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"Its pages are full of personal anecdote and graphic narratives of events which are fascinating in the extreme."— Boston Watchman and Reflector. A SUMMARY OF American & Foreign Literature. Vol. V. EDUCATIONAL NUMBER. NEW YORK, AUGUST 15, 1872. Guyot's Geographies. Cooley's Physical Science. Felter's Arithmetic. Guyot's Wall Maps. Perce's Globes, &c., &c. FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, July 25, 1872. A FAINT reflection of the tropical heat lately felt in the United States prevails in London at this time, and occasions more inconvenience than the mere range of the thermometer would justify. This is owing to the singular want of all appliances for its comfortable endurance in England generally. Ice, thin clothing, and cooling drinks are alike scarce or non-existent. An Englishman's house, clothing, &c., are intended to bid defiance to cold and damp; clothing especially is rarely changed in material throughout the year, 30 when the heat does come, every one becomes fretful and fidgety, and rushes off in search of cooling breezes and salt-sea waves-and the metropolis is deserted. The production of books, like other less intellectual industries, is fairly at an end for the time being, and until October very little that is new can be looked for. The publishing season has not been an eventful one. Hardly the average has been reached either in number or quality; and though the mechanical trades connected with books have been fully employed, it has been rather in reproduction of standard books than in the preparation of new No. 11 the kind done while all the artisans were busy on Daily Services, Prayer Books, &c., at almost any rates of payment they liked to ask. The favorite subject of Prehistoric Archæology has lately received much illustration. One of the most thorough and exhaustive books on it has just appeared: The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain, by John Evans, F.S.A.,-a large and solid octavo volume, with over five hundred drawings of ancient remains. Though nominally confined to British antiquities, the perfect identity of type in all the remains of similar age found throughout the world renders its contents as applicable to other countries. So full an examination and classification of the oldest reliques of man's occupation of the earth has never before been given, and it is curious to see objects found in Great Britain constantly illustrated by kindred ones described in the pages of Schoolcraft, Squier and other explorers of the antiquarian mine in America. Mr. Evans commences with the comparatively recent remains, and after explaining the manufactures, uses, &c., of the more elaborate Celts, arrowheads, javelins, &c., of flint and bone, is gradually led upward to the ruder implements of the drift formation, attributed to the Paleolithic period and the doings of the mysterious Cave-dwellers,-that nomad or hunting race, unacquainted with the simplest arts, and but little raised above the animal condition, and who are known only by these traces to have pervaded the Old World from Ireland to the Ganges and the Nerbudda. Mr. Evans's book displays ar industry and range of inquiry worthy the most ideal times of scholarship, and is indispensable as a companion to the works of Sir John Lubbock, Tyler, Nilsson, &c. A later period is well illustrated in Traces of History in the Names of Places, with a Vocabulary of Roots out of which delivered at Notre Dame in Paris by the Rev. Père Lacordaire, of the order of Friar Preachers, translated by a Tertiary of the same order; one vol. 12mo. The subjects discussed are "The Supernatural Intercourse between God aud Man," "Its Need, and the Objections against it answered," "Prophecy," "Mystery," "The Object of Prophecy," &c., &c. Names of Places in England and Wales are formed, by F. Edmunds-12mo. As the local nomenclature of the United States is substantially the same with that of the old country, the volume has equal interest on both sides of the water. It is surprising how much description and even history is often fossilized in one of the good old English names of a place. The Dictionary of Root Words may, indeed, in America have a use not contemplated by the author, as there a constant necessity prevails for conferring new names, and a reference to its pages will show how readily a genuine home-sounding name may be created in preference to the classical dictionary puerili-England and Ireland," "Medieval Oxford," ties or mere trivial vulgarisms that deform most of the maps of all newly-settled districts. A very large sale is expected for the new work of Dr. Liddon, now on the eve of publication, after repeated delays, arising from the many calls upon the time of the author. Its title is, Some Elements of Religion, Lent Lectures, by Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., Canon of St. Paul's, and Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Dr. Liddon, it is well known, is the most eminent man of the English Church in a branch of the ministerial profession rarely cultivated by its dignitaries. As a popular preacher he is unequalled, and whether his aristocratic audiences block up Piccadilly with their carriages when he preaches at St. James's, or the million crowd the mighty expanse under the dome of St. Paul's to listen to his words, he is alike enthusiastically followed by numbers who almost realize the medieval stories of St. Bernard or the early Franciscans. His time is consequently too much taken up for writing, though the few volumes from his pen (and notably his Bampton Lectures on the Divinity of Christ) rank among the first productions of the age. The Lectures, comprising his forthcoming volume, were preached at St. James' about three years since, and have been looked forward for eagerly ever since. A parallel to Dr. Liddon in amount of personal influence and attraction as a preacher may perhaps be found most readily in another communion, in the eloquent Dominican, Rev. Père Lacordaire, who held his audiences entranced in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, during his famous "Conferences." Two of these series of discus. sions have been made known to English readers with such success that they have been followed by a third, now just published. The former volumes treated of Jesus Christ and God; the new volume is entitled God and Man. Conferences The new volume of the uniform edition of Rev. J. H. Newman's works is to general readers the most interesting of the series. It is called Historical Sketches, and contains "Rise and Progress of Universities," "Northmen and Normans in "Convention of Canterbury." The first article was originally published in 1854 under the title of "The Office and Work of Universities." It was called forth by the foundation of a Catholic University by the Prelates of the Irish Church. It will be found a most learned and interesting treatise on a subject of deep importance in America. Beginning with the question, "What is a University?" it traces "University Life in Athens," and in succeeding ages and countries, its connection with the height and subsequent downfall of ancient civilization, where the new ideas destined to supersede it took root and spread, the Popes, the schools of Charlemagne and the great medieval teachers, the ancient Universities of Dublin, Oxford, &c., &c. It is, in fact, a history of ancient and modern civilization as influenced by and dependent on Culture by a most competent author and in a very moderate compass. The last work of the new literary K.C.B., Sir Arthur Helps, is a Biography of the famous Railway Engineer and Contractor, Mr. Brassey. It is probably rather a commission from the family than a work spontaneously undertaken by the author of Friends in Council, but was worth doing as preserving the memory of a man remarkable in an age of universal strife for wealth, for energy, enterprise, and, above all, for success. Sir Arthur's remarks on Mr. Brassey's fortune may be interesting. He says: "It was not for excessive gains in any one transaction, or even in several transactions, that his fortune sprung. It will perhaps surprise the reader to learn the small percentage of profit which accrued to him from all his enterprises taken as a whole. It was as nearly as possible three per cent. He laid out seventy-eight millions (sterling) of other people's money, and upon that outlay retained about two and a half millions. The rest of his fortune consisted of accumulations." This "rest" un |