eration of "education values," or, in other | labors of this youthful professor, were delivwords, to an inquiry into the worth of the va- ered during the first four years of his brief rious subjects in the usual routine of instruc- and brilliant career, and were of such unusual tion in the two great divisions of language | elegance and ability as to win the applause and science, and into the characteristic mental of his contemporaries, and to vindicate their efficacy of each of them. Under the head of reproduction at this late date in permanent "Sequence of Subjects Psychological and Log- form. The task of reproduction has been thorical," there are two other chapters containing oughly performed by his friend William Hepan exposition of the order of the unfolding of worth Thompson, M.A., who has edited from the faculties, of the influence this order should the author's manuscript as many of the lechave upon the arrangement of studies, and of tures as had been reduced to form, and has verthe dependence of the subjects proposed to be ified, and in some instances corrected or more studied on each other. The remainder of the fully explained, the references in the text to work is confined to the main topic in the fol- original authorities. Some of the earlier leclowing order: First, "Methods of Teaching," tures in the series are redundant and rhetorical under which, after adverting to that which in their style, are often obscured by an excess concerns the first elements of reading and the of illustration, and are sometimes inexact in question of knowledge teaching, the author their learning or immature in their judgments introduces the subject of the object lesson, of speculative questions; but these defects are points out the dangers attending it, and de- more than compensated for by the remarkable scribes its true office, range, direction, and force and impressiveness of the language in methods, both in the elementary stages and in which they are clothed, by the rich vein of its application to geography, history, and the imagination by which they are varied, by the sciences. Second, the "Mother-Tongue," in deep and patient thought with which they which every thing that relates to it as an ac- are freighted, and by the atmosphere of philoquirement-its vocabulary, grammars, con- sophic acumen in which they are enveloped. struction, and literature-is minutely can- These defects, however, are mainly confined to vassed. Third, an estimate of the value of those lectures in the introductory series which the "Study of the Classics" at the present were prepared by the author immediately upon day, in which the ground is taken that "the assuming his unexpected duties, and when he provisional arrangement, whereby the high- was now to the requirements of his professorer knowledge was for centuries made to flow ship. But perhaps because of the defects in through two dead languages, should now be them, attributable to the haste with which they considered as drawing to a close." And were written and his own imperfect knowlfourth, the suggestion of a "renovated cur-edge, these early lectures will be found more riculum" of higher education, whose studies shall embrace science, the humanities, and English composition and literature. These discussions are followed by able chapters on moral education, art teaching, and propor-able as helps on his way. In the lectures of tions; and in an appendix further examples are given of the object lesson, and additional explanations of terms. easy of comprehension to the neophyte than if they were more faultless, their elementary and progressive character being better suited to his case, and rendering them more service the introductory series are comprised a popular inquiry into the nature and limits of the sciences of psychology and ontology, an invesWhen the chair of Moral Philosophy in Trin-tigation of the question of the possibility of ity College, Dublin, was founded in 1837, a young man was holding a scholarship in the college who had not yet reached the age of twenty-six, but whose rare abilities and promise had already attracted the attention of older scholars. Among those who had been impressed by the accomplishments of this young student was the founder of the chair, and passing over the heads of men of riper years, he selected the comparative youth to fill it immediately upon the expiration of his scholarship. It was thus that William Archer Butler came to be the first incumbent of this distinguished professorate, the duties of which he assumed when he was only twenty-six, and continued to perform until his premature death in 1849. The lectures on the history of ancient philosophy, which were the first-fruits of the Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy. By WILLIAM ARCHER BUTLER, M.A. Edited by WILLIAM HEPWORTH THOMPSON, M.A. 2 Vols., 12mo, pp. 436 and 415. New York: Robert Carter and Brothers. an inductive science of the mind, a disquisition upon the superiority of this science to all others, and an exposition of its disciplinary value. This is followed by a statement of the province and functions of a historian of philosophy, and a history of the progress of philosophy through ancient and modern times, in which the lecturer dwells especially upon the Greek philosophy, its origin, characteristics, and stages of development. Under this branch a view is taken of the early efforts of philosophical inquiry in Greece, and outlines are given of the tenets of the Ionic, the Atomic, the Pythagorean, and the Eclectic schools, and of the philosophy of the Stoics and of Socrates. Another series is devoted to Socrates and his followers, and to an account of the progress of the Megaric philosophy, and to an examination of the Cynic and Cyrenaic institutes. These form the first volume, and the second is devoted exclusively, with the exception of three lectures on Aristotle and his philosophy, to a consideration of the philoso- | ment. Among the studies served up in this phy of Plato and the Platonists. These are thoughtful and agreeable volume are the Limthe most brilliant and original of the lectures, its of Enthusiasm; the Age of the Schoolmen; and also the most able and accurate; and they Savonarola; Edward Irving; Lacordaire; Rephave been pronounced by a competent author-resentative Men of the English Church; the ity "a perfectly independent contribution to Narrowness of Breadth, etc., each of which is our knowledge of the great master of Grecian treated with genial gracefulness, and is charged wisdom." The exposition they give of the di- with suggestiveness.-Another instance of this alectics and physics of Plato is perhaps the thoughtful sort of browsing, where serious only one at once accurate and popular which subjects are made to sparkle with vivacity, is accessible to English students. As the ed- and to effervesce with wit and eloquence and itor has observed, they "constitute a history | brilliant buncombe, is a new volume of Joof the Platonic philosophy, its seed-time, ma-seph Cook's Monday Lectures, entitled Marturity, and decay; and the author's familiarity riage, in which he discusses that important with the metaphysical writings of the last social relation from a conservative stand-point, century, and especially with the English and under the following heads: The Infidel Attack Scotch school of psychologists, has enabled on the Family; A Supreme Affection between him to illustrate the subtle speculations of Two; Marriage without Love; Love without which he treats in a manner calculated to ren- Marriage; Elective Affinities; Goethe and der them more intelligible to the English mind Shakspeare on Marriage; Inherited Educationthan they can be made by writers trained sole- al Forces; and Hereditary Taints in Blood. ly in the technicalities of the modern German We may add that to each of these discussions school, or by those who disdain the use of il- there is prefixed one of Mr. Cook's pyrotechlustration altogether." nical displays, which he calls a "prelude," and which has about as intimate a connection with the main topic as Mr. Cook himself has with the man in the moon.-Capital browsing is also to be found in George Eliot's latest volume, The "Short spells," whether in our employments or recreations, are now the order of the day. Even our enjoyments become a burden if too greatly protracted when the thermometer stands at ninety; and "little and often" is theophrastus Such. In it an imaginary old bacherule laid down by experience, which we must observe if we would escape the penalties that its infraction is sure to incur. In these heated midsummer days it is literally true that "man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long;" and whether it be a nap or a dinner, a drink or a flirtation, a song or a serenade, a sermon, a book, or even a book-notice, it must be short, else it is likely to prove wearisome. The great art just now is not only to keep our occupations from proving exhausting, but to prevent our recreations from becoming a toil. Books suitable for vacation browsing are an indispensable element of comfort; and these may be grave or gay-nay, must be of all shades to meet all tastes-so only that they have the capital merit of being short, or at least of the kind that Taine confesses a fondness for such as we can begin at the end or in the middle, can dip into here and there at will, can throw down after a score of pages as we can lay aside an emptied goblet, and in which we can find refreshing amusement, miscellaneous variety, or food for easy thought. For those who can not be content with mental aliment of the whipped syllabub order, one of the best vacation books we know of is a volume entitled Essays of To-Day,' which consists of twelve essays on subjects that make a reasonable demand upon the attention while they do not require laborious thought, and which feed and invigorate the mind while they afford it a considerable latitude of refining entertain 7 Essays of To-Day: Religious and Theological. By WILLIAM WILBERFORCE NEWTON, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Boston. 12mo, pp. 253. Boston: A. Williams and Co. lor, of unattractive and insignificant appearance but active brain, indulges somewhat after the manner of Addison's "short-faced mau" and Goldsmith's "Man in Black," in lucubrations about himself and men and things and books, and delivers his opinions concerning them in a monologue which is half oracular, half confidential, and which sparkles with wit and wisdom and originality, with keen observations couched in a tone of simplicity, and with subtle metaphysical distinctions and speculations. Every page scintillates with one or other of these characteristics; and the charm of the volume consists in the fact that while its confessions, vaticinations, and reasonings are good intellectual appetizers, they do not constitute a laborious meal. In fact, the book is a series of eighteen suggestive essays, calculated to act as momentary stimu lants to a mind that is taking its ease, but is disinclined to be absolutely vacant. Several of these are in the nature of "confessions” by the imaginary old bachelor after whom the volume is named, in which he reveals his mental and moral idiosyncrasies and whimsicalities. Nine or ten of them are delineations of as many different characters, each as imaginary as the old bachelor himself, but who are typical of certain phases of men, among them being the victim of literary jealousy, the too deferential man, the political molecule, the 8 Marriage. With Preludes on Current Events. By JoSEPH COOK. 12mo, pp. 270. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, and Co. 9 Impressions of Theophrastus Such. By GEORge Eliot. 12mo, pp. 234. New York: Harper and Brothers. The Same. "Franklin Square Library." 4to, pp. 28. New York: Harper and Brothers. 16 flesh-pots of Egypt, would yet gladly replace them by the perusal of books not too elaborately grave, but still of a more definite religious cast than those we have named. Serious books for vacation reading are as needful as any others. One of the most thoughtful of this kind is Professor Fisher's address on Faith and Rationalism,18 delivered before the Prince watch-dog of knowledge, etc. The remaining | Lord Bacon, and to Creighton's Half-hour essays are on special topics of curiosity or in- | History of England." The author of the lastterest, such as how we come to give ourselves named is the accomplished editor of the excelfalse testimonies and believe in them, the dis- lent series of "Epochs of English History," now eases of small authorship, moral swindlers, in course of publication, to which this little volshadows of the coming race, etc.-Not so pure- ume is designed to be introductory. It is an ly intellectual as the above-named volumes, admirably condensed outline of English hisbut equally well suited to give a fillip to the tory from the coming of the Danes and Angles mind of the vacation idler, and to prevent it until 1870. As to Thackeray's lectures and from sinking into lethargy, are several books Macaulay's brilliant biographical criticism, of a biographical cast. Of these, because of nothing need be said. Those who have read its greater completeness, and the interest that them will be glad to do so again, and those attaches to its subject, we give the precedence who have not, have a treat in store for them to Mr. Trollope's Life of Thackeray.10 A handy that we envy.- Doubtless there will be some satchel or pocket volume, there is nothing in among our summer excursionists who, if not its bulk or its tone to appall the heated fugi- thinking as regretfully of their interrupted retive from town and worry, or to prevent himligious privileges as the Israelites did of the from taking it along as a companion. In a single chapter of moderate dimensions Mr. Trollope brings together all the little that is known of Thackeray as a man and as a writer, in a manner so chatty and genially sympathetic that the laziest will regret its brevity; and this is followed by eight brief chapters, each of which is a distinct and independent essay, that may be separately read, on Thack-ton Theological School. In this cogent aderay's several productions in prose and verse, his novels, ballads, burlesques, and lectures, and on his style and genius.-Two smaller volumes of this class are devoted respectively to Montaigne11 and Ruskin." The former, by Mrs. Oliphant, contains a brief sketch of the life of the father of essayists, which, if less delightfully written than the still briefer sketch by Hazlitt so well known to lovers of Mon-geration of the office of logic in religion, and taigne, is yet very agreeable reading. The sketch is largely made up of material drawn from Montaigne's own writings, by means of which we are given pleasant glimpses of the vivacious and observant Frenchman in his library, on his travels, and in office, and gain a clear idea of his character and opinions. The volume on Ruskin is simply a collection of passages scissored out of his Modern Painters, arranged under short and specific heads, and prefaced by a brief biographical sketch.-For repasts containing in the smallest compass food that is wholesome and substantial, yet delicate of flavor and light of digestion, we commend the summer saunterer to Thackeray's lectures on the four Georges13 and on the English Humorists, 15 to Macaulay's brilliant monograph on 10 Thackeray. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. "English Men of Letters Series." 12mo, pp. 206. New York: Harper and Brothers. 11 Montaigne. "Foreign Classics for English Readers Series" By Mrs. OLIPHANT. 16mo, pp. 192. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co. 12 Ruskin on Painting. With a Biographical Sketch. "New Handy Volume Series." 16mo, pp. 210. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 13 The Four Georges. Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life. By W. M. THACKERAY. "Harper's Half-hour Series." 32mo, pp. 205. New York: Harper and Brothers. 14 Swift, Congreve, Addison, and Steele. From "Lectures on the English Humorists." By W. M. THACKERAY. "Harper's Half-hour Series." 32mo, pp. 209. New York: Harper and Brothers. 15 Prior, Gay, Pope, Hogarth, Smollett, Fielding, Sterne, and Goldsmith. By W. M. THACKERAY. "Harper's Half dress the lecturer considers the temper and tendency of rationalism, and displays its impatience of mysteries in religion, its failure to take into account the influence of sin on man's capacity to investigate religious truth, its inevitable tendency to ignore the premises of religious faith, its inclination to take no account of implicit mental processes, its exag its proneness to seek for religious truth mere- Brothers. 17 Half-hour History of England. By MANDELL CREIGHTON, M.A. "Harper's Half-hour Series." 32mo, pp. 221. New York: Harper and Brothers. 18 Faith and Rationalism. With Short Supplementary Essays on Related Topics. By GEORGE P. FISHER, D.D. 12mo, pp. 188. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 19 Motives of Life. By DAVID SWING. 16mo, pp. 162. Chicago: Jansen, M'Clurg, and Co. ture, the idea of home, considerations of fame, | verge of criminality. He is rescued from his the hope of happiness, the love of mankind, downward career by the impression made upon and religion. Specially addressed to the young, him by a little girl, who saved him from a dehis essays on each of these topics will make grading punishment, and by the tender benevoa strong impression by their simplicity, elo- lence of the late good Bishop Meade. Through quence, earnestness, and practical wisdom.- the influence and training of the latter he is Less controversial and didactic than the two educated and transformed; and after he bevolumes just mentioned, Dr. Macduff's Palms comes a man, he returns to the scene of his of Elim is designed for the spiritual comfort | youthful delinquency, and works out a penalty and refreshment of Christians rather than for which he had escaped at the time, and finally their moral and intellectual development, or wins the girl whom he had offended against for their equipment for the defense of their in his early days. The story is gracefully told; faith. It comprises, in a series of threescore and the "idea" which impels the hero to work and ten brief meditations, a selection of the out the literal terms of the punishment to more comforting passages from the, author's which he had been sentenced, but which he had previous writings, which are intended to reach evaded, is an episode of great moral beauty, and the case of the weary, the heavy-laden, the is not without its humorous and romantic side. penitent, the spiritually depressed, the fearful, | —Equally brief and entertaining, and embodythe afflicted, and, indeed, all the needs and ing with a gracefully told love story a sugmoods of Christians in every class and station. gestive lesson, by which young maidens who They are marked by great tenderness, and are have no other gift than a sunshiny nature replete with encouragements and consolations may gladden and elevate those of their own drawn from Holy Scripture, many of which sex who spend their lives in hopeless drudgery, are clothed in verse of great sweetness and is a little volume styled My Sister's Keeper.26 pathos. Dr. Vincent's Stranger and Guest1 is a It is an illustration of the power of association guide to personal religion, in the form of five and example, and of the property of sunniness suggestive essays, which deal with successive and sweetness to brighten and sweeten all that stages of life from the world to the Lord's come within their influence.-If a rainy day table. -Belonging to an entirely different should intervene, and these tidbits of fiction sphere are a number of publications whose prove too slight a repast, a more prolonged enprovince is merely to afford entertainment by tertainment may be found in some recent novtheir incursions upon the territory of romance, els. Among these we note as very bright and or by their pictures of society and manners, or vivacious, Orange Lily,27 a genial Irish story, by by their recital of the vagaries and vicissitudes May Crommelin; Basildon,28 a more elaborate of love. Under the title An Attic Philosopher English society novel, by Mrs. Hunt; and Marin Paris, M. Emile Souvestre has grouped kof,29 by Mrs. Henry Gréville, a novel based on twelve exquisite little sketches, based on com- life and society in Russia, in which this wonmonplace happenings in Paris, and depict- derfully fertile writer depicts the career of a ing with commingled tenderness, pathos, hu- young peasant violinist from the opening of mor, and sweetness as many phases of hum- his passion for music, through his struggles to ble life in Paris, each of which has the piqu- master the exacting art, till he wins success. ancy of a romance and the literalness of The love experiences of the hero and two of reality. Theo23 and Miss Crespigny" are two his friends are related with great spirit and of Mrs. Burnett's earlier love stories, whose delicacy. The work is far superior to any brightness and vivacity will be attractive to thing we have read of Mrs. Gréville's, and has young people of the gentler sex, but which the unmistakable stamp of genius.-But spehave little of the narrative and descriptive cially noteworthy for every quality that makes power exhibited in her maturer writings.-A a work of imaginative romance a welcome and vacant hour may be pleasantly whiled away invigorating refreshment is our old favorite by Mr. Cooke's clever story, Mr. Grantley's John Halifax,3° which the Messrs. Harper have Idea,25 the scene of which is laid in Virginia, reproduced in their popular "Franklin Square and whose hero is a lad of gentle birth, re- Library" just in time to make one in the nuduced by orphanage and the neglect of his merous peripatetic libraries of the legions who relatives to the condition of a tramp and the are now preparing for the summer hegira. 22 20 Palms of Elim; or, Rest and Refreshment in the Valleys. By J. R. MACDUFF, D.D. 12mo, pp. 307. New York: Robert Carter and Brothers. 21 Stranger and Guest. By MARVIN R. VINCENT, D.D. 18mo, pp. 152. New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co. 22 An Attic Philosopher in Paris; or, A Peep at the World from a Garret. From the French of ÉMILE SOUVESTRE. "New Handy Volume Series." 16mo, pp. 194. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 23 Theo. By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. Sm. 12mo, pp. 183. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 24 Miss Crespigny. By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. Sm. 12mo, pp. 190. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 25 Mr. Grantley's Idea. By JOHN ESTEN COOKE. "Harper's Half-hour Series." 32mo, pp. 154. New York: Harper and Brothers. | 26 My Sister's Keeper. A Story for Girls. By LAURA M. LANE. "Harper's Half-hour Series." 32mo, pp. 191. New York: Harper and Brothers. 27 Orange Lily. A Novel. By MAY CROMMELIN. "Franklin Square Library." 4to, pp. 39. New York: Harper and Brothers. 8 Basildon. A Novel. By Mrs. ALFRED W. HUNT. "Franklin Square Library." 4to, pp. 60. New York: Harper and Brothers. 29 Markof, the Russian Violinist. By HENRY Gréville. Translated by HELEN STANLEY. 12mo, pp. 468. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers. 30 John Halifax, Gentleman. A Novel. By Miss MuLOOK."Franklin Square Library." 4to, pp. 89. New York: Harper and Brothers. 0 POLITICAL. ernor. The Iowa Republicans met at Des Moines June 11, and renominated John H. Gear for Governor. The French Senate, June 15, passed the bill for a return of the Chambers to Paris.-M. Blanqui, the French Socialist, has been par ber of Deputies has annulled his election. A naval engagement was fought off Iquique, on the Peruvian coast, May 21, between the Peruvian iron-clads Huascar and Independencia and three Chilian wooden vessels, the Esmeralda, Covadonga, and Limari. The Esmeralda was rammed and sunk, and over 100 of her crew were drowned. The Independencia was wrecked in pursuing the enemy, and was burned. King Cetywayo, with a view of leaving the British no point to strike at, and adopting a system of bush warfare, has burned the royal kraal, and retired to Northwest Zululand. UR Record is closed on the 17th of June. President Hayes, May 29, sent a message to the House vetoing the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Bill. A motion to pass the measure over the veto failed, the vote standing 112 to 91-less than two-doned and released from prison, but the Chamthirds. On the 9th of June another bill was offered without the political riders to which the President had objected, and it was passed by 188 to 22. On the 14th, the Senate amended and passed it, after which it was returned to the House for concurrence. The bill consists of a single declaratory clause, and a large number of explanations and amendments, making the law of the present current year the law of the next fiscal year. On the 10th of June the House passed the Judicial Appropriation Bill, with a clause nullifying the Federal election law. June 16, the Senate passed the Supplemental Judicial Appropriation Bill, modified by the Democrats so as to remove possible objections by the President. An amendment offered by Senator Hill, and adopted, gives United States courts permission to draw their jurors from State court jury-boxes.—June 2, the House voted to appropriate $20,000 for the Australian exhibitions.-June 11, the House, by a vote of 172 to 31, passed the Army Bill, with the following restrictive clause: "That no money appropriated by this act is appropriated or shall be paid for the subsistence, equipment, transportation, or compensation of any portion of the army of the United States to be used as a police force to keep the peace at the polls at any election held within any State." The House, June 7, voted additional appropriations for the postal service, including an increase of the pay of letter-carriers. A new Army Bill, prohibiting military interference at elections, was introduced in the House by Mr. Springer, June 16, and pressed for immediate passage, but it failed, less than two-thirds voting to suspend the rules. The Senate, June 6, passed the bill repealing the jurors' test oath. The Senate, June 10, refused, by a vote of 21 to 22, to order the Warner Silver Bill to be reported. Both Houses, June 10, unanimously passed a bill to erect a monument on the site of the house in which Washington was born. The late Portuguese ministry, before its retirement, concluded a treaty with Great Britain looking to the suppression of the slavetrade, the development of commerce, and the civilization of Africa. The International Ship-canal Congress, meeting in Paris, has adopted, by a vote of 98 to 8, the Panama and Limon Bay route. Alexander Solovieff, who attempted to assassinate the Czar of Russia, was hanged on the Smolenski Field on June 10. DISASTERS. May 30.-A tornado in parts of Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska destroyed buildings, swept the fields of their crops, and scooped the water from rivers and wells. More than forty persons were killed and eighty wounded. June 12.-A water-spout at Buffalo Gap, in the Black Hills region, caused an overflow of Beaver Creek, which swept away a camp and drowned eleven persons. May 30.-An avalanche destroyed a church and several houses, and killed six persons, in the village of Fontana, Switzerland. OBITUARY. May 17.—In Philadelphia, Judge Asa Packer, aged seventy-four years. June 1.-At Ottumwa, Iowa, General James Shields, United States Senator, at different times, from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri, aged sixty-nine years. June 10.-At Annapolis, Maryland, Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, commandant of the United States Naval Academy, aged fifty-eight years. May 26.-James Grant, the English journalist, aged seventy-four years. The Maine Greenbackers met in Convention at Portland June 3, and nominated Joseph L. Smith for Governor. The Ohio Democrats met at Columbus on the 4th, and nominated Thomas Ewing for Governor. The same day the Ohio Greenbackers also met at Columbus, and refusing any coalition with the Democrats, nominated General A. S. Piatt for Governor.June 10, the Minnesota Greenbackers met at St. Paul, and nominated Asa Barton for Gov-one years. June 3.-In London, England, Baron Lionel de Rothschild, the head of the English branch of the famous banking house, aged seventy |