Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-10
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

"A World of Wonders is the title of a handsome and valuable book published by D. Appleton & Co.,, of New York. It de- scribes in clear and pleasant way many of the strange things to be seen in animate and inanimate life, the text being supplemented l on almost every page by excellent 1llustra- 1 tionS. The author takes for his first subject | ''The Wonders of Marine Life,'' describing first the lowest forms of animal life, then the house builders of the ocean and their rela- l tives, the queer wanderers ofbcean and riv- CT, the devil-fsh, eight-armed cuttle-fish, the horrible squid, and other monsters of the l deep- ''Curiosities of Vegetable Life' is the authors next subject, and he describes re- markable plants and their habits, and the wonderful trees of the world ''Curiosities of the Insect and Reptile World" are then described, and then the ''Marvels of Bird and Beast Life" The two last chapters of the book are devoted to the Phenomenal Forces of Nature, ;" the wonders of air, water, ice and fire. A list of the illustrations, of which there are more than three hundred, is given For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Charles Dudley Warmers interesting essay on ''The American Newspaper" read before the Social Science Association in September last, has been printed in 8 neat little volume by James R. Osgood & Co.,, Boston. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 One of the most magnificent books pulp ished this year is the new edition of ssPara- disc Lost'' from the house of Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Go. Ehe Illustrations are by Gus tave Dore The pages are of folio size and the text, carefully edited, is printed in large, clear type, on the best quality of paper. Each illustration occupies.a full page. They are fifty in number and in Dore's best vein They represent heaven, hell and the garden of Eden, with their denizens. Those of the infern4 Il regions are perhaps the best, giving as they do the widest scope to the artists inn agination But all are good and vividly DOT tray the artists fancy of the scenes, person ages and creatures described in the text. These pictures are finely engraved and print ed The binding of the volume is in itself work of art. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 'Leaves of Grass,'' by Walt Whitman, is published by James R. Osgood & Go. Mir. Whitman has at last been admitted into good oOCACSy-3OobOA4 but his poetry is none the worse or better for that The title indicates that the present volume is only reprint of his first book, but in fact the collection seems to be com plete, and includes not only the original ''Leaves of Grass,'' but Drum Taps,n the Lincoln poems, the Passage to India" and Songs of Parting '' The portrait is the same steel plate of coatless man with wide-awaa1e which is familiar to the owners of the earlier volumes. There is great deal of real poetry in the book and much that is calculated to stimulate thought and noble emotions. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller
 SKith and Kin,'' by Jessie Fothergin, is published in the Leisure Hour series pub lshed by Henry Holt < Co, New York. It is an English story. The plot turns on the disinheritance by North county squire of his only son and grandson, which is revoked in favor of his grandson just in time to ex- clude widow and her three beautiful daugh- ters from the inheritance for which he had destined them. These daughters are the he roines of the story and they are rewarded for their sufferirgs and misunderstanding by at last marrying their own lovers, from whom they had separated themselves upon pune tilio which has the desired effect of making everybody miserable for several years. But