New Books. ALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE SEA. By W. Clark Russell.-Mr. Campbell, an English solicitor, takes his wife and children to the seaside. The wife is an enthusiastic sailor, and goes out one morning with an old sailor in an open boat. A sudden storm drives them out to sea, the sailor falls overboard, and when she regains consciousness, she is in the cabin of a French brig bound for Toulon. Her hair has turned snow white and she has lost her memory, her whole life before the accident having become a blank.-John A. Taylor & Co., N.Y., .50. ANGEL'S VISITS TO MY FARM IN FLORIDA. By Golden Light.-The diary of a Florida farmer, containing not only a record of sowing and harvesting and descriptions of country life in the South, but philosophical and religious reflections, short sketches of neighbors, the minister and others, and a lengthy explication of spiritualism, its mission and possibilities. There is a spirit in the book, whose name is Celeste, that tells the history of its life, and makes itself generally useful after the manner of a Greek chorus.-U. S. Book Co., N. Y., I 1.00. ARCTIC ALASKA AND SIBERIA. By Herbert L. Aldrich.-A very timely book on Arctic or Bowhead whaling, an industry which is carried on in a region beset with inconceivable dangers and risks, a region practically unknown, for no writer has ever visited it, though whalemen have been there every year for forty years. Modern science is fast removing the picturesque excitement of whaling, and therefore Mr. Aldrich has made the cruise and pictured the subject in all its phases with pen and camera. The matter in the book covers a wider sphere, however, including the Siberian Eskimo, the Nakooruks, etc.-Rand, McNally & Co., 1.00, .50. A BOOK OF PRAYER. By Henry Ward Beecher. Compiled from Unpublished Notes of his Pulpit Ministrations by J. T. Ellinwood. With Portrait.-Beecher's prayers were no less remarkable than his sermons, and in this volume has been gathered a collection of his outpourings, printed from unpublished short-hand notes taken at the various weekly services in Plymouth Church, between the years 1858 and 1887. Where practicable, the dates are given, but no attempt at chronological arrangement has been made. Each title covers three portions: the Opening Invocation, the Prayer before the Sermon, and the Closing Prayer. A very welcome book of enduring value and beauty. Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1.00, .75. THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, VOL. XLIII., NoVEMBER, 1891-MAY, 1892.-This new volume of the great magazine is filled, as usual, with matter of the highest interest. It contains articles on the most diversified subjects, among them being: Aerial Navigation, Solar Eclipses, What are Americans doing in Art? The Ocean Postal Service, Custer's Last Battle, Witchcraft, the San Francisco Vigilance Committees, the Bowery, the Jews in New York, etc., Edmund Clarence Stedman's Essays on the Nature and Elements of Poetry, articles on Famous French Musicians, on the Italian Old Masters, serials, short stories, and poems.-Century Co., 3.00. A CHARGE FOR FRANCE; AND, OTHER STORIES. By John Heard, Jr. With two Illustrations.— This volume contains thirteen excellent short stories, twelve of which have been reprinted from different magazines: A Charge for France from Scribner's; Sancho Mitarra, Hand Car 412, and That Yank from New York, from the Century; and La Louve, from the Cosmopolitan, in which it appeared under the title of The Smugler's Bride. Miss Sarah's Experiment has never been published before, and the remaining seven stories first saw the light in the pages of Harper's Weekly. Several of the stories deal with Californian and Mexican life.--Harper & Bros.,.50. CHOPIN: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS. By Edward Francis. Petite Library," Vol. I.-The first of a series of 32m0 booklets, bound in silk, satin and leather, written by acknowledged authorities and devoted to the lives of great musicians and poets. The series includes: Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Goethe, Schiller, and Heine. The aim of these miniature volumes is to give in a half-hour's reading a condensed review of the life and work of their subjects, sufficiently complete for the use of cultivated men and women, and useful as foundations for further study. Brentano's, leather, .60; satin or silk,.50. CHURCH AND STATE IN EARLY MARYLAND. By George Petrie, Ph. D. "Johns Hopkins University Studies."-The author traces the relation of State to Church in Maryland from the foundation of the colony in 1634 down to the establishment of the Church of England in 1692. He has treated the subject under the following heads: I. The Provisions of the Charter with regard to Religion; II. The Period from the Founding of the Colony to the Act of Toleration in 1849; III. The Period from the Act of Toleration to the Protestant Revolution of 1689; and, IV. The Protestant Revolution and the establishment of the Church of England,-Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, .50. THE CLAIMS Of Decorative ART. By Walter Crane. With Illustrations by the Author.-This volume by the well-known English artist fully deserves the attention it is sure to receive in this country. It contains papers on The Structure and Evolution of Decorative Pattern; Art and Labor; The Position and Claims of Decorative Art; Art and Handicraft; Prospects of Art under Socialism; On the Teaching of Art; Design in Relation to Use and Material; Importance of the Applied Arts and their Relations to Common Life, and other subjects.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2.25.. THE COLUMBUS OF LITERATURE; OR, BACON'S NEW WORLD OF SCIENCES. By W. F. C. Wigston. This work has been written to stimulate curiosity, and excite interest, in just those works of Bacon which are hardly known at all: the Advancement of Learning of 1640, which is the first English edition of the De Augmentis of 1623, the author's theory being that Bacon's art is founded upon a profound philosophy of occult symbolism carrying with it gnostic doctrines of the extremest antiquity and of absorbing interest. There are chapters on The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Measure for Measure, and a systematic study of the famous "Bacon cipher." -F. J. Schulte & Co., Chicago. DARWIN AND AFTER DARWIN: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Theories. By George John Romanes, M. A., LL.D., F. R. S.-This work grew out of a series of lectures delivered by the author at the University of Edinburgh during the years 1888 to 1890. It is a systematic exposition of the "Darwinism of Darwin," and, as it is intended more for the general reader than for professed naturalists, the author has been careful to avoid assuming even the most elementary knowledge of natural science on the part of those to whom the Exposition is addressed. A work of wonderful interest and usefulness.-Open Court Pub. Co., 2.00. DAUGHTERS OF MEN. By Hannah Lynch.— A story of modern Athens, in which a young Austrian nobleman and a Greek woman, an uneducated, lawless, middle-aged woman of genius, play the principal parts. The Austrian falls in love with the coarse musician who has enchanted all Europe with her play, and breaks off for her his engagement to another woman. The author has given a picture of modern Greek life and society in these pages which shows that the cosmopolitan spirit of to-day is making all the world truly kin and extremely uninteresting as far as its "upper classes" are concerned.-U. S. Book Co., 1.25. DIEGO PINZON AND THE FEARFUL VOYAGE HE TOOK INTO THE UNKNOWN OCEAN, A. D., 1492. By John Russell Coryell. Illustrations. -Diego Pinzon, the fifteen year old cousin of Martin Alonzo Pinzon, has fallen in disgrace at the convent school where he is being educated for the priesthood, and his guardian resolves to take him with him on the perilous voyage he is about to undertake with a foreigner, an Italian whose name is Cristobal Colon. Diego's adventures are interwoven with Columbus' voyage of discovery, which is told by the author to young readers. The illustrations form an attractive part of the book. They are numerous and of merit.-Harper & Bros., 1.25. DIRECT LEGISLATION BY THE PEOPLE. By Nathan Cree.-Another work on direct legislation, which is attracting renewed attention of late, both in this country and abroad, as a method of popular government destined to have an ever enlarging scope in the national life of republics. It is the author's opinion that “if the people of the United States are to develop still further in public spirit and intelligence, they will content themselves with nothing less than a general power to propose and enact laws directly, and a power to reject directly those enacted by legislative bodies for them."-McClurg & Co., 1.00. ENGLISH PHARISEES, FRENCH CROCODILES, AND OTHER ANGLO-FRENCH TYPICAL CHARACTERS. By Max O'Rell.-This is one of the cleverest and wittiest books this author has produced, and he has employed to its full extent his graceful gift of gilding and sugaring the bitter pill of truth with a coating of his cheery wit. He does justice to both the nations of which he speaks, pays tributes to the good traits of each, and puts his finger on their less desirable qualities with perfect impartiality. To Americans the volume will give not only amusement but some wholesome and necessary hints. -Cassell Pub. Co., .50. THE ERL QUEEN. By Nataly von Eschstruth. Translated by Emily S. Howard. Illustrated. Norbet de Sangoulême, the son of a French father and a German mother, takes a final stroll through the woods of Altingen on the night before his departure for the German naval academy, and meets the little baroness of Altingen who is stealing about with a lantern and tells him that she is the Erl Queen. She makes him give an account of himself, and shows her disdain when she learns that his mother was only a governess and the sister of a forester. Years afterward they meet again.Worthington Co., 1.25. New Books. ALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE SEA. By W. Clark Russell.—Mr. Campbell, an English solicitor, takes his wife and children to the seaside. The wife is an enthusiastic sailor, and goes out one morning with an old sailor in an open boat. A sudden storm drives them out to sea, the sailor falls overboard, and when she regains consciousness, she is in the cabin of a French brig bound for Toulon. Her hair has turned snow white and she has lost her memory, her whole life before the accident having become a blank.-John A. Taylor & Co., N.Y., .50. ANGEL'S VISITS TO MY FARM IN FLORIDA. By Golden Light. The diary of a Florida farmer, containing not only a record of sowing and harvesting and descriptions of country life. in the South, but philosophical and religious reflections, short sketches of neighbors, the minister and others, and a lengthy explication of spiritualism, its mission and possibilities. There is a spirit in the book, whose name is Celeste, that tells the history of its life, and makes itself generally useful after the manner of a Greek chorus.-U. S. Book Co., N. Y., 1.00. ARCTIC ALASKA AND SIBERIA. By Herbert L. Aldrich.-A very timely book on Arctic or Bowhead whaling, an industry which is carried on in a region beset with inconceivable dangers and risks, a region practically unknown, for no writer has ever visited it, though whalemen have been there every year for forty years. Modern science is fast removing the picturesque excitement of whaling, and therefore Mr. Aldrich has made the cruise and pictured the subject in all its phases with pen and camera. The matter in the book covers a wider sphere, however, including the Siberian Eskimo, the Nakooruks, etc.-Rand, McNally & Co., 1.00, .50. A BOOK OF PRAYER. By Henry Ward Beecher. Compiled from Unpublished Notes of his Pulpit Ministrations by J. T. Ellinwood. With Portrait.-Beecher's prayers were no less remarkable than his sermons, and in this volume has been gathered a collection of his outpourings, printed from unpublished short-hand notes taken at the various weekly services in Plymouth Church, between the years 1858 and 1887. Where practicable, the dates are given, but no attempt at chronological arrangement has been made. Each title covers three portions: the Opening Invocation, the Prayer before the Sermon, and the Closing Prayer. A very welcome book of enduring value and beauty.-Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1.00, .75. THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, VOL. XLIII., NoVEMBER, 1891-MAY, 1892.-This new volume of the great magazine is filled, as usual, with matter of the highest interest. It contains articles on the most diversified subjects, among them being: Aerial Navigation, Solar Eclipses, What are Americans doing in Art? The Ocean Postal Service, Custer's Last Battle, Witchcraft, the San Francisco Vigilance Committees, the Bowery, the Jews in New York, etc., Edmund Clarence Stedman's Essays on the Nature and Elements of Poetry, articles on Famous French Musicians, on the Italian Old Masters, serials, short stories, and poems.-Century Co., 3.00. A CHARGE FOR FRANCE; AND, OTHER STORIES. By John Heard, Jr. With two Illustrations.— This volume contains thirteen excellent short stories, twelve of which have been reprinted from different magazines: A Charge for France from Scribner's; Sancho Mitarra, Hand Car 412, and That Yank from New York, from the Century; and La Louve, from the Cosmopolitan, in which it appeared under the title of The Smugler's Bride. Miss Sarah's Experiment has never been published before, and the remaining seven stories first saw the light in the pages of Harper's Weekly. Several of the stories deal with Californianand Mexican life.--Harper & Bros...50. CHOPIN: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS. By Edward Francis. Petite Library," Vol. I.-The first of a series of 32m0 booklets, bound in silk, satin and leather, written by acknowledged authorities and devoted to the lives of great musicians and poets. The series includes: Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Goethe, Schiller, and Heine. The aim of these miniature volumes is to give in a half-hour's reading a condensed review of the life and work of their subjects, sufficiently complete for the use of cultivated men and women, and useful as foundations for further study. Brentano's, leather, .60; satin or silk,.50. CHURCH AND STATE IN EARLY MARYLAND. By George Petrie, Ph. D. "Johns Hopkins University Studies."-The author traces the relation of State to Church in Maryland from the foundation of the colony in 1634 down to the establishment of the Church of England in 1692. He has treated the subject under the following heads: I. The Provisions of the Charter with regard to Religion; II. The Period from the Founding of the Colony to the Act of Toleration in 1849; III. The Period from the Act of Toleration to the Protestant Revolution of 1689; and, IV. The Protestant Revolution and the establishment of the Church of England.-Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, .50. THE CLAIMS OF DECORATIVE ART. By Walter Crane. With Illustrations by the Author.-This volume by the well-known English artist fully deserves the attention it is sure to receive in this country. It contains papers on The Structure and Evolution of Decorative Pattern; Art and Labor; The Position and Claims of Decorative Art; Art and Handicraft; Prospects of Art under Socialism; On the Teaching of Art; Design in Relation to Use and Material; Importance of the Applied Arts and their Relations to Common Life, and other subjects.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2.25.. THE COLUMBUS OF LITERATURE; OR, BACON'S NEW WORLD OF SCIENCES. By W. F. C. Wigston. This work has been written to stimulate curiosity, and excite interest, in just those works of Bacon which are hardly known at all: the Advancement of Learning of 1640, which is the first English edition of the De Augmentis of 1623, the author's theory being that Bacon's art is founded upon a profound philosophy of occult symbolism carrying with it gnostic doctrines of the extremest antiquity and of absorbing interest. There are chapters on The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Measure for Measure, and a systematic study of the famous "Bacon cipher." -F. J. Schulte & Co., Chicago. DARWIN AND AFTER DARWIN: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Theories. By George John Romanes, M. A., LL.D., F. R. S.—This work grew out of a series of lectures delivered by the author at the University of Edinburgh during the years 1888 to 1890. It is a systematic exposition of the "Darwinism of Darwin," and, as it is intended more for the general reader than for professed naturalists, the author has been careful to avoid assuming even the most elementary knowledge of natural science on the part of those to whom the Exposition is addressed. A work of wonderful interest and usefulness.-Open Court Pub. Co., 2.00. DAUGHTERS OF MEN. By Hannah Lynch.— A story of modern Athens, in which a young Austrian nobleman and a Greek woman, an uneducated, lawless, middle-aged woman of genius, play the principal parts. The Austrian falls in love with the coarse musician who has enchanted all Europe with her play, and breaks off for her his engagement to another woman. The author has given a picture of modern Greek life and society in these pages which shows that the cosmopolitan spirit of to-day is making all the world truly kin and extremely uninteresting as far as its "upper classes" are concerned.-U, S. Book Co., 1.25. DIEGO PINZON AND THE FEARFUL VOYAGE HE TOOK INTO THE UNKNOWN OCEAN, A. D., 1492. By John Russell Coryell. Illustrations. -Diego Pinzon, the fifteen year old cousin of Martin Alonzo Pinzon, has fallen in disgrace at the convent school where he is being educated for the priesthood, and his guardian resolves to take him with him on the perilous voyage he is about to undertake with a foreigner, an Italian whose name is Cristobal Colon. Diego's adventures are interwoven with Columbus' voyage of discovery, which is told by the author to young readers. The illustrations form an attractive part of the book. They are numerous and of merit.-Harper & Bros., 1.25. DIRECT LEGISLATION BY THE PEOPLE. By Nathan Cree.-Another work on direct legislation, which is attracting renewed attention of late, both in this country and abroad, as a method of popular government destined to have an ever enlarging scope in the national life of republics. It is the author's opinion that "if the people of the United States are to develop still further in public spirit and intelligence, they will content themselves with nothing less than a general power to propose and enact laws directly, and a power to reject directly those enacted by legislative bodies for them."-McClurg & Co., 1.00. ENGLISH PHARISEES, FRENCH CROCODILES, AND OTHER ANGLO-FRENCH TYPICAL CHARACTERS. By Max O'Rell.-This is one of the cleverest and wittiest books this author has produced, and he has employed to its full extent his graceful gift of gilding and sugaring the bitter pill of truth with a coating of his cheery wit. He does justice to both the nations of which he speaks, pays tributes to the good traits of each, and puts his finger on their less desirable qualities with perfect impartiality. To Americans the volume will give not only amusement but some wholesome and necessary hints. -Cassell Pub. Co., .50. THE ERL QUEEN. By Nataly von Eschstruth. Translated by Emily S. Howard. Illustrated. Norbet de Sangoulème, the son of a French father and a German mother, takes a final stroll through the woods of Altingen on the night before his departure for the German naval academy, and meets the little baroness of Altingen who is stealing about with a lantern and tells him that she is the Erl Queen. She makes him give an account of himself, and shows her disdain when she learns that his mother was only a governess and the sister of a forester. Years afterward they meet again.— Worthington Co., 1.25. FATHER BRIGHTHOPES: AN OLD CLERGYMAN'S VACATION. By J. T. Trowbridge. New and revised Edition. Illustrated.--Father Brighthopes was Mr. Trowbridge's first book, published nearly forty years ago, and received from the first with that loyal welcome which young people have since given to every successive volume from his pen. In the Preface to this edition, Mr. Trowbridge relates shortly how the book came to be written, who published it, and several other things of interest to the readers of his works. The book has been out of print for some time, but is sure to be received with enthusiasm by old friends and new.-Lee & Shepard, Boston, 1.25. A HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. By Edward Stanwood. Fourth Edition, Revised. Mr. Stanwood's book is a recognized authority in regard to the circumstances, issues, political bearings, and leading figures in all the Presidential Elections held in the United States. It will be revised and completed to date for 1892 by adding the result of the Election in 1888, and by including the nominations and platforms of the parties for the campaign of this year, adopted at Minneapolis and Chicago. It is full of facts of great value to all political speakers and editors, and of great interest to all intelligent citizens.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.50. HOW WOMEN SHOULD RIDE. By C. de Hurst. Illustrated.-This little book fills a much felt gap in the literature of riding. It is devoted to those simpler sides of the sport which are usually neglected entirely or passed over slightly for the more intricate technical parts. The author of this book carries the girl along the bridlepath, from the time she puts on a habit for the first attempt, to that when she joins the hunt for a run across country after the hounds. There are also two chapters on driving, much needed also, for there is more bad driving than bad riding abroad in the world.Harper & Bros., 1.25. ́ IN AND OUT OF THREE NORMAN INNS. By Anna Bowman Dodd. Illustrated by C. S. Reinhart and Others.-A truly charming book of travel in Normandy, describing Villerville, a trip along an Old Post-Road, Dives, Two Banquets at Dives, A Little Journey along the Coast, and Mont St. Michel. The narrative includes excellent sketches of Norman life, of local holidays and types, historical reminiscences, and bright reports of the incidents of unconventional travel. The illustrations are sixteen in number, some full-page, others in the text, all of artistic merit and artistically reproduced. Lovell, Coryell & Co., 2.00. IN THE CITY BY THE LAKE. By Blanche Fearing. Two narratives in blank verse, the first, "The Shadow," telling the old story of the struggle of love with parental pride, the courtship, marriage and happiness of a young girl raised in the lap of luxury, and of a poor young clerk. The second, The Slave Girl," is a sequel to the first, and deals with the life of a daughter of poverty, who first appears as a child of ten years, and grows to womanhood through the toil and moil of factory life, raising all around her to her own level.-Searle & Gorton, Chicago, 1.25. LADY PATTY. By the Duchess.-The usual highly colored, frivolous, somewhat snobbish Duchess novel, Lady Patty being a mild and more respectable specimen of the Lady Dolly Vanderdecken species of women of the world. This butterfly with soothy wings has a daughter who is an angel of loveliness and innocence and believes strongly in the goodness and love of her mother, who is trying very hard, and with questionable means, to force her child into a marriage with a rich and objectionable baronet. There is a penniless cousin in the story and a young marquis who is a philanthropist and a clean-minded gentleman of the true stamp.— Lippincott Co., .50. THE LAND WE LIVE IN. Part I. By Charles F. King. The Land we Live In is a continuation of Mr. King's series of "Picturesque Geographical Readers," and, as the title indicates, covers portions of the United States. Visits are made to the industrial centres of the Eastern and Middle States, as well as to the principal cities. The books of this series are not intended to supplant the regular text-books, but to supplement them. The latest and most reliable information regarding products, industries, distances, temperature, etc., is given, the facts presented having been gathered from the most reliable sources.-Lee & Shepard, .50. LINKS FROM BROKEN CHAINS. By Donizetti Muller. A collection of verses, among them being The Origin of Will o' the Wisp, which has been published before. They are all perfectly harmless, and in one or two instances mildly amusing, and have been nicely illustrated and sumptuously printed and bound by the Riverside Press. Poets are few, versifiers are many, and Mr. Donizetti Muller belongs to the latter class. But he is at least modest in his aspirarations: "If I have made a link that fits some broken chain, |