whom some modern science may find its irreverent prototype, while Pentaur makes the beauty of the universe answer to a moral order.

The story has many striking scenes, as for instance the appearance of Mesu, or Moses to Pentaur on the mountain, but no scene equal in beauty to that where Paul and Hermas in the later story hurl the discus at the palm. The nobleness of the royal house is made very apparent and the ending is satisfactory.

Two things preeminently mark Ebers' novels. One is the vividness with which beings of a very different age draw near to us and manifest the same passions that have quickened the race for thousands of years. Another is the clearness with which the laws of heredity are observed in families. In this story Pentaur is found to be the son of the dead Mohar, whom he so much in body and mind resembles, and Uarda by resemblance in part is proved to be the granddaughter of the Greek prince. But the gem does its share in confirming the discovery.

The translation, like that of" Homo Sum," is far from perfect. Sometimes there is a decided blunder, and sometimes one is puzzled, or would be without the original, to know the meaning of a sentence, as in the following: "It will be long asparagus not peas, said another looking over his shoulder and pretending to be flogging," but the narrative is in general smooth and intelligible.

ALONG THE WAY.*- Many of these little poems by the accomplished editress of St. Nicholas, Mary Mapes Dodge-which appear in this beautiful volume, will be recognized as favorite verses which have attracted from time to time more than a passing glance, as they have been read in the various magazines of the day. There is throughout this collection a freshness of thought, the evidence of a poetic insight, a quick sympathy with nature in all its moods, as well as an easy diction, which calls from the reader a ready response and awakens at once an interest in her themes.

THE PRE-HISTORIC WORLD.t-This is the first attempt, so far as we are aware, to present in a romance a picture of the life of pre* Along the Way. By MARY MAPES DODGE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. 16mo. 136 pp. For sale by E. P. Judd, New Haven.

The Prehistoric World. By ÉLIE BERTHET. Translated from the French by MARY J. SAFFORD. Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. 310 pp., 12mo. For sale by E. P. Judd, New Haven.

historic man. Within the past few years paleontologists claim that they have found the weapons, the barbaric ornaments, the utensils, even the remains of the coarse food of the human beings who lived "myriads of years before historic man." They claim that from these remains can be determined the race to which he belonged, the surroundings amid which he lived, and from them can be deduced also his character, manners, and customs. In the first of the tales in this book, M. Élie Berthet has attempted to give a study of the people who, in the "Quaternary period"—the age of the cave-bears and the mammoths-inhabited the district where now is the city of Paris. They are supposed to have belonged to the Mongol race, and to have lived by families and in caves, given up to the fiercest passions and the most brutal instincts. The author claims that in the construction of his story, he has the authority of some scientist "for every sentence and for almost every line." In his first chapter he describes the scenery of the district where ages after the city of Paris was built and the mammoth animals which lived in its river, or roamed through the forests which covered the now familiar hills. In his next chapter, the reader is introduced to a human family who occupy one of the caves on the sides of what is now known as Montmartre. It is a wild story of love and blood and vengeance connected with this primitive family on which the interest of the tale turns. A second story illustrates life in a "lacustrian city" which belonged several thousands of years later to a race called the "dolmen nations," in the "age of polished stone." The third and last story illustrates, by means of an account of the foundation of Paris, the "age of metals."

The stories are all admirably told, and while the reader will admire the ingenuity of the author, he will also learn to appreciate more clearly than before the significance of the late discoveries of the geologists and paleontologists and the theories which are based upon them.

THE TRANSMISSION OF LIFE.*- When this work by Doctor Napheys first appeared, a few years ago, it was highly commended in the leading professional medical journals, and by many of the

* The Transmission of Life. Counsels on the nature and hygiene of the masculine function. By GEORGE H. NAPHEYS. New edition, with the final corrections and additions of the author, and with a biographical sketch. Boston, Mass. W. H. Thompson & Co., 32 Hawley St. 1879. 362 pp., 12mo.

most distinguished and best known of the educators of the country. The object of the author was to furnish, "in popular yet irreproachable language, such information respecting the hygiene, nature, uses, and abuses of the procreative function in the male as is necessary to protect the individual from the evil consequences of his own folly or ignorance." The teachings of the book are acknowledged to be sound by those best qualified to judge, and they are presented with a delicacy and an elevation of moral tone which have won for them the general commendation of which we have spoken. A new edition has just appeared, with the final corrections and additions of the author.

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND.*-One of the very best story books for children that it has ever been our fortune to meet, and one which is scarcely less interesting to those of a larger growth.

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Consumption, and How to prevent it. the Luzerne County Medical Society, etc.

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