GOOD OF THE WICKED, THE. By Owen Kildare, author of "My Mamie Rose," etc. 148 pp. 16mo. The Baker & Taylor Co.

Mr. Owen Kildare first came into notice by winning a prize offered by the New York Journal, for a story of Bowery life, "My Mamie Rose," his first work. The present volume holds a series of studies which he has contributed to the New York Sunday Press on "The Party." It includes the characters familiar on the Bowery, "the party" being a young woman with whom a man on the Bowery is in love. It is preceded by a little story of the girls of the region-"Hatpin Mary" and the rest-and is closed by short stories on New York Streets. Mr. Kildare's experience has given him a large New York paint box, but he is somewhat chary in using its color.

HILLS OF FREEDOM, THE. By Joseph Sharts. Illustrated by S. J. Dudley. 12mo. Doubleday, Page & Co.

Another of those complications which arise when parents attempt matchmaking. As usual it ends happily.

LETTER "D," THE. By Grace Denio Litchfield, author of "The Moving Finger Writes," etc. 322 pp. 12mo. Dodd, Mead & Co.

Two maiden ladies, living in a small inland city in New York State, give a home to a niece, the daughter of a brother who has failed in business. Two young men, one of whom writes a play, make the rest of the story.

LOVE IN CHIEF. By Rose K. Weekes. 289 pp. 12mo. Harper & Bros.

A study of a doctor's life in an English town, carried through various self-sacrificing work which introduces another man who becomes the hero. He makes love to a young woman whose life has been somewhat neglected, but who passes through the usual experiences.

MANASSAS. By Upton Sinclair. 12mo. The Macmillan Co.

This novel describes the John Brown raid, Lincoln's presence in Washington and the rout at Bull Run. It is crowded with incident and the story moves with rapidity, but lacks coherence.

MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY. By Captain Marryat. Edited by W. Clark Russell. The New Pocket Library. 526 pp. 18mo.

Small page, clear type, thin paper, narrow margin, bring together in a single, small pocket library, this reprint of a Classic of the novel of the sea, with an introduction by W. Clark Russell, the received authority on nautical fiction among all but sailors.

MORE CHEERFUL AMERICANS. By Charles Battell Loomis, author of "Cheerful Americans." Illustrated by Florence covel Shinn, Fanny

The author is already known for an admirable, closely studied work on "Upland Game Birds." He has here taken a boy into Canadian woods and given in great detail the life of the hunter. The book is full of small, minute directions, with regard to bait, its preparation, care and work,

STORY OF A LIE AND OTHER TALES, THE. By Robert Louis Stevenson. With frontispiece. 276 pp. 16mo. Herbert B. Turner & Co. An additional volume in the Turner set of Stevenson's works. Some five volumes have already been issued. The bindings are neat and the typography good.

BONNY LESLEY OF THE BORDER. By Amy E. Blanchard. Illustrated by William F. Stecher. The Pioneer Series. 331 pp. 12mo. W. A. Wilde & Co.

Laid in a frontier town in what is now the Southern portion of Michigan, this story gives an account of the life of a young girl who has come to the region in one of those caravan trains of wagons by which the Western migration was conducted a century ago. A story for girls.

BOOK OF LITTLE BOYS, A. By Helen Dawes Brown, author of "Her Sixteenth Year," etc. With illustrations. 158 pp. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Short stories about little boys. Wholesome, healthy and direct. Each boy shares in some particular adventure, incident, or accident and the facts are not far-fetched.

BOY ANGLERS, THE. By Charles Frederick Holder. Illustrated. 294 pp. 12mo. D. Appleton & Co.

Mr. Holder, the author, lives at Pasadena, Cal., is thoroughly familiar with fishing and the animal life of the Pacific coast, on which he has written a number of volumes in the past 20 years. The first half of this book describes. under the thin guise of a story, the coast fauna of the region, and the last half is divided between the Gulf of Mexico and the St. Lawrence. There is ample illustration. The work is accurately done.

BROUGHT TO HEEL. By Kent Carr. Illustrated by Harold Copping. 367 pp. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co.

A school story, laid in England, of the conventional sort, containing a little more of the feminine side than usual. A cricket match and a plot with a bit of romance are thrown in, so that the work is a high-bridge between Tom Brown at Rugby, and Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey. It is apparently intended for the boy who prefers a girl on the bleacher to a scrimmage on the gridiron.

BROWNIES IN THE PHILIPPINES, THE. By Palmer Cox. Illustrated. 144 PP. Quarto. The Century Co.

The Brownies find their way into every corner of the world. Boys and girls will be glad to know about their sojourn in the Philippines.

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. By Tudor Jenks. Illustrated. 259 pp. 12mo. The Century Co. A boy's biography of John Smith derived from Smith's own writings and told in a way to attract a youthful reader.

CHILD AT PLAY, THE. By Clara Murray. Illustrated. III pp. 12mo. Little, Brown &

Co.

A child's first reading book with colored illustrations that catch the eye.

COURIER OF EMPIRE, A. By John H. Whitson. Illustrated by Charles Emerson. 315 PP. 12mo. W. A. Wilde Co.

A boy's story based on the efforts of Marcus Whitman to gain the Oregon territory for the United States.

DEADWOOD TRAIL, THE. By Gilbert Patten. Illustrated. 261 pp. 12mo. D. Appleton & Co.

A boy's story of life on the plains, in Cheyenne, and the region about, while the Indians were still in the land, and Red Cloud a power, but curiously untrue to life, as the hero spares an Indian when he has a chance of killing him. DENSLOW'S SCARE CROW AND THE TIN MAN. DENSLOW'S SIMPLE SIMON.

DENSLOW'S BARN YARD CIRCUS.
DENSLOW'S ANIMAL FAIR.

DENSLOW'S MOTHER GOOSE A B C BOOK.

DENSLOW'S THREE LITTLE KITTENS.

Paper. Quarto. G. W. Dillingham Co. Six of the twelve in the new series of Denslow picture books. They are all very amusing and very gayly colored.

EIGHT COUSINS. By Louisa M. Alcott. Illustrated by Harriet Roosevelt Richards.. 370 pp. 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

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ROSE IN BLOOM. Вy Louisa M. Alcott. lustrated by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. 344 PP. 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

Two new volumes in a very decorative series of Miss Alcott's books.

ELINOR ARDEN, ROYALIST. By Mary Constance Du Bois. Illustrated by Benda. 283 pp. I 2mo. The Century Co.

Elinor Arden is one of the most winsome little maidens of recent fiction. The daughter of a Royalist in the days of King Charles I. and the Roundheads, she is left an orphan and goes to live in the family of a Roundhead uncle. There she has a sad and lonely time of it, but her loyalty to her father and his king never falters. Her quick wit and daring save her king's baby daughter from the enemy-an incident said to be authentic. Later Elinor Arden marries the young captain who befriends

her in her desolate childhood; and the sweet Princess Henrietta Anne remembers her rescuer and shows her gratitude graciously.

EVERY-DAY GIRLS. By Julie M. Lippmann. Illustrated. 249 pp. 12mo. D. Appleton & Co.

American girls, with some boys thrown in, make up this running story, in which at the close a publisher shows gratitude and takes a man's novel because his wife has been kind to the publisher's boy.

FLOWER PRINCESS, THE. By Abbie Farwell Brown. Illustrated. 126 pp. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

The "Flower Princess" first saw the light in the "Churchman," and "The Little Friend" in the "Brown Book." There are besides, two other short stories-"The Mermaid's Child" and "The Ten Blowers." They are all fairy stories, with a little more than the usual touch of moral and a constant suggestion of a religious tone.

FORT IN THE FOREST, THE. By Everett T. Tomlinson. Illustrated. The Colonial Series. 541 PP. 12mo. W. A. Wilde Co.

This story of the Indian War, written for boys, whose scene is laid in Fort William Henry, during the Indian attack on it in 1755. Two boys captured at the Fort are taken away by Indians and finally escape to Fort Edward. History and boy's adventure are mingled together and the story runs on in the conversational vein.

GLIMPSES OF PIONEER LIFE FOR LITTLE FOLKS. Illustrated. 166 pp. 12mo. A Flanagan Co. A child's book on frontier life of earlier days, simply told, possessing no special charm.

GLORIA. By Faith Bickford. Illustrated by Edna Sawyer. 132 pp. 12mo. Dana, Estes & Co.

One of the Portuguese colonies on Cape Cod, in which a little waif with a gift at bird-song imitation is found, is the subject of this work. She is the heroine of this little girl's book, somewhat overstrained in its sentiment, and by no means satisfactory in its illustrations. Success comes to the white waif, who had been thrown ashore by a wreck, and who has been living with half-negro Portuguese.

GLYN SEVERN'S SCHOOL DAYS. By G. Manville Fenn. Illustrated by Charles Pears. 412 pp. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co.

This is the seventeenth boy's book, written by George Manville Fenn in the past ten years. This one has its scene laid in an English school, where there is an Indian boy whose early acquaintance with elephants comes in in good stead when the elephant at a circus breaks loose. There is the usual fight and boyish ad

venture.

HIS MAJESTY'S SLOOP DIAMOND ROCK. By H. S. Huntingdon. Illustrated. 431 pp. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

This story of English Naval life for boys, is laid in the Napoleonic wars, and includes the usual naval adventures of the period, cutting out a French vessel and an attack on a West Indian Island. A little love story is included, and the frame work of the narrative is based on incidents of the period.

HISTORICAL TALES. American first series. By Charles Morris, author of "Tales from the Dramatists," etc. Illustrated. 358 pp. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co.

Mr. Morris, who has for a number of years showed his ability in telling familiar tales simply for children, in this volume does the same for American History from Pocahontas to Lee. IN SEARCH OF THE OKAPI. By Ernest Glanville, author of "The Diamond Seekers," etc. Illustrated by William Rainey. 381 pp. 12mo. A. C. McClurg & Co.

The new region which has just been brought into notice by Sir H. H. Johnston's exploration, is the subject of this boy's book, which follows the line of Mayne Reid's works, with the usual crowding of adventure. It displays close knowledge of recent authorities and a lack of vivid capacity in description.

KIBUN-DAIZIN. FROM SHARK-BOY TO MERCHANT-PRINCE. By Gensai Murai. Illustrated by George Varian. 175 pp. 12mo. The Century Co.

This story of Japanese life, written by a popular Japanese novelist, first appeared in St. Nicholas. It describes the adventures of a legendary Japanese merchant of the eighteenth century, who has become a synonym for business pluck and push in Japanese folk-lore. KING OF KINKIDDIE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES OF NOW, THE. By Raymond Fuller Ayers. Illustrated by Walter Bobbett. 262 pp. 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

The familiar properties of the old-fashioned fairy story are put together under modern conditions in a child's book, suggested by various phases of English life, with a little of the unexpected, and something of the comic, so that the fairy story instead of being pathetic or gruesome, is grotesque and pleasant.

Andrew Jackson's boy life, and his later military career are the subject of this boy's book, told simply, directly, with close knowledge of the surroundings, and in a fashion to make it useful for boys from twelve to eighteen.

LIFE OF OUR SAVIOUR, THE. By Mrs. Paul Chapman. Illustrated. 206 pp. 12mo. Henry Frowde, London.

The story of the Christ, simply and effectively told that the children may understand. The volume contains many illuminative pictures.

LITTLE GIRL IN OLD CHICAGO, A. By Amanda M. Douglas. 324 PP. 12mo. Dodd, Mead &

Co.

The series which Miss Douglas has already written, placing her young heroine in Boston, Washington, New Orleans, Detroit and St. Louis, is succeeded here by one on the beginnings of Chicago. The work is brought down to the Civil War. The same method is used, the dialogue is admirable within limited range, and on a domestic canvas, a fair, though not very vivid historical picture is presented.

LITTLE PETER. Famous Children of Literature Series. Illustrated. 157 PP. 12mo. Dana, Estes & Co.

A reprint of a portion of Captain Marryat's "Peter Simple."

Lou. By Harriet E. Cheever. Illustrated by Bertha G. Davidson. 291 pp. 12mo. Dana, Estes & Co.

Lou, a waif in a Home, runs away on a railroad train, finds a shelter, and at last discovers the mother from whom she had been separated. The story is certain to have an unhealthy effect on young girls who are prone to dreams of this character.

LUCY AND THEIR MAJESTIES. By B. L. Farjeon. Illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory and George Varian. 350 pp. 12mo. The Century Co.

Lucy is a dear little English girl who is much grieved over her father's efforts to force an unwelcome suitor upon Lydia, the charming elder sister and daughter. Lydia is in love with Harry Bower, who is all a lover should be; but Lorimer Grimweed has obtained control of the lease of Marybud Lodge, the home-and there's a pretty kettle of fish. Little Lucy confides her troubles to Madame Tussaud, of London waxworks fame, and Madame Tussaud carries her wax notables down to Marybud Lodge and straightens out the tangle.

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MINUTE BOYS OF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, THE. By James Otis. Illustrated by Burnham Shute. 350 pp. 12mo. Dana, Estes & Co.

Mr. Otis, who has published a number of similar works, has taken here a somewhat legendary account of a boy with the Colonials in 1777, among the Minute Men of the Green Mountains. The story is carried from General St. Clair's campaign to Stark's. The story is vividly told with much dialogue, but with no attempt to follow the local dialect.

MYSTERIOUS BEACON LIGHT, THE. By George E. Walsh. Illustrated by Arthur E. Becher. 354 pp. 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

Mr. Walsh began as a reporter on the New York Tribune and has for the last fifteen years written for the magazines and weeklies with an occasional book, having regularly contributed to St. Nicholas, Youth's Companion, and like publications. He follows his previous book, "The Mysterious Burglar," with this account of four boys who go North on a Labrador Whaler, and are left on an ice floe. They leave this in a boat which they have wisely saved, and the rest of the story is occupied with their life there, which includes the discovery of a schooner previously caught in the ice.

"OLD PUT," THE PATRIOT. By Frederick A. Ober. Illustrated. 258 pp. 12mo. D. Appleton & Co.

Israel Putnam's life as a boy, and colonial soldier at the siege of Havana and in the Revolution, is used here as the subject of a simple, direct narrative, which shows close study, is free from exaggeration and deals fairly with the vexed questions of Putnam's military career. Good for boys in American history.

ON HYACINTH HILL. By Mary F. Leonard. Illustrated by Charles Copeland. 12mo. W. A. Wilde & Co.

262 PP.

The story "On Hyacinth Hill" clusters around the lives of two children, who, on account of sickness in their own home, are forced

Another of Mr. Ellis's clever boys' books so many of which serve to incite wholesome patriotic feeling.

PEDLAR'S PACK, THE. By Mrs. Alfred Baldwin. Illustrated by Charles Pears. 397 PP. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co.

Mrs. Baldwin has already published several novelettes, and a little book of verse for children. She uses, in this rather large volume the familiar properties suggested by a careful reading of Grimm, modernized, given new names, and a moral tendency.

PRINCE HENRY'S SAILOR-BOY. By Otto von Bruneck. Translated and adapted from the German by Mary J. Safford. With illustrations by George Alfred Williams. 293 pp. 12mo. Henry Holt & Co.

The life of a soldier lad in the Germany Navy, who is called into various attempts to suppress Arab Slave Traders on land and Dhows slave trading in Eastern Africa, is the subject of this book, originally written for German boys. As is customary with German books of this character the milieu has been very closely studied so that the book is accurate without the adventure usually in English books of this sort.

REIGN OF QUEEN DICK, THE. By Carolyn Wells. Illustrated by W. Strothman. 228 pp. 12mo. D. Appleton & Co.

A humorous child's story of the semi-fairytale order.