work of Ellen F. Pinsent, and that is Sally, strong, brave, and true. [Edward Arnold. $1.25.] A New Aristocracy. A New Aristocracy is the story of a young woman dependent upon her own resources, who so plans her work as to bring herself into contact with those whom she may help, her field broadening until she is in the midst of a socialistic movement among the workers of a great city. "Birch Arnold's" ideal may be indicated in the words used by one of her characters: "Margaret has sketched the outlines of a new aristocracy, wherein moral worth and purpose count first, with brain and healthy digestion a good second, and where wealth doesn't stand any show at all." And "we shall reform the world," says Margaret, "chiefly by beginning to reform ourselves." It is a tender little story that enshrines this scheme of social democracy, idealistic, certainly, but full of good will and considerable sense. "Birch Arnold" inclines towards the pedagogic, Vivette. A of suggestion and pictures, and of possibilities, actually performed. He was the most distin- This little squib by Gelett Burgess is pure PSYCHOLOGY. The Dual Mind. Under the title of The Subconscious Self and Waldstein has written a suggestive essay treating of matters of curious yet practical import. and it comes out chiefly in the frequently stilted fly off into space and disappear seems a fitting Its Relation to Education and Health Dr. Louis speech of even the younger personages. We judge that this is a Western author, and hope to see more of her work. [F. Tennyson Neely. 50c.] The Fourth Napoleon. thor of this novel, has considerable literary ability, and has woven the threads of his plot with skill. His characters are real human beings too. But the story is too long, and there are not enough striking incidents in it to make it really interesting. We fear that the career of the Fourth Napoleon will be brief and inglorious. [Herbert S. Stone.] end for a creature so light and unsubstantial, [Copeland & Day. $1.25.] In God's Country. lectual weakness resultant, of all the perceptions that reach the mind without rising to the level of intellectual The Fourth Napoleon is a novel written with The author of this "Southern Romance" is appreciation or knowledge. In getting conscious considerable cleverness of style, but many of us D. Higbee, and with that statement the reader impressions the mind- often the will—is active; are too weary of the Bonaparte family to be will have to be satisfied. It seems, by a preface in getting "subconscious" impressions it is pasgrateful to a writer who brings a Fourth Napo- from the pen of Henry Watterson, that it was sive. Both classes our author assumes are by leon into the world. The story is not without a originally published in Belford's Magazine and general consent of competent psychologists percertain ingenuity, and the worst qualities of that it "made a deep impression" at the time. manent; that is, the mind does not really forget. Louis Napoleon are perpetuated in his succes-No wonder, for a more striking and haunting though in very many cases we cannot recall our sor, an adventurer who is vain, weak, and un- story it would be hard to find. The place is knowledge by effort of the will. Subconscious principled. He begins life in London as a Central Kentucky, a region so favored by nature impressions are most often made during intelbriefless barrister, and his gradual evolution that it is called "God's Country." Four persons in infancy, on the approach from penury to affluence, from modesty to enact the tragedy, which is reached by as logical of sleep, and in like condition arising from illpride, is well described. The woman he loves, and fateful a sequence of events as any by the ness. The essayist discusses the relation of the Muriel by name, is an interesting character old Greek dramatists. Colonel Ransome is a subconscious mind to heredity, which he thinks sketch, and the Fourth Napoleon's treatment high-bred, hot-blooded, typical Kentucky gentle is often too hastily assumed to be the cause of of her is, we must suppose, an example of heman with the keenest, old-time sense of honor. peculiarities really made by one's early environreditary viciousness. Charles Benham, the auHis motherless, only child Lydia is like him. ment; to artistic or æsthetic genius; to educaShe is soon to be married to her neighbor tion and culture; to racial and religious prejudice. Beverly Johnson. To the Colonel's house comes He treats also of telepathy, sleep and insomnia, a remarkable German tramp whom he hires to be dreams, hysteria and neurasthenia, hypnotism, his daughter's gardener. Naturally he falls in old age, hallucinations, superstitions and insanlove with her; hopeless, mute, deferential to the ity. There are many practical and sometimes last. The girl does not know her own feeling interesting suggestions based on his theory, until the eve before her marriage. In a thought-relative to education and to avoiding or curing less moment she compromises herself in the very the evils due to preponderance of the subconeyes of Johnson. There remains no alternative scious mind, some of which are mentioned in but death to the German and disgrace to herself. our list of topics just given. Hypnotism, he This short story is included in the new vol- She attempts to elope with him, is brought thinks it must be admitted, is not producible by ume by Henryk Sienkiewicz entitled Hania, and, back, and is offered a bowie knife by her father, force-"a fact of the greatest forensic imporlike the other works of the same author, is trans- with her choice to use it herself or leave it tance." Its "suggestions might perhaps be lated by Jeremiah Curtin. Its publication as to him. She proves her Spartan blood. The used successfully with curative purpose just a separate volume is warranted by the interest lover stands and receives two bullets in his breast before sleeping. The habitual dominance of which attaches to it as the germ, so to speak, from Johnson. This is the outline, but gives the conscious mind, as opposed to yielding inof Quo Vadis, which was among the noteworthy no idea of the power of the story, the laying dolently to dreamy impressions, is held to be novels of the last year, and has won a large bare of elemental passions, the clear-cut, incisive a most valuable means of preserving mental audience as well in Europe as in America. It way of telling. The material is slight, but the vigor in old age. Worry is of all things probis the tale of Caius Septimus Cunia, a Roman work is a masterpiece; the hand of a man (or ably the most harmful mental habit. He defines patrician, rich, splendid, luxury-loving; who, woman) of genius is in it. [American Publish- it as "expectation of some evil to come," sated with the life of Rome, travels to Alexanwherein we are "in expectation going over the ers' Corporation. $1.00.] dria, and there loves and weds a beautiful womental processes that would be called for in case - Autea, daughter of Timon the sage. the event should happen." The book requires The intense and all-possessing passion of Cunia close attention — whether from something of the for his wife revolutionizes his life and nature. German style of thought that the writer's surAutea falls ill, and in the hope of cure they journame may lead one to expect, or from the abney to Jerusalem, arriving on the eve of the Crustruse nature of its subject. It is, however, the cifixion. It is a strange, beautiful little story, full author's aim, as addressing the general reader man Let Us Follow Him. Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands. The seventh volume of the collected edition of Björnstjerne Björnson's novels contains two remarkable sketches of character. The hero of the first tale was a real person and the adventures described in "Captain Mansana" he generally to avoid professionally technical terms.tertain people interested in that sort of thing," [Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25.] Two Books About Knowing. Goethe, it is reported, once said: "I have never thought about thinking." But it is the logician's and the metaphysician's business to do this very thing, and to analyze, if possible, the seeming-simple processes of our thought into their real elements; to detect what it is we actually do when we know, and to justify, it may be, our faith in our own thinking and knowing. Two important contributions to this most difficult department of inquiry have been recently made by American philosophers. Prof. B. P. Bowne's Theory of Thought and Knowledge is a volume of the same size as his former works on metaphysics, theism, ethics, and psychology Two-thirds of it are occupied with a vigorous development of the root idea that "thought is an organic activity which unfolds from within, and can never be put together mechanically from without." The last third in the theory of knowledge is mainly a trenchant criticism of skepticism and empiricism. Professor Bowne is not so pugnacious here as in his earliest works, but his chastened combativeness still lights up various chapters of theoretical discussion with a more human interest than most treatises in this field reflect discredit upon the educated men of the and in this mild ambition he may be said to country by his attitude on the Venezuela affair,” have, in a way, succeeded. Most of the tales although the course of events since has, apparrecorded are of the well-known, oft-repeated ently, justified the advocates of arbitration. He sort, from the Cock Lane ghost to Mr. Wesley's indulges himself in quite ungentlemanly lan- a Hands," and "Demon Dogs." One of the solemn prattler," and a quack, who believes that TWO VIEWS OF AMERICAN Essays and Addresses. By Charles William Eliot, LL.D. The two volumes named above, appearing exhibit. The volume represents his ripened simultaneously, offer an opportunity for large thought and is, all in all, the most convincing discourse on the spirit and tendencies of our book we have had from him. [Harper & Broth-country; but at this season comment must be ers. $1.75.] brief. Both books are collections of addresses and magazine articles, President Eliot's having the wider range in subjects, and in time, covering twenty-five years in fact. The agreement on many points of the vigorous and aggressive Prof. George T. Ladd's Philosophy of Knowledge is devoted entirely to the theory of knowl. edge; it is "an inquiry into the nature, limits, and validity of human cognitive faculty." In various ways it is the crown of Professor Ladd's several volumes on psychology, treating with great ability the fundamental problems of the possibility and worth of our human knowing. The author takes a thoroughly believing attitude toward the utterances of our consciousness, after they have been examined and sifted by the severest critical tests our wit can devise. With a very broad view over science, literature, and religion Professor Ladd combines a profound philosophic and religious aspiration after unity, which cannot be reconciled to any theory that implies that we live in anything else than a true universe, which is thoroughly real and entirely rational. He holds, as the result of his sharpest investigation, that "things are the manifestation, the word to man, of an all-pervading Will and Mind;" that "knowledge is indeed relative, but it is itself the President Eliot declares, in the essay which establishment of a relation between the Revealer, names his book, that the first and principal conthe Absolute Self, and the Self to whom the rev-tribution of America to civilization elation comes." These two sentences do not indicate the method, but the result of Professor Ladd's elaborate work, which is a pioneer in English philosophy, Professor Bowne's volume being but partly devoted to this theme. The eminent Yale professor has here produced a work of the first importance, beyond a doubt; it is not only his own strongest book, but also a masterly contribution to a spiritual interpretation of the universe. It deserves, and will, of course, receive very full treatment from the philosophic and theological reviews. [Charles Scribner's Sons. $4.00.] The Book of Dreams and Ghosts. Commission. He has the active virtues of the energetic citizen, and he has done fine public service; but as a practical moralist he commits a great mistake in confusing jingoism with patriotism. TWO BOOKS OF THE SEA. Everything fresh, true, and good about the sea usually comes from America. In this coun try we have had one sea writer. He is Marryat. At all events we point to no other. . . . It is from America that the real sea message usually comes. We find it in Fenimore Cooper's "Ned Myers," in Herman Melville's "Redburn," in the incomparable Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," and now in Captain Mahan's very instructive, abundant, and interesting "Life of Lord Nelson." Americans ought to swell with pride as they read these words of unstinted praise from so eminent an authority. All this and more has Mr. Russell set forth in the preface to his Pictures from the Life of Nelson. And we do not think that any one will question his right to sit in judgment. All the way down from The Wreck of the Grosvenor he has been writing tales of the sea that were not only wonderfully good stories, but likewise (what many good sea stories are not) nautically accurate. No one could be is the advance made in the United States, not better fitted for setting forth Pictures from the It does in theory only, but in practice, toward the aban- Life of Nelson than this sea romancer. donment of war as the means of settling dis-not purport to be a life of England's naval idol, putes between nations, the substitution of dis- but it answers that purpose much better than cussion and arbitration, and the avoidance of armaments. ... War has been, and still is, the some books of greater pretensions. He has set school of collectivism, the warrant of tyranny; a hero's portrait in a handsome frame. He has splendid virtues, it is the most horrible occupa- Nor does he spare his hero's weaknesses. Of .. in spite of the fact that it develops some put flesh and blood on the dry bones of fact. tion that human beings can possibly engage in. Nelson's liaison with that shameless drab, Lady It is cruel, treacherous, murderous. . . . Modern social and industrial life affords ample oppor- Emma Hamilton, he writes frankly and without of duty, apart from the barbarities of warfare. tunities for the courageous and loyal discharge attempt at extenuation, but delicately withal. O the pity of it, that in the life of that great and otherwise good man such a chapter must needs be written at all! ... In subsequent papers on "The Working of American Democracy" and "International Arbitration," President Eliot is equally true to peace and civilization. Mr. Roosevelt, on the other hand, holds that "it is not a nice thing that Mr. Eliot . . . should Of The Two Captains it may be said that it has great merit as regards dramatic setting and dash of execution. Subjected to analysis and measured by conventional standards it has seri ous defects. There is an unpleasant abruptness in the way characters are hurried on and off the stage. Old-fashioned people will say that "it does not come out right." But you cannot expect much completeness in a tale of piracy, and few people will stop to pick out weak spots in a story of the sea which is so vividly told that a land-locked reader grows seasick as he reads. The wind whistles through the rigging of "The Gypsy," her timbers strain as she labors through the sea, stony-hearted pirates walk her decks. All is wonderfully real. And when we have done with the story of the real hero and the fictitious villains we feel that we can say that L. Riggs has been most prominently connected. by the two prose papers on the "Greek Chris- MINOR NOTICES. Curiosities of Popular Customs. holds The Reader's Handbook and other similar Robert E. Lee and the Southern It is fitting that such a valiant and resourceful general, self-controlled private citizen, and Christian man as Lee should be commemorated in the series of the "Heroes of the Nations." Yet the time has not come for the North to read this volume dispassionately, since it advocates the right of secession, does scanty justice to "everything fresh, true, and good about the volumes of reference to matters which lie out. Lincoln, and upholds the value of slavery to sea" is not written by Americans. CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. There has been recent inquiry for works suitable for a library of Christian Missions. The following new books all come under that head, and possess varied interest for stu dents of the general subject and for all readers of the litera ture of personal adventure and experience inspired by the highest motive that can influence human hearts and lives. Some twenty years ago the Rev. Dr. Arthur T. Pierson came across an anonymous memoir of the Rev. Wm. A. B. Johnson, a missionary of the Church Missionary Society in Africa from side the scope of the dictionaries and the ordi- Mrs. Browning Complete. 1816 to 1823. It was a stray copy of a rare book, the negro, rather than contends for his full suf frage and freedom. Still, such a book is free from sectional bitterness, proving from the words of Massachusetts men that the right to secede had been declared in their State in connection with the New England Federalists at the time of the Louisiana purchase-treaty and with the hostility of the Hartford Convention during Madison's administration; when Harrison Gray Otis and others wondered if the day had not come for leading New England out of the Union. The style of the writer, Dr. Henry A. White, Professor of History in Washington and Lee University, is ornate, as when he says, "The wedding scene was enacted before the household altar." But his crisp, short sentences in depicting the movements of battle are effective. Lee himself shines forth from the biography with a purity of aim and a tempered judgment which proves that his special advocate has well studied the man. The general's letters to his children are vigorous: "Do your duty in all things. . you cannot do more, you should never do less." Dr. White sketches Lee's career as the early supporter of his widowed mother, his years at West Point and as engineer, and his slow-growing decision to side with the South. The chapters dealing with the crisis of 1861 will be hard reading for many. White, totally denying the "consolidation theory" of Lincoln's inaugural, rightly sustains the honesty of the "postponement party among the secessionists." Lee strove "to avert the evil of war, but could take no part in the inva sion of the Southern States;" therefore he withdrew from the United States Army. Lee acted type is beautifully clear. The edges are uncut according to his convictions, yet it is an open and the top gilt. A facsimile of one of Mrs. question whether withdrawal from a government Browning's famous "Sonnets from the Portu- cancels the oath a man has taken to support guese" faces page 315. A portrait of the gifted that government. It is impossible to follow the poetess, engraved on steel by Cook from the anxieties of his mind without honoring his sense portrait by Talfourd in the National Gallery, is of honor; still more his courage, patience, and inserted as a frontispiece. Mr. Frederick G. cheerfulness on the battlefield, when he proKenyon is the editor of this volume, which he tected his subordinates from responsibility for Rev. Edgerton R. Young is a Methodist min-assures us contains all the works of Mrs. Brown- disaster. Their devotion to him was intense. ister of Canada; has done a valiant missionary ing that have been published in book form, with Stonewall Jackson said of him: "He is the only work among the Indians in the British Posses- the single exception of the earlier translation of man whom I would be willing to follow blindsions; is a stalwart and vigorous man who "Prometheus Bound." This it was Mrs. Brown- fold." The battles of Fredericksburg, Sharpsspeaks as well as he writes; and his book, On ing's own explicit wish should be obliterated, burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, etc., and the the Indian Trail, is a story of his adventures, "not merely as unworthy of her own mature campaign in the Wilderness are carefully dewritten with a strong religious spirit, full of powers, but as an offense against Æschylus." | scribed until Lee's surrender, when he told his human nature and an out-door life that will in- This is therefore a complete edition of Mrs. soldiers: "Men, we have fought together. I terest the average boy immensely; while at the Browning's works, and the first that has been same time it will instill into any heart sympathy published. In addition to Mr. Kenyon's mod for the Indian and love of work in his behalf. est preface there is Mr. Robert Browning's pref[Fleming H. Revell Co. $1.00.] atory note, and Mrs. Browning's own dedication to her father, the preface to her poems published in 1844, a chronological list of her works, and two indexes, and the poems are supplemented In The Conquest of the Sioux Mr. S. C. Gilman relates briefly the story of a Presbyterian mission, that with which the name of Rev. A. have done the best I could for you. My heart is too full to say more." The causes for the failure of the South Dr. White finds largely in its paucity of men compared with Northern numbers, in the enormous stretch of territory and of seaports to be protected, and in the slow policy of Southern leaders. Resourceful under desperate circumstances as was Lee's career as nial and Revolutionary Maids,” which leads to $1.50.] BOOKS FOR GIRLS. The Echo Maid. The first of the four stories in this pretty quarto, all by Alicia Aspinwall, is a Scotch story, the second Cornish, the third German; the fourth and last comes from "'way down South." The first relates to a "pot of gold," which an imaginative child looked for and which real hands put into her possession, and which she immediately turned over to her destitute mother; the others are of a fairy cast. All are pleasantly told, and, with some use of fancy and the supernatural, convey good lessons suited to the apprehension of a girl of eight years or there abouts. [E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.] A Successful Venture. The "successful venture in this story, by Ellen Douglas Deland, is that of four girls, sisters, who were left, with an imp of a younger brother, Peter, penniless on the death of their father, and who, rather than go to live with an idiosyncratic old aunt whom they did not like, resolved to go to work and earn their own living. This is not an unusual plot for a story, and it is not an uncommon situation in real life. The result in this case is a breezy, bracing, wholesome book, which it will do some girls much good to read and none of them any harm, and which ought to inculcate lessons of selfreliance, energy, ingenuity, and courage among all who read it. [W. A. Wilde & Co. $1.50.1 Nan in the City. BOOKS FOR BOYS. The Resolute Mr. Pansy. A capital book of the best sort for boys is The Resolute Mr. Pansy; but its accomplished author, Mr. John Trowbridge, who is one of the most distinguished of the faculty of Harvard University, occupying one of the chairs of physical science, must be carefully separated from Mr. John T. Trowbridge of Neighbor Jackwood fame. This is an "electrical story; " that is to say, Mr. Trowbridge has put to use his abundant knowledge of the laws and principles of electrical and other sciences as viewed in the most recent modern light, and constructed therewith a tale which is as fresh and ingenious in its scientific "effects" as it is well written and entertaining. A pleasant glow of humor warms up this book from beginning to end. It meets and equals Jules Verne on his own ground, and besides, it lies within the limits of the possible if not the probable, as the romances of that great French inventor do not. We hope that Professor Trowbridge will go on writing for boys. He should not hide this particular light under a bushel. [Roberts Brothers. $1.25.] The Secret of the Black Butte. In The Secret of the Black Butte, by Mr. Illiam Shattuck, there is placed in our hands a cryptogram discovered in the lining of an old saddle belonging to a dead prospector out on the plains, and we are led by it to the discovery of a gold mine, with lots of frontier adventures thrown in along the way. This is a healthy story of ranch and camp life in the country of the Big Horn Mountains, and is illustrated effectively. [Roberts Brothers. $2.50.] True to His Trust. This is a sequel to Myra Sawyer Hamlin's pretty story of Nan at Camp Chicopee. The bright and winsome girl is away from home, True to His Trust, in the person of a country attending one of the best schools in New York. boy, Weldon Stafford, aims to show how a Several of the boys who were under her father's young lad may get on in the world by using his care at the summer camp in New Hampshire native wit and sticking to principle. This exare in the city, going on with their education or cellent purpose is, we regret to say, almost entering a profession. Nan is amidst the best the only praiseworthy element in the last story surroundings, and proves herself deserving of which Edward S. Ellis offers to boys. It is the friendships which are hers. The story is exceedingly perfunctory and hackneyed, both in good taste, sweet and wholesome, brimming in plot and character, the familiar ugly thieves with young life, and has the one or two love episodes which might have been expected. The frontispiece is evidently a photograph of a very attractive "Nan." [Roberts Brothers. $1.25.] and dauntless young victim, crabbed, rich old reference in study, a minute analysis of each lecture, sixty pages of notes, and an index. The typography is excellent. [The Macmillan Co. 8oc.] Though it is Mr. T. E. Comba's hope that his little Compendium of Italian Pronunciation“ may prove instrumental in eliminating some of the difficulties which Americans encounter in the study of Italian," it will seem to one who reads the rules and exceptions with only very slight knowledge of the subject that, as compared with other writers' rules for pronunciation, this presentation of the matter adds greatly to the student's labor and tends strongly to his discouragement by its minuteness of detail and its emphasis of slight differences of vowel sound. The book may, however, be valued as a work of reference, especially by any learners who desire accuracy in pronunciation and yet have no opportunity to acquire it by residence with educated Italians. [Truslove & Comba.] NEW EDITIONS. Sterne's Sentimental Journey. famous masterpiece of its notorious author will Snider's Commentary on Faust. Mr. Denton J. Snider, who has attained a measure of distinction by his series of commentaries on what he calls the "literary Bibles," has brought out in two well-printed volumes a new edition of his Commentary on Faust, first published in 1886. This work is both historical and critical, at the same time that it is expository, but is much too deep, too extended, and too elaborate except for the purposes of the most serious and leisurely students of Goethe. That it furnishes a great mass of material for the elucidation of the great work to which it is This is one of Amy E. Blanchard's sprightly devoted no one will be disposed to question, and fascinating stories for girls from twelve or while with all of its views and suggestions not thirteen up to real young-ladyhood. The maids Mrs. Annie Russell Marble has edited for every one of its readers familiar with Faust will are sisters, in a well-bred family where there is school use Carlyle's lectures on Heroes, Hero- agree. But it can safely be said that for those just the right kind of grandmother, and where a Worship, and the Heroic in History. The edit- who have the time here are eight hundred pages ripple of boy life comes into the household by ing consists of an Introduction, partly biograph- of thoughtful writing which are well worth exthe arrival of two wards of the father. Natu-ical, partly bibliographical, partly critical; a amination if not careful reading, and which are rally there are bicycling, boating, and indoor Literary Summary and Bibliography; the num-calculated to throw much light upon, if they do amusements. The girls form a club of "Colo-bering of the lines for the purposes of easy not wholly illuminate, the pages of the great and Three Pretty Maids. TEXT-BOOKS. recondite drama. [St. Louis: Sigma Publish- Worcester has offered anything particularly new ing Co. $4.00.] MISCELLANY. -The Appletons have nearly ready Mr. Edor striking in his account of this most pictur- mund Gosse's Modern English Literature, a esque and lovely of the medieval saints. In work which he is easily capable of preparing. fact, the Canon's book suffers by comparison -The Lippincott Company intimate that a with Sabatier's. Alongside of the poetry, the new volume in Dr. Furness's "Variorum Shakeromance, the eloquence, the beauty of the speare" may be ready the ensuing year. former, this is wooden, labored, lifeless, and - We have a new poet, it seems. J. Gordon narrowly escapes being dull, if it would be pos- Coogler is his name, and Columbia, S. C., is his sible to make a dull book about such a shining home. "No cotton is softer or gentler than his subject. There is too much history in the Can-Arcadian songs," the late C. A. Dana is quoted on's pages; too much background. The figure as saying. Cottony poetry must be a new type. of the hero does not stand out like an angel of -"They say " that the new "Gibson girl," light, as he ought to; and some readers will drawn by Mr. Charles Dana Gibson for the think the author indulgent towards the papacy cover design of the February number of the and the monastic orders. [Thomas Whittaker. Ladies' Home Journal, is a picture of the artist's $2.50.] own little daughter, now one year old. If true, we are sorry for the little daughter. About the worst thing that can happen to such a child is such a sort of publicity. Mr. Thomas B. Mosher has deemed suitable for publication in one of his dainty books, at this season of peace and good will among men, Robert Louis Stevenson's biting Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. C. M. Hyde of Honolulu on Father Damien. Dr. Hyde thought it to be his duty after Father Damien's death to publish in letter form a plain statement of his belief in regard to the character and service of the leper priest, which letter Stevenson regarded as a traduce ment, and he accordingly proceeded in a reply to Dr. Hyde which for graceful, rapier-like, deadly thrust and effect has few parallels in epistolary literature. If R. L. Stevenson cared to impale an antagonist on his weapon, he knew how to 7. Browning's "The Ring and the Book." do it. We wonder how it felt, Dr. Hyde, and Pray name some aid, essay, commentary, or exwhether you ever were moved to modify in anyplanation that will enable an aged man to undegree your expressed opinion of Father Da-derstand, if possible, in part Browning's The mien ? Here is the sword, dripping with the Ring and the Book, for I am greatly tormented, blood of the adversary, resting in a scabbard as befogged, and distressed in trying to get one feeble ray of light on what seems to me to be more than Cimmerian darkness. It is to me a sealed book. G. H. A. finely beautiful as the deft art of the Portland printer can make it. But O, the edge of it, and how it cuts! [50c.] What Dress Makes of Us, by Dorothy Quigley, is far brighter than her booklet, Success is for You. Now, she says, each one should have a style of her own in coiffure, head gear, etc. The wee volume is sensible and keen, and its illustrations by Annie Blakeslee are droll. May every woman (or man)-(whose waist-line is made by his coat buttons) ponder its artistic common sense. [E. P. Dutton. $1.25.] The second volume is out of the set of ten in which are to be presented to the reader those John L. Stoddard Lectures which for so many years have been delighting hearers all over the country. This second volume is devoted to Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Egypt, particularly Cairo. As with the first volume, the pictures which, with the aid of the stereopticon, were so effective a feature of the lectures in delivery, are their conspicuous feature in published form; but though very numerous they are not so good as a whole in this volume as in the first. The best are those illustrative of Egypt, though it is a mistake to mix up such fanciful subjects as the portrait of Cleopatra and the scene in Cleopatra's barge with the really interesting verities of the present day. [Balch Brothers.] NOTES AND QUERIES. - The Sun's Place in Nature is the title of a new book by Sir Norman Lockyer, which will be published at an early date by the Macmillan Co. - Mr. E. A. Reynolds- Ball is the author of a handbook to The Cairo of Today, which the Macmillan Co. will shortly publish, with maps, plans, a bibliography, and much practical information suited to the needs of visitors. This book, if well done, will be very useful, for Baedeker's Egypt, excellent as it is, cannot do full justice to Cairo, and, moreover, is costly. - Helbig's Komodie auf der Hochschüle, which Prof. B. W. Wells of the University of the South has edited with Introduction and Notes for D. C. Heath & Co., is a little social satire on the conservatism of the University of Gottingen at the time of the appearance of Schiller's first drama, Die Rauber. -Mr. George Julian Zolnay has set to at tractive music, and the Musical Record Co. of New York have published, a poem by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, entitled "To be Remembered." Mr. Zolnay is a young Hungarian sculptor thirtyfour years old, now living in New York, who -Mr. William Andrews of England is at was one of five sculptors chosen by the United work upon a book descriptive of Bygone NorStates Commissioner of Art to do work at the folk, which ought to be an interesting reposWorld's Fair at Chicago. After a college edu-itory of tradition and archæological remains. cation in Roumania he studied under Bouque- -The Roxburghe Press, London, announces reau in Paris, and graduated at the Imperial a new edition of the Works of Charles Dickens, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He speaks which it is promised shall be “the daintiest edifluently modern Greek, Italian, Hungarian, tion ever issued from any press." That is promGerman, French, and English. He is, besides, ising a good deal. Among its features will be a skilled musician and composer. He has re- entirely new type, specially made paper, approcently made several satisfactory busts of noted priate binding, carefully executed facsimiles of Southerners for the Tennessee Centennial Ex- all the original illustrations, and an average position, and at an "Authors and Artists day" price of 35. 6d. a volume. Mr. Kitton will at the Exposition played his own compositions supply "chatty" introductions to each volume, on his violin. and many portraits of Dickens will be inserted. Mr. Charles F. Rideal is to be the general editor. -Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. have in press the fourth thousand of Dean Farrar's Men I Have Known, and in preparation a new work entitled The Gentleness of Jesus, by the popular religious writer, Mark Guy Pearse. John C. L. Sparkes and Walter Gandy, of the South Kensington Museum, have prepared a useful little history of Potters: Their Arts and Crafts. "We have only to look at the varied manufactures-beautiful, useful, costly, or cheap -Dr. Mitchell says he pities the boy who - that our potters of today are producing to does not enjoy Isabel Hornibrook's Maine realize that here we have an art that has been woods story, Camp and Trail. He did. steadily progressing, adding to a practical knowl- -The Hon. David A. Wells has been disedge whose precepts have accumulated through cussing with force and effect in Appletons' Popmany centuries." There are chapters on "Pot-ular Science Monthly the question of the taxation "Ancient Pottery," "Me- of personal property. tery Processes," on diæval Pottery," "Oriental Porcelain," and "Modern Pottery." Many of the illustrations are unusually fine, and the book is prepared with great taste. [Thomas Whittaker. $1.25.] After the masterly Life of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier, published a few years since, there is little left to say of the character and life even of that remarkable man of the Middle Ages, and we cannot report that Canon Knox-Little of - D. C. Heath & Co. will shortly publish The Contribution of the Oswego Normal School to Educational Progress in America, by A. P. Hollis, a feature of which is its marked tribute to the character and life-work of Dr. E. A. Sheldon. -Zola's Paris, completing his trilogy, will appear next month from Macmillan's press. Its relation to Rome and Lourdes will be as marked and intimate as was that of Rome to Lourdes. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. All Books received by the LITERARY WORLD are entered under the above heading. Further notice of any publication is dependent upon its importance. History. MEN, WOMEN, AND MANNERS IN COLONIAL TIMES. New Editions. GOOD READING ABOUT MANY BOOKS. Paper, 50c. Paper, 50c. 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