, 1872-12-20
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


Coates. Ghicsgo ". B. Kse1 Cooke.
Such . book, among the iuanitios that food
:le reviewer, comes to him Ike Il freeb flower or
ZONE rare rosebud tossed up out Of driftwood.
Poor little Gavroche! Noble Jean Vatican .
. What heart has not grown tender in reading this
beantifal episode Of their lives in that garden OF
episodes. "Les Misorablcs." Who but loves
that wre.ched little Gayrocle, always ragged,
sometimes starving, but always bright,
ready with song. laugh, or a
Jest, who, when he shivors, shivera
gay1y, and, when be steals, makes lie
glad he steals successfully; who drifts forlorn-
" through his guttered career, without father,
or mother, or any love that he knows, and yet
feels within his unloyed little heart spark oi
the Divine love, feeling for his race restless,
helpful, budding cut in Kind deeds and little self
bsesifces wonderful in his vagabond-ifo as q
Lily blooming in fltla and slime! One feeA hia
own humanity inspired by tho paternal solcitudo
Of the little follow, stealing, begging, flchiog
woz1ing hard and honestly when tho charco il
given, to provide for hs little family ly,-two Itt}s
waits whom be finds helpless in the maze Of
Paris, and shelters under his own un.l:elttre1
wing, to drd them afterwards to bo his own
bfuthere.. - -Ihe~ little hero becomes
tiny soldier of the barricades, :" 3 fly IN the
Wheel Of the Eeyo1ntion,"s Napoleon in rags,
giving lint heEe, lending hand thofo; spy
now. md Ea7ior Of the barricade aaon; hand
ling musket much larger than himself; AND,
when the Republicans were failing for want Of
ammunition, is out in the street, between the
barricade and it's assai1ants, exposed to their
bullete filing q hamper with the cartridges Of
the soldiers dead in the street, crawling from one
body to another, writlling, gliding hither aud
fhither, enptying tie c.rtridge~boxes as mon
key opens nuts, and, while doing it, Is shott
Whose heart does not fall with him7 As jean
,Taljean carries the dear, little wounded fellow:
n his arms, through tho sewers, to- his
homo, he carriea Us with lin;. and
WREN, at the end, we find Garroche,
md Jean Vatican, and the fami1y-''hl5
two waf brothess-au united, happy, and Sc:
cure, IN Clairvue, On the shores OF the great;
blue, blood!ess sea, tar from peSila, We are glad
and thank God for the humanity ct the story,
xTno, and, more than al, for the truth that, We
hnve streets of our oTo with little GavToches-1a
them, to whom it is not too late for us to p1ay.
Jean valiean-
TIE BOYS BOOZE ABOUT INDIANS: BENG WuAr
SAW ASo HEAnD FOE TEzEE YE.Rs on --1ur
P1AE's y the Rev. EpNusp r. TurTLE. Phila-
dell4lja ); 3. Lipp'neots ! Co. Chicago: n. B.
There nre no literary mui.s in this book Tor
boys, which is written in bnld, halting st5loi
and there is about It coar6eness OF tone and
thought, in marked contrast to the free, roilick~
ing, and yet refined air, that marks IroUbudgo's
6ooSs ana Aiaf1cn 1nlm1tspl9 Soy " ~
could not fail, unless mnch moro ingenious than
Mr. Tpttle, to gather, II = three years life on
the Plains, some facts and incidents Of interest--
and re are not surprised to find some informs
lion Of desu!tory kind and some good anee-
.3atas in hSY T11+f4ht6 records.
JOSEPH NoIRELg REyESGR- By =: cnERsu15sz. LIZ
EERAASN AeaA. ~: =: tnLnhssn ot 1;,,;.! alza'
ey1. g. F0aarsHE. Ne" 1ofk: hol' g "'lnsn1H.
These novels are pat OF the :" Leisure Hour;
te ssfs bes
eral OF the ta&es OF y. Iurgemet, the author OF
''Iiza," have been preTiously nado known to
English readers by ransation' AGAINST most OF
Which H. Iurgenaef protested bltseflY, as sney
did not go much tranaiate as taduce hin, al
does al such work, If the French saying,
Translation sest trnduct1o" may oe neheEcd.
This Russiantakes high Tank among European
Writers. His books are resd IN every civilized
Sussisn hsory M Eg'Ss snd E. Ressiaa fe % and ore
given in the form OF critical 99saya, plays,
poems, novels, and Rho1t storaes- bis first prose
work was vigorous &ttacK upon ths system OF
slavery, fince happily Abolished. After the saie
fused to allow hun to issue another; put the
1deaslt soWat grew rapidly tn the 1a1lo" nnos OF
the higher classes OF Russia, Gnu nave borne
good fruit Mary q ms storee @ zero ~ *!assea 10
attack some poutcal ot socA ssAs ~ husstA
ont 1za s.o.y "aan Nv osIea on!sss Nv ,aan
stousenell, Auu - oao - eealsn - N1@e s4oao
need Tea: any s1onge1 GA9Ra.s. 49,.
-" He1nann AgnA ~ & an Iassesu 81 iale, Which.
sne auGot eet;na ~ -aa1;t1 ;n1anto M
no AcHou' ~ ~ - ~ t.rast ~
uatzanon ~ - - Epnouu ~ r. oas II.tP~ Gstp~
n rhs story Is He1msnn Wolf a native Of Penn
sy1vania. Who was carried Of into slavery, while
boT b. hend Of Turkish marauders. It is
zaIe % of youth energy, and 1oie, #hjc,l have, Tor
al aces and tacea. q sympathetic intereat that
TTill 20 far to outweigh the discrepancies
OF language and thought that arc
ine7itaL1e in The attempt to give
a. Fastee, story Western dress ~perheps hot
81 81 i3eha Western dress as enoueh Of q West
- - -. stTE To- render it acceptable to Western
.sts ~ their yery nature there is alvays. in
aie tss1et ttMempts M no matter low Irresistible nav
Essa c , opeI.sssame Of the universal language Of
p r. ~ ssinn TIich they portray more or iesa
etfn;inEa OT;ental -omnnrn ;s t,enninn on3v
q 1.5t+en in fla Orient and ;nsnired 1v IL
IfsTan"es nGn "es~f Eyerv a@o has ;ts necessarv
aoa+;c ;5aa1 and any attemnt to introdnca that IL
rust fail, as Goethe, even With lis u1i-
seleat nn1a .401l II .ta.,,1t ~ ~