The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-18

content with such knowledge of them "a this
method affords. The work has one thing to
commend it: Its story is told, as far as prac-
hcable, In the words of the Bible, and is, so
far, true to the records. 1t is published by
Putnams and for sale by A. @. Mcclure & Co..
chicago, and is the first of series. Price.
$1.50 per vol.
Here is volume with title that chal-
lenges attention: Hold up pour Heads.
Girls! When we came to open it we found IL
composed OF eleven chapters designed as
helps for girls in school and out. The author
Is Annie ID. Ryder, and ia evidently an ac-
complished teacher with very much more
than professional interest in young girls.
The eleven chapters are devoted to practical
and literary topics-"How to Talk" "How
to Make the Most of Work." "What Can
Dor" "What to Study" Moods" "Girls
and their Friends" etc. These important
subjects are invested with interest and bright
ness by the direct and sensible style of the
writer. There is more sound practical ad-
vice, sensibly put, on points of everyday in
terest to girls, than we remember to have be-
fore seen put into the same number of papes.
The girl who reads it thoughtfully and with
an intent to profit by it will get more real
help and good from it than from a term at
the best boarding school in the country. Good
conversation, says the author in GLOW to
Talk" is the mark of the highest culture.
That is why. in spite of shabby dresses. un-
banged hair, tremendous mouths and large
noses, some persons are purely delightful.
One great fault of girls in conversation 10
touched upon, and that is slang, and what is
said on this point should be remembered by
every girl who has any regard for herself or
respect for the English language. In the
chapter "How to Make the most of Work"
the writer recognizes the fact that most
American girls of the present day scorn work,
and laments the lack of sufficiently worthy
work to engross their attention. Once all
girls were taught to sew Now the sewing
machine has made good sewer a phenome-
non. In chapter on "What Can Dor"
various occupations are suggested which
might be made profitable. We can cordially
recommend this book and hope it may have
wide circulation. Boston: d. Lothrop d
Co. Price $1.00.
Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, are the
publishers of Miss Rose Kingsley's "Children
of Westminster Abbey" and Rev. Edward
Everett Hale's Boys Heroes" The first is
a series of stuoies in English history, GEN.
tering around the stories of the royal chill
dren buried in the great Abbey, and giving
in brief space much information in re-
gard to the venerable building, its history,
Uganda he he
trated with views of the Abbey and its mon
uments. The writer is daughter of the late
Rev. Charles Kingsley, and is well known to
American readers by her charming articles
in Wide Atoake and other periodicals. Mr..
Hale's Boys Heroes" is one of the best of
recent publications in the interest of the ju-
venlle fraternity. 1t is a narrative of eleven
OF the famous heroes of history, and sketch
of an ideal character, the invention of the
author, an American, neither rich nor Door,
but who is ''as gentlemanly as King Arthur;
as tender as Hector, as brave as Horatius, and
as successful as Napoleon in his early days."
Among the veritable heroes of whom mar
ratives are given are Hector, Alexander the
Great, King Arthur, Richard the Lion heart
ed, Robinson Crusoe, Israel Putnam, Lafay-
cite, Napoleon the First, and several others.
These two books are worthy of special atten-
ton from those who would place good litera-
ture in the hands of our youth.
1t is now known that Miss Grace King was
the author of the very dramatic story of
monsieur Motte," which appeared in the
first number of the New Princeton Reuie,c,
and attracted wide attention; second story
from her hand, madame Larveillere," in
in the November issue, marks decided ad-
vance over her earlier effort, and is piece
Of literary work of very unusual quality. In
the department of Criticisms, Notes and
Reviews" there is full scientific account of
"Recent Earthquakes and Their Study" in
which the facts concerning these disturb
ances are grouped together for the frat time;
"The Development of Philosophy in Ger
many" is brief but very Ineligible survey
of German speculation to- day. The admira-
BILE "Record" is as full and complete az the
work Of the best specialists can make it.
The November number of the Reuie,s COM
pletes the second volume of this ably con-
Quoted periodical. The continued success of
the RsUfeU has encouraged the publishers in
adding, at increased expense, new features,
which add materially to its permanent value.
The number is rich in interesting and valua-
BILE articles. The Modern Novel," by
Thomas Sergeant Perry, a discussion Of
Reals M" by DIR. McOosh, and "The Res
urrectlon of Buried Languages" by Prof.
Francis Brown, are among the more notable
articles. The Princeton has already made
ts plac in periodical literature and fills il
admirably. Our pages are continually en-
riched in quotations from its columns.
Grandmother's Garden is the title of a
beautiful specimen of holiday book-making
from our Chicago publishers. 1t is a large
quarto volume, finely printed, and illustrated
with photo gravures of d-fashioned howers
which grew in " Grandmother's Garden in
the long ago-jonquils, hlacs, Glove pinks,
lilies of the valley, southern wood and vari-
GUS others, illustrative of each verse of the
poem, the first of which begins:
II have been to my grandmother's garden,
Where the dear old flowers grow,
That she planted there and tended
In the summers long ago
The sweet, old-fashioned flowers
That used TO delight her So"
On simulated card lying across the en-
craving on each page is printed verse
appropriate to the flower which is the theme.