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English kingdom, and as the chief city of the Borderland. His book is not merely the chronicle of a town, but the history of that town's share in developing the life of the English State." - Sat. rev., May 11. Daudet, A. Sapho; illust. de Rejchan. (Chefsd'œuvre du roman contemp.)

Davis, W: M. Faults in the triassic formation near Meriden Conn.

Denis, J. Histoire des théories et des idées morales dans l'antiquité. 1879. 2 v. Dudevant, Mme. A. L. A. D. (pseud. G: Sand). La mare au diable; illust. par E. Rudaux. Duras, L.. C.. P. de N., duchesse de. Journal des prisons de mon père, de ma mère et des mien1888.

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The West Indies.

"It is profusely illustrated with indifferent illustra tions, and its style is here and there defective; but it is not a bad book on the whole, and it will be found useful by any who desire to visit the islands or Guiana."Athenæum, May 25.

Fall River, Mass. Public Library. Bulletin, Mar., 1889; [list of new books placed in the library, Jan. 1888-Jan. 1889]. Fellows, G. S. Loisette exposed, with [his] sys

tem of memory and a bibliography of mnemonics, 1325-1888.

Fergusson, J. Picturesque illustrations of ancient architecture in Hindostan. 1848.

Folsom. W. H. C. Fifty years in the northwest. 1888.

Gould, E.. P. John Adams as a schoolmaster; reprinted from "Education," April, 1889. Gray, D. Letters, poems, and selected prose writings; ed. with biog. memoir by J. N. Larned. 1888. 2 v.

Greeley, H., and Cleveland, J: F.

Political textbook for 1860; a brief view of presidential nominations and elections, a hist. of the struggle respecting slavery in the territories, etc., with speeches, letters, etc. 1860.

Grove, W. A Mexican mystery.

"A rarity; remarkably clever; scenes thrilling. A shillingsworth which nobody will read and yet pretend that he has not had the value of his money."- Sat. rev. in Athenæum, Apr. 6.

H., Miss. M. J. The rivals; a Chickahominy story. 1864.

Hartford, Conn. Board of Trade. Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business, and commercial center; with sketches of its history, etc. Hendricks, L. The London Charterhouse;

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monks and its martyrs; with account of the English Carthusians after the dissolution. "Dom Lawrence Hendricks has done his part well as author. His volume is divided into three parts; the first giving a brief account of the original institution of the order, and of the foundation and early history of the London Charter House; the second, a more minute account of the time of suffering under Henry VIII; and the third, the history of the building after the dissolution of the priory, the re-establishment of the community for a brief period at Sheen, and their subsequent life abroad in a Sheen Anglorum, which was set up first at Bruges, and was afterwards transferred to other places as the necessity of the times demanded. Their house was finally suppressed with a number of other monasteries by the Emperor Joseph 11., 1783." — James Gairdner in the Academy, June 15.

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Jametel, M. L'encre de Chine; son histoire et sa fabrication, d'après des documents chinois. 1882. (Bibl. orientale Elzévirienne.) Jeaffreson, J: Č. The Queen of Naples and Lord Nelson, a historical biography. 2 v.

"In the main a supplement to the author's 'Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson;' but unlike most contiunations it is a distinct improvement on its precursor. Mr. Jeaffreson has now examined the mss. in the British Museum, which he had previously neglected, and thanks to recent additions to the rich Morrison collection, has elucidated several doubtful points in his former narra. ttve." Athenæum, Apr. 27.

Jefferies, J: R: The scarlet shawl. 1874. Julian, G: W. Later speeches on political questions, with select controversial papers; ed. by his daughter, G. J. Clarke. Kemble, F. A. Far away and long ago. (Leisure hour ser.)

The

"Apart from its merits it may be said to have a claim upon the attention of the public as its birthright. descriptions of New England scenery, as might have been expected are very pleasant; so are Judge Sel. bourne and his wife, the genial middle-aged couple, whose devotion to one another and benevolence to the world in general are an agreeable and lifelike study. Several of the minor characters are well sketched." -Athenæum, June 8.

Knight, E. F. The Falcon' on the Baltic; a coasting voyage from Hammersmith to Copenhagen.

"How they sailed through Holland, and what they suffered from the unruly Dutch urchins; and how, after successfully dodging the gales of the Jubilee summer among the desolate islands off the Frisian coast, they at last sailed triumphantly through the beautiful Eider Canal on to the Baltic, and found their rosiest anticipations fully realized, may be read in Mr. Knight's book. His experiences of Holland are most amusing. At Veile Mr. Knight met a most comic cbaracter a 'Yan. kified' Dane. ... The unconscious humour of this youth's conversation is really the most amusing thing we have read for a long while; and the account of the evening which the author spent with a Danish fisherman and his family, who played the piano and violin, painted in water colours, and treated their guest with a refined courtesy in strange contrast with their rough and ardu. ous calling, is absolutuly idyllic in its charm." — Sat. rev., Apr. 27.

Lechler, Prof. G. V: John Wycliffe and his English precursors; tr. by P. Lorimer. New ed. rev. [1884.]

Lodge, H: C. G: Washington. 2 v. (Amer.

statesmen.)

Lusignan, Princess A. de. The twelve years' reign of Abdul Hamid II, sultan of Turkey. "The princess writes with the knowledge and expe rience gained from long residence in both the continental divisions of the empire." Athenæum, June 18. McCarthy, J., and Praed, Mrs. C. The ladies' gallery; a novel.

Maupassant, G. de. Le main gauche.

This volume is one of short stories in his most brilliant style, but contains much that will disgust English readers." Athenæum, May 18.

Mitchell, S. W. Far in the forest; a story.

Möllendorff, P. G. and O. F. v. Manual of Chi

nese bibliography; a list of works and essays relating to China. 1876.

Montagu, I. Wanderings of a war artist.

"Written in a vivid, breezy, slapdash style, with plenty of sketchy Doréish illustrations, and will be found full of hairbreadth escapes, melodramatic adven tures, and blood-curdling horrors. We are quite

willing to admit that he has many interesting stories to tell; but we think that he must have taken the most flowery passages in the 'Cruise of the Midge' as his model of English prose composition."- Saturday rev., Apr. 27.

Moore, A. L. Science and faith, essays on apologetic subjects.

"Very able and interesting essays by one of the ablest of our clergymen. Even when we find Mr.

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Moore least satisfactory, his essays seem to us full of ability and candour, and of largeness of speculative grasp."- Spectator, April 27.

Moore, Rev. E: Contributions to the textual criticism of the Divina commedia, incl. the collation throughout the Inferno of all the mss. at Oxford and Cambridge.

"A volume for the student to have at his elbow, and consult as he goes; not one to be estimated on either a desultory perusal or a chance sampling. Where Dr. Moore especially shows his quality is in the rarityunsurpassed, so far as we know, by any of his predeeessors of those lapses into actual inaccuracy from which no fallible mortal can hope to be wholly free." Athenæum, June 15.

Muhammad Ibn Ahmad, (Abu Al Rahán), Al Bé

runi. India; an account of the religion, philosophy, literature, etc., of India about 1030. Eng. ed., with notes, etc., by E: C. Sachau. 2 v.

"Dr. Sachau has rendered one of the highest possible services, in the present position of Indian studies, by giving us a complete translation of the earliest of the great Muhammadan historians of India, and by affording ample facilities for verifying any passages in his transla. tion from the original text. It is a work of great labour, unflinchingly and admirably performed." "-W. W. Hunter in the Academy, Apr. 20.

Napier, Sir J. Bart. Lectures, essays, and letters; with an introd. by his daughter; a suppl. to The life. 1888.

"From the high position that he held in political, legal, and literary society, he ought to have left a valuable correspondence, very different from the meagre collection which we find in this volume. His own letters are few, chiefly directed to members of his own family, and do not possess matter of importance except to them. The lectures on Edmund Burke, and Bishop Bedell contain matter of general information worth perusal.". Atheneum, Mar. 18.

Napoléon 1.

Supplément à [sa] correspondance; lettres curieuses omises par le comité de publication. 1887.

Nichol, J: Francis Bacon; his life and philosophy. Pt. 2. (Philos. class. for Eng. readers.)

"Mr. Nichol has given us something which has long been desirable, and which so far as we know, has never exactly been produced before. He has written an eminently sensible and balanced account of Bacon's place in the history of human intellect; he has considered without prejudice both what Bacon endeavoured to be and desired to be taken for, and what probably with quite sincere unconsciousness, he inevitably was; both what Bacon's work aimed at in its de sign and details, and what was the mark it actually made in the direction and the spirit of European speculation in the following generations. Writing for readers

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who are not expected to know much, a book which is expected to be complete in itself, Mr. Nichol had to give a general sketch of the history of philosophy before Ba con's time. He has done this in a workmanlike and sufficient manner. He has in the main adequately explained how and why Bacon was not a man of definite and measurable results, and he has well exhibited and explained the necessity of a consequence which has puzzled many honest students - namely that Bacon has been constantly underrated by specialists. We com. mend Mr. Nichol as a safe guide to those who do not yet know Bacon, and we conceive that such as are past needing guidance will still find his company profitable." Saturday rev., June 1.

Paris. Salon. 1889. Catalogue illustré; peinture et sculpture.

Poole, R. L. Wycliffe and movements for reform. (Epochs of Church history.)

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"Mr.Poole is well known as a most careful student of Wycliffe's life and writings. If, therefore, we look upon Wycliffe as the central figure in a series of 'movements for reform' during the Middle Ages, no man is better qualified to interpret for us the cardinal doctrine which that leading reformer was most anxious to enforce.

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But how far Puritanism or Lollardy had to do with the Reformation, except in weakening generally the sense of Pontifical and sacerdotal authority, and supply. ing as a counterpoise a Bible in the vernacular speech, there seem no clear indications. Mr. Poole's book, however, will be of great assistance to those who wish to think these matters out." - Athenæum, June 15. Potter, C: E: Genealogies of some old families of Concord, Mass., and their descendants. Vol. 1. 1887.

Genealogies of the Potter families and their descendants in America.

Potter, H: C., Assist. Bp. of N. Y. Address, centennial of Washington's inauguration, St. Paul's church, N. Y., Apr. 30, 1889. Ramsay, W: Familiar spirits; their workings and teachings; ed. by H. L. Hastings. 1888. (Anti-infidel library.)

Ricord, F: W. General index to the Documents relating to the colonial history of New Jersey. 1st series, [v. 1-10].

Ritchie, D: G: Darwinism and politics.

"The idea that any real help is to be derived from his somewhat ambitiously headed applications' (1) The labour question (2) The position of women (3) The population question — may be dismissed at once. These are great and difficult problems, which before the end of the century are likely to cause us more anxiety and thought than any political movement of the past fifty years. But the only light which will give us real help is that which scientific historians and anthropolo. gists can cast on the evolution of society. No assistance can come from the easy-going essayist. It is

to works like Pattison's Essays just issued, with their thorough scholarship and genuine scientific grasp, that young Oxford should turn for a model of academic writing." Academy, Apr. 27.

Roe, A. S. From Monocacy to Danville; a trip with the Confederates.

Ross, J. The land of Manfred; rambles in remo parts of southern Italy.

"Southern Italy has attractions of more than one kind; while its beauty is still as great as when Frederick II. said on his return from his crusade 'If the God of the Jews had seen my kingdom, the Terra di Lavoro, Calabria, Sicily, and Apulia, he would not have so often praised that land which he promised to the Jews, and bestowed upon them." — Saturday review, Apr. 27. Sealy, T: H: Chinese legends; or, The Porcelain Tower; with memoir of the author. New ed. 1849.

Shakespeare, W: Comedies, histories, and tragedies; the text furnished the players, in parallel pages with the first rev. folio text, etc.; ed. by A. Morgan. Stevenson, S. W:

Dictionary of Roman coins; rev. by C. R. Smith and completed by F. W. Madden; illust. by F. W. Fairholt. "The principle of the dictionary is not bad. It cata. logues all abbreviations, describes types, and gives biographies of emperors and usurpers from Augustus down to Romulus Augustulus. Several hundred well executed woodcuts are inserted in the text. But if the plan of the work is good, the execution is hopelessly faulty. The author was evidently a painstaking lover of coins, but he would appear to have been neither a scholar nor a scientific archaeologist.". C. O. in the Academy,

June 8.

Talleyrand Périgord, C: M. de. Correspondance diplomatique sa mission à Londres en 1792, etc.; avec introd. et notes par G. Pallain. "C'est par de telles publications que l'on fait mieux connaitre l'histoire."-Polybiblion.

"M. Pallain a été autorisé il y a plusieurs années déjà par la Commission des Archives Diplomatiques, par le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, et notamment par M. Gambetta, président du Conseil, ministre de ce départe. ment, à publier ces documents." - Feuilleton, Jan. 12. Theuriet, A. L'amoureux de la préfète.

"En lisant son dernier livre, je me ressouviens con. fusément des autres. Son œuvre entière m'apparaît comme un vaste morceau de campagne, avec des rivières entre des pentes boisées, des forêts de sapins, des vergers, des fermes, des villages et les ruelles montantes de quelque vieille petite ville. Il excelle à nous faire voir des coins,' qui restent dans le souvenir et où l'on voudrait vivre. Je sais que nul romancier, pas même George Sand, n'a su mêler aussi étroitement la vie des hommes et la vie de la terre sans absorber l'une dans l'autre; ni mieux entrelacer l'histoire fugitive des pas. sions humaines et l'éternelle histoire des saisons et des travaux rustiques. Je sais aussi que rien n'est plus charmant que ses jeunes filles: car, tandis que la campagne les fait simples et saines la solitude les fait un peu reveuses et capables de sentiments profonds. -La soli. tude, soit aux champs, soit dans les petites villes silencieuses, nul n'a mieux vu que M. Theuriet comme elle agit sur les âmes et les façonne. Relisez 'Seule' et Mile. Guignon,' ces deux merveilleux récits. Nul n'a mieux peint les solitaires, vieux originaux,' vivant aux champs ou dans les bois." - Jules Lemaire in Revue bleue, 2 fév.

Thomson, J. Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco.

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"Mr. Thomson is a traveller of experience, full of resource and determination, and generally successful in bending to his will the most stubborn elements. In spite of difficulties he contrived not only to visit the coast towns, and the capitals, of which he furnishes excellent descriptions, but also to cross the main range of the Atlas in four places, and to climb one of its loftiest summits, the Jebel Ogdimt, rising to a height of 12,734 feet the highest altitude as yet attained by any European in northern Africa.” — Athenæum, June 15. Trent, W: P. English culture in Virginia. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies.)

Tuttle, H. Studies in the out-lying fields of psychic science.

Veitch, J: Knowing and being. (Essays in philos.)

"It is impossible not to recognize the very marked ability displayed. The author has devoted himself to an examination of the doctrines of the English Hegelians, especially as these were expounded by the late Professor Green of Oxford. His treatment is conspicu ously fair throughout, and he shows considerable power in seizing upon and analysing the more assailable parts of Green's work."- Saturday review, May 25.

Venn, J: Principles of empirical or inductive logic.

"Had Whewell been alive, Dr. Venn would have been had up for misunderstanding and misrepresentation. His book is however, careful enough.". Sat. rev., May 25.

Verneilh, F. de. L'architecture byzantine en France; Saint-Front de Périgueux et les églises à coupoles de l'Aquitaine. 1851. Wallace, J: W: Address, celebration by the N.Y. Hist. Soc., May 20, 1863, of the 200th birthday of W: Bradford. 1863.

Ward, A. W: The Counter-Reformation. (Epocs of Church hist.)

Prof.

"An excellent addition to an excellent series. Ward's name would alone be sufficient pledge for good work and instructive reading; and those who seek for these will not be disappointed. Professor Ward

very clearly explains the phrase 'the counter-Reformation' with its two objects - the regeneration of the Church of Rome and the recovery of the losses inflicted upon her by the early successes of Protestantism.'" — C. L. Kingsford in the Academy, June 8.

Ward, W. William George Ward, and the Oxford movement.

"It is a mine of good stories; a picture of a very sin gular and very lovable man; a real contribution to the history of ecclesiastical parties." — Academy, June 8.

"At once lively and instructive. It claims attention as a portrait of one of the most remarkable of the Tractarian leaders, as a vigorous sketch of the later stages in the Oxford movement, as a masterly though limited analysis of its religious philosophy, and finally as a description of the intellectual life of Oxford from 1836 to 1845, to which the pictorial faculty of Professor Jowett, Dean Church, and other eminent writers has added the figures of Ward's contemporaries.... The biography is not only interesting in subject, moderate in language, courteous to opponents, and lively in nar. rative; it is also an excellent specimen of the biograph ical art. In clearness and and compactness of arrange. Athenæum. ment it leaves nothing to be desired."— June 1.

Webb, S. Socialism in England. (Amer. Econ. Assoc. Pub.)

Westgarth, W: Half a century of Australasian progress.

"Interesting in spite of its want of arrangement. Impracticable as are Mr. Westgarth's ideas upon politi. cal reoganization, his statements upon finance are most worthy of respect."― Athenæum, May 18. Wheeler, W: A. An explanatory and pronouncing dictionary of the noted names of fiction. 19th ed.; with app. by C: G. Wheeler. Whibley, L. Political parties in Athens during the Peloponnesian war. (Cambridge hist.

essays.

"Mr. Whibley was fortunate in being set a very interesting subject, and he has worked it out with care and skill. He has done well to make accessible to English readers the theories of Müller-Strübing, Gilbert, and Beloch." — Academy, May 18. Wingate, C: E. L. The playgoers' year-book, 1888; story of the stage the past year, with especial reference to Boston. [1888.] Wolff, A. Catalogue of the collection of paintings and of watercolors and drawings formed by E. Secrétan, sold in Paris, July 1889. 2

V.

Woolley, C. P. A girl graduate.

Yeakle, M. M. Saint Louis of today; its progress and prospects.

Abbot, E. The authorship of the 4th gospel, and other critical essays. 1888.

"By the death of Ezra Abbot the world lost a ripe Biblical scholar, and a textual critic of acknowledged accuracy, ability, and fairness. The present volume shows him also to have been a man of extensive learning, and a keen, though always courteous controversialist. The book is a boon to Biblical scholarship.". Academy, July 13.

Agassiz, A. E. R. Coral reefs of the Hawaiian
Islands.
Ames, L. T.

Great thoughts for little thinkers.
"A sort of cosmogony and universal history put into
language that children would understand.
The
history is well-written." — Spectator. June 22.

Angerstein, E., and Eckler, G. Home gymnastics for the well and the sick; tr. from the 8th German ed.

Arnold, M. Reports on elementary schools, 185282; ed. by Sir F. Sandford.

"The appearance of the reports is now specially op. portune, for while much talk and energy are expended on subjects and questions connected with education, education itself, and for itself is obscured and in danger of being lost in words. Throughout his reports Mr. Arnold concentrated his attention on education itself, and did not much regard the clamour raised around it by parties and sects. Arnold, by his training and thirty-five years of official experience, was an expert whose opinions must always be weighty." - Athenæum, Aug. 3. Babelon, E. Manuel d'archéologie orientale.

Eng. Manual of oriental antiquities; tr. and enl. by B. T. A. Evetts.

"About a year ago, M. Maspero published a volume on Egyptian archæology; the present volume is its fellow; and the two together cover the entire history of art before the rise of Greece. M. Babelon has been well prepared for the task by special studies, as shown in his extremely competent revision and continuation of Lenormant's great work: 'Histoire ancienne de l'Orient.'

The method of the book is clear, the style pleasant, the erudition sure, the correspondence of the parts good, and the illustrations numerous and well-chosen. It will serve admirably as a text book."— A. L. Frothingham, Jr. in American jour. of archæology, March. Bataille, A. Causes criminelles et mondaines, 1888.

Beyle, M. H:, (pseud. de Stendhal).

Journal,

1801-14; pub. par C. Styrienski et F. de Nion. 1888.

Buck, J. D. A study of man and the way to health.

Buerstenbinder, E.. The Alpine fay; from the Ger-
man, by Mrs. A. L. Wister.
Burroughs, J: Indoor studies.
Burt, B. C. Brief history of Greek philosophy.

Without the rarest genius, a study unaccompanied by the regular use of the original authorities will fail to lay hold of the mind. It will be forgotten if it be ever understood; and it will be very dry. This is the case with Mr. Burt's little book. But, worse still, his book is not always accurate. It gives a very fair analysis where a fair analysis has been made before; but where a guide of some importance has made a mistake, there Mr. Burt follows him in his error." — Academy, June

22.

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Carey, H: C: The slave trade, domestic and foreign; what it is and how it may be extinguished. 1853.

Carnoy, E. H:, and Nicolaides, J. Traditions populaires de l'Asie Mineure.

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M. Carnoy and M. Nicolaides complain that the tales are all told, that there are no new topics in the latest collections. They have, therefore, gone collecting in Asia Minor, and in the Greek Isles, and they publish their stories with full details about the place where each was picked up, and the name, age, and occupation of the narrator. Characteristic detail, rather than freshness of invention, marks these half-Christian, half Moslem stories told by the mixed peoples of the Levant.". Saturday review, Mar, 2.

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Carson, H. L. History of the celebration of the one hundreth anniversary of the promulgation of the constitution of the U. S. 2 v. Caspar, C. N. Directory of the American book, news, and stationary trade.

Chalmers, P. Mr. John Francis of the Athenæum
on the plan of Sir Rowland Hill.
Civil service reformer. Vol. 1-4. [1885-88.] 4 v.
Corbett. J. Kophetua the thirteenth. 2 v.

"A charming political satire, and deficient in none of the constituent elements of a first-rate novel. In follow. ing out the tangled web of cross purposes as well as in descriptive and dramatic power, Mr. Corbett displays capacity of no ordinary kind; and his book ought to be one of the successes of the present season." Acad. emy, May 4.

Corelli, M. A romance of two worlds; with introd. and app. 1888. 2 v.

Cutter, C: A. Common sense in libraries; president's address, American Library Association, St. Louis, May 8-11.

Daudet, A. Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres.
De Vere, A. T. Essays chiefly literary and ethical.

"Possesses to the full the agreeable qualities of the accomplished author's two previous collections of Essays. The present volume shows the same clearness of vision and serenity of temper, the same preference of wide issues, and the same scrupulous avoidance of those arts of paradox which merely arrest attention by their spe ciousness or violence. The opening essay on the 'social aspects' of literature sets forth a view of the functions of literature that is both noble and ennobling. The like reverent treatment of high themes characterizes the series of essays on private judgment -The rule of faith' -on Modern unbelief, and other ethical questions." Sat. rev., May 25.

Dickson, W. G. Gleanings from Japan.

"Mr. Dickson has given us what few other writers could have done - an account of a revisit to these interesting islands by one who knew them twenty years ago, before the Daimois' castles were levelled to the ground, and there was yet not only a Mikado but a Shiogoon, and the picturesque, if somewhat barbarous, old feudal life was still in full vigour. The book is a bundle

of gleanings, ill-assorted; or, rather like the contents of a botanist's box after a ramble on a dull day. If you are a botanist, you will be delighted with the rare speci mens; if you care for things Japanese you will get much enjoyment out of Mr. Dickson's book." Cosmo Monkhouse in the Academy, June 8.

Doughty, J: The world beyond. 1883. (New Church Popular ser.)

Du Boisgobey, F. Décapitée.

Emerson, E: W. Emerson in Concord; a memoir written for the "Social Circle" in Concord, Mass.

"Some of the ground he traverses 18 familiar; but he is able to fill up various gaps here and there. Much more that he tells us had not been told before. His pur. pose is to reveal his father's personal and inner life as the citizen and villager and householder, the friend and neighbor'. He presents to the imagination the real Emerson as he was in the flesh."- Walter Lewin in the Academy, June 22. Epictetus. The teaching of Epictetus; being the

Encheiridion, with selections from the Dissertations and Fragments; tr., with introd. and notes by T. W. Rolleston. 1888. (Camelot ser.)

Fabre, F. Norine.

"Ce n'est rien, presque rien, cette jolie histoire de Norine,' et pourtant nul ne saurait la lire sans se sentir profondément ému, tant elle est baignée du senti. ment véritable de la réalité, tant elle se trouve d'accord avec vos plus délicates sensations d'âme et d'esprit. Ce volume s'adresse aux délicats, aux lettrés, par son style, par son art de la phrase et de la langue; il s'adresse aux gens de cœur, il s'adresse à tous par sa tendresse émue, par sa profonde humanité et il comptera parmi les plus heureuses productions du maître écrivain." - Le livre, 10 avr.

Fay, T. S. The three Germanys; glimpses into

their history. 2 v.

Fiske, J: The beginnings of New England; or, The Puritan theocracy in its relations to civil and religious liberty.

The war of independence.

Fox, W: F. Regimental losses in the American civil war, 1861-65.

Furniss, H. Harry Furniss's Royal Academy;

"an artistic joke;" a reprod. in photogravure of the pictures in the above exhibition. with the illust catalogue.

Gairdner, J. Henry VII. (12 Eng. statesmen.)

"Mr. Gairdner's treatment of his subject is pleasant and scholarly; he writes with some spirit, and is always perfectly lucid and readable. He has written

on a subject which he knows thoroughly, and has produced an eminently satisfactory volume." — Sat. rev., July 13.

Galton, F. Natural inheritance.

"On the subject of statistics Mr. Galton writes with an enthusiasm well warranted by the results of his long and costly investigations in a field of inquiry that has hitherto possessed but little attraction for the scientific mind. In the present volume, in which even more amply than his previous works, Mr. Galton has displayed a curiously unique originality, combined with a singular keenness of intellectual vision and a marvellous power of dealing with wide areas of minute de. tails, the inheritance of ordinary qualities by multitudes rather than by individuals is considered. The book

is well worth the time and trouble needed to master it. It lays the foundations of what one day will be a great science, one that will not merely satisfy scientific curiosity, but will be eminently useful to society." — Spectator, July 20.

Garibaldi, G. Autobiography; tr. by A. Werner; with supplement by J. W. Mario. 3 v.

"It completes Garibaldi's autobiography; and, as it is based on original documents in Mme. Mario's special care, or draws from official records or personal testi mony, is therefore the most thorough and authoritative addition to Garibaldi's memoirs that has yet been pub.

lished, and a vast mine of wealth for the future historian of Italy."- Nation, July 11.

"He tells the story of his life with modesty and reticence. There are passages of pathos and eloquence, touches of descriptive power, and literary portraits of men whose qualities and modes of thought are deline. ated with remarkable power of insight. In every page Garibaldi is for his country and not for himself.... The Supplementary volume which Madame Mario con. tributes though not illustrated pictorially nor so copious as her own Italian Life of Garibaldi,' is the first important life of the famous general which has been pub. lished in English. Madame Mario has herself collected curious particulars concerning Garibaldi's ancestors and his early days by personal research in quarters where every one else has despaired of finding anything. Chapters are enriched with original documents not be. fore known to the English reader." - Athenæum, May Reata;

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Gerard, E. D. (now Mme. Lazonska). what's in a name. 1880. 3 v.

Glouvet, J. de (pseud. of Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire). Marie Fougère.

"On lit beaucoup, dans nos petites villes; or, toutes les honnêtes femmes y sont effrayées, pour leurs enfants comme pour elles-mêmes, des tendances que manifeste de plus en plus l'Ecole moderne; il m'a paru nécessaire qu'au nom de toutes, une d'entre elles protestât et tentât de réagir. Paris nous a lancé comme dernier défi 'La terre,' et 'L'immortel :' ceci est la réponse de la bourgeoisie lettrée de province. J'ai cru, je crois encore

que pour défendre la morale, qui est la cause des femmes, une femme avait le droit de prendre la plume. C'est ainsi que j'ai écrit cette préface. J'ai cru encore qu'une femme devait au lieu de s'en tenir aux protes. tations stériles faire œuvre de spiritualisme. C'est ainsi que j'ai écrit, Marie Fougère.' - Preface. Goodyear, W: H: A history of art. 1888.

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There are 222 engravings, most of them full-page in a book of 315 pages. The work is designed as a text-book for schools, and as such is admirable." Ameri, an antiquarian, March.

Govett, F. The pains of life; reply to Sir John Lubbock's" Pleasures of life."

"Even Mr. Govett, consumed as he is with the desire to find everything for the worst in this worst of all pos sible worlds, might find that a little attention spared from the Quintessence of socialism,' and bestowed on some of Sir John Lubbock's favorite writers would materially improve his literary style, and thus dimiuish at least for his readers one of the pains of life.'". Athenæum, June 22.

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Grey, M. (pseud. of Miss Uttiet). The reproach of Annesley.

"There was a force and intensity in The silence of Dean Maitland,' which in spite of undeniable defects and and uncompromising crudity, extorted admiration and held the reader's attention. The same faults with the same excellencies reappear in "The reproach of Annesley;' the former, indeed, are hardly toned down, if the peculiar attractions of the writer have become perfected and sustained. That is to say, the psychology of the book is, at times, sensational and abrupt, though it does not exclude subtle and delicate delineations of character." - C. E. Dawkins in the Academy, June 8. Griswold, W. M. Index to Harper's weekly, 1857-87. (Cumulative indexes.) Grosse, J. Der getreue Eckart. 1886. 2 v. Harte, F. B. Captain Jim's friend, and The Argonauts of North Liberty.

Havard, H: Van der Meer de Delft. 1888. artistes célèbres.)

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Henderson, T. F. The casket letters and Mary

Queen of Scots.

"For several things that he has done we have nothing but praise. (1) His book is small, easily manageable and readable, with very little space spent on unnecessary mat

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