New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-18

hitherto unpublished details In regard TO HawoInes
ancestry ami fe dr. Iatbrop viii have mel throW
new light upon his literature II appears nm g.; nrt
paper, also, that Hawthorne was tae a.or, ~ Inc
at least OF the famous Peter Parcys Hstory Vi tno
World"
The work On Morse Mythology" by Prof
Anderson OF the University Of Wisconsin, has had 80 con-
siderable that he has been encouraged 10 con-
tnue the cultivation OF this field. III ia preparing three
NJ " booksa collection OF viking Tales OF the North
from the Icelan,ic saga" translaron Of the Elder
Edda and a third on the Younger Edda These VIII De
pouncn ,pSnslss,on by tie wife of Ole Bull. Of The
Pilot and His Wife, one OF the love stories Oh JOHNS e
the leading Norwegian novelist
j. b. Ford g. Co. will publish a handbook
of instructions for the organization OF rifle associations
with practical hints to members and 10 marksmen gener
ay 1t will include, besides forms for bylaws, etc.,
rules for practice and competition matches, detaled
forms for tickets. and all snch dara, Tlin many
illustrative diagrams IL will be called me forest an a
Stream Rinemcn's Guide" in acknowledgment OF Tue
attention tnat Journal has paid to rifle shooting.
The French publishers have also taken to
the series" system, aud recent enterprise OF the
Charpener house takes in the contemporary lteratures
OF the several European countries NJ odysse barrot
the writer study OF present English literature
French tales, dating from the thirteenth 10 tne he me,
tecnth century, which are said :" nS1he AL the ptS'
Lacnesre is TO publish likewise three volumes OF se'c'
Italian tales
The new volume Dy III. ~. ". DIlntoh'
which will be published by Henry Holt d Co. TO-
day. simultaneously with the new and revised ell
ton of his MYTHS of the New World" presented as
ga contribution to the science and philosophy OF re-
liGion" In treating 1.-THE Religious Sentiment, us
Source and Aim" the author goes beyond the questions
OF the historical development OF religions discussed by
Max Miller and others, 70 the deeper inquiry las 10
what the mind of gave birth To religion IN any oi
It's forms what spirit breahed aud is ever breathing life
into these dry bones' The method employed is In
ducyc ANALYSIS the facts gathered from different cults
being submitted for solution "to the laws OF mind,
regarded as physiological elements Of growth, and
10 the laws of thought, these as formal only
brinp held as nowise a development Of those
TIE spirit OF tie inquiry r. TO acknowledge us possibly
rightul the which every system claims iLe
first chaIer forth the bearing Of the lave OF llu
oil religion rhc second treats OF the emotional clements
Of the religious sentiment which, " u argued mas ITO
source in WISH the wish whose iriition depends upon
uIlnown power" ITO be religious one must DESIRE
and bc iCnOraut,"ir q certain sense The thd Chaitcr
however. that there are rational lustnlhtes o
religious sentiment aud that tntFo AFFORD lIcsui-
tiun OF Il moral government OF tic universe. inc
PRAYER and IFS Answer sIdercd, prayer "a an IN
dspensable element of religion srcc II is the cNnresion
OF the wish Tho Myth aud The Mythical Cycles are
treated rs perceptions of tie relations OF man ana ma
turc The Chit, Symbols and Rites, ARE treated or
in the sixth chapter, tie latter IA being either prop
tory memorial. The final chapter deals win Inc
of Religious Thought, ANA gives inc historic
ideas i'm religious progress chiefly three, the Ideas OF
the perfected individual of the perfected commonwealth
OF personal survival, the latter OF which DE- Brinioh
thinks IL decreasing ~ religious hOnth'. nc !tlN.s
The subject with the suggestion hat the re
is late and probably final development OF lnlhd'
whose sufficient basis found W the uttciante every
religion speaks-sock truth; do good