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OllI BOSTON LETTER.
what Authors and Publishers arc DO
Ing.
BosToS, June 30.

Glass day at Harvard IS over, and with it
the reign Of 's3. 1t was worth noting, for
,herc happen TO be some half dozen young
men who will one day make their marks in lit
elaturc, AMI will, naturally, gravitatc toward
Boston, The usual spreads" were well at
tended, and there is not the slightest doubt
that there were more beautiful girls to the
square inch on the grounds than any other
spot OF ills size in the country. 1t was a nee
essary prcclutipn, for class day is rather
melancholy, away down deep beneath the
mask. Next will be rxIlus.
And THAT reminds me-" Mr.. Butter
worth, -lltzckiah has gone abroad, after
much putting of on the plea of business,
stating almost at IL days notice. That
seems to iorcshadow another ''zigzag jour
ncY' Tor Christmas and the little folks; and
noticed Charles q. Leland, -"Ilans Brett
man"-in town the other day, tall, broad of
shoulder, with long beard and bushy brows
oil iron gray. lie was at lloughton & Miilin's,
who Published his "Gypses" last year That
iirm now is doing quite business in the
more, 1t pays. a set Of Hawthorne was sold
IN the city lately for fifteen do lars per VOL
nmr, -orlsinel cost, tvc,-aud every set of
the five hundred sets Of Emerson are taken.
III. llrst volume not yet published. Now
| thcy are TO issue the works of Dean Swift,
2oo sets only, from type, and sixty or seven
" OF those are already subscribed Tor.
Lee " Shepard have Brought out Charles
f. lhwinsss Reading Of Books" which
every teacher in the country might study
with proht, and everyone else, who cares "a
1ot Tor seli-lmprJvement. 1t is really list
N tue works worth reading which is de-
slderalum When we consider how much chaff
there is to sft if we are in search Of the best
while a sensblelitt!c essay on The Adyan.
| tnge III Reaiing,' AMI some other articles
make up II volume of 10 pa .cs nal, to be
sure, bul there are pearls within 1T. \ larger
work IL Germany, Seen Without Specta-
clcs, hy Henry Rugses. being "Rlndom
Sketches OF various subjects pcnned from
different standpoints in the Empire" as the
title page quantity hath it. Mr.. Ruggles is
not in love with Germany. lie not only
looks at it without the aid of rose colurcd
lenses but !audlcs it without gloves, as well
whore he finds good thing, he praises it,
without hesitation and he tinds many. But
IN the main, he sails into the little kingdoms
like II Donny-brook Cet, draws invidious
comparisons between the salary of one of
our governors and that of the ruler of cor
| responding acrca5cs, and proves concusively
that compared with German homelife, Amer.
icaus literally live like princes, all of which
is comfortable to think Of. As he simply
compares current prices of food and wages,
| II Is cold TACT, not rle.oric. On one point he
Is emphatic, and that is, the utter useessncss
OF sending our men thither to 'liush their
education at university.
they can do better at home, as Mark
Twain also pointed out. As usual, he
has much to say of the becr-drinking,
and OF the general degradation OF
women, in which last he is true American.
lie spells some nice Illusions, but he has
written very readable book
ID. Lo llrop X Co. have issued volume of
essays by George Macdonald book of some
300 pages. beginning with 1.-The Imagina.
ton, its Functions and its Culture" a
ending with True Greatness 1t is hmr,'y
necessary TO praise it. Those who love I
writer OF il are 50 numerous that the mere
mention OF the title is almost enough But
the first essay rises to the dignity Of a ser.
mon and demands thoughtful reading, and
there is scholarly chapter on SHAKESPEARE
rs he spells it-and another on his art as re.
vcalel 10y himself, which will interest some
who do net care for Macdonald usually,
Never saw such grit in gal afDre."
That Is what the guide said mcditatively, in
Around the Ranch" by Belle Kellogg
Towne, and although it is ungalant, yet
little true withal. But although little
passlo iale under training, the girl is one
worth knowing. She is real. 1t is another
case OF trausplantiug, in this case a young
Western girl, Deborah Gibbs, Deb" for
short. In her own home among the Black
Hills she is simply an athletic little fyaway,
boylsh aud fiery, and the life of child in
that country with her playmates, and the
trials OF the same when far away in an East
trn city among civilized beings to whom
Conyentionality is God are described in
way that leaves strong feeling of doubt
whether the author does not think that it is
the East that most needs missionaries But
the home life is true and good, and when
''red-top' graduates she has come out ahead.
| took up the book rather lazily, and skipped
along It was juvenile, and might be
skinned. Before knew it the pathos of
passage swept indifference out Of sight, and
when that book was LAID down it had been
read most thoroughly. But it touches con-
stantly minor key
Three different publishers brought out at
the same time reprint Of Pedro Carolno's |
Conversation in Portuguese and English" |
with all its funny absurdites of language, |
and 1t is hardly credible that the book was |
really designed us text book. Osgood & |
GO. claim for their version that it is una
brii9ed, in short, the only complete edition." |
aud has an introduction by Mark Twain. |
They have also issued "llis Second Cam
paign," Round Robin Series, Southern
story, and a good one. 1t describes the life
in the hill country of North Georgia delight
fully, gives a hint or two at moonshining,
with the aid of Il Southern adventurer who
gives sad feeling OF genius and nobility
gone TO the devil, wrecked by Ito own yer
sat'lity, with the hero, q Western lawyer,
eS-soldler Of Shorman's raid, as a contrast.
1t is good Summer novel for a satchel.
Roberts Bros. contribution to the world
this month is French TO the marrow. The
Princess Amelie mo Name Seriesl purpors
to be autobiography. 1t may bel thought
II was history, until the wholly unexpected
Ilenouemeut was reached, and every one was
happy. 1t bears some resemblance, dis
.ant c1usinship, TO "A Nameless Noble
If maidenly souls after life OF royalty as
n tile days Ct old. Net that The tive
books arc alike in the least. But their re.
'pective authoIsmiSht be. Engaged 10 boy
II twelve, almost married, and in the begin
hing, it dosn't look promising for the little
lighness, and things IRE told in a realistic
way that summons pity. In this iconoclastic
we II seems strange that birth and race
houd be worth the being martyr for.
Lastly comes the third Of the Famous
pomcr" series George SanG," by Bertha
Thomas. II is pity that i is SO small
Three hundred little pages seem all too short
cIore we begin, and the opinion remains the
anne when We are through. AS biography =
is inadequate hut as fairly comprehen- '
I'VE 4 sccli il is admit ably doue. The treat G
ieni is candid and impartial, and the reader Z
not made to feel that something is Kept
ack yet.eych her breaches of convention
lily, the one unplrdonsbc thing in the esli.
hllon of friends ni ''Ihi world, The Il sli and