Darwin. At his home in Kent, England, April 19,
Charles Robert Darwin, 73 years. See p. 145.
Owen. In Cambridge, Mass, April 22, John Owen, 76
years; a literary workman of curious tastes and habits,
and the publisher of Longfellow's first volume of poems,
Voices of the Night, in 1839.

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Emerson, 78 years. See p. 144.
In Concord, Mass., April 27, Ralph Waldo

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- Dodd, Mead & Co. are about to bring out a twenty cent edition of E. P. Roe's barriers Burned Away. They also have ready in their new edition of Garrett's works, Family Fortunes. -No decision has been reached- -none at This firm have purchased the plates of the least has been made public - by the family of American edition of Young's Analytical ConcordMr. Longfellow respecting the authorized biog-ance, and have had the work thoroughly revised, raphy of him. Mr. Underwood's sketch is about and now claim that their new "Student's Ediready for the printer, and will be carried rapidly tion" is superior in accuracy to the English. through the press. Moses King, the Cambridge publisher, has in press a memorial volume of 352 pages, octavo, edited by W. S. Kennedy, consisting of selections from what has been said and printed of Longfellow, including liberal use of the Longfellow number of the Literary World. The design is good and well carried out. From the office of the Cambridge Tribune has been issued a publication entitled The Life and Works of Longfellow, Cambridge Edition. This title is unfortunate, to say the least, inasmuch as it might easily mislead one into expecting a "Cambridge edition" of the works of Longfellow, complete, with a life; whereas the book is nothing more than a 25 cent pamphlet made up of various readings from and about Longfellow, such as naturally crystallized around the point of - A. D. F. Randolph & Co. are about to pubthe poet's death. We hear also of some sort of lish The Ministers' Handbook, a series of forms a biography of Longfellow by Dr. George L. for baptism, marriage, funerals, and visitation of Austin, which, however, will have no sort of the sick, compiled by M. R. Vincent, D.D; a authentication from the family; and of Reminiscences of a Poet's Home Life, prepared by Miss Blanche Roosevelt from notes made during a visit to Longfellow at Nahant in 1880. Mr. Sidney Woollett gave two recitals from Longfellow at the Hawthorne Rooms, Boston, last week, and Mr. Francis H. Underwood, in an excellent address at the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, placed Longfellow among the first of the second group of poets who come after Shakespeare and Milton, "the only two great poets". of modern times, we suppose he meant. "Longfellow, Wordsworth and Milton," Mr. Underwood is reported as saying, "by their purity of life and the noble considerations they presented to mankind, seemed to stand as if on celestial heights, and with the shining troops and sweet societies of heaven." — G. W. Harlan, N. Y., will shortly publish a handsome quarto entitled Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Medley in Prose and Verse. R. H. Stoddard is the editor. It will include the impressions of a number of literary celebrities. A steel plate portrait of Longfellow, from a photograph by Sarony, will accompany the volume.

-Among noteworthy features in the June Century are to be a sketch of Cardinal Newman, with a portrait of him for a frontispiece, and a short unpublished essay by him on the "Inspiration of the Bible." Richard Grant White's article on the "Opera in New York" will be finished, and its illustrations will be portraits of the favorites of the present time. The prize wood engravings will illustrate an article on that subject, seven examples being given.

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-In the "Leisure Hour Series" the next volume will be The Revolt of Man, said to be a clever satire on the supposed state of society a hundred years from now. Henry Holt & Co. are to remove to new and spacious quarters at 29 West Twenty-third Street where they intend to have a "sky parlor" combining elegance and convenience.

- Macmillan & Co have ready a new American edition of Masson's French Dictionary; also Skeat's Etymological Dictionary, a reprint made specially for the American market at one fourth the price of the English edition. Two Years Ago will be the next volume in the cheap edition of Kingsley's novels.

-T. Y. Crowell & Co. have in preparation a new volume of Poetical Selections, by Charlotte Fiske Bates, who compiled the Longfellow Birthday Book. The poems are principally from American authors, and the illustrations are from original designs by American artists.

— G. W. Harlan, New York, is about to transfer his office to 44 West Twenty-third Street, where he will add one more to the colony of Harper & Bros. have just issued Barbou's publishers in that neighborhood and find agreeVictor Hugo and his Times, Miss Mulock's able company, the Putnams, Holts, Carleton, and Plain Speaking, Froude's Carlyle in cheap form, E. P. Dutton & Co. in the Rolfe Shakespeare · Two Gentlemen of| -G. P. Putnam's Sons have now ready the

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church, a service that has no equal for and one that we can have no patience with beauty of ritual, a renovated community, whatever, is the omission of both index and and a fragrant memory are the monument. table of contents. There is not even a Charles Lowder was a Christian knight. paged list of chapters. This is altogether He had the spirit of a crusader. Whether inexcusable. An author, editor, or publisher, it were raging cholera or a howling mob he who allows a book to go to the public in this 155 had to do with, he knew no fear. Like all shape may think himself lucky if it is not 156 men of great zeal he was not always prudent. tossed by reviewers generally into the waste158 He made mistakes. He carried his ascetic basket. life to an extreme severity which unques- Mr. Dayton begins his description with tionably undermined his constitution and the Knickerbocker Sabbath, churches, and shortened his life. But he did a valiant hospitality. Grandmother's parlor is deand splendid work. No soldier fights a scribed, with its high-backed armless mabraver battle, no heroism surpasses this. hogany chairs and other quaint old furniture. was the one man riding into the valley of A visit is paid to Castle Garden when it was 159 death, and the rest of the six hundred not yet a place of pleasure, and to the Battery 165 riding with him, but firing shots after him as when many choice residences were still he rode. What an inspiration is such a his- gathered about it. Chapters follow on Miss tory for easy-going Christians and well-fed Margaret Mann's noted boarding-house at ministers lolling in fat places! What a re- 61 Broadway, and on the City Hotel, the 160 buke of theological narrowness and party great public house of its time. Here was persecution! the home of a group of strongly marked characters, a band of "jolly good fellows," including Colonel Nick Saltus, a retired merchant and confirmed old bachelor; Werckmeister, an importer of toys at the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street, also a bachelor; and Hollingsworth, a shrivelled and pinched old man, who never left the house for years, but devoted himself assiduously to taking care of the newspapers in the reading-room. Several of the captains of the sailing packets which then sailed twice a month from New York for European ports had their land quarters here. There was a great dining-hall at the City Hotel, in which Henry Russell used to give his concerts and sing "The Ivy Green," to the delight of the guests, including, on one occasion, Capt. Marryat.

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For our part we are willing to say that if "Ritualism" means Charles Lowders and their works, then the more "Ritualism" the better. It is a humiliation that ecclesiastical red tape can be found to bind such men hand and foot.

This book may be read as a contribution to recent English church history as well as for its interest as a personal memoir.

166 NEW YORK HALF A CENTURY AGO.* IT T is a striking sign of the rapid pace at which we are all bowling along towards CHARLES LOWDER.* the end of the century that a description of C 'HARLES LOWDER was a clergyman New York as it was in 1840 should be of of the Church of England -a "Cath- fered to us as a picture of "old times." olic priest " he would have called himself, Yet forty years-two generations - have but "Catholic" without being "Roman." certainly made great changes in the AmeriThat is to say he was a nineteenth century can metropolis, and even the oldest of us minister with medieval leanings. He was may find not a little diversion in looking a Ritualist, but not for Ritualism's sake, back to that point and comparing the things using elaborate form and decorated ceremony that are with the things that were. simply as a means to an end, and that end a very high and noble one.

This historian of the Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York, Mr. Abram C. Mr. Lowder's final and great field of labor Dayton, died in 1877, leaving among his was in the Wapping district of London-effects a neat manuscript from which the its North Street-its Five Points. Words present volume has been printed, "letter cannot describe the viciousness, the filthi- for letter and line for line, just as he wrote ness, the squalor, the wretchedness of this and left it." A finely engraved steel porquarter, when he planted himself in the trait of Mr. Dayton prefaces the volume. midst of it at the head of his mission. No He is a pleasant looking gentleman of perhope could be more forlorn. The story of his life is a picture of faith working by love; of combats with sin entrenched and poverty most abject; of struggles with ecclesiastical bigots who could have no sympathy with his work or its motives; of patient continuance in well-doing in the face of obstacles which might have dismayed the stoutest heart; of a slow but steady gain against gigantic evils at every point; and of a final

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haps fifty years, with a smooth face, abun-
dant wavy hair, a refined and amiable ex-
pression, and the general aspect of a man
of retired and intellectual tastes. The broad
coat collar, high dickey, and voluminous
cravat suggest a gentleman of the old school,
but the face represents the cultivated man-
hood of all time.

So interesting a book might have been
made by such a man out of such a subject
that it is a pity this one is not a little bet-

Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York. By
Abram C. Dayton. George W. Harlan. $1.25.

From the City Hotel Mr. Dayton makes the round of the business precincts, looking in on the banks and brokers, the lawyers, and the lottery offices. Wall Street was even then the place where the moneychangers met, with Trinity Church standing sentinel at its head, and old Grace Church, fashionable in its youth, not far away. In Chapter Eighth we reach the eatinghouses, as restaurants were then unpretendingly called. Thompson had just opened his afterwards famous ice-cream saloon at 171 Broadway, which for a long time ladies did not dare to visit notwithstanding the temptations in the windows. Downing, a negro, had an oyster cellar at 5 Broad Street, which was a great resort. Here at luncheon time could always be met one or another of the notabilities of the city, among them Jacob Barker, Fitz-Greene Halleck, and John Jacob Astor. Windust had a saloon in a basement on Park Row, near the Park Theater, which was a great rendezvous for actors and literary people. Edmund Kean, J. B. Booth, Tyrone Power, Harry Placide, Park Benjamin, George P. Morris, N. P. Willis, and M'Donald Clarke, were among