The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-28
LITERAR

Those who are familiar with DIR. Alice B.
Stockham's book for women, entitled Tokot-
ogy, will not be surprised to learn that it has
reached the tiftieth edition, and has been
translated into German. Uncle Toms Cabin
'put girdle round the earth'' in various Ian
guages and why not Tokology2
George Makepeace Towle has just COM
pleted "Young Peoples History of Ire
land,'' as companion volume to his recently
published ''Young Peoples History of En-
introduction by John Boyle O'Reilly, and
will be published in the early autumn by Lee
& Shepard.
The September Century will contain pa
per on List, which, while it has been for
some months in preparation, happens to ap-
pear at time when it will be read with unu-
sual interest. 1t is an account of a summer
with Liszt at Weimar, written by one of his
pupils, Mr.. A. M. Bagby, and is full of inter
esting anecdotes and "reminiscences. The
accompanying illustrations include 'front.'
ispiece portrait of Liszt and a full-page pict-
engraved by Johnston.
In recent numbers of Cassell's National
Library" are the following: Poems" by
Geo. Crabbe; "Nature and Art" by Mrs.
Inchbald; Plutarch's Lives of "Alcibiades
and Coriolanus';;' "The Wisdom of the An
cients," by Francis Bacon; "Table Talk"
MARTIN Luther;' egypt and Scythia,"
''The Lady of the Lake." by Scott; ''She
Stops to Conquer" by Goldsmith; "voy-
ayers Tales" and Thoughts on the Present
Discontents and Speeches." by Edmund
Burke. Price 10 cents,-marvels of cheap
ness. New York: CasselI & Co.
We have just received copy of Number
Thirty-tw of Ogilvie's Popular Reading
price only 80 cents-containing the following
eight stories-all complete: "Repented at
LEISURE" by the author of "Dora Thorne;"
"Under Life's Key" by Mary Cecil Hay;
"Bart Bannatyne's City Home" by Mary
Cecil Hay; "Notes from German Bard, by
Mary Cecil Hay; "a Terrible Mistake, +" by the
author of "Dora Thorne;" by Leap, by a
popular author; Oscar Wilde's Poems and
Lecture" by Oscar Wilde; "Dick Netherby,"
by l.. B. Walford. All of these stories are
printed in large type, with handsome colored
Autograph cover, also a handsome colored
frontispiece, printed in twelve colors.
Rev. Charles F. Thwing, of Cambridge,
with the assistance of his wife, has just COM
pleted an original and deeply interesting
work, "The Family; an Historical and Social
Study" 1t considers the Prehistoric Fam
lily; The Family among the Greeks, Romans
and Jews; The Family-the First Christian
Centuries and the Middle Ages; The Family
and the Church. Catholic and Protestant;
The Family as an Institution, Divine and
Human; The Family as Basis of Social Or
der; The Family and its Individual Members;
The Family and Property; The Family as
Social Institution; The Family Destroyer
Divorce; The Family and the Divorce Laws
of the United States and Europe. The work
is afne first historical and philosophical study
upon the important subject of divorce, and
other social problems. 1t will be published
by Lee IL Shepard, Boston.
Ruhainah pronounced Ru -hain-ah) story
of Afghan life, by Evan Stanton, is written
by well-known Orientalist, who has resided
among the Afghan people for many years;
An old writer, but a new novelist. Almost
every incident in the narrative is founded on
fact, and the little volume, while it contains
an exciting love story, full of the most graphic
incidents, gives the most Trustworthy details
of the religion, the manners, and the social
customs of that remarkable race who, in the
days of Mahmud of Ghuznee, conquered
Hindoostan, and who, in more recent times.
have so successfully resisted the invading