National Republican., 1883-11-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

DERWENT CoLERlDuE,. ,cholar, ra.ilf edu.
Gator liy AuGusrts Il. swifr. NeW flfRi
Charles +. Roper & Co.
Tho visit Of the lord chief justice of Eng
land TO this country has made The namo Of
Colerdgo familiar 70 thoulands, ior whom %
had no interest before. aud made tho associa.
tions Herewith additionally plcasantto those
with whom that name has long been a house
| hold word. It was, therefore, a suitable
time for Mr.. Swift now one Of the masters
ut st. Pauis school. Concord, y. IT,, 20 give
7 to tho public his little monograph on another
member of this family, whose long and usciul
lifo has but lately como 10 an end. This was
a son Of tho poet aud brother of Hartley
Coleridge, "tho ill.starrcd genius" lie seems
to have been in character, habits, purpose .as
his picture shows him to have beon In appear.
ance), n cultivated English priest and scholar
of the best class. Probably not ono American
in hundred thousand over hears Of him, aud
yet he was "tho finest linguist since Moszo.
fanti," and Dean Stanley said ho
was "the greatest master Of language in
| England" "Ilo had complete mastery or
fourteen languages. and was sufficiently vol
vorsod in oiEht or nno moro for all practical
purposes" IL is curious 10 read Of a hard
working English parish priest writing o letter
in Magyar to n paper in Buda, posth, begin
ming Icelandic at the ago Of 40. and composing
Hawaiian grammar.
He seems to have devoted tho best parts Of
80 years TO the good of his fellow men. Born
in 1900, he left Cambridge in 1872, and taught
until 1864 when he became rector Of Han
well, near London. Somo years later
he received, into his family num-
Der of young Americans, following
each other for considerable period,
and studying under him. Among thom was
the author of this pretty volume who has
evidently found his work labor of love. and
done it most gracefully. 1t bears on its cover
the coat of arms of the Coleridge family, aud
readers will notice the Otter (the ancestral
home of tho Colerdges was ut Ottory, St.
Mary's), and the Latin words, Time Deum
Cole ReGem 1t is altogether n most interest
ing and pleasing little book.
MOTLEY. Prose passages from the works Of
John LOthrOp Motley, for homes, Libraries, and
schools. Compiled by JosEPHtNE Il. lloD1poN.
| Illustrated New York: Harper & Brothers,
Washington: Il. A. Whitaker.
In the preface the compiler who has shown
excellent taste and judgment in her selections
ana arrangement, gives an interesting per-
sonal sketch of the historian, which closes
with the following estimate of the man:
AS an historian Motley combined two
qualities rarely united-a capacity for his
torical research and the power of pictorial
representation. He delights in describing
scenes of magnifcence, and portrays with
dramatic skill and power the mighty events
of the long and desperate struggle between
Spain and the Netherlands. His style is
wonderfully picturesque, vigorous full of
animation, and glows with the enthusiasm of
| the author"
| THE CRUISE CT THE sNOWBTRD. A story of
Arctic dventuIe By GORDON STABLES, NJ. ID.
New York: a. c. Armstrong IL Son. Washing.
! ton: Robert b. Ii.
"The Cruise of the Snowbrd" is a boys
book, and it has been made as attractive as
possible in matter, illustration, and binding.