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sesses "the vision and tlie faculty di- From J. A. McG~~, New York: "Thumping
vine," and belongs to the subjective English Lies": Froude's Slanders on Ireland
and Irishmen. With Prefsce and Notes by
school of which Tennyson is king-a Col. J. E. McGee, and Wendell Phillips' Views
school peculiarly capable of teaching a of the Situation. ssmo. pp. s~~.-Hal~Hours
subjective age. The more the pity, then, with Irish Authors: Selections from Griffin,
Love
say we, that Mr. Ellis should have made r, Carleton, and Lever. Ismo. pp. 330.
his chief poem, "The Two Ysondes,"
hang on the idea that love is fate. His From A. D. F. RANnoLpH, New York: Christ at
"Two Ysondes" are the two "Isolts" of the Door. By Susan H. Ward. 52m0, pp. 232.
Tennyson but Tennyson does not at- From J. B. LiPPiNco~~&Co.,Philadelphia: Extempt to excuse the passion of Mark's piation. By Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr.
wife for Tristrem. Our author makes it
originate in Tristrem and Ysonde having From J. R. Osnoon & Co., Boston: The Pu"drunk," "by an evil diance," a Ahil mance of the Harem. By Mrs. A. I-I. Leontre which had been placed "in Tris- owens. 22m0. pp. vlil.-277.
trem's charge as a wedding-gift for
Ysonde and King Mark" (p. 7). Now, From ROBERTs Bsos., Boston: What Katy Did.
it may he said that this does away with By Susan Coolidge.-Thorvaldsen: His Life
and Works. By Eugen~ Plon. 12m0. pp.
tlie guilty aspect of the romance, and xvi.-320.-The World Priest. By Leopold
throws over the whole a veil of fae~ry. Schefer. 22m0. pp. xY.-371.
N~es but we insist tlsat it is, therefore,
tlse more mischievous, as teaching the From TilE Au~uo~: Sermon at the Month's
doctrine of fatality. Mind of the Most Rev. M. J. Spalding, D.D.,
Preached at the Church of the American Col Neither is this the only, or even the most, lege (Rome). By the V. Rev. Dr. Chatard,
objectionable feature of the poem; for, Rector. Paper, 8vo. pp. 30.
together with descriptions of emotions
and caresses which would be chaste if From E. H. BUTLER & Co., Philadelphia: The
tlse theme were lawful love, all idea of Etymological Reader. By Epes Sargent and
sin is kept away, and especially as re- Amasa May.
gards its eternal consequences. There
is not a word about remorse during life, From S. D. KIERNAN, Clerk, Department of
Public Instruction: Report of the Board of
or of repentance at death. But Tristrem Public Instruction of the City and County of
dies in despair of beholding the object New York, for the year ending Dec. I, iS~~
of his passion; and Ysonde, in turn, ex- with Addenda to May, ~I7~.-Manual of the
pires on tlse breast of her dead lover, de- Department of Public Instruction, 1871-2.
daring that slie will " go with him be)'O;z(6 stmo, pp. 262.
the ba,-s of fate." From MOLT & WILLIAMs, New York: Sermons
Now. we shduld not have troubled our- by the Rev. H. R. Hawes, M.A. s-mo, pp. xiv.
selves to make these strictures but that ~~.
Mr. Ellis shows powers for the`misuse
ef which lie will be very responsible. From AMERIcAN BAPTIsT SOCIETY, Philadelphia:
Moreover, as is clear from some of his The Baptist Short Method, with Inquirers and
shorter lyrics, particularly "At a Shrine," Opponents. Bv Rev. C. T. Hiscox, D.D. slmo,
his mind has a religious bent, with (of pp. 216.
course) Cafl~olic sympathies. From Huso & HOcOuTON, New Vork: The City
~Vitli regard to his verse, it is less Ten- of God and theChurch Makers. By R. Abbey.
nysonic than lsis thought. Better if, 2smO, pp. xx. ~s3.
while originating metres (with which we
have no quarrel whatever), he modelled FromBu~ss,O~~~s & Co London (New York:
both his lines and his diction on tlse Sold byThe Catholic Publication Society): The
Life ofMonseigneur Berneux, Bishop of Capse,
peerless accuracy of England's laureate. Vicar-Apostolic of Corea. Bv M. l'Abb~
Pichon Translated from the ICrench, with a
nooss AND PAMPHLETS RECEIvED. Preface by Lady Herbert.
From KELLY, PINT & Co., Baltimore' The From JOlIR HODGES, London: (New York: Sold
Money God. By M. A. Oninton. by The Catholic Publication Society): The
Lives of the Saints. By Rev. S. Baring~Gould,
~rom I.YNCH, COLE & MEElIAN, New York: MA. March.
En~ish Misrule in Ireland: A Course of Lee tures. By V. Rev. T. N. Burke, O.P. s~mo. From J. R. Osooon & Co., Boston: His Le~el
pp. 299. Best, and Other Stories. By Edward E. Hale.