Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-18
RECENT PUBLICATIONS,

'Ioiterings in Pleasant Paths' by Marion Harland, is a very pleasant and thoroughly readable book. The author says of it '"This is the truthful history of the foreign life ot an American family whose main object in going on a pilgrimage was the restoration to health of one of it's members" They found what they sought; but they found so much else that sSenriched them for all time,'' that she had an abundance of materials for writ ing this account of their life in Europe. The travellers went first to England to which the first ten chapters of the book are devoted. The reader will find much that is fresh, be. cause the author discards the regulation method, and tells us much that does not ap. pear in the usual narrations of travellers. From England they went to Paris, and from Paris to Italy, where they lived five months in Rome, and visited most of the other cities. Next they went to Switzerland and passed considerable time in Geneva. In the sketches of Geneva there are chapters on Calvin and Voltaire. The book is well writ ten, and gives the reader 8 pleasant partici- patton in the enjoyment of the loiterers. Published by Charles Scribners Sons, New York; and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Mrs. Beauchamp Brown" a novel of Boston West-End society life, has been added to Roberts Brothers excellent and popular scNo Name Series" The action of the story is mainly on an island off the coast of Maine, where the several personages are cleverly brought together by the impulse and desire to avoid coming together. The characters are well drawn. Mrs Beauchamp Brown is a widow, childless, wealthy and worldly, and also rather vulgar. Margaret, the hero inc, is also widow, niece of Mrs. Brown, and fair and fascinating; Among the charac- ters are also a Jesuit priest, a young noble man in disguise, rejected lovers of Margaret in desperate condition, come for last chance two pretty girls with the necessary young men to quarrel and firt with, two priests of the church of England, one of whom becomes the hero of the story, and the inhabitants of the island. The story though addressed to a particular audience those familiar with Boston society-has undoubted interest for all readers by reason of it's bright ness and piquancy, and other good qualities. For sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 The Handbook of Drawing" by William Walker lecturer and teacher of freehand drawing in the Owens College, is valuable book ''The purpose of this work is to fur nish such information Elementary Art Education as is not likely to be met with in any other compact form. It has been pre- pared under the guiding principle that all true education consists in the cultivation of the judgment. Books of examples, good and bad, are in abundance; but the language of art-any more than Greek or German-is not to be learned by merely copying its signs. Art has it's grammatical clements and rules, and should be studied in it's exact delineative and intellectual aspect, as well as in it's more emotional expression" This extract from the authors preface will serve to indicate the object and scope of his book, which is perhaps the first attempt to present the intellectual side of practical art education in form intelligible to the youngest and most untrained mind. The free use of sketches and diagrams renders every step of the argument as clear to the mind of the student as it was to the authors. This edi- ton was prepared by the author especially for the American market, and contains new matter not in the English edition. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.