Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-05-26
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

'sBuried Alive; or, Ten Years in Russian
Prison." by Fedor Dastoy effsky, and trans
lated from the Russian by Marie Won Thilo,
is an account of ten years passed in Rus
sian prison. The author describes himself
as nobleman and attributes nearly all of the
special hardships of his lot to that fact and
to the aversion that it excited among his fel
low prisoners of q lower rank. It has been
well said of this book: ''If it Is true. moth
ing that we have seen is greater indictment
of the whole Russian system of government,
nor better revelation of Russian character
and morality. 1t seems incredible that the
government would permit prison to be con-
Quoted as this one described was, where the
convicts drank and gambled, got drunk and
| fought, INDUCED in the vilest talk, and lived
in the most brutal conditions where the pun
| ishment was horrible, and the license, through
the connivance of the keepers, equally So
The book is not very agreeable reading but
| it is full of interest. Published by Henry
| Holt & Co., New York, and for sale in this
city by II. H Peck.
Advanced Reading and Recitations, :"
| compiled by Austin B. Fletcher, A. NJ, LII.
|. B., Professor of Oratory in Brown Universe
ty, is reader and speaker adapted to the re-
| quirements of advanced classes in colleges
post graduate schools, and for mature stu
dents everywhere. The compiler has exhibi-
| ted excellent taste in the choice of his selec-
| tions, which the garnered gems of elo-
quence and wisdom of the best authors of
the past and present. The aim has been to
select pieces best suited to teach the proper
expression of passages, with regard to the
feelings, emotions and passions involved.
Abundant opportunity is afforded for the ex-
ercise of the most difficult, well the
simpler forms of gesture and action. Pro-
fessor Fletcher's introductory chapter on ell
ocution renders the book of additional value
and Importance, as his definitions and illus
trations are SO lucid as to convey to the stu
dent the requirements of correct expression.
Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston, and for
sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
The volume of Boston Monday lectures for
1S8O-S1 includes ten addresses, most of them
bearing more or less directly upon the atti-
tude of modern thought toward Christianity.
The book is called "Christ and Modern
Thought and the several lecture titles are
as follows: ''The Seen and the Unseen" by
Bishop Thomas M. Clark; moral Law in its
Relations to Physical Science and to Popular
Religion" by President E. G. Robinson ;;
christianity and the Mental Activity of the
Age" by the Rev. Thomas Guard, D. D. );
'sThe Place of Conscience" by the Rev.
Mark Hopkins, D. D.; "Development-its
Nature-What it Can and what it Cannot
Do, =" by President James McCosh IA Calm
View of the Temperance Question" by
Chancellor Howard Crosby" "Old and New
Theologies," by the Rev. George R. Crooks,
D. D.; Facts as to Divorce in New Eng
land" by the Rev. 8. W. Dixie; 'Signif-
canoe of the Historic Element in Scripture, -
by the Rev. J. B. Thomas, D. D.. and 1.-The
Theistic Basis of Evolution" by the Rev.