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sur l'histoire de l'épopée française de Rajna, admirable résumé d'un beau livre." - Rev. critique, 21 avril. Daudet, E. Coblentz, 1789-93; suivi de lettres du comte de Provence, du comte d'Artois, de Gustave III, du comte de Calonne, du maréchal de Castries, du baron de Breteuil. Dickinson, R. Summary of the constitution and procedure of foreign parliaments. 2d ed. Doctor Hermione; a novel; by the author of Zit and Xoe.

"Clever little story, with a character of its own."Academy, Mar. 22.

Essai historique sur la vie privée de Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, reine de France. 1789. 2e partie. 1790.

Attributed to P. E. A. Goupil, and to Brissot de War

ville.

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Fedde, F: Der Fünfkampf der Hellenen. 1888. "In regard to the much debated question of the 'pentathlon,' the author of this program comes to several valuable conclusions. It seems, now, that the leap was measured, and thus absolute superiority was required in it, not merely an average performance. The normal order of the five events was; foot-race, diskos, leap, darting, and wrestling, though it was apparently devi. ated from. The investigation is characterized by a thoroughly scientific method, and in the result it reaches, merits preference over all other discussions of the subject.". .” — Amer. jour.of archæology, June, 1889. Fiske, J: Civil government in the U.S. considered with some reference to its origins. "Composed primarily as a high-grade text-book, but with an eye to its service and interest for the general reader. A great deal of statistical or other matter is included for convenient reference." - Unitarian rev., Oct.

Freytag, G. Der Kronprinz und die deutsche Kaiserkrone; Erinnerungsblätter. 8e Aufl. 1889.

"The latest work of the popular novelist adds noth
ing to his reputation as an author or a man. It has been
read with pleasure by few, with surprise by most, with
indignation or disappointment by the majority.
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effect which Gustav Freytag's Reminiscences' are cal.
culated to produce is misleading. In Germany numer
ous answers have been published, several of which, six
months ago, had already reached five or six editions.
The fact proves that public opinion is, to say the least,
divided upon the points which the German master of
fiction raises in his present volume. The unfavor.
able picture is mainly presented in that portion of the
volume which is called after the war.' Here Freytag
speaks without authority. On an average he did not
see the Crown Prince once a year; he received no letters
from him of a confidential character. His opinion is
therefore of scarcely greater value than the estimate
which a biographer, who has access only to the daily
newspapers, might form of some public personage.
Any one who studies Bismarck's utterances upon the
Emperor's Diary, or upon the Morier Incident, will have
little difficulty in tracing the inspiration of the 'Rem-
iniscences.' Blinded by his devotion, he has suffered
political prejudice to distort his sense of justice, both
to the dead and to the living.". Quarterly review,
July.

Gardiner, F: Aids to Scripture study.
Gaulot, P. La vérité sur l'expédition du Mexique

d'après les documents inédits de E. Louet :
L'empire de Maximilien.

"Ernest Louet, who was in Mexico as paymaster to the corps expéditionnaire,' conceived the idea of writing a complete history of the intervention on the basis of all the facts which could be gathered from the known official and private documents and from all the obtainable private correspondence of those who were promi. nent in the movement. His exhaustive search was re

warded by the discovery of many confidential letters of Napoleon III., of his Minister of War, Randon, of the Emperor Maximilian, and of others. It contains a number of important documents which otherwise might long remain unknown to students of this period. This new material, however, makes no very startling revelations; its chief value consists in the corroboration it affords to some of the most damaging in. ferences of Napoleon's keenest contemporary critics."— Popular science quarterly, Sept.

Gerard, D. Recha.

"Recha' is not the first story in which Dorothea Gerard has made a fine and careful study of Hebrew customs and character, and not the first in which she has reproduced the local colour of upper Austria, and of Galicia in particular. So far as anything in this new story is a replica of the artistic touches which gave distinct charm to Reata,' and' Orthodox,' there is much justification for the author's return to her former ideas, and to a familiar group of incidents and circumstances." Athenæum, Aug. 2.

Gould, S. B. Arminell; a social romance. 3 v. "From Mehalah' down to Arminel,' Mr. Baring. Gould has not so much written stories as conceived strong characters and situations, and framed them round with scraps from his sketch-book. There are quite as many good things in Arminell' as in any other story by the same hand. Nowhere has the author produced a finer exemplification of quiet and suppressed pathos than he gives us in Lord Lanierton." Sat. rev., Jan.

25.

Jacquetta; and other stories.

Contents. Jael. - Jacquetta. — Moth-Mullein. "There is a quaint originality of conception about them especially about the first and third which no doubt justifies their reappearance in book form." Academy, July 26.

The Pennycomequicks; a novel. 3 v.

"One of the lighter and more genial of the author's novels. It is a Yorkshire story, and Mr. Baring. Gould has found the 'fresh woods' he sought to be productive in diverting ways. The family of Pennycomequicks and their acquaintances provide the novel reader with excellent entertainment. The story, too, is told with the author's accustomed skill, and with all his persuasiveness in vraisemblance." Sat. rev., Oct. 19, 1889.

Greenwood, T: Public libraries; a history of the movement, and a manual for the organization and management of rate-supported libraries. Henzen, W: Inscriptionum Latinarum selectarvm vol. 3: Coll. Oreliianæ supplementa. 1856. An meine Kritiker; nebst ErgänzunJanssen, J: gen, etc. zu den drei ersten Bänden meiner Geschichte des deutschen Volkes. 1883. Jokai, M. Der neue Gutsherr; humoristischer Roman aus der Zeit der Bach-Hussaren in Ungarn, 1849-59. 1870. 2 v. Jurien de la Gravière, J: P: E. Les ouvriers de la 11e heure; les Anglais et les Hollandais dans les mers polaires et dans la mer des Indes. 2 v.

"Le remarquable ouvrage de l'amiral Jurien de la Gravière, qui éclaire singulièrement l'histoire de la géographie, intéressera vivement les savants et les hommes d'état." Revue bleue, 2 avril.

Karl Friedrich, Markgraf von Baden. Politische Correspondenz, 1783-1806; hrsg. von der Badischen Historischen Commission; bearb. von B. Erdmannsdörffer. Bd. 1. 1783-92. 1888.

Une des plus remarquable publications d'archives que nous connaissons. L'éditeur y a mis le soin, la con

science, le savoir qu'on trouve dans ses travaux antérieurs. Non seulement il a fouillé les archives de l'Allemagne, et celles de notre ministère des Affaires étrangères. Mais il a reproduit, dans ce premier volume, ses 549 documents avec un goût et une habileté dont il faut lui savoir le plus grand gré." — Revue critique, 10 fév.

King, Capt. C:

Campaigning with Crook; and

and stories of army life. "The story of the campaign of the Fifth Cavalry against the Sioux in 1876, and is a fitting tribute by the adjutant of the regiment to the soldier who had been our commander in the wild days in Arizona, our leader from the Platte to the Yellowstone, and our comrade in every hardship and privation Brigadier General Crook."

Sunset Pass; or, Running the gauntlet through
Apache land.

Kipling, R. Plain tales from the hills.

"His 'Plain tales' have been called 'the best book ever written on India' by an authority of very great experi ence in life, in government, and in literature. For the first time he has shown English readers what India is like; how full of infinitely various life and romance. He seems to have seen, and known, and been able to make real and vivid, the existence of all classes in that continent." Andrew Lang.

Lazarus, E. Poems. 2 v.

Leist, B. W. Alt-arisches jus gentium. 1889.

"Indian law is here studied, not for its own sake, but for the light that it may be supposed to shed on the corresponding Greek and Roman institutions. By the aid of this method we are enabled to put in its proper place whatever is isolated and fragmentary in the tradi Profound and tions relating to these institutions. striking ideas." Academy, Jan. 11. Library, The; a magazine of bibliography and literature; ed. by J. Y. W. MacAlister. Vol. 1. 1889.

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Macdonell, A. A. Camping voyages on German rivers.

The author is an Oxford man, who here gives an account of his adventures with two companions during many holidays spent in boating on the Weser, Neckar, Moselle, Main, Moldau, etc., some of which had not previously been navigated in this way. Illustrated with numerous maps. - Academy, June 28.

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Mackintosh, J. The story of Scotland; from the earliest times to the present century. (The story of the nations.)

"He is too earnest to be ever seriously inaccurate. Mr. MackBut he is woefully lacking imagination. It is so intosh's volume has many solid merits. well arranged that the evolution of the progress of Scotland is seen to proceed naturally and easily, and not by fits and starts. There is no shoddy in his work, although it is emphatically Scotland in homespun." Spectator, Sept. 20.

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Majendie, Lady M. E.. Past forgiveness? 2 v.

"A well-written, we may say a powerful story, prob. ably the best thing that the accomplished author has yet done. Of the first volume, with its vigorous pictures of life in Paris centering in the charming figure of Virginie de Frontignac, we cannot speak too highly." - Spectator, Oct. 26.

Marques de Rome, Le, roman de; hrsg. von J: Alton.

Marryat, Capt. F. The King's own. 1869. May, S: P. The descendants of R: Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888; with an app. containing notices of other families by the name of Sears.

Moilliet, S. H. K. Broad lines; or, The true theosophy.

Moll, A. Hypnotism.

"Aims at being a text-book, and has been described as the best we have upon the subject. That it certainly is not. It has two cardinal faults which would prevent it from being an acceptable text-book; it is confused and controversial. At the same time it is by no means without merit. For one thing, it covers nearly the whole ground, though very unequally; and for another, it is written in a fairer spirit than most recent books on the same subject. Several of the more interesting as. pects of hypnotism are handled with knowledge and in. telligence, and the unlearned reader will not fail to derive instruction from the book."- Sat. rev., Aug. 9. KunstMorelli, G. (pseud. Ivan Lermolieff).

kritische Studien uber italienische Malerei ; die Galerien Borghese und Doria Panfili in Rom.

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"It would be no more possible let Signor Morelli's for the art-historian opponents protest as they may to go back to a pre-Morellian state of things in criticism, than it would be for the most rabid contemner of the Wagnerian music-drama to ignore the revolution effected by that master in dramatic music, or to free himself from the influences which have once for all taken Practically possession of this branch of fine art.

the ground covered is much more extensive than the title of the book would lead us to believe. Lermolieff's disquisitions extend not only to most of the principal collections of Rome, but to those of the whole of Italy: taking in, by the way, the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Acade. mies of Venice and Siena, the Brera, the Turin Gallery, the Municipal galleries of Brescia and Bergamo, the Museo Nazionale of Naples, and many private collections at Milan, and elsewhere." — Academy, May 31. Moulton, Mrs. L.. C. Stories told at twilight. Murray, D: C. John Vale's guardian. 3 v.

"Mr. Christie Murray has certainly more power and genius for the delineation ef English rustic life than any half-dozen of our surviving novelists put together." Spectator, Mar. 15.

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Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. The Duke's daughter.
The fugitives.

"If The Duke's daughter' is a trifle disappointing "The fugitives' is one of the best of Mrs. Oliphant's shorter stories."- Academy, May 17. Paladin, pseud. Glances at great and little men.

"A volume of recollections of men and cities, pleas. ant to read, by reason of the easy style of the author's 'personal talk,' and its entire freedom from the self-consciousness that mars many a record of this kind. There is no assumption of the tone of a personal conductor in the writer, who sketches the conversation and manners of famous men briefly and brightly as his reminiscent spirit carries him from one Continental town to another in a kind of informal holiday progress. At each place of halting the springs of memory are stirred, and some agreeable image or picture of the past, some familiar affable ghost of old intercourse, is called up."-Sat. rev., Aug. 2.

Phelps, E.. S., and Ward, A. D. Come forth. Myrobiblon Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. sive bibliotheca librorvm, qvos Photivs legit et censuit; græce ed. D: Hoeschelivs, latine redd. A. Schott. 1612.

Platter, T: and F. Zwei Autobiographieen; Beitrag zur Sitten geschichte des 16en Jahrhunderts; hrsg. von D. A. Fechter. 1840. Introduction to the history of the science of politics.

Pollock, Sir F:

"The importance of his book is that it brings the most shamefully and shamelessly becharlataned of sciences back to book, back to reason, back to history. There are many things no doubt, which go to make the perfect politician. He is nearly as rare and complex as the perfect beauty. But still he has two main and very simple characteristics. He must know human nature,

and (chiefly that he may know human nature) he must know history. Indeed, if he really knows history he can hardly fail to know human nature, which never changes, and which merely unfolds fresh aspects of its own perenniallidentity in the long chronicles of the past. The fatal error of nearly all our modern politicians is that, whether or no they expressly declare their belief that ancient history is an old almanac, they behave as if it was. The book not only gives an excellent and a most informing' view of the subject! but its whole gist and tenor from beginning to end is the inculcation of the one and only principle of politics, that the thing which hath been shall be, that the lessons of the past must be the axioms of the future. This is the cardinal doctrine of politics."— Saturday rev., Sept. 6. Pressensé, E. de. L'Eglise et la Révolution Française de 1789-à 1814.

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"Ce livre date de 1864; mais son auteur vient de le mettre au courant des derniers travaux historiques, sans parler d'une Introduction nouvelle sur La Révolution et la Religion.' Euvre importante. Ce qu'il importe de faire ressortir, c'est l'effort perséverant et presque toujours heureux de l'auteur vers l'impartia lité, dans un sujet où ses croyances et ses sympathies sont directement intéressées; c'est l'infatigable énergie avec laquelle il plaide la cause de la liberté de conscience; c'est enfin la hauteur de vues qui lui fait devancer le jugement de M. Taine sur l'œuvre religieuse de la Révolution."-Bulletin critique, 1 oct.

Rajah's heir, The; a novel. 2 v.

"Though it is a well-written, vigorous, and interesting story, it is a story upon which it is by no means easy to base an estimate of the powers of the anonymous author in the realm of pure invention. We incline to think he has written the book mainly to utilise in an attractive manner his personal knowledge of Indian affairs in general, and of the incidents of the Mutiny in particular. The construction is throughout loose and tentative; but when we reach that part of the novel which provides it with its true 'raison d'être,' the interest of the mere incidents is so intense that little defects of workmanship are forgotten." - Spectator, Sept. 6. Reunion of the Free Soilers of 1848-52 at Boston, June 28, 1888.

Richthofen, F., Freiherr von. Atlas von China; orographische und geologische Karten zu des Verfassers Werk, China. le Abth.: Das nördliche China. 1885.

Ritschl, F: W: Opuscula philologica.

1866-77. 3 v.

Russell, W: C.
Savage, M. J.

B. 1-3.

A marriage at sea. Man, woman, and child; [discourses.] 1884. Say, J: B. L. Dictionnaire des finances; par L: Foyot, [et] A. Lanjalley. T. 1. A-D. Schmidel of Straubing, II. Reise nach SüdAmerika, 1534-54; hrsg. von V. Langmantel.

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Scott, C. Blossom-land and fallen leaves; [sketches.] "A collection of essays for the most part on holiday or health resorts. As might have been expected in any work of Mr. Scott's their poetical qualities extend far beyond their titles, and the delightful insincerity of the writer of verse appears on every page. Mr. Clement Scott is a skilful writer of poetic prose, who can lighten up the dullest fishing village or a most dreary landвсаре.". Saturday review, July 26. Shakespeare, W: Poems; Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, sonnets, etc.; ed. with notes. by W: J. Rolfe.

Shipp, J: Memoirs of [his] extraordinary military career. New ed.; with introd. by H. M. Chichester. (The adventure ser.)

"The book bears upon its face the stamp of veracity, embellished only by the sentimentalism of the age, in

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both thought and expression, The value of his Memoirs consists in its lifelike picture of campaigning in India, from the point of view of a simple soldier, at the beginning of this century. The present editor has done his work well." — Academy, Sept. 20. Stevenson, E. Early reviews of great writers, 1786-1832; selected and ed. with an introd. (Camelot ser.)

"To read the opinions which our forefathers expressed about the literature of their day is often amus. ing. It also throws much light on the growth and va. rying character of literary criticism. Mr. Stevenson provides a certain amount of material of this description, drawn chiefly from the period when the 'Edinburgh' and 'Quarterly' were young. He seems to

be under the impression, that in this country there was little or no literary criticism worth the name earlier than the present century. This is surely a mistake. Literary criticism was fully a century old when the Edinburgh' was born." Academy, Sept. 13.

Tiffany, Rev. F. Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix. "Admirable biography. A true record, invalua

ble for what it teaches, of a life-work that belongs among the highest religious achievements of our time." Unitarian review, Oct.

Weeden, W: B. Economic and social history of New England, 1620-1789. 2 v.

"Probably the most detailed and curious account ever given of the early conditions of life in New England. We cannot think of any contribution that would do such needed service in discussion of the open questions of the time, industrial and financial, as a sequel would be, made up from data equally authentic, bringing the history down to a century later, and told in an equally skilful, pungent, and entertaining way.". Unitarian rev.,

Oct.

Wiebeking, C: F: von. Theoretisch-practische bürgerliche-Baukunde; durch Geschichte, etc. der merkwürdigsten Baudenkmale und ihre Abbildungen bereichert. 1821-26. Text, 4 v. Plates, 4 v.

Woolridge, J. History of Nashville, Tenn.; with accounts of the mound-builders, Indian tribes, etc.

Wrightson, R: H. The Sancta Respublica Romana; a handbook to the history of Rome and Italy from the division of the Roman world to the breaking-up of Charlemagne's empire, 395-888.

"An odd little book.

The volume contains nothing to show that Mr. Wrightson has read any historian more recent than Gibbon. We have not observed any really serious historical mistakes; but the general point of view is antiquated, and the narrative is a mere life. less skeleton, which can scarcely interest even a reader to whom the subject is altogether new." - Athenæum, Sept. 27. Young, S.

Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London; comp. from their records, etc. "The city companies have of late years been very busy with their records, and have published, or at least, printed, many sumptuous volumes. A large number of these histories has been reviewed in our columns, and as a rule the verdict, however favourable, has been qual ified in the same manner; the editors, compilers or authors, as the case may be, have not been sufficiently in possession of the facts of which they would treat to enable them to give a clear and succinct narrative to the public. Mr. Young's work is no exception to the rule."- Saturday review, Aug. 2.

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Zoe; by the author of Miss Toosey's mission. One of the perfect bits of literary work which charm the adult rather than the childish mind. Stories of this kind, like those of Miss Ewing's verses, are too pathetic for the robust boy or girl, and too artistic for those who want sensation."— Literary world, Nov. 8.

Algeria. Dey. Correspondance des deys d'Alger avec la cour de France, 1579-1833; rec. et pub., avec une introd., etc., par E. Plantet.

1889. 2 v.

"M. Plantet les a recueillies avec un soin conscien. cieux; aux lettres originales, émanées des potentats barbaresques, il a joint les réponses, d'après les minutes élaborées dans les bureaux. La publication se présente donc entourée de toutes les garanties désirables: elle rectifie beaucoup de détails inexactement rapportés par les historiens, et met au jour des faits ignores ou mal connus. Les notes et l'intéressante introduction le rendent plus accessible et plus maniable."— Rev. d. D. Mondes, 1 oct.

Vol. 1.

Arena, The; ed. by B. O. Flower.
Arène, P.
mod.)

La chèvre d'or. (Bibl. de L'illustré

"His style is the style of Daudet, twenty years ago — of Daudet before he became corrupted by his contact with unworthy forms of Parisian life. The whole charm of the book lies in its seductive style and sparkling wit." Athenæum, July 5.

Arnold, Sir E. The light of Asia; or, The great renunciation, Mahabhinishkramana; the life and teaching of Gautama; by an Indian Buddhist; [illust.]

"The illustrations are taken for the most part from photographs of Buddhist sculptures and frescoes found in ancient ruins of India, averaging 2000 years old, many of them being identified by eminent archæologi. cal authorities, both in India and at home, as actually illustrating scenes in the life of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and the hero of Mr. Arnold's poem. These engravings cannot fail to interest the general public, as revealing an antique school of art, unfamiliar, indeed, yet for the most part full of spirit and beauty."

Austin, H: The liquor law in the New England

states.

Balsamo, G. (pseud. Conte Cagliostro). Lettre au peuple anglais; pour servir de suite à ses Mémoires. 1787.

Banville, T. F. de. L'âme de Paris; nouveaux

souvenirs. (Petites études.)

"C'est un recueil de petites études toutes charmantes, dans lesquelles le délicat écrivain fait revivre en de mul. tiples tableaux pleins de variété et d'agréable humour, le Paris du milieu de ce siécle.” — Le livre, juin. Benedictus,

Les musiques bizarres à l'Expo

sition. Bennett, C. The modern malady; or, sufferers from nerves; with pref. by H. Tibbits.

"A thoughtfully-written little book. To the members of the medical profession there is nothing new in the opinions so ably and eloquently put forward, but to the members of the lay public it may prove of much service by convincing them that so-called hysteria is not an affectation or culpable weakness which renders its subject a proper object for sneers or harsh treatment, but a very real and painful disease.' Sat. rev., Oct. 4. Bette d'Etienville, J: C: V. Second mémoire et consultation, sur la défense à une accusation d'escroquerie. 1786.

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

Brulard; Stryienski.

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Blackmar, F. W. History of the federal and state aid to higher education in the U. S. Bliss, G: N. The 1st R. I. Cavalry at Middleburg, Va., June 17 and 18, 1863. (Soldiers and Sailors' Hist. Soc. of R. I. Pers. narr.) Bodin, J: Les six livres de la républiqve, plus l'Apologie de René Herpin; auec discours et responses aux Paradoxes du sieur de Malestroit sur les monnoyes. 1593.

Boyd, A. K. H. East coast days; and memories. "One of the pleasantest books which Dr. Boyd has given us." Spectator, Aug. 2.

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"On a soupçonné dans ce livre un essai d'autobio graphie et l'auteur a pris soin de repousser cette supposi tion en déclarant qu'il n'y a rien de tel. Mais Coppée se trouve tout entier dans ce livre, le cher François Coppée rive gaucher Parisien des heures du siège et d'après la Commune, et c'est plaisir à nous de suivre ce cher compagnon dans tout ce passé qu'il évoque avec sa magie de poéte qui sait voir et exprimer ses visions avec un art de conteur ravissant." — Le livre, mars.

Cust, R. N. The shrines of Lourdes, Zaragossa, the Holy Stairs at Rome, the Holy House of Loretto and Nazareth, and St. Ann at Jerusalem. 1885.

Davis, A. M. The early college buildings at Cambridge.

Deland, Mrs. M. Sidney.

Drujon, F. Essai bibliographique sur la destruction volontaire des livres ou bibliolytie. "Ce renferme une multitude de sûrs renseignements et de particularités très intéressantes sur près de trois cents ouvrages que leurs auteurs ou éditeurs ont volon tairement détruits, en dehors de toute intervention de la Justice et de l'Eglise. Les motifs de ces exécutions, parfois regrettables, sont aussi bizarres que variés, et ce n'est pas sans surprise qu'on voit figurer dans les cinq cents noms de l'index final certains auteurs, non des moins celèbres, de notre temps." Le livre, fév.

Du Cange, C: du F., seigneur. Glossarium mediae et infimae Latinitatis; auct. a monachis ord. S. Benedicti cum suppl. D. P. Carpenterii et add. Adelungii digessit G. A. L. Henschel. Ed. nova a L. Favre. 1883-87. 10 v.

Dumas, A., fils. Nouveaux entr'actes. le série.

"Des discours et morceaux déjá parus en divers pé riodiques. Il suffit de signaler les titres de quelquesuns de ces essais: Les femmes qui tuent et les femmes qui votent,' - La critique théâtrale,' 'La recherche de la paternité,' etc., pour faire présumer quel intérêt présentent de telles questions étudiées par un maître aussi éminent." - Le livre, mai. Dumas, A. D. Ange Pitou. 2 v.

Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge. Le comtesse de Charny. 4 v. Memoirs of a physician. 3 v. Emerson, R. W. Nature; addresses, and lectures. New and rev. ed. 1888.

Eucleides. Elements of geometry; chiefly from the text of Simson, with notes; a selection of exercises, [and] introd. by R. Potts. 1845.

Fages-Chaulnes,

Baron de. Mémoire contre

les sieurs Vaucher et Loque, et contre le procureur-général. 1786. Fauriel, C. C: Chants populaires de la Grèce moderne; avec une trad. fr. et des notes. 1824-25. 2 v.

Flaischlen, C. Graphische Litteratur-Tafel; die deutsche Litt. u. d. Einfluss fremder Litt. auf ihren Verlauf.

Fox, J. A. Key to the Irish question; comp. from the speeches, etc., of British statesmen and publicists; with chapters on the reign of eviction in England and Scotland. Geminus, P. Hermathena, sev De eloquentiae victoria; reprod. in facsimile. 1886. Greene, A. R. From Bridgeport to Ringgold by

way of Lookout Mountain. (Soldiers and Sailors' Hist. Soc. of R. I. Pers. narr.) Griswold, W: M. (pseud. Q. P. Index). Autoren

und Sachregister zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Zeitschriften, 1886-1889, und zu verschiedenen Sammlungen.

Guigard, J. Nouvel armorial du bibliophile; guide de l'amateur des livres armories. Vol.

1.

Guillot, A. Paris qui souffre; les prisons de Paris et les prisonniers.

Harrison, W: H: Discourse on the aborigines of the Ohio Valley. 1883. (Fergus hist. ser.) Hérisson, M. d'I. comte d'. Un drame royal.

Un livre qui fait quelque tapage. On n'a pas oublié la profonde émotion causée l'an passé par la mort violente d'un prince, futur héritier d'un grand empire. C'est dans ce tragique événement que l'auteur a cru devoir, dès maintenant, puisser les éléments du ré. cit qu'il laisse volontiers prendre pour de l'histoire. Mettant en scène, sous des pseudonymes pen mysté rieux, les personnages qui fureut alors plus on moins indiscrétement cités, il prétend dévoiler tous les dessous du cette douloureuse affaire."- Le livre, juin. Heyne, C. G. Opvsevla academica. 1785-1812.

6 v. Holmes, O. W. Howells, W: D.

Over the teacups.

A boy's town; described for Harper's young people.

Hubert-Valleroux, P. La charité avant et depuis 1789 dans les campagnes de France; avec quelques exemples tires de l'étranger. Hungerford, F: R: British difficulties under solution.

Hungerford, Mrs. M. April's lady.

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Jones, C: E. Education in Georgia.

Kipling, R. The courting of Dinah Shadd, and other stories; with biog. and crit. sketch by A. Lang.

"It is so pleasant to have things happening in a book, to read again of battle and murder and sudden death, and to know that when an event has occurred one will not have to wait two hundred pages for the next. If Mr. Kipling should not ultimately blossom (as we have al ready ventured to hint as a possibility) into an AngloIndian Dickens he will at all events occupy a high place in the literature of our day."— Athenæum. Kirby, J. D. Biographical sketch of Joseph Duncan, 5th Governor of Illinois. 1888. (Fergus hist. ser.)

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Lair, J. Nicolas Foucquet, procureur général surintendant des finances, ministre d'Etat de Louis XIV. 2 v.

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"Ce travail considérable et nouveau en bien des en. droits a couté de peines et de recherches à son laborieux auteur; il suffit de dire qu'il n'est rien de plus instructif et de plus profitable que ce livre, sans lequel on ne connaîtrait réellement pas Foucquet. Que de récits inex acts, en effet, que d'allégations légendaires ont couru sur l'infortuné surintendant! Grâce au beau livre de M. J. Lair, nous savons maintenant à quoi nous en tenir sur cet homme de talents variés, qui ne fut pas seulement un financier habile et, pour son temps, un homme d'Etat de premier ordre, mais qui fut, par surcroit, un esprit de grand mérite, un cœur loyal et bon, et, ce qui complète bien l'honnête homme,' un amateur éclairé des lettres et des arts, ainsi que de toutes les formes du beau." - Le livre, juin. Lamborn, R. H. Dragon flies vs. mosquitoes; can the mosquito pest be mitigated? studies in the history of irritating insects, by working entomologists; with introd. (The Lamborn prize essays.)

"In reply to a circular letter from Dr. Robert H. Lamborn offering prizes for essays on the best methods of destroying mosquitoes and houseflies, papers have been received from Mrs. C. B. Aaron, Mr. Archibald C. Weeks, W. Bentenmuller, Dr. Henry C. McCook, and Capt. C. N. B. Macaulay, U. S. A. The working ento mologists addressed by him agree, however, that little further help than what is now afforded need be looked for from the dragonfly. He is very difficult to propagate in confinement, he eats mosquitoes only when he can get nothing else, he flies by day only, he migrates in vast numbers and leaves us long before the mosquito does. His larva is destructive to young fish; and he sometimes leaves all other food to prey upon his own kind. The essays also deal with the house fly, but do not recommend his extermination.” — Critic, Öct. 4. Lea, H: C: Chapters from the religious history of Spain connected with the Inquisition.

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