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Show BUUIiH IttlElVED. Education lntollectual, Mural and l'hysieal by llerbet Kponcur; Hew York ; D. Apploton & (Jo.; cloth, 283 pp, $1.20; Jus. Dwyer, Salt Lake. Tho works of this eminent writer have assured his right to bo considered consid-ered ooe of the great thinkers of the age. His researches into the science of life and laws of mental development givo peculiar weight to his utterances upon the subject of education. In the volume biibie us, Mr. Spencer broadly interprets and expounds the general principles of his subject. His mind, rij.'h in analogies and pertinent in illustrations, lakes the comprehensive comprehen-sive view that the title of his book weuM indicate, advocating the cultivation culti-vation of aJI parts of our nature, and showing the relative value of tho various va-rious forms ot knowledge. A single quotation from the closing paragraph will give the current of his thought. He say? : Id primitive times, when agression aud deftneo wore tho leading social so-cial activities, bodily vigor, with it accompanying courage, were the desiderata desid-erata ; bow our education baa become almost exclusively mental. Instead of repcenstf the byJy and ignoring tho mind, we now respect the mind and ignore ig-nore tbo body. Both these attitudes aro wrong. Pew ;icem conscious that there is such a thing as phjtucal morality. mo-rality. Wc do not as yet fnitbciently rcihzo tho truth that ae, in this life of ours, the physical underlies the mental, the mental must not be de veloped at the expense of the physical. The ancient and modern conceptions must be combined. Men's habitual words and acts imply the idea that they aie at liberty to treat their bodies a they plt-ase. Though the evil consequences inflicted upon their dependents, and on future generations, arc often a? great as thote caused by crime; yet they do not think themselves in- auy decree criminal. crimi-nal. The fact U, all breaches of the laws of health axe physical tint. Equally direct are our author's remarks re-marks upon both intellectual and moral education, and they will liberally repay close study and eonbide ration. A Fow Days in Allien, being tho Translation of a Greek WKiiuccripL discovori'il in Herculaneum; by .Frances .Fran-ces Wright, author of Views of Society So-ciety anil Murmurs in America; Boston, Bos-ton, .lueiali P. Menduuj; cloth, 149 pp., $1; Jiib. Dwyer, Salt Lako. This little book is an endeavor to depict the eccnes in the magnificent city of ancient Athena during the time of that illustrious Greek philosopher, Epicurus, The private life of tho philosopher is displayed, during the few days of the supposed sojourn, showing that, although he taught that . pleasure is tho chief good, ho and his friends exercised tho greatest temperance temper-ance aud simplicity. According to Epicurus tho great evil that afflicted men, the incubus of human happiness, was fear; ''car of the gods and fear of death. In his own words: When we say pleasure is the end of life, wo do not mean tho pleasures of the debauchee or the sensualist, as sumo from ignorance or from malignity from pain, aud of the soul from anxiety, anxie-ty, sober contemplation that searches out tho tho grcflinds of choice and avoidance, and banishes those chimeras that harass the mind. Many eminent men, both in ancient and modern times have embraoed the doctrines of Epiouru?. Tho book closes with a discourse by tho great teacher in which he designates good as all which can yield pleasure evil, whatever brings pain. Old Kensington; a novel; by Mies Thackeray, author of the Village on the Olitl, etc.; illustrated; New York, HArpor Bros; paper, 182 pp. 1. Jas. Dwyer, Bait Lake. This is considered one of the best romances known to later English litera turo. . , The Pathfinder, or The Inland Seaby J. Foinmore Cooper; illustrated from drawings by Darley ; New York, D. Apploton tte (Jo.; paper, 207 pp, 76 cents. Jas. Dwyer, Halt Lake. This is one of a new and finely illustrated illus-trated edition of the world-famous Leather-Stocking romances, tho prose epics of early American history. |
