Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-12
Some New Rocks

SOsHe new BOOKS.
From Robert Beall we have the following
new publications by Harper & Bros:
Annual Record OF Science and Industry for
1877. Edited by Spencer F. Baird, with the as
SlStance OF eminent men in science. The pres
ent volume is the seventh of a series commenced
in lo1l, and which took up the record of scien-
titic and industrial progress where the An
nual of Scientific Discovery left it off after
having been published since 1850. The two,
therefore, form continuous history of the
subject for twenty-seven years. The present
volume has several leW features adding to its
usefulness and convenience.
ShakeSpeare'S Comedy of ':As You Like 1t. =
Edited. with notes, by w. J. Rolfe, A. M. This
edition of las You Like It. has been prepared
On essentially the same plan as its eight prede
published by the HarperS.
The Settlement of the English Constitution ::
by James RoWley, MA. The Coming Man.
by Charles Reade. OF Harpers handy Half
Hour SelieS.'
The History of Crime by Victor Hugo The
Russians of To-day, by the author of The
member for Paris These are Nos and 8 of
the "Franklin Square Library
A Modern Minister, vol 2. Mine is thine. by
l. W. NJ. Lockhart, author of Fair to See''
These are vols. COB and 6l2 of Harper's Libra
ry of Select Novels
Modern Dwellings in Town and Country
adapted to American wants and climate: with
treatise on Furniture and Decoration, by III .
Hudson Holly. New York: Harper & Bios.
For sale by Robert Beall] This book is an
1876. -
From W. Fl. & O. H. Morrison we have:
Child and Woman. from the German of Glenn
entine Helm. byy. ZitelIa Cooke. Phila: James
ulalion which characterize a large part of
what is even denominated the light literature
OF Germany, it is an established fact as illus
trated by the works of Miss Helm, that the
charm and attractiVeness of German nara
tive, as well as German poetry, exists in its
directness and fidelity to nature.
From j. Bradley Adams we have the follow
ing new publications by Harper & Bros:
ember for OF PP Pas y fhs fa moTv saRo9 Of Of
numbers of the " Franklin Square re- Library.'S S
The Coming Man, by Charles Reade. The
Settlement of the English Constitution; by
Half Hour Series"
Mine is Thine: a novel, by L. WIN. Lock-
hart, author Of Fair to See" A Modern
Minister. vol II. These are of "Harper's Ii
brary of Select Novels
From w. II. g. o. H. Morrison we have the
following recent publications by Houghton.
Osgood 4 Co., Boston:
Orthodoxy, with Preludes of Current Events,
by Joseph Cook. These are of Jo.eph
CoOhS bOStOn MONDAY lectures; the OBJ
lect OF which is to present the results of
the freshest German, English and Amer
lean scholarship On the more important and
dllcult topics concerning the relation of
religion and science. The present volume
commences with the rather famous lecture by
Cook, entitled "1s There Nothing in God to
Fear?"
Claude Lorraine. This is of the series of
artist biographies issued by Houghton, Osgood
Co., In monthly volumes at so cents each
Reliability, compactness and cheapneSs have
been aimed at.
Memoir of William Francis Bartlett, by F.
w. Palfrey. This is the well-told history of
one OF the braveSt of Massachusetts, soldiers
during the rebellion; and who when the war
was ended, was among the first to appeal in
ed section. bis eloquent speech in this direc-
ton at the Lexington celebration, it will be
remembered, thrilled the country and met
with most grateful response from the South.
ern people
keramCS and other Poems, by Henry Wads.
worth LOngfellOw. This volume printed i'm
the handsome style of the Riverside Press
contains, in addition to KeramOS, number of
poems under the heads of Birds of Passage"
Book OF Sonnets," "Translations,'' &c.
Historical Sketch of Parker County and
Weatherford, Texas; by H. Smythe st Louis:
Louis Q. Lavat. This does not look like
than local interest. but with the personal an.
ecdotes and "reminiscences, racy of the
soil OF that portion of Texas, the book is
rather readable.
Tender and True; by Harriet B. McKeever.
Phila. James A. Moore. [For sale by VIM
Ballantyne. A story for young folks, by the
author of " Woodcliff Children"