The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-27
LITHRATURH.
REVIEW OF VIEW BOOKS

-''Fairmount Park" is the title of q work
just published by Claxton, Remsen Haffel-
finger Its author, Charles Keyser, ESQ.,, a
well-known lawyer of this city, is gentleman
of intelligence and high mental culture, and
"Fairmount Park" is both a valuable and
extremely interesting volume, which will be
found a most useful as we'll as attractive
guide-book. The subject has been ably
treated, and displays in its careful compila-
tion fund of anecdote and data which are
evidence of faithful research. In diction Mr..
Keyser's work is unexceptionable, and in
many of his descriptions his language is ele-
CANT and choice, displaying strength as well
as beauty. From among the many points of
interest this book contains, we quote his
tribute to the memory of Robert Morris,
which, while it cannot fail to interest the
reader, may be accepted as sample of the
writer's style. In his description of "The
Hills, the former home of Morris, and now
called Lemon Hill, Mr.. Keyser says
''In that old mansion, which Morris so
loved, and which was at last his refuge, have
been assembled as his guests the honored
men in this land-Franklin, John Adams,
Hancock many of the signers of the Declara-
army and navy. On these grounds he re-
ceived from all the States and from patriotic
hearts in other lands tributes to his financial
power and financial honor-resolutions and
gifts which he preserved through all his after
misfortunes. Here he originated those en-
terprises, evidences of which yet remain on
this river, and which, in far advance of his
age, extending over all the States and en-
bracing the prominent industries of his time,
eliminated In his utter ruin. Here also took
place that last scene in his life-the great
fnancier bowed down with age, helpless to
preserve his own fortunes, following an officer
down these terraced grounds, to be consigned,
by laws now for the honor of human nature
obsolete, to common jail.
"And here remains forever the regretful re-
membrance that the owner of land in all the
States, of palace whose marble walls rise in
mockery of his fate before the
black stones of his prison, and of
these fair grounds-a man whose money,
as much as their strong arms, transferred to
the people the title and the lands of this great
Commonwealth, and the broader area of the
nation, met such fate.
''The palace mocks no more-the prison
blights no more the earth where it stood
what was mortal of Morris moulders in the
grave-but the results of his life remain for
human happiness and these grounds, sad
dened while ennobled by their association
with his name, remain his fitting monument.
The air that blows about them is the common
property of the poorest as of the wealthiest.
Their verdure grows for the little child, igno-
rant of the meaning of property, and for the
old man who has seen it swept away from
him forever. The water that flows along
them is the common heritage of all. Within
them every man stands in every right the
equal of his fellow-man."
The descriptions of all the spots of interest
are as well given, and the book will certainly
be appreciated by the citizens of Phiadel-
phia A number of excellent illustrations by
well-known Philadelphia artists add to the
attractions of the volume.
Owen Meredith's metrical novel of
''Lucile," embellished with a number of Du
Mauriers capital illustrations, has been issued
in cheap pamphlet form by James r. Osgood
Il Co. The story is one of great interest, and
is wonderfully we'll told. This cheap edition
will be very handy for tourists and sea-shore
visitors and fill up stray corner of a satchel or
carpet-bag; and to those who are not familiar
with the poem, we can promise good enter
tainment in its perusal. number of the
authors shorter poems are also given. For
sale by Claxten, Remsen & Haffelfnger.
-Messrs Porter & Coates are the Phila-
delphia agents for the following new publica-
tions of d. Appleton d Coz
''The Novels and Novelists of the Eigh-
teenth Century, by William Forsyth, M. A,
O. c., is an attempt to illustrate the manners
and morals of English society in the last GEN.
tury by means of the works of fiction which
were popular with the grandfathers and great
grandfathers of the present generation. Mr..
information into a very small space, and he
not only carries out his leading idea, but
he gives admirable summaries of the
most famous novels of the last
century, with critical remarks about the
writers and their styles that are in the highest
degree interesting. This brief volume con-
tains pretty much everything that all except
enthusiastic students of literature need care
to know about such writer's as Mrs. Behn,
Fielding, Smollett, Richardson, Mrs. Hey
ward, Mrs. Manley, Miss Burney, and other
once popular writers, and it will be an excel
lent introduction to the literature of the
eighteenth century for those who have a de-
sire to investigate it for themselves.
Professor Tyndale's notes on Light and
Electricity, for his lectures at the Royal In
stitution, which were published in England
in two volumes, have been issued in one
volume by the Messrs. Appleton. These
notes, which sum up briefly the leading facts
and principles of the sciences of Light and
Electricity, will undoubtedly be highly ap-