Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-09


 cats and dogs The book closes with g
 strong appeal for a more humane treatment
 of animals, on the ground that 'they art
 Gods creatures,' that they have theil
 uses," and that in being humane to then
 Eve shall thus not only glorify our Creator
 and promote our own happiness, but also
 aid in lessening the needless sufferings of an
 imals and in giving bright side to theil life" Published by D. Appleton & O..
 New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Fundamental Questions, chiefly relating to the Book of Genesis and the Hebrew Scriptures" by Edson L. Clark Ca preacher of the Congregational church, Q member oi the American Oriental Society, and author of several works), is the title of collection of theses which are an attempt to solve, in the light of the latest and maturest results of historical, scientific and archaeological in vestigation, some of those great problems which have of late so agitated the Christian public. They are also, says the author in his preface, Ca humble endeavor in the di- rection of that new theology, theology his torical, inductive and strictly scientific, which is already taking form and which is sure, at no distant day, to stand forth in full development to command the acceptance ana belief of Christian men.'' Among the top les discussed are: s'Divine Revelation, D
 "The Creation" ''The First Family" esThe Childhood of the Race" "The Flood" and 'After the Flood" Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Few character sketches in English literg- ture are more popular than Addison's 'tSir Roger de Coverley," but this exquisite story of 8 fine old English gentleman. which first appeared in scattered papers through the Spectator, has not hitherto been presented in an attractive form. The present edition, published by D. Appleton & G., New York, is handsomely printed, and illustrated with one hundred and twenty five wood cuts and a steel etching as a frontispiece. It is bound in ornamented cloth, @ fresh and very pleas ing style, and makes & handsome volume. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 f'The Young Moose Hunters A Back woods-Boy's Story" by c. A. Stephens, is a book full of entertainment for the boy reader who is fond of the woods, of outdoor adyen- ture, of hunting, trapping, shooting fishing and camping. It tells of the experience of a party of boys who went into the Maine back woods to trap fur-bearing animals. Pub lished by Estes $ Lauriat, Boston, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "Our Young Folks in Africa The Adyen- tnres of 8 party of young Americans in Algeria and in South Central Africa,'' by James D. McCabe, author of "Our Young Fclks Abroad" describes the adventures of a party of young Americans in region as yet new to the readers of juvenile literature. The greater portion of the book is devoted to the j,urney through South Central Africa. The reading matter is very interesting and the Illustrations are numerous and good. Published by J. B. Lippincott 6 Co.,, Phila- dslphia and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Doctor Grimshawes Secret: A Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited, with preface and notes, by Julian Hawth orne, is published by James R. Osgood $ Co.,, Boston. It is story with several plots which gre thus sum- marked by the Boston Ad0ertiser The main one is that of the young representative of the American branch of wealthy English family who, after short and successful caresr here, goes to the old home, and is first shot and then poisoned by the Italian possessor of the property, but is rescued at the last mo- ment iu the secret chamber of the hall and is triumphantly recognized as the heir. In- terwoven with this is the second plot, crime of the preceding generation. The last of the English Reolyffes succeeded by fraud in psrsuading girl to marry him who loved and was engaged to Oglethorpe, the Dr. mits suicide or is murdered, it does not ap- pear which, and her body is hidden in the coffer in the secret chamber. Her husband thinks himself the murderer, and, under the influence of an agent of the revengeful Grim shave, hides himself in lifelong concealment in this secret vault, appearing at the very end to die when the vault is opened in search for the young heir. The coffer is then opened and found to contain nothing but the golden hair of the lost wife, which has grown by the absorption of her dust until it fills the box Grimshawe himself had fled to America to plot further revenge for the loss of his be- throthed by finding and bringing forward the American heir, with whom he wished to out set his rival, and there he dies. Mixed up with these are still other plots, little more than ghostly legends, which form weird background to the tale. The secondary plot is the one which gives the title to the book, o0d of fad Hon strongly, but it is of little advantage to the story. The interest centres first in the chil- dren playing in the old graveyard, and in the gloomy house with its strange squalor of dust and cobwebs. The spiders are everywhere and soon give the visitor an odious sense of one crawling up his spine, or spinning cob webs in his brain One hideous tropical monster, gigantic agglomeration of sucked up poison, dangles ever over the grim old doctors head. ''Its colors, variegated in sort of ugly and inauspicious splendor, were distributed over it's vast bulb in great spots, some of which glistened like gems It was a horror to think of the thing living; still more horrible to think of the foul catastrophe, the crushed-out and wasted poison that would follow the casual setting foot upon it."
 h order to correct the prevalent misappre- hensien as to the completeness of the work, ii may be well to state that although not w.olly furnished artistieally. it incomplete as story and is longer than ''The Scarlet Letter. It has 8 definite beginning and ending. while the continuity of the tale is IAbr ken, and the copious notes of the au.