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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
George Eliot's Life" as related in heI
letters and journals, arranged and edited
by her husband, ]. w. Cross, in three
octave volumes, is published by Harper &
Bros New York, and come to hand from
A. l.. Bancroft IL Co., San Francisco. The
biography these compact volumes is an
nounced to contain is not any more a reve.
elation of George Eiiot's life than her liter.
airy works present. But they analyze the
deeper sources of her inspiration and dis
close the fountains from which she drank
and reveal the main springs that actuated
her. Mr.. Cross has nowhere been more
explicit, and in no part of the work more
clear, than in the showing that George
Eliots chief desire was to teach mankind
and that her chiefeSt search was fol- the
truth Tor that very purpose. That is tC
say, George Eliot did not write tC
bring men and women to her thinking
but to incline them toward the task o.
understanding, and to make them recep.
tive of the truth as it developed to hel
view. There was q breadth and depth o.
unseltishness in the character of this wo
man that is seldom found among writer's o.
any class. To the making of these traits in
her character her biographer has devoted
viction, and he carries the reader with him
with perfect ease. He makes it plain tc
| the judicial-minded that George Eliot's was
life of missionary devotion, and the work
of her life the out2rowth Of sincerity anC
conviction such as even the religious en-
thusiast Goes not always feel. As to the
soundness of her teachings we cannot at
this time enter into any consideration. II
Is our effort only to point out the lines
| upon which Mr. Cross has laid out his
work and the topics which he makes fore
most. The volumes are fitting tributes to
the life Of one so great in letters and
thought, so brilliant of intellect and Of
such wonderful power among thinking
| men and women.
The Story of Mary" is a novel /" By an
American" 1t is from the press of c. w
Carleton u Co., New York. It was heralded
as parallel to Uncle Toms Cabin but
that is impossible because of the conditions
Yet as picture of the colored freedman's
life in the South, by Southern woman-a
writer of broad ability, it is a remarkable
book, and will exert an influence that will
be felt for good wherever circulated. 1t re-
veals the horrors and slavery cruelties OF
the ern-convict-contract camp in
terms that should suffice to awaken the
moral sense OF the entire South, and bring
about radical reform. 1t is a powerful
story, full of strong and well drawn dram
attic pictures, and treats OF social conditions
i'll the South in which every American citi-
zen must feel an interest.
Grants Memorial; What Shall it Be ?''
is discussed in the September number oil
the " North American Review by Launt
Thompson, Karl Gerhardt 0. L.Warner and
Wilson Mcdonald. sculptors: w. H. Beard
noItr
Brunt, architects, and Clarence Cook, art
critic. The same number OF the " Review u
contains a consideration of the question
Shall our National Banking System be
Abolished ?" by George S. Boutwell,, f. j
Scott S. Dana Horton and Edward H. G.
Clark. "Ouida contributes an essay on
The Tendencies of English Fiction" and
Elizabeth Stewart Phelps writes on
The Great Psychological Opportunity .
French's "reminiscences of Famous
Americans" also included, is a series OF
delightful anecdotes about the famous wal
Senators.
The Atlantic Monthly" for September
Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Boston, presents
for the first fall month a most attractive
table of contents. Henry James serial
continues, as also Mrs. Oliphants and Oil.
yer Wendell Holmes New Portfolio. u
Horace E. Scudder has a first paper on
Childhood in English Literature and Art >
Angelina Teal paper on Mining for a
Mastodon," Charles Dudley Warren q
third paper On Horseback" VIM. Grams
ton Lawton one on Ancient and Modern
Greek" and David A. Colt an essay on 1.-THE
Poetic Element in the Medieval Drama ;
There are beside the editorial departments
reviews and the always interesting con
tributor's club.
The first part of Joaquin Miller's poem
"The Sword of the South, is published in
Literary Life" elder Publishing Com
pany, Chicago, for August. This is claimed
to be the authors supremest effort, and the
entire poem will be anxiously awaited. II
is intended to present more intensely the
warm and generous hospitality of the
Southern people, as contrasted with the
race for wealth by the people of the North
Another article among the table of con-
tents fer August, is The Lost Man of the
Sacramento" prize story, upon incidents
which are located on the head waters Of
the stream above Mount Shasta.
The portraits of the committee recently
engaged in the revision of the Old Tesla.
ment are given in the September number
of Leslie's Sunday Magazine" Also, g
fine cut of Westminster Abbey as a
frontispiece, followed with an extended
account of bible revisions, under the head
of 1.-THE Bible in English" Elephant
trapping in Ceylon,' Life in Madagas.
car" Picturesque Bits of jamaica" and
Swine-hunters upon the Upper Nile,
are other illustrated articles of this num-
Der, which will claim popular attention.
The young folks will be delighted with
their August number of Wide Awake
The illustrations are exquisite and interest
ing. Such stories as How the Boojums
Went Down the Crater" THE Gypsy's
Prophecy" Hunted by Wild Stallion, y
The Bound Girl" and other sketches
will be extremely companionable to our
younger readers. D. Lothrop Il Co., Bos-
ton
The September number of the Culver" "
published by Cassell e. Co., New York; is
replete with choice reading, and is very
fully and finely illustrated. A story, "Side
Paths and Quiet Resorts" is told by All
An interesting illustrated article concern
ing gargoyles is given. Serial stories are
continued, and good selection of original
articles for Sunday reading is presented.
The Sanitarian" for July-published at
New York = has articles ON practical
sanitation, by J. H. Raymond. NJ. D.; upon
ventilation, drainage, peptonized milk-diet,
the fever epidemic in Louisville by DR..
Mccormack, Secretary of the State Board
of Healthy, report of the meeting of the
American Genealogical Association, tate
medicine in Minnesota and Kansas, etc.
"The Novelist" published by John B.
Alden. New York, in pamphlet weekly edi-
tons, at 81 so per year, is now publishing
the following serial stories: "a Family
Affair" by Hugh Conway; white