Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE PLANTERS JOURNAL, for June, is an
improvement in contents, topographic ar
rangement and printing over preceding
numbers. Beyond any question it is the
best publication of its class offreed for the
acceptance of the planters OF the Mississippi
valley. 1t is adapted to their needs and
should receive their support. For sale at
the agency in Memphis.
THE June number of the American LaU
Magazine sustsins the promise of the proceed
ing numbers, both TO printing and con-
tents. There are decisions from the Supreme
Courts of twelve States, and that OF the
United States, from the New York Court of
Appeals and the United States Circuit Court.
Address, "Ths American Law Magazine
Company" publishers, 142 La Sale street,
Chicago.
LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. April, 1882;
the Leonard Scott Publishing Company, New
York. The contents of the present number
of the Quarterly are unusually good. A
critiqUe upon Westcott and Harris textual
theory, and incidentally upon the revised
New Testament, is an article that will attract
the attention of biblical scholars. The writer
understands his subject, but ia too much of
partisan Tor his Judgment TO be trusted.
"Jonathon Swift" is partial biography Of
the great dean that will be read with pleas
ure, from its mastery handling. English
Poets and Oxford Critics" is a delightful
glance at the principal English poets, from
Chaucer to Cough; it is a fascinating arti-
Gle. "Life and Letters of DeBusbeca,"
"Lecky's England of the Eighteenth Cen
tury," Journals of Caroline Fox" "The
Manchester School," and "What Shall be
Done With Ireland" are the other articles.
THE New SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER
TRAvEsTIEs is the title of unique book just
issued from the press of the American News
Company, of New York. The author is Mr..
R. w. Criswell, an editorial writer on the
Cincinnati Enquirer. 1t was he who made
the Oil City Derrick famous for its exquisite
wit, and this volume is but the further de-
velopment OF a vein of humor which is ex-
clusiveiy his own. From out the mouth OF
the great master Mr.. Criswell takes his text
and says, "Pll tickle your catastrophe" The
authors quaint, rich and fresh humor re-
veals the Shakspearean student, and so alters
the poets language that it "hslds, as Z were,
the mirror up" to this ludicrous-loving and
ludicrous-acting age. Some OF Mr.. CriswelPs
best travesties are here printed for the first
time. 1t is the book OF the season, and the
world on either side OF the Atlantic will
greet the genius behind it with an uproar-
ious laugh. Cloth, 81; paper, fifty cents.
THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW, for June,
has for its opening article THE Genesis of
Modern Abolilionism," by the Hon. George
W. Julian. In the main fairly treated,
with some pretensions to historical accuracy,
in which he claims for Charles Osborne,
some time a resident of East Tennessee,
native of North Carolina, for long time
leading preacher of the Society of Friends,
and the first publisher of an abolition news
paper in the United States. Mr.. Osborne
formed the Tennessee Manumission So
ciety" in 1914, at the home, near Knox
vile, of his father ln-iaw, Elihu Swaine,
whose daughter, Rachel Davis, is now
living in Wayne county, Ind. Mr.. Julian,
in this article, refers TO the abolition move
nent in the South, but does not, we think,
dwell upon it as it deserves. The other
articles are, "The Progress of Some Western