Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-23
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

All who have read Mrs. Brassey's record of her voyage round the world in the yacht Sun beam will be eager to read her second book, entitled Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople; and they will find the latter just as interesting as the former. The cruises were two in mum Der, the first made in the year 1874 and the second in 1878. A great many other places besides Cyprus and Constantinople were visit ed, among them Tangier, Gibraltar, Athens, nearly all the Ionian Islands, Gran, Naples, Cadiz, Seville, Rhodes, Malta, Adrianople and Marseilles. The descriptions of what was seen are delightfully."- simple, fresh and pleas- ing. As an accomplished critic has said of Mrs. Brassey 'sShe is always the same, al ways simply clever and entertaining gentle woman, travelling for her own pleasure, see- ing the things which interest her, and suffer ing herself to be as frankly interested as a child might. She falls into no raptures, dreams no dreams, writes no apostrophes, and is not embarrassed by views. She sees with the wide-open eyes of a healthy and intelli- gent woman, and writes as she might talk to friend of what she has seen." Henry Holt & Go. have published the book in excellent style. There are two maps, one of them very fine map of the island of Cyprus. There are more than hundred engraved illustra- tions, from original drawings, nine or ten of them being full page. The book IS for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "Uarda: A Romance of Anciez.. Egypt" is translated from the German Of Georg Ebers, and published by William s. Gotts- berger, New York. It is remarkable story, both as picture of the daily life and times of Egypt fourteen centuries before Christ, and for it's interest as novel. An outline of the tale is as follows: Uarda, the daughter of a 'paraschites." or embalmer of dead bodies, is accidentally run over by the vehicle of Beut- Anat, princess, daughter of Rameses IT,, sustains fracture of the collar-bone, is taken to her home by the princess, who takes an in terest in her, and visits her; afterwards the girl surreptitiously joins the train of the prin- cess on pilgrimage which the princess has been ordered by one of the chief priests to make, to purify her of the uncleanness which in the Egyptian religion all persons of rank contracted if they went to the house of 8 paraschites. There are various interesting
 
 the story, and at last it is discovered by means of a necklace that Uarda is really the daugh- ter of s Greek king. who had gone off to the wars in Syria. Professor Ebers is one of the first of living Psychologists, and the book is full of information which is not often obtain able in so pleasing a manner. For sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 Ouida's latest production, 'Moths," is in the same.vein as Friendship" It deals with modern social life in Russia, and affects to un- veil the moral rottenness that prevails among the nobility. The heroine, We're, has been educated in retirement. Her father is dead She comes then, sixteen years old, to meet her mother, who is social butterfly and 6 devotee of folly and fashion at a noted wa tering place. The girls prudery and inno- cence shocks her mother, of whose blood not one drop seems to flow in her veins. We're seems to be second edition of her father, and to the people whom she meets she seems to be something far too bright and good for hu- man natures daily food" At the watering place, where she joins her mother, she meets, ,}by accident, Correze,a 8 celebrated Paris tenor, and falls in love with his voice and subsequently the owner of it, who recipro-