Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-26
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"Prince Bismarck, An Historical Biogra- phy," by Charles Lowe, M. A., is the first attempt by an English writer to make 8 sketch of the career of the great German statesman whose name is SO conspicuous in the annals of the nineteenth century. The two volumes of this work supply long felt want, aiming, as they do, at recording, in as complete manner as possible, the personal achievements of the greatest man of the age, and at the same time at giving a political history of modern Germany in so far as that history can be written at the present. Prince Bismarck is the unifier of Germany, the one who has had to deal with questions vital to his land and who has had the intelligence and energy to solve them. He it was who first saw the absurdity of the Federal organ
 ization and the necessity of national union under Prussian leadership and the impossi- bility of attaining this end without war with Austria. In his reports made during the eight years in which he was representative of Prussia in the re- established Federal Diet one is struck with the denunciations of Aus trian intrigues and demonstrations of the
 
 Prussian interests There is no room to trace here tho outline of those years. How the Schleswig- -Holstein question was solved by the Danish war and the German question settled by the wars with Austria and France, and how Bismarck gained, after each con- test, grounds for advantage in the next. All these are given by MT. Lowe, the author of this work The first volume of the work brings the history of the life of Bismarck down to the close of the Franco-German war and the second covers the period from 1871 to 1885. The writer has given in the second volume, for ths first time, a connected sketch of Bismarck's foreign and internal policy since the establishment of the empire. The biography of Bismarck here becomes his tory not of Germany only, but of continen- tai Europe. Translations of the Prussian and Austrian constitutions are included in the appendix of treatiessthat mark the seve- ral stages of development of Germanic uni ty The work is valuable political history and it's author is worthy of great credit for the presentation of such a succinct and com plete biography and the history necessarily attendant upon it. Cassell & Co.,, publish CTS, New York For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Food Materials and Their Adulterations" is volume II. of the Household Manuals, D by Ellen H. Richards, instructor in sanitary chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is little volume containing masses of information and facts which have hitherto been scattered through large techni- cal works. It has, therefore, been compiled from many sources, and it is arranged in a way such as to give useful information in a form available and attractive for schools and for home reading without teehnicalities and tiresome details. The names of the books consulted are given at the end of the vol ume. Estes 6 Lauriat publishers, Boston. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 There is something about the stories of George Macdonald which impresses the read CT with sense of breadth of genuine ear nestness. To read some of them is like wan dering over the hills and moors of the Scot tish highlands, where most of his scenes are laid. It is native ground to Mcdonald, and no one can give the characteristics of the va rious localities with greater vividness or more picturesque strength. His latest nov el, "Whats Mines Mine," is one of his ripest works. It shows the constructive skill of the author at it's best, and in those qualities which compel thought it is superior to all his previous works. The hero of the story is young Scottish laird who falls in love with the daughter of wealthy mer- chant The experiences of the young couple during their wooing, aud the trials through which they pass before the end is reached, is a thread of narrative which is full of inter est and contains series of grand thoughts. Throughout the volume are found little gems of poetry characteristic of the style of the author. D. Lothrop & Co.,, publishers, Bos- ton. For sale in this city by Judd the book seller.
 "Correspondencies of Faith and Views of Madame Guyon" is comparative study of the unitive power and place of faith in the theology and church of the future by Henry T. Cheever. The first part of the book takes up the discussion of the unmeant correspon- dencies between experimental writers upon religion, and from this merges into the par allelisms in prose and verse between the Pro testant mind in s'The Windings" and the Catholic mind in the memoirs of Madame Guyon. The second part is devoted to a survey of the experience and writings of Madame Guyon.- Part third considers the mental discipline of holiness by faith and "Faith the Pilot in our Navigation for Eter- nity." The book is an able one, well writ ten and we'll illustrated. The author is known by his 'sThe Pulpit and the Pew,' ssIsland World of the Pacifc,' "Life and son D. F. Randolph G Co.,, publishers, New York. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ssTwo Strokes of the Bell' is Ca strange story" by Charles Howard Montague. The story is divided into five parts: sWho am IT" "Who is She?'' "The Bell Strikes" 'sThe Narrative of MT. Wayne" friend met with early in the story; and ''The New Regime" It is indeed a strange story and will not be left until it is finished when it is once taken up. The strange situations and exciting adventures are woven into a plot that is both ingenious in construction and progressive in it's intricacy of development. w. I. Harris & Co.,, publishers, Boston. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Evolution and Religion" py Henry Ward Beecher. Part H., containing eighteen ser mons discussing the application of the evo-