Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-11
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

American or Standard Whist, " by ''G. W. F." attempts to supply want by de votion to the American distinguished from the English game. The distinctive differ ences of these games are that in England honors are counted, in America they are not <; in England five points make game, in America seven; in England a ''stal1e" is thought to be necessary to make game of whist interesting, in America all gambling at cards is discountenanced in social circles ''C. W. F." attacks very vigorously the fine points of the English rules, holding that they
 are framed only for gamblers, and that they
 merely impede the progress of strictly
 social game. Whist players will find the
 book very interesting and instructive. Pub
 lished by J. R. Osgood $ Co.,, Boston, and
 for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller
 ''Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Mis-
 adventures" <" by w. H. Kingston, is book
 which will fascinate the boys. Dick Cheve-
 ley is lad who has an ambition for the sea.
 From an early age he gets mixed up with
 smugglers in detective kind of way. Event
 ually he does get to sea as stowaway, and
 lives for an indefinite period in the hold of a
 ship on rats, pickles and olives. He has
 plenty of adventures of most exciting kind.
 The book is well and profusely illustrated,
 and will be as interesting to the boys who read it as a dime novel. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co.,, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "A History of Painting, Ancient, Early Christian and Medieval" from the German
 of the late Dr. Alfred Woltmann, professor at the Imperial University of Strasburg and Dr. Karl Woermann, professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, Dusseldorf, edited by Sid ney Colvin, M. A, Slade, Professor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge, is pub lished by Dodd, Mead & Co.,, New York; The design of the book is at once his torical, scientific and philosophical. It gi yes products and progress of painting from the earliest days of Egyptian art down to the be- ginning of the Renaissance in Italy. It ana- 1yzes the principles which lie at the basis of the painters art in all the forms of its mani festation - mural decorations, illuminated manuscripts, vase paintings, mosaics, panel paintings, paintings on glass, frescoes and paintings OH CdAfdb 1t bIdC0S 1uS bEduIGItH of painting from the earliest times to the times at which this history erds, and shows the relations between the art of Egypt and the art of Assyria, between the art of Assyria and the art of Greece, between the art of Greece and the art of Rome, between the art of Rome and the early Christian art of the catacombs, between the art of the catacombs Il, of %Ioa Tariod dating from the iconoclastic schism down to A. D. 95O; between the painting of this pc riod and that of the Romanesque age, dating from A. D. $50 to 125O, and between the painting of the Romanesque age and the painting of the Gothic period, dating from A. D. 1250 to HOO, the dawn of the Renais sance. The whole forms the most complete and trustworthy history of painting yet writ ten. For sale in this city by Judd the book seller.
 Good Company No. II is a bright and read able number It opens with an entertaining story by Sophie Sweet, entitled ''Pennyroyal Church D There is second installment of ssRose and the Doctor" by Ellen w. Olney. tsAn Exceptional Case, ,'' story by Mabel 5. Emery Bon Voyage-and a Music Box, by Lizzie W. Champney, also story Rachel Carew, in a sketch called My House and My Handmaiden. gives amusing account of years housekeeping in Germany. Boarding Round" and ''What She Lost at the Fortune TeIler's' are the titles of anonymous stories, and there are poems by Dora Read Goodale 1 and others In more solid reading there is a paper on s'The Interior Department, an ar ticie by D. o. Kellogg on Organization in | Charity D description of ''The Horace Mann l School for the Deaf," by Amanda B. Harris. l J. B. T. Marsh, under the title ''The Man of ] Faith" gives a sketch of the late Horace l David Ker describes "A Day in | the Ruins of Carthage" These, with one or I two others, and chapter devoted to Dis ,ussion and suggestion,'' make up capital | number