Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-03-02

| it that the least instructed person can erasp
its meaning. Other writers in plenty have
/ accomplished that much Mrs. Buckley
/ manages to awaken in her young reader an
active sympathy with nature, genuine love
of natures works. She discovers and wildly
presents to the mind the poetic aspects of
science without adding aught of poetry to
the exact statement of truth. She stimulates
the imagination of youth, not to build vision
ary structures upon the facts of nature as a
foundation, but to understand and appreci-
ate the glorious perfection of natures works
| as they are" Those who have read her
other books will be eager to read Life and
| Her Children" Published by D. Appleton Il
Co., New York, and for sale in this city by
Judd the bookseller.
''Lost in Great City," by Amanda B.
Douglas, is the story of beautiful little girl
who is accidentally separated from her nurse
when walking on Broadway, and who,
through a combination of unfortunate cir
cumstances, is lost to her friends for many
years. The vicissitudes and hardships of
the lost childs life make thrilling story.
She gets into the hands and power of wick
ed woman, who sells her TO cruel man, and
he in his turn sells her to an acrobat, who
trains her for ballet dancer. She is beaten
and treated with great severity, but at last
she is thrown into the hands of a kind old
woman, and from that time until her father
finds her her experience is more pleasant,
Published by Lee & Shepard. Boston, and
for sale in this city by G. R. Coan
''The Power of Movement in Plants, by
Charles Darwin, Z. L. D., F. R. S., assisted
by Francis Darwin, is published by D. Apple
ton & Co. Its object is to describe and class
ify certain organic movem ents of which
nearly all plants are capable. The stem of
climbing plant bends successfully to all points
of the compass so that the tip revolves, a
movement known as circumnutation, and tie
faculty for this movement is COM
monty possessed by plants of every
species. DIR. Darwin shows in the course of
his treatise that every growing part of every
plant seems to be continually ycircumnutating
Like all the works of the same author, the
book is a monument of research and erudi-
tion. 1t Is profusely illustrated, and good
index is appended. For sale in this city by
Judd the bookseller
book of special interest at this time is
The Religions of China - by James Legge,
Professor of the Chinese Language and Lit
erature in the University of Oxford This
volume contains four lectures, in which Con-
fucianism and Taoism are described and
with Christianity. They were de-
livered in the spring lecture course of the
Presbyterian Church of England for 1880.
The first half of the work is taken up with
discussion of Confucianism, the chief religion
of China, in its three aspects-what it
teaches concerning God, concerning spirits
and concerning men, together with a sketch
of Confucius and an estimate of him as a re-
ligious teacher. Taoism as religion and a
philosophy is next treated at considerable
length, and then follows a chapter on the
Chinese religions compared with Chris
tianity. The work is by far the most simple
and easily comprehended exposition of this
difficult subject that exists and is remarka-
BILE for its freedom from a polemic bias.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York, and for sale in this city by Judd the
bookseller.