The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-22
LITERATURE.
REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

known to all lovers Of genuine humor. Dur
ing the twenty years since these sketches were
written immense changes have taken place.
and Major Jones and his circle OF frienos are
as far removed from our time as II they hVeo
a century ago. This, however, does not ue-
tract from their interest, but rather adds 10 ~
and those who delighted in the Majors stories
years ago will be glad to peruse them again.
and those who have not read them have some
thing in store for future enjoyment Inc
book is illustrated with a number OF SPIRITED
designs by Darley.
From Dufield Ashmead, No. 724 Chestnut
street, we have received Part XIV of the Anne
rican edition of DR.. William Smiths "Diction-
ary Of the Bible" This valuable work has
been revised with great care by the American
editors, and while DR.. Smiths arrangement
has been adhered to strictly, great amount
OF important information developed by mo-
dern research has been added, and NUMBER
of mistakes corrected. The Dictionary Is pub
lisbed in numbers, by subscription, each num-
ber containing 112 pages, medium octave size.
II is issued monthly, and will be completed in
about thirty numbers. Published by Hurd &
Houghton, New York.
Tile Riverside Magazine for February has
an attractive title of contents, as follows:-
"The Boy and the Bird" "White and Red,"
Chapter II, by Helen c. Weeks, illustrated
by A. P. Close; "What Good Cats Do"
"Ting -a-lng and the Five Magicians," by
Frank r. Stockton, illustrated by E. B. Ben
sell; "Farmer Thomas Story about Enclos-
Dali IL ID
Goulding; 'The Judges Pets" by E. john
son, illustrated by L. b. Bensell; "The Crows
Children" by Phoebe Carey; "Geolfrey
Chaucer and the Story of Constance" the
FIRST of series of stories from old English
poets, by Abby Sage, illustrated by S. L.
Smith" "It," concluded, with an illustration
by NJ. L. Stone; "The Five Barley Loaves,"
by E. G. c.; GLOW to Cut likeness" with
two illustrations; "The Dryad," a wonder
story of the time of the Exhibition in Paris,
1867, by Hans Christian Andersen; "By a
February Fireside, with an illustration by D.
Fisher; and illustrated refuses. Mr.. II. L.
Stevens gives as frontispiece apictorial his
tory of "The Three Little Kittens who Lost
their Mittens." The most meritorious illus
trations are those by Mr.. Z. B. Bensell, the
rising Young Philadelphian artist, who has
rare talent for fanciful and grotesque subjects
The editors of The RiuerSide announce that
the March number will contain a story by
Hans Christian Andersen.
The Nursery for February is full of pictures,
poetry, and prose which the youngest readers
will understand and appreciate. This little
magazine is admirably edited. The illustra-
tions are remarkably good, and there are few
magazines published in this country that has
anything in the way of pictures equal in
artistic merit to the halfdozen designs by
Oscar Pletsch entitled Learning to be Use
iul." The Nursery is published by John l..
ShOrey, No. Is Washington street, Boston.
Hines Quarterly or, the ReuolutioniSt, the
first number of which we have received, is
edited by l.. A. Hine, who takes for his motto
Taurus CornibuS captus." Mr.. Hine dis
cusses the labor question from a trades union
standpoint, and we can best give an idea of
his opinions and their value by citing few
planks in his platform to emancip ipate slabor,
establish justice, aud promote liberty,
equality, and fraternity" The taskis a great
one, and this is how it is to be accomplished:-
"NO public land except for working men and
homesteads for all-ireedom of one hundred
(l0O) acres TO each family or adult that will
settle upon II, and this not to be sold by the
occupant except to a landless person.
"No more land monopoly in the States. No
more buying of land except tor personal Occd-
patton and use; no more than one hundred
(lOO) acres for any farmer, or more than
homestead and place of business for any one
else.
Those who now lawfullylpossess a land mo-
nOpOlV m hQl 81 Hnot
after which their monopolies shall be divided
among their children at the rate of one hundred
acres each, on condition OF personal occupancy
thereof, the balance to be sold and the proceeds
given to the children. And so also with real
estate monopoltes in cities and toWns-hOme-
bteads and places of business out OF the paternal
estate under the limitation principle of this arti-
Gle, the balance TO be sold to such as need
homes and places OF business, and the proceeds
given to the children.
mo more mortgages on ones farm or home
stead nor forfeiture thereof except for taxes.
mo more debts to be collected by law. No
bankrupt laws: credit matter of honor.
Repeal OF the National Banking acts, substi-
tuition of ereenbacks for bank notes, cancella-
ton of the bonds in security for them, the
States never TO authorize banks OF circulation
the General Government TO provide all the
money that healthy business may need, and
greenbacks to be redeemable in gold and silver
coin as soon as possible,n etc. etc.
Mr.. Hine states that ten of the best years of
his life were spent in travelling from place
to place, on foot, advocating the "wOrking-
mans cause" While endeavoring to get
others to join in establishing FOOLS paradise,
his family subsisted en- a few acres of broken
land, chiefly by their own labor. The ques-
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