Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-04

are by comparison low and melOdious, tn
imagination of an untrayeled person refuses t.
conceive the horrors Of nm English locomotive
demonac howl Mr. Rae's limited opportuni
ties for observation, owing to the haste of hi
journey, led him into some amusing blunders
but, though numerous, they are not important
and do not detract from the interest, nor serious
ly from the value ofhis book. He devotes somC
chapters to fair, and, of course, not flatterne
account of the Mormous and their institutions
and his view of California is less eulogistic than
its sensitive inhabitants have been used to from
earlier travellers. The book is for sale here by
L. H. Bigelow
The INNoCENTs ABROAD, or the New Pill
| grim's Progress. by Mark Twain. American
Publishing Company, Hartford. Mark Twain
is probably the mos popular American humor-
list, and this book is his most sustained effort.
1t has already had a wide circulation, and many
of our readers, no doubt, have laughed over its
drol situations and its quaint conceits. 1t is an
account of the trip of the steamship Quaker
City-which by the way, was wrecked few
days ago-from New York to Palestine, with u
numerous party ofpleasure seekers They stopped
of course, at a great many intermediate places
visiting most of the usual resorts Of sight seers
in Europe and the countries bordering on the
Mediterranean, in all of which Mark Twain's
keen perception Of the ludic rous found some
food for laughter. Besides amusement, one can
derive from the book quite as faithful con-
ception of the places and people visited as from
most serious narratives Of travel, while the au-
thor's comic faculty enables him to give TO his
descriptions kind of earicatured resemblance
that dwells long in the memory. Like other
professedly funny books, this is not well adapt
ed to continuous reading, but its good-natured
satire, its ncongruous comparisons, its comic
Indignation, and its broad humor of various
kinds are often irresistibly mirth-provoklng.
Mark Twain's humor is not of the very highest
o. der, but he has certainly made this one of the
droIlcst books now before the public. 1t is sold
only by agents, and Mr.. J. G. Mills is now
taking su scriptions for it in this city.
The HEIR OF REDCLYFFE, by Miss Yonge
New York; D Appleton & Co. The merits of
this book are too generally known to make an
extended notice of it necessary. In spite of
some defects of tone which it shares with most
semi-religious novels of the English school, it Is
a capital story admirably told, and well deserves
the popularity it has attained. 1t is in two vol
umes, handsomely bound, and is, we under
stand, the first of uniform series of the works
of this author now in preparation by the APP
plctons. l.. Fl. Bigelow has 1t for sale.
1HE LITTLE CORPORAL, for March, contains a
very pretty story, entitled The Little House over
the Way by Mrs. Miller, The Story of Hero,
Girls in the North, by Susan Coolidge, and sew
eral other articles of interest, Young people
cannot fail to be pleased with it.
The ALDINE, for March, has for its principal
attraction finely executed engraving from
| Paul Delaroche's celebrated picture of Marie
Antoinette. Its other illustrations maintain its
claim to a very high place among illustrated PEE
riodicals. 1t offers as premiums to subscribers
choice among several beautiful chromos.
EVERY SATURDAY, for this week, contains the
first part OF Charles Reade's new story, which
promises to be equal in interest to its predeces-
sorS. The first page of the paper presents q
good portrait of Mr.. Motley, and there is the
usual variety and abundance of well executed
engfavings.
The LAKESIDE MONTHLY, for March, has 8
varied table of contents-and this number is al
unusually good one. The first article is an en-
rhusiastic eulogy on Christine Nilsson, by Chas
Lander. Frederick Locksley tells something
about Kansas. E. Colbert writes of scientific
results of the observations of the recent eclipse
Frank Gilbert, of the Old Congress and the New,
f, NJ. Smalley gives some useful and interesting
information about rattlesnakes, and there are
several other articles stories and sketches
THE CHATTERBox, for March, will be sure to
amuse the young people, for whom it is design.
ed. 1t opens with capital frontispiece, repre-.
seniing a little girl lifted by bearded and
helmeted German soldier from huge milk can,
in which she was Struggled out of Strasbourg
during the siege. The story of her adventure is
well told on the next page. The numerous il