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

"Gleanings in the Field of Art" by Mrs.
Ednah D. Cheney, is work whose aim is to
present in popular form, and by series of
unconnected essays, the position which art
must occupy in every complete education, and
to trace the influence it has exerted in the de-
velopment of the race Beginning with a
| treatise on art itself, she devotes a chapter
each to Greek, Christian and Byzantine art,
| deals with the italian renaissance, and dis
cusses the Spanish, German, French and
English schools. In Michael Angelo she finds
that catholic genius which makes him in
every age and to all minds the interpreter of
truth and in Albert Durer at once the type
| of German art and the creator of modern
painting. Of David Scott she speaks with
much appreciation, and closes her work with
La survey of contemporary art. The book is
a valuable contribution to art literature.
Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston, and for
| sale in this city by H. H. Peck. rs
1.-The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and
Cooking" by Helen Campbell, late superin-
tendent of the Raleigh On. o. Cooking
School, is not a mere cook book. 1t can be
used to advantage by mothers Tor the pleas
ant and useful training of their daughters in
the science of housekeeping and health keep
ing; or in classes formed for instruction (for
which purpose there are tables of topics for
lessons and examination) or at home, in
bedroom and parlor and kitchen, as COM
pact, trustworthy and readily available guide.
The essentials are in all cases treated first
and most carefully, but the delicacies and
praces and adornments of house and table
find their full place, while sick-room cookery
for breakfast and tea dishes, and relishful
modes of utilizing fragments, etc, are anoth-
er most valuable feature for our wasteful
American kitchens to heed. The ''House-
hold Hints the proportioned weights and
Measures" the thine Tables for cooking
meats, fish and vegetables, the ''List of Uten-
sils,' 'Hints to Teachers, - s'Tables of Les
sons" Questions for Examination, " "List
of Authorities and Index of Topics" are
all admirable and useful. Published by
Fords, Howard and Hubert, New York, and
for sale in this city by 81. Fl. Peck.
seThe Schoolmaster's Trial or Old School
and New by A. Perry, is story of much
freshness and originality. It is story of
school where the schoolmaster was brought
to trial by his patrons and made to answer
for certain abuses which prevailed under his
management. He clears himself by showing
that they are due to the faulty system under
which he is compelled to work. The result
is his triumphal acquittal and the founding
of new school by rich manufacturer, in
which new and practical theories are brought
into play. Published by Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York, and for sale in this city by
Judd the bookseller. s-ei.' O. s2lsstss-s
Life and Her Children, . by Arabella B.
Buckley, author of s'The Fairyland of Sci
ence,' etc., has for its main object to ac-
quaint young people with the structure and
habits Of the lower forms of ife Mrs.
Buckley shows admirable skill in making
scientific truth at once perfectly clear and in
tensely interesting to young people and per-
sons who have not had the benefit of ele-
mentary instruction in science. A COM
petent critic says of her ssIt is not too much
to saythat Mrs. Buckley is without a rival ca
pable of contesting her supr. macy in this de-
partment It is not alone that she makes
scientific truth entertaining, and SO presents