Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-04-11
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President Garfield and Education Hiram
made up of the memorial speeches that were
delivered at Hiram College after the late
Presidents death and of twelve Of Mr.. Gar
fields chief speeches and addresses on edu-
cational subjects. The compilation was
made by B. A. Hinsdale, President of Hiram
College, who writes very interesting sketch
of Garfeld's lAe at Hiram. Published by
James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, and for sale
in this city by Judd the bookseller.
Charlottesville and Gettysburg" is the
title of the sixth volume in Charles Scribner's
Sons popular Campaigns of the
Civil War" The events here chronicled be-
gin with May 1, 1868, and end with the
Fourth of July. General Doubleday, the
author of the volume, had prominent COM
mand in each of these great battles, and he
possesses unusual facilities for getting down
to the bottom facts of this history. Though
he does not scruple to write in the first per-
son when it is more convenient to do so, his
story is free from any favor of egotism, and
while he is sometimes compelled as. a truthful
historian and impartial judge to criticise his
fellow officers adversely, the evident reluct-
ance with which he does SO, and his readiness
to praise upon occasion, are pleasant features
of the volume. For sale in this city by Judd
the bookseller.
THE Elder and the Younger Booth" by
Asia Booth Clark, is book in the "Ameri-
can Actor" series published by James r. Os-
good Co., Boston. 1t is written in a spir-
tied and agreeable manner. 1t contains a
large number of anecdotes of both the elder
and the younger Booth. many of which are
unfamiliar, and it tells the story of their re-
spective careers with fullness which is not
Inconsistent with brevity. There are several
good illustrations. For sale in this city by
Judd the bookseller.
''The Burgomaster' Wife; A Romance"
by Georg Ebers, is an interesting and power
full tale. 1t has to do with the war between
Spain and the Low Countries in the sixteenth
century. 1t describes the political. social
and religious condition of the Low Countries
at that time, and eloquently eulogizes the
courage and energy of the men who so stout
ly defended and indicated their religious
faith and their political independence. Pub
lished by William S. Gottsberger, New York,
and for sale in this city by Judd the book
seller.
''Of English Literature in the Reign of
Victoria, with Glance at the Past, +" by Henry
Morley, LII, D., Professor of English Litera-
ture at University College, London, is re-
printed by G. P. Putnam's Sons from volume
1000 of the Tauchnitz Collection of British
Authors. After three Introductory chapters,
in which is given condensed history of Eng
fish literature from its beginning to the &C
cession of Queen Victoria, Professor Morley
makes a chronological list of the Victorian
writer's and fills it out with an enumeration
of their works. Little criticism is attempted
only enough to give clear idea of their
best books. No writer's are mentioned who
were born since 1880. An interesting 'front.'
ispiece to the book is a collection of fac
SMILES of the. signatures of most of the au-
thors whose works have been published in
the Tauchnitz edition. For sale in this city
by Judd the bookseller. -
Studies in Medieval History" by Charles
j. Stille, LID late Provost of the Univsr-
sity of Pennsylvania, is a very valuable book.
1t presents in a series of elaborate and care
fully composed pictures comprehensive and
most vivid review of the middle ages. The
writer begins by examining the general char
acteristics of the medieval era, which he de-
fines as the period embraced between the
downfall of the Roman Empire in 476 and
the conquest of Constantinople by the 0tto-
mans in 1853. He then passes on to consider
the invasions of the Barbsrians, the rise of
the Franks and the conquests of Charlie
magne. The influence of Mohammed- and
his system is next considered, and the pro-
cesses by which France, England and Ger
many were gradually nationalizsd and consol-
idsted are described and analysed. Four
deeply interesting chapters are devoted to a
study of the influence exerted By the Papacy
during the middle ages upon the formative
processes of civilization; and in the four
closing chapters are discussed the philosophy
of the medieval schoolmen, the. condition of
the laboring classes, medieval commerce, and
finally the era of secularization, which brings
the history down to the beginning of the
modern epoch. Published by ]. B. Lippin.
colt & Co., Philadelphia, and for sale IN this
city by Judd the bookseller.
An interesting book is Memories of Old
Friends Being Extracts from this Journals
and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick,
Cornwall, from 1885 to 1871" edited by Hor-
ace n. Pym. The writer of these journals
and letters came of very remarkable fami-
| ly. and though living comparatively quiet
and uneventful life, enjoyed, to an excep-
tional extent, the acquaintance of the best
people of her day. Her writing is bright
and lively, and though not SO historically i'm
| portant as some other books of memoirs
not only gives us entertaining gossip concern
ing people whom the authoress met, bu
throws a great deal of instructive light upor
their lives and character. Carlyle, JOIN
! Stuart Mill, Bunsea, Sterling, Froude, W. E