Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-26
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

''Victor Hugo; His Life and Works, :" translated from the French of Alfred Bar bou by Frances A. Shaw, is published by s. c. Griggs $ Co.,, Chicago. Victor Hugo is the most famous Frenchman of the day. This work, besides telling graphically the story of his life, follows out the development of his genius, and enumerates and briefly an- alyzes his works. It is enthusiastic, but i'm partial. So far as statements of fact are concerned, the poet has given the work his approval in letter, a Jac-sanatle of which appears in the translation, which is further embellished with a portrait of Hugo as he was in 1852, and also one taken in 1880. The story of the contest between the antique, cold classical schoor' of literature and the romantic school" of which latter Hugo was the victorious leader, is here told with a fullness and spirit not elsewhere found. The work is full of delightful personal de- tails. For sale in this city by Charles R. Coan.
 "Robertsons Living Thoughts" is the title of volume of brief extracts from the writings of the great preacher who deserves an even more general reputation than he has. To every religious teacher this book would be of great value, and to every layman, also, it is full of suggestion, and to all alike 1t presents singularlY happy union of solid thought and brilliantly graceful diction. Published by s. c. Griggs Co.,, Chicago, and for sale in this city by Charles R. Coan.
 Augustus Mongredien's "history of the Free Trade Movement in England" is pub lished by Cassell, Petter, Galpin $ Go. It is a valuable book for those interested in the subject of which it treats. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 s.How we Fed the Baby'' is title which will at ract the attention of young mothers, and the treatise to which it belongs, written by Dr. c. E. Page and published by Fowler & Wells, of New York is really worth care full reading. The book is dedicated to MT. Bergh, the president of .he New York animal protection society, and it points out how cruelty to babies may be checked, and how the inconvenience and diseases, not to say horrors, of the infantile period may be avoided. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 A second series of Professor Helmholtz' oRODulaf Lectures Ou OC1eut1hC byCSeos translated by Professor E. Atkinson, is pub lished by the Appletons. Among the sub- iects treated in this volume are the relation of optics to painting. and the origin of the planetary system. The Appletons have also published, in the International Scientific series a treatise on the General Physiology of Muscles and Nerves, by Dr. D. Rosen- thai, of the University of Erlanger.
 1.-The Origin of Nations" is the title of g volume containing series of essays by Canon Rawlinson, of Canterbury. The ob- feet of the essays is to combat the attacks on the credibility of the Bible, made on scientific and historical grounds, and the author exam ines very critically the origin of such nations as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Phnnicians, Phrygians. Trojans, etc. and endeavors to show that mans primitive condition was very remote from savagery. His manner of treating the subject is eminently fair and candid, and readers whose minds are fully committed to the current idea of the great antiquity of civilization cannot fail to be inn pressed with what he says. Taking up one after the other the civilizations of Egypt, Babylon, Ph@nicia, Asia Minor, Central Asia, China and Etruria, and giving to each a lucid, compact chapter, he finds as the re- suit of his inquiry that so far as civilization can be traced back historically, there is only one country where the critical judgment of the present day is in suspense. That IS Egypt. A second division of the book deals with the genealogies of Scripture, Published by Charles Scribner's Sons and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. s
 Mrs. Fanny Hodgson Burnett's "A Fair Barbarian'' is published in book form by