This description, rare spiritual insight, delicate fancy, and high imagination; and burdened throughout with the sweet sad music of humanity. unique poem will be immediately issued by SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & Co. in a tasteful 12mo volume, and will be followed by his other poetic works in similar style. WILFRID CUMBERMEDE. THE popularity of Wilfrid Cumbermede outran the expectations of the publishers, who were compelled to delay publication in order to prepare an edition more than twice as large as that originally intended; and up to the time of this writing it has been found impossible to meet the demand of the trade for copies of the book. This is a most gratifying proof of the hold Mac MARION HARLAND'S "COMMON SENSE" IN donald has taken upon the reading public of THE HOUSEHOLD. In THE fame of this popular and most useful book has reached the other side of the Atlantic. proof of this we find in the London Spectator a most appreciative two-column review, the general tenor of which is sufficiently indicated by the accompanying extract: "Even if we leave out of sight the several receipts which need exclusively American products, we are struck by the variety of those that remain. The principle upon which the author has proceeded is favorable to such an accumulation, for Mrs. Harland has been steadily collecting receipts for fifteen years, never losing an opportunity of adding to her store, and making each receipt her own by the test of practical experience. A book compiled in this way ought to inspire us with some confidence. We may not be sure of finding the most approved dishes, such as haunt the pages of professed cookery-books, need an infinite variety of materials, and are the despair of all save severe and lofty intellects. But the receipts which Mrs. Harland gives us are at once tempting in themselves and within the reach of humbler mortals. We may follow her without being restricted to the choice between meagre simplicity and lavish expenditure. It is true that it will sometimes be necessary to resort to new materials, and that old-fashioned cooks may hold up their hands in horror. But anything is to be welcomed which saves us from the monotony too often prevalent even in families which might command the widest resources. There is no need for the joint of one day and the cold meat of the next if a little care is taken, nor is it incumbent upon cooks when they make anything exceptional to resort to almost fabulous expense. Mrs. Harland evidently contemplates no slight amount of personal attendance and supervision on the part of the mistress of the house. We see this in the chapter devoted to servants, and also in the hint given to wives never to do their work standing when they can do it as well sitting. Her own practice has been consistent with her advice, and she tells amusingly of the way in which she has surprised her husband by preparing ice-creams while he was shaving or dressing. "I have often," she says, "laughed in my sleeve at seeing my John walk through the cellar in search of some mislaid basket or box, whistling carelessly, without a suspicion that his favorite delicacy was coolly working out its own solidification under the inverted barrel on which I chanced to be leaning at his entrance." The many similar surprises which, according to Mrs. Harland, are to be prepared for husbands will do much, if there is such a thing as gratitude, to add to the happiness of families. We might mention several dishes given in the book with which we should be quite ready to be surprised at any time. Our only fear is, that if we were to speak of them in the household we should be told with a shrug of the shoulders that they were purely American. America;-evidence, indeed, of a pure and high taste. The Providence Press says: "George Macdonald is a singular writer, and one of rare merit. He is unlike any other author we ever read. His works, which have received attention in our "Book Notices," have been generally commended in high terms. His David Elginbrod made an impression upon our mind which can hardly be effaced. That old Scotch hero and prince in Israel looms up before us while we write, in all his splendid proportions. The other volumes by this author are alike marked with their own peculiarities. Wilfrid Cumbermede is no exception. It is singularly pure, smooth, and fascinating. The plot displays genius of a high order, the development shows the philosopher and student, and the style gives evidence of the scholar's hand. The publishers have embellished it with fourteen full-page illustrations, and given it a handsome dress." "This delightful story," says the Philadelphia Inquirer, "the best that has come from him who has been very justly described as the best of living story writers, which has been running as a serial in Scribner's Magazine for many months past, and is still appearing therein, is now ready in a handsome volume. In this shape its many beauties can be better appreciated, and its popularity will certainly be greatly enhanced. For delicate and profound analysis of character, for striking interest, closeness and symmetry of construction, briliancy and winsomeness of style, it would not be easy to find its match in fiction. A number of illustrations accompany the text. In Scribner's Monthly an able critic pays the following deserved tribute to Macdonald: "Judged simply as a work of art, despite its characteristic defects, Wilfrid Cumbermede must rank among the greatest novels. In some of the author's earlier stories there is the stereotyped ending with a wedding, the "coming out well," as every story should come out that aims to amuse. But this is not the highest and truest art. Life is not all comedy. Things are not settled up in this world. Shakespeare learned this. Had he written nothing but comedies, even such comedies as "The Tempest" and "The Merchant of Venice," he would have fallen short of the highest mark. The latest and best critics believe his tragedies to have been the ripe fruit of his genius. So in Falconer and in Wilfrid Cumbermede, Mr. Macdonald disdains to make life seem a play that always ends in a marriage and a comfortable settlement. He aspires to paint life as he sees it. He idealizes it, but he will not falsify it. And so the mere novel-reader may complain that the book does not end satisfactorily. But no novel ever closed so grandly. For, having rejected the common ending, Mr. Macdonald sets all his great genius to work on his favorite problem. 'Not woman,' he says in Falconer, ‘but God, is the center of the universe.' He will have Wilfrid Cumbermede to miss of the lower happiness, but to reach the highest. Can any dénouement that brings a hero, after fire and flood, to marriage, equal that which Macdonald has set down in a strain of eloquence worthy of St. John the Divine in these last pages? This passage is poetry and prophecy together: 'I crept into the bosom of God, and along a great cloudy peace, which I could not understand, for it did not yet enter into me. At length I came to the heart of God, and through that my journey lay. The moment I entered it, the great peace appeared to enter mine, and I began to understand it. Something melted in my heart, and I thought for a moment I was dying, but I found I was being born again. My heart was empty of its old selfishness, and I loved Mary tenfold-no longer in the least for my own sake, but all for her loveliness. The same moment I knew that the heart of God was a bridge along which I was crossing the unspeakable eternal gulf that divided Mary and me.' flow of a river; 'cookeys' (also found in Scotland), for small cakes, and 'dough-nuts.' Prairie is French. Loafer is said to be German. A large number of colloquial Americanisms are, of course, simply the phrases of a particular craft or trade, metaphorically applied, and some of these, whose original sense was not exactly self-evident, are ingeniously traced home by Dr. De Vere. Altogether the work is worth dipping into, if not reading through; and it is rendered the more serviceable by a regular glossary of what the author considers as 'cant and slang' terms at the end." PRESIDENT PORTER ON THE HIGHER MESSRS. SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & Co. have published the proceedings at the inauguration of Noah Porter as President of Yale College. As the collection includes President Porter's suggestive "Address on the Higher Education," it will be sought after not only by students of Yale, but In Macdonald, the external, visible defeat is by those interested in the subject so ably treated by the new President. In one regard the art of Macdonald transcends even that of the great master of English drama. In Shakespeare's tragedies there is only the defeat which one sces in ordinary life. glorified by the triumph of faith in God's fatherhood. A NEW EDITION OF AMERICANISMS. PROF. SCHELE DE VERE has taken the opportu nity afforded by the publication of a new edition of his entertaining work on Americanisms, to make a number of corrections, which add materially to the permanent value of the book. Prof. De Vere has promptly availed himself of the suggestions of critics and scholars in order to make his volume free from errors, at once interesting to the general reader, and of assistance to the student of language. Americanisms has already attracted witle attention, and will be still more eagerly sought after in the new and revised edition. The Saturday Review, usually so captious regarding American books, says regarding this work: "A curious work on Americanisms, by Dr. Schele De Vere, contains a large amount of really interesting and amusing information and speculation regarding the origin of a variety of phrases and words with which the English reader is gradually becoming acqainted through the popularity acquired by the writings of the American humorists of the day. Its chief defect is that it does not distinguish between words which can really be said to form a part of the spoken language of America and those which are mere slang terms, either peculiar to the uneducated and vulgar, or to particular trades or particular districts; as also that, for want of intimacy with English as spoken at home, the writer often sets down as Americanisms words and forms of speech which are older than the American colonies, either as colloquial idioms or as provincial peculiarities. The chief merit of the book is that it diligently traces the dif ferent Americanisms to their origin; some, as 'vamose,' through the Texan borderers and Californian settlers, to the Spanish; some, through the Western pioneers, to the Indian, as 'coyote,' to burrow, to sink a small shaft; some to the Dutch of New York, as 'Overslaugh,' originally the over ANOTHER VOLUME OF LANGE. 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