BOOKS RECEIVED.
How the Bible was Made. By Rev. E. M. Wood, D.D. Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe. 1884.
The Exodus and Other Poems. By Rev. T. C. Reade. Cincinnati: Printed by Walden & Stowe for the author. 1884.
Quicksands. From the German of Adolph Streckfuss. By Mrs. A. L. Wister. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1884.
Standard Library: The Fortunes of Rachel. By Edward Everett Hale. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1884.
Standard Library: Chinese Gordon. By Archibald Forbes. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1884.
There was Once a Man. A Story. By R. H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr). New York: Fords, Howard & Hurlburt, for Our Continent Publishing Co. 1884.
A Palace Prison; or, The Past and The Present. New York: Fords, Howard & Hurlburt. 1884.
Rapid Ramblings in Europe. By W. C. Falkner. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1884.
One Thousand Popular Quotations. Compiled by J. S. Ogilvie. New York: J. S. Ogilvie & Co.
Ballads and Verses Vain. By Andrew Lang. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1884.
Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book. By George Eliot. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1884.
Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel. By Ignatius Donnelly. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1884.
[E] A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters. By William Cobbett. With notes by Robert Waters. New York: James W. Pratt. 1883.
[F] Critical and Exegetical Hand-Book to the Epistles to the Corinthians. By Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer, Th.D. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1884.
[G] The Adult Kindergarten; or the Educational Problem Solved, for Public Life, Private Life, and School Life Uses. By a member of the Philadelphia Bar. Price, 50 cents. The Townsend Publishing Co., Philadelphia.
[H] Stories by American Authors. Price per volume, 50 cents. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1884.
[I] Our Famous Women. Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington and Company. 1884.
[J] Out-of-Town Places, with Hints for their Improvement. By the author of “Wet Days at Edgewood.” A re-issue of “Rural Studies.” New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1884.
[K] Manners and Social Usages. By Mrs. John Sherwood. New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square. 1884.
[L] Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1884.
ERRATA.—On page 544 of the June number of The Chautauquan, for “Henry VII.,” in Question 3, read Henry VI.; for “1609,” in Question 39, read 1690; for “George IV.,” in the answer to Question 47, and in Questions 48 and 49, read George III. On page 551, for “from which comes companion,” read from comes, companion.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 559, “comman ding” changed to “commanding” (He is tall and commanding)
Page 559, “tresspassers” changed to “trespassers” (immunity from outside trespassers)
Page 560, “fir st” changed to “first” (implied in their first belief)
Page 576, “Musem” changed to “Museum” (the Art Museum)
Page 576, “Bursa’s” changed to “Bursar’s” (to the Bursar’s office)
Page 578, repeated word “and” removed (and then ends with)
Page 582, “Rathhaus” changed to “Rathaus” (the Bremen Rathaus)
Page 582, “scimeter” changed to “scimitar” (the scimitar-like fins)
Page 583, “pressage” changed to “presage” (took this for a presage)
Page 583, “coast of New England, and the other in the waters about” was originally and erroneously printed at the foot of page 584.
Page 584, “Calvanistic” changed to “Calvinistic” (her Calvinistic conscience)
Page 586, “watchward” changed to “watchword” (“Pantaloons” was the watchword)
Page 590, “Xenophen” changed to “Xenophon” (ten thousand Greeks under Xenophon)
Page 591, “Brittainy” changed to “Brittany” (reached Morlaix in Brittany)
Page 597, “cannon” changed to “common” (to be the provision for the “common defense.”)
Page 600, “Autonyms” changed to “Antonyms” (A Complete Hand Book of Synonyms and Antonyms)