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though quite as much of its space is devoted to the trend of events leading up to the war as to the war itself. A helpful Chronological Table, and a minute Index to the entire work, conclude the volume. We have already placed our encomium on this important contribution to contemporaneous European history. [T. Y. Crowell & Co. $2.00.]

BIOGRAPHY.

Franklin.

for publishing the most trivial details of his home and habit. In particular the disclosures made in the first-named of the two books in hand do not belong to the world at large, and even if the public taste of the time does demand them, it is not a taste to be gratified. The Eugene Field Book [Scribner's. 60c.] is more to a good purpose, being a small collection of examples of his prose and verse. Edited by Mary E. Burt and Mary B. Cable, and introduced with a preface by George W. Cable, and intended as a reading book for use in schools; but to our Phi-thinking no such assemblage of slang and vulgarity as is to be found in "Jest 'Fore Christought to be allowed in a reading book for children, and one such piece" would be enough to make us condemn the book for

"Benjamin Franklin, Printer, Statesman, losopher, and Practical Citizen,"- thus does Edward Robins set forth Franklin's multiform preeminence, in the first volume of the series of "American Men of Energy." Save that a series must be complete in itself, there is no need of this new biography, for Franklin has already been portrayed by Parton, McMaster, and Morse. Yet the vivacity of Mr. Robins's style, and his copious quotations from Franklin's writings, make this volume more animated and picturesque than some at least of the preceding lives of the great American philosopher. Mr. Robins has chosen to let Franklin's sinuosities of mind speak for themselves, though the episode of the Hutchinson letters he treats far too lightly, even calling the chapter upon this matter "A Man of Letters." Hosmer's life of Hutchinson should be read in order to conceive of the disingenu

ousness which enabled Franklin to transmit to America the originals of those letters. How

he got them is not revealed, even in this last account of him; and Robins thinks it will never be known. Too little is said of Franklin's scientific discoveries, while his contest with the Penns and his labors in England and France on behalf of the Colonies are eagerly described. The biographer evinces his skill as a special pleader in his graphic delineation of Franklin's imperturbable face, ready speech, and plausible demeanor as contrasted with his unwavering loyalty to America. This curious mixture of astuteness and worldly prudence with sincere purpose is now a national trait, of which he was the first notable example, unless we except Penn. Better than any other statesman did Franklin "play with politics," in this way largely gaining his diplomatic victories; though as a mere matter of policy he knew when to be utterly frank, as in his letter to Congress concerning the doughty John Adams. By writing of Franklin

with humor and insight, Mr. Robins has revivified the man for us in his complex greatness, and yet has not given us a sermon anent the possible want of moral elevation in his character. [G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.]

Eugene Field.

Eugene Field, the man, had many friends and deserved them, and his writings have made many more; but if every one of his admirers (whose name is legion) is going to write a book about him, as Ida C. Below has done in Eugene Field in His Home [Dutton. $1.00.], and Francis Wilson in The Eugene Field I Knew [Scrib ner's. $1.25.], there is danger of a polite public being a little bored. Mr. Field's life was preeminently domestic, his talent though fine was limited, his taste in practical jokes inclined to the boisterous, his influence over his friends and power of drawing them were little short of magical; yet all this does not furnish good reason

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Joseph Jefferson.

Who that has ever seen Joseph Jefferson at home, or on the stage, has not loved him, and does not remember him with veneration? Nathan Haskell Dole has sketched his life story, in a pretty little volume of a few over one hundred pages, which is full of the sweet and gracious personality of the gifted and respected actor, and embellished with some sixteen beautifully executed half-tones, portraying Mr. Jefferson in his surroundings. A well-defined and winning personality is disclosed in this attractive volume. [Estes & Lauriat. $1.50.] Jacob Fowler.

as a Roman Catholic. Dr. Brownson was born in 1803, and underwent his "conversion" in 1844; and it is to this period of forty years that the present biography is devoted. It is a singular chapter of personal and public history. [Detroit: Published by the author.]

Mirabeau, that incarnation of the French Revolution, is again the subject of a biographical monograph, this time by P. F. Willert, and a compilation from existing memoirs in French, subject possibly to a little of Macaulay's influence. [The Macmillan Co. 75c.]

MUSICAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE.

A Handbook of Musical History. It is obviously altogether out of the question for anybody to attempt to give in less than five hundred pages an adequate sketch, even, of musical history for all time; but that is what Mr. James E. Matthew has attempted to do. We will not say that he has not succeeded as well as it is possible for any one to do under such iron limitations. The sixteen chapters of his book begin with the Christian sources of ecclesiastical music, of which the old service books in manuscript furnish such interesting examples, but of course he might have gone far back of this to Biblical times, which, however, he skips altogether. He traces the development of instrumentation, the advance of the art upon the continent and its first appearance in England; uncovers the origin of the opera and its sacred counterpart, the oratorio, and ad

vances down the modern passages of the sub

The Journal of Jacob Fowler is now published for the first time, edited with notes by Dr. Elliott Coues, whose study and research in all matters relating to Western Americana is remarkably exact and full. Fowler was born inject to the great names, the great works, and the New York, 1765; went to Kentucky in early life the Continental nations at the present time. great movements that distinguish England and and died there, Covington, 1850. He was both We cannot say that the book is embellished surveyor and explorer, twice crossing the plains with 128 illustrations, for some of the portraits to and from the Rocky Mountains. His journal are from blocks so old and worn that they disis a "memorandum of the voige by land from figure rather than beautify the pages; but there fort Smith to the Rockey mountains,❞— the are exceptions of better quality, and the facspelling and misplaced capitals throughout the similes of old musical works and scenes posrecord being ludicrous and execrable. Fowler's sess antiquarian interest. To each chapter is house was probably the first where now is the city of Pueblo, and he went nearer the sources covered thereby, and there is an excellent index. appended a brief bibliography of the subjects of the Rio Grande del Norte than any other For a handbook, pure and simple, moving rapexplorer had gone. His trail from the south idly, surveying superficially and leaving out of the Arkansaw crossed Kansas and made for much which there is not room to include, this the Missouri below the mouth of the Kansas. These records of his travels from Arkansas may answer the purpose of the beginner in the through the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kan- study of musical de .lopments. [G. P. Put

sas, Colorado, and New Mexico, with their abundant notes by Coues, are elaborately printed, and will afford delight and instruction to the students of antiquarian itineraries. [Francis P. Harper.]

Etc., Etc., Etc.

The personal history presented in The Recol lections of a Nonagenarian is that of the Rev. Dr. John C. Holbrook, a war-horse of the Congregationalists, whose life has impressed itself upon the New England churches and the development of the middle West. Twenty-five years ago no man was better known in his denomination, and today no man of his generation is remembered by his associates with greater respect. [The Pilgrim Press. $1.25.]

nam's Sons. $3.50 1

What is Good Music.

This new book by Mr. W. J. Henderson, the well-known musical critic, will not supplant the wholly admirable work of Mr. H. E. Krehbiel, entitled How to Listen to Music, published a year or two ago, but it furnishes an excellent supplement to it, covering as it does a somewhat different field, though written in the same spirit. To listen to music intelligently is not a gift that comes by nature, at least with many persons, but it is an art that may be cultivated as reasonably as the art of musical expression itself, and Mr. Henderson's book shows one how to set about it. The time has already come when one hears less often the dogmatic "But I know what I Mr. Henry F. Brownson has written a life, or like," set up as the ultimate standard of musical rather an account of the early life, of that unique criticism. People hesitate to say this even when figure in American ecclesiastical history, Orestes they think it, and consciousness of the "vast A. Brownson, who entered his conspicuous unknown" is the first step to higher enjoyment. career as a Unitarian minister, and issued later | Mr. Henderson discusses first the qualities o

good music, both in essentials of form and content, and then its performance and technique. The book serves a useful purpose and will advance the cause to which its author is devoted. [Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.00.]

tinct as a Mercator's Projection. [Charles
Scribner's Sons. $2.50.]

Etc., Etc., Etc.

The Lark may be said to have a successor. Yone Noguchi, that Whitmanesque poet of the Pacific, is its editor, M. Takahashi its publisher, S rancisco the place of its publication, and Professor William Newton Clark of Colgate University is the author of An Outline of Chris- The Twilight its name. Oddity is the feature of Stories of Famous Songs. tian Theology. It presents the facts and the its form, typography, and illustration, in which Mr. S. J. Adair-Fitzgerald has written a vol- truths of religion, as set forth in the Christian latter detail the spirit of Aubrey Beardsley may ume of Stories of Famous Songs, which is rightly Scriptures, according to the Baptist understand-be said to walk arm and arm with a rather feeble entitled to a place on the musical shelf, and ing. This is an open-minded but conservative shade of Whitman. Collectors of the curious will do well to send for a copy. [331 Eddy which brings together a great mass of interest-statement in brief. Theological students generStreet.] ing biographical and bibliographical literature, ally will find it useful for purposes of comparaand other information respecting the origin, tive reading. [Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50.] the authorship, and the history of the popular Preachers, beware of The Seed Basket, a dan

songs of the century, mostly by British authors. French, German, and American composers come in for slight notice; but the bulk of the book is devoted to the song productions of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Hymns are not included, but "songs" specifically. An extended index guides the inquirer to any desired detail of the broad field. A really immense store of facts is brought together in these four hundred pages. The book is finely made, in the best English style, and special praise is to be bestowed upon the paper. [J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.00.]

BOOKS FOR MINISTERS.

A History of Methodism. The Rev. Dr. James M. Buckley's History of Methodism makes two broad, well printed, and neatly bound octavo volumes, aggregating nearly 1,000 pages. The scope of the work is comprehensive, and its spirit generally fair. It traces the entire history of Methodism from its origins in England to its latest developments. In particular it throws a clear light upon the intimate and delicate relations of the Methodist move ment and its leaders with the Church of England at the outset, and with the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country at the close of the last century and the beginning of this. It is enlivened with biographical sketches of Methodist heroes, and these are accompanied by many full-page portraits on wood. Full account is made of the disturbances occasioned by the Civil War, and there is a broad survey of the missionary outlook. The Methodist Church has been, and will continue to be, a powerful factor in the evolution of universal character and history, and this book is an excellent and substantial contribution to our knowledge of its spirit and its workings. [Harper & Brothers. $5.00.]

Pastor and Church.

Dr. Washington Gladden's work on The Christian Pastor and the Working Church, a contribution to the International Theological Library, is the freshest and fullest treatise on its subject that we have seen. While its theories of the Christian ministry will arouse dissent in sundry quarters, to its spirit and its practical good sense no exceptions can be taken by any body, from the Roman Catholic on the one side to the most radical "free religionist" on the other. The marked feature of the book is its adjustment to the advanced views of the hour with regard to the public function and social leadership of the minister and the body which he serves. The map which it presents is of the whole round sphere of the minister's duty and usefulness, and the map is as orderly and dis

We are glad to call the attention of sufferers to Dr. Hollopeter's little book on Hay-Fever

gerous little handbook of sermon skeletons. and Its Treatment, a useful feature of which is [W. B. Ketcham. 50c.]

MISCELLANY.

the twenty-page bibliography of the subject at its close. The book is sufficiently technical for medical practitioners, and sufficiently simple for lay-readers, and may well be consulted by all that have to deal with this very uncomfortable and unmanageable malady. [Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co. $1.00.]

NEWS AND NOTES.

There are nearly 900 closely printed pages of Mr. Douglas Sladen's Who's Who for 1898; a sort of all-containing index to individuals visible from the English point of view. It is not complete, and one looks in vain in its fine print double columns for more than one person of standing even in the English world; but it does answer reasonable questions about a host of the -The Rev. Dr. Wm. Elliot Griffis is exEnglishmen of the day, and furnishes besides a pecting to leave July 23d for Great Britain and mass of information as to the English ecclesias- Holland, remaining in England and Scotland a tical, political, military, and naval establish- month, and spending the first half of September ments, and many details of interest respecting in the Netherlands. He will represent the personalities. It belongs with Bradshaw, Whit- American Historical Association at the Intertaker, and Burke, as a handbook of introduc-national Congress of History at the Hague, tions to almost everybody of any consequence September 1-4. now living in Greater Britain whom one might want to know. [The Macmillan Co. $1.75.]

The London Spectator did not hesitate to say that Abraham Lincoln "was among the greatest masters of prose ever produced by the English race." We are impressed anew with the truth of this extreme encomium by reading again the speeches, addresses, and letters, included under his name in the series of "Little Masterpieces" edited by Bliss Perry. Here is the immortal "Gettysburg Address," the "Lost Speech," the "First Inaugural," the Springfield and the Cooper Institute "Speeches," some other speeches, and a few letters. There is a very beautiful and truthful photogravure portrait for a frontispiece. [Doubleday & McClure Co. 30c.]

The Bookman Literary Year Book, for 1898, edited by James MacArthur, is a well intended handbook to the literary figures and the literary productions of the last year, but it is defective and uneven, and only partially occupies the field which it aspires to fill. It is embellished with many excellent portraits of notabilities, which add to its interest. [Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.]

The posthumous papers of the late George Du Maurier on Social Political Satire, with their illustrative copies of some of the amusing sketches which have enlivened the pages of Punch and other periodicals the past twentyfive years, have been gathered into a small book, affording pleasant reminiscences of the clever art and gentle satire of Du Maurier himself, and of John Leech and Charles Keene, with just a touch of Richard Doyle. These are in reality critical studies of the spirit and methods of Leech and Keene, and amount to the writing up of what is a unique chapter in the history of English humor. [Harper & Brothers. $1.50.]

-Two more periodicals are to yield to the present tendency and appear in magazine form. The publishers of the Critic announce its first appearance as a magazine with the number of July 25th, and its change from a weekly to a monthly issue, the issue of the week ending June 25th completing the old series. A new price of $2.00 a year is announced for its new form, but we are promised a continuance of the leading features that have won the Critic its many friends. The Independent also announces that with its first issue in July it will appear as a weekly magazine, the size of the Century, comprising usually eighty-four pages. Its price also will be reduced from three dollars a year to two, and single copies from ten cents to five cents. "Homer" con

- Mr. Gladstone's article on tributed to Chambers's Encyclopædia will be reprinted in independent form, prefaced by Mr. McCarthy's sketch of Gladstone in the same work, and accompanied by portraits and fac similes.

-Thacker & Co. have almost ready, in two substantial volumes, the new revised edition of Boulger's History of China, brought down to the date of the latest European complications.

-And now the great Carthaginian general, Hannibal, comes again to the front as the hero of Mr. Haggard's new historical romance, Hannibal's Daughter.

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— Among recent sales at auction, London, were sets of Boswell's Johnson, Johnson's Lives of Poets, and Johnsoniana, extended to fourteen All those acquainted with the delicate and picvolumes by the addition of 700 portraits, and a turesque writing which has given Mr. Cable his copy of Mr. Austin Dobson's Eighteenth Cen-place among modern writers of fiction are fatury Vignettes, both series extended to four miliar with the delightful episode of Jules St. thick quarto volumes by means of nearly 400 Ange and Parson Jones, but the author's own interpretation was frankly a revelation of a thoufine old engraved portaits and views. sand unsuspected details which he brought out with a masterly touch. Accompanying himself for the first time in public, Mr. Cable also sang several of the characteristic Creole songs, which he learnt note by note from those who still talk and sing the joyous French patois of the eighteenth century, and in whom are vested all the traditions of the old régime when there was a Mr. Cable greater France beyond the seas. was introduced to his audience by Sir Walter G. P. Putnam's Sons. Besant, and a large number of Mr. Cable's fellow writers and admirers gathered to hear him. Mr. Cable is to give another reading at Sir James H. West. George Lewis's house next Thursday, Sir Henry Irving in the chair.

- Chaucer died October 25, 1400; and a proposal for a proper commemoration of the 500th anniversary of this event has already appeared in England.

-The Dibdin Club will shortly publish, in a limited edition, Booktrade Bibliography in the United States in the XIXth Century, by Mr. Growoll, the managing editor of The Publishers' Weekly.

-Mr. W. R. Jenkins announces for this month Soldier Songs and Love Songs, by A. H. Laidlaw; a Handbook of Spanish Phrases, for the use of our army; The Drillmaster in German, which we trust has no sinister squint; The Examination of Horses, with reference to purchase, by Edward Sewell; and an illustrated edition of Alexandre's Catherine, Catherinette et Catarina, prepared for school use by Agnes Gay. -The first edition of Mrs. Humphry Ward's new novel, Helbeck of Bannisdale, was exhausted within a week of its publication.

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-The work of nearly 300 authors will be contained in a forthcoming collection of Poems on the Late Mr. Gladstone.

- Mr. Vizitelly has made a new English translation of Zola's The Fortunes of the Rougons.

-The following are the Academy's contributions to the contemporary portraits of Mr. Cable as seen from the British point of view:

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