Literature and Fiction. Chips from a German Workshop. By F. MAX MULLER, M. A., Foreign Member of the French Institute, etc. Volume III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities. 12mo., pp. 492. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 1871. This basket of Max's Chips is a gathering of his "fugitive pieces," heretofore appearing in various periodicals and other ephemeral vehicles. They range mostly over old German history and literature, and more modern German characters, as Schiller, Wilhelm Müller, and Bunsen. A full article on the last, followed by an extensive series of letters from Bunsen to Max, form a large and very interesting part of the volume. The blending in Bunsen of the unfaith of a rationalist with the religious fervor of a Methodist is rare in human character. It is mixture without affinity, which can seldom be repeated. My Study Windows. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A.M. 12mo., pp. 433. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1871. Mr. Lowell discourses in fluent style, and with something of the insight of genius, on the surface affairs of secular human life. He is a literary essayist. To those whose life is leisurely, and who have no very deep moral consciousness, his ruminations will be found attractive and refining. But with men of another style, who feel that "life is earnest," and that eternal responsibilities rest upon its passing hours, such aliment may be but "wheatless straws." Periodicals. Home and Health. A Monthly Magazine devoted to Health and the Home Circle. New York: W. R. De Puy & Brother. 8vo., pp. 96. The principles and maxims of health were in former times, like the maxims of common law, circulated orally and transmitted traditionally. The era of types has enabled a more thorough science. to circulate them more effectively and broadly in books and periodicals. These periodicals are very cheap, since they communicate knowledge that saves us many a medical bill. Among the best of the class we rank the neat publication before us, issued from our Book-Room building, though unconnected with the "Concern." The managers are the sons of the able assistant editor of our Advocate, and will thence be aided by the most efficient counsel. It has a fine corps of contributors, is cordially indorsed by the press, and is destined, we trust, to run a beneficent and successful career. Miscellaneous. The Model Pastor. A Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of Rev. Baron Stow, D.D., late Pastor of the Rowe--treet Baptist Church, Boston. By JOHN C. STOCKBRIDGE, D.D. 12mo., pp. 376. Boston: Lee & Shepard. New York: Lee, Shepard, & Dillingham. 1871. Dr. Stow possessed a national reputation, and this memoir will be acceptable to a wide circle of revering friends. Science for the Young-Heat. By JACOB ABBOTT, author of "The Franconia Stories." Abbott's Illustrated Histories," etc. With numerous engravings. 18mo., pp. 306. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1871. An effort to give in popular style of narrative and dialogue the attractive mysteries of latest science. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Romans. Designed for Bible Classes and Sunday-Schools. By ALBERT BARNES, Author of "Notes on the Psalms," etc., etc. Tenth Edition. Revised and Corrected. 12mo., pp. 367. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1871. The Knightly Soldier. A Biography of Major Henry Ward Camp, Tenth Connecticut Volunteers. By Chaplain H. CLAY TRUMBULL. Sixth Edition Revised. 12mo., pp. 335. Boston: Noyes, Holmes, & Co. 1871. The Wonders of the Heavens. By CAMILLE FLAMMARION. From the French. By York: Charles Scribner & Co. By GEORGE JARVIS GEER, D.D., 80. New York: S. R. Wells. By Rev. E. F. BURR, D. D., Author 12mo., pp. 353. Boston: Noyes, The Lord's Prayer. By HENRY J. VAN DYKE, D.D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. 12mo., pp. 194. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1871. One With Christ in Glory. Thoughts on John XVII. With a Revised Version from the Critical Greek Text and the Authorized Version. Illuminated. By JAMES INGLIS, Editor of "The Witness" and "Waymarks in the Wilderness." 24mo., pp. 127. New York: J. Inglis & Co. 1871. The Holy Sabbath Instituted in Paradise, and Perfected through Christ. A Historical Demonstration. By WILLIAM HARRIS RULE, D.D. 18mo., pp. 160. London: S. W. Partridge & Co. Shakspeare's Comedy of the Merchant of Venice. Edited, with Notes, by WILLIAM J. ROLFE, A. M. With Engravings. 12mo., pp. 168. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1871. Public Ledger Almanac, 1871. 12mo., pp. 56. Philadelphia: George W. Childs. Sophocles ex novissima recensione. GUILIELMI DINDORFII. 24mo. New York: Neat pocket edition, without notes, flexible cover, handsomely printed. Points of Controversy. By Rev. C. W. MILLER, A.M., of Kentucky Conference, M. E. Church, South. 24mo., pp. 159. St. Louis: Northwestern Book and Publishing Company. 1871. A fresh contribution to the baptismal debate. Sober Thoughts on Staple Themes. By RICHARD RANDOLPH, Author of "Windfalls," etc. 18mo., pp. 159. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger. 1871. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris. Reprinted from the London "Daily News." With Several New Letters and Preface. 8vo., pp. 131. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1871. The Two Brothers, and Other Poems. By EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH, M.A., Author of "Yesterday, To-Day, and Forever." 12mo., pp. 324. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1871. Windfalls. By the Author of " Aspects of Humanity." 12mo., pp. 107. Philadelphia: Claxton. Remsen, & Haffelfinger. 1871. Fresh Leaves from the Book and Its Story. By L. N. R., Author of "The Book and Its Story," "Missing Link," etc. With more than Fifty Illustrations. 12mo., pp. 500. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1871. Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk. By OLIVER OPTIC. With Fourteen Illustrations. Red and gilt, 16mo., pp. 334. Boston: Lee & Shepard. New York: Lee, Shepard, & Dillingham. 1871. Memoir of the Life and Character of Rev. Lewis Warner Green, D.D. With a Selection from His Sermons. By LE ROY J. HALSEY, D.D., Professor in the Theological Seminary of the North-West. 12mo., pp. 491. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. Memories of Patmos; or, Some of the Great Words and Visions of the Apocalypse. The Woman and Her Accusers. A Plea for the Midnight Mission. Delivered in By GEORGE C. Boston: Lee & God's Rescues; or, the Lost Sheep, The Lost Coin, and The Lost Son. courses on Luke XV. By WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS. 18mo., pp. 95. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. 1871. Three DisNew York: John Wesley: His Life and His Work. By the Rev. MATTHEW LELIEVRE. Translated by the Rev. A. J. French, B.A. 18mo., pp. 274. London: Wesleyan Conference Office. 1871. Fiction. Olive. A Novel. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." 12mo., pp. 428. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1871. One of a series of Miss Mulock's works. Opportunities: A Sequel to "What She Could." By the Author of "The Wide, 1871. Harper & Brothers. 1871. New York: Dodd & Mead. 12mo., pp. 299. Cincinnati: By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." 12mo., pp. 421. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1871. Received too late for notice in this number: War Powers under the Constitution. By WILLIAM WHITING. Lee & Shepard. METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW. OCTOBER, 1871. ART. I.-CURTIUS'S HISTORY OF GREECE. The History of Greece. By Professor Dr. ERNST CURTIUS. Translated by ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, M.A., Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Professor of History in Owens College, Manchester. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 1871. WE have here the first volume of the American reprint of a historical work which has already attained an established repution in Europe. The English edition, which also lies before us, consists so far of three volumes, and is to be completed in two more. The three published volumes go down to the close of the Peloponnesian War, (B. C. 404,) and it is to the consideration of these that we shall confine ourselves in the present article. The foreign edition is almost an édition de luxe, with its wide margin, clear, large type, and jet-black ink. The American edition, if it is inferior in these respects, can boast of being more compact and portable, of displaying an equally neat page, and of being furnished at, we believe, only about half the price of Bentley's. Large numbers of readers to whom the masterly histories of Froude, Mommsen, and Curtius would otherwise have been almost or totally inaccessible, will feel themselves under great obligations to the American publishers who have provided so convenient a series, uniform in size and in general appearance. Professor Curtius, now for the first time introduced to our Western literary world, is one of two brothers who have become eminent in Greek scholarship. Georg, the younger, is the FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XXIII.—34 author of a compendious and accurate Grammar of the Greek Language, (Griechische Schulgrammatik,) which Professor James Hadley, of Yale College, has made the basis of his larger and elementary grammars, adopted in so many of our colleges and schools and taught with marked success. Ernst, the author of the history, is some five or six years his senior. Besides occupying chairs in Berlin and Göttingen Universities, he was a few years ago tutor of the youth who is the present Crown-Prince of Prussia. His mental constitution is, however, characterized by a boldness of conjecture and a freshness of imagination which this selection on the part of the conservative head of the German Empire would perhaps scarcely have led us to expect. His Ionier vor der Ionischen Wanderung is a work of great originality, and in his later productions the same traits are visible. A few years hence he visited Athens, in conjunction with other German savants, on an antiquarian mission, and made important excavations upon the ancient sites. If he was not so fortunate in these as was Strack, who was able to verify his suspicion that the great Theater of Bacchus might still be discovered under the present soil, and became instrumental in restoring to the world one of the most interesting relics of antiquity, Professor Curtius was, at least, successful in somewhat shaking the confidence which scholars had entertained in the genuineness of another of the celebrated localities of Minerva's ancient city. Having opened trenches within and without the large semicircular platform lying to the south-west of Mars' Hill, commonly believed to be the Pnyx, or place for the public assembly, he discovered steps at intervals leading directly up to the Bema, which led him to the conclusion that this cubical block of stone was not in reality the stand for the orators, but perhaps one of those "common altars" of the city (Kooi Bwuoi) of which Xenophon speaks in the "Memorabilia." Since, however, the heavy retaining wall in Cyclopean masonry of the present platform, although posterior to the steps, is undoubtedly of a remote antiquity, and as Professor Curtius was unsuccessful in finding any traces of a Pnyx elsewhere, the majority of topographers will not agree with him in disturbing the nomenclature of this part of the ancient site. Nevertheless, Professor Curtius's Sieben -Karten zur Topographie von Athen (Seven Maps on the Topography of Athens) is of the greatest |