The author contributed an account of the trip to Alaska to the important volumes published by Mr. E. H. Harriman on Alaska. These are succeeded by short essays in Mr. Burroughs' familiar style, all closing with a most useful index. In a pathetic preface Mr. Burroughs speaks of it as probably his last work. 12mo. FRIENDSHIP OF ART, THE. By Bliss Carman, author of "The Kinship of Nature." L. C. Page & Co. Most of the froth in Mr. Carman's makeup went into these essays. They have all the "amateur spirit" with emphasis. It is plain to be seen that Mr. Carman does not hold the essay in any light of importance; he seems to consider it the vehicle for light ephemeral expression, the expression of the mood. The essays that attempt the more critical are based on intuition rather than on critical standard. They are, however, to be taken a little more seriously than the others. The book is readable throughout. Mr. Carman has the flexible style and the gift of handling words with graceful facility. LIFE'S LESSER MOODS. By C. Lewis Hind, author of "Life's Little Things," etc. 200 pp. 12mo. Adam and Charles Black. The author was for many years editor of the London Academy. He published there a number of those brief studies which everybody writes, but never succeeds in getting printed until he is an editor. They are on faith, poets, companionship, the strangers, the outcast, etc. There are in addition sketches of Italian and Spanish travel, given in brief pastel, which have appeared in the columns of the London magazines. ROUTINE AND IDEALS. By Le Baron Russell Travel and Description. ADVENTURES ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. BY Mrs. Aubrey le Blond (Mrs. Main), author of "My Home in the Alps," etc. Illustrated. 325 pp. Indexed. 8vo. E. P. Dutton & Co. A collection of tales of mountain-climbing, from many sources, principally the Journal of the Alpine Club, including an ascent in the Caucasus. The preface frankly points out that the work is intended for those unfamiliar with mountain-climbing, and contains little not already known to those interested in the subject. Illustrated by photographs. ALONG THE NILE WITH GENERAL GRANT. By Elbert E. Farman. Illustrated. 331 pp. Indexed. 8vo. The Grafton Press. Dr. Elbert Eli Farman was United States Consul General in Egypt when General Grant TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA. By Andrew Burnaby. Illustrated. 262 pages. Indexed. 12mo. Published by A. Wessels Co. This is a reprint from the third edition, issued in 1798, and is supplied with introductory notes by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. TROLLEY HONEYMOON FROM DELAWARE TO MAINE, A. By Clinton W. Lucas. Illustrated. 125 PP. 12mo. M. W. Hazen Co. A clever record of a ten days' trolley trip from Delaware to Maine. Some very amusing experiences fell to the lot of the two travelers. These are now told about with just an element of fiction added to give a bit more color to the narrative. It was a unique honeymoon, but the participators saw and learned many things. A journey from Shanghai across the Central Kingdom to Burmah by a traveler who opens the work by speaking of "the yellow man with the white money." Mr. Geil is a missionary, who writes from Doylestown, Pa. He made the journey in Chinese costume. The author has carefully studied his subject. His acquaintance with Chinese greatly aids him. The photographs are admirable. Many local details are presented. The work is occasionally marred by a lack of dignity, but it makes a substantive addition to the knowledge of the region. EPITAPHS. By Frederic W. Unger. 169 pp. 18mo. The Penn Publishing Co. As its sub-title describes it, "A unique collection of post-mortem comment, obituary wit and quaint and gruesome fancy." A collection of epitaphs from the usual sources without references to the authorities used. Some mythical, some mystical and some merely foolish. The work has no index, and includes a number which have appeared in novels or obituary notices. The author is well known as a war correspondent in the Transvaal. CHATS ON ENGLISH CHINA. By Arthur Hayden. Illustrated. 277 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Frederick A. Stokes Co. These "chats" originally appeared in an English journal, “Our Home." The volume opens with a brief bibliography, but its chief value turns upon short discussions on examples of English ware, given with their marks and characteristics, with recent sale prices. There are illustrations. The entire field of porcelain earthenware and lustre ware is covered. The chapters are on Old Derby, Chelsea China, The Bow China Factory, Old Worcester, Plymouth and Bristol China, the Lowestoft Factory, Coalport, Spode and His Successors, Swansea, Minton, Old English, Earthenware, Lustre ware, Liverpool Ware and Wedgewood. HANDICRAFT AND RECREATION FOR GIRLS. By Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard. Illustrated. 349 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Charles Scribner's Sons. A book suggesting pleasant and profitable occupation for girls, both indoors and outdoors, that, at the same time, will be recreation. HOW TO MAKE POTTERY. By Mary White. Illustrated by author. 179 pp. 12mo. One of three manuals, of which the other two are on bead work and baskets, intended to aid amateurs in the making of pottery, both with the wheel and without it. Instructions are also given for basket pottery and the making of Indian ware. MARKS OF AMERICAN POTTERS. By Edwin Atlee Barber, author of "Pottery and Porcelain in the United States," etc. Illustrated. Patterson & White Co., Philadelphia. Reserved for later notice. NUREMBERG. By Hermann Uhde-Bernays. The Langham Series of Art Monographs. Illustrated. 81 pp. 16mo. A translation of a work published in German recently, which follows object by object the art of the past in Nuremberg, with a cursory description and perpetual reference to its relation to German history. ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. By Lewis F. Day. Illustrated. 319 pp. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons. Reserved for later notice. PRACTICAL BASKET. MAKING. By George Wharton James, author of "How to Make Indian and Other Baskets," etc. Illustrated. 116 pp. 8vo. J. L. Hammet Co. The author, living at Passadena, Florida, has collected in this volume, issued in a burlap cover, minute directions for basket-making. along the line and using a terminology similar to that of the crochet patterns of thirty years ago. Raffia and willow are the materials suggested, and all the various forms of baskets familiar to civilization or Indian life are given in photograph, with directions for their making. SAMUEL COUSINS. By Alfred Whitman. Nineteenth Century Mezzotinters. Illustrated. Quarto. George Bell & Sons. A book for amateurs, collectors and connoisseurs, similar to the previous work by the same author on S. W. Reynolds. The work contains a memoir, a catalogue of portraits, a catalogue of subjects, a catalogue of plates after Sir Joshua Reynolds, engraved by Samuel Cousins for the S. W. Reynolds' series, and an index of both painters and subjects. The catalogue enters minutely into questions of "state," giving each, and constitutes a final treatment of |