Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-25
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

G It. Allen, principal Of the Alien 0seno- graphic Institute, Boston, has prepared and
 Lee & Shepard have published Manual of
 Short-Hand Writing'' which aims to present
 brief but lucid method of acquiring, in 8
 short time, the elementary principles of pho
 nographic shorthand essential to secure
 speed and legibility in writing. It seems to
 be well calculated to be useful to students of
 short hand For sale in this city by H. H.
 Peck.
 Fore and Aft: Story of Actual Sea
 Life," by Robert B. Dixon, is very enter
 taining book, and is g good book for boys.
 If there were more of such books it would
 be easier to keep boys away from dime nov els. It is bright and lively and the authors descriptions of what he saw are very graph ic. Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston,
 and for sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 s.His Triumph, 3 by Mary A. Denison, au-
 thor of ''That Husband of Mine, :" is novel which will find many appreciative readers
 The heroine is an extremely unsophisticated
 country girl, pretty and good; the hero IS an actor, popular and famous; but no report
 of him had reached the quiet village home of the heroine. These two meet accidentally, fall in love with each other and marry, he,
 for what he thought good reasons, conceal .
 ing his profession. Of course, on discover
 ing the secret, she is much excited, but de
 termines to go and see her husband act with. out his knowledge. She immediately makes up her mind to become an actress herself, studies diligently, is successful, makes g bril- liant first appearance, and then retires from the stage to please her husband. Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston, and for sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 "A Newport Aquarelle" is the title of a little book which has been decided success, though there is not much to it. It is sketch of that portion of Newport society which frequents the Casino, dresses gorgeously and tries to be as English as possible. The hero is an attractive man; the heroine an interest ing girl. The plot is original The style is animated and improves the story goes on; the descriptions of Newport drives and sports is good the fex-hunts are represent cd as very absurd. The love story is well told and turns out all right. Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 J. B. Lippincott & Co.,, of Philadelphia, publish s"The Primer of Politeness Help to School and Home Government" by Alex. M. Cow. It may be used as text book, or as a class book for study by pupils. It IS well prepared and may be made very useful. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. ssThe Invisible Lodge" from the German of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Translated by c. T. Brooks) is published by Henry Holt & Co.,, New York critic well says of it: Written in 1792, when Jean Paul was twenty nine, he was paid $25O for it, and joyeusly he poured these treasures into his mothers lap. Richter,s time of toll and stress, he calls the period when he worked in Ga vine- gar factory" and such desultory compositions as were presented in his earlier writings, viz, the Greenland Lawsuits'' and Papers of the Devil" were followed by the present I work Can anything equal Richter's diffuse- ness? But it is the rollickings of man of the supremest genius, who despises to walk straight. He must work according to his own method, and in one heap he pitches in pearls diamonds, broken crockery, house sweepipgs, and the richest, freshest and most luscious fruit. It is for the reader to work | his way into this accumulated pile and fish I for himself. It is as that pot Hugo tells us | about, wherein the hungry man plunges his | fork Sometimes he spears delicious nor ! seI, and just as often brings up nothing at | all For sale in this city by H. H. Peck. A volume of Cambridge Sermons" by ! Alexander Mckenzie, D. D., is published by D. Lothrop < CO., Boston. Mr. Mckenzie
 is not only locally but widely known as a sound theoIogian and an earnest and eloquent preacher. and the public has good reason to | thank the publishers for putting his utter ances in form that will enable distant read CTS to enjoy and profit by them. This vol ume is not in the slightest degree polemical in character. It attempts no labored theo-
 logical argument nor does it attack the creed
 of other denominations. It is addressed to Christian readers everywhere, and no one who accepts and believes in the doctrines of
 the Bible according to evangelical interpreta- comfort. The discourses are sixteen in number, and are, for the most part, printed from the notes of the short hand reporter,
 revised by the author. Some of them are
 especially eloquent, and appeal alike to the
 heart and understanding of the reader. MT.
 Mckenzie has the faculty of going directly
 to the point. and of saying just what the
 subject and the occasion call for, and it is
 this which makes his book especially valua-
 bIe. For sale in this city by F. T. Jarman.
 ''The Price She Paid, by Frank Lee Ben
 edict, author of ''St. Simon's Niece" is pub
 lished by J. B. Lippincott & Co.,, Philadel-
 phia. The story is clever one. Its hero
 inc, New York girl, having been recom-
 mended ''change of air and complete repose, :"
 finds what she desires in a farm house
 among the mountains of Pennsylvania, and
 there the story opens after most satisfacto
 ry and novel fashion. The plot is skillfully
 developed, and most of the characters are
 well drawn For sale in this city by Judd