, 1874-01-18

And then surprise them with harvest full
OF glorious deeds, who f1nc!ed they 8hould fnd
Fragrance md loreliness, but did not dream
| TO gather also food for heart and mind.
| English Landscape.
! BEAUTIES OF ENGLISH LANDSCAPE Drawn by
| B1RHT FOSTER. Engraved by DlIz1EL BRoTHEas,
J. COOPER, E. EvANs, ". HAnRAI, and Oshtrs. Lon
don and New York: George Routedge / Sons.
This conspicuous1y elegant giItbook contains
800 quarto pages, one-half Of which are devoted
to gems Of English landscape, executed in his
beet style by an artist already well known and
admired; and one-hah to eiucidative text, se-
Iected from numerous poets, among whom we
find such fsvorite American names as Longfel-
| Low, Read, Bryant. Morris, and "Grace Green
| wood"
The illustrations OF Selections from Beattie's
| Minstrel " are placed ut the fnis Of the vol
| ume. and would in themselves be q pr1zad pos
| session. Among the miscellaneous pictures may
be noted as especially fine the illustrations Of
'' The Sun On the ocean:
And more magnificent art thou, bright Sun,
UpriHing from the Ocaan's bflouy bed;
my Sister Ellen" Domestic Love i" "The
Hamlet 80 Moonlight Night, ,'-designed from
Shelley's '' How beautiful this night; +" g Scene
on the Thames" reminding us Of o passago Of
Lake George; The = Halyest- Home; 1.-The
And get. even with this book-marking, you
will open upon many pages that will seem to
prove us quite oblivlous Of the SURPRISING gems
A Story for Children.
FASNY's BIRTHDAY GIFT. By JOHANNA NAT.
New York: Robert Carter bros.
The motto Of this ming story for children
is, "Suficicnt unto the day is the evil thereof"
The writer indorses in an illustrative way, and
with equal vivacity and power, the comment of
Jeremy Taylor: 'Sufficiont, but not intole1a-
BILE. But. il ne look abroad and bring into ono
days thoughts the evil Of many, certain and un-
certain,-what will be and what will never be-
our load will be intolerable a. it is unreason-
aole."
The plot OF the story is sufficiently intricate to
interest the claEa OF readers for which it il in
tended, and the characters are drawn with
sprightliucss and facility for dialect Tho
heroine, little Fanny, ia an amusing episome Of
Deep Grief" and Aunt Silrla shining e1-
complacent boasts with remark from "the
Afe": No, Sister Becky; il dey wants to see
de comman' ments KEEP let dem look at me-"
Periodicals IEcccivd.
National Quarterly Rerieu, December, 1873.
Edward /. Sears, New York, Contents: Re
sponsibility Of Government for the Public
Health" :" "Glacicrs and Their Phenomena y
"Icelandic Literature !" - Discovery OF America
by tho Northmen y 'T1e Dawn OF the English
Drama" Alexander Hamllton;'.' Political
Constitutions - =" Appendi1-Insuranco.'
Anantie Monthly for February, Il. 0. Hough-
ton L. Co., Boston aud New York: Contents !:
Dale Owen; IA Gambrel Roof'' (poe1n), BY
Lucy Larcom: s. 'Prudence Palfrey," Chap. v.
and VI, by T. 2. Aldrlcl "a Chain Of Italian
Ci.ies,'' By Fl. James J-.; Moving in Florida -
(poem), By viii Wallace Harvey :" Tho Anti
tier; "Whersfore? ?" poem), BY Celia Thaxter /;
lover Ilium aud Ida, " by William J. Armstrong !;
'sDaddecl aud That Sort OF Thing, H. by Cnarles
Dudley Warner; IS Sheriff Thorne (poem), by
J. T. Trowbridse ;t' Faithful Bean" by M E:
y BY Ms MS5s f. bass4 Ghap M haad x 81 iRe the
Boston Tea-na7ty," by 0. ". Holmes IS Reco1-
lections OF Asaasiz. BY Theodore Lyman " Re-
cent Literature !" u Art = .' Music"
Harper's Neeo !1lonGt!y Magazine for February.
Legend Of the Cascades (poeu, illus:5ateu),
By S. 4 Clarke Some Notes About Pottery
aud Porcelain (il,us:rated), By William e:
Prime 1.-THE Columbia River and Puget Sound -
'ussted} BY Charles > S01ahoz Fass1; hosa
:song of the Redn ooa-Tre BY Walt Whit
man; My Mother aud l." continued (illrs--
trated). by Dinah Mulock Craik; Tho Land
OF the White Elephant Gllustrated>>, BY $. S.
conant IThe p Lying hn" 60 confined Ge !a11s The
De Leon "Too Much fer Him. by Frank
Lee Benedict; Hope" by Carl Spencer; "A
Chinese Practical joke By Emily z. Ford;
"Tritles," by May E. E. ooks; - Holland House"
By Eugene Lawrence; the g Easy Chair" Lit
esa1y, Scientific, and Historical Records" and
drawer"
Bro,rnror's Quarterly Renisro, January, 1874.
Fr. Pustet. New York. Contents: Ref1tation
of Atheism - Education and the Republics"
- Holy Communion -Transubstantiation;" !" The
Most Rev. John Hughes, .. D. :" "EvanSe1ical
Alliance :" "a Archbishop Spa1ding;' - Home and
Foreign Politics." Literary Notices and c7itl-
cis1ns."
Cornell Unirersitv Register for 1a7a-4 Uni
verify Press, ithaca. y. Y.
american BibIopoEist, septcmber-pecembe
1873. J. Sabin l. Sons, New York.
The Common School for January. w. E. Cros-
By, Davenport, Iowa
american Bee Journal for January. American
Publishing Company, Chicago. ..
Wisconsin Lunbern,on for Janu.rv. Hiscon-
kee.
Lun7be.mcn's Gazette for December. H. s.
Dorr, Bay City, Mich.
Ladies Oun 1Nagazi,e for January. II. C.
Bland l. Co., Chicago.
african Repository for January. American
Colonization Society, Washington.
Bes-Keepers' Magazine for January. E. l..
Klng L Co., New York.
Literary 1tems-
Mr. Browning Will soon give ua another play
upon q Greek subject.
Mrs. ElEet'e nov work, Tbs Brides aud
Widows Of the Nb}o," will not appear until next
spring
Tho second and concluding Volume OF 31r.
Serjeaut Co1's work on tho mech aniem Of man.