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The New York herald., 1879-02-24
BOSTON BOOKS.
A GAMEKEEPER ON ''rIps'-DULNEss IN NEW
PUBLICATIONS.

PUBLICATIONS.
Boston. Feb. %, 1879
The announcements for next week include only
one book The Ciamekeeper at Home" which Rob-
Brothers VIII publish. 1t is anonymous, unless
the initials .R. j." signed to its preface furnish
some key to the writer's name. It Is divided into
nine chapters. in which the author describes the
ganekeeper himself. his family. his friends. his
mics. his following of dumb creatures and the ami
mails that he hunts, and also great many bits OF
pretty and graphic description of woodland sights
and sounds. 1t is pleasant to read and may be used
as a key to English hunting novels which caviare
to the general in America, where the untravelled
hardly knows view halloo from ferret. Ore
little disqusition Of the gamekeeper's on tips may
be interesting:
.Gentlemen is very curious in tips" he says "and
there amt nothing so dlfiicult as to know what s
coming. Most in general them as be the biggest
guns, and what you think would come out hand
some. chucks you crown and no more; and them
as you know amt much go in the way money
slips sovereign into your fist. There's deal III the
way Of giving 1t, too, as perhaps you wouldn't think
Some gents does il much to say they're much
obliged to you for kindly taking it. Some does 1t as
If they were chucking bone to a dog One place
where was, the governor were the haughtiest man
as ever you see. When the shooting was done-after
a great party-you never knowed whether he were
pleased not; he never took no more notice OF you
than IL you tree. But found him out arter
time two. You had TO walk close behind him. as
if you spaniel. and by and by he would slip
his hand round behind his back-without word,
mind-and you bad to take what in it. and never
touch your hat or so much as Thank you, sir II
were always five pound note, if the shooting had
been good; but it never seemed to come so sweet as
If he'd done 1t to your face
The only new book announced is "Cobwebs, by
Elizabeth G. Goodrich. the author of 'Children's
Opera" The volume is clever mixture of simple
verse and pretty melodies intended for juvenile
Lee * Shepard are its publishers.
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"THE WORKOUT sHoE. T"

On the minstrel stage there is well known old
song with an interminable number OF verses. whose
refrain runs to the words "A big broad hat, with
big broad rim. all bound round with woollen
string 1t is impossible road the opening verses
of the small volume OF sentimental poems" by j.
T. Diekenga &C.. II. Barns, st. Louis) without recall
ing the absurd effect produced by this song. The
FIRST two verses are as follows:-
There man with great big hat,
Who wrote some things about this and that
And among the things that he once did do,
He wrote a tale of a wornout shoe.
He wrote this tale with wornout pen,
And his great big hat had n wornout brim.
And he wrote away in a wornout chair
On wornout desk, with a wornout air.
ellis great big hat had wornout brnY' Is this
fat burglary? Or Mr.. Dickcnga tho author of
the famous Ethiopian song aud dance, and does he
now emerge ut last TO cast and contunely upon
the hcarticss piag arists who while proting by his
genius, have never acknowledged the claims cf the
disting ushcd author even By 20 small tribute as "a
line upon the billsr'
Let such beware! Diekenga Is upon the warpath.
He has put on his "wornout shoe at last. He has
doubtless, armed himself with "Drone on Copy
right and before long some will get o lively
kick from the sentimental shoe. 'eThe Sweet
Singer of Michigan had better look 70 her laurels.
Missouri Is looming up.
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
COOK ON HEREDITY.

The fifth volume of the series of Boston Monday
lectures delivered at fremont Temple by Mr. Joseph
Cook. has been issued from the Riverside Press by
Messrs. Houghton. Osgood Co., under the title of
"Hcrcdity. with Preludcs on Current Events" The
volume has all the characteristic qualities of its pre-
dccessors which is equivalent to saying that it sue
cessfully combines presumptuous dogmatsm with
very slight and inaccurate knowledge of the clements
of the subject in hand. 10 point out 1.-THE Of the
material errors found in this volume would nouire
much greater space than We afford. but one or
two specimens must be given. In the hrst prelude,
on schools for the American Indian" Mr.. Cook
speaks of 10000 Chorokees." and asserts that "in
1864 the number of schools among the Indians was
only cighty-nine when reference to any cyclopadia
or to the reports of the Commissioners OF Indian
Affairs OF twenty years ago would have shown that
the Cherokces numbered 20, 600. and that
there several hundreds of Indian schools even
before the civil war. Mr.. Cooks knowledge of
classical archaeology can be inferred from
his unhesitating BELIEF in the discovery by
schlicmann of the tomb of Agamemnon prelude
H.. and his treatment Of that discovery as
showing that "Homer is found to be not
myth. but person in whom even Gladstone can
believe q reality" Is Mr.. Cook ignorant that for
twenty years Mr.. Gladstone has been the foremost
and almost only Enelish champion Of the indiy-
against MAudsley Harrison. Darwin Dsstian IyndalI
Huxley and Haockcl. but does not hesitate TO quote
indispuablc fact any novelty put forth by any
of them which can be construed n favor of his own
views. Upon the subject OF hcrcdity his ignorance
is all the lamcntabe. because really good book
on this theme would meet great public need. Mr..
Cook has properly views of his own but presents
with crude selection from those of his favorite,
Hermann Lotze. combined with facts from Cal.
ton aud Deale His leading position is the material
istc character of the human SOUL which he holds to
be nebulous sort Of entity permeating the body aud
scparable from II at death. The spirit he does not
dene but considers II distinct from the soul When
he essays definition of his own. he makes sad work.
as when he lays down 'scven principal laws OF her.
edity," the third of which is collateral hercit,,
occurring "when the child resembles uncle or
aunt or OF It's relatives out Of the regular
line Of dcscont'
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
LITERARY cHIr-CHrr.

Printers Congress is to meet at st. Petersburg
early in the spring.
Violet Fame has poem in the London World called
"The silent Player ''Poor Yorick" Is its subject.
When she finishes her moralizing she says:--
| don my cloak and clasp q careless arm,
Then drive to supper =.
Life of Colonel Aaron Burr" with sketches of
his father Rev. Aaron Burr aud his daughter Tbeo-
dosia, reprinted from the "IIistory of the Burr
Family by Charles Burr Todd, has been issued in
paper bindings ut low price. Its aim is to present
in its most favorable laht the character of the man
who. after Benedict Arnold. regarded during the
nrst half Of the century. az the typical bad Aner
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
NEw BOOKS RECEIyEp.

The Gold Room and the New York Stock Exchange and
Clearing House. BY Kinahan CORVALLIS. A. ). Barnes
Co publishers.
Prophet BY Joseph Seiss D. d. Porter Coates, pub
lishers, Philadelphia.
Notes by Il Naturalist the Challenger being Ac-
Various Observations Made During the Voyage of
Her Majestys Ship Challenger Round the World il the
Years iS72e76 under the commands Of Captain Sir C. s.
Mares, r. NJ n C. b. +. r. s. and Captain L. r. Thomson,
L. N. By H. N. Mosely N. A.. f. r. S. Macmillan 4 Co.,
publishers, London and New York
History of Church of England from the Accession
Of Henry VIII to the Sencing of Convocaton in the
Eighteenth Century BY c. G. Perry, NJ A. With an Ap-
pendx containing sketch Of the history the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States of America BY
J. A. Spencer S. I. d. Harper Brothers. publishers
New York.
Harpers Halfhour Series.-The Poems Of Oliver Gold
smith. The Awakening. A Tale of English Life. BY
Katharine s. Macquod. Afghanistan. BY A. @. Con-
stable.
Franklin Square Library-The Last Of Her Line 4
Novel. by the author of ST. Oave's, &c. Vixen. \
Novel By Miss NJ. e Braddon. Harper Brothers, pub
fishers.
The New York Evening Express Almanac, Handbook oil
Politics. Manual Statistical Register fol-
Bankers, Merchants aud Agricuiturists. 1879.
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY FEBRUARY a.

ican-a man of great abilities directed to unworthy
objects. The American News Company publish it.
The number OF the oriental Church Nagasine
Quarterly edited by Rev. Nicholas Bierrng among
other interesting papers has entitled Russia and
the United States. accounting for the friendship be-
tween the two great nations the ground OF SINH
larity in destiny which has led them to exchange
services when they most needed. America
freed her slaves and Russia liberated her serfs Each
has "a colossal territory guaranteeing it splen-
did future through the development of its natural
resources" This necessarily democratizes the
subjects of the Empire we'll the citizens OF the
Republic"
aspiring writers this side of the Atlantic.
having ventured to write two seques a short story
contributed by Wilkie Collins to the Spirit Of the Times
entitled. the "Mystery of Marmaduke," Mr.. Collins
has written hoping that nobody will credit him with
these aforesaid sequels. At the same time he charac
terizes false ''the doubly and trcbly damned
port" which credited him with completing edwin
Brood" He had been asked to do so but refused.
An unscrupulous Frenchman. however has put Mr..
Collins name to so-called completion OF the un-
finished work of Dickens.
'Bible Stories for Jewish Children is the title Of
a pretty little volume in easy English published at
the office of the Jeoish Messenger which the late NJ.
j. Moses. NJ D., wrote to supply ga want long felt
in Hebrew communities
''The Dance of SSciety," by William b. De Garmo,
published by Brentano. is the latest work OF IT'S
kind and in addition to quadrilles and round dances
describes l02 figures for the german besides other
elementary matter OF terpsichorean character
Under the weird title "Adrift on the Black Wild
Tide" (.ppincott " COL Chaplain Kane. Of the
United States Navy gives some strange experiences
in dreamland. In grimly humorous dream he
attended his own funeral spirit. and, subse-
quently when apparently dead from yellow fever in
1868. he had Bunyanist vision OF sail up the
River of Death He has he says. been eight times at
the gates of death.
Where the gold and silver go" troubled Mr.. j. v.
G. Smith until he wrote pamphlet about it for the
Atlas series. He throws light on the matter
which will be of use to anybody in New York.
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
RoLrE's "RoMEo AND JULIET. F."

Mr.. William J. Rolfe has added "Romeo and
Juliet to his editions of Shakespeares plays and
continues to exhibit the judicious arrangement
which has characterized his previous contributions
to Shskespearean literature. That the work is in
tended for the of schools has led Mr. Rolfe to
purgate the text In slight degree, his plea this
point being strong il could be made; but with
the full text within almost cverybody's reach it
seems work Of superintendent after all. His in
troductory chapter the of the plot clear
and concise. On the play itself he quotes the CON-
ments Of schlegel Coleridge, Mrs. Jameson. Phi
larete Charles. Maginn aud Dawden. The notes are
copious and luminous showing. as in other plays,
familiarity with tho body Of shakespearean exeeesis
Rarpers are the publishers.
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
FOREIGN NEWS.


J. l.. Sargent. the talented AmericsRpupil Of Caro-.
us Duran will send portrait vi his master to the
next Salon.
Lesros has lately finished etched portrait OF Sir
Frederick Leighton and smaller one of Valentine
rrinsep.
Lincoln England Is to have a Fine Art Museums.
The government is to ask the aeichstag to
vote sum OF money for the purchase of q building
in Rome to be used as home for German art stu.
dents Ii will probably be the Casa DlrtLoldy.
somebody has been signing Burne Jones name TO
drawings. anu he naturally writes to tno Ataesdus
and AcudcD.y about IL.
r.. q Belt has completed his statue of Lord
BY run---thc National Memorial"
Belgian school OF tine arts is to be founded in
Rome, under the management OF NJ. portaois
Jlm bavaria, Ia TO hold an exhibition OF much In
tercst. illustrating tho history OF printing aud wood
engraving.
tsustage Dore, who was made q chevaIier in 1884
has boon raised TO the rank of officer OF the Legion of
Honor.
The Musee dos Antiques at Paris has acquired some
Iaiagfa sauettes lrom the same source those In
the Louvre.
Tho International Art Exhibition ut Munich will
open ON July 20 instead OF July originally
posed. This is done to secure the most recent
treuch and Belgian works which will have been cx-
hibted at the Salon That closes June ~, ami
hibitOrs there can saild ia works at Munich until
Juv u. Othcr contributors must keep 20 March u
and May 81, the dates already announced
The Munich foundry will cast the German national
monument, which has been designed by Professor
Schllling. of Dresden. and will be erected in the
Nlcdcrwald near Biugcn on the Rhine. On pedes-
tai twenty -four metres in loight stands figure OF
Gernlanis. pointing with hand uplif,ej to tine il-
pcrial crown, the syBbol of German unity. Tho
figure, which is highly praised Is ten metres high.
There is some difnculty about the FUNDS which viii
be met by cOllcctN in every German town. Ihe
cost O. the mOnuncnt has already reached ,lVU.UJO
marks ana 5SO.VvO pl0re are xea9lrvd.
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
NOVELS AND STORIES.

In "sybn Drotherton IT. u. Peterson Bros.) Mrs.
T.. d. Il. ~ southworth is up to her usual standard
She tells taleof unfortunate love In that hifautin
language for which she Is conspicuous. Her heroine
The New York herald., 1879-02-24

is pious young woman, and loves pious young
man; but their love did not as smoothly as
creased wheels. sybil deems it best not to marry
her lover after ALL and writes to him. mi Living
ston. have decided We must write no more. Let
an ocean OF Silence and distance freeze up between
us. Let us die to each other. Sybil." And so it
ended after l6S pages
'Firebrands' is the title of temperance tale. by
Julia McNar Wright published by the National
Temperance Society. The chapter from which the
story takes its title is rather sensational; otherwise
the book is earnest and not without interest for
young people.
Mr.. Frederic Locker has made pleasant little book
out of his "Patchwork" Like the patchwork quilts
OF our grandmothefss each patch Is signed by the
makers name. The book is made up. without any
rule. OF clippings from newspapers, with comments
by Air. Locker; selected poems. bonmots and the
like, picked up at random. Everywhere that Mr..
Locker has heard good story he has made note OF
1t. either with pencil and paper mentally One of
the stories he heard while in Turkish bath,
aud having no writing materials with him, he was
obliged to trust to his memory. If the reader finds
any story incorrectly told he hopes he will think 1t
was the one'heard at such disadvantage. American
writers and American jokes are frequently drawn
upon and 20 great way toward making very
bright little volume. (Scribner Welford.)
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
1.-THE DISTURBING ELEMENT"


Il s difficult understand how the author of "The
Heir Of Redclife and "Heartsease could have taken
pen In hand to write trivial piece of fiction as
Tho Disturbing Element In chronicles OF the
Blue Bell Society" 1t Is possible in fact probable,
though, that she was desirous of showing her
powers In lighter vein than that in which she has
ordinarily written and that, envying +. G. Burnand's
laurels in his peculiar sphere Of humor. she threw
down the gauntlet as competitor for few OF his
bay leaves from the hand OF Momus. If go her at
tempt cannot be pronounced "happy thought. -
There too uch solemnity in her lightest moods.
The product of her work In this book is neither
flesh. fish nor fowl, aud barring some good
characterizations ana few oases OF senti-
ment, which the author always delineates
truly. there is nothing in particular in the book.
number of enthusiastic young English ladies. in
spired. perhaps by reading stray copy Of the Bos-
ton Daily advertiser, in some morbid moment form a
society for mutual improvement. something after
the manner of the Saturday Morning Club in which
Boston delights and while refraning from the ira
dtonal blue stockings that starte the staid promo
naders of tho Hub upon inclement days, the mom-
bers frame title vaguely suggestive of notona Bos-
ton-viz. the "Bluc Bell Society" Burnand in his
widest moments rang the changes a diluted
and far-fetchcd pun as Miss Yonge does upon her
bells and her disturbing element Throughout
the book. The latter is. IT goes without
saying. of the genus monster, some.
what inoffensive young man. who has known
better days. but, reduced in fortune finds his
way among the "Blue Bells" as an instructor.
passes through the usual vicissitudes of the i'm
povershed hero of the conventional romance. gets
his arm broken by drunken rival and is sent home
to his beloved in about used up condition
Mark Twains "Aurelias Unfortunate Young Man"
but. unlike Twain's Kaleidoscope character, he
rallies. and. with returning health. finds fortune
smiling golden showers upon him and his suit. He
sounds paan from the bells" by marrying the
"pIue- bottle ''wild hyscnth member, breaks up
the society. and the curtain falls upon the triumph
of the disturbing element" to the slow music Of
pancgyric on love and woman's duty.
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
HOME ART NOTES.


The Art Interchange for the 18th inst. contains .
good design by Piton.
Pittsburg still glories in its Loan Exhibition.
The Syracuse Loan Exhibition, which opened on
the 18th inst, is said to be great success
The ontaSo School OF Art asks the government OF
the province for an increased appropriation.
Kaemmerer's large canvas. "The Croquet Party"
con aiming about twenty figures. has been bought by
:. A. Cole the well known st. Louis collector and
is now on its way from tine artists studio to that
city. Mr.. Cole also Lefebvre's superb LA
Cigale," which will be remembered q member OF
the Latham collection which sold last winter.
and q replica by Clsirin of his portrait Of Sarah
Bcrnliardt and her dog which gave rise to well
known mot,
The thirty pictures which William III. Vanderbilt
purchased and ordered his late trip abroad. and
which he has been lately exhibiting to his guests.
said to cost him on an average $4,000 EACH
lie paid this amount for Erskine Nicols Trent Day.
which he bought recently from +. o. Day. ot st.
Louis. For Moissoniers The Ordinance which
he bought in Paris aud which came from the Crabbe
Deialle's "The Ambulance Corps cost him
$1,000: his five figure PanarOh of two girls hshtng,
S4 900. aud .-Fiorent Wl!cms. from tho universsi
Exhibition. double that amount
The society American Artists VIII probably hold
the private view of It's second exhibition the
evening OK the 4th prox All depends. however,
upon the time the pictures arrive which are sent by
American artists Low abroad
Wyatt Eaton has. sorry to say, been obliged
to resign his place teacher of drawing tho
Cooper Union Art School His place has been taken
by :. A. Douglas Nok. of Chicago. v OF the well
Munxacsy's Milton Dictasing Paradise Lost.
which is to add to the attractions OF the Lenox
Library. is being exhibited in Vienna. from
whence 10 gees to Berlin and then TO London.
j. H. Doph lately sold his centennial picture. ERE
turn from the Pasture. to L. Il. Lvernore tor $780,
The New York herald., 1879-02-24
THE MuLrITuD1NoUs SEAS.


The author of recent volume ip "Appletons'
Handy Volume Series launches the first volume Of
his reminiscent experiences the broad expanse of
blue ocean with something of the turgid formality
that the callow coegian brings to his first thesis in
competitive examination But. barring half
a dozen pages of sentimental effusiveness, the
book proves an exceptionally agreeable volume OF
narrative. with which is mingled slender vein OF
the scientific. not too obtrusively welded to the
lighter substratum through which it runs.
The author is evidently thoroughly at home with
his subject. and scattered throughout the book
some special points of valuable information with
which many readers probably unfamiliar. Among
other things is stated that oil spreading upon
in a storm has an astonishing effect in preventing
the wind from tearing the into foam. Fishing
vessels, especially whalers, often ride easier in gale
on account of the oil which has saturated the wood
and ships have repeatedly been saved by allowing
minute stream of oil to trckle the side. 1t is
aptly suggested that ships carrying passengers,
especially ocean steamers, might we'll be conf
PEELED by law to carry cask OF two Of oil,
to be used for this purpose during hurricane.
The author Mr. s. G. W. Benjamin. maintains that
there is longer any doubt to the advantage of
this means OF safety. 1t saves vessel from being
strained or taking heavy board and lessons
the dangers of laundering. "It is only false and
pitiful economy he says. "that interferes with its
use." Among several instances that might be men
toned the author quotes example to the point
experience Of the captain of the cutter which sup
Piled the lighthouses OF Nova Scotia Once his cutter
was overtaken by tremendous blow near st. Pauls
Rock. aud he only kept her ahoat by breaking in the
heads of ten oil casks lashed deck intended for the
lighthouse there. Every that came on board took
off with it of the OIL. which smoothed the
waves around for several minutes and eased the
laboring of the ship sufficiently to avert the impend
ing wreck Mr. Bcntamins book is illustrated-we
can hardly say embellished-with several wood en-
cravings. which may have been resuscttated from
some prehistoric geography Fortunately each Of
these is accompanied by descriptive text explaining
the significance Of the outs. There are not enough
Of these. however, to detract materially from tho
genuine worth Of the book.
The New York herald., 1879-02-24

AN AMERICAN STUDY OF HAMLETs CHARACTER,
To the long list Of studious people VINO have
wrestled with the problem presented by the char
acter Of Hamlet must now be added Mr.. Joseph Wat
son. of Newport. already favorably known as an en-
thusiasc student of Shakespeare. In a small
brochure, printed for private circulation. he has en-
bodied his thoughts on the central figure OF that
absorbing tragedy. Mr. Watson sets out to disprovo
what has often aud in such high places been as
sorsed--namely. that Hamlet really insane and
that he oven lost eight of his duty and purpose to
avenge his fathers murder. On no one historical
character within the last three hundred years has the
same amount of speculation been made upon this
purely poetical creation. and such is the mystery
surrounding IL that speculation 10 likely to con.