Show LITERATURE I I The complete works of Heinrich Heine translated by Charles G Leland are now coming out iu London Prof Austin Phelps of Andover father of Elizabeth Staart Phelps died at Bar Harbor Me on the 13th inst He was born at West BrookfieldMass in Io20 An important work on Animal Life and Intelligence by Prof C Lloyd Morn is in the press in London It is larrMy d j voted to considering the nature and limts of our knowledge of animal instinct and emotion The statemen is made by authority in the Critic of Now York that the recently published novelette The Anglomaniacs about whose authorship there ha been considerable con-siderable speculation is the work of Mrs Burton Harrison She is one of those to I whom it had been most confidently ascribed Mr George Willis Cooke is making engagements en-gagements for lectures during the winter season on literary subjects These discourses dis-courses have been quite successful for several sev-eral years especially in New England where the lyceum seems to flourish better I than elsewhere Mr Cooke has prepared seyeral new lectures since last winter The Footsteps of Dr Johnson promises prom-ises to be one of the finest English illustrated illus-trated books of the year It is the work of Dr George Birkbeck Hill and there are 150 illustrations by Launcelot Speed The regular reg-ular edition will be 1000 copies and an edition do luxe will consist of 150 copies fifty of these being reserved for America James Edwin Thorold Rogers professor of political economy at Oxford university died on the 12th inst aged Gt > He was the author of A Manuel of Political Economy Econ-omy Education in Oxford its method its aids and its rewards The Law of Settlement a Cause of Crime Aslstotles Ethics History of Agriculture and Prices in England from 1259 to 1793 Six Centuries of Work and Wages etc When a wheel is in motion does the top move faster than tho bottom Nine people out of ten would cry nonsense at the mere question Both the top and bottom of tho wheel must of necessity it would seem bo moving forward at one and the same rate i c the speed at which the carriage is traveling Not so however as a little reflection re-flection would convince you The top is moving in the direction of the wheels motion mo-tion of translation while the bottom is moving in opposition to this motion In other words the top is moving forward in the same direction in which the carriage is progressing while the bottom is moving backward or in an opposite direction That is why an instantaneous photograph of a carriage in motion shows the upper part of the wheel a confused blur while the spokes in the lower part are distinctly I visible The Illustrated American learning and full of love and sentiment The true inwardness of university existence exist-ence is exposed in a most charming manner Jhisazine of American History I Tho November Jfapazinc of American History His-tory is partIcularly rich in materialremind big one that the events of our own day have a definite understanding with the events of the past and also with thoso before us beyond be-yond our own horizon Rev Charles H Parkhurst D D contributes the opening chapter Divine Drift in Human History in which he says it is the consummating glory of hIstory that it spells out thoughts and purposes hundreds and thousands of years long The second article American Ameri-can Outgrowths of Continental Europe bv the editor covers a broad field of scholarly I schol-arly inquiry It is followed by General Winfield Scotts Remedy for Intemperance Intemper-ance from Htfa Charles Aldrich The Puritan Birthright by Nathan M Hawkes and The Action at Tarrytown 17S1 with a graphic account of the heroism I hero-ism of Captain George Hulbut by Dr R B Cautant president of the Tarrytown I Historical society Revolutionary New I burgh is an admirable historic poem by I Rev Edward J fcunk A M a glimpse of the Literature of California is from the writings of Hubert Howe Bancroft and diversified information agreeably presented sented in the several departments completes com-pletes a notable number 713 Broadway New York city |