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Best Books of 1895 for a
Village Library

The following list, which is made up by combining the votes of 15 librarians, selected as expert judges of books, was revised by M. S. Cutler, after consultation with J. N. Larned, and accepted at the Syracuse meeting of the New York State Library Association, May 30, 1896.

Books of Reference

1. Leypoldt, Mrs. A. H. and Iles, George. List of books for girls and women and their clubs. Lib. Bur., $1.

2. Willsey, J. H., comp. Harper's Book of Facts. Harper, $8.

Religion

3. Balfour, A. J. Foundations of Belief. Longmans, $2.

Alden's "Study of Death" and Le Roy Beaulieu's "Israel Among the Nations" are suggested as alternates for a library where it is thought Balfour would not find readers.

Social Science

4. Brooks, Noah. How the Republic is Governed. Scribner, 75 cts.

5. Shaw, Albert. Municipal Government in Con

6.

tinental Europe. Century, $2.

Municipal Government in Great Britain. 7. Wright, C.

Century, $2.

D. Industrial Evolution of the United States. (Chautauqua.) Flood, $1 Education

8. Martin, G. H. Evolution of the Massachusetts Public School System. (Internat. educ. ser.) Appleton, $1.50.

9. Wiggin, Mrs. K. D., and Smith, N. A. Froebel's Gifts. (The Republic of Childhood, v., 1.) Houghton, $1.

Folk-lore and Fairy-Tales

10. Harris, J. C. Mr. Rabbit at Home. Houghton, $2.

11. Lang, Andrew. My Own Fairy-book. Long

mans, $2.

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47. Hapgood, I. F. Russian Rambles. Houghton,
$1.50.
48. King, Grace. New Orleans, the Place and the

People. Macmillan, $2.50.

49. Norman, Henry. Peoples and Politics of the Far

East. Scribner, $4.

50. Ralph, Julian. Dixie. Harper, $2.50.
51. Remington, Frederick. Pony Tracks. Harper,
$3.

52. Stevenson, R. L. Amateur Emigrant from the
Clyde to Sandy Hook. Stone, $1.25.
53. Vincent, Frank. Actual Africa. Appleton, $5.
Biography

54. Arnold, Matthew. Letters of Matthew Arnold,
1848-1888, 2 v. Macmillan, $3.

55. Sherman, John. Recollections of 40 Years in the
House, Senate, and Cabinet, 2 v. Werner Co.,
$7.50.

56. Stevenson, R. L. Vailima Letters, 2 v. Stone
& Kimball, $2.25.

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An Old Oxford Custom

A quaint old custom will be revived by the Rev. G. C. Lang, the vicar of the University Church at Oxford, and the University preacher on the day of the Encænia at Oxford. He will preach the University sermon from the stone pulpit outside Magdalen Chapel in St. John's Quadrangle. It was last used about a hundred and thirty years ago by Dr. Sheppard, the brother-in-law of Dr. Routh, who held the presidency of the college as late as 1854. The practice was curiously enough discontinued, because it was feared that it would give encouragement to field preaching. It will be a pleasant memory of the Rev. G. C. Lang's short occupancy of the University Church that he should have closed by a revival of one of

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17. Guerber, H. A. Stories of the Wagner Operas. those customs which are more especially in
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Three Notable Books M

A PARISIAN IN AMERICA

By S. C. DE SOISSONS, author of " Boston Artists." The author, who has lived in America for a number of years, has enjoyed unusual facilities for judging of America, its manners and its customs, and has written on the subject in a masterful manner, and more thoroughly than either Max O'Rellor Bourget. $1.25 16mo, cloth, ornamental cover design,

A VOYAGE TO VIKING-LAND

By THOMAS SEDGWICK STEELE, author of
"Paddle and Portage," "Canoe and Camera," etc.
Illustrated with nearly one hundred fine half-tones,
principally from photographs taken expressly for
the book by the author, and a handsome map of
Norway and surroundings. The trip described is
one which has just recently begun to be taken by
travelers as a novel and pleasant summer outing to
the land of the Midnight Sun. 12mo, handsomely
bound in cloth, with attractive cover design in gold
MY FIRE OPAL

AND OTHER TALES, by SARAH WARNER BROOKS,
author of "English Poetry and Poets," etc. The
seven stories which comprise the above collection
are all of prison life, and are extremely original in
scope and intensely interesting in incident. The
author for over ten years has devoted a large portion
of her time to the needs of the unfortunates in
prison, and is peculiarly well adapted to interweave
the facts she has acquired with the proper proportion
of fiction to make the stories such that they will hold
illustrated with numerous tailpieces and initial let-
ters. 16mo, cloth, handsome cover design, $1.00

44. Van Dyke, Henry. Little Rivers. Scribner, the attention of the reader to the end. The book is $2.

Description and Travel 45. Bourget, Paul. Outre-mer. Scribner, $1.75. 46. Davis, R. H. About Paris. Harper, $1.22.

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MONEY AND BANKING

By HORACE WHITE POPULAR EDITION Paper. 488 pages. Illustrated.

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The best presentation of the current questions of finance that are now engrossing the attention of the American people.

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-Como is the birthplace of Volta, and will celebrate in 1899 the one hundredth anniversary of his invention of the voltaic battery by an electrical exhibition and congress.

-Major Von Wissman, the German Governor of East Africa, who is on sick leave, has gone to the Harz Mountains to recuperate his health, which has suffered much lately from climatic influences. After a long stay it is hoped that he will be sufficiently convalescent to take up his former place in East Africa.

-The first part of a life of Fridtjof Nansen has appeared in Norway, Sweden, and Russia. The authors are W. C. Brogger and Nordahl Rolfsen, and in addition to the biography proper there will be an introductory poem by Bjornstjerne Bjornsen, and articles by Professor Retzius, Baron von Toll, and others.

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-A new anecdote of Christopher North has been put in circulation. A feminine enthusiast was talking to the eccentric writer

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Every one should read this little book."-Athenæum.

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the village idiot's."

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-A correspondent of the London " Literary World" sends it the following story regarding the late Mrs. Stowe's magnum opus; the incident happened when the book was at the height of its popularity:

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The Week

The Business World

is

In financial circles the event of the week has been the completion of the plan of the bankers of New York and other cities to restore the Treasury gold reserve, by exchanging about $20,000,000 of their own gold for legal tenders, and by forestalling, by a pool arrangement as to exchange, the relief which might be expected from the usual fall movement of exchange toward this country on account of the fall exports. We speak editorially of this plan elsewhere. The result in Wall Street was to arrest the depression prevalent in the early part of the week, but the market is still far from strong. On Monday of this week it was stagnant, and sales were small. On Saturday prices averaged about 11⁄2 per cent. higher than on Saturday of the previous week, though there were declines in Manhattan, Burlington and Quincy, and a few other stocks. It is to be noted that there has been no rise in the price of silver bullion, and the conclusion drawn by many that there exists no real fear of silver free coinage becoming an actuality, and that the fear of a new bond issue (now averted, at least for some months) was the cause of the depression. The weekly statement of the banks showed a decrease of over twelve millions in deposit, of six millions in specie, and of over five millions in legal tenders; of course, the decrease in specie is due to the great gold transaction with the Government, while the decrease in deposits is mainly due to the gold exports. Reports of general trade from the country at large are not encouraging. Purchasers are holding back everywhere. Not a few strikes and closing of mills are recorded. Exports of wheat continue to increase, as compared with the previous week, and with last year, but are far short of the totals for the same week in 1894 and 1893. Business failures for the week (" Bradstreet's" report) were 280 as against 255 the week before, and 239 in the same week last year.

Street Railway Fares

Extraordinary low rates per mile are indicated by the distances for which a passenger may ride for a single fivecent fare, by the use of transfers, on some of the street railways, as may be seen in the following table compiled by the "Street Railway Journal:"

Track Miles for
Mileage. 5 cents.

Rate per mile.

promising. The crop is decidedly in advance
of the season and the early planted in Kansas
and Missouri is nearing maturity. In South
Dakota and extreme western Nebraska the
corn is in need of rain. Spring wheat has
experienced favorable weather conditions in
Minnesota and is reported as somewhat im-
proved in North Dakota, but has been injured
to some extent in South Dakota by rust and
dry and hot weather. There has been too
much rain for cotton in Georgia, Florida, and
South Carolina, while the crop is suffering
from drought in Arkansas, Louisiana, and
Mississippi. In Texas the week was very
favorable for cotton, and the plant has, as a
result of recent rains, taken new growth and
is fruiting well. The general outlook for
tobacco continues promising. In Ohio, how-
ever, the crop is reported grassy, and in cen-
tral Tennessee too much rain has caused
spindling growth and Frenching. In the
Carolinas the weather conditions have not been
favorable for curing tobacco.

Progress of the
Trans-Siberian Railway

Newspaper accounts
from Russian sources
furnish information

for the previous year. The exports of corn from New Orleans for the past twelve months amounted to 19,676,703 bushels, compared with but 2,572,362 bushels for 1895. During this period New York secured but 23,527,779 bushels, while with fair rates in effect from the West it should have handled at least 40,000,000 bushels. "The cause of all this ruinous diversion," says the "Inter-Ocean," "is summed up in the words Joint Traffic Association. This combine, which is nothing more than a scheme to inflate American railroad stocks in Europe, stubbornly refuses to either reduce rates from Chicago to the East or to readjust them in a way to meet the strong competition of the roads leading to the Southern and Southeastern ports, which are not members of this confidence organization."

The report of the Navi

Our Merchant Marine gation Bureau shows that during the year

ending June 30, 1896, 709 vessels of 204,000
gross tons were built in the United States and
officially numbered by the Bureau of Naviga-
tion, compared with 682 vessels of 133,000
tons for last year, an increase of 71,000 tons.
Steam vessels built numbered 322 of 135,000
tons, compared with 283 of 75,700 tons for
the previous year. Steel as chief material of
construction has increased to 106,900 tons
from 47,700 tons for the previous year. Nearly
three-fourths of the steel tonnage was built
on the great lakes. The tonnage built and
numbered on the great lakes was 104 vessels
of 92,000 tons, compared with 93 vessels of
38,000 tons for the previous year. This in-
dicates the rapid increase in size of the vessels.
of the lake fleet.

regarding the progress made with the construc-
tion of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The line
is being constructed in sections simultaneously,
and the first, at the European end, is com-
pleted, so that it is possible to travel direct
from St. Petersburg to Omsk, a distance of
2,673 miles. One account says: "On the
next section of the line, that from Omsk to
the Obi river, 384 miles in length, the rails are
laid the whole distance, but the earthworks
are not complete. On the next section, that
from the Obi river to Krasnoyarsk, 467 miles,
the rails are also laid, and a beginning has
been made of the iron bridge, nearly half a
mile long, across the Obi, that is to join the AMERICAN FIRE

two sections. On this section many of the
smaller bridges are built and half the earth-
works are completed. The next section is to
Irkutsk, a distance of 672 miles, and it pres-
ents many difficulties, the most important of
which, however, have been overcome. Nearly
two-fifths of the earthworks are finished. Be-
yond Lake Baikal the distance to the head of
the Arneer navigation is 701 miles, and in this
section work has been begun from the Pacific
end; but the difficulties are very great and
much tunneling will have to be done, as the
line has to rise to a plateau over 3,500 feet
0033 high. The next section, however, presents
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carried through a marshy region which, during
the heavy rains, is often completely submerged.
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250 miles; but there can be little doubt that
Russia is aiming at a post of the Pacific coast
which will be open the whole year through,
so that her forces may always be at her com-
mand. How this is to be obtained is one of
the problems in the far East, and its solution
may be more difficult than the building of the
Trans-Siberian Railway.

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The "Journal" says: "Brooklyn appears to take the palm by giving an electric ride of 18 miles for 5 cents, but Chicago beats this in the case of a steam road, which carries passen gers a straight trip of 21 miles for a single nickel, and goes to the expense of printing, selling, collecting, and auditing a ticket for each trip also. But, taking the actual distance traveled, street railway rates are not so remark

Channels of
Western Trade

From time to time we hear
assertion that the West is
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ably low compared with those of steam roads, through New York. At the People's Party DISCREET PEOPLE LIFE ANNUITIES

for an immense number of their fares are received for short trips of 1,2 or 3 miles, for which 5 cents is a profitable rate, and passen gers are constantly leaving and arriving on every run through a populous city. On the long runs the business would be done at a heavy loss were it not for the large returns from the short trips." In New York City there can be made out at least one route under the present system of transfers by which a passenger could, theoretically, ride for ever.

The crop bulletin issued by the Weather Bureau for the week ending July 20 says that the week has been generally favorable for growing crops in the principal agricultural States. Too much rain, however, has caused damage to grain in shock in the Ohio Valley and in Tennessee. Corn has made excellent progress during the week, and the outlook for this crop in the great corn States continues most

Convention, in St. Louis, one delegate is
quoted as threatening the East with a total
withdrawal of Western exports from Eastern
ports. The Chicago “ Inter-Ocean" publishes
a statement made by a railway officer about
exports of lard and corn which seems to show
a movement in these two commodities at least
to seek export through other points than New
York. These figures show that during the
past twelve months 12,019,305 pounds of lard
have been exported from New Orleans, while
during the entire preceding year this port se-
cured but 726,216 pounds. During the same
periods the exports of lard from New York
dropped from 289,177,945 pounds in 1895 to
261,921,961 pounds in 1896, while for the year
just closed the total exports of lard from this
country greatly increased over the preceding
twelve months. From Galveston, Norfolk,
and Newport News the exports of corn for
the year ending June 30 amounted to 19,339,-
675 bushels, compared with 6,682,000 bushels

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Bazar.

A gentleman was assisting at a bazaar last winter by reciting now and again during the evening. He had recited once or twice, and the people were sitting about chaffing, when he heard one of the committee go up to the chairman and whisper: "Hadn't Mr. better give us another recitation now?" Whereupon the chairman replied: "No, not yet; let them enjoy themselves a bit longer."

-Tid-Bits.

A New England clergyman was for some time disturbed by the members of the choir. Finally, he found a way of quieting them. After the long prayer one Sunday he announced a hymn, as usual, and added: “I hope the entire congregation will join in singing this grand old hymn; and I know the choir will, for I heard them humming it during the prayer."-Lewiston Journal.

The late Lord Chief Justice of England used to tell his friends this anecdote at his own expense: Driving in his coupé toward his court one morning an accident happened to it

at Grosvenor Square. Fearing he would be belated, he called a nearby cab from the street rank, and bade the Jehu drive him as rapidly as possible to the court of justice. "And where be they?" "What, a London cabby, and don't know where the law courts are at Old Temple Bar?" "Oh, the law courts, is it? But you said the courts of justice." On his way to his judicial seat the Chief Justice saw at once that a line was drawn in the common mind between law and justice. As if, for instance, while one was dispensed, the other was dispensed with.The Green Bag.

In a well-known bank in Edinburgh the clerks are presided over by a rather impetuous manager, whose violent fits of temper very often dominate his reason. For instance, the other day, he was wiring into one of them about his bad work. "Look here, Jones," he thundered, "this won't do! These figures are a perfect disgrace to a clerk! I could get an office boy to make better figures than those, and I tell you I won't have it! Now look at that five. It just looks like three. What do you mean, sir, by making such beastly figures ? Explain !" "I-er-I beg pardon, sir," suggested the trembling clerk, his heart fluttering terribly; "but-er-well, you see, sir, it is a three." "A three!" roared the manager. "Why, you idiot, it looks just like a five!" And then the subject dropped for an indefinite period.-Scottish-American.

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Old Mrs. K., an orthodox member of the Society of Friends, was noted for her uncompromising truthfulness. The story is told of her that one day, when out driving with her daughter, they met a young acquaintance of Miss K.'s. Mrs. K. halted her horse while the two girls chatted for a moment, and Miss K. took the opportunity to invite her friend to spend the following day with her. Mrs. K., who was not fond of young people, maintained a rigid silence during the invitation. The friend drove on. In a few minutes the K.

carriage came dashing up again behind her. Mrs. K. had evidently been taken to task by her daughter for her lack of courtesy, and wished to set herself right. Leaning out of her wagon, she called to the astonished young woman: "I want to say, Anna B., that I haven't any objections to thee coming tomorrow!"-New York Tribune.

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if you will write stating fully what you desire.

No charge is made for this service.

Suggestions for planning a vacation or a trip anywhere in the world; printed information, if issued, concerning any Transportation Line, anv Tour, any Hotel, or any Pleasure or Health Resort in any part of the world, will be sent on request, without charge, to any Outlook reader.

The Perplexing Problem

Address Recreation Department, The Outlook, 13 Astor Place, New York.

of a summer outing is solved by the handsome new book just issued by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, containing illustrations of localities, hotels, and boarding-houses, maps, rates, routes, etc. Sent free on receipt of 4 cents postage. J. W. Burdick, General Passenger Agent, Albany, N. Y. H. G. Young, Second Vice-President.

Country Farm for Sale

called "Star Lake Farm." Finely located near Lake Sunapee. Is 2,000 ft. above sea-level, supplied by the coldest and purest of water, and where the air is clear and bracing. 115 acres of land, some of which is covered with maple trees, some is pasture, and some is well cleared and well fenced. Hennery for 175 fowls, stabling for 4 horses, room for 20 cattle, silo or ice house, buildings all good, etc., etc. 12 ponds and lakes within 4 miles of property. The farm, which is to be sold before Sept. 1st, 18%, must be seen to be appreciated. Intending buyers accommodated on premises without extra charge. A chance of a lifetime. For information address

M. T. CHASE, Georges Mills, N. Η.

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RED STAR LINE UNION PACIFIC

NEW YORK-ANTWERP

Friesland.. Aug. 5, 12 noon Friesland.. Sept. 9, 12 noon Kensington, Aug. 12, 12 noon Kensington, Sept. 16, 12 noon Westernl'nd, Aug. 19, 12noon Westernl'nd, Sept. 23, 12noon Southwark, Aug. 26,12 noon Sotuhwark. Sept. 30, 10 л.м. Noordland. Sept. 2, 12 noon Noordland.. Oct. 7, 12 noon INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY

6 Bowling Green, New York

305-307 Walnut St., Philadelphia. 143 La Salle St., Chicago.

609 Market St. (Grand Hotel Bldg.), San Francisco.

CHESTER, ENGLAND QUEEN

HOTEL

First-Class Hotel, connected with the General Railway by covered Way. Lift. H. T. GOULD, Manager.

TRAVEL

17 HOURS TO PARADISE

THE BEAUTIFUL LAND
OF EVANGELINE

On the map it's Nova Scotia; in literature it's called "Acadia, Evangeline's Land;" but every vacationist calls it "The Summer Paradise." A land of cool nights and bright days; of enchanting views and perfect climate; a land of rest and recreation; of lakes and streams, and fish and game. Then the 17-hour sail on

THE FINE STEEL STEAMERS THE "BOSTON” AND “YARMOUTH" the fastest, stanchest, steadiest steamers that sail out of Boston Harbor. You leave Lewis Wharf, Boston, every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 12 noonthe next morning you are at Yarmouth, the portal of the Province. "Beautiful Nova Scotia," a handsome 60-page book, with 40 photo-engravings, will tell you all about it -where to go-what to do-how much it costs-everything. Write for it (putting in 10 cents for postage) or send for free circular to J. F. SPINNEY, Agent

YARMOUTH STEAMSHIP CO. 43 Lewis Wharf, Boston, Mass.

OW PRICES FOR BOARD in Attractive Pass. Dept., Portland, Maine. Full summer service in effect June 21st to White Mountains, Bar Harbor, Rangeley Lakes, Moosehead Lake, St. Andrews. Guide-books, folders, and full information on application.

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SUMMER COTTAGES

Cottage at Silver Bay on Lake George

Well furnished, either with board or without, will be let at nominal rent for remainder of season. Apply to HAROLD R. CODMAN, Silver Bay, Warren Co., N.Y

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HOTELS AND RESORTS

Canada

Miss Leonard's BOARDING

Established 1865.

HOUSE QUEBEC, CANADA

Colorado

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.: The Antlers

Illustrated book, describing Colorado Springs, sent on request by

E. BARNETT, Proprietor.

Connecticut

Pequot House

and Cottages

NEW LONDON, CONN.

NOW OPEN

"A delightful combination of seashore and country life at

the Pequot."

A number of furnished cottages, with hotel service and board, to let for the season.

For terms and circulars address
BLANCHARD & HAGER

WEANTINAUG INN

New Milford, Conn.

Under new management. Accommodations for coaching parties. OSCAR FLORENCE, Manager.

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“THE OVERLAND LIMITED"
CHICAGO to SAN FRANCISCO daily
3 days from Chicago
in
124 days from Missouri River

Pullman Palace epers; Dining Cars; Free Reclin-
Buffet Smoking and Library Cars.
ingrackers indul smoking and all or address any

Union Pacific agent, or E. L. LOMAX, Gen. Pass. & Tkt.
Agt., Omaha, Neb.

RAMSDELL LINE

Steamers leave Pier 24 N. R., foot Franklin St.. for Cranston's, West Point, Cold Spring, Cornwall, Fishkil. Landing, and Newburg, week days, 5 P.M.; Sunday, 9 Α.Μ.: 132d St. & N. R. 9:25 A.M. Returning leave Newburg daily 7 P.M. U S. Hotel at Newburg landing. Dinner 50 cents

SUMMER HOMES ON LONG ISLAND
"Long Island," a new illustrated descriptive book, and
"Summer Homes," a book describing hotels and board-
ing-houses on Long Island, free upon application at 113,
192, 950, and 1313 Broadway, New York; at 333 Fulton St.,
Eagle Summer Bureau, and Flatbush Ave. station L. 1.
R. R., Brooklyn; or send (4) cents in stamps for "Long
Island," or (2) cents for "Summer Homes," to H. M.
SMITH, T. Man. L. I. R.R., Long Island City, N. Y.

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