Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-11
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

1.-The Use of the Voice in Reading and Speaking" by the Rev. Francis T. Russell, is 8 manual primarily intended for the infor nation and ediication of clergymen and candidates for holy orders, but it will be found serviceable by all who have or expect to have occasion to speak in public. It con- tains some valuable exercises in vocal drill, together with comprehensive and well-ex- pressed statement of the leading principles of elocution. Episcopal elergymen, how ever, will find it especially useful, as it treats in 8 very careful and intelligent manner of the reading of the Anglican Liturgy from, first to last, so that the expressive and ap- propriate delivery of the various divisions of the divine service may be secured. MT. Russell has done his work we'll Published
 by D. Appleton $ Co.,, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. D. Appleton & Go have issued an index to the Popular Science Monthly for the twenty volumes from 1872 to 1882 and of the three
 volumes of the supplement. This clearly printed and well bound index is 8 necessary book of reference to every person who has occasion to refer to the scientific literature of the last ten years. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Animal Intelligence" by George J. Ro- names, M. A., l. L. D., F. R. S., is the title of volume A of the International Scientific series published by D. Appleton & Go. This book is very interesting one. It is the pre- cursor of another by the same author on mental evolution. Its object is to collect and present an important part of the facts on which the inferences of the succeeding volume will rest. The author disclaims any purpose or desire to make a story book but the curious information he has selected is exceedingly entertaining. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 A biography of Thomas Jefferson, by John T. Morse, jr., is added to the American Statesmen series published by Houghton, Mifiin & Co.,. Boston. The book is well and carefully written, gives all the facts of the larger biographies in a condensed form, and furnishes in addition clear statement of the political conditions surrounding the career of Jefferson, and plain and candid analysis of his character, motives and acts. It opens with paragraph descriptive of the Virginia aristocracy of the last half of the last cen tury, and closes with the following sentence '''We all know that when the days of trial came the best of them were little inferior to the best men whose names are to be found in the history of any. people in the world; though when one studies the antecedents and social surroundings whence these noble fig ures emerged, it seems as if for once men had gathered grapes from thorns and figs from thistles' For sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 Geraldine Hawthorne" by Beatrice May Butt, author of ''Miss Mally,'' 'Delicia," etc, is published by Henry Holt $ Co.,. of New York, ia their Leisure Hour series. The scenes of the story are laid in New Eng land in Revolutionary times Captain Ralph Claverly and friend both fall in love with the heroine She falls in love with Captain Claverly and after short engagement they marry. Soon after Captain Claverly and his friend are called away to war. Some un- known hand seems to follow him, and being of proud, ambitious nature, he is driven to despair at sights and insults put upon him. He turns traitor and his wife, though heart broken, follows him to his home among the rebels He enters the rebel ranks and is promoted to be a colonel. His old friend in the meantime has been made general, and in desperate fight between the two armies Colonel Claverly is taken prisoner and doomed to death. His wife, learning of his fate, flies to the general and begs him to in tercede for her husbands life. The general cannot resist the pleadings of the only wo- man he ever loved, and succeeds in saving his life. The story is decidedly readable. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''The Siege of London, Etc" by Henry Holt, jr., is published by James R. Osgood & Co.,, Boston, tsThe Siege of London now first appears in America. simultaneously with it's publication in London, in the Cornh1H Magazine, where it gives to the deeply inter ested Englishman sociological Battle of Dorking. The story begins at the Comedle Franchise, where meet the four chief charac- ters.-the bored American, who has exhaust ed the resources of the two hemispheres :; the ingenious and youthful New Yorker, re- gently arrived abroad, and still full of inter est and appreciation the. reserved and i'm perturbabIe young English baronet and the fascinating and much-widowed New Mexican lady. Mrs. Roadway, of dubious antecedents and laudable ambitions. The story in which these characters move is full of the unfailing