phlet of nearly a hundred pages. The collection comprises about one thousand printed volumes, beside prints, photographs, and autographic letters; and is very full in the principal treatises upon the game and in rare editions. There are, for instance, copies of five of the first eight editions of Damiano; of the original Lopez (1561); fourteen of Greco, including the English version of 1656, and the French of 1669, etc. The poetry of the subject, which is ample, is largely represented, and there are copious files of the leading periodicals and plentiful cuttings from magazines and newspapers. Many of the works are in fine bindings. The collection entire is offered for sale for $3,000.

Of the periodicals published since our last issue, The Princeton Review for November calls

for mention as offering a greater array of articles by more or less distinguished writers than any journal ever before given for the same money. In this number we meet, among others, with Messrs. Freeman and George Rawlinson of England; Presidents Woolsey, Porter, and McCosh; Principal Dawson, and Professors Young, Le Comte, and Newcomb, as representing the learning of this continent. excellence of these names, or their right to claim a hearing from the public on any subject in their respective fields of labor. But we are inclined to doubt whether the public is likely to derive much benefit from the generality of articles published under such auspices as these. When a writer, however eminent, understands that an editor is more anxious to publish his name as contributor than to be able to lay before his readers good argument or original reflection, he is not likely to send him his best or freshest work. Such men as Mr. Freeman and Dr. Woolsey well deserve all the money they can earn, and we do not hold them responsible for the presence, in our reviews, of learning-and-water; none the less do we think it an unfortunate system which encourages writing of this sort. Prof. Rawlinson's article is certainly not open to this objection; in it, both learning and originality are undiluted. But Prof. Rawlinson is, as it were, carried off his feet by his great, original idea, which is, that it is at once the moral and the political duty of American citizens to dispose of the "negritic element" in our population by intermarriages. "Copyrights and Patents" is a carefully-written article by Mr. Levi of King's College.

No one will question the

Late issues of The Portfolio, the English art monthly, edited by Mr. Hamerton, and published in this country by J. W. Bouton, New York, contain at once some of the poorer and some of the better work of the etchers.

side Edition of the British Poets [Houghton, L. Gerry; and has had charge of the art depart-
Osgood & Co.], of which some forty volumes ment at Maplewood Institute, Pittsfield, Mass.,
have now been issued. Among the later members and St. Catherine's Hall, Augusta, Maine.
of the series are the poems of Scott, in five Through the winter of 1876-77 she was art critic
volumes, Goldsmith and Gray in one, Spenser in of the Boston Advertiser, and has had an out-
three, Dryden in two, Milton and Marvel in two, door sketching class in Cohasset, Mass., for the
Cowper in two, Southey in five, and Ballads in last two summers.
four. These books are as beautiful in form as
they are fine in substance, and each group may
be bought separately. No better edition, and
none cheaper considering its quality, is to be
had.

World Biographies.

Charles Franklin Thwing. Few names have appeared more frequently the last year or two in a certain department of the periodical press than Charles F. Thwing, and the articles so signed, relating to a particular class of subjects, have commanded attention in a degree unusual with those of a writer hitherto comparatively unknown. Mr. Thwing is still young, being at present a member of the Senior Class in Andover Theological Seminary. He was born in New Sharon, Maine, November 9, 1853, fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated at

Harvard with distinction in 1876. It was during his college course that he began public writing, and during the past six years he has contributed to Harper's Monthly, Scribner's, and the International Review; the Christian Union, the Inde

His par

Emma Elizabeth Brown. This lady, author of the many charming sketches and dainty little poems which have appeared over the signature of "B. E. E.," is a native of Concord, New Hampshire, where her father, John F. Brown, was for many years the leading bookseller. Artistic talent would seem to be in a degree a family gift, for she is of near kinship to one of the distinguished artists of the name; and her literary tastes were early developed. She began writing for publication when a schoolgirl, a poem on "The Legend of Chocorua" being among her first pieces in print, in the Concord (N. H.) Monitor. From that time to the present she has been a frequent contributor, under different signatures, to the newspapers of her native city, to the Boston Advertiser, Journal, this subject, now gathered into the volume on Transcript, Literary World, Congregationalist, American Colleges, noticed in another part of Golden Rule, and Saturday Evening Gazette; to this paper, have attracted much attention both in the Portland Transcript and Portland Press; this country and in England. Mr. Thwing is to to the Churchman, Church Journal, Christian be distinguished from Rev. Edward P. Thwing Union, New York Independent, and New York of Brooklyn, N. Y., with whom he is sometimes Observer. Her writings have also appeared in confounded. the Aldine and Atlantic Monthly; and Littell's

Living Age has contained two or three of her
poems. For Wide Awake and other periodicals
for young folks she has been a favorite writer
both in prose and verse. Her published vol-
umes have been three in number: From Night to
Light (1872), a well-sustained story of the time
of the Hebrew captivity; A Hundred Years Ago
(1876), hardly a volume, however, but a bunch
of leaflets tied with red, white, and blue, telling
in graceful verse, which breaks now and then
into a song, a sweet and simple story to com-
memorate the centennial year in which it was
published; and The Child-Toilers of Boston
Streets (1878), just printed in book form after
coming out in monthly papers in Wide Awake.
Though Miss Brown has proved her capabilities

pendent, the Congregationalist, and the Advance ;
the Nursery and the Literary World.
ticular attention has been directed, so far, toward
college life in its more important aspects, a sub-
ject which his philosophical tastes and systematic
mental habit have enabled him to handle with
freshness and skill.
His various papers upon

Joseph Augustus Turner. It is with a feeling of real sorrow that we announce the death of Prof. J. A. Turner of the Hollins Institute, Botetourt Springs, Va.; a gentleman whom we knew only by the traditions of this journal, and by correspondence; but for whom we had come to entertain a very warm respect and regard. Prof. Turner was born August 6, 1839, in Janesville Co., Virginia. He studied at Richmond College in the same State, and at the State University, reaching in each case the very highest rank. He was an accomplished scholar and a Christian gentlemen. His specialties of knowledge were English literature, philology, grammar; and he wrote much on these and kindred topics; publishing in 1875 a valuable little

treatise on Punctuation, and contributing at various times to the Atlantic Monthly, Appletons' Journal, and the Nation, as well as the Literary World; and to a number of periodicals in the Southern States. He left several works in manuscript, nearly ready for publication; and among his papers, as we learn, were a few marked "for the Literary World." His death, the message of which singularly failed to reach us, took place at Botetourt Springs, May 5th last.

as a prose writer, it is in her poetry that her talents show best; and it is by her work in that line that she will hereafter be known. In the Kaulbach's skillful use of words, in the sweetness and “Deluge," for instance, is about as unsatis- strength and graphic fidelity of little poems factory, in both subject and treatment, as any which represent some phase of feeling or bit of page picture of its size could well be; but the Nature, she hardly has a superior among the view of "Greyfriars, Edinburgh," and the por-younger singers of this country. Her work is trait of a "Member of the Long Parliament," are always choice, compact, delicate, and finely finvery fine. The excellent, indeed, predominate ished; and those modest initials under which she in this unique, attractive, and instructive art has hidden herself never fail to answer for a few journal, and now on the eve of its new year we stanzas of rare poetic beauty. As she is still in commend it again to general notice. early womanhood, it is more than probable that The absurd thing about a department of “ Woyet better productions will appear from her pen, man's Talk" in a Kentucky paper, says the LonWe must not fail to remind our readers of the and that she may take a high rank among Ameri-don Echo, is that it never occupies more than a steady progress in the publication of the River-can poets. She has studied painting with Samuel column of space.

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