Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-02
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

New England BygOnes by E. Il. Arr, Is characterized by charming freshness and unpretentious grace which are sure to obtain for it wide. popularity. Its design is to give simple and truthful picture of New England rural life in days gone by. There is no attempt at establishment Things are painted just as they were, and therein lies to great extept the charm of the work. The following extracts may serve to indicate how faithfully and well the author has worked
 On the whole, what farm appendage was better in possession, is better in memory, than it's riotous old orchard? It was, in spring, a rose garden, which scented the air with altar, and filled the landscape with transient glory. In summer, standing in the foreground of it's overlapping verdure, the houses let out into it the homeliness of their
 vacations. Then into the pastures and i'm plements of housewives and the work they did, passed the glamour of it's growth and it's sunshine. In it, and by it, people and things otherwise unattractive became beautiful in
 cidents and accidents of it. You have not
 forgotten the bare-armed women, spreading
 their linen to bleach pans scalding in the
 sunshine the bee-hives; the grindstone ;;
 the mowers whetting their scythes, and other
 looselying debris of farm work; the pictur-
 esque absorption of the orchards summer
 life.
 I see them walking, as they used, across
 the green fields to the meeting house, which
 stood on a hill a mile away from my grand
 fathers, clad in their long kept, variously
 made holiday garments,-a quaint procession.
 There are samples of shawls and dresses,
 preserved by me in memory from the attire of my grandfather's fellow worshippers,
 every thread of whose real texture has been
 eaten away. l know just how they were worn. Old Dame H. had soft, silky, crim- | son shawl, which she drew closely over her shoulders, and pinned three times down the front. The pins seemed never to vary a thread; and year after year her sharp shoul- ders rubbed at it's warp and wool until it grew stringy and streaked.
 Every old New Englander and many of the younger ones will recognize these pictures at
 once, and there are more equally good. The
 book is published by J. B, Lippineott < Co.,, Philadelphia, and is for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Eastward Ho! or Adventures at Range 1 ley Lakes, by Charles A. J. Farrar. is a l bright and entertaining account of trip
 through the woods of Maine. The author is a well known guide, skipper and pilot to
 Rangeley Lakes and their surroundings and the information concerning this sportsman's paradise can be relied upon as authentic. It is book containing much to help solve the question, Where shall we spend the sum mer months?' by showing the beauties ot Rangel y, with its pure air and lovely bodies of water, its vast forests and lofty noun 1 tains, region which is every year becoming more and more frequented by health and pleasure-seeking parties. Published by Lee 1 & Shepard, Boston, and for sale in this city 1 by H. H. Peck
 The True Story of the Exodus of Israel 1 is compiled from the large work of the
 learned German Psychologist, Dr. Henry | Brugsch, and is edited by Francis H. Under wood. It embodies the latest discoveries l from the monuments of Egypt concerning l the time, place and circumstances of the ex- | odus of the Israelites under Moses, and the l condition and history of the country at that time Dr. Brugsch, after thirty years of exploration and study, thinks he l has been able to fix the resi- 1 dence of the Israelites in Egypt | and the birthplace of Moses. He
 also takes up the scriptural account, examines the names of places men t1OneQ III EXOQuS anO IraceS Ine TouGe o1 tHe
 Israelites. He shows that they never came near the Red Sea until some days after the l catastrophe of the drowning of Pharaoh and | his host. Having thorough knowledge of geography, ancient and modern, he shows the errors of the translators and com mentators This account Dr. Brugsch de- clares to be wholly in accord with Scripture l The book is valuable in other respects, espe- cially for the new light thrown upon the i'm
 mense antiquity of the kingdom, and it's wonderful monuments with their wealth of | historic inscriptions. It is illustrated with a
 map of Ancient Egypt, reproduced from the
 original in Dr. Brugschs Egypt Under the Pharaohs Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston, and for sale in this city by H. H 1 Peck.