Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-13
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

"Old Ocean," by Ernest Ingersoll, is the second of series intended to fill gap in popular practical literature, The author and characteristics of the ocean, but de- scribes and explains all it's various phenome- na-the Gulf stream, the action of the waves, the tides, the currents, with the accompany ing phenomena of the winds in certain por- tions of the globe. Later he takes up and tells the stories of famous voyages of discev- cry and adventure which have been made over the ocean, great battles that have been fought upon it, it's perils and dangers to voy- agers, and lastly he describes the wonders of the great deep as displayed in it's various forms of animal and vegetable life. The book, in fact, brings within small space a large amount of matter of more than ordi- nary interest. Published by D. Lothrop & Co.,, Boston, and for sale in this city by F. T. Jarman.
 'tMary Burton Abroad" by "Pansy," will please the young. Mary Burton longed to travel and being unable to do so did the next best thing. Her idea was to get such books from the library as were descriptive of places y, and then imagining herself there, to write letters to one of her intimate friends and schoolmates describing the wonderful sights and sounds supposed to have been heard and seen. Selecting Scotland as the first country to be visited, she read up about Glasgow and Edinburgh, from which cities her first letters are dated. Then she goes-in imagination to Windsor, to Stratford-on-Avon, and to London, learning great many curious and interesting things in all these places, and setting them forth at length in her core spondence. Added to this series of letters are several short stories of an entertaining character The book is well illustrated. Published by D. Lothrop 6 Co.,, and for sale in this city by F. T. Jarman.
 D. Appleton < Go. have sent us the first volume of the authors last revision of Ban croft's History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Conti- nent.'' This is an entirely new edition of this valuable history, which is the best and most complete history of the United States ever written. It is to be published in six octave volumes, instead of twelve, as in the original edition, in plaiA but handsome style, with clear type and good paper, and is of fered for the reasonable price of $2.5o per volume. The history covers the period from the discovery of the continent to the establishment of the constitution. Its au thor has been for some time past engaged in it's thorough revision, making extensive changes in the text, condensing and enlarg- ing as seemed to him desirable, and adding the results of the latest researches, making it practically new work. MT. Bancroft, in his admirable preface, says of his aim in the preparation of the work: "In this last re- vision, as in the first composition, it is the fixed purpose to secure perfect accuracy in and coloring, and to keep truth clear from the clouds, however brilliant, of conjecture and tradition. The next aim is lueidity in the ordering of the narrative, so that the reader may follow the changes of public af- fairs in their connection, and with every page be carried forward in the story" and ''care has been taken never unduly to forestall the judgment of the reader, but to leave events as they sweep onward to speak their own condemnation or praise" John Bright said offers, and the lessons which it teaches sur pass, to my mind, those that have derived from or formed in any other book of histo ". refer to Bancroft's History of the Colonization of the United States" For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.