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This article focuses on the book "Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agassiz," by Jules Marcou. The book is a biography of author Louis Agassiz. Here is certainly an embarrassing richness of material for any biographer, but it has been already so well worked up that a new life of Agassiz must show its reason for being, and especially for offering to supplant the book "Life and Correspondence," which has been very generally considered final since its appearance in 1885. Agassiz is a man of enormous achievement, of world-wide fame, and of unquestionable genius, whom, nevertheless, many persons honestly believe to have been vastly overrated.

This article presents information on several books and publications. The list of book announcements just issued by Ticknor & Fields, is almost enough to redeem the whole publishing trade from the charge of inactivity. Among them are "The Biglow Papers, Second Series," by James Russell Lowell; "Snow-Bound, a Winter Idyl," by John G. Whittier, and "Geological Sketches," by Louis Agassiz. One of the most enjoyable books printed for a long time is the new series of "Curiosities of Natural History," by Frank Buckland, just published in two volumes. An important landmark in the progress of Oriental civilization and Christianization has been placed by the appearance of "The Koran of Mohammed" in a Turkish version, forming two volumes octavo.

The article focuses on the book "Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz. With a Sketch of his Life Work," edited by G. R. Agassiz. Seldom does a biography record a more extraordinary personality and career than that of Alexander Agassiz as told by his eldest son. During a boyhood of narrow means in Europe, after his father, the great naturalist, Louis Agassiz, had come to the United States, he walked from one town to another to visit his relatives, and slept on the way under a haystack or in the house of a friendly peasant. In his mature years in U.S. he developed and became president of a great mining company.

The article profiles Louis Agassiz, a Swiss naturalist who came to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1846, just as science was starting to challenge religious concepts long held sacred. He became a teacher and his students were eager to attend his lectures in biology. Elizabeth Cary, who became Agassiz's wife, helped establish, and was later president of, Radcliffe College.

Seldom, if ever, has the death of a man of science been so widely and deeply felt as in the case of Professor Louis Agassiz. Early choosing the medical profession, probably because of its affinity with natural history, for which his fondness was manifest in boyhood, he studied in the schools of Lansanne and Zurich, in his native Switzerland, then at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich, Germany, taking the degree of Doctor in Medicine at the latter at or before 1830, having already taken that of Doctor in Philosophy at Erlangen, Germany. In 1846, at middle age, he came to the United States on a scientific visit, with leave of absence and some assistance from the King of Prussia, Germany as suzerain of Neufchatel. He delivered in Boston, Massachusetts a course of Lowell lectures, and other similar lectures in several cities. He was just the man to be fully appreciated here; and the field, which he found, or saw the capabilities of, was most inviting to one of his zeal, ardor, largeness of view, bold and contagious hopefulness.

This article presents information on the book "Scientific Results of a Journey in Brazil," by Fred Hartt. In this volume, of over 600 pages, there have been one of the results of that expedition to Brazil which, by the generosity of Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, was undertaken by Professor Louis Agassiz and his companions in 1865-60. The director of the expedition has already in his pleasant narrative given us a general account of the journey and many of its results, but it was reserved for future publications to give the completed studies of the various branches of natural history whose investigation was included in the labors of the party.

The article focuses on the book "A Journey in Brazil," by Louis Agassiz. The novelty of this work consists almost wholly in its scientific details. The reader must not look in it for exciting adventures, wild explorations, unusual hardships, or--speaking only of the narrative--other than twice told tales of travellers. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of persons will read of Brazil for the first time in these pages, and to such it is enough to say that Agassiz has reported very faithfully the general aspect of the country. In chapter sixteen Agassiz gives his general impressions of Brazil, compared with those of other travellers, they show that he was neither blind nor disposed to extenuate, as a guest of both Emperor and people, the well-known national defects.

The article presents several quotes by philosophers, on motivation and inspiration for business, including those by Louis Agassiz on making money, Roy Helton on oaks as conservatives, and Ernest Hemingway on man and defeat.

The article presents information on several books. Some books that are featured in the article are "The Queen Mother and Rosamond," by Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Geographical Sketches," by Louis Agassiz, "The South Since the War," by Sidney Andrews, "Lucy Arlyn," by J.T. Trowbridge, "Snow-Bound," by J.G. Whittier, "Leighton Court," by Henry Kingsley, "Redfield's Physiognomy," "Speeches of Lord Macaulay," "A Brief Biographical Dictionary by Charles Hole," "Hidden Depths. A Novel" and "Devotions of the Ages," by N.G. Allen.

The article presents a list of books. Some of them are "The South Since the War," by Sidney Andrews, "Geological Sketches," by Louis Agassiz, "Lucy Arlyn," by J.T. Trowbridge, "Patriotic Eloquence," by C.M. Kirkland, "Lange's Commentary on Mark and Luke," edited by W.G.T. Shedd, "Six Months at the White House With Abraham Lincoln," by F.B. Carpenter and Snow-Bound by J.G. Whittier.