Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-13
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Amenities of Home,'' one of the series
 entitled Appletons Home Books, gives many and useful hints as to such behavior in the family as will best tend to make home hap py The subject is treated in sensible manner, the author summing up his advice, as to manners at home, in the following
 formula: ''Be as polite to one another as if
 all were strangers. Let every member of the
 family studiously respect the rights, moral,
 intellectual and physical, of every other mem-
 Der. Let each one refrain from attacking
 the convictions of the other" For sale in
 this city by Judd the bookseller.
 t'Homoselle," one of the Round Robin
 series published by J. R. Osgood < Co.,,
 Boston, is story of plantation life in Vir-
 ginia before the war, evidently written by
 woman to the manor born. The characters are evidently, almost without exception, per
 sonal "reminiscences, and the story furnishes sufficient thread upon which to string the memories of people and things. The book Is well written and thoroughly readable. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Surf A Summer Pilgrimage" by Saul Wright is a lively book. Saul Wright goes on an excursion by water from Washington to the North Carolina coast He is accom- panied by several friendly journalists, and their adventures do not lack merriment, if they do sometimes fail as to point. The main point-a love affair that ends happily-iss however, duly brought forth, and when the book is closed the reader feels that if he i, no wiser he is at any rate the jollier for his Io, D,,I 1I1l 1,rr o,.9 Rr Hubert New York and for sale in this oity by Judd, the bookseller.
 illusions: A Psychological Study" by James Sully, is volume of the Appletons' International Science series. It takes wide survey of the field of error, embracing in its view not only the illusions commonly re- garded as of the nature of mental aberra- tions or hallucinations, but also other illu- sions arising from that capacity for error which belongs essentially to rational human nature The author has endeavored to keep to strictly scientific treatment-that IS to say the description and clasaica- ton of acknowledged errors and the ex- position of them by a reference to their psychical and physical condi- tions The chapter on ''dreams'' is curious and instructive. It discusses questions that have given occasion to no end of speculation and to whose solution only shadowy ap- proximation can be made. For sale in this city by Judd, the bookseller.
 ''The Art of Speech Studies in Flo quence and Logic" by L. T. Townsend, D. D., is an instructive book. The author very appropriately begins his treatise with an in quiry into the secret of Demosthenes' oxator- | ical power, and having carefully analysed the famous oration on the crown, passes on to a consideration of the methods by which | modern speakers have learned to sway the ] hearts and wills of their hearers. The sec- ond part of the book is devoted to brief study of the science of logic, concluding | with some practical observations, which all young speakers who are called upon to ad- | dress an audience will do well to take to | heart. Published by D. Appleton Co.,, | New York, and for sale in this city by Judd | the bookseller.