Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-30

and the musicians received only half their pay
In revenge for this, Or in the hope of extorting
the amount the secretary of the musical protec-
tive union, to which the performers belonged,
directed them not to play until their old account
was settled. This stopped the rehearsal, but an.
other orchestra has been engaged, and the
Easter music will be performed as usual to-mor-
row.
INSTINCT IN ANIMALS AND MEN. BY P. A.
Chadbourne, LID. New York: George P. Put
nam & Sons. The office of instinct in the ami
NAL kingdom and its relations TO the higher
powers in man, are treated in these essays in a
very thorough and satisfactory manner. The
authors studies and observations have evidently
been extensive. He traces carefully the boun-
darieS of instinct, distinguishing the actions due
to its innate impulse from those suggested by
education or that faculty which, if in the brutes,
it cannot be called reason or moral sense, is yet
not to be Disseminated from those by any tests
supplied by our present knowledge of psycholo-
gy. The volume is made up of lectures delv-
cred before the Lowell institute in 1871. For
sale by Sanford & Co.
CURTIUs' HISTORY OF GREECE. Vol. iii.
New York: Scribner & Armstrong. This third
volume of the American edition contains book
fourth of DIR. Curtius great work, which treats
of the Peopounesian war and contemporary
events. 1t exhibits, of course, the same pro-
found scholarship and philosophical thought
which have been so conspicuous in the earlier
volumes. For sale by Sanford & Co.
The MAN WITH THE Book, or The Bible
among the People, by John NJ. Weylland. Bos-
tom Henry Hoyt. This book gives the expert
ence of Bible distributor among the London
poor. The story is told in general simply and
effectively, and includes many incidents illus
trating the extreme physical destitution and
moral debasement common in the haunts of
vice and wrechedness of which the great city
has so many, as well as some touching exam
pies of piety and trust in heaven among those
who seemed bereit of every earthly blessing.
The earl Of Shaftesbury supplies an introduction
to the book, and it las several illustrations, evil
IDENTIFY English, which, though often well de
signed, are executed in a scratchy, hasty style,
that an American publisher would hardly toll
crate. tits for sale by Sanford & Co.
THOUGHTS UPoN GOVERNMENT by Arthur
Helps Boston: Roberts Brothers. Mr.. Helps
writings on political and social questions are
generally worth reading, not because he has a
| remarkably profound or comprehensive intellect,
which his admirers would hardly claim for him
but because he has had some experience in pub,
lie affairs and large acquaintance with practi.
| cal statesmen, and is, moreover, a cultured, can
| did and thoughtful man who has no hobby to run
| away with him, and can give the result of his
| observation and thought in a simple and attrac-
tive style. In this book he does not present an
elaborate theory of government nor the details
of an administrative scheme His purpose is
rather TO give in a general and informal way,
his views as to the objects which governments
may hope TO accomplish, and the expedents by
which they may best be attained. The book is
for sale here by Grout & Putnam
BIBLE Music, by Francis Jacox, author of
| Cues from All Quarters. Boston: Roberts
| Brothers. Mr.. Jacox is an easy, versatile wri-
ter who has many pleasant fancies of his own,
and large acquaintance with books of all SORTS
from which he is never at a loss for quotations
agreeable in themselves and pertinent TO the SUBJ
ject he wishes to illustrate His method in this
volume is TO start from some passage of scrip
ture containing mention of music or musical in
struments, and to wander on from this point
wherever verbal or logical associations NAV lead
him. He is seldom dull never profound, and al.
ways graceful and in good taste For sale by
Grout & Putnam
"Spiritualism Answered By Science is the
title Of thin duodecimo pamphlet of 70 pages,
prepared in England by Edward w. Cox, S. L.,
f, r. G. S., and .republished in New York by
Henry L. Hinton. Mr.. Cox, with Mr.. Crookes,
"discoverer of the metal thallum," and Dr. Hiq-
gins an eminent astronomer and scientist, ex-
amiued the so called Spiritual manifestations"
and made report which was noticed and criti-
cised. In this pamphlet, Mr.. Cox reviews the
subject, admitting that the manifestations"
presented facts which invite study, but insisting
that they can have a scientific explanation.
APPLEToN's JOURNAL, Monthly Part No. SO,
containing the five weekly numbers for March,
is on our table. 1t has hardly an equal among
the monthlies so far as relates to the amount.
variety, and value Of its contents. Among the
Illustrations are portraits of Theophilus Parsons
and Alfred Tennyson, with biographical
sketches. There are, also, views of scenery in
Nevada and Kentucky, and Of duck shooting
on the Jersey coast. An illustrated article en-
titled ga Community of outcasts'' will not be
overlooked; it is a New York community. To-
Gated about forty miles" northwest of the city
Inc serial stories, Lady SweetappIe" and
"Good-bye Sweetheart" are continued; and
there are other tales aud sketches; but one of
the most notable peculiarities of this periodical
is seen in the great variety and substantial value
of its miscellaneous articles. These show the
admirable editorial management of its con-
ductors, and, so far as concerns our taste, con-
stitute the most Important part of the work:
and here we have in view, not only the "Table
Talk" but, also, such articles as "a Day at
Rugby" paris Journalism" "Montesauieu,"
from Sainte-Beuve, and the like. Every part of
Appleton's Journal shows the intelligence, care,
and good taste of its editors; or, rather, of its
editor, for it makes US feel that one very compe-
tent editor presides over the management.
OLD AND NEW, for April, contains, among
other things, the following: A March Chronicle,
by John Burroughs; The Break between Mod.
ern Thought and Ancient Faith and Worship,
by Henry w. Bellows; A Glimpse of the Labor
Question Sixty Years Ago, by c. A. Cummings;
The Wears Daughter, continued Silver
lslet Mine, by b. g. Mfin Two Charac.
ters' poem; Six of One by Half Dozen of
tue Other; Helen L. Gibson, by Mrs p. NJ.
Ciapp; ups and Downs, by T.. L. Hale. con-
iinued; American Poetry, by William b. Weed.
en- and All, poem, by +. A. Duryage. The
editorial department, always good, has some
excellent things in this number. Under the
head " Fine Arts" is paper entitled Battle
of the Malonnas," which will attract attention
Ths lively alligator is found in all the streams
which empty into Panama bay and lives mon
the cattle, horses, dogs, deer and other animals
which come down 10 drink, Selling them and
dragging them to some quiet nook in the swami.
where he luxuriates upon them at leisure. IN.
stead OF being sluggish animal, as is common
~ supposed, the alligator is quick in his move
ments One got before a train upon the track of
the Panama railway lately, while it was gong