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abreast with the best means fpreserving and pro-
noting health. And here II may be observed, it
Is a great mistake TO suppose 7hc Sdnlandn Is eN-
clusvely intended for physicians and other scien.
tiiic readers; It is adapted TO and may be read
with profit BY all who can read, no matter what
III cir avocation So year. A. n. Bell, New York
The American reprint by the Leonard Scott
Publishing Company, II Barclay street, New York
Of Hdctr0oFs EdnbUr0h Md10sHe for December
has come 10 hand with the following interesting
tabg Of contents; "Thc Fixed Period" Part ILL.,.
" Few French Novels" "The Adventures OF a
War Correspondents" "Decoys and Decoylng,"
The Boers at Home" "JotlihRs from the Trans
vanl," The Secret Of the Stradivnrius" "Words
OF Wisdom from Goethe" by j 8. D., and THE
SSaIn,onlzation OF Golden ms sterling magazine
articles It's well-carned reputation.
HdmersleyS United Service Mdbdsinc for January
is one of the best numbers heretofore issued. The
coming work IN poetry by Major Henry Hubbard
Pierce, lieutenant and adjuant ofthe Twenty; first
Infantry Lieutenant Chap Todd tells about
in graphic style what he has observed of
the Chill. Peruvian war. Captain Edwaid Field
In "Thc Renaissance of War;" shows thnt n sol
der can be a student os well as gallant fighter
and that the Fourth ARTILLERY numbers scholars
among It's officers. Captain Charles King, RETIRED
lie, which he calls y Winning His spurs" and
which, as far the opening chapters go Is MS
graphic description Of frontier post MS any cav
the same number is rehOsh Of lot OF old galley
yarns.
The new year Of LiYeTs Lhipg Age opens with
the number for the week ending January I. Never
before have the foremost thinkers, investigators,
and authors ofthc time been enlisted In the service
offoreign periodical literature to great extent
MS at present, and the LfriHD Agc which gives with
satisfactory completeness and In convenient form
what Is most important In This literature has
therefore never been so valuable as now The first
weekly number of the new year has the following
table ofcOntents: Luxury, Ancient and Modern"
Quarterly RtuelG; Country Life In Italy" CorThRl
MdDdstle; "Aindemoisee Angelic" denacmdn's
M1pd=ine; "Crimean Town Life" Temple Bar;
|" The Freres," by Mrs. Alexander, author of "Thc
woong ot," &c.; William Whewell," MacHlian's
MdgdEine; words Of Wisdom from Goethe"
BidcktOoods Md0o=ine; together with choice poetry
and miscellany. This tue first number of n new
volume, Is an excellent one with which TO begin n
subscription. For fifty-two numbers of sixty -four
large pages each Cor more than 3 800 pages year,
the subscription price (SS) Is low, while for S05O
can 81 monthlies or weekiies With The Living 1oe
for year. both postpaid Littell & Co., Boston, are
the publishers.
Literary Notes.
Mr.. Dorman d. Eaton's "Civil Service In Great
Britain +" with an. Introduction by Mr., George
William Curtis, has been added to afpers Franklin
Square Library. The placing of this important
work at merely nominal price renders the cause
of civil-service reform serious assistance.
The Spectator is the title ofanew paper just started
upon the seq of public opinion by DR.. Il. A. Bland.
of this city DR.. Bland is well known as having in
former years successfully conducted newspapers,
and TO this new venture he brings the experience
of ripper years of study. The initial number con-
lalns articles of decided ability and as the prom
ise is made that this number Is fair sample OF
what the paper is to be- its permanent success may
be predicted.
SO many Sunday school workers have shown
special interest in the American Version of the
revised New Testament edited by DIR. Roswell u.
Hitchcock, that the publishers, Fords. Howard &
Hubert, are getting out for Sunday y-school use Il
cheap comparative edition" of the Gospel of
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legible type, the King James version and the
English revision, with its marginal notes
as foot notes following the style of
the oxford BREWER edision), and on the oppo-
site page will be the American revised version in
full and fair long primer type, so that all three
versions may be readily compared. The A1neri-
can version has been commended as represent
ing the best the Oldest, and the purest Greek
text Of the New Testament Of present attainable
and the most accurate English reading In exist
ence of that Greek text; !" and this edition bears
also the comment of DR.. Ezra Abbot, of
the American revisers, that "great pains
have evidently been taken to make it accurate
The typographical execution is admirable. In
addition to these three versions thus presented
side by side, the little pamphlet Will contain full
year, with the golden text and page reference,
and u chronological index of events in the life of
Christ, with special page reference to those mem
toned by the evangelist Mark. 1t has been
thought best not to cucumber the work with any
greater multiplication Of references, comments or
We have had the pleasure of examining the ads
vance sheets of Miss Elizabeth Bryant J0hnston's
work, Original Portraits of Washington to he
issued from the press of Osgood & Co., of Boston,
a memorial OF the one hundred and fflieth
nversary of his birth. Apart from the splendid
dress in which 1t will appear, we have been i'm
pressed with the vast amount Of labor and re-
search which must have been expended in the
collection of material, well as the loyalty to her
subject which has been needed for its success
full accomplishment. There Is sort of
enthusiasm which seems to surround the
book like an atmosphere, never obtrusive nor
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needs feel its subtle influence In the preface
Miss Johnston has given expression, in single
sentence, to the motive of her work, the tendency
of times TO set aside the sentiment OF yenera-
tion, a tendency which all of us must recognize
with regret special feature of our day, with its
eager, busy thought always reaching toward the
possibilities Of the future, while scarcely
needing the lessons of the past. Small
danger Is there that tributes to our great
men, however earnest, will lead to any extreme
of hero worship. In our own social experience
there stands the fact more than once or twice re-
pcated, of q condescending admission of the first
Presidents greatness in certain respects, with n
qualifying reservation as to the distance" which
"lends enchantment" &c. Let us rejoice to know
that there are many who, like Guzot. still honor
Washington as lofty type OF manhood. Miss
Johnston has brought to her task, If task II can be
called which Is so plainly labor Of love, an in
and accuracy of detail which would alone
suffice TO give the results an honorable place
in pictorial literature, TO these she has added the
discrimination of an art lover an absolute essen
tial for such work. The portraits of Washington
have been sought for far aud near, in oil, In mar
bic, or on ivory, and the history of each given
with charming touches of incident and descrip-
ton, besides sketch of every artist in connec-
ton with his special work. The large number OF
the finely executed copies OF the more noted por-
traits adds to the beauty OF this liUTe de lure. The
volume is dedicated to the memory OF James
Abram Garfield.
CiyiI-Seryice Reform.
To the Editor of THE REPUBLICAN: