questions. Mr. Rolfe gives a favorable introduction to a work which deserves the attention it has received.

IN ST. JURGEN. By Theodor Storm. Edited with introductory notes, exercises and vocabulary by J. H. Beckman. With frontispiece. 120 pp. 16mo. Ginn & Co.

A new volume in the International Modern Language Series, adapted for second year German in the High School.

INTRODUCTORY HISTORY OF ENGLAND, AN. By C. R. L. Fletcher. With maps. 380 pp. Indexed. 8vo. E. P. Dutton.

Mr. Fletcher, a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, writes this history for boys. It covers that period of English history from the earliest times to the close of the Middle Ages.

LOS PURITANOS Y OTROS CUENTOS. Por Armando Palacio Valdes. Edited with introductory and explanatory notes, in English, by W. T. Faulkner. 103 pp. Paper. 12mo. William R. Jenkins.

A Spanish textbook, well equipped with

notes.

NATURAL HISTORY OF SOME COMMON ANIMALS. By Oswald H. Latter. Cambridge Biological Series. 321 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Cambridge University Press.

A description of the natural history of animals used in English elementary courses on biology. Those included are earth worms and leeches. cray-fish, cockroaches, dragon-flies, wasps, mussels, snails and slugs, frogs, toads and newts, and some internal parasites. Each of these has a description of its habitat, its anatomy, its reproduction and its economics. It is succeeded by a general summary of the genera and species of its family in England, except where, as in the cray-fish, it stands alone. While each of the families is found in this country the species nearly always differs, and the study of the anatomy follows English models, looking rather to examination from the point of natural history than of histology. On the other hand, the work is more useful in directing observation to the living animal than many laboratory manuals, which rivet attention on various hormalagies in organs, without reference to their use in life.

LATER PEPYS, A. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Alice C. C. Gaussen. In 2 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo. John Lane. Reserved for later notice.

ROMA BEATA. By Maud Howe, author of "Phillida." Illustrated from drawings by John Elliott and from photographs. 362 pp. 8vo. Little, Brown & Co.

This consists of letters from Rome by Mrs. John Elliott, whose appreciation and love for

the glories of Rome give her letters enthusiasm, spirit and interest. The letters date from 1894 to 1900, covering a period during which the Elliotts roamed through Italy. Most interesting of the illustrations are from the pencil of Mrs. Elliott's clever artist husband. The book may well be compared to Marion Crawford's "Ave Roma."

WOMAN OF THE WORLD, A. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 302 pp. 12mo. L. C. Page & Co.

Reserved for later notice.

YOUR LOVING NELL. Gathered from letters of the late Mrs. Nellie Gore, with frontispiece. 231 pp. 12mo. Funk & Wagnalls Co.

The tragedy of a young American woman, of exceptional beauty, killed suddenly in the apartment of a Russian baritone, by a pistol shot in Paris three years ago, drew universal attention both in this country and abroad. She was at the time studying music under Moskowski. This volume is made up of the letters which she wrote to an intimate friend in this country. Aside from their specific personal interest they give a vivid picture of the life of a woman studying music, a student of Leschetiszki, on whose methods considerable light is thrown.

Political and Social Science

CHILDREN AND THE HOME. By Eleanor A. Hunter, author of "Talks to Boys," etc. 217 pp. 12mo. American Tract Society.

A manual, religious in its principle and purpose, in regard to the care of children, urging in simple language the value of example, of truth, obedience and affection, avoiding any decision as to the vexed question of corporal punishment, and treating all the issues involved in the moral care of children from the conventional standpoint. The advice is homely, simple, often commonplace, but sound and without pretense.

DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH, THE. By Thomas Nixon Carver. 287 pp. Indexed. 12mo. The Macmillan Co. The author expresses the hope in his preface that the reader will look on "economics as a science rather than a branch of polite literature, and with the expectation of putting as much mental effort into the reading of it as he would in the reading of a treatise on physics, chemistry or biology." A compilation from articles in "The Quarterly Journal of Economics." The book discusses value, diminishing returns, forms of wealth and the economics of interest and profits. The principal claim for originality made is in the discussion of diminishing returns. Throughout the book is rather

HUMAN NATURE OF THE SAINTS, THE. By George Hodges. 244 pp. 12mo. Thomas Whittaker.

Religious discourses, most of which are written around certain familiar Biblical figures, the interpretation of character being made with a view to showing the more human traits in those whom the Church calls "saints."

LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN, THE. By G. Campbell Morgan. 12mo. Fleming H. Revell Co. Dr. Morgan's religious ideas are always worth contemplating. They help every time.

LOOM OF PROVIDENCE, THE. By Robert Mackenzie. The International Pulpit. 253 PP. 12mo. Fleming H. Revell Co.

Sermons based on the general theme of God's ways with men and aimed at the cultivation of faith and patience and hope under the discipline of God.

MEMORIES, OR HOW SARA WINTERS FOUND FULLNESS OF JOY. By Alida Stanwood. 126 pp. 12mo. Eaton & Mains.

The story of the consecration to mission work in an American city, of a woman, married at 18, left at 30 alone after the death of her husband, two children and a father. The remainder of this story opens in 1883, is devoted to her personal touch during the rest of her life with "more than 90,000 souls," though only a few instances of this number are inIcluded in this sketch.

A collection of sermons, addresses and articles by the Regius Professor of Theology of Oxford University, a Canon of Christ Church, some of which are on technical issues, like the Atonement and some dealing with Anglican issues, like the movement for the dis-establishment of the Church in Wales, Church law and the doctrine on standards. The position is that of a moderate High-Churchman of the Oxford tradition and Laudian in view.

QUIET TALKS ON PRAYER. By S. D. Gordon, author of "Quiet Talks on Power." 234 pp. 12mo. Fleming H. Revell Co.

This book was called forth by the great demand for the author's first book, "Quiet Talks on Power." So many editions had to be made of this book that the author was looked upon as a man with a message. The book circulated widely in England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and several translations have had to be prepared. The present volume is full of great thoughts and suggestion for prayer-its meaning and mission.

SATURDAY NIGHT SERMONS. By Rev. George Thomas Dowling. 131 pp. 12mo. Thomas Whittaker.

These sermons, written by a well known minister, in Los Angeles, California, appeared on the editorial page of the "Los Angeles Express" on Saturday nights for a number of weeks. They were written for busy people and their aim is not to denounce, but to encourage and to cheer.

SHORT HANDBOOK OF MISSIONS, A. By Eugene Stock. 199 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Longmans, Green & Co.

American missions are almost wholly omitted from this sketch of missionary work, which is written, as the author frankly says in his preface, from the standpoint of the Church of England. Half the book is occupied with a general history of missions down to the opening of the nineteenth century. Special attention is paid to the results of missions in the last 30 years. There are testimonies from laymen, sketches of notable missions, and a brief account of the work of the Greek and Roman Churches, with a closing chapter on the literature of the subject. The volume well fills the purpose for which it is intended, a comprehensive sketch for the use of English clergymen anxious to have general information upon which to address their flocks.

SIX INCURSIONS. By Edward August Jenkins. 237 PP. 12mo. Robert Grier Cook.

A book of interesting sermons that possess no little literary quality.

SOUL'S ORBIT, OR MAN'S JOURNEY TO GOD, THE. Compiled with 34 additions by M. D. Petre, author of "Where Saints Have Trod," Etc. 204 pp. 12mo. Longmans, Green & Co. Essays from a Roman Catholic standpoint. brought together from sermons and addresses dealing with the inner life in the spirit of St. Francis de Sales, and by a temperament sufficiently liberal to include Whitman among the poems which are quoted. Much may be learned from its pages as to the spiritual value of many methods of the Roman communion.

STORY OF ST. PAUL, THE. By Benjamin N. Bacon. 392 pp. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

THIRTY-ONE REVIVAL SERMONS. By Louis Albert Banks, author of "The Hall of Fame," etc. 278 pp. 12mo. Fleming H. Revell Co. These sermons are written upon themes derived from the lives of the prophets. Elijah and Elisha.

Philosophy

LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE AFTER DEATH, THE. By Gustav Theodor Fechner. Translated from the German by Mary C. Wadsworth. With an introduction by William James. 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

The theory here expounded is that man has three lives-the life before birth, that between birth and death and the one after death, which is the real and significant existence. The book is full of thought, force and material, bound to produce reflection.

MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT. Thoughts of a thinker. Collected and edited by John P. Kingsland. 12mo. James Pott & Co.

The notes of a student of philosophy were left on the student's death to a friend. This friend, Mr. John Kingsland, has collected and edited them, holding them together with paragraphs of explanation, biography and interpretation. They were written as a plea for more idealism as against the modern trend of materialism.

SCIENCE OF LIFE, THE. By Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes), author of "The School for Saints," etc. 73 pp. 16mo. Scott-Thaw Co. This address, delivered before the Ruskin Society of Birmingham in October, 1903, takes Ignatius Loyola and Tolstoy as types of two poems of life, one of which seeks to obtain character by patient work with the individual and the other love on a colossal and impersonal scale; one resting his work on a principle and the other on an emotion.

Studies in Out-of-door Life

FORESTRY. By Dr. Adam Schwappach. Temple Primers. 153 pp. Indexed. 18mo. J. M. Dent, London.

A handbook of forestry sufficiently general to be useful almost anywhere.

QUIET HOURS WITH NATURE. By Mrs. Brightwen. Illustrated by Theo. Carreras. 271 pp. 12mo. James Pott & Co.

A book of science written along popular lines. The subjects, various plants and animals, are chosen for their interesting aspects rather than from the scientific classification to which they severally belong.

TREE DOCTOR, THE. By John Davey. Illustrated. 88 pp. The Saalfield Publishing Co. A hand book of tree culture, designed for every day use in garden and park work.

TREES. By H. Marshall Ward, author of "The Oak," etc. Volume I, Buds and Twigs. Illustrated. 260 pp. Indexed. 12mo. The Cambridge University Press.

The first volume in a series of practical handbooks of forest-botany for use in nature study and the laboratory.

UPLAND PASTURES. By Adeline Knapp. Illustrated. 78 pp. 12mo. Paul Elder & Co.

Miss Knapp, a woman doing newspaper work in New York has been on papers in Buffalo and represented newspapers in San Francisco, the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines. In this volume, published on the Pacific Coast, which has at its close a touch of the scenery of California, outdoor life is the subject of a related group of essays, written with pains and with care, printed in an agreeable form, making with its buckram cover, its rubricated colored pageheads, and its full faced type, a characteristic picture of nature's study.

upon, but there are few hull plans and these in general on too small a scale to be of value. The book is popular, rather than technical.

CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG GAME. By Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wallihan. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated. 77 pp. 8vo. Doubleday, Page & Co.

President Roosevelt has published an introduction to these remarkable photographs of game in the Rockies, of which one, a cougar leaping, is one of the most remarkable in the annals of such photography. All of the game, big or small, in the West, is included. A welltold narrative accompanies the photographs, many of which will be marvelous to those who know something of a camera and the difficulty of this work. In press work and in its reproductions, the volume is all that can be desired.

COMPLETE MOTORIST, THE. By A. B. Filson Young. Illustrated. 8vo. McClure, Phillips & Co.

A volume on the evolution and construction of the motor-car, written by an English expert on automobiles. It is not merely technical, but is full of the enthusiasm of the sport of automobile riding, and there are two chapters contributed by Rudyard Kipling and the authors of "The Lightning Conductor."

LAWN TENNIS: ITS PAST, PRESENT AMD FUTURE. By J. Parmly Paret, to which is added a chapter on Lacrosse by William Harvey Maddren. Illustrated. The American Sportsman's Library. 403 pp. Indexed. 8vo. The Macmillan Co.

A history of lawn tennis and its development both in United States and abroad, including a discussion of its physical effects and its technical points. It combines rules with interesting reading matter and has plenty of good photographs.

MY SPORTING HOLIDAYS. By Sir Henry SetonKarr, author of "The Call to Arms," etc. Illustrated. 8vo. Edward Arnold, London. A volume of incidents derived from a diary kept during hunting trips in Scotland, Ireland, Norway and North America. Some portions have appeared in the "Pall Mall Gazette" and other English papers.

SPORTING PARADISE, A. By P. St. MichaelPodmore, author of "Ozunkein," etc. Illustrated by Harington Bird. 274 PP. 8vo. Frederick A. Stokes Co.

Stories of adventure in America and the backwoods of Muskoka told by an enthusiastic young English sportsman who wishes to make others as enthusiastic as himself.