Co., 1.50. THE LILIES OF FLORENCE. By George Sand, translated by Lew Vanderpoole.-A collection of posthumous stories of George Sand never published in French, and issued only in English in a few of the newspapers of America and England. The initial novelette, The Lilies of Florence," and the fifteen stories and legends, though short, are characterized by the strong permeating passion, force and graphicness of her longer novels.-J. W. Lovell Co,, .20. A LOST REPUTATION.-It was at a game of cards, that a sharp trick of cheating by marking cards with pinholes was discovered, and put to the discredit of Graham Murray. The evidence against him was indisputable, and his noble family connections could not save him. Assuming the name of Francis Mowbray, he leaves friends and country, and seeks on his return to regain his lost reputation.-Harper's, .15. MISTAKEN PATHS. By Herbert G. Dick.— Irene Patton, a pretty young girl, was spoiled, as many are, by being too conscious of her beauty, and this developed ambitions for ease and conquest to be enjoyed only by wealth. She foolishly married for money and position, and of course, to be consistent, must carry out its foolishness in a number of ways till she sees how strongly and persistent she has been in following mistaken paths.-J. B. Lippincot Co,, 1.25. THE MONK'S WEDDING. By Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. At an evening party at Verona, at the house of Prince Cangrande, the conversation turns on monks and their vows. The poet Dante, who is present, tells the story of the good monk Astorre of Padua, who, while strongly faithful to his vows and so satisfied in them that he seems to desire nothing on earth, nobly renounces all to save to his father, his honor, family name and fortune, by marrying Diana, whom his brother was to have wedded. Often is man to be a sacrifice for his religion, but rarely is he asked to sacrifice this sacrifice. -Cupples & Hurd, 1.25. BY S. NORWAY SIGHTS AND RUSSIAN DAYS. M. Henry Davis.-The pleasant journey of three women, "neither lone nor lorn," among the beauties of nature in northern latitudes. The narrative is told in a happy, chat way as one of reviewing a summer's pleasure time to friends after the return home, the chief aim being to give freely the impression created on the mind of the traveller by the odd manners and customs of the people, and the grandeur of the scenery -Fords, Howard and Hulbert, 1.00. THE OBELISK AND ITS VOICES. By Henry B. Carrington. The interior of the Washington Monument is faced with memorial bronzes, marbles and tablets contributed by the nations of the old world, as tributes of honor and respect to the memory of Washington. The messages and meanings of these memorials are the subject of the poem. A biographical outline of the life of Wash ngton is given, with data connected with the planning and erection of the monument.-Lee & Shepard, .50. ON TEACHING ENGLISH. By Alexander Bain. -A critical examination and review of the opinions of authorities on the best methods of teaching English, precedes an outline with examples of the rectorical method to be treated more fully in the author's new edition of his "English composition and Rhetoric." A study of poetry, its aim, scope, power and method, follows and ends the manual.—Appleton, 1.25. PENELOPE'S SUITORS. By Edwin Lassette. Bynner. A quaint narrative of the second quarter of the seventeenth century among the colonists in Massachusetts. Penelope Pelham, sister of Herbert Pelham, an important member of the colony, tells in her diary of the social gossip of the time, the vital matters in the world of the day, and her own love affair, she being engaged to Edward Buckley, having found "in her heart a very tender consideration for this young man."-Ticknor & Co., .50. THE POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA.-A reprint of a satire on the poets of America, written in heroic couplets in the manner of Dryden, Pope and their imitators, and noting the poets of the time, 1847, when it first appeared. An ingenious introductory argument by Geoffrey Quarles presents strong circumstantial evidence to establish the fact of its authorship by that eccentric genius, Poe.-Benjamin and Bell, .50. PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION PRACTICALLY APPLIED,-With the belief that education is a science, and that it has certain general principles and laws, which are exact and rational, the author's object is to discuss the means by which these laws can be best applied practically in teaching. The directions are simple and direct, and aimed at making the scholars "self-reliant, independent, manly men and womanly women." -Appleton, 1.00. PROSE PASTORALS. By Herbert Milton Sylvester. The writer is in love with nature, and with a lover's enthusiasm and universal sympathy he tells her beauties, rare qualities and dainty characteristics to others. The style and subject suggests John Burrough's glimpses at nature in her varied moods. The papers are genuine and strong, and bring with them the balmy flavor of the pine woods and the breath of the summer breeze. Ticknor & Co., 1.50. RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. The Catholic reaction. In two parts. By John Addington Symonds.—In this history of the social, moral and intellectual condition of Italy during the seventy years following Charles V's. coronation at Bologna, the author enters minutely into detail regarding facts and institutions connected with the main theme of national culture. In studying the nature of the Catholic revival, the position of Spain in the Italian peninsula, the conduct of the Tridentine council, the organization 1 |