702 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
The book has been put forth in very handsome style by the publishers and 
will doubtless prove a very successful venture. 
Earlier Victorian Authors: Edited by William Shepard. i2mo., pp. 288. 
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. For sale by M. H. Dickinson, $1.25. ^^ 
Under the title of "The Literary Life " the Putnams are publishing a series 
of small handsome volumes, edited by Wm. Shepard, of which this is the third. 
It contains familiar and instructive sketches, anecdotes and personal recollections 
of such authors as Bulwer, Disraeli, Macaulay, Charlotte Bronte, Irving, ^oe, 
and Harriet Martineau. The introduction, in which our former favorite, N. P. 
Willis, is freely quoted, is entitled "Literary London in 1835 " and is one of 
the most interesting and entertaining chapters in the book. In it are presented 
in the gossiping, inimitable style of Willis, pen-pictures of Lady Blessington, Count 
D'Orsay, Lytton Bulwer, Grisi, Tom Moore and others of the brilHant literary 
ornaments of British society at their time. These sketches are irresistibly attrac- 
tive, and no one can fail to finish them after once having commenced them. 
Twenty Poems from Longfellow: Illustrated; quarto, pp. 6r. Houghton^ 
Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1884. For sale by M. H. Dickinson, $4.00. 
As a model of excellence and beauty in book-making, this volume closely 
approximates perfection in paper, printing and binding, while the engravings, 
which are taken from paintings executed by Mr. Ernest Longfellow, the poet's 
son, seem absolutely unsurpassable in beauty and delicacy of finish. They are 
the work of Geo. T. Andrew, W. B. Closson, W. J. Dana, E, and J. Clement, 
John Filmer, N. Orr and F. G. Putnam, and number just fifty. The frontispiece 
is a portrait of Longfellow, different from anything before published and hence 
less satisfactory than that to which we have been so long accustomed. 
Among the poems selected for so elegant a fitting are : " It is Not Always 
May," "The Village Blacksmith," " Cadenabria Amalfi," "The Lighthouse,'^ 
" Moonlight, " " Three Friends of Mine," " Mad River in the White Mountains'^ 
"Becalmed," etc. 
Famous Painters and Their Pictures: Harry W. French. 4to, pp. 203; 
fifty full-page illustrations. Lee & Shepard, Boston. For sale by M. H. 
Dickinson. 
Under the title " Gems of Genius " there are collected in this volume copies 
of fifty of the best paintings of modern days, each accompanied by a page or two 
descriptive of the artist and his works. The object of the author is to gain 
from the works of great artists, by social familiarity with them and their master- 
pieces, instruction, enjoyment and inspiration, and with this in view he has select- 
ed his subjects from the most popular studios of Europe in the last generation. 
