terest in the author, though it is not unlikely those who are personally interested will think it quite a wonderful book, because it has no especial faults except total lack of raison d'être. The "Twilight- Piece" is about the best in the volume. [John Lane.] MINOR NOTICES. Small Yachts. With the winter season there comes a lull in the pleasure breeze, and the interest in yachts and yachting yields place for a while; but the time is again close at hand when there must be a wide demand and eager reading for such a work as Stephens's Supplement to "Small Yachts," a large folio of about a hundred pages of letter-press, and as many pages more of constructors' drawings, all descriptive of small pleasure boats built in America and England between the years 1890 and 1896. The plates include working drawings and complete details of construction. Any yachtsman, amateur or professional, any boat builder, any man wishing to plan, build, or superintend the building of his own boat, will find in this treatise valuable material for his purpose. The author is the yachting editor of that delightful journal of out-of-door sports, Forest and Stream. [Forest and Stream Publishing Co. $4.00.] With the Trade Winds. Mr. Ira Nelson Morris is a young man in the twenties, we should say, who has recently made a trip to the West Indies and neighboring parts of South America, and in With the Trade Winds, a little book of some 150 pages, has given a sim ple narrative of what he saw, which the publishers have fitted out with excellent half-tone lowance of paper by the publishers, have made The College Year-Book for 1896-7. AN ALPHABETICAL CATALOGUE AND DE SCRIPTION OF ALL AMERICAN UNIVER- MISCELLANY. Degrees, College Fraternities, College Track and Field, General Records, - Here are the words that led to the deeds of University from the former books of the late Holm's History of Greece. The third volume of Adolf Holm's History of Greece, to be completed in four, deals with the period extending from the fourth century B.C. to the death of Alexander, and so is emphasized not only by the figure of that great man, but by those of Demosthenes and Philip, by a glimpse of Cyrus, though only in the distance, by the Spartan supremacy, by the writings of Xenophon and Plato. The historical portraits of Alexander and Philip are strong and effective, so are the pictures of Athens about the middle of the fourth century, of the literature and art of the time, and of public law. A valuable feature of the work is the body of critical notes appended to each of the twenty-nine chapters, which place a great deal of apparatus at the disposal of the student. This is a work for students, and is marked by German method and thoroughness. [The Macmillan Co. $2.50.] The Law of Married Women in and Curaçao; and pays a considerable visit to It seems to us that this last feature- the alphabetical index to all collegiate officials in the United States is alone worth the price of the book. It fills sixty pages, three columns to a page. The editor, Mr. Edwin Emerson, Jr., and his associate, Mr. George H. illustrations and printed in an extremely attract- Emerson, will not claim to have made a book ive form, making it altogether pretty to look which is free from omissions or errors, nor is upon and entertaining to read. The author's it up to date at every point; but it takes with route takes in St. Thomas, Santa Cruz, St. a large measure of success a place on the shelf Kitts, Antigua, Martinique, St. Lucia, and Bar-which hitherto has been practically empty, and of The Law of Married Women in Massachusetts, badoes; affords glimpses of Grenada, Trinidad, for it all workers in the college world will be a beautiful book of it, too. [Stone & Kimball.] profoundly thankful. The publishers have made National Epics. The Colonial Tavern. Edward Field's The Colonial Tavern is a study in New England antiquities - antiquities of town and domestic life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for the contemplation of which the tavern afforded such marked facilities. If the old New England town was an ellipse, the meeting house was one of its foci and the tavern the other. From local histories, old newspapers, a mass of diaries, letters, account books, and like materials, thoroughly ransacked, have been collected the details which have been wrought up into these eight chapters on the tavern and its keeper, its name and its sign, its cheer and its charges, its travelers and their tales, its relation to the stage coach and the training day, and its important - indeed, its political-place in the Revolution. Vignettes at the beginnings of chapters, and a lavish al Kate Milner Rabb's volume. Beginning with of the epic, there is something peculiarly salu- American Orations. Mr. George A. O. Ernst of the Suffolk (Mass.) bar has compiled a short and popular statement which will assist young practitioners, tend to recnewed efforts in behalf of the "emancipation " tify the relations between husbands and their of their sex. Its twelve chapters on marital rights, property rights, business rights, divorce rights, burial rights, and so on, are deductions of common law and statutory law from the mass of decisions; and a long table of cases cited, references thereto in the form of foot-notes, and a topical index facilitate use. A study of this book would save some women the expense of going to a lawyer, and it may be depended upon in the main as an authority, keeping always in mind, of course, the fact that "circumstances alter cases." [Little, Brown & Co. $2.00.] wives, and rouse the women reformers to re X Rays. There is probably no scientific discovery of as great interest to laymen as that of the X rays, or Roentgen rays, so called in honor of their discoverer. The work of Edward P. Thompson bearing this title is briefly an abstract of a large The third volume of American Orations con- number of articles bearing on the subject, and tinues the treatment of the anti-slavery contro- of numerous experiments by many scientists, versy, with selections from the speeches of Chase, from Faraday to the present time. Each experEverett, Douglas, Sumner, Lincoln, Brooks, Ben-iment is treated in a numbered paragraph, of jamin, and Seward, and then enters on the great secession debates in which Hale, Wade, Toombs, and Jefferson Davis are among the participants. which there are 210, giving in the majority of cases the date of the experiment and the journal in which the original article appeared. The first two chapters treat of the phenomena shown at said out of large knowledge, but with the mod- Southern California. Prehistoric Man and Beast. The Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, F.G.S., has fol them off her inclination for Alceste in the midst of her many other lovers; only she finds it hard to cut and when the exposure of her naughty wit has laid - what woman with a train does not?— her under their rebuke, she will do the utmost she can; she will give her hand to honesty, but she cannot quite abandon worldliness. She would be unwise if she did. To sort out, parse, analyze, and reunite a paragraph like this involves a degree of labor on the part of the reader which is the reverse of comic. [Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25.] Weber's History of Philosophy. Prof. Frank Thilly, of the University of Missouri, who has given us an excellent authorized translation of this history by Prof. A. Weber, of Strassburg University, declares that he knows time somewhat disjointed. The book is well il-lowed up his very readable volumes on Creatures no other book "so admirably fitted for acquaintlustrated with numerous full-page half-tones and of Other Days and Extinct Monsters, with a booking the student with the development of thought. smaller woodcuts. Some of the half-tones are in similar style on our own far-distant fore- The author combines in his person the best eleexceptionally fine for X ray pictures, showing fathers. He takes a conservative view of the ments of French and German scholarship." The the bones of the hand, e. g., quite clearly. [D. age of mankind, allowing from 15,000 to 25,000 few months that have passed since this volVan Nostrand Co. $1.50.] years for it, and rejecting decisively "the myth ume was published have already brought of the great ice sheet" and the astronomical many confirmations of the translator's judg theories of a glacial period. But, as he allows ment. In some 600 ordinary octavo pages Miss Beatrice Harraden, the author of that 10,000 years for Egyptian civilization, his lower Professor Weber has sketched the long hispopular book, Ships that Pass in the Night, is limit is out of the question, and the upper limit tory of philosophy from Thales to Spencer, one of the two authors of Two Health Seekers in seems very moderate for such a development. with a sense of proportion, a thoroughness, a Southern California. The other is William A. Mr. Hutchinson gives separate chapters to scholarship, and a candor that deserve all Edwards, M.D., of Philadelphia. It is a point fairies and mermen (for whom he would claim praise; modern philosophy receives its due of advantage that the medical profession should more reality than is usually allowed), rude stone share of attention; and the chapters on Kant, be represented in a book whose immediate ad- monuments, and "Stonehenge not Druidical." Hegel, and Evolution are among the best. It dress is to readers out of health. Southern Cal-The ten plates by Mr. Cecil Aldin help greatly is a manual which for the completeness of its ifornia for health rather than for pleasure, we in the realization of the wild beings whom Mr. grasp and the lucidity of its exposition is fairly should say; for while a visit to it is one of the Hutchinson describes in a thorough and interest- to be called a masterpiece. No other history delights of life, and may well be a dream with ing fashion. [D. Appleton & Co. $3.00.] in brief compass is its equal. [Charles Scribthose who have not taken it, to settle down and ner's Sons. $2.50.] live there, for one born into the varieties, even the rigors, of an eastern climate, is a different matter. This little book, with its careful and discriminating information as to climate, seasons, out-of-door life, expenses, etc., is just the book that a great many people must be looking for, and at this time of the year in particular, when the excursion trains are on the road. It is prettily printed, and can be read through in a morning. [J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.00.] Habit and Instinct. Professor C. Lloyd Morgan last year delivered the substance of this volume as lectures in Boston, New York, Chicago, and elsewhere in our country, so that it will find a specially interested public awaiting it. In some sort it is a continuation of his well-known book on Animal Life and Intelligence, and its original matter is largely made up of observations on young birds. The author surveys the whole field of the relations of instinct and habit with a strong disposition to Ruling Ideas of the Present Age. deny the transmission of acquired habits, but in Rev. Washington Gladden's volume is a the last three chapters he seems to restore with Fletcher prize essay on which the trustees of one hand what he takes away with the other, for Dartmouth College may congratulate them- he holds that "acquired modifications of strucselves. Chapters like these on God's Father-ture may permit congenital variations of a simhood, Man's Brotherhood, the Unity of the ilar kind; other variations being suppressed by Sacred and the Secular, Religion and Politics, natural selection." Professor Morgan emphaPublic Opinion, Pharisaisms, and Trusteeships sizes the predominant part which mental evoluof Wealth must have been edifying as ser- tion has long played with the human species; mons; they certainly are edifying as here but the evidence which he gives for believing in printed. There is nothing strikingly original a weakening rather than a strengthening of faculty in the treatment, but the spirit is manly, the in the last few hundred years is sufficiently ludiinformation implied is large, the counsel sa- crous; it consists of quotations from Mr. Gladgacious, and the ideas such as are ruling and stone, as reported by Mr. W. T. Stead, the “late to rule more and more the present age and its Mr. Kidd," and the even "later" Mr. Bellamy! successors. [Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.] It is, indeed, a weak ending of a strong and valuable book. [Edward Arnold. $4.00.] The Aurora Borealis. When you have finished Nansen's great work a next book to take up might well be Alfred Angot's monograph on The Aurora Borealis, a fascinating phenomenon of which Nansen's pages have many reflections, but as to which not much has been written by the scientists, for the very good reason that but little is known. The author of the present work is a French meteorologist of distinction, and what he has to say is An Essay on Comedy. It is rather a heavy-lightness with which Mr. George Meredith discourses in this small volume on The Idea of Comedy. There is nothing especially new or original in his point of view, and there is much of his accustomed turgidity in point of style. This, for example: The Sense of Beauty. 66 In this reproduction of a course of lectures given at Harvard on the nature and materials of beauty, form, and expression, Mr. George Santayana has made a noteworthy contribution to the English literature of æsthetics. He speaks attempt to put together of it modestly as an the scattered commonplaces of criticism into a system, under the inspiration of a naturalistic psychology; " but it is, in truth, a book of distinction. Not often do poets of so much power as Mr. Santayana treat of the laws of beauty, nor do such poets usually bring to the task the scientific knowledge and the critical penetration here manifest. The definition of beauty advances from that given in the first part—“value positive, intrinsic, and objectified, or in less technical language, beauty is pleasure regarded as the quality of a thing" — to that given in the conclusion. Beauty, therefore, seems to be the clearest manifestation of perfection, and the best evidence of its possibility. . possible conformity between the soul and naa pledge of the ture, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good. Mr. Santayana's firm and consistent theory of æsthetics we may not here develop; but it would be easy to quote many specimens of sound thoughts felicitously expressed. [Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.] The "Lectures on Ecclesiastical History," delivered in Norwich Cathedral and edited by Dean Lefroy, will be published here by Mr. She (Célimene) is a fieffée coquette, rejoicing Whittaker. Dean Farrar deals with St. Ignain her wit and attractions, and distinguished by tius and St. Polycarp; Canon Meyrick with Justin Martyr; Professor Gwatkin with Eusebius, and Bishop Barry with Ambrose, these being among the fifteen contributors to the volume. Mr. Whittaker will also publish Captain Hinde's book on the Fall of the Congo Arabs. The author was attached to the expedition sent out by the Belgium Government a Economics. tricity and Magnetism, and Light, and the illus-togravure portraits add to the attractions of a few years since, that ended in the complete book, but each chapter has helpful introductory finds the brightness of ethics in trivial incidents. overthrow of the Mohammedan power in the Congo Basin, and the book is already in a third edition in London. MISCELLANY. Charades. There must be a "boom" in charades, for here are no fewer than four books devoted to them exclusively; enough, we should say, to overstock the market. One charade now and then, like an olive, is a good thing to give flavor to a leisure hour and pastime to a roomful of young company; but a whole book of them, four books of them, "centuries" of them, there would seem in that provision a suggestion of satiety. Mr. William Bellamy has found time to invent A Second Century of Charades [Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.00.] no less clever and ingenious than his first hundred, though of varying merit, some obscure, some obvious, some natural, some far-fetched; one has two answers, another four, all will amuse and oc cupy brains that have nothing more important to do in this needy world and time of ours than to indulge in perplexity over useless puzzles. Mr. Bellamy's most formidable rival in this line, perhaps, is Mrs. Katharine I. Sanford, whose New Book of Charades [James T. White & Co. 75c.] contains fifty-one examples. The best part of it seems to us the table at the close, where the answers to all are given in full for those who do not want the trouble of guessing any. Under the title of The Columbian Prize Charades [Lee & Shepard. $1.00.] Herbert Ingalls has collected one hundred and sixty more, many of which are very baffling, and most of which require not only an acquaintance with words, but a knowledge of literature, and Mr. H. J. Davenport's very suggestive Outlines of Economic Theory is not primarily a text and review questions; and the numerous pages of quotations from standard economists are also a valuable feature. Mr. Davenport is one of the liberal school in economics, agreeing often with the late F. A. Walker; where the latter, however, made the wage-earner the residuary legatee of industry, our author adds the imprenditor (as he styles the employer or entrepreneur). A fourth part of the book is devoted to "political economy as an art," and here Mr. Davenport is a judicious reformer. His work deserves examination by every teacher of the science. [The Macmillan Co. $2.00.] Mr. Logan G. McPherson's small volume on The Monetary and Banking Problem is one of the best of minor presentations of this question. [D. Appleton & Co. $1.25.] Hygiene. Epigrams and Quotations. The Persuasive Hand and Other Sayings and Essayings, by the author of Times and Days, is a clever volume of epigrams, soliloquies, and sketches; the sort of book not to be read at one sitting, but rather to be taken up at random and sipped a few minutes at a time. The writer is certainly a keen inspector of life, and the book holds among warmer things some very polished cynicism. As brief examples of its contents we quote the following: "A sigh is the giving up the ghost of a hope." "Unselfishnesses-little suicides." "A child is a beautiful promise that never is kept." [London: The Chiswick Press. ] All women will be interested in the new book Quotations for Occasions is a merry and useful on Beauty and Hygiene. The Complexion, volume compiled by Katharine B. Wood, of the Mouth, Teeth, Excessive Thinness, and Grace-editorial staff of the Century Dictionary. In ful Carriage are only a few of the subjects the space of 217 pages are some 2,500 quotatreated. In addition to other suggestions the tions appropriate for dinner menus, programs, little book contains a large number of receipts tea-drinkings, bicycle meets, arts, professions, for "beautifiers." [Harper & Brothers. 75c.] etc. What a boon for the entertainer, who Dr. Reuben Green of Boston, now in his will no longer have to rack his brains, hunt eightieth year, and for fifty-six years a practic- vainly through more solemn collections, and ing physician with abundant opportunity to finally in despair perpetrate a series of auobserve for himself the evil effects of wrong dacious quotation frauds! [The Century Co. and alcoholic stimulants, and of the neglect of methods of education, of the use of narcotic $1.50.] certain fundamental laws of self-preservation, has written a book of Thoughts for the People, which embodies the result of this observation discussion and advice. and study in a few chapters of common-sense Without especial originality or concentration of either thought or style, it yet contains many wise and practical Out-of-Door Sketches. birds, of which Florence A. Merriam writes dainA-Birding on a Bronco is about California tily and lovingly, and of which beautiful photographs are given, with drawings from life by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. The writer had no gun - fortunately — but an opera glass, Ridgway's manual, a notebook, enthusiasm, knowledge, ob therefore serve, in some degree, a useful end. suggestions, which if heeded would add to pub-servation, tact, patience, and love for her pur Ten prizes are offered to the successful guessers. Rather the daintiest book of all under this head is the last to be named, At the Sign of the Sphinx, by Carolyn Wells, whose rhymes are clever and smooth. [Stone & Kimball. $1.25.] Text Books. lic and private well-being. [Lee & Shepard. Vignettes, a miniature journal of whim and sentiment," by Herbert Crackenthorpe, is written all over Europe and England, in Florence, Monte Carlo, Villeneuve, Avignon, Bearn, Pau, Castel Sarrasin, and the Thames Embankment. The little croquis are sharply touched and full of cleverness. [John Lane. $1.00.] Phillips and Loomis's Elements of Geometry, in addition to other merits as a text book, contains by far the finest illustrations of solid geometry we have ever seen in a work of its A delightful book of the gentler and quieter class. They are artistic in the highest sense, sort is the third series of Mr. Austin Dobson's and make the book, despite its subject, a thing| Eighteenth Century Vignettes; a baker's dozen of beauty. [Harper & Brothers. $1.75.] Professor J. S. Ames of Johns Hopkins University, in his Theory of Physics, lays down the premiss that for the successful presentation of the subject of physics to students three things are necessary: a text book, lectures and recitations, and experiments; and the text book, which he believes to be in many ways the most important means of the three, is what he has undertaken to supply in this compact, comprehensive, well-arranged treatise. Its five books treat in order of Matter, Sound, Heat, Elec and a few more essays in the author's happy suit. [Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.] My Village is not Miss Mitford's "village," but a small hamlet on the French seacoast, to which Mr. E. Boyd Smith, a Boston artist, has been resorting in summer seasons. The illustrations, 150 in number, are by the author, fifty of them in monotint by a new process, etched on a porcelain plate coated thinly with black paint, and the impression taken from that by pressure from the palm of the hand. The results are unequal in merit, but the best are very good, and the French peasant type, of which Mr. Smith has evidently made long and careful study, is excellently well indicated. [Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.00.] Dr. Charles C. Abbott, in Birdland Echoes, groups his feathered neighbors and friends geographically rather than systematically; has "birds of the mill-pond, the lowlands, the fields, the woods, and even the dusty highways;" has a chapter on "The Inspiring Sparrows," another on those that especially haunt our gardens, like the oriole, nuthatches, and others; gives a chapter to the warblers, and one to the snipes, plovers, and their kind; and closes with the winter birds. Pleasant reading is made attractive by eighty illustrations. [J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.00.] The author of In the Tiger Jungle is the Rev. Dr. Jacob Chamberlain, a missionary of many years from the American Reformed (Dutch) Church to India; and under this title he has collected some twenty sketches of his life in his far-away field of labor, full of the landscape and of the native character of India, of the hardships, perils, and excitements to which his service has been subjected, strongly flavored with a pronounced personality, imbued with a stalwart Christian faith of the old style which it is Religious. are maps, illustrations, and an index. [Harper than the form. The form is cheap looking According to Ida C. Craddock The Heaven of the Bible is one and the same with Paradise, is a city in a garden or a garden in a city, has vegetation, raises grapes, palm trees, and flax, refreshing to meet with, and illustrated with is provided with salt water, etc., etc. If any eight good half-tones. [F. H. Revell Co. one wants to see how the realism of the Book $1.00.] of the Revelation looks when accepted literally let him turn over the pages of this curiosity. [J. B. Lippincott Co. 50c.] Mr. Laurence Hutton's Literary Landmarks of Rome applies to that city the same treatment which he has lately expended on Venice and Florence, but the result is a less interesting book than either of the others. He would say because of the subject, we should say for other The three books together are, how ever, a useful set for visitors. [Harper & Brothers. $1.00.] reasons. History. The Gospel in Brief, according to Count Tolstoi, a translation of the teachings of Jesus from the original Greek, has both interest and inspiration. This is an abridged form of the larger work, leaving out all description of events, but containing a preface, summary, and recapitulation, which appeal powerfully to the individual conscience. [T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.25.] New Editions. The portraits are often likenesses, but sometimes parodies. It is a pity that the mechanical coarseness with which this work is presented could not have been a little refined. There is rather a surprising degree of freshness to the issues of Scribner's Magazine for the twelve months of 1896, when seen for the first time bound up into their two handsome volthe accompanying stores of beautiful and often umes, with all their varied reading matter and brilliant illustrations. The employment of the arts of the chrom-lithographer in the embellishment of such a publication is a dangerous experiment, but we are bound to say that Scribeffects of color, however, can excel in beauty ner's stands the test remarkably well. the plain black and white of many of the engravings in these volumes. NEWS AND NOTES. No the San Francisco literary sky, has soared for- The Lark, that curious little nondescript of ever away, and bids the world good-by with a Dr. Daniel B. Brinton's Myths of the New World, a study of the mythology and symbolism The late Sidney Lanier's Johns Hopkins Uniof the North American Indian, and long ac-versity Lectures on The English Novel, first knowledged as an authority for every investi-published in 1883, were his last literary work, gator of ethnological problems, shows in its excepting one trifle. They are the final and new form a thorough revision, some rewriting, ripened fruit of his genius, for that Mr. Lanier and about fifty pages of new matter, thus bring-was a man of genius we think is coming to be regret with which its disappearance is to be ing it up to date. Its interest for the general reader is hardly less than its importance for the scholar. [David McKay. $2.00.] admitted, though note of the fact had hardly been taken while he lived. Tardy recognition is, however, better than none, and the star of Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island is a his fame is still rising. A thorough revision of handsomely printed volume, written by Edward the text has been made for this new edition from Field, provided with maps, plans, and illustra-new plates, several omitted passages have been tions, in which State and ancestral pride will restored, and a table of contents has been added. alike rejoice. Copies of old documents are A change in editorship has doubtless resulted in given in full, which will delight the Rhode advantage to the completeness and authority of Islanders. To the public at large the book a work which deserves the careful reading of all will be chiefly valuable as showing how thor-students of the higher forms and principles of oughly historical research can be conducted. English literature. [Charles Scribner's Sons. [Preston & Rounds.] $2.00.] We have a third edition of the Rev. Arthur Wentworth Eaton's The Heart of Creeds, a survey from the extreme liberal point of view of the historical grounds of Christianity. [Thomas Whittaker. $1.00.] Rev. Dr. David Gregg's stirring, patriotic addresses under the title Makers of the American Republic, when delivered as lectures, roused enthusiasm; better still, a spirit of loyalty to freedom and religion. Many of them state in two or three lines the distinct contribution to America of different races, as, e. g., Virginia contribNow is a good time to read Dr. Jameson's uted men and measures," the Scotch, persist- Raid, a simple statement of facts by the Rev. ence, truth, principle. The characterization of James King, with a map and some statistical Columbus and of the results of his life does not tables. [George Routledge & Sons. 50c.] make him much of a hero, but the facts are The same remark may be made of Mr. stated without bitterness. [E. B. Treat. $1.50.] Lewis's Primer of Football, with its striking There are other summaries of Greek history illustrations from instantaneous photographs; than the late Dr. William Smith's Smaller His- a text book which, if it has not been, we pretory of Greece, but there are none better, and a sume will be, adopted in the official curriculum new edition revised, enlarged, and in part re- of all colleges, universities, theological semiwritten by Mr. Carleton L. Brownson of Yale naries, academies, and we do not know but all University, puts this admirable little handbook women's colleges, in this world and the next. in the very front rank of helps of its kind, and [Harper & Brothers.] makes it almost indispensable to those who wish Examination of the second and third and to refresh their minds at the least expense with fourth volumes of the New American Suppleregard to the past of that little land which is ment to the Encyclopædia Britannica, published just now filling so large a place in the world's by the Werner Co. of Buffalo, confirms the eye. Ancient and classic Greece only is in- impression produced by inspection of the first, cluded, down to the second century B.C. There namely, that the matter is a good deal better last poster which is at least expressive of the Lark has easily led the procession of fantastics, regarded. During the two years of its life The and it will be missed if it is not mourned. Its editor, Gelett Burgess, and its publisher, William Doxey, have displayed both invention and inis no bird now on the wing that can exactly genuity in its contents and its design, and there follow in its flight or imitate its note. Farewell, quaint songster of the Pacific. We have picked up the feathers you have dropped and shall see that they are preserved. Scribner's Sons we find a new military series to -Among the spring announcements of Charles Co. of London, early volumes in which will be be issued by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & With the Royal Headquarters, 1870 to 1871, Letters on Strategy, Napoleon as a Strategist, and the Art of War; The Early Greek Philosophers, a series of original texts collected and edited by Prof. Arthur Fairbanks of Yale University; Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, by William J. Anderson; a new edition of the Countess Cesaresco's Italian Characters in the Epoch of Unification; a narrative of sporting adventures in South Africa by Dr. Schultz; Sir Martin Conway's important work on Spitzbergen; and a new and cheaper edition of Mr. Hardy's book about book-plates. - The Macmillan Co. announce an Analytic Geometry for Technical Schools, by Professor Lambert of Lehigh University. - Bonnell, Silver & Co. have ready Sunbeam Stories, a book for children, by Annie Flint, with pictures by Dora Wheeler Keith. -T. Y. Crowell & Co. announce The King of the Park, by Marshall Saunders, the chief lessons of which are kindness to animals and the importance of giving young children the right training. Miss Saunders is the author of Beautiful Joe. -A. C. McClurg & Co. have in preparation Notes on Nicaragua, by Mr. Henry I. Sheldon, a business man of Chicago who has recently paid visits to the canals of Suez, Kief, and Manchester, as well as to the isthmus which it is now proposed to cut, and who has come to the conclusion that the Nicaraguan Canal is both advisable and feasible. The book will be fully illustrated. - Professor Nash of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., has decided upon the title for his new book. It will be Genesis of the Social Conscience; its aim an exposition of the relation between the establishment of Christianity in Europe and the social question. Professor Nash has won a place among the younger American scholars which will insure for the lectures presented in this volume a respectful attention. - We have received from the American Publishers' Association of Chicago the prospectus of a new Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, which, if thoroughly edited, may be a work of great value. 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