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LITERARY TABLE.
BRIEF NOTICES OF SOME BOOKS Re-
GENTLY PUBLISHED.
How to Get On in the world-Histo1ies of
Campaigns by land and Sea-
Magazines-Etc.

claims at the same time an attempt at having
written family practice of medicine. de
has in fact written reasonable guide of life
from a thoughtful physicians standpoint.
The bodyis his theme, but the intimate union
between the body and mind is never forgot
ten by him. An honest analysis If physical
human nature forms the introduction, and the
succeeding chapters treat OF sleep, food, clean
lines and ventilation, the Gaze necessary for
young children, the Importance Of sensible
clothes and kindred topics, stating his settled
conviction that tobacco even in moderation,
is baneful in its effects upon the heart There
is chapter on what to do in sudden emer-
gencies, and a table Of brief propositions SUN
marizing the rules of health laid down fol-
lows each chapter. For sale by a. l.. Ban
croft 4 Co., San Francisco.
How To Get on in the World, as Demon
strsted by the Lie and Language OF William
Goblet. To which is added Cobbetts Egg
lish Grammar, wish Noe By Robert
Waters. New York james w Pratt. So
reads the long title page Of Mr.. Waters book.
condensed Oh the back TO the brief, Goblet
and his Grammar" Gir Waters Is a teacher
of Language and Literature in the Hoboken
IN. J.), Academy, and states il his prefsc5
that it is in response to growing conviction
that language studies in our public and pfi-
vate schools fail Of their obj-ct-a practical
knowledge of the English tongue-that he has
prepared the present volume. He reminds
us that MIR. Richard Grant White, in speak
ing Of the language of British authors, places
Cobbett with Macaulay, George Eliot and
Gibbon. and that Southey declared that if
foreigner asked him for specimen Of pure
English, he would select ore from the work
of the peasant-born and self-taught William
Cobb tt. For the most part Mr.. Waters lets
Cobbett tell his own story by copious extracts
from his autobiography and it is every where
the story OF vigorous, ssngulne, self CONT
dent AID ambitious man. His association with
Lsigh Hunt and his brother in the editor
ship of the radical paper that blsckguardsd
the Prince Regent, afterwards George ",
% Justify and so deservedly; hisimprisonment
for his outspoken political views, and his de-
Tense Of Qgeen Caroline through the press !;
his composition of her famous letter to the
KiBg, which was copied into every newspaper
in the kingdom, combined with his clean, up
right private life, make one quite willing TO
forgive him for the immense selt-conceit,
which sven the sympathetic Mr.. Wa ers ad-
mits surpassed that of any Euglishman that
ever lived. In 1880, when the laborers of
England were crazsd by want and starvation,
Cobbett was prosecuted by the Government
for sedition, under charge of melting the
laborers to incendiarism. He undertook his
own defense, made a magnificent speech six
hours in length, in the course of which he
was repeatedly cheered The Jury failed to
agree and Cobbett secured his only legal tri-
umph. In 1882 ne was elected to PaCliaWent,
where he advocated all reforms and wss a
busy worker, dying in 1885. when the whole
world, friends and foes, acknowledged his
greatness. Mr.. Waters then passes to the
contemplation OF Cobbeat's style and writ
ingp, his sharp analysis and criticism Of
princely and kingly documents. his advocacy
OF sturdy, common sense Enyiish, which should
still be correct Mr.. Waters characterizas
Cobbett's History OF the Reformation in EGG
land, written IN the form of letters To All
Sensible and Just Englishmep," as a
"fescely partisan, popish pamphlet COM
posed in a spirit of infatustioD." A biblis-
graphical list of the works Published by Cob
bett is appended TO the lie, from Edward
Smiths biography also an excellent index
Tue second part Is Cobbett's Grammar Of the
English Language, written in series Of let
ters to son or nephew, lad of fourteen or.
fifteen years. and especially designed ''for the
| uss of soldiers. sailors, apprentices and
plough boys" Mr.. Waters has added soms
notes of his own to the grammar, which is
simple, and STRAIGHTFORWARD and elemental.
The volume concludes with six lessons. in
tended to prevent statesmen from using false
grammar" which would be euqally useful TO
many others besides statesmen; in fact to
| any one who frequently takes pen in hand,
| as they remorsslessly aualyze and chastise
redundsncies. loose construction and foreign
imported phrases, and all tie ,mmon faults
of style. The book is marred by al exces-
siye use of italics in the words aud phrases
meant fer special attention. This mind re.
fuses to recogDizs so much important matter
SO imperil usly stated For sale By pub
Usher.
LAND and Labor in the United States
By VIM. Goodwin Moody. New York ::
Charles ScribueI's Sons. Mr. Moody writes
with an earnestness Of conviction that COM
pels attention. His theme is the growing
distress of the industrial classes, which his
statistics show TO be genuine, and the meth
DDS By which this distress might he slleviste5,
like the redistribution of land and labor. He
sketches our western and northwestern sys-
TEN OF rancbing in most unpleasant way.
pointing out the huctfulness OF large tracts Of
land being in the hands of one person, and
the popularity that nothing like a home.
properly so called, can be found on the bo-
nanza farms from end to end. The wide beks
appropriated by railroad grants he also de-
picres, wishing them to be in the shape OF
small farms belonging to many farmers.
he points oat with terrible vividness
the growth of mechanical invention,
by means of which one person now does the
work of one hundred sixty years ago, while
the one hundred are not annihilsted but
clsmor for work and subsistence. His sketch
of the condition of the labOring class of Eng
land is no less diihesrtening. While speak
ing avowedly on the side of labor as opposed
to capital, he does not fail to char acterize in
the severest terms that suicidal self ,hness
OF workingmep," who, in their first organize
ton of uaions that limited the number OF ap,
prentices who should learn trades, and pros
scribed the employ who attempted to teach
greater number, began that hesrtless mo-
nopoly that attempts to seizs and hold the
W, RI, denying to portion of their fellow
men the right to labor for their daily bread,
and flooding the country with unskilled labor
Chapter XVII., called " Tenth Annual Re-
port, Bureau of Statistics for the state of
Massachusetts" is O remarkable exposure Of
perhaps significant, fraudulent tamperinS
with labor statistics. For ssle by A. L. Ban
croft & Co, San Francisco and by W. A. &
G. S. Houghson. Sacramento.
From Gettysburg to the Rspidsn." By
Andrew A Humphreys. New York Charles
Seribner's Sons. The contents Of this short
volume WAS BIT Ihheu16u W lOEul Ius
first part Of Volume XII of the Scribner
Series of Campaigns OF the Civil War, but
was excluded from the volume by its hulk.
The dates are from the Sd Of July, 1868, to
the 1st of March, 1864. and the campaign Of
the Army IF the Potomac at that time is IS
briefly afd compactiy told as the facts will
permit. General Humphreys, having been
Chief of Staff of the Army Of the
Potomac, and in command of the Second
Corps, his report has all the interest of that
of an eye witness; but 1t was General War
rem who had the handling of the force in the
field during the action Of Bristoe Station,
when General Humphreys writes that the
handling Of the Second Corps 10 this opera
ton, and the promptitude, skill and spirit
with which the enemy were met, might form
an excellent model for the conduct Of rear
guard. The odds agains; which our forces
were always working are indicated briefly in
General Humphreys statement that by ths
middle of August a number of troops had
bean Withdrawn from the Army Of
the Potomac for duty elsewhere, and
again, otter Mine Rur, he says that but for
restrictions imposed on General Meade from