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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, N. Y. The book of games, with directions how to play them, by Mary White, new enl. ed., 16°, $1. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS' IMPORTATIONS, N. Y. The golfing pilgrim on many links, by H. G. Hutchin son, 8°, $1.50. TRAVEL. (See "Description.") THE FALL OUTLOOK. THE short, crowded American publishing season has opened once more, and the outlook for the book trade is a stirring, busy fall and winter. Year by year we have encouraged the | trade to go at their winter's work with hope and courage. This year hope and courage are in the air, and the spirit of commerce is abroad in two hemispheres. Business has picked up and all the world agrees that times are better. First and last, all prosperity springs from the soil, and the harvest of 1898 is one of phenomenal plenty. By the time it has been gathered and distributed many people will have earned money that must be put in circulation, some of which will no doubt find its way to the book trade. The publishers have foreseen the turn in the tide of business and their announcements show active preparation of books in which the interests of the day have been carefully studied. Since books began to be written, there has probably never been a season when so many books were published with the so-called "timely" element. The American public is so fed on newspapers that the average reader seems to be capable of taking a journalistic view only of any subject, and hardly cares for anything in reading that does not have this "timely" element. The first thought that must strike a careful reader of the lists of announcements in this issue is how wisely, from a business point of view, the publishers have catered to this class of readers. We have been at war with Spain and the decisive battles of the war have been fought at points as far apart as a round world permits of. The causes of this war of four months' duration are already almost forgotten in the interest that attaches to the future of the conquered islands of the tropics of the eastern and western hemispheres. Books on Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines appear on the lists of many publishers. We have annexed Hawaii, and books on Hawaii, descriptive, historical, and political, are to follow each other rapidly. We are deciding what is to be done with the territory conquered from Spain, and books on "imperialism," the Monroe doctrine, colonial government, protectorate government, international law, etc., will be plentiful. The spirit of commerce and practical geography has inspired many books, which, although in many instances written to order, have been prepared by competent authors, and will no doubt prove instructive, readable, and salable. Gladstone and Bismarck, the two great representatives of constitutional and absolute monarchy, died within a few months of each other. Every publisher who had his imprint on any volume of the vast amount of literature devoted to their careers has put the book into competent hands for revision and additional chapters bringing it to date, and many new biographies and critical estimates of the diametrically opposite characters and political policies of these two great men are also announced. Ibsen and Tolstoi celebrate their arrival at threescore and ten, and each is to have a biography published in honor of the event. Nothing is more against the making of true literature than this up-to-date journalistic treatment of subjects of local and temporary interest, and therefore the tone of the literary output for the fall leans strongly to the utilitarian. But the people who have carefully read even the newspapers this year, in which the whole world is in process of political evolution, have learned something. The desire awakened to know more has been practically considered by the publishers, who have spared neither time nor money in their preparations to satisfy it. Even the fiction provided has the "timely "element-" Final Wars,' Lost Provinces," "Cuban Heroines," and sailor and soldier heroes abound, and children's books in great number are devoted to armies and navies, to Spanish history and to descriptive stories about Spain, Hawaii, Cuba, Egypt, etc. Lovers of pure literature and of the books of enduring life must this year fall back chiefly upon the well-edited classics and standards, of which almost every publisher provides his quota. Booksellers will do well to follow the publishers' lead and stock up with timely " literature. The public for the moment is too full of military and political questions to read much that has not some bearing on the future home and foreign policy of their victorious but inexperienced country. We sincerely hope that booksellers will sell many books that will help their readers solve these questions in the near future, so that they may once more turn their thoughts to literature which will live, and that the announcements of another season may have a more peaceful and more literary tone. DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF THE FALL ANNOUNCEMENTS. THE descriptive summary which here follows presents as usual, in its alphabetical arrangement by publishers, a survey of the entire field so far as the necessary information is at hand. Other books, not yet fully determined upon, will find mention in subsequent issues. In our announcement lists proper the books will be found arranged by classes, while the advertising pages will afford further detailed information as to prices, sizes, styles, etc. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE have just ready Causes Affecting Railway Rates and Fares," by Walter E. Weyl; "Study and Teaching of Sociology," by S. M. Lindsay; "Sociology and Philanthropy," by Dr. F. H. Wines; " Relation of the Colonial Free System to Political Liberty," by T. K. Urdahl; and "Oscillations in Politics," by Lawrence A. Lowell. AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY, Philadelphia, announce a valuable and handsome book on Italy and the Italians," by Rev. Dr. George B. Taylor. This is an historical sketch of the country, its territory, inhabitants, customs, towns, etc. The last chapters have special reference to its religion and the missionary work there carried on. Fifty illustrations and excellent manufacture make this a beautiful gift-book. "In the Land of the Condor," by Hezekiah Butterworth, will deal especially with the nitrate regions of Chili, and its story will tell something of the working of Protestant missions; "The Señora's Granddaughters," by Janie Prichard Duggan, will give a story of Mexican life and present some idea of the Catholic church; "Lone Point: a Summer Outing," by Grace Livingston Hill, recounts how reverses overtook a family, and how each of the two daughters took the misfortunes that came upon them; and Jennie M. Drinkwater will bring out a companion story to "Goldenrod Farm," to be entitled "Shan Burbank," the name of one of the strongest characters in the former story. Several other books are under way of which the titles appear in the preceding classified list under the heading Juvenile Literature. THE American Book Co.'s announcements will be found classified in the preceding list under the heading Education, Language, etc. | umes, of which the first is now ready. These volumes, jointly edited by the foremost physiologist and the leading zoölogist of England, are intended to place Huxley's more strictly scientific work within reach of the student. They are very readable and announce important biological discoveries. The papers are arranged in chronological order, the present volume containing those originally published between 1847 and 1860, a period which covered Huxley's complete transition from a medical student to a leading European authority on zoological science. The work will have thirty-two plates and a photogravure portrait, and the edition will be limited to 100 sets for The new this country at $7.50 per volume. edited by Edmund Gosse, will be fitly devoted volume in the Literatures of the World Series, by Fitz Maurice-Kelly to "Spanish Literature;" the fine Story of the West Series, edited by Mr. Ripley Hitchcock, the literary adviser of the Appletons, will be enriched by "The Story of the Railroad," by Cy Warman, with maps and many illustrations by B. West Clinedinst and also from photographs; "Admiral Porter," by James Russell Soley, will be the addition to the Great Commanders Series; "The History of the World," the new volume in the Concise Knowledge Series; and "The History of Spain," the book to be added to the History for Young Readers Series. Appletons' Home Reading specially useful and entertaining series, and books are steadily gaining recognition as a five new volumes are to be added to it; "Stories of Our Navy In Time of War," by Franklin Matthews; "Historic Boston and Its Neighborhood," an historical pilgrimage personally conducted by Edward Everett Hale; "Our Nation's Flag and Other Flags" and "The Earth and Sky," by Edward S. Holden; and "Playtime and Seedtime," by Francis W. Parker and Nellie L. Helm. Other books of importance and timeliness will be "Cannon and Camera," describing sea and land battles which the text and illustrations are the work of of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, for J. C. Hemment; and "Puerto Rico," an illus trated handbook for travellers, investors, and a specialty of the house, and the new novels in preparation include "A Herald of the West," a romance of 1812 by J. A. Altsheler, AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, New York City, have several books under way that are suitable for the Sunday-school libraries now sifting and enlarging their supplies. "Jesse" is a story of the time of Christ, by Annette L. Noble; "A Boy of To-day," by Julia MacNair Wright, needs only its author's name to give it stand-others, by Frederick A. Ober. Good fiction is ing and sale; "Pro Christo," the story of a royal Huguenot, by Mrs. H. A. Clark, gives a graphic picture of France during the days of the first Protestants; and "Naomi, the Young Jewess." by Clara B. Conant, is a story teaching many lessons of tolerance and devotion. "The Story of John G. Paton; or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals," has been enlarged and also reduced in price; a series of. pretty books is published as Heart-Life Classics, and a year-book of New Testament truths, as "All the Days." Other books are properly classified in preceding lists. D. APPLETON & Co. will bring out one of the distinctive books of the season in "The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley," edited by Prof. Michael Foster and Prof. E. Ray Lankester. The work will be in four vol whose "Soldier of Manhattan" has been so much admired; "The House of Hidden Treas ure," Maxwell Gray's new story; "The Phantom Army," by Max Pemberton; "Her Memory," by Maarten Maartens; "Latitude 19°," a ford Crowninshield; and "David Harum," a romance of the West Indies, by Mary Bradstory of the rural district of central New York, a book of rare intrinsic interest, and one to which sad attention will be given as the last work of its gifted author, Edward N. Westcott. who in the midst of intense suffering prepared this bright bit of fiction and humor, from which it is hoped his family may reap much physical as well as moral comfort. To the Town and Country Library will be added “The Widower," by W. E. Norris; "The Gospel Writ in Steel," by Arthur Paterson, of which the scene is a Western town at the time of the President's first call for volunteers in the late Civil War; "Concerning Isabel Carnaby," by Ellen Thornycroft Fowler; and "The Lust of Hate," by Guy Boothby. The illustrated books for young people promised for the holidays will include "Philip's Experiments," in which John Trowbridge, of Harvard University, will instruct in physical science as it may be learned at home; "The Hero of Erie" (Commodore Perry), by James Barnes, which will be the new volume in the Young Heroes of Our Navy Series; "With the Black Prince," a story of adventure in the fourteenth century, by William O. Stoddard; and "The Pilot of the Mayflower," by Hezekiah Butterworth, which will be illustrated by H. Winthrop Peirce and others. A new edition is also nearly ready of "Bible Stories in Bible Language," by Edward Tuckerman Potter, with an introduction by the Bishop of New York. This long list of books comprises only the preliminary announcements of the Appletons. RICHARD G. BADGER & Co., Boston, will publish several works of fiction at short intervals during the fall, which promise to be of interesting originality. "Her Majesty, the King," by James Jeffrey Roche, will be a romance of the Harem, with illustrations; "Miss Theodora " is a West End story by Helen Leah Reed, profusely illustrated; Verner Z. Reed, author of "Lo-To-Kah," has written "Adobeland Stories; " Thomas J. Vivian has translated from the French "The Spinning-Wheel Stories of Catulle Mendés," which will have fifteen full-page illustrations by Marion L. Peabody; and Julia Magruder has just finished a new story to be entitled "St. Ruan." Other volumes announced include "Pepys' Ghost in Greater Gotham," reciphered and annotated by Edwin Emerson, Jr., which promises a literary treat; "The Theatre and the State," by Sir Henry Irving; "Certain Maxims of Hafiz," by Rudyard Kipling; and "Rational Home Gymnastics," by Hartwig Nissen. All the Badger books are very neatly manufactured. 44 "In THE BAKER & TAYLOR Co. announce Nature's Image," chapters on pictorial photography, by W. I. Lincoln Adams, whose "Amateur Photography" and Sunlight and Shadow" have been such pronounced successes. The new book will complete the author's instructions in photography for amateurs in its practical and artistic bearings. Elizabeth Glover has written a story of New England life to be entitled "Jefferson Wildrider," full of humor and genuine pathos; and also a book of much-needed counsel to young people of the present day, to be brought out under the alluring title The Gentle Art of Pleasing." "Fortune's Tangled Skein" will be a novel of Southern life, by Jeannette H. Walworth; and Rev. Arthur T. Pierson has prepared a "Life of George Müller," a man who founded and maintained a great benevolent institution by prayer alone. A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON announce a new copyright edition, with two new chapters, of "The Story of John G. Paton Told for Young Folks," by the Rev. James Paton, a brother of the whole-souled missionary, who after thirty years among South Sea cannibals is still toiling and visiting the churches of Australasia and inciting them to convert to the Christian faith every tribe of the New Hebrides. The United States and Canada have shown deep interest in the missionary's life, as may be specially seen in the additional chapters, and are sending help and encouragement to the aged preacher, whose years already exceed the allotted threescore and ten by four years. The Armstrongs and The American Tract Society have made a joint arrangement to push this work extensively during the coming fall. They have reduced the price although publishing it in a carefully made edition with all the original illustrations. A new volume in the Book-Lover's Library will be "Book Auctions in England in the 17th Century," by John Lawler, who treats of the rise and progress of booksales in England from their commencement in 1676 to the end of the seventeenth century. Much literary interest attaches to a compilation of this kind, showing the kind of literature most read at that interesting period, how far it was disseminated amongst the people, the cost of books, the development of collections and the idiosyncrasies of individual collectors, the buy-tles. A series entitled Later English Drama ers and sellers, the progress of special tastes, and of the gradual inquiry into the history and origin of printing, the first auctioneers and their methods and manner of holding their auctions, the localities in which the auctions were held, and the popularity with which they were received by the book-buyers of the period. Other works in preparation include new editions of "Colossian Studies" and "Philippian Studies," by Rev. Dr. Handley C. G. Moule; and of Broadus' "The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons." A new work to be issued soon will be entitled "Introduction to the Study of Sociology." The author is Rev. Dr. J. H. W. Stuckenberg, a member of the Philosophical Society of Berlin. for the season in very good time, and the trade A. S. BARNES & Co. have published their books already has the bulk of them on its shelves. "Bird-Gods," by Charles de Kay, illustrated by George Wharton Edwards, is a valuable addition to mythological literature; Annie Eliot Trumbull has three stories in her best vein, separately entitled "A Christmas Accident," "Rod's Salvation," and "A Cape Cod Week." A very timely publication is The American Cruiser in the East," by John D. Ford, Chief Engineer of the Pacific Station, describing travels on the Pacific and the battle of Manila and other bat will have six volumes fully listed in classified list under Poetry and Drama. Drexel Biddle, Philadelphia, has in preparation a new work by Paul Du Chaillu, the explorer and historian, to be entitled "The Long Night," describing Scandinavia, as did his already standard work "The Land of the Midnight Sun." The sea battles of the Vikings, which he describes with much fire in his new book, will appeal to readers recently trained to appreciate accounts of naval prowess. Mr. Biddle also announces "The Laurel Walk," a novel by Mrs. Molesworth; " Paving the Wav," a stirring romance of Australian life by S. Newland, with preface by A. J. Drexel |