“The antique Babel, Empresse of the East,
    Upreard her buildinges to the threatned skie;
  And second Babell, Tyrant of the West,
    Her ayry towers upraised much more high. 
    But, with the weight of their own surquedry,
  They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare,
    And buried now in their own ashes ly: 
  Yet shewing, by their heapes, how great they were. 
  But in their place doth now a third appeare,
    Fayre Venice, flower of the last world’s delight;
  And next to them in beauty draweth neare,
    But far exceedes in policie of right. 
  Yet not so fayre her buildinges to behold
  As Lewkenor’s stile that hath her beautie told.”]

BOOKS RECEIVED.

The Excavation of Olympia, by Ernst Curtius; and Ernst Curtius, by Prof.  Robert P. Keep, Ph.  D. Republished from International Review.  New York:  A.S.  Barnes & Co.

History of the United States.  By J.A.  Doyle, with Maps by Francis A. Walker. (Freeman’s Historical Course for Schools.) New York:  Henry Holt & Co.

Our National Currency and the Money Problem.  By Hon. Amasa Walker,
LL.D.  New York:  A.S.  Barnes & Co.

A Hundred Years Ago, and other Poems.  By Charles W.E.  Siegel, A.B. 
Lancaster:  Daily and Weekly Examiner.

History of the United States. (Centenary Edition.) Vol.I.  By George
Bancroft.  Boston:  Little, Brown & Co.

The Christ of Paul; or, The Enigmas of Christianity.  By George Reber. 
New York:  Charles P. Somerby.

Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer.  By Charles
Sotheran.  New York:  Charles P. Somerby.

The Summerfield Imbroglio:  A Tale.  By Mortimer Collins.  Boston: 
Loring.

Dear Lady Disdain.  By Justin McCarthy.  New York:  Sheldon & Co.