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power or permanence to the others, and con-
cludes with consideration of the connection
of mind with organization, the subjective
and the objective, and a treatise on the intel
leetual faculties. The treatise is based on
ANALYST of the human faculties has had
much prominence. He is a countryman and
a follower of George and Andrew Combe.
The text is clear, plain and adapted to
popular reading The work is put
forth by its authors throughout it is man
ifest-in the direction Of intellectual culture
and the advancement Of the human race in
all knowledge from which character and hap
piness spring. AS the author states it, his
endeavor is % to associate the rules OF prac-
teal education with the principles Of what
we believe to be the truest philosophy of the
human mind that has yet obtained" He adj
mits phrenology to be an imperfect science, but
believes its delineations of the powers of the
mind sufficiently faithful to be made the
basis Of a system OF education. These are
the key-notes to the work, and to those who
agree with him the work will prove of inter
est The mass of readers, however, will not
incline to accept his premises as sufficiently
broad to warrant the founding of so positively
1tated theory and doctrine as those which
he maintains.
ENGLISH MEs or LETTERS. Milton by Mark Pat
terson, b. D. Thackeray; by Anthony Troilope.
New York: Harper & Bros. San Francisco A.
L. Bancroft Co. vols, 206 and 2l2 PIP. re-
spectiyely.
These are the latest additions to Morley's
series, already noticed in these columns.
What Professor Mark Patterson says by way
of excuse for his book is illustrative largely of
the reason for the series. MY excuse, he
saws, for attempting to write of Milton
after Mr.. Mason is that his life is in six vol
umes octave, with a total of some four to five
thousand pages. The present outline is writ
ten for different class of readers-those
namely, who cannot afford to know more of
Milton than can be told in some 250 pages.
The evident purpose of the series is to present
"short books " to the general public, with a
view both to stirring and satisfying an inter
est in literature and its great topics in the
minds of those who have to run as they read.
There is the objection that this condensing
process is in danger of being overdone, and,
indeed, it has been in some instances dam
aging in results, but the Morley series does
not appear to be open to objection of this ma
ture. as it has thus far been an aid to the
study of literature and an inducement to en-
ter upon it.
THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE. By the late
James F. W. Johnston. New edition; by Arthur
Herbert Church. l vol; Svo New York: d.
Appleton Co.
This work first appeared some twenty-five
years ago, when an acquaintance with the
advancing science of the day was the almost
exclusive possession of a select class. It had
much to do with the popularization of science,
and brought the science of chemistry closer to
the understanding of the masses, simplifying
many of its intricacies, and smoothing many
of its thorny ways. Professor Johnston's
book very soon became popular one, because
OF his simple and familiar methods of present
ing facts and of reasoning. Professor Church
has brought the work down to the present
tune, revised and enlarged it, and made it
even more acceptable than before. 1t is now
profusIy illustrated. 1t should be in every
family, treating as it does of every article Of
food in use, giving the constituents OF each,
the best methods of use, the uutritiye quail
ties of different kinds of food, and also treat
OF sanitation, etc.
An INVOLUNTARY VOYAGE By Lucien Bart. Trans
lated by Mrs. Casbel HOey and John Lille. New
York Harper & Brothers San Francisco a. l..
Bancroft Co Svo.
A young Frenchman, who is bidding his
friend adieu as he departs for America, is
unwillingly carried to sea, and in his efforts
to get back to France is on first this ship and
that one, and driven hither and thither,
plunged into adventures and astonished by
strange peoples and scenes. The story,
French in every particular, is interlarded
with hundreds of scraps of geographical and
nautical knowledge, which gives the book
considerable value as an appetizer to deeper
reading, while the narrative itself is full of
interest and humor, and serves well for an
idle hour.
POPULAR CALIFORNIA FLORA, OR MANUAL OF BOTANY
FOR BEGINNERS By Volney Ruttan. Teacher of
Natural Sciences in the Girls High School, San
Francisco. A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco,
publishers; 81 80.
This is a second edition, revised and en-
larged, of what has proven to be very use
full book, according to botanists of this State,
who are warm in their commentators. The
book has been introduced into number of
educational institutions on the coast.
ROOM roR ONE MORE. By Mary Thacher Higginson
Boston Lee 81 Shepard. Sacramento; w. A &
G. S. Houghton. vol; Svo
This little volume is by the author of I" Sea-
shore and Prairie" 1t is a well-told, simply
written story for children, which interests,
instructs, cultivates their better feelings, and
awakens their best sympathies.
From Oliver Ditson & Co. BOSTON, we
have 1.-The American Anthem Book" by A.
N. johnson, j. II. Tenney and A J. Abbey
The first thing choir leader would notice in
turning over the leaves of this candidate for
the ministry of song in the sanctuary" is,
its freshness and newness. Everything is
written especially for the book, and, with the
exception of four or five arrangements of
good music there does not seem to be any
thing at all that has been published hereto
fore. Now it is quite a formidable task to
prepare a hundred more new anthems,
which are all not to exceed a certain degree
of difficulty, which are to have a great va
riety, and to be all spirited and pleasing. The
composers, however, seem to have done this,
and have given collection which is of excel
lent character.
Sebastian Strome . is the title of Julian
Hawthorne's latest novel. 1t has been read
with keen appreciation of its strength and
vigor yet, like most of this writer's stories,
it hardly ful6lls expectation. He opens his
novels with such power as raise hopes seldom
gratifed. He brings to his work mass of
rich material which SO grows beneath his
touch that he seems to love the power to come
to conclusion with the interest fully msin-
tanned and all the characters under full con-
troll. Sebastian Strome" is deeply inter-
esting novel. Its latter half in its vividness
becomes almost repulsiye, and the methods
chosen to purify the soul do not engage the
sympathes. The novel is from the press of
d. Appleton & Co., New York, and is for
sale by w. A. s. c. S. Houghton.
From the Leonard Scott Publishing Com
psny. New York. We have the Westminster
Review" for january. The leading papers
are: & Colonial Aid in War Time" 1.-THE
Grand Dukes of Tuscany The Organize
ton and Registration of Teachers" THE
Relation of Silver to Gold as Coin, - Social
Philosophy :. Russia and Russian Reform
ers," I" India and Our Colonial Empire.
From the same publishing company we
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