Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-14
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

A collection of Little Comedies by Ju- lian Sturgis, is published in the Appletons' New Handy-V Volume Series. These exceed ingly graceful little comedies appeared in an English magazine and at once attracted atten- tion to their author. There are six of them
 Apples" '.Fire-F1ies, Picking up the Pieces" Half Way to Already" ''Mabel's Holy Day. and Heather" Of course they are very light, as they should be, but they are very charming. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Another addition to Appletons' New Handy Volume Series is collection of Maurice Mau- ris' sprightly sketches of French Men of Letters" Maurice Mauris is the pseudonym of a Marquis Calenzano, native of Nicee Garibaldian, an abject adn1irer of Victor Hugo, and a well qualified by experience and inclination to chat pleasantly of the lite rary Bohemians who are by turns happy and very wretched in Paris. The little sketches should not be taken seriously. They offer "reminiscences, anecdotes and points picked up here and there The authors sketches are Hugo, A. de Musset, Gautier, Munger, Sainte-Beuve, Nerval, Dumas-il Augier, Feuillet Sardou, Daudet and Emile Zola. With many of these the gossipy writer has had personal intercourse, and what he says of Hugo Daudet and Zola is specially inter esting For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Under the name of sHealth, 3 the Apple tons have published series of lectures de- hvered some time ago in the rooms of the Society of Arts in London, by W. H. Cor field M. A., NJ. D. (Oxon). These lectures are a model popular exposition of sanitary science, clear, precise and comprehensive. They first describe the anatomy and physiol- ogy of the body, accompanying the descrip ton with a running commentary throwing light upon the causes and conditions of health and disease. In regard to hygiene the lectures are full of practical information in regard to good and bad ways of living from the earliest infancy to old age; the sort and quantity of food best suited to diff ferent states of health are pointed out, to- gether with the nature of common diseases and the methods of preventing them or re- ducing their recurrence to minimum. The chapters on foods and drinks are important, and it should be noted that while Dr. Corfeld is not an extremist in either way in regard to the use of tobacco and alcohol, .he points out that both substances are highly injurious to children and young people; that it is only in idiosyncratic cases that their habitual use by adults can possibly be beneficial. In regard to public as well as private hygiene, Dr. Cor fields work is well worth reading, and per sons who are particularly interested in the present controversy over vaccination for smallpox will here find fair statement of it from the point of view taken by the great majority of prominent physicians. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Beauty's Daughters'' is a light and grace full novel from the pen of the author of Phyllis ''MoTy Bawn,'' etc.-stories which are popular among readers of fiction. This novel deals with English society life. The plot is triple one, with three sets of lovers, all of whom aKe made happy in the end. As there are no villains to be punished, nor any very serious wrongs to be righted, the reader is spared much that harrows the feelings in novels generally. Still, there is enough of misconception and unhappiness to redeem the story from the imputation of