Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-03
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Volume 1. of "A History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War;" by John Bach McMaster, has been published by D. Appleton & Co.,, of New York. This work is to consist of five volumes, and if all are as interesting and valuable as the first MT. McMaster will win much fame. He tells what he intends to do as follows: ''The subject of my narrative is the history of the people of the United States of America from the close of the war for independence down to the opening of the war between the States. In the course of this narrative much, indeed, must be written of wars, eonspilaGies and rebeliions of Presidents, of Congresses, of embassies, of treaties, of the ambition of political leaders in the Senate and House, and of the rise of great parties in the nation. Yet the history of the people shall be the chief theme At every stage of the splendid progress which separates the America of Washington and Adams from the America in which we live, it shall be my purpose to describe the dress, the occupations, the amusements, the litera- ry canons of the times to note the changes of manners and morals to trace the growth
  ishment for debt, which reformed the disci- pline of prisons and of jails, and which has, in our time, destroyed slavery and lessened the miseries of dumb brutes." Further than this, the scope of the book embraces the progress of mechanical inventions and the general prosperous development of the country in all the directions in which it is worthy of notice The present volume cov- CTS the period extending up to the year 179O, and is exceedingly interesting. It has been received by the critics with almost unani- nous commendation For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Wealth Creation" by Augustus Mongre- dien, is noteworthy contribution to the dis cussion of perplexing subject. Mir. Mon gredien's fundamental proposition is that all the wealth that is obtained or produced by human exertion is actually distributed and used Hence, the more there is created the more will fall to the share of each human being It is the interest of all, especially the non-capitalists, that mans productive powers should be exercised in the most eff cient manner, so as to create the largest pos sible fund of wealth. The chief aids in this direction are division of labor, free conner cial intercourse, capital intelligently en- ployed, machinery and labor-saving devices and facilities of inter-comm unication. In ventions of new processes produce tempora ry inconvenience, but are universally and permanently beneficial The diffusion of sound knowledge tends to develop all those qualities in man which most efficiently pro- mote the creation of wealth, and to correct and abate those social evils which notably impede it. Education may be said to sancti- fy labor and elevate it to the rank of sa- cred duty. Of special interest are the chap ters explaining the wastefulness of war The estimated pecuniary loss which would be in volved in general European war lasting one year is e1. 500, COG, ,OeO. The system of war e3OO, O,OOO, ,0OO per annum. The author is sweeping in his denunciation of the protec- tive policy. He contends that balances due from one country to another are not paid for in specie; and that no country has ever been drained of it's specie through the operation of foreign trade. Published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 con the Wing Rambling Notes of 8 Trip to the Pacific" by Mary E. Blake, au- thor of sPoems," Rambling Talks" etc., etc., is fresh and entertaining volume of travel and adventure. Mrs. Blake accompa- nied one of the Raymond excursion parties of 1882 across the continent and through Colorado and California, enjoying unusual opportunities for observation, and has re- corded her impressions in series of graphic and brilliantly written sketches. The arti- cles first appeared in the columns of the Boston Journal, where they attracted much attention, and are now collected in hand some book form, after careful revision by the authoress. The volume will take much higher plane than ordinary books Of travel With the same brilliant powers which have made her treatment of the most common place subjects SO entertaining in her newspe- per sketches and essays, and which have made her poems so much admired, the writer describes some of the grandest scenery in America. Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston, and for sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 Mr. H. Louisa Avery who died in Norwich