betrothed to one Ludwig, a fine young peas- -- in Mr. Burnard's characteristic manner, JUNE MAGAZINES. LIPPINCOTT'S. - The Centennial paper in this number describes the means of transportation by which visitors and contributions are brought to Philadelphia, and gives interesting statistics as to the space occupied by the several nations: the United States has 187,705 feet, and tiny Tunis 2015. We hope the author of" Glimpses of Constantinople" will never fall into the clutches (if we may use so harsh a word in a feminine connection) of the Turkish ladies about whom she makes some startling revelations. Having described the costumes in which they shine on excursions to the "Sweet Waters of Europe," a long catalogue of magnificences, she refers you to some - President White, of Cornell University, has made a timely contribution to our stock of information as to Religion and Science, in a little pamphlet called The Warfare of Science." Beginning with the subject of Geography, he traces the stages of the campaign in that field. Certain ideas as to the rotundity of the earth came down from the ancient to the modern world, and in due time began to bear fruit. They met only derision at the hands of the scholars of the time, Eusebius and Lactantius being the first to denounce them. St. Augustine did not utterly reject the idea of the rotundity of the earth, but scouted the belief that men existed on the other side of the globe. But the new idea, frowned on though it was by scholars and the Church, grew rapidly; in 1519, Magalhaens proves the roundness of the earth by circumnavigating it; and, finally, French female friend who has visited a harem, and can astronomers make their measurements of deenlighten you as to the beautifying proprieties grees in equatorial and polar regions, and add of paint and powder. Again, she says, with a to old proofs that of the lengthened pendulum. cruelty truly feminine: "I must confess that a Then came Copernicus, and later Galileo, a full Turkish woman walks like a goose, and the history of whose persecutions is given, with a of a leather-dealer." The beau-string would size of her fairy feet' would rejoice the heart. keen and effectual refutation of the casuistry be inadequate punishment for the utterance of and misrepresentations of the Church, with these libels. These papers are very readable. reference to their treatment. The author has thoroughly posted himself in the literature of Not having the whole of "Thee and You," a this question, and conclusively shows that up story of Old Philadelphia, before us, we cannot to a very late day the Roman Catholic Church - Rev. Stopford Brooke's “ English Litera- pronounce a judgment on it; but it has some has been the unyielding enemy of Science. ture," in the "Literature Primer" series, qualities that are novel and fascinating, and Under the heads of Astronomy, Chemistry differs materially from other books of its kind, two or three of its personages represent an and Physics, Anatomy and Medicine, Geology, containing much information which may be almost new type. It is very well written, though Political Economy, and Scientific Instruction, sought in vain elsewhere. The subject is the writer is often too profuse in adjectives. the author shows conclusively that the Church, viewed in eight chapters, from writers before I had been brought up in the austere quiet not only the Roman Catholic, but the Church the Norman Conquest to "Poetry from 1730 of a small New-England town, where life was of England, and even New-England Congrega-ingly interesting, telling much about the Eng-of closely kindred meaning in one short sento 1832." The earlier chapters are exceed- sad and manners grave." Here are four words tionalism, have sturdily opposed the progress of Science. Prof. Stuart, of Andover, the fa-lish language in its earliest stages. Chapter tence. The writer speaks of the furniture of mous Hebrew scholar, declared that "geology III. contains much matter that will be new to the old time as "reflecting the solidness and was becoming dangerous." Small though this most readers. Chapter VII., in which the primness of the owners," and wonders "if volume is, it is exhaustive, and presents every course of the novel is traced, is not less in- our furniture represents us, too, in anywise?" aspect of the conflict in a clear light. The structive. The author fixes the origin of the Let the long roll of recent bankrupts answer. author's convictions seem occasionally too novel in the reign of George II. The volume The sketch of "Modern Huguenots" is fresh positive, and his prejudices are not wholly is a convenient and useful hand-book. [D. and entertaining. The devotion of Neff and suppressed; but his book is a treasury of Appleton & Co.] Charpiot vies with that of the Jesuits in Canada, recondite learning, and a powerful argument and lacks the cruelty which was an element in in behalf of Science in its controversy with their policy. Maurice Thompson's "BloomReligion. How radical are the author's opining "is a graceful poem; but where is the ions may be judged from this, his conclusion: parallel, or correlative, of the wild-fowl? There has never been a scientific theory Felipa," by Miss Woolson, is unlike her framed from the use of Scriptural texts, wholly earlier stories. It is original, to the verge of or partially, which has been made to stand." extravagance in some points; but lacks body. [D. Appleton & Co.] The conception of" Felipa " is not reasonable or substantial enough to sustain the story, and Christine is hardly human. A woman whom 66 The Mountains" is a collection of poems, which may be called a companion volume to " Sea and Shore." It contains about one hundred and fifty poems, in which the grandeur and beauty of mountains are celebrated. The selections have been made with good taste, and seem to exhaust the poetical literature of a theme which almost every English and American poet has been drawn to. The volume is a very pretty one. [Roberts Brothers.] 46 The first volume of Morris's "Epochs of History "The Age of Elizabeth "— is by Rev. M. Creighton. It is a very compact history of the Elizabethan age, viewed from England as a central stand-point. Severely condensed though it is, it affords a satisfactory representation of the period of which it treats, and seems to be candid and impartial. It is not free from errors of style and construction, which are inexcusable in an Oxford fellow and the mere sight of a sharp-nosed, light-eyed tutor. The author writes: "According to woman on a cold day made uncomfortable for the old state of things, Christendom was one; hours," ought to withdraw to a remoter region but now it had ceased to be so," instead of than Florida, - say Alaska. It is absurd even such. "Besides all other causes dif- to imagine so weak a being; and to make her, ference of religion was now added.” "The being such, a heroine, and the object of a political effects which were produced by the strong man's love, is ridiculous. The paper religious movement, when it had once taken descriptive of Chickamauga is very well writroot." The narrative, so far as England is ten, and evidently the work of one who saw it concerned, begins with the reign of Edward all, and was a part of it. It involves the quesVI., a previous chapter having reported the tion of Rosecranz's responsibility for a disas"The Fortunes of Miss Follen," by Mrs. religious changes in Germany, and ends with trous blunder. The article on "The Italian Goodwin-Talcott, as she chooses to call the death of Elizabeth. The author's esti- Mediæval Wood-Sculptors," and Lady Barherself, her maiden name, shows a marked mates of most of the leading personages of ker's "Letter from South Africa," we have not improvement on her earlier books, which the time seem to be sagacious and just; space to mention. The number is a very good smacked of the school-room and the Sunday especially is this true of Elizabeth, and Mary one. school. In this she takes broader views of Queen of Scots. The author gives a theory life, and writes with the freedom derived from as to the origin of the name Huguenots, dating contact with the world. The story is simple it from the conspiracy of Amboise, at which three or four papers of exceptional merit, and yet fresh. The heroine is a German peasant troops gathered to join in an attempt to drive one that is not worth the space it occupies. girl, whose beauty and grace attract some the Guises from power. "They were called The latter happens to be first in order, and American visitors at Baden, who learn to feel bears the signature of Mark Twain. A more a deep interest in her fortunes. She is untedious composition it has never been our lot educated, but not ignorant, a superior musito read, and we are forced to the conclusion cian, having had instructions from Conrad that the author, in one of his humorous freaks, Klaist, who has learned to love her, but she is Brooks.] resolved to see how pointless and inept an Huguenots, meaning, apparently, a crowd THE ATLANTIC. This number contains - which "sense was it that never happened to mercie, peace, honoure here, and glorie here- article he could write. The opening chapters admire. LITERARY NEWS. -At an autograph sale in London recently, a letter of Washington, treating of the political state of America, brought £95. When you quote, friend Publishers' Weekly, quote accurately. From our paragraph about Mr. Whipple's article on American Literature, you eliminated an adjective which means something. We wrote, "Mr. Whipple's 'ridiculous' mention;" you dropped the adjective, and thus failed to convey our real meaning. 66 - Happiness pursued Macaulay: he could not escape it. He was a bachelor; he won fame and money, and found many willing to tolerate his arrogance. But conceit was the chief element of his felicity; a vainer man never burned incense to himself. In our review of his Life and Letters," we have cited many evidences of this quality; but here is one that ought not to escape notice: "How little," he writes, "the all-important art of making meaning pellucid is studied now! Hardly any popular writer, except myself, thinks of it. Many seem to aim at being obscure; indeed, they may be right in one sense, for many readers give credit for profundity to whatever is obscure, and call all that is perspicuous, shallow. But coraggio, and think of A.D., 2850. Where will your Emersons be then? But Herodotus will still be read with delight. We must do our best to be read too." "Jane Eyre" has been translated into Italian, and bears the strange title, Il marito della Demente, "The Crazy Woman's Husband." Two of Miss Muloch's novels have also been translated into Italian. described. "The — Thomas Aird, a contributor to Blackwood, and author of "The Devil's Dream," died recently. simple, the imputation that theirs is a questionable claim to be the first people in the world' is resented, frequently with good humor, but resented very earnestly." He then quotes and briefly comments on a passage in Mr. Lowell's Essay on A Certain Condescension in ForHARPER'S MONTHLY. -The opening paper eigners." He complains of the high charges at Mr. B. F. De Costa, author of "The in this number is "Virginia in the Revolution," a village tavern. As to the social customs of Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the by John Esten Cooke, who is well qualified to Vermont, he says: "It is nothing for the deal with his subject. He gives much inter- whole of the family to leave you alone, whilst the Wilderness; or, Chapters in the Maritime Northmen," has written "The Conquest of esting information as to the social divisions of one goes to lie down, the second retires with and Colonial History of New England, from the people, their modes of living, &c., and a her sweetheart, and a third is being put to the Cabots to the Pilgrims of Leyden." succinct account of the events which culmi- bed." At the irreverence which permits the Journal of the Colony of Sagadahoc" will be nated in the States joining the union of colo- desecration of churches he is amazed: A included in the work, which will also comprise nies. Brief sketches of distinguished Virginians travelling agent for gas-burners requested the the history of voyages to Maine never before add much to the value of the paper. Among pastor of a church at Burlington to recommend these magnates he includes General Andrew his burners from the pulpit. Even bones and Lewis, but fails to mention that officer's dis- banjo have figured and sounded on the platgraceful behavior in the battle at Point Pleas- form occupied by the friend of man, par exant, when he remained in his camp to the end cellence, the renowned Henry Ward Beecher, of the action between his own men and the of Brooklyn." Coming out of New York Indians. The Shelbys, Sevier, and others who on the Hudson River Railroad, in a drawingshared in this battle, received hearty praises; room car, that is its fitting name, for it is a but odium fell to Lewis. Mr. Rideing describes drawing-room on a car, out of a bevy of five some remarkable and some horrible phases of handsome, grown-up girls, three were filling up life in New Mexico, in "A Trail in the Far the pauses in reading serials or newspapers by Southwest." "Old Abel's Experience" is a sucking sticks of candy with open and undispoem by Mrs. Corbett, but written in the style guised satisfaction." of W. M. Carleton. Miss Susan's Love Affair" is very long, and by no means exciting. Poor Clavers might well run away from the importunities of the love-lorn but unattractive Susan. This lady is represented by the author as having a good deal of goldsmiths' work in her mouth." We presume there were no dentists in her day. Susan was, the author says, if not positively lovely, yet not at all unlovely and comfortable in the sense that had never happened to doubt whether or not she was the peer of such other girls," &c. Now, - We have recently examined an old and The Watchman, of this city, has sound judgment as well as sharp eyes. It says of a recent number of this paper: "We have examined the May number of the Literary World with great pleasure and profit. The editor, in closing the sixth volume, states the design of this publication in these words: We have aimed to give monthly views of current American literature that should help our readers in the selection of books, and enable many, who are remote from the book-centres and the great libraries, to keep in a measure au courant with the flood of new publications.' From our examination of a sample copy, we are convinced that the magazine is admirably fitted to meet this want. Its reviews are able, clear in style, and lucid in treatment. Literary men and ministers cannot fail to find in the pages of this monthly much invaluable aid in their various spheres of labor." -W. F. Rae, who wrote a very good traveller's book on this country, is engaged on a History of the United States, in which he views his subject from a novel point of view. 66 against the colonies, he called it “ the last 66 MAY PUBLICATIONS. CLAXTON, REMSEN, & HAFFELFINGER, PHIL ADELPHIA. The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life; in Arresting Disease, and in Restoring Health in Acute and Chronic Disorders to Human and Domestic Animals, as illustrated by the Experiments of Gen. A. J. Pleasanton and others. Cr. 8vo. $2.00. J. H. COATES & CO., PHILADELPHIA. History of the Civil War in America. By the Comte Translated by Louis F. Tasistro. Vol. II. 8vo. Cloth. $3.50. HENRY HOLT & CO., NEW YORK. her mother] to console him never yet killed himself, and will not now." Mrs. Thrale worked like a Trojan to help her husband, and in nine years a debt of £130,000 resting on the business was paid off. "Who will be my biographer?" asked the doctor of Mrs. Thrale. Goldsmith, no doubt," she answered, "and he will do it the best among us." "No, Goldy won't do," says Johnson. Finally, he announces his intention to "disappoint the rogues, and either make you [Mrs. Thrale] write the life with Taylor's intelligence, or, which is better, do it myself after outliving you all." Here is a very good thing of Mrs. Thrale's. She said to Dr. Johnson, one evenWe would remind our bibliophilistic read-ing, after the return of the party from a tour ers that the second auction sale of the Drake in Wales: I remember, sir, when we were Library opens on the 6th inst., at 17 Bromfield travelling in Wales, how you called me to acSt. It offers an opportunity to the lovers of count for my civility to the people. 'Madam,' American historical and classic literature such you said, let me have no more of this idle as is not likely to occur again, possessing liter- commendation of nothing. Why is it that, de Paris. ary treasures that can hardly be duplicated in whatever you see and whoever you see, you are the country. The eagerness of purchasers at to be so indiscriminately lavish of praise?' the first sale is likely to be equalled, if not Why, I'll tell you, sir,' said I; when I am surpassed, at the second. with you and Mr. Thrale and Queeney, I am Hardy. 16mo. $1.25. obliged to be civil for four.'" Among the guests at Streatham, the Thrale residence, on one occasion, was Miss Sophia Streatfield, a beauty and a blue-stocking. The Bishop of Chester and Mr. Thrale himself regarded her with undisguised admiration. There was a large dinner-party at their house; Johnson sat on one side of Mrs. Thrale, Burke on the other; and Miss Sophia Streatfield was among the guests. Thrale was on this occasion superfluously attentive to the white-throated siren, while his wife, dismally low-spirited, looked on. Presently her husband asked her to give up her place at the head of the table to Sophy, who had a sore throat and did not like her seat near the door. It was a little too hard, and seemed to the poor lady the last drop in her cup of woe. So, bursting into tears, she made some petulant speech, that perhaps ere long the lady might be at the head of Mr. Thrale's table without displacing the mistress of the house," and so left the apartment. this first paper on Mrs. Thrale, there is much interesting matter about Fanny Burney, author of "Evelina," who, for six years, was Mrs. Thrale's dearest friend. - The Publishers' Weekly finds it necessary to qualify a complimentary and graceful notice of the Literary World by charging us with the administration of "an occasional dig,' such as his [our] reference to the gaudy and belauded magazine called the St. Nicholas." Now, we put it to our courteous contemporary, could there be successful (agri) culture without "" digs "? If we think that magazine needs trituration in order to promote in it the growth of simplicity and naturalness, instead of fancifulness and idealism, why shouldn't we give it a dig"? 66 Messrs. Holt & Co. will soon bring out a volume of poems by the late Robert K. Weeks. 66 In Village-Communities. 8vo. HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. Battle of Dorking." Paper. 75c. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. By his Nephew, G. Otto Trevelyan. Vol. II. 8vo. $2.50. Harper's School Geography. With Maps and Illustrations prepared expressly for this work. 4to. Boards. $2.00. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1875. Edited by Prof. S. F. Baird, assisted by eminent men $2.00. of science. 12mo. pp. ccxc. 656. Daniel Deronda. By George Eliot. In 2 vols. Vol. I. 12mo. $1.50. Select Poems of Thomas Gray. Edited, with notes, by W. J. Rolfe, A.M. Illd. 16mo. 90c. Stray Studies from England and Italy. By John ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, & CO., NEW YORK. and Table-Talk. With Portraits. Edited by R. H. The Fall of the Stuarts (Epochs of Modern History), Hale, M.A. Illd. 12mo. $1.00. One of the freshest bits of humor of the book-trade comes from the Granite State. A book-store in one of the large towns recently changed hands. The new proprietor was not well versed in his new business. One day, a gentleman and his wife came in and asked to see some books in large type, such as would and Western Europe from 1678 to 1697. By Rev. E. suit the feeble eyesight of age. The merchant triumphantly produced for the admiration of his customers, a copy of " Dick and His Cat," a juvenile for children at the first stage beyond infancy. - In Macmillan's Magazine for April, Mrs. Masson gossips pleasantly of Mrs. Thrale, the friend of Dr. Johnson. She was of good Welsh descent, and, by a series of happy accidents, became an heiress. Hogarth persuaded her, during her youth, to sit to him for his picture of The Lady's Last Stake," promising that it should be hers; but on his death it fell into other hands, and years afterwards she saw her own young face in a public exhibition in Pall Mall. Her first suitor, Mr. Thrale, was proudly repulsed by her uncle; but Thrale finally won the prize, and the marriage took place in 1763, the bride being twenty-two years old. The two were not congenial, and their married life was not happy. Through Arthur Murphy, a dramatist of some note, she made the acquaintance of Dr. Johnson, who, once established on an intimate footing in the family, set about elevating Mrs. Thrale from the sub-neers will be ordinate position she occupied under her husband's control. In 1772, Mr. Thrale became involved in a ruinous speculation, and threatened suicide. His wife was greatly alarmed, but Dr. Johnson was her comforter. -Messrs. 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A STUDY OF HAWTHORNE.* ON page 13 of this volume we read, in imagination in literature, and denying them-clear representation of his tastes and habits. mission and that of the apostles." the language of the author, "that Haw- Another fault which seriously impairs the thorne especially disapproved the writing of attractiveness of this Study is the introduca Life of himself," and proceed, if we have tion of impertinent matter, such as the long sufficient fortitude, to the perusal of such a discourse on the Salem of colonial times; the Life. The case is one of Tweedle dum and witchcraft delusion, &c. So far as the life of Tweedle-dee: what's in a name? The book Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned, the author is not a Life, the author tells us, but a Study. might as well have foraged in the family Those who read it will wish it were less of a records of Major William Hawthorne's anStudy and more of a Life. We trust that Mr. cestors. His comparative view of Milton, Lathrop was able to placate his own con- Bunyan, and Hawthorne has no legitimate science for his palpable disregard of Mr. place in what is, in fact, if not in name, a Hawthorne's wish; but he has surely failed to biography of the latter. His favoritism in show to the reading public wherein the pres- the matter of words is conspicuous; we find ent work differs from a Life. We miss in it" atmosphere" occurring seven times in the no elements of a biography, though the author's personality and opinions claim more space than is their due. He announces that he has been assisted in his work by an inspiration, as if to assure his readers that what he writes is authentic. 66 66 66 first eighty pages. reer, father, Colonel John, presided at witchcraft close student, and seems to have been associated with young men of festive disposition. The report of his card-playing adventure convicts him of disingenuousness. While fitting for college, he speculated as to his choice of a profession, writing to his mother, "A minister I will not be." While at Raymond, he writes to his sister: "I have almost given up writing poetry. . . . I do find this place most dismal, and have taken to chewing tobacco with all my might, which, I think, raises my spirits." There is no nature so pure and refined as to have no spot or flaw in it; but it is hard and abhorrent to imagine this handsome youth of sixteen, already under the influence of books, and bent on literary labors, studying the little rustic world about him, and projecting his vigorous mind into the uncertain future, with a huge quid of "nigger-head" distending his cheeks. His The narrative proper of Hawthorne's cathough often interrupted by the author's Having graduated in 1825, - having no essays at analysis, is much more satisfactory part at Commencement, by reason of his negthan the introductory pages. It embodies, lect of declamation, Hawthorne found "the He we think, all the particulars heretofore world before him, where to choose." finds in the fact that he never saw Mr. Haw-published, together with some new and im- bias toward literature was irresistible; and, thorne a favoring circumstance: a person-portant ones. The attempted identification in 1828, "Fanshawe," his first novel, was ality so elusive as his," he adds, may possibly of the Hawthorne family with the Pyncheons of issued. Ashamed of his first bantling, he took yield its traits more readily to one who can "The House of the Seven Gables" is ingen- measures to destroy it; and was so successful never obtrude actual intercourse between ious and probable. Nathaniel's great-grand- in his efforts, that hardly a copy remains. himself and the mind he is meditating upon." With his next venture, "Seven Tales of my This proposition is certainly antagonistic to Native Land," he had an experience not unthe common idea that intercourse is a medium, like that of many young authors of the pres"One woman was brought before him, whose -a rapport, - and is reducible to the simpler husband has left a pathetic record of her suf- ent day of seventeen booksellers to whom statement that personal intercourse with a man fering: She was forced to stand with her he offered the manuscript, only one would read restricts one's knowledge of him. Mr. La- hold one of her hands; but it was declined me. Hawthorne withdrew it from his hands. His arms stretched out. I requested that I might it, and he so long delayed action upon it, that throp's style is at once diffuse and labored; Then she desired me to wipe the tears from yet one finds in it such blunders in construc- her eyes and the sweat from her face, which I mode of life at this time was characteristic; tion as this (p. 124): In the history and did; then she desired that she might lean her- he sat in his little room in the house on Hercharacter of the people of each country are Hathorne replied she had strength enough to other members of his family, his meals being self on me, saying she should faint: Justice bert Street, shut off almost wholly from the seen the influence of Calvin and of a commontorment these persons, and she should have school system." His figures are often mixed: strength enough to stand. I repeating some- brought to his locked door. Mr. Fields's "Neither have I," he says, any rash hope thing against their cruel proceedings, they picture of him reading his stories aloud to his of adding a single ray to the light of Haw-commanded me to be silent, or else I should mother and sisters, Mr. Lathrop pronounces thorne's high standing." His diffuseness is that this husband should have exclaimed that duction into the high society of Salem, under be turned out of the room.' It is not strange purely imaginary. The account of his introillustrated in this passage: God would take revenge upon his wife's perwhose curse was said to have fallen upon the afterwards became his wife, is one of the finest secutors; and perhaps he was the very man the auspices of Miss Peabody, whose sister Justice's posterity." episodes in the book. The future was still The pages which treat of Hawthorne's res- dark to him, and his employment by Goodrich idence in Raymond, Maine, and his earliest as editor of the American Magazine was a deliterary efforts, are very interesting, abound- lusive and unsatisfactory gleam of hope. But ing in characteristic incidents. He was a his reputation was growing, and the London strong, handsome boy, and at a tender age Athenæum had praised his stories in the "Togave evidences of precocious mental develop-keu." The firm establishment of his fame may properly date from the publication of dency which is so conspicuous in his writings. Twice-Told Tales," in 1837, of which His sensitiveness had early manifestation. Longfellow wrote in laudatory terms in the When very young, he said of a woman who North American Review. Then followed his was trying to be kind to him: "Take her brief term of service in the Custom House, away! she is ugly and fat, and has a loud his residence at Brook Farm, — which was voice!" In this captiousness, we see the germ not congenial to him, and the publication of of the mild selfishness which characterized his attitude toward his fellow-men in later life. The sketch of his college life fails to give a 66 "The records of Massachusetts Bay are full of suggestive incongruities between the ideal, single-souled life which its founders hoped to lead, and the jealousies, the opposing opinions, or the intervolved passions of individuals and of parties, which sometimes unwittingly cloaked themselves in religious tenets." Why "unwittingly"? Sometimes the author contradicts himself:ment, and of the peculiar introspective tenOn page 11, he speaks of Hawthorne as inheriting from the race of Non-conformist colonizers "a quick and delicately-thrilled [] sensibility for all that is rich and beautiful and generous." On page 29, he describes those colonists as, very cut off by their intellectual asceticism from any exertion of the 66 * A Study of Hawthorne. By George P. Lathrop. 18mo. $1.50. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. a severe attack by the Church Review. Mr. Lathrop's analyses of Hawthorne's works lack perspicuity, and are too general to be acute. We must bring this long notice to an end. The author sketches Hawthorne's career to that sad day, May 19, 1864, when the great master of romance passed away quietly, in Plymouth, N. H. The writer of this article received from the lips of the late President Pierce, who was Hawthorne's travelling-companion, a full account of the close of a beautiful life. We are surprised that the author dismisses so curtly so critical an event. This Study must be regarded as in most respects a satisfactory view of Hawthorne's life, and personal and literary character. It is, of course, highly eulogistic, and the author is more conspicuous in it than he ought to be; but it exhibits its subject in a clear light, and gives the American public, for the first time, an opportunity of estimating, on reasonably full data, the character and calibre of Nathaniel Hawthorne. WE a con AMERICA DISCOVERED BY THE WELSH.* one which makes them a branch of the Celtic family. The author's pride of race colors all 46 names from Armenia to Tartary, and thence by whole frame of argument, which is indescriba- The author proceeds to tell the well-known story of Madoc, the Welsh prince, who, becoming disgusted with his own country, sails forth on unknown seas, and lands on the coasts which, more than three centuries later, Columbus approached. In support of this tradition, he produces indirect and feeble evidence from very old writers, whose credibility is not assured. His heaviest gun employed in defence of his theory is the narrative of Rev. Morgan Jones, a Welshman, who, being in Virginia, in 1660, encountered some Tuscaroras who spoke Welsh. This is followed by many bits of second or third hand information, which reminds one of the intelligent contraband" of the late war. He robs the Northmen of the glory of the Newport round tower, and attributes its construction to the Welsh. Of the inscription on the Dighton Rock, and "the skeleton in armor," he, unaccountably, says not a word. Mr. Bowen has added nothing, so far as we can see, to the stock of credible information about the discovery of America. He has revived a theory always feeble, and now generally forgotten, and failed signally to support it by his evidence, much of which is hearsay, and all of it fragmentary. The only part of his purpose in which he has succeeded is in the glorification of his countrymen. WORDS: THEIR USE AND ABUSE.* SOME OME readers may recognize in Prof. William Mathews, LL.D., the author of "Getthe ting On in the World." His latest work one under notice seems to be constructed on the same general plan of stringing together borrowed beads. In some respects it resembles Jacox's compilations, though less good judgment and taste are visible in it. The author divides his matter into fourteen chapters; but, as he is repetitious, the book is not so long as it would seem. The first chapter is entitled, "The Significance of Words," but, in fact, it treats of literature generally, oratory, &c. His statements To the Welsh, also, he ascribes the mounds of the West, and makes great account of parchment-covered parcels, believed to contain writings, found in the possession of the Indians. Of a certain tribe called the "WhiteBearded Indians," who lived west of the Mississippi, he has much to say, regarding them as lineal descendants of Prince Madoc. His proofs seem to have been exposed to strange Stuart, in 1782, was captured by the Indians, are very positive, and his and damaging vicissitudes. One Captain manner magisterial. We wish we could add and, while with them, visited a tribe far up iant. As a specimen of the latter, and an that his grammar is good and his style brillthe Mississippi, of white skins and reddish hair. The chiefs told him that their forefath- appetizer, we quote: "For twenty-five or ers came from a foreign country, and landed thirty centuries [why couldn't he be more spein Florida. They also produced one of those cific in so important a matter?] they [the rolls of parchment already mentioned; but, as no one present could decipher the inscrip language, physique, color, &c., still prepon- tion thereon, its testimony was lost. Gov. woman's house was burned, and, with it, the precious volume. Why the author has chosen to introduce these anecdotes, when wholly Rev. Benjamin F. Bowen. 16mo. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip deprived of vitality, we cannot see; but his action in this matter is of a piece with his America Discovered by the Welsh in 1170, A.D. By pincott & Co. winged words' of Old Homer] have maintained their flight across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion; and they are still full of the life-blood of immortal youth." We are inclined to doubt this last statement: the innumerable draughts on their vitality by translators must surely have reduced the supply. The author's grammatical peculiarities constitute a conspicuous feature of his literary equipment. We note a few of its beauties: Words: Their Use and Abuse. By William Mathews, LL.D. 16mo, $200. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co.; Nichols & Hall. |