1077 pp. REFERENCE BOOKS. Clegg, James 'Editor). The International Directory of Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual for 1899. Cloth. 366 pp... Aldine Press, Rochdale net 65 Companies Winding-Up', Seventh Annual Report by the Board of Trade. 81 pp.. Eyre and Spottiswoode Dod's Peerage. Baronetage, and Knightage, etc., for 1899. cr. 8vo. Gilbert and Rivington Hazell's Annual for 1899. cr. 8vo. 676 pp. ...... 1, Creed Lane, E.C. 3/6 Herbert Fry's Royal Guide to the London Charities, edited by John Lane. limp cloth. cr. 8vo. (Chatto and Windus Pamphlets and Leaflets of the Liberal Publication Department, 1898. 1. cr. 8vo.... .... 42, Parliament Street, S. W. The Baptist Handbook, cr. 8.0. 552 PP. Veale, Chifferiel and Co., Chancery Lane cr. 8vo. 570 PP. 391 pp. 1/6 1/5 2/0 The Catholic Directory, 189). Burns and Oates net 1/6 The "House on Sport. By Members of the London Stock Exchange (edited by W. A. Morgan. Profits to go to the Referee Children's Dinner Fund. cr. 4to. 470 PP.... Gale and Polden net 21/0 The Sportsman's Year Book, edited by C. S. Colman and A. H. Windsor. cr. 8vo. 512 pp. Lawrence and Bullen 2/6 cr. 8vo. 286 pp. (Dawbarn and Ward net 2/0 Wilson, Edward L. Photographic Mosaics. OUR CIRCULATING LIBRARY. THE winter season is now in full swing and an unus large number of boxes are at present in circulation. Th object of the library, as has been so often pointed ou these pages, is to enable villages and small towns wi have no free library to obtain some of the best books A New Series of 5 the day at a moderate cost. Boxes has now been prepared. Each box contains o forty works of fiction, mostly by well-known contempor writers. These boxes are supplied quarterly fr subscription of £6 per annum, or half-yearly at £5 p annum. The usual boxes contain about twenty standard: new novels, ten bound volumes of the most por illustrated magazines, as well as books of travel r adventure, biographies, histories, etc. The cheaper boxes contain about eighty comp works, in sixty volumes. Each box has over standard novels, besides other books and magazines. Boxes of books, containing from forty-five to volumes, are supplied every quarter, at a charge of 22 per quarter, or £5 a year paid in advance. Boxes of books, with the same number of volumes, supplied half-yearly at a charge of 50s. a half-year, £4 10s. a year. Cheaper boxes of books, containing sixty volumes, be supplied half-yearly at a charge of 30s., or £3 a vez A large number of second-hand books, clean and good condition, are to be sold at reduced prices. Lists these, and all other information, will be sent on applicati to the REVIEW OF REVIEWS CIRCULATING LIBRAF Temple House, Temple Avenue, London, E.C. NOW RUNNING IN THE MAGAZINES. MAGAZINE. BEGUN. Argosy Jan. '99 Blackwood's Oct. '98 Magazine Irish Monthly. Jan. '98 Chambers's Jan. '99 Journal Woman at Home Temple Bar.. Oct. '98 Jan. '99 . Scribner's Jan. '99 Magazine Frank Leslie's Nov. '98 Popular Monthly Temple Bar. . Century Maga Nov. '98 Nov. '98 zine Davidson, Lillias For Lack of Love Campbell Doyle, Conan. Gerard, Dorothea Round the Fire . The Conquest London Magazine of Monthly Packet Oct. '98 The Harbou Bar By Fancy Led . Leisure Hour . Jan. '99 Jan. '99 Jan. 99 zine Windsor Magazine Stalky & Co.. McClure'sMaga- Dec. '98 Dec. '98 ROPERLY speaking, this paper should bristle with PROPERLY thrly show how real is the work the done by our organisation. Truly, the Post Office authorities ought to send M. Mieille a vote of thanks for the additional business due to this exchange of letters, because, as new adherents come in to the tune of a hundred a month, and as only a small percentage of the original correspondents appear to have discontinued writing, the cost of the postage stamps used (and which amounted in the first year to the earnings of a first-class artisan) must have increased at a compound rate, for the International Correspondence, whether it concerns its first source the scholars' scheme-or its large tributary -that for adults-is as a stream widening on its way, and continually reinforced by countless small rivulets. But during these weeks, when the mind is filled with the enormous possibilities for good now in the balance-in this time, when the germ of an International Europe may be in process of formation--figures are less interesting than such a programme as the following, put forward by L'Etranger, 77, Rue Donfert Rochereau, Paris, as its aim and reason for existence : The best men of all countries must unite in a vast league, an International League, the principal goal of which shall be to favour all efforts made for raising the moral level and welfare of mankind, apart from all political opinions. This International League will have recourse to active propaganda by literature and the press. The best abilities of all nations will contribute to these periodicals, and an intellectual life will be thus developed, stronger than anything that each national literature could ever yield. Doctors and men of science will gather together in academies in search of progress, and they will find it more rapidly than isolated nations. We shall take our schools, at the common expense, to the neighbouring countries, in order to show to our children, to impress upon their minds, that our neighbours are men like ourselves, our equals. The kindness they will meet with, the remarkable things they will I witness, will give a new bent to their feelings and a new course to their whole life, and we shall thus form better hearts, higher beings, than any military service in the most elegant cavalry uniform could ever do. This aim is surely a noble one. Let us each help to hasten the time when the world's money and skill will be used in furthering the happiness and well-being of the millions of our unfortunate brothers and sisters rather than in the provoking of national hatreds and increase of munitions of war. The International Correspondence is a real help in this direction, and will be more so the more our feelings of patriotism induce in us that courtesy towards others and sympathy for them, which, making the correspondence a continued pleasure to each pair of writers, will reflect honour upon our country and people. Now for the educational side of the project. LETTERS FROM TEACHERS. Dear Sir, The children are very well suited with good correspondents. The extreme amiability and willingness of the French boy or girl to send along photos, papers, cards, etc., to their English correspondents cannot but please the latter. We are just holding our annual Prize distribution. As far as possible we allow the prize-winners to choose the subjects of their prize books. This year, as a consequence of the French correspondence, there is quite a run on French books of all kinds. This is a very healthy state of affairs to me. We use the letters for teaching purposes and find them good material to copy-or avoid. It is a capital exercise to show how the French correspondent arrived at s me funny bit of English by literally OUR METHODS OF INTRODUCTION. For the information of those who have not our back numbers at hand I repeat the rules. For the Scholars' Correspondence: Teachers should send a list containing the name and age of each pupil desiring to correspond. A similar list is sent me by the Revue Universitaire. The names are then carefully paired, each scholar from any one school having a correspondent assigned him from a different place in France. The paired list is sent to Paris on the first of the month, published there the fifteenth, and letters may be expected in England the fourth week. Thus, if lists do not reach me before the first of the month, a delay of two months. may occur. (This refers to boys; girls' names are not published.) The French boy writes a French letter the fourth week of the month, correcting in that letter the bad French of his correspondent. The English boy writes in English the first week, and corrects his friend's bad English. The second week comes an English letter from France; the third week a French letter should go to France. The letters in the native language are intended as models, and are as necessary as the letters in the foreign language; they are, besides, a better medium for friendliness. Arrangements for Germany are much the same, but names not being printed we have to send 2d. with each one. Herr Hartmann also likes to know the fathers' business, and the boys' school standing. As regards adults we need to know occupation as well as name and age, and a fee of one shilling should be sent to cover expense of search. NOTICES. Readers interested in our good friend M. Mieille, and cyclists, should read his delightful description of Tarbes as a cycling centre. Imagine a place from which four good cycling roads emerge, situated amidst the exquisite and varied scenery of the Pyrenees, and where, on account of good roads and fine air, it appears easy to reach comfortably a considerable altitude. Then, too, the very names of the places are words to conjure with. Here our Black Prince journeyed to and fro with his troopers; Henry IV. of France was at home, and present-day pilgrims are not absent from Campan St. Marie, Luchon, Pau, or Lourdes; the glorious Pic du Midi overlooking all. The article is to be found in the January Practical Teacher, 33, Paternoster Row, London, E.C. A Norwegian teacher would like English correspondents for his boys. A French schoolmaster would like to exchange his son of sixteen with an English lad for a few months. A young Frenchman would like to correspond with some one engaged in the silk trade. Italian Marriage Coffers. Illustrated. Oliver Brackett. Supplements :-"The Old Bell Inn, Holborn," Photogravure by F. L. 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