Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-04
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

'Rachel's Share of the Road'' is the title of the latest novel in the Round Robin series published by James R. Osgood < Co.,, Bos- ton. The story deals with the labor ques- ton. The heroine is the daughter of 8 rail road president and is thoughtful, intelligent and noble hearted girl. She interests her self in the laboring classes, and her sympa- thy and actions result in much good She realizes the hardships of the men who work for 8 grasping railroad corporation and she seeks to alleviate them in her limited way. There is strike and an attempt to wreck 8 train and fire the town. Joe Rains, the criminal, is concealed by the heroine who knows he has been rendered desperate by his failure to obtain work in order to support his sister Hitty and the children of dead relative. She aids him to escape, he goes West, establishes 8 home and is joined by Hitty and the twins. A love story runs through the book and is pleasantly told. Another well known character is that of Mrs. Shackles, busybody, who has Q peculiar way of making her wants known, but who scorns to beg. Daddy, the fiddler, is an amusing figure who waits and waits for the ''termorrer" when the lottery prize will come and bring 'horses and velvety carriages, 8 new fiddle with diamonds on it, clo'es an houses an pianers." There is also young theologian with 6 rich church in view, who breaches to congregation of day laborers, but whose effort does not have the effect in- tended. The book is interesting throughout. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''The Jolly Rover,' by J. T. Trowbridge, aims to portray the false ideas and miscon- duct that are promoted in youth by the read ing of the pernicious literature of our time. The hero is boy, we'll born and carefully reared, who has got the notion that he must see the world and do something heroic; in- deed, he aims to become a sort of ''Dime Novel" hero, and with this intention runs away from home. His adventures away from home are wondrously varied aud exci- ting, full of intense interest and just enough thrilling to whet the readers curiosity. The lesson is wholesome, for no one would care to follow "The Jolly Rover's" example. There is not dull page in the volume. A number of illustrations lend attraction to the story, which is the last, and perhaps the most fascinating, of the ''Silyer Medal Se- ries." For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Two more volumes of Martha Finley fol low the fortunes of the D1nsmores and Ire villas. They are called ''Miidreds Married Life" and ''Grandmother Elsie" The stories are quiet and wholesome. Published by Dodd, Mead & Go, New York; and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "The Preparatory Greek C,urse in Eng lish'' by William Cleaver Wilkinson, is a book we'll calculated to be useful. The idea which prompted its preparation is an excel lent one and is excellently carried out The volume belongs to series of books, four in number. The primary design of the series is to enable persons prevented from accom- plishing course of school and college train ing in Latin and Greek to enjoy an advan- tage as nearly as possible equivalent, through the medium of their native tongue. If the other three books are as good as the first one the series ought to be great success. Pub lished by Phillips & Hunt, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "Towhead" by Sally Pratt Mclean, the author of "Cape Cod Folks,' will be eagerly read by those who were deeply interested by
  appointed. For, though the book has some faults. it has power. "Towhead" is the name of an orphan girl of an impetuous dis position inherited from gifted parents who died young and her experience in the fami- ly of Connecticut deacon, and afterward at Grimrood Female seminary, make up most of this narrative. At the former home her training and schooling is wonderfully lax and in marked contrast with those of Grim rood seminary; but the people she meets at both places are described with highly graphic style, and with much humor. It is 1 thought that the Mt. Holyoke seminary was | in the authors mind when she conceived the idea of Grimrood seminary. The book is published by Williams & Co.,, Boston, and is for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. ''Songs from the Dramatists," by Robert Bell, is the title of collection of songs from the English dramatists, beginning with the writer of the first regular comedy and end. ing with Sheridan. The plan upon which