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mate of the poet to the more generous ver- dence; but its materials are very much dict of earlier centuries. Alike for historic mixed, and our general advice to Ameriand for personal reasons, Mr. Myers claims cans, and to foreigners visiting America, that the enthusiasm for Virgil was well to whom in particular the work is offered, founded. His poems "lie at the water-shed is that whatever guide book to the United of religions." On one hand he sets the final States and Canada they do buy, they do seal on the cultus of Rome with its idealiza- not buy this. 252 tion of civic law, while on the other he antici253 pates in some measure the kindlier and holier faith of Christ. He is an unconscious herald of Christianity, not because of certain passages always capable of a twofold inter261 pretation, but because of the purity, tender262 ness, and vague but earnest spirituality which are found nowhere else in pagan an tiquity. With the peculiar longing and melancholy of our own time, impersonal and indefinable, Virgil has also much in common, and it is the Welt-Schmerz beneath his pen259 sive tone that accounts for the modern Conn. 262 quality so often noticed in his writings. "It duced to the Central Club, "corner of St.

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As a specimen of the mischievous incompetency of this Tourist's Guide Book, we will take it at page 84, "Route No. 7, New York to Boston; " where we are told, to begin with, that there are railway, from New York to Boston, and two routes by three by steamer." there are three by rail, and, counting the The facts are that indirect but delightful route by way of Providence, four by steamer. London route does not convey passengers via Worcester, as stated, but via Putnam, Arrived in Boston, we are intro

The New

is the same mood which intenerisce il Botolph and Boylston Streets," whereas cuore' in Dante's song, which looks from the this Club is at 64 Boylston Street, and St. 264 unsatisfied eyes of Michael Angelo and Botolph Street is a mile away. We are

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of Tintoret - a mood commoner, indeed, directed to the "Gaiety Theatre," a place among the nations of the North, but felt at of amusement which some time since was

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MR. FREDERIC MYERS is a writer times by Italians who have had the power tot made over into the " Bijou," and are recom

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who charms his readers, whatever the topic his pen may touch, by his thoughtfulness and discrimination, no less than by the singular grace of his pure, flexible, and almost too opulent" style. volumes of Essays, Classical and Modern, are gathered for the most part from the Fortnightly Review, the Nineteenth Century, and the Cornhill Magazine. One article, however the first and longest-is taken from a previous collection by different authors, and the essay upon "George Eliot" appeared, as our readers may remember, in the Century. The several papers are naturally of quite unequal interest and excellence, and the first volume has in the main a more permanent value than the second.

see that all the glory round them does but mended
add a more mysterious awfulness to the in-
soluble riddle of the world."

Of the modern essays, the first is devoted
These two to Mazzini, the noblest Roman of all Italian
revolutionists, and at once the most practical
and the most visionary of leaders. Here as
elsewhere the justice and candor of the
essayist are noteworthy, and while rendering
full honor to Mazzini, he does not forget or
underrate the two men who wrought with
him in the regeneration of Italy, Cavour and
Garibaldi. Three chief names in modern
French literature give occasion for careful
studies, George Sand, Victor Hugo, and
Ernest Renan. The second of these papers
is perhaps too caustic to be quite just, and
In his discussion of Greek Oracles, Mr. Mr. Myers is too much an Englishman to
Myers reveals the extent and the minuteness make due allowance for the peculiarities of
of his classical erudition, and with a fine, this brilliant but thoroughly French genius.
firm grasp blends a great mass of details into The article upon George Eliot is already
a just and effective whole. Through a thou-known to our readers, and the remaining
sand years he traces the reflection of the essays upon Dean Stanley, Rossetti, Prof.
spiritual aspiration of this wondrous race, Seeley's Natural Religion, and Archbishop
and follows the development of the oracle
from the rude Animism of early ages through
the sublime period in which the "Delphian
god becomes in a certain sense the con-
science of Greece," to the dreary decline in

which the former glory sinks to the level

Trench's poems, are below the level of the
studies we have noticed.

A DANGEROUS GUIDE BOOK.*

opened this pretty and convenient

E book with pleasant expectations; we of the spiritualistic séance. The study of leave it with the impression that for ignoMarcus Aurelius Antoninus is at once appre-rance, for insufficiency, for blunders of fact ciative and just, recognizing the limitations and blunders of print, and for general unof his stoic faith, and awarding to him within trustworthiness, it surpasses any guide book these limitations the place of supreme honor. we ever saw. It has some good maps, the But the essay upon Virgil is the most advertisements scattered through its pages sympathetic, the most finished, and by far are presumably accurate, its plan is wise, the most attractive paper in the whole collec-its outward aspect is fair and invites confition. It is an appeal from the current esti

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the

Tremont Row, an eating-house which was to Copeland's restaurant at 4 long since discontinued. The Old Colony Depot is located on the corner of South and Eve (?) Streets; the Music Hall at 15 Windsor Street; Rev. E. E. Hale's church is blunderingly designated as the "South Congregational Church Union, Park Street." The Hollis Street Church is placed Avenue and Washington Streets;" obliterated Somerset Street Church is left standing; the Public Garden is the "Public Gardens;" the Massachusetts State House is called the "Boston State House." The only suburb of Boston mentioned is Cambridge, which is placed "three and one half miles west; " the fact being that Harvard Square is but three miles from the State House, and that Cambridge is separated from Boston only by the Charles River. Mount Auburn is brought from its true distance from Harvard Square of a mile and a half to half a mile; and the Lowell and Longfellow houses are placed "near Brattle Street, on Mount Vernon road;" whereas, the Longfellow house is on Brattle Street, and there is no such street in Cambridge as the "Mount Vernon road."

Sprinkled through this section are su

typographical errors as Rivere for Revere, Battle for Brattle, Dudly for Dudley, Milner in one place and Milnore in another for Milmore, Scolly for Scollay, and Brown for Brewer.

Portland, Rangely Lakes, Glen Mountain Passing to "Route No. 17, Boston to House, and Quebec," we reach another section even more bunglingly arranged and more misleading in its information than the one above specified. The railway routes only from Boston to Portland are men

tioned; the steamer route being entirely ignored. But one hotel is named in Portland. The following paragraph is an especially noticeable tissue of insufficiencies and

errors:

Lennox for Lenox (p. 28), Hoyard for How- accessible as could be wished. This is the ard (p. 55), Deleran for Delavan (p. 64), Dele- more to be regretted as considerable porware for Delaware (p. 65), Williamsett for tions of the text might have been omitted Willimansett (p. 97), and Railford for Rail- with great advantage to the book and to road (p. 115). There is a reckless misuse the reader; as, for instance, the paragraph PORTLAND TO RAangely Lakes, GLEN MOUN- of the possessive case in proper names, as beginning: TAIN HOUSE, AND QUEBEC, via Grand Trunk Rutger's for Rutgers (p. 37), Well's for Railroad. Leaving Portland, we pass through a quiet farming country, and through several Wells (p. 100), and Phillip's for Phillips pretty villages, stopping at DANVILLE, where (p. 106); the map of Boston, page 97, shows connections are made with the line to St. Johns, the city only as it was before Charlestown, Halifax, and the lower provinces. Passing LERISTON (sic), stages four miles, for the health Brighton, Roxbury, and Dorchester were resort of Poland Mineral Springs, we arrive at taken into its limits; the city of Newark, BETHEL (seventy miles), and take the stage for N. J., is given a population of 100,000, the RANGELY LAKES (twenty-six miles). (For description of Rangely Lakes, also northern whereas it had upwards of 136,000 by the route, see Sporting Appendix.) Census of 1880; and the University on

Upon this precious paragraph of misinfor

mation it may be remarked:

Washington Square, New York, is called
(p. 25) the "Theological University of New
York," a perfect misnomer and a perfectly
inexcusable one.

1. That the Grand Trunk Railroad is a decidedly inferior route from Portland either to the White Mountains or to the Rangeley We have no space further to show up (not Rangely) Lakes; and that the superior this ignorant, incompetent, careless, slovroutes, via Portland & Ogdensburg Rail- enly, misleading guide book, which almost road, to the former, and via Farmington deserves to be put on the shelf alongside and Phillips to the latter, are not so much of the New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English.

as mentioned.

2. That turning to the "Sporting Appendix" for "description of Rangely Lakes,

also northern route," we are simply referred FOR

back to "Route II of this Guide Book," as above.

To the top of a fir-tree, which he curbed and then let spring, Theseus fastened the robber, Sinis, who had been accustomed himself to kill travelers in that way,

and so on, for more than half a page. Such sentences as: “That very night, Tzornpantzin and his son were politely escorted across the dark river," could have been condensed,

not only without destroying whatever vividness there is in the author's descriptions,

but with a positive gain in the matter of good taste. Some chapters are so free from language of this kind that one is often

astonished at the unevenness with which the book is written, due no doubt to causes which do not concern us here.

Mr. Bancroft takes a very unprejudiced and sensible view of Cortes, Montezuma, and their followers, and it is this judicial fairness that gives the book its value. At the same time, he has underrated the concatenation of circumstances in Cortes's

favor, and the faults, from a military point of view, committed by him.

MR. H. H. BANCROFT'S MEXICO.* OR several reasons it has been deemed advisable to deviate from strict numerical order in the publication of the volumes No notice of the book would be complete of this work, and to pursue a more chron- without a few words as to the civilization ological course; and, therefore, instead of of the Nahua race, especially as certain the second volume of the series continuing theorists have attempted to degrade Monte4. That the statement "connections are the annals of Central America, the fourth

3. That there is no such town in Maine "Leriston." If Lewiston is meant, that is not on the Grand Trunk Railroad.

as

made" at Danville for St. Johns (St. John, N. B., is evidently meant - - St. John's is in Newfoundland) is calculated to mislead,

zuma, his subjects, and his allies from the

volume, dealing with the Conquest of Mex- high place to which they were elevated by ico, appears at this time. the "early American chroniclers," and which The descriptions of the inhabitants of has been so well set forth by Mr. Bancroft since Danville is properly a crossing, not the Mexican plateau, contained in the in his Native Races. In the present volume a junction, and trains for the British Prov- Native Races of the Pacific States, had led Mr. Bancroft reiterates the views there inces are best to be taken from Portland one to expect so much from Mr. Bancroft expressed, and we think that he is right. direct. that the present volume is disappointing. For, if we throw overboard what the early These two bundles of errors are samples The first hundred pages are occupied by a chroniclers declare they saw, how can we only. Turning to other pages, we find list of books, which, long as it is, comprises believe their accounts of the battles they Farmington, Me., given as the terminus of only a portion of those consulted in the won? For instance, take Bernal Díaz, “the the railway for the Rangeley Lakes, which manufacture of the work now before us. main historian of the Conquest," and grant it is not by a distance of twenty miles; Then, after a brief sketch of the first that his description of the palaces in which Maine and New Hampshire are said to be explorers of the Mexican coasts, and a he lived so long is incorrect (and it could bounded on the north (in part) by the St. rather bald account of Cortes's early life be so only through a desire to misrepre Lawrence River, which touches neither and of the preparation and sailing of the sent); what right have we to say that his State, and Vermont (in part) on the south expedition from Cuba, Mr. Bancroft, in the account of the siege of the city is correct? by New York and on the west by Canada (!); chapter entitled "What Montezuma Thought The former is supported by monuments and and Lexington, in Massachusetts, is ap- of it," gives an excellent account of the relics of every kind, as well as by contempoparently placed eleven miles the other side country and people soon to be overrun and rary writers (both native and foreign), who of Concord from Boston on the Hoosac conquered by the Spaniards; and a long alone corroborated the latter. Tunnel route west, whereas, it is six or note on the oracles, omens, etc., announcing bibliographical seven miles this side of Concord, and not the return of the "Fair Cod," the confound- through Mr. Bancroft's volume are invalu on the Hoosac Tunnel route at all. The ing of whom with Cortes contributed so able, and the tribute to Mr. Prescott in the typographical blunders, or others worse, materially to the success of his enterprise. last note, coming, as it does, from the only throughout the book at large, are almost The remainder of the book is a narrative man capable of judging his work, is graceinnumerable. Among them may be speci- of the "Conquest," closing with the capture fully and modestly given. fied Fennimore for Fenimore (p. 117), Kitta- of the City of Mexico and its monarch. tinney for Kittatinny (p. 118), Kittatinny for The notes are very full, are by far the most Our Shakespearian editor, Mr. Rolfe, takes a Kittanning (p. 144), Charleston for Charles- valuable part of the work, and are often short run to Europe. As we have been careful, town (p. 155), Brymawr for Bryn Mawr well written. Unfortunately, they are in for obvious reasons, not to say too much of Mr.

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