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Show L1TEBATUKE. j f harper's MAGAZINE. Harper's Maguziiic lor June begins the filty-nimh volume and the Ihir- 1 tieth year of that periodical. To a new generation of renders it appeurs in a new dreBa in larger type, and with a wider page. Tuia is the third change which has been made in the typo of the magazine each being an 1 improvement. ! The conleuts of the June Dumber are especially attractive. Tbey bring about the reader the atmosphere of summer days. They are bright, amusiog, and restful. There could hardly be more enjoyable reading than Mr. W. -R. O'JJouovan ono ol our mout promising young aculptora gives ub in his "Rye and round there," illuatrated witb Mr. Abbey's charming drawings beautifully engraved. en-graved. This opening article is followed fol-lowed by a graceful lull-page picture by Abbey, illustrating Merrick's lines "Upon a Virgin KitBing a Rose." Tben, by way of contrast, we are taken beyond the Red River of tho North into that mysterious land of magnificent distances the territory of the Hudson Bay Company and brought faco to face witb the fur-traders, fur-traders, tbe baU-breedi, the trappers, and their picturesque life. By another leap we are transported in tbe last of Colonel Waring's "Burg und Thai" Beriee to the Dolomites Dolo-mites of Southeastern Tyrol. From nature we turn again to pictures and i canes of greater human interest in Olive Logan's "Grand Days of Histrionics," illustrated with portraits of Noll G-wyune, Anne Oldfield, David Garrick, Peg Woffioglon, Miss, Rich (Hogarth's god-daughter), John I Kembie, Mrs. Jordan, R. W.EUiston, ! Edmund Kean, and Dowton. Another1 descriptive paper, finely illustrated, is by't?oward Pyle tbe second of his Peninsular Canaan series, treating the Maryland counties on the Eastern Shore. For downright humor, there has been nothing in magazine literature Bince Rose Terry Cooke's "Knoware" equal to Mr. James T. FiekVs "A Free Lecture Expert ence," which is accompanied by characteristic illustrations. E. P Whipple contribute a noble paper, entitled "Recollections of Agateiz;" and going back to our early history, John Eaten Cooke gives an interesting interest-ing sketch of Alexander Spotawood, of Virginia, theold Colonial Governor, who lought the Burgesaei, hanged "Blackbeard," the pirate, and established the order of tbe "knights of the Horseshoe." The editorial summaries satisfactorily satisfac-torily cover their respective fields, with ticaely gossip, literary comment, scionlifio fact, and lively humor. New York: Harper & Brothers; Salt Lake: James Dwyer. LONDON QUARTERLY. We have tbe reprint of the April number of the London Quarterly He-view He-view from the Leonard Scott Publishing Publish-ing Company, 41 Barclay Btreet.N.Y. Tbe leadiDg article is on "The Speaker's Speak-er's Commentary on the Old Testament." Testa-ment." After briefly explaining the origin and object ot 'the work, and pointing out how far it has succeeded in accomplishing its purpose, the greater part of the article is devoted to an examination of tbe manner in which several questions of peculiar interest at the present time are treated. Tbe subjects chiefly considered con-sidered are the doctrine of a future state, the interpretation of the leading miraculous narratives, and the inspiration and authority au-thority of the Old Testament. The article "Brugsch's Hietory of Egypt" gives some very valuable information in-formation on the progress of hieroglyphic hiero-glyphic and Cuneiform interpretation, and the lii;bt thereby thrown on early Egyptian history, especially in its connection witb the narratives in 1 Geneeis and Exodus. The other ar-i ar-i lieles are "Michael Angelo and bis Age;" "Agrarian Distress and Discontent Dis-content in India;" "Pym and Sbaites-bury: Sbaites-bury: two Popish Plots;" "Secret Correspondence of Lsuis XV.;" "Early English Hietory: Prolessors Stubbs and Bright;" "Lord Carnarvon's Carnar-von's Agamemnon and General Schomberg's Odyssey;" "The Soulb African Problem." CYCLOIVEDIA OF LITERATURE, It will be welcome newstoBll lovers of good literature that the new, beautiful beau-tiful and marvellously cheap Acme edition of Chambers' Cyclopedia of English Literature ia to be completed on June 1. Volume IV. is juat issued, is-sued, and the remaining four volumes are to be issued and delivered at one time on the date Btated. Tbe work richly deserves tbe sale it has obtained of nearly 100,000 volumes already, and ought to attaia, as it probably will, to a round million. The price, which has varied at different times, increased as the publication has progressed, hns now been permanently fixed at $2 for the paper (eight vols, complete, nearly 3,500 pages) $3 for cloth, $4.75 lor half-morocco, gilt top, and $3.75 for tho four velume edition in half-morooeo, gilt top binding. bind-ing. A discount of 10 per cent, from these prices is allowed lo those whose orders are received before Juno 1, and a further discount of 10 per cent, to these ordering in clubs of five or more sets at one time. Postage, if by mail, 48 cents extra. Orders will bo filled in the order of receipt. Specimen pages and full particulars will be sent freo on request. American Ameri-can Book Exchange, 5o Beekman street, New York, publishers. Sold only direot to purchasers, and not through dealers or agents. THE LIIiRARY MAGAZINE. The current number ol this magazine maga-zine contains: "Tbe Defense of Luck-now," Luck-now," a poeBi by Alfred Tennyson; "Tbe Dilliculties of Socialism," by John Stuart Mil!; "Biographies of tbe Seaeon," from London Society; "The Choice of Books," by Frederio Harrison; Har-rison; "Homes and Haunls of the Poet Tasso," by Frances Eleanor Trollope; "Plain Words About the Afghan Question, " by Archibald Furbes; "Fresh Assyrian Firdj," by B, H. Cooper, B. A.; "The ctjdy of Enlomolczy," by W. 8. Dallas, F. L. 8.; "Art Education in England," by Sir Couti Lindsay; "Toilers in Field and Fautory," from London Times; "Wagner as a Dramatist," from Frazer's Magazine; "The Royal bedding," bed-ding," by H. C. Merivale. Ten cents a number, or $1 a year. American Book Exchange, publishers, publish-ers, 55 Beekman street, New York. Sold only by them direct to purchasers. pur-chasers. KoiiKitT liuRNS. Uy Principal Shairp, prof'jisor of poetry in tbe U diversity ot Oxford. Cloth, loc. New York: Hnrper & Brother.1. Salt Lake: James Dwyer. Ibis is the latest of those valuable voIuums edited by John Motley, under tbe title of "English Men of Letters," aod it id perhaps tbe most entertaining entertain-ing of the series !o the general reader, I as Burns was the treatest noet who! was born, lived and died as one of the people. This little book of 200 pages giveB a graphic but necessarily condensed con-densed hiftory of tbe bard, from bis youth in Ayrshire, to his last years in Dumfries. His peculiar and remarkable remark-able life can never fail to interest, any more than his songs and poems can fail to please. The author is a warm admirer of Burns and Burns' poetry, but does no more than justice in bis account of the poet, |
