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    From Mr. George Allen, Orpington.—' The ...

    the times of the end of the last century in England . We should gladly welcome a complete popular work on this subject . Mr . Mazzinghi's title-page motto is felicitously chosen from Drayton's ' Hate stands without and horror sits within . ' From Mr . B . Herder , Freiburg . — ' Longfellow's Dichtungen , ein literarisches Zeitbild aus dem Geistesleben Nordamerika ' s , ' von Alexander Baumgartner , S . J ., zweite , vermehrte und ! verbesserte Auflage . The learned and accomp done lished good author service of this to handsome Germany and volume Jto has the lightful memory volume of Long , in fellow which by we publishing find a charming this de- sketch of the poet ' s literary career , illustrated by translations of his songs and ballads in full , and of ekcerpts from his longer poems , With appreciative criticisms displaying at the same time a thorough knowledge of the life " arid works of Longfellow , as well as of English literature in general . The translations are admirable , and read like original German compositions . Especially striking are the charming renderings of ' The Psalm of Life , ' ' The Skeleton in Armour , ' ' The Old Clock on the Stairs , ' and ' The Fire of Driftwood . ' We experience renewed pleasure in reading once more in such aii excellent . version these beautiful poems familiar to us all as any household Wcrds . For no poet ever had more readers than Longfellow , excepting perhaps Tennyson . We cannot in this connection forbear answering a question which has often been asked . It is , To what poet did Tennyson refer in the first veijse of * In Memoriam , ' when he wrote : ' I held it truth , with . him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things . ' The poet referred to was Longfellow , and the poem in which this thesis is advanced is the ' Ladder of St . Augustine . ' ' Saint Augustine ! wel _^ hast thou sai d , That of our vices we can frame A ladder , if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame I ' This poem was suggested by a passage in St . Augustine ' s sermon , ' De Ascensione . ' Having commended this interesting volume to the reader of German literature we need only add that the type and paper are worthy of the well-known house of B . Herder , in Freiburg . From MessTS . ! P . Hirt & Son , Leipzig . —Heims ' Seespnk . ' This is an assemblage of legends and superstitions of sailors , which the author has derived from frequenting the company of seafaring men . These myths relate to ebb and flood , gales , spirits , mermen and mermaids , stars , weather - boding creatures , the kraken and sea-serpent , the Flying Dutchman , St . Elmo ' s lights , ghostly ships , unlucky ships , signs , fabulous lands and sunken cities , sea rovers , & c . The engravings illustrate several forms of superstitious belief . One of the page plates shows \\ _s the Flying Dutchman , not ? storm-driven over long Cape rollers as we are accustomed to think of her , but with a little boat in the water against her bow . From Messrs . MaTpon et Flamm & rion , Paris . — ' _Russes et Autrichiens en robe de chambre , ' par The ' o-Critt . This is an amusing series of impres-13 . =

    sions of travelenlivened ba number of sketch like illustrations , . A certain y political meaning - underlies the lightness of treatment , as Rimes et A utriehiens has a tendency to draw closer the bonds of sympathy-between France \ and Germany . Public men are cleverly sketched in the course of its pages , which" contain many a piquant anecdote . _s ln its sketchy way the volume is chiefly interesting from a diplomatic point of view , while the woodcuts amusingly j depict officers and soldiers of Russia and traveller Austria . as they are seen by the passing j From Messrs . Perrin and Co . —Villele : ' Me- \ moires et Correspondence , ' vol . I . For six years subsequently to 1815 , the Comte de . Villele was leader of , the Right , then in opposition , in the French Chamber . The six following years he 1 was at the head of the Government . He is therefore regarded as the man who most completely represented the ideas of the Restoration . . This volume takes the form of an _autobiography _, i The eaTlier chapters are occupied with Villele ' s I career in the navy . Shortly before the battle . 1 _^ of Toulouse . he ' * ' returned to - France . In re- ; counting : the famous contest between Soult and j Wellington on French soil , the author writes ! that Wellington and his army were " regarded ; by pai the d instantly French inhabitants for everything as friends they , that wanted they j at the best prices , whileSoult ' s army was looked upon as a band of robbers . The rest of the volume takes the narrative to the year 1816 . '¦ _ . ¦ ¦ i From du _Marechal the same . — Brune ' Vermeil . _'" This deConchard is a circumstantial , assassinat ; j account of the death of Marshal Brune , who j was killed man hotel at Avignon , while on his way from Toulon to Paris in 1815 , summoned by the King , Louis XVIII . Marshal Brnne was in charge of the army of the Var . From Mr . Elliot Stock . — ' How to Write the M History . A ., B . C of . L . a At Family first sig , ' by ht , W to . the P . general W . Phillimore reader , , all it tion this with lessened , ihi bat g p ht leasure the appear when genealog , nor to he be ist will comes a will wbrk that to assuredl read pleasure of supereroga the y receive be book at - . onl For a on work account of 206 of page the s immense it is marvellous mass of , not information y in itbut because of the simplicity which prevails , throughout . Mr pure . Phillimore the lack possesses of which that has rare so talent frequently of methodising rendered , nugatory works that otherwise would have been valuable contributions to historical literat and ure . privat Every e , bearing work of on importance his subject , both is public iven specifically and in such a manner as to render g the The task various of a Rolls genealogist from te comparativel mp . Henry y I . easy are . tabulated with extreme accuracy , while the monuments and seals find their due share of tions regard , also . A a ppended complete is a index list of to the Record whole publica work - . From the same . —' The Story of Some Famous Books , ' by Frederick Saunders . This is a fitting accompaniment to the series called ' The ' The Book work Lover now ' s Libra before ry , ' edited us embraces by Mr . the Wheatley period . ! from Naturall and in including a small Chaucer octavo of to 200 Tennyson . the references y , must be somewhat curt , pages , and , , perhaps , all things considered , this is for *

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1887, page 1510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121887/page/88/