Nov. i8i 1886] The ISTation 423 nock, he determined to strike the latter before out at all from the mass of kindred writing, it is Haggard, H. R. King Solomon's Mines: A Novel. Har- per's Franklin Square Library. 20 cents. the two. principal Federal armies could unite. solely in consequence of unusual inaccuracy, Hamerton, P. G. Imagination in Landscape Painting. Illustrated, Boston: Roberts Brothers, $0,50, Foiled at first by Pope's retreat from the Rapi- padding to the point of bursting, and a style Hanotaux, G, Etudes lilstoriques sur le xvie et xvlle dan and then by a storm, when about to cross whose dulness would be insupportable were it not sl^cleen France, Boston: Schoenhof, Barper's Yovng People. 1886. the Rappahannock at the White Sulphur Springs, for the relief it affords, after the author's occa­ Harte, B. The Story of a Mine. • Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 50 cents. he conceived the bold plan which Jackson car­ sional disheartening attempts at wit. There Hood, T, Fair Ines. Illustrated. Boston; Estes & Lau­ rlat, $1,60, ried out, of seizing Manassas m Pope's rear. Lee shoufd be some means of persuading ordinary Hugo. Victor, Les MlsSrables, George Routledge & thus effected his object, which was not, as is too tourists in Mexico, over the ordinary routes, that Sons, $3,00, Irving, H, English Actors, their Gharacierlstlcs and often supposed, a mere raid on Pope's supplies the world will willingly allow them to preserve their Methods, Oxford; Clarendon Press; New York: Macmlllan & Co, 25 cents. and lines of communication. Had this been all, their notes of travel unpublished. A good way Irving, w. Old Christmas; From the Sketch Book. Illus­ the advantage would hardly have compensated would be to have placed in the hands of every trated by R. Caldecott. Macmlllan & Go, $6.00, Knoflach.A, German Simplified: An Explanation of the for the risk. The purpose of the movement was traveller, as he crosses the river at El Paso or Principles of the German Language, A, Kuoflach, Knox, T. W, The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire, much wider. After forcing Pope from the Rap­ Laredo, Anderson's bibliography of recent works Illustrated. Harper & Brothers. pahannock, and disconcerting and distressing on Mexico, or Bancroft's list, ninety pages long, Kraszewskv. J. I. Le Julf, traduit du polonals par Alex­ andre HolynskI, Boston: Schoenhof, him by the destruction of his supplies, it was the of authorities on Mexican history. This ought Lathbury, Mary A. From Meadow to Mistletoe. Worth- ington Co. object of the Confederate leader to give him bat­ to deter all but writers conscious of genius from Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss. A. D. F. Ran­ attempts to tell the old tales over again. Even dolph & Co $1.60, tle. The skill and nerve with which Jackson Macquoid, Katharine S, Sir James Appleby, Bart.: A managed Pope until Lee came up, will constitute in Mexico, however, comparatively virgin soil Novel. Harper's Franklin Square Library. 20 cents. Malot, Hector. Zyte. B, Westermann & Co, one of the strong grounds on which his military remains. The wilds of Sonora have been little Molioy, J. F. Famous Plays, with a Discourse by way of Prologue on the Playhouses of the Restoration. Scrib­ reputation will rest. This feat of Jackson's must explored and less written about; interior Yuca­ ner & Welford. rank with his bold push between McDowell and tan has seen few successors of Stephens; Guerre­ Our Little Ones and the Nursery. Illustrated. Boston: Estes & Laurlat. $1.75. Fremont at Strasburg, and with his final achieve- ro, Tabasco, and Chiapas are States practically Pooler. C. T. Manual of the School Laws of the State of New York, 2d ed, E. L, Kellogg & Co. 30 cents, . ment against Hooker at Chancellorsville. There unvisited. It is a pity that Dr. McCarty did not Pontmariin. A. de. Souvenirs d'un vieux critique, Sep- was no bolder or more successful strategy in the go to some of these places. By not doing so he ti&me s6rle. Boston: Schoenhof. Prentiss, Mrs, E, Stepping Heavenward. New ed. An­ war. missed his only chance of writing an interesting son D. F. Randolph & Co. Ealeigh, T, Elementary Politics, Macmlllan & Co, 25 book on Mexico. That Jackson ran great risk is true, but we Renan, Ernest. L'Abbesse de Jouarre. Christern, think that this view of the case has been exag-. Bhelnhardt, R, H, Whist Scores and Card-Table Talk: with a Biography of Whist, Chicago: A, C, McClurg & gerated. Lee felt no apprehension about the BOOKS OF THE WEEK. Co, «1.60. Rolfe-Hersey. Select Poems of Robert Browning, Har- fate of his lieutenant. Jackson was enveloped A Demigod: A Novel. Harper & Brothers, - per & Brothers. , by a splendid body of cavalry, which ooniplete- Anecdotes Illustrative of Old Testament Texts. A. C. Roussett, M, A. The Forest Waters the Farm-. Forest Armstrong & Son. $1.60. and Stream Publishing Company. ly screened his own movamenta, while they re­ Arriold-Forster. H. o. The Citizen Reader. For the Use Schwatka, F. The Children of the Cold, Cassell & Co. of Schools, 5th ed. Cassell & Co. $1.26. vealed to him all those of his adversary. Pope's Arnold, T, J. Reynard the Fox. After Goethe; Illus­ Sheykh-Zada, The History of the Forty Vezirs ; or the trated, Boston: Roberts Brothers, ¥9,00, Story of the Fortv Morns and Eves. Done Into English cavalry was not efficient. These facts gave Jack­ Bert, P. First Steps In Sclentlflc Knowledge, Complete by E, J, W, Glbb, Scribner & Welford. son an immense advantage, and rendered the in seven parts. Philadelphia: J. B. Llpplncott Co. Shiileto, A, R, Pausanias: Descrlntion of Greece, Trans­ 60 cents, lated Into Kngllsh, with Notes and Index. 2 vols. " bagging" operation which Pope proposed prac­ Besant. W, Children of Gibeon : A Novel,, Harpei's Scribner & Welford. Franklin Square Library. 20 cents. Smith, A, M, A System of Political Economy, 2d ed. tically out of the question. There was no time Blackburn, H, Randolph Galdecott: His Early Art Ca­ London: Williams & Norgate. when Jackson could not have retreated towards reer, George Routledge & Sons. 86.00, Stall, Rev. S. Lutheran Year-Book and Historical Quar­ Brine, Mary D. A Mother's Song. Illustrated, Cassell & terly for 1887. Lutheran Publication Houses. Aldie, for instance; no time when, with his quick­ Co, 8i!„50, Storrs, Dr. R, S, The Divine Origin of Christianity Indi­ Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, bonnets from the Portu­ cated by its Historical Effects. A. D. F. Randolph & ness, he could not have eluded Pope's converging guese. Illustrated, Boston: TIcknor&Co. «]5,00, Co. $2,00, columns, even had these columns been directed Brownson, Dr. O. A, The American Republic: Its Consti­ The Berean Beginner's Book, 1887, Phillips & Hunt, tution, Tendencies, and Destiny. Sew ed. P. O'Shea. The Berean Question Book. 1887. Phillips & Hunt. with far more wisdom than was the case. Bruuot, F. Grammalre historique de la langue frangalse, The Berean Senior Lesson Book, 1887: Phillips & Hunt. Christern. The Frenchwoman of the Century, George Routledge & Butterworth, H. Zigzag Journeys In the Sunny South. Sons, $16,00, Illustrated, Boston: Estes & Laurlat, $1,76, The Volcano under the City. By a Volunteer Special, Two Thousand Miles through the Heart of Chatterbox. 1886. Boston : Estcs & Laurlat, «1,25, Fords, Howard & Hulbert, $1.00, Mexico. By Rav. J. Hendrickson McCarty, Cooley, Prof, L, R. C, A Guide to Elementary Chemistry Tolstoi, L, Dernltires nouvelles, traduit par Mme. E. for Beginners, • Ivlson,- Blakeman, Taylor &, Co, 7-i Tsakny, Christern, I). D,. Phillips & Hunt. 1886. Pp.288. cents. Tolstoi, L, Deux generations, Christern. Days with Sir Roger de Coverley. Illustrated by B, Gal­ Townsend, G. A. Katy of Catoctln; or, The Chain-Break­ A BOOK destined not to fill a void, but to push its decott, Macmlllan & Co, $2,00, ers : A National Romance. D, Appleton & Co, Du Bose, Rev. H. O, The Dragon, Image, and Demon • • Tuer, A, W, The Follies and Fashions of our Grand­ way into a plenum, ought to be one of positive or the Three Great Religions of China, A.~ C. Arm­ fathers (1807), Illustrated, Scribner & Welford.. strong & Son. 2.00. Upton, G. P. The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, merit. When it is remembered that no less than Dupr6, Q, Thoughts on Art and Biographical Memoirs, their Music, and their Composers, Chicago: A, C, Mc­ twenty-five volumes of Mexican travels and de­ Boston: Roberts Brothers, $2,00. Clurg & Co. $1.60, Fenn, G, M. The Chaplain's Craze: Being the Mystery of Van Der Smissen, W. H, Hautf's Das Kalte Herz, Bos­ scription have appeared in English since 1880, it Flndon Friars, Harper & Brothers, ton : D, G, Heath & Co, Frieze, H, S. Giovanni DuprS, With two Dialogues on Vermont, E. de V. A Comnilatlon of Coats of Arms, will be conceded that a new work of the same Art from the Italian of Augusto Contl, Scribner & - Crests, and Mottoes of Prominent American Families Welford. Settled In this Country before 1800. Brentano class can have reason for being only by virtue of GInn-Coady, Combined Number and Language Lessons, Brothers. opening fresh fields, or of greatly improved Boston: GInn & Co. 55 cents, Vicar of Wakefield. George Routledge & Sons. $6.00. Qower, Lord B. Last Days of Marie Antoinette : An His­ Wall, Annie. Sordello's Story, Retold In Prose. Boston: handling of familiar matter. Dr. McCarty's torical Sketch. Boston: Roberts Brothers, Ji.OO, Houghton, Mlfllla & Co. Grlffln, S, B, Mexico of To-Day. Illustrated. Harper & Wallace, Susan E, GInevra: A Christmas Story: Illus­ book, unfortunately, does neither.