~itov' abz~. irVENILES. ADAMS. . The Weaver Boy who became a Mission ary. Being the Story of the Life and Labors of David Livingstone. By ti. G. Adams. New York: R. Carter & Bros. 16in0., "pyr. 379. Colored Il lustrations. For sale at tire Presbyterian Book Store. The materials for this volume • are draWn ex clusively from Dr. Litingstone's own Works, and the story may be relied upon, as ''authentle. Fact was scarcely ever so much stranger than fiction, as in this history of the pogr mill boy of the Clyde. All the religions, and, scientific world is waiting to-day in suspense to 'knoiethe fate of one who, thirty odd year ago, was walking back and forth in humble atteinitin i Ce npon th& motions of a spinning jennyespelling out his lesSons from the book which he had fixed among the maChin ivy. We are glad at 'every fresh effort ,tio . rget the story of a life so noble and so `etrdo,nragirig into a shape t(:;.ttlitet l differ&nt classes of readeris and especially te,young. The work is rmainly one of compilation, , bitt it,is.well aerie, asiigiVes a very satisfactory And firofttable 'of •th% man and l 'of' his great eil terprise foi'Mrist `and for civilization. I') is qnite han*melyprinted, bound and illustrated.;, ;‘: , PILGRIM Sri:Arr.—A Story 'df &Cana e l st'ar the author of. Juisica's .FiratTrayei,m"Forn's Hollow," etc. Unio. pp. 29t Illustrated toston: Henry Hoyt. , Philadelphia: J. Lipikincot t -& Co The names of the unknown, author's , !prvgious books are a suffioient.guarautee 'for the narrative power, touching siroldinit3r, - ttrid'excellent design of anything new from the same soniee: power of active goodness to rescue' and ileVate the degraded and: pnbir youth of' our great 'cities is the theme, well *ought out_ in theAtriliiiig story of Tom Haslmn. Some passages are not unworthy of comparison 'With Dickens 'himself. Toe Boy's VtosOltY.---Frotn the Religious Traet. Society, London. l i 6mo. 180 pp. Boston : Henry Hoyt. Phila.: J. 8. , loippineott A good story of sdhool'life in -England. • The , truly characteristic . English ,Irtoy; AAA hearty, but unsympathetic; who holds,liip:plaCe,at the head of the school byiphysicabprowess f arid who considers it a matter lamest of good morals Ito have proved his fighting qualities; in short a juvenile specimen of John - Etill,-40 well:de scribed ; and the necessity, under St. • Paul's axiom of expediency, to present r,re4gien form adapted to his peouliarities isifinely illus trated, by the advice of Mr. Colville; : inthe con duct of Ludovid. The mutual influence of the bluff Armstrong and the tender " Ludi'!.. is alto an interesting and instructive feature of the book, which shows no ordinary talent. Baocx. Wishing and 'Ohoosink ; or, What •is the Difference. By Mrs. Carey Brock. 'Philadelphia : James S. Clazton,•l2l4 Chestnut stmt. 18mo., pp. 148. . . • The very important difference between mere wishing and positive choosing is well ilitvtrated in the diverse .60tiductriif a , brother,and sisper. It is a story fitted to impress' upon ebildren a lesson in morals and disBtindiriation of cbt significance. PERIODICAIa +AI6I PAMPHLETS. Tum Enixoußott Itzvrrw. No. CCLIX.; ,Jattuary, 1888. Ameridan EditiOn. New York r Leonard Scott Publishing Company, Philmlelphis•: B. Zeiber. Contents,: Gaehsra's Don Carlos,-and Philip 11. ; Oysters, and the OysferFisheries ; ' ;kn jou ; Tynall's Lectures on Sound; Liberal Edu cation in England ; Memoirs fSr hili Fran- cis ; De Frezensac's Recollecti o ons i of P th e Grand Army ; Two per Cent. ; The Queen's Highland Journals. • • The first article' utifoldg one of the dark-pages of history whioli had not yet been disclosed When Motley wrote 'volumes : the unhappy' fate of Don Carlos, son and heir . apparent of Philip of Spain. The, .solsition of - ,tho I : mystery. is, that the prince, closely.66nfitied father on'ac count of the excSses of his'it,empery w.hich the father in many ways.herped to exasperiad, final ly, in, desperation, broke himself do . *n, by-extra; ordinary excess andirregularity in. his .Nliet, and died almost as a suicide; hit; father williriglyper 'flitting the result. Oysters and Oyster. Fishe ries contains much curious learning from ancient, and modern sources on this subject. Lectures on Sound , is.a fine resume: of the,,,posi tion and progresll of the Science of Accustiee. Liberal- Education in 'England = seems to favor gretit C4saiges from the prrerit almoSt ly.c)asgioatmethod in Eduoation.:in . ooaMother country. Memoirs of Sii Philip FrancisArings before-Di again the .question of the-, authorship of 'the celebrated letters of- -gtinitis; which -the reViWee—viithotit pietending to certainty;—be lieves to ke, - krincie himself. 1:71e-FrezensaVs collections, ,of, the Grand Army gives: us Frenchman's tempsate_estimate of _Napoleon Two per cent. discusses the causes of the present wide-spreid eortimereial 'stagnation, of • w'llich one of the symptOtils is tliefltet that money has been offered to boerolvers with•gtiod security in Eng land at two' per dint less *lthent stimu latiug business. The QiiKeris gig i ,l34an'd Journal is a friendly nob, ebseqi ,uons--- iii4io of the Queen's new book. THE COItNELL ITNrvrittirrti it•;/:theee, N. Y. First General Antiottit: '1; ANNUAL REiowr ganagers of the Western Pennsylvania lToepifali for., 1868.. 'Sit perintendent and Phytilcian;D.r. Number of Patients in Hriitid;. January Jet, 1867-49. Admitted.',during' the. year; --L174. 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Newspapers.---Harpees Bazar,, the handsome new. Fashion Paper, (Weekly), reached, a circu lation Of 160,000 copies n _abut - i'montl from the issue , of the first nuiber.- , 1 ' ' ifu TItE THEOLOGICAL AS iOP Tfli CistAt alb , TioNAltiEs. = 4 writer I'll, . the Alt* Reqgious tl .iVagazine thinks that se who have a distaste . , for Oiliinism may find irritatingSomeilat and vexing occupation tn t ping over tike pages Of Webster's Dictionary, a)d noting how the. teal= nicalterms of the,Calittistie.theology,Vith...ex tt bra,sor,iptural,Rignifiea, 'ins, have : been wrought, into , his , definitions ; e ~ Fatchpuza and; Re-.. (lector (P ! :aptist) reporii ""'Had it ever occurred' to this sardewri r terlo 1 n the pag,es, of i ffeie . ei-: ter's Dictionary 'Ai 's.4, lieut3nitariati liaS:kthati some philologists - randtl logiani blink:they Sind quite conspicuous? ' 7 , ebster's _etymology .and his accuracy of definitio are,too well establi,shed to suffer by such insettions, While we ceigfess' t that it is very iinflir nate far air UriiitY.riari ; friends that his defini ns give them so little comfort and support. a i Indeed, their chronic trouble seeme4abewi , he truedneaning of terms and Twords.4' f...,...•:.:.:,.....ii1,-.., ~ ... .....,--„,, THE PENNSYLVA A GERMANS. ..-7,1111.* - 'The Penitsylvani Germans _are princi pally; distinguitihed' cause of their dialect. The original and we read English scholar , , .. regards it with the me cnriosity-as any other peculiar mode speech would excite within him.' " . ' - But weedo wdride t - an educated Germai;, affecting a surprise er it, degenerate Land mongrel as it is. .A though. herwould have us, to believe, thathe German language were, a unit allhroi. h Europe and the Old World. „As 'tliough ere were not as many dialects, `tongues ,a modes of speech,in I " Teusoll-...pand,7 as ere are smoke-pipes. X 4 though 'lloebc i l. ked SChiller, sang the same uniform notes. lAs thOugh,alithe Ger maps from all parti-4f,Teutonia coulg rear dilv understand ea then:,. Ati, thougli the multitudinous Se ti . per-rei r en Of. F the ader- Laa, whenthrow together, were - anything d'ffexerit from Bab I, itself. • We confess to feeling , a lively co tempt - for this ,kind of t German cockneyisgt, - which affects ri, nausea a - 'Pr ilia, hegAixtichan.fumui 6 l . _ . .1.....-- - t at,t sir. stomach - does not,guaina .at a•re ar Salamander it' honie, with ," Butz- Kasten" and.all. 1. . The PennsylVania i erman dialect s.no more , an anomaly tha are the.various-sim ilar offshoots of almo every prominent lan,- _guage. The pure Sa ony and-Ilanoverian tongues I are as wide y ,different from the . .c orrupt; and "uncout, Yei•huusungcn. of, the North.p,r.g and Eastrn Provinces„ as,:the Pennsylvania is' from the ;High Gernian. One reason why thelFrench language is so popular at.-. German courts, we Imagine,..is, that at least one common conversational or diplomatic medium may be found for Ger mania. We ;should; not forget, that similar degenerations ,are to be •met - with in the' trench, Eoglish, 3,19,tin, Greek, SPauish, Wyptian Hebrew rand. other languages. R'he Ishmaelitiab branch is a sad departure from the Abrahamic item.„. Esau. and, his off' lacing, dow.n., tol, l i tre yvi.l4 l ,,and:,,fwar-like Edomites, did.'little. else tha i ii ,barbarize the speech . of Israel and Taco,h,.,his 'father. and : yor,):lpr. •What-see..we,.durmg the contipu ance.prisriehin . - Egypti but a. mixture. Of .Hebrew a,pd:kgypilari ?; The ,J ews „in Bit 'bylon isiiiik . so feailfully in, - th'eir :language, that the Chaldaic Targu ms were; necessary to`their : understandingAlip sayings of the Holy Scriptures: twring the period of the Judges, a perfect Linguistic anarchy reign . ed.- ' • - ' ' admit, `that the Udine: from the pure German to .the Pennsylvania dialect is se4i ons andisad ;: but_ o ove maiptain, Oat r it„ is only one of many Omila; wild parallel de ,partarcs from, thevairentspeeoh..r.A.nd can didly speaking, we i prefer, it: to many horrid brogues spokoßf'by many. lately 'vnported k4ertnans. _ -The causes, which gime. iise to the Penn sylvania' German dialect, are manifest to anyone who will talle_thepains_to think at -all!' The Ainericanwitevolution: contributed 'to a total BU spensioubT intercourse between the,srerrrians of the Old: and New :World. filliby,beeame cotnpletely isolated from the •fountain.of their mothex.:German language and literature. What stream will not sink, .ifthe spring be closed? r liet us not forget too, that classical*rsch&ols 'Were wantmg, and are.still,. among and:,for the Pennsylva nia :Germans. The emigrants were poor; they thought first and forernost of 'a liveli lio,Od.for their wives ,- ifid children. -.Teach ers were wanting. 'SchoOts of, a high and governing order cannot.bc. built: in a: 'day. And let us rememher finally, thatttheystood aloof from the English element,'which con trelled 'and carried things its .own way. notwithstanding.:ithis separation; on the'one , side, there , .Arairnev - ertheless a con stani antrnsion of the English onithe-other Hence their hybrid speech. Legthe'secon T siderations be weighed, to 3v bich, might readily be added, and we may all see satisfactorily enough, that, as in every other sphere, there is no effect occasioned here without its corresponding causes. If we notice some of the characteristics of our dialect, it, will become apparent, that the so-called "Pennsylvania _Dutch," is not any farther removed from the proper German, than the "Artemus Ward," " Nash" and Pennsylvania, or Yankee English corrup tion is distanced from the genuine Angli can. We cast off the terminations of verbs and „flatten the vowels in preceding syllables —saying Schlige for Sehlage,n; Macho for Machen; Sage for Sagen. We, are not par tial to reduplications, but use efan g e and 'g'ange, for' gefangen and gegangen. - The vowels a, and d, we change , or often times eliminate entirely- e. " Ri.in," is with us Neh'; getlian" becomes geode; 'hollers'.'' is hullen; " sollen" is.snllen 'W falls over into the sound',Of. fp'loWen "Liebe" is lieve." ' - The.sthis good German, and aeardiiiglf we saY"S'aierbee instead of - Sterben:j We:are not overpolite, t'is - trikand seldom Miste f; T oi• Mrs.. anybOdy,, but 'use most people. as :"Dat's-Brtider or Schileitere:" When we find'it Convenient, we .- foist in as many Eh lish 'Words as we, plen,se ; we. say " Meeting-hduae," "Stohr," "Sattlempit;""tawsuit;'." sp'eeehmacher;; cc . sapPer,";!‘ breakfeSeht,"'"fUrnpike," mind "en Race zu nehme," "in fielimoke,". tri trkvelle"—ini.short, we take what suits us best, to render, oiiielves infelii e. . 1 1Pire_ abbreviati3' . 4variivltere. "Nix' satisfies us every whit ,as well as cc Niehts." For "YA;:ist," yveisimßly. say "Sps."--41i'efOrmed Church "'dungen .. • 'MEE' IMPORTANT NEW WORKS. T..1i.jR . 9. - L'O•GIC,A ; L:-INPE , X; REFERENCE TO TUE PRINCIPAL WORKS IN ALL DEPART AIENTS IN-RELIGIOUS LITERATURE. , . • ALPHABETICALLY ADRANGED 11NDER TWO THOUSAND READS., AND EX • k uicionia. 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