Dr. Lyman Abbott's life of Henry
Ward Beecher is edited with great tact
and skill, and in a manner which
should insure for it an immediate pop
ularity. Just now, when the person
ality of Mr. Beecher is still distinctly
felt, and while grief for his death is yet
poignant, it is necessarily for anecdotes
of him, for facts and incidents of his
daily life, for
shall still seem
"Saul," and "Karhsish." Notes are
supplied in an appendix. Miss (or
Mrs.) Hereey declares that Browning
promised us, by the mouth of David,
a double immortality one in the in
fluences which we have set astir by our
History Series.) "Sundays at Bal
moral," Sermons by the late Very
R.ev. Principal Tulloch. "Our Sov
ereign Lady and Her People," by the
author of "English Hearts and English
Hands." "Outlines of a Gentle Life,"
way of living on this earth; the othe-, i by Maria V. C. Havergal. "Abide in
in our own characters as we have com
pleted them in ihis present life. That
is, we are to enjoy personal immor
tality, besides living in the world after
we are dead, by means of the good we
have done here. Such is the Brown
ing revelation, which Miss (or Mrs.)
Hersey says is a certainty to Brown
ing's mind. Isn't st queer that, as a
worshiper of Browning, she should have
arrived at just about the same conclu
sions which were announced to man
kind a good while ago by God and by
his Son Jesus?
The writing of an accurate and au
thoritative life of Kit Carson, the fa
mous scout, which was to have been
undertaken by Mrs. Jessie Benton Fre
mont during the coming summer, has
been indefinitely postponed. "It can
not be written this summer as an
nounced," says Mrs. Fremont in a let
ter, "as the General and myself have
more than enough work with the sec
ond volume of the 'Memoirs.' But it
will be done later, and we shall then
both give to the world our personal
knowledge cf our friend Carson. For
this work we have already had aid in
various ways from .some of his truest
friends and companions. 