Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-06-03
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

"The Emerson Birthday Book il an ele-
gantly made book of extracts from Ralph
Waldo Emerson's writings in prose and
verse These extracts are arranged for the
several days in the year, two days generally
! being given on one page, while the opposite
page is left blank for the insertion of the
names of the persons whose birthdays come
on those days. 1t is very pretty idea, and
Mr.. Emerson's writings are admirable %
make short quotations from The volume
is prefaced by a portrait of Mr.. Emerson
and is furnished with an illustration for each
month, and also special extract for each
month on the page opposite the illustration
Published by Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Bos-
ton, and for sale in this city by H Fl. Peck
''By the Tiber," by the author of 'sSignor
Monaldini's Niece" has made quite as much
talk as the first work of the author did, and
it is certainly not below it in literary merit
1t is generally believed that most of the char
acters in the book represent people whom the
author knew in Rome. One critic says of it ::
''Society in Rome Miss Thicker paints in
most somber colors, and the criticism of her
work from that quarter will be interesting to
hear. On behalf of the novel and the writer
it is insisted, and by those who should know
best, that the conclusions concerning it are
not warranted; that it is not autobiograph-
ical, though the authors own experiences
are brought into it and that tits not an ef-
fort to confound her enemies by modelling
the characters after them. As piece of lit
erary work the book is of high merit. It is
skillfully written, and for the most part well
constructed. In parts it is powerful; some
of its descriptions are brilliant and it's satire
is keen. The writer has demonstrated in
this, as in her former writings, the posses
sion of talent of no common order, and her
succeeding books will not go from publisher
to publisher before meeting acceptance as did
her Signor Monaldini's Niece which has
proved one of the most successful of the No
Name Series" by the Tiber'' is certainly
a remarkable book, whatever it's explanation.
Published by Roberts Brothers. Boston, and
for sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
"Blessed Saint Certainty" by the author
of ''His Majesty, Myself" is story of the
far West. The scenes are laid at a trading
post of an Indian reservation. and among
the characters sketched is Governor Beauch-
amp, politician who, his official life being at
an end, has come to be the great man of the
section. "With some he was patriot and
statesman; with all he hero. You
have to live in such section to know how
utterly one man can be the standard. Cot
ton, corn, horse, whisky, dollar, Governor
language seemed to be made
up of those words" Guernsey, the rich,
shrewd man, whom we remember in "His
Majesty Myself" appears again here. Then
there is one "John Ross,'' the chief of the
Cherokee Indians; Parson Williams, the vii
age missionary; Mitchabuna, the daughter
Of the Indian chief who marries one Urwoldt
The father of Ross Urwole, who is the hero
proper of the tale, and Persis Paige, the
of the missionary These
ast named, after long waiting, married
and with this happy ending the book closes
The book is a powerful and
wholesome ono. Published by Roberts
Brothers, Boston, and for sale in this city by
q. II. Peck.