Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-01
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

l "A Romance of the Nineteenth century, | by ". H Mallock, author of ''The New Re- public'' and s'Is Life Worth Living?" is a I book which will cause much discussion. It is intensely interesting and not at all satisfy l ing. The London Spectator well says of 1t ,: l s'There is not little force in "A Romance of the Nineteenth Centuzy, but the force is l expended in drawing bad passions and in painting the helplessness of the religious yearnings which, in our own day, strive in ! vain to cope with these passions. Nor does ! the denouensent portray any imaginative vic l tory of faith over doubt. and of good over evil The tragical death of Cynthia Walters ! in the effort to make the most disgraceful confession of her life, and of the hero in his raging desire to see the soul of the destroyer doomed to everlasting torture, the terrible irony of the text ignorantly placed over the formers tomb,-in word, the final victory of evil passion, and the final paralysis Of faith, are the spectacles on which the mind rests when the story is concluded; un- less indeed, there be supposed to be any sort of moral satisfaction in the very slight delineation of good priest, who is by-stander witnessing the course of the tragedy without understanding it, and who remains to bury and mourn the victims, without knowing anything whatever of their moral collapse, or being able to lend help ing hand to them in their spiritual agony" Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in their Transatlantic series and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. Madame Delphine," by George W. Cable, author of ''Old Creole Days" and ''The Grandissimes, ,, is charming story. It por- trays the old Creole life in New Orleans. Lemaitre, Pere Jerome, Madame Delphine and Olive are charming characters, distinctly drawn, each with his own peculiar individu- ality, and fitting exactly into place. Brief as the plot is, it is well conceived and concludes in tragic climax. Underneath each of Mir. Cables stories there runs moral purpose. and in Madame Delphine" it is protest against that social system at the South which forbade the sanction of law to miscegens- tion. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Building Bras in Religion is the title of . collection of articles left by Horace Bush nell to be published after his death. The titles of these articles are Building Bras in Religion, 7" ''The New. Education" Common Schools, '' ssThe Christian Trinity Practical
 Truth" ," Spiritual Economy of Revivals of Religion sPulpit Talent" Training for the Pulpit Manward, :" ''Our Gospel Gift to the Imagination Popular Government by Divine Right" s'Our Obligations to the Dead,n s'Letter to His Holiness, Pope Greg ory XvI.'' and Christian Comprehensive ness'' The contents of the book throw light upon the mental and moral character of it's I remarkable author and will be read with great interest by many. Published by Charles Seribner's Sons, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 .'The Sailors Handy Book and Yachts ! mans Manual" by E. F. Qualtrough, Master 1 in the United States navy, is probably the most complete book of it's kind ever pub
 Iishsd Adapted, as the title page indicates, l for the use of the navy, merchant service, revenue marine and yachtsmen, there is no conceivable subject in the almost limitless list of details which belong to the profession of seaman that the author has not touched upon, and in many instances practically ex- | haustsd, from taking the meridian altitude to ! calculating the register tonnage of vessel. It is az invaluable book for seafaring men. ! Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New | York. and for sale in this city by Judd the 1 bookseller.
 1 Handicapped" is the title of collection
 of eight stories written by Marion Harland They are records of heroic lives struggling under the weight of burdens too heavy to be 1 borne, yet patiently endured and of char
 racter perfected by suffering. Published 1 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and l for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. | 'sHabitual Mouth Breathing: Its Causes, Effects and Treatment" by Clinton Wagner, | II, D., Professor of. diseases of the throat, l University of Vermont, etc., is treatise | elaborated from paper read before the Now 1 York County Medical Society in 1880. It contains an urgent plea against the pernic- l ious habit of mouth breathing. It pictures, | in language easily understood, the irrepara- l hle injury to the human organism that is sure I to result from an indulgence in the habit. Those who read this little volume will, if I they have any regard for their own we'll being, break up the habit at any cost,
 and urge it's discontinuance upon others. Pub fshed by G. P Putnam's Sons, New York, l and for sale in this city by Judd the book seller. a.=.-.+ 9 ! l "A Fearful Responsibility and two other
 stories by William D. Howells are. pub
 lished in handsome volume by
 James R. Osgood Co.,, Boston.
 IA Fearful Responsibility" needs
 no introduction to the reading public, as it
 has already been given wide circulation in
 the form of serial in the AtEanttc Monthly.
 Those who missed the pleasure of reading it, l however, will be glad to learn that it has ap- I peared in book form, and for their informs I tion it may be said that, while the principal psrsonages introduced are American, the 1 scene is chiefly laid in Venice The plot is
 not remarkably deep, but is interesting, and
 the portrayal of character is interesting. The l other stories of the volume are much shorter,
 and are entitled aAt tho Sign of the Say.
 age.'' story of Americans in Germany, and
 ssTonelli's Marriage, ? an Italian story. Both are very readable. For sale in this city bJ
 Judd the bookseller.