ARTISTIC, MUSICAL, DRAMATIC.

HENDERSON, W. J. The story of music. Longmans, G. 12° $1.25.

Designed to give a succinct account of the progressive steps in the development of modern music as an art. The history of art is separated from the biography of artists. The salient points of musical history are reviewed with comprehensive brevity. Intended especially for lovers of music who have not the time nor sufficient knowledge to read with profit the exhaustive standard histories. A chronological table of musical dates has been prepared with care, beginning with the birth of St. Ambrose in 333 and ending with the production of Verdi's "Otello" in 1887. Special space is devoted to Richard Wagner and his work. Happily dedicated to H. C. Bunner.

Theatrical Renaissance of Shakespeare. Fuller. Lippincott's. (Jan.)

German Opera and Every-Day Life. Damrosch. North Amer. (Dec.)

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. GILMAN, Mrs. BRADLEY. Saint Theresa Avila. Roberts. 16° (Famous women ser.) $1. LARCOM, LUCY. A New England girlhood outlined from memory. Houghton, M. 16° (The Riverside lib. for young people.) 75 c. PRENTICE, G., D.D. Wilbur Fisk. Houghton, M. 12° (American religious leaders.) $1.25. This is the second volume in the series of American Religious Leaders so auspiciously begun by Prof. Allen's "Jonathan Edwards." In this volume Prof. Prentice, who is well known as a scholar and a man of letters, treats with similar wisdom and breadth the career and character of

Wilbur Fisk, the eminent Methodist divine. His book possesses much interest, not only for the great Christian denomination of which his subject was a conspicuous representative and leader, but for all serious-minded persons who care for the history of religion in America and for the persons and processes by which religious progress has been effected.

SHAIRP, J. CAMPBELL. Portraits of friends. Houghton, M. 12° $1.25.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

John Dickinson. Cook. Atlantic. (Jan.)

Little Patti. Belford's. (Dec.)

Selections from Wellington's Letters. Davies-Evans. Century. (Dec.)

English Historians of To-Day. Baskerville. Chautauquan. (Jan.)

Leon the Exile. Philips. Lippincott's. (Dec.)

Tribute to H. C. Van Voorst. Van Siclen. Mag. Amer; History. (Dec.)

Sketch of Robert Koch. (Por.) Pop. Science. (Dec.) Alexander Wilson. (Por.) Pop. Science. (Jan.)

8° $3.

DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL, ETC. BABELON, ERNEST. Manual of oriental antiquities: including the architecture, sculpture, and industral arts of Chaldea, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phoenicia, and Carthage. tr. and enl. by B. T. A. Evetts. Putnam. BOYD, Rev. A. H. K. [" The country parson," pseud.] East coast days and memories. Longmans, G. 12° $1.25. DIX, EDWIN Asa. A midsummer drive through the Pyrenees. Putnam. 8° $1.75. GOWING, LIONEL F. Five thousand miles in a sledge: a midwinter journey across Siberia; il. by C. J. Uren. Appleton. 12° $1.50.

As a record of a journey under conditions utterly strange to most English readers, this volume has claims to special attention. Other adventurous spirits have crossed Russia in the summertime, but Mr. Gowing is among the first to attempt this perilous journey in the winter. His account of the various towns he passes through and the details of the incidents of the journey are described with a pleasant humor and much graphic power.

LOTI, PIERRE. Into Morocco; from the French; il. by B. Constant and Aimé Marot. Welch, F. 12° 75C.

LUMHOLTZ. C. Among cannibals: an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; tr. by Rasmus B. Anderson. Scribner. 8° $5.

FICTION.

ASTOR, W. WALDORF. Sforza: a story of Milan. Scribner. 12° $1.50.

The author of "Valentino" again has gone to mediæval Italy for his material, and shows his erudition and enthusiasm in the historical and romantic treatment of the period. Milan of the fifteenth century, with its fêtes, fights, intrigues, astrology, murders, loves and adventures, furnishes the environment for Sforza, the ruling Duke of Milan. The story deals with the invitation of French intervention in Italy by Sforza. Chevalier Bayard also plays an important part. The romantic element is skilfully handled. Many of the important events take place in Venice, and Mr. Astor again describes the great Venetian festival of the marriage of the Adriatic. AUSTIN, JANE G. Standish of Standish: a story of the Pilgrims. Houghton, M. 12° $1.25. BAKER, JA. By the western sea: a summer idyll. [Fiction.] Longmans, G. 12° $1.75. BESANT, Walter. The bell of St. Paul's: a novel. Harper. 12° (Harper's Franklin sq. lib., new ser., no. 660.) pap., 35 c. BESANT, WALTER. The lament of Dives. Frank F. Lovell. 12° (Lovell's international ser.)

pap., 30 c.

BLACKMORE, R. D. Kit and Kitty: a novel. Harper. 12° (Harper's Franklin sq. lib., new ser., no. 663.) pap., 35 c.

CABLE, G. W. Strange true stories of Louisiana. Scribner. 12° $2.

"It is sufficient praise for these short stories that in spirit and workmanship they fall into a worthy place in Mr. Cable's endeavor to promote a knowledge of earlier conditions of life in Louisiana. He has become the most popular authority upon the delicate and romantic relations of society which flowed from the elements combined in Louisiana life by the settlement of the province. When Mr. Cable discerned the traces of these stories he knew that they were worth unveiling at any cost of time and strength. So he followed up the clues till he was justified in the narrations. They are a positive addition to the work he has already done. They supplement his previous setting forth of early life in Louisiana by furnishing corroborative examples of the pathos and humor to which he has brought us in his former novels. They lose a fragmentary character, therefore, and seem like beautiful chapters in one prolonged revelation of a unique household and neighborly life. All of Mr. Cable's well-known qualities are visible in them-grace, humor, picturesqueness, etc."—Public Opinion. DAUDET, ALPHONSE. Jack; il. by Myrbach; tr. by Laura Ensor. Routledge. 12° pap., $1.50; hf. leath., $2.25.

FOOTE, MARY HALLOCK. The last Assembly ball; [also,] The fate of a voice. Houghton, M. 12° $1.25.

Leadville, Colorado, is the scene. Mrs. Dansken, a bright, keen-eyed woman, keeps a boarding-house for the better class of fortune-seekers in the gold-mine of some years ago. She hires a "perfect treasure" to assist her old servant, a young, pretty girl, who has never learned to say yes or no, and proves a fire-brand among "so many men folks." The end is sad. In the second story Madeline refuses to marry Aldis, feeling a call to be a great singer. Hearing suddenly a report of his death, her emotion acts upon the vocal chords and love becomes "the

fate of a voice." This author writes slowly and keeps freshness of touch.

GRINNELL, G. BIRD. Pawnee hero stories and folk tales; with notes on the origin, customs, and character of the Pawnee people. Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 12° $2. HOWELLS, W. Dean. A hazard of new fortunes : a novel. Harper. 8° (Harper's Franklin sq. lib., new ser., no 661.) pap., 75 c. JESSOP, G. H. Gerald Ffrench's Friends. Longmans, G. 12° $1.25.

Under the name of "Gerald Ffrench" Mr.

Jessop figures all through these stories in the character of a journalist-the stories, in fact, being really based on incidents in his own journalistic career on the Pacific coast during a period of five years-from 1873 to 1879. They all deal with the Irish colony in California, and depict characteristic types of the native Celt of the original stock-as yet unmixed in blood, but modified by new surroundings and a different civilization. While the stories are not without pathetic touches, they abound in an exquisite humor. Few modern magazinists can be recalled who have so perfectly described the Irish character, or so perfectly caught the vernacular. Many of these stories were first printed in the Century. Their names are "The rise and fall of the Irish Aigle," "A dissolving view of Carrick Meagher," "At the town of the Queen of the Angels," "An old man from the old country," "The last of the Costellos," and "Under the redwood tree."

KING, R. ASHE. Passion's slave: a novel. Appleton. 16° (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 41.) pap., 50 c.

In 1885 the author, under the pseudonym "Basil," published "The wearing of the green," an Irish love-story. The heroine of the present story, "Passion's slave," is vegetating in an English country town, when two men appear, the Squire and his friend, who both attract her, one in the hope of satisfying ambition, the other through her unregulated affections. Private theatricals hasten the dénouement. A sweet, quiet, devoted daughter of an inventor, also a slave of his ruling passion, suffers much from the heroine's spite and intrigue. Some of the side characters show careful work. A High Church and a Broad Church clergyman point many moral lessons.

LATHROP, G. PARSONS.

Would you kill him?

a novel. Harper. 12° $1.25.

On the historic shores of Otsego Lake, a

Young lieutenant in the regular army engages himself to the daughter of a large grain speculator. At his instigation the officer leaves the army and puts his private fortune into grain, taking New York City as his basis of operation. A total failure in speculation breaks up friendship between the parties and Ida Vail cancels her engagement. The young man becomes a successful business man and active politician, gets in with a set devoted to a new religion, women's rights, fine china, etc., and loses his heart to a Vassar graduate. Her friend, Lill Britton, “a sort of semi-detached, unmarried mother-in-law of the malignant type," becomes the terror of his life, and by her machinations he almost commits a crime. The racing of ocean steamships is well worked in.

MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY. Lily lass. Appleton. 12° (The Gainsborough ser.) pap.,

25 c.

MACLAY, ARTHUR COLLINS. Mito Yashiki a tale of old Japan; being a feudal romance descriptive of the decline of the Shogunate and of the power of the Tokugawa family. Putnam. I2° $1.50.

MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. The odd number: thirteen tales; tr. by Jonathan Sturges; an introduction by H. James. Harper. 12° $1. Maupassant came into the literary world a dozen years ago under the protection of the great Flaubert. His celebrity has been gathered in a short career, as he is not yet forty years of age. He is wonderfully concise and direct, yet he characterizes vividly. He has published less than half a dozen novels and more than a hundred tales, and upon these his reputation chiefly rests in a country which, in this form, has an array of masterpieces. He is ashamed of none of his faculties, and describes what he sees and hears, especially of rural facts-the barnyard, the wineshop, the Norman cottage, and the market-place. Maupassant travels, explores, navigates, shoots, goes up in balloons, and writes a story every week. A translation can give but little idea of the perfection of his style. The stories selected for this volume are Happiness, A coward, The wolf, The necklace, The piece of string, La mère Sauvage, Moonlight, The confession, On the journey, The beggar, A Ghost, Little soldier, The wreck. Neatly bound in blue and silver, with new cover design, bearing the old Greek

motto of the house.

MENGER, RUDOLF. Countess Loreley: a novel; from the German by Miss Danbridge. Appleton. 12° (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 43.) 75 c.; pap., 50 c.

A beautiful blue-eyed, golden-haired Berlinese, who twice becomes a widow before she marries the man she loves, is the "Countess Loreley" of the story. The scene opens in Baden-Baden, in 1870, where the heroine, then the widow of the Count von Sulzingen, is found surrounded by admirers. Her similarity to the Loreley of the legend, who only lured men to their destruction, is pictured throughout. With wonderful powers of fascination, she has little thought of marrying again, as by her husband's will she forfeits her fortune. Her strange fate and that of her many lovers is full of interest. The Franco-German war plays a part.

Metzerott, SHOEMAKER. Crowell. 12° $1.50. Holt. 16° (Leis

NORRIS, W. E. Mrs. Fenton.

ure hour ser., no. 229.) $1. The Dean of St. Cyprian's, Oxford, dies without a real friend, and at the last moment makes a will leaving his large fortune to a daughter he had discarded years before, after her elopement with her music-teacher. His nephew has been taught to expect the inheritance. The daughter is advertised for in Australian papers, and soon is identified satisfactorily as Mrs. Fenton. She and the nephew become firm friends, and laugh at English life together. Mrs. Fenton is pretty and bright, with knowledge of human nature. The dénouement is pathetic and dramatic. RUSSELL, W. CLARK. An ocean tragedy. Harper. 12° (Harper's Franklin sq. lib., new ser., no. 662.) pap., 50 c.

RUSSELL, W. CLARK. Marooned. Harper. 12° (Harper's Franklin sq. lib., new ser., no. 659.)

pap., 25 c.

First printed in Macmilian's Magazine. A story of the sea of some fifty years ago. The hero,

Mr. Musgrave, has undertaken to escort to Rio Janeiro his cousin Alexander's betrothed, Miss Aurelia Grant. The captain of the brig they sail on is a brute, and the crew mutiny, murder the captain, and put the two passengers ashore on a desert island, hence the name "Marooned." After many weeks they leave the island in an open boat, and are, after many thrilling adventures, carried back to England. RUSSELL, W. CLARK. The romance of Jenny Harlowe, and sketches of maritime life. Appleton. 12° (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 40.) pap., 50 c.

Contents: The romance of Jenny Harlowe ; Jeremy York; Jim's reformation; A hail from aloft; Old Jupiter; A strange bellman; Lamed on the Goodwins; Jem Burton's adventure; A smuggler's lair; Longshoremen ; Sailors' pleasures; Jack according to landsmen; Sailors' stories; The sailor's philosophy; Sailors' rights and wrongs; Sailors' perils; Sailors' food; Sailors' superstitions; Sailors' songs; Poetic aspects of sea life; The shipmaster's responsibilities; Vanished forms of the sea life; Memorable experiences.

STEPNIAK, (pseud.) The career of a Nihilist: a novel. Harper. 12° 75 c.

WARNER, C. Dudley. A little journey in the world: a novel. Harper. 12° hf. leath., $1.50. lustrated in this novel. The plot is brief and reAmerican life and character are especially Hfers altogether to the marriage of Margaret Debree. She is introduced as a young woman just turned twenty who has set herself a high ideal of duty. Her first offer comes from a young Englishman, who is heir to an earldom. This she refuses apparently from conscientious motives. She afterwards marries an American, who seemingly possesses all the high traits that really belonged to the Englishman. She deteriorates in her marriage and learns to passionately love wealth and social position. The author's many philosophical asides and discussions of certain characteristics which he considers American, are among the most charming parts of the book. WHITBY, BEATRICE. The awakening of Mary Fenwick. Appleton. 12° (Appleton's town and country lib.) 75 c.; pap., 50 c.

While on the cars, at the beginning of their vertently gives her a letter from his sister, conwedding journey, Mary Fenwick's husband inadgratulating him upon having married an heiress instead of a former Mary, who was poor. Mrs. Fenwick is incensed and wishes to leave him and live with her sister. He tells her this is impossible, she must play her part before others, but shall never be troubled by him except in unavoidable ways. The novel introduces many characters to bring about the awakening of Mary Fenwick. The scene is laid in a lovely part of England, among ancestral halls. Said to be the author's first work.

WOOLSON, CONSTANCE FENIMORE. Jupiter lights: a novel. Harper. 16° $1.25.

Sancho Mitarra.* Heard. Century. (Jan.)
Betty. Anna V. Dorsey. Cosmopolitan. (Dec.)
First Countess of Wessex.* Hardy. Harper's. (Dec.)
Golden Wedding.* Ruth McE. Stuart. Harper's.
(Dec.)

Buscombe. Blackmore. Harper's. (Dec.)
Youma. I. Hearn. Harper's. (Jan.)

That portion of western Asia bordering on the Mediterranean Sea was named Phoenicia by the pre-Homeric Greeks from the palm-trees indigenous to the soul. Its general position with four hundred miles of coast line, its formation

Polly Dossett's Rule. Eliz. Stoddard. Harper's. (Jan.) All He Knew. Habberton. Lippincott's. (Dec.) Millicent and Rosalind. Hawthorne. Lippincott's. (Jan.) Skipton Pedalwink's Heroism.* Bates. Outing. (Jan.)

Mrs. Tom's Spree. Bunner. Scribner's. (Dec.) Midwinter Night's Dream. Beers. Scribner's. (Dec.) Expiation.* I. Octave Thanet. Scribner's. (Jan.)

HISTORY.

ADAMS, H. History of the United States of America during the first administration of Thomas Jefferson. Scribner. 2 v. 12° $4. The first half-dozen chapters are given over to a masterly review of the economic, social, and intellectual status of the country at the beginning of the century, the domestic and foreign policy of Jefferson's administration being then taken up. Mr. Adams' work, when complete, will cover one of the most important periods of American history-that embracing the two administrations of Jefferson and the two following of Madisonfrom 1801 to 1817. It is an epoch to which Mr. Adams has devoted many years of study, aided by the papers of his family and by many other original and valuable sources of information, and concerning which he speaks with authority. The Chicago Herald says: "Mr. Adams has written the best work yet published on this, the great germinating period of the republic. It was the beginning of popular government in America. We heartily recommend these volumes to all our readers."

BANCROFT, G. Life of Martin Van Buren to the end of his public career. Harper. 8 $1.50.

George Bancroft's newly published ‘Life of Martin Van Buren, to the end of his public career,' is, in the author's words, a concise record of the events of his life,' prepared before Van Buren's death, and examined in manuscript by the ex-President, for verification of statements. While not so long, so full (it stops with the end of Van Buren's Presidential term), so picturesque, or so readable, as Mr. E. M. Shepard's recent review of the same political career, it must hereafter be seriously weighed by every student of the transition period between Jackson and Tyler; for its words in vindication of Van Buren are weighty because of Mr Bancroft's incorruptible political integrity, his personal familiarity with the times, men, and events he describes, and his clear and direct literary style."-Sunday-School Times. JOHNSTON, ALEX. The United States, its history and constitution. Scribner. 12° $1.

The contents of the present volume by the late Prof. Alex. Johnston first appeared as the article of the Encyclopædia Britannica on the History and Constitution of the United States. The work is unique in that it presents in a single volume of about three hundred pages a lucid, scholarly, well-ordered narrative of the history of the United States from the earliest discoveries down to the present time. It is a masterly statement of the constitutional and political history of the country, comprehensive and adequate, yet wonderfully clear and compact. Bibliography.

the home of an important nation. About forty years ago its history was written by Frank Carl Movers, one of the most learned Catholics of Germany. Since then many Orientalists have provided much new material, which has now been made use of by the retiring Camden Professor of Ancient History of Oxford in preparing this comprehensive one-volume history. The work is profusely illustrated, chiefly by courtesy of Hachette & Co., of Paris, who have put their vast store of charts, drawings, and plates at his command. Prof. Rawlinson gives his long list of authorities from which he has selected the most salient facts and with his known literary skill made them intelligible to the ordinary English reader. Maps. 22-page index.

TAYLOR, HANNIS. The origin and growth of the English constitution: an historical treatise in which is drawn out, by the light of the most recent researches, the gradual development of English constitutional system, and the growth out of that system of the federal republic of the United States. In 2 v. V. 1, The making of the constitution. Houghton, M. 8° $4.50.

the

"The task essayed in this work involves an attempt to draw out, within the limits of two octavo volumes, the entire historic development of the English constitutional system, and the growth out of that system of the federal republic of the In the introduction an effort has United States. been made to emphasize the fact that the constitutional histories of England and of the United States constitute a continuous and natural evolution which can only be fully mastered when viewed as one unbroken story. That story the author has attempted to unfold in the light of the latest researches-English, German, French, and American-and in such a manner as to impart to it something of a human interest. The double effort has been made to satisfy the critical student of the science of politics,' as to fulness and accuracy of detail, and at the same time to interest every American citizen who desires to read within reasonable limits the entire history of the wonderful constitution under which he lives."-Pref

ace.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

Old Bunch of Grapes Tavern. Bynner. Atlantic. (Dec.) Border Warfare of the Revolution. Fiske. Atlantic. (Dec.)

Bubastis. Amelia B. Edwards. Century. (Jan.) Impress of Nationalities upon the City of New York. Gerard. Mag. Amer. History. (Jan.)

HUMOR AND SATIRE.

WELCH, PHILIP H. Said in fun. Scribner. 8° bds., $1.25.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

Contemporary Amer. Caricature.* Mitchell. Scribner's. (Dec.)

INDUSTRIAL.

ATKINSON, E. The industrial progress of the nation; consumption limited, production unlimit. ed. Putnam. 8° $2.50.

Two series of articles which have appearedone in the Century Magazine, and one in the

Forum. Some slight corrections have been made, and the statistics continued to date. In addition is the commencement address-which gives title to the book-delivered before the graduating class of the University of South Carolina, June 26, 1889. The names of the other papers are: The food question in America and Europe; The relative strength and weakness of nations; Low prices, high prices, small profits-what makes them? The distribution of products; What shall be taxed?-what shall be exempt? Production, distribution, consumption; Slow burning construction; The missing science; A single tax on land; Religion and life.

LITERATURE, MISCELLANEOUS AND COLLECTED WORKS.

GRIFFIS, W: ELLIOTT, D.D. The lily among thorns: a study of the Biblical drama entitled The song of songs." Houghton, M. $1.25.

12°

This is a laudable attempt to popularize the scholarly interpretation of a little-understood portion of Scripture. No book of the Bible of the same length has so large a literature as the Song of Songs, but most of the literature is worse than worthless. The author does not profess to have solved all the problems, nor to have offered the best solution to those he has solved. His book is not intended to be swallowed whole, but to be chewed and digested. Rightly used. it will help many to their first comprehension of what has heretofore been to them a sealed book, a test of faith rather than a help to faith. Those who have wondered why God permitted such a book as the Song of Songs to be included in the canon, or why the Holy Spirit should ever have prompted anybody to write it, and especially those who have gone beyond doubting and have roundly asserted that the Song of Songs is an uninspired writing, included by mistake with the rest of the Old Testament-these, and perhaps many more, should buy this book, read it carefully, and revise their ideas of a delightful work of Hebrew literature and a helpful portion of God's Word."N. Y. Examiner.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

Spots on the Sun. (Shakespeare.) Boucicault. Arena. (Jan.)

English Love Songs. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic. (Jan.)
Over the Tea-Cups. II. Holmes. Atlantic. (Jan.)
International Copyright Bills. Belford's. (Dec.)
Humors of Ignorance. Walsh. Chautauquan. (Dec.)
Literary Washington.* Eliz. A. Tompkins. Cosmopoli-
tan. (Dec.)

New French Novelist. (Lavedan.) Mme. de Bury. Fort.
Review. (Dec.)

Wilkie Collins. Swinburne. Fort. Review. (Nov.) Nathaniel P. Willis. Stoddard. Lippincott's. (Jan.) William Cullen Bryant in History. Mrs. Lamb. Mag. Amer. History. (Jan.)

Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mrs. Stowe. F. T. McCray. Mag. Amer. History. (Jan.)

Anonymity? Hopkins. New Review. (Nov.)

Truth About "The Dead Heart" and "Tale of Two
Cities." Coleman. New Review. (Nov.)
Age of Words. Phelps. Scribner's. (Dec.)

MEDICAL.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

Lepers and Leprosy in Norway. Roose. Fort. Review. (Dec.)

Dreadful Revival of Leprosy. Mackenzie. Nine. Century. (Dec.)

MENTAL AND MORAL. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Crime of Capital Punishment. Pentecost. Arena. (Jan.) Ethics of Marriage. Lilly. Forum. (Jan.)

NATURE AND SCIENCE. GREENE, HOomer. Coal and the coal-mines: il. from drawings by the author. Houghton, M. 16° (Riverside lib. for young people, no.5.) 75 c. SHALER, N. S. Aspects of the earth: a popular account of some familiar geological phenomena. Scribner. 8° $4.

TORREY, BRADFORD. A rambler's lease. Houghton, M. 12° $1.25.

The character of Bradford Torrey's book may be judged from the line from Wordsworth on the title-page- Sunbeams, shadows, butterflies, and birds." He is an intense lover of nature, and discourses most delightfully of its many aspects in the following essays: My real estate; A woodland intimate; An old road; Confessions of a bird's-nest hunter; A Green Mountain corn-field; Behind the eye; A November chronicle; New England winter; A mountain-side ramble; A pitch-pine meditation.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

December Out-of-Doors. Torrey. Atlantic. (Dec.) Extermination of American Animals. Hornaday. Chautauquan. (Dec.)

Flower Market of New York.* Eliz. Bisland. Cosmopolitan. (Dec.)

Possibilities of Electricity. Benjamin. Forum. (Dec.) Power of the Future. (Coal.) Morris. Lippincott's. (Dec.)

ALDRICH,

POETRY.

T. BAILEY. Wyndham Towers. Houghton, M. 12° hf. par., $1.25. A tragic tale in blank verse. The narrative gives setting to a legend of the Elizabethan period, and centres in the ruined Devonshire manor-house which in the reign of Elizabeth was the seat of Sir Richard Wyndham. The Boston Post says of it: "So truthful is the rendering of local color, so full is the poem of the breath of English air and so inhabited by English feeling, that it approves our boast that the past of Er gland does in fact belong to us as to the old country and its traditions are native to us still. It is hard to see in what way an English poet would have felt differently in treating the same theme." ARNOLD, EDWIN. Poetical works. Roberts. 2 v. 8° $4.

Asolando: fancies and facts. Houghton, M. 12° $1.25. IBSEN, HENRIK. The doll's house: a play; from the Norwegian by Henrietta Frances Lord. MOULTON, LOUISe Chandler. Appleton. 12° 50 c.

of dreams: lyrics and sonnets. $1.50.

In the garden Roberts. 12°

A collection of poems gathered under the following headings Lyrics; Sonnets in many moods; The still hour; Rosemary: Rondels; Rondeaux; Triolets; Ballades. The Boston Traveller says: If ever a volume, in form and content and expression, stood for absolute beauty, it is this. To its perfection artist and author have lent their gifts and grace, to the poems Mr. Winthrop Pierce, that most poetic artist, has contributed exquisite design and illustration that interprets and completes the poet's thought; and to the outward form Mrs. Whit