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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

we have Harper & Bros IN. Y. edition of
Robert Douden's life of Southey. 1t forms
one of the English Men of Letters Series. -
1t is scholarly work, treating of the childhood
of the man who lived so completely in and
for literature of his four years at West
minister, his Oxford course, his marriage. his
wanderings from 1895 to 1903, his WAYS of
life at Kernick-1S03 to 1880, .i.l his lite
rary labors up to 1S43, with @ew of his
work in literature. Southeys Was we'll
rounded, useful life. He was one of the hard
est workers in all the world of letters, and
gave himself no rest. OF an austere nature,
with an extraordinary conviction as to his
duty in literature, he was yet actuated BY
kindly principles, and had warm and SYM
pathetic nature, which even his unparalleled
devotion and slavery to work could not sup
press. Douden does ample justice to Southey's
heart and brain, and weighs his works with
gentle but just criticism. He concludes that
''Southey's poetry takes midmost rank. 1t
neither renders into art great body of
| thought and passion, nor does it give faulsless
! expression to lyrical movements But it is
the outcome of large and vigorous mind
amply stored with knowledge, and its breadth
of life is the moral ardor of a nature strong
and generous" As to his prose, he declares
it model of grace, strength, purity and sim
| plicity.
Hermann Bonitz's lecture on the "Origin of
the Homeric POEMS" 1t is translated from
the German by Louis r. Packard. and is
published by Harper & Bros, New York
! The lecture was delivered in 1860 in Vienna
and has passed through four editions in Ger
many. 1t has been recognized as presenting
in brief space and with fairness the points in
volved In the discussion, and the progress
which has been made toward solution of
the problem. Packard was led to translate
it mainly by his belief that there is no work
in English which gives any just idea of the
difficulties in the way of accepting the Ho-
merle poems as the production of one poet,
unless it be the large and expensive work of
Mure, which defends the unity of author
ship. 1t seemed desirable that there should
be accessible in English partial statement
of the reasons which have led so many Ger
man scholars to doubt the unity of au-
| thorship of the poems The notes contain
a very valuable photography of the subject,
which will be of decided service to one tax
ing up the study of the Homeric question.
THE Californian for May 1.-THE A. Ro-
man Publishing Company, San Francisco,
presents the following papers, besides the
editorial and regular departments Field
Sports in Australia" by r. 4. Desmond !;
"The First Legislature on this Continent"
by W. W. Crane, Jr.; In Shasta, by
Charles H. Shinn; "Sand," by J. w. Gally !;
c.. T. Hopkins; ''The Philippine Islands-A
Holiday in Bosoboso," by Arthur L. Marvin !;
High Jinks," by Andrew McF. Davis /;
"reminiscences of Colonel E. D. Baker, - by
Edward B. Jerome For the Last Time"
by May n. Hawley almost Novel, by
Philip Shirley "A Day at an Old Mission, y
by Mary III. Field; Ruby" by Julia H. S.
Bugeia; The North Wind" by E. r. Sfl i;
"The First Xerxes Loan Collection" by Oc-
tave Thanet; "fish in Season." by w. N.
Lockington; "Indian Dances in Northern
California, by Lucy Sargent.
"The Atlantic Monthly for May though
ton, Osgood & Co., Boston,, has these leading
papers: "The Saltwater Tragedy" by
Thomas Bailey Aldrich '.The Examination
System in Education, by Willard Brown
"Wants :" "McIntyres False Face" by
W. II. Bishop; "Talent and Genius" by
Christopher P. Cranch; 'Ten Days in the
Rebel Army" by S. II. NJ Byers "a Neg
lected Poet" bye. E. Woodberry; "Records
of w. M. Hunt, by Henry c. Angel "The
Undiscovered Country" by W. d. Howells
"Bluebird's Greeting" by George Parsons
Lathrop "The Democratic Presidential
Nomination ;" British Americanisms," by
Richard Grant White; and the usual review
departments.
60 The Pocket Mining Atlas, published by
Edwin Bolitho, of the Engineering and Mn
ing Journal, New York, is one of the neatest
| ro.lyat latc bo, hoe
some twenty maps in miniature, one to each
page, and the first is of the whole United
States. There is no thin perplexing sheet to
fold and unfold and grow angry over, as is the
case with most pocket maps. II presents
leading mining districts in Georgia, Lake Su-
perior, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Colorado,
Utah. Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and
that of Bodie. The maps are handsomely
gotten up in colors and seem to be very ac-
curate-surprisingly so for such small plan
as that upon which they are drawn.
"The Bible and its Study +" is pamphlet,
containing essays on the study of the Bible,
by Rev. Barnar Sears, Charlotte M. Yonge,
Professor Phelps, Rev. F. H. A. Scrivener,
Professor Curry. Professor Riddle, Professor
Schaff, Bishop Ellicott, Rev. DR.. Thompson,
Professor Hall, Rev. Edmund de PRESSURE,
and by Chancellor Howard Crosby. 1t is
| from the press of John ID. Wattles, Phila-
delphia, and is reprinted from the Sunday
School Times.
From Oliver Ditson & Co., music publish
ers, Boston, we have the following new sheet
music, arranged for the piano Trusting
Yet, song, words by Hugh Conway, music
| by J. l.. Roeckel "Keep Light Heart
Say 1" song, by Henry Ease; 1.-THE One
Finger Waltz" a musical jest for the young,
by Carl Meyer; "May Flower" an easy
"One Golden Hour" song, by Vivian Bligh.
From A. l.. Bancroft & Co. we have No.
XIX. of the series of economic monographs
from the press of G. p Putnam's Sons, New
York. The present is treatise by VIM. L.
Royal on Andrew jackson and the Bank
of the United States" 1t includes a history
Of paper money in the United States, and a
discussion of the currency question in some
of its phases.
King John" is another of Harper & Bros.
IN. " volumes of the dramatic works of
| Shakespeare, as edited with notes by William
j. Rolfe. We have it from A. l.. Bancroft
| & Co., San Francisco. The work is one of the
English classics series heretofore noticed at
length. The text of this edition OF King
John is based on that of the folio of 1923.
OF "Harper's Half-Hour Series we have
from A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco,
two new volumes, "Othello the Second" a
novel, by F. w. Robinson, and Golden
Rod, an idyl OF Mount Deseret. Both nov
els are full of interest and equal to the thor
ough entertainment Of the reader.
From I. M. Antisell & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have in sheet from Spear & Denhoff's
| New York; publication of John Keynton
and Charles E. Pratt's new song, "Hush my
| Darling, do not Weep" 1t is arranged for
the piano, and the proceeds of the sale so to
the Herald relief fund for Ireland.
From Charles H. Marot tPhiladelphia),
for the author, we have work entitled
Civilization Is Its Cause Natural or SUI
pernatural? An Inquiry" by "A Way
farer in Search of Truth" 1t is a strong,
earnest defense of Christianity and vigor-