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THE

LITERARY NEWS

Journal of (Current iteratnre.

[NEW SERIES.]

VOL. XVI.

1895.

NEW YORK
PUBLICATION OFFICE, 59 DUANE STREET,

1895.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

INDEX TO VOL. XVI. (NEW SERIES) 1895.

PAGE

ABBEY Shakespeare 353

Abbey s Work in the Boston Public Library 198

Abbot, W. J., Carter H. Harrison 245

About Paris, Davis 292

Actual Africa, Vincent 73

Adams, F., Child of the Age 26, 48

Addison, D. D., Lucy Larcom s Life, Letters, and

Diary 80

Adventures of Captain Horn, Stockton 208

Jones, Carruth 112

yEsop, Fables 53

Afloat with the Flag, Henderson 204

Africa. See Vincent, F.

After To-Morrow 213

Against Human Nature, Pool 327

Aide, H.. Elizabeth s Pretenders 290

Aims of Literary Study, Corson 71

Alden, H. M., Study of Death 343

Alger, J. G., Glimpses of the French Revolution 55

Algerian Memories, Workman 364

" Alice in Wonderland," Author of. Lit. Misc 284

Allen, A. V. G., Continuity of Christian Thought 122

Religious Progress 27

Allen, G., Story of the Plants 266

- Woman Who Did 83

Allen, J. L., A Kentucky Cardinal 23

Almayer s Folly, Conrad 268

Amateur Emigrant, Stevenson 130

Ambrosial Library 369

American Chanties, Warner 36

Economic Assoc., Papers Read at the Seventh An
nual Meeting 217

Foot-Ball, Stagg 20

in Paris, Savidge 302

Institute of Christian Philosophy. Christ and the
Church 281

Library Assoc., List of Books for Girls and Women 280

Steam Vessels, Stanton 333

America s Celebrities 99

Amicis, E. de, Heart of a Boy 300

Andrews, E. B., Hist, of the United States 44

Annual Amer. Catalogue, 1894 120

Anstey, F. , Lyre and Lancet 301

Appleton s Handbook of Winter Resorts 54

Apthorp, W. F., Musicians and Music-Lovers 21

Archer, T. A., and Kingsford, C. L., The Crusades. . 4
Argles, Mrs. Marg., The O Connors of Ballinahinch. 149

The Three Graces 169

Armenian Crisis in Turkey, Greene 134

Armstrong, K. L. (ed.). Little Statesman 342

Arnold, Sir E., Tenth Muse 280

Arnold, M., Function of Criticism at the Present

Time 341

Art Gift-Books and Illustrated Poems 353

in Primitive Greece Mycenaean Art, Parrot 43

Arthurian Epic. Gurteen 177

As Others Saw Him 115

Ashley, W. J. . Railroad Strike of 1894 217

Ashmore, Ruth, Side-Talk with Girls 302

At the Gate of Samaria. Locke.. 34

Tuxter s, Burgin 326

Atkinson, P., Electricity for Everybody 342

Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice 118

Duologues and Scenes from Novels of 251

Austin, Jane G., Standish of Standish 354

BABINGTON, W. D., Fallacies of Race Theories 269

Bagby, A. M., Miss Traumerei 149

Bailey, Harriet P., On the Chafing-Dish 246

Bain, R. N., Hans Christian Andersen 336

Baird, H. M., The Huguenots and Revocation of the

Edict of Nantes 340

Baker, F. G., Model Republic 280

Baker, Mrs. W, Pictures of Swedish Life 22

Baldry, A L., Albert Moore, His Life and Works 53

Baldwin, Mrs. Alfr., Story of a Marriage 277

Baldwin, C. S. (comp. and ed.), Specimens of Prose

Description , 337

Balfour, A. J., Foundations of Belief , 122

Balfour, R. C., Central Truths and Side Issues 121

Ballade of Poets (Verse) 27*;

Ballads and Songs, Davidson 106

in Prose, Hopper 144

of the Nations 360

Ballantine, H., On India s Frontier 68

Balzac, K. de, Catherine de Medici 13

PAGE

Balzac, H. de, Chouans 277

Ferragus 226

Lucien de Rubempre 180

Marriage Contract 338

Start in Life 290

W ild Ass s Skin 246

Balzac s Novels 359

Bangs, J. K., Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica 142

Banishment of Jessop Blythe, Hatton 143

Baring- Gould, S., Deserts of Southern France 57

Kitty Alone 2?.

Noemi 76

Barlow, Jane, End of Elfintown 53, 54

Maureen s Fairing 268

Barr, Mrs. Amelia E., Flower of Gala Water. .... 40

Barr, R., Face and the Mask 108

Barras, P. F. J N. (Comte) De, Memoirs 206

Barrett, F. John Ford, and His Helpmate 246

Justification of Andrew Lebrun 23

Set of Rogues 329

Barrie s Illustrated Editions 368

Bartlett, G. H., Water Tramps 235

Bartlett J , Concordance of Shakespeare 243

Barry, A., England s Mission to India 245

Bassett, G , Hippolyte and Golden-beak 118

Bates, Mrs. L. W., Bunch-Grass Stories 277

Battye, A. T., Ice-Bound on Kolgnev 308

Beach, D. N., How We Rose 153

Beale, Maria, Jack O Doon 74

Beaman, A. H., M. Stambuloff 308

Beattie, F. R , Radical Criticism 153

Beaumont, Mary, A Ringby Lass 309

Beazley, C. R., Henry, the Navigator 35

Bedlow, H., White 1 sar, and Other Poems 101

Beers, H. A., Ways of Yale 130

Beesly, A. H , Ballads 184

Beginning of the End 146

Beginnings of Writing, Hoffman 328

Belden, Jessie Van Z . , Fate at the Door 277

Bell, Lillian, Little Sister to the Wilderness 180

Bell, Mrs. Nancy R. E. M., Masterpieces of the

Great Artists 336

Bella, E (ed.), Collection of Posters 336

Bellamy, W., Century of Charades 27

Belloc, M. A., and Shedlock, M., (eds.,) Edmond and

Jules de Goncourt 53

Bemis, E. W., Relation of Labor Organizations to the

Amer. Boy and Trade Instruction 57

Benson, A. C., Lyrics 152

Benson, E. F , The Judgment Books 213

Besant, Sir W., Beyond the Dreams of Avarice 112

In Deacon s Orders 232

Westminster 324

Payn, J., and others. My First Book 26

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, Maclaren 12

Bettany, G. T., Popular Hist, of the Reformation

and Modern Protestantism 122

Bevan,W. L., Sir William Petty 57

Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, Besant 112

Bible Concordance, Strong 115

New Testament, Translation of the Four Gospels
from the Syriac 58

Bickerdyke, L, Sea-Fishing 312

Bicknell, Anna L., Life in the Tuileries 321

Bierce, A., Black Beetles in Amber 277

Rierstadt, O. A., Library of Robert Hoe 215

Bigelow, J., Life of Samuel J. Tilden 131

Bigelow, Poultney, Borderland of Czar and Kaiser . . 5

Bicke"las, D., Tale from the yEgean 23

Billings, J. S., and Kurd, H. M., Suggestions to Hos
pital Visitors. 152

Billtry. Dallas 78

Billy Bellew, Norris 231

Bird, H . E , Chess Novelties 343

Birds of Eastern North America, Chapman 167

Bishop, W. H., Garden of Eden, U. S. A 246

Bismarck, Prince, Lowe 137

Bjornson, B., Heritage of the Kurts 246

Black, Clementina, An Agitator 23

Black, J. S., Christian Consciousness 280

Blaikie. W. G., Personal Life of David Livingstone. 245

Blair, E. T., Henry of Navarre 14

Blair, Eliza N., Lisbeth Wilson 180

Blanc, Mme. The rese, Condition of Woman in the

U. S 217

Blatchford, R., Merrie England 217

INDEX.

AGE

Bliss, W. D. P., Arbitration and Conciliation in In
dustrial Disputes

Handbook of Socialism

Bloomfieid, W., Holdenhurst Hall

Body-Snatcher, Stevenson

Bohn-Bawerk, E. v., Ultimate Standard of Value

Bok, E. W., Successward

Bolles, F., Chocorua s Tenants

Bolton, Mrs. Henrietta I , Madonna of St. Luke

Book Bills of Narcissus, Le Gallienne

Lover s Almanac for 1895,

Plate Annual

Books of 1 894 4

Bookworm

Booth, Mrs. E. M. J. G., Gender in Satin

Boothby, G., Lost Endeavor

Marriage of Esther

Borderland of Czar and Kaiser, Bigelow

Borlase. S., Stirring Tales of Colonial Adventure ...
Boscawen, W. St. C., The Bible and the Monuments.

Boulger, Mrs. Dora H., An Island Princess

Boulton, Helen M., Josephine Crewe

Bourget, Outre Mer

Bourinot, J. G., How Canada Is Governed

Bouton, J. B., Uncle Sam s Church

Bouvet, Marguei ite, My Lady

Boyesen, H. H., Essays on Scandinavian Literature.

Boynton, H. V., National Military Park

Brace, Charles Loring, Life of

Brainerd, T. H., Go Forth and Find

Breaking a Jam

Breton, F., God Forsaken

Brewster, W. T. (ed.), Specimens of Narration

Bridges, R., Growth of Love

Bridges, R. (" Droch," #stud.), Suppressed Chapters..

Briggs, C. A., Messiah of the Apostles

Gospels ..

Brooklyn Ethical Assoc., Life and Conditions of

Survival

Brooks, N., Abraham Lincoln, and the Downfall of
American Slavery

How the Republic Is Governed

Short Studies in Party Politics

Washington in Lincoln s Time

Brooks, P., Essays and Addresses

Brown, Alice, Meadow-Grass

Brown, H. E., Betsey Jane on Wheels

Brown, Helen D., Petrie Estate

Brown Studies, Hepworth

Browning, R., Poetical Works

in One Volume

Bruce, M. W., Alaska

Buckley, J M.,Travelsin Three Continents Europe,

Asia, Africa

Bulwer-Lytton, 5YrE. G. E. L., Last Days of Pompeii
Burdette, R. J., and others, Before He Is Twenty....

Burgin.G. B , At Tuxter s

Burke, U. R., Hist, of Spain

Burn. R., Ancient Rome

Burnham, Clara L., Miss Bagg s Secretary

The Wise Woman

Burstall, Sara A., Education of Girls in the U. S

Burton, J. Bloundelle, The Hispaniola Plate

Burwell, L. M., Girl s Life in Virginia

Butler, W.. Land of the Veda

Butterworth, H.. In Old New England

By Thrasna River

CABLE, G. W., John March, Southerner 23

Caffyn, Mrs. M. See Iota.

Caine, H., The Manxman 3157

Son of Hagar 87

Call, Annie P., As a Matter of Course 57

Cambridge, Ada (pseud.}* Fidelis 163

Campbell, G., The Joneses and the Asterisks 309

Campbell, H., Brewer, R. F., a^Neville, H., Voice,

Speech, and Gesture 118

Captain Antifer, Verne 368

Carleton, W., Rhymes of Our Planet. ... 302, 303

Carpenter, Mary T., In Cairo and Jerusalem 22

Carroll, E., jr., Principles and Practice of Finance. . 342

Carruth, H.. Adventures of Jones 112

Carus, P., Gospel of Buddha 58

Gary, E., George William Curtis 21

Case, W. S., Forward House 213

Castle Rackrent, Edgeworth 74

Catherine de Medici, Balzac 13

Catherwood, Mary H ., Lady of Fort St. John 23

Cause and Effect, Meirion 273

Cawein, M., Intimations of the Beautiful 217

Ce-cile 338

Cesaresca, E. M , Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 25

Chamberlain, H. R.. 6000 Tons of Gold 54

Chambers, R. W., King in Yellow 149

Chambers Gazetteer of the World 22

Chambliss, W. H., Diary; or, Society as It Really Is 341
Chandler, Mrs. Izora C., Three of Us 47

Chapman, F. M., Birds of Eastern North America...

Chapman, Mary B., Lyrics of Love and Nature

Chaucer, G., Complete Works

Cheiro (pseud.), Language of the Hand

Chicago. See How to Govern.

Chiffon s Marriage, Martel de Janville. . .

Child of the Age, Adams

Children of Circumstance, Iota

Chimmie F"adden, Townsend

Choosing Summer Reading

Christian State, Henron

Christmas Week at Bigler s Mill, Spratt

Chronicles of Count Antonio, Hope . .

Uganda, Ashe

Church, R. W. , Life and Letters of Dean Church

Church Club of New York, Rights and Pretensions of
the Roman See

Churches and Castles of Mediaeval France, Larn ed. .

Claflin, Mrs. Mary B., Under the Old Elms

Clairmonte, Mrs. See Egerton, G.

Clarence, Harte

Clark, G. H., Oliver Cromwell

Clark, T. M., Reminiscences

Clarke, H. W., History of Tithes

Clodd, R., Story of Primitive Man

Clouston, W. A., Hieroglyphic Bibles

Clyde, H., Pleasure Cycling

Coaching Trips Out of London, Rideing

Cobb, S.,/r., King s Mark

Cobbe, W. R., Dr. Judas, A Portrayal of the Opium
Habit ...

Cobbleigh, Tomtjseud.), Gentleman Upcott s Daugh
ter

See Raymond, W.

Cocke, J. R., Hypnotism

Coffin, C. C., Daughters of the Revolution and Their

Times

Coignet, Captain, Narrative of

Coleman, L., Church in America

Coleridge, S. T., Golden Book of Coleridge

Letters

Colonial Cavalier, Goodwin

Columbian Lunar Annual

Comedy in Spasms, Iota

Coming of Theodora, White

Commodore s Daughters, Lie

Company (Verse)

Compton, H., Free Lance in a Far Land

Comstock, J. H., and Botsford, Anna, Manual of the

Study of Insects

Conrad, Almayer s Folly

Constantinople, Crawford

Grosvenor

Conway, Sir Wm. M., Alps from End to End

Corbin, J., Elizabethan Hamlet

Corelli, Marie, Silence of the Maharajah

Coridon sSong

Cornelison, I. A., Relation of Religion to Civil Gov
ernment in the U. S

Cornish, C. J., Wild England of To-Day

Cornwell, W. C., Currency and Banking Law of

Canada

Correggio: His Life, His Friends, and His Time

Corson, H , Aims of Literary Study

Cory, Vivien ("Victoria Crosse"), Woman Who

Did Not

Cotes, Mrs. E , Story of Sonny Sahib

Vernon s A unt

Couch, A. T. Q. Golden Pomp

Couperus, L.. Majesty

Courthorpe, W. J., Hist, of Eng. Poetry

Lit. Misc .

Courtship of Miles Standish. Longfellow

Cowan, H., Landmarks of Church History to the

Reformation

Crackanthorpe, H., Sentimental Studies

Craddock, Charles Egbert (pseud.}, Stories by

Craigie, C., Old Man s Romance

AGE
167
361
120

226
48
8
78
178
1 10
369
ST. 2
364
53

59
135
34

322
214
148

27
200

56
185
J 73

8 7

Craigie, Mrs.. Mary. See Hobbes, J. O.

Crane, S., Red Badge of Courage 326,

Crawford, F. M.. Constantinople 337,

Love in Idleness

Mr. Isaacs...

I The Ralstons.
! Sant Ilario...

Creegan,C. C., and Goodnow, Mrs. Josephine A. B.,

Great Missionaries of the Church

Crocker, U. H. , Cause of Hard Times

Crockett, S. R., Bog-myrtle and Peat

Galloway Herd

Men of the Moss-Hags

Lilac Sunbonnet

Play-Actress

Stickit Minister

Crompton, Frances E., Messire

Crowell s New Illustrated Librarv

Cruger, Mrs. Julia Van R. See Gordon, Julien.

277
104
129

201

28l
280

1 68

299.

330

230

344

251

268

,1!

308
245
180

218
337

355

7 1

144

145

102
280

253
360

90
277

80
247

37*

363
4i

309
47

322
218

294

3 2 4

354

INDEX.

PAGE

331

Cruising Among the Caribbees, Stoddard ............

Cunningham, Martha, Ballad of la Jeunesse Doree,

140,
Curb, Snaffle, and Spur, Anderson ..................

Curry, J. L. M., Southern States of the Amer. Union.
Curse of Intellect .....................................

Curtin, J , Hero-Tales of Ireland .....................

(camp.}, Tales of the Fairies . . ....................

Curtis, G. W., Literary and Social Essays. ...........

Cutts, E. L., Augustine of Canterbury ............... 148

Hist, of the Chu.ch of England ................ 281

Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture, Longfellow. . . 355

DAILEY, A. H , Mollie Fancher ......................

Dallas, Mary K., Billtry .............................

Dame Prism, Mathews ...............................

Dana, C. A., Art of Newspaper-Making .............

Dana, Mrs. Frances T., How to Know the Wild

Flowers ......................... .................

Dana, J. C., Parsons, J., and Tandy, F. D., Public

Library Handbook, Denver ........................

Dane, D., Is She Not a Woman ? .....................

D Arcy, Ella, Monochromes .........................

Darmesteter, J., Essays ...................... 183,

Daudet, A. , La Petite Parpisse .......................

Daughters of the Revolution, Coffin .................

Davidson, J., Ballads and Songs ......................

Sentences and Paragraphs. ....... .............

Davidson, T., Education of the Greek People ........

Davies, H. E., Gen. Sheridan ........................

Davis, Mrs. M E. M., Under the Man-Fig ...........

Davis, N. K., Elements of Inductive Logic ..........

Davis, R. H , About Paris ....................... 292,

Princess Aline . . .................................

Davis, Varina, A. J., Veiled Doctor ..................

Dawe, W. C., Yellow and White .....................

Dawn of Civilization, Maspero .......................

Dead Man s Court, Hervey ..........................

Dean, Mrs. A. (pseud.), The Grasshoppers ...........

A Splendid Cousin .................................

Defoe, D., Journal of the Plague Year ...............

Romances and Narratives ............. .............

De Garmo. C., Herbart and the Herbartians .........

Degeneration, Nordau ..............................

De Koven, Mrs. R., Sawdust Doll ...................

Deland, Mrs. Marg, Philip and His Wife ............

Dement, R. S., Ronbar ..............................

Denispn, J. H., Christ s Idea of the Supernatural ----

Dennis, J. T., On the Shores of an Inland Sea ........

De Peyster, J. W., Real Napoleon Bonaparte ........

Destiny-Maker (The), (Verse) ........................

De Tabley ( Baron), Poems ..........................

De Vere, Aubrey, Select! pns from Poems ............

Devil s Playground, Mackie ........................

Devine, E. T., Economic Function of Woman .......

Dickinson, Emily. Letters of ........................

Dickinson, Mary L., Temptation of Katherine Gray..
Dillingham, Lucy, Missing Chord ....................

Ditchfield, P. H , Books Fatal to Their Authors ......

Dix, Gertrude, The Girl from the Farm .......... 247,

Dixon, T. S. E., Francis Bacon and His Shakespeare.
Doctor (The), His Wife and the Clock, Green ........

Izard, Lit. Misc .............. , ...................

Dodge. Mary A., Biog. of James G Blame. .......

Dole, N. H., Hawthorn-Tree, and Other Poems .....

Donisthorpe, W., Law in a Free State ...............

Donnelly, I., American People s Money ..............

Donovan, M., Science of Boxing ....................

Doom of the Holy City, Farmer ...................

Dorr, Julia C. R., Flower of England s Face ........

Dougall. Lily, The Mermaid .......................

The Zeit-Geist .....................................

Dowden, E., New Studies in Literature ...... ......

Dowie, Menie M., Gallia .............................

Doyle, A. C., Beyond the City .......................

Mystery of Cloomber .............................

The Parasite .....................................

Round the Red Lamp ................... .........

Stark Munro Letters ........ . .....................

The White Company ..............................

and others, Strange Secrets .......................

Drake, S. A., Watch-Fires of 76 .....................

Driver, S. R., Critical Commentary on Deuteronomy.
Drummond, H., Greatest Thing in the World ........

Du Bois, Constance G. , Modern Pagan ..............

Duff, C., The Master-Knot ... ......................

Dumas, A. , Napoleon ................................

Three Musketeers .......................... ......

Dumas Masterpieces ...............................

Du Maurier, G., Society Pictures ..... .........

Dutton s Illustrated Gift-Rooks and Calendars ......

Duval, G., Romance of the Sword ...................

Dyer, H., Evolution of Industry .....................

Dyer, T. F. T., Strange Pages from Family Papers .

PAGE

Eaton, A. W., College Requirements in Eng., En
trance Examinations 86

Ebers G., In the Fire of the Forge 204

Echegaray, J., Mariana 184

Son of Don Juan 148

Echoes of the Playhouse, Robbins 297 , 360

Edgeworth, Maria, Life and Letters n

Castle Rackrent 74

Ormond 338

Edwards, G. W., Riva nes of Long and Short Co-

diac 338

Egerton, G. (pseud.), Discords 55

Ehrlich, A., Celebrated Pianists of the Past and

Present Time 148

Eickemeyer, C., and Westcott, Lilian, Among the

Pueblo Indians 337

Elia Series 360

Eliot, George (pseud.}, Complete Works 247

Silas Marner 338

Elizabeth s Pretenders, Ald 290

English Girl in Samoa, Fraser 142

Lands, Letters, and Kings, Mitchell 305

Erichsen, H., Methods of Authors 216

Eschstruth, Nataly v., The Opposite House 55

Espinasse, F., Life of Ernest Renan 180

Evans, M. A. B., Nymphs, Nixies, and Naiads 360

Extra-Illustrating ( Verse) 212

FACE and the Mask, Barr 108

Fagg, J. G., Forty Years in South China 245

Faience Library 365

Fair Women of To Day, Peck 373

Fallacies of Race Theories, Babington 269

Familiar Flowers, Mathews 170

Farmer, Lydia H., Aunt Belindy s Points of View... 215

Doom of the Holy City 363

Farrar, F: W., Life of Christ 354

Milman, H. H., and othtrs, Westminster Abbey
and the Cathedrals of England 371

Year-Book 370

Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England, Love. 136

Fawcett, Millicent G., Life of Queen Victoria 213

Fenn, G. M., The Tiger Lily 181

Ferguson, H., Essays in American History 55

Four Periods in the Life of the Church 59

Ferragus, Balzac 226

Fidelis. Cambridge 163

Field, H. M., Our Western Archipelago 195

Finck, H.T., Lotos-Time in Japan 161

First of the English, Gunter 114

Fisher, Mary, Twenty-five Letters on English Au
thors 273

Fitzgerald, E., Letters to Fanny Kemble 336

Flaubert, Gustave, Tarver 264

Fletcher, J. S., When Charles the First was King 338

Fletcher, R., Anatomy and Art 86

Fletcher, W. I., and Bowker, R. R., Annual Liter
ary Index, 1894 120

Flower of Gala Water, Barr

Flowers of Song

Fly-Leaves Series

Fonda, A. I., Honest Money

Foote, A. R., Sound Currency and Banking System.

For You (Verse) .

Forbes, A , Colin Campbell 148

Ford, Jas. L., Bohemia Invaded 361

The Literary Shop 45

Ford , John, The Broken Heart 148

Ford, P. L., Honorable Peter Stirling 73

Forsyth, Jean (pseud.), Making of Mary 265, 300

Fort Frayne, King 266

Fortier, A. (comp and ed.), Louisiana Folk Tales 119

Foster, B., Pictures of Rustic Landscape 336

Foster, R. F., Whist Tactics 373

Foster s Reference Lists 84

Fothergill Jessie, Orioles Daughter 213

Fouard, C., Saint Paul and His Mission 27

Four American Universities 107

Years of Novel-Reading, Moulton 216, 269

Fowler, W. W., Summer Studies of Birds and Books. 170

Frail Children of the Air, Scudder 372

Francis, C. E., Every Day s News 213

Francis, M. E. (pseud.), Daughter of the Soil 181

Fraser, Marie. In Stevenson s Samoa 142

Frazer, J. G., Passages of the Bible Chosen for Their

Literary Beauty 280

Frazer, P., Study of Documents 83

French and German books. See Recent.

Freshest News 30. 60, 92. 123, 155, 254, 285, 314, 345

Freytag, G., Technique of the Drama

Friend of the People, R owsell

Froebel, F., Mottoes and Commentaries of "Mother

Play"

From Dreamland Sent, Whiting

Jerusalem to Nicsea, Moxom

the Black Sea, Weeks

37
360
90
T 53

335

164

308
374
306
362

Froude, J. A., English Seamen 183

INDEX.

Fuller, H. B., With the Procession 194, 235

Funk, I. K., March, F. A., and Gregory, D. S. (eds.),

Standard Diet, ol the Eng. Language 89

Furtwangler, A., Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture.. . nS

GALBRAITH, Anna M., Hygiene and Physical Culture
for Women 215

Galloway Herd, Crockett 294

Gait, J., Novels, Annals of the Parish and Ayrshire
Legatees 205, 247, 304, 362

Gannett, H., Building- of a Nation 251

Gardiner, S. R., Hist, of the Commonwealth and Pro
tectorate

Gardner, Alice, Julian, Philosopher and Emperor...

Gardner, G. E., Treasure Found a Bride Won

Garrett, E. H. (camp.}, Victorian Songs

Gates, Ellen M. H., Treasures of Kurium

Geikie, Jas.. Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the
Antiquity of M an

Geikie, J: C., New Testament Hours 122,

George, H. B.. Battles of Eng. History

Gerard, Dorothea, An Arranged Marriage

Gerhart, E. V., Institutes of the Christian Religion..

Giacinta s Portrait

Gibbes, Emily O., Reflectionson Paul

Gibbs, M. B., Military Career of Napoleon the Great

Gibson, C. D., Red Men and White

Gillette, K. C., Human Drift

Girl s Life in Virginia, Burwell

Gissing, G. , The Emancipated

Eve s Ransom

In the Year of Jubilee

Gladstone, W: E., Lucy

Robbins

Thoughts from Writings of

Glascock, W. H., Stories of Columbia

Gleanings, Pure, Pointed, and Practical

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Hearn

God s Light as It Came to Me

Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham, Hobbes..

Godwin, P., Commemorative Addresses

Gohre, P., Three Months in a Workshop

Golden Age, Grahame

H ouse, Warner

Pomp, Couch

Gontaut, Duchessede, Memoirs

Goodloe, Abbe C., College Gins

Goodwin, Maud W., Colonial Cavalier 41,

Head of a Hundred

Gordon, G. A., Christ of To-Day

Gordon, Julien (pseud.), Poppaea

A Wedding

Gosse, E., In Russet and Silver

Gould. J. M., a&lt;/Tucker, G. F., Federal Income Tax

Gould, N., Only a Commoner

Graetz, H., History of the Jews, v. 4

Graham. Mrs. Marg., C., Stories of the Foot-Hills. ..

Grahame. K., Golden Age

Grandma s Attic Treasures, Brine

Grant, G. M., Religions of the World

Grant. R., Bachelor s Christmas ....

Grasshoppers (The), Dean

Great Crested Flycatcher (Verse)

God Pan, Machen

Ice Age, Geikie

Missionaries of the Church, Creegan

Refusal, More

Greek Studies, Pater

Green, Anna K. , The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock

Doctor Izard

Green, J. R., Hist, of the English People

Green, W. H., Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch...

Greene, F. D., Armenian Crisis in Turkey

Gregor, Frances, Story of Bohemia

Griffis, W. E., Religions of Japan

Townsend Harris, First Am. Envoy in Japan

Griswold, W. M. (cotnp.), Descriptive List of Novels

and Tales Dealing with Ancient History

North America

Grossman, Mrs. E. B., Edwin Booth

Grosvenor, E. A , Constantinople

Growth of the Idylls of the King, Jones

Guerber, H. A., Contes et L^gendes

Legends of the Rhine

Myths of Northern Lands

Guiney, Louise I. , Little English Gallery

Gunter, A. C., First of the English

Gurteen, S. H., Arthurian Epic

Guyot, Y. , Tyranny of Socialism

22
58

IK)
311

4
VS4

,63
53

237

25
309
338

343

338

121

58
309

55
ny
- 37
367

9"
339
205
175

3-2

82
70

74
247

T2O

343
34

- 5

332

216
216

HABBERTON, J. \and other s\, Where Were the Boys? 278

Haedicke, P., Equalities of Para- Para 247

Haggard, H: R., Heart of the World i 7l

Joan Haste 329

People of the Mist 7

Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers, Willard.. . 113
Haliburton, H., Furth in Field 184

I AGE

Hall, F. J., Historical Position of the Episcopal

Church 9 1

Hall, Gertrude, Foam of the Sea 247

Hall, J., Light Unto My Path 343

Hamerton s (P. G.) Books 364

Hammond, B. E., Political Institutions of the An
cient Greeks 90

Hapgood, Isabel F., Russian Rambles 169

Hardwicke. H., Art of Living Long and Happily 342

Hardy, T., Mayor of Casterbridge 247

Two on a Tower

Harger, C. G.,/r., True Standard of Value 280

Harland, H., Gray Roses 247

Harley (pseud.}, In the Veldt 87

Harnack, A., Monasticism 154

Harraden, Beatrice, Things Will Take a Turn 87

Harris, F., Elder Conklin 24

Harris, J. C. , Uncle Remus 359

Harris, Townsend, Griffis 332

Harrison, Mrs. Constance C., Bachelor Maid 24

Errant Wooing 247

Harrison, F., Meaning of History 25

Hart, A . B., Studies in American Education 246

Harte, F. B., Bell-Kinger of Angel s 24

Clarence 322

Hartmann, E. v , Sexes Compared 251

Hartmann, S. C., Conversations with Walt Whitman. 336

Harvard College by an Oxonian, Hill 34

Harvey, W. H., Coin s Financial School 184

Up to Date 185

Money of the People 251

Tale of Two Nations ; 184

Hassall, A., Louis xiv 211;

Hastings, Eliz., Experiment in Altruism 181

Hatton, J., Banishment of Jessop Blythe 143

Hawkins, Anthony H. See Hope, A.

Hawley, J. G., Appendix to Trilby 278

Hawthorn-Tree and Other Poems, Dole 365

Haygood, A. G., Monk and Prince 276

Haynes, E. J., Farm House Cobweb 119

Hayward, Jane M., Bird Notes 184

Hazard, Caroline, Narragansett Ballads 26

Hazeltine, Mayo W., Lit. Misc 284

Head of a Hundred, Goodwin 232

Healy, G. P. A., Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter. 21
Hearn, L., Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan 4

Out of the East . 113

Heart of a Boy, Amicis 300

Life, Mallock 257

the World, Haggard 171

Heclawa (pseud.), In the Heart of the Bitter-Root

Mountains 87

Henderson, W. J , Afloat with the Flag 204

Henry of Navarre, Blair 14

the Navigator, Beazley. 35

Henschel, A. E., Municipal Consolidation 251

Hepworth, G. H., Brown Studies 138

Herald Sermons 27

Hermann, P., Fursten Bismarck 54

Heroes of the Nations Series 363

Herrick, R., Selections from Poetry 251

Herron, G. D., The Christian State no, 122

Heysinger, I. W., Source and Mode of Solar Energy.. 121

Hichens, R. S., An Imaginative Man 294

Hiley, R. W., A Year s Sermons 91

Hill, G. B., Harvard College by an Oxonian 34

Hill, Grace L., Katharine s Yesterday 339

Hillhouse, M. L., lola, the Senator s Daughter 39

Hinds, A. B., Making of the England of Elizabeth ... 88

Hinkson, Mrs. K. T., Way of a Maid 339

Hispaniola Plate, Burton 142

Hobbes, J. O. (pseud.}, The Gods, Some Mortals, and

Lord Wickenham 163

Hocking, J., All Men are Liars 339

Hocking, S. K., Son of Reuben 199

Hoffman, W. J., Beginnings of Writing 328, 372

Holcombe, C., The Real Chinaman 132

Holden, E. S., Mogul Emperors of Hindustan 336

Holland, C., My Japanese Wife 309

Holm, A., Hist, of Greece 55, 311

Hoist, H. v., French Revolution 56

Honorable Peter Stirling, Ford 73

Hope, A. (pseud.}, Chronicles of Count Antonio.. ... 372

Father Stafford 119

The God in the Car 24

Indiscretion of the Duchess 24

Man of Mark . 119

Sport Royal 150

Hope, A. R. (pseud.), Young Traveller s Tales 213

Hopkins, A. A., Wealth and Waste 185

Hopkins, E. W., Religions of India 281, 305

Hopkins, S. W., On a False Charge 248

Hopkins, T., Lady Bonnie s Experiment 339

Hopper, Nora, Ballads in Prose 144

Hoppin, Emily H., Under the Corsican 87

Home, C. G,, A Norse Idvl i8t

Horstman, C., Yorkshire Writers 308

INDEX.

Vll

Hosmer, F. L., and Gannett, W. C., Thought of

God in Hymns and Poems 26

Hosmer, J. K., How Thankful was Bewitched 24

Hotchkiss, C. C., In Defiance of the King 326

Houghton, Louise S. , Antipas 364

How to Govern Chicago 251

Howe, R. H., Quadragesima 122

Howells, W. C., Recollections of Life in Ohio, 1813-

1 840 120

Howells, W. D., My Literary Passions 234

Stops of Various Quills 359

Hubbard, E.. Little Journeys to the Homes of Good

Men and Great 148

Charles Dickens 337

Jonathan Swift 337

Oliver Goldsmith 337

Victor Hugo 245

W. M. Thackeray 276

William Wordsworth 276

Hudson, W. H., British Birds 312

Huidekoper, R. S., The Cat 216

Hull- House Maps and Papers 153

Hume, F. W., Lone Inn 119

Third Volume 248

White Prior 278

Hunt, Violet, A Hard Woman 372

Huntington, F. D., Social Problems and the Church. 282

Huntmgton, W. R., Spiritual House 282

Hurst s Books 369

Hutton, L., Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem 166

Other Times and Other Seasons 369

Hutton, W. H., William Laud 207

Huxley, Thomas Henry 240

Evolution and Ethics 26

National Memorial to, Lit. Misc 283

Hypnotism, Its Uses and Dangers, Cocke 104

Hyslop, J. H., Elements of Ethics 57

IBSEN, H., Little Eyolf

Ideas for Sale (Verse) ...

lesat Nassar, Mamreov

Illustrated Standard Novels

Imaginative Man, Hichens

In Camphor (Verse) 271,

Deacon s Orders, Besant

Defiance of the King, Hotchkiss

Russet and Silver (Verse), Gosse

Tent and Bungalow

The Dozy Hours, Repplier

Fire of the Forge, Ebers

Heart of the Bitter-Root Mountains, Heclawa. .

International Sunday- School Lessons

Into the Highways and Hedges, Montre"sor

lola, the Senator s Daughter, Hillhouse

Iota (pseud.)) Children of Circumstance

Comedy in Spasms

Irving, W , The Alhambra

Sketch-Book

Tales of a Traveller. ..

248
357

J., W., Rights of Labor 90

Jack, A. A., Thackeray . . 280

Jack O Doon, Beale 74

Jacobs, J., Inquiry into Sources of History of Jews in

Spain 120

James, G. P. R., Richelieu 363

James, H., Terminations 248

Jebb, John G., Life and Adventures of 3

Jefferies, R., Thoughts from Writings of Richard Jef-

leries 3 n

Jerrold, W., Electricians and Their Marvels 121

Jeune, Lady^ Lesser Questions 246

Jewel of Ynys Galon, Rhoscomyl 170

Joan Haste, Haggard 329

Johnson, L., Art of Thomas Hardy 26

Johnstone, Edith, Sunless Heart 24

Joinville, Prince de, Memoirs 54

Jones, R., Growth of Idylls of the King 79

Jordan, L., Drilby Reversed 89

Julian the Apostate, Gardner 167

Jusserand, J. J., Literary Hist. of t the English People,

KAFIR Stories, Scully

Kappeler, G. J., Modern American Drinks

Karpeles, G., Jewish Literature

Keats Poetical Works

Kelley, J. P., Law of Service

Kellogg, J. H., Art of Massage

Kelly, E., Evolution and Efforts

Kendall, May, Songs from Dreamland

Kennard, Mrs. E., Wedded to Sport

Kent, Barbara, House by the River 176,

Kernahan, C., God and the Ant

Kersey, J. A., Ethics of Literature

Key to the Camphor Chest (Verse)

Kidd, B., Social Evolution

King, Anna E., Kitwyk Stories 330

King, C., Captain Close and Sergeant Crcesus 309-

Captain Dieams 248-

Story of Fort Frayne 248, 266

Under Fire 24

King, M. (ed.), How to See Boston 276

King s Diary, White 175

Stratagem, Weyman 298

Kingsley, C , Works 309

Kingsley, H., Austin Elliot and the Harveys 213

Old Margaret 278

Reginald Hetheridge and Leighton Court 301

Silcote of Silcotes 181

Works 362

Kipling, Art of 209.

Kirk, Mrs. Ellen O , Story of Lawrence Garthe 15

Kitwyk Stories, King . . 330

Knapp, Adeline, One Thousand Dollars a Day 121

Knight, E. F., Rhodesia of To-Day 121

KovaleVsky, S6nya 193, 276

Kroeker, Kate F. (comp.), Century of German Lyrics.. 342

LADD, G. T., Philosophy of Mind 57

La Fayette in the American Revolution, Tower 77

Lagrange, C., The Great Pyramid, by Modern Science. 59

Lamb, C., Essays of Elia 311

Lament, A., Bright Celestials 180

Land of Tawny Beasts, Mae l 373

the Sun, Tiernan 33

Landon, M. D., Money, Gold, Silver, or Bimetallism. 251

Landor, A. H. S., Corea 118

Lane, F. H., Elementary Greek Education 277

Lanier, S., Select Poems 89

Lano, P. de, Emperor Napoleon in 341

Lansdell, H., Chinese Central Asia 118

Larcom, Lucy, Addison 80.

Larned, Augusta, In Woods and Fields 89

Larned, J. N., Hist, for Ready Reference 88, 250-

Larned, W. C., Churches and Castles of Mediaeval

France 135.

Lassie, Paull 237

Latane\ J. H., Early Relations between Maryland

and Virginia 252-

Latimer, Mrs. Eliz. W., England in the Nineteenth

Century 25

Latin Poetry, Tyrrell 114

Laud, Archbishop, Hutton 207

Lawless, E. , Grania . . 309

Maelcho 1 1

Lawrence, E. A., Modern Missions in the East 122

Lazarus, Josephine, Spirit of Judaism 343

Lean, Mrs. F., At Heart a Rake 278.

Lear, E. , Book of Nonsense 280

Nonsense Songs and Stories 46

Lease, Mrs. Mary E., Problem of Civilization Solved. 90.

Lecky, W., Down at Caxton s 245

Lee, H. B., Napoleon Bonaparte 149.

Lee, Mary C., A Soulless Singer i8t

Le Gallienne, R., Book-Bills of Narcissus 69

Poems 263

Robert Louis Stevenson 312

Legends of Fire Island Beach, Shaw 260

the Rhine, Guerber 233

Leighton Court, Kingsley 301

Leland, C. G., Legends of Florence 278

Lemcke, G., European and American Cuisine 246

Lemon, Ida, Matthew Furth 339

Lent, Past and Present, Lilienthal 115

Leonard, D. L., Hundred Years of Missions 282

Lepelletier, E. , Madame Sans-Gene 119

Le Queux, W., Stolen Souls 361

Zoraida 262, 339, 361

Letters on Eng. Authors, Fisher 273

Lever, C. , Novels of Adventure 362

Lewes, L. , Women of Shakespeare 79

Lie, J. L. E., The Commodore s Daughters 230

Life in the Tuileries, Bicknell 321

Lilienthal, H., Lent Past and Present 91, 115

Lilith, Macdonald 33 1

Lincoln, A., Tributes from His Associates 245

and Douglas, S. A., Political Speeches and De
bates 34 2

Lingua Gemmae, Sutton 145

Linton, Mrs. Eliza L. , The New Woman 119

One Too Many 24

Linton, W. J., Three Score and Ten Years 82

List of Books for Girls and Women 275

Literary History of the English People, Jusserand ... 71

Landmarks of Jerusalem, Hutton 166

Miscellany 253, 283

Shop, Ford 45

Literature of the Georgian Era, Minto 98

Little English Gallery, Guiney 4 6

Epicure 54

Huguenot, Pemberton 258

Knights and Ladies, Sangster 230

Little Rivers, Van Dyke 3 6 4

Living (Verse) 335

Vlll

INDEX.

Lloyd, H. D., Wealth Against Commonwealth . . ,

Locke, W. J., At the Gate of Samaria

Lombroso, C., and Ferrero, The Female Offender . . .

Long, J. D., After-Dinner and Other Speeches

Long, J. L., Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo

Longfellow, H. W., Courtship of Miles Standish

Song of Hiawatha

Longfellow, S., Hymns and Verses

Longfellow, W. P. P., Cyclopaedia of Works of Archi
tecture

Longus, , Daphnis and Chloe

Lost Endeavor, Boothby

Lotos-Time in Japan, Finck

Lotto, Lorenzo, Berenson

Love, W. De L. ,./&gt;., Fast and Thanksgiving Days of
New England 136,

Love in Idleness, Crawford

Lowe, C., Prince Bismarck

Lowell, J. R., Last Poems

Lowell, P. , Occult Japan

Lowndes, A., Power of Woman

Lowry, H. D., Women s Tragedies

Loyson, C. H., My Last Will and Testament

Lubbock, Sir J., Use of Life

Luckock, H. M., History of Marriage

Lucy, H. W., William E. Gladstone

Ludlum, Jean K., Under Oath.

Luffmann, C. B., A Vagabond in Spain

Lydekker, R. (ed.), Royal Natural History

Lyon, W. D., Sketch of History of Prot. Missions in
China

Lyre and Lancet, Anstey

Lyrics of Love and Nature, Chapman

Lytle, W. H., Poems

AGE
36

34
218

184

MAARTENS, M. (pseud.}, Black-Box Murder 309

My Lady Nobody 225

MacArthur, R. S., Quick Truths in Quaint Texts 312

McCarthy, J. H., Woman of Impulse 87

McClung, D. W., Money Talks 27

MacColl, M., England s Responsibility Towards Ar
menia 218

Life Here and Hereafter 91

McConnell, S. D., Sermon Stuff 122

MacCunn, John Knox 337

McDonald, D., Sweet-Scented Flowers and Fragrant

Leaves 184

Macdonald, G., Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood 150

Lilith 331

McGlasson, Eva W., Ministers of Grace 24

Mach, E. , Scientific Lectures. 89

Machen, A., Great God Pan 44

Mackail, J. W., Latin Literature

Mackie, J., Devil s Playground

Maclaren, Ian (/&gt;seud.) Bes de the Bonnie Brier Bush

Maclay, E. S., Hist of the U. S. Navy

Macleod, Fiona, Mountain Lovers

Macmahon, Ella, Modern Man

McManus, L., The Red Star

McMaster, J. B., Hist, of the People of the U. S.,v. 4
McPherson, E., and Rhoades, H. E. (eds.), Tribune

Almanac 121

Macpherson, H. A., Wortley, A. J. S., and Shand,

A. I., The Pheasant 312

Macquoid, Mrs. K. S., Berris 88

Maelcho, Lawless T i

Maeterlinck, M , Pe leas and Melisande 68

Maeterlinck s Plays 100

Magazine Articles 29, 52, 85, 117, 147, 179, 220, 244, 274,

307 344

Magruder, Julia, Princess Sonia 333

Majesty, Couperus 102

Making of Mary, Forsyth 265, 300

the Nation, Walker 195

Makower, S. V., Mirror of Music 310

Malcolm, D., A Fiend Incarnate 213

Mallock, W. H., Heart of Life 257

Mamreov, P. V. F., Anna F., and B. A. F., lesiit Nas-

sar TO2

Manley, Louise, Southern Literature 152

Manxman, Caine 357

March mont, A. W., Parson Thring- s Secret 213

Marden, O, S , Pushing to the Front 27

Margaret (pseud.), Theatrical Sketches 21

Marriage of Esther, Boothby 174

Marryat, F., Japhet in Search of a Father 248

Midshipman Easy 360

Marsh, H., Two Seasons in Switzerland 337

Marsh, R., Mrs. Musgrave and Her Husband 278

Marshall, Emma, White King s Daughter 339

Martel de Janville, Countess de t Chiffon s Marriage.. 226

An Infatuation 310

Martin, G. H., Evolution of Mass. Public School Sys
tem 86

Martyred Fool, Murray 227

Mason, Caroline A., Minister of the World 903

Mason, O. T., Origins of Invention 183

PAGE

Maspero, G., Dawn of Civilization 25, 42

Massey, Susanna, God s Parable 121

Masson, D., Life of John Milton 86

Masson, F., Napoleon and the Women of His Court. 21
atHome... , 21

Master (The), Zangwill 171

Knot (The), Duff 202

Masterpieces of British Authors 297

Mathews, F. S., Familiar Flowers 170

Mathews, Margaret H., Dame Prism 141

Matter, Force, and Spirit 122

Matthews, J. Brander, Royal Marine 13

Maureen s Fairing, Barlow 268

Meade, L. T. Ste Smith, Mrs. E. T. T.

Meadow Grass, Brown 233

Meirion, El inor, Cause and Effect 273

Melancholy of Stephen Allard, b mith 70

Melliar, A. F., Book of the Rose 57

Memoirs of a Minister of France, Weyman 264

Men of the Moss-Hags, Crockett 324

Mentor (fiseud.}, Never 120

Meredith, G., Tale of Chloe 103

Lit. M isc 253

Meredith s Style 242

Mermaid (The), Dougall 141

Merrill, J. E., Ideals and Institutions 218

Messire, Crompton 75

Mid Green Pastures, Esler 368

Miles, A H., (ed.,) One Thousand and One Anecdotes 184
Miller, C. H., Motherwell, W., and Key, F. S., Drei

Ubersetzungen , 152

Miller, Ellen, and Whiting, Marg. C., Wild Flowers

of the Northeastern States 217

Miller, J. R., Secrets of, Happy Home Life 22

Miln, Louise J., Quaint Korea 246

Milne J. R., Doctrine and Practice of the Eucharist. 312

Milton, J., L Allegro, II Penseroso 152

Minister of the World, Mason 203

Minot, H. D., Birds of New England 251

Minto, W., Literature of .the Ge &gt;rgian Era 98

Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo, Long 135

Miss Wilkins Cha-acters (Verse) 112

Mr. B naparte of Corsica Bangs 142

Mitchell, D. G , English Lands, Letters, and Kings.. 305
Mitchell, S. W., A Madeira Party 339

Philip Vernon 213

Mitchell, W. B.. Doll &lt;rs, or, What 280

Mivart, St. G., The Helpful Science 184

Moffett, S. E., Suggestions on Government 90

Moliere, J. B. P de, Dramatic Works 148

Mommsen. T , History of Rome 311

Money, Silas H. (pseud.), Base " Coin " Exposed 252

Money We Need, Nelson 306

Montbard, G., Land of the Sphinx 22

Montgomery, Florence, Colonel Norton 213

Monthly illustrator and Home and Country " 368

Montresor, F. F., Into the Highways and Hedges 238

The One Who Looked On 372

Moore, F. F., Sale of a Soul 327

They Call It Love 150

Moore, G., Celibates 213

Moore, J. W., American Congress 185

Moore, T., Complete Works

Moran, T. F., Rise and Development of the Bicameral

System in America

More, P. E. (ed.), The Great Refusal

Morgan, T. J., Patriotic Citizenship

Morier, J., Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan. . . .
Morley, H., and Griffith, W. H., Attempt Toward

a History of Eng. Literature

Morris, W., Wood Beyond the World 261

Morrison A., Martin Hewitt 24

Tales of Mean Streets 137

Morton, F. W., (comf&gt;.,) Woman in Epigram 56

Mother Hubbard s Cupboard 86

Mott, E., The Old Settler, the Squire and Little

Peleg 270

Moulton, Louise C., Arthur O Shaughnessy 118

Moulton R. G., (ed.), Four Years of Novel-Reading.

216, 269

Moxom, P. S., From Jerusalem to Nicsea 306, 312

Muhleman, M. L., Monetary Systems of the World... 281

Mulholland, Rosa, Banshee Castle. . 150

Mummery, A. F., My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus. 246

Municipal Government in Great Britain, Shaw 72

Murfree, Mary N. Ste Craddock, C. E.

Murray, A., Holiest of All 91

Let Us Draw Nigh 282

Murray, A. S., Manual of Mythology 250

Murray, D. C., The Martyred Fool 227

Murrey, T. J., Collection of Cookery Books 246

Music Series, Ferris 372

My Books Faith Reborn Art (Verse) Le Gallienne. 263

Lady, Bouvet 7

Nobody, Maartens 225

Literary Passions, Howells 234

Sister Henrietta, Renan 322

354

185

281

278

216

INDEX.

NADAL, E. S., Notes of a Professional Exile

Napoleon, Dumas

Decline and Fall of, Wolseley

Napoleon s Military Career, Gibbs

Nason, Mrs. Emma H., The Tower

Natural History of Selborne, White

Needham, Mrs. G. C., Woman s Ministry

Needell, Mrs. J. H., Vengeance of James Vansittart..

Nelson, H. L., The Money We Need

Nelson s " Oxford " Editions

Nepal. See Ballantine, H.

Nevinson, H. W., Neighbors of Ours

New Books for the Holiday Season

Studies in Literature, Dowden.

Ney, Marshal, Execution of, Weston

Noailles, Due de, How to Save Bimetallism

Nocturne (Verse)

Nodier, C., Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle

Noe"mi, Baring-Gould

Nonsense Songs and Stories, Lear

Nordau, M., Degeneration

Norman, H., People and Politics of the Far East

Norris, Mary H., Lakewood

Norris, W. E., Billy Bellew

Despotic Lady

St. Ann s

Not Counting the Cost, Tasma

Novels for Summer Reading

Indexed A New Scheme

Nymphs, Nixies, and Naiads, Evans

OAKLEY, Isabella G., Simple Lessons in the Study of

Nature

Occult Japan, Lowell

Old Angler, Prime

Brick Churches of Maryland, Ridgely

Maid s Club, Zangwill

Settler, the Squire and Little Peleg, Mott

Oliphant, Mrs. Marg. O. W., Story of a Governess. . .

Two Strangers

Who Was Lost and Is Found

On a Copy of Shakespeare s Sonnets (Verse)

India s Frontier, Ballantine

the Suwanee River, Read

Opium-Eating and Its Effects, Cobbe

Ostrander, D., Social Growth and Stability

Other Holiday Gift-Books

Our Fight with Tammany, Parkhurst . . .

Friends, the Rooks, Repplier

Western Archipelago, Field . .

Out of Due Season, Sergeant

the East, Hearn .. .

Outre Mer, Bourget

Owen, Richard, Life ..

PAGET, F., Studies in the Christian Character....

Paine, T., Writings

Painting in France, Hamerton

Palmer, F., Studies in Theologic Definition Underly
ing the Apostles and Nicene Creeds

Palmer, F. L., Wealth of Labor

Palmyra and Zenobia, Wright

Pancoast, H. S., Introd. to English Literature

Pardee, Jean, The-Yale-Man-Up-to-Date

Parker, G., Pierre and His People

When Valmond Came to Pontiac

Parkhurst, C. H., Our Fight with Tammany

Parks, L , Theology of Phillips Brooks .

Parmele, Mrs. Mary, Evolution of an Empire

Parrot, G., and Chipiez, C., Hist, of Art in Primitive

Greece

Parsons, A. , Notes in Japan \ "

Partridge, W. O., ^ong-Life of a Sculptor .". .

Technique of Sculpture

Paston, G., Bread-and Butter M iss ......

Study in Prejudices

Pater, W., Greek Studies . . . . .

Pater s P.easant Ways

Paull, Mrs. Minnie E. K., Lassie .....

Paulsen, F., German Universities

Payn, J., In Market Overt

- Lit. Misc .

Peabody, H. W., Address in Opposition to Bimetal
lism

Peacock, T. L., Maid Marion and Crotchet Castle ..!

Peck. H. T., and Arrowsmith, R. (comf. and eds ),
Roman Life in Latin Prose and Verse

Pelleas and Melisande, Maeterlinck

Pemberton, M., Impregnable City

Little Huguenot

Pembridge (pseud.}, Whist, or Bumblepuppy

Pendered, Mary L., Dust and Laurels

Pastoral Played Out

Pendleton, L., Corona of the Nantahalas

Sons of Ham

People and Politics of the Far East, Norman

of the Mist, Haggard

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337

Perkins, Mary H . , From M y Corner

Perry, B., Plated City

Peterson, A., Penrhyn s Pilgrimage

Petite Paroisse, Daudet

Petrie, W. M. F., Hist, of Egypt

Phantoms of the Foot Bridge, Craddock

Phelps, A., and Frink H. A., Rhetoric

Phelps, Eliz. S., A Singular Life

Philip and H is W T ife, Deland

Philips, F. C , Question of Color

Phillpotts, E. Deal with the Devil

Some Every-Day Folks

Photography, Artistic and Scientific, Johnson

Phyfe, W. H. P., Five Thousand Words Often Mis
spelled

Pickard, S. T ., Life and Letters of Whittier

Pictures from Dickens.

of Swedish Life ,,

Plarr, V. G., Men and Women of the Time

Plympton, A. G., Bud of Promise

Poe, E. A., Works 26,

Poets on Poets, Watson

Poets Bible

Dogs, Richardson

Poland, L., Money

Pole, W., Evolution of Whist

Pony Tracks, Remington

Pool, Maria L. , Against Human Nature ....

Poole, Fanny R., Bank of Violets

Porritt, E., Break-Up of the Eng. Party System

Porter, Jane, Scottish Chiefs

Porter, L. H., Cycling for Health and Pleasure

Porter, Rose, About Men

Portland (pseud.}, (ed.), Whist Table

Potts Bibles

Presidents of the United States, Wilson

Prevost, F., Rust of Gold

Price, W. T., Charlotte Cushman

William Charles Macready

Prichard, Maria F., Parliamentary Usage for Wom
en s Clubs

Priestess Unveiled, Solovyoff

Prime, W C., Among the Northern Hills 184,

Primitive Man, Clodd

Prince, Mrs. Helen C., Story of Christine Rochefort.

Prince Zaleski, Shiel

Princess Sonia, Magruder

Princeton Stories, Williams

Private Tinker, Winter

Proem to a Victorian Anthology (Verse)

Protestant Episcopal Church Congress, 1894

Hymnal,

249

103

"
.,

214

! I ,

37
364
3 o8
339

121
140

364

374
218

265
327
217

121

354
185
374
27

271
53
53

106
196
200
138
1 08
333
172

327
98
59
59
250
283
249
197
66

QUATREFAGFS, A. de, The Pygmies 66

Queiros, E. de, Dragon s Tt eth 150

Quiet Stories from an Old Woman s Garden, Mc
Lean 19

R. (pseud.}, (ed.}, Countess Bettina 214

Ragozin, Zenaide A., Story of Vedic India 77, 151

Raimond, C. E. (pseud.}, The New Moon 182

Ralph, J., Dixie 3 6a

People We Pass 3 62

Ralstons (The), Crawford 47

Rand, B., Bibliography of Economics 252

Ransome, C., Hist, of England 34 1

Rathborne, St. G., Fair Maid of Fez 182

Raymond, G. L., Pictures in Verse 121

Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music 86

Raymond, W T ., Love and Quiet Life 25

Tryphena in Love no

Read, O. P., On the Suwanee River 295

Real Chinaman, Holcombe 132

Reay, Martha, and Hackman, J., Love-Letters 276

Recent French and German Books... 28, 92, 123, 155, 186,

219, 252, 283, 314, 343

Red Badge of Courage, Crane 326

Reed, J. S., Bishop s Blue Book 154

Crozier and the Keys 154

Reference Lists, Foster 84

Reid, Christian (pseud.}. See Tiernan, Mrs F. C.

Reid, S. J., Lord John Russell 276

Reintzel, Marg. (comp^), Musician s Year-Book 86

Religions of India, Hopkins

Remington, F., Pony Tracks , 229, 265,

Renan, E., Hist, of the People of Israel 88, 341,

My Sister Henrietta

Repplier, Agnes, Essays in Miniature

In the Dozy Hours 26,

Revolution of 1848, Saint- Amand

Rhodes, Ja. F., Hist, of the U. S. from the Compro
mise of 1850

Prowse, D. W , Hist, of Newfoundland

Publishers Want It, Lit. Misc

Pugh, E. W., Street in Suburbia

Putnam, Ruth, William the Silent

Pygmies (The), Quatrefages

305
362

37 1
322

259
48
292

250

INDEX.

PAGE

Rhoscomyl, O., Jewel of Ynys Galon 150, 170

Ricardo, D., First Six Chapters of " Principles of Po
litical Economy " 90

Rich, Mrs. Helen H., Madame de Stael 245

Richard Cceur de Lion and Robin Hood 165

Richards, Mrs Laura E., Jim of Hellas 182

Riddle, A. G., Recollections of War Times 215

Rideing, W. H., In the Land of Lorna Doone 216

Ritchie, Mrs. Anne T., Chapters from Some Unwrit
ten Memoirs 21

Roark, R. N., Psychology in Education 308

Robbins, A. F., Early Public Life of W. E. Gladstone. 22

Roberts, C. G. D., Canadian Guide-Book 246

Roberts, F. S., Lord, Rise of Wellington 213

Robins, E.,/r., Echoes of the Playhouse 291, 360

Robinson, C. N., Viol of Love 312

Robinson, H. P. , Men Born Equal 119

Roe, E. T., Modern Webster Diet, of the Eng. Lan
guage 337

Rogers, R. C., Wind in the Clearing 27

Romanes, G. J., Mind and Motion, and Monism 311

Thoughts on Religion 154

Rood, H. E., Company Doctor 249

Ropes, J. C., First Napoleon 120

Story of the Civil War , 81

Dodge, T. A., and others, Critical Sketches of
Some Federal and Confederate Commanders 245

Rossetti, Christina G., Verses 280

Round the Red Lamp, Doyle 9

Rowsell, Mary C., Friend of the People 164

Roy, N., The Horseman s Word 339

Royal Marine, Matthews 13

Ruggles, H. J., Plays of Shakespeare 121

Russell, Frances E., A Quaint Spinster 150

Russell, W. C., Good Ship Mohock 88

Honour of the Flag 279

Phantom Death 182

Russell, W. H., Great War with Russia 151

Russian Rambles, Hapgood 169

Rust of Gold, Prevost 271

SACHER-MASOCH, L. v. , Jewish Tales 25

Saint-Amand, Imbert de, Revolution of 1848 292

Saintsbury, G. E. B., Corrected Impressions 89

Sala, George Augustus 65

Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known. . . 56

Sale of a Soul, Moore 327

Saleilles, R., Development of the Present Constitu
tion of France 311

Salis, Mrs. Harriet A. de, Gardening la mode 276

Saltus, E., When Dreams Come True 214

Sand s (George) Masterpieces 362

Sangster, Mrs. Marg. E., Little Knights and Ladies. 230

Sappho 342

Sargent, H. H. (ed.), Napoleon Bonaparte s First

Campaign 120

Satterlee, H. Y., Creedless Gospel and the Gospel

Creed 122

Savidge, E. C., The American in Paris 302

Sawtelle, Mary A. and Alice E., Olio of Verse 184

Scanlan, A. C., Dervorgilla 249

Scharf, J. T., Hist, of the Confederate States Navy. . . 56

Schauffler, A. F., Ways of Working 313

Schoenaich-Carolath (Prince), Melting Snows 182

Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire 120

Schulze-Smidt, B., Madonna of the Alps 214

Schwarz, A., The Horse ^4

Scidmore, Miss E. R., Appleton s Guide-Book to

Alaska

Scott, M., Tom Cringle s Log

Scott, Sir Wa., Poetical Works

Scripture, E. W., Thinking, Feeling, Doing

Scudder, S. H., Frail Children of the Air 298,

Scudder, Vida D., Life of the Spirit in the Modern

Eng. Poets

Scully, W. C., Kafir Stories

Sea and Land, Shaler

Seebohm, F., Tribal System in Wales . . .

Sdgur, Philippe P. de

Sergeant, Adeline, Dr. Endicott s Experiment

Mistress of Quest

Out of Due Season

Sermon on the Mount, New Version of, Wright . .. . ..

Set of Rogues, Barrett

Seven Wonders of the World, Lit. Misc. .

Sewell, Eliz. M., Outline Hist, of Italy

Seymour, H. W., Government & Co., Limited

Shakespeare, W., Glossary and Index of Characters to

Shakespeare s Works

Shakespeare s Heroines on the Stage, Wingate . . .289 ,

Works, Handy Volume Edition

Shaler, N. S., Beaches and Tidal Marshes of Atlantic

Coast

Sea and Land Features of Coasts !!"".!!".!

Sharman, H. R., Power of the Will

Sharp, Evelyn, At the Relton Arms . . .

Sharp, W., Vistas

PAGE

Shaw, A., Municipal Government in Great Britain. . . 72
Shaw, E. R., Legends of Fire Island Beach and the

South Side 260

Shaw, W. A., Hist, of Currency 252

Sheldon, C. M., Crucifixion of Philip Strong 25

Sheldon, H. C., Hist, of the Christian Church 154

Shelley, P. B., Lyric Poems 312

Shelton, W. H., Man Without a Memory 150

Shiel, M. P., Prince Zaleski 108

Shields, C. W., The United Church of the United

States .. 154

Shipton, Helen, The Herons 339

Shoemaker, M. M., Trans-Caspia 67

Side Talk with Girls, Ashtnore 302

Sienkiewicz, H., Children of the Soil 214

Simonds, A. B., American Song 27

Simonds, W. E., Introd. to the Study of Eng. Fiction. 26

Singular Life, Phelps 328

Smalley, G. W., Studies of Men 213

Smiles, S., Josiah Wedgword 22

Smith, Adam, Select Chapters from "Wealth of

Nations " 90

Smith, Mrs. Burnett. See Swan, Annie S.

Smith, Mrs. E. T. T., Soldier of Fortune 296

and Halifax, C., Stories from the Diary of a Doctor. 25

Smith, Garnet, Melancholy of Stephen Allard 70

Smith, Gold win, Oxford and Her Colleges 341

Trip to England 308

Smith, J. E. A., Poet Among the Hills -O. W. Holmes. 280

Smollett, T. G., Novels 151, 216

Soldier of Fortune, Smith , 296

Solovyoff, V. S., Modern Priestess of Isis 106

Some Good Intentions and a Blunder 181

Somerset, H. S., Land of the Muskeg 276

Son of Reuben, Hocking 199

Sonnenschein, W. S., Reader s Guide 216

Sons of Belial, Westall 300

Ham, Pendleton m

Southey, R., Poems 121

Spencer, H., Weismannism Once More. 121

Sports of Long Ago 369

Sprague, F. M., Laws of Social Evolution 342

Standard Dictionary, Funk 116

Standish of Standish, Austin. 354

Stanley, H. M., My Early Travels in Amer. and Asia 180

Stanton, S. W. (com?.), American Steam Vessels 333

Stark Munro Letters, Doyle 295

Starkey, C. E. F., Verse. Translation from Classic

Authors 216

Start in Life, Balzac 290

Stearns, F. P., Life of Jacppo Robusti (Tintoretto) . . 22

Stedman, E. C. (comf. ), Victorian Anthology. 366

Step, E., Wayside and Woodland Blossoms 184

Stephen, L., Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen 276

Stephens, W. R. W., Life and Letters of Edward A.

Freeman.., .. 213

Stevenson, Robert Louis 16

Amateur Emigrant 130

The Body-Snatcher 143

Popular Works 120

Stevenson s Posthumous Works, Lit. M isc 253

Stewart, W. C., Practical Angler 218

Stirling, A., At Daybreak 182

Stockton, F. R., Adventures of Captain Horn 208

A Chosen Few 339

Stoddard, C. A., Cruising Among the Caribbees.. .. 331

Stoker, B., Walter s Mou 310

Stokes Calendars 373

New Novels 327

Stories of the Ages 360

Story of a Governess, Oliphant 327

Babette, Stuart 15

Bessie Costrell, Ward 228

Christine Rochefort, Prince 138

Lawrence Garthe, Kirk 15

Sonny Sahib, Cotes 144

the Civil War, Ropes 81

Crusades, Archer 4

Nations Series 363

Other Wise Man, Van Dyke 369

Plants, Allen 266

Strachey, Sir E., Talk at a Country House 42

Strachey, Mrs. Jane, Poets on Poets 121

Strain, Mrs. E. H., A Man s Foes 364

Streamer, V. (comp.~), Cluster of Gems 361

Street, G. S., Episodes 120

Strong, J., Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible 115

Stuart, E., Harum-Scarum 279

Stuart. Ruth McE., Story of Babette 15

Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry, Williams.. 45

Study of Documents, Manual of, Frazer 83

Subhadra Bhikshu (com}.}, Buddhist Catechism 59

Sudermann, H., The Wish, 214

Sugarin -Off (Verse) 303

Sullivan, Sir E., Tales from Scott 182

Woman 122

Sullivan, J. W., Tenement Tales of New York 214

INDEX.

Summer Studies of Birds and Books, Fowler

Super, Mrs. Emma L., One Rich Man s Son

Suppressed Chapters, Bridges

Sutton, Ada L., Lingua Gemmae

Swan, Annie S., Fettered Yet Free

Lost Ideal

Swift, J., Travels

Swinburne, A. C., Felise

Symonds, John Aldington

Giovanni Boccaccio

Syndicate Poet (Verse)

TABB, J. B., Poems

Taine, H. A., Les Origines de la France Contem-

poraine

Tale of Chloe, Meredith

Tales of Adventure, Borlase

Mean Streets, Morrison

Talk at a Country House, Strachey

Talmudic Sayings.

Tarbell, Ida M., Sport Life of Napoleon Bonaparte...

Tarver, J. C., Life of Flaubert

Tasma (pseud?), Not Counting the Cost

Tautphceus, J., At Odds

Taylor, Eliza D., Little Bet

Taylor, H. C. C., Two Women and a Fool

Teacher and Class

Technique of Sculpture, Partridge

Temptation of Katherine Gray, Dickinson

Ten Brink, B., Lectures on Shakespeare

Ten New England Blossoms, Weed

Tennyson, A., Enoch Arden

Tennyson, Mary H., Cruel Dilemma

Text-Books of Religious Instruction

Thaxter, Celia, Letters

Thayer, W. M., Aim High

Turning-Points in Successful Careers ,. . .

Womanhood

Theatrical Sketches

Thomas & Kempis Monument, Lit. Misc

Thompson, F. , Sister Songs

Thompson, H. M., The World and the Wrestler s Per
sonality and Responsibility

Thomson, Edward W

Old Man Savarin

Thomson, W. H., Parables and Their Home

Thoughts on Religion, Romanes

Three Figures in American Literature, Tyler

Graces, Argles

of Us, Chandler

Score and Ten Years, Linton

Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C., Land of the Sun

Tilden, Samuel J., Bigelow

Time Machine, Wells

Tinseau, L. de, Forgotten Debt

Tirebuck, W. E., Miss Grace of All Souls

Tisdall, W. St. C., Religion of the Crescent

To Jack With Regrets (Verse)

Tolman, W. H., Municipal Reform Movements

Tolstoy, Count L. N., Master and Man

Tompkins, Eliz. K. , An Unlessoned Girl

Tower, C.,/r., La Fayette in the Am. Revolution

Tower (The) with Legends and Lyrics, Nason

Townsend, C., Forty Witnesses to Success

Townsend, E. W., Chimmie Fadden

Explains

Townsend, Mary A., Distaff and Spindle. . .

Tracy, J. P., Shenandoah * \ . . \

Tracy, R. S., Sanitary Information for Householders
Traill, H. D. (ed.}, Social England...

Transition ...!...!!!

Trask, Airs. Katrina, Sonnets and Lyrics .!. . . !

Travels in Three Continents, Buckley

Turkestan, Shoemaker

Trilbyana !". .!!!!

Tryphena in Love, Raymond ,

Tucker, G. M., Our Common Speech. . .

Turner, Ethel, Story of a Baby

Twelve Bad Men, Seccombe

Tyler, M. C., Three Men of Letters". .

Tyrrell, R. Y., Latin Poetry ..... . . ..

UNCLE Remus, Harris

Underwood, F. H., Doctor Gray s Quest

United States History, Andrews

Upward, A., Prince of Balkestan .
Use of Life, Lubbock . .

VALENTINE, O., Helen

Vanamee, Mrs. L. O., Two Women...

Van Dyke, H., Little Rivers . .

Story of the Other Wise Man

Van Dyke, J. C., Text-Book of the History of Painting.

Van Dyke, T. S. , Game Birds at Home .

Vangny, C. de, Women of the United States . .
Vedder, H. C., American Writers of To-Day. ..
Vedic India, Ragozin .... .....,

359
214

214

.S!

AGE

go
368
10
366
356
332
1 20
73
9 1
9i
109

WAGE, H., Christianity and Agnosticism 91

Wagner, L., Manners, Customs, and Observances 120

Walford, Mrs. Lucy B., A Bubble 340

Ploughed 279

Walker, C., Outlines of Christian Theology 59

Walker, F. , Letters of a Baritone 148

Walker, F. A., General Hancock 22

Making of the Nation, 1783-1817 185, 105

Walker, H., Greater Victorian Poets.

Veeder, Emily E., In the Garden

Verne, J., Captain Antifer

Vernon s Aunt, Cotes

Victorian Anthology, Stedman

Songs, Garrett

Village Watch-Tower, Wiggin

Villari, P., Two First Centuries of Florentine History

Vincent, F., Actual Africa

Vincent, M. R., Biblical Inspiration and Christ

That Monster, the Higher Critic

Vistas, Sharp

196

235
252

9i
249

361
371

Wallace, A., Popular Sayings Dissected 121

Wallace, L., Ben Hur (in German} ,. -10

Walsh, J. M., Tea & 3

Ward, C. O., Equilibration of Human Aptitudes and

Powers of Adaptation 58

Ward, Mrs. Mary A., History of David Grieve 279

Warden, Florence (pseud.}, Kitty s Engagement 120

Spoilt Girl 3IO

Warden, Gertrude, Gray Wolf s Daughter 310

Warner, A. G. , American Charities 3 6

Warner, B. E., English History in Shakespeare s

Plays 26

Warner, C. D., Golden House 6

Warne s Editions of Shakespeare

Watch-Fires of 76, Drake

Watching the New Valet, Kent

Water Tramps, Bartlett

Waterloo, S., Honest Money

Watkins, O. D., Holy Matrimony

Watson, Augusta C., Off Lynnport Light

Watson, J., Comte, Mill, and Spencer 121

Watson, W., Poets on Poets 140

Watts, H., Miguel de Cervantes . . 276

Ways of Yale, Beers t \ o

Wealth Against Commonwealth, Lloyd 36

Webster s Academic Dictionary 277

Weed, C. M., Ten New England Blossoms 208

Weeks, E. L., From the Black Sea Through Persia

and India 3 6 2

Weidemann, A., Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the

Immortality of the Soul 2 i8

Wells, B. W., Modern German Literature 311

Wells, H. G., Select Conversations with an Uncle

(now extinct) 3IO

Wells, H. S., The Time Machine . . 162

Westall, W., Sons of Belial 3 oo

Westminster, Besant

Abbey and the Cathedrals of England, Farrar

Weston, J. A., Historic Doubts as to the Execution of

Marshal Ney i 39

Wetzel, W. A., Benjamin Franklin as an Economist. . 312
Weyman, S. J., From the Memoirs of a Minister of

France 2 6 4 , 310

The King s Stratagem . . 208

The Snowball 340

Wharton Anne H., Colonial Days and Dames. .. . 56

What I Told Dorcas, Ireland 367

Whately, R., Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon

Buonaparte 1 86

Wheeler, S., Ameer Abdur Rahman ... 243

When Burns was Born (Verse) 302

Whitaker, J. (ed.}, Almanack for 1895 122

White, Caroline E., Holiday in Spain and Norway... 276
White, Mrs. Eliza O., Coming of Theodora 330

Winterborough 183

White. F. H., Pupils Outline Studies in the Hist, of

the U. S 308

White, G. . Natural History of Selborne 356

White, Gilbert, of Selborne 239

White, P. , Corruption 372

White, Percy (f&gt;seud.}, A King s Diary 175

White Tsar, Bedlow 101

Whiting, Lilian, From Dreamland Sent 374

Whittier, John G., Life and Letters, Pickard TO

Whittier Year-Book 370

Why Butterflies are Colored, Scudder 298

Wiggin, Mrs. Kate D., Village Watch-Tower 332

ild Flowers of America 89

Wilkes, C., Sidney Forrester 88

Willard, A. R., Sketch of Domenico Morelli 337

Willard, Frances E., A Wheel Within a Wheel 238

Willard, J. A., Half a Century with Judges and

Lawyers 113

William the Silent, Prince of Orange, Putnam 197

Williams. A. M., Studies in Folk Song 45

Williams, G. F., Bullet and. Shell 279

Williams, H. G., Outlines of Psychology 280

Xll

INDEX.

PAGE

Williams, H.W., Money and Bank Credits in the U.S. 122

Williams, J. L., Princeton Stories 172

Williams, Mrs. Talcott (ed.), Story of a Woman s

Municipal Campaign 312

Wilson, Mrs. Anne C. MacLeod, After Five Years in

India 246

Wilson, J. G., Presidents of the U. S 40

Wilson, R. B., Chant of a Woodland Spirit 27

Wines, F. H., Punishment and Reformation 218

Wingate, C. E. L., Shakespeare s Heroines on the

Stage 289, 337

Winslow, Mrs. Catherine M. R., Readings from the

Old Eng. Dramatists 217

Winsor, J., The Mississippi Basin , . . 183

Winter,!. S. (pseud.), Magnificent Young Man 279

Major s Favorite 183

Winter, W., Joseph Jefferson 53

Winthrop, Margaret, Earle 323

Wirgman, A. T., Hist, of the Eng. Church and People

in South Africa 120

Wise Woman, Burnham. 328

Wisner, E., Cash vs. Coin 185

With the Procession, Fuller 194, 235

Withers, A. S., Chronicles of Border Warfare 279

Wolseley, J. G., Decline and Fall of Napoleon . 207

Woman in the Business World 122

Who Did, Allen 83

Women of Shakespeare, Lewes. 79

Wonders of Marine Life

Wood, J. S., Yale Yarns

Wood, Stanley, Answer to " Coin s Financial School".

Wood Beyond the World, Morris

Woolson, Constance F., The Front Yard, and Other

Italian Stories

Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu

Workman, W. H. and F. B., Algerian Memories

World s C i assies

214

281

310
362
364
360

359
183
363

Wormeley, K. P., Translations of Balzac and Moliere.

Wright, Mrs. Mary T., A Truce

Wright, W., Palmyra and Zenobia

Wright, W. B., Master and Men 114

YEATS, S. L., Honour of Savelli 88

Yellow Fairy-Book, Lang 20

Young, F. C., Home Carpentry for Handy Men 364

Young, F. K., and Howell, E. C., Minor Tactics of

Chess 58

ZA.NGWJLL, I., The Master 171

Old Maid s Club 208

Lit. Misc 283

Zeit-Geist, Dougall 238

Zieber, E., Heraldry in America 151

Zola, E., Jacques Damour 340

Love Episode 279

Zoraida, Le Queux 262

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

ADAMS, W. T., In the Saddle 186

Alden, Mrs. I. M., Only Ten Cents 154

Amicis, E. de, Cuore, an Italian School-Boy s Journal. 378

Ashmore, Ruth, Side Talk with Girls 313

BAMFORD, Mary E., In Editha s Days 59

Bartlett, Airs., E. B., Pleasant Days at Maplewood . .. 380
Brabourne {Lord}, Magic Oak-Tree and Prince Fil-

derkin 59

Brooks, E. S., Great Men s Sons 378

Burnett, Frances H., Two Little Pilgrims Progress.. 376
Burt, Mary E. (ed}, Little Nature Studies for Little

People 122

Burton, J. B., Desert Ship 313

Butterworth, H., Knight of Liberty 379

CASTLEMON, H. (pseud}, Elam Storm, the Wolfer 154

Chandler, Mrs. I. C., Three of Us 28

Child s Life of Christ 380

Church, A. J., Stories from Eng. History 28

Clarke, Rebecca S., Jimmy Boy 218

Common Things and Useful Information 123

Conant, Chara B., Miss Canary

Connell, Sarah G., Little Ladies of Ellenwood

Craik, Georgiana M., Bow-wow and Mew-mew

Crompton, Frances E., Messire

Crosby, Adelaide U., Enchanted Butterflies

Cro well s Juveniles. . .

I Harper s Round Table 375

Harris, J. C., Mr. Rabbit at Home 381

Hawkins, Emma D. K., Four Girls at Cottage City .. 282

Henderson, W. J., Afloat with the Flag 218

Sea- Yarns for Boys 59

Henty, G. A., Knight of the White Cross 377

Through Russian Snows 377

Tiger of Mysore 377

Hocking, S. K., Doctor Dick 313

JOHNSTON, Annie F., Joel, a Boy of Galilee 382

Jokai, M., and others, Golden Fairy-Book 59

DEAR Little Marchioness 079

Deland, Ellen D., Oakleigh

Don, by Author of " Miss Toosey s Mission "

Douglas, Amanda M., In Wild Rose Time

Sherburne Cousins

Drake, S. A., Watch-Fires of 76

Drysdale, W., Young Reporter

Dutton s Juveniles . . ,

375
380
123
123
218

ELLIS, E. S., Path in the Ra^

FENN, G. M., Diamond Dyke
First in the Field

Field, Eugene, Love-Songs of Childhood ........... 28

Foote, Mary H., Life of Christ for Young People, in
Questions and Answers ............................ 375

Foster, A. J., Ampthill Towers ....................... 3 i 3

Fowler, Henrietta E., Young Pretenders ............. 282

GALL, J., Popular Science ............................ 1

Glascock, W. H., Stories of Columbia... .. 1

Goss, W. L., Jack Alden

Green, Evelyn E., Eustace Marchmont"

Grinnell, G. B., Story of the Indian

378
i54
379

HALL, B., Voyages and Travels ......

Hall, C. C., The Children, the Church, and the Com-
munion ...................................

KNOX, T. W., Hunters Three.

LILLIE, Mrs. Lucy C., Alison s Adventures

McCooK, H. C., Old Farm Fairies

Marshall, Emma, Kensington Palace in the Days of

Queen Mary n

Marshall, L., Thomas Boobig

Mathews, Marg. H., Dame Prism

Molesworth, Mrs. Mary L., My New Home

Sheila s Mystery

Montgorgeuil, G., Three Apprentices of Moon Street. .

More Fairy-Tales from Arabian Nights

Munroe, K., At War with Pontiac

Snow-Shoes and Sledges

My Honey, by Author of " Miss Toosey s Mission " . .

283

219

J 54

219

378
377
375
380

NEHER, Bertha M., Among the Giants 282

Nelson s Juveniles 379

OTIS, Ja. (pseud}, How Tommy Saved the Barn 282

Ouida (pseud}, Niirnberg Stove 378

Oxley, J. M., In the Wilds of the West Coast 379

My Strange Rescue 313

PAULL, Mrs. Minnie E. K., Lassie 186

Pendleton, L., In the Okefenokee 377

Perry, Nora, Flock of Girls and Boys 380

Potts, J. H., Little Arthur 282

Price, Eleanor C., In the Lion s Mouth 59

Putnam s Juveniles 378

Pyle, H., Garden Behind the Moon 376

RAY, Anna C., Half a Dozen Boys 379

Raymond, Evelyn, Mushroom Cave 377

Rice, Katharine McD., Stories for all the Year 154

Roberts Juveniles 377

Rouse, Adelaide L., The Deane Girls 219

SANGSTER, Mrs. Marg. E., Little Knights and Ladies. 2*9
Scribner s Juveniles 376

Shattuck, W., Keeper of the Salamander s Order..,
Smith, Mary P. W., Jolly Good Summer,
Stokes Juveniles. . .

377
377
376

INDEX.

PAGE

Story of Joseph and His Brethren 313

Queen Esther 313

the Prophet Daniel 313

West Series 379

Susy Books 379

Swan, Annie S., Airlie s Mission 59

Stevenson, R. L., Will o the Mill 28

Stuart, Ruth McE., Story of Babette 15

TEMPLE, Crona, Princess Louise 313

Thompson, C. M., The Nimble Dollar 381

Tomlinson, E. T., Boy Soldiers of 1812 219

Three Colonial Boys 314

Tompkins, Eliz. K., An Unlessoned Girl 378

Tucker, Eliz. S., Children s Book of Dogs and Cats. . 376

Turner, Ethel, Family at Misrule 382

VARNEY, G. J., Story of Patriots Day 219

WARD, Lock & Bowden s Juveniles 382

Ware, Ella R., Three Little Lovers of Nature 282

Wesselhoeft, Lily M., Frowzle, the Runaway 377

Whishaw, F., Boris, the Bear-Hunter 314

Winchester, M. E. ( pseud.}, Double Cherry 28

Winston s Juveniles 380

YECHTOX, Barbara, The "Gentle Heart" Stories

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.

American Bapt. Pub. Soc 369, 370, 372

American Educational Catalogue 95

American Typewriter Co 4th cov. x.

Annual Literary Index 95

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VOL. XVI.

JANUARY, 1895.

No. i

Travels in Three Continents Europe, Asia, Africa.

DR. J. M. BUCKLEY has travelled for years
and has always made use of the new things he
saw and heard among the strange inhabitants

work that is the result of his journeys, brought
out in very handsome shape by Messrs. Hun-
& Eaton, must be warmly welcomed by all, as

of strange countries, for the cheer and enlight- it will aid those who contemplate such a jour-

enment of the less fortunate, kept at home by
the iron chains of circumstance. In these pro
tracted tours, Dr. Buckley learned by experi
ence that a certain amount of information is

ney to prepare for it, will refresh the recollec
tion of those who preceded Dr. Buckley, and
will enable such as do not expect to cross the
ocean to see, while looking through his eyes,

necessary to the interpretation of what is taken almost as well as with their

From " Travels in Three Continents.

CHARACTERISTIC VIEW OF LOURDES.

in by eye and ear, and in preparing his narra
tives for the stay-at-homes he has always en
deavored to interweave such knowledge with
the natural flow of his eloquent description. In
his travels through Europe, Asia, and Africa,
Dr. Buckley naturally has traversed much
ground often travelled over, and almost as
often described by travellers. But as he truly
says, " Every traveller sees what he takes with
him, and because of this I hope there will be a
place for another record of travel in many of
the most interesting parts of the world." The

The great journey begins in New York, from
which city Dr. Buckley sailed on November 21,
1888. He was accompanied by a member of the
senior class in Amherst, who evidently proved
that necessary ideal for a journey a congenial
companion. The itinerary was from New York
to London, across to Paris, through France to
Spain, where the travellers first began to loiter,
giving much attention to the buildings and the
people of Madrid, Toledo, Cordova, Seville,
and Granada. A general view is given of the
bull-fights of Spain before crossing to " Afric s

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\Jamiary, 1895

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From "Travels in Three Continents." Copyright, 1894, by Hunt & Eaton

ISLE OF PATMOS.

sunny fountains." Roaming around the north
coast of Africa, they gaze upon the wondrous
scenery of Morocco, Tangiers, Algiers, and
their neighboring islands, and then again make
for European land, and journey to the heart of
civilization, and the sights history and asso
ciations have made familiar from generation
to generation. Marseilles, the French Riviera,
Genoa, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples,
Vesuvius and Pompeii are all commented upon,
by a mind full of thoughts born of the thoughts
of the greatest thinkers of all time, and a pen
made sure by long years of cultured writing.
Once more Africa is reached, and Egypt,
Cairo, Memphis, the pyramids, the Sphinx, The
bes, and the Nile come under consideration.
A very clear and fair idea is given of Moham
medanism while journeying towards the Holy
Land. Asia is then presented in the sacred
places of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jordan, Jericho

and Bethany, Nazareth and
modern Palestine, which give
Dr. Buckley a starting-point
for some very stimulating
reflections on the Christian
religion and its progressive
work in the world. Again
Europe is reached by way
of Damascus, Beirut, the
yEgean Islands, Smyrna, and
Ephesus, until on the classic
soil of Athens and Corinth,
Dr. Buckley explains the
Greek mind and the history
of thought with which the
Grecian lands are synony
mous. A rapid course
through Constantinople, Rou-
melia, Bulgaria, Servia,
Hungary, Vienna, and Paris
brings the travellers to Havre, where they final
ly shipped for New York on the loth of May,
1889. Not quite six months of travel, and what
a vast amount of new and old knowledge is
made fascinating by Dr. Buckley s fine literary
methods. And made of enduring service also
by a remarkably well-made index, which keeps
the delightful contents get-at-able at a moment s
notice. A cursory reading of this index gives a
better idea of the book than pages of descrip
tion. There is no padding. Dr. Buckley offers
solid information in enduring shape.

Nearly one hundred illustrations beautify the
large, clearly printed pages. The work is sub
stantially bound with typical oriental decoration,
and makes a specially sumptuous book, which
there is no doubt will take rank among the very
most reliable of works of travel. The well-
travelled paths are set in new light in this fine
book. (Hunt & Eaton. $3.50.)

From " Trave

SCENE IN ORAN.

January, 1895]

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Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb.

THE life of John Gladwyn Jebb reads like an
invention from the fertile brain of Jules Verne,
or Rudyard Kipling, or H. Rider Haggard.
The latter has written a fitting introduction to
this strange and varied life, which, in hair
breadth escapes, ups and downs of fortune,
meetings with noted men, connection with
Utopian schemes, and remarkable
influence of personality, far tran
scends the limits of plausible im
agination. Mr. Haggard had a
personal acquaintance with the
hero of these startling adventures
which began in 1889, and ended
with Mr. Jebb s death in 1893.
During that time they were much
thrown together, travelled exten
sively in Mexico, and became
warm friends. Mr. Haggard
speaks with emotion of his friend s
warm heart, loyal nature, truth,
self-forgetfulness, "complete co
lossal unselfishness," and always
brave and generous instincts.

John Gladwyn Jebb was an only
child, born of well-to-do English
parents in 1841. In 1850 he en
tered school at Bonn, and in
1852 was for several years put
under the care of an English
rector. He learned readily and
showed many and most varied
gifts. His talent for drawing
amounted almost to genius, and
he had a voice for singing of re
markable beauty. From earliest
youth he showed the desire for
freedom and change that formed
the spirit of his life. He longed
to enter the navy, but his family
favored the army. As soon as
his age permitted he was sent on
active service in India. On the
voyage to India he first became
interested in hypnotism, second-
sight, and spiritualism, being
much thrown with those with
whom the occult was business or
pastime. Jebb soon left the
army and went to Oxford, devoting himself
to civil engineering and practical sciences of
various kinds. He had an independent in
come, but lost half of it in an investment in a
steel gun-barrel factory at Glasgow, and in
vested the rest in bad investments and insolvent
banks. Penniless at twenty-six, he next tried
sheep-farming in the Highlands, then ship
building and drumming up trade in America for
the White Star Steamship Company, then first

starting its successful career. While on these
American trips Mr. Jebb fell in with General
Fremont, fresh from California gold-fields, and
his roving mind and restless body turned
eagerly to mining and big-game shooting.
Coffee-planting in Brazil, treasure-hunting in
Mexico, starting an Omlette Company in New
York City to manufacture an article of food

From "Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb.
Roberts Brothers.

,, 1895, by

to take the place of eggs, studying spiritualism
in Boston, and esoteric Buddhism in London with
Madame Blavatsky, bull-fights, the reconstruc
tion of Mexico under General Diaz, all succeed
each other in bewildering rush in this exciting
life history. The story of Maximilian and Car-
lotta and the Mexican troubles is interwoven

skilfully. It is a book delightful to read and
full of interesting facts regarding the last fifty

years throughout the world. (Roberts. $1.25.)

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{January, 1895

Story of the Crusades.

THE latest addition to the Story of the Nation
series is a scholarly history of "The Crusades,"
by F. A. Archer and Charles L. Kingsford.
This volume limits its survey of that vast and
strange expression of the religious sentiment
in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. The au
thors have not embraced within the limits of
their work an account of the Fourth Crusade,
the Latin Empire of Constantinople, or those
developments and perversions of the crusading
idea which led to the so-called crusades against
the Albigensians and the Emperor Frederick.
It cannot be denied that the glamour and
romance of crusading expeditions has often
caused the practical achievements of crusaders
in the East to be overlooked and underrated.
Yet it is through the history of the Kingdom

From ",Story of the Crusades." Copyright, 1894, by G. P. Putnam s Sons.

WALLS OF ANTIOCH.

of Jerusalem that the true character and im
portance of the crusades can alone be discerned.
The story of that religious struggle, rich in
its romance and its influence upon the history
of the world, is related most instructively and
elaborately in the valuable study before us.
(Putnam. $1.50.) Philadelphia Press.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.

THE author of these volumes is well known
as the acute and sympathetic student of the
varied races of the countries bordering the
Mexican Gulf. His collection of "Gumbo,"
or mixed -dialect proverbs and descriptive
sketches of the people of Louisiana and the
West Indies, showed him to be the possessor
of an exuberant, almost rank, vocabulary, and
a literary style that suggested rather what
burst forth from the wine-press
than wine mellowed by time.
His excursions- into distant re
gions of thought resulted in in
teresting, but, on the whole,
unsatisfactory booklets, such
as " Stray Leaves from Strange
Literature," "Some Chinese
Ghosts," etc. Fascinated by
the comparatively new field of
what may be called Shinto-
Japan, he entered the country
about four years ago, resolved
to see those phases of Japan
ese life which are fast vanish
ing away. Living among a
people so simple in their tastes
and habits as the rural Japan
ese, Mr. Hearn, who suggests
the literary chameleon, has
absorbed the form and color
of his environment. One who
has read his former writings
cannot but be struck at once
with the subdued coloring, the
refined simplicity, which have
now become his habit. The
former rankness is no more.

In one respect these volumes,
by their contribution of knowl
edge and philosophy, mark a
distinct point of progress in
our acquaintance through
books, with the Japanese.
While the Americans Brown
and Hepburn first, by gram
mar and lexicon, blazed the
way through the Japanese lan
guage, and that splendid trio
of English students Satow,
Aston, and Chamberlain with
the helpful reinforcement of

January, 1895]

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From " The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser."

SMUGGLERS OX THE FRONTIER.

Lowder, McClatchie. Mounsey. Hawes, Gubbins,
and Bramson opened Japanese chronology,
history, archaeology and literature to our view,
and Miss Bird a typical name amid a host of
travellers spied out the land and brought back
reports, it may be said that the psychological
study of the Japanese has been chiefly the
work of the Americans Lyman and Lowell,
and, last and best of all, Mr. Hearn.

One will find in these volumes descriptions of
travel, w r onderful accounts of famous temples
and neighborhoods, charming stories of per
sonal experience, and not a fe\v pictures which,
by their marvellous accuracy and sympathetic
touch, recall the natural wonders of the sea-girt
Islands of the Sun ; but, beyond and above
those things which the skilled traveller and lit
erary artist transfers to his pages, Mr. Hearn
has succeeded in photographing, as it were, the
Japanese soul. There seems to be something
in his own physical and intellectual make-up
that renders him sensitive on all sides to what
is peculiar in the Japanese character. In study
ing the paintings of Wirgman, La Farge, Wores,
Parsons, and other artists who have seen or
dreamed in Japan, one sees faithful transcripts
or ideal conceptions of Japanese life. But no
other artist, paint he in words or in pigments,
has so thoroughly succeeded in catching and
fixing those Japanese traits which are so elu
sive, yet so ingrained and innate. (Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. 2 v., $4.) New York Tribune.

The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser.

THE chapters which compose this volume
have already won their way to public recogni
tion in the pages of Harper s Monthly, where
they have brought a new and different indict
ment against Russia and her methods of govern
ment. The work was intended to be a happy
combination of Poultney Bigelow s pen and
Frederic Remington s pencil, genial and graphic,
which might leave a lasting impression of the
more attractive and picturesque side of Russia.
Russia, however, gave them a reception which
put all this quite out of the question, and left
on this written and pictured record the stamp
of her decision that the world shall neither see
nor know her as she is. The book is no such
probing of the deep sores that afflict the State
as we had from Mr. Kennan. It is a simpler
chronicle of events, but no less impressive in
its way, and always given in bright, lively, and
rather merry style, which relieves the book of
the wear and drone of solemn complaint. Rus
sian impenetrability proved too much for the
carrying out of our American explorers plans
on the lines marked out by them in advance ;
but the lines they were forced into furnished
matter in abundance for a highly entertaining
book. In the Prussian borderlands their ex
periences were, of course, very different. There
Mr. Bigelow was quite at home, especially
among military people, The volume abounds
in military sketches. In fact, the impression it

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[January, 1895

gives rather confirms the impression which
has gotten abroad, that all Prussia, like Berlin,
is getting militarized. Remington s illustra
tions are copious, good and spirited. The pub
lishers have given the book a very attractive
cover, printed and manufactured in the best
manner. (Harper. $2.) The Independent.

The Golden House.

MR. WARNER S new novel bears a close rela
tionship to the studies of New York social
life in fiction that other contemporary writers,
including Mr. Hovvells, Mr. Crawford, Mr.
Brander Matthews, Mrs. Burton Harrison, and
the lady who reserves, but does not conceal,
her identity under the pseudonym of Julien
Gordon, have given us. The same society, the
same clubs and clubmen, the same odorous and
forlorn "east side," the same general tone is
observed in all these works. Mr. Warner even
harks back to the dance of the variety hall
"artist," called Carmencita, in John Sargent s
studio, which was supposed to have set " so
ciety " agog, and to have given it a new kind
of thrill, some years ago. Mr. Matthews has
already celebrated this event in a story.

The body of fiction which Mr. Warner has
thus enriched derives a
large measure of dignity,
quite apart from
its merit, which

From " The Golden House."

is not to be lightly dismissed, from its uniform
ity of tone and thought and the likeness of its
scenes and characters. This is not the result of
collaboration, or, in any case, so far as we may
judge, of deliberate imitation. And each New
York novel of the authors named may, there
fore, be taken as corroborative proof of the es
sential truth to the subject of all the others.
Therefore, we have already at hand a body o^
fictitious literature that will be of priceless value
to the future historian for the pictures it pro
vides of social customs, and the idea it gives of
social spirit and commercial ways, in the me
tropolis of this republic in the last years of
the nineteenth century.

The value of "The Golden House," as a
" document" thus having been disposed of, it
remains only to briefly consider it as a work of
literary art. As such it is more than respecta
ble. Mr. Warner is an able writer, with a com
mand of wit and the power of graphic descrip
tion. His plot is slight, but serviceable, and
his personages are many and of varied traits.
His scene encompasses all of New York that
comes under the eye of fashionable folks, and
some of it that is not often mentioned at dinner-
tables. We refer, of course, to the crowded
tenement districts of the east side, a portion of
this town which one small set of writers for the
periodicals is constantly holding up as its most
picturesque part, and that most neglected in fic
tion, while another set is diligently at work
all the time translating all its grimy facts
and all its odors into an endless supply of
reading-matter for the polite.

Mr. Warner treats of the mis
ery of the New York poor with
gentle sympathy and no
trace of mock sentimen
tality. Of the poetic
charm of his episodic
romance among the help
ers of the poor, in which
an ascetic Anglican
priest and a female phy
sician are involved, we
cannot speak too highly,
though W T C should not
care to commit ourselves-
to an opinion of its truth
to nature, because of a
lack of familiarity with
the sentimental qualities
of ascetic Anglicans and
ladies who practice med
icine.

But the main drift of
the story is all in famil
iar channels/ : and no one

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can doubt its truth. The "swell" husband,
who is forced to battle along with a cold and
heartless world on a beggarly yearly income of
$20,000 ; the sweet, patient, charitable wife
whom he neglects ; the questionable wife
of the great financier, who uses this
couple to get into "society," and in re
turn opens a way to profitable speculation
for the " swell," which leaves him penni
less in the denouement; the financier,
himself, who is a wonderfully impressive
figure, and no more to be understood than
financiers usually are ; the beautiful, dis
contented spinster, and all the other per
sonages at the afternoon teas and evening
"functions," that Mr. Warner describes,
are interesting and recognizable.

Mr. Smedley s pictures add much to
the interest of the story. They are charm
ing pictures and apt illustrations, and
each provides an excellent object lesson
in deportment for people about to go
into New York " society." (Harper. $2.)
N. Y. Times.

My Lady.

" MY LADY " is a delightful story for adults,
by Miss Marguerite Bouvet, who has already
charmed the thousands who have read her

The People of the Mist.
THE best possible criticism on Mr. Rider
Haggard s last story is in the dedication.
He says: " I dedicate this effort of pri
meval and troglodyte imagination, this
record of barefaced and flagrant adven
ture, to my godsons, in the hope that
therein they may find some store of healthy
amusement." Not one of his previous
novels, not even "She," is so fraught with
"troglodyte imagination" and "flagrant
adventure" as " The People of the Mist."
Miraculous escapes, wonderful snake-wor- Fri
shipping tribes, and rubies and sap
phires by the eight-pound sack are the
" store of healthy amusement " provided. Noth
ing but the unexpected happens in Mr. Hag
gard s stories, but we cannot harden our hearts
to carp at this book on the score of unreality,
in gratitude for the thrilling hours of suspense
caused us by the endless perils of the hero and
the heroine. Whether this is really "healthy
amusement" for boys we cannot decide, but all
rules are relaxed in the holiday season. So
writes the Boston Literary World. Rider Hag
gard s charm is hard to define, but very real to
the vast army of readers who hail his every
word as a personal treat. Straight-laced peda
gogues may reason about the dangers of his
fascinations, but no amount of reasoning im
pairs the fascination. All healthy, natural
spirits are refreshed by Rider Haggard s ab
surdities. It is good to keep an interest in just
such startling adventures as he furnishes at all
times. (Longmans, Green & Co. 1.25.)

n " My Lady." Copyright, 1894, by A. C. McClurg & Co.

CONSULTING MERE TOINETTE.

favorite children s stories, " Sweet William,"
" Prince Tip Top," etc. It is a fine example of
the power to tell a tale of tender love in. pure
Saxon English. Recounting the fortunes of
French refugees to England in the days of the
Revolution of 93 and of Bonaparte, it affords
glimpses of life both in England and France.
The English nurse, who devotes her whole
heart and life to the young heroine, and the
young French marquis, whose love for the latter
is so great and unselfish that he hides it on
discovering that she loves his friend, are finely
portrayed. The book is sure to increase its
author s fame, both by its fascination as a story
and by its simple, unaffected style. The illus
trations, by Miss Helen M. Armstrong, are very
dainty and appropriate, and admirably preserve
the spirit of the story. Miss Marguerite Bou
vet has shown talent that is an earnest of better
things to come. (A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.)

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[January, 1895

Philip and His Wife.

THE story of Philip and his wife Cecil and
their sprite-like child has been so much dis
cussed during its appearance in the Atlantic
Monthly that it has become difficult to say any
thing that has not been said and thought by
many. And still the ever-recurring questions
remain unanswered owing to the consummate
art of the author of "John Ward, Preacher"
and " The Story of a Child." What does Mrs.
Deland herself think would have been the right
thing for Philip and his wife to do ? Does she
approve of Philip? Does she think all matri
monial unhappiness should be borne without
murmuring ? What did happen ? What does
she intend her readers to think of her latest
work ? Did she work successfully from her
premises to an intended end, or did she herself
become conscious of the ramification of her
subject and finish abruptly because she had no
helpful solution to offer to the problem which
is as old as man ? The history of Philip and
his wife is primarily a study of the marriage
relation. A morbidly conscientious, somewhat
narrow-minded man and a superficial, self
ish, pleasure- and excitement-craving woman
are married in their first youth. They have
one child, beloved by both. By the father
with an outlook to the child s future good,
with plans of education, systematic training,
pride of fatherhood and realization of responsi
bility ; by the mother with the brute affection
of the dam, the unreasonableness of exhausted
or excited nerves, the vanity of motherhood,
the desire for a plaything. This child becomes
the constant source of disunion the only link
of union. Superficial readers will readily think
that the ethical significance of Mrs. Deland s
book lies in the study of divorce and the atti
tude towards this question of Philip Shore,
his wife and their friend Roger Carey. Philip
asks after estrangement from his wife : "Is
not marriage without love as spiritually il
legal as love without marriage is civilly ille
gal?" Philip s wife asserts to Philip s friend
Carey : "I believe the world would be much
better off if divorce were easier. In fact, I
think it s a pity people have to wait until they
actually come to blows before they can sepa
rate."

But read more carefully the large purpose of
Mrs. Deland s story is not a question of divorce
or separation. It is a study in human selfish
ness, shown as tellingly in the uncompromis
ing, conventional virtues of the husband as in
the littleness, indulgence, lack of sympathy,
unrest and indifference of the wife. Philip
Shore holds the most selfish opinion of the
duty he owes himself to develop his high

est self according to his highest ideal ; Cecil
Shore is a beautiful animal, keenly alive to
sensuous impressions, longing for ease and
repose. While pondering separation, after a
terrible scene with his wife, Philip sends for
his friend, Roger Carey, a brilliant lawyer
whom he wishes to consult. Then comes Mrs.
Deland s cleverest work. The end is unsatis
factory from a reader s standpoint. It does
not seem natural that Cecil should let Philip
have his child, it does not seem a finished
piece of work that Mrs. Deland has left with
us. But experienced thought, knowledge of life,
of love, of marriage and its duties, tempta
tions, responsibilities and quicksands, of man s
and woman s natures and special points of
view, fail to suggest an ending that will solve
the many problems suggested. The minor
characters are very well drawn. Mrs. Deland s
work is original, strong, and full of suggestions.
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.)

Children of Circumstance.

A NOVEL of totally different kind from the
average is " Children of Circumstance." Al
though the writer cannot resist the feminine
temptation to introduce as the principal male fig
ure a rather invertebrate specimen of the sex,
though the book ends without settling the final
fortunes of the principal characters, and though
the only important love-scene that occurs in its
pages is conducted on both sides with the easy
pleasantry of a dispassionate flirtation, there is
plenty of powerful writing throughout. The
story is mainly connected with some of the
darker sides of London life, and the quixotic
efforts of Margaret Dering, a girl of twenty, to
reclaim the fallen women of the West End.
The fact that neither the methods nor the re
sults of her process could, under any circum
stances, be capable of realization in actual life,
need not be counted as any disparagement of
the author s sincere and spirited effort to in
spire a tenderer feeling towards the erring
humanity whose lot she describes. The theme
is, of course, by no means a new one, and
Wilkie Collins "New Magdalene" will at once
occur as a novel written with similar purpose ;
but it may be doubted whether the trenchant
satire of the latter work is to be compared for
real effectiveness with the dignified pathos of
" lota s " handiwork. A word must be said for
the characters of the story : they are drawn
with a masterly hand, and the analysis of
motives and actions is conducted with an ap
preciative humor which stamps the book as a
worthy successor to "A Yellow Aster," the
novel which first brought this author into notice.
(Appleton. 50 c. ; $i.) London Academy.

January, 1895]

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Tales of Adventure. Round the Red Lamp.

EVERY adventure-loving youth will hug this IN " Round the Red Lamp : being facts and
volume to himself and hie to a corner where he fancies of medical life," Dr. Conan Doyle gives
can feast undisturbed upon its contents, and a his fertile imagination free play once more,
rare old feast he will have. In these days of His stories on medical life run on parallel lines
adventures of the
sickly- sentimental
order, a volume
with the right
whiff and odor of
excitement about
it cannot be too
highly praised, es
pecially if it is writ
ten with the pur
pose of emphasiz
ing virtue instead
of painting vice so
alluringly that evil
ways have a subtle
attraction. The
author of these
" Stirring Tales of
Colonial Adven
ture " signs him
self " Skipp Bor-
lase," and under
this signature will
appeal to the hearts
of those boys who
have already read
his numerous vol
umes of well-told
adventures. The
first tale in this
collection is a fair
sample of those
that follow. It
shows how a fa
ther misjudged his
two sons, one of
whom was only
the son of his
adoption. His own
son is a strong,
honest, but physi-
call y ugly lad,
while the other is
deceitfu l and
treacherous in the same proportion

From " Stirring Tales of Adventure." Copyright, 1894, by F. Warne & Co

A MISSILE GRAZED MY SHOULDER.

that he

is straight of limb and beautiful. The author
introduces the two lads with a telling inci
dent, and continues his story to prove his

with his popular adventures of a private de
tective. For a reader condemned to an un
broken regimen of Conan Doyle they might be
considered just a little oppressive in flavor,

estimation of their various characters, and especially as they add to plot and incidental in
to give his readers a taste of the fruits of terest the elements of physical suffering and
right and wrong, together with a genuine ad- ghastly detail. It is unnecessary to say that
venture. Each of the tales supplies fuel for they will not have so many readers as the
the readers imaginations, and strengthens their livelier and less pessimistic " Sherlock Holmes "
impressions of the essential characteristics of series. They are almost invariably morbid ;
heroism. (Warne. $1.50.) Boston Herald. and, indeed, when the author is resolutely op-

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[January, 1895

timistic, as in "A Question of Diplomacy," he
does not thereby raise the level of excitement,
though he pleasantly varies the entertainment.
These tales are skilful, attractive, and eminent
ly suited to give relief to the mind of a reader
in quest of distraction. (Appleton. $1.50.)
AthentciDii.

Vernon s Aunt.

SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN (Mrs. Everard
Cotes) has once more enjoyed herself on her
native literary heath, and produced a story
pure and simple, without moral or purpose,
that cannot fail to delight her constantly grow
ing circle of appreciative readers. Vernon s
aunt is a straight-laced, conventional English
lady of uncertain age, who is seized with a de
sire to see her nephew, who has for years been
in India. She sails away upon a ship, which
becomes to her a most enjoyable resting-place
before the voyage is ended. On her arrival
she is met by her nephew, and there follows a
delicious story of absurd misadventures, which
often throw the sedate spinster into consterna
tion. The author s former strong and absorb
ing novel, "A Daughter of To-Day, " did not
offer her the same chance to show the exuber
ant humor, the happy facility in telling descrip
tion which her new extravaganza again brings
into play. Humor and good-natured sparkling
satire are the special gifts of Mrs. Cotes, and
she has again reached the inimitable charm of
"A Social Departure" and " The Simple Ad
ventures of a Memsahib." (Appleton. i ;
pap., 50 c.)

*Yom "Vernon s Aunt." Copyright, 1895, by D Appleton & Cc.
I SALUTE YOU.

Life and Letters of John G. Whittier.

THE opening chapters in this memoir of
Whittier are made especially interesting by the
pictures given of New England life in the
earlier part of the present century. Whittier
was born in 1807, the family homestead being
the East Parish of Haverhill, Mass. The
characteristic features of home life in rural
districts of New England had then not very
much changed from what the original settlers
of the country had made them. For those old
enough to recall these as they may have still
more or less been in their own childhood, the
descriptions here found of the Whittier home
will be full of interest, renewing and brighten
ing memories which, under conditions so
greatly changed as the present ones are may
have much faded away. There is also much
in this earlier narrative to illustrate the career
which the author in subsequent pages details.
Much of what was characteristic of the poet, in
his fidelity to conviction, his horror of oppres
sion, his simple yet noble and stalwart man
hood were matters of heredity with him. The
reader recognizes at this point of view in
debtedness to the author for the full account
given of the Whittier ancestry, with descrip
tions of that simple and wholesome New Eng
land life which, fostered in the boy, fully de
veloped in the man those qualities which made
him, with all his Quaker gentleness and kindli
ness, so much a champion in the great moral
battles of the period. Many details of Whit-
tier s early life, as here given, will be new
to most readers ; the difficulties overcome in
securing such education as he had, the early
date in his life at which attention was drawn to
his superior gifts as a poet, his adventures in
journalism, characteristic even there, his con
secration in the cause of liberty and of reform
while as yet a mere youth. Much of what be
longs to the later life is made to appear in
Whittier s own letters, which make up a con
siderable portion of the two volumes. The
biographer, however, renders important ser
vice in the details given in connection with
mention of notable poems and other writings
as from time to time they appear, as also of
Whittier s association with notable men of the
period, especially leaders in the great anti-
slavery struggle. Much added interest is
given to the narrative by insertion of poems
which, although published in Whittier s own
lifetime, were not included by him in his books,
as from time to time appearing. These " es-
trays " are often of very peculiar biographical
as well as poetical interest. (Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. 2 v., $4.) Chicago Standard.

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\ i

Maelcho.

THERE is no gainsaying the fact that " Mael
cho " is anything but cheerful reading. The
scene and time chosen Ireland circa 1580 pre
clude the possibility of all hilarity in an author
who has made such extensive use of State papers
and contemporary documents as Miss Lawless.
All the same, "Maelcho" is not lugubrious
though deeply tragic, and, so far from being
unendurable, is usually interesting and occa
sionally fascinating. Although the story is
admittedly an historical romance, we have no
hesitation in saying that more may be learnt as
to the relations between England and Ireland,
and more information gained as to the mode of
life and actual aspect of the country three hun
dred years ago than in any regular his
tory with which we are acquainted. But /f
the amount of mere information that the
book contains is, after all, only one of
its minor merits. Lovers of incident will j ( |
find that it abounds in thrilling even
blood-curdling incidents. Lovers of the
picturesque will find no lack of
those vivid descriptions which
bring the sounds and scents and
colors of the Irish landscape into
our ears and nostrils and before
our eyes. Miss Lawless has the
intimate knowledge of a natural
ist as well as the vision of an
artist, and thus the settings of

From

the various episodes of which
her book is made up invariably
add to their effectiveness. But
above and beyond all, the book charms by rea
son of the breadth of view, the magnanimity
and the tenderness which animate the author
in dealing with a theme which is always dreary
and often gruesome. There is no attempt to
extenuate the inherent weaknesses of the Celtic
character any more than to palliate the brutal
savagery of the English soldiery. "Maelcho,"
in this respect, is a standing rebuke to those
critics who deny to women the attribute of im
partiality. Finally, it may be noted that al
though the narrative, as the author very ac
curately describes her work, is devoid of love
interest, it is full of excellent characterization.
The portraits of Maelcho, a truly noble savage ;
of Hugh Gaynor, the sturdy and dogged Eng
lish youth ; and of Fenwick, the accomplished,
ambitious, and relentless officer of fortune, are
all good in their different ways. Here, in short
is a moving romance in which, by means entirely
legitimate, and with a wholesome avoidance of
partisanship, fine writing, or sensationalism,
Miss Lawless has set before us, in all its shame
and agony, one of the most painful chapters in

the history of Ireland. The pathos of " Gra-
nia " by this author will not soon be forgotten.
The same rare power is shown in this record
of people suffering from strifes extending over
two centuries. (Appleton. $1.50.) London
Athenaeum.

Vernon s Aunt." Copyright, 1895, by D. .Appleton & Co.
THE SURPRISED AUNT.

Maria Edgeworth s Life and Letters.

THESE volumes contain the first satisfactory
story of the life of a woman concerning whom
decidedly erroneous notions have been enter
tained. From them it is possible to learn just
what sort of woman Miss Edgeworth w r as, and
to understand how she came to occupy her
unique position in literature. A collection of
her letters was printed a short time after her
death, in 1849, but its circulation was confined
rigorously to those who were noted as intimate
friends of the authoress. This is the first
publication of her correspondence for general
circulation, and through it the public will get a
view of Miss Edgeworth which heretofore only
her personal acquaintances have been permitted
to enjoy.

The one thing which stands out in boldest
relief in the story of her life is that she was her
father s child he dominated her life and gave
direction to her literary propensities. While he
lived he governed her pen, and he lived so long
that by the time he died she had acquired a
literary habit which had become a second na-

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[January, 1895

ture to her. If her father had died while she
was a young girl, Miss Edgeworth would have
become an authoress, and undoubtedly would
have become famous, for she was a bright
girl, much given to story-telling and story-
writing.

What sort of work she would have done it is of
course impossible to say, but it is clear enough
that, left to herself, she would not have taken
lines parallel to those along which her father
led her. She might have turned out some ex
tremely interesting love-stories, which would
have been read eagerly to-day by those who
call her "Belinda" and other highly moral
stories " bread-and-buttery " books. At the
time when her father assumed censorship Miss
Edgeworth had it in her to achieve success in
almost any line of light literature.

Most of the letters are addressed to relatives.
Few are written to the literary men and women
w r ith whom Miss Edgeworth was on familiar
terms. At the same time there are many pleas
ing references to celebrities. (Houghton, Mif-
flin & Co. 2 v., $4.) Mail and Express.

sented has appeared in the pages of Scribner s
Magazine. The volume is very handsomely
brought out, and many illustrations are scat
tered through the interesting text. (Scribner.

$2.50.)

Sea and Land.

PROF. N. S. SIIALER, who holds the chair of
geology in Harvard University, has written for
students of nature who are not scientists a very
entertaining book on the features of coasts
and oceans, with special reference to the life of
man. His object is to introduce to unprofes
sional readers certain interesting phenomena of
the sea-shore and of the depths of the ocean.
In no other fields are large and important
truths which are distinctly related to human in
terests so readily to be traced, yet the treatises
which deal with these matters are few
in number and generally of a recondite
character. The aim has been to sepa
rate from the great body of technical
knowledge concerning shores and seas
those features which have
value for the reason that they
may serve to enlarge the read
er s conception as to the meth
ods of nature. As com
monly observed, or as
learned from text-books,
these truths appear to be
fragmentary, and lead to
no extended notions as
to the workings of the
earth s machinery ; thus
the student is not led to
form those conceptions
which it is most impor
tant that he should gain.

In part the matter pre-

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush.

THE title of this book gives little hint of the
significance of the stories which make it up, but
the wonder and admiration with which one
closes the book testify to its fitness as an em
blem of Scottish sturdiness and beauty. Unlike
many short stories, which are best enjoyed
when read separately, this series demands a
consecutive reading for each tale, which deep
ens the impression of unity created by the
pictures of simplicity, piety, humor, and caution
in the people of Drumtochty. It is no wonder
that this new writer, " Ian Maclaren " (who is
Rev. John Watson of Liverpool), has leaped into
sudden fame, for the gift of the Holy Spirit is
his to transmute homely deeds into shining
marvels. One weary alike of characterless ser
mons and the well-conned Bible may take up
t his volume, attracted by the brisk opening
lines ; while repelled by the dialect, he is soon

From " Sea and Land." Copyright, 189i, by Charles Scribner s Sons.
FISHES OF PECULIAR FORM.

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reading new meanings into Bible texts through
these stories.

It would be hard to speak critically of a book
so full of trust and grace, but fortunately the
enjoyment of it is not marred by any lack of
literary finish. It is a faithful transcript of
characteristics which are fading away and
which are here presented with a rare quaintness
of style. The book is well gotten up, with wide
margined pages and attractive drab and green
binding. (Dodd, Mead & Co. 1.25.) Boston
Literary World.

Catherine de Medici.

BALZAC S method in writing the historical
novel was most precise. In the introduction to
the novel now under notice his method can be
followed. It is the philosophy of history, col
ored, perhaps, by that period of unrest which
influenced the writer. France, when this work
was composed, had just gone through internal
strife, and was on the eve of beginning it over
again, and Honore de Balzac was immensely
conservative. He dreaded the time which was
to come.

If an author has to throw himself into the
times about which he writes, Balzac possessed
that power. It was not necessary for him to
excite his romantic potentiality. That was al
ways forthcoming. What he did was to make
himself the statesman, the noble, the man of
commerce, of the sixteenth or seventeenth cen
tury. He steered very ctear of religious en
thusiasms. As a good Catholic, upholding the
religion he believed in, Balzac cared less for
it in describing Huguenot times. He hardly
brings creeds into prominence. He studies the
situation, and, with that prodigious acumen he
possessed an acumen far above that of any
romance-writer who ever lived he understands
many of the underlying motives.

In this book the portraits of Catherine de
Medici, of Mary, Queen of Scots, and of Mary
Touchet are wonderfully drawn. In contrast
with the bluster of the chiefs of the many civil
factions is shown the stern devotion of some of
the leading Huguenots. We may care for the
torrential force of a Victor Hugo in his histori
cal novel, but more for the exact lights of Bal
zac. You get from the modern Frenchman the
truer historical picture.

It is needless to say how well done is Miss
Wormeley s translation, or how thoroughly she
understands her text and the conception of the
master romancist, and once again an American
public has to thank the lady for a fuller appre
ciation of Balzac. (Roberts. $1.50.) The
New York Times.

From "The Royal Marine.".- -Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers.
"HOW S THE WATER THIS MORNING?"

The Royal Marine.

WHAT is a young man to do, who is not sure
whether he has proposed to the girl of his
heart and been accepted by her, or whether he
has simply dreamed both proposal and accept
ance ? This is the unpleasant predicament in
w T hich Brander Matthews places his hero in this
bright little idyl of Narragansett Pier. The
" Royal Marine " so called from her chic yacht
ing suit, ornamented with stripes and the
crowned V. R. of the English navy is a lovely
Kentucky girl, who promptly captures the heart
of young Warren Payn, on his vacation trip to
Narragansett. Their acquaintance advances
auspiciously, and at last one evening, while
comfortably settled with a cigar, for a doze on
the bridge of the Casino, Payn meets the charm
ing Miss Carroll returning from the Casino
dance, pleads his suit, is accepted, and while
meditating on his happiness dozes off, awaking
to face the fateful question "Was it all a
dream ? " The miserable uncertainty in which
he lingers, his efforts to discover indirectly
whether he is an accepted suitor or not, and
the way in which he is at last released from his
predicament, furnish material for an amusing
romance of a summer s week. It is gotten up
in the neat shape and dainty costume of the
Harper s Little A r ovel Series which prove tempt
ing at first sight. (Harper. $i.)

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[January, 1895

From "Henry of Navarre."

Henry of Navarre.

THE value of Mr. Blair s book lies not in the
original study of documents, but in the graphic
view it gives of a character unique in the his
tory of France. Henry iv. for freedom of speech
and for the liveliness and eccentricity of his
humor comes nearer to President Lincoln than
any European potentate. He was a man of
genius whose manners the polished world could
not change. Few kings were ever better known
to their subjects than Henry of Navarre. In
fact, they knew him so well and became so fa
miliar with him that they underrated his abili
ties, and had to correct their estimate in the
light of his achievements. A great many
things contributed to make of this king an ex
ception in the line of extremely polished and
artificial personages to whom it fell to rule and
gradually to ruin France. In the first place his
grandfather was possessed by the fear that he
could not outlive his boyhood. He was there
fore sent to live in the open air, to mingle with
all classes of people, to hunt and become famil
iar with the life of field and forest. He became
an adept in the rude and ready wit that de
lighted the people. His answers were always
quick and always to the purpose, but they were
not expressed with the euphuistic delicacy usual
at court. Long afterward his knowledge of
the forests enabled him to handle troops in a
way that astonished his opponents.

As a possible heir to the French throne, he
fell in early youth into the care of Catharine de

Medici. While he imbibed some learning in
Paris, the most important lesson taught him
there seems to have been the almost vulpine
skill with which he foiled the plots of a Court
reckoned, after the massacre of St. Bartholo
mew, to be the bloodiest and most unscrupulous
in Europe. In the midst of an environment so
perilous he seems to have put on an antic dis
position. His real powers were deftly concealed
under an air of folly and indifference. Here
his unpolished manners stood him in good
stead and he was under no temptation to be
come a courtier.

When he escaped from Paris and from the
dangerous machinations of Catharine, it was
only to become a partisan leader in a series of
wars that were embittered by all the hatreds
of religion, as well as the entanglements of
politics. His reputation for folly had preceded
him, and it took more than one victory to con
vince the men of Navarre and the Protestants
of France that they had one of the most re
sourceful leaders known to the military annals
of France or of Europe. The same inventive
ness and organizing skill which made him, with
the single exception of the Duke of Parma, the
first soldier of his age, also led him as King of
France to systematize the government in a way
hitherto unknown. He might almost be said to
have originated the modern plan of bureaus and
departments. But without the patient Sully he
never would have had the persistence to carry
out his designs. He fought battles, he did not

January, 1895]

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carry on campaigns. That was his defect as a
soldier and as a statesman. No man of his
time handled troops as well on the field as he ;
but no man was less tolerant than he of the
strategy which defeats an enemy without fight
ing, and wears him out by disappointment.

The wide pages of Mr. Blair s book are pro
fusely illustrated with portraits, and the volume
is a worthy tribute to a man who was magnifi
cently great in spite of oddities astonishing in
one born in the purple. (Lippincott. $4.)
N. Y. Tribune.

The Story of Babette.

RUTH McENERY STUART has written a charm
ing romance in " The Story of Babette." It is the
story of a lovely young Creole girl, stolen from
her family in the confusion incident upon the
Mardi-Gras carnival, and figuring afterwards,
first in a gypsy camp, then as the adopted niece
of a childless and wealthy old couple, in both
of which conditions her beauty, combined with
her gentle and lovable character, win for her
devoted friends. The author has availed her
self to the full of the novelist s license, and
ingeniously constructed her plot to form those
happy coincidences necessary to bring out tri
umphant over all difficulties her charming hero
ine, and harbor her safely at last beneath the
roof of her afflicted parents. There is a sim-
plicity^of method in the narrative which makes
it appear so honest as to bear the semblance of ab
solute truth in spite of such improbable happen
ings as the old gypsy woman s flight at night

with the almost dying Babette, closely followed
by the feeble-minded Noute, by whom she is
pushed, most opportunely, into an open door and
almost into the arms of the benevolent doctor,
who saves the child s life and adopts her. The
incidental descriptions of the Mardi-Gras, of
the gypsy children and Babette playing on the
beach, and some of the minor characters are
very good. (Harper. $1.50.) The Beacon.

The Story of Lawrence Garthe.

ANY one who has read Maurus Jokai s " Eyes
Like the Sea," with its six-times married hero
ine, will be amused to compare Bessy with
Bella, the heroine of Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk s
latest novel. " Bella " has only been married
four times, but for absolute absence of any
moral sense she will compare favorably with
Bessy. Each of these heroines is endo\ved with
the same charm of nature which manages to
preserve an appearance of innocence and youth-
fulness in spite of very doubtful experiences.
Bella is very cleverly contrasted with Con
stance. Constance is the most highly developed
modern instance of the Puritan type. The situ
ation into which Lawrence Garthe is thrown
between Constance, whom he wishes to marry,
and Bella, the divorced mother of his child,
are powerfully handled. Of course, the story
ends well, a little too well for life, but on the
whole the book is worth reading, and will sus
tain its author s high reputation for ability and
carefulwork. (Houghton, Mifflin& Co. $1.25.)
-The Literary World.

From " The Story of Babette." Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers.

BABETTE AND HER PLAYMATES.

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[January, 1895

?Ln CTlrrtt r iSontftfi Srfcifto of Current Uttrraturf.
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT.

JANUARY, 1895.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

To every one of the strangely differing char
acters who together have been "the reading
public," for whom Robert Louis Stevenson has
labored, the announcement of his death came
as a personal
message, bring
ing a keen sense
of personal loss.
For days hope
lingered that the
telegraph had
blundered. But
now it is known
beyond doubt or
hope, that on
December 3, 94,
Robert Louis
Stevenson was
suddenly strick
en with apo
plexy, and
scarcely twenty-
four hours after
lay buried on the
summit of Pala
Mountain, amid
his dearly loved
South Sea Isl
and surround
ings.

For fifteen
years Steven
son s writings
have been sure
of readers, but
"the reading

public" has com- ROBERT LOUIS

monlybut a

vague idea of what his diligence as a whole
has reached, either in number of volumes or
in literary significance. His published works
number close upon thirty volumes, all written
in twenty years by a man who is dead at forty-
four.

Stevenson himself has told us in "Memories
and Portraits " how he became a writer, and by
unremitting labor developed his at first limited
capacities. The facts are few and known to
all. The son of Thomas Stevenson, the light
house builder, and the grandson of Robert
Stevenson, the inventor of the revolving light,
he was born at Edinburgh, November 15, 1850.

He was a delicate, impulsive boy, revelling in
books, but without inclination for study. He
was graduated at the University of Edinburgh.
" Xo one," said Stevenson, " had more certifi
cates and less education." From his earliest
years he aspired to write, and strongly objected
to his father s plans to make of him a civil en
gineer. To be "merely a writer" seemed a
lazy, profitless existence to his father s Scotch
thrift and mechanical mind, and finally Steven
son consented to compromise and study law.
This, however, he found equally distasteful.

At the age of
twenty-three it
was found nec
essary that the
young inv a 1 i d
should seek a
kinder climate,
and then began
those wan d e r -
ings in search of
health which fi
nally led him to
his last resting-
place.

By the sands
of the sea, in the
forests and on
the mountains
the young writer
now began his
life-work. H e
taught himself
to write the
purest English
that has been
written since
Charles Lamb
laid down his
pen. He played
the "sedulous
ape," he has told
us, to Ruskin,
Hazlitt, Sir
Thomas Browne

and to all the great ones of the past. He saw
everything about him with an eye that absorbed
every touch of beauty and noted every incon
gruity and oddity, and then he described what
he saw with brevity, clearness, vivacity, vivid
ness, inimitable humor and originality always
controlled by all-pervading grace. By hard work
Stevenson made for himself a style all his own,
and then used this subtle instrument to give
to the world the proof that the human thought,
the imagination, the love of mankind, the in
tense pleasure in existence which by it he
brought home to his readers, are his truest,
surest claims to a lasting place in literature.

STEVENSON.

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His style was the first call to recognition, but
year by year his fertility and versatility, his
hoard of varied gifts of marvellous number
have made his "calling and election sure," and
his very last work of art, " The Ebb Tide," gave
promise in directions as yet unworked in all his
masterpieces.

Stevenson s private and literary life have been
closely connected. For ten years "the reading
public" has known at almost every moment the
corners of the earth in which the suffering man
sought relief, and in quick succession has re
ceived book after book bearing the impress of
new sights and sounds and changing human
and natural surroundings. Shortly after his
wanderings began he met Sidney Colvin, al
ways generously disposed towards young talent
and with a genius at discovering it. This suc
cessful author, to whom later Stevenson dedi
cated his " Travels with a Donkey in the Ce-
vennes," first introduced his work to the public.

His first published paper appeared in the
Portfolio when he was twenty-three years old,
under the pen-name of L. S. Stoneven. It was
called " Roads." His second, written the same
winter at Mentone, whither he had been sent
for his health, was entitled "Ordered South."

William Ernest Henley also very early paid
tribute to the great gifts of Stevenson, and
helped him in many ways towards a hearing.
"Will o the Mill" was his first published
story, and that was written in France. The
next was "A Lodging for the Night," written
at the same time with the delightful " Study
on Villon," afterward republished in " Familiar
Studies." "The New Arabian Nights" was
begun at the Burford Bridge Inn, where Mr.
Stevenson had gone in order to be near George
Meredith. The Arabian Nights stories were
continued in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Bar-
bazon, and finished at Le Monastier all with
in about five months. That same year he had
brought out his first volume, "An Inland
Voyage." " The Pavilion on the Links " was
begun in London and finished by its wandering
author in Monterey, Cal. "Treasure Island "
was begun at Braemar, in the Scotch highlands,
and finished at Davos, in Switzerland the
whole acomplished in two "bursts" of fifteen
days each Mr. Stevenson s quickest piece of
work.

With " Treasure Island " Mr. Stevenson be
came famous. It was translated into many
languages, and since 1883 every reader has
been eager to read all that could be got at bear
ing the magic name of Robert Louis Steven
son. In 1879 Stevenson travelled in the United
States and took to himself an American wife,
whom he had met in Paris some time before.
Mrs. Stevenson had been married to Samuel C.

Osborne, a rich man of San Francisco, and the
circumstances of separation and remarriage
with Stevenson were highly romantic. The
two children remained under her care and have
always been tenderly loved by their stepfather,
who, in collaboration with his stepson, Lloyd
Osborne, has accomplished much of his later
work.

Mr. Stevenson had made his trip to America
in the steerage and had gone across country in
an emigrant train. The adventures of this
trip were recorded in articles written for Long
mans 1 Magazine and the Satnrdav Rez ieia. The
" Dynamiters " and " The Silverado Squatters "
were the fruits of this visit among us. In 1887
he visited America and found relief for a time
in the beautiful Adirondacks. In 1886 appeared
the book by which Stevenson is perhaps best
known among the many, the gruesome psycho
logical story of " Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." It
was with a view to protecting his rights in the
dramatization of this work, which in Richard
Mansfield s hands has been one of the greatest
stage successes of the last half dozen years,
that Stevenson once more came among us. Mr.
George lies, who was fortunate enough to
meet the author and his delightful family
during this stay at Lake Saranac, describes his
appearance at that time with felicitous words:

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Norseman.
As I first saw him in the Adirondacks seven
winters ago, my first impression was that a
Scandinavian stood before me. He was tall
and very thin, with the extreme pallor of a
life-long invalid. In his abundant light brown
hair thrown behind his ears; his forehead
both high and wide lighted by large eyes set
far apart, as always in men of the first power
of imagination; the curve of feature, the ex
pression that indescribably heightened the
effect of his stories as he told them with all the
fire of a born actor, there was testimony to the
Norse blood that has so much enriched the
Scottish race.

It was Mrs. Stevenson who planned a yacht
ing cruise to the South Seas in search of a
place where the suffering invalid could breathe
and move about without pain. Almost every
island was visited, and finally Stevenson found
an ideal home at Apia, Samoa. The descrip
tions of this home, brought from time to time by
travellers who have made a pilgrimage to the
shrine of the greatest romancer since Walter
Scott, read like Stevenson s own word- pictures
of the beautiful places he saw in dreams.
Here at last his homelessness found a home,
and he felt for the first time that all nature
and friends could do to ease the pain he had
borne all his life could be attained among the
beauties of the South Sea, surrounded by the
natives who, one and all, became his worship
pers. With his ever ready sympathy he threw

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[January, 1895

himself heart and soul into the study of the
political conditions of his new home, and in
1892, in his "A Foot-note to History: Eight
Years of Trouble in Samoa," arraigned Germany
for injustice and misrule, and pointed out the
strength and weakness of its position in Samoa.
Since 1888 Stevenson has inhabited Vailina, his
beautiful residence built in Scotland and put
up by loving hands in Apia. His health had
seemed somewhat better, hemorrhages had
been less frequent, and some even hoped that
his later years might be free from constant
pain. On Thanksgiving Day, November 29,
he entertained some American friends, and on
December 3 was feeling brighter, had done a
long morning s work, and was enjoying his din
ner, when the summons came. The press has
told over and over how the natives hewed a
path through the jungle and bush to the top of
the mountain, how his step son and daughter
accompanied the body to its resting-place 1200
feet above the sea, how the natives mourned,
and how all the world mourns the premature
death of Robert Louis Stevenson.

We cannot but ask : " Had he more to write,
or had he done his best?" Many there are
who think, as Stevenson did himself, that in
"Kidnapped" he reached his height, and yet
" The Ebb-Tide " held a note that might have
become the keynote to an entirely new order
of writing. His published works are: " An In
land Voyage" (1878); "Edinburgh: Pictu
resque Notes" (1879); "Travels with a Donkey
in the Cevennes " (1879); " Virginibus Puer-
isque, and Other Papers" (iSSi) ; "Familiar
Studies of Men and Books" (1882); "New
Arabian Nights" (1882); "The Dynamiter:
More New Arabian Nights " (1885, with his
wife); " Treasure Island " (1883); " The Silver
ado Squatters" (1883) ; "A Child s Garden of
Verse" (1885); "Prince Otto "(1885); "The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde "
(1886); "Kidnapped: Memoirs and the Advent
ures of David Balfour, etc. " (1886); "Under
woods " (1887); "The Merry Men, and Other
Tales" (1887); "Memoirs and Portraits"
(1887); "The Black Arrow" (1888); "The
Master of Ballantrae " (1889); "Ballads"
(1891); "The Wrecker" (with Lloyd Osborne,
1891-92); "A Foot-note to History: Eight
Years of Trouble in Samoa" (1892); "David
Balfour" (1893); "Island Nights Entertain
ments " (1893); "The Ebb-Tide " (1894).

Besides all this, says Mr. lies, much else was
written poems, short stories, articles for
magazines and newspapers, and three romances
which remain unfinished. If the reader of this
rare spirit finds a dull chapter here and there
in his books, let him remember how good
Stevenson is at his best, and further let him
bear in mind that death was always imminent

over him; that often when worn and weary he
spurred himself to exertion that he might pro
vide for those whom he would leave behind as
he wished for.

A memorial tribute to Stevenson was offered
in a gathering of literary people under the
auspices of "The Uncut Leaves," on the even
ing of Friday, January 4, at Carnegie Hall, in
New York City. Clarence C. Stedman was
chosen chairman, and every lover of Stevenson
should make sure of a copy of a paper giving
his complete address on that occasion. It was
a notable gathering, and many writers spoke
with deep feeling of their comrade-at-letters.
At this writing the note of all comment is chiefly
personal. Stevenson was beloved personally
and all judgment is hushed for the moment in
the presence of death. Whether Stevenson s
romances, almost all without heroines, will
live and make him a place for all time ; or
whether time will show that in his essays and
desultory moralizing and philosophizing lies his
enduring reputation, must remain for others to
determine.

The memory of the man will never fade from
those who met him. As one of his friends has
said :

"Stevenson had all that deep fascination
which attends upon a man of genius who is
truly approachable. There was about him not
a trace of affectation. He was easy and hearty
in his greetings, and the strong fund of humor
of which he was possessed made him a most
delightful companion. No one ever came to
know him who did not come to love him. He
made every one his friend."

The first volume has appeared of a final edi
tion of his works, to be known as the Edinburgh
edition, to be complete in thirty volumes. The
Scribners will handle it in this country. His
faithful friend Sidney Colville, is the editor.

IN the February issue of THE LITERARY
NEWS will appear a review of the general
aspect of the publications of 1894, and also a
list of the most important publications of the
year just ended. About 5000 books were
turned out by the publishers, many of course
new editions of old favorites. It shall be the
endeavor of THE LITERARY NEWS to direct atten
tion to the very best among them those it
would be well to read if one lays claim to keep
ing up with the best among the latest, and
those it would be wise to buy if circumstances
favor such self-culture and enduring enjoy
ment. The survey of the books of the year will
be undertaken in a spirit of fair criticism, re
gardless of generally received opinions or prej
udices. The only aim will be to bring to mind
the books that have the first claim to permanent
life, of those published in 1894.

January, 1895]

*THE LITERARY NEWS.

Mermatb of 1894.

Curb, Snaffle, and Spur. Mr. Anderson s
manual will be a useful one to those for whom
it is designed. His advice seems to be sensible,
at least from a civilian point of view, and the
illustrations, which are taken from photographs,
add immensely to the value of the little book.
Riders who do not belong to the cavalry will
find his advice worth remembering. (Little,
Brown & Co. $1.50.)

CrowelVs New Sets of Standards. In the
preparation of CrowelFs A T ew Illustrated Library,
it has been the aim of the publishers to produce
a series of books that would meet the wants of
those desiring inexpensive editions in attractive
bindings, carefully edited, illustrated by the
best artists, printed on good paper from clear
type, and especially appropriate for holiday
gifts or library use. In the pursuance of this plan
no pains or expense have been spared to make
this series the finest that has ever been produced
at so Iowa price. (Per volume, $1.50.)

Quiet Stories from an Old Woman s Garden.
This book, by Alison McLean, is well named.
It is made up of half a dozen stories of rural
life, far from the noise and activities of trade.
They have the odors of the garden and the
meadow and forests, and touch the heart and
make the reader wiser and better. One sel
dom finds rural English life more charmingly
sketched. It enlarges the human soul, and en
larges its capacities to love the pure and the
good and beautiful to read the chapters. What
better could be said of a book? (Warne. $1.25.)

The Old Brick Churches of Maryland. A six
months tour among the old brick churches of
Maryland has furnished material for a delight
ful book, full of historic memories and remi
niscences of colonial and revolutionary days.
The narrative is by Helen West Ridgely, the
many full-page and text illustrations are by
Miss Sofie de Butts Stewart, and both author
and artist have brought out to the utmost the
charms and pleasures of this "pleasure-trip in
quest of the old brick churches." The book is
a small quarto, beautifully printed and daintily
bound. (Randolph. $2.50.)

International Sunday-School Lessons. "The
Illustrative Notes for 1895," by Jesse Lyman
Hurlbut and Robert Remington Doherty, is Mr.
Hurlbut s Sunday-School Guide for the coming
year, done, says The Independent, on substan
tially the same plan which has brought his
previous volumes into such widely extended
use, with original selected comments, illustra
tions literary and graphic, notes on Eastern
life, and copious maps. The illustrative feat
ures of the guide are more striking than ever.
The hints to teachers, and the arrangement of
the material for presentation and use in the
school, indicate everywhere the work of an
editor who is himself a good teacher. (Hunt
& Eaton. $1.25.)

Lorenzo Lotto. In his earlier volume, " The
Venetian Painters of the Renaissance," Mr.
Berenson won for himself a name as a schol
arly and appreciative art critic. In his new
work he makes an exhaustive study of Lotto,
claiming for this painter the interest of having

represented that considerable Italian minority,
which at the height of the Renaissance was
less in sympathy with the dominant Paganism,
and therefore more inclined toward the Refor
mation. The book contains thirty full-page
heliotype reproductions of the most representa
tive works of Lotto and his precursor, Alvise
Vivarini. In addition to its value to the art
student, the volume is so attractively illustrated
that it is admirably suited for use as a gift-
book. (Putnam. $3.50.)

Twelve Bad Men. It is probably true that
some people would be more interested in the
"Lives of the Saints " than in the "Newgate
Calendar," but the proportion would be very
small. Wickedness is generally attractive, and
every one knows that there is something fas
cinating about a very bad man. Therefore it
is unnecessary to dwell upon the interest of
these "original studies of prominent scoun
drels" the title of the book is its own rec
ommendation. The studies are by different
writers, and cover a wide range of unworthies,
from " Black Bothwell," to Thomas Waine-
wright, the poisoner. They are edited by
Thomas Seccombe, sub-editor of the " Diction
ary of National Biography," and have numerous
portraits. (Putnam. $3.50.)

L Abbe Daniel. The little story of "The
Abbe Daniel," by Andre Theuriet, which has
been exquisitely and sympathetically translated
by Mrs. Nathan Haskell Dole, is one of the most
delightful things in its way that has of late years
been added to prose fiction. It is a very simple
tale, very simply told, but it has the ind escriba-
ble quality called charm, and its pathos is so
tender and genuine, and its humor so spon
taneous and natural, that to find its parellel one
is almost obliged to go back to Goldsmith and
" The Vicar." Theuriet is a poet, as Goldsmith
was, and he has appreciation of human nature
on its lovable side. " The Abbe Daniel " is got
up in a style that makes it doubly attractive.
There are a score or more of dainty illustrations
after French originals, and the binding, though
delicate, is very pretty. (Crowell. $i.)

B rent and 1 s Publications. Brentano s cater to
the leisure classes. Lovers of the stage, of
music, and of games may be gratified from
their list. On it may be found Eric Mackay s
" Love-Letters of a Violinist," illustrated by
thirty-five designs in charcoal by James Fagan ;
" Princesses in Love," by Henri Pene Du Bois,
also illustrated by James Fagan; and "French
Folly in Maxims," in four bewitching little vol
umes. A Library of Masks and Faces is the
general title of a series prepared by William T.
Price, which will contain biographical and
critical essays on the great European and
American actors and actresses. " Charles Mac-
ready " and " Charlotte Cushman " are discussed
in the two volumes now ready. Foster s
"Whist Manual" and "Baby s Biography"
may also be turned to account as Christmas
gifts.

Two Dainty Volumes. Mrs. Huntington
Smith s admirable compilation, " Golden W T ords
for Daily Counsel," is full of comforting and
helpful extracts, and has met with a success
which \vill surely be increased by the new edi
tion illustrated with portraits of sixteen of the
best known of the authors, and whose words are

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enshrined in its pages. Another tasteful gift-
book is the illustrated edition of " Faber s
Hymns." The author of " Hark ! Hark ! My
Soul! Angelic Songs are Swelling," and of "O
Paradise!" needs no introduction to religious
readers. Many of Faber s hymns were specially
composed for the London Oratory, which he
founded, and of which he was so long the
head; but they have an interest and beauty
quite apart from the narrower use to which he
put them, and the majority of them have been
accepted by the whole Christian world without
distinction of creed. The collection, which Mr.
Bridgman has so sympathetically illustrated,
will be found acceptable to all classes of read
ers. (Crowell. Ea., $1.25.)

The Yellow Fairy Book. First in our rapidly
lengthening list of books of fairy and other
stories published especially to meet the claims
of our young people, says the London Literary
World, we must certainly rank Mr. Andrew
Lang s "Yellow Fairy Book," an addition to the
series which is becoming as tinted as the famous
coat of many colors. The continual drain on
his resources has sent Mr. Lang further afield
for the materials with which to build the pres
ent volume, and, in consequence, there is a
greater sense of originality about the contents,
which have been levied from Russian, German,
French, Icelandic, and Red Indian folk and fairy
stories, and are, if not entirely new to us, at
least comparatively so. Mr. Lang explains
that he has published this book entirely for
children, and so that they are pleased he does
not very much care for what other people may
say. "The Yellow Fairy Book" is well and
copiously illustrated, and tastefully presented
in a yellow binding, of course, as the .title
necessitates. (Longmans, Green & Co. $2.)

D. Applet on &= Co. s Miscellaneous Ptibli ca
tions. Not strictly to be classed as holiday
publications, but most suitable as gift-books,
are "Woman s Share in Primitive Culture," by
Otis Tufton Mason, the first volume of the An-
thropoligical Series, edited by Frederick Starr, of
the University of Chicago, which traces the in
teresting period when with fire-making began
the first division of labor a division of labor
based upon sex the man going to the field or
forest for game, while the woman at the fire
side became the burden-bearer, basketmaker,
weaver, potter, agriculturist, and domesticator
of animals ($1.50); " In the Track of the Sun,"
readings from the diary of a globe-trotter, by
Frederick Diodati Thompson, profusely illus
trated with engravings from photographs
and from drawings by Harry Fenn, of which
The Outlook says: "We know of no equally
convenient and handsome publication illustrat
ing a journey round the world " ($6); and Pro
fessor Maspero s " The Dawn of Civilization,"
edited by Rev. Professor Sayce, with map and
nearly 500 illustrations.

American Foot-Ball for Schools and Colleges.
This is one of the books that fill "long-felt
wants." A. A. Stagg and Henry L. Williams
know the game of football as it is played to
day. "Now here is a book," says the N. Y.
Times, " which will make it all clear. It tells
the duties and dodges of centres, guards, tack
les, ends, and backs. It describes the manner
in which each ought to play his position indi
vidually, and it gives in plain language the

theory of team plays, signals, and general foot
ball tactics. But it goes further. It describes
with the aid of intelligible and easily understood
diagrams, sixty-nine different methods of at
tack, including all the long passes and criss
cross plays, which are likely to come into use
again under the new rules. Any spectator at a
football game, after a study of this book, ought
to know where to look for clever work and to
appreciate it as thoroughly as the college boys
do. Football has become the national fall game
of the country, and every American naturally
desires to understand it. This book will give
him the required aid." (Appleton. $1.25.)

Flammarion s Popular Astronomy. " M. Ca-
mille Flammarion is the most popular scientific
writer in France. Of the present work no
fewer than one hundred thousand copies were
sold in a few years. It was considered of such
merit that the Montyon Prize of the French
Academy was awarded to it ; it has also been
selected by the Minister of Education for use in
the public libraries a distinction which proves
that it is well suited to the general reader. The
subject is treated in a very popular style, and
the work is at the same time interesting and re
liable. It should be found very useful by those
who wish to acquire a good general knowledge
of astronomy without going too deeply into the
science. In translating this work I have en
deavored to make as close a translation as
possible, with, of course, due regard to the
English idiom. I have reduced the figures
given by the author to English measures.
Many new illustrations have been added, and I
have also given some notes with reference to
recent researches and discoveries, so as to bring
the work up to date." Thus writes J. Ellard
Gore, who has made the translation of this
edition of Flammarion s work, which the pub
lishers have provided with three plates and 288
illustrations. (Appleton. $4.50.)

Historical Characters of the Reign of Queen
Anne. It is always pleasant and profitable,
says The Nation, to study the treatment by an
intelligent woman of matters that have been
handled chiefly by men ; and especially is this
the case when the characters and actions of
women are the subjects of discussion. Even
where there is no lack of sympathy and good
will, men can hardly avoid judging women by
masculine standards, and pronouncing an action
wrong or weak because it would have been
wrong or weak in a man. So, as a study of a
woman by a woman, we have read with espe
cial pleasure the vivid and sympathetic sketch
of Queen Anne which Mrs. Oliphant here gives
us. Certainly that royal lady has had rather hard
measure dealt to her by writers of this century,
among whom, as the greatest sinner against
knowledge, Macaulay is most to blame. The
extreme partisanship which so seriously viti
ates his history, saw in Anne a Tory, a High-
Churchwoman, and a dislike not without cause
of his glorified William ; and the least of these
crimes deserved no mercy, and even justified a
little wresting of the truth " in the cause of the
right," as Mr. Wegg puts it. Much space in
the volume is devoted to Swift, Defoe, and Ad-
dison. The external appearance of this very
attractive volume, with all the furtherances of
the printer s, engraver s, and binder s arts, is
worthy of the Century Company. ($6.)

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ART, MUSIC, DRAMA.

APTHORP, W. FOSTER. Musicians and music
lovers, and other essays. Scribner. 12,
$1.50.

Contents: Musicians and music lovers; Johann
Sebastian Bach; Additional accompaniments to
Bach s and Handel s scores; Giacomo Meyer
beer ; Jacques Offenbach ; Tro modern classi
cists; John Sullivan Dvvight; Some thoughts on
musical criticism; Music and science.

FREYTAG, GUSTAV. Freytag s technique of the
drama: an exposition of dramatic composition
and art; an authorized tr. from the 6th Ger
man ed., by Elias J. MacEwan. Griggs.
12, $1.50.

An historical and philosophical exposition of
dramatic composition and art, stating the gen
eral principles governing the structures of plays,
the creation of characters, and the rules of act
ing. The qualifications of actors are clearly
set forth, and attention is given to stage ar
rangement. An important feature of the work
is its critical examination of the plan, motive,
color, characters, etc. of the principal dramas
of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Lessing, Goethe,
and Schiller, thus making it of special value to
dramatic authors, critics, and students of liter
ature. Dr. Freytag ranks among the first of
living playwrights and novelists, and play-goers
will find in the work that which must be helpful
to a better appreciation of the nature and value
of the drama.

HEALY, G. P. A. Reminiscences of a portrait
painter. McClurg. 12, $1.50.

MARGARET, {pseud. ) Theatrical sketches here
and there with prominent actors. Merriam
Co. nar. 16, 75 c.

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

BRACE, C. LORING. The life of Charles Loring
Brace chiefly told in his own letters; ed. by
his daughter, [Emma Brace.] Scribner.
pors. 8, $2.50.

The story of Mr. Brace s life may almost be
said to be the history of philanthropic effort in
the United States. Thirty-five years ago he
first turned his attention to the youthful crim
inals and outcasts of the city of New York
the result being the establishment of the grand
and useful organization of the Children s Aid
Society, which now comprises industrial schools,
night schools, lodging-houses like the News-
Boys Lodgings and the Girls Lodging-House
farm school for boys, summer and health homes,
dressmk king and typewriting schools, a printing
shop, etc. Through these, thousands of waifs
and strays have been rescued, taught to earn a
living, and placed in comfortable homes. The
organization has furnished to many cities in
this country and Europe an inspiration and a
model. He was the author of " Gesta Christi,"
" The unknown God," " The dangerous classes

of New York," etc. His daughter tells his life
from his earliest years, through his correspond
ence, which is held together by her comments
and exposition.

BROOKS, NOAH. Abraham Lincoln and the
downfall of American slavery. Putnam, il.
12, (Heroes of the nations ser., no. 14.) $1.50.
Now added to The heroes of the nations

series. First published in 1888.

GARY, E. George William Curtis. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. 12, (American men of letters.)

$1.25.

DUMAS, ALEX. Napoleon; from the French, by
J. B. Lamer. Putnam. 12, $1.50.
A brief and interesting biography of Napo
leon. This is the first time it appears in the
English language.

GROSSMANN, Mrs. EDWINA BOOTH. Edwin
Booth : recollections by his daughter, Ed-
wina Booth Grossmann, and letters toherand
his friends. The Century Co. pors. 8, $3.
Edition deluxe, on Holland paper, $12.50 ; on
Whatman paper, $25.

Mrs. Grossmann s recollections cover twenty-
eight pages, and describe Edwin Booth as a
loving father, most tender in all his family re
lations. The rest of the handsome volume is
occupied with letters from Booth to his daugh
ter and to others of his friends. They are
simple and unaffected, and convey a more inti
mate knowledge of the character of the man
than could be gained from any memoir. The
regular edition and the edition de luxe are illus
trated with twenty artotype reproductions of
portraits, trophies, etc., of the great actor, and
are printed and bound in a most artistic form.

HARE, A. J. C., ed. Life and letters of Maria
Edgeworth. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v.,
8, $4-

LINTON, W. J. Threescore and ten years; 1820
to 1890; recollections. Scribner. por. 8, $2.

MASSON, FREDERIC. Napoleon and the women
of his court ; from the French. Lippincott.
pors. 8, $5.

MASSON, FREDERIC. Napoleon at home : the
daily life of the emperor at the Tuileries ; tr.
bv Ja. E. Matthew. Lippincott. 2 v., 12 pi.

8, $7-50.

PICKARD, S. T. Life and letters of John
Greenleaf Whittier. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. 2 v., pors. il. 12, $4.

RITCHIE, Mrs. ANNE THACKERAY. Chapters
from some unwritten memoirs. Harper. 8,
$2.

Reminiscences of Jasmin, Chopin, Louis
Philippe, Mrs. Kemble, Madame Martin, and of
Mrs. Ritchie s early home, and the many noted
people that visited her father are contained in

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chapters entitled : My poet ; My musician ;
My triumphal arch ; My professor of history ;
My witch s caldron ; In Kensington ; To Wei
mar and back ; Via Willis rooms to Chelsea ;
In Villeggiatura ; Tout chemin ; Mrs. Kemble.

SMILES, S. Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S.; hisper-
. sonal history. Harper, por. 12, $1.50.

The subject of this biography came from a
distinguished family of English potters in Staf
fordshire ; it was he, individually, however,
that made the name of Wedgwood famous.
He was born in 1730, and died 1795. In 1769
he opened new potteries at Etruria, in Stafford
shire, on a large scale, and assisted by the
artist Flaxman, and other artists of equal merit,
turned out the celebrated Wedgwood and Bent-
ley pottery. His chief artistic feat was the pro
duction of an accurate copy, in clay, of the
celebrated glass Portland vase. This work re
lates all these incidents, with facts of his early
life, etc., in Smiles popular style.

STEARNS, FRANK PRESTON. Life and genius of
Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto. Putnam.

12, $2.25.

Jacopo Robusti, commonly called " Tinto
retto," was born in Venice in 1518 and died 1594.
He was one of the greatest painters of the
Venetian or of any school ; his works, mostly
frescoes, were made in Venice, many of them
still remaining to view in the churches and
palaces. A thorough life of Tintoretto in Eng
lish has long been needed one that should
understandingly set forth his work and his gen
ius we have it here. A list of his paintings
and where they are is given.

ROBBINS, ALFRED F. The early public life of
William Ewart Gladstone, four times prime
minister. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.
Covers the first thirty years of Gladstone s
life, from his birth in 1809, until 1840. There
are chapters on : His father as merchant ; His
father as politician ; His Eton education ; At
Oxford ; The young parliamentary hand ; His
relation to slavery ; His ecclesiastical devel
opment ; In Peel s first ministry ; Progress in
and out of Parliament ; Church and State ; Mr.
Gladstone and his critics ; Educational and
philanthropic endeavor ; Continued parliamen
tary success ; Once more a minister.

WALKER, FRANCIS A. General Hancock. Ap-
pleton. 12, (Great commanders sen, no. 10.)
$1.50.

Contents : Birth and education ; Down to the
great Rebellion ; Williamsburg to Antietarn ;
Fredericksburg ; Chancellorsville ; Gettysburg
the first, second, and third day; After Get
tysburg ; The Wilderness first and second
day ; Spottsylvania ; The salient ; The North
Anna and the Totopotomy ; Cold Harbor ; Pe
tersburg ; Deep Bottom ; Reams Station ; The
Boydton Road ; After the war.

WRIGHT, T. The life of Daniel Defoe. Ran
dolph, il. 8, $3.75.

DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC.

BAKER, Mrs. WOODS. Pictures of Swedish life;
or, Svea and her children. Randolph. 8,

$3-75.

CARPENTER, MARY THORN. In Cairo and Jeru

salem: an Easter note-book. Randolph.
$1.50.

CHAMBERS concise gazetteer of the world; topo
graphical, statistical, historical. Lippin-
cott. 8, hf. leath., $2.50.

MONTBARD, G. The land of the sphinx ; il. by
the author. Dodd, Mead & Co. 4, $4.

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL.

MILLER, J. R., D.D. Secrets of happy home
life: what have you to do with it? Cro-
well. 12, leatherette, 35 c.

BURDETTE, ROB. J., BURNETT, Mrs. FRANCES

HODGSON, BOK, E. W., \andothers.~] Before he
is twenty: five perplexing phases of the boy
question considered. Revell. 12, 75 c.
Contents: The father and his boy, by Robert
J. Burdette; When he decides, by Frances
Hodgson Burnett; The boy in the office, by Ed
ward W. Bok; His evenings and amusements,
by Mrs. Burton Harrison; Looking toward a
wife, by Mrs. Lyman Abbott. These articles
were originally written for The Ladies Home-
Journal.

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC.

DAVIDSON, T. The education of the Greek
people and its influence on civilization. Ap-
pleton. 12, (International education ser.,
no. 28.) $1.50.

" In my recent book, Aristotle and the an
cient educational ideals, I endeavored to set
forth the facts of Greek education in historical
order. The present brief work has an entirely
different purpose which is, to show how the
Greek people were gradually educated up to
that stage of culture which made them the teach
ers of the whole world, and what the effect
of that teaching has been. Hence, education, in
its narrow, pedagogic sense, is presented, but
in the barest outline, while prominence is given
to the different stages in the growth of the
Greek polit cal, ethical, and religious conscious
ness, and the effect of this upon Greek history
and institutions, as well as upon the after-
world." Preface.

PANCOAST, H. S. An introduction to English

literature. Holt. 16, $1.25.

Based upon the author s " Representative
English literature." He has taken the histori
cal and critical of that book, omitting all the
selections and notes, and has added seme two
hundred pages of entirely new matter. The
text has thus been nearly doubled in length,
and the book, as a whole, brought within slight
ly smaller limits. Teachers who do not wish to
be restricted to prescribed selections will prob
ably prefer this to the first-named book in teach
ing English literature.

PHYFE, W. H. P. Five thousand words often

misspelled. Putnam. 16, 75 c.

A carefully selected list of words difficult to
spell, with directions for spelling and for the
division of words into syllables ; with an appen
dix containing the rules and list of amended
spellings recommended by the Philological So
ciety of London and the American Philological
Society. A special feature of this list is the in
sertion of proper names difficult to spell, also of
words and phrases from foreign languages-

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While Webster s International Dictionary has
been adopted as the standard authority, all im
portant variations in spelling given in Worces
ter, Stormonth, the Century, and Standard dic
tionaries are quoted.

VAN DYKE, J. C. A text-book of the history of
painting. Longmans, Green & Co. 12,
(College histories of art.) $1.50.
The object of this series of text-books is to
provide concise, teachable histories of art for
class-room use in schools and colleges. The
main facts of history as settled by the best
authorities are given. The bibliography cited
at the head of each chapter will be found help
ful to the reader who wishes to enter into par
ticulars. At the end of each chapter are enu
merated the principal extant works of an artist,
school, or period, and where they may be found.
This volume on painting, the first of the series,
omits mention of such works in Arabic, Indian,
Chinese, and Persian art as may come properly
under the head of ornament a subject proposed
for separate treatment.

FICTION.
ALLEN, J. LANE. A Kentucky cardinal: a story.

Harper, il. 16, (Harper s little novels.) $i.

The natural beauties of Kentucky in the year
1850 are described month by month with the art
of the writer of " The blue grass region of Ken
tucky." The Kentucky cardinal is a beautiful
red-breasted bird, whose nesting and family life
the author has watched with loving eye. A
little love idyl is sketched with lightest touch
among the rhapsody the author offers to nature
and her songsters.

BARING-GOULD, SABINE. Kitty Alone: a story
of three fires. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12,
$1.25.

Coombe Cellar?, the pretty scene of a prettier
love-story, lies in the southern part of Devon
shire. Kitty Alone is the daughter of a man
full of schemes for making money, visionary
and unpractical, who keeps his friends in con
tinual mental unrest. Her name has been
given her because she seems to live within her
self among her uncongenial, rough surround
ings. After suffering accusation and trial
through circumstantial evidence. Kitty Alone
finds happiness with her faithful, joyous lover.

BVRRETT, FRANK. The justification of Andrew
Lebrun: a novel. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s
town and country lib., no. 157.)$! ; pap., 50 c.
An old clcckmaker whose leisure hours have
been spent in deep scientific experiments in
chemistry, buys an o d house in the slums of
London, to which is attached a chemical labora
tory unused for one hundred years. The former
owner has imposed ceitain conditions upon a
buyer, all of which the old chemist fulfils. The
consequences are strange and weird, and the
story works up to a most exciting climax. Sus
pended animation and chemical resuscitation
are the secrets carefully guarded by the old
deserted laboratory.

BIKELAS, DEMETRIOS. Tale from the

tr. by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke; with an in-
trod. by H. Alonzo Huntington. McClurg.
16, $r.
Eight litt e stories, originally written in mod

ern Greek and now translated into English,

make up this attractive little volume. M.
Bikelas is, perhaps, the most popular living
author in his own land; his historic tale, Loukis
Laras," made so great a sensation when pub
lished at Athens about fifteen years ago that it
was translated into nearly every language of
Europe. Of these tales some are sad, some
imbued with a gentle humor cheerful rather
than merry and all are pure and refined in
sentiment. But their especial value lies in the
realistic pictures they paint of Greek life in our
own times the social customs, dress, courtship,
and marriage.

BLACK, CLEMENTINA. An agitator: a novel.

Harper. 16, (Harper s little novels.) $i.

Kit Brand, the agitator, is secretary of a
labor union which has been directing a strike of
English wire-workers. Kit is a single-minded
man who has lost his wife and chi d and gives
up all personal pleasures, his whole intelligence
and strength to help his fellow-workman.
Circumstantial evidence makes it appear that
Kit is unfaithful to his trust, and he is impris
oned and prosecuted. Some wise thoughts re
garding capital and labor are interwoven.

BOUVET, MARGUERITE. My lady: a story of
long ago; il. by Helen Maiiland Armstrong.
McClurg. 1 6, $2.50.

The heart-history of a young girl, related by
her old nurse. "My Lady s" girlhood is
passed, and her wooing takes place in the old
family chateau in Proverce. The story is set
in the days of the French Empire, but the his
torical interest is slight, and it is mainly a love-
tale, pure and simple.

CABLE, G. W. John March, southerner.
Scribner. 12, $1.50.

CATHERWOOD, MARY HARTWELL. The lady of
Fort St. John: an historical novel. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. 16, (Riverside pap. ser.)
pap., 50 c.

CROCKETT, S. R. The lilac sunbonnet: a love-
story. Appleton. 12, f 1.50.

CROCKETT, S. R. The play-actress. Putnam.

24, $i.

In a Scotch parish, a great preacher had
ended a stirring mission sermon, when a yourg
woman approached h : m, leading a little chi d,
which she convinced him was his dead son s
baby-girl. She explained that she and her sis
ter, the child s mother, were "play-actresses,"
and on this account unfit to bring up a daughter.
The aunt had carefully taught the little girl.
The great preacher gees to Londcn to look up
the mother, and the pathetic tale gives glimpses
of the perfect self-sacrifice of sisterly love, sac
rifice in a wholly hopeless cause. The great
preacher hears a sermon from the heart of a
" play-actress."

DELAND, Mrs. MARGARET. Philip and his
wife. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25.

DILLINGHAM, LUCY. The missing chord: a

novel. G. W. Dillingham. 12, $1.25.

Juliet Lea, the daughter of a mother devoted

to social pleasure, decides to study music in

Berlin before making her debut in New York

society. The story tells of her life with an

aunt and cousin who are surrounded by German

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[January, 1895

students and artists. Love comes to Juliet and
changes the artistic bent of her life. She mar
ries an American professor devoted to the im
provement of his fellowmen. After a short
year her life is once more wholly changed, and
the unselfishness of her husband seems almost
visionary.

DOYLE, A. CONAN. Round the red lamp: being
facts and fancies of medical life. 2d ed. Ap-
pleton. 12, $1.50.

Fifteen short stories, most of which emphasize
the graver side of life. The red lamp is the
usual sign of the general practitioner in Eng
land. Many of these tales have medical inter
est. The separate titles are: Behind the times;
The first operation; A straggler of 15; The
third generation; A false start; the curse of
Eve; Sweethearts; A physiologist s wife; The
case of Lady Lennox; A question of diplomacy;
A medical document; Lot No. 249; The Los
Amigos fiasco; The doctors of Hoyland; The
surgeon talks.

FORD, PAUL LEICESTER. The honorable Peter
Stirling and what people thought of him.
Holt. 12, $1.50.

GORDON, JULIEN, [pseud, for Mrs. Julia Van
Rensselaer Cruger.] Poppaea. Lippincott.

12, $1.

HARRIS, FRANK. Elder Conklin, and other
stories. Macmillan & Co. 12, $1.25.

HARRISON, Mrs. CONSTANCE GARY, [Mrs. Burton
Harrison.] A bachelor maid ; il. by Irving.
R. Wiles. The Century Co. 12, $1.25.

HARTE, BRET. The bell-ringer of Angel s, and
other stories. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. 12, $1.25.

Eight of the most recent stories of the author
of " The luck of Roaring Camp," entitled: The
bell-ringer of Angel s ; Johnnyboy ; Young
Robin Gray ; The sheriff of Siskyon; A rose of
Glenbogie; The mystery of the Hacienda; Chu
Chu; My first book.

HOPE, ANTHONY, [pseud, for Anthony Hope
Hawkins.] The god in the car. Appleton,
(App eton s town and country lib., no. 154.)
12, $i ; pap., 50 c.

HOPE, ANTHONY, [pseud, for Anthony Hope
Hawkins.] The indiscretion of the duchess:
being a story concerning two ladies, a noble
man, and a necklace, i il., 16, 75 c.

HOSMER, JA. K. How Thankful was bewitched.

Putnam. 12, (The Hudson lib., no. 3.) pap.,

50 c.

The novel is founded on an event in the his
tory of Meadowboro, supposed to have oc
curred in the days of Cotton Mather. An old
record, dating from the time the town was a
Puritan outpost, and purporting to bs written
by Thankful Pumry, is authority for a singular
story, which presents the remarkable incidents
in the life of Thankful before and after she was
taken into captivity by the French and Indians;
in brief, effort is male to show that a .bell for
merly cast for the Jesuits is endowed with
supernatural power, and that the said bell is
the cause of the strange experience chronicled.

IOTA, \_pseiid. for Mrs. Mannington Caffyn.]

Children of circumstance: a novel. Apple-
ton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib.,
no. 155.) $i; pap., 50 c.

JOHNSTONE, EDITH. A sunless heart. [Anon. ]
Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd. 12, $1.25.

KING, C. Under fire; il. by C. B. Cox. Lippin
cott. 12, $1.25.

KIRK, Mrs. ELLEN OLNEY, ["Henry Hayes,"
pseu4J\ The story of Lawrence Garthe.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, 1.25.

LAWLESS, EMILY. Maelcho : a sixteenth cen
tury narrative. Appleton. 12, $1.50.

LINTON, Mrs. E. LYNN. The one too many.
F. Tennyson Neely. 12, (Neely s interna
tional lib.) $1.25.

The " one too many," the delicate, pretty
daughter of an ambitious widow, is given in
marriage to an unmitigated prig, who spends
his life educating and cramming his wife with
facts in which she takes no interest As a foil
to the young wife s submissive suffering, four
" advanced" girls are introduced, who hold a
B. A. degree and are full of plans for the regen
eration of mankind. The story is chiefly laid
in rural England, where the rich man lives who
has bought his fair young bride. The end is
tragic.

LOCKE, W. J. At the gate of Samaria : a
novel. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and
country lib., no. 156.) $i ; pap., 50 c.

McGLAssoN, EVA WILDER. Ministers of grace:
a novelette. Harper, il. 16, (Harper s lit
tle novels.) $i.

An old clergyman who has been asked to re
sign by his congregation is prostrated by the
shock, and comes to an eastern seaside resort
with his daughter to recruit his shattered
nerves. The hotel is full of worldly guests,
and the old man suffers from their hilarity and
ungodly pursuits. A successful young actress,
on vacation, betrays to the old preacher how
his daughter has earned the money needed to
supply his many invalid needs. The old man s
prejudices lead him to harshness, but in the end
all is well.

MACLAREN, IAN, [pseud, for Rev. John Maclaren
Watson.] Beside the bonnie brier bush.
Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.25.

MATTHEWS, JA. BRANDER. The royal marine :
an idyl of Narragansett Pier. Harper. 16,
(Harper s little novels.) $i.

MORRISON, ARTHUR. Martin Hewitt : investi
gator. Harper. 12, (Harper s Franklin
sq. lib., new ser., no. 755.) pap., soc.
Seven short stories describing cases in which
Martin Hewitt played the part of an astute and
ingenious detective. The separate titles are :
The Lenton Croft robberies ; The loss of Sammy
Crockett ; The case of Mr. Faggatt ; The case
of the Dixon torpedo ; The Quinton jewel
affair; The Stanway cameo mystery; The affair
of the tortoise.

NORRIS, W. E. The despotic lady. Lippin
cott. T2, $1.
The despotic lady is a religious reformer, the

mother of a young girl with whom an incipient

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poet has fallen madly in love. This friend, a
confirmed bachelor, heir to the old Hexham
title, undertakes to tame the preaching dragon,
but is almost captured himself in his friendly
devotion. A secret in the past of the righteous
exhorter, held by the poet s father, is worked
to bring about happiness for all.
OLIPHANT, Mrs. MARG. O. W. Who was lost

and is found : a novel. Harper. 12, $1.50.
PASTON, G. A bread-and-butter miss : a sketch

in outline. Harper. 12, $r.
RAYMOND, WALTER, ["Tom Cobbleigh,"/jr#&lt;/.]

Love and quiet life : Somerset idylls. Dodd,

Mead & Co. 12, $1.25.

The author of " Gentleman Upcott s daugh
ter " has written another idyll of Somersetshire
in the years immediately preceding the Oxford
Tractarian movement. Love comes to Marian
Burt in early girl hood, and with it disillusionment
and sorrow then a long quiet life of upwards of
three score years and ten. The father, the old,
retired nonconformist minister, is a fine charac
ter study. Rustic life and religious prejudices
are the motives.
SACHER-MASOCH, LEOPOLD v. Jewish tales ;

from the French, by Harriet Lieber Cohen.

McClurg. 12, $i.
SHELDON, C. M. The crucifixion of Phillip

Strong. McClurg. 12, $r.

Philip Strongaccepted a call to become the pas
tor of a fashionable church in a town of 80,000 in
habitants, the richest among them being mill-
owners, employing 20,000 people. Fearlessly
the minister preached the duties of professing
church-members to their God, their fellow-men,
and themselves. His earnest purpose was to
show the appointed work of a modern church
professing to follow the teachings of Christ.
He was morally crucified.
SMITH, Mrs. ELiz.T.T.,[formerfyL. T. Meade,]

and Halifax, Clifford, M.D. Stories from the

diary of a doctor ; il. by A. Pearse. Lippin-

cott. il. 12, $1.25.

Twelve stories, presenting some cases sup
posed to have come under the direct attention
of a young London physician. It is claimed by
their collaborating authors that several of the
tales included are founded on actual experience,
and that all have been written with a close ob
servance to medical facts, and in accordance
with the advances made in surgery during the
last decade. Among the subjects are : Hyp
notism and catalepsy ; My first patient ; My
hypnotic patient ; Very far west ; The heir of
Chartelpool ; A death certificate ; The wrong
prescription ; The Horror of Studley Grange ;
Ten years oblivion ; An oak coffin ; Without
witnesses ; Trapped, and the Ponsonby dia
monds.
SWAN, ANNIE S., [Mrs. Burnett Smith.] A lost

ideal. Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd. 12,

$1.25.

VALENTINE, OSWALD. Helen. Putnam, nar.

16, (Incognito lib., no. 5.) 50 c.
WARNER, C. DUDLEY. The golden house : a

novel; il. by W. T. Smedley. Harper. 12,

hf. leath., $2.

HISTORY.

ANDREWS, E. B. History of the United States.
Scribner, 2 v. , 8, $4.

BLAIR, E. T. Henry of Navarre and the relig
ious wars. Lippincott. 4, $4.

CESARESCO, EVELYN MARTINENGO (Countess).

The liberation of Italy, 1815-1870. Scribner.

8, (Events of our own time series.) $1.75.

A retrospect in which are traced the princi
pal factors that worked toward Italian unity.
" Italy from the Battle of Lodi to the Congress
of Vienna " is the subject of the first chapter.
After is related the history of the Carbonari and
the Society of Young Italy, Mazzini s propagan
da, the accession of Charles Albert, and events
leading to the election of Piusix.; the insur
rection in Sicily, and the expelling of the Aus-
trians from Milan and Venice; the arrival of
Garibaldi and abdication of Charles Albert; the
history of the House of Savoy; "The war for
Lombardy," " What unity cost," " The march of
the thousand," " The meeting of the waters,"
" Beginnings of the Italian Kingdom," " Rome
or death," "The war for Venice," " The last
crusade," and "Rome the capital," are the
topics of the concluding chapters. Contains
portraits of Garibaldi, Mazzini, Victor Emman
uel, and Cavour.

GARDINER, S. RAWSON. History of the Com
monwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660. V. i,
1649-1651. Longmans, Green & Co. 8, $7.

GONTAUT, Duchesse de. Memoirs of the Duch-
esse de Gontaut, Gouvernante to the children
of France during the Restoration, 1773-1836 ;
from the French by Mrs. J. W. Davis. Dodd,
Mead & Co. 2 v., 226 ; 252 p. pors. 8, $5 ;
large-pap, ed., 2 v., full leath., net, $12.
GOODWIN, MAUD WILDER. The colonial cava
lier ; or, southern life before the Revolution ;
il. by Harry Edwards. Lovell, Coryell Co.
12.

HARRISON, F. The meaning of history, and

other historical pieces. Macmillan. 8, $2.25.

LATIMER, Mrs. ELIZ. WORMELEY. England in

the nineteenth century. McClurg. pors. S,

$2.50.

A popularly and attractively written resume
of English history fresh from the reign of George
the Third to Queen Victoria s Jubilee year. Mrs.
Latimer has made use of many family and per
sonal reminiscences, thus giving many new and
unpublished details and anecdotes the work
being therefore less of a compilation than some
of her previous books in the same line though
" France in the nineteenth century," also con
tained personal reminiscences. Her father,
though American born, became an admiral in
the English navy hence her opportunity for
learning: the inside history of the English court.
Queen Victoria s reign, her domestic life to the
present, with her marriage, the death of the
Prince Consort, and the marriages of her chil
dren and grandchildren, are told in a pleasant,
gossipy way.

LUCKOCK, HERBERT MORTIMER (Dean}. The
history of marriage, Jewish and Christian, in
relation to divorce and certain forbidden de
grees. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, $1.75.

MACLAY, EDGAR STANTON. A history of the
United States navy from 1775 to 1894; with
technical revision by Roy C. Smith. In 2 v.
Appleton. il. maps, diagrams, 8, $7.

MASPERO, G. The dawn of civilization, (Egypt
and Chaldaea;) ed. by the Rev. A. H. Sayce;
tr. by M. L. McClure . Appleton. 4, $7-5O.
This volume is an attempt to put together

in a lucid and interesting manner all that the

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[January, 1895.

monuments have revealed to us concerning the
earliest civilization of Egypt and Chaldaea. The
results of archaeological discovery, accumulated
during the last thirty years or so, are of such a
vast and comprehensive character that none but
a master mind could marshall them in true his
torical perspective. Prof. Maspero is perhaps
the only man in Europe fitted by his laborious
researches and great scholarship to undertake
such a task, and the result of his effort will be
found herein. The period dealt with covers the
history of Egypt from the earliest date to the
fourteenth dynasty, and that of Chaldsea during
its first empire. The book is brought up to the
present year, and deals with the recent dis
coveries of Koptos and Dahabur.
WARNER, BEVERLEY E. English history in

Shakespeare s plays. Longmans, Green &

Co. 12, $1.75.

LITERATURE, ESSAYS, MISCELLANEOUS AND
COLLECTED WORKS.

BESANT, WALTER, PAYN, JA. , RUSSELL, W.
CLARK, [and others.] My first book ; the ex
periences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W.
Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, G.
R. Sims, [find others;] with an introd. by
Jerome K. Jerome. 8, $2.50.
CURTIS, G. W. Literary and social essays.
Harper. 12, $2.50.

Contents: Emerson (1854); Hawthorne (1854);
The works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1864);
Rachel (1855); Thackeray in America (1853);
Sir Philip Sidney (1857); Longfellow (1882);
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891); Washington
Irving (1889).

DICKINSON, EMILY. Letters of Emily Dickin
son ; ed. by Mabel Loomis Todd. Roberts,
por. il. 16, $2.

HUXLEY, T. H. Evolution and ethics, and
other essays. [V. 9 of " Collected essays."]
Appleton. 12, $1.25.

Contents: Evolution and ethics. Prolegom
ena [1894] ; Evolution and ethics [1893] ;
Science and morals [1886] ; Capital the mother
of labor [1886] ; Social diseases and worse reme
dies [1891].

JOHNSON, LIONEL. The art of Thomas Hardy,
with a por. etched from life by W. Strang,
and a bibliography by J. Lane. Dodd, Mead
& Co. por. 12, net, $2.

MORTON, W. F., comp. Women in epigram :
flashes of wit, wisdom, and satire from the
world s literature. McClurg. 16, $i.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Works; with an introd.
and a memoir, by R. H. Stoddard. Fordham-
ed. A. C. Armstrong & Son. 6 v., pors. pi.
fac-similes, 12, $7.50.

REPPLIER, AGNES. In the dozy hours, and
other papers. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12,
$1.25.

Contents : In the dozy hours ; A kitten ;
At the novelist s table ; In behalf of parents ;
Aut Caesar, aut nihil ; A note on mirrors ; Gifts ;
Humor, English and American ; The discom
forts of luxury a speculation ; Lectures ; Re
viewers and reviewed ; Pastels a query ;
Guests ; Sympathy ; Opinions ; The children s
age ; A forgotten poet ; Dialogues ; A curious
contention ; The passing of the essay.
SHAKESPEARE, W. Glossary and index of
characters to Shakespeare s works ; comp.
from the best authorities. Putnam, por.
24, 40 c. ; flex, mor., 75 c.

SIMONDS, W. E. An introduction to the study

of English fiction. Heath. 12, $i.

The English novel, as a specific form of art r
arose with Richardson and Fielding between
the years 1740 and 1750 ; but English fiction
dates back to the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons,,
and their narrative romances in verse and prose-
A general resume is given of these old roman
ces; those of Elizabeth s reign are grouped on a
two-page schedule made by date and subject.
A list of one hundred novels " which for one
reason or another are worth reading " is given,
including twenty continental novels. Half of
the book is devoted to selections from early fic
tion, including Beowulf, King Horn, Arcadia,
Forbonius, and Prisceria (unabridged), Moll
Flanders, Tom Jones, Pamelia, Tristram
Shandy, etc.
STRACHEY, Sir E. Talk at a country house:

fact and fiction. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

12, $1.25.

MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

ADAMS, FRANCIS. A child of the age. Roberts.
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A study of the psychological development of
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living. Highly intellectual, passionately emo
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his career works happiness neither for himself
nor others.

MORE, PAUL ELMER, ed. The great refusal:
being letters of a dreamer in Gotham. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. 16, $i.
SHARMAN, H. RISBOROUGH. The power of the
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Demonstrates that by cultivating the will,
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with an uncontrolled will no quantity of talents
can bring forth desired success. Self-conquest
is the law of Christian religion and the root of
all lasting success.

NATURE AND SCIENCE.

SHALER, N. S. Sea and land features of coasts
and oceans, with special reference to the life
of man. Scribner. il. 8, $2.50.

POETRY.

BROWNING, ROB. Poetical works; new and com
plete ed., cont. "Asolando;" with historical

notes, to the poems. Complete definitive ed.

Macmillan. 9 v., 8, $20.
DEVERE, AUBREY. Selections from the poems

of Aubrey De Vere ; ed., with a preface, by

G. E. Woodberry. Macmillan. 12, $1.25.
HAZARD, CAROLINE. Narragansett ballads,

with songs and lyrics. Houghton, Mifflin &

Co. 16, $i.
HOSMER, F. L., and GANNETT, W. C. The

thought of God in hymns and poems. 2d ser.

Roberts Bros. 16, $i.

The first series was entered in "Weekly
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conception of the fatherhood of God. There
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J-anuary, 1895]

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subjects, thirty-two by F. L. Hosmer, and

twenty-five by William C. Gannett.

KENDALL, MAY. Songs from Dreamland.
Longmans, Green & Co. 16, $1.75.

LONGFELLOW, S. Hymns and verses. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $i.

MAETERLINCK, MAURICE. Pelleas and Meli-
sande : a drama in five acts ; tr. by Erving
Winslow. Crowell. 16, $i.

PETERSON, ARTHUR. Penrhyn s pilgrimage.
Putnam. 16, $i.
A journey through Japan and China described

in verse.

ROGERS, ROB. CAMERON. The wind in the
clearing, and other poems. Putnam. 8, $1.25.
A collection of short poems, variously enti
tled The dancing faun," "The death of

Argas," "Destiny," " Barset Wood," "To

Violet," " Thackeray s birthday," etc.

SIMONDS, ARTHUR B. American song : a col
lection of representative American poems ;
with analytical and critical studies of the
writers ; with introds. and notes. Putnam.
12, $1.50.

WILLIAMS, ALFRED M. Studies in folk-song
and popular poetry : essays. Houghton, Mif
flin & Co. 12, $1.50.

WILSON, ROB. BURNS. Chant of a woodland
spirit. Putnam, sq. 12, pap., $i.
A poem, portions of which originally appeared

in Harper s Monthly and The Century Magazine.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL.

CURRY, J. L. M. The southern states of the
American Union considered in their relations
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the resulting union. Putnam. 12, $1.25.
McCLUNG, D. W. Money talks: some of the
things it says when it speaks. The Rob. Clarke
Co. il. 12, $i.

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MARDEN, ORISON SWETT. Pushing to the front;
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ration and encouragement to all who are
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knowledge and of duty. Houghton, Mifflin
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Falls in the same general class with Smiles
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lustrated with twenty-four portraits of eminent
persons.

TOWNSEND, C. Forty witnesses to success:
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Co. 12, 75 c.

Based upon six hundred answers in evidence
obtained from forty statesmen, lawyers, mer

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tists, and instructors as to the cause of success
or failure in life.

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS.

BELLAMY, W. A century of charades. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. 16, $i.
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PORTLAND (pseud.} ed. The whist table: a
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C. Hervey; to which is added solo whist and
its rules, by Abraham S. Wilks. Imported
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THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION.

ALLEN, ALEX. V. G. Religious progress.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $i.
The author is professor in the Episcopal Theo
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life of the church. As a whole, the book is an
eloquent and liberal plea for church unity.
BROOKS, PHILLIPS, (Up.) Essays and addresses:
religious, literary, and social; ed. by the Rev,
J. Cotton Brooks. Dutton. por. 12, $2.
The collection of essays and addresses here
presented comprises all of which any record at
all satisfactory has been preserved of Bishop
Brooks public utterances outside of the pulpit.
The chronological sequence has been observed
as far as possible as illustrating in an interest
ing manner the development of his thought.
CLARKE, Rev. H. W. A history of tithes. id
ed. Imported by Scribner. 12, (Social
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Contents: Introduction ; Before the Christian
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solution of monasteries ; Tithes in the city and
liberties of London ; The Commutation Act of
1836; Tithes of church in Wales; Tithe Act
remarks upon the act.

FOUARD, CONSTANT (Abbe}. Saint Paul and his
mission; tr. with the author s sanction and co
operation, by G. F. X. Griffith. Longmans,
Green & Co. map, 12, $2.
HEPWORTH, G. H. Herald sermons. Dutton.
por. 12, $r.

The brief and timely sermons that have been
appearing lately upon the editorial page c f the
Sunday New York Herald are here collected in
a. volume.

LOWELL, PERCIVAL. Occult Japan; or, the way
of the gods: an esoteric study of Japanese
personality and possession. Houghtcn, Mif
flin & Co. il. 12, $1.75-

A careful study of the Shinto faith of Japan
in its more unfamiliar forms and mysterious
usages. It adds not a little to a philosophical
explanation of hypnotism, and, indeed, of human,
consciousness.

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[January, 1895

Books for tfye |)oung.

CHANDLER, Mrs. IZORA C. Three of us: Barney,
Cossack, Rex; il. by the author. Hunt &
Eaton, il. 12, $2

CHURCH, Rev. ALFRED J. Stories from English
history from Julius Caesar to the Black Prince.
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FENN, G. MANVILLE. First in the field: a story
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Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.
Dominic Braydon was the son of an English
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FIELD, EUGENE. Love-songs of childhood.

Scribner. 16, $i.

Forty-two poems for children, by the author
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MARSHALL, EMMA. Kensington Palace in the
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The story opens in 1690, about the time of
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MOLESWORTH, Mrs. MARY LOUISE, [" Ennis
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STUART, RUTH MCENERY. The story of Babette,

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ARTICLES IN DECEMBER AND JANU
ARY MAGAZINES.

Articles marked with an asterisk are illustrated.

ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Atlantic
(Dec.), Suggestions on Architecture of School-
houses, C. H. Walker ; (Jan.), Symphony Illus
trated by Beethoven s Fifth in C Minor, Goepp;
Meaning of an Eisteddfod, Edith Brower.
Cat/i. World (Jan.), Fra Angelico,* Sarah C.
Flint. Century (Dec.), The Holy Family, Pict
ure by Guipon; Adoration of the Shepherds,
Picture by Dagnan-Bouveret; Appearance to
the Shepherds, Picture by Von Uhde ; (Jan.),
Mother and Sleeping Child, Picture by F. H.
Tompkins; Govaert Flinck, Co!e. Chautatiquan,
Painters Art in England, Townsend. Cosmo-
palitan(Dzc.), Relations of Photography to Art,*
Breese ; Musical Instruments of the World,*
Isaac H. Hall; (Jan.), Theatrical Season in New
York,* Metcalfe. Lippincotf s (Dec.), Living
Pictures at the Louvre, A. N. Sanborn ; (Jan.),
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Gilbert Parker. Nine.
Centiiry (Dec.), Music of Japan, Laura A.
Smith. Outing (Dec.), The Japanese Theatre,*
E. B. Rogers. Scribner s (Dec.), Cast Shad
ows,* P. G. Hamerton ; George F. Watts,* C.
Monkhouse; (Jan.), American Wood-Engravers
Henry Wolf.* West. Review (Nov.), Musical
Criticism and Critics, Jacob Bradford ; The Stage
as an Educator, J. P. Walton.

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. Century
(Dec.), Francesco Crispi, (Por.), W. J. Stillman.
C/iautau(/ttan(]an.), Famous Revivalists of the
U. S.LippincotfsJ(Dzc.}, Some Notable Wom
en of the Past, Esme Stuart. Popular Science
(Dec. ),Za-loc Thompson; (Jan.), Denison Olm-
sted (Por.).

DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Atlantic (Dec.),
Venice, S. V. Cole. Century (Jan.), Scenes in
Canton,* O Driscoll ; Armor of old Japan,* M.
S. Hunter. Chautauqttan(]a.n.}, Some Historic
Landmarks of London, Gennings. Harper s
(Dec.), An Arabian Day and Night,* Bigelow ;
Time of the Lotus,* Parsons; Show-places of
Paris,* Davis ; (Jan.), With the Hounds in
France,* Sears; Fujisan,* Parsons. Nine. Cen
tury (Nov.). Fruit Ranching (California), Twist.
Outing (Jan.), Sledging Picnic in North
China,* Alethe L. Craig. Scribner s (Jan.), A
Tuscan Shrine,* Edith Wharton.

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. Chautatiquan (Jan.),
Aspects of Social Life in the East End of London,
S. Moody. Fort. Review (Nov.), Burning Ques
tions of Japan, Savage- Landor. Lippincotfs
(Jan.), New Year s Days in Old New York,
Fawcett. Pop. Science (Dec.}, Economic Theory
of Woman s Dress, Dr. T. Veblen. Scribner s
(Jan.), Art of Living Income,* Robert Grant.

EDUCATIONAL. Atlantic (Jan.), Gallia Redi-
viva, Cohn ; Want of Economy in the Lecture
System, Trowbiidge. 6V/rj (Jan.), Festivals
in Amer. Colleges for Women,* Susan G.
Walker; Henrietta E. Hooker; Eliz. E. Boyd,
and others. Fort. Review (Nov.), True Univer
sity for London, Crackanthorpe. ^rww (Jan.),
New Aid to Education; Travelling Libraries,
Eastman ; Increasing Cost of Collegiate Edu
cation, Thwing. North Am. Review (Dec.),
Catholic School System in Rome. Monsignor
Satolli. Pop. Science (Dec.), The University as
a Scientific Workshop, Paulsen.

FICTION. Arena (Dec.), A Woman in the
Camp, Garland ; (Jan.), Drama in Tatters,
Harte. Atlantic (Dec.), Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day at an Eng. Country House,
Strachey ; In Jackson s Administration, Lucy L.
Pleasants; Christmas Angel, Harriet L. Brad
ley ;(Jan.), A Singular Life, L, Eliz. S. Phelps;
Joint Owners in Spain, Alice Brown; A Village
Stradivarius, L, Kate D. Wiggin. Cath. World
(Dec.), The Hillwood Christmas Ball, Mrs. M.
E. Henry-Ruffin ; A Christmas in Cloudland,*
J. J. O Shea and others ; (Jan.), Three Lives
Lease, Jane Smiley. Century (Dec.), Christmas
Guest, RuthMcE. Stuart; A Neighbor s Land
mark, Sarah O. Jewett ; One Woman s Way,
Hibbard; A Walking Delegate, Kipling ; (Jan.),
Wanted A Situation, Harriet Allen ; A Lady
of New York,* R. Stewart ; Their Cousin
Lethy, R. M. Johnston. Chauta^^q^^an (Dec.),
Evelyn Moore s Poet. I. , Grant Allen ; (Jan.),
Story of an Ugly Girl, Miss E. F. Andrews.
Cosmopolitan (Dec.), A Parting and a Meeting,*
Howells ; On Frenchman s Bay,* Mrs. Burton
Harrison; (Jan.), A Three-Stranded Yarn, W.
C. Russell. Harper s (Dec.), Paola in Italy,*
Gertrude Hall ; The Simpletons, I., Hardy ;
People We Pass,* Ralph; The Colonel s Christ
mas,* Harriet P. Spofford ; Richard and Robin,
Grant ; (Jan.), Hearts Insurgent,* II., Haidy \
A War Debt. Jewett ; Princess Aline,* Davi?.
Lippincott s (Dec.), Mrs. Hallam s Companion,
Mrs. M. J. Holmes ; Creed of Manners, E. F,
Benson ; (Jan.). Waifs of Fighting Rocks,
Mcllvaine ; " Mr?. Santa Claus," Marjorie
Richardson; Question of Responsibility, Imcgen
Clark. Outing (Dec.), A Jamestown Romance,*
Sara B. Kennedy ; The Captain s Bet,* T. S.
Blackwell ;(Jan.), Winning a Christmas Bride,*
A. C. Vance ; Bas Therese,* Jean P. Rudd.
Overland (Jan.), Tim Slather s Ride, G. P.
Hurst; Relapses of Pap, L. B. Bridgman.
Scribner s (Dec.), Matrimonial Tontine Benefit
Association,* Grant ; Mantle of Osiris, W. L.
Palmer ; Primer of Imaginary Geography,*
Brander Matthews ; (Jan.). The Amazing Mar
riage,!. ,George Meredith ; Sawney s Deer-Lick,*
C. D. Lanier.

HISTORY. Cath. World (Jan.), Gregory the
Great and the Barbarian World,* T. J. Sha-
han. Century (Dec.), Old Maryland Homes
and Ways,*J. W. Palmer; (Jan.), Glimpses of
Lincoln in War Time, Brooks. Harper s (Jan.),
Fortunes of the Bourbons * Kate M. Rowlands;
New York Slave-Traders, *Janvier. Lippincott s
(Jan.), Christmas Customs and Superstitions,
Eliz. F. Seat.

HYGIENIC AND SANITARY. Pop. Science (Dec.),
Athletics for City Girls, Mary T. Bissell; (Jan.),
Twenty -five Years of Preventive Medicine,
Mrs. H. M. Plunkett; School-Room Ventilation
as an Investment, Knight.

LITERARY. Arena (Dec.), Guy de Maupas
sant, TolstoT; (Jan.), Religion of Longfellow s
Poetry, Savage. Atlantic (Dec.), Ghosts, Ag
nes Repplier; New Criticism of Genius, Aline
Gorren; Some Personal Reminiscences of Wal
ter Pater, Wm. Sharp; Dr. Holmes, Scudder;
(Jan.), The Author of " Quabbin " (Francis
H. Underwood), Trowbridge. Cath. World
(Jan.), Consecrated Mission of the Printed
Word,* Marg. E. Jordan ; Tennyson and
Holmes,* S. M. Miller. Chautauquan (Dec.),

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^January, 1895

Some Contemporary Eng. Novelists, Jeannette
L Gilder. Fort. Review (Nov.), Women s
Newspapers, Evelyn March-Phillipps ; (Dec.),
Robert Louis Stevenson A Critical Study,
Gwynn. F0rum(Dec,), Chief Influences on My
Career, Philip G. Hamerton; Reading Habits
of the English People, Collier ; New Story-
Tellers and the Doom of Realism, W. R.
Thayer; (Jan.), Dickens Place in Literature, F.
Harrison. Harper s (Dec.), Taming of the
Shrew,* Comment by Lang ; (Jan.), Shake
speare s Americanisms, Lodge. Lippincoti s
(Jan.), With the Autocrat, F. M. B. ; Socialist
Novels, Kaufmann. Nine. Century (Dec.), De
cay of Bookselling, Stott. North Am. Review
(Dec.), Two Great Authors Holmes, H. C.
Lodge; Froude, Goldwin Smith ; (Jan.), What
Paul Bourget Thinks of Us, " Mark Twain."
Overland (Jan.), Stedman and Some of His
British Contemporaries,* Mary J. Reid. West.
Review (Nov.), Meredith s Nature Poetry,
Revell; A Dominant Note of Some Recent Fic
tion, Bradfield; (Dec.), Religion and Popular
Literature, Hannan.

MEDICAL SCIENCE. Cosmopolitan (Jan.), Pas
teur,* Charcot. Fort. Review (Dec.), The
Spread of Diphtheria, Robson Roose. Pop. Sci-
nce (Jan.), Two Lung-Tests, F. L. Oswald.

MENTAL AND MORAL. North Am. Review
(Jan.), Concerning Nagging Women, Edson.
Scribner s (Jan.), Mental Characteristics of the
Japanese, Ladd.

NATURE AND SCIENCE. Chautauquan (Dec.),
The World s Debt to Astronomy, Newcomb.
Pop. Science (Jan.), Ethics in Natural Law,
Janes.

POETRY. Arena (Dec.), Oliver Wendell
Holmes, B. W. James; If Christ Should Come
To-Day, J. G. Clark. Atlantic (Jan.), Alcyone,
Lampman. Cath. World (Dec.}, Venite Adore-
mus, O Shea. Century (Dec.), The First Word,
G. P. Lathrop; How to the Singer Comes the
Song, Gilder; (Jan.), To France, Florence E.
Coates. Harper s (Dec.), Stops of Various
Quills,* Howells ; The Coronal, Annie Fields ;
Love and Death, Tadema; (Jan.), The Moth,
Z. D. Underbill. Lippincotfs, Yule Charm, M.
S. Paden; On Christes Day, Susie M. Best.
Outing (Jan.), King Skate,* Turner. Overland,
Song of the Balboa Sea, Joaquin Miller. Scrib-
ner s (Dec.), McAndrew s Hymn,* Kipling; A
Modern Sir Galahad, Hannah P. Kimball; An
Old Sorrow, Dorothea Lummis; (Jan.), A For
gotten Tale,* Doyle; The Wanderers, H. P.
Spofford.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Arena (Dec.), Well-
springs and Feeders of Immorality, Flower ;
Abolition of War, Vrooman; (Jan.), Lust Fos
tered by Legislation, Flower; America s Shame,
Symposium on the Age of Consent Laws, by
Powell, Gardener, Willard, and others; Sweat
ing System in Philadelphia, Adeline Knapp.
Atlantic (Jan.), Survival of the American Type,
Denison. Chautauquan (TJec.), Social Life in
Eng. in the Nineteenth Century, Ashton ;(Jan.),
Triumph of Japan, Arnold. Fort. Review
(Nov.), China, Japan, and Corea, Gundry.
Forum (Dec.), Death of the Czar and the Peace
of Europe, Dodge ; Status and Future of the
Woman-Suffrage Movement, Mary P. Jacobi ;
Charity that Helps and Other Charity, Jane E.
Robbins ; (Jan.), Are Our Moral Standards
Shifting?, Hart; Report of the Strike Commis

sion, H. P. Robinson ; Dangers in Our Presi
dential Electjon System, Schouler; Anatomy of
a Tenement Street, Sanborn. Harpers (Dec.),
Evolution of the Country Club,* Whitney.
Nine. Century (Nov.), People s Kitchens in
Vienna, Edith SeL ers. North Am. Review
(Dec.), Brigandage on Our Railroads, Hampton;
How the Czar s Death Affects Europe, Stepniak;
Meaning of the Elections, Babcock, Faulkner ;
(Jan.), Problems Before the Western Farmer,
Gov. of Kansas; Young Czar and His Advisers,
C. Emory Smith ; Our Trade with China, W.
C. Ford. Outing (Dec.), National Guard of N.
Y. State,* Hardin ; Overland (Jan.), Evolution
in Shipping and Ship-Building on the Pacific
Coast,* I. M. Scott and others; Naval Control
of Pacific Ocean,* Manson. Scribner s (Jan.),
Beginnings of Amer. Parties,* Noah Brooks.

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. Lippincot? s (Jan.),
Ducks of the Chesapeake, C. D. Wilson. Out
ing (Dec.), Football in the South,* Miles; (Jan.),
Two Tries for Turkey,* Sandys.

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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have books of
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LONGMANS, GREEN & Co. have just issued
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ROBERTS BROTHERS have just issued "Life
and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb," by his
widow, with an introduction by Rider Haggard,
which is fully noticed elsewhere; volume iv. of
the " History of the People of Israel," by
Ernest Renan, is ready, and "The Woman Who
Did," by Grant Allen, and "Prince Zaleski,"
TDV M. P. Shiel, have just been added to the
Kev-Note Series. " Discords," by George Eger-
ton, also in that series, is a book it needs experi
ence and knowledge of life to rightly understand,
but a book full of vitality, thought and rare feel
ing. Among the more recent books of Roberts
Brothers are: "As a Matter of Course," by
Anna Payson Call; a third edition of "The
World Beautiful," by Lilian Whiting ; " Bal
lads in Prose," by Nora Hopper; and "The
Great God Pan and the Inmost Light," by
Arthur Machen.

D. APPLETON & Co. have just ready "The
Land of the Sun," by Christian Reid, a
picturesque travel romance, in which the author
takes her characters from New Orleans to fas
cinating Mexican cities like Guanajuato, Zaca-
tecas, Aguas Calientes, Guadalajara, and of
course the City of Mexico. "The Presidents
of the United States," made up of contributions
by John Fiske, Carl Schurz, William E. Russell,
Daniel C. Gilman, Robert C.Winthrop, George
Bancroft, John Hay, and others, edited by
James Grant Wilson, with twenty-three steel
portraits, fac-simile letters, and other illustra
tions ; " Appleton s Handbook of Winter
Resorts " is again revised up to date, and there
are several new novels whose authors and titles

promise great things. " Vernon s Aunt," by
Sara Jeannette Duncan (now Mrs. Everard
Cotes), is an East Indian romance, full of irre
sistible fun ; "Dust and Laurels," by Mary L.
Pendered, is a fine study in nineteenth century
womanhood; and " The Justification of Andrew
Lebrun," by Frank Barrett, and "At the Gate
of Samaria," by William J. Locke, may be
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G. P. PUTNAM S SONS have in preparation a
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English People," from the earliest times to the
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No.

The Land of the Sun.

WE close this book uncertain whether to descend to the level of figures to justify her-
review it as fiction or as a record of travel, self in the eyes of Philistines, but she writes
Suppose we try it first as a novel. In that case lovingly and as one thoroughly saturated with
we cannot say that it is an unmixed success, an admiration for all things Mexican. Did we

From " Land of the Sun.

LA VIGA CANAL.

The plot is of the simplest, and of the unex
pected there is not a trace. . . .

But there is another and a far more success
ful side. Asa record of what is to be seen in
Mexico it is not only very interesting, but it is
told in a charmingly picturesque way. The
author sets out with the determination to ad
mire everything she sees, and to write lovingly
of the people, and she carries out her determina
tion unflinchingly. She say that she sees every
thing through rose-colored glasses, but imper
fectly expresses her unmeasured admiration.
We can recall no such undiscriminating en
thusiasm in late books of travel, and Mrs.
Tiernan s statements pleasant reading though
they make would have greater weight if they
showed a more judicial spirit. There is noth
ing statistical in her fervor and she does not

say all things 1 We must make a single excep
tion her dislike of the government occasion
ally shows itself and in bitter words, but it is
not too much to say that her views of Mexican
politics are unlikely to meet with the assent of
the majority of her American readers. The de
feat of Maximilian has passed into history as
an example of retributive justice, and no mere
sentimental regret for his fate and that of
Carlotta is likely to reverse the judgment the
world has passed upon his attempt to found a
throne in an American republic. But the book
is a delightful one if we decline to look upon it
as a novel and exclude the few political allu
sions, for she describes Mexico in such glowing
colors that it makes one long to see it as she
saw it. The illustrations are a score of good
half-tones. (Appleton. $1.75.) Public Opinion.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February, 1895

Harvard College by an Oxonian.

HARVARD men will be interested to hear
what so distinguished an Oxonian as Dr. Hill
has to say of the University by the Charles,
although his book is meant, of course, prima
rily for the instruction of those who have never
seen Harvard. Dr. Hill spent several months
in Cambridge, and he writes, not from the con
fused impressions of a chance traveller, but
out of an ample fund of knowledge. Indeed,
his comprehension of the peculiar merits, as
well as the peculiar faults of Harvard, is re
markably subtile and acute. He gives a brief
but entertaining account of its origin, history,
and growth, from which his English readers
will be able to correct some of the false im
pressions which have gained ground about our
institutions of learning. He compares it most
intelligently with Oxford, and points out, with
scrupulous fairness, where it is superior to the
older university as well as where it is inferior.
The praise he bestows will make the hearts of
Harvard men glow with pride ; and they will
have to acknowledge, with reg-ret, that the un
favorable criticisms are equally well deserved.
In fact, Dr. Hill s book is an unconscious wit
ness to the desirability of the changes proposed
by the late Frank Bolles, secretary to the Uni
versity changes which, we understand, Presi
dent Eliot in his infinite wisdom does not al
together approve. One or two small errors of
fact in the volume might be cited were it worth
while. For example, it is hard to believe that
the function of " afternoon tea " is unknown in
Cambridge. (Macmillan. $2.25.) Providence
Sunday journal.

At the Gate of Samaria.

ANOTHER of the army of emancipated women,
a hater of conventional formulas, a restless
seeker after the mysteries of life, appears in the
heroine of "At the Gate of Samaria," by W. J.
Locke. While still young, Clyde Davenant
wearied of her English country home, " Durdle-
ham, with its soullessness, its stagnation, its
prim formulas." She had artistic tastes, and
yielded to the temptation to smuggle con
demned books into the house and to read
them surreptitiously. It was not unnatural
that such a type of the young, fearless woman
hood of the day should acquire the habit
of holding her head back, with the chin point
ing upward, free of the throat, for the atti
tude emphasizes the girl s determination to
solve the "riddle of life" in her own way. It
was just as natural, too, that at last she should
break the chains which bound her to Durdle-
ham and seek freedom from its stiff convention
alities in the art life of London. Her fate was
the usual one which men seem prone to inflict
upon the emancipated woman in fiction. If she
had not met Hammerdike, who appealed to the
romantic and imaginative side of her nature,
but who was at heart an utterly worthless fel
low, of abundant physical prowess, but devoid
alike of moral courage and of character, a less
dramatic, not to say tragic, result might have
attended the girl s attempt to solve the mystery
of life. Her experience was indeed sad and
bitter, both as a wife and as a mother. The
story is told with ease and fluency. The name
on the title cannot conceal the sex of the author.
(Appleton. $ i ; pap., 50 c. ) The Tribune.

From " Harvard College by an Oxonian."

THE CAMPUS.

February, 1895]

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Henry the Navigator.

THIS volume, by C. Raymond
Beazley, aims at giving an ac
count, based throughout upon
original sources, of the [prog
ress of geographical knowledge
and enterprise in Christendom
throughout the Middle Ages,
down to the middle or even the
end of the fifteenth century, as
well as a life of Prince Henry
the Navigator, who brought
this movement of European
Expansion within sight of its
greatest successes. That is, as
explained in Chapter I., it has
been attempted to treat explor
ation as one continuous thread
in the story of Christian Europe
from the time of the conversion
of the Empire ; and to treat the
life of Prince Henry as the
turning-point, the central epoch
in a development of many cen
turies : this life, accordingly,
has been linked as closely as
possible with what went before
and prepared for it ; one-third
of the text, at least, has been
occupied with the history of
the preparation of the earlier
time, and the difference be
tween our account of the elev
enth and fifteenth century dis
covery, for instance, will be
found to be chiefly one of less
and greater detail. This differ
ence depends, of course, on the
prominence in the later time of
a figure of extraordinary inter
est and force, who is the true
hero in the drama of the geo
graphical conquest of the outer
world that starts from Western
Christendom. The interest that
centres round Henry is some
what clouded by the dearth of complete knowl
edge of his life ; but enough remains to make
something of the picture of a hero, both of
science and of action.

Our subject, then, has been strictly historical,
but a history in which a certain life, a certain
biographical centre, becomes more and more
important, till from its completed achievement
we get our best outlook upon the past progress
of a thousand years, on this side, and upon the
future progress of those generation; which
realized the next great victories of the geo
graphical advance.

From "Heiny the Navigator." Copyright, 1894, by G. P. Putnam s Sons.
GATEWAY AT BELEM.

The series of maps which illustrate this ac
count give the same continuous view of the
geographical development of Europe and Chris
tendom down to the end of Prince Henry s
age. These are, it is believed, the first English
reproductions in any accessible form of several
of the great chares of the Middle Ages, and
taken together they will give, it is hoped, the
best view of Western or Christian map-makin&lt;
before the time of Columbus that is to be found
in any English book, outside the great historical
atlases. Covers from Middle Ages to the Modern
V orld. (Putnam. \.y_.)Ex1ractfrom Preface.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

{February, 1895

American Charities.

WE have been reading an intensely interest
ing book, entitled "American Charities; a
Study in Philanthropy and Economics." Its
author, Amos G. Warner, Ph.D., is a professor
in the Leland Stanford University, California.
Mr. Warner has done his work with great pains
and caution. He is not to be reckoned a radi
cal, and he seems to have no special hobby.
On the contrary, he treats his subject in a
quiet and scientific manner, and gives us the im
pression that he is an entirely safe man to fol
low. He begins his essay by a few general
statements as to the way in which poverty has
been regarded in times past, and shows that
among most of the enlightened heathen naiions
the subject was seriously discussed and meas
ures taken to prevent or to remedy the evil.
He then proceeds to a consideration of the causes
which produce poverty, and in this part of
his subject he is specially interesting. His
theory is not single headed, but Hydra headed,
so to speak. That is to say, he doesn t tell us
that over production or low wages are the sole
cause of poverty, but furnishes us with a long
catalogue of the causes that have combined to
create a very deplorable condition of affairs,
such as heredity, environment, intoxicants,
sickness, accidents which maim and disable.
Best of all, he is rather optimistic, and gives us
hope that in the course of a few thousand years
we may reach such a social development that
extreme poverty at least will be done away
with, and the sufferings of the poor be reduced
to a minimum.

Here, for instance, is a tabulated statement
which is very suggestive. The author says
that it is a very interesting puzzle to find out
how many, or what proportion of those people
who seek for relief are really worthy of it, and
this estimate, made by sifting about thirty
thousand cases, is certainly very encouraging.
Of these thirty thousand persons, such as we
would find in the average city, a little over ten
per cent, are regarded as worthy of continuous
relief. Something over twenty-six per cent,
are worthy of temporary relief a little help
now and then to bridge over the expense of a
sickness or a funeral. The most encouraging
statement is that more than forty per cent,
need work rather than relief, and would not
ask for help if they could get steady labor.
That percentage will, we believe, hold good
throughout the country. Give the people
plenty to do, at even decent wages, and, bar
ring accidents or any unexpected emergencies,
they have self-respect enough to live within
their incomes, and too much pride to ask for
assistance from any charitable organization.

This may seem to some of our readers too
optimistic a view to take of the situation, but
we think not. Professor Warner s volume will
bear out the statement. Last of all, we come
to those who are regarded as wholly unworthy
of relief, the creatures who make a profession
of begging and take their chances on the side
walk or at the basement door. Unfortunately,
the number of these is quite large, and we are
furnished with a warning that indiscriminate
giving does not accomplish much good.
Twenty-three per cent, nearly of our thirty
thousand, or considerably over six thousand,
are accounted unworthy after careful investi
gation. These figures will probably represent
the general average of good and bad cases in
all the large cities of America.

Professor Warner s chapter on the causes of
degeneration, or the reasons why poverty is a
necessity under our present social regime, is a
calm, judicial and eminently satisfactory dis
cussion of the subject. He believes, as does
every one who has paid any attention to this
serious matter, that greed and selfishness, or,
in a word, that society is itself responsible for
a tremendous amount of the crime which we
are compelled to punish, and the poverty which
we must needs relieve.

There are also chapters on the almshouse, on
the homeless poor, on dependent children, on
the destitute sick, on the insane and the feeble
minded, who are the wards of the community,
and these are very grave chapters, suggestive,
and with an element of tragedy running through
them which will appeal to every thoughtful
man. The book is thoroughly practical, and it
ought to be read carefully, even studied, by
every one who has a home of his own to main
tain and who feels a certain degree of respon
sibility for the condition of the unfortunate who
are in his neighborhood. (Crowell. $1.75 ) N.
Y. Herald.

Wealth Against Commonwealth.

THIS is a history, by Henry Demarest Lloyd,
of the origin and growth of the richest monopoly
in the world, the combination known as the
Standard Oil Trust.

More than sixty years ago it was known that
iliuminating oil of an excellent quality could be
extracted from bituminous coal; and in 1860
there were more than threescore manufactories
of it in this country. In that year it was first
discovered that vast deposits of rock-oil lie
under the soil of Pennsylvania and adjoining
States. Throughout wide districts, wherein
wells were driven, the oil flowed like water.
The cost was almost nothing, and in ten years
the native product could be bought in any quan-

February, 1895]

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thy for ten cents a barrel. Thousands of men
at once learned the simple business of distilling
it for use, and refineries sprang up everywhere.
It seemed that no department of human
activity offered less en
couragement to the
spirit of monopoly than
the production, refine
ment, and distribution
of this natural oil.
Yet hardly five years
passed, after the value
of the great discovery
became known, before
a mysterious power
was felt to interfere
with the business in
every branch, from the
sinking of new wells to
the final distribution of
oil among consumers.
The refiners were the
first to suffer. Those
who paid the standard
prices announced by
the railroads for trans
portation found them
selves undersold.
Their business became
unprofitable. Many
were compelled either
to close their works or
to sell them at nominal
prices to a combination,
the only purchaser.
This little group of re
finers, whose home
was Cleveland, were
masters of every im
portant line of railway
by which oil could be
carried from the wells
to the refineries, and
thence to the several
great markets. They
had secret contracts
with these roads, en- ALBERT

titling them to enor
mous preferences in rates, and even to a large
bonus out of the higher rates charged to other
shippers. Courts and legislatures, the men and

Some of the men who conceived the combi
nation in question are now, by virtue of this
monopoly which they have organized, princes
among the millionaires of the world, with estates

From " England In the Nineteenth Century.

EDWARD, THE 1 RINCE CONSORT.

already equal to the proudest dukedom of Eng
land, and with incomes larger than those of
many kings. It is the magnificence of this suc-

committees of Congress, were appealed to, in- cess which impresses the imagination of him

vestigations were held, every engine which pub
lic opinion or the business interests of the inde
pendent refiner could command was tried in at
tacking these discriminations. But the result
was everywhere the same. The business of re
fining oil became and remains practically a
complete monopoly in the hands of the Stand
ard Oil Company.

who reads their exploits. The robber knights
of Europe took their lives in their hands when
they sallied forth in pursuit of plunder, and
deeds of strength and daring, inspiring, the
novelist and the poet, divert the thoughts
of readers from the outrageous wrongs they
perpetuated and the frightful misery they
inflicted. In a somewhat similar manner readers

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[February, 1895

of the story of the great monopoly may for a
time forget the injustice and oppression, the
defiance of law, and the contempt for the rights
which the law is designed to protect, which have
marked its whole career. They may even, for
a time, be stirred to admiration of the ingenious
devices, the persistent and vigorous pursuit of a
fixed policy, the unremitting devotion of a num
ber of conspirators to the interests of all, which
have overcome the obstacles of law, morality,
and public opinion, as well as those of ordinary
competition, and secured to a handful of men
the enjoyment and profit of one of nature s
greatest gifts to mankind, almost as conclusively
as if it were their creation. With this in view,
it may be said that no more wonderful romance
of real life has ever been written than Mr.
Lloyd s book. (Harper. $2.50.)

Napoleon.

THE origin of the present sketch is not clear.
Dumas seems to have written first a drama, and
then a life in the more technical sense. The
translator is right in putting the date of the

From Green s " Illustrated Short History of the English People " Harper & Bros.

THE " BELLEROPHON" (SHIP WHICH CARRIED NAPOLEON TO
ST. HELENA).

latter at an earlier year than 1868, where it is
placed by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald.

The sketch itself has no special importance,
save as all writings about Napoleon have im
portance when his life and character are taken
up for fresh study and delineation. It is not
certain that we are getting out of the present
interest much that is truly philosophical and
comprehensive in regard to this man, judgments
upon whom differ so widely. The details of his
life will be much better known, but it is doubt
ful whether the man will be. There is here a
chance for some clear mind to do a great work.
Perhaps the present interest will hasten the day.

We are grateful to Mr. Larner for yielding to
the solicitations of his friends and giving us this
translation, also for the close adherence to the
original. It is a highly descriptive, nervous,
brisk narrative. The translator has done his
work well. (Putnam. $1.50.) Public Opinion.

In the Heart of the Bitter-Root Mountains.

HIGH on the western slope of the Bitter-Root
Mountains of eastern Idaho, hundreds of
miniature streams dash
their foaming waters fresh
from fields of perpetual
sncw into four main forks
which form the headwaters
of the Clearwater River.
Skirting the bases of lofty
mountains, surging against
the naked faces of project
ing cliffs, leaping over prec
ipices, and ever and anon
struggling with innumer
able boulders planted firmly
in their beds, the roaring
forks of the Clearwater
River follow their sinuous
courses westward. Scores
of creeks and branches,
draining a territory thou
sands of square miles in
area, add constantly to
their volume. These tribu
taries have for ages been
eroding the solid granite.
Deep gulches and canons
have been formed, many
miles in extent, converting
the whole region into a wild,
tangled mass of irregular
mountain ranges and spurs,
whose ragged crests and
peaks tower to altitudes of
four to eight thousand feet
above the sea. The less
precipitous slopes are cov-

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ered with a dense growth of pine, fir, cedar and
tamarack, while many steep hillsides with
northern exposures have impenetrable thickets
of pine and fir saplings. Occasionally, large
rockbound areas are found, covered with moose-
brush, and here and there, sometimes clinging
to almost vertical hillsides and often occupying
the tiny flats nestling by the sides of the tortu
ous water-courses, are dense patches of brush,
yielding in their season a profusion of berries.

lola, the Senator s Daughter.

MANNERS change, men do not, or, as Thack
eray expressed it, " human nature is pretty
much the same in Regent Street as in the Via
Sacra." In " lola " the author, Mansfield
Lovell Hillhouse, presents a picture of business
classes in Rome some nineteen centuries ago,
and Publius Neuvanus is the successful mer
chant. Neuvanus has been first a soldier
under Julius Caesar, but has known how to unite

the Heart of the Bitter-Root Mountain

FROM THE RIDGE NORTH OF CAMP.

This veritable wilderness, whose forests
abound in game, and whose streams teem with
trout, covers an area equal to that of the State
of West Virginia. It can boast of not having a
single permanent habitation of man, not even
a wagon road. The story of the " Carlin Hunt
ing Party " who sought their pleasure in these
regions from September to December, 1893, is
told by an enthusiast who hides under the name
of Heclawa. All the illustrations in this work
will be found to be accurate and reliable, hav
ing been reproduced directly from photo
graphs. The Indians were, of course, the orig
inal explorers of this wild region, and there are,
in the more accessible localities, unmistakable
evidences of their early presence. They may
have" had permanent villages, but the rigorous
climate and the excessive snowfall to which
the district is subject during the winter months
probably drove them out of the mountains at
that season. (Putnam. $1.50.)

fighting and trading. While his comrade
Brusco has been subjected to all the buffets of
fortune, Neuvanus has been the lucky man.

lola is the daughter of Neuvanus and has
been bred in luxury. Mr. Hillhouse describes
in an elaborate manner Roman interiors, and in
the course of his study we have Virgil and
Horace in the Forum, a banquet, the baths, the
chariot race, and many other episodes. Tola is
loved by the gentle youth Horus Marcius, and
Horus represents a literary Roman. After
many vicissitudes of fortune, lola and Horus
are happy.

The current of the story runs smoothly, and
the writer of this classical romance has good
descriptive powers. There is, however, this
misfortune about the classical antiquarian
romance. It is a ground which has been al
most exhausted by the prolific Ebers. The
ways and manners of the Roman, minutely de
scribed by the indefatigable Mommsen, have

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[February , 1895

little that is novel to-day. If, however, you
incline too much to the romantic incidents in a
novel of igoo years ago you lose the classical
feeling ; or if, on the contrary, you go in too
strongly for Roman or Greek antiquities, you
are not in touch with human passion. Not
withstanding these drawbacks, "Tola" is a
well-written book, replete with erudition and of
decided interest. (Putnam. $1.25.) A r . Y.
Times.

The Presidents of the United States.

WE have Macaulay s authority for the pre
sumption that a biographer is usually a literary
vassal, bound by the immemorial law of his
tenure to render homage and to allow the
customary services to his lord, but while the
estimates made by the different biographers in
the book before us may in some instances be
open to criticism as being founded on excessive
admiration of the subject to the exclusion of
carefully exercised judgment, as a rule there
is a gratifying absence of undiscriminating
panegyric. Such writers as Bancroft, Fiske,
Schurz, Oilman, and Winthrop so well equip
ped by nature and education for their tasks
are unlikely to commit gross errors in this
direction. The purpose for which much of the
matter was prepared for Appleton s Cyclo
paedia of American Biography necessarily im
posed economy of space, condensation of de
tails of action and entire absence of anecdote.
Consequently that sort of interest which is
aroused by minute personal description and
picturesque elaboration will net be excited by
a perusal of this volume

But the instruction to be derived from twenty-
three papers, the work of nineteeen writers,
whose names are familiar from connection
with historical researches, is invaluable. If no
history can give us the whole truth, surely the
lives of the twenty-three Presidents of the
United States by so many hands, approaches
very nearly to an accurate, connected and com
plete narrative of the events of the past hundred

From " The President-: of the United States." Copyright,
1894, by D. Appleton & Co.

LINCOLN S FIRST HOME.

years, for of these they were a part. A few in
stances of apparent partisan inaccuracy occur
to us, but usually a disposition to weigh evi
dence carefully and to set down conclusions
fairly is obvious. The biographers of General
Harrison and Mr. Cleveland well as they have
done their work are unavoidably weighed
down by the consciousness that they are writ
ing of men who are still with us. It seems to
be it must of necessity be that no biography
of a living person can have proper weight, for
there is a certain degree of dispassion which is
supposed to be unattainable by the author if he
is on familiar terms with him of whom he
writes, an over-estimation is usually apparent
in the result of his labors. On the other hand;
if it be the work of one who has no personal
acquaintance with the subject of his story, he
commonly errs through lack of proper material.

From what we have said as to the necessary
exercise of the art of compression, it may be
inferred that the book is a mere mass of dates,
figures and facts put together as compactly as
possible. On the contrary, it makes most in
teresting reading, not to the historical student
alone, but to the intelligent non- specialist
reader also, and if narrative is sometimes manip
ulated into conformity with a purely partisan
point of view, these are but spots upon the sun.
If the worse is sometimes made to appear the
better cause, we must place it to the account of
poor, weak human nature and be grateful that
we at least are above the passions and weak
nesses that flesh and spirit are heir to.

The volume is a handsome one of 526 pages,
neatly printed and bound tastefully. The il
lustrations are numerous and good the twenty-
three steel portraits are unexceptionable. (Ap
pleton. $3.50.) Public Opinion.

The Flower of Gala Water.

" THE Flower of Gala Water " is one of Mrs.
Barr s most delightful novels of Scottish life
and scenery. In her portrayal of Scotch char
acter and manners she has no superior among
contemporary writers. Her heroines are vital
with love and feminine qualities, and possess an
individuality which is charming. They have
the freshness of youth and health, and impart
to her pages their own attractiveness. Mrs.
Barr s fine sentiment and vigor of conviction
have ample expression in her latest novel. No
one can read it without having every noble
feeling vitalized and exalted. It is this moral
quality which renders " The Flower of Gala
Water" a book to be placed in the hands of
every boy and every girl. (Bonner. $1.25 ;
pap., 50 c.)

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Love in Idleness.

MR. MARION CRAWFORD is one of the most
versatile of living novelists. One is never sure
what to expect from him, and that alone con
duces to his wide popularity. The American
in him is becoming more pronounced than the
Roman-American ; and there are fewer excur
sions to lonely English parishes, Munich by
ways, and mysterious Bohemian castles. " Love
in Idleness " is a pretty little love-story : pretty
in its setting, in its sentiment, in its style, and, I

finds his highest achievement ; n " To Leeward
and " A Roman Singer." (Macmillan. $2.)
The Beacon.

The Colonial Cavalier.

A DELIGHTFUL sketch of the Colonial Cavalier
in his home, church, state, and social relations.
We are made acquainted with the whole man ;
we go with him through his love-story and we
see him as a husband ; his trade, his friends,

, :

From "The Flower of Gala Water.

IN THE CONSERVATORY.

may add, in its "get-up." Its format, indeed,
is delightful : in size, shape, flexibility, as well
as in its type and binding, no better pocket vol
ume is on the market. The scene of the story
is a much-frequented seaside resort, not far from
New York ; the chief dramatis persona are
Fanny Trehearne and Louis Lawrence. There
is also a dangerous but unsuccessful rival ; and
three ladies rather relentlessly depicted as lu
dicrous old maids, whereas they are simply
thwarted in their true vocation. The narrative
is occupied with the peculiar form of flirtatious-
ness affected by the heroine. Those who think
"A Cigarette Maker s Romance" one of his
best books, will rank " Love in Idleness" even
higher than do those who, like the present writer,

his foes, his amusements, his dress, are vividly
brought into view. This little book of three
hundred pages has condensed into most charm
ing and interesting form a whole library of his
torical information. The reader feels that he
is looking at a picture whose values are pre
served, and into which nothing has been worked
to produce effects, nor omitted for the sake of
prettiness. The historical student will perhaps
object that Mrs. Goodwin has not by some
method identified her authorities, but the gen
eral reader will thank her for giving him a book
which reveals in all his charm, with his vices
and his virtues that too little known gentleman,
" The Colonial Cavalier." (Lovell, Coryell &
Co. $i.) The Otitlook.

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\_February, 1895

From " A Son of Hagar."

HALL CAINE.

Talk at a Country House.

SIR EDWARD S. STRACHEY, Bart., who dedi
cates this book to his children, is represented
in the frontispiece, taken from a painting by
one Henry Strachey, as a benignant-looking
old gentleman, with a pointed white beard,
standing in a wainscoted hall. Portraits of his
ancestors, by Lely, perhaps, look down upon
him, and a sagacious cat watches him from a
respectful distance. He wears spectacles, and
leans on a stout walking-stick ; on his head is
a soft felt hat with a narrow brim and high
crown, and his black frock-coat is loose and
ancient. He holds in one hand a copy of a
periodical, which we take to be the London
Athenccum, as its page is too large for Note-s
and Queries.

Sir Edward s talks in a country house con
sist of conversations in Somersetshire between
a country squire and one Foster, whose vague
personality, the reader at first infers, thinly
veils the identity of Sir Edward, until he pres
ently discerns that the venerable author is also
the squire. Both halves of Sir Edward s ego
are great readers and prodigious talkers, and
their range of subjects is large and varied.

Ancient England and the literary quality
of "Love s Labour s Lost;" the comparative
merit of the two forms of Berowne and Biron ;
Ben Jonson and Persian poetry ; the Strachey
family, and its old portraits ; English politics,
love, and marriage ; Tennyson s poetry and his
friendship with Maurice ; Camelot and the

Round Table, and the arrowheaded inscriptions
are only a few of the main topics, the discussion
of which suggests many others. It seems that
one of the chapters, the first, appeared as a
magazine article in Eraser s about half a cen
tury ago ; and Sir Edward has been a con
tributor to the Atlantic Monthly in recent
years. His little book belongs to the same
order of literature as the pleasant ramblings on
beaten tracks and in the by-ways of Isaac
Disraeli. Such books are hardly in fashion
nowadays, but they are more congenial com
panions for the leisure moments of cultivated
folks than many that are popular. (Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. $1.25.)^. Y. Times.

Dawn of Civilization.

IN a quarto volume of nearly 800 pages ap
pears an English version of the great work by
Prof. G. Maspero, entitled "The Dawn of
Civilization ; Egypt and Chaldea." The book
has been translated by Mr. M. L. McClure, a
member of the committee of the Egyptian Ex
ploration Fund, and is edited by Mr. A. H.
Sayce, the well-known Professor of Assyriology
at Oxford. The reader scarcely needs to be re
minded that Prof. Maspero s intimate acquaint
ance with Egypt and its literature, and the op
portunities of discovery afforded him by his
position for several years as the director of the
Bulak Museum, give him a unique claim to
speak with authority on the history of the Nile

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Valley. In the case of Babylonia and Assyria,
on the other hand, he no longer speaks at first
hand, but he has thoroughly studied the latest
and best authorities on the subject, and has
weighed their statements with the judgment
which comes from an exhaustive acquaintance
with a similar department of knowledge.
Mr. Sayce, however, dissents from his views
regarding two points, which are of considerable
importance. These are the geographical situa
tion of the land of Magan, which most Assyri-
ologists concur in placing in the immediate
vicinity of Egypt, and the historical character
of the annals of Sargon of Accad, which Prof.
Maspero seems inclined to regard as legendary.
(Appleton. $750.) The Sun.

History of Art in Primitive Greece Myce
naean Art.

WE find on our table a very delightful work,
entitled " History of Art in Primitive Greece
Mycenaean Art." It is from the French of
Georges Parrot and Charles Chipiez, and is pro
fusely illustrated.

Although we have here two volumes of more
than five hundred pages each, or a work of
more than one thousand pages in all, the book
is still an abridgment, as the translator says
in his preface. The expense of publication was
certainly very great, but we cannot help regret
ting, from the point of view which a student

naturally takes, that any eliminations of the
original text were found necessary. It is ex
plained, however, in these words : " The con
ditions of the book market are not the same in
Paris as they are in this country. Generally
the expenses of publication of educational and
scientific works are in part, if not wholly,
defrayed by government. Here they fall en
tirely on private enterprise, so that it has been
deemed advisable to slightly abridge the text
in those portion s that are somewhat tumid
with padding. " We hardly see the opportu
nity for using the words "tumid" and "pad
ding " in a work which is remarkably lucid and
thoroughly interesting in all its details, and in
which the authors have for their sole object
the ambition to make their book complete in all
its parts.

Perhaps the sale will be confined to the liter
ary class, but it is a book which every man of
leisure and every thoughtful business man can
read with int rest and profit. There are thou
sands of college graduates who are engaged in
what the English despise as " trade," and who
have not lost their taste for just such matters
as these, and there are other thousands of men
who have never been to college, but, neverthe
less, love art in all its forms, and would be glad
to know something of its origin. These, if they
have the money to spare, will invest a few dol
lars in this work, and find plenty of food for
thought in its pages during the long winter

From " History of the Navy." Vol. II.

AT CLOSE QUARTERS,

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^February, 1895

evenings that are upon us. Take such prolific
subjects as these, for example : the stone age in
Greece, the characteristics of Mycenaean archi
tecture, gates, mouldings, decorations, religious
architecture, civil architecture, the architecture
of house and palace, painting, pottery, glass,
wood, ivory, and stone, all so well illustrated
that the author s meaning is caught at a glance.
What better reading can any one find than is
here afforded, and about a period which seems
to be almost miraculous ?

It is a noble work, and great credit is due to
the publishers for their costly undertaking.
(Armstrong. $15; $22; $50.) N. Y. Herald.

The Great God Pan.

MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS have lately pub
lished here, in conjunction with Mr. John Lane,
London, "The Great God Pan," and "The
Inmost Light," two comparatively short tales
by Mr. Arthur Machen, whose name is new to
us, though he figures on his title page as the
author of "The Chronicle of Clemendy," and
the translator of " The Heptameron " and " Le
Mozen de Parvenir." It is not easy to say what
these tales are, for though they deal, or profess
to deal, with men and women of our own day,
and with events of real life, it is in such a fantastic
way, and with such extraordinary results, that
the impression they leave on the mind is rather
that of troubled dreams than of actual or possible
occurrences in any country, or condition of soci
ety, of which we have knowledge. The scenes
of both are apparently laid in London, but they
are really laid in a populous terra incognita simi
lar to that which Poe imagined as the home of
his Waldemars and Lenores, and the haunt of
his Conqueror Worms. The intellectual quality
which the production of such things demands
is imagination, the activity of which should not
be regulated, but encouraged, without regard
to consequences, and their most potent motive
should be the elucidation of some scientific or
psychological problem, no matter what one,
provided it be sufficiently profound and recon
dite. The transference of the soul of one per
son to the body of another by hypnotism is not
a bad subject, when properly and plausibly
handled; and the creation of a new soul from
the ashes of an old body affords a large scope
for the ingenuities of pseudo chemistry and
mysticism. His heroine is a beautiful woman,
who ruins the souls and bodies of those over
whom she casts her spells, being as good as a
Suicide Club, if we may say so, to those who
love her; and to whom she is Death. Something
like this is, we take it, the interpretation of Mr.
Machen s uncanny parable, which is too morbid
to be the production of a healthy mind. (Rob
erts. $ i.) Mail and Express.

The Use of Life.

WHEN Sir John Lubbock writes on science he
writes for students ; when he writes on other
things he has a special but a wider audience in
view. It might be difficult to define for whom
exactly "The Pleasure of Life" and "The
Beauties of Nature " were intended, but there
is no such doubt about the present volume. It
is a gift-book, and a good one too, for the very
young, for those to whom the difficulties and
problems of life are mere names. Sir John
Lubbock speaks of life in the most cheerful
tones, and inculcates the thrifty, prudent virtues
in a wholesome fashion. It is very proper that
youth should be so addressed, and that they
should read from an elementary text-book first,
till life puts such questions to them that no such
text-book will answer. To those who have had
such questions put to them the complacent sen-
tentiousness of this guide will sound a little flip
pant and irreverent, but it cannot be meant for
them. Sir John quotes from surely all the au
thors dead and living in support of his downright
cocksure maxims, but it is mostly by the vague
generalities of his authorities he is reinforced,
by such sentiments as may delight the literary
or the symmetrical sense but could never be of
service to a thinking mind. It is only the record
of special individual experiences that can help
where help is needed, and biographies of sinners
contain better counsel than books of the most
faultless maxims. (Macmillan. $1.25.) The
Bouktnan.

The History of the United States.

THE excuse needed for adding to the long
list another history of the United States is given
by the author, E. Benjamin Andrews, in his
claim to Utilize recent researches, to make the
narrative continuous, to note both the political
evolution of the country and its social life, to
observe due proportion in the space given to the
different phases of the nation s career, to present
the matter in natural periods, to separate the
fore-history from the history proper, and to
secure such accuracy as will make these volumes
a work of reference. These are large claims,
but an examination of President Andrews work
shows that the claims are well founded, if they
be confined to the general outlines of the whole
history; and even then the marvel is that there
is so much of detail in the narrative and so
much of color in the style, when it is considered
that the whole story is confined to seven hun
dred pages, though it begins with America
before Columbus and comes down to 1888; in
deed, to 1894 on some themes. On the whole
it is heartily to be commended as sure to find
and to keep a place in the world of readers, and
sure also to delight and instruct them. (Scrib-
ner. 2v.,$4.) N. Y. Observer.

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Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry.

MR. ALFRED M. WILLIAMS has put together
eleven essays (several of which are republished
from magazines) analyzing and illustrating
various phases of folk-song. The subjects are
well worth the time and care they have de
manded. Mr. Williams style is clear and di
rect, and the result is a
delightful volume which
makes no claim to exhaus
tive treatment, but manages
to say a great deal in a
short space and inclines the
reader to wish for more.
The chapter on American
sea songs is probably the
best known of these essays.
In considering the ballads
and popular rhymes of our
Civil War, Mr. Williams
notes the fact that they are
not to be compared in qual
ity with those which have
been produced by much
lighter struggles, for in
stance by the Jacobite Re
bellion in Scotland. No
great song embodies and
interprets the spirit of the
nation as does Die Wacht
am Rhein or the Marseillaise
despite the success of such
poems as Mrs. Howe s
"Battle Hymn" and Gen
eral Pike s lines to Dixie.
Mr. Williams accounts for
this by saying that the
Americans are not a singing
people in the bent of their
genius nor are the condi
tions of civilization favor
able to this form of expres
sion. "The newspaper has taken the place
of the ballad as a means of influencing the
popular mind, and poetry has passed from
the people to the literary artists." Neverthe
less the essayist has succeeded in finding plenty
of material for an interesting and instructive
paper. The many readers we trust there are
many who have been fascinated by the rev
elations of Roumanian poetry given by The
Bard of the Dimbovitza will read with pleasure
Mr. Williams comments thereon. Here, as in
discussing the folk-songs of lower Brittany,
Poitou, and Hungary, he gives more examples
than when writing of the Scotch or English
ballads, with which we are more familiar.
(Houghton, Mifflin & Cc. $1.50.) Boston Liter
ary World.

The Literary Shop.

THE prejudices, eccentricities, and autocratic
rule of the magazine editor supply James L.
Ford with abundant material for satirical treat
ment in " The Literary Shop." Mr. Ford has
a theory that American literature is practically
regulated in its development by the men in

From " Edwin Booth.

charge of the popular illustrated periodicals,
and as these men seek primarily to gratify the
tastes of the great mass of readers, the result is
a literary trend that makes for mediocrity,
superficiality and untruth in essence and tech
nique. Fortunately, even Mr. Ford recognizes
in later manifestations of magazine literature
indications of a more liberal and wholesome
tendency. He pays his respects to a number
of the great editors, from Robert Bonner, of
the old Ledger days, down to Mr. Bok, of the
Ladies Home Journal, whom he designates as
" the crown prince of American letters," and
he describes some of the literary fads of the
past and present with a wit that can hardly
fail to amuse even his victims. A number of
short sketches bound up in the volume deal

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{February, 1895

with the same theme in different ways. The
reporter who falls from bohemianism, succumbs
to the fascinations of afternoon tea, gets into
"society" and acquires the Swelled Head
seems to be the particular object of Mr. Ford s
satire. He also deals effective thrusts at cur
rent ideas of culture via " reading classes " and
clubs. (Richmond. $1.25.) The Beacon.

From "A Little English Gallery." -Copyright, 1894, by
Harper & Brothers.

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY.

A Little English Gallery.

THIS is one of the most delightful collections of
essays published .for years. While Miss Guiney
is destitute of that delicious wit and humor which
make Miss Agnes Repplier s essays so unusual,
Miss Guiney far surpasses Miss Repplier in the
delicate^discrimination of her criticism. Where
Miss Repplier loves to keep in the highroads
of literature, saying keen words about the
books and characters dear to us all, Miss
Guiney has ajknack of discovering delightful
byways in the book world, and introducing new
friends to us, "whose names we already knew,
but whose characters were quite unknown to
us before.

" A Little English Gallery " gives us a delight
ful picture of George Herbert s mother, after
ward Lady Danvers ; a careful and sympa
thetic criticism~of Henry Vaughan s life and
poetry ; and a very entertaining sketch of
Samuel Johnson s friends, Topham Beauclerk
and Bennet Langton. The other two essays
in the volume, on Farquhar and Hazlitt, are
much less interesting ; the one on Hazlitt is
especially lacking in clearness and precision.

The best essay is the one on Vaughan, which
is fine and really masterly in its way. Miss
Guiney s taste in quotation is very happy, and
we cannot forbear requoting one of the char
acteristic verses which she chooses from
Vaughan s beautiful but too little known work:

Follow the cry no more. There is

An ancient way,
All strewed with flowers and happiness,

And fresh as May.

One could wish that Miss Guiney had a more
flowing style ; there is a certain congestion of
ideas in her sentences which sometimes makes
them difficult to follow. She is unfortunately
not gifted with the limpid clearness which is
one of the greatest charms in Miss Repplier s
essays. Miss Guiney has a genius, however,
for descriptive adjectives, and since Matthew
Arnold we remember no one whose adjectives
are more vividly and precisely used than Miss
Guiney s. Altogether "A Little English Gal
lery " deserves to occupy an honored place
among American essays. (Harper. $i.)
Literary World.

Nonsense Songs and Stories.

EDWARD LEAR S " Nonsense Songs and
Stories " have just been issued in a ninth and
revised edition, with additional songs and an
introduction by so genial a critic and so able a
litterateur as Sir E. Strachey. Sir Strachey
begins with a dissertation on sense and nonsense
which will be a treat to the cultured reader ;
and then follows up his explanations by per
sonal anecdotes and descriptions of Lear, of his
many talents, his high aims and ambitions,
his many disappointments and never-failing
" humanness," which are touching and wholly
delightful.

Lear was born in 1812 and began to draw
for daily bread about 1827, coloring prints,
screens and fans, and also making drawings of
morbid diseases for hospitals and certain phy
sicians. In 1831 he obtained employment at
the Zoological Society, and the following year
completed a volume of colored drawings of
birds on a large scale. From that time work
crowded upon him, and he travelled much to
make the studies for his many illustrations to
now noted works of natural history. In 1846 he
was called to give drawing lessons to Queen
Victoria. In that year he published his first
" Book of Nonsense." a collection of rhymes
without sense or reason but wholly funny by
reason of incongruities, contrasts and utter non
sense.

These rhymes and their successors have been
given over to children chiefly, but no child can
understand the perfection of the characters

February, 1895]

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drawn by a consummate artist, or truly appre
ciate the brain rest and stimulus of the idiotic
rhymes. " Alice in Wonderland " is the only
thing that has touched on Mr. Lear s nonsense
with real success. This new edition of " Non
sense Songs and Stories " is sumptuously gotten
up. To any one who does not know Mr. Lear s
books a great treat is in store. (Warne. $1.25)

Three of Us.

BARNEY, Cossack, and Rex, three dogs of
varied gifts, nourishing under varied condi
tions, are the heroes of three stories, all of de
cided interest. All these dogs are loved by the
little and big human animals with whom they
spend their ups and downs of canine life, and
the genial story-teller who brings their talents
and defects before her eager readers proves
herself possessed of the great gift of talking to
children in a manner to reach their loyal, im
pulsive little hearts. She has the further gift
of appealing to their observant, wondering, ap
preciative eyes, and has pictured all the dogs
her pen teaches them to love and pity in all their
various joys and vicissitudes with a pencil equal
ly practical and equally appealing to the very
best in children. The publishers have made a
very pretty book, designed especially for the
holiday season, but good throughout the year
for every boy and girl who has a birthday com
ing, and a dog who is just one shade less
dear than the dearest human being in the
child s world. Mrs. Izora C. Chandler has ac
complished a work of which she may be justly
proud. (Hunt & Eaton. $2.)

The Ralstons.

MARION CRAWFORD S new novel, " The Ral
stons," is in some ways an even more fascinating
depiction of New York life than was " Kathe-
rine Lauderdale," of which the later story is a
direct and natural sequel.

In " The Ralstons," Mr. Crawford s dramatic
sense is permitted full play. The surroundings
having already been sufficiently elaborated,
interest is concentrated on the men and women
who figure in the tale. Of New York as a city
of magnificent and terrible contrasts New
York in the purely material aspect one gets
but slight glimpses. What one does get is a
vital, vivid, wonderfully picturesque and mem
orable impression of New York as the scene of
human passions, fears and hopes. The char
acters all have a definite part to perform, each
contributes to the general advancement of the
plot, and in their relations with each other
they have the independence and the mutuality of
influence which are always to be found where
men and women mingle in formal association
or close companionship. Katherine Ralston,
still known to her world as Katherine Lauder
dale, is the central figure, and upon her portrait
the author lavishes exquisite sympathy and
delicacy of feeling. It is no ideal portrait that
he draws, for Katherine is not perfect ; but Mr.
Crawford makes no apologies for her faults, as
he does not seek to glorify her virtues. His is
the artistic attitude.

The best thing that can be said for "The
Ralstons," in the estimation of the average
reader, is that it is immensely entertaining ;
once in the full swing of the narrative, one is
carried on quite irresistibly to the end. The

From " Three of Us." Copyright, 1894, by Hunt & Eaton.

SHE COULD WEAR GOLDEN SLIPPERS.

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\_February, 1895

style is throughout easy and graceful and the
text abounds in wise and witty reflections on
the realities of existence. As for Mr. Craw
ford s humor it is charmingly indirect, spontane
ous and alluring. He winds up by saying that
his only object in writing " The Ralstons " was
to please ; he has, however, done more ; he has
made his story, consciously or not, a source of
agreeable edification. It is pleasant to learn
that the further fortunes of Katherine in the
role of millionaire and matron are to supply the
theme of another tale yet to come. (Macmil-
lan. 2 v., $2.) The Beacon.

A Child of the Age.

ENGLISH or foreign, there is no work among
those now before me which is so original as
that of the late Francis Adams. "A Child of
the Age " was intended as a prelude to a series
of books, which should cohere on one broad,
general motive. Masterpieces, Adams hoped
and believed, they were to be. "A Child of
the Age ", is certainly not a masterpiece; it
has not even just escaped that rank. Only the
most ill-balanced judgment could claim such
pre-eminence for it. At most, it is original,
moving, often fascinating ; a great deal, no
doubt, but not all that is needful. It is also
written in a disconnected, sometimes slovenly,
and often grotesque fashion ; and the " blind
hysterics " of this particular Child of the Age
are as tiresome and unconvincing as those
of the much abused Tennysonian Celt. The
method of Francis Adams in this strange book
is that of a realist, who has reached the ex
treme of impressionism. If the story had been
written with more reserve that is, if the author
had more firmly held the reins of his emotion
the result would have been much more impres
sive. In Francis Adams we have a belated
member of the Spasmodic school, ready at any
page to go one better than Dobell or Alexander
Smith. At times he tells, in gasps and sobs and
pantings, what restrained prose would convey
with far keener and more profound effect. But
there are passages, episodes, one or two whole
chapters, which prove that Francis Adams was
a writer of remarkable achievement as well as
of altogether exceptional promise. The draw
back to the book is its author s evident belief in
the fineness of his hero s nature. But in actual
life Leicester would be an intolerable person
insanely arrogant, exquisitely sentimental, and
selfish almost to the extreme of brutality. If
this is the new wine of the age, it leaves a bad
flavor on the palate. Perhaps, however, Francis
Adams did consciously imagine Leicester not
merely as a brooding phantasist, but also as an
ill-bred and selfish youth, redeemed by several

brilliant qualities, and once or twice a noble
trait. No one who reads this latest addition
to the Keynotes series will fail to appreci
ate the truth and delicacy of the portraiture of
Rosy, the young girl who gives all to Bertram
Leicester in exchange for his fugitive passion.
The chapter in which is described the finale of
their drama is a strongly realized and moving
piece of writing. (Roberts. $i.) London
Academy.

In the Dozy Hours.

Miss REPPLIER has added another volume of
essays to her list. There are a score of them,
with subjects ranging from kittens to pastels,
and all marked by the sprightly touch which has
become a marked characteristic of her liter
ary productions. With the essayist, style is of
pre-eminent importance, more so than even
choice of subject, and Miss Repplier early made
the humanities her elected form of literature
and the light essay her special medium. We
cannot recall that she has deviated from the line
she has chosen, .and year by year she has per
fected her style until she has earned an enviable
place among the essayists of America. She has
a sense of humor which is almost masculine
(pace Miss Repplier), .and a sense of the ridic
ulous which is probably a feminine trait, and
a fluency of expression, which is also presuma
bly attributed to her sex. Comparisons are
odious, but Mr. Augustine Birrell sometimes
comes to one s mind when reading Miss Rep-
plier s work, and not to her disadvantage either.
She has also a vein of good common sense which
makes her papers more than mere vehicles of
entertainment. . :

" Aut Caesar aut Nihil" is an earnest plea for
her position on the much vexed woman question.
She pleads for that true dignity of womanhood
which compels her to disavow any movement
which sets up another standard than that estab
lished for man. Where all is so excellent it is
difficult to select, but we may allude to the
paper on " Lectures," which is a capital hit at
that desire to be considered cultured which finds
its expression in attendance at lectures which
are but as dust and ashes to the ambitious lis
tener. For, as she says, " the necessity of
knowing a little about a great many things is
the most grievous burden of the day." Her il
lustrations and quotations are apt at all times,
and particularly so in this paper.

While her essays show the marks of care they
cannot be said to smell of the lamp ; they be
tray the result of thoughtful reading and clever
application, and as novels constitute so large a
proportion of light literature, her line of work
calls for especial attention. (Houghton, Mirfiin
& Co. $1.25.) Public Opinion.

February, 1895]

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Sin (Eclectic iWContfjIs Hcbieto of Current ILtterature.
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT.

FEBRUARY, 1895.

THE BOOKS OF 1894.

To GIVE the " reading public " a concise view
of the literary output in the English language
of an entire year, that shall be fairly represen
tative of its general tendency, of its distinctive
specialties and of its average quality, is an un
dertaking beset with difficulties.
AMERICAN BOOKS.

CLASSIFICATIONS.

1893

1894

& ff.

V C
*

772
400

597
387
436
1 66
199
183

122

"3
204
I2 9
170
I 2O
II 7

55
60
24
27

4281

t/5

*%
W

360
3^
45
10
38
78

141

21
21
15

g
5
4
5
1

853
4281

5i34

&lt;u o

573
44
442
426
3i5
i33
233
208
163
MI
140
118
116
127
118
So
42
42
10

3837

C/3

z _s

156
4=;
2 6

1 6
29
133

21
29
24

2 4

21
42
28
II
20

6
9
7

647

3837

4484

Law ,

Theology and Religion

Political and Social Science

Literary History and Miscellany
History

Physical and Mathematical Science..

Medical Science, Hygiene

Description, Travel

Fine Art and Illustrated Books
Useful Arts

Sports and Amusements

Domestic and Rural
Mental and Moral Philosophy

Humor and Satire . .

Totals ....

ENGLISH BOOKS.

1894.

.- -- &gt;

S&*"

S O m "

B ~ ri

"t/j 53 c p

fjj^ U

CLASSIFICATIONS.

V- S^

a& s

jS^s

^ 0"^ G

c g

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23 o3 03 &lt;U

III

Fiction

2 97

Theology and Religion

184

262

Kducation and Language

330

Juvenile

261

Political and Social Science

Literary History and Miscellany

152

History

I2 5

T 4

Physical and Mathematical Sci

ence

Biography, Memoirs

3 2

Medical Science Hygiene

Fine Art and Illustrated Books.

Useful Arts

Sports and Amusements
Domestic and Rural

Mental and Moral Philosophy..

Humor and Satire ..

2821

577

1086

These lists duplicate each other inextricably,
and we shall make no effort to separate the
American and English books of 1894 by any
national chemistry. Together they represent
the contributions of a year by authors who
write the English language for the inspiration,
the encouragement, the instruction and the en
tertainment of the " reading public."

Fiction, always demanded and supplied in
larger quantities than any other form of litera
ture, received this year several notable additions,
distinguished however more for literary work
manship than for lasting interest or ethical truth.
Many authors seem to have worked by contract
system this year, and the work can necessarily
only be classed with the more or less expert
labor of the writer-tradesmen, whom practice
has made perfect in the "tricks of the trade."
Political and social problems, particularly the
vexed questions arising from the present un
natural antagonism between men and women,
taking its rise chiefly in the selfishness of both
men and women, have formed the keynote of
the great bulk of this year s fiction. Stories ap
pealing to trained, cultivated minds and written
wholly to afford recreation after the real labor
of life, would need no second figure in their
enumeration. Woman s unrest and its cause in
sex, circumscribed education and political in
equality, was pointed out in hundreds of novels,
which did neither their authors nor their read
ers justice or credit. On the whole, when we
have mentioned one dozen novels we must
think hard to remember the next one that was
anything more than the popular attraction of a
few weeks.

Things look more hopeful when we turn to
work depending upon realities and authenticated
facts. Several works of rare merit in subject
and method were added to the literature of
biography. In this field there have been many
volumes during the past few years that also bore
traces of the hurry, skurry, pitchfork method of
contract compilation. It seems as though the
writers feared the interest in their subjects
would die before they could throw together the
material collected by steam and telegraph and
sifted almost by sleight of hand. Some really
good works appeared in the department of his
tory. The average of merit was high and the
titles on the next page show the periods and
subjects covered in the most notable books.
An epidemic of Napoleonic memoirs, histories
and collections of gossip marked the year.

Literary criticism and books about books ap
peared in several works of great merit. Good
critics are needed more than all else to make the
literature of England and America what it
should be. A critic who knows the subject
better than the author he dissects, who knows

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\_February, 1895

at a glance what is in the volume before him We sorrow to realize that the year just ended

that no other volume has covered, who judges has placed upon the long roll of the honored

fearlessly but kindly and helpfully, who, regard- dead the names of Oliver Wendell Holmes,

less of the author s former achievement or pres- Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson,

ent fame, pronounces upon his work as though it Constance Fenimore Woolson, Edmund Yates,

were the first contribution of a new writer, and Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Walter Pater, Prof,

who signs and stands by his decisions, is the W. D. Whitney, James Anthony Froude, Prof,

literary need of the hour. Henry Morley, Prof. G. J. Romanes, Susan

The great financial depression of the past Fenimore Cooper, and Jane G. Austin,

two years and the questions asked more and Who is now doing the work these names

more persistently day by day regarding the stand for? Who is training for it in the spirit

rights of capital, the duties and responsi- they put into their work ? True literature

bilities and privileges of labor, the future polit- would seem to have been robbed rather than

ical, social and domestic sphere of woman, the enriched in 1894 !

possibilities and dangers of large cities, and the

hundred other problems which are the outcome ~, -n -r&gt; r +r,f*Y

of natural growth or are brought about by greed, gl e geSt StltlkS f **
steam and the inherent selfishness of men and

women, called out an unusually large number of BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

works dealing with social and political science. Gary, E. George William Curtis. ^.^..Houghton, M

No department of writing this year contains Church, S. H. Oliver Cromwell. $ 3 Putnam

, , , Cobbe. Frances Power, Life of. 2 v. $\.Houghton, M

more honest work, undertaken from the purest T^. n . ., ,

Dickinson, Emily. Letters of Emily Dickinson. 2. v.
motives. $2 Roberts

The general tone of the religious writings Dickson, W. K. L., &lt;* Antonia. Life and adventures

of Thomas A. Edison. $4.50 Crowcll

showed the spirit of research far more than the Edgeworth, Maria. Life and letters. 2 v.

spirit of controversy. Authors of every denomi- . , Houghton, M

Fiske,John. Edward Livingston Youmans. ^t.Appleton

nation seemed to lean more towards pointing FrO ude, J. A. Life and letters of Erasmus. $2.50.

out man s need of faith and aspiration than _ Scribner

Gray, Asa. Letters. 2 v. $4 Houghton, M

towards claiming to describe and explain the G rosS mann, E. Edwin Booth. $ 3 -$ 25 Century

objects and forms of such needed faith. Hare, A. J. C. Story of two noble lives. 3 v. $8.

Some very valuable works of reference bear Leej Fitzhugh . Gener al Lee. $r. 5 o 5S/i2J

the date of 1894. Only those who know the Liddon, H. Parry (Canon} and others. Life of Edward

special difficulties of such compilations can ap- Bou vene Pusey. In 4 v. V. 3. $4.50.. .Longmans, G

, ... Linton, W. J. Threescore and ten years, 1820 to 1890;

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and money that produced such invaluable Longfellow, S. Memoir and letters. $1.50.

works as Bartlett s "Concordance to Shake- Martin, T. Commerford. The inventions/relearches,

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Walker s " Concordance to the Bible; " "The Pasquier memoirs. 3 v. $ 7 . 5 o Scribner

Century Encyclopedia of Names and Places;" Packard. Life and letters of John G. Whittier. 2 v.

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Funk & Wagnalls "Standard Dictionary;" Prothero, R. E., and Bradley, G. G. Life and corre-

Lippincott s "Gazetteer of the World;" and spondence of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. 2 v. 8.

Larned s " History for Ready Reference." Robbins, A. F. Early public life of William Ewart

Two or three publications deserve a word G ads ; ne | -s ............/W*J!f

Robertson, Rev. Alex. Fra Paolo Sarpi, the greatest

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Of such are "The Documents in Evidence," Sabatier, Paul. Life of St. Francis of Assisi. $2.50.

a book made up of fac-simile letters; "The Salt, Richard Jeffries. 9 oc Macmillan

Art of Writing Fiction," purporting to be an Seccombe, T. Lives of twelve bad men. $ 3 . 5 o.

, , Putnam

authors type-written copy of his work bound Sherman, W. T., andl. The Sherman letters. $ 3 .

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Protestant Episcopal Church," printed bv De Thoreau, H. D. Familiar letters. $ 4 ....Houghton, M

, 7 . "Wright, T. Life of Daniel Defoe. $5.75.. ..Randolph

Vmne;and Liber Scnptorum, the first book Wright , w. The Brontes in Ireland. *.*&gt;.. A*pleton
of the Authors Club, containing one hundred

contributions with autograph signatures in all

Baring-Gould S. Kitty alone. $1.25 Dodd, M

the 2 5 copies printed. Barlow, Mia. Jane. Kerrigan s quality. ^.^.Dodd,M

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Dean Hole, A. Conan Doyle, David Christie Highland cousins. $i. 75 Harper

Murray and Paul Bourget. Their visits have Blackmore, R. D. Perlycross. $i. 7S Harfer

,,. , . ,.. .. .... ,-,., Bouvet, Margerite. My lady. $2.50 McClurg

led to much journalistic writing, little of which Cabl6j G w&gt; John March, southerner. ^..Scrilnfr

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Crawford. Katharine Lauderdale. 2 v., $2. . Macmillan
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Kipling, Rudyard. The jungle book. $1.50. .Centtiry
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Longmans, G
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ARTICLES IN FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.

Articles marked with an asterisk are illustrated.

ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Arena,
Italy of the Renaissance, Flower. Atlantic, New
Figures in Literature and Art, I., Daniel Chester
French, Cortissoz. Century Characteristics of
George Inness, Sheldon. Forum, Outlook for
Decorative Art in America, Fowler. Godey s
Private Picture Galleries of the United States
Munger collection,* Cooper. Harper s, Art in
Glasgow,* Eliz. R. Pennell ; Music in America
(with portrait), Weeks. Nine. Century (Jan.),
Paintings at Pompeii, Kennedy. Scribner s,
Recent work of Elihu Vedder,* Brownell ;
American Wood-Engravers Gustav Kruell.*

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. North
Am. Review, Recollections of Robert Louis
Stevenson, Andrew Lang. Scribner s, Some
Old Letters, ed. by Jas. F. Dwight. West.
Review (Jan.), In Memoriam Dr. John Chap
man.

DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Atlantic, Voyage in
the Dark, Robinson. Century, Death of Emin
Pasha,* Mohun. Chautauquan, Famous Bridges
of the World, Jamison. Harper s, Down the
West Coast,* Lummis ; The H yakushos Sum
mer Pleasures,* Sen Katayama ; Oudeypore,
the City of the Sunrise, Weeks. Scribner s t End
of the Continent* (Patagonia), Spears.

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. Century, People in
New York,*M. G. Van Rensselaer; In the Gray
Cabins of New England, Rebecca Harding Davis.
C/iautauquan, Sensible View of Marriage,
Lucy B. Cope. Fort. Review, Ethics of Shop
ping, Ladyjeune. Nine. Century( Jan.), Women
under Islam, Lucy M. J. Garnett. North Am.
Review, The Matrimonial Puzzle, Boyesen.
Scribner s, Art of Living the Dwelling,* Grant.
West. Review, Defence of the Modern Girl, By
One of them.

EDUCATIONAL. Atlantic,S\*bl\t Art of Speech-
Reading, Mrs. A. G. Bell. Fomm, Student-
Honor and College Examinations, Stevens.
Godey s, Vassar College,* Eliz. E. Boyd.JVortA
Am. Review, Why We Need a National Uni
versity, Newcomb.

FICTION. Atlantic, Life of Nancy, Sarah
Orne Jewett ; "Come Down," A. M. Ewell.
Century, End of the Game, Alice Brown ; He
Would A-Wooing Go, Humphrey ; The Boy,
Ruth Mc.E. Stuart. Chautauquan, The Blue
Bonnet, Barnard; "For the Dearest," Emily
Huntington. Godey s, Bentley s " Beat,"* Lida
R. McCabe ; Smoke Rings,* Frank Chaffee;
In De Vorsean,* F. M. Livingston. Harper s,
John Sanders, Laborer,* F. Hopkinson Smith;
Merry Maid of Arcady,* Mrs. Burton Har
rison; A Domestic Interior, Grace King ; Love
in the Big Barracks, * Ralph. Lippincotf s ,
The Chapel of Ease, Harriet Riddle Davis ;
Quong Lee, Lynde ; A Precedent, Alice M.
Whitlock. Scribner s, Bisnaga s Madeline,
Beard ; A Moral Obliquity, Lynde.

HISTORY. Century, Lincoln, Chase, and
Grant, Noah Brooks. Harper s, New York
Colonial Privateers,* Janvier.

HYGIENIC AND SANITARY. Atlantic, Physical
Training in the Public Schools, O Shea. West.
Review (Jan.), Struggle for Healthy Schools,
Davies.

LITERARY. Atlantic, Champion of the Middle
Ground, Edith M. Thomas ; Celia Thaxter,
Annie Fields. Century, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Annie Fields. Chautaitquan, Journalism in the
Congregational and Presbyterian churches,
Foster. Forum, The Great Realists and the
Empty Story-Tellers, Boyesen. Godey s, Sappho
The Woman and the Time,* S. M. Miller.
Lippincott s , Lingo in Literature, Elam. Nine.
Century (Jan.), Defoe s "Apparition of Mrs.
Veal," Aitken. North Am. Review, Literature
and the Eng. Book Trade, Ouida. Scribner s,
James A. Froude, Birrell. West. Revieiv (Jan.),
Towards the Appreciation of Emile Zola,
Townshend ; William Cullen Bryant, Bradfield.

MEDICAL SCIENCE. The Serum Treatment of
Diphtheria, Armstrong.

MENTAL AND MORAL. Arena, Dynamics of
Mind, I., Henry Wood. North Am. Review, The
Psychical Comedy, Minot.

NATURE AND SCIENCE. Atlantic, The Frosted
Pane, Roberts. Chautauquan, The World s
Debt to Electricity, Trowbridge. Lippincott s,
The Diamond-Back Terrapin, Fitzgerald ; A
Walk in Winter, C. C. Abbott./^/. Science,
Nature s Triumph, Rodway.

POETRY. Atlantic, The Dancer, Ednah P.
Clarke. Centiiry, The Passing of Muham-
med, Edwin Arnold. Godey s, A Valentine,*
Suckling. Harper s, " Vox Clamantis," Tabb.
Lippincott s i With Weyman in Old France,
Powell. Scribner s, A Question of Privilege,
Bret Harte ; The City of Dream Rosamund
Marriott-Watson.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Arena, The Presi
dent s Currency Plan, W. J. Bryan ; Penology
in Europe and America, S. J. Barrows ; The
New Woman of the South, Josephine K. Henry;
Sexual Purity and the Double Standard, Bel-
langee ; Gambling, C. H. Hamlin. Atlantic,
A Study of the Mob, Boris Sidis ; Russia as a
Civilizing Force in Asia, J. M. Hubbard ; Present
Status of Civil Service Reform; T. Roosevelt.
Century., New Weapons of the United States
Army, Victor L. Mason. Chautauquan , Dr.
Parkhurst and His Work, A. C. Wheeler.
Fort. Review (Jan.), The Collapse of China at
Sea, S. Eardley-Wilmot. Forum, Should the
Government Retire from Banking? W. C.
Cornwall; Why Gold is Exported, A. S. Heidel-
bach ; The Social Discontent, I., Its Causes,
Henry Holt ; Steps towards Government Con
trol of Railroads, C. D. Wright. Godey s, Nihil
ism Up to Date, Gribayedoff. Harper s, French
Fighters in Africa,* P. Bigelow ; What is
Gambling? John Bigelow. Lippincott s, Fate
of the Farmer, Powers. Nine. Century (Jan.)
Triumph of Japan, Douglas. NortJi Am. Re
view, The Financial Muddle, J. S. Morton ; W.
M. Springer ; H. W. Cannon ; Politics and the
Farmer. Pop. Science, Symbols. Helen Zim-
mern. Scribner s, Passing of the Whigs,* Noah
Brooks. West. Review (Jan.), Wanted : a Newer
Trade Unionism.* Stobart.

THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION.
Arena, True Occultism, Margaret B. Peeke.
Forum, Religious Study of a Baptist Town-
(Westerly, R. I.), W. B. Hale. Nine. Century
(Jan.), Auricular Confession and the English
Church, Canon Shore. North Am. Review, The
New Pulpit, H. R. Haweis.

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STEARNS, FRANK PRESTON. Life and genius of
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Jacopo Robusti, commonly called " Tintoret
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He was one of the greatest painters of the Ve
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A thorough life of Tintoretto in English has long
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SWIFT, JONATHAN. Travels into several remote
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DAILEY, ABRAM H. Mollie Fancher, the Brook
lyn enigma : an authentic statement of facts
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she was thrown from her horse. She is sup
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she suffered from acute lung trouble and her
case was deemed hopeless. She since has been
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of sight, hearing, and touch, but seems to have
received a power of second sight and double
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GODWIN, PARKE. Commemorative addresses :
George William Curtis, Edwin Booth, Louis
Kossuth, John James Audubon, William
Cullen Bryant. Harper. 12, $1.75.
" It is no slight thing for the youth of the
country to have heard Mr. Godwin speak of
such men as he has clasped hands with. He is
the last of the little group of orators to whom
the public turns naturally for commemorative
addresses. His memory reaches back of the
middle years of the century and holds with
singular tenacity the details of his intimate
knowledge of the fine minds which have given
to the century its value as a historic and literary
period. Already the names and events that are
familiar to his lips have a certain significance
to us as belonging to a past order. Already the
lives that are to him pulsing with vital associa
tions have become to us landmarks of a time
that has taken on a semblance of antiquity in
comparison with the immediate and very differ
ent present.

" Mr. Godwin is an artist of the old school,
and his portraits have that which portraits do
not always have, an indisputable likeness to the
sitter. Posterity may yield its admiration to
very different art, but when it desires to find out
how the chief people of Mr. Godwin s genera
tion looked to their companions, they may go
with assurance to this gallery of portraits. "-
N. Y. Times.

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HERMANN, PAUL. Das leben des Fiirsten Bis
marck : eine geschichte der wieder geburt der
deutschen nation. Fred. Klein Co., [Julius
Salomon & Co.] il. 12, $i ; pap., 50 c.
Notwithstanding the numberless volumes de
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still room for a cheap biography, well printed
on good paper, which, written on free soil, can
tell the story of the making of the German em
pire without any political coercion. He ranks
Bismarck with Frederick the Great, and makes
a telling comparison of the work accomplished
by these heroes of two centuries. The many
Germans who came to America in the midst of
the events with which the author deals in excel
lent German will appreciate the immense work
he has put into these gleanings from the Bis
marck literature which covers half a century.

JEBB, Mrs. ]. GLADWYN. A strange career :
life and adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb, by
his widow ; with an introd. by H. Rider
Haggard. Roberts, por., 12, $1.25,

JOINVILLE, FRANCOIS FERDINAND PHILIPPE L.
Marie D Orleans (Prince de) Memoirs (vieux
souvenirs} of the Prince de Joinville ; from
the French by Lady Mary Loyd ; il. from
drawings by the author. Macmillan. 8,
$2.25.

The Prince de Joinville was the third son of
Louis Philippe and was born in 1818. He was
for many years in the French navy, becoming a
rear-admiral in 1844. On the breaking out of
our late war in 1861, he came to this country
with his young son, and his nephews, the Comte
de Paris and the Due de Chartres, the two latter
becoming members of McClellan s staff. The
present volume ends with the year 1848, the
year of the revolution which deprived his father
of his throne. The volume is rich in anecdote
and personal reminiscences.

VEDDER, H. C. American writers of to-day.

Silver, Burdett & Co. 12, $1.50.

Literary and biographical papers on Edmund
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APPLETON S handbook of winter resorts : for
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BIGELOW, POULTNEY. The borderland of Czar
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Russian frontier; il. by F. Remington. Harper.

12, $2.

BUCKLEY, J. M. Travels in three continents :
Europe, Asia, Africa. Hunt & Eaton, il.

8, $3-50.

BUTLER, W., D.D. The land of the Veda : be
ing personal reminiscences of India, its people,
castes, thugs, and fakirs, its religions, my

thology, principal monuments, palaces, and
mausoleums ; with the incidents of the great
Sepoy Rebellion. New ed. Hunt & Eaton.

il. 8, $2.

DENNIS, JA. TEACKLE. On the shores of an in
land sea. Lippincott. il. 12, 75 c.
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DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL.

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BURSTALL, SARA A. The education of girls in
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DE GARMO, C. Herbart and the Herbartians.

Scribner. 12, (Great educators ser.) net, $i.

The founder and disciples of a school noted
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FICTION.

BARLOW, JANE. The end of Elfintown ; il. by
Laurence Housman. Macmillan. 16, $1.50.

BARR, Mrs. AMELIA E. The flower of Gala
Water: a novel ; il. by C. Kendrick. Bonner.
12, (The Ledger lib., no. 119.) $1.25; pap.,
50 c.

CHAMBERLAIN, H. R. 6000 tons of gold. Flood

& Vincent. 12, $1.25.

" Mr. H. R. Chamberlain has written a story
of remarkable ingenuity in 6000 tons of
gold. This is a consideration, in highly
picturesque and interesting form, of what would
happen in case a large amount of gold should
suddenly be added to the currency of a nation,
or of the world. It is probable that not many
have thought how astounding and how disas
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DOYLE, A. CONAN. The parasite : a story ; il.

by Howard Pyle. Harper. 12, f i.

" The parasite is another of Dr. A. Conan
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scholarly physician, skeptical of all save material
things, is compelled to acknowledge the subtle
and elusive influence of a female medium. Not
withstanding her physical deformity and facial
homeliness, the medium who falls in love with
the doctor exerts her influence so powerfully
that he is drawn to her at most unconscionable
hours of the day and night. But the doctor
does not yield without struggling valiantly
against such despotism, and although he is a
severe sufferer he is happily released in the end.
The story is admirably told, and there is present
in the volume that indefinable grace of style
characteristic of Dr. Doyle s best work. From
the same house is sent a new edition of Dr.
Doyle s White Company. Many competent
critics believe that no novel of recent years is
more praiseworthy than this. Dr. Doyle is
obviously a close student of Sir Walter Scott,
and in this romance he has succeeded in re
producing the heroic spirit and energy of the
great Wizard of the North. At least two char
acters in the White Company are drawn
with the masterly strength of genius." Phila
delphia Press.

DOYLE, A. CONAN. The white company : a
novel ; il. by G. Willis Bardwell. (New lib.
ed.} Harper, il. 12, $1.75.

EGERTON, G., (pseud, for Mrs. Clairmonte.) Dis
cords. Roberts Bros. 16, $i.

ESCHSTRUTH, NATALY v. (Baroness). The op
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but are for a long time separated by class prej
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mistress and her equally unscrupulous partner
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MACHEN, ARTHUR. The great god Pan and
The inmost light. Roberts . 16, $i..

TENDERED, MARY L. Dust and laurels: a study
in nineteenth century womanhood. Apple-
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no. 158.) $i; pap., 50 c.

REID, CHRISTIAN, [pseud, for Mrs. Frances C.
Fisher.] The land of the sun (visfas Mexi-
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STEVENSON, ROB. L. Will o the mill. Joseph
Knight Co. 12, (Cosy corner ser.) 50 c.
An allegorical story which pictures the life of
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in a remote valley between two high mountains;
this lad was fated for years to watch from a
distance the passing of many travellers, and
finally the mill where he lives is, on account of
his adopted father s greed transformed into an
inn; then the wayfarers are brought into direct
touch with him, and his opinions of life are con
firmed. His views of death are realized and
described in the last chapter.

HISTORY.

ALGER, J. G. Glimpses of ihe French Revolu
tion . m&gt;ths, ideals, and realities. Dodd,
Mead & Co. 12, $1.75.

Papers on general incidents or phases of the
French Revolution. Under the title of
"Myths" Mr. Alger disproves many sensa
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which have gained general credence such as
leather being made out of human skins, the
last supper of the Girondins, etc. "Utopias"
deals with the many impracticable and visionary
schemes of the time. Other chapters tell their
own tale through their titles, which are :
"Adoration of the Magi," "Prophetesses and
Viragoes," "Children," "The revolutionary
tribunal," "Women as victims," and "The
prisons."

ARCHER, T. A., and KINGSFORD, C. L. The
crusades: the story of the Latin Kingdom of
Jerusalem. Putnam. il. map. 12, (The
story of the nations ser., no. 43.) $1.50 ; hf.
leath., $1.75.

FERGUSON, H. Essays in American history.

Pott. 12, $1.25.

The four essays are entitled " The Quaker in
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Andros,"and " The loyalists."

GRAETZ, H. History of the Jews. V. 4, From
the rise of Kabbala (1270 C.E.) to the per
manent settlement of the Marranos in Hol
land (1618 C.E.) Jewish Pub. Sec. of America,
1894. 8, $3.

Contents: Cultivation of the Kabbala, and
proscription of science ; The first expulsion of
the Jews from France, and its consequences ;
The age of the Asherides and of Gersor -
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Crescas and Isaac Ben Shesbet ; Jewish apos
tates and the disputation at Tortosa ; The
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from Spain ; The Inquisition in Spain ; Ex
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Talmud ; The Kabbala and Messianic fanati
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Turkey ; The Jews in Poland ; Settlement of
Jews in Holland ; The Dutch Jerusalem and
the Thirty Years war.

HOLM, ADOLF. The history of Greece, from
its commencement to the close of the in
dependence of the Greek people ; authorized
tr. from the German. In 4 v. V. i, Up to
the end of the sixth century B.C. Macmillan.

12, $2.50.

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logical inquiry after the realities that lie veiled
in the early twilight of Greek story, this work
promises to be of the highest value, and to be
come a standard authority." The Watchman.

HOLST, H. v. The French Revolution : tested

by Mirabeau s career: twelve lectures on the

history of the French Revolution, delivered

at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass. Cal-

laghan. 2 v., 12, $3.50.

Readers and critics are asked in a prefatory

note to take this work for what it purports to

be : not a book on the history of the French

Revolution, but merely some lectures on it,

composed principally with a view to illustrating

and criticising some of its main features by the

opinions and career of the foremost political

genius of its first phase. V. i contains : The

heritage of Louis xiv. and Louis xv. ; Paris and

Versailles ; Mending the old garments with new

cloth ; The Revolution before the Revolution ;

Atypical family tragedy of portentous historical

import; The states general ; A rudderless craft

in a storm-tossed sea. V. 2 contains : The

party of one man; The 5th and 6th of October,

1789, and the memoir of the isth ; The decisive

defeat of the 7th of November ; Other defeats

and mischievous victories ; Mirabeau and the

court; The end of a unique tragedy.

SCHARF, J. T. History of the Confederate
states navy from its organization to the sur
render of its last vessel ; its stupendous
struggle with the great navy of the United
States, the engagements fought in the riv
ers and harbors of the south, and upon the
high seas, blockade-running, first use of iron
clads and torpedoes, and privateer history.
2d ed. Jos. McDonough. por. il. 4, $3.50.

WHARTON, ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH. Colonial
days and dames; with il. by E. S. Holloway.
Lippincott. il. 12, $1.25.

Interesting glimpses of social and domestic
life, north and south, in colonial days, gathered
from many sources, are embraced in seven
chapters, entitled : Colonial days ; Women in
the early settlement; A group of early poetesses;
Colonial dames; Old landmarks ; Wedding and
merry-making; Legend and romance. By the
author of " Through colonial doorways."

WILSON, JA. GRANT, ed. The presidents of the
United States, 1789-1894; by J. Fiske, C.
Schurz, W. E. Russell, (and others. ] Apple-
ton, por. 8, $3.50.

HUMOR AND SATIRE.

FORD, JA. L. The literary shop, and other
tales. G. H. Richmond & Co. 12, $1.25.

LITERATURE, COLLECTED WORKS.

BOOK-LOVER S almanac for the year 1895 ; $d
year. Duprat & Co. il. 12, pap., $3; $6.
Contents: Of the extra illustration of books,
by W. L. Andrews ; Balzac as publisher his
bitter experience, 1825-1830, by G. Ferry ; Dr.
Rabelais poem, by Eugene Field ; A poet s
publisher Humphrey Moseley, 1640-1659, by
Beverly Chew; The decline of wood-engraving,
by W. J. Linton; Ballade of rare books, by M. A.
B. Evans; Recent ex-libris ; A book from the
library of St. Helena; Suggestions how to bind
our books, by W. Matthews. Prognostications
gathered from the writings and sayings of
eminent men and women during the past year

accompany calendars for the twelve months.
Printed on linen paper, each page encircled
with a border printed in pale-green ink.

CLOUSTON, W. A. Hieroglyphic Bibles, their
origin and history : a hitherto unwritten
chapter of bibliography ; with fac-similes of
old wood-cut il. , and a new hieroglyphic
Bible told in stories by F. A. Lang, with
hundreds of tiny colored pictures. F. A.
Stokes Co. 4, bds., $9.

COLUMBIAN lunar annual for the third year of
the fifth American century, [by D. G. Porter,]
[1895.] The Poet Lore Co. 8, pap., 25 c.

CURTIN, JEREMIAH, comp. Hero-tales of Ire
land ; collected by Jeremiah Curtin. Little,
Brown & Co. 12, $2.

" The people of this country ought to be
grateful to that accomplished American scholar,
Jeremiah Curtin, for the translations from va
ried and quite dissimilar foreign languages,
which he has added to our literature. His ver
sion of the wonderful novels of Sienkiewicz
opens up to us a most interesting department
of history, of which English-speaking people
have hitherto been profoundly ignorant ; and his
latest publication, Hero-tales of Ireland, is
perhaps quite as valuable, with the added charm
of a wild, delightful, primeval, Celtic imagina
tion. Possibly we appreciate these stories more
thoroughly from the circumstance that by an
agreement with this journal, they were per
sonally collected by Mr. Curtin in the least
known parts of Ireland, where the peasantry
still use the ancient Celtic tongue, and accord
ingly first made their appearance in English in
our columns. But we are sure that our readers
will thank us for the information that they can
now be procured in a very handsome yet con
venient volume. A present more welcome than
a copy of this volume could not be made to a
student of folk lore." The Sun.

HOPPER, NORA. Ballads in prose, (Irish le
gends ;) with a title-page and cover by Walter
West. Roberts, sq. 12, $1.50.

LEWES, L. The women of Shakespeare ; from
the German, by Helen Zimmern. Putnam.

8, $2.50.

MORTON, F. W., comp. Woman in epigram
flashes of wit, wisdom, and satire from the
world s literature. McClurg. 16, $i.
" Woman in epigram is the title of a
little volume compiled by Frederick W. Morton,
who sets out by declaring that woman is an
enigma of the ages the world s sphinx. To
one she has seemed divine; to another satanic,
and he proceeds to set forth the opinions of a
multitude of poets, novelists, historians, paint
ers, and statesmen to show the diversity of
opinion on the subject. After all he leaves the
subject as he finds it. The compiler draws very
freely from himself, and we are bound to say
his opinions are much worthier a place in the
collection than those of some other authors
much better known." The Sun.

PHELPS, AUSTIN, D.D., ^W^FRINK, H. A. Rhet
oric, its theory and practice : " English style
in public discourse." Scribner. 12, net, $1.25.

SALA, G. A. Things I have seen and people I
have known. Cassell. 2 v. , por. 12, $3.
A collection of essays and sketches. These

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subjects are : The real Thackeray ; Charles
Dickens as I knew him ; Charles Dickens in
Paris ; Paris fifty years ago ; Parisian streets
in days of yore ; A most famous funeral ;
On the rail ; Under the stars and stripes ; In
a Mexican sombrero ; Usurers of the past ; " Fi
Fa " and " Ca Sa " ; The fast life of the past ;
Pantomimes past and present ; Operas re
membered ; Songs that come back to me ;
Pictures that haunt me ; Taverns that have
vanished ; Dinners departed and discussed ;
Cooks of my acquaintance ; Costumes of my in
fancy ; Handwriting of my friends.

MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

CALL, ANNIE PAYSON. As a matter of course.

Roberts. 16, $i.

"Mrs. Call announces that the aim of this
book is to assist towards the removal of
nervous irritants, which are not only the cause
of much physical disease, but materially inter
fere with the best possibilities of usefulness
and pleasure in everyday life. She holds that
4 this sham civilization, this selfish refinement
of barbarous propensities, this clashing of
nervous systems instead of the clashing of
weapons is largely, if not entirely, the cause
of the variety and extent of nervous trouble
throughout the world. It is not confined to
nervous prostration ; if there is a defective
spot organically the nervous irritation is almost
certain to concentrate upon it. No such super
ficial remedies as rest and food will effect a
cure. In other words, Mrs. Call believes that
the mental and nervous disorders of the age are
due to the imperfection the barbarousness of
modern civilization. She has a great many
things to say in the line of this thought."
Chicago Inter-Ocean.

HYSLOP.JA. H. The elements of ethics. Scribner.

8, $2.50.

LADD, G. T. Philosophy of mind : an essay in
the metaphysics of psychology. Scribner.

8, $3-

NATURE AND SCIENCE.

BARING-GOULD, SABINE. The deserts of South
ern France : an introduction to the limestone
and chalk plateaux of ancient Aquitaine ; il.
by S. Hutton and F. D. Bedford. Dodd,
Mead & Co. 2 v. , 8, net, $8.
The south-centre of France has its own history
which is little known, this interesting bit of
country being practically unexplored. Baring-
Gould has written a history for the unlearned
of a land he carefully studied and learned to
love. The geologic formations, the deposits
and the rude stone monuments, relics of pre
historic ages, are explained for the "general
reader," and the beautiful scenery, the pic
turesque castles, and the quaint churches find
adequate and charming description with pen
and pencil. The land also abounds in historic
reminiscences. In an appendix there is a list
of authorities to be consulted for further in
formation, covering 10 pages.

CHEIRO, (psciid.} Cheiro s language of the
hand : a complete practical work on the sci
ences of cheirognomy and cheiromancy, con
taining the system, rules, and experience of
Cheiro the palmist ; il. by Theo. Dore ; re

productions of famous hands taken from life.

Brentano s. por. 8, $2.

The anonymous author of this work claims to
be both a seer and a palmist ; he reads the
character from the hand, and looks into the
future at the same time, for those who make
him personal visits ; in the present work he
writes of palmistry as a science, and offers many
facts, both medical and scientific, to demonstrate
that " as the hands are the servants of the
system, so also all that affects the system affects
them." The book is interestingly illustrated
with pictures of typical hands, abnormal hands,
and hands of famous people.

MELLIAR, Rev. A. FOSTER. The book of the
rose. Macmillan. 12, $2.75.

POETRY.

BRIDGES, ROB. The growth of love. T. B.
Mosher. 8, (English reprint ser., no. 3.) 400
small copies, net, $1.50 ; 40 large-pap, copies,
net, $5 ; 10 Japan vellum, net, f 10.

LYTLE, W. HAINES. Poems. Ed. with memoir,
by W. H. Venable. Robert Clarke Co. 12,

$1.25.

PARTRIDGE, W. ORDWAY. The song-life of a
sculptor. Roberts. 16, $i.

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON C. Felise : a book of
lyrics chosen from the works of Algernon
Charles Swinburne. T. B. Mosher. nar. 8,
(Bibelot ser. , no. 4.) flex, vellum, 725 copies,
net, $i ; 25 copies on Japan vellum, net, $2.50.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL.

BEMIS, E. W. Relation of labor organizations
to the American boy and to trade instruction.
Phil. Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Soc. Sci. 8,
(Publications of the society.) pap., 25 c.
An answer to an article published in the
Century Magazine for May, 1893, inspired by
the late Col. Auchmuty, which among other
things said : " the American boy has no rights
which organized labor is bound to respect "-
"he is refused admission to nearly all trade-
unions, and is boycotted if he attempts to work
as a non-union man." The many interesting
facts and statistics offered by the writer show
that this is not an exact presentation of the case.

BEVAN, WILSON LLOYD. Sir William Petty : a

study in English economic literature. Amer.

Economic Assoc. 8, (Publications of the

society, v. 9, no. 4.) pap., 75 c.

Sir William Petty was a celebrated English
statistician and political economist, born in 1623
and died 1687. His chief works are : " Treatise
of taxes and contributions," " Political arith
metic," " Essay concerning the multiplication
of mankind," "Down survey of Irish lands,"
etc. This monograph was prepared because
the writer believed Petty deserved more atten
tion than he had hitherto received. It gives a
very full account of its subject s life, his writ
ings, etc. A list of works used or referred to
covers a page. Bibliography of the printed
works of Sir William Petty (3 pages).

BOHM-BAWERK, EUGEN v. The ultimate stand
ard of value. Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Soc.
Sci. 8, (Publications of the society, no. 128.)
pap., 50 c.

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\_February, 1895

DEVINE, E. T. The economic function of wom
an. Amer. Acad. of Poli. and Soc. Sci.
8, (Publications of the society, no. 133.)
pap., 15 c.

Man is largely the producer, woman the con-
tsumer. The author says " to woman has fallen
he task of directing how the wealth brought
into the house shall be used, whether much or
little shall be made of it, and what kind of wealth
shall be brought. In the current theories, the
importance of this latter function has been ab
surdly underestimated. With a clearer recog
nition of its true relation to the whole subject
of wealth, there must result an increased respect
on the part of economists for the industrial func
tions which woman performs."

GLADSTONE, W. EWART. Thoughts from the
writings and speeches of W. E. Gladstone ;
comp. by special permission, and edited by G.
Barnett Smith. Stokes. 12, $2.50.

GOHRE, PAUL, Three months in a workshop :

a practical study ; from the German, by A.

B. Carr : with a prefatory note by R. T. Ely.

Scribner. 12, (Social science ser.) $i.

Prof. Ely in his prefatory note tells the story
of this volume: "The author, a theological
student, perplexed by conflicting theories and
reports touching the lot of the wage-earners,
their habits of thought, their struggles and their
aspirations, determines to become a wage-earner
himself, and, donning the garb of a workman,
finds employment in a large manufacturing es
tablishment in industrial Saxony. He mingles for
three months with his fellows, who never suppose
him to be anything else than r a wage earner;
he shares their life, participates in their amuse
ments, attends their political meetings, and then
tells what he has seen and heard with that sim
plicity which is in itself literary art of a high
order." The book was greeted by the wealth
and culture of Germany like a revelation, and
has had many excellent practical results.

GOULD, J. M., and TUCKER, G. F. The federal
income tax. Little, Brown & Co. 12, &lt;?/,$!.

OSTRANDER, D. Social growth and stability : a
consideration of the factors of modern society
and their relation to the character of the
coming state. Griggs. 12, $i.
A few of the subjects considered are as fol
lows : Foreign and native labor; Railroads and
machinery ; Over-production and commercial
stagnation ; Not charity but statesmanship
wanted; The brotherhood of man ; The
eight-hour day ; The American people com
posite ; Restricted immigration ; Free-trade in
juries; Protection beneficial ; Competition the
root of all evil ; The government as a common
carrier; Strikes; Trusts; Christianity as a social
factor; The ultimate destruction of evil ; The
reading of books ; Hard work essential to suc
cess.

PRICHARD, MARIA FRANCES. Parliamentary
usage for women s clubs and for deliberative
bodies other than legislative. Robert Clarke
Co. 24, leatherette, 30 c.

A treatise on parliamentary practice, which
fully sustains itself as a guide and book of ref
erence for the club member. It is thoroughly
practical its statements being so direct, concise,
and clear as to be fully understood by those just
initiated into club relationships ; and yet the
advanced sections of the book being sufficiently

comprehensive to class it as a manual for the
experienced and efficient officer of any deliber
ative body.

SHAW, ALBERT. Municipal government in Great
Britain. The Century Co. 8, $2.

WARD, C. OSBORNE. The equilibration of hu
man aptitudes and powers ot adaptation.
National Watchman Co. 12, $1.25.
The Translator to the United States Depart
ment of Labor received his conceptions of the
economic adjustment of differing human apti
tudes from Charles Darwin, whose keen, an
alytical judgment in the physical world first
gave him the key to the height on which the
student of conditions must stand in order to per
ceive society as a panorama and reason intelli
gently upon cause and effect. The volume con
tains chapters on the mechanism of society, the
discord of faculties, the plagiaries of genius, the
piracy of aptitudes, the concord of faculties,
comparative claims, etc. The author claims
that a pure political government must absorb
both the isolated individual and the segregated
society into a great business-like universality of
mutual help and progress. He looks for all
progress to a conscientious use of the only wea
pon for reasoning beings the ballot.

WARNER, AMOS G. American charities: a study
in philanthropy and economics. Crowell.
12, (Library of economics and politics, no. 4.)
$1-75.

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS.

YOUNG, FRANKLIN K., and HOWELL, EDWIN C.
The minor tactics of chess : a treatise on the
deployment of the forces in obedience to stra
tegic principle. Roberts. 16, $i.

THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION.

BIBLE. New Testament. A translation of the
four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic
palimpsest, by Agnes Smith Lewis. Macmil-
lan. 12, net, $1.90.

BRIGGS, C. A. D.D. The Messiah of the gospels.

Scribner. 8, $2.

In the autumn of 1886 " Messianic prophecy "
was published as the first of a series of volumes
upon the Messianic ideal. (Sec notice, P. W.,
"Weekly Record." Nov. 13, 86, [772.] Dr.
Briggs share in the Revision Movement of the
Presbyterian Church has delayed the second
volume of the series which is now offered and
treats of the Messianic ideas of pre-Christian
Judaism and of the Messiah of the Gospels. Dr.
Briggs thinks the Christian Church has looked
too much upon a cross with a dead Saviour upon
it. He wishes the cross to be held more as a
symbol of the resurrection as well as the death,
and aims to inspire all Christians with a living
faith that will make them do away with all that
is sad, gloomy, and sour in religion and cling to
its brightness and hope.

CARUS, PAUL. The gospel of Buddha : accord
ing to old records. Westermann. 12, $1.50.
The contents are chiefly derived from the old
Buddhist canon. Many passages are copied
literally from the translations of the original
texts. For those who want to trace the Buddh
ism of this book to its fountain-head a table of
reference has been added, which indicates the
main sources of various chapters and points cut
the parallelisms with western thought, especially
in the Christian Gospels. The book aims to

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impress readers with the poeiic grandeur of
Buddha s personality and to set them thinking
on the religious problems of to-day. A com
parison of the agreements and differences be
tween the two greatest religions of the world is
made in a fair philosophic spirit.
CHURCH CLUB OF NEW YORK. The rights and
pretensions of the Roman see : lectures de
livered in 1894 under the auspices of the
Church Club of New York. E. & J. B. Young
& Co. 12, net, 50 c.

The lectures gathered in this volume are the
natural sequel of the course in 1893 on "The
Six (Ecumenical Councils of the undivided Cath
olic Church." Their subjects are: "St. Peter
and the primacy of the Roman see," " Sardica
and appeals to Rome," " Rome, Constantinople,
and the rise of Papal supremacy," " The growth
of the Papal supremacy and feudalism," " The
Babylonian exile and the Papal schism," and
" The syllabus and Papal infallibility."
FERGUSON, H. Four periods in the life of the
church. Pott. 12, $1.25.
Four lectures delivered in Christ Church,
Hartford, Ct.. in the Lent of 1892. Their titles
are: The church of the first three centuries; The
church of the Christian Empire ; The church of
western Europe ; The Reformation in western
Europe.

GRIFFIS, W. ELLIOT, D.D. The religions of
Japan from the dawn of history to the era of
of Meiji. Scribner. 12, $2.

LAGRANGE, C. The great pyramid, by modern
science: an independent witness to the literal
chronology of the Hebrew Bible and British
Israel identity, in accordance with Briick s
law of the life of nations: with a new inter
pretation of the time-prophecies of Daniel
and St. John from the French ; recently rev.,
with five new appendices by the author, and
a short note by C. Piazzi Smyth. A. D. F.
Randolph & Co. 12, $3.

PROTESTANT Episcopal church, Congress of
the. Papers, addresses and discussions atthe
Sixteenth Church Congress of the United
States held in Boston, November 13, 14, 15
and 16. Whittaker. 8, pap., $r.
PROTESTANT Episcopal church hymnal ; rev.
and enl. in accordance with the action of the
general convention of the Protestant Epis
copal Church in the United States of America
in the year 1892; ed. by Rev. C. L. Hutchins.
D. B. Updike. 4, flex, leath., $5.
SUKHADRA, BHIKSHU, comp. Buddhist cate
chism : an introd. to the teachings of the
Buddha Gotamo ; comp. from the holy writ
ings of the Southern Buddhists ; with ex
planatory notes for the use of Europeans ;
from the 4th German ed. Putnam. 12, $i.
A concise representation by question and an
swer of Buddhism according to the Ceylonese
Pali manuscripts of the Tipitakum. Contains
only fundamental outlines of Buddha s doctrine,
all legendary, mystic, and occult additions of
his teachings being omitted. Compiled for
those who are seeking neither lifeless dogmas
nor results of science, but a doctrine free from
all dogmas and forms, in accordance with nature
and her laws, embracing the highest truths,
equally satisfying to mind and heart. The an
swers to 174 questions embody this doctrine.
A running commentary of footnotes explains the
accurate meanings of the terms employed.

WALKER, CORNELIUS, D.D. Outlines of Chris
tian theology. Whittaker. 12, $1.50.
Presents in brief outline the leading topics in
a course of theological study which is sub
stantially that which the writer has pursued
with his classes successively during the last
eighteen or twenty years in the Theological
Seminary of Virginia.

Cooks for tl)e JDoung.

BAMFORD, MARY E. In Editha s days : a tale

of religious liberty. Amer. Baptist Pub. Soc.

12, (The crown ser., no. 3.) $1.25.

The story is placed in England in the reign of
Henry vm., and in the low countries when they
were under the rule of Charles v. and his son,
Philip ii. The story deals mostly with the
persecutions of the " Anabaptists."
BRABOURNE (Lord], Knatchbull-Hugessen, E.

H. (Lord Brabourne). The magic oak tree,

and Prince Filderkin. Macmillan. 16,

(Children s lib.) 75 c.
HENDERSON, W. J. Sea-yarns for boys, spun

by an old salt. Harper, il. 12, $1.25.

About nineteen humorous stories of the sea
of marvellous detail and adventure. Originally
published in The Young People.
JOKAI, MAURICE, SAND, GEORGE, [pseud, for

Mme. A. L. A. D. Dudevant,] and Laboulaye,

E. [and others.] The golden fairy-book; il.

by H. A. Millar. Appleton. 8, $2.

Carefully selected stories from Russian,
Servian, Hungarian, French, Portuguese, and
other sources. Beautifully illustrated.
PRICE, ELEANOR C. In the lion s mouth: the

story of two English children in France,

1789-1793. Macmillan. 12, $1.50.

The two children who are thrown in the
" lion s mouth " of the French Revolution are
English orphans, a brother and sister, sent to
France in 1789 by a wicked uncle anxious to
steal their inheritance. The little village in
Anjou, where they are lodged in the major s
household, is soon wild with revolutionary
tumult. The brother and sister cast in their
lots with the " aristocrats" of the chateau, and
pass bravely through imprisonment, suffering
and danger to rescue at the hands of the loyal
Vendeans, and ultimate safety in their English
home.
SWAN, ANNIES., [Mrs. Burnett Smith.] Airlie s

mission ; il. by Lilian Russell. Hunt &

Eaton. 12, 50 c.

Airlie Keith was the daughter of a Scotchman
who had labored for years in the African
mission field. Although Airlie s sympathies
were in Tahai, at the time of her father s
death, she decided on account of her own ill-
health to go to the home of Scotch relatives. The
story tells of some of the changes in the Keith
household, which were wrought by the presence
and influence of Airlie, and dwells especially
on the girl s return to her father s African
work.
YECHTON, BARBARA. The "gentle-heart"

stories ; il. by Mary Fairman Clark. Pott.

12, $1.

Binds together the children s stories of Roland
Gentleheart ; By forgiving, win forgiveness ;
Dorothy s temptations ; Hope Beresford s les
son; Teddy s experience; Bonnie Prince Charlie.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February , 1895

ALL lovers of literature will be gratified to
learn that Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie intends to
bring out a new edition of her father s works,
with biographical and explanatory notes.

R. F. FENNO & Co. have just issued " A Son
of Hagar," by Hall Caine, illustrated by Albert
Hencke, which is full of the old fire and subtile
knowledge of human nature that make his books
so delightful to the weary novel-reader.

" SILK-WARP TRILBY " is the name of a pretty
material to be used for next season s street and
travelling costumes. It is in Jacquard effects,
and in evening colors the tints are as delicate
and handsome as silks costing nearly double
the price.

THE MERRIAM COMPANY announce as the hit
of the year a parody of " Trilby " which bears
the inverted name of " Billtry." Mary Kyle
Dallas has cleverly taken off the characteristic
features of Du Maurier s literary style, the
artist has done the same for the drawings.

THE HOME PUBLISHING Co. will bring out
early in February a new novel by A. C. Gunter,
called " The First of the English " a title that
seems to indicate an historical romance, if any
title can be taken as an index to any book, now
adays. At all events, it is said to abound in
incident and "go."

ROBERT M. LINDSAY, Philadelphia, has pub
lished the interesting etching by William Hole,
A.R.S.A., entitled "A Canterbury Pilgrimage."
The procession as described by Chaucer is led by
the knight and the monk, followed by the three
priests, the prioress, the chapelaine, squire, and
the rest of the pilgrims. The last to issue from
the gate is Chaucer himself. The group is well
drawn, each figure being easily distinguished.
The etching is copyrighted and makes an ap
propriate ornament to the walls of the parlor or
the study of a literary man or to a library.

FREDERICK WARNE& Co. have some books of
very pleasing contents which they offer in nice
volumes. The "Quiet Stories from an Old
Woman s Garden," by Allison McLean, now in
the second edition, are most suitable for read
ing aloud ; and the ninth edition of Edward
Lear s " Nonsense Songs and Stories" has been
greatly enlarged and has an introduction by Sir
E. Strachey, whose exquisite literary tas te is
acknowledged by his peers in the art of writing
criticisms. Books full of practical hints are
"The Duties of Servants" and "Waiting at
Table," a practical guide by a " member of the
aristocracy."

ROBERT BONNER S SONS have just issued a
new novel by Mrs. A. E. Barr, called " The
Flower of Gala Water." Like most of her books
it is a story of Scottish life and scenery, telling
of the homely household duties and not un
troubled love stories of a " sonsie " Scotch lass.
Mrs. Barr is always pleasant and interesting in
her portrayal of girl life, and she is at her best
among Scottish surroundings. A new German
translation recently issued by the Bonners,
which still holds its own, is " The Opposite
House," from the German of Nataly von Esch-

struth a romantic love-story of a bourgeois hero,
who loves a lady of high degree.

PAUL BOURGET S new book " Outre Mer" is
shortly to be issued here, in the original French.
It is a brilliant description and analysis of his
impressions of America, obtained chiefly at the
time of the World s Fair. Interesting glimpses
of M. Bourget s ideas were afforded through
newspaper interviews at the time ; and his
mature exposition of what he saw and thought
of the United States should be not only intrinsi
cally interesting, but a valuable addition to that
fascinating and salutary if not always pleasant
class of books in which " ithers see us."
Alphonse Daudet s long-expected novel " La
Petite Paroisse " is also in preparation by Meyer
Bros., the publishers of " Outre Mer," and will
be issued almost simultaneously.

" CHIMMIE FADDEN, whose artless narratives
of his experiences among the " four hundred "
and out of it have brightened the columns of
the New York Sun during the past year or so,
has attempted to reach a wider audience.
These lively tales, in which Edward Town-
send so graphically pictures the characteristics
and dialect of a decidedly "tough" New York
City gamin, are just issued in book form by
Lovell, Coryell & Co. Besides the stories re
lating to the inimitable " Chimmie," the
"Duchess," "Miss Fannie," and his other
associates, the volume will contain Mr. Town-
send s "Major Max Stories," also well known
to readers of the Sun,

G. W. DILLINGHAM has just ready some half-
dozen new books. " Drilby Re-versed " is a
travesty of Du Maurier s famous novel, by
Leopold Jordan, with 60 comic illustrations by
Philip and Earl Ackerman. The novels include
" Lore and Law," by Esther Jacobs, called " the
story of a singer s life," and presumably based
on Miss Jacobs own history, as revealed a year
or so since in a breach-of-promise suit in the
New York courts ; "Celeste," by Elizabeth M.
Sutton; " The Strange Disappearance of Eugene
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VOL. XVI.

MARCH, 1895.

No. 3

Life of Mr. George Augustus Sala.

WE have read Mr. Sala s "Life and Ad- Mr. Sala s formal entry into journalism was
ventures" with the liveliest interest. Here at not auspicious. About 1850 he became editor
last is an autobiographer who is not only and co-proprietor of Chat, a half-penny weekly,

in the theoret
ical "profits"
of which he
was kindly al
lowed to par
ticipate. But
there were, in
practice, no
profits ; and,
the chief own
er of Chat ju
diciously ab
sconding, Mr.
Sala and his
associates
found them
selves " under
the unpleasant
necessity of
fighting for the
small change
in the till."

Mr. Sala s
lane, like all
others, had its
turning. The
decisive turn
came with the
close of the
Crimean war,

frank, but who
even appears
at times, in the
exuberance of
his candor, to
bear himself a
grudge. It
maybe meanly
urged that Mr.
Sala, as an Old
Journalistic
Hand, is un
able from long
habit to ab
stain from
"racy" per
sonalities and
revelations,
even at his own
expense ; and
that his frank
ness as to the
follies and es
capades of his
youth rings
more of an
unre pe n tant
Master Shal
low than of a
broken and a
contrite heart.
But the great
fact of frank
ness remains ;

From "Life of George Augustus Sala." Copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner s Son
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.

and with it goes hand-in-hand go to Russia in order to

when he was
commissioned
by Dickens to
write a series of

the twin autobiographical virtue of modesty descriptive articles for Household Words. His
for Mr. Sala, so far from being with monoton- forte soon became apparent. From that date
ous regularity the hero of his own "Adven- on, Mr. Sala s autobiography lapses largely
tures," not seldom emerges conspicuously at
" the smaller end of the horn."

Mr. Sala was born in 1828, at London, where
his mother, widowed shortly after his birth, being whisked about geographically in a way

into a perhaps unavoidably jumbled record
of his adventures in one country or another
as a press correspondent the reader of it

was a teacher of singing, and, later, an actress.
Madam Sala had a distinguished clientele, and
played at the leading theatres ; but, with five
young children on her hands, she had no little
trouble bringing the proverbial ends together.

suggesting that at times the writer must have
been, like the Irishman s bird, "in two places
at once." From 1856 downwards, wherever
matters of an exciting nature were stirring
wars or rumors of wars, coronations, politi-

THE LITERARY NEWS.

\_March, 1895

cal murders, revolutions, exhibitions, and the
like journalistically exploitable doings there
was Mr. Sala in the thick of it with his pencil
and notebook.

Mr. Sala s book amply fulfils its author s in
tent to " give the general public a definite idea
of the character and the career of a working
journalist in the second, third and fourth dec
ades of the Victorian era." (Scribner. 2 v.,
85.) The Dial.

The Devil s Playground.

QUITE one of the best of the batch of books
sent to us this month is " The Devil s Play
ground." There is a spontaneity of utterance,
a freshness of style, and a wealth of vivid local
coloring which leaves the reader, at the close
of the book, with the conviction that the author
is not only writing about people, places, and
things with whose characteristics he is perfectly
familiar, but that the events and adventures of
his own life must have been his inspiration
and inducement to put pen to paper to describe
them. We have seen it stated that John Mackie
has led the same kind of roving life that his
hero Dick Travers went through. We cannot
vouch for this as a fact, but it may well be so.

The ti:ie of the book is derived from the
name of a weird district called "The Devil s
Playground," where "great unseemly scarred
and jagged sides of chocolate-colored clay, in
tersected by jet-black seams and yellow and

pink, with here and there patches of alkali
showing dazzling white," enclosed a valley
from whose bed rose up "huge pillar-like
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perfectly round and tapered towards their sum
mits, resembling sugar-loaves, so sprinkled
were they by a gleaming and mica-like sub
stance ; others, again, bulbous-shaped and un
gainly." It is here that the culminating scene
of the story is laid. Of Mr. Mackie s sense of
humor we cannot say much. The buffoonery
of Cousin Ned is doubtless intended to serve as
a relief and a foil to the sombre thoughts and
reflections of the two chief characters, but it is
of a feeble sort and jars horribly. The action
of the story chiefly takes place in a blizzard,
where Dick and the girl of his heart, now an
other man s wife, get lost. Dick finally rescues
her, and the story ends satisfactorily with the
hero s getting himself engaged to a rich and
eminently satisfactory English.girl. But where
there is so much to praise in the book as a
whole we are loath to pick holes in regard to
the minor parts, and we look forward with in
terest to further contributions from Mr. Mackie s
pen. (Stokes. 75 c.) Westminster Review.

Fiom * Tlie Devil s PlayKround." Copyright, 1894, by
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HIS SATANIC MAJESTY MAKES A MOVE.

The Pygmies.

THE treatise on " The Pygmies," by the late
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Frederick Starr forms the second volume in the
Anthropological Scries, is the first systematic at
tempt to determine the ethnography of the
"little blacks" to show how far they confirm
the beliefs and traditions of antiquity, and to
determine their relation to the white and yellow
races. It is to the second object that Professor
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1 HE LITERARY NEWS.

From " Trans-Caspia."

THE MARKET AT BOKARA.

Travels in Turkestan.

TRANS-CASPIA is the journal of a man who
started from St. Petersburg with the intention
of travelling across the Trans-Caspian territory
of Russia, and eventually exploring the Vale
of Cashmere. He got as far as the Chinese
border, and then turned back. It seems that
the poor man is a dyspeptic, or at least that his
doctor classes him as such. He came to such
a pass that, as he viewed it, there were only
two things for him to do: He could go on, and
die ; or he could go home, and get well. He
decided that it would be better to go home.

As it is, we get the story of a tour in Turkes
tan, over which Mr. Shoemaker and a friend
travelled sufficiently to see its points of interest.
It would not be worth while to go from here to
Turkestan just for the sake of journeying
through the country and writing a book about
it, but as Mr. Shoemaker had been there and
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people, the scenery, the cities, and the hard
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sprightly descriptions and his photographic il
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Mr. Shoemaker made the trip from Usin-Ada
to Samarkand over the Trans-Caspian Railway,

and, after reading his story of the journey,
the wonder grows that such a railroad should
have been built. Trains run three times a
week, and cover the distance of about nine
hundred miles in sixty hours. A good part of
the way there is nothing to look at but a most
abominable desert, across which clouds of
sand are swept by winds so hot that they
would be hard to bear even without their ac
companiment of sand. Every now and then
the trains stop while the section hands shovel
the sandbanks off the track. The trains make
unconscionable halts at the regular stations
for no apparent cause, but the inference is
drawn that the train hands postpone as long
as they dare setting forth again into the hot,
sultry plains. Certainly they do not stay in
order to give travellers opportunity to get their
meals, for the meals are furnished in dining
cars. These dining cars are ordinary freight
cars painted white.

Benches run down the centre of the cars,
and chairs are placed on either side. " The
messes" are described as "something terri
ble." Mr. Shoemaker says he was puzzled for
a time trying to determine from what sort of
animal the meat he ate came. His conclusion
was that it was part of an oil tank. "What
does Russia make out of a land like this?"
queries the author. Answering for himself, he
says: "Simply, I fancy, the building of a
watchtower in the direction of India and the

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\_March, 1895

English, with perhaps an eye to China. There
is not a bit of cultivation in all the distance
traversed ; no green save in patches, on which
the few miserable natives cower shudder-
ingly."

After leaving Samarkand Mr. Shoemaker
travelled in a wagon, visiting Tashkend,
Kokand, Marghilan, and Osh. From Osh he
made his start for the Vale of Cashmere. His
travelling companion went north into the
mountains to hunt. Whether he came back
alive is more than Mr. Shoemaker knows he
would be very glad to know that he still is
living. (The Robert Clarke Co. $1.50.)
N. Y. Times.

Occult Japan.

THIS work describes a distinct " find " by its
brilliant author, Percival Lowell, during a
recent sojourn in Japan, viz., of an elaborate
system of possession-trance practised by one of
the sects of Shinto, the ethnic faith of Japan.
Introductory or sequent to this main theme are
accounts of Shinto miracles, pilgrimages, " go-
hei," and the Ise shrines. Much care was rightly
bestowed upon tracing this curious cult to its
real source, the primitive Shinto faith as dis
tinguished from the imported Buddhism, and
thus a distinct contribution has been made to
what is at last receiving deserved attention, the
ethnic faith of Japan.

The treatise stands a model of keen observa
tion, deep insight, and scientific analysis, while
over all this rigidly scientific material and
method is thrown the charm of a style that im
plies the blending of scientist and poet. The
abounding satire, epigram, alliteration, and
metaphor would as much repay a perusal with
purpose of entertainment, as its soberer merits
would for instruction in an absolutely new field.
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.75.) The Nation.

Pelleas and Melisande.

THIS is a prettily gotten out drama of the
Belgian poet and dramatist, whose weird, sym
bolical, but fascinating and powerful plays have
excited the literary world to wonder and admira
tion in the last two years. The works of this
author, though always given the dramatic form,
are impractical to stage representation, and, in
deed, half their force and curious charm would
be lost in action behind the footlights. The
characters and ideas of Maeterlinck must move
in the vision of the reader s strangely excited
imagination to have their real significance and
deep, potential value. This play, which is in
three acts, is probably the greatest work of its
author, and though there is in it a symbolism

that each reader must attempt to interpret for
himself, perhaps not always succeeding to
entire satisfaction, the story has an intense,
vivid, empathic vitality, veritism that is seen
through the romance of the poet s fancy like a
giant truth overwhelming in its awful impres-
siveness. It is the story of Francesca da Rimini
in other form ; but the skeleton is nothing ; it
is the mysterious manner in which the author
leads its personages through the maze of
destiny that distinguishes Maeterlinck pre-em
inently and gives him a unique place among
writers. There is an infinity of pathos in this
play, angry passion, consuming love, unutter
able despair, yet there is not a passage of
studied writing that the reader can detect, and
we must infer that which most moves us. It
is a wonderful work, of which much might be
written with interest, but it is one of those
creations that may not be described and gain
no value from critical comment. The book
must be read, and each one must judge of it for
himself. Its interest may not be pointed out
in a critique, however carefully or elaborately
written, but we commend it heartily to the in
telligent and poetic reader as a thing that can
not fail to delight him. (Crowell. $i.) Chicago
Inter-Ocean.

On India s Frontier.

NEPAL, the subject of these pages, the
mountainous home of a recklessly brave and
hardy race known as Gurkhas, ranks as the
most powerful and favored of India s frontier
tribe.

Outside of a small, select British official class,,
who have been posted there at different times
by the India Government to watch after its in
terests, the number of other foreigners permit,
ted to visit Nepal can be counted on one s
fingers, and these, during their short-licensed so
journ in that territory, are under constant es
pionage. No wonder, then, that Nepal is a
terra incognita an unknown as well as a
mysterious land to the outside world. Though
nominally subservient to China, paying its
tribute quintennially to the Celestial Empire,
it virtually recognizes the direct supremacy of
Great Britain, to which power first and fore
most, in the personnel of its foreign office, ap
plication must be made for any permission to
enter this country s borders, declaring in detail
the plan and object of the applicant s projected
trip, with all particulars concerning himself ;
and, even then, his request is likely to be de
nied. Hence the title of the little book "On
India s Frontier ; or, Nepal, the Gurkhas Mys
terious Land." (Tait. $2.50.) Preface.

March, 1895]

THE LITERARY NEWS.

The Book-Bills of Narcissus.

WITH all its digressions and appeals to the
gentle reader, says The Saturday Review, "Mr.
Le Gallienne s book is a study of character, a
study of the spiritual growth and evolution of
a poetic young gentleman whose many charms
proved irresistible with certain bopksellers and
other young persons. The portraiture is deli
cately wrought. The pleasant touches of

Degeneration.

A COPYRIGHTED English translation of Max
Nordau s great work, " Entartung," has been
published under the title " Degeneration."
" Briefly stated," says Richard Burton in The
Critic, " Nordau s theme is the degeneracy of
modern art, literature and philosophy, exampled
in such men as Ibsen and Maeterlinck, Whit
man and Wagner, Verlaine and Mallarme, Tol-

humor or pathos, the little strokes of irony, stoi and Zola. These marked personalities he

are so blended that you cannot detect any posi
tive evidence of
moral judgment, ^ - s -
even when censure
may seemed to be
implied. The whole
record, in short, is
harmonious, and
artist and work are
as one. The delib
erate quaintness of
style, as of a new
Euphaes, or a Eu-
phaes with some
thing of the poetic
grace of the old , and
a manner that is his
own, is in perfect
agreement with the
theme." The con
clusion of the re
viewer is that " Mr.
Le Gallienne has
achieved the end he
had in view. He
has made the rose
of Narcissus to
bloom anew. "

" The Book-Bills
of Narcissus " ap
peared in England
three or four years
ago and were at
once appreciated by
literary people, who
soon exhausted a first edition. A second has fol
lowed, and now we have the third, to which the
author has added a new chapter, introducing a
little element of humorous romance into his

regards,

his

From " The Book-Bills of Narcissus." Copyright, 189."), by
G. P. Putnam s Sons-.

A POET.

own phrase, as types of a
degenerative p s y
chosis of the epilep-
toid order. This
gives a hint at once
of the author s or
iginative impulse ;
he is a disciple of
Lombroso, who in
his "Man of Gen
ius" sought to show
that from the point
of view of the bio
logical and psycho
logical laboratory,
genius and insanity
if not coterminous
and interchange
able, were at least
first-cousins. Nor
dau s book is a
more direct and a
far wider applica
tion of this idea,
because he is him
self a literary pro
ducer and judge,
i and in large degree
adduces specific ex-
a m p 1 e s and ana-
J lyzes them. He re
gards such catch
words as_/z de siecle,
decadent, and the
like, as significant

of the unwholesome, diseased nature and work
of the popular makers of literature, and of the
age that hails them. The German thinker s
zeal for his theory carries him, at times, to ab-

descriptions of the mind of a young poetic litte- surd extremes, and almost always he is one-
rateur, who following out his wholly unpractical sided, unfair, and coldly unsympathetic with

idiosyncrasies, is forced to sell many of the
books he has collected in days of prosperity and duces.
self-indulgence. These books furnish the text thetic.
for dissertations on life and literature. Many
of the critics have been severe with the author,
but it is hard to think any critic can be so hard
ened that he cannot get some delightful
moments in skimming through "The Book-
Bills of Narcissus " (Putnam. $i.)

the real aim and spirit of the writer he tra-
Nordau s mood is scientific, not aes-

But while we may lay finger on the in
temperance, the harshness and the illogic of
" Degeneration " we should miss a lesson not
to recognize that Nordau has some ground
for his robust deliverances. It is significant that
such a book could have been written nowadays

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\_March, 1895

by so able a thinker. . . . That the maker of
contemporary literature and art should be
handled thus roughly, studied as pathological
material instead of aesthetic phenomena, will
perhaps help to create an audience for whole-
somer literature, and if once the demand be
come imperative, we shall see less and less of this
deification of the lawless, the obscene and the
sensual in our latest writing. . . . Degenerates
may be geniuses, but this is vastly other than
to say that geniuses are degenerates. In the
meantime let it not be forgotten that the
healthy demand of society for wholesome art
and letters will be a tremendous therapeutic
agency in correcting all excess which threatens
to throw those small insanities out of bal
ance." (Appleton.)

A Modern "Anatomy of Melancholy."

IT is nearly three centuries since Robert
Burton wrote his "Anatomy of Melancholy "-
a work the more remarkable because it was the
production of an age of hope and action rather
than an age of introspection and depression.
This standard text-book has now received a
kind of companion in a volume which sets forth
at great length, with the utmost particularity,
and evidently from the standpoint of a very
ample scholarship in philosophy, literature,
and art, the sources, the moods, and the
temper of melancholy at the end of the nine
teenth century. Never before in the history
of the world has melancholy received so many
artistic expressions as during the present cen
tury. The sadness which left its permanent
impress in the fugitive lines of the Greek an
thology was largely the expression of a de
cadent civilization of men who were aware of
the decline of civic, religious, and personal
life. This century, on the other hand, has
been marked by strenuous activities, by high
hopes, and by immense forward impulses.
Side by side, however, with the strain and stir
of the century, there has been a morbid vein of
thought and feeling which has shown itself
again and again in men of sensitive temper
like Leopardi, Leconte de Lisle, Heine, Alfred
de Musset, Guy de Maupassant, Amiel, and in
the work of a great number of novelists of
more or less power and insight.

The most complete expression of this temper
and attitude which has recently been given the
English-speaking world is to be found in "The
Melancholy of Stephen Allard " a book re
markable for its breadth of knowledge, for its
power of following all the sinuosities which the
melancholy mood pursues, and for its skill in
conveying the general impression of futility in
which the melancholy mood delights. The un

known author of this book makes the complete
tour of the world of purely human resource,
and finds that all things are dust and ashes.
He seeks by turns every source of consolation,
and finds them all inadequate. He goes to
science, to the philosophers, to the poets, the
artists, the moralists, and the mystics, and none
of them satisfy him. The book is a study in
melancholy. It is a document of human nature
at the end of a century which has seen so many
high hopes disappointed. Nothing will ever
really satisfy man but God ; and neither
science, art, democracy, nor human progress in
any of its features can slake the undying thirst
of the human race. Yet the writer of this
book has his moods of hope, and is able to
quote, as expressive of his own aspiration,
the noble sentence of Plato: "The true phi
losopher ... is content if only he may live
his earthly life pure of injustice or unright
eousness, and quit the preseat scene in peace
and kindliness, with bright hopes." "The
Melancholy of Stephen Allard " is not a book
to be read for inspiration or guidance, but it
possesses deep interest for those who want to
know the disease of their own time. (Mac-
millan. $1.75.) The Outlook.

Greek Studies.

A MELANCHOLY interest attaches to the vol
ume of "Greek Studies" by the late Walter
Pater, prepared for the press by his friend,
Charles L. Shadwell, of Oriel College, and
published by Macmillan. Posthumous work
always makes a special appeal, and this series
of essays is thoroughly representative of the
culture, the finished and beautiful style and the
classic bias of the distinguished critic. But
these are but specks in the ointment. The
book contains nine papers, mostly dealing with
Greek art and sculpture ; especially fine are the
first four, in which dominant classic myths are
studied, the titles, " A Study of Dionysius ; the
Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew," "The Bac
chanals of Euripides" (showing one phase of
the Bacchus cult as used in the Greek drama),
and two studies on the myth of Demeter and
Persephone. The fifth, " Hippolytus Veiled,"
treats of the earlier, purer form of that legend,
before it appears veiled in another country than
Attica and in the handling of Ovid. " The Be
ginnings of Greek Sculpture " furnish food for
papers on the heroic age and the age of graven
images, full of suggestive points ; there is one
on the " Marbles of yEgina " and a final one on
" The Age of Athletic Prize-Men ; A Chapter
in Greek Art " as good a statement of the ex
cellencies and limitations of the Greek genius
working in plastic forms and with chief regard

March, 1895]

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to the superficies as we have ever seen. The
characteristics of these mellow, charming es
says are, their complex music of diction, at
times the sentences becoming too involved not
to tax the reader s eye and mind ; subtlety and
refinement of thought and feeling and a search
ing out of the underlying ideal concept in these
productions of the Greeks which to the more
careless attention seem coarse or meaningless.
The last tract makes Pater s work dignified
and noble. This, presumably his last book, is
a welcome addition to classical studies. (Mac-
millan. $1.75.) Hartford Daily Coiirant.

make a complete whole in itself, the first telling
the literary story of the English up to the Re
naissance ; the second up to the accession of King
Pope, the last up to our own day. The ages dur
ing which the national thought expressed itself
in languages which were not the national one will
not be allowed to remain blank, as if, for com
plete periods, the inhabitants of the island had
ceased to think at all. The growing into shape
of the people s genius will be studied with par
ticular attention. Jusserand s delightful style
is well known, and he is at his best in this
work, which he tells us in the happiest way is
wholly " a labor of love." (Putnam. 3 pts.)

A Literary History of the English People.

" MANY histories have preceded this one,"
says Mr. Jusserand in his preface to "A Liter
ary History of the English People," and many
others will follow. Such is the charm of the
subject that volunteers will never be lacking to
undertake this journey, so hard, so delightful,
too. The portion of the great work now
published covers
from the Origins
to the Renais
sance. More has
been done dur
ing the last fifty
years to shed
light on the Ori
gins than in all
the rest of mod
ern times. The
task is an im
mense one ; its
charm can
scarcely be ex
pressed. The
dead of West
minster have left
behind them a
posterity, youth
ful in its turn,
and life-giving.
Bacon, Hobbes,
and Locke are
the ancestors of
many poets who
have never read
their works, but
who have breath
ed an air impreg
nated with their
thought. It is
proposed to di
vide this work
into three vol
umes, but each
volume will

The Aims of Literary Study.

THROUGH the Macmillans, Prof. Hiram Cor-
son.of Cornell, has just published a delightful lit
tle plea for the direct study of literature as liter-
ture instead of wandering all around it in studies
of the times, the grammar and everything but
the literature itself. We refer to " The Aims of
Literary Study," a prettily printed booklet

Literary History of the English People." Copyright 1895, by G. P. Putnam s Sot

MEDIAEVAL LONDON.

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[March, 1895

whose value is in the inverse ratio of its size.
Professor Corson is not impressed with the re
sults produced by college training as it now is.
He says that the men are not trained to read or
speak. He says that on Commencement days
and grand occasions the Faculties bring out the
men who have the most natiiral genius for
writing or speaking with some such flourish as
this, " Behold, ladies and gentlemen, what we
have done for these dear young men." When
what they should say is: " Ladies and gentle
men, these speakers are the best we have to
show. They are selected not as having profited
most by the training we give them (for we have
no training worth mention} but for their natural
aptitude." His own ideal of an elocutionary
training could hardly be improved. It is based
on a golden passage in Gilbert Austin s " Chi-
ronomia " :

"Words are to be delivered from the lips
as beautiful coins newly issued from the
mint, deeply and accurately impressed, per
fectly finished, neatly struck by the proper or
gans, distinct, in due succession, and of due
weight."

Right, in every letter of it. No good elocu
tion can come from a half-formed, semi-mas
ticated speech that issues in crushed or tone
less fragments from the mouth and sounds to
the ear as a page of broken type looks to the
eye. Professor Corson is one of our best
Shakespearian critics. He writes with sense,
and grows more pithy and pointed as he ad
vances. (Macmillan. $i.) 77ie Independent.

Municipal Government in Great Britain.

IT is difficult to overestimate the importance
of the problems discussed in this volume, and
while Dr. Shaw disclaims any intention of pre
scribing European remedies for American dis
eases, or of suggesting any degree of imita
tion, or of constructing an argument, the facts
presented cannot fail to open the eyes of those
who have fancied that progress was foreign to
English town government. Many of us have
overlooked the fact that there are a number of
manufacturing towns in Great Britain which
have been growing almost as fast as some of
our most enterprising cities, and that although
large towns may be alike the world over, im
proved methods have obtained with them to a
much greater extent than with us. The struc
ture of English municipal government, as Dr.
Shaw says, possesses principles of a permanent
nature, and indeed there are not nearly so
many important variations in the whole range
of municipal institutions from Great Britain to
Southeastern Europe as in the United States.
It is probably true, as he says, that one of the

reasons why municipal reform proceeds so halt
ingly with us is that many citizens who desire
sincerely to aid in the regeneration of their
town life, have formed no definite municipal
ideas. To such citizens the knowledge of what
has been done abroad in the last thirty years
must have a marked value, even if the applica
tion of some of the theories may seem inadvis
able and impracticable here.

The sewage problem is dealt with at length,
as well as schools, libraries, parks, markets,
police, baths, and other matters. The feature
of taxation is but lightly touched upon with the
explanation that as it is the tenant in England
who pays the taxes and upon yearly assessed
rental values, comparisons with American
tax rates would be difficult ; but assuming that
the difference is not very great, the Englishman
gets more for his money than the American.
The question of municipal debt has not been
gone into as fully as we should have liked
there are but few figures given on this impor
tant point. The value of the book is enhanced
by the clear, well-digested manner in which
the facts are set forth. (Century Co. $2.)
Public Opinion.

Our Fight with Tammany.

IT was natural that the successive moves in
the recent campaign for good government in
New York City should be reviewed by the
prime mover in it, the Rev. Charles H.
Parkhurst, D.D., and in "Our Fight w r ith
Tammany " the pastor of the Madison
Square Presbyterian Church gives a concise
and pointed history of the whole movement,
from the reorganization of the Society for the
Prevention of Crime, in 1891, to the election of
last November, and the conclusion of the
Lexow inquiry. It is a history that should
interest every patriotic American, and it is re
lated in that terse, forcible manner of expres
sion for which the author is famous.

Dr. Parkhurst relates the circumstances that
led him to accept the presidency of the Society
for the Prevention of Crime, and then gives in
full the memorable discourse delivered from
his pulpit on February 14, 1892, which he right
ly calls " the first gun of the campaign," and in
which he made the most scathing analysis of
Tammany s corruption that had ever before
been uttered.

Dr. Parkhurst arraigns fiercely the political
influences that threaten to undo the results of
the triumph so arduously secured, and calls on
honest citizens to see to it that the fight so
valiantly fought shall not prove to be an empty
victory. (Scribner. $1.25.) The Beacon.

March, 1895]

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Vincent s "Actual Africa."

THIS volume is a most comprehensive and
entertaining one, giving, in a popular manner,
accurate general informa
tion concerning the Africa
of the present day. Mr.
Vincent not only completely
circled the continent, but
made many expeditions into
its vast and mysterious in
terior. Nearly all the capi
tals and important towns
(native and foreign) of the
seaboard territories were
inspected ; the great island
of Madagascar was trav
ersed ; several of the west
ern archipelagoes were
visited ; the peak of Tene-
riffe was scaled in midwin
ter ; a long excursion was
made through the centre of
the Boer republics and Brit
ish colonies ; the Nile,
Quanza, Congo, Kassai,
Sankuru and Kuilu rivers
were ascended the latter
for the first time by a white
man ; and in the very core of
Africa s heart a most inter
esting spot was reached
the curious capital of the
famous Basongo chieftain,
Pania Mutembo.

Everywhere that Mr. Vin
cent went he used his cam
era, and hence has been
able to illuminate his text
by upwards of one hundred
handsome engravings,
showing many interesting
and novel sights and scenes
exactly as he saw T them in
the strange countries trav
ersed. The story of Mr.
Vincent s arduous and often
dangerous journey is told
in an enthusiastic, yet un
affected manner, which riv
ets the eager attention of
the reader from beginning
to end. It is more elabo
rately illustrated than any

book upon the subject, and contains a large
map carefully corrected to date.

" A new volume from Mr. Frank Vincent,"
says the N. V. Tribune, " is always welcome,
for the reading public have learned to regard
him as one of the most intelligent and observ
ing of travellers." (Appleton.)

The Honorable Peter Stirling.

PROBABLY the complications and corruptions
of political life in New York City were never

From "Actual Africa.

Copyripht, 1895, by D. Appleton & Co.
A MOORISH SOLDIER.

before made the theme of a protracted love-
story, pervaded with such pure sentiment as
this one by Mr. Paul Leicester Ford. Of the
mismanagement and villany practised in the
wards, of bossism, obstructions to reform, de
lays in justice, factions, wranglings and riots,
we have had more or less in fiction, but nothing

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March, 1895

From " Jack O Doon." Copyright, 1894, by Henry Holt & Co.
MERCY AND JACK.

like this. Here are over four hundred pages
which read like actual history of certain politi
cal movements and persistent and successful
work for reform, with a fine, tender love-story
running pure and sweet, an undercurrent in a
life openly pledged to rough partisan work and
rude companionship in squalid places. For
tunately, Peter Stirling is a man s hero. If a
woman writer had created him, she would
have been laughed at for placing her ideal so
high. Mr. Ford is responsible for a very
unusual but, let us believe, a possible charac
ter, and having started him on his eventful
career he has stood bravely by him and helped
him through. In these days of disappointing
novels, when it is so much the custom to leave
the hero and heroine in unsatisfactory circum
stances, it is pleasing to meet an author who
has regard for them and sees to it that all ends
happily. Many readers will care nothing for
the politics, but they will enjoy the love-story.
It is a good one. Peter is the kind of lover
dear to the heart of the novel-reader. He was
worthy the sweet singleness of devotion he re
ceived, and the book, even with the tiresome
politics, is very readable and very enjoyable.
Mr. Ford is well known as an expert collector
and editor of Americana, but his many literary
friends received the announcement of a novel
from his pen with liveliest curiosity. He has
succeeded. (Holt. $1.50.) The Lit era ry World.

The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock.

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN, well known as the
author of "The Leavenworth Case," is the
third writer for the Antonym Library. " The
Doctor, His Wife and the Clock " is a detec
tive story concerned with a murder, which is
not too prominent, having for its principal
characters a beautiful wife devoted to a blind
husband, and unwittingly concerned in the
murder, and a tender-hearted but astute de
tective. The story is not forced, is simply
related, and has a very good and original plot
for its basis. The style of the books coming
out in this Antonym Library is very attractive,
with its limp cloth covers, clear type and wide
margins. Any one of them makes a convenient
and pleasing volume for a travelling companion.
(Putnam. HOC.) The Beacon.

Jack O Doon.

MARIA BEALE has written a story of devotion.
On the Virginia coast lives Capt. Blessington,
who is a kind-hearted, ignorant man, and given
to much profanity. Miss Mercy is the Captain s
daughter, and her aunt Polly, a narrow-minded
personage devoted to tracts, scarcely knows
how to manage Mercy. The girl has a foster-
brother, Jack O Doon, the mate of a vessel. An
artist, Abercrombie, rather fascinates Mercy. It
is believed that Jack has been lost at sea, but
he turns up. Mercy s heart is somewhat di
vided between Abercrombie and Jack. Finally,
both Jack and Abercrombie get into a quick
sand, and the sailor sacrifices his life in rescu
ing Abercrombie. Then Mercy ponders over
this question : " Has Algie Abercrombie one
quality as noble as Jack s love for me or his
devotion to his fellow-men?" Having been
satisfied in her own mind that Algie Abercrom
bie has not these qualities, but being quite de
cided that the painter wants somebody to take
care of him, she agrees to console him. (Holt.
75 c.) N. Y. Times.

Illustrated Standard Novels.

" CASTLE RACKRENT " and "The Absentee"
form the first volume of a promised series of great
interest, of Illustrated Standard Novels. Just
what entitles a novel to rank as a " standard"
is not always easy to say, and the term needs
definition. We have no difficulty to recognize
the really great works, which live through all
time, but there are novels " without which no
gentleman s library is complete " that not only
have ceased to be generally read, but that are no
longer very attractive even to the professed
novel-reader. Yet some of these were im
mensely significant in their day and have a place
not to be overlooked in the development of

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modern fiction. We should say that a judicious
selection of these, in chronological order, would
form a series of great value, for some of the
most famous novels are not now easily access
ible. We do not recognize any such system
atic project in the Messrs. Macmillans prospec
tus, which has, however, an interest of its own.
It apparently aims at the reproduction of vari
ous individual novels of note, presented sepa
rately, but each with a critical introduction and
with illustrations by modern artists that will
help to commend it anew to modern readers.

Hennessy, and, best of all, "Sense and Sen
sibility," illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an
introduction by Austin Dobson. These are not
all really " standard " novels, but they are all
novels that have had a vogue and have left
some kind of literary impression that has en
dured. Their republication, in a form that is
attractive and convenient, and at the same time
inexpensive, is a distinct service that will be
appreciated by many readers, and especially by
those who like to own the novels that are worth
reading. (Macmillan. Ea., $1.25.) Philidel-

The two of Miss Edgeworth s Irish stories phia Times.

chosen for the first issue of this series are of
the class whose celebrity is, in some measure at
least, historical. Some of Miss Edgeworth s
stories are perennial, though it cannot be said
that the recent revival of critical interest in her
work has induced a great popular following.
But "Castle Rackrent," which was one of her
earliest publications, was a story with a purpose,
that while it produced a prodig
ious effect in its time, had the f
element of transitoriness that the !
political novel always has. |
" The Absentee," though it be- |
longs to the same class, displays j
a firmer and maturerart. With
out the freshness of the earlier
tale, it has wider observation and
a larger grasp of human nature,
and the reader will find that,
while in some respects old-fash
ioned, it still retains a great deal
of the interest with which it was
read in youth.

It is a good thing to be thus
tempted to read some of the old
stories again, and the succeeding
volumes of the series will furnish
some instructive experiments in
this line. We are next to have
some of Captain Marryat "Ja-
phet in search of a Father,"
illustrated by H. M. Brock, with
an introduction by David Han-
nay and then Michael Scott s
"Tom Cringle s Log," which
used to be immensely esteemed.
Others on the list are "Maid
Marian" and " Crotchet Castle,"
for which Mr. Saintsbury will
furnish the introduction ; the
"Annals of the Parish" of
Thomas Gait ; George Borrow s
" Lavengro," introduced by Mr.
Birr ell; the "Adventures of
Hajji Baba," Miss Edgeworth s
" Ormond," Miss Ferrier s
"Marriage," illustrated by

Messrre.

WHOEVER has read either Mrs. Crompton s
charming story, "The Gentle Heritage," or
"Master Bartelmy," both of which are gems
amongst the literature written for children,
will be eager to secure anything new from the
same writer. " Messire " contains three stories.

From " Messire.

IT is LETTY S OWN IDEA."

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The first tells how a beautiful boy is entrusted
by his dying father in Australia to an old
soldier, who is to carry him home to England
and confide him to two maiden aunts, whose
only heir he is. The old ladies dismay when
he appears with his strange nurse ; their at
tempt to separate them and find a situation for
" Brown " ; the child s love for his queer nurse
and attendant, and Brown s devotion to the
child, and how the separation finally came
about, are all told in the author s inimitable
way. The second story is a brief but exquisite
sketch of how Gliick, a little German boy,
started out to find the edge of the world, and
travelled through fields and vineyards and
pine woodlands, enjoying the wild flowers, the
orchards, the nut-trees, the springs running
down the hillsides, and beds of wild straw
berries, until he reached the mountain-top,
where he seemed to see spread out in the even
ing light the whole of the world and the plains
of heaven beyond. Then Uncle Peter came
along and carried him home, tired but happy.
The third story, " Pippo, Letty and I," is told
in innocent child language by one of the little
girls, Bet, and reveals brother Pippo s selfish
ness and disobedience, the patient endurance
of his tyranny by his two little sisters because
it was just Pippo, and Pippo was their brother,
and finally the righteous judgment that fell
upon Pippo. They are all three charming
stories, sweet and wholesome in tone, written
in pure English, and pleasing to young or old.
(Button., 75 c.) 7^ he Beacon.

Sir Richard Owen.

THE Messrs. Appleton have published a book
which has been looked for since the death of
the subject two years ago, " The Life of Richard
Owen," by his grandson. There seems to have
been an exceptionally large supply of materials
for these volumes owing to the subject s habit
of preserving every paper or letter that came
to his hand. Of his own letters no less than
1200 remain, while more than 15,000 letters re
ceived from others have been placed at the dis
posal of the biographer. Moreover, both Owen
and his wife were in the habit of keeping dia
ries, and, although his own journal was some
what disconnected, that of his wife is a full
record from 1834 to 1873, not only of the im
portant facts, but even of the trivial details of
their joint lives. The biographer s main duty,
therefore, has been that of compressing the
ample information attainable regarding his sub
ject s private life. Not being himself a scientist,
he has wisely caused the scientific portions of
this volume to be revised by Mr. C. Davies
Sherborn, and he has secured from Prof.
Huxley an essay on Owen s position in ana

tomical science, which is the most valuable
feature of the book.

The subject of this biography was more than
88 years old when he died on Dec. 18, 1892,
having been born at Lancaster on July 20, 1804,
He was the son of a West India merchant, and
received his early education at the grammar
school of his native town, where one of his
school-fellows was William Whewell, afterwards
the well-known master of Trinity College, Cam
bridge. At the age of 20 he matriculated at the
University of Edinburgh, and two years later
he became a member of the Royal College of
Surgeons in London, after which he began life
as a general practitioner. His appointment on
the recommendation of Dr. Abernethy to the
post of assistant curator of the Hunterian Mu
seum led him to give his attention exclusively
to the study of comparative anatomy. It was
to comparative anatomy and paleontology that
he devoted almost the whole of his scientific
career, which may be said to have begun even
before the publication of the "Memoir on the
Pearly Nautilus" in 1832, and which did not
end until iSSq. For the actual scope and pre
cise worth of his work we shall refer presently
to Prof. Huxley s essay, but there is no doubt
that, so far as public and official recognition is
concerned, no English man of science in this
century has been more highly honored at home
and abroad. Mr. Owen received the cross of
the Legion of Honor as early as 1855, and was
subsequently made a Chevalier of the Prussian
Order of Merit, and a Knight of the Bath.
(Appleton. 2v. $7.50.) N. Y. Sun.

Noemi.

MR. BARING-GOULD writes the mediaeval story,
with its savagery. He selects that period when
parts of France, as Guyenne, were English,
and the people uncertain as to their allegiance.
Sometimes they were for Henry of England, at
other times for the Crown of France. The
nobility were given to acts of violence, and the
country was a scene of murder and rapine.
Freebooters harried the land, and merchants
and peasants were robbed. It was the paradise
of the free companies, made up of the idle and
vicious, and so no man s life was safe.

Mr. Baring-Gould s principal character and
heroine is Noemi. She performs some wonder
ful feats, as jumping down the sides of a pre
cipitous cliff, after knocking away the wooden
steps. In doing that she nearly upsets Jean
del Peyra, a handsome young lad, who is en
gaged in whittling an arrow stock.

The story is replete with action. There are
many fights with burnings and stormings.
(Appleton. $i; pap., 50 c.) N. Y. Times.

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La Fayette in the American Revolution.

IN these beautifully printed volumes Mr.
Tower gives us a delightful picture of the
youngest officer who ever held the commission
of major-general in the Army of the United
States, and the background of the picture is the
no less interesting subject, the participation of
France in our War of Independence. How im
perfect one of these subjects would be if treated
apart from the other the reader of these vol
umes will appreciate, as he
learns from unquestionable
evidence how active La
Fayette was in shaping the

course of France after she *v.

had declared war against
England, and the confidence
which the French cabinet
placed in him and its willing
ness to follow his advice.

It is fully time that a
work treating of La Fayette
in the American Revolution
should have been written;
and, while we cannot regret
the delay which has made it
possible for it to be prepared
with all the advantages
modern research affords, it
is unquestionably true that
La Fayette s reputation has
suffered for the want of such
a work; and, besides this,
it has not been creditable
to this country that services
so eminent as those he ren
dered should not have re
ceived signal recognition in
the historical literature of
our country.

It has remained for Mr.
Tower to correct this omis
sion, and he has performed
the self-imposed task in a
way not only creditable to
himself, but in one that will
prove gratifying to others.

His volumes show that he has spared no pains
to make a thorough investigation of his subject,
and that he has brought to his work a well-
trained mind and a knowledge of modern
languages that has enabled him to pursue his
studies in original documents gathered from
the-archives of France and elsewhere. He has
weighed r the evidence he has collected with
great fairness, and has drawn his conclusions
with true historic instinct, stating them with an
earnestness that carries conviction with it. He
has made for himself a place in the field of let
ters. (Lippincott. 2 v., $8.) The American.

Vedic India.

MADAME Z. A. RAGOZIN, who has made a
life-long study of India, has again two books on
that most interesting of lands, both designed for
the Storv of the Nations Series. " The Story of
Brahmanic India" has not yet left the press,
but "The Story of Vedic India" is just ready
for distribution. Madame Ragozin has already
instructed her fascinated readers in " The Story
of Chaldea," " The Story of Assyria," " The

From " Vedic India

Copy] ight, 1S9."&gt;. by G. P. Putnam s Sons.
FIRST INCARNATION OF VISHNU.

Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia." The
story of Vedic India rests upon the Vedas,
the oldest writings in the world with the ex
ception of the Pentateuch. These writings
are supposed to have been compiled in
the sixteenth century before Christ. The
Hindoos hold that their Vedas are coeval with
creation.

The illustration shows the first incarnation of
Vishnu, when he took the form of a fish in order
to recover the Sacred Scriptures supposed to
have been lost in the Deluge. (Putnam.
$1.50.)

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[March, 1895

" Billtry."

MRS. MARY KYLE DALLAS has had the wisdom
to assure her readers that she is making fun in
a kindly spirit of a book of which she is an
ardent and sincere admirer. She says :

" Though without the great, beautiful
Trilby this absurd little Billtry would

From " Billtry." Copyright, 1895, by The Merriam Co.

"BILLTRY."

never have been. It is simply the reverse of
the question the other side of the shield
the what might have been had the bachelor
artists of the Parisian studios been bachelor
girls of Gotham, and their model masculine,
instead of feminine Billtry, in fact, instead of
Trilby and even of this I did not take thought
until the morsel was written."

In this little squib " Billtry" has the beauti
ful feet, and they are reproduced in candy and
soap for various purposes to help the girl
artists make money. One of these draws
pigs, the other angels, and one speaks some
thing that stands for Spanish, in imitation^of

the generous doses of French scattered through
Mr. Du Maurier s inimitable, critic-disarming
story.

Pictures, also " parodies," of the artist-
author s drawings are used to illustrate the
extravagant text. One of these is of Billtry,
who loves a bottle in the possession of his wife,
takes doses from the same, then stands upon
his head and plays the accordion with his
"beautiful toes." In it all Mrs. Kyle Dallas
has only had " the simple and innocent object
of making you laugh." (Merriam Co. $i;
pap., 50 c.)

Chimmie Fadden.

MR. EDWARD W. TOWNSEND S newly pub
lished book, " Chimmie Fadden, Major Max,
and Other Stories," is something that is well
calculated to touch the popular liking, and I
predict for it a success much greater than is
commonly won by publications of the same
general kind. Both the "Chimmie Fadden"
and the "Major Max" tales originally ap
peared in the Sun, and are to be reckoned
among the best of the dialect and character
sketches that have ever been printed in that
distinguished newspaper ; which is saying a
good deal for them, for the Sun has published
some famously able stories in this line. In the
"Chimmie Fadden" tales there is, I suppose,
a more popular element than the " Major Max
conversations can boast. It is to be said that
"Chimmie" is a character who will deserve his
success, no matter how great it may prove to
be; he is gifted in imagination and in speech,
and is powerful to amuse and delight any sort
of reader. At the same time the "Major
Max " conversations will be found to contain
for a smaller circle of readers a still greater
charm. These sketches, in surprising contrast
to the " Chimmie Fadden" tales, so far as their
literary treatment is concerned, are models of
light and amusing fancy and graceful and deft
expression. Mr. Townsend, with equal facility
and effectiveness, can be broad in his humor,
or he can be delicate; and he can tell a story
that would win approbation in the Fourth ward,
or pursue a question of nice philosophy in a
manner to delight the fastidious. The other
tales and sketches in this volume are concerned
with San Francisco and the West, and are ad
mirable in various ways. I recommend the
book with a clear conscience, and with some
thing more than that, I have liked it myself,
and I believe that others will like it. May it
bring to its very able author the success that
he deserves. If it succeeds according to its
merits he will have no reason to complain.
(Lovell, Coryell & Co. $i; pap., 50 c.)Town
Topics.

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The Women of Shakespeare.

THE translator, who has done her work ex
cellently, reminds us in her preface that we
have two books on Shakespeare s women and
of course both Mrs. Jameson and Lady Martin
are delightful writers but points out with
much reason that there is ample room for Dr.
Lewes work. One is instantly prepossessed by
the author s two principles, which are first of
all to take Shakespeare s women in the chrono
logical order from Venus of " Venus and
Adonis " to Queen Catherine, and next to allow
each character to grow out of her play. The
details of the play are only used to develop and
interpret the subjects of study, and the reader s
mind therefore is not distracted, but is always
kept in focus. This plan Dr. Lewes works out
after the most laborious and conscientious
fashion, omitting no one and doing injustice
to none. No words can exaggerate the thor
oughness or sanity of the book, which satisfies
you on every page that the author has done
his work, and there are occasional passages of
genuine feeling, as in the tribute to Desde-
mona s saintliness. One naturally tests such
studies at critical points, and it is saying much
for Dr. Lewes that his Portia is all that her ad
mirers could desire, for surely she is the queen
of Shakespeare s women, and his Lady Macbeth
is a powerful and convincing reading that shows
Doth insight and charity. Among many in
stances of minute and sensible criticism is the
remark that Juliet, and some of the other maid
ens, knew more than was good for them, and
that in consequence some of the noblest pas
sages in her speech are stained. It is not pos
sible in this brief review to enter into intricate
critical questions, but the Shakespeare student

will notice that while Dr. Lewes adopts the
three periods of division, he does not apportion
the plays as has been most commonly done,
but throws " Two Gentlemen of Verona " and
" Love s Labour s Lost " into the second period.
This book supplies a distinct want, and is
a valuable addition to Shakespearian literature.
(Macmillan. $2.50.) "San Maclaren" in The
Bookman.

The Growth of the Idylls of the King.

THIS scholarly monograph is another of the
many indications that meet one on every side of
how far the Germanization of our intellectual
pursuits has gone, passing beyond the sphere
of classical philology and pure science, and in
vading the domain of literature. The present
volume investigates the Quellen in the genuine
spirit of the Herr Professor, but with a certain
deftness and grace of touch and an underlying
aesthetic sympathy with Tennyson s noblest
work that are quite foreign to the " one, two,
three " methods of his models.

The design of the study is to show that
Tennyson s obligations to Malory have been
exaggerated by the critics ; that the poem
shows a gradual but steady evolution ; and
that the work itself in its final form embodies
the poet s matured view of life a somewhat
pesimistic view, and one far removed from the
hopeful optimism of his youth, that found ex
pression in the earlier idylls. In the working
out of this plan Dr. Jones has gathered and
arranged a mass of information as to texts,
variants, revisions in manuscript, and other
matters that are extremely instructive to the
critical student of Tennyson ; and has shown
a keen literary sense that will commend cer-

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[Af arc/i, 1895

tain chapters of his little volume to that larger
host who never think of texts, or variants, or
sources, but merely accept with delight the
noble creation of a great master, and thank
God for it. (Lippincott. 1.50.) The Bookman,

Lucy Larcom.

A SWEET and noble soul passed out of this
life when Lucy Larcom died. The graciousness
of her nature, her well-balanced character, her
aspirations for all that was uplifting to herself
and helpful to others, her tenderness and mod
esty and self-sacrifice could not have been
understood by most of those familiar with her
writings but for this revelation in her life, let-
lers, and diary. The history as told in these
pages, much of it in her own words, was
comparatively uneventful, but it has unusual
charm. All along from her childhood in a
home of Puritan simplicity in Beverly to the
closing scene in Boston at nearly threescore
and ten it is a record of absorbing interest,
showing the growth of a true, lovely, and lov
able womanhood.

Of the New England womanhood of the last
generation, nurtured in a well-ordered house
hold, subjected to privations, stuggling against
obstacles, always handicapped, but borne on by
a resistless determination to learn and know
and possess all that was best, Lucy Larcom was
a striking and admirable example. Nothing is
more apparent in these pages than that she
made the utmost of her life. Her judgment
was excellent, her intuitions were keen, her

nature was sound and healthy. She was able
to give calm and wise consideration to the per
plexing questions which came up in her life.
She was never the sport of impulse, but there
was the staying and reliable quality in her make
up which must be defined in one word as prin
ciple. The question most difficult to settle con
cerned her spiritual experiences, convictions,
and duties.

This volume has been carefully, and rever
ently loyally prepared by Daniel Dulany Ad-
dison, who appreciated her rare qualities. The
sweet, benignant face of Miss Larcom fronts
the title-page. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$1.25.) Boston Literary World.

Stories by Charles Egbert Craddock.

A NEW volume of stories by Charles Egbert
Craddock will be hailed with acclamation by
those who read any bright stories with pleasure,
and with quiet delight by those who know how
specially fine is the art of the writer of "In the
Stranger People s Country." There are five
stories, entitled " The Phantoms of the Foot-
Bridge," " His Day in Court," " Way Down in
Lonesome Cove," " The Moonshiners at Hoho-
Hehee Falls," and " The Riddle of the Rocks."
The illustrations are specially well done. Miss
Craddock is so true a word painter that an ar
tist has little to do but to make a copy from her
poetic realistic text. It is always good to see
the work of Miss Craddock, scattered so lavishly
in the magazines, "brought to cover" in an at
tractive volume. (Harper. $1.50.)

The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge." Copyright, 1S95, by Harper & Brothers.

THE BLACKSMITH S SHOP.

March) 1895]

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Ropes Story of the Civil War.

IT is well known that, for upward of thirty
years, Mr. John Codman Ropes of Boston has
made a study of the records of the war between
the States, and the first outcome of his studies,
"The Army Under Pope," was generally ac
cepted as proof of his qualifications for the
composition of an impartial and accurate his
tory of the whole contest. This work has now
been undertaken, and we have now before us
the first volume of "The Story of the Civil
War." We may say at once that the expec
tations based on the author s former narra
tive will be found here fulfilled. Entirely im
partial it is perhaps impossible for any con
temporary observer to be; that not Thucydides
himself could claim. Mr. Ropes, for his part,
is convinced that the assertion made by the
Southern States of a right to secede from the
Union was not well grounded, and he makes
no secret of his conviction on this point. But
while, holding this conviction, he cannot en
tirely veil his satisfaction at the triumph of
the Union cause, he is at great pains to point
out, both in the preface and incidentally
throughout the volume, that the great mass of
the Southern people believed themselves to
have a right to secede, and that to this belief
should be largely ascribed the unanimity, per
sistency, and amazing vigor of their efforts.
In his judgment, he tells us, the war should
not be so depicted as to imply that the North
and the South differed and quarrelled about
the same things. As a matter of fact, the
questions presented to men of the North were
not the same as those with which their South
ern contemporaries had to deal. The two par
ties may justly be compared to the knights of
the fable who fought over the shield which
had on one side a golden and on the other a
silvern face.

At the very outset of this volume, the reader
acquires confidence in the writer s purpose and
ability to evince the largest measure of im
partiality attainable, owing to the stress which
he lays on the radical differences regarding the
object of political allegiance, which actually
existed among the representative statesmen of
the country in the year 1860. Mr. Ropes says
truly that "it is not possible to exaggerate the
importance of these conceptions of political
duty ; for they directly affected the attitude of
every man toward the questions of the day. If
a man held that his State was his country, it
was his duty, if he proposed to be a patriotic
citizen, to serve under the flag of his State."

In the four volumes within which this narra
tive will be comprised, no one will look to see
collected all the details of the Civil War, re
course for which must be had to more com

prehensive histories or to that most capacious
receptacle of nearly all that can be known re
garding the incidents of the contest, the war
records which have been published by the
Federal Government. The author s design is
limited to enabling the reader to obtain a gen
eral view of the struggle, and to see its events
in their proper order and perspective. (Put
nam. $1.50.) N. Y. Sun.

History of the People of the United States.

THE long-awaited fourth volume of McMas-
ter s great work is now ready. It opens with
the war on the frontier and along the Lakes at
the beginning of 1812 and ends with the inau
guration of Jackson. It deals with the block
ade of the coast by Great Britain, the war
along the Gulf Coast, Jackson s Indian Wars,
the New Orleans Campaign, tr e general con
dition of the country during the war, the Presi
dential election, the return of peace and its
effects, the disorders of the currency after 1814,
the rise of manufacturing industries, the devel
opment of municipal and State governments,
the growth of inter-State communication and
the introduction of steamboats, the periodical
literature of the time and the growth of relig
ious, trade and comic papers and magazines,
the movement of population westward, the
admission of Missouri, the reasons for the pro-
slavery sentiment, and its effects, down to 1824;
the Adams Administration, and the opening of
the Erie Canal and other internal improve
ments.

Much space is given to Socialistic movements
like that of Owen, and the beginning of Mor-
monism, with a general account of the effects
of the development of new ideas. Professor
McMaster has devoted a great deal of attention
to the study of early periodical literature, and
also to the mental fermentation which found
expression in various Socialistic and other
eccentric ways. (Appleton. vol. 4, $2.50.)
N. Y. Tribune.

The Great Ice Age.

IT is incorrect to suppose of a book entitled
"The Great Ice Age, and Its Relation to the
Antiquity of Man," by James Geikie, which
now lies before us in its third edition, that
the ordinary layman, the man of affairs, finds
nothing in it to interest him, and that its value
is confined to experts. There is a large class,
consisting not only of those who have had the
advantages of an academic education, but also
of those who, without ever having enjoyed
that privilege, are studious and thoughtful,
whose libraries are filled with just such solid
literature as this volume represents ; and to all
of them this work of Professor Geikie will ap-

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[Marc -/i, 1895

peal with singular force. He is not merely an
authority on the topic in hand, and an authority
whose opinions must receive great weight, but
he writes in a style that is thoroughly popular
and alluring. You might think that any writer
must needs be dull when talking of the glacial
aspect of Greenland, or of the rock striations
and groovings of Scotland, or of the glacial and
post glacial deposits of England, but Professor
Geikie has a peculiar charm for even the
ordinary reader, and to begin a chapter on any
one of these subjects is to feel the spell of his
magnetic style and to become irresistibly drawn
to the author until through actual weariness the
work must be laid down.

The part of the book which has most in
terested us happens to be that in which he
discusses the glacial phenomena of Northern
Europe and the wonderful relics of by-gone
eons which have given us a clue to the con
vulsions through which the earth passed in its
adolescence. Here is an extract which is full
of suggestion :

"Before the commencement of the glacial
period Europe was in the enjoyment of a de
lightful climate, certainly more genial and
equable than the present. This is clearly evinced
by the character of the pliocene flora, which
appears to have been transitorial between that
of the preceding sub-tropical miocene and the
present. . . . Considerable areas which
are now dryland were then underwater. Then
the low grounds of Italy were still submerged,
the valley of the Po forming a great arm of the
sea, which likewise penetrated into the moun
tain valleys of the Alps. The valley of the
Arno, and Sicily, to some extent, were similarly
under water, and the like was the case with
the lower reaches of the Rhone and wide
tracts in the maritime districts of Southwestern
France. The sea also covered the south and
southeast of England, and overflowed at the
.same time a broad area in Belgium and a small
part of Northern France. . . .

" England was visited by elephants, rhinoc
eroses and hippopotamuses and great herds of
various kinds of deer, as well as by bears,
wolves, and other carnivora."

This quotation is made at random, and, in
teresting as it is, it is no more so than any
other paragraphs that might be chosen by
chance. Professor Geikie is a wonderfully at
tractive writer, and not even a boy in one of
our high-schools could fail to get a com
paratively clear idea of that strange and weird
epoch in our earth history when there was no
Gulf Stream, and when snow and ice held un
disputed sway. (Appleton. $7.50.) N~ Y.
Herald.

The Great Refusal.

THE introduction tells us that it is edited by
Paul Elmer More, and that it is part of the
literary remains of a scholarly young man, the
identity of whom is carefully concealed, whose
learning was wasted in the vapors of mysticism.
Whether we are to take this literally, or whether
the book was really written by the putative
editor, we do not know. It is in a nebulous,
epistolary form, and addressed to a lady whom
he calls Lady Esther. The sub-title" Letters
of a Dreamer" gives an idea of the scheme.
While not characterized by marked originality
of conception and thought, it bears the stamp
of delicacy of touch and refinement of senti
ment. There are many passages having a
tender beauty, not only captivating the eye and
ear, but leaving impressions as of aphorisms on
the mind of the reader. There are a number
of short poems, and one of several pages, which
are in good taste and show considerable poetical
ability. The writer has or had a good ear for
rhythm and his measures flow smoothly. lie
has followed the currents of his thoughts
wherever they led him, and while the form is
epistolary, there is much that is impersonal and
not especially applicable to Lady Esther. It is
a book which will bear a reading and a pick
ing up again at odd times. (Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. i.)

Three Score and Ten Years.

WHAT Mr. W. J. Linton would care to say of
the art he loves, and in which he is so distin
guished, he probably said in " The Masters of
Wood-Engraving;" it does not, at any rate,
claim the lion s share in these recollections of
"Three Score and Ten Years." And neither
in the text, nor yet in the strong, genial old face
that is the book s frontispiece, does one find
quite the fanatically fierce radical that perhaps
one chiefly remembers him to have been por
trayed. Possessed of a passion of protest and
revolt against what he considered the wrongs of
a country, a race, a class, or individuals, un
doubtedly he shows himself to have been ; but
justice, tenderness, pity, and sense of humor
are as inevitably betrayed as radicalism, and
the capacity of bitter resentment and acrimony.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy says of him in " Con
versations with Carlyle," referring to Carlyle s
calling Linton " a well-meaning, but extremely
windy creature of the Louis Blanc, George
Sand, etc., species," that he was "less a French
Republican of the school of George Sand and
Louis Blanc than an English Republican of the
school of Milton and Cromwell."

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THE LITERARY NEWS.

The book is not an autobiography, nor do the
recollections define very exactly the sequence
of the years, but they are interesting in their
crowded desultoriness. Some of them, it is
true, concern people unknown to, or perhaps
displeasing to the reader ; but more are occu
pied with personages in all walks of life, but es
pecially in art and literature, famous, or deserv
ing to be so for their qualities. They are told
in language simple, graphic, with a little flavor
of antiquity harmonizing with the author s por
trait, and with some of the people and events he
recalls. Austin Dobson dedicated to Mr. Linton
"his "Thomas Bewick and his Pupils" as
" Engraver and Poet, the steadfast apostle of
Bewick s white line ; " and wrote on the fly
leaf of the complimentary copy sent :

" Not white thy graver s path alone ;
May the sweet Muse with whitest stone
Mark all the days to come, and still
Delay thee on Parnassus Hill."

(Scribner. $2.) Providence Sunday Journal.

A Manual of the Study of Documents.

THIS handy volume, by Persifor Frazer, will
be found of great use to all persons interested
in the study of penmanship and of the individ
ual character of handwriting. It is a " counter
feit detector," for it will enable one, after some
study of its pages, to detect fraud and forgery.
In addition to the old methods of research there
are several new suggestions for the detection
of counterfeit writing. Dr. Fra/cer suggests that
the term Bibliotics is broad enough to apply to
any object which it may be desired to investi
gate such as parchment, wax tablets, papyrus,
printing paper, stone, or any other substance
capable of receiving and retaining characters.
Under the head of " Grammapheny " he would
include all that relates to the discovery of fraud,
and under that of " Plassopheny" all that re
lates to forgery. In the development of his sub
ject he goes into valuable mimttia: under the
head of physical examination, studying all that
belongs to the manner of writing, the instrument,
the fluid used, evidences of tampering, scanning
under various lights, the use of magnifying in
struments, the substances written upon, the
composite photography of signatures, the tre
mor of feebleness, illiteracy, or fraud, and the
writing done by guided hands. In part second
he enters into the detail of inks and their testing,
the reagents used by forgers, and the method
of reaction, winding up with a digest of the laws
relating to the testimony of experts on hand
writing. The book is very interesting, and gives
the result of a lifetime of study of this impcrtant

specialty. Apart from its curious interest as a
flower growing in one nook of the garden of lit
erature, it is an exceedingly useful manual for
all persons to whom the detection of fraud and
the establishment of truth is a question of su
preme practical interest. The book is very well
printed and illustrated and has a good index.
(Lippincott. $2.) Boston Literary World.

The Woman Who Did.

IT is a pity that so remarkable a book should
bear a title which savors a little of the cheap
catchiness of posters, advertisements and par
odies. Grant Allen has done much excellent
work since he began to write some twenty years
ago. He combines scientific accuracy and imagi
nation and poetry in rare degree. His special
field is natural science, and evolution has been
the branch to which he has devoted many vol
umes. His logical powers are trained and he
reasons clearly, proving all statements step
by step from any premises he accepts or invents
as the bases of his treatises and stories.

He tells us that this little volume has been
written wholly to please himself , and every line
shows how exacting has been his demand upon
himself to produce a work that should remain a
pleasure to him.

The story is slight. A girl born in the con
ventional atmosphere that surrounds the high
dignitaries of the Established Church has gradu
ated from Girton, and enters life full of the
noblest enthusiasm to help her sister women
free themselves from conventional bonds and
live a pure, self-sacrificing life, using all their
highest powers and capacities to advance the
true cause of woman and make her the true, in
spiring helpmate of man, kept up to his
highest ideal by her strength and purity. She
believes that the present laws and customs of
marriage are degrading to the woman and irk
some and unnatural to the man. Almost imme
diately upon leaving college she meets a man
who understands the purity of motive and the
self-sacrificing purpose that underlie her start
ling plans and theories. Many conversations
present the man s, the woman s and the conven
tional views of the institution of marriage.

After long deliberation the young people
agree to live their lives according to the girl s
theories. The consequences of this decision,
leading to the tragic climax, are told with rare
insight into the eternal opposition of the un
changing forces of nature and the constantly
changing forces of social conditions. The
woman leads a martyr s life, and from her near
est and dearest meets only with condemnation.
(Roberts. $i.)

8 4

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\_March, 1895

t Itanj

Sin Eclectic JUlontfjIs DU&teto of (E/urrrnt ILfterature.
EDITED BY A. H. LE YPOL D T.

MARCH, 1895-

W. E. FOSTER S REFERENCE LISTS.

THE librarian of the Providence Public Li
brary, Mr. William E. Foster, is among the few
that are " called " as well as "chosen" to their
profession. He recognizes the true educational
purpose of a library for which the people pay,
and the responsibility which rests upon its li
brarian to instruct his townsmen what treasures
they may procure with their tax-money, and how
far-reaching may be the mental and moral, the
political and social results of an intelligent and
systematic use of the literary property on which
they have a claim as good citizens.

Mr. Foster is a man of broad interests, fully
abreast with his day, and he knows the value
of exact information in dealing with the ques
tions of the hour, as presented to large masses
of men from day to day in a press nominally
free, but influenced consciously or unconscious
ly, or controlled autocratically by party, power
or money. To make aimless readers thinkers,
and to give vitality and purpose to undirected
ambitions and idiosyncrasies, or vague desires,
has been this earnest librarian s ideal for many
years an ideal to which he has sacrificed all
personal ambition, and for which he has done
work requiring gifts and training that no money
can buy.

Filled with youthful enthusiasm, Mr. Foster
fifteen years ago began to make up " Reference
Lists " for the u&e of the readers of the Provi
dence Public Library, calling attention to the
works and periodicals contained in the library
bearing upon the important questions of the
day, or the heroes of the hour in war, politics,
or literature. Some kindred spirits hailed Mr.
Foster s plan with delight, and he was encour
aged to&gt; print his lists (which had until then
only been written and put up within the walls
of the library) so that they might prove of use in
other libraries, and also guide and remind read
ers privileged to buy books. After four years
of struggle, from 1880 to 1884, Mr. Foster found
it impossible to get his great undertaking upon
a basis warranting the expense of proper help,
and still more impossible to do all the work him
self added to the onerous duties of superin
tending a growing library; and the " Reference
Lists " could not any more be made public.

But Mr. Foster s enthusiasm still lives, and
he sees more and more the great need of such a
work as he offers. Perhaps, too, he hopes that

in a decade readers may have become conscious
of such need, and he once more offers his " Ref
erence Lists," at the trifling cost of 50 cents a
year. Every month he covers three subjects.
The January issue gave information on Oliver
Wendell Holmes, the Corean War, and Buddh
ism; February s lists referred to Robert Louis
Stevenson, Municipal government, and German
literature.

No one who hss not seen these lists can un
derstand their great importance. A better
guide to bookbuying it would be hard to find-

READERS would do well to ponder some
thoughts condensed from a lecture given many
years ago by Mr. W. E. Foster upon the right
selection of books and the right methods of
reading:

A. 77/i? right selection of books, (i) Person
al adaptation should guide us. (2) Our read
ing should have a tendency towards symmet
rical development ; it should not be exclusively
technical, nor exclusively general. (3) We
should begin where we are interested. An in
vestigation of a subject will lead from that into
other fields. It may be objected that this re
quires a suggestive habit of mind. But a sug
gestive habit of mind is not born in any man[?],
and it may be acquired by any man. Let once
a beginning be made, and the further we go
the surer we are of recognizing some familiar
event or topic ; the dread of unfamiliarity van
ishes after we have taken the first few steps.
(4) There must be discrimination in our read
ing ; aimlessness is one of the worst evils.

B. Right methods of reading, (i) Definiteness
of purpose is as necessary here as in the selec
tion. We must have a clear idea of just what
we wish to get out of each book. (2) System,
a scientific adjustment of means to ends. (3)
We must read in a comparative way. It is not
safe to judge any question apart from its rela
tions. The reader must take a survey of the
whole field before beginning at any one point.
(4) In using reference lists it is not necessary
to read every book and every chapter referred
to. We must select what on the whole would
best serve our purpose. We are not to ignore
our interest, however some one book might
particularly attract the attention of some one
reader. The plan of reading by a reference list
does not apply to all books. Imagine a man
going through Milton or Shakespeare in this
ruthless manner ! The plan applies to the
works of " the literature of knowledge." " The
literature of power " needs a different treatment.
Books which have an organic unity, following
out a central subject or thought, must be
read as a whole. (5) We should review our
reading at times.

March, 1895]

THE LITERARY NEWS.

ARTICLES IN MARCH MAGAZINES.

Articles marked with an asterisk are illustrated.

ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Century,
Eugene Ysaye;* Jean Carries, Sculptor and
Potter.* Fort. Review (Feb.), Note on Ibsen s
" Little Eyolf," The Editor. Forum, A Week
in New York Theatres, Speed. Harper s, The
American Academy at Rome,* Cortissoz.
Scribner s, American Wood-Engravers F. S.
King;* Orchestral Conducting and Conductors,
Apthorp.

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. Atlantic,
William Dwight Whitney, Lanman. Cath.
World, Sir John Thompson, McKenna. C/iau-
tauquan, Chauncey M. Depew, Morris. Nine.
Centtiry (Feb.), Reminiscences of Christina
Rossetti. Watts. Popular Science, Thomas
Nuttall (For.).

DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Cath. World, Pictures
on the Galway Coast,* Marguerite Moore.
Century, Beyond the Adriatic,* Harriet W.
Preston. Chantauqiian, Underground Railway
in London, Daniel! Harper s, The Literary
Landmarks of Jerusalem,* Hutton ; Industrial
Region of Northern Alabama, Tennessee, and
Georgia,* Ralph. Lippincotfs, Glimpse of Cuba,
Reeve. McClures, An Ocean Flyer ; * An
Alpine Pass on Ski,* Doyle.

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. Lippincotfs, Furs in
Russia, Isabel F. Hapgood ; A Question of Cos
tume, W. D. McCrackan. North Am. Review,
Nagging Women, Lady Somerset, Marion Har-
land, Harriet P. Spofford. Pop. Science, The
Mother in Woman s Advancement, Mrs. Burton
Smith. Scribners, Art of Living House-
Furnishing and the Commissariat,* Grant.

EDUCATIONAL. Atlantic, Direction of Educa
tion, Shaler. Cath. World, Scope of Public
School Education, Spalding. Harper s, New
York Common Schools, Olin. A T inc. Century
(Feb.), Language vs. Literature at Oxford,
Collins. Pop. Science, Scientific Method in
Board Schools, Armstrong; Biological Work in
Secondary Schools, McClatchie.

FICTION. Atlantic, The Seats of the Mighty,
I., Gilbert Parker; Gridou s Pity, I., Grace H.
Peirce. Cath. World, A Modern Iconoclast,
Spellissy. Century, A Vital Question, Hibbard;
The Hard Trigger,* Edwards. Harpers, A
Californian, Geraldine Bonner; The Second
Missouri Compromise,* Wister; Fame s Little
Day,* Sarah O. Jewett; An Every-Day Affair,
Olga Flinch. Lippincotfs, A Tame Surrender,
Charles King; Luck of the Atkinses, Margaret
B. Yeates; Fulfilment, Eliz. K. Carter. Mc-
Clure s, Lord of Chateau Noir, Doyle; La Tous-
saint,* Weyman; A Blizzard,* Mrs. E. V. Wil
son. Scribner s, Circle in the Water, I., How-
ells; Hughey, Macknight ; Revenge,* Abbe C.
Goodloe.

HISTORY. Century, Two War-Times Con
ventions, Noah Brooks. Scribners, History of
the Last Quarter-Century in the United States,*
I., E. B. Andrews; When Slavery Went Out of
Politics,* Noah Brooks. West. Review (Feb.),
Historical Lessons from American Archaeology,
Hewitt.

INDUSTRIAL. Pop. Science, Copper, Steel,
and Bank Note Engraving,* Dickinson; An
Old Industry (Indigo-Making), Mary H. Leon
ard; Bookbinding, Sanderson.

LITERARY. Atlantic, Secret of the Roman
cOracles, Lanciani ; Some Confessions of a

Novel-Writer, Trowbridge ; A Pupil of Hypa-
tia, Harriet W. Preston and Louise Dodge.
Cath. World, A Prince of Scribblers (Horace
Walpole), Rossman. Century, Cheating at
Letters, Bunner. Fort. Review (Feb.), Novels
of Hall Caine, Saintsbury. Forum, Charlotte
Bronte s Place in Literature, Harrison ; The
Two Eternal Types in Fiction, Mabie. Lip-
pincott s, The Artist s Compensations, Lawton.
McChtre s, F. M. Crawford A Conversa
tion,* Bridges. North Am. Review, Mark
Twain and Paul Bourget, Max O Rell. Scrib-
ner s, Thoreau s Poems of Nature, Sanborn.

MEDICAL SCIENCE. - - Chautauquan, The
World s Debt to Medicine, J. S. Billings.
Forum, Anti-Toxine Treatment of Diphtheria,
L. Emmett Holt. McClure s, Diphtheria Anti-
Toxine Its Production,* W. H. Park; New
Treatment of Diphtheria,* H. M. Biggs.

MENTAL AND MORAL. Cath. World, Hypnot
ism (Charcot), Seton. Nine. Century (Feb.),
Social Evolution, Kidd. North Am. Review,
What Psychical Research has Accomplished,
Podmore.

NATURE AND SCIENCE. Century, Hermann
von Helmholtz (For.), Martin; Hoise Market,*
Merwin. Harpers, Heredity, Mivart. Lip-
pincott s, Story of the Gravels, Bashore. Pop.
Science, Scientific Work of Tyndall, Lord Ray-
leigh; Beginnings of Agriculture, Bourdeau.
Scribner s, Bedding-Plants,* Parsons.

POETRY. Atlantic, Evening in Salisbury
Close, Scollard; At the Granite Gate, Carman.
Century, Summers, Josephine H. Nicholls.
Harper s, The Ascending Magdalen,* Minna C.
Smith; A Singer Awaiting an Answer, Mar
guerite Merington; Like the Good God, Mar-
rion Wilcox; Society, Howells. Lippincotfs,
Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Burton. Nine.
Centttry (Feb.), A New Year s Eve (Christina
Rossetti), Swinburne. Scrilner s, Three Son
nets, Fullerton; Land-Locked, Going; The Last
Prayer, Campbell.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Atlantic, Immigra
tion and Naturalization, Everett; Some Words
on the Ethics of Co-operative Production, Lud-
low. Banker s, Credit of the U. S. Govern
ment; How Much has the Country Lost by Low
Prices of Products?; World s Wool Situaticn,
North; History of Bank Currency, Gilman.
Century, Blackmail as a Heritage, Buel. C/iau-
tauquan, New Reign in Russia, Yarros. Forum,
Business World vs. the Politicians, Eckels;
Our Blundering Policy, Lodge; What Would I
Do with the Tariff?, Carnegie; Is the Income
Tax Constitutional?, Seligman; The Social Dis
content, Holt. Harper s, Trial Trip of a
Cruiser,* Sicard. Nine. Century (Feb.), Is Bi-
metalism a Delusion?, Tuck. North Am. Re
view, Is an Extra Session Needed ?, Tracey,
Storer, Patterson and Cousins; Two Years of
Democratic Diplomacy, Davis; Must We Have
the Cat-c-Nine Tails?, Gerry; Future of Silver,
Bland. West. Review (Feb.), Betting and Gam
bling.

THEOLOGY, RELIGION, AND SPECULATION.
Fort. Review (Feb.), Ancestor Worship in Chir a,
Gundry.McCIure s, The Lord s Day, Glad
stone. Nine. Century (Feb.), Auricular Con
fession and the Church of England, Canon
Carter. North Am. Review, The Old Pulpit
and the New, Bhp. Foss. West. Review,
(Feb.), Free Thought, Agnosticism, Skepticism,
Dewey.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[Marc/;, 1895

of Current Citerature.

Order through your bookseller. " There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence
and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books; nor is there any one who does
more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller" PROF. DUNN-

Church, Rochester. $th ed. Scrantom, Wet-
more & Co. 8, pap.. 50 c.
Recipes for soups, fish, vegetables, bread,.

in poetry aim musii; , iu K ciu C i wiiu uiusu. *= . , . d f desserts, cake, pickles,

a representative art : two essays m compara- ^ alaHs P heverairps . sw i Pta Ptr .
tive aesthetics. Putnam. 8 , $1.75.

ART, MUSIC, DRAMA.

RAYMOND, G. LANSING. Rhyhtm and harmony
in poetry and music ; together with music as

beverages

REINTZEL, MARG., comp. The musician s year
book. Button. 16, $i.

Appropriate readings for every day in the
year selected from the sayings of celebrated
musicians and renowned authors. Mozart,
Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Weber, and Schu
mann are some of the musicians represented.
Among the authors are Shakespeare, Francis
Bacon, George Eliot, Goethe, Thompson, and
many others.

FLETCHER, ROB., M.D. Anatomy and art :
the annual address read before the Philosoph
ical Society of Washington, December 12,
1894. Judd & Detweiler. 8, pap., n. p.

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

MASSON, D. Life of John Milton, narrated in
connection with the political, ecclesiastical,
and literary history of his time. Macmillan.
8, 14-50.

SALA, G. A. The life and adventures of George
Augustus Sala, written by himself. Scrib-
ner. 2 v., por. 8, $5.

DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC.

BALLA.NTINE, H. On India s frontier ; or,
Nepal, the Gurkhas mysterious land. J. Sel-
win Tait & Sons, map, il. 12, $2.50.

SHOEMAKER, M. M. Trans-Caspia; the sealed
provinces of the czar. The Robert Clarke
Co. por. il. 12, $1.50.

"Mr. Shoemaker has before written some very
interesting volumes of travel and Trans-
Caspia is still another. He sees well and
describes admirably. The journey led through
the ordinarily sealed provinces of the Czar and
about which little has been known from Amer
ican tourists. Starting from St. Petersburg, the
journey led over the Dariel Pass, to Tiflis, to
Baku, and the oil regions of the Caspian. From
there to the plains of Turkistan. and the Desert
of the Black Sands ; Bokhara, Samarcand, over
the steppes to Tashkend. ancient Kokand, Ash,
through Paradise to the deserts of China,
through the deserted cities of the Turkoman, to
Trebizond and Stamboul. The story is ad
mirably told, and the beautifully clear print
and striking illustrations add to the enjoyment
of the book." Chicago Inter-Ocean.

VINCENT, FRANK. Actual Africa ; or, the com
ing continent. A tour of exploration. With
map and 105 full-page illustrations. 8.

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL.

MOTHER HUBBARD S cupboard: recipes collected
by the Young Ladies Society, First Baptist

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC.

DE GARMO, C. Herbart and the Herbartians.
Scribner. 12, (Great educators ser.) net, $i.

EATON, Rev. ARTHUR WENTWORTH. College
requirements in Engl sh entrance examina
tions (Examination papers for 1893 and
1894). zdser. Ginn. 12, net, 1.20.

MARTIN, G. H. The evolution of the Massa
chusetts public school system: a historical
sketch. Appleton. 12, (International edu
cation ser., no. 29.) $1.50.
This is only a sketch a study, not a history
of education in Massachusetts. It aims to
show the evolutionary character of the public-
school history of the state, and to point out
the lines along which the development has run,,
and the relation throughout to the social envi
ronment. Incidentally, it serves to illustrate
the slow, wavering, irregular way by which the
people under popular governments work out
their own social progress. The material was
originally given as lectures with the titles: The
early legislation its principles and precedents;
Schools before the Revolution; The district
school and the academy; Horace Mann and 1
the revival of education; The modern school
system; The modern school. Author is Super
visor of Public Schools, Boston, Mass.

PAULSEN, F. The German universities: their
character and historical development; author
ized tr. by E: Delevan Perry, with an introd.
by Nicholas Murray Butler. Macmillan. 12,

$2.

" The work, which originally appeared as a
part of the elaborate report sent by the German
government with its educational exhibit to the
World s Fair at Chicago, is of the very first
importance to promoters of the higher educa
tion here in America, where the disposition to
assimilate the best features of German univer
sity methods is noteworthy. Professor Paulsc n
shows clearly how the unified atmosphere of
the German universities has promoted solidar
ity of interests, made possib e a free inter
change of advantages; and by giving members
of different faculties frequent opportunities for
pursuing their work under the most favorable
auspices, has tended to form a veritable aris
tocracy of intellect as a counterbalancing
force in the social organism against the domi
nation of hereditary influences and the materi
alism of wealth. A thoughtful and suggestive
introduction on the relation of German univer
sities to the problems of higher education irk
the United States, by Professor N. M. Butler,
is a noteworthy feature of the volume. The

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translator has added a few serviceable foot
notes for the benefit of readers not acquainted
with German university customs. Appendices
contain useful statistics and a bibliography. "-
The Beacon.

FICTION.

ALLEN, GRANT. The woman who did. Rob
erts. 16, $i.

BARING-GOULD, SABINE. Noemi. Appleton.
12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no.
160.) $r; pap., 50 c.

Aquitaine, in France, in the stormy days of
the raids of the Free Companies in the fifteenth
century, is the scene of a dramatic historical ro
mance. Noemi is the supposed daughter of
the robber chief Le Gros Guillem and has a
noble nature, which her environment of crime
and bloodshed has not destroyed; her father s
horrible reprisals of the poor and oppressed
are witnessed by her with deep ind gnation.
She endeavors to prevent them, and is aided in
her efforts by Jean Del Peyra, whom she loves.

BEALE, MARIA. Jack O Doon: a novel. Holt.

i 11. nar. 16, buckram, 75 c.
CATNE. HALL. A son of Hagar; il. by Albert
Hencke. R. F. Fenno & Co., 112 5th Av
enue, por. 12, $i.

The same scene is used here Cumberland.
England- as in " The shadow of a crime."
The hero is the opposite of the hero of that story.
Hall Caine says in his preface: "In this novel
the aim has been to penetrate into the soul of a
bad man, and to lay bare the processes by which
he is tempted to fall." The temptation is a
woman whom two brothers love to win her
from his brother Paul, Hugh Ritson does not
hesitate at a crime. He finds his opportunity
in the misfortunes and sins of his mother, who
has brought an illegitimate child into the world.
The manners and customs of the Cumbrian
peasants are realistically presented.

COBB, SYLVANUS.yr. The king s mark : a novel.

Bonner. 12, (Popular ser., no. 57.) pap.,

25 c.

The story is founded on an episode of his
tory. Frederick the Great, for diplomat : c and
humane reasons, is supposed to play the part
of a student, and marks the arm of a newly
born infant with a Latin cross; this infant,
FeoJor Von Allendorf. the hero of the story,
later wins the heart of his sovereign by frus
trating the plot of some Saxon rebels, and by
outwitting a diplomat of rank. The policy of
Frederick the Great in regard to his proposed
invasion of Saxony is seen, as is also Saxony s
position in regard to the crown. The character
caste is mostly composed of famous historic
personages who lived about 1756.

COTES. Mrs. EVERARD. [Sara Jeanette Dun
can.] Vernon s aunt: being the Oriental ex
periences of MHS Lavinia Moffat; il. by Hal
Hurst. Appleton. 12, $1.25.
COUPERUS, Lours. Maje?ty. A novel. Trans
lated by A. Teixeira de Ma .tos and Ernest
Dowson. Appleton. 12.
CRAWFORD, F. MARION. The Ralstons. Mac-

millan. buckram, 16, $2.

DEMENT, R. S. Ronbar: a counterfeit pre
sentiment. G. W. Dillingham. 12, $1.50.
Richard Ronbar, who is pictured in the open
ing chapters as a well-known figure in New

York literary and social circles, conceiving a
desire to go west, settles in Colorado, where he
unfolds to two trusted associates a prospectus
of what he calls independent free silver coinage.
They agreeing to help him carry out his plan,
have a remarkable experience, which is given
in a story that introduces some facts in the
history of silver coin countries, notably the
United States, and which refers to the repeal of
the Sherman act, deals with the question of
relative values, and finally states individual
theories about unlimited coinage.

DOYLE, A. CONAN. Beyond the city. E. A.

Weeks & Co. 12. (Enterprise ser., no. 8.)

pap., 25 c.

Two maiden ladies living " beyond the city "
of London rent some of their land to a builder,
who puts up three villas. The novel tells the
story of the people who become tenants of
these cottages, the most important of whom is
a handsome widow who works for the emanci
pation of women and teaches her young girl.

EDGEWORIH, MARIA. Castle Rackrent and The
absentee; with introd. bv Anne Thackeray
Ritchie. Macmillan. 12, (Illustrated stand
ard novels, no. i.) $1.25.

GREEN, ANNA KATHARINE, [Noiv Mrs. C.
Rohlfs.] The doctor, his wife, and the
clock. Putnam, nar. 12, (Autonym lib.,
no. 3.) 50 c.

HARLEY, (pseud.} In the veldt. Longmans,
Green & Co. 12, pap., 50 c.
Stories and sporting sketches with the scene

in South Africa.

HARRADEN, BEATRICE. Things will take a
turn, and other stories. Rand, McNally. 12,
(G obe lib., v. i, no. 159.) pap., 25 c.
Contains a so " The umbrella-mender " and

" An idyll of London."

HECLAWA. \_pseiid. for A. L. Artman Himmel-
wright.] In the heart of the Bitter-Root
Mountains: the story of the Carlin hunting
party, September-December, 1893. Putnam,
map, il. 12, $1.50.

HOPPIN, EMILY HOWLAND. Under the Corsi-
can. J. Selwin Tait & Sons. 12, fi.

LUDLUM, JEAN KATE. Under oath: an Adi
rondack story. Bonner. 12, (Popular ser.,.
no. 58.) pap., 25 c.

While Allan Mansfield is riding along a lone
ly mountain pass, he is mysteriously kidnapped,
and as unexpectedly and mysteriously re
leased, through the intercession of a strarge
woman, who first imposes on Allan the solemn
oath of secrecy as to this incident in his life.
Her reasons are evident later, when all the
characters in the novel are seen in a striking
and sensational situation, when she is induced
to reveal her own tragic history.

MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLEY. A woman of
impulse. Putnam. 12, (Hudson lib., no. 4,}
$r; pap., 50 c.

The hero is a literary man and a Liberal; he
had set forth his creed in the " Cry for liberty,"
that a few critics considered a great book. His
whole career is changed by a chance meeting
with a beautiful girl in the British Museum,
with whom he is permitted to become ac
quainted, and to whom he loses his hf art. To
tell the story of this "woman of impulse"
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plot, which is fresh and novel, and full of sur
prise?.
MACKIE, J. The Devil s playground: a story

of the wild northwest. F. A. Stokes Co.

il. 16, buckram, 75 c.

MACQUOID, Mrs. KATHARINE S. BERRIS. Unit
ed States Book Co. 12, (Lakewood ser., no.
2.) pap., 50 c.

NEVINSON, H. W. Neighbors of ours: slum
stories of London. Holt. i il. nar. 16,
(Buckram ser.) buckram, 75 c.
Contents : Old Parky; An aristocrat of labor;
The "St. George" of Rochester; Mrs. Simon s
baby; Sissero s return; LittyScotty; A man of
genius; In the spring; Father Cris mas; Only
an accident.

" There is no close connection between the
stories, but the people are all of the same class
and the same manner of living. The frankness
and rude wit with wh ch the women bandy
opinions is one of the amusing features of a
book which runs the gamut of human emotion?.
A reading is well repaid, whether the object be
diversion or a desire for information, and the
dialect is easily mastered. Didacticism is en
tirely absent, yet a moral or two crops out, not
the less impressive for being couched in the
vernacular of the Tower Hamlets." Public
Opinion.

PAYN, JA. In Market Overt: a novel. Lip-
pincott Co. 12, (Lippincott s select novels,
no. 165.) $i; pap., 50 c.

" In Market Overt is James Payn s most
recent novel. The story of the book is, briefly,
as follows: John Barton, an Oxford under
graduate, saves young Lord Trevor from
drowning. The nobleman s gratitude not only
helps his preserver out of the financial diffi
culties which compass a young man when
trying to pay his own way through a uni
versity, but follows him later when Barton
undertakes to act as a tutor to the nobleman s
sons. Barton marries, has two handsome
daughters and opens a school at Leadon. In
time a favorite pupil ruins the village belle,
and John Barton s downfall follows. Of course
his fortunes mend, but the book should be
read to discover just how." Kate Field s
Washington.

RUSSELL, W. CLARK. The good ship Mohock.
Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and coun
try lib., no. 159.) $i; pap., 50 c.
" Mr. Clark Russell s ability to discover new
situations at sea is equalled only by the re
markable appearance of verisimilitude which he
contrives to impart to incidents wholly improb
able. Nothing could be more unlikely than
this story of The Good Ship Mohock but that
is a conclusion which comes to one some time
after reading the book. It never suggests it
self while the stirring pages are before the
reader. Perhaps it would not be easy to find
anything which would be a greater tribute to
Mr. Russell s art than this; but it is inevitable
that a reviewer should again express the fa
miliar surprise that this author succeeds so well
in bringing before the mental vision of the read
er such vivid pictures of ships and their
handling with so small a parade of technicalities.
It would be a very easy matter to give an outlne
of the plot of this book and show how the
well-laid plan came to grief through an unfort
unate meeting with a suspicious cruiser, but

that would be unfair to the author, to the pub
lishers, and to the reader, who, if he loves sea
pictures and forecastle stories, cannot do belter
than to read this yarn." N. Y. Times.

WILKES, CLEMENT. Sidney Forrester. H. W.

Hagemann. 12, (Castleton s ser., no. i.)

pap., 50 c.

Sidney Forrester was the son of a New Ycrk
girl and a sea captain; soon after his birth, his
father went away on a cruise, during which his
vessel was reputed lost. Sidney s mother finally
dying of grief, he is adopted by a wealthy, but
penurious grandmother. The story deals with
his life in her house, the interest centring in a
plot of his Uncle Ambrose to defraud him of
his birthright.
YEATS, S. LEVETT. The honour of Savelli: a

romance. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town

and country lib., no. 16.) $i; pap., 50 c.

HISTORY.

HINDS, ALLEN B. The making of the England
cf Elizabeth. Macmillan. 12, net, 90 c.

LARNED, JOSEPHUS NELSON. History for ready
reference from the best historians, biogra
phers and specialists; their own words in
a complete system of history; for all uses,
extending to all countries and subjects and
representing for both readers and students
the better and newer literature of history in
the English language; with historical maps
by Alan C. Reiley. In 5 v. V. 4, Nicrea to
Tunis. C. A. Nichols Co. maps, 4, $5;
buckram, $6; shp., $6; hf. mor., $7.50.
The subjects to which the largest space is
given in this volume are: North Carolina, 5 p.;
Ohio, 5 p.; Papacy, 64 p.; Pennsylvania, 7 p.;
Printing and the press, 20 p. ; Rome, 96 p. ; Rus
sia, 32 p.; Scandinavian states, 19 p.; Scotland,
42 p.; Slavery, 20 p.; Social movements, 26 p. ;
Spain, 44 p.; Tariff legislation, 25 p. Contains
maps of Central Europe (1556), Eastern Europe^
(1768), Roman Empire (A. D. 116), Europe (A.D
565), Eastern Europe and Central Europe in*
1715; four development maps of Spain, gth,
nth, I2th, and isth centuries; also a logical
outline in colors of Roman history and chrono
logical tables ninth and tenth centuries.

RENAN, ERNEST. History of the people of
Israel from the rule of the Persians to that of
the Greeks. [In 5 v. V. 4.] Roberts Bros.
8, $2.50.

Books 7 and 8 are contained in this volume
relating to " Judea under Persian rule " and
" The Jews under Greek Dominion." Some of
the subjects of the chapters are as follows :
Re-establishment of divine worship at Jerusa
lem new laws of ritual; The end of the house
of David; The triumph of the high-priest over
the Nasi; Levitical additions to the Torah;
Legendary story of Ezra; The final consolida
tion of the Tcrah; The last gleams of prophe
cy; The Samaritans; What the Jews borrowed
from Persia; The decadence of Jewish litera
ture; The Greek translation of the Penta
teuch; Literature of the Alexandrine Jews;
Jesus, son of Sorach; The persecution of An-
tiochus; The evident necessity of rewards in
a future life; The Book of Daniel; Princely
rule of Judas Maccabeus.

TOWER, CHARLEMAGNE, jr. The Marquis de
La Fayette in the American Revolution; with

1895]

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some account of the attitude of France
toward the War of Independence. Lippin-
cott. 2v., $8.

HUMOR AND SATIRE.

DALLAS, MARY KYLE. Billtry. The Merriam
Co. il. 12, (Waldorf ser., no. 21.) pap., 50 c.
A parody of Du Maurier s " Trilby."

JORDAN, LEOPOLD. Drilby reversed; il. by
Philip and Earle Ackerman. G. W. Dilling-
ham. unp. 12, pap., 50 c.
A burlesque of Du Maurier s "Trilby" in

a"hyme.

TOWNSEND, E. W. Chimmie Fadden, Major
Max, and other stories. Lovell, Coryell &
Co. 12, (Illustrated ser., no. 24.) $i; pap.,
50 c. t

" Chimmie Fadden " is a New York newsboy,
who enters the employment of a rich family as
footman, as a reward for a service rendered
the young lady of the house; he tells his expe
rience, which is unique and amusing, in the
"slang" of the Bowery in a succession of
chapters, entitled : Chimmie Fadden makes
friends; Chimmie enters polite society ; Meets
the Duchess; Observes club life; Mr. Fadden s
political experience; Chimmie Fadden in court,
tc. The " Major Max " stories take the reader
into a higher stratum of society. Both series
.appeared in the New York Sun.

LITERATURE, MISCELLANEOUS AND COL
LECTED WORKS.

BOOKWORM (The): jf/i series: an illustrated

treasury of old-time literature. A. C. Arm

strong & Son. il. 8, $3.
BOOK-PLATE annual and armorial year book,

1895. Macmillan. 4, (Ex-libris ser.), net,

$1.75-
CORSON, HIRAM. The aims of literary study.

Macmillan. 18, 75 c.

,FUNK, I. K., D.D., MARCH, FRANCIS A., GREG
ORY, DAN. S., D.D. eds. A standard diction
ary of the English language upon original

plans, designed to give, in complete and ac
curate statement, in the light of the most re
cent advances in knowledge and in the readi
est form for popular use, the meaning, orthog
raphy, pronunciation, and etymology of all
the words and the idiomatic phrases in the
speech and literature of the English-speaking
people?, prepared by more than two hundred
-specialists and other scholars under the super
vision of I. K. Funk. Two-volume ed. V. 2.
Funk & Wagnalls Co. 48, (for two vol
umes,) rus. subs., 15; or complete in i v.,

See notice, "Weekly Record," P. W., Dec.
3. *93 [ II 44] f whole work.

JONES, R. The growth of the Idylls of the

king. Lippincott. 12, $1.50.
.LE GALLIENNE, R. The book-bills of Narcis

sus; an account rendered by R. Le Gallienne;

with a frontispiece by Rob. Fowler. Putnam.

i ih 12, $i.
PATER, WALTER H. Greek studies; a series of

essays: prepared for the press by C. L. Shad-

well. Macmillan. 12, $1.75.
JSAINTSBURY, G. E. BATSMAN. Corrected im

pressions: essays on Victorian writers. Dodd,

Mead & Co. por. 16, $1.25.

SMITH, GARNET. The melancholy of Stephen

Allard: a private diary; ed. by Garnet Smith.

Macmillan. 12, $1.75.
TEN BRINK, BERNHARD. Five lectures on

Shakespeare; tr. by Julia Franklin. Holt.

12, $1.25.

They are entitled : The poet and the man ;
The chronology of Shakespeare s works ;
Shakespeare as dramatist ; Shakespeare as a
comic poet; Shakespeare as tragic writer.

TYLER, MOSES COIT. Three men of letters.

Putnam. 12, $1.25.

Three monographs: "George Berkeley and
his American visit " refers to the eminent An
glican clergyman who came to this country in
1729; "A great college president and what he
wrote" has for its subject Timothy Dvvight,
one of the first presidents of Yale College ; the
third paper is called " The literary strivings of
Mr. Joel Barlow" discusses another writer of
revolutionary days. Contains a list of books
and other printed documents, Qited in these
papers, with places and dates of publication.

WARNER, BEVERLEY E. English history in
Shakespeare s plays. Longmans, Green &
Co. 12, $1.75.

NATURE AND SCIENCE.

MACH, ERNST. Popular scientific lectures ; tr.

by T, J. McCormack. The Open Court Pub.

Co. il. 12, $i.

Titles of the lectures: The forms of liquids ;
The fibres of corti; On the causes of harmony;
On the velocity of light ; Why has man two
eyes? On symmetry; On the fundamental con
cepts of static electricity ; On the principle of the
conservation of energy; On the economical na
ture of physical inquiry ; On transformation
and adaptation in scientific thought ; On the
principle of comparison in physics; On the rela
tive educational value of the classics and the
mathematico-physical sciences.

MELLIAR, Rev. A. FOSTER. The book of the
rose. Macmillan. 12, $2.75.

WILD flowers of America : flowers of every
state in the American Union, by a corps of
special artists and botanists. G. H. Buck
& Co. col. pi. obi. 12, $3-50; $5-

POETRY.

LANIER, SIDNEY. Select poems; ed. with an
introd. , notes and bibliography, by Morgan
Galloway, jr. Scribner. por. 16, net, $i.

LARNED, Miss AUGUSTA. In woods and fields.

Putnam. 16, $r.

A collection of poems.
TABS. JOHN B. Poems. 2d edition. Copeland

& Day. iS, $i.

"Father Tabb writes sonnets in which com
pression, lucidity, correctness of form and
melody of phrasing are all well attained. It
is seldom that one meets in contemporary
verse with a volume in which the artistic quali
ties and refinement of idea are so definitely
manifest as they are in FatherTabb s Poem?. "
The Beacon.

" It should be added that the publishers have
made a very tasteful volume of Father Tabb s
poems, the wide margins giving a most at
tractive appearance to the clearly printed
pagee." N. Y. Times.

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TRASK, Mrs. KATRINA, [Mrs. Spencer Trask.]
Sonnets and lyrics. A. D. F. Randolph &
Co. 12, $i.

VEEDER, EMILY ELIZ. In the garden, and
other poems. Lippincott. 16, $i.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL.

CORNWALL, W. C. The currency and the
banking law of the Dominion of Canada,
considered with reference to currency re
form in the United States. Putnam, sq. 8,
pap., 75 c.

The first part of this pamphlet, entitled
" Canadian banking system its growth and
present operation," embraces the substance of
an address delivered at the American Bankers
Convention, New Orleans, Nov. 12, 1891. It
caused American bankers to examine the Ca
nadian currency system, and so favorably have
they been impressed with it, that at their con
vention at Baltimore in September of 94, its
main features were reproduced in what is
called the ".Baltimore plan" of currency re
form. The Banking Act of Canada is given
entire in the second part of the book.
FONDA, ARTHUR I. Honest money. Macmil-
lan. diagram, 12, $i.

Points out the faults of our present currency
system, as well as the merits and defects of
the various changes that have been proposed
for its betterment, and outlines a system which,
the author thinks, seems to meet the require
ments and to correct existing faults. Chapters
on: Value and the standard of value; Money;
Existing monetary systems; Stability of gold
and silver values; Criticism of some gold
standard arguments; Foreign commerce; Money
in the United States; A new monetary system;
Merits and objections considered.
GUYOT, YVES. The tyranny of socialism ; ed.,
with an introd., by J. H. Levy. Scribner.
12, (Social s:i. ser.) $i.

J., W. The rights of labor: an inquiry as to
the relation of employer and employed. C. H.
Kerr &: Co. 12, 25 c.

An anonymous work by a young lawyer of
Chicago, whose name is for the present with
held. He explains the present status of em
ployer and employee before the law, with
clearness and precision, and then goes on to
advocate a specific reform in the law that would
secure to the workmen a share in the product.
HAMMOND, BASIL E. The political institutions
of the ancient Greeks. Macmillan. 8, net,
$1.25.

LEASE, Mrs. MARY ELIZ. The problem of civ
ilization solved. Laird & Lee. por. 12,
(Library of choice fiction, no. 2.) pap., 50 c.
Mrs. Lease, of Kansas City, is a populist
leader and lecturer; she points out in this vol
ume the great evils that menace our civilization
in chapters called, " The riddle of the sphinx,"
" The foes and evils of civilization," "Anarchy
the offspring of monopoly," " Over-popula
tion," "Militarism," "The nationalization of
the races," etc. Her remedies are set forth in
chapters entitled " Colonization of the tropics,"
" Government ownership of railroads and tele
graphs," " Resources and transportation to the
tropics," etc.

MOFFETT, S. E. Suggestions on government.
Rand, McNallv & Co. 12, $i; pap., 50 c.
The writer points out that our executive ad
ministration local, state, and national is in

efficient. " It is in the hands of political pro
fessionals, who are necessarily administrative
amateurs. Devoting their chief attention to
the science of politics, they are naturally unable
to go deeply into the science of government."
The first requisite of reform he holds to be the
close contact between the individual citizen and:
the agents his vote has summoned to conduct
public affairs. The "boss" system must be
abolished.

OSTRANDER, D. Social growth and stability: a
consideration of the factors of modern society
and their relation to the character of the com
ing state. S. C. Griggs & Co. 12, $&gt;r.
A few of the subjects considered are as fol
lows: Foreign and native labor; Railroads and
machinery ; Over-production and commercial
stagnation ; Not charity but statesmanship
wanted ; The brotherhood of man ; The eight-
hour day; The American people composite;
Restricted immigration ; Free-trade injuries ;
Protection beneficial ; Competition the root of
all evil; The government as a common carrier ;
Strikes; Trusts; Christianity as a social factor;
The ultimate destruction of evil ; The reading,
of books; Hard work essential to success.

PALMER, FRANK LOOMIS. The wealth of labor.
The Baker & Taylor Co. 12, $i.
Contents: The necessity of a new statement;
Exchange in primitive communities; The ex
perimental exchanges of a student of Bastiat in-
these primitive communities ; Maintaining the
profit of exchange ; Various systems that dis
tribute and equalize the profits of labor ; The
consideration of capital and capitalization be
fore a final deduction can be made ; Exchange
able value in a community determined by the
cost of labor to obtain in production ; Deduc
tions; Opinion.

PARKHURST, C. H., D.D. Our fight with Tam
many. Scribner. 12, $1.25.
RICARDO, D. The first six chapters of "The
Principles of political economy," etc. Mac
millan. 12, (Economic classics.) flex, cl.,
75 c.

SMITH, ADAM, Select chapters and passages
from " The wealth of nations." Macmillan.
12, (Economic classics, ed. by W. J. Ashley)
75 c.

THEOLOGY. RELIGION AND SPECULATION.

COWAN, H., D.D. Landmarks of church his
tory to the Reformation. A. D. F. Randolph
& Co. 24, (Guild text-books.) pap., 30 c.
Author is Professor of Church History in the
University of Aberdeen. His method is chron
ological and he combines severe accuracy with
a concise, but readable and untechnical text.
He singles out the chief events in ecclesiastical
history during sixteen hundred years and makes
clear their causes and effects. An excellent ar
rangement of type brings out the important and
less important facts, and a series of foot-notes
point out and explain difficulties. Short bibli
ography, " Some books on church history" (2
pages).

GERHART, EMANUEL V., D.D. Institutes of the
Christian religion ; with an introd. by Philip
Schaff, D.D. In 2 v. V. 2. Funk & Wag-
nails Co. 8, $3.

The first vo ume was published in 1891, by A.
C. Armstrong & Son. The present volume
contains five books dealing with; Anthropology,
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or, doctrine on Jesus Christ; Pneumatology, or,
doctrine on the Holy Spirit; Soteriology, or, the
doctrine on personal salvation; Eschatology, or,
doctrine on the last things. The author is pro
fessor of systematic and practical theology in
Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church,
Lancaster, Pa.

GRANT, G. M., D.D. Religions of the world
in relation to Christianity. A. D. F. Ran
dolph & Co. 24, (Guild text-books.) pap., 30 c.
The author is the principal of Queen s Uni
versity, Canada. He believes "that Jesus is
the way, the truth, and the life, and that his
religion is the absolute religion. Therefore he
believes it to be right and wise to call attention
to the excellent features of Confucianism, Hin-
dooism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism rather
than to their defects.

HALL, Rev. FRANCIS J. The historical position
of the Episcopal church; published under the
auspices of the Chicago Clericus. Young
Churchman Co. 12, net, 50 c. ; pap., 20 c.
A paper read before the Church History Club
of the Divinity School (Baptist), of the Univer
sity of Chicago, Dec. n, 1894: and before the
Chicago Clericus (Episcopal), Dec. 17, 1894.
HILEY, R. W., D.D. A year s sermons; based
upon some of the scriptures appointed for
each Sunday morning. In 2 v. V. i, Janu
ary to June. V. 2, July to December. Long
mans, Green & Co. 12, ea., $2. (Corr.
price.}

LILIENTHAL, HERMANN. Lent past and pres
ent: a study of the primitive origin of Lent,
its purpose and usages; with an introd. by J.
Williams, D.D. Whittaker. 12, 75 c.
The lectures here printed were delivered as
sermons on the Sunday mornings of last Lent
to the author s congregation in Wethersfield,
Ct. Their titles are: The primitive origin of
Lent; the primitive purpose of Lent; Lenten
observances; Fasting; Holy Week.
M.vcCoLL, MALCOLM, (Canon.} Life here and
hereafter: sermons preached in Ripon Ca
thedral and elsewhere. Longmans, Green &
Co. 12, $2.25.

MAMREOV, PETER v. F. , ANNA F., and B. A. F.
lesat Nassar: the story of the life of Jesus
the Nazirene. Sunrise Pub. Co. sq.i2, $2.
This story of the life of Jesus the Nazarene
is given in an altogether novel form. While
founded on strictly Christian and Jewish secu
lar and ecclesiastical histories, as also on tradi
tions and legends of oriental and occidental na
tions, the personages who figure in the tale are
presented as every-day mortals. The authors
are Russians who were born in Jerusalem and
lived many years in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt,
and had exceptional advantages for research.
There is, strictly speaking, no fiction in the
story the persons introduced being either his
torical or legendary. Quotations are given in
an appendix from the historical and other
works on which each chapter of the story is
founded. There is also a description of the re
ligious, social, and political condition of the
Jews, Romans, Egyptians, and Parthians, and
their relations to each other.
MURRAY, Rev. ANDREW. The holiest of all: an
exposition of the epistle to the Hebrews.
A. D. F. Rando ph & Co. 8, net, $2.
"When first I undertook the preparation of
this exposition in Dutch for the Christian peo
ple am nig whom I labor," Dr. Murray says in

his preface, " it was under a deep conviction
that the epistle just contained the instruction
they needed. In reproducing it in English this
impression has been confirmed, and it is as if
nothing could be written more exactly suited to
the state of the whole church of Christ in the
present day. ... In every possible way it
sets before us the truth that it is only the full
and perfect knowledge of what Christ is and
does for us that can bring us to a full and per
fect Christian life."

PERKINS, MARY H., [" Dorcas Hicks," pseud.]
From my corner; looking at life in sunshine
and shadow. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. nar.
16, 50 c.

Helpful papers; a few of the titles are:
Wrong at the start; From the back seat; Those
few swe et words; A paradox of Saint Peter; Se
cret things; Are your windows washed ? Tired
eyes; Infirmities; Suffer them to come unto Me;
etc.

VJNCENT, MARVIN R., D.D. Biblical inspira
tion and Christ. A. D. F. Randolph & Co.
12, pap., 25 c.

A large part of this pamphlet was published
in the New World of March, 1893. Theauthor
dwells in detail upon the distinction between
Revelation and Scripture; giving the Bible its
place as " a record, a medium, a revelation of
divine revelation interpenetrated with human
elements." He warns thatscholasticdescriptions
and definitions of inspiration lead nowhere, but
" if we begin with the spirit of Jesus we do not
need these." " If the personal Christ can be
appre hended, so also can the inspiration of
cripture asan expression of his divine and human
personality."

VINCENT, MARVIN R., D.D. That monster*
the higher critic. A. D. F. Randolph & Co
sq. 12, pap., 25 c.

A plea for the " Higher critic " to supple
ment the " Textual critic." The writer thinks
ignorant piety and intelligent criticism are op
posed on utterly false premises and to false is
sues. He explains what the learned critic
should do as an interpreter of Scripture, and
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No. 4

A New Biography of Gladstone.

HENRY W. LUCY, who has written " The had unusual opportunities of studying the sub-
Right Honorable W. E. Gladstone a Study ject." Mr. Lucy wrote a sketch of Gladstone in
from Life," has off and on for twenty years taken 1880, which was brought out in this country

i n Harper s
Half -Hour
Series ; and
in his large
work, enti
tled "The
Diary of
Two Parlia
ments," pub
lished in Lon
don in 1886,

notes of
Gladstone s
speeches
from the gal
lery of the
House of
Commons.
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his* preface :
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ous difficulty
of writing
within the
limits of this
volume a
sketch of the
career of Mr.
Gladstone is
the supera
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terials for a
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tage resi-
dence, leav
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ing essential
to the larger
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sketch, in
ch ronologi-

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busy life, enriching the narrative wherever pos
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in the library of Mr. Gladstone s public speeches,
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