speech. This passage from the speech of March animals for food or other proper uses is all that will give an idea of the style:

March (stopping short on the threshold).

I blow an arouse

Through the world's wide house
To quicken the torpid earth:
Grappling I fling
Each feeble thing.

But bring strong life to the birth.

I wrestle and frown,

And topple down;

I wrench, I rend, I uproot;

Yet the violet

Is born where I set

The sole of my flying foot,

Simple Simon;" and the six make a pretty blue book in large type, with nice pictures, in which the average girl of ten or twelve will pro

he supplies directions for; trapping for the
mere sport of it he does not encourage. His
eight books furnish complete directions for trap-ceed to lose herself so deeply when she comes
ping, from the ponderous machines employed to home from school, that not even the dinner-bell
catch bears, pumas, lions, and tigers, down will call her back to life-only a sharp touch on
through the range of steel-traps used for smaller the shoulder. Cross Patch is a hot-tempered little
game and the snares set for birds, to the various girl, who doesn't get along well with her three
inventions for catching rats, mice, and other aggravating brothers and other playmates, and
household pests. Abundant illustrations embel- has to be sent away from home for six months to
lish the text, and a great amount of curious in-be doctored by two old aunties. Tommy Tucker

[Hands violets and anemones to February, who retires formation is given about the habits of birds and is a small boy, the blacksmith's son, who has an

into the background.]

And in my wake

Frail wind-flowers quake,

And the catkins promise fruit.

I drive ocean ashore

With rush and roar,

And he cannot say me nay:
My harpstrings all

Are the forests tall,
Making music when I play.

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Shame is a shadow cast by sin: yet shame
Itself may be a glory and a grace,
Refashioning the sin-disfashioned face;
A nobler fruit than hollow-sounded fame,
A new-lit luster on a tarnished name,

One virtue pent within an evil place,
Strength for the fight and swiftness for the race,

A stinging salve, a life-requickening flame.

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animals. The two concluding parts sketch with uncomfortable step-mother, but makes up for
great fullness the requisites for camp life, and the that inconvenience by rùnning away with his
whole history and science of fur trapping and step-sister, Elsie, in a very romantic manner.
curing. We know of no work like it adapted to In "Hark! Hark!" we have the dogs barking
American latitudes, and a mastery of its contents and the people rushing about over the mischief
would suffice to make a professional out of an wrought in Madame Dolland's town by a pack
amateur, and equip him intellectually for the of gipsies, one detail of which is the stealing o
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SHAKESPEARIANA.

EDITED BY WM. J. ROLFE, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.

(White has no note upon it); though we cannot
imagine how it occurred, as the text was doubt
less set up from some printed text revised by the
editor, and not from manuscript.

The only typographical error we have detected
in a hurried glance at Mr. Bartlett's book is on p.

Mr. Bartlett dedicates this book "To H. S. B.," and we hope we may be forgiven for hinting that the initials are those of a lady who has been literally a "helpmeet" to him in preparing it.

Bartlett's" Shakespeare Phrase-Book." In this handsome volume of more than a thou-953, where he represents Dyce as reading "These sweet thoughts do even refrest my labour," in sand closely but clearly printed pages, Mr. John Tempest, iii. 1. 14. The "refrest" is italicized as Bartlett has made an important addition to the a variation from the "refresh" of the "Camvaluable compilations for which we are already bridge" edition; but we know of no such word, indebted to him. As he tells us in his preface, it and do not find it in our copies of Dyce (2d is "a concordance of phrases rather than of and 4th editions), which both read "refresh." words," including "every sentence from Shakespeare's dramatic works which contains an important thought, with so much of the context as preserves the sense." In most cases the quotations for which one would consult it are SO complete that there is no need of looking them up in the play. Mrs. Cowden-Clarke, in her Concordance, gives one a clue to a passage-all that the plan of the work permitted while Mr. Bartlett gives the passage itself. The difference can best be shown by a few examples from the first page or two. Under absence Mr. Bartlett has from Richard III, i. 3 the couplet: "Thy grief is but thy absence for a time. — Joy absent, grief is present for that time." All that Mrs. Cowden-Clarke has room for is: "is but thy absence for a time." Under achiever, the former gives: "A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers" (Much Ado i. 1); the latter only "when the achiever brings home full." Under air, Othello, iii. 3. 322-323. appears in the former thus: "Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ;" in the latter thus: "light as air, are, to the jealous." Marking the beginning of lines with capitals is an improvement upon both the Cowden-Clarke Concordance and

for some purposes.
We wish, however, that
Mr. Bartlett had added the "Globe "line-numbers
to his references, which, as in the Concordance,

are only to act and scene.

Pages 953-1034 of the Phrase-Book are devoted to "Comparative Readings" from the texts of Clark and Wright (the "Cambridge" edition), Dyce, Knight, Singer, Staunton, and Grant For instance, a familiar crux in Hamlet,

White.

i. 4 is thus presented:

says that "no theory could offer a more inviting target for the shafts of ridicule," we are not disposed to laugh at it. We think he is in earnest, and we have found his little book very entertaining. We are not, however, convinced by his arguments, ingenious as they are, and must still believe Hamlet to be the son of his father, in spite of the fact that the ghost has "carefully avoided" calling him "son." "What more natural appeal for the perturbed spirit than the yearning cry, My son?' but it never comes." The queen does indeed twice address him as son, but that was probably the result of "the constant habit of considering Hamlet as a son, and so addressing him before others." Her saying at the grave of Ophelia, "I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife," would have seemed to us a most gratuitous and superfluous bit of hypocrisy, had we not been told that "if queen had been for thirty years endeavoring to conceal the truth, it is not strange that she should speak of Hamlet in this manner before others." The reader will see how Mr. Vining disarms the possible opponents of his theory; and yet we are not converted to it.

the

Was Hamlet a Woman? One might suppose that no new theory of the character of Hamlet was possible, and that the further discussion of the subject must be left to the partisans of the thousand and one attempts to "pluck out the heart of his mystery" already made; but Mr. Edward P. Vining, in The Mystery of Hamlet, just published by the Lippincotts, has struck out Shakespeare Clubs. A correspondent in a fresh and original solution of the old problem. Western New York asks that we will "give a Hamlet, he believes, is a woman in disguise. brief account of the organization of a ShakeShe was born on the day when her father over-speare Club, in constitution, nature of programs, came Fortinbras. The queen and her mortally usual interval of meetings, etc." wounded husband, knowing that the successor to the throne is elected by the nobles and that no daughter can hope to inherit the crown, determine to pass the new-born infant off as a son. She is therefore brought up as a boy; and "if a girl were thus educated, and if she should then be placed in the position in which we find Ham let, is not the action of Hamlet such as we might expect from a noble woman thus unhappily situ

ated?"

Of course there is great variety in the organization and management of such clubs; but we take it that our friend refers to the little circles for the reading and study of the poet - or the reading without the study-which are found in many neighborhoods, and might well be formed in many others.

according to the fancy or convenience of the members. In a quiet country village they might well be more frequent than in towns and cities where means of social improvement and recreation are more abundant.

The simpler the machinery of such a club the better. A president and a secretary (who may Schmidt's Lexicon. For teachers and students also act as treasurer, if there are any fees or aswho cannot afford to buy these costly referenceIn proof of this theory, note that Hamlet's sessments), with the addition of two or three books, Mr. Bartlett's compilation (which retails nature is "essentially feminine: " in his "impul- "directors," or whatever they may be called, who for three dollars) will go far towards supplying siveness," his "love of obtaining the advantage shall be a committee to arrange the exercises, their place; while those who have the others, in a wordy warfare," his disgust at the "heavy- are all the officers needed. The meetings may will find this the handier and more satisfactory headed revel" of the king and his companions, be weekly, fortnightly, or at longer intervals, his "pretty oaths," his "fear of breaking into tears," his "admiration for manly strength and manly virtues," and "the bitterness of his detestation" of certain "feminine peculiarities." Even his coarse abuse of Ophelia seems to Mr. Vining more feminine than masculine, though we should have been inclined to quote it as one of the strongest points in the play against his theory. Hamlet has also a woman's "sensitiveness to the weather." Does he not say "The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold" when he joins Horatio and Marcellus on the platform? This is the only passage quoted under this head, probably because on other occasions the young woman was careful not to let her speech betray her in so palpable a manner. Horatio and Marcellus in their excitement, luckily do not notice it. The former, indeed, replies "It is a nipping and an eager air"— which, if we read "heir," as some joker has proposed, might strike us as more "feminine" than Miss Hamlet's remark. Variety may be given to the exercises by hav It is but fair to say, however, that not much ing a half-hour paper on the play from some stress is laid on this particular point. Possibly member before the play is read, and by the introit occurred to Mr. Vining that comments on the duction of appropriate music at intervals during coldness of the weather are occasionally made the evening. At one club that we know of, the by the male human creature. We remember songs in the play are always sung, though not hearing one in Boston last winter. necessarily by the same person who reads the But, though our author in his preface frankly part. Poems or prose selections connected in

The dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt.... C&W., St., W.

The dram of evil Doth all the noble substance oft de

base.

D.

The dram of ill Doth all the noble substance often dout.
K.
The dram of base Doth all the noble substance of a
doubt. . . . S.

This part of the book will be invaluable to those
who do not own all these editions, and will often
save those who do own them the time and
trouble of consulting them. The collation seems
to have been done very carefully and thoroughly.
As a slight proof of this we see that Mr. Bartlett
notes Grant White's reading of "except experi-
ence be a jewel" for "unless experience," etc.,
the reading of all other editions in Merry Wives,
ii. 2. 213. It is overlooked by the “Cambridge"
editors in their collation. We suspect (as we
have said in our note on the passage, now in the

As to the "programs"-if mere reading of the plays is the main object, a single evening may be devoted to a play, though in most cases the text would have to be somewhat abridged to bring it within reasonable hours. This work should be done in advance by the directors, who should also assign the parts in the play to the members who are to read them. Ample time should be allowed for the readers to prepare their parts, and thorough preparation should be the rule: it is of no use to try to read Shakespeare at sight. If a member finds himself unable to take his part, he should be required either to provide a substitute or to give due notice to the directors.

press in England. Accompanying it should be Early Days lace have appeared during the past year in Har-
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-A literary event of no small international interest is the publication this month of Paul B. du Chaillu's Land of the Midnight Sun in the United States, England, France, Germany, and Sweden. It appears here in two volumes, profusely illustrated. [Harper & Bros.]

New additions to the " Appletons' Home trated and handsomely bound. They also have Books" soon to appear, are Home Decoration a new illustrated edition of Tupper's Proverbial and Home Books. Suicides; an Essay on Com. Philosophy. parative Moral Statistics, by Henry Mosselli, Professor of Psychological Medicine in the Royal University at Turin, Italy, is soon to be published by D. Appleton & Co; also a handsome holiday book, Homes and Haunts of Our Elder Poets, with portraits and numerous illustrations, A series of small volumes, elegantly printed, consisting of works in English literature acknowledged as classics, and nearly ready, under the title "English Classics," include selections from Tennyson, Shelley, Shakespeare, etc.

-Messrs. Estes & Lauriat have published their first catalogue of old books, many of them new importations through their foreign agents. There are some curious and interesting things in the collection, a catalogue of which will be sent free to any address on receipt of postal.

- Under the title of "Lives of American Worthies" Henry Holt & Co. are about to - The Coöperative Dress Association will be publish a new series, with the following subjects illustrated in early numbers of Harper's Bazar. and authors: Christopher Columbus, by W. L. | The building of the Association, with some of the Alden; Captain John Smith, by Charles Dudley rooms, will be given in one number, and some of Warner; William Penn, by Robert J. Burdette, the most pronounced of the dresses, among them of the Burlington Hawkeye [!!!]; Benjamin those called "æsthetic," in another. Franklin, by -; George Washington, by John Habberton; Thomas Jefferson, by ; Andrew Jackson, by George T. Lanigan. This series was begun several years ago, and the first volume Mr. Warner's-has been in type for some months.

— A. D. F. Randolph & Co. bring out in November a satirical ballad on the excesses and absurdities of modern decorative art, by Josephine Pollard, called The Decorative Sisters. It contains fourteen colored illustrations by Walter Sat- | terlee, first depicting the sisters in their country home, enjoying their homely duties, then following them through all the stages of the craze brought on by the young artist who comes to - Rolfe and Gillet's Natural Philosophy, just board with them, and finally leaving them so published by Potter, Ainsworth & Co., New "perfectly utter" and "utterly too" in a city | York, has already been adopted as a text-book home where they are quite miserable. A nov- in the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboelty in the way of a Pilgrim's Progress is the ken, N. J. The new Elements of Natural PhilElstow Bunyan, an illustrated 12mo volume, theosophy, a smaller book for high school use, will be sides made of oak taken from the Elstow church ready this month. These books are not a reviwhere Bunyan used to ring the bell. The wood sion of the old series by the same authors, but was obtained when the building was restored in entirely new and independent works. 1878. Life in Hawaii is a series of sketches of mission life and labor in the Sandwich Islands, by Rev. Titus Coan.

- The last volume in the "Illustrated Biographies of Great Artists" is Andrea Mantegna and Francisco Rarboline, called Francia, by Julia Cartwright, the author, with fifteen illustrations. Scribner & Welford, who have it, also announce Bartolozzi and his Work, a superb work by Andrew W. Tuer, richly illustrated, and containing the most extensive list of this great master's works yet compiled. It will be published in two volumes, bound in vellum. A new edition of Robinson Crusoe, with a memoir of the author and twelve illustrations in permanent photography by Stothard, is quite a contrast to the Crusoe of olden days, with its sober cover and common cuts. Footprints; Nature Seen on its Human Side, by Sarah Tyler, contains one hundred and thirty pictu es illustrating the beautiful world around us. Another book for children by the same author is The Three Beauties and the Three Frights.

-The following books are announced by E.

-A History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, in two large quartos by Capt. Henry A. Ford and Mrs. Kate B. Ford of Detroit, Mich., is nearly ready for publication by Williams Brothers, Cleveland. The same writers have in an advanced state of preparation The History of Penobscot County, Maine; and are also supervising the compilation of a history of Louisville and other cities about the Falls of the Ohio, in two volumes, illustrated, to be issued by the same publishers, and to be ready early next year.

do not know how many ofs, and the book is ex-
pected to be an excellent one.

- Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole is in Philadelphia for the winter, having finished seven hundred hours of solid work on his Young Folks' History of Russia. In the preparation of it he has de& J. B. Young & Co., New York, for early pub-voured Solovief, Kostomorof, Ustrialof, and we lication: The Presence and Office of the Holy Spirit, by the Rt. Rev. Allan Becher Webb, D.D., Bishop of Bloemfontein; The Village Fulpit, by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, 2 vols.; Visions of the King and other sermons, by the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A.; The Light of Life, "Conferences delivered in England and America, by the Rev. J. W. Knox-Little, M.A.; The Refor mation of the Church of England, its History, Principles, and Results, 1547-1662, by the Rev. |

Routledge & Sons announce The Modern Seven Wonders of the World, an historical and anecdotal description of the steam-engine, the telegraph, the sewing machine, the photograph, the spectroscope, the electric light, and the telephone. It will first appear as a serial in Every Boy's Magazine.

-Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. have among

- Mr. Dante Rossetti's new volume of Ballads and Sonnets is out containing many sonnets and three ballads, two of them historical, and one of the two relating the assassination of James I of Scotland in the supposed language of Catherine Douglas herself. [Roberts Brothers.]

- Harper's "Franklin Square Library" is now lettered and numbered as a serial, a new number appearing every week, at a subscription price of $10 a year. One of the last numbers contains The Poetry of Byron, as chosen and arranged by Matthew Arnold.

— On p. 346 we spoke of Trowbridge's Patriot Boy in connection with President Garfield. Mr. Trowbridge has written no such book. Our authority for the reference was Riddle's Life of Garfield, which on this point we find to be in error.