Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-30
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| Ch1lde Harold's Pilgrimage. Romance, l bs Lord Byron, has recently been published
 in new and elegant edition by Ticknor & ! Co.,, of Boston. It is bound in cloth with | full gilt. The work has numerous draw | ings by the best artists, and is furnished with
 engravings by George Andrew, A. V s. An
 thony, Dana, Johnson, Sylvester, Kilburn ! and Chandler. It is one of the best illus | trated poems now in existence. For sale in | this city by H. H. Peck.
 Evolution and Religion is pamphlet
 containing eight sermons discussing the | bearings of the evolutionary philosophy on l the fundamental doctrines of the evangelical 1 religion, by Henry Ward Beecher The subject-titles are as follows: s'The Signs of l the Times;" Evolution in Human Con sciousness of the Idea of God;" ''The Two Revelations;" "The Inspiration of the Bible;;" 'The Sinfulness of Man, ''TLe New Birth;" Divine Providence and De sign;;" and Evolution and the Church. , The series of sermons is rather of funda- mental and theoretic than of practical and specific character. It is, however, 8 series complete in itself, and is crowded with prac- | tical, suggestive and helpful thoughts Fords, Howard & Hulburt, publishers, New York. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller
 ''The Story of the Heavens" is new work by Robert Stawell Ball, IL. D., Fellow of the Royal Astronomical society and Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin. It is work that gives all the prin- cipal facts of astronomy in popular language. Beginning with the earliest ideas of the stars and the earliest discoveries the book traces the development in astronomy down to the
 present day. It tries to answer questions
 that are asked in every ones experience: How big, how hot, how far away is the sun!
 What is the moon, it's motion and it's land
 know of the satellites of Jupiter and of the
 rings of saturns The discovery of Uranus and of Neptune? Then of the other bodies of our
 system, the comets, shooting stars, constslla-
 tions, the colored stars, double stars, multi
 pie stars, stars that move and that are at
 rest are described with fullness and are illus
 trated with colored plates and illustrations.
 The milky way and the marvellous nebute
 form part of the astronomical history.
 Then, too, the changes in the season and the
 recurrence of seed time and harvest are
 dwelt upon. In short the book is a collec
 tion of astronomical and historical facts,
 complete astronomy and complete as
 history of astronomy. It has large mum
 Der of colored plates and is furnished with
 valuable illustrations. CasseI & Co.,, pub
 fish IS, New York. For sale in this city by
 Judd the bookseller.
 "Po-ts of America, companion volume
 to Victorian Poets" by Edmund Clarence
 5tedman, is critical survey of the poets and
 poetry of America. The literature of no country is more interesting to philosophical students than that of the United States
 American literature has idealized the nation al sentiment and the historic movements of the land. During the last half century ths poetry of this country has borne closer rela- tions to the life and the enthusiasm of the people than it often has borne in other lands. Considered from this standpoint, 8 critical survey of the literature of the United States has more than the ordinary attraction. In this volume the author continues his former efforts in obtaining further illustrations of the poetic life and ideas with respect to the methods and the spirit of poetry. In ac cordance with this intention the work is fur nished with marginal analysis and topical index. Beginning with the early conditions of poetry and the growth of the American school chapters are given to Bryant, Whittier, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Holmes, Lowell; Walt Whitman and Bayard Taylor. Also much information and valuable thoughts are given in reference to the minor poets. Those who have read the "Victoria Poets' will find Tn this, it's companion volume, the eontinua- tion of the review of acknowledged leaders and the concise analysis of groups represent ing the general choir of the period under consideration. Houghton, Mifain & Co.,, publishers, Boston. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller