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SCHOOL CHEMISTRY. By Elroy M. Avery. Illustrated. 423 PP. 12mo. American Book Co.

This book is designed to meet the wants of all secondary schools on chemistry and to provide a satisfactory text, a sufficient amount of individual laboratory work and suitable lecturetable demonstrations. It is an entirely new book, and possesses the various pedagogical features that have made the preceding volumes of the Avery series successful and popular.

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FAITHS AND FOLK-LORE, A dictionary of national beliefs, superstitions, and popular customs, past and current, with their classical and foreign analogues, described and illustrated. By W. Carew Hazlitt. In 2 vols. new edition of "The Popular Antiquities of Great Britain." Charles Scribner's Sons. GLOSSARY OF WORDS, PHRASES, NAMES AND ALLUSIONS IN THE WORKS OF ENGLISH AUTHORS, PARTICULARLY OF SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. By Robert Nares. New edition. With considerable additions both of words and examples. By J. O. Halliwell and Thomas Wright. 981 pp. 8vo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

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SECRET OF POPULARITY, THE, OR How To ACHIEVE SOCIAL SUCCESS. By Emily Holt, author of "Encyclopaedia of Etiquette," etc. 300 pp. 12mo. McClure, Phillips & Co. Something on the order of a book on etiquette, but cast in the form of short essays, on "Charm in Conversation," "How to be friend," etc. Descriptions of the sort of women men admire, and welcome guests are included. The volume does not deal wholly with how the woman seeker after popularity is to win her goal, but gives chapter II to "A bachelor and a gentleman." Many anecdotes give a touch of narrative to the advice offered, Mrs. Cleveland's unfailing tact being quoted.

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ARTIST'S LOVE STORY, AN. Told in the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons and Her Daughters. Edited by Oswald G. Knapp. Illustrated. 231 pp. Indexed. 8vo. Longmans, Green and Co.

Sir Thomas Lawrence, when a young man, at the opening of a great career, young, handsome, attractive and fickle, was successively in love with the two daughters of the great actress, Mrs. Siddons. He proposed to both in marriage, changed his mind in both cases, and was never wedded to either. The letters in this double, but somewhat disastrous courtship, with the intimacy which continued in spite of this, between him and the family, are the subject of this volume, illustrated by his own sketches and paintings. It has the double interest of giving a new chapter in the life of an important English portrait painter, an account of a family which 100 years ago furnished the leading figures on the English stage, and a narrative of lovemaking at first hand.

LETTERS FROM A PORTUGUESE NUN TO AN OFFICER IN THE FRENCH ARMY. Translated by W. R. Bowles. Being a reproduction of the edition of 1817. 133 pp. 16mo. Brentano's. A reprint of a work which first appeared in translation in 1678, and was the subject of 18 editions from 1669 down to 1893. It now appears in a "Reprint of the translation issued by W. R. Bowles in 1808" and includes the second part of the letters. Picturesque in character, it has the interest which attaches to undraped passion.

WOMAN OF THE WORLD, A. Her counsel to other people's sons and daughters. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. With frontispiece. 302 pp. 12mo. L. C. Page & Co.

Letters of advice, written with some humor, much good sense, if somewhat practical and worldly, the author's prose being less interesting than her verse. Many have appeared in the New York "American" and other papers.

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BALLAD OF READING GAOL, THE. By C 3. 3. 8vo. E. J. Clode.

A reprint in parchment cover, rubricated, running title, and broad margined page, of Oscar Wilde's remarkable poem on his term in Reading Gaol, perhaps the most remarkable poem ever printed on prison life.

LADY OF THE LAKE, THE. By Sir Walter Scott. With topography of the poem by the late Sir George Biddell Airy and notes by Andrew Lang. Illustrated. 158 pp. 12mo. Adam & Charles Black.

An interesting and artistic reprint significant for its pictures in color and photographs of the scenes of the poem.

PHILIPPINE AND OTHER VERSES. By Erwin C. Garrett. 73 PP. 12mo.

Verses mostly inspired by the Spanish-American War. Kipling seems to have been the master. Some of them have a commendable de

BONNIE SCOTLAND. Described by H. A. R. Hope Moncrieff. Painted by Sutton Palmer. 8vo. A. & C. Black, London.

Contains paintings by Sutton Palmer, reproduced in three color process, covering the scenery of Scotland, exclusive of the islands, which are to make the subject of a second volume, accompanied by a letter press frankly described as accessory, reviews the country and people of the Scot, with an occasional anecdote and much local admiration. Its author is an Edinboro editor who has written upon this subject with affection and along familiar lines.

INNER JERUSALEM. By A. Goodrich-Freer, author of "Outer Isles," etc. Illustrated. 379 pp. Indexed. 8vo. E. P. Dutton & Co. An attempt to describe the inner life of Jerusalem, reviewing each of its factors, the Oriental churches, the Greeks, Latins, the part played by the English Episcopal Church, the Moslem both men and women, the Christian women in Jerusalem, and various philanthropic institutions. The book is based on residence and fills an entirely new place in the literature of a city more written about than any other, except Rome, London and Paris.

SCOTTISH LIFE AND CHARACTER. Described by William Sanderson. Painted by H. J. Dobson. 159 pp. 8vo. Adam & Charles Black. Twenty paintings by Scotch artists have been reproduced in color by process. These suggest the text of chapters which cover the folk life of Scotland, religious, social, rural and industrial. The work is of the gift-book order, but will have an agreeable interest for Scotch

men.

WIT AND HUMOR OF WELL KNOWN QUOTATIONS. Edited by Marshall Brown. 334 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Small, Maynard & Co.

A dictionary of quotations with an index of first lines, but none of subjects. It covers a wide range of authors, including many trivial stories, with a large number of newspaper extracts most of them from the humorous colIn many cases, a familiar quotation is succeeded by the variations which various paragraphers have improved on the original utterances. The book adds one more to the many which often prove useful to a speaker in search for some illustration or phrase.

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ART OF THE LOUVRE, THE. By Mary Knight Potter. Illustrated. 12mo. L. C. Page & Co.

The oil paintings of the Louvre are made the subject of this volume, in which 133 pages of the 418, are devoted to the French School. In each Gallery, the leading pictures, those in which a visitor is most likely to be interested, are described with a careful collection of what has been said in regard to them by critics and men of letters. Page illustrations in process

repeat familiar paintings. A touch of biography, a little of description, the history of the collection, and personal impressions are mingled in a book of value to visitors, and having its usefulness to those who are engaged in the general study of art.

LACE BOOK. THE. By N. Hudson Moore, author of "Flower Fables and Fancies," etc. Illustrated. 8vo. Frederick A. Stokes Co. Mr. Moore has preceded this work by "The Art China Book," "The Art Furniture Book," etc. This volume has an artistic frontispiece, a photograph in color, of Queen Marie-Amelie (wife of Louis-Philippe), showing exquisite Brussels lace flounces on her gown, and a scarf of the richest decoration. The work treats the subject in the broadest and fullest possible manner in "parts" and is beautifully designed, with decorated pages and many admirable reproductions of portraits of famous and noted sovereigns and others, together with surprisingly clear specimens of old lace. work necessarily similar to many of its kind, but differing in its artistic holiday garb, being bound and printed in a most exceptional man

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The author, a teacher in South Kensington, has continued in this volume his previous discussion on "Pattern Design," "Nature in Ornament," "Alphabets Old and New," etc. The work rests on the system which has been adopted in the school of which he is a part, which endeavors to find some way through which dull people can design agreeably by rote. With the aid of numerous illustrations, ornament is carried through all the phases familiar in treatises of this sort, first: conventional and applied art, and the character, next: the use of various technical tools, and last: the limitations of ornament in its various shapes.

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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE SPORTSMAN NATURALBy L. W. Brownell. Illustrated. 303 pp. indexed. 12mo. The Macmillan Co. This issue of The Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney, limits itself to field photography. Three chapters describe the ordinary appliances of the camera. The rest take up tele-photography and the apparatus needed for a field worker. The remainder of the book -some 200 pages-is divided into descriptions in detail of the methods of photography for animals, small mammals, birds' nests, birds and their young, fish, reptiles, wild flowers, trees, fungi, in the zoos, in camp and woods.

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BECQUEREL RAYS AND THE PROPERTIES OF RADIUM, THE. By Hon. R. J. Strutt. 207 pp. indexed. 8vo. Edward Arnold.

Assuming only elementary scientifical knowledge, the author, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, the centre of such research in English Universities, has gathered in a single vol

ume. not large, an account of radio active energy, summarized under a discussion of Becquerel Rays. The son and heir of Lord Rayleigh, the most distinguished physicist of Great Britain he comes to his knowledge of the subject and his capacity for exposition by inheri

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BOOK OF SYMBOLS, THE. By Henry A. Wise Wood. 37 pp. 18mo. William Ritchie.

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FRENCH HOME COOKING. By Berthe Julienne Low. Illustrated. 320 pp. indexed. 12mo. McClure, Phillips & Co.

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JIU-JITSU. A comphehensive and copiously illustrated treatise on the wonderful Japanese method of attack and self-defense. In one volume. By Capt. Harry H. Skinner. Poses by B. H. Kuwashima. 118 pp. 12mo. The Baker & Taylor Co.

The teacher in Columbia University of this Japanese method of self-defense, B. H. Kuwashima, furnishes the poses for the photographs which explain this code of instruction in the Japanese mode of self-defense. An ingenious use of the principle of the lever, without regard to what is considered foul play by Anglo-Saxons in disabling an antagonist.

LIFE IN SING SING. By Number 1500. 276 pp. 12mo. Bobbs-Merrill Co.

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OUTLINE ON THE THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION, AN. With a description of some of the phenomena which it explains. By Maynard M. Metcalf. Illustrated. 191 pp. indexed. 8vo. The Macmillan Co.

The Professor of Biology of the Woman's .College of Baltimore, an institution which still seeks the broader cultivation of a college course, instead of specializing, has presented in this volume the lectures on evolution which he has delivered in the college to young women, many of whom have no intention of pursuing the study of biology farther. They constitute, therefore, a summary, profusely illustrated, of the proof of hereditary succession and variation in species presented by the difference in wild examples and the changes in domestication, together with a discussion of the means by which this is accomplished. In reaching a conclusion between Lamarck and Darwin, Professor Metcalf wisely says that while much is known about environment, little is as yet understood about innate nature and the problem as to which is the determining cause must be left for further research.

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