Skeat's celebrated change of "concubyn" to "wikked sin," the reader consults the correct text and finds the word "bawds." Elsewhere, however, Mr. Thayer freely admits this word; perhaps he objects to it only when used in a Pickwickian sense. The difficult words which remain are explained at the foot of the page, where, also, the confiding reader

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is admonished when to frown and when to admire. It is doubtful whether any critic will agree with this editor that the five plays selected- The Jew of Malta,' "The Alchemist," "Philaster," "The Two Noble Kinsmen," "The Duchess of Malfi,"are absolutely the masterpieces of Shakespeare's great contemporaries. He says, indeed, that he thinks Volpone" superior to "The Alchemist," but was forced to exclude the former on account of its coarseness. But what are we to think of an editor who is capable of passing over "Edward II.” and "Doctor Faustus," and of selecting "The Jew of Malta" as the supreme illustration of Marlowe's genius? In spite of, and partly by reason of, these objectionable features, this volume will be found useful in schools where the anatomy of the soul, like that of the body, is studied without reference to the reproductive functions. Men and women to whom literature is something real and deeply related to life itself, will prefer to know the old dramatists as they are, or not know them at all.

A NEW series, entitled "Heroes of the Nations," published by Messrs. Putnam's Sons, and edited by Evelyn Abbott of Balliol College, begins with "Nelson," by Clark Russell. The choice of this biographer for Nelson is as happy as that of Forbes for Havelock. Clark Russell is, after Hermann Melville, the one writer of sea-tales whose sea-lore never fails him, for even Fenimore Cooper and Maryatt write occasionally like land-lubbers. Russell is thoroughly saturated with the sea, and has, moreover, a most attractive style. His "Nelson" is a book that any boy will thrill over, and that any mature mind may read to advantage. This portraiture of England's greatest naval commander is written in a discerning and discriminating spirit, and furnishes us, consequently, not a made-up book, but a genuine contribution to biographical literature. Not only are we shown the large and noble nature of the man who was beloved by everybody, from colleague to Jack Tar, but the military traits which made him the great admiral are brought out forcibly in the narrative of his sea-fights, as well as summed up in the statement that "his great theory of warfare consisted in swiftness of resolution, in dashing at the enemy, in getting alongside of him, as close as channels or yard-arms would permit, and in firing until he struck or was annihilated." Much of the rodomontade which the legend-makers have put into the mouth of Nelson is summarily disposed of, while the one blot on his character-the intrigue with Lady Hamilton-is handled in a sound and manly manner. The pretty and appropriate initial and tail pieces of each chapter, the full-page illus

trations, the paper beautiful in quality and tint, the broad margins, and the excellent typography, all combine with the matter and the manner to make this a delightful book to soul and to sense.

WHAT a happy collocation: a life of Havelock by Archibald Forbes-the ideal soldier pictured by the ideal war reporter! Had Archibald Forbes been born somewhat earlier, instead of riding with Gourko at Shipka Pass and with Skobeleff at Plevna, he would have been with Salkeld at the Delhi Gate and with Havelock at the Bailey Guard of Lucknow. We have in this latest life of Havelock (Macmillan's "English Men of Action") the best because the truest. As the book contains the only authentic portrait published, so it shows us for the first time Havelock the fighting man just as men of action saw him and knew him. We do not disparage his former biographers when we say that it needed an old campaigner to estimate him at his true worth, to strip from his portraiture a certain sentimentalized gloss which has somewhat concealed his true features, and to put before the public this superb portrayal of "the old saint," who "held fast by his earnest piety through evil as through good report,' of whom it is further said: "Hoping against hope through the years, his hair had whitened, his fine regular features had sharpened, and the small spare figure had lost the suppleness though not the erectness of its prime; but his eye had not waxed dim; neither, at sixty-two, and after forty-two years of soldiering, thirty-four of which were Indian service, was his natural force abated. He was the man of greatest military culture then in India." As one reads again the story of Havelock's heroic "relief" the blood thrills anew, for the admirable style of this master of narrative English was never better displayed than in this little sketch.

BOOKS OF THE MONTH.

[The following list includes all books received by THE DIAL during the month of July, 1890.]

LITERARY MISCELLANY-BIOGRAPHY. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, First Chief-Justice of the United States, etc., etc. 17631781. Edited by Henry P. Johnston, A. M. In Four Volumes. Vol. 1. Royal 8vo, pp. 461. Uncut. Gilt top. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $5.00.

Patriotic Addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War, and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States. By Henry Ward Beecher. Edited, with a Review of Mr. Beecher's Personal Influence in Public Affairs, by John R. Howard. With Frontispeice Portrait. 8vo, pp. 857. D. Lothrop Co. $2.00.

The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey. By
David Masson. New and Enlarged Edition. In 14 Vols.
Vols. VIII. and IX., Speculative and Theological Es-
says; Political Economy and Politics. 16mo. Illustrat-
ed. Uncut. Macmillan & Co. Per Vol., $1.25.
Views and Reviews. Essays in Appreciation. By W. E.
Henley. 18mo, pp. 235.
Charles
Gilt top. Uncut.
Scribner's Sons. $1.00.
Northern Studies. By Edmund Gosse. 16mo, pp. 268.
Uncut. A. Lovell & Co. 40 cents.

Boston Unitarianism. 1820-1850. A Study of the Life and Work of Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham. By Octavius Brooks Frothingham. 12mo, pp. 272. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.75. Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. Vol. XXIII. Gray-Haighton. Large 8vo, pp. 448. Gilt top. Macmillan & Co. $3.75.

Marie Antoinette and the End of the Old Régime. By Imbert de Saint-Amand. Translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. With Frontispiece Portrait. 12mo, pp. 300. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25.

Lord Clive. By Colonel Sir Charles Wilson. 16mo, pp. 221. Macmillan's "English Men of Action." 60 cents.

FICTION.

The Aztec Treasure-House. A Romance of Contemporaneous Antiquity. By Thomas A. Janvier. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 446. Harper & Brothers. $1.50.

Snap: A Legend of the Lone Mountain. By C. Phillips Woolley, author of "Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus." Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 310. Longmans, Green, & Co. $1.50.

The Blind Musician. By Vladimir Korolenko. Translated from the Russian by Aline Delano. With an Introduction by George Kennan and Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. 16mo, pp. 244. Uncut. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.

Armorel of Lyonesse. A Romance of To-Day. By Walter Besant, author of For Faith and Freedom." Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 396. Harper & Brothers. $1.25; Paper, 50 cents.

With the Best Intentions: A Midsummer Episode. By Marion Harland. 16mo, pp. 303. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.00.

Hermit Island. By Katherine Lee Bates, author of the $1000 Prize Story "Rose and Thorn." Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 345. D. Lothrop Co. $1.25.

Bella's Blue-Book: The Story of an Ugly Woman. By Marie Calm. Translated from the German by Mrs. J. W. Davis. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 301. Uncut. Worthington Co. $1.25.

The Bank Tragedy. By Mary R. P. Hatch. With Frontispiece. 12mo, pp. 427. Welch, Fracker Co.

All Sorts and Conditions of Men. An Impossible Story. By Walter Besant, author of For Faith and for Freedom." Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 412. Paper. Harper's "Franklin Square Library." 50 cents.

Katy of Catoctin. By George Alfred Townsend, author of "The Entailed Hat." 16mo, pp. 567. Appleton's "Town and Country Library." 50 cents.

Throckmorton. A Novel. By Molly Elliot Seawell. 16mo, pp. 304. Appleton's "Town and Country Library.'

50 cents.

Written in Red; or, The Conspiracy in the North Case. (A
Story of Boston.) By Charles Howard Montague and C.
W. Dyer. 16mo, pp. 335. Paper. Cassell Publishing
Co. 50 cents.

An Artist's Honor. Translated by E. P. Robins from the
French of Octave Feuillet, author of "The Romance of a
Poor Young Man." 16mo, pp. 264. Paper. Cassell
Publishing Co. 50 cents.
Pearl-Powder. A Novel. By Annie Edwards. 12mo,
pp. 414.
Paper. Lippincott's "Select Novels." 50
cents.

Lucie's Mistake. By W. Heimburg. Translated by Mrs. J. W. Davis. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 304. Paper. Worthington Co. 75 cents.

Were They Sinners? By Charles J. Bellamy, author of "An Experiment in Marriage." 12mo, pp. 219. "Author's Library." Author's Publishing Co. 50 cents.

JUVENILE.

Five Little Peppers Midway. A Sequel to " Five Little Peppers and How They Grew." By Margaret Sidney, author of "Our Town." Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 512. D. Lothrop Co. $1.50.

POETRY.

The Finding of the Gnosis, or Apotheosis of an Ideal. An Interior Life-Drama. Authorized Version. 16mo, pp. 74. Occult Publishing Co. 50 cents. Shadows and Ideals. Poems by Francis S. Saltus. With Portrait. 8vo, pp. 366. Uncut. Gilt top. C. W. Moul

ton.

TRAVEL ADVENTURE.

In and Out of Central America, and other Sketches of Study and Travel. By Frank Vincent, author of "Around and About South America." With Maps and Illustrations. 12mo, pp. 246. D. Appleton & Co. $2.00.

A Social Departure. How Orthodocia and 1 Went Round the World by Ourselves. By Sara Jeannette Duncan. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 417. D. Appleton & Co. $1.75. Madagascar; or, Robert Drury's Journal, during Fifteen Years of Captivity on that Island. With a Further Description of Madagascar by the Abbé Alexis Rochon. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Capt. Pasfield Oliver, R. A., author of "Madagascar." Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 398. Uncut. Macmillan's "Adventure Series." $1.50.

EDUCATION-TEXT-BOOKS.

Education in Alabama. 1702-1889. By Willis G. Clark. Svo, pp. 281. Paper. "American Educational History," No. 8. Government Printing Office.

Federal and State Aid to Higher Education in the United States. By Frank W. Blackmar, Ph.D. Svo, pp. 343. Paper. "Am. Educational History," No 9. Government Printing Office.

The Directional Calculus. Based upon the Methods of Herman Grassmann. By E. W. Hyde. 8vo, pp. 247. Ginn & Co. $2.15.

Longman's School Geography for North America. By George G. Chisholm, M.A., B.Sc., and C. H. Leete, B.A. Illustrated. Large 12mo, pp. 384. Longmans, Green, & Co. $1.25.

The Leading Facts of American History. By D. H. Montgomery. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 402. Ginn & Co. $1.10.

Structural and Systematic Botany. For High Schools and Elementary College Courses. By Douglas Houghton Campbell, Ph.D. 16mo, pp. 253. Ginn & Co. $1.15. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. To A. D. 1100. For Universities, Colleges, and Academies. By Carla Wenckebach. 16mo, pp. 200. Paper. D. C. Heath & Co.

55 cents.

REFERENCE.

Reference Handbook for Readers, Students, and Teachers of English History. By E. H. Gurney. 12mo, pp. 114. Ginn & Co. 85 cents.

English-Eskimo and Eskimo-English Vocabularies. Compiled by Ensign Roger Wells, Jr., U.S.N., and Interpreter John W. Kelley. U. S. Bureau of Education Circular No. 2, 1890. 8vo, pp. 72. Paper. Gov't Printing Office.

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES. The Canal and the Railway, with a Note on the Development of Railway Passenger Traffic. By Edmund J. James, Ph.D. With a Paper on Canals and their Economic Relation to Transportation. By Lewis M. Haupt, A.M., C.E. 8vo, pp. 85. Paper. Publications Am. Economic Ass'n. $1.00.

Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking. Adapted to Persons of Moderate and Small Means. By Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel. 16mo, pp. 190. American Public Health Ass'n. 40 cents.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Harmony in Praise. Compiled and Edited by Mills Whittlesey and A. F. Jamieson. Svo, pp. 109. D. C. Heath & Co. $1.05.

Parsifal: The Finding of Christ through Art; or, Richard Wagner as Theologian. By Albert Ross Parsons. Svo, pp. 113. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.00.

[Any book in this list will be mailed to any address, post-paid, on receipt of price by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.]

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NEW FICTION.

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A GREAT NATIONAL WORK.

interest, now first translated from the original of HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ by JEREMIAH CURTIN. Scene: Poland and Russia. Time: 1648-1651. Crown 8vo, cloth, $2.00. THIS BRILLIANT ROMANCE ATTRACTS ATTENTION EVERYWHERE, AND IS UNIVERSALLY PRAISED BY THE PRESS.

“Wonderful in its strength and picturesqueness."

Boston Courier.

"One of the most brilliant historical novels ever written."-Christian Union.

"A romance which once read is not easily forgotten." Literary World.

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"The only modern romance with which it can be compared for fire, sprightliness, rapidity of action, swift changes, and absorbing interest, is The Three Musketeers' of Dumas."-N. Y. Tribune.

"He exhibits the sustained power and sweep of narrative of Walter Scott, and the humor of Cervantes." -Philadelphia Inquirer.

THE BEGUM'S DAUGHTER.

By EDWIN L. BYNNER, author of "Agnes Surriage." Illustrated. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

Agnes

An historical novel, founded upon early Dutch life in New York. It is even more successful and popular than “ Surriage."

THE BLIND MUSICIAN.

Translated from the Russian of VLADIMIR KOROLENKO, by Aline DELANO, with an Introduction by George KENNAN, and illustrations by E. H. GARRETT. 16mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25.

"He has succeeded marvellously."-Stepniak. "Simply as a piece of fiction it must at once be classed as an almost perfect specimen of narrative art."-The Beacon. Hard indeed would be the heart not reached and touched by this idyllic narrative. 'The Blind Musician' well deserves to be printed in raised characters for the blind. It would be a delight, a comfort, and an inspiration."-Boston Post.

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