Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

"A Comprehensive Biographical Dictiona- ry." by E. A. ThoHaas. is @ very useful work. It's aim is to present in convenient size and ct moderate price comprehensive dictionary of biography, embracing accounts of the most eminent psrsonages in all ages, coun- tries and professions. During the last guar ter of century so many important events have been enacted, such as the civil war in America and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and such great advances have been made in the line of invention and scientific investigation, that within that period many persons have risen by superior merit to con- spicuous positions; and as the plan of this work embraces accounts of the living ss well as the dead, many names are included that are not to be found in other dictionaries of biography. Published by Porter $ Coates, Philadelphia, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 The eighteenth edition of Professor Per rys Political Economy" has been pub lished by Charles Seribner's Sons, New York In his preface the author says: 'As the human body continues to be the same body throughout all the changes of it's growth and mature life so the book, now in the hands of the reader has continued the same book as the one first published in the autumn of 1865. This, too, in the meantime has grown in size, in symmetry, and in maturity of thought and expression, it has been carefully revised, and in large parts rewritten once and again and again. But it is the same book still Excrescencss have been cut of, crudities refined, and the whole fibre made more tough and compact, but the continuity of life has been constantly conserved" Pro lessor Perry has been teaching political econ omy for more than thirty years, and his book has been justly celebrated for long time. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 The Century for November begins the twenty eyenth volume, and it is fine num- ber Among the notable articles Is the open ing one. by Charles Dudley Warner. Its subject is 'eThe Bull Fight" of which Mir
 Warner gives graphic but very unfavorabls description Mrs Schuyler Van Rensselaer, has critical and appreciative paper on Winsiow Homer's pictures, of whose work in England she gives 8 very interest ing account. Some racy sketches From Cal1fOrn1a Mountain are COntf1 >ue6d by Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Burroughs has one of his character istic papers on Mature in England" A brief account of "Turguenef in Paris is by Aphonse Daudet, and there is descriptive account of the French capital by J. D. Os borne, which is more than ordinarily reada- bIe and luminous. A new story, "Dr. Sev- fer, :" is opened by George w. Gable "The Bread winners" is continued, and Henry J.:nes begins the Impressions of Cousin. !"
 St. NichoIas for November is also the first number of a new volume. Louisa M Alcott has the first half of bright story called ssSophie's Sscret;" J. T. Trowbridge con- tributes thrilling biographical sketch of Captain MayneHReid, whose serialsstory, 'In the Land of Fire,'' begins in the Christmas issue; and Frank B. Stockton furnishes oneof hia inimitable fairy tales, entitled .eThe Bee man and his Original Form. {" Then, appropriate te the Thanksgiving season. is adOwn east sketch by Hezekiah Butterworth, with the taking title, "A Thanksgiving Dinner that Flew Away,s in which the humorous and pathetic are pleasantly blended; while E. s. Brooks, in ssThe Little Lord of the Manor, !" writes of the final evacuation of New York by the British, just one hundred years ago. Another article of much more than ordinary hiatoricai interest is the paper on ssThe OTi- gin of the Stars and Stripes in which the author, Edward W. TufleY, here for the first time satisfactorily explains the reasons for the adoption of those world famed em- bIenns for our national banner and coat-of- arms. 3Fsag ssz