| throughout its pages almost at random." In- highly valued by historical collectors, than the deed, so literally true is this that occasionally records of particular regiments which have there is something almost ludicrous in the been prepared by their commanding or other manner in which sentimental love songs or officers. It is true their field is limited, but ringing patriotic airs are made to usher in and | for this very reason they bring into light and follow the grave harmonies of compositions prominence many interesting minor details that are associated exclusively with sacred which have an important bearing upon great hymns and psalms. The collection contains historical events, that must necessarily be many new and favorite tunes and melodies, crowded out of any general history. One of but its chief attraction lies in its large infusion the best examples of these regimental memoof the fine old glees, ballads, carols, songs, and rials is an unaffected volume by Colonel Adin hymns which have stood the test of time, and B. Underwood, in which he records The Three deserve to endure for many generations to Years' Service of the Thirty-third Massachusetts come. Aside from this, the distinctive feature Infantry Regiment during the years 1862-65, of the collection is the devotion of a consider- and minutely sketches the part borne by it in able space at the top and bottom of nearly ev- some of the most important campaigns and ery page to miscellaneous reading matter from engagements of the war, especially in the batwell-known writers and periodicals, embodying tles of Chancellorsville, Beverly's Ford, Gettysvaluable suggestions on music and musical burg, Wauhatchie, Chattanooga, and Atlanta, training, interesting brief anecdotes, and his- and in the March to the Sea and through the torical incidents connected with the origin or Carolinas. Written in a style of easy neglicause of certain of the songs and airs, and a gence, enlivened with occasional gleams of dry large body of musical and æsthetic comment humor, and perfectly free from gasconade, it is and criticism which will be entertaining and also commendable for the geniality and teminstructive to the preponderating classes for perateness of its judgments, and its carefulness whom the volume is designed. in the statement of facts. While the volume will be specially acceptable to the survivors of the regiment, and to the friends and relatives of those who originally constituted its rank and file, its spirited relation of stirring incidents by flood and field, its engaging re and its faithful delineation of the history and fortunes of the regiment from its organization until it was mustered out of the service, will afford quiet entertainment to numbers who have no special associations to be gratified. Appended to the author's narrative is a complete official roster of the regiment. ONE of the sprightliest and best juveniles we have read in a long while is Mr. Otis's clever story, Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus. It is a chronicle of the adventures, enjoyments, sufferings, and mishaps of a quick-miniscences of heroic deeds of personal daring, witted and honest little fellow, who, becoming dissatisfied with the humdrum events of his home life, and remorseful because of the magnitude of his appetite in comparison with his small powers for earning the means of satisfying it, is tempted by a crafty hanger-on of a circus to run away with one of those fascinating institutions. The story records with spirited verisimilitude Toby's gradual awakening, under some pleasant and many bitter experiences, from the illusions in which he indulged, as have thousands of other boys, as to the delights of circus life, until he was glad enough to run away a second time, and seek and find a refuge in his once despised home. The charm of the story consists in its variety of sweet and bitter experiences of the ups and downs in the life of a circus boy, and in its unobtrusive practical lessons in contentment. These lessons are conveyed so unobtrusively that, before the child-reader discovers he has been absorbing a moral, he is unconsciously brought under its influence by the logic of the events that are told, and is filled with the conviction that the life of a circus boy, however bright his fancy may have painted it, is not the life for him, any more than it was for honest Toby Tyler. No annals of our civil war are more unreserved and dispassionate, and few are more Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus. By JAMES OTIS. Illustrated. 16mo, pp. 265. New York: Harper and Brothers. MR. HENRY P. JOHNSTON's elegant volume, The Yorktown Campaign, and the Surrender of Cornwallis, would invite and deserve attention at any time, because of the historical importance of the event it commemorates, and the reputation of its author for accuracy and luminous fullness in studies pertaining to the Revolutionary period. But it has peculiar claims upon attention, and a special timeliness, at this moment when we are fresh from the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the surrender, and its incidents are occupying our minds and appealing to our patriotic instincts. As has been the case with Mr. Johnston's previous historical studies, his investigation of the military movements, and of the accessory circumstances which converged upon a single point, and contributed to make the operations before Yorktown the crowning event of the war, are traced with equal mi 8 The Three Years' Service of the Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 1862-65. And the Campaigns and Battles in which it took Part. By ADIN B. UNDERWOOD. Svo, pp. 374. Boston: A. Williams and Co. 9 The Yorktown Campaign, and the Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. By HENRY P. JOHNSTON. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 206. New York: Harper and Brothers. | story, which is told with blunt directness, and sparkles with quaint humor and picturesque contrasts, and largely contributing to its effectiveness, are a succession of weird folk-lore fancies, beliefs, legends, and traditions, whose mild supernaturalism tinges the lives of the inhabitants of the Scottish moors and glens with the mysteries of a perpetual romance. nuteness and clearness, and the immediate operations themselves are exhaustively described. The accounts of the siege and capitulation are accompanied with authentic plans of the movements and operations, and with pleasing outline sketches of the chief actors on each side, and their share in the conflict, these last being made doubly interesting by fine illustrations, most of them reproduced from paintings by artists who were contemporaneous THERE is no serious attempt to delineate with the great men and events they commem- character, to observe manners, to describe natorated. Mr. Johnston has gathered into a ural scenes, or to draw upon the fancy in Mrs. generous appendix a large amount of valuable Randolph's Reseda." It is simply a straightmaterial that will be prized by historical stu- forward and unaffected love story, with the dents, illuminating nearly every stage in the usual alternations of light and shade, of hope siege and surrender by original papers and let- | and disappointment, of rapture and pain, of ters from those who were eye-witnesses or endurance, suspense, and fruition, and with prominent actors on the eventful scene. Natu- the customary infusion of villainy and heartrally Lord Cornwallis is a conspicuous figure, lessness, of plotting, scheming, and cross-purdividing our attention with Washington and poses, that make such performances attractLafayette and Rochambeau, and Mr. Johnston ive and popular reading. If it occasionally has followed his career with full particularity. | trends upon the sensational, it is never heated The second and third chapters, which recount or morbid, and its tone is uniformly pure and the operations on his part that led remotely or wholesome. For ourselves, we have found it directly to his overthrow, are specially inter- a more agreeable and restful companion for esting, and will repay a careful study. an hour of relaxation, when any strain upon the intellect would have been burdensome, than a more ambitious novel by a master in the art of fiction could possibly have been. ALTHOUGH Cape Cod Folks12 is called "a novel" on its title-page, it has no sufficient claim to the title, being rather the record of an episode in the life of its pseudo-narrator, during her teacher, in one of the most secluded and archaic settlements of Cape Cod, which is interesting less for the half-told love romances that brighten or sadden her story than for the cleverness with which she reproduces the life and manners of the primitive Cape Cod folk, and sketches their surroundings. The writer has the gift of humor in an unusual degree, and describes men and things with spirit and freshness. Her descriptions of the provincial traits of this most provincial of all the outlying New England settlements are admirable bits of genre workmanship, and betoken great possibilities. MR. GEORGE MACDONALD has appropriately styled his latest novel, Warlock of Glenwarlock," "a homely romance," since it is in reality a delineation of certain rugged and homely, but withal romantic, aspects of Scottish glen and moorland life and scenery, in which the actors belong essentially to the comparatively unchanging middle and humble classes, and dis-short residence, in the capacity of a schoolplay the virtues and foibles, the graces and amenities, the strength and weakness, the shrewd simplicity, the invincible loyalty, and the unswerving attachments that belong to their order. It may be objected, and not entirely without reason, that Mr. Macdonald darkens many passages in his fine story, and not infrequently makes them unintelligible to many English readers, especially those belonging to the classes who will be most interested in its incidents and most susceptible to its teachings, by the long stretches of broad Scottish dialect in which he indulges; but in the main, we think, these are easily decipherable, and have the same pleasing effect that is produced by an unwonted accompaniment to a plain song or simple ballad. One great merit, far too rare in recent works of fiction, it undoubtedly possesses: instead of arbitrarily labelling its actors, once for all, as of this or that particular type of temper or character, it causes them to display their characters and dispositions as they grow and are unfolded by the vicissitudes for good or ill of their life, under the stress of their joys and sorrows, trials and temptations, and the manifold incidents that befall them. Interwoven with the 10 Warlock of Glenwarlock. A Homely Romance. By GEORGE MACDONALD. "Franklin Square Library." 4to, pp. 88. New York: Harper and Brothers. Two noteworthy novels by American authors, now just published, derive their inspiration from aspects and incidents of Southern life and society, more especially those associated with slavery and its results. One of these, Homoselle,13 is a romance of great delicacy and spirit, in which the actors are disposed with artistic taste and skill, and perform their parts with vivacity and naturalness. Its scene is laid in Virginia, on one of its historic ante-Revolutionary plantations, and the time 11 Reseda. A Novel. By Mrs. RANDOLPH. "Franklin Square Library." 4to, pp. 71. New York: Harper and Brothers. 12 Cape Cod Folks. A Novel. 12mo, pp. 327. Boston: A. Williams and Co. 13 Homoselle. "Round Robin Series." 16mo, pp. 367. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. lished it in handsome library form, uniform with his other novels. chosen for its action is a period prior to the late civil war, when coming events were just beginning to cast their shadows. The old plantation life and manners, the state of society, IT is no exaggeration to say that scarcely the relations of the races, the good and the one of the three-quarters of a million readers evils of the institution of slavery, the loyalty of this Magazine has missed reading Mr. Samof the negro disturbed by the secret efforts of uel Adams Drake's genial and spirited descripabolition propagandists, the aspirations of the tive sketches of the White Mountains, as they slaves, and the distrust which began to rear have appeared in successive numbers since its snaky head in the fairest-seeming Edens, June last, or has failed to enjoy the fine illusare some of the contrasted threads which are trations by Mr. Gibson which accompanied skillfully woven into the story. Besides its oth- them. Delightful as these sketches seemed as er merits, the tale is a love idyl of great sweet- they appeared, they were but an epitome of a ness and tenderness, and reaches its climax in volume which was in course of preparation by one of those periodical unsuccessful negro in- | Mr. Drake; and while they presented the more surrections that terrified the South before the important features of White Mountain scenery war. It has no political moral, and the intro- and life with great completeness, they necesduction of the conditions and relations that sarily excluded many interesting details that existed at the time, and of the portents of the serve to give a more rounded picture of the coming struggle, was a dramatic necessity, of Alps of America and a fuller introduction to which the artist has availed with fine effect.- the people who nestle at their feet or rest upon The scene of the other novel which we have their craggy bosoms, and are the repositories associated with Homoselle is laid in Louisiana, of the legends and traditions indigenous to and the time is synchronous with one of those their lofty peaks and mighty chasms. This seasons of political agitation since the war, work is now completed in its expanded form, when the country was lashed into passion by and has just been published by the Messrs. carpet-baggers on the one side and the unre- Harper in a luxurious royal quarto, entitled constructed rebels on the other. Its title is The Heart of the White Mountains,16 whose stateWild Work; and under the guise of a romance, ly proportions, rich paper, ample margin, faultin which pure love and guilty passion are each less typography, and threescore superb illusdelineated with some force, the author vividly trations are a perpetual feast to the eye. As depicts the dramatic features of Southern so- the readers of the Magazine articles will bear ciety and politics, and the antagonisms and witness, Mr. Drake's itinerary of this region of deadly feuds, the discontent, disaffection, mur- majesty and beauty does not in any degree ders, and organized violence on a large scale, partake of the formal character of a guidethat ensued from sullen disloyalty and disap- book. It is not a mere catalogue of notable pointed hopes on the one hand, and political places, but a natural series of enthusiastic and rapine and greed on the other. The story is genuine descriptive sketches, enlivened by fana wild one; it is told with unquestionable cy and the relation of engaging personal incivigor, and the author assures us its incidents dents and encounters, and enriched with the are disposed "with an eye solely to their dra- recital of the curious or thrilling legends and matic aspect, not distorted by sectional preju- traditions that have fruited on and around dice, and not disturbed by political side-lights." these everlasting hills for two centuries. Mr. This was doubtless the author's intention, but Drake has the faculty of conveying his vivid nevertheless it is as easy to read her predilec- impressions of the scenery he sees and loves tions between the lines of her book as it was so that they are shared by his readers without to read Judge Tourgee's leanings between the any diminution of their brightness and beauty. lines of his Fool's Errand. As a work of art, Of Mr. Gibson's fine illustrations it is enough Wild Work is far inferior to Homoselle, and al- to say that they are worthy of his high reputhough its story is in the main strong and im- tation, and materially enhance the value of pressive, it too often descends to a depth of the text. His spirited and poetic drawings sensationalism that is simply brutal. have been worthily treated by such competent engravers as Hoskin, Bernstrom, Smithwick and French, J. P. Davis, King, Held, Deis, W. H. Morse, Buechner, Johnson, Mayer, Wolf, J. Linton, and others. The intrinsic value of the beautiful volume is further contributed to by three excellent maps of the mountains, respectively of the east side, the central and northern section, and the west side. In the last number of the Record we noted the publication of a "Franklin Square Library" edition of Mr. Black's new novel, That Beautiful Wretch. Many of our readers will be glad to learn that the Messrs. Harper have also pub 15 14 Wild Work. The Story of the Red River Tragedy. By MARY E. BRYAN. 12mo, pp. 410. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 15 That Beautiful Wretch. A Brighton Story. By WILL IAM BLACK. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 240. New York: Harper and Brothers. | | 16 The Heart of the White Mountains: their Legend and Scenery. By SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE. With Illustrations by W. HAMILTON GIBSON. Royal 4to, pp. 318. New York: Harper and Brothers. Ο Editor's Bistorical Record. POLITICAL. 457 Republicans, 47 Bonapartists, and 43 Monarchists. The Republicans comprise 39 of the Left Centre, 168 of the Left, 206 of the Republican Union, and 46 of the Extreme Left. UR Record is closed on September 23.James A. Garfield, President of the United States, died at Elberon, New Jersey, on Monday, September 19, at 10.35 P.M., at the age of fifty years. Early on the following morning The French campaign in Northern Africa is Vice-President Chester A. Arthur took the oath not yet ended. Three battalions of troops and of office as President, at his residence in this a battery of artillery occupied Susa September city, before Justice John R. Brady, of the New 10. The Arabs besieged the camp at Zaghonan York Supreme Court. On September 22 Pre- for four days, but were repulsed. From April sident Arthur again took the oath, at Wash-6 to September 7 France had sent 36,000 men ington, before Chief Justice Waite, of the to Algeria. General Logerot has been placed United States Supreme Court, after which he in full command in Tunis. read a short inaugural address, and issued a proclamation setting apart the funeral day, September 26, as one of national fasting and prayer. The recent Spanish elections for members of the Cortes gave the Ministerialists 301 seats, the Conservatives 46, the Democrats 37, Independents 5, and Ultramontanes 6. DISASTERS. August 27.-Hurricane on the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. Many lives lost and much property destroyed. can coast. Estimated loss of lives, 236. The following are the leading nominations made by State Conventions during the month: New York State Greenback, Elmira, August 24-Secretary of State, Epenetus Howe. Massachusetts Greenback, Worcester, August 24— Governor, Israel W. Andrews; Lieutenant-Gov- August 31.-Union mail-steamer Teuton eruor, George Dutton. Mississippi Greenback-wrecked near Quoin Point, on the South Afriers and Independents, Jackson, August 24— Governor, Colonel Benjamin King; LieutenantGovernor, Hon. J. B. Yellowly. Pennsylvania Republican, Harrisburg, September 8-State Treasurer, General S. M. Bailey. New York Prohibition, Utica, September 15—Secretary of State, Stephen Merritt. Massachusetts Republican, Worcester, September 21-Governor, John D. Long; Lieutenant-Governor, Byron Weston. Wisconsin Republican, Milwaukee, September 22-Governor, General J. M. Rusk; Lientenant-Governor, S. S. Fifield. The treaty between Russia and China, ratified August 19, surrenders the Kooldja territory to China as far as the river Khorgos, Russia retaining a strip of land as a place of settlement for any persons becoming naturalized Russians within a year. Amnesty is granted. China will pay an indemnity of 9,000,000 metallic rubles ($7,200,000), payable in London in six installments, one every four months. The Kooldja frontier is to be defined in six months, and the Zaioan frontier later. Russian caravans have the right to trade as far as the Great Wall, but only to towns where there are Russian consuls. Russia has also the right to appoint consuls in nearly all the principal towns of China, as trade requires. One hundred and twenty Egyptian soldiers were massacred at Soudan in an affray between the population and the soldiery, caused by the preaching of a false prophet. The Irish National Convention met at Dublin September 15, and passed resolutions in favor of home government, amnesty, and the abolition of landlordism. The French elections resulted in large Republican gains. The new Chamber, without counting the colonial Deputies, will comprise | September 4.-Forest fires began in Eastern Michigan, spreading over large portions of Huron, Sanilac, and Tuscola counties. Three hundred persons burned to death, and many villages and much property destroyed. September 5.-Nineteen persons killed and twenty-five wounded by a railroad collision at Charenton, France. September 6.-Eleven men killed by powder explosion at Marquette, Michigan. September 11.-Steamer Columbia foundered off Frankfort, Michigan. Fifteen persons drowned. September 11.-Land-slip near Elm, Switzerland. Two hundred and forty persons killed (including forty rescuers), and thirty houses destroyed. OBITUARY. August 22.-At Lexington, Kentucky, General Leslie Coombs, in his eighty-eighth year. August 28.-At Fire Island, New York, Hon. Samuel Bulkley Ruggles, aged eighty-one years. September 2.-At Plymouth, Pennsylvania, September 3.-In New York city, Lorenzo September 13.-At Providence, Rhode Island, September 15.-In Baltimore, Maryland, Madame Susan M. Bonaparte, widow of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, aged sixty-nine years. TH HE following pleasant little history comes to the Drawer from a gentleman who was prominent in the surgical department of the army during the rebellion: education have found a home, and giving comfort and edification to thousands who would in no other way obtain speedy and cheap possession of the best literature of the day, nevMiss Clara Barton, one of the many heroines ertheless fails here and there to find an appreof the late war, was seen on many a battle-field, ciative dealer in its literary wares. Thus, for and rendered succor and comfort to a large instance, a prominent book-selling firm in Milnumber of wounded and suffering soldiers. Iwaukee recently received from one of its cusmet her during the second Bull Run battles in tomers in an outlying village the following 1862, at Folly and Morris Island in 1863, and letter, showing that in his region something before Richmond in 1864. She was a school- of a more "tricopherous or hair-raising" narteacher before the war. rative was desired: One of the most touching incidents of my army experience occurred at Fairfax Station, where the wounded were brought from the Centreville battle-field, after two days' and nights' exposure to rain and sunshine, for transshipment to Alexandria. While I was on the steps of an ambulance to ascertain the condition of its occupants, Miss Barton climbed on the front wheel, and said to a young lad of about seventeen years of age, who was badly wounded, and moaning in partial delirium, "My poor boy, take a little of this soup and wine, and you will feel better." After eagerly swallowing what was offered, he looked up and said, "Is not this Miss Clara Barton ?" "Yes. And who are you, my dear boy?" "I am who was one of your scholars," he replied, stretching out his arms and clasping her neck, kissing her, and both weeping like children. REV. E. P. TENNEY, the genial and witty president of Colorado College, was at one time the beloved pastor of the Congregational church in a sea-coast town in Massachusetts. To eke out his salary, his people gave him a donation party, among the presents being a fine new dress - coat for the pastor, and a tasty bonnet for his better half. the following Sunday, as they walked up the aisle in their new habiliments, the choir inadvertently struck out with the voluntary, much to the discomfiture of the sensitive clergyman and his wife, "Who are these in bright array ?" Ou At the same church, a few weeks ago, the funeral of a prominent and highly respected citizen of the town, by the name of Knight, occurred, on which occasion, by a singular contretemps, the choir sang as their first selection the usually fitting hymn, “There will be no night there." The effect, as soprano, alto, and tenor successively took up the refrain, was well calculated to excite the risibles of those who had gathered in any but a humorous spirit. -, MINN, July 19, 1881. GENT,-Enclosed find $10. I return you to day your Franklin square novels, they are not A salable book. they are not An interesting Book to look at and take all round they are not the kind of Book I wanted. the kind of Book I wished was something with pictures in them. Something to take the peoples Eye. love & murder with indians in them representing frontier life in all horrible features, no, I guess those Books are too dry and when I get some small Bills in A few days I will send you $3 more. Resp. Sorry our friend doesn't like the "Franklin Square Library." It is something, however, to know that "the common people of the country," as President Lincoln called them, are its greatest purchasers, and that whereas formerly a hundred copies of a new book were found to satisfy the demands of many cities, one or two thousand in "Franklin Square" shape are now promptly ordered. A FEW years since, a quiet glen in Northern Pennsylvania was visited by a severe hailstorm, and it nearly demolished the crop of Farmer Hinkley, which, of course, brought sorrow to him and his family; but not long after, his wife, whose repartee is always ready, entered a store in a little village not many miles distant, and the proprietor alluded to the storm, remarking that their village had escaped, and the probable canse was that they were not as sinful as the people of the glen. That was more than the witty Mrs. H. could quietly endure, so she quickly said, ") "Mr. Dsoon after the hail-storm, the inhabitants of the glen called a meeting, and when assembled, they all united in repeating the following passage of Scripture, 'For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.'” IN Northern Pennsylvania a two-seated platform wagon is called a "democrat," while in the southwest of the State it is known only by the name "spring wagon." Rev. Mr. B——————, who had recently settled in the southern part, was called upon by a Mr. F——, a warm Democrat, to officiate at the funeral of F's brotherin-law. At the appointed hour parson, mourners, and friends congregated at the honse of THE "Franklin Square Library," though the deceased, but no hearse came. After a successful in finding its way into every nook | half-hour's impatient waiting, F— came to and corner of the land where perseus of any Rev. B, saying: |