Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-17
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

The number of the Living Age for the week ending January 17 has the following valuable contents: Loyalty, by Edward A. Freeman, Fortnightly Review; The Sealed Letter, Temple Bar; On the Utility to Flowers of their Beauty, Contemporary Review Madame Roland de Ia Platierre, by Lady Jackson, Temple Bar; The Rector of St. Matthews, Argosy The Criminal Code of the Jews con- clusion, Pail Mall Gazette Doubling Doubt, Spectator; Ouriosities of Trade in China, PalI Mall Budget; The Marhatta Rebel, Spectator; Chinese Cookery, and Brigandage in Italy, PalI Mall Gazette, with the usual amount of choice poetry and miscellany. Two new serial sto- ries, one by Mrs. Olphant and the other by the author of Dorothy Fox" have been re- gently begun in The Living Age, from ad- vance sheets, and the publishers present to new subscribers for 1880 the six numbers of 1879 which contain the opening chapters of both these serials.
 D. Appleton & Go. have published Julian Hawthorne's novel Sebastian Strome' in their ssLibrary of American Fiction" In this book MT. Hawthorne has succeeded admirably in depicting several characters in natural col ors. The story is of English life, and though there is a parsonage, a country house, Lon- don club, rich heiress, 8 rasoally Jew, a very odd Englishman and other common enough accessories they are not the same properties of fiction that have been doing service for two or three scores of years, but new things with old names, and in arranging them an original Judd the bookseller.
 t'Great Singers" by George T. Ferris, is the latest of Appletohs' ''New Handy voIume Series" It includes only female singers, and of those only 'the very great names in ope- ratio art" There are only seven in all, begin ming with Bordoni, Handels prima donna, and ending with Sontag. The series gives very good notion of the progress of opera from ssAcis and Gaatea" to sSomnambuIa" and I'll Barbiere,' and is entertaining, as sketches of actors and singers usually are. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 L. T. Townsend, DID,, Professor in Boston University, author of s'Credo" and other works, has written concerning ''The Art of Speech" in two volumes, the first of which has just been published by D. Appleton & Go. The subject matter of the work is an out growth from occasional instructions given while occupying the chair of Sacred Rhetoric. The first volume treats of the ''History of Speecb,' D Theories of the Origin of Speech,' 'sLaws of speech," ''Diction and Idiom," 'tSyntax," Grammatical and Rhetorical Rules," Style, Figures" Poetic Speeoh," 'tProse Speech" and "Poetic-Prose Speech" There are also many valuable Supplemental Notes" ''The Art of Speech" if the second volume is as good as the first, will be very useful to those learning to speak or write. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Part one of "Nana," the sequel to 'sLAssommoir," by Emile zola, is published by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia. 'Nana' is 8 graphically real description of the doings of Pariean actress who has many lovers. There is great excitement over this book in Europe, and it will find many thou sands of readers in this country. The author says that his purpose in writing Mana has been most simple one. He has endeavored to paint the class of women to which she be- longs as they exist in real life and thus utter 8 vehement protest against Marion Delorme, La Dame aux Oamelias, Marco and Musette; in fact against that long procession of vice which he considers destructive to morality, and as having most pernicious effect upon the imaginations of young girls. 'Nana" throws no glamour over self-indulgenee, nor does it lend charm to characters essentially false and corrupt. The work of translating, by John Stirling, is excellently done.