Stories Grandmother Told. By Kate Forrest Oswell, Author of American School Readers, Old-Time Tales and other books. 246 pages.

Nonsense Dialogues. By Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner. 168 pages.

Everychild's Series. Each, 40 cents, net. The Macmillan Company, New York.

Character Building in School. By Jane Brownlee, formerly Principal of Lagrange School, Toledo, O., Author of A Plan for Child Training. 268 pages. Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston. Price, $1.00.

The Dramatic Festival. By Anne A. T. Craig, with a foreword by Percival Chubb, Leader, Ethical Society, St. Louis, and an introduction by Peter W. Dykema, Director of Music and Festivals at the Ethical Culture School in New York City. 363 pages. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

Washington and Lincoln: Leaders of the Nation in the Constitutional Eras of American History. By Robert W. McLaughlin. 278 pages. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

The reading of the book brings conviction that the author's statement of its need is correct. Volumes multiply upon each of these heroes without any definite attempt to relate their characters and achievements. The tendency in such a study to discover far-fetched similarities is avoided and the result is a new and distinct addition to our historical literature.

Materials and Construction. A Text-Book of Elementary Structural Design. By James A. Pratt, Mech. E. 96 pages. 90 cents net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia.

Circulars and Pamphlets Received Education Department Bulletin. Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York. No. 517-New York State Museum, John M. Clarke, director. Museum Bulletin 159. The Mineral Springs of Saratoga, by James F. Kemp.

No. 516. New York State Museum, John M. Clarke, director. Museum Bulletin 158. Eighth Report of the Director of the Science Division, including the 65th report of the State Museum, the 31st Report of the State Paleontologist for 1911. United States Bureau of Education. Bulletin 1912, No. 18. Teaching Language through Agriculture and Domestic Science. By M. A. Leiper, Western Kentucky State Normal School.

Bulletin, 1912, No. 19. Professional Distribution of College and University Graduates. By Bailey B. Burritt.

Bulletin, 1912, No. 20. The Readjustment of a Rural High School to the Needs of the Community. By H. A. Brown, District Superintendent of Schools, Colebrook, N. H.

State Normal School, Richmond, Ky. Year Book

The One-Room and Village Schools in Illinois. Issued by The Department of Public Instruction. Francis G. Blair, Superintendent.

Education Department Bulletin. Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York. No. 513. An Annotated, Graded, Classified and Priced List of Books suitable for Elementary School Libraries. With some suggestions in regard to the use of School Libraries.

No. 515. Slides and Photographs-American History-The Struggle for Independence. Prospectus Muncie Normal Institute. Muncie, Ind. Education Department Bulletin.-Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York. No. 514. New York State Museum, John M. Clarke, Director. Museum Charles H. Peck, State Botanist. Bulletin 157. Report of the State Botanist, 1911. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, September, 1912.

Games and Toys. Selchow & Righter Company. 620 Broadway, New York City.

Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of the State of Maine, School Year Ending June 30, 1911.

THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL

Cases for international arbitration brought before the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague from the time of its establishment in 1902 until the present time are given in an official communication of the international bureau of the court. The cases are eleven in all, averaging just over one a year. The Dogger Bank affair, in which Russian warships fired on the British fishing fleet in 1904, is not inIcluded, as it was settled by commission of inquiry, not by arbitration. The list of cases, with a twelfth case unofficially added, is as follows:

1 United States of America vs. United States of Mexico. Pious funds of the Californias.

2 Germany, Great Britain and Italy vs. Venezuela (Belgium, Spain, United States, France and Netherlands). Right of preference claimed by blockading powers.

3 Germany, France and Great Britain vs. Japan. Japanese house taxes.

4 France vs. Great Britain. Dhows of Maskat.
5 Germany vs. France. Deserters of Casablanca.

6 Norway vs. Sweden. Maritime frontier.

7 United States of America vs. Great Britain. Atlantic fisheries.

8 United States of America vs. Venezuela. of the "Orinoco" Company.

Claims

9 France vs. Great Britain. Arrest and restitution of Savarkar.

10 Russia vs. Turkey. Arrears of interest on Russian indemnity.

11 Italy vs. Peru. Canevaro claim.

12 France vs. Italy. Seizure of French ships Carthage,

Cherry-Tree Children. By Mary Frances Blaisdell, author of Boy Blue and His Friends, Polly and Dolly, etc. Illustrated in color by Clara E. Atwood. 12mo. Decorated cloth, 60 cents. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

From Cherry Tree Children, by Mary F.
Blaisdell

A book for the very youngest readers. There is plenty of repetition in the vocabulary, together with interesting and instructive subject-matter. The cherrytree children are robins, crows, squirrels, ducks, and others. Unlike other primers, this book is not divided into lessons, but, being a continuous whole, is more like a real story-book. The illustrations are jolly: you should see Muff and Ruff finding the frog, and Father Rabbit telling stories to his children, and Polly Robin teaching her young ones to sing.

Mother West-Wind's Children. By Thornton W. Burgess, author of Old Mother West-Wind. Illustrated by George Kerr. 168 pages. School edition, 45 cents. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1912.

A story-book for children of ten years, perhaps. In it one may read the adventures of Reddy Fox, Peter Rabbit, the Chipmunk, and their friends. From the day when Danny Meadowmouse brings Grandfather Frog "four fat, foolish green flies" to the day when Billy Mink upsets the same worthy's dignity and Grandfather Frog gets even, it is good reading. The style is unusually good and the characterization and incident amusing.

Donald in Scotland. Little People Everywhere Series. A Geographical Reader. By Etta Blaisdell McDonald and Julia Dalrymple. Illustrated. 117 pages. School edition, 60 cents. Little Brown & Co., Boston.

pended on, improvise an incubator; and the first chick arrives at the close of a Scottish Sabbath. Donald from the Lowlands comes a-visiting, and tells about the wonders he has seen in his travels or read in books. He has never, however, "read a book that is half so interesting as that one little, yellow chicken."

Josepha in Spain is in the same series as the preceding. Josepha is a gypsy girl who turns out, in true fairy-tale fashion, to be somebody else. Both books give one a knowledge of how other countries look and how other people live.

The Water Babies. The Burlington Library. By Charles Kingsley. Illustrated in color by Ethel Everett. Decorated cloth, gilt top, in box, 243 pages, $1.25. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

A gift book for children. Tom is shown in the illustrations as the blackest of chimney-sweeps, reminding one of Topsy, and as the most gamesome of water babies. He is even caught in the act of escaping from the net of the professor of the unpronounceable name-caught making a microscopic dive into the friendly green depths of the sea. The blue cover with rows of conventional dolphins is appropriate. A great book it is, for a land baby of perhaps ten years.

The Poems of John Keats. In the same series with

A delightful story of a family in the Highlands. children, finding that Speckle, the hen, cannot be de

the above. With 24 illustrations in color by Averil Burleigh. 360 pages. Cloth cover, gilt top, in box, $1.25. Little, Brown & Co.

An attractive edition with gracefully drawn and beautifully colored illustrations. There are ladies in trailing garments-jewels in the grassy meads-and fearsome witches against the moon. From the first line, "I stood on tiptoe on a little hill," to the last sonnet, it is clear in print and generous in spacing. The cover is simple and conventional. Altogether it will make an acceptable gift for many a lover of Keats.

Rambles in Norway. By Harold Simpson, author of A Century of Ballads, The Garden of Song, etc. With eight illustrations in color and thirty-two from photographs. 242 pages, $1.25. Dana Estes & Co., Boston.

If you don't know what the Wonderful Geiranger is, or the Lotefos, ask in your favorite book-shop for Rambles in Norway. It is very readable. The writer has, together with an appreciation of the wonders of the land, a sense of the entertaining in unplanned inciIdents of his journey, and a notion of the relation of things. The method of drying hay, it appears, has a distinct influence upon the landscape in certain places. The method of hoisting milk to houses perched on rocky heights is of interest to him, as well as the wonders of the Röldalsvand.

From The Mountain Divide, by Frank H. Spearman, Published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

To the lover of western life in the early pioneer days, railroad construction and Indian treachery, the Mountain Divide, by Frank H. Spearman, will appeal with peculiar force. It makes an entertaining successor to The Lost Trail, written by this same author. In this book one reads of railroad men, engineers, army officers, troops, gamblers and adventurers of all kinds, playing their various parts at this outpost of civiliza

tion. The narrative is made more interesting by the fierce raids by bands of hostile savages and the great herds of buffalo which swept before the eyes of the toiling men. "Bucks," the boy telegrapher, is placed into this turbulent and menaced camp, with little experience and a goodly amount of "sand," and plays his part well. Price, $1.25 net. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

Donald Kirk, The Morning Record Copy-Boy. By Edward Mott Wooley. Price, $1.20 net. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

This is just the kind of a story that boys will revel in, for it reveals the mysterious workings of a big city newspaper office. Donald Kirk, a copy-boy at the beck

From "The Minute Boys of Yorktown." Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, Boston.

The Minute Boys of Yorktown. By James Otis. Illustrated by J. W. F. Kennedy. Price, cloth, $1.25. Dana Estes & Co., Boston.

To the boy who is interested in history the Minute Boys at Yorktown will make a strong appeal. Mr. Otis recognizes the fact that the boy has had a place in the making of American history, and he portrays herein the lives of two young Virginians who, on the advice of Uncle Remus, take an active part in the Revolutionary struggle, and the book brings out, as never before, the part played by the youth of the Colonial period.

Ned Brewster's Year in the Big Woods, by Chauncey J. Hawkins, is a book which will be read by many an American boy. The story is that of a whole year spent in the wilderness of New Brunswick by Ned Brewster, a city boy, who made the most of his prolonged outing. With his father, an experienced sportsman, and their faithful guide, Mose, Ned learns the ways of the forest denizens and many other things. Told in Ned's own

by John Kendrick Bangs, is certainly one of the very best, and will find its way into many a library. The work is beautifully illustrated in color by Arthur E. Beecher, which adds greatly to its general attractiveness. It is an ideal book for Christmas, written in the best vein of this celebrated author. It contains a quartet of stories of Christmas Eve in New York, and breathes from beginning to end the true Christmas spirit. Price, $1.00. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

one continuous story concern the elves, nymphs, brownies, pixies, and other fairy creatures of England, France, Germany and Italy, and center around a little boy who can see all these interesting personages because he was born on Christmas Day. They tell him their legends and fairy lore, as he accompanies his father from place to place in his travels, and he has made the most of his opportunity here. Besides eight fine colored illustrations, there are a large number of full-page drawings in black and white, and on every other page is one of the artist's inimitable smaller sketches. The book is set in large type and is easily read by the younger children. In every respect the volume may be properly called a de luxe fairy book.

Among the many holiday gift books offered this year, and many have appeared, A Little Book of Christmas,

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism, by Major-General A. W. Greeley. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World. By General A. W. Greeley. Price, $1.50 net. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

This volume chronicles the brave and daring deeds, successes and experiences of the intrepid heroes who have gone to the far north in search of the pole. It covers the history of arctic exploration from the earliest days to the achievements of Peary and Amundsen. Those to whom this mystic region has always been a land of unknown dangers and strange unrealities will find in this book much to enlighten and instruct them, and the stirring adventures and hairbreadth escapes of the characters render the volume one of unusual entertainment as well.

The Fourth Dawn. By Leslie W. Quirk. Price, $1.20 net. Little, Brown & Co.

This is unquestionably one of the best football stories of the year, and will be eagerly read by those who had the pleasure of reading Baby Elton, Quarterback, by the same author. Penfield Wayne, a freshman at Wellworth College, is the hero of The Fourth Dawn. At the outset Wayne has a high opinion of his football skill, but because he disobeys the instructions of the coach in an important game, he is relegated to the sidelines early in the season. The story is replete with the hero's setbacks, triumphs, disappointments and achievements. The Fourth Dawn is the first volume in the Wellworth College Series for boys fourteen and upwards.

Historic Poems and Ballads. By Rupert S. Holland. Price, $1.50. George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia.