diffused? And would not their names cease to be, as they now too commonly are, suggestive of the difference between promise and performance? work, carriage-making, forestry, mathematics, | dining-room, a study-room, and bed-chambers, agricultural chemistry, meteorology, veterina- all remarkably clean. The students themry surgery, botany, a little zoology and geolo- selves were strong, healthy young fellows, with gy, butter and cheese making, and the art of faces reddened by exposure, who by study, building, and of making fences and walls. Con- practice, and thrift were preparing themselves nected with the principal of these schools, we for their vocation as farmers, and were ambiobserve in parenthesis, are dairy schools for tious to raise agriculture to a higher standard, women, where they go through a year of but- and to keep pace with the march of progress. ter and cheese making. The students in the As an instance of the honesty prevalent in agricultural schools, after passing their exam- Sweden, Mr. Du Chaillu states that thongh inations, may, if they like, go to au agricultural this house was on the highway, and not a percollege for two years more. The instruction son visible when he entered the place, all bein these schools is free, but the students give ing at work in the fields, the doors had been their labor, the expense being borne partly by left wide open, in the bedrooms watches and the province and partly by the state. There other valuables were hanging on the walls, is also a forest institute, with six lower schools, and near the beds the students had hung with for the training of practical foresters. At other keepsakes portraits of their fathers, moInnertafle, near Umea, Mr. Du Chaillu visited thers, sisters, sweethearts, and friends. With one of these schools. He found a little more such accessories as these preparatory schools, than a hundred acres under cultivation, but would not our agricultural colleges be more there were eighteen hundred acres of unim- steadily and liberally recruited than they have proved land and forest which were to be re- been hitherto with youth from the farmer claimed, and the rocky and swampy nature of class, who mean to be farmers, and not civil the soil offered the students excellent opportu- engineers, chemists, geologists, and the like! nities for learning the art of drainage. Black-Would not their influence upon agriculture smith and carpenter shops were in full opera- | be more direct, more salutary, and more widely tion; the barn was large, and all the out-buildings were very fine; the live stock of the farm consisted of about thirty head of cattle, besides horses, sheep, and swine of different breeds, the results of the intermixture of blood being observed with great care. The students' quarters were presided over by a woman, under whose matronship the house presented an air of perfect home comfort. The parlor sofas and chairs were covered with white linen; the win-are prepared on the same general plan as the dows were adorned with flower-pots; the floor other volumes in the series, and betray no was as clean as a new pin; there was a piano slackening of industry by the editor, nor any with a pile of music near it; an American sew- lessening of the scholarly judgment and ability ing-machine stood near one of the windows; that have been so conspicuous in their predeengravings hung on the walls; little porcelain cessors. A special feature in the volumes now figures were scattered here and there; on the under notice is the publication, among the table were French, English, German, Greek, "Critical and Esthetic Comments" which preand Latin books; and from the rear window cede each play, of portions of a series of tastethere was a view of a garden filled with flow-ful and suggestive unpublished papers on ers, strawberries, raspberries, currants, pease, Shakspeare Characters, by the late Charles Cowcarrots, and potatoes, and of a stretch of green den Clarke. fields beyond. The agricultural school at Nordvik, which is an older institution than that of Innertafle, was also visited by Mr. Du Chaillu. Here also the farm buildings were very commodious, among them being an immense barn two hundred feet long, and broad in proportion. On its ground-floor were stalls for cattle, with a gutter from which every particle of manure was conveyed to an adjacent shed, where it was kept from contact with the rain, and a large space was reserved for car-rangement, songs and hymns being distributed riages, carts, ploughs, and other farming implements. On another side the grain was stacked. The quarters of the students, as at Innertafle, were presided over by a woman, of whom, and of whose charming simplicity and gracefulness as a hostess, especially at the table, Mr. Du Chaillu gives an exquisite picture. The students' quarters included a kitchen, a The Comedy of Errors and the Tragedy of Cymbeline, forming the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth volumes of the plays of Shakspeare edited by Mr. Rolfe, now just published, THE Franklin Square Song Collection® makes no large pretensions to novelty or originality, but modestly and justly rests its claims to popular favor on the variety and excellence of its selections, the innocent social enjoyment they will place within reach of the people at large, and the refining influence they will exert upon them. As the compiler frankly states, the collection "claims little of merit in its ar 4 Shakspeare's The Comedy of Errors. Edited, with Notes, by WILLIAM J. ROLFE, A. M. Square 16mo, pp. 153. New York: Harper and Brothers. 5 Shakspeare's Tragedy of Cymbeline. Edited, with Notes, by WILLIAM J. ROLFE, A. M. Square 16mo, pp. 231. New York: Harper and Brothers. • Franklin Square Song Collection. Songs and Hymns by J. P. MOCASKEY. 8V0, Paper, pp. 160. New York: for Schools and Homes, Nursery and Fireside. Selected Harper and Brothers. records of particular regiments which have been prepared by their commanding or other officers. It is true their field is limited, but for this very reason they bring into light and prominence many interesting minor details which have an important bearing upon great historical events, that must necessarily be crowded out of any general history. One of the best examples of these regimental memorials is an unaffected volume by Colonel Adin B. Underwood, in which he records The Three Years Service of the Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the years 1862–65, and minutely sketches the part borne by it in some of the most important campaigns and engagements of the war, especially in the battles of Chancellorsville, Beverly's Ford, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, Chattanooga, and Atlanta, and in the March to the Sea and through the Carolinas. Written in a style of easy negli throughout its pages almost at random." In- | highly valued by historical collectors, than the deed, so literally true is this that occasionally there is something almost ludicrous in the manner in which sentimental love songs or ringing patriotic airs are made to usher in and follow the grave harmonies of compositions that are associated exclusively with sacred hymns and psalms. The collection contains many new and favorite tunes and melodies, but its chief attraction lies in its large infusion of the fine old glees, ballads, carols, songs, and hymns which have stood the test of time, and deserve to endure for many generations to come. Aside from this, the distinctive feature of the collection is the devotion of a considerable space at the top and bottom of nearly every page to miscellaneous reading matter from well-known writers and periodicals, embodying valuable suggestions on music and musical training, interesting brief anecdotes, and historical incidents connected with the origin or cause of certain of the songs and airs, and agence, enlivened with occasional gleams of dry. large body of musical and æsthetic comment and criticism which will be entertaining and | instructive to the preponderating classes for whom the volume is designed. humor, and perfectly free from gasconade, it is also commendable for the geniality and temperateness of its judgments, and its carefulness 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 Appended to the author's narrative is a complete official roster of the regiment. 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 im 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 satisfy-have no special associations to be gratified. ing 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|portance of the event it commemorates, and 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 7 Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus. By JAMES OTIS. Illustrated. 16mo, pp. 265. New York: Harper and Brothers. 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 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. 8vo, pp. 374. Boston: A. Williams and Co. 9 The Yorkton Campaign, and the Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. By HENRY P. JOHNSTON. Illustrated. Svo, pp. 206. New York: Harper and Brothers. | 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 illnstrations, most of them reproduced from paintings by artists who were contemporaneous with the great men and events they commemorated. Mr. Johnston has gathered into a generous appendix a large amount of valuable material that will be prized by historical students, illuminating nearly every stage in the siege and surrender by original papers and letters from those who were eye-witnesses or prominent actors on the eventful scene. Naturally Lord Cornwallis is a conspicuous figure, dividing our attention with Washington and Lafayette and Rochambeau, and Mr. Johnston has followed his career with full particularity. The second and third chapters, which recount the operations on his part that led remotely or directly to his overthrow, are specially interesting, and will repay a careful study. 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. THERE is no serious attempt to delineate character, to observe manners, to describe natural scenes, or to draw upon the fancy in Mrs. Randolph's Reseda." It is simply a straightforward and unaffected love story, with the usual alternations of light and shade, of hope and disappointment, of rapture and pain, of endurance, suspense, and fruition, and with the customary infusion of villainy and heartlessness, of plotting, scheming, and cross-purposes, that make such performances attractive and popular reading. If it occasionally trends upon the sensational, it is never heated or morbid, and its tone is uniformly pure and wholesome. For ourselves, we have found it a more agreeable and restful companion for 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 Folks1is 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 short residence, in the capacity of a schoolteacher, 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,1o "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 display 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 pro- Two noteworthy novels by American anduced by an unwonted accompaniment to a thors, now just published, derive their inspiraplain song or simple ballad. One great merit, tion from aspects and incidents of Southern far too rare in recent works of fiction, it un- life and society, more especially those assodoubtedly possesses: instead of arbitrarily la-ciated with slavery and its results. One of belling 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. 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. chosen for its action is a period prior to the | lished it in handsome library form, uniform late civil war, when coming events were just with his other novels. beginning to cast their shadows. The old plantation life and manners, the state of society, the relations of the races, the good and the evils of the institution of slavery, the loyalty of the negro disturbed by the secret efforts of abolition propagandists, the aspirations of the slaves, and the distrust which began to rear its snaky head in the fairest-seeming Edens, are some of the contrasted threads which are skillfully woven into the story. Besides its other merits, the tale is a love idyl of great sweetness and tenderness, and reaches its climax in one of those periodical unsuccessful negro insurrections that terrified the South before the war. It has no political moral, and the introduction of the conditions and relations that existed at the time, and of the portents of the coming struggle, was a dramatic necessity, of which the artist has availed with fine effect.The scene of the other novel which we have associated with Homoselle is laid in Louisiana, and the time is synchronous with one of those seasons of political agitation since the war, when the country was lashed into passion by carpet-baggers on the one side and the unre-Harper in a luxurious royal quarto, entitled constructed rebels on the other. Its title is Wild Work; and under the guise of a romance, in which pure love and guilty passion are each delineated with some force, the author vividly depicts the dramatic features of Southern society and politics, and the antagonisms and deadly feuds, the discontent, disaffection, murders, and organized violence on a large scale, that ensued from sullen disloyalty and disappointed hopes on the one hand, and political rapine and greed on the other. The story is a wild one; it is told with unquestionable vigor, and the author assures us its incidents are disposed "with an eye solely to their dramatic aspect, not distorted by sectional prejudice, and not disturbed by political side-lights." This was doubtless the author's intention, but nevertheless it is as easy to read her predilections between the lines of her book as it was to read Judge Tourgee's leanings between the lines of his Fool's Errand. As a work of art, Wild Work is far inferior to Homoselle, and although its story is in the main strong and impressive, it too often descends to a depth of sensationalism that is simply brutal. IT is no exaggeration to say that scarcely one of the three-quarters of a million readers of this Magazine has missed reading Mr. Samuel Adams Drake's genial and spirited descriptive sketches of the White Mountains, as they have appeared in successive numbers since June last, or has failed to enjoy the fine illustrations by Mr. Gibson which accompanied them. Delightful as these sketches seemed as they appeared, they were but an epitome of a volume which was in course of preparation by | Mr. Drake; and while they presented the more important features of White Mountain scenery and life with great completeness, they necessarily excluded many interesting details that serve to give a more rounded picture of the Alps of America and a fuller introduction to the people who nestle at their feet or rest upon their craggy bosoms, and are the repositories of the legends and traditions indigenous to their lofty peaks and mighty chasms. This work is now completed in its expanded form, and has just been published by the Messrs. The Heart of the White Mountains,16 whose stately proportions, rich paper, ample margin, faultless typography, and threescore superb illustrations are a perpetual feast to the eye. As the readers of the Magazine articles will bear witness, Mr. Drake's itinerary of this region of majesty and beauty does not in any degree partake of the formal character of a guidebook. It is not a mere catalogue of notable places, but a natural series of enthusiastic and genuine descriptive sketches, enlivened by fancy and the relation of engaging personal incidents and encounters, and enriched with the recital of the curious or thrilling legends and traditions that have fruited on and around these everlasting hills for two centuries. Mr. Drake has the faculty of conveying his vivid impressions of the scenery he sees and loves so that they are shared by his readers without any diminution of their brightness and beauty. Of Mr. Gibson's fine illustrations it is enough to say that they are worthy of his high reputation, and materially enhance the value of the text. His spirited and poetic drawings have been worthily treated by such competent engravers as Hoskin, Bernstrom, Smithwick IN the last number of the Record we noted and French, J. P. Davis, King, Held, Deis, W. the publication of a "Franklin Square Library" H. Morse, Buechner, Johnson, Mayer, Wolf, J. edition of Mr. Black's new novel, That Beautiful | Linton, and others. The intrinsic value of the Wretch. Many of our readers will be glad to beautiful volume is further contributed to by learn that the Messrs. Harper have also pub-three excellent maps of the mountains, respect 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 WILLIAM BLACK. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 240. New York: Harper and Brothers. ively of the east side, the central and northern section, and the west side. 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. 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. POLITICAL. 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 United States Supreme Court, after which he read a short inaugural address, and issued a proclamation setting apart the funeral day, September 26, as one of national fasting and prayer. to Algeria. General Logerot has been placed in full command in Tunis. 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. The following are the leading nominations made by State Conventions during the month: New York State Greenback, Elmira, August August 27.-Hurricane on the coast of Geor24-Secretary of State, Epenetus Howe. Mas- | gia and South Carolina. Many lives lost and sachusetts Greenback, Worcester, August 24-much property destroyed. can coast. Estimated loss of lives, 236. 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. Governor, Israel W. Andrews; Lieutenant-Gov- August 31.-Union mail-steamer Teuton 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 Sondan 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 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. |