The Republican journal., 1884-04-24

TIE CLFW OF TIE MAZE AND THE SPARE
HALF Hour. BY Rev. {. IL. Spurgeon. The
name of Spurgeon as author is about as good il
recommendation us Il book can have NOWADAYS
If any other We're needed in this ease il is
found in The subject treaed-modern unbelef,
the agnostici>m of the day. He handles it with
out gloves. and in that striking, homely way
that carries conviction to both heart ana mind.
Surgeons illustrations are something renoWn-
ed on two continents. They abound in all sim
plicty and force in this little work. They
reach all readers. learned and unIearned. The
best single phrase we know of TO express the
character of the entire book is. its "uncommon
common sense 1t is not Il work simply for
scholars; it is for everybody. and most of all
for those who have done the least reading of
this sort. This is a new book printed in this
country from advance sheets. The second por-
ton, "The Spare Ilalf-Hour," is series of
most engaging and instructive papers suggested
by the author, travels on the continent. PUB
lished in Funk x Wagnalls' (O and y Dey
Street, \. - Standard Library Paper, 10
cents.
TIE LOST LOVE AND OTHER VERSE. BY
William Adolphus Clarke. The author of this
book has, as recorded on its title page, written
many volumes, none of which have come to our
notice, and in the preface he says he is waging
war against ''meanness, folly and error" We
wish him success in that direction. but life is
too short for us to read his 42S pages of verse
The wood cuts with which the book is Illus
trated are simply horrible. Published by the
author, and for sale by DE Wolfe Fiske & Co.,
30 Washington street, Boston.
The Maytlowers have not put in an appear
ance. but Peterson's Magazine for May is out,
bright and interesting as usual
Chas. G.. Leands articles on ''Brass Work"
in the July St. Nicholas proved so popular
feature that the editor has secured series of
papers on kindred arts from the same author.
The first one of these. on Leather Work." will
appear in the May number.
series of profusely illustrated papers on
'Recent Architecture in America" will be be-
gun in the May Century. "Public Buildings"
is the subject of the first article The writer of
.Hc ScIltS Is Mis-. schuyler ' dll rensselaer,,
whose recent papers on art and Artists" have
shown knowledge, careful study, appreciation,
and felicity of statement.
The Scientific Basis of Morals, and other
essays, by William Kingdom Clifford, forms
No. 90 of the 'Eumboldt Library of Popular Sci
ence." Besides the Essay named in the title,
it contains three others, namely, 'Rght and
Wrong: the Scientific Ground of their Distinc-
tion;' The Ethics of Belief" and ''The Ethics
of Religion J. Fitzgerald, publisher, 20 Lay
fayette Place, New York.
Henry James's new three-part story, Lady
Barbarina," will be begun in t he May Century.
The hero is a wealthy young American, who
goes by the title of Doctor, though his '.prac-
tice" is more a form of having something to do
in the world than Il reality. The story con-
Germs his courtship of the second daughter of
an English marquis-whose family have views
| on New York as home for aristocratc
English ladies and on the social value of
medical ttle,-and also concerns the domestic
problems growing out of their marriage
All of one mnd-the millennium must be at
hand down in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Ohio, all over Pennsylvania, and
throughout the United States. The millions
are proclaiming Jadwin's Tar Syrup. The
great cure for colds, cough and consumption.
Sold by r. ii. Moody, Belfast.