Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-19

| themselves entertained by it. Grout & Putnam
have it for sale
WAITS FROM THE WAY BILLS OF AN Or
ExPREssMAN, by 7. W. Tucker. Boston: Lee
& Shepard. This is a desultory collection o.
anecdotes and "reminiscences of the expires.
business, told with some humor, but offer
with a straining after effect by the use Of
supeThuous epithets and other mistaken Ona
ments of style, which mars rather than i'm
proves their point. But the book is readable
and contains some interesting facts 1t is dedi'
Gated to Alvin Adams, the founder Of expresses,
and has good steel engraving of thar old gen
tleman for a frontispieec Grout & Putnam
have it for sale.
GOETHE; HIS LIFE AND WORKS, an Essay,
| by George II. Calvert. Boston, Lee and Shep'
ard Mr.. Calvert is a scholar and critic OF
| correct taste aud delicate appreciation of lit
| erary excellence He has made careful study
of the life aud works of the great German poet,
and writes of them with admirable skill and
| Judgment. The book is exceedingly attractive,
and will be very useful. For sale by Grout and
| Putnam.
JAMES KEYwoRTHY. BY G. w. Skyring.
Boston: Henry Hoyt. This is a narrative of
the religious experience of an English working
man. For sale by Sanford & Co.
FIDELITY REWARDED: or, Little George
Boston: Henry Hoyt. This is an English story
with a religious purpose, and is told with much
spirit and skill. For sale by Sanford & Co.
TUE GALAXY, for July, has much good read
ing, and some that cannot be SO called without
a stretch of courtesy. General Custer, in his
sketches of life on the plains, gives some inter
esting narratives of Indian fighting. Anthony
Trollope's story Of the Eustace Diamonds goes
on after the usual fashion, aud there are other
agreeable articles, though perhaps less than the
usual variety Of reading. But the sensation
article of this number is the learned paper of
Mr.. MacWhorter, wherein he undertakes to
prove that the notorious Cardiff giant is a
genuine Ph9nician statue of great antiquity.
Its title is Tammuz and the Mound Builders,
and its positions, or some of them, are that the
mound builders were of Phenicau derivation /;
that some of the present tribes of American In
dians are their descendants that the statue in
question was symbolcal representation of
Tammuz, one of the NEUROLOGICAL deied
uciOCo vi ilC tudL II Is
4 kind of two fold representation of
the divinity, one side of the face having noble
and majestic character and the other something
animal and satyr-like, the corresponding halves
of the body having similar distinctive charac-
teristics, and that it had originally wings, of
which traces :are yet to be found, as it is said
by ancient writers that Tammuz was repre-
Sppfp1 n Phonnipi0n with
pendages. But the most convincing proof of
the identity of this image with the ancient
deity, whom he personates according to Mr..
MacWhorter's fancy, is that he has so to speak,
brought his card with him. 1t is engraved
upon his arm, at least the learned pro-
fesSor finds it there, though other
eyes have failed to detect it, and he
gives in the Galaxy fac smile of the Ph0-
nician characters with their translation. If he
is right they read "Lord Tammuz. The Baal"
After this there should be no doubt of the
soundness of Mr.. MacWhorter's theory 1t
is maintained with a great display of
learning and profuse citation of authorities an
cient and modern. 1t is curious that in all his
discussion Of the subject Mr.. MacWhorter does
not think it worth while to notice the facts,
which seem to be as clearly proved as ANYTHING
can be by human testimony, that the Car
diff giant was made only short time before it
was dug up near Syracuse, and was brought to
that place and buried there with the purpose of
imposing it upon the public as apetrifaction and
making money by the fraud He cannot be ig-
norant Of these facts, and he can hardly reject
the evidence in support of them unless he will
fully shuts his eyes to the light. Perhaps, how
ever, his article is not intended to express and
enforce his own opinions, but is merely litera-
ry diversion.
The ATLANTIC MONTHLY, for July, is out.
Besides Seplimius FELTON, and the other serial
papers, there are several articles which will get
attention. The most important ofthese, entitled
"John Brown and his Friends" gives the secret
history of John Browns invasion of Virginia, in
1859, so far as relates to the aid h. received in
Massachusetts This has never before been pub
lished so completely, and most of it will be new
TO all but the few persons who knew all about it
from the beginning. In the matters of money
and arms, his principal helper was the late
George L. Stearns. 1t is an interesting story,
well told by a writer who cid not need TO inquire
of Others for many of the facts
THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, for July,
has, besides the Editors Table, the Literary
Notices, The Miscellany, etc, fourteen articles
on interesting topics connected with science,
some of them being illustrated. Mr. Proctor
gives an account of "The Giant Planet" Ju-
piter. The physiology of Emotion" is dis.
cussed, by DR.. G. F, Bandford, and "The Mi
gratons Of Men" by Prof A. de Quatrefages.
Herbert Spencer replies very Intellectually to
"Mr. Martineau on Evolution" and makes us
feel that Mr. Martineau's criticisms are uuan-
swerable. There are other papers which will be
read with interest; and there is, also, portrait
of Prof. Dana. As some of the articles are Sc
lected from the best English publications, the
general character of the contents is much higher
than it would be if the publishers sought to
make the whole original
OUR YOUNG Folks, for July has twelve art-
Giles, besides "0ur Young Contributors and the
other editorial Gables" They are generally
fresh and bright. One of them, "Fred's Fire
| Works" consists entirely of four illustrations,
the first showing Fred purchasing his fireworks,
and the last exhibiting him in the operation of
| being blown up by them.