Books of the Month [pp. 104]

BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
sitting in a long hall, through which a current of air wafted the various perfumes past
him. lie says, "a series of staccato passages, amid bergamot, lemon, orange, cinnamon, and other familiar perfumes, quite entranced me, while a succession of double
shakes on the attar of rose made me fancy,
for a moment, that the joyous breath of a
bright spring morning was once more dashing the odors of that old sweet-briar bush
into the open window of my chamber at
0." All this took place in the mysterious land of the "Framazugs," together with
much else as singular and suggestive.
Dr. Mayo has something to say on the
moral influence of food, which is worth considering. "It is a great thing, a plenty of
good, plain, wholesome food in this world,
and not without its influence in the next. If
anyone doubts, let him ask the starving millions, who are suffering the pangs of hunger
-who are dying of diseases engendered of
famine-who are groveling in the mental and
moral debasement of deficient nutrition-and
what will be the answer? Why, that a starving stomach permits no moral sense, no religious sentiment-that you must fill that organ
before you can touch the heart-before you
call make the consolations of religion, the
incitements of virtue, the hopes of heaven,
anything better than miserable and empty
sounds, signifying nothing."
So much for the medical gentleman who
found no difficulty in weaving much wholesome logic into his story, which seems to us
second only to the unrivaled Polynesian romances of Herman Melville.
LEISURE HOUR SERIES. Fly -Leaves by
C. S. C. New York: Holt & Williams.
Mr. C. S. Calverley, the reputed author of
Fly-Leaves, may be judged as a writer from
two stand-points: he is either a genuine poet,
whose broad humor masters his sentiment
when least expected, while he convulses the
reader who may be quite in the mood to accept him in good earnest; or he is a wit;
with an uncommon appreciation of the beautiful, and who possesses poetic powers of no
mean order. In fact, there are stanzas in this
volume that would do honor to almost any
of the modern poets, and we are sometimes
inclined to feel vexed with the author when
we find he is only fooling. Altogether, it is
one of the most entertaining books we have
met with for many a day, and we thank the
publishers for introducing it to us in so attractive and convenient a form.
BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
FXrom A. Roman6z & Co., San Francisco:
THE -ENEID OF VIRGIL. By C. P. Cranch. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co.
TIhE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE. By O. WV. Holmes. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co.
GARETH AND LYNETTE. By Alfred Tennyson. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co.
TIHE HIGHER MINISTRY OF NATURE. By J. R. Leifchild. New York: G. P. Putnam &
Sons.
THE MIINISTRY OF SONG. By Frances R. Havergal. New York: D. C. Lent & Co.
HIN-TS ON DRESS. By Ethel C. Gale. New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons.
THE ROMIAN-CE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. By Schele DeVere. New York: G. P. Putnam
& Sons.
THE GREEKS OF TO-DAyV. By Chas. K. Tuckerman. New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons.
KEEL AND SADDI.E. By Joseph W. Revere. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co.
From A. L. Bancroft &' Co., San Francisco.A SUMM,IIER'S RO.MANCE. By Mary Healy. Boston: Roberts Bros.
BIOG(;RAPIIA LI,ITFERARIA. By S. T. Coleridge. 2 Vols. New York: Holt & Williams.
OUTLINES OF HISTORY. By Edward A. Freeman. New York: Holt & Williams.
INCIDENTS IN MY LIFE. By D. D. Home. New York: Holt & Williams.
SER.xONS. By Rev. H. R. Haweis. New York: Holt & Williams.
ENGLISH LITERATURE. By Henry Copp6e. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffel finger.
OFF THE SKELLIGS. By Jean Ingelow. Boston: Roberts Bros.
1o4
[JAN.