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-The Lothrop Publishing Co. will soon bring out a juvenile book by Sophie Swett, entitled Tom Pickering of Scutney. Miss Swett's two volumes published a few months ago, The Lollipops' Vacation and Pennyroyal and Mint, are selling well, as is also the collection of stories by her sister (Susan Hartley Swett), called Field Clover and Beach Grass. The Lollipops' Vacation is having an unusual sale for a juvenile.

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-The Burrows Brothers Co. have secured for their issue of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents the original manuscript of Father Claude Dablon's famous relation of the French-Canadian mission for the years 1676-77 — a rare find, curiously coming to the surface at Sotheby's auction rooms in London. In 1854 Mr. Lenox for the first time printed this particular Relation, edited by Dr. O'Callaghan, but following an abbreviated and modernized manuscript copy at Laval University, Quebec. In 1861 it was again printed at Paris, but in an imperfect form. The original MS. will now be presented just as it was written.

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Scribner's. Mr. Monkhouse's illustrated paper on Orchardson, the English painter, and his works, is perhaps the foremost item in the April number, but many readers will turn first to Mr. -G. P. Putnam's Sons' spring announcements F. B. Sanborn's account of "Odysseus An- include Authors and Publishers, a manual of droutsos and Trelawney," a curious chapter of practical suggestions; a Life of Abby Foster GibGreco-Byronic interest, peculiarly pertinent at bons, throwing light on the anti-slavery contest; the present moment. Mr. Sanborn is at his the eighth volume of the Writings of Jefferson, best, and his best is very good, with a topic like and the fourth of the Life and Correspondence of this. The light treatment of some of the humors Rufus King; a new series of sketches by Elbert of "Ocean Crossings" will be appreciated by Hubbard, entitled Little Journeys to the Homes - Professor Moses Coit Tyler's Literary Histhe experienced and enjoyed by those who have of Famous Women; Nippur, a narrative of ex-tory of the American Revolution is in two large yet their first voyage to make. Both text and | plorations and adventures on the Euphrates, by | octavo volumes, but they are sold separately. pictures are dexterously true to life. Mr. Gib- Dr. John P. Peters; the Life and Correspondence In these carefully made up pages Whigs and son's pen and pencil give a glimpse of London of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; a translation by Tories are allowed each to tell their own story life in London parks; and Mr. Howells contin- Anne G. Brinton of Pellissier's Literary Move of their times. ues his "Story of a Play." ment in France During the 19th Century; an anonymous work on The Revolutionary Tendencies of the Age; and a number of books of minor interest.

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- Collectors of Walton's Compleat Angler must not miss the new edition in a large octavo which Mr. Richard Le Gallienne has prepared, | Mr. Edmund H. M. New has illustrated, and Dent & Co. have published.

- According to the Academy the books having the largest sales in London just now are Anthony Hope's Phroso, Mr. Le Gallienne's The Quest of the Golden Girl, Benson's The Babe, Marie Corelli's Sorrows of Satan, Lord Roberts's Forty-one Years in India, Gibbon's Letters and Autobiographies, Miss Kingsley's Travels in West Africa, Mr. Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy, Mrs. Steel's On the Face of the Waters, Nansen's Farthest North, Bourinot's Canada, and Dean Church's Occasional Papers.

- The Academy accords a kindly welcome to Col. John Hay, our new Ambassador to the Court of St. James, in his capacity of a man of letters, saying at once and pleasantly that "his presence in London will keep alive the traditions which have gathered around an office already held by Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Mr. Motley, Mr. Lowell, Mr. Phelps, and Mr. Bayard."

-Houghton, Mifflin & Co have in preparation an edition de luxe of the late Professor Child's English and Scottish Ballads, strictly limited to 1,000 copies, in ten parts; the second series of the Letters of Victor Hugo; a memoir of the late Dr. John H. Morrison; a new and revised edition of Colonel Dodge's Civil War; The Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspect, embodying the results of the investigation made by Presidents Eliot, Low, and others; and Walks and Drives in the Country Roundabout Boston, by Edwin M. Bacon.

- Dr. Edward Randall Knowles is issuing a new and amended edition of his work on The Supremacy of the Spiritual.

- Mrs. Laura E. Richards, who has recently given a number of readings from her own works, in Brookline, Dedham, and other places, has been very busy with literary work during the past winter, having written two serial stories besides several short sketches. Gardiner, Me., is described by Mrs. Richards herself as "one of the prettiest and pleasantest of New England towns; " and here, in the author's delightful home, have been written When I Was Your Age, Queen Hildegarde, Captain January, Isla Heron, and the score or more of others which have entertained their hundreds of thousands of read

- Eugene Field left an autobiographical frag-ers, both old and young. ment which his sudden break-down prevented · Four O'Clock is the cosily suggestive name him from completing, and which Mr. F. M. of another new magazine, published in Chicago Morris of Chicago has now published in a and edited by Charles Fletcher Scott. With a limited edition of 150 copies numbered, with novel and bright little cover, and a most original initial letters illuminated in colors by Mrs. W. scrapbook method of illustration, this débutante Irving Way. There is a less expensive edition makes its bow to the book world. of 350 copies without the illuminations.

- A mysterious item is afloat in the papers about a book which is under way in Baltimore, and which is to be one of the costliest and most superb works ever published in this country. - Roberts Brothers have ready 250 sets only It is an account of Oriental ceramic art, based of Miss Wormeley's translation of Balzac, printed chiefly upon the large and valuable collections on Dutch hand-made paper and bound in polished of Chinese, Japanese, and Corean wares belong. buckram, with seven illustrations in photograv-ing to the late W. T. Walters. ure made for this edition by twenty French artists. Of this edition subscriptions are received for full sets only.

Mr. William T. Adams ("Oliver Optic") died at his home in Dorchester, a precinct of Boston, on Saturday, the 27th, after an illness

The Macmillan Co. announce a new book by Mrs. Steel, author of On the Face of the Waters, entitled In the Tideway, a Scotch story.

-The Jewish Publication Society of America announce In the Pale: Stories and Legends of the Russian Jews, by Rev. Henry Iliowizi.

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