introduction to the study of our language. The statement that its occurs in Levit. xxv. 5, where the compiler says it is "another reading," requires modifying, since it is the true reading, and its an innovation of the printers. here. The name of so eminent a judge as Sir ance of entertaining reading, comprising nursery Matthew Hale is misspelt "Hales," both in the rhymes, fairy tales from Andersen and Grimm, text and notes. Bartholomew Fair is described stories of adventure, striking incidents from as "a fair in the neighbourhood of London," history, short sketches of natural history, and instead of in Smithfield. Some of the transla-pleasing poetry. Better food for young minds tions of Latin and Greek quotations are also could hardly be found. The last three books Specimens of Early English. Part I. A.D. 1150inexact. Still, the notes supply a considerable are of a more literary and scientific cast, consistA. D. 1300. With Introduction, Notes, and Glosamount of varied information, and are, in fact, ing of passages in prose and verse from well-sarial Index. By the Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. the part of the book best fitted for the purpose known authors, and elementary lessons in (Oxford, Clarendon Press.)-With this volume, of education. various branches of science by eminent pro- which, though the last to appear, contains the fessors. We are inclined to think them too large passages selected from the earliest authors, the and over-weighted with heavy matter. Anatomy, Clarendon Press series of "Specimens of Early geology, physical geography, and political eco- English," begun fifteen years ago, is completed. nomy are scarcely suitable subjects for such The pieces here printed are nineteen in number, young readers. Had these been omitted, and and cover the period from 1150 to 1300. For more space devoted to biography, we should the selection of the specimens, the notes, and have liked the series better. In selecting the greater part of the glossary Dr. Morris is poetry the editor seems to have been too responsible; for the remainder of the glossary studious of freshness, and hence has admitted and the introduction we are indebted to Prof. pieces which have no other recommendation. Skeat. In the complete series there are speciSurely the thing most to be desired in readingmens from no fewer than sixty-six different books is not mere novelty, but excellence of works, ranging in date from 1150 to 1579, and thought and style, by familiarity with which the thus presenting to the student a perfect view may acquire something of the same tone of the history of our language. The present and expression. The illustrations, which form volume, which has so long been earnestly indispensable utility, and often remarkable for especially valuable as illustrating the history a marked feature of the series, are sometimes of looked for by students of Early English, is Longmans' Modern Series. — Arithmetic. Parts V., VI., and VII. (Standards V., VI., and VII.). Answers to Arithmetic. Parts I.-VII. (Longmans & Co.) - The examples contained in these arithmetics are appropriate to the several standards and sufficiently numerous. The statement and explanation of rules might as well have been left for the teacher to supply viva voce, which is the only effectual method in such cases. Generally speaking, the explanation here given is clear, but in one or two instances it has appeared to us that simpler methods of working might have been adopted. Longmans' Modern Copybooks. Nos. VII.XII. By J. Tidmarsh. (Longmans & Co.)The writing in these copybooks is bold, but rather too round and upright. Longmans' Modern Series.-The Illustrated Readers. Book V. (Longmans & Co.)-The text of this reader is scarcely on a par with the illustrations, which are very good, or with others of the same 'class. Newspapers and periodicals are not the most suitable sources from which to derive reading lessons. meanings affixed to difficult words are often scarcely less difficult than the words explained, and, even if they suit the passage in hand, give no correct idea of the proper force of the word or the other meanings it bears. The explanation The reader artistic execution. Generally speaking, the ex- English Lessons for School room Use. By K. of the language at that important period when the later Anglo-Saxon of the twelfth century gradually gave way to the English of the fourgradual was the introduction of Anglo-Norman teenth century, and as showing how slow and words, now so numerous, into general use. The specimens, the majority of which have been selected from works edited for the Early English Text Society, are admirably suited for the purpose intended. The glossary is exceedingly, one is almost inclined to say too, full; the introduction, although to a certain extent a reprint of that prefixed to the edition of 1867, of such words might safely be left to the properly would seem most convenient, but chronologically. has still been so largely added to and altered by qualified teacher. Useful explanation of phrases and allusions is given in the notes at the end of each lesson. Cassell's Readers for Elementary Schools.-The Simple Outline of English History. For Standard IV. In accordance with the New Code of 1882. Illustrated. (Cassell & Co.)-As a preparation for Standard IV. and an introduction to history well suited for all children at that stage of advancement, this Outline' is entitled to general acceptance. Within the compass of about 180 pages are comprised all the leading facts of our history, narrated with transparent simplicity, calm impartiality, and substantial accuracy; so that, after going carefully through them, the reader can hardly fail to have a good general idea of the way in which the nation has gradually grown to its present form and condition. Simple as the style generally is, it is never unworthy of the subject, and is free from the childish small talk into which writers for children are so often betrayed. In some few cases easier words might, perhaps, have been adopted with advantage. It is not the happiest way of stating the result of the trial of the seven bishops in James II.'s reign to say "the jury who tried them would not allow them to be punished.' The illustrations are generally of real value for the information they convey with regard to the condition and manners of the country at different periods. The contrast between the extent of London in the time of Elizabeth and about the middle of this century is strikingly exhibited in a small sketch. Printing, paper, and binding are all good, and the price is moderate. The Globe Readers. Illustrated. Primers I. and II.; Books I.-VI. Compiled and edited by A. F. Murison, M. A. (Macmillan & Co.)Among the numerous sets of readers before the public the present series is honourably distinguished by the marked superiority of its materials and the careful ability with which they have been adapted to the growing capacity of the pupils. The plan of the two primers is excellent for facilitating the child's first attempts to read. In the first three following books there is abund Miss Knox is quite right in attaching great im- ་ pupils should know beforehand what they will Notes of Lessons on English Grammar, for the Outline of the History of the English Language and Literature. (Chambers.) — In this little volume the compiler has given a more correct, and, indeed, in every way a better, outline of the history of the English language and literature than is to be found in many works of far greater pretensions. All the important points are clearly, though of course briefly, treated, and we can confidently recommend the work for use in elementary and secondary schools as an Prof. Skeat that it is practically a new one, and no student can ask for a more clear and satis factory introduction to the grammar of Early English. The section on metre, which is a new feature in the work, and has been supplied by Prof. Skeat, will be found especially valuable. Prof. Skeat has also carefully revised the whole work, and has pointed out in pp. 536-540 several corrections and additions which the student will do well to mark in the body of the work before beginning to use it. CHRISTMAS BOOKS. The Good Ship Barbara. By S. W. Sadler, R. N. One of the Old School. By Austin Clare. (Same By Mary E. Palgrave. By M. A. Paull. (Hodder & Stoughton.) THE GOOD SHIP BARBARA' is a suitable boys' book of the Marryat type, dealing with West Coast slavery and cruisers. There is a certain wildness in the coincidences by which the brothers come together; but this is sufficiently atoned for by stirring adventures to reconcile more captious critics than the public for whom the book is written. 'Isabeau's Hero' is a story of Jean Cavalier and the revolt in the Cevennes. It follows the lines of history pretty closely, and is sufficiently well written. The illustrations are less good than the text, notably one in which a man is represented as being stabbed to the heart, and obviously has his heart on the wrong side. 'One of the Old School' is the autobiography of an old servant-maid, more true to life than "The appears many in these days will believe possible. constant service of the antique world well in this good Tyneside dame. 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As if the Spring's fresh groves should change and shake To dark green woods of cedar or terebinth, Then break to bloom of amorous hyacinth, So 'neath us changed the waves, rising to take Each kiss of colour from each cloud and flake; But this our tire-room, this wild labyrinth Of sea-wrought column, arch, and granite plinth, Shows how the sea's fine rage dares make and break. Young with the youth the immortal brine can lend, Our glowing limbs, with these bright drops empearled, Seem born anew, and in your eyes, dear friend, Rare pictures shine-like faery flags unfurled-Of Child-land, where the roofs of rainbows bend Over the golden wonders of the world. THEODORE WATTS. Petit Bot Bay, Guernsey. COMPULSORY REGISTRATION OF BOOK TITLES. 13, Paternoster Row, Oct. 17, 1882. WHILE there has been so much agitation and discussion recently about international copyright with America, it is surprising that the compulsory registration of book titles should have escaped all our legislators, although the matter is one of every-day importance to the whole publishing trade, and the remedy ought not to be beyond our grasp, as it does not present any serious difficulty. The present state of things is most unsatisfactory. When a title is chosen by author or publisher, the first care is to make a diligent search of all available catalogues, with a view to ascertain if the title has been used before. But it does not follow that because such a search does not disclose a previous use of the title, therefore it is free. Books have been published which are to be found neither in Low's Catalogue, the Museum Catalogue, Whitaker's Reference Catalogue, nor Stationers' Hall. Even if an entry is made at Stationers' Hall, if the author's name is given it is entered under that only, and not under the subject, so that unless one knows of such a book it is impossible to trace it there. The publisher now supposes that he has got hold of a title which is free, and proceeds to announce the book and get it ready for sale, involving printing, binding, &c. But after every care has been exercised, it occasionally happens that in " subscribing a new book to the trade a prior use of the title is discovered, in which case there is still time (not having actually published or delivered the book) to arrange with the holder of the copyright for permission to sell what have been printed and bound; or should that be impossible (as in the case of one who insists upon the strict legal rights), then voluntarily to withdraw all that has been done, cancel all that have been bound, choose and print a new title, &c., and so put up with a considerable loss. In other cases the previous use of a title may not be found out until after the book has been published and is in the hands of the public generally, and then may come an injunction in Chancery, with all its attendant worry and expense. Thus at present there is no absolute security about the selection of a title; and I have no doubt many others in the trade will have ex WE are in the "Coloured Caves" the sea-maid perienced what has just now fallen to my lot, built; Her walls are stained above yon lonely fern, For she must fly at every tide's return, And all her sea-tints round the walls are spilt. which is what has led me to write this letter, in *There is nothing so delicious to the bather's feet as the low-tide sands of Petit Bot Bay save the "silt" of a Midland river. the hope that a movement may be got up for the introduction of a short Bill by some member of Parliament to remedy the present defective state of the law. Stationers' Hall could very well be utilized for the purpose, which should be compulsory registration, to be followed by actual publication within a given date, and the deposit of a copy of the book on the day of publication; all existing titles to be brought into the register within, say, three months; search to be made and official certificate supplied upon application. The practical details and the fees to be charged would not be difficult to arrange, if only we could get a few members of the trade to take up the matter actively; and I hope I have now set the ball rolling. JOHN HOGG. HELEN IN THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY. MAY I point out that the argument by which the reviewer of my 'Helen' tries to prove the separate authorship and comparatively late date of the Odyssey is not founded on fact? "It is only in the Odyssey," he says, "that any attempt is made to shift the moral blame from Helen on to some god." But (Iliad, iii. 164) Priam says that he does not hold Helen to blame, "the gods are to blame." In Iliad vi. 357 Helen herself lays the fault on fate and Zeus, though this means, perhaps, not much more than la belle Hélène's frequent references to la fatalité. Again, the reviewer says, "In the Iliad Helen is neither moral nor immoral. No question of immorality approaches her." This is a most singular statement, for in the Iliad, as Mr. Gladstone has observed, Helen's penitence and self-abasement come nearer to the Christian ideal than probably any other passage in pagan literature. In neither Iliad nor Odyssey do the other characters of the poem criticize Helen's behaviour with any freedom, though she complains (Iliad, xxiv. 778) that her husband's kin upbraided her. But Helen herself repeatedly expresses her own sense of moral guilt in both poems. The passages in the Iliad are familiar to all-iii. 173-176, vi. 344. Curiously enough, Helen uses the same very strong terms of reprobation about herself in both the Iliad and the Odyssey: Δᾶερ ἐμεῖο κυνὸς κακομηχάνου ὀκρυοέσσης. The passage in the sixth book is remarkable for the depth of Helen's penitence and her clear view of the nature of her fault, as well as for her expressed contempt of Paris. In face of these and of countless other ethical passages"tonic" passages, as Mr. Arnold calls themit seems odd to speak as the reviewer does of the "absence from the Iliad of any notion whatever of morality." It follows that arguments for the later date of the Odyssey based on the theory of the non-morality of the Iliad are valueless. A. LANG. **It is, perhaps, pardonable in the latest translator of Homer to decide off hand a controversy that has amused and interested the world since the beginning of criticism. That a scholar quite capable of fighting his own battles, and intelligent enough to raise a controversy upon a side issue rather than upon his own singular conception of the character of Helen, should shelter himself behind Mr. Gladstone is less easily explicable. In the opinion of the general reader the name Mr. Lang advances seems a tower of strength. Those genuinely interested in questions such as are raised in Mr. Lang's complaint know that to ascribe to Mr. Gladstone a view of this description is to stamp it as fanciful. The paragraph in the Juventus Mundi' from which Mr. Lang quotes is as follows: "Upon the whole, I think that no one, forming his estimate of Helen from Homer only, could fall into the gross error of looking upon her as a type of depraved character. From the odious Helen of the Second Eneid she is immeasurably apart. Her beauty, grace, refinement, are not contaminated by vicious appetites; they are only not sustained by an heroic, almost a superhuman, firmness. Her fall once incurred, she finds herself bound by the iron chain of circumstance, from which she can obtain no extrication. But to the world, beneath whose standard of morality she has sunk, she makes at least this reparation, that the sharp condemnation of herself is ever in her mouth, and that she does not seek to throw off the burden of her shame on her more guilty partner. Nay, more than this; her self-abasing and self-renouncing humility come nearer, perhaps, than any other heathen example, to the type of Christian penitence." J. & F. Rivington 1784 *1791 1792 1797 1808 1810 1815 1822 1823 1824 1824 1825 1825 1826 1826 [1828 ?] ི 1833 Edinburgh, &c. 1834 London, &c. *1834 London 8. Bagster J. Smith John Major Maunder (?) John Major Editors. Author Moses Browne Hawkins Moses Browne Hawkins Hawkins and R. Thomson Tegg Dove, printer Pickering 1834 Edinburgh, &c. Fraser and others 1835 London If Mr. Lang accepts this view, the adhesion of one scholar to Mr. Gladstone's singular proposition is established. It would be gratifying, however, to see a passage in the New Testament that in any way conforms with Helen's description of herself in the passage Mr. Lang advances. "Shameless" is the rendering Mr. Lang himself gives in his translation of the Odyssey to the word *1824(?) KUVÓTICOS, spoken by Helen of herself. A more literal rendering would better convey the genuine feeling of Helen that she had behaved like the animal to which she compares herself. That Helen blames herself in the Iliad as the cause of woe to Trojan and Greek is obvious. The expressions to which she listens from Hecuba and the Trojan matrons, who attribute to her the loss of their husbands slain in battle, arenot, however, without a faintly indicated sense of injustice-echoed by her. She is disastrous, woe-bringing. This is the sense in which the reproach quoted by Mr. Lang from the Iliad is to be taken. It is at least the view of those whose assumptions he so summarily dismisses. Of no more value in settling the question are the words of Priam (Iliad, iii. 164) on which Mr. Lang relies. Priam, whose tenderness towards Helen is chivalric, lays vaguely on [1844?] some god the responsibility of suffering which he knows Helen is in the habit of hearing ascribed by others to herself. Once more we assert, then, that the question of morality is not raised in the Iliad, even in the rudimentary manner in which it is raised when, in the Odyssey, Penelope says of Helen τὴν δ ̓ ἤτοι ῥέξαι θεὸς ὤρορεν ἔργον ἀεικές· Odyssey, xxiii. 222. translated by Mr. Lang, "Howsoever, it was the god that set her upon this shameful deed." PROF. KARL VON HALM. ONE of the lights of German learning has departed in the person of Karl von Halm, who died on the 5th of this month in his seventy-fourth year. Most of his life was passed in Munich; he was born and educated there, first at the Gymnasium, and then at the University under Thiersch. After an interval of a few years, during which he worked as a schoolmaster at Speyer and Hadamar, he returned to Munich in 1849, to become rector of the newly founded MaximilianGymnasium-an office which he relinquished in 1856, when he was nominated to the distinguished post of Director of the Munich Library and Ordinary Professor at the University. His life, therefore, was all along busy; but in his case, as in that of Ahrens, Meineke, and so many eminent names in German philology, scholastic duties do not seem to have been found incompatible with the interests of learning. was certainly one of the best Latinists of his time, and the range of his knowledge was such that he was equally at home with Cicero and Quintilian and with the Latin Fathers. Those who knew him personally will not easily forget the distinction of his manner and his somewhat ecclesiastical air, which made one think for the moment that one was talking with an abbé of a former age rather than with a living German philologist. John Major Rennie Thomson and Major Hawkins and Rennie *1836 1837 Edinburgh, &c. London, &c. 1839 London *1841 1842 *1844 " Sherwood & Bowyer Piper & Co. Bogue; Wix Major S. Johnson Hawkins and Rennie 1844 99 Lewis Bell & Daldy, S. Low Bell & Daldy Ticknor & Fields 1870 1872 1875 1876 1876 [1878] [1878] 1878 E. Stock 1878 1879 1880 New York 1881 London, &c. [1881] Philadelphia [1881] London Routledge F. Warne Ward, Lock & Co. G. Bell & Sons 'Fishing Gazette' Wiley & Sons Routledge Lippincott Strahan & Co. Bethune "Ephemera " Major I have satisfied myself of the existence of these eighty-nine issues, with the exception of the doubtful Maunder and one other, by personal examination. There are others, but my attempts to obtain copies of them have failed. Many differ only in the names of the publishers or in the date. Those marked with a star have MR. JAMES PAYN having been (oh, wonder of wonders!) accused of plagiarism, on my authority, as I learn, and from a story of mine, I beg you to reproduce this copy of a letter which I dispatch by the same post to the New York Tribune. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. To the Editor of the New York Tribune. Terminus Hotel, Marseilles, Oct. 16, 1882. Sir, It has come to my ears that you have lent the authority of your columns to an error. More than half in pleasantry-and I now think the pleasantry ill-judged-I complained, in a note to my New Arabian Nights,' that some one, who shall remain nameless for me, had borrowed the idea of a story from one of mine. As if I had not borrowed the ideas of the half of my own! As if any one who had written a story ill had a right to complain of any other one who should have written it better! I am, indeed, thoroughly ashamed of the note and of the principle which it implies. But it is no mere abstract penitence that leads me to beg a corner of your paper; it is the desire to defend the honour of a man of letters equally known in America and England; of a man who could afford to lend to me and yet be none the poorer, and who, if he would so far condescend, has my free permission to borrow from me all that he can find worth borrowing. Indeed, sir, I am doubly surprised at your correspondent's error. That James Payn should have borrowed from me is already a strange conception. The author of 'Lost Sir Massing berd' and' By Proxy' may be trusted to invent his own stories. The author of A Grape from a Thorn' knows enough, in his own right, of the humorous and pathetic sides of human nature. ignorance of the man in question is the idea that But what is far more monstrous-what argues total James Payn could ever have transgressed the limits of professional propriety. I may tell his thousands of readers on your side of the Atlantic that there breathes no man of letters more inspired by kindness and generosity to his brethren of the profession; and, to put an end to any possibility of error, I may be allowed to add that I often have recourse, and that I had recourse once more but a few weeks ago, to the valuable practical help which he makes it his pleasure to extend to younger men. Isenda duplicate of this letter to a London weekly; for the mistake, first set forth in your columns, has already reached England, and my wanderings have made me perhaps the last of the persons interested to hear a word of it. I am, &c., ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. THOMAS LODGE AT SCHOOL. 29, Delamere Terrace, W. To the courtesy of the Rev. Charles J. Robinson I am indebted for a scrap of important information respecting the poet Thomas Lodge which has hitherto evaded every investigator. I regret very much that it reaches me just too late to be incorporated in the 'Memoir of Thomas Lodge' which the council of the Hunterian Club have employed me to write, and which is to be prefixed to their superb reprint of the poet's complete works. In case of our being unable even to slip it in on a fly-leaf, I ask leave to print it here for the present. It is an entry in the records of the Merchant Taylors' Company, stating that on the 23rd of March, 1570/1:— Item the foresaide Mr and Wardens have admitted Thomas Lodge, fil' Thome L. militis [and certain other boys] are admitted [sic] to be of the number of those 1 schollers that are limitted to be broughte within or schole." The reference, Mr. Robinson tells me, is to fifty scholars who were to pay 2s. 6d. a quarter. 66 his admirable investigations. As, unfortunately, DR. ABEL'S LINGUISTIC ESSAYS. DR. ABEL has sent a long letter, which begins as follows: Quarterly Review,' by Dean Burgon,' Memoir of the Life of Lord Lyndhurst,' by Sir Theodore Martin, K. C. B.,-a popular edition of the 'Life of a Scotch Naturalist (Thomas Edward)," by Samuel Smiles, LL.D.,-'Life of Jonathan Swift,' by Henry Craik, M.A.,-'Selections from Oxford Lectures, chiefly on Historical Jurisprudence,' by Sir H. S. Maine, K.C.S.I.,— 'Worship and Order,' by the Right Hon. A. J. B. "In his article upon my 'Linguistic Essays' Beresford Hope, M.P.,-'James and Philip your reviewer says: "The general conception Van Arteveld: Two Remarkable Episodes in of love discovered for one nation from the conthe History of Flanders,' by James Hutton,sideration of all its terms is compared with the 'Siberia in Asia: a Visit to the Valley of the parallel conception formed by each other nation, Yenesay, in East Siberia,' by Henry Seebohm, and finally the different conceptions are com- F.R.G.S., 'Recreations and Studies of a bined to show us all that can be thought or said Country Clergyman of the Last Century: being about love-a result which we certainly cannot Selections from the Correspondence of Thomas attain to without a much larger induction of Twining, M.A.,'-'The Parthenon: an Essay facts; the Sanskrit alone, as we have said above, on the Mode in which Light was introduced would add an entirely different conception.' In into Greek and Roman Temples,' by James this passage my critic attributes to me the in- Fergusson, F. R. S.,-"The Works of Alexander tention to extract all that can be said or thought Pope: Vol. IV. The Dunciad,' &c., Elwin's about love from the four languages I happen to and Courthope's edition,- Religious Thought compare in my essay. It must be almost unand Life in India,' by Monier Williams, M. A., necessary to disprove so very unlikely an im-Method in Almsgiving: a Handbook for putation; but as the charge is preferred I may Helpers,' by M. W. Moggridge,- The Rise be permitted to reprint the passage (p. 52) on and Growth of the Law of Nations,' by J. which it is founded: Hosack,-Practical and Conversational Pocket Dictionary of the English, French, and German Languages, for the Use of Travellers,' by George F. Chambers, F.R. A.S.,- Mexico To-day,' by T. Unett Brocklehurst,-'The Principal Facts in the Life of our Lord,' six lectures, by Henry Wace, D.D.,-"The Student's Manual of the Political Geography and Physiography of British India,' by George Smith, LL.D., -"The Student's Evidences of Christianity,' by Henry Wace, D.D.,-Journal__of_a Lady's Travels round the World,' by F. D. Bridges,-"London: its History, Antiquarian and Modern,' founded on the work by the late Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., a new edition revised by James Thorne, F.S. A., Book,'-'The Student's Ecclesiastical History -'Italian Principia: Part II. A First Reading Book II. The Middle Ages and the Reformation,' by Philip Smith, B. A., 'The Student's History of the Roman Empire, from the Establishment of the Empire to the Accession of Commodus, A. D. 180,'-'The Student's History of Modern Europe, from the End of the Middle Ages to the Treaty of Berlin, 1878,'-' The Apocrypha, with a Commentary, Explanatory and Critical,' by various writers, edited by Henry Wace, D.D., "Considering all the words [expressive of love], independently of the people to which they belong, as products of the one human soul, and arranging them according to their spiritual connexion alone, we may aim at a systematic and diversified adumbration of all that can be said or thought about love......For points particularly accentuated by, and specially characteristic of it, each language will find the nearest synonyms in itself, and turn their distinctions to account for purposes of logical discrimination; whilst for other features less completely expressed, and only represented by one or two words, a foreign language will generally supply the word to be defining, which does not exist in the idiom of put next, and offer a means for testing and the word tried.' "Both in its wording and meaning the above plainly refers to all languages indiscriminately, but not to any limited number of them." Dr. Abel then proceeds to say that we have misunderstood him in sundry instances-i.e., by saying that he considers that we need first to know each nation's logical modes, and then we observing that he gave his reasons for ignoring shall see the meanings of their case-forms; by not historical research; and by hinting, as he thinks, that he had failed to make clear his use of the term psychologie. As to the part of Dr. Abel's letter we have printed in full, we owe him an apology. The very obvious slip in our review was due to the accidental omission of three or four words. On the other points we must say that, though we are quite willing to allow we may have misunderbook is to blame for this, and that our remarks stood our learned correspondent, we think his were fair inferences from it. But to substantiate this it would be necessary for us to print the whole of Dr. Abel's letter, and add a reply at least as long, for which we have no space, and which would have little interest for our readers. THE COMING PUBLISHING SEASON. A Dictionary of Hymnology,' by the Rev. J. Julian, - 'Life and Writings of St. John the Divine,' by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe,-the third volume of the 'Dictionary of Christian Biography,' edited by W. Smith, D.C.L., and Henry Wace, D.D.,-and 'The Student's Commentary on the New Testament,' abridged from the Speaker's Commentary," and edited by J. M. Fuller, M. A. Instructor, Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co. have long Encouraged by the success of their Universal had in preparation, and will this month commence the publication, in monthly parts, an entirely new work for the education of young children, entitled 'The Child's Instructor.' It is intended for children from the ages of three to eight years, and presents many novel features, being based on the kindergarten principles of toy teaching and play-learning Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co. will next month commence the publication of an edition of Scott's Waverley Novels, containing all the illustrations that appear in the handsome French edition now in course of publication by Messrs. Firmin Didot & Co., of Paris. MR. MURRAY'S list of forthcoming works includes the third and concluding volume of the Life of Bishop Wilberforce,' by his son, Reginald G. Wilberforce,-'Raphael: his Life and Works,' with particular reference to recently discovered records, and an exhaustive study of extant drawings and pictures, by J. A. Crowe Mr. Gardner (London and Paisley) will issue and G. B. Cavalcaselle,- The Golden Kher- next week a two-volume novel entitled 'Julian sonese and the Way Thither,' by Isabella Bird Ormonde,' by W. C. Maughan, author of the (Mrs. Bishop), Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive,Alps of Arabia,' &c. Mr. Gardner has also This entry, which is of considerable value in and Historical,' by Bishop Wordsworth, a revised determining the question of Lodge's probable edition, edited by Mr. H. F. Tozer, M.A., year of birth, had escaped Mr. Robinson's Asiastic Studies, Religious and Social,' by Sir attention until I happened to ask him to search Alfred C. Lyall, K. C. B.,-"The Revision Refor it. It increases the debt which we owe to! vised: Three Articles reprinted from the in the press a new novel of special interest, by the author of A Lonely Life,' 'Wise as a Serpent,' &c. Messrs. John F. Shaw & Co. announce the following books for the young :-'Red and ston, : 6 White a Tale of the Wars of the Roses,' by E. S. Holt, The Foster Sisters: a Story of the Great Revival,' by L. E. Guernsey,-Seeketh not her Own; or, the Workers of La Garaye,' by M. Sitwell, Pretty Pictures for Little Paint Brushes,' with descriptive narratives, outlines by T. Pym,-Only a Cousin,' by Catharine Shaw, Lonely Jack and his Friends at Sunnyside,' by Emily Brodie,-Cripple Jess, the Hop-picker's Daughter,' by L. Marand Little Freddie; or, Friends in Need,' by E E. G. For smaller children: Jack and Jill: a Story of To-day,' by Mrs. Stanley Leathes, 'Bertie's Wanderings, and What came of Them,' by Ismay Thorn, A Little Wild Flower; or, Rosy's Story,' by L. J. Tomlinson, Living Water for Little Pitchers,' by the Rev. J. Stephens, and 'Something for Sunday,' outline texts for the children to paint. Of religious works: In Defence: the Earlier Scriptures,' by H. Sinclair Paterson, M.D.,— A Portrait from God's Picture Gallery,' lessons on the life of David,—‘The Glory of the Gospel,' by Rev. W. H. M. H. Aitken, Shining Light,' memorials of Caroline W. Leakey,—' At Rest among the Laos,' the story of the missionary career of M. M. Campbell,and The Compassion of Jesus,' by the Rev. A. Saphir, D.D. A short History of the Church of England,' by Miss Yonge, the author of The Heir of Redclyffe,' is in the press, and will shortly be published by the National Society, mainly for the use of schools. The same inexhaustible writer is editing a series of historical ballads, will also be shortly published by the National many of them of her own composition, which Society, in three volumes. Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode will publish in a few days two works, entitled 'Her Beautiful Dream,' a Christmas fancy, intended mainly for the young, and 'Songs in Sunshine,' a collection of short poems by the Rev. Frederick Langbridge. Mr. George Redway is about to publish 'Sandracoltus,' a drama in five acts, by Mr. W. Theodore Smith, and 'The Angelic Pilgrim,' a poem by W. H. Smith. The same publisher announces 'The Handbook of Palmistry,' by Miss Rosa Baughan, revised, with illustrations. Literary Gossip. MR. JOHN MORLEY has, it is understood, abandoned the idea of bringing out a new magazine. THE leading story in Good Words next year will be written by Mr. Walter Besant, author of The Chaplain of the Fleet,' &c. The title is to be 'All in a Garden Green.' AMONG the contents of the November number of the Fortnightly Review, which will henceforth appear under the editorship of Mr. T. H. S. Escott, will be 'The Reform of Egypt,' by Sir Samuel Baker; The Future of Zululand,' by Sir Bartle Frere; Lord Falkland,' by the Earl of Carnarvon; 'British Agriculture in 1882,' by the Hon. G. C. Brodrick, Warden of Merton College, Oxford; The late Professor F. M. Balfour,' by Prof. Moseley, of the Challenger; 'Some Aspects of American Politics,' by Mr. James Bryce, M.P.; The Irish Parliamentary Party,' by Mr. T. N. Healy, M.P.; Egyptian Finance,' by Mr. A. J. Wilson; an article embodying an authentic exposition of M. Gambetta's views; and an article on the state of the Opposition, by a Conservative. MR. JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS, whose 'Studies of the Greek Poets' are well known, is now engaged on a collection of 'Studies of the Elizabethan Dramatists.' THE Bampton Lectures of Mr. Hatch, on the Organization of the Early Christian Churches,' of which the second edition, with revised notes and a new preface, has recently been issued by Messrs. Rivington, seem to be more fortunate than their predecessors in attracting attention abroad. Lately, on taking up the first number of Signor Borghi's new magazine, we were surprised to find the opening review was devoted to them, and wondered that an Italian audience should be supposed to care for anything so typically English as a Bampton Lecture. Now we hear that Mr. Hatch's book is being translated into German. It is the only series of Bampton Lectures which has ever been considered worth reproducing in Germany for the benefit of German theological students. A WELSH translation of East Lynne' is now appearing in serial form in the Principality. A TRANSLATION of M. Gabriel Charmes's Experiences of Egyptian Life' will shortly be published by Messrs. Bentley; and à be published by Messrs. Bentley; and à propos of Egypt a new book by the author of Eau-de-Nil' is, we understand, in the press, entitled 'Azahar; or, Journal of a Residence in Spain.' Ir may be noted that both the Steventon edition of Miss Austen's works and Mrs. Kemble's notes upon some of Shakspeare's plays, which Mr. Bentley is publishing, are to appear printed throughout in brown ink. The notes on Macbeth' are the most exhaustive; those on 'Romeo and Juliet,' on the other hand, are unfortunately somewhat scanty. Another novelty in the publishing trade may be mentioned. Several new books we remark are coming out in covers made of various sorts of wood, similar to that which recently appeared on the Hon. Mrs. Fetherstonhaugh's novel 'For Old Sake's Sake.' DR. McCOSH, formerly of Belfast and now principal of an American college, has issued a programme of a philosophic series. "For the last thirty years," he says, "I have been taking my part in the philosophic discussions of the age. I have a few things yet to say before I willingly leave the arena. These have long occupied my thoughts, and they relate to thrilling topics of the day on which many are anxious to have light thrown. In order to bring my views before the thinking public I start a philosophic series, to consist of small volumes of about sixty pages each, in stout paper, at fifty cents per volume, and issued quarterly, and each embracing an exposition complete in itself of one theme. I begin with 'The Criteria of Diverse Kinds of Truth as Opposed to Agnosticism, being a Treatise of Applied Logic.' This treatise will be followed by one 'On the Nature of Causation in relation to the lately discovered Doctrine of the Conservation of Energy or the Persistence of Force'; one 'On what Development can Do and What it can not Do'; by 'A Criticism of the Philosophy of Kant'; and 'A Criticism of Herbert Spencer's Philosophy as Culminated in his Ethics.' THE Publishers' Weekly announces that an American publishing firm will issue immediately Ralph Waldo Emerson: an Estimate of his Life and Character,' by Mr. A. Bronson Alcott. Mr. Alcott, the neighbour and lifelong friend of the "Seer of Concord," is now approaching his ninetieth year. The illustrations are from original photographs not before collected. The edition is limited to 200 copies. The same publishers announce that they have in the press the Hon. William T. Davis's contribution to the history of the early settlement of the Plymouth colonists, to be entitled Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth.' The work will be divided into two parts, the first of which will treat of the methods by which the Pilgrims obtained possession of their lands, including their various patents, and their negotiations with the merchant adventurers of London, and will trace the titles of estates along the streets of Plymouth from the first grantees to their present owners. It will give also a history of the houses at various times built on them, and will include a history of the churches, schools, manufactures, and government of the town, and sketches of different places of interest, with the derivation and meaning of their names. The second part will be devoted to genealogical records of Plymouth families, of which over seven hundred are treated with more or less fulness. MR. EDWARD POCKNELL, author of 'Legible Shorthand,' has taken a hint thrown out in our review of Anderson's History of Shorthand,' and, in a small manual now in the press, will show what his "system can do when limited to the use of simple means, such as an ordinary memory could retain after a few lessons, and to styles of spelling not too brief to be easily read." This simple system, adapted to correspondence and ordinary purposes, is to be called 'Common Shorthand,' and to be issued at a cheap price. "SPELLING REFORM NOTE-PAPER" is the latest device of the so-called reformers. It has been prepared by the English association, and is headed by the "five rules of partial corrections" that have been agreed on in England and America. The reformers intend to agitate their views at the coming School Board elections. They think that as the Department now allows nearly 50 per cent. of misspellings in the First Standard, a little more perseverance will get rid of spelling altogether. 6 THE Magazine of Art seems to be improving. It promises articles by Mr. R. L. Stevenson and Prof. Sidney Colvin, on two Japanese romances and on Mr. Hamerton's Graphic Arts.' An account of Prof. Costa, by Julia Cartwright, includes an autobiography, political and artistic, written specially for the magazine, and illustrated with an engraving after Sir F. Leighton's portrait. MESSRS. HANSARD's Monthly List of Parliamentary Papers for September comprises 21 Reports and Papers and 34 Papers by Command. No Bills are included. Among the Reports and Papers are a Return showing the Comparative Progress of Population, Revenue, and Expenditure, 1841-2 to 1879-80, and the Second Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on |