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FUGITIVE ESSAYS.

An index by subject to papers in current books of essays, reference being made from the figure at the end of each line to the book containing the essay as indicated by the same number at the head of the column.

JULY, 1887.

9. Phillips Exeter Lectures: Delivered before the students of Phillips Exeter Academy, 1885-'86. By Presidents McCosh, Walker, and others. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.50

10. Things Seen. By Victor Hugo. Harper & Bros., .75. [NOTE.-Some of these papers are but three or four pages in length, but are here indexed as strong impressions of important issues, scenes and persons.]

II. Chence and Luck. By Richard A. Proctor. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1.75.

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MAGAZINE BRIEFS.

Oscar Wilde has been appointed editor of the Lady's World.

The China Decorator, limited exclusively to its subject, has just been begun in New York.

The Ohio Archæological and Historical Society is to establish a quarterly magazine.

One Traveler Returns, by D. Christie Murray and Henry Herman, will be begun in August Long man's.

Miss Juliet Corson has just begun a department of practical household management in the American Analyst.

The Esoteric, a magazine of advanced and practical esoteric thought, has made its appearance in Boston.

Boston's latest journalistic exploit is Judge and Jury, a weekly paper of New England sporting news.

The Naturalist's Monthly, to be edited by Dr. J. W. Williams, will be begun in London during September next.

The Columbia Chess Chronicle is a new weekly magazine devoted to chess problems and gossip, and published by the Columbia Chess Club of New York.

A new monthly publication devoted to engineering has been begun in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, under the title Revista Mensal Engenharie e Industria.

The Red Dragon, the noted magazine of Wales, has been discontinued. Its "Notes and Queries" department has been transferred to the Cardiff Weekly Mail.

The Archives Slaves de Biologie, a periodical containing only Slavonic work on biology, are publishing a long series of papers by Danilewsky, on the Hæmatozoa of Reptiles and Birds.

The Human Nature Library is a new quarterly published by the Fowler & Wells Co., devoted to the discussion of topics relating to the study of human nature and the development of character.

Atalanta, a new sixpenny illustrated magazine, is to appear shortly in London. Among the contributors to the first number are Mrs. Moles

worth, Mr. Edwin Arnold, Mr. Andrew Lang, and Mr. Rider Haggard, with Miss Alice Havers and Mr. Gordon Browne as artists. A preface by Mr. Ruskin is promised, and Mr. Walter Crane has designed the cover.

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Aunt Clothilde's Guests.. Mrs. Molesworth-Little Folk's Mag.
Beiden Töchter des Hauptmanns, Die... Westermann's.

Boy Hunters of Kentucky..Edw. S. Ellis-Little Folk's Mag.
Building Accidents.....
..(June 18) Am. Architect.
Chronicles of Camp Wright......... A. G. Tassin-Overland.
Dagmar....
Helen Shipton-Monthly Packet.
Divine Idea of Church Song... .........A. Young-Voice.
Dreaming and Doing.. .....Nellie Hellis-Girl's Own Paper.
Duke of Melton, The....... .Lady V. Sandars-London Society.
Early Custody of Domesday Book.....
.(June) Antiq.
Economic Disturbances since 1873...D. A.Wells-Fop. Sci. Mo.
Fiddle-John's Family.

Fin d'Amour.. French Traits...

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H. H. Boyesen-St. Nicholas.
.Fr. Vilars..(May 15) Nouv. Rev.
W. C. Brownell-Scribner's.
Frozen Pirate, The...
W. Clark Russell-Belgravia.
Géante Anglaise, La..........H. E. Gray-Girl's Own Paper.
Genevieve. By author "The Spanish Brothers.". Sunday at H.
Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago, A.....E. S. Bowne-Scribner's.
Here and There in the South..........R. H. Davis-Harper's.
Increase of State Interference in U. S... ...(July 1) Science..
John Penniless....J. Girardin-(June 15) Magasin Pittoresque.
Landgraf Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfels...... Deut. Rundschau.
Marzio's Crucifix......... F. Marion Crawford-Eng, Ill. Mag.
Materiel des Pompiers de Paris..........(June 18) La Nature.
Monte Carlo, its games and gamesters.. .C. C.Welman-Cosmop.
"None So Blind-
.The Duchess-Temple Bar.
Oceanie Moderne, L'..C. de Varigny-(June 15) Rev. Deux M.
Out of the Fog....
.W. M. Hardinge-Temple Bar.
Perilous Incognito, A.............H. H. Boyesen-Scribner's.
Playgoing in China and Japan.......L. Wingfield-Murray's.
Plunge into Troubled Waters, A. .C. R. Coleridge-Mo. Packet.
Postal Communication, Past and Present... ... National Rev.
Pure Repoussé Work.........L. L. Haslope-Amateur Work.
Queen of Navarre, The.. E. J. Whately-(June) Sunday at H.
Queer Race, A......... William Westall-Young Folk's Paper.
Recollections of Early Days in Photography....Photo. Times.
Reincarnation in American Poetry.....
Path.

Robert Aske. A Story of the Reformation.......... Welcome.
Salon de Peinture, Le..Thiebault Sisson-(June 15) Nouv. Rev.
Schönheit....
Karl Frenzel-Deutsche Rundschau.
She Couldn't Boil a Potato.... Dora Hope-Girl's Own Paper.
Short Essays..
Eliz. M. Sewell-Monthly Packet.
.......Cheer.
Strange Trip Abroad, A... Ascott R. Hope-Boy's Own Paper.
Unnison L'........George Duruy-(June 15) Rev. d. Deux M.
Walks in the Wheatfields... .R. Jefferies-Eng. Ill. Mag.

Sol Barker's Rival..

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"Since brevity's the soul of wit,

I will be brief."-HAMLET.

TO THE READER.

The books given under this heading comprise the principal books published during July. In the note, the idea has been to tell what the book is about, and the style in which it is written rather than to give any criticism upon its merits.

ALLAN QUATERMAIN. By H. Rider Haggard. After the death of his son Harry, Allan Quatermain felt a strong yearning to be back in Africa, and re-live his old life of adventure in searching the mysteries of the dark continent. His old friends, Sir Henry Curtis and Capt. Good, joyfully accompany him, and together they seek a white race of extreme personal beauty who live in the wilds of the interior, Their adventures are wonderful, and the country dazzles with beautiful women and wealth untold.Harper's, paper, .25; cloth, .75

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AT THE HOLY WELL. By John J. Piatt.This handful of new verses derives its title from the subject of the opening poem of the faith and trust of the Irish pilgrims who for centuries have sought this wonder-working fount. remaining poems, songs, ballads, sonnets and epigrams are patriotic, sentimental, moralizing, or reflective as the mood seizes the poet.--Robert. Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, 1.00

THE BAG OF DIAMONDS. By Geo. Manville Fenn.-One night when a super intense fog had settled down for a three days stay in London, a mysterious murder occurred in a quiet house in Ramilles St. Dr. Chartley, a mono-maniac on the subject of a patent medicine which he feels will regenerate the world, is found wounded in one room, and in the other under a table is found a man dead from a poisoned draught, from a glass at his side. A bag of diamonds is the innocent cause of the commotion, that leads wicked men to do great wrong.-Appleton, .50

BESSIE'S SIX LOVERS. By Henry Peterson.Miss Bessie Morgan a fashionable New York beauty piqued at the discovery of the fortunehunting propensities of her lover, goes to relatives in the country with a bitter, awful hatred for all mankind. Here she hopes she may be free from the wicked sex. But fate who was kinder to her than she deserved, placed six lovers at her feet, all anxious to ring this belle. Her pretension to being a country girl are unavailing.-Peterson. .50

CALAMITY JANE. By Mrs Geo. E. Spencer.Calamity Jane was a wild, social outcast that a party of Deadwood ladies met at their picnic in the woods. She was pretty, with long black hair, with glistening white even teeth and with a tendency to repentence. Mrs Meg DePew, the young wife of a lawyer who went to the Black Hills to make his fortune, has her sympathy aroused by Calamity's story. The Bullfinch mine, the subject of DePews first lawsuit is the focus of the interest of the story.-Cassell & Co., .25

THE CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIETY MAN. By Blanche Conscience.-These confessions of a society man who moves in a rapid set and is given to occasional town-painting of a very tame crimson are made public, it is said, in the hope that they may shed some light on the question of why man is allowed so much wider moral latitdue than woman. The book merely presents a series of pictures of drinking, card-playing, gambling, flirting, love-making, diluted dissipation and fashionable peccadilios. The real wicked episodes have been eliminated from the book in order not to shock the proprieties.Belford Clarke & Co., 1.25

CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIOR. By Bret Harte. -The barque "Excelsior" bound for San Francisco from New York in August 1854 is befogged near Lower California. The passengers visit the shore and are well entertained at what proves to be a Roman Catholic Church settlement, cut off entirely from connection with the outside world, as the channel is by a secret pass known but to the church. While the passengers are enjoying themselves on the land, the ship with its crew are stolen by a courteous enthusiastic Spanish liberator, and the travelers are thus forced to stay on the mainland with its sleepy un-American population.-Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1.25

A DATELESS BARGAIN. By C. L. Pirkis.-The Shenstones live in fine style some distance from London. At the death of her husband, Mrs Shenstone, a weak, giddy and extremely silly woman, after bravely serving the prescribed term in mourning quarantine from society determines to set the social world of London on fire by her presence. Her house speedily becomes a gilded cage for American social lions at large. Her daughters Joyce and Mab do not inherit their mother's veneered stupidity. Joyce is to be married to Frank Ledyard when he has made his fortune; and time does not greatly hasten this dateless bargain.-Appleton, .50

A DAY IN CAPERNAEUM. By Franz Delitzsch. -An attempt to picture realistically the Galilean activity of Jesus, by giving minutely, with

strong coloring of the time and place, the doings of Christ, His miracles, His conferences with His disciples, and His teachings of holiness and truth. Though the story is given as a most simple historical narrative, the materials are taken from a most careful research in biblical'antiquities, and are woven together with deep love and Christian fervor.-Funk & Wagnalls, .75.

FORTUNES OF WORDS. By Frederico Garlanda -A study of the history of words, their peculiarities, their life, growth and individuality, by one who sees in them more than mere counters of speech. The views taken are liberal and logical, and may open the eyes of many who are blind to the real living beauties of language, its rights and its demands. These essays, written in the form of letters, give opportunity for easy, colloquial discussion and illustration. Lovell & Co., 1.25

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FIGHTING THE SEA. By Edw. A. Rand.Walter Plympton, an apt, clever boy, acts as clerk in his uncle's country store, near the lifesaving station. His duties requires his presence there once a day, and he becomes intensely interested in the workings of the system that has done such noble work for those in peril of the sea. The story of the service is told in a pleasant chatty way, that gives much practical information with an interesting story.-Whittaker, 1.25

A GAME OF CHANCE. By Annie Sheldon Coombs, Barbara Melrose lives with her querulous mother and shiftless father in an unhappy household at Ninevah, Long Island. Poverty had soured Barbara's disposition, and she would accept anything to rescue her from the hard uncomfortable grind and worry, and when she had two offers of marriage, she chose the one well supported by pecuniary backing. The dark days, when love should have been the bright, cheering light, were not relieved by that money consideration.-Appleton, 1.00

GILMAN'S HISTORICAL READERS. By Arthur Gilman. With the intent to thoroughly interest young scholars, at the same time instruct and lay the ground-work for later study, these three historical readers have been prepared. The first, "The Discovery and Exploration of America"; the second, "The Colonization of America," and the third, "The Making of the American Nation." The style is simple, clear, and readable, and well adapted to accomplish its two-fold work.-Interstate Pub. Co. GLEANINGS IN OLD GARDEN LITERATURE. By W. Carew Hazlitt.-Studies in gardening, botany, and kindred topics, from notes and

memoranda, from diaries, biographies, essays, and histories. The references show a wide range of reading and reflection, and by association throw a halo of pleasant remembrance over some of our very prosaic, yet practical, garden vegetables. The papers include literary antiquities, Elizabethan gardening, French and Dutch schools, window gardening, herbs, vegetables and fruit trees.-W. J. Coombes, 1.25

GOD'S WORDS TO HIS CHILDREN. By George Macdonaid, LL.D.-Two dozen sermons from this English divine, better known to us as a novel writer, gathered from the seclusion of magazines aud pulpit reports, where they originally appeared. They are direct and fervent, and provocative of the thought which they themselves exhibit, and aiming to teach a truth so practically that its application must make the hearer better and truer.-Funk & Wagnalls, 1.50

HORSEMANSHIP FOR WOMEN. By Th. H. Mead. Hints and suggestions for fair riders, on amateur horse-training, etiquette in the saddle, leaping, and buying a saddle-horse. The directions in training are simple, exact and plain, and the reasons for each given, so that the sense of it may impress it on the mind. The guidebook phase is not apparent, the instruction seeming rather chatty hints and points given by a friend. The illustrations are clear and valuable.-Harper, 1.25

THE HOUSE OF THE MUSICIAN. By V. W. Johnson.-Elias Heins, a wandering archaeologist and student about seventy years of age takes a fancy to Gerard, a foundling boy who has a talent for drawing. He takes him to Amsterdam where the young artist studies under the kind patronage of Mynheer Van Limburg, a wealthy Hollander. One of the pictures that is constantly before his eyes makes him desire to visit Venice, which he does and here his interest, attracted by the house of the musician.— Ticknor, .50

IVAN ILYITCH AND OTHER STORIES. By Count Lyof N. Tolstoi.-The opening story is a sombre and powerful study of fatal disease in Ivan Ilyitch, who has in succession many positions under the government. His sickness develops an irritating querilousness, aggravated by his wife's peevish jealousy and the worries of his own political life. The story of his malady is given, in parts, with almost scientific exactitude.-T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1.25

A LAD'S LOVE. By Arlo Bates.-Gilbert Hampton, a frank, open-hearted young fellow, twenty-one years of age, and nearly through his

course at Harvard, at his summer vacation falls in love with Mrs. Van Orden, a charming widow with "velvety brown eyes." Mrs. Van Orden tells him she is thirty-five, so she is probably twenty years his senior. The young folks and the old people seem to consider it their duty to discuss the situation constantly, though the young widow is so pretty even an old cynic would admire her. The summer life at this resort is pleasantly told, and the gossip and doings are free, merry and unconventional.-Roberts, 1.00

LETTERS FROM THE FAR EAST. By De Lancey Floyd-Jones.-The record of impressions received in a tour round the world, mith notes and jottings as to the countries visited, the people, their doings, manners, customs, and institutions. The trip occupied about eight months, and the route from New York to England, thence to Italy, Egypt, China and Japan, crossing the Pacific to San Francisco, with a chapter on the Yosemite and the wonders of wild Western scenery.-Pub. Serv. Pub. Co., 2.00

A MARGIN OF PROFIT. By Edward Atkinson.— An address delivered before the Central Labor Lyceum, of Boston, on the eight-hour question. The aim has been, by an examination of statistics, and by plain, simple arguments based on facts, to discover what are the truest and best means of reconciling the claims of capital and the demands of labor. Mr. Chamberlain's reply and Mr. Atkinson's rejoinder are included.— G. P. Putnam's Sons, .75

MISS GASCOIGNE. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell.Miss Gascoigne lives alone in her fine house at Grauland Bay. Despite her wealth and high social position, she is not truly happy, for she has deep yearnings for a closer friendship than the mere touch and go of the gilded members of society. Capt. Crayleigh, who sailed for India when she was a child, writes to her asking if her family, whom he thinks still consists of the eight happy brothers and sister he left, would consent to take care of his boy, whom he wishes to be well provided for. Thinking a little boy in the house would be a pleasant companion, Miss Gascoigne rashly consents. -Appleton, .25

MR. INCOUL'S MISADVENTURE. By Edgar Saltus. Mr. Incoul, a New York Croesus, weds Maida Barhyte, a pretty young girl for whom he cares only as a fine looking woman, who will render pleasant the dull days of his widowerhood, and whom perhaps he may learn to love, as she may learn to love him. She calmly explains matters to her own lover Lenox, and they part. The married couple travel in the richest style through Europe, and they meet

Lenox at a Spanish bull-fight. The drama is strong, cruel, and pessimistic.- Benjamin & Bell, 1.25

MY BROTHER YVES. By Pierre Loti.-Yves Kermadech was a fine, handsome French sailor, whose worst enemy was the grog he loved. The story is told by Yves's friend, who has promised Yves's mother that he would be a brother to him. The long voyages, the rough sea-life, the temptations, sorrows and hardships are given with a simple, strong realism, at times almost brutal in its directness, while the human interest is well preserved.-Vizetelly, London; Brentano's, New York, 1.40

THE MYSTERY OF BAR HARBOR. By Alsop Leffingwell.-Mr. Fairfax, an American, meets the Princess Natalie, somewhere in Europe, and falls hopelessly in love with her. After some prodigal telegraphic communication and secret conclave, the tenor of which is kept from the reader, the lady is forcibly carried to a ship, which sails for New York, whence she is taken to Bar Harbor. Here she is cared for in regal style, treated with all possible kindness, baffling and mysterious.-G. W. Dillingham, 1.00

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OURSELVES AND OUR NEIGHBORS. By Louise Chandler Moulton.-Short chats on social topics, being love-making, engagements, courtships, marriages, fashion, dress, egotism. The talks are frank, sharp, direct, and based on strong common sense. They hold forth high views on the questions of love and marriage, that society should first idealize, and then realize, casting aside its tin swords and paper armor for the truer weapons of the better warfare of life.-Roberts, 1.25

THE PRESENT POSITIONS OF EUROPEAN POLITICS. By Sir C. Wentworth Dilke.— An examination into the facts and tendencies of Germany, France, Russia, Austro-Hungary, Italy, and Great Britain, their relative position, and the probable line of action of each in case of war. The articles created much comment in England on their recent appearance in the Fortnightly, by reason of their shrewd diplomatic deductions, based upon a deep knowledge of European politics.-Harpers, .20

THE POLITICAL PROBITIONIST FOR 1887.This handbook, for the aggressive temperance people of the Untied States, has for its object the plain, clear presentation of facts and figures of the growth of the temperance movement in this country, and the present attitude of the different States and Territories. The election statistics, and the other data connected therewith, furnish valuable campaign fighting matter

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