first appearance to the present day it has never lost its popularity. Written with knowledge, it is yet full of genial fun, and it tells of the scenes in which have been acted some of the mighty dramas of history. The volume is in pocket size, tastefully bound. Just the book for a traveller to dip into and think over."—Commercial Advertiser. MARTIN, Mrs. ANNIE. Home life on an ostrich farm. Appleton. il. 12°, $1.25. PENNELL, Jos. and Mrs. ELIZABETH ROBINS. The stream of pleasure: a narrative of a journey on the Thames from Oxford to London; with a practical chapter by J. G. Legge. Macmillan & Co. il. 8°, $2.25. PETERS, C. New light on dark Africa: narrative of the German Emin Pasha expedition, its journeyings and adventures among the native tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza; from the German, by H. W. Dulcken: il. by Rudolf Hellgrewe. Ward, Lock & Co. por. maps, 4°, $6. WEBB, W. SEWARD. California and Alaska and over the Canadian Pacific Railway. Popular 8°, $2.25. Edition ed. G. P. Putnam's Sons. de luxe, 4°, full mor., $25. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Town Life in Arkansas. Octave Thanet. Atlantic. A Poet's Town. (Marblehead.)* Marg. B. Wright. Chautauquan. A Forgotten City.* Eleanor Lewis. Cosmopolitan. On the Miramichi. Outing. Steamship Lines of the World.* Hunt. Scribner's. Browning's Asola.* Moscheles. Scribner's. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. HUNTER, ELEANOR A. Talks to girls. American Tract Soc. 12°, 60 c. The talks are on a variety of subjects: An ideal womanhood, Girls and mothers, Needlecraft, Fancywork, Girls and brothers, Working-girls, Talking, Day-dreams, etc. SALIS, Mrs. DE. Drinks à la mode. Longmans, Green & Co. 12°, 60 c. SALIS, Mrs. DE. Floral decorations: suggestions and descriptions. Longmans, Green & Co. 12°, 60 c. EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. DURUY, VICTOR. The history of the Middle Ages; tr. from the 12th [French] ed. by E. H. and M. D. Whitney; with notes and revisions by G. Burton Adams. H. Holt. maps. 12°, net, $1.60, 44 It is generally considered that the most successful text-book on mediæval history in any language is Victor Duruy's Histoire du moyen age. Its great merit consists in the fact that while it gives a very clear conception of the general currents of the period, it also gives a sufficient number of the facts and details of the history to furnish a solid basis for such general views. Numerous slight revisions have been made in the author's text. Many are mere corrections of dates and of manifest typographical errors. Others are modifications of statements."-Editor's Preface. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. University Extension. Boughton. Arena. American Boys' School, Coit; Ideals of the New American University, Jordan; Technological Education in the United States, Tyler; Review of the Higher Education of Women, Palmer; Physical Hindrances to Schools for the Insane. Pilgrim. Teaching Girls, Porter. Forum. Pop. Science. Present Ideals of Amer. University Life. Royce. Scribner's. FICTION. BRADDON, Miss M. E., [now Mrs. J. Maxwell.] The world, the flesh and the devil. United States Book Co. 12°, (Lovell's international ser., no 65.) $1; pap., 50 c. That the story is reminiscent of Faust and Balzac's Peau de chagrin is suggested throughout by the author herself. The hero, in despair for lack of money, is about committing suicide when he learns that he has inherited an immense fortune. At the same time his doctor warns him that his life will be short if he is not prudent. He does not heed the warning, but enters into a feverish career of pleasure and vice. His Mephistopheles is an uncanny sort of a fellow, who is a mindreader and a hypnotizer, and who uses his arts almost successfully upon the hero in an attempt to gain his wealth. CADOL, EDOUARD. High life; from the French, by H. O. Cooke. The Price-McGill Pub. Co. 12°, (Idle moments ser., no. 4.) pap., 50 c. High life," as pictured by Arsène Houssaye, is known only in theory to Arthur Fandanese, but so alluring does his conception of it seem that he becomes possessed with an irresistible desire to realize its pleasures. Conditions finally arise which enable him to view the coveted scenes and analyze a peculiar status of society. His conclusions are effective and convincing, although they are arrived at in an illusionary way. COBB, SYLVANUS, jr. The royal outlaw: a novel. Robert Bonner's Sons. 12°, (The popular ser., no. 13.) pap., 25 c. A tale of the seventh century, in England, during the reign of the Saxon kings. CONWAY, MONCURE D. Prisons of air. United States Book Co. 12°, (Lovell's American authors ser., no. 35.) pap., 50 c. Although the action takes place in the nineteenth century, the incident upon which the novel is based happened in 1564. Edmund Redleigh thoughtlessly offended a gypsy, who pronounced upon him a weird curse, which she declared should be the heritage of every succeeding generation. The story opens in Virginia in 1862, deals with the last scion of the Redleighs who suffered from the baleful curse, and tells how the bonds of an ancient superstition were dispelled. Incidental mention is made of the civil war and some of the conditions that followed it. ÉNAULT, L. Carine: a story of Sweden; tr. by Linda Da Kowalewska; il. by L. K. Harlow. Little, Brown & Co. 16°, $1.25. "The narrative is written in that frank and piquant, unassuming style of which it seems as if the French were alone the masters. Swedish life in all its varying domestic aspects as seen from intimacy with cultivated and refined people is revealed with exquisite fidelity, and the portrayal of Carine's problematic character is elaborated in a veritably artistic manner. About the personality of this fair flower of womanhood the author casts a magic spell that wins upon the fancy like a rare and subtle perfume. The whole story has the idyllic touch, and yet is not beyond the realms of actuality, and there is not a flaw in its delicate grace of gentle and spontaneous humor from beginning to end. Mr. Harlow's illustrations, some forty or fifty in number, are sympathetically drawn, and the binding is a model of attractiveness and good taste."-Boston Beacon. FARJEON, B. L. Ties--human and divine. United States Book Co. 12°, (Lovell's international ser., no. 167.) $1; pap., 50 c. GORDON, JULIEN, [pseud. for Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger.] A Puritan pagan: a novel. Appleton. 12°, $1. HANCOCK, ANSON URIEL. John Auburntop, novelist; his development in the atmosphere Co-edu of a fresh-water college. C. H. Kerr & Co. 12°, (Unity lib., no. 5.) $1.25: pap., 50 c. A Nebraska university is the scene. cation and the peculiarities of a fresh-water college furnish the circumstances. "Old Abraham Jackson's" daughter Minerva again plays hero ine. HANCOCK, ANSON URIEL. Old Abraham Jack son and his family: an episode in the evolution of Nebraska dug-outs. C. A. Sergel & Co. 12, (Sergel's international lib., v. 1, no. 12.) pap., 50 c. An extremely realistic account of an episode in the history of Nebraska dug-outs.' The story of Abraham Jackson and his family, who moved from Wisconsin to take up a claim in Nebraska, their life in the early sixties, their relations with their neighbors, and their final success, is a good picture of life on the plains, and of the people who are an important factor in the growth of the Western States. Rough and ready, with a strong sense of humor, a good common-school education, and a desire to give his children greater advantages than he himself had, Abraham Jackson is decidedly interesting, as he is typical of a large and influential body of people. He is photographed rather than painted; but Mr. Hancock's comparative success here should teach him that the nineteenth century, not the first, is the best field for his talent, which needs a great deal of training yet before he can be called an artist." - Literary World. JANVIER, T. A. The uncle of an angel, and other stories. Harper. il. 12°, $1.25. Contents: The uncle of an angel; A border ruffian; Our pirate hoard; A temporary deadlock; For the honor of France; A romance of Tompkins Square; An idyl of the east side. KIELLAND, ALEX. the Norwegian, by by H. H. Boyesen. Tales of two countries; from KIRK, ELLEN OLNEY. A midsummer madness. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 16°, (Riverside pap. ser., no. 37.) pap., 50 c. "When the story first appeared, some seven years ago, the London Spectator justly said of it : This book is most refreshing.' The scene of the story is laid on the banks of the great river Delaware, and a delicious sense of open air, of trees and flowers, of the many-tinted lights of sunset, tingeing the broad river and the sky above, pervades the book. .. The story is, of course, the old, old story, but the interest never flags from the first page to the last."- Boston Gazette. LA BRÈTE, Jean de. my uncle and my Mrs. J. W. Davis. MACALPINE, AVERY. The story of Reine; or, curé; from the French by Roberts Bros. 16°, $1. A man's conscience: a novel. Harper. il. 12°, $1.50. MCCLELLAND, M. G. ?: a nameless novel. H. Moore & Co. 12°, (The nameless ser., no. 1.) pap., 25 c. S. The popular author of Oblivion,'' Princess,' 'Eleanor Gwyn,' 'A self-made man,' 'Ten minutes to twelve,'' Burkett's Lock,' etc., has written a new novel. The title of this book has been purposely omitted by the author, in order to inaugurate a unique and original competition in the matter of selecting a name. Every purchaser of the book is invited to suggest a title for it, and cash prizes aggregating five hundred dollars will be paid by the publishers to those who shall suggest the names best adapted to the story, according to the author's judgment. Aside from this unique feature, the story is in Miss McClelland's best vein, possessing the intense interest and great depth of plot for which her works are remarkable, and in its description of the life of the mountaineers of the South, having the same charm that has characterized her previous efforts. It is a remarkably good story well told, and should meet with an extensive sale."-The Housekeeper. MALOT, HECTOR. Roman Kalbris: the adventures of a runaway by land and sea: tr. by Mary J. Serrano. Harper. 12°, (Harper's Franklin sq. lib., no. 705.) pap., 50 c. Relates the adventures of a little Normandy lad who loses his father, goes to live with a cruel and miserable uncle, runs away, falls into the hands of travelling show people, runs away again, gets to Paris, is made the protégé of pickpockets, tries to get once more home to his mother, is left on board a foundering bark, guides her to shore in a storm, meets with friends, and at length arrives safely at his native town, where he is welcomed by kindly hearts and is happy thereafter. Mary J. Serrano has translated this admirable story with praiseworthy fidelity and felicity. An excellent book for young people to make acquaintance with; and that it will interest older persons may safely be taken for granted."-Boston Beacon. PENDLETON, EDMUND. One woman's way: a novel. Appleton. 16°, (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 78.) pap., 50 c. A young correspondent of a London daily newspaper after knocking all around the world meets his fate in Agatha, a pretty aunt in charge of five naughty children. The girl does not wish to leave her father and the man dreads settling in a quiet corner. The woman's way smoothes this difficulty. POOL, MARIA LOUISE. Dally. Harper. 12°, $1.25. A kind hearted widow of Ransome, a little Massachusetts settlement, takes in waifs and strays that need air and good food, to the great wonder of the close-fisted, cold-blooded neighbors. A little girl sent her by a friend from North Carolina is the "Dally" of the story. Totally untutored, uncared for and by nature wild and passionate, she quite upsets the peaceful New England home and becomes a terror to the neighbors. But love and kindness finally do their educating work, and pretty Dally becomes a comfort to more than her benefactress. First appeared in the N. Y. Tribune, under the title of "That Caroliny gal." PRYCE, R. Just impediment. J. B. Lippincott Co. 12, (Lippincott's ser. of select novels, no. 124.) 75 c.; pap., 50 c. "Has a double freshness of manner and of plot. It tells of a beautiful girl who is glimpsed in the streets of London alone at midnight by one Lord Rutherford. When they afterward meet at his sister's house, and the girl, Esther Wilton, proves to be as well-bred as she is beautiful, and the two quite naturally fall in love, that first strange glimpse of her lovely face in the Strand becomes a haunting memory to Rutherford. It would be unkind to hint here at the solution of the mystery which envelops Esther, since that is at once the chief interest, as its successful concealment to the end is the finest art of the story. But there is in it much else that is admirable; the very clever portraiture, for instance, of the young spendthrift, Hartley, the delicate drawing of the girl whose hair is the color of brass, and the ponderous humor of Lord Hurlingham."-Philadelphia Press. Ross, CLINTON. The adventures of three worthies. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 32°, 75 c. Three romances told on a rainy day at a château in Touraine. One is of the adventures of a gentleman of modern France, "Viscount de SaintDernier;" the second, “A Sieur de Bertrand," is of old France, and deals with the confession of a great personage of long ago turned priest to be rid of a sad world; the last, "The lady at the death," relates a love escapade of an English boy who grew old in the service of the Stuarts in exile and at Whitehall. SEAWELL, MOLLY ELLIOT. Maid Marian, and other stories. Appleton. 16°, (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 77.) $1; pap., 50 c. The author of "Throckmorton" offers here ten romantic stories of American life. TALES for a stormy night from the French of Turguèneff, Balzac, Mérimée and Alphonse Daudet. Rob. Clarke & Co. 12°, $1; pap., 50 c. Five translations from the French which deserve to be classed with the best of current literature. Actuated by a definite artistic purpose, the editor of the collection has chosen his material with admirable discretion, and the series of five stories here printed have a certain unity of motive which is entirely acceptable. Turguèneff's marvellous imaginings entitled Ghosts; Balzac's Miracle in Flanders' and 'Farewell;' Mérimée's Venus of Ille; and Daudet's Battle of Père-Lachaise '—these are the pro ure. ductions which various competent_hands have rendered into satisfactory English. For the reader unacquainted with the higher ranges of French fiction this book will be something of a revelation, and it will be also a grateful means of cultIt is a matter for congratulation that such a book should be brought out in so attractive and inexpensive a form."-Boston Beacon. WHITBY, BEATRICE. A matter of skill: a novel. Appleton. 16°, (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 76.) $1; pap., 50 c. WHITTAKER, F. Bel Rubio: a novel. Robert Bonner's Sons. 12°, (Popular ser., no. 12.) pap., 25 c. The only son of the proud Earl of Warwick is killed during the earthquake at Lisbon in 1755. The old Earl marries his steward's daughter in fear of his possessions going out of the family. Twenty-five years after the son of this union is stationed at Lisbon again. Here many exciting events take place. Bel Rubio is supposed to be the son of a contrabandist. He is a faithful worker for the British army and finally obtains a commission. The fierce battles fought at Gibraltar are described with enthusiasm. A transparent mystery is used to advantage. MAGAZINE FICTION. He Came and Went Again. Garland. Arena. The Disturber of Traffic. Kipling. Atlantic. That Angelic Woman. Ludlow. Chautauquan. A Wheat-Field Idyl. Eliz. Stoddard. Harper's. Captain Joe and Jamie. Roberts. Scribner's. HISTORY. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSoc. Papers. V. 5. Pts. 1 and 2. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 8°, pap., $2. Contents: Secretary's report; Demand for education in American history, by J. Jay: The theory of the village community, by C. M. Andrews; Karl Follen and the liberal movement, by Kuno Francke; Bismarck as the typical German, by W. G. Taylor; State activities and politics, by W. F. Willoughby; Mirabeau's speech of May 20, 1790, by F. M. Fling; Organization of historical material, by W. H. Mace; Origin of American institutions, by Douglas Campbell. 64 Papers of the American Historical Association, vol. 5, contain some vastly important and interesting reading for those who care to study the inside history of the movements and thoughts which have resulted in laying the foundations and raising the superstructure of this wonderful nation, the most potential of modern times and the one that has attained its present grandeur with such unexampled rapidity. Other topics than those purely American are included in the contributions, particularly such as seem to bear relationship or to have in their spirit contributed to our own development. Among specially interesting articles are Demand for education,'' State activities and politics,' 'Origin of American in stitutions' and 'Canada and the United States."" - Commercial Advertiser. BURNHAM, S. M. Struggles of the nations; or, the principal wars, battles, sieges and treaties of the world. Lee & Shepard. 2 v., 8°, $6. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Europe and Cathay. Fiske. Atlantic. An Untold Story of the Florida War. Harriet P. Huse. California as an Outpost of Civilization. Career of W.T. Coleman. Bancroft. Mag. Am. History. First English Foundations. Hinsdale. Mag. Am. History. A Famous Naval Exploit. Porter. North Am. Review. HUMOR AND SATIRE. SANBORN, KATE. Adopting an abandoned farm. RICHARDSON, C. F. The choice of books. United The author's work on " American literature" is a guarantee that any advice on the choice of reading will be instructive. He deals here with the motive of reading, the reading habit, what books to read, the best time to read, how much to read, remembering what one reads, the use of note-books, the cultivation of taste, poetry, the art of skipping, the use of translations, how to read periodicals, reading aloud and reading-clubs, what books to own, the use of public libraries and the true service of reading. A list of authors cited is given. Good, full index. This book was first published in 1881, but almost half of the present volume is new matter. STEAD, W. T., ed. The annual index of periodicals and photographs for 1890. Office of the Review of Reviews. 4°, 75 c. This is the first attempt made in England to index the contents of the year's magazines and reviews. With the index to periodicals is joined a catalogue of the most important photographs of the world. WHITMAN, WALT. Good-bye, my fancy: 2d annex to "Leaves of grass." D. McKay. por. 8°, $1. "Walt Whitman still lives. One more utterance from our old original individualistic American poet, now, as he tells us, in his seventy-second year, and not expecting to write any more; this, indeed, written as it were in defiance of augury. The grand old fellow in that little of new he gives us is in good fettle and equal to himself. Most of the volume is made up of recollections, memories not only of facts, but of thoughts, and they are not the least interesting, especially his recollections of persons once famous, but long since gathered in by the reaper. The following is mystical, indeed everything that Whitman has written is mystical, a shadowing forth of a half comprehended entity in thought: "LONG, LONG HENCE, "After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials, Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought, Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers Coating, compassing, covering-after ages' and ages' encrustations, Then only may these songs reach fruition." -Commercial Advertiser. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. The Author Himself. Wilson. Atlantic. The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Sherman. Century. Country Newspapers. Howe. Century. Evolution of the Society Journal.* Mrs. R. A. Pryor. Cosmopolitan. Society Women as Authors. Anna V. Dorsey. Cosmepolitan. Note on a New Poet. (Wm. Watson.) Allen. Fort. Review (Aug). Authors' Complaints and Publishers' Profits. Putnam. Forum. Real People in Fiction. Walsh. Lippincott. His Majesty the "Average Reader." Fawcett. Lippincott's. Adventures Among Books. Lang. Scribner's. MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE. MARTINEAU, JA.. D.D. Types of ethical theory. 3d ed., rev. Macmillan & Co. 12°, $2.60. SPENCER, HERBERT. Justice; being part IV. of The principles of ethics." Appleton. 12°, $1.25. Fearing ill-health would prevent him wholly carrying out his plan for his work on "The principles of ethics" (a part of the " Synthetic philosophy") Mr. Spencer concluded to take up the part of the most importance-part 4, "The Ethics of social life; justice." He says: "This work covers a field which, to a considerable extent, coincides with that covered by Social statics,' published in 1850, though the two differ alike in extent, in form and partially in their ideas. One difference is that what there was in my first book of supernaturalistic interpretation has disappeared, and the interpretation has become exclusively naturalistic-that is, evolutionary." Part I of this series, entitled "The data of ethics," was published some years ago. NATURE AND SCIENCE. NEWHALL, C. S. The leaf-collector's handbook and herbarium: an aid in the preservation and in the classification of specimen leaves of the trees of Northeastern America. G. P. Putnam's Sons. il. 8°, $2. Last year the author published "The trees of Northeastern America." This handbook contains diagrams of all the different leaves mentioned in that volume, with directions how to find the names of specimens, how to mount them, how to preserve them, etc. There is a complete index of trees. A supply of gummed paper for mounting is also furnished in the volume. The author has described and pictured the leaves of all the native trees and the most important naturalized trees of Northeastern America. Building. Albee. Century. September. Emerson. Chautauquan. A Queen's Undying Love. S. K. Bolton. Mag. Am. For Remembrance. Scott. Scribner's. POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND TOPICS OF THE DAY. BOOTH, C. Labor and life of the people. In 2 Cook, W. W. The corporation problem: the LANIN, E. B., (pseud.) Russian traits and terrors a faithful picture of the Russia of today; with an ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne. B. R. Tucker. 12°, (Tucker's lib., v. 1, no. 2.) pap., 25 c. E. B. Lanin is the collective signature of several writers in the Fortnightly Review. It was in the latter journal the following papers appeared. Their titles indicate their subjects: Lying, Fatalism, Sloth, Dishonesty, Russian prisons, The simple truth, Sexual morality in Russia, The Jews in Russia, Russian finance - the racking of the peasantry, The Russian censure. PERSECUTION of the Jews in Russia; with a map of Russia, showing the pale of Jewish settlement. Issued by the Russo-Jewish Committee of London. Jewish Pub. Soc. of America. 16°, (Special ser., no. 1.) pap., 25 c. A graphic report of the persecution to which the Jews are subjected in Russia. An appendix contains an abridged summary of laws, special and restrictive, relative to the Jews in Russia, brought down to the year 1890. WHITMAN, SIDNEY. Imperial Germany: a critical study of fact and character. United States Book Co. 12°, $1.25. Our Dealings with the Poor. Octavia Hill. Nine. Cen- Goldwin Smith and the Jews. Bendavid. North Am. Plea for Railway Consolidation. Huntington. North Co-operative Womanhood in the State. Mrs. Livermore. Halti and the United States. Douglass. North Am. Is Drunkenness Curable? Hammond; Crothers; Car- Volunteer Militia of Mass. D. M. Taylor. Outing. SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. LYTTELTON, E. International cricket guide. 16°, (S. & S. manual lib., no. 31.) pap., 10 c. Contains the latest rules and regulations for cricket, and practical hints and valuable sugges tions from the best authorities. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Day among the Prairie Chickens. George Taylor, Out- THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. Lectures delivered for the most part before the University of Dublin, where the Dean of Norwich occupied the Donnellan Lectureship. They define the Church of Christ as supernatural in its origin, and deal with the nature, constitution and work of the Christian ministry as an organization; of the Divine Master, asserting that the Apostles had a vivid consciousness of such organization, and contending that the churches of the Apostolic Age were by no means structureless, but vital organisms, in which bishops, presbyters, deacons exercised their several clearly defined functions. The constitution of the ministry, itinerant and local, is elaborated with considerable detail. In the treatment of the moral sphere of ministerial work the grand scheme of redemption is held up as the essential corrective of sin and death, and the power of the Gospel to raise man from his fallen condition is emphatically asserted. LIGHTFOOT, J. B., D.D., ed. The apostolic fathers comprising the Epistles (genuine and spurious) of Clement of Rome, the Epistles of S. Ignatius, the Epistles of S. Polycarp, the Martyrdom of S. Polycarp, the Teaching of the Apostles, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Shepherd of Hermas, the Epistle of Diognetus, the Fragments of Papias, etc.; revised text, with short introductions and English translations, by the late J. B. Lightfoot, D.D.; ed. and completed by J. R. Harmer. Macmillan & Co. 8°, $4. LIGHTFOOT, J. B., D.D. Sermons preached on special occasions. Macmillan & Co. 8°, $1.75 MAGAZINE ARTICLES. The Newer Heresies. Lorimer. Arena. A Colored Sisterhood. J. K. Wetherill. Chautauquan. |