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screen panels; sweet-brier design for
r b Use; design of horse-chestnut leaves 10
: panel decoration; capital design for al
ttched ana repousse brass tray: monogram
in F, aud designs for jewelry, neelleworl
! and frieze decoration. There are also pleas
! ing designs for cup and saucer iswarll
rose} and for an album cover {" Cupid Dis
armed"} For practical Information III,
answers TO correspondents are especially
J valuable.
Fl The Magazine of Art for June is OF
our table, and comes from CaSwell Il Co.
Limited New York, London and Paris TIL,
frontispicce is 9 A Study" female head II
) tint by Edward Burne Jones In addition
the contents are" Fontainebcau Villag,
Communities OF PainterS-I., by Rober
| Louis Stevenson with seven engrayingSi
The Confession by Theodore Poeckh
/" Illustrations of Musset,' by W f. H.
Some Venetian Visiting Cards. by Ho
ratio Forbes Brown with seven engray
ings} Sculpture at the Coincide Franchise
| Houdon;' by A. Egmont Hake with three
engraNings) Elzevirs.' by Andrew Lang
with seven engravings}; " Adolph Mcneil
by Helen Zimmern with three eugrayings)
lie Stryge," from the etching by Meryon
"Syon House, by Eustacc Balfour: The
Lady of SchloSs Ambras,n by Julia Cart
1
ure by Carl Mucke; The Chronicle o
Art, and the 4" American Art Notes as
i, usual
From D. Appleton & Co, New York. we
have the 8 Popular Science Monthly" for
June The leading papers of this invalua-
BILE periodical are The Sins of Legisla-
tors, by Herbert Spencer Modes of Re
production in Plants by Byron D. Hal
sted Sc. D.; &" Evolution and Dissolution OF
the Nervous system. by j. il Jackson N
D.; The Pole and Wire Evil, by Oliver
f. Lyman Coal and Coal Tar Colors, .
by NJ. Denys Cochin; The Chemistry OF
Cookery, by ". Maltien Williams En-
silage and Fermentation, by Manly Nutcs.
NJ. D.; 3" Geography and Railroads = by DR..
j. Jastrow; The Life Work of Pasteur, F."
by his Son-in Law =" Clean Drinking Wa
ter, by Or. Edwin j. Howe; = Physiology
| versus Metaphysics" by DR.. Walter H
| Walshe; = Professor Drorak' Sound Mills"
| Arnold Henry Guyat" by Professor ".
! B. Scott, and the usual miscellany and
noreS by the editors, T. l.. and v. J. You
| mans
The "Oyerland Monthly" Samuel Car
son, San Francisco is at hand for June
! The number closes 4 very successful vol
| urue The issue presents these papers i'll
| addition TO the book reviews. the editorial
notes, etc. Markets and Fairs. by 3. J.
Ramage: 4 Country Garden, BY Ada
Lang~ orthy Collier; THE Literature of
Mr. Justice shallow by j. G. Kelly;
The Belleyille Claim > Some Southern
| Mesas' "A Shepherd NJ Court"
Gran'ma,' by J. W Gally; Heligo!and
and Romance, by Gordon Cireenlaw
The Pot-Boiler il Art, BY Henry s.
Brooks; Chile. Bolivia, Peru by HoIger
I.i. - NJ
Heath g Study Of Browning, by Caro-
line lie Coute Yuka Legends, BY A. q
| Fassin The Haunted House ii Ossipee,"
by 5. p. Driver.
Social Problems by Henry George, is
| a series of papers or popular topics by the
author Of Progress and Poverty" The
papers originally appeared in Frank LeSJie's
Illustrated paper and several of them have
been noticed in the RECORD UNION. The
volume IS from the press of Belford Clark
& Co. Chicago and New York There are
III this book eleven chapters more than
were published a stated, that are devoted
to elaboration Of the subjects treated in the
original papers. 1t Is wholly unnecessary
to refer in detail to Mr. Georges writings
The reading and thinking public is f4mil-
lar with his line of thought and the vigor
of treatment peculiar to him when hand
papers form a yaluable contribution 10 the
literature Of some OF the gravest questions
OF the day.
Essays ana Leaves from Note book, "
by George Eliot, is the tide of an octave
volume published by Harper q Bros, New
York, for sale by A. L. Bancroft & Co. San
Francisco. 1t embraces articles known to
have been written by George Eliot in the
Westminster Rcriem before she had become
famous under that pseudonym. Il is I'M
dcrstood that she made a collection, shortly
before her death, of such of her fugitive
writings as she deemed worthy OF preserya-
ton, and that she carefully revised them.
and left them with the injunction that 70
pieces written by her of the date prior 10
1857, should be republished. The present
collection has therefore the weight Of her
sanction.
From John B. Alden. New York. sc
have three volumes of Professor George
Rawlinson-" The Seven Great Monarclies |
of the Ancient Eastern World embracing |
consideration and treatment of the history. |
geography and antiquities of Chaldca, As !
syria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia and |
Sassanian, or new Persian Empire Maps |
and illustrations in great number add to |
the attractiyeness OF the volumes The |
first edition of the work appeared in 1862, |
the second in 1870. These standard works |
are issued by Alden in form that places |
them within the reach of the most eco |
nomc buyers, and yet suitable for the best !
libraries.
The % North American Review for June
no. 80 Lafayette place New York i a
number of high value as the following
titles 10 the papers between the covers ind-
cate: Harboring Conspiracy" by Prof
Henry Wade Rogers; Lords of Industry"
by Henry D. Lloyd; The Struggle for I'm
BY. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
g Sociological FalIacies, by Prof W G.
itv," by President ]. c. yelling; Walt
Whitman, by Walker Kennedy Expert
Testimony by Rooster Johnson and
others
Macmillan's Magazine" for May Mae
milan Il Co, London and New York pre-
sents the following interesting table Of con
tents, the papers all being Of more than
usual interest and importance E,ner-
son. by Matthew Arnold: in Great
Town Hospital" by Lady Ncney Fl. d.
Maurice" by the Warden of keble Col
ege; An Episode OF Circle Valley" A
Chapter on French Geography Mitch
elhurst Place y Review of the Month
Lee q Shepard, Boston, has published.
md c. 5. Houghton, Sacramento, has for
ale, a new novel by Francis H. Under
wood entitled " Lord of Himself 1t is
ale of the South of the date of the slavery
IRA, and gives of that period vivid sketch
If society and manners in Kentucky. Its
scenes are presented with picturesque effect
md the diction is of q scholarly character
The Wide Awake for June ID. 10th
OPP & CO., Boston, is replete with choice :
eading for the youthful. 1t has an exaui- :
lite frontispiece by Lungren, and illustra-
ions in great variety and excellence 1t is
magazine that benefits, instructs and en-
ertains the young readers who are so for
innate as to possess it.
]. r. Osgood & Co., Boston have issued, E
nd c. S. Houghton, Sacramento has for Y
ale, a novel by Jeanne Gould Lincoln, erti- $
led Z" Her Washington Season" Its story 3
f Washington social life, very pleasant in
Is sketches, and presenting phases of