Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-08
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Beatrice Boville and Other Stories," by 1 ''Ouida,'' is collection of the dashing and sparkling tales of this writer, who is at times naughty in her writing, but never duil. These stories are very entertaining. Pub lished by J. B. Lippincott & Co.,, Philadel- phia, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Shakespeare's Dream and Other Poems, :" by William Leighton, is the title of an at tractive looking volume published by J. B Lippincott & Co.,, Philadelphia The author has made bold attempt in his Shakespeare's dream, and it is not surprising that he has not succeeded, in producing a dream that would do Shakespeare credit. The other poems are clever. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 The Magaeine of 4rt, published by Cas- sell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,, begins its fourth volume with new cover of decorative pat tern in white on dark blue, or blue-black ground, and somewhat enlarged. It has for a frontispiece remarkably skillful and in teresting etching by Lalauze of ''The Trio" a painting by the realistic Erskine Nicol rep resenting fifer, a fiddler and player on pipes. In the series of Living Artists" sketch and portrait of John Petite are given, and a cut of his "Jacobites, 1745." An en- graving is given of Laslett J. Potts royal academy picture this year, ''The Trial of Queen Katherine ;'' and an article on the late Jacob Thompson includes reproductions of two of his paintings.
 Puck, {" by ''Ouida, is published in neat paper covers by J. B. Lippincott & Co.,, Philadelphia, ''Puck'' was dog whose for tune it was to live with several women in different classes of society, and he tells in brilliant way what he saw and heard. The tone of the story may be judged from the following: ''You men think women do not know much of life. Pooh! I, Puck, who have dwelt for many of my days in their boudoir cushions, and eaten of their dainty little dinners, and been smuggled under their robes even into opera, balls and churches, tell you that Is an utter fallacy. They do not choose you to know that they know 1t, very probably, but there is nothing that is hidden from them, I promise you" For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "Uncle Remus his Songs and his Sayings:
 
 Joel Chandler Harris of the -4Ma71t0 Co7asti- t,ttion, is a book destined to attract much at tention. It has been Mr. Harris purpose to preserve the legends in their original simplic- ity, and to wed them permanently to the sin gular dialect, if indeed it can be called dia- lect, he says through the medium of which they have become part of the domestic his tory of every southern family. And he has endeavered to give to the whole the flavor of the old plantation. Pathological considera- tions have formed no part of the undertak- ing But the field of inquiry in this respect might be very interesting Professor Powell of the Smithsonian Institute, who is engaged in an investigation of the mythology of the North American Indians, has informed Mir. Harris that some of Uncle Remus' stories appear in a number of different languages and in various modified forms among the In- dians, and he is of the opinion that they may have been borrowed by the negroes from the red men, Mir. Harris, however, considers this as extremely doubtful, since another in- vestigator Herbert H. Smith, author of Brazil and the Amazons," has met with some of the strange stories among tribes of South American Indians, and one of them he has traced to India and as far east as Siam. Some of the legends are near ly identical, and point to a common origin. Mr. Harris says he has found but few ne- groes who will acknowledge to a stranger that they know anything of these strange and curious stories But the narration of one of them is the surest road to the negroes, confi- dence and esteem. In this way only has he been able to collect and verify the folklore included in his volume. The character sketches, MT. Harris says, are without per manent interest, but he has embodied them in the volume for the purpose of presenting a phase of negro character wholly distinct from that which he has attempted to pre- serve in the legends. A number of the negro songs are also given. The following is part of revival hymn"
 Oh whar shill we go wen de great day comes, wid de blowin' de trumpits en de bangin' CT de How many DO sinners II be kotched out late, No use fer to wait twill ter morrer! De sun mustn't set on 70 sorrer, Sins sharp ez bamboo brier- Oh! Lord! fetch de monsrs up higher!
 De song of salvashun is g mighty sweet song
 En de Paradise win bloM t fur sn Di1W & serG6g 5d
 En right dars de place whar de sinners ought CT |
 hide; oh you nee nter be a stoppin' en lookin; Elf you fool wid ole Satun, you'll git took in You'n II hang on de aidge get shook in, Elf you keep on stoppin en look1n'.
 This interesting and valuable book is pub | 1ished by D. Appleton < Co.,, New York, and is for sale in this city by Judd the book seller
 "A Dreamer" by Katherine wylde, is added to the Leisure Hour series published by Henry Holt & Co.,, New York. This is a story quite out of the path of common Eng Ish novels. The hero is Philip Temple, who becomes engaged to handsome young woman of no little means, who, without be- ing ambitious, is cold and calculating. Being tempted to conceal codicil to her fathers