ment for the religious weekly-the Christian MORLEY, HENRY. English writers. V.5; bk. 2. The "Prof. Morley continues the very valuable summary of his lifelong English studies, which he calls an attempt' at a history of English literature, in the present volume, which is devoted almost entirely to Wiclyf and Chaucer. preceding volumes have been of an encyclopædic character and have brought within view a large amount of learning upon the early stages of our literature; here the same method is followed, but with the difference that we have in these chapters an encyclopædia of the special topics, Wiclyf and Chaucer; of individuals, rather than periods. The result is especially welcome, inasmuch as so complete an account of the great English reformer is not elsewhere to be found, owing to the important extension of our information about him within the last thirty years, never heretofore condensed into a handy form; and the essay upon Chaucer, although less novel, also embodies a résumé of Chaucer literature which is of great serviceableness for reference."-Boston Post. SARGENT, J. F., comp. Reading for the young; WELSH, ALFRED H. A digest of English and Like his former books, this one grew out of Prof. Welsh's experience as a teacher. He prepared it because he believed that such a compendium would be useful to the student of English literature, and would facilitate the labors of the instructor. It is a condensed parellel view of history and literature in England and the United States from the time of the Roman invasion down to the present: and it may be used by the student in connection either with lectures by the teacher or with a text-book, such as the author's "Development of English literature and language." WOODBERRY, G. E. Studies in letters and life. Essays reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly and The Nation. Their subjects are: Landor; Crabbe: On the promise of Keats; Illustrations of idealisms; Remarks on Shelley; Some actors' criticisms on Othello, Iago and Shylock; Sir George Beaumont; Coleridge and Wordsworth; Three men of piety-Bunyan, Cowper, Channing; Darwin's life; Byron's Centenary; Browning's death. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Arena. Fourth Canto of the Inferno. Chapman. Atlantic. quan. Tolstoi and "The Kreutzer Sonata." Bartol. Forum. Heroines of the Human Comedy. Browne. Lippincott's. A Philosopher in the Purple. (Chesterfield.) G. Barnett Old Poets. Whitman. North Am. Review. MEDICAL. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Hypnotism in Relation to Crime and the Medical Faculty. Innes. Cont. Review (Oct.). The Training of a Nurse.* Mrs. Mary C. Jones, Scrib ner's. MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE. JAMES, W. One of the fullest treatises on the subject yet published. It has in the main grown up in connection with the author's class-room instruction in psychology in Harvard University. Prof. James has kept close to the point of natural science throughout the book, rejecting both the associationist and the spiritualistic theories, "and," he says, "in this strictly positivistic point of view consists the only feature of which I feel tempted to claim originality." The subjects discussed are: The scope of psychology; The functions of the brain; On some general conditions of brain activity: Habit; The automaton theory; The mind-stuff theory; Methods and snares of psychology; Relations of minds to other things; The stream of thought; The consciousness of self; Attention; Conception; Discrimination and comparison; Association; Perception of time; Memory; Sensation; Imagination; Perception of space; Perception of reality; Reasoning; Instinct; Will; The emotions; Hyp notism, etc. LADD, G. TRUMBULL. Introduction to philosophy, an inquiry after a rational system of scientific principles in their relation to ultimate reality. Scribner. 8°, $3. Addressed to the laity at large, as well as those who are in processes of education. Though called an introduction," no special pains have been taken to simplify or popularize its treatment. Prof. Ladd says: "Though much of its language is somewhat foreign to that of common life, the subjects of which it treats are those which lie upon the minds and hearts of all the thoughtful. If to such any of my thoughts can be an introduction, or a vade mecum in reflection, my purposes will be the more completely attained." MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Sex in Mind. Bartol. Arena. Glance at The Good Old Times." Savage. Arena. NATURE AND SCIENCE. NEWHALL, C. S. The trees of Northeastern MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Truth about Wines. Bissell. Belford's. POETRY AND THE DRAMA. " Bloede, GertRUDE, ["Stuart Sterne," pseud.] Piero Da Castiglione. Houghton, M. 16°, $1. FIELD, EUGENE. Instruction of St. Cosmo and St. Damian. Janvier. Century. Return of the Dead. Bates. Century. Too Late. Hawthorne. Harper's. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. HOSMER, JA. K. A short history of Anglo-Saxon freedom: the polity of the English-speaking race outlined in its inception, development, diffusion and present condition. Scribner. 12°, $2. In this book an effort has been made to compress a sketch of constitutional history for a time of the Teutons of Cæsar and Tacitus to the period of nearly two thousand years-from the British Empire and the United States of 1890. It is not the polity of any single people that is outlined, but that of the English speaking race. Especially adapted to the general reader and youthful student. The author has followed the lead of the scholars most accepted on the sub A little book of western verse. ject. Scribner. 12°, $1.25. A collection of verses both mirthful and pa- turn. He evidently composes with freedom, LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. A fable for critics; 12°, $1. A tasteful reissue of this famous poem, which criticised with great freedom and discrimination many American authors of forty years ago. A fac-simile of the original rhymed title-page is given, and the portrait of the twenty-six authors, by Joseph Linden Smith, criticised, add an element of no small interest. PROCTOR, EDNA DEAN. Poems. Houghton, M. 12°, $1.25. The lovers of poetry will welcome this tasteful book. About one-third of it comprises those poems from Miss Proctor's previous volume which in her own judgment and that of her critics are of most permanent value. To these are added many poems which have appeared in magazines and other periodicals, and many others never before printed. LLOYD, H. D. A strike of millionaires against miners; or, the story of Spring Valley. Belford-C. 12°, $1; pap., 50 c. TOLSTOI, Count LYOF N. Labor: the divine command; made known, augmented and ed. by Tolstof; tr. by Mary Cruger. Laird & L. 12°, (Pastime ser., no. 44.) pap., 25 c. 44 and of the peasant Timothy Bondareff. But it VAN DYKE, T. S. Millionaires of a day: an in- THOMAS, EDITH M. The inverted torch. Hough- single page of the book. Author of Southern ton, M. 12°, $1. The inspiration of this volume is the same as that of Tennyson's "In Memoriam "-the death of a very dear friend. Miss Thomas is well known as the author of "A New Year's Masque" and" Lyrics and Sonnets." MAGAZINE POETRY. The Pawn-Broker. Fawcett. Century. Bereaved. Riley. Century. California,' Rifle, Rod and Gun in California," MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Protection's Last Ditch. Willson. Belford's. The Silver Bill. T. H. Hamilton. Chautauquan. Queens of the Shop, the Work-Room and the Tenement.* Katharine P. Woods. Cosmopolitan. Desertion and the Military Prison.* Pope. Cosmoplitan. The Amer. Tariff War. Hake and Wesslau. Fort. Review (Oct.). Democracy and Wealth. Walker. Forum. The Shibboleth of Public Opinion. Lilly. Forum. The Embattled Farmers. Gladden. Forum. Some Experience of a Stump Speaker. Hughes. Lippincott's. Third Estate of the South. Mayo. New Eng. Mag. Impressions of a Yankee Visitor in the South. Levermore. New Eng. Mag. What Are the Ideals of the Masses? Brett. Nine. Century (Oct.). What Congress Has Done. McKinley; Lodge; Dalzell and others. North Am. Review. Business Men in Politics. Miller. North Am. Review. Election Methods in the South. Smalls. North Am. Review. Southern Republican View of the Lodge Bill. Shaffer. Logic of Free Trade and Protection. Kitson. Pop. Importance of Race and Its Bearing on the "Negro Question.” Alice Bodington. West. Review (Oct.). SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. BROWNE, THEO. STEPHENSON, [pseud. for Miss G. Hamlin.] In the riding-school; chats with Esmeralda. Lothrop. 16°, $I. "A little volume which will be welcomed by the ladies. The lessons and suggestions offered show that the author has carefully studied the subject both from a foreign and a home standpoint, and has presented it in a manner best adapted to the needs of this country. The information is conveyed in a delightfully chatty style, which will make the book very attractive to the pupil, and its practical hints, if carefully followed, cannot fail to add to the health and enjoyment of all girls who desire to master the art of horseback riding. It is an open secret that the author, whose pen-name is given on the title page of the book, is Miss G. Hamlin, one of the bright newspaper women of Boston, and the contents of the volume were originally contributed to the Boston Sunday Herald."-Boston Gazette. MERCER, F. H. F. The spaniel and its training; to which is added the American and English spaniel standards. Forest and Stream Pub. Co. il. 12, $1. When the writer of this book, several years ago, stood in need of a work to instruct him in the art of spaniel training, he found that none existed which was at all suited to his needs. He was therefore forced to study out the subject for himself. The training system described in this book is the result of his labors. It will be found very useful to sportsmen. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. The Lovely Game. (Lawn Tennis.) Hawthorne. Belford's. THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. MCCONNELL, S. D., D.D. History of the American Episcopal Church from the planting of the colonies to the end of the civil war. Whittaker. 8°, $2. The author is rector of St. Stephen's P. E. Church, Philadelphia. He defines the position of the Episcopal Church in America, describes its vicissitudes and the influences which have made it what it is; points out its excellence and shortcomings with outspoken honesty. Dr. McConnell attempts to show that the religious history of this country is as peculiar and far-reaching as its political history, and that the influences which shape it are as actively at work now as they have been at any time. The special characteristics of American Christianity are tellingly put before the reader. VAN DYKE, H. J., D.D. The church; her ministry and sacraments: lectures delivered on the L. P. Stone foundation at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1890. Randolph. 8°, $1.50. The subjects are: The holy Catholic Church; The kingdom of Christ; The unity of the visible Church; The church membership of infants; Ordination of the ministry; The Lord's supper; The administration of the sacraments. VINCENT, MARVIN R., D.D. Word studies in the New Testament. V. 3. The Epistles of Paul : Romans, Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon. Scribner. 8°, $4. The author's plan of explaining for the benefit of English readers the meaning of all the significant Greek words, and of tracing their history, is continued. An introduction gives an account of the several epistles treated in the present volume. A list of authors and editions is given, in addition to those cited in vols. 1 and 2. WIDER hope (The): essays and strictures on the doctrine and literature of future punishment, by F. W. Farrar, E. H. Plumptre, D.D., and others, with a paper "On the supposed Scriptural expression for eternity," by T. De Quincey; and a bibliographical appendix of recent works on eschatology as contained in the British Museum. Dutton. 12°, $1.25. De Quincey's article was first published in The Instructor, in 1853. In 1857 Canon Farrar preached his five sermons on eternal hope. The most noteworthy comment they called out was a group of essays and strictures, contributed by a number of eminent writers, clerical and lay, to the pages of The Contemporary Review. From these pages James Hogg has edited the present volume. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. New Basis of Church Life, Larremore. Arena. Some Aspects of Newman's Influence. Ward. Century (Oct.). BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. EARLE, ANNE RICHARDSON. tion. Roberts. 12°, $1. Nine. Her great ambi Sophy Verrick's great ambition was to become an artist. Her one absorbing thought makes her selfish and careless of others. She longs for an independent life, and moves into a studio of her own, to pursue her studies uninterruptedly. The author's moral seems to be pointed against this kind of a life, as she shows how Sophy injures her health at times by over-application, and again fails to accomplish her object through a lack of sustained industry. After many disagreeable things occur to give her a distaste for her life, she finds consolation in marriage. HOWELLS, W. D. A boy's town described for Harper's Young People. Harper. il. 12°, $1.25. STODDARD, W. O. Crowded out o' Crofield. Appleton. 8°, $1.50. ZOE, by the author of "Miss Toosey's mission." Roberts. 12°, 60 c. Scarcely sells. If her tone be grave, they say So she's cut the whole concern- For Parnassus is "too steep," And that keeps me, writes a heap, -ANDREW LANG, in Murray's Magazine. MRS. BURTON HARRISON, who is at Bar Harbor, is finishing a novel of Southern life before and after the war. Mrs. Harrison's husband was Jefferson Davis' private secretary. It is reported by way of England that at a recent auction sale the manuscript of the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" realized $315. We had not seen this fact in any American newspa per. The Critic of October 18th says of "The Anglomaniacs," we take pleasure in informing our readers, by authority,' that this novelette, which has made the success of the season, was written by Mrs. Burton Harrison." RUDYARD KIPLING." Talking of portraits," says a contributor to the Boston Herald, "I have just had one of Rudyard Kipling painted for me in words by a London friend who knows very intimately this conquering hero of the world of letters. My friend writes: Personally I like him much, and he interests me. He is a small man, short-sighted, but with good eyes, only twenty-four. His talk is quick and pleasant, full of fun and vivacity and shrewd touches of observation, almost wit. He is a delightful companion to men. Women do not always like him, for he has caught the prevailing tone-the pessimistic cynicism of the day-and he has caught, too, the slang of the Indian mess-rooms, which is a few shades worse than that of mess-rooms at home. People who only know him superficially think he has an immense deal of side,' but that is all superficial. At heart he is the nicest and most modest fellow I know. I think he has a great future, and I honestly believe him to be the nearest to a genius of any man that we have had in England for the last ten years.' MRS. VAN RENSSELAER CRUGER, of New York, says the Chicago Evening Post, whose "A Diplomat's Diary" has attracted much attention, comes by her literary talents under the law of heredity. Her maiden name was Julia Storrow and her father was Thomas Wentworth Storrow, who passed most of his life in Paris. Her uncle, Charles Storer Storrow, was formerly Mayor of Lawrence, and her cousin, James Jackson StorHer row, is an eminent lawyer of Boston. grandfather, who was also named Thomas Wentworth Storrow, is remembered by old Bostonians as a delightful old gentleman with brilliant eyes and sunny vivacity, who had lived much abroad and had at eighty the air of a well-preserved and perennially youthful Frenchman. He was also an author, frequently contributing to the New York Knickerbocker, especially in a series of "Egyptian Letters" somewhat in the style of Curtis' Potiphar Papers," and mildly satirizing that fashionable life which his granddaughter now portrays. He was the maternal uncle and godfather of Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who is therefore a second cousin of Mrs. Cruger. MARION CRAWFORD'S FINE PHYSIQUE.-Marion Crawford is an exceedingly handsome man, and is as perfect physically, says the Chicago Evening Post, with his six feet of manliness, as a Greek statue. By incessant physical culture he has developed each muscle to perfection, and he has distinguished himself as a brilliant fencer. His wife is as perfect in her way, and one of the most beautiful of American women. She has a statuesque figure that is lithe and graceful as a reed. Those who know Gen. Berdan remember his wonderful gray eyes and his superb physique, both of which are femininely duplicated in his daughter. When Gen., Berdan went to Turkey, after superintending the construction of his mus ket invention in Russia, he was accompanied by his daughter. It was there that Marion Crawford met the lady he was fortunate enough to win for a wife. Miss Berdan created a sensation in official society in Constantinople by her beauty and grace of manner. It was there that the wedding took place which united two of the handsomest natives of the United States. ford is a nephew of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. Mr. Craw HUMORIST AND PLAYWRIGHT.-" Jerome K. Jerome, the new-born humorist, whose book, Three Men in a Boat,' is pronounced by the English critics the funniest thing since "Pickhas had," says the Chicago Evening Post, "a most wick," is only thirty years old, but, withal, he varied experience, and has been engaged in almost innumerable occupations. On the death of his parents he was employed as clerk in a railroad office for four years. This, however, was not at all congenial to his tastes, and at the age of eighteen he vacated his stool for the profession of an actor. This lasted about two years, when he discarded the stage in favor of journalism. After a short experience as a liner,' he became a schoolmaster, and subsequently a shorthander for a firm of parliamentary agents. His next move was into a lawyer's office, to which he bade a final good-by last year, and is now devoting his whole attention to literary work. His humorous work, Three Men in a Boat,' published last year, immediately caught on' with the public, and in less than three months 22 000 copies were sold and the number now exceeds 70,000 copies. Most of his work he does walking about in the London streets at night, and as ideas occur to him he jots them down, together with any terms of expression or dialogue which strike him, in a note-book which he always carries. His desk he simply uses for copying and correcting." Longmans, Green & Co. HAVE NOW READY A COMPANION TO THE "BLUE FAIRY BOOK." THE RED FAIRY BOOK. Edited by ANDREW LANG. With 100 illustrations by H. J. FORD and LANCELOT SPEED. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt, 380 pages, $2.00. 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