The Literary News.

MAY, 1886.

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REVISED RULES.

THE object of the Prize Questions is to encourage a "comparing of notes," especially on subjects relating to literature, and to make such "comparing" interesting and instructive by introducing the element of competition. We desire and invite all readers of the LITERARY NEWs to answer these questions, as the number of competitors adds to the interest of competitors and readers.

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Prize Question No. 128.

Subject: SELECTIONS FROM NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Select from quotations given in April number the three which most please you, and submit in order of preference, viz.: 24, 3, 15. All readers are entitled to vote on this question, and it is specially requested that the vote be as large as possible. Answers due May 20.

Prize Question No. 130. Subject: BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.

Select from list given below the six books you prefer, and submit by number. Answers due May 20.

1. Alden, Mrs. I. M., Interrupted.-2 -2. Alden. Mrs. I. M., One Commonplace Day -3. Alden, W. L., Adventures of Jimmy Brown -4. Alger, Hector's Influence - Andrews' Ten Boys who lived on the Road, etc.-6. Bolton, How Success is Won.-7 Bolton, Poor Boys who Became Famous.-8. Brooks, B. A., Phil. Vernon.-9. Brooks, E. S., Historic Boys.-10. Butterworth, Zigzag Journeys in the Levant.-11. Campbell,

What-to-do Club.-12. Carryl, Davy and the Goblin.-13. Castlemon. Young Wild Fowlers.-14. Champney, Three Vassar Girls. -15. Clark, Boy Life in the U. S. Navy -16. Dodgson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -17. English. Boy's Book of Battle Lyrics.-18. Ewing. Daddy Darwin's Dovecote.-19. Ewing, Story of a Short Life.-20. Hale, Family Flight Around Home.21. Hale. Stories of Invention.-22. Harrison, Story of Greece.23. Higginson, History of the U. S.-24. Ker, Lost City.-25. Kingsley, Madam How and Lady Why.-26. Kingsley, The Heroes.-27. Knox. Boy Travellers in S. A.-28. Lamb. Tales from Shakespeare.-29. Leslie. At the Sign of the Blue Boar.30. Munger, Lamps and Paths -31. Murfree, Down the Ravine. 32. Parton, Princes. Authors and Statesmen -33. Porter, Adventures of Harry Marline -34. Pyle, Pepper and Salt.-35.

Roe, Driven Back to Eden.-36. Stables, Stanley Grahame.

37. Stoddard. Winter Fun.-38. Trowbridge, Farnell's Folly.39. Trowbridge, Satin Wood Box.-40. Vandegrift, Do is and Theodora.-41. Whitney, Bonnyborough.-42. Yonge, Two Sides of the Shield.-43. Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Stories.

*Disraeli, Correspondence. Harper.
*McCarthy, England Under Gladstone. Harper.
Seeley, Napoleon the First. Roberts..
Eliot. Life of. Harper....

Amiel, Journal In Time. Macmillan.
Scherer, German Literature. Scribner.
Morison, Mme. de Maintenon. Scribner & W.
Abbott, Upland and Meadow. Harper...
Lodge. History of Modern Europe. Harper.
Bull. Memoir of. Houghton, M
Marston, Frank's Ranche. Houghton, M..
Morris, Early Hanoverians. Scribner.
Spencer, Insuppressible Book. Cassino
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The maximum, 214, is reached by Miss Frances Cone, Brooklyn, N. Y., who takes the first prize. The second is taken by Mrs. Wilbur Cook, Burke The third goes

Centre, N. Y., with a count of 210.

to Mrs. I. H. Willson, 296 North Park street, Columbus, O., who counts 208. The fourth is awarded to Mrs. C. Bloomer, Williamsport, Pa., who counts 207; and the fifth is taken by J. W. Mark, Cambridge, Mass., with a count of 204. The lowest count is 46.

Prize Question Nos. 141 and 143. Subject: BOOKS OF THE MONTH.

Select books of our monthly list in accordance with the rules on Book Prize Questions printed in this issue. Selections from April issue due May 20; from this issue June 20.

The object of these questions is more particularly to elicit answers as to which of the new books can be safely recommended for reading or study.

The answers shall consist of six titles, selected from the classified list of the "SURVEY OF Current LITERATURE" (found in

each issue of the LITERARY NEWS). given under two sections, viz.: three titles under 4, restricted to Fiction, Humor and Satire, Poetry and the Drama; three under B, selected from the other departments. New editions of books and books mentioned for reference only (usually indicated in list by brackets) are excluded.

The titles should be arranged and numbered under each section, in the order of their estimation by the competitor.

TOPICS IN THE MAY MAGAZINES.

*Articles marked with an asterisk are illustrated.

Confined to the more popular American magazines that are received in time for classification. For a full survey of periodical literature, see Fletcher's quarterly Co-operative Index to leading periodicals (supplementing Poole's Index). ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Atlantic, "Waldstein's Art of Pheidias."-Century, "American Opera Company" (Topics of the Time)-Harper's, Portraits of our Saviour." by W. H. Ingersoll.— North American Review, The American Dramatist,' by Augustin Daly.-Popular Science, Care of Pictures and Prints," by P. G. Hamerton.

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BIOGRAPHICAL.-Century, Hawthorne's Philosophy," by Julian Hawthorne.*-Eclectic, "The Rossettis," by Wm. Sharp.-Magazine of American HisHoratio Seymour," by Isaac S. Hartley. Popular Science, Francis Galton" (with portrait). DESCRIPTIVE.-Atlantic, Memories of London," by W. J. Stillman.-Century, "American Country Dwellings," I., by Mrs. S. von Rensselaer;* The Helmet of Mambrino," by Clarence King.*-Eclectic, “Diableric in Paradise."-Forum, "Future of Arctic Exploration," by A. W. Greely.-Harper's, “The London Season;" With the Bluecoats on the Border," by R. F. Zogbaum;* "Their Pilgrimage," II., by Charles Dudley Warner:* Story of Feather Head," by Lieut. H Lemly.*-Magazine of American "An Old House in New Orleans." by History, Charles Dimitry:* "My Trip to Canada with Jeffer

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son Davis," by W. G. Waller; Burial of Black Hawk," by I. F. Snyder.

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL.—Century, “South Kensington School for Cookery," by Mary B. Welch (Open Letters).-Harper's, "Home Acre," III., by E. P.

Roe.

Catholic World

EDUCATIONAL. 'Harboring Day-Schools in France," by L. B. Binsse -Forum, "How I was Educated," by F. A. P. Barnard.Popular Science, "Evolution of Language," by M. A. Hovelacque.

HISTORICAL.-Atlantic, "The Aryan Homestead," by E. P. Evans.-Catholic World, Son Eminence Grise Et Son Eminence Rouge," by Thos. L. Kelley; "The Circuit of Ireland' and the Fortress of Aileach," by T. O'Neil Russell.-Century, 'Two Views of It," by A. Morehead; From the Penin sula to Antietam." by Gen. Geo. B. McClellan;* "Battle of South Mountain, or Boonsboro," by Gen. D. H. Hill; McClellan at the Head of the Grand Army," by W. L. Goss; "In Reply to General Grant," by Gen. W. F. Smith-Eclectic, "Relations of History and Geography," by James Bryce, M.P.; "France under Richelieu," by Emilia F. S. Dilke.Magazine of American History. Historical Colorado," by Katharine Hodges;* "March of the Spaniards Across Illinois," by Edw. G. Mason; Shiloh," by Gen. W. F. Smith; "Battle of Cross Keys." by A. E. Lee.-North American Review, "Defense of Charleston, S. C.," by Gen. G. T.

M. Stanton," by Donn Piatt.

HYGIENIC AND SANITARY.-Popular Science, "Food Accessories and Digestion," by Dr. J. B. Yeo. INDUSTRIAL.-Century, 'Flour Mills of Minne"How

apolis," by E. V. Smalley.*-Popular Science, Alcoholic Liquors are Made," by Jos. Dawson. LITERARY.-Atlantic, "About the Pacific;""Longfellow;" Books of Refuge" (Contributors Club). — Catholic World," "A Model Alphabet," by C. M. O'Keefe; "François Coppée," by A. M. Cotte; Pia De Tolommei," by T. H. Childs; Marius the Epicurian," by Agnes Repplier; "Chat about New Books," by M. F. Egan.-Eclectic. Diary of Valladolid in the Time of Cervantes," by John Ormsby; Autographs;" "On the Pleasure of Reading," by Sir John Lubbock.—Forum, "Victor Hugo as a Citizen," by James Parton.

POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL, AND SOCIOLOGICAL.— Atlantic, Weakness of U. S. Government under the Articles of Confederation," by John Fiske.Century, "George Bancroft on the Legal-Tender Decision;" Readjustment of the Industrial Order," (Topics of the Time); "The True South vs. The Silent South," by J. W. Johnston and G. W. Cable, Open Letters).-Eclectic, "Ireland under Her Own Parliament,' by J. L. Derwent; "Emigration;" "Socialist Rage."-Forum, "Experiment of Popular Would We Do Government," by C. T. Congdon; It Again?" by Edw. Cary; Currency?" by J. F. Hume; Do We Need a Metallic Laborers?" by W. A. Croffut and L. F. Post.-North What Rights Have American Review, Future of the Colored Race," by Fred'k Douglass; "Letters to Prominent Persons, by Arthur Richmond; "Our House of Lords;'

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL.-Century, "A Californian's Gift to Science: Lick Observatory," by T. Evans.*-Popular Science, "De Candolle on the Production of Men of Science," by W. H. Larrabee; Photographing the Heavens," by Dr. H. Y. Klein.* SHORT STORIES.-Atlantic, Marsh Rosemary," by Sarah Orne Jewett.-Catholic World, "Richard Honeyword's Bequest," by Agnes Power; "The Solitary Baron," by W. Seton.-Century, 'Iduna," by Geo. A. Hibbard; "Perturbed Spirits," by Brander Matthews.-Eclectic,

FRESHEST NEWS.

DODD, MEAD & Co. have just ready a novel by Jane Marsh Parker entitled The Midnight Cry." CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS have just ready H. C. Bunner's new story of New York life, entitled "The Midge."

MISS BROUGHTON's new novel, "Peggy and Prue," will not appear until fall. The title selected by the author has been changed, at the request of the pub"Doctor Cupid." lisher, to

MR. WALTER PATER, says the Athenæum, "is at work upon a new romance of the past. This time the scene will be laid in the sixteenth century and in France; but the work will not be finished for some time."

ROBERT CARTER & BROS. have in press a new vol. ume, by C. H. Spurgeon, entitled "Storm Signals," a collection of sermons preached on Sunday and Thursday evenings at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London.

THE Rev. G. T. Dowling's novel, "The Wreckers," "met," so says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “with a very flattering reception at his native city, Cleveland. In less than a week's time the booksellers there had to double and treble their originally liberal orders.'

WHITE, STOKES & ALLEN have just issued "Bugle Echoes," a collection of poems of the civil warvoicing both northern and southern feelings-edited by Francis F. Browne. The work of the editor is exceedingly well done, and that of the publisher is not far behind.

THE Emperor and Empress of Japan have through His Excellency, R. Kuki, their Minister at Washington, expressed their thanks to Mr. Edward Greey. for his last Japanese book, "A Captive of Love.' This work is being translated into German by Prof. A. Hensel, of Königsberg, Prussia.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS accomplished a rapid piece of bookmaking in getting out Andrew Lang's new story, The Mark of Cain." The advance sheets were received from England on Tuesday, April 13: on Thursday the book had been set up, plates made, and a very large edition printed and bound.

LITTLE, BROWN & Co. have issued a new volume in their Badmington Library of Sports and Pastimes, dealing with "Racing and Steeplechasing" which the New York World pronounces by long odds the best book on both subjects which has yet appeared" as it is full of technical instruction as well as delightfully entertaining.

HENRY HOLT & Co. will publish at once "The Romance of the Moon," sixteen pen and ink draw ings by Mr. J. A. Mitchell, artist editor of Life. They will soon add to their Bibliotheque d'Instruction et de Récréation, Erckmann-Chatrian's "Madame Thérèse ou les Voluntaires de '92," edited with English notes.

"GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," by Sarah K. Bolton, a companion book to "Poor Boys who Became Famous," will be issued by T. Y. Crowell & Co. in early fall. It will contain twenty sketches of leading women of America and Europe, such as Jean Ingelow, Lady Brassey, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, George Eliot, Miss Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and

others.

"LOVERS of light, humorous verse and vers de société will learn with pleasure," says the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, "that the author of the various poems which have appeared from time to time in

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have just ready Dr. Royce's "California" in their series of American Commonwealths; "The Authorship of Shakespeare," by Nathaniel Holmes, a new edition in two volumes, advocating the theory that Lord Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare; "Hamlet's NoteBook," by W. D. O'Connor, also an important contribution to the Bacon Shakespeare controversy; "St. Gregory's Guest and Recent Poems, by Mr. Whittier, containing his poems published since 1883; and Signs and Seasons," another of John Burroughs' inimitable books of outdoor life and domestic reflection. They also announce fifteen new volumes in the Riverside Paper Series for summer reading.

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D. APPLETON & Co. have just ready an entirely new edition of the "Memoirs of General Sherman," which has been thoroughly revised, and contains two new chapters and important appendices. Fifteen maps and several portraits on steel, not given in the first edition, enrich the present issue. The new chapter at the end of the work, entitled "After the War," throws light on recent controversies in regard to President Johnson's purpose in wishing to send General Grant to Mexico. The appendices contain numerous letters from army commanders bearing upon events of the war. They have also issued Songs and Ballads of the Southern People-18611865," collected and edited by Frank Moore; and Octave Feuillet's new novel, Aliette" (La Morte).

"An

Life and Works of Mrs. Clemmer," in four handsome volumes, comprising "Poems of Life and Nature," "His Two Wives," "Men, Women, and Things," and a memorial volume entitled American Woman's Life and Work," by her husband, Edmund Hudson, containing a portrait. They have also issued a new edition of "A Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture," by D. Cady Eaton, which has been revised and enlarged, and issued in a pocketable style, uniform with Ticknor's guide books. It is intended to be of special use to visitors to foreign museums.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS have just ready the first volume in their Scriptures for Young People," comprising the Hebrew story from the creation to the times of Nehemiah. This great work will be edited

by Rev. Edward T. Bartlett, D. D., Dean of the P. plete in three volumes, two devoted to the Old and E. Divinity School of Philadelphia, and will be comone to the New Testament. The clergymen of various denominations have written to the publishers of their great sympathy and interest in the undertaking. The house expects to issue this fall a new book for young people, by E. S. Brooks. It will be entitled Chivalric Days and Youthful Deeds," and will contain among others the charming article on the 'Cloth of the Field of Gold," and the "Little Lord of the Manor," both of which attracted considerable attention on their appearance in the St. Nicholas Magazine. Mr. Brooks is preparing a number of new chapters for this volume, all of which will be pervaded by the same noble and chivalric spirit as the two already known to the public. It may not be generally known that these sketches call for the most laborious research and study on their author's part.

A—Fiction, Poetry, and the Drama.

FICTION.

ARCHER, T. By fire and sword: a story of the Huguenots. Cassell. 12° $1.

"Mr. Thomas Archer has produced a picturesque and thoroughly interesting historical novel. It affords a vivid insight into the persecutions of the Huguenots in France, and is devoted chiefly to the sufferings of a charming family and their eventual restoration to happiness. The plot is well conceived, and is developed with artistic skill, and an admirable local color is maintained throughout. The story is told with much animation of style, and is particularly felicitous in its descriptive passages. The whole gives a strong and impressive picture of the period of history with which it deals."-Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.

ARMITT, ANNIE. In shallow waters. Harper. 16° (Harper's handy ser.) pap., 25 c.

To delineate a hero of an unusual type this story seems to have been written. Henry Dilworth belongs to English middle class life, is somewhat rough in exterior, and has few of the lighter graces of a gentleman; but, at heart, he is a hero, and a man of exquisite refinement and rare unselfishness. Agnes Leake meets him on the steamer going out to Austra lia, to which country she is accompanying her new. ly-married sister and brother-in-law. There is a storm, the vessel runs on a rock, the newly-married pair are drowned, and Agnes is rescued by Dilworth. A brief residence on a desert island ensues; the couple are then found and get back to England, Dilworth in the mean time marrying Agnes. The rest of the story deals with the chief characteristics of the married pair. Agnes' selfishness, which is hid under a most charming exterior, finally wrecking Dilworth's life.

BALZAC, HONORÉ DE. César Birotteau.

12 hf.-mor., $1.50.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

Roberts.

BARR, AMELIA E. A daughter of Fife. Dodd, M. 12 $1.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. BRINKERHOFF, H. R. Nah-nee-ta: a tale of the Navajos. Soulé. 12°. $1.50.

For several years after the late war, the author was stationed with his regiment in western New Mexico, in the immediate vicinity of the country occupied by the Navajo Indians. He made a study of their customs, religious beliefs, superstitions, etc., which he has embodied in a romantic tale. The railroad and the encroachments of the white man are quickly wiping out the peculiarities of the Navajos; hence, in the light of history, this volume has special value.

CHURCH. Rev. ALFRED J. With the king at Oxford: a tale of the Great Rebellion. Harper. 16° (Harper's handy ser.) pap., 25c.

Purports to have been written in the seventeenth century by the son of a gentleman of Oxfordshire. The language is the quaint English of the period. Beginning with the grand pageant given by the gen

tlemen of the four Inns of Court of London to King Charles I. and his queen, the reader is carried through the exciting events of Charles Stuart's reign. London and the plague are well described in the ending with his tragical death. The great fire of form of a story.

COLLECTION SCHICK: Novellen, humoresken und skizzen. L. Schick. 12 nos., ca. 16° pap., 20 c.; $3 per annum.

Contents:--No. 5: "Trudel's ball" and "Flimserl's glück und Ende," by Hans Hopfen; also, "Wider den strom," by Ernst Eckstein. -No.6: Der Shylock von Barnow," and "Nach dem höheren gesetz,' by K. Emil Franzos; also, "Das kind," by Gustav Droz.-No. 7: "Die bekenntnisse einer armen seele," by Ernst Wichert; "Tödtliche fehde," by Rudolf Lindau; Mein freund der gründer," by J. Rodenberg; Kunst und natur," by H. Rosenthal-Bonin.also, "Eine abendwanderung," by E. Eckstein.-No. No. 8: "Herr und Frau Bewer," by Paul Lindau;

and

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"Monika Waldvogel," by W. Jensen; also, Curator," by Theodor Storm; "Der stumme rath'Frau von F.," by Paul Heyse.—No. 10: “ 'Carsten sherr," by W. H. Riehl; also, "Ein erster und ein park von Villers," by R. Lindau; "Am heiligen letzter ball," by F. W. Hackländer.-No. II: "Im damm," by A. Wilbrandt; "Die philosophie eines kusses," by H. Lorm; also, Der gute alte onkel," by H. Seidel-No. 12: "Das Mädchen von Treppi,' and 'Anfang und Ende," by Paul Heyse; also, Der ewige student," by Sacher Masoch. COLLINS, MABEL. Lord Vanecourt's daughter. Harper. 4° pap., 20 c.

COOKE, ROSE TERRY. The sphinx's children, and other people's. Ticknor. 12° $1.50.

"Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke's reputation as one of our best and brightest tellers of short stories, is too strongly established to need confirmation or emphasis. The Sphinx's Children' contains something like a score of tales of New England life and character, written in Mrs. Cooke's most charming manner. They are reprinted from the Atlantic, Harper's Monthly, and other standard periodicals. Some pessimist and cynic lately declared that all women writers either whine or scratch. The ab. surdity of his 'smart' remark was never better rich but never farcical, their pathos unstrained and Their humor is illustrated than by these stories. pure, their tone and influence admirable."-Christian Union.

CRAWFORD, F. MARION. A tale of a lonely parish.
Macmillan. 12° $1.50.
Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

DOWLING, G. T. The wreckers: a social study.
Lippincott. 12° $1.25.

"Tells a story of humble life, and has for its leading theme a murder, which culminates in the now familiar trial scene of contemporary fiction. The author has evidently studied the diction of Dickens closely, and in his lighter narrative shows clearly the influence of that author upon his style. The novel, which is fairly interesting, is old-fashioned in the manner of its telling, and the headings of the

chapters follow a method that has long since fallen into disuse. The book, however, is none the worse for that. There is some spirited character drawing in it; much of the humor is bright, and the pathos. if not deep, is generally sincere."-Boston Evening Gazette. DU BOISGOBEY, FORTUNE. The Matapan affair; from the French. Rand, McN. 12° pap., $2 50.

The romantic lover and his faithful friend, an

impoverished count and family, the aristocratic marchioness, the wealthy parvenu, the very just magistrate, and last but not least, the villain Baron Matapan, with his faithful servant Ali, are the sev eral types of Parisian character represented. The story opens with a conversation between Jacques de Courtaumee and Albert Dantrelaise, which gives a glimpse of a dawning love affair, and then takes the reader at once to the scene of the story, a house on the Boulevard Hausemann, where the startling incident occurred which led to the arrest of Julien de la Calprenéde. Moved to untiring zeal by his love for Arlette de la Calprenéde, Dantrelaise succeeds in unraveling the mystery surrounding the "Matapan affair," when Julien is released, and Dantrelaise wins the gratitude of the count and the hand of Arlette. FENN, G. MANVILLE. The vicar's people: a story of a stain. Cassell. 16° $r.

"This writer has remarkable skill in the sketching of character, especially certain types of character. The principal personage in this story, Geoffrey Trethick, reminds one of the parson in the 'Parson O' Dumford,' although with such differences that one can by no means be viewed as a copy of the other. The dramatis persona are piquant enough, and the story captivating in a high degree. It confirms all that was inferred from the striking qualities of The Parson O' Dumford' as to the genius and promise of this new candidate for literary fame."-Chicago Standard.

FLISCH, JULIA A. Ashes of hopes. Funk & W. 12° $1.50.

GREEN, ANNA KATHARINE. The mill mystery. Put(Knickerbocker novels). 16° $1; pap., 50c.

nam.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

HAMMOND, W. A., and Lanza, Clara. Tales of ec centric life. Appleton. 16° pap., 25 c.

Contents: The mystery of Mrs. Brown; Mr. St. Arnaud; A candidate for bedlam; The golden lock; an incident in Dr. Temple's career; a madness most discreet; The black camel; Bill Hedden's gal; Priscilla; Miss Remmington's bonnet.

HARLAND, H., ["Sidney Luska," pseud.] Mrs.
Peixada. Cassell 16° $1.
Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

HENDERSON, I. The prelate. Ticknor. 12° $1.50.
Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

HODGETTS, I. F. Ivan Dobroff: a Russian story. Buchanan. 12° $1.50.

The author was for a long time attached to the University of Moscow, and studied Russian life, customs and manners as shown in prince and peasant. There is a thread of story that serves to introduce the many social, political and domestic details of life in this vast country. Men and women of all nations meet on Russian soil, and the differences in the man

ners and customs of different countries are brought out in bright conversations. The different plots and intrigues are well invented. Ivan is introduced at twelve years and educated in various schools and colleges.

[JACKSON, Mrs. H. H. Hetty's strange history. Roberts. $1.]

[JACKSON, Mrs. H. H. Mercy Philbrick's choice. Roberts. $1] Noticed elsewhere in this issue. JAMES. H. The Bostonians. Macmillan. 12° $2. Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

JOHNSON, VIRGINIA W. Tulip Place: a story of New York. Harper. 16° (Harper's handy ser.) pap.. 25c. "Tulip Place" is an aristocratic street of New York City, in which live the two families of the St. Nicholas and the Belts. Their fortunes and misfortunes make up a pleasant story. Camilla Belt at twentyone inherits a fortune of ten millions from her grandfather, who was an inventor of a sewing machine. her ambition to marry a title, and the pursuit of her Her travels, her dress and luxurious way of living, numerous admirers are full of interest and graphically related.

KELLEY, J. D. JERRold. A desperate chance. Scribner. 12° $1.

The plot is most intricate, and requires the closest attention to understand the connection of events. Story begins in Paris with the death of a gentleman" convict. Two women make and mar the lives of several men. An ingenious detective story, afterward introducing a voyage nearly around the world, of which the storms, shipwrecks and handling of vessels show the nautical knowledge of the author. LIFE (The) of a prig, by one; from the 2d English ed. Holt. 16° $1. Noticed elsewhere in this issue. LUDLOW, JA. M. The captain of the Janizaries: a story of the times of Scanderberg and the fall of Constantinople. Dodd, M. 12° $1.50.

Janizaries is derived from a Turkish word meaning "new troops." In 1329 regiments of infantry were organized, made up of Christian captives, who were compelled to embrace Mohammedanism. The greatest success of these foot soldiers was under Scanderberg, the son of an Albanian Christian prince, whose principality had been taken from him by the_Turks. Scanderberg was given as hostage to the Turkish ruler, who had him educated in Islamism, and for whom Scanderberg fought valiantly until convinced of his father's wrongs, when he used the trained soldiers to fight against the Turks, and won twentytwo well-contested battles. The story of the fall of Turkish supremacy is instructively told in the form of romance. The historical details are correct. MCCARTHY, JUSTIN H., ed. Our sensation novel. Harper. 16° (Harper's handy ser.) pap., 25 c. "A clever and amusing little jeu d'esprit which will wile away very pleasantly a couple of hours of travel. In its incidents and its style Mr. Justin H. McCarthy burlesques with a good deal of real humor the most characteristic work of Victor Hugo, the late Lord Lytton, Charles Dickens, and Mr. Wilkie Collins; and, oddly enough, some of the chapters are an unmistakable parody of Thackeray, who was, if I must use the slang term for which we have no literary equivalent, the least sensational' of writers. Mr. McCarthy's book is quite funny enough to evoke a number of wholesome and hearty laughs, and in these melancholy days a laugh is a thing to be thankful for."-London Academy.

MARSHALL, EMMA. No. 13; or, the story of the lost vestal. Cassell. 12° $1.

Deals with the life, manners, and customs of ancient Rome, mainly in connection with the persecution and martyrdom of the Early Church in Britain and afterwards in Rome. The plot is founded upon the supposed life of one of the Vestales Maximæ, whose statue was unearthed in the Roman Forum, but whose name had been carefully erased, the statue being known only as Number Thirteen.' An ingenious story has been woven about this art relic, and the atmosphere of the period in which it is

laid is reproduced with much skill and effect, a very interesting and well written romance resulting. The author manifests careful study and earnest thought in every essential of her story, and is to be credited for the cleverness with which she has imparted to it a vivid local color."-Boston Gazette.