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Mr. Moore is Professor of Comparative Pathology and Bacteriology of Cornell University, and in this third edition he has readjusted some of the subject matter in his elementary work, and added a few exercises. The little volume gives an exhaustive list of the more important text and reference books, journals and periodicals of use to the student and closes with a reproduction of "Jeffer's print" for counting colonies of bacteria.

LITTLE BROTHER TO THE BEAR AND OTHER ANIMAL STORIES. By William J. Long. Wood Folk Series. Book V. Illustrated. 178 pp. 12mo. Ginn & Co.

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LIST OF THE VERNON-WAGER MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Compiled under the direction of Worthington Chauncey Ford. Library of Congress. 148 pp. 8vo.

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REPORT OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1904. Illustrated. 512 pp. Indexed. 8vo. Government Printing Office.

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GUN ROOM, THE. By Alex. Innes Shand, author of "Shooting," etc. Illustrated. 108 pp. 16mo. John Lane.

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FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HENRY PHIPPS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS, FEBRUARY I, 1903-FEBRUARY 1, 1904.

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LAWSONIZED LYRICS. By Jyngo. 12mo. Illustrated. H. M. Caldwell Co.

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LENT my umbrella," said my friend, "to my cousin Maria. I was compelled to lend it to her, because she could not leave my house in the rain without it. I was attached to that umbrella, and I tried to make it as clear as the amenities of language permitted that I expected it returned. Maria said patronizingly that she hated to have strange umbrellas littering the house, which gave me a momentary gleam of hope. Two months later I saw it in the hands of her ten-year-old son, who was being marshalled with his brothers and sisters to dancing school. In the first joyful flash of recognition, I ventured to observe: 'Oswald, that is my umbrella you are carrying;' whereupon Maria said. still more patronizingly than before: 'Oh! yes, don't you remember?' (as if reproaching me for my forgetfulness), 'you gave it to me that Saturday I lunched with you and it rained so hard. The boys use it for school. Where there are children, you can't have too many old umbrellas on hand. They lose them so fast.' She spoke," said my friend impressively, "as if she were harboring my umbrella from pure kindness of heart, and because she did not like to hurt my feelings by sending it back to me. She made a virtue of giving it shelter."

This is the splendid arrogance which has placed the borrower, as Charles Lamb discovered long ago, among the great ones of the earth, among those whom their brethren serve. Lamb loved to contrast the "in

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stinctive sovereignty," the open, generous bonhomie of the man who borrows with the "lean and suspicious" aspect of the man who lends. He stood lost in admiration before the great borrowers of the world, Alcibiades, Falstaff, Steele and Sheridan; an incomparable quartette, to which Leigh Hunt would make a worthy fifth. Indeed, all the characteristic qualities of the race were united in Leigh Hunt, as in no other single representative. Falstaff was the prince of good fellows. So was Sheridan, and a wit to boot. Steele was the most lovable of men. But Leigh Hunt combined in the happiest manner a readiness to extract favors with a confirmed habit of never acknowledging the smallest obligation for them. He is a shining example of the condescending borrower, of the man who permits his friends to relieve his necessities as a pleasure to themselves, who rides lightly through deep currents on other people's shoulders, and who never dreams of gratitude or loyalty. It would be interesting to calculate the amount of money which Leigh Hunt's acquaintances contributed to his support in life. Shelley, we know, gave him at one time fourteen hundred pounds, an amount the poet could ill spare, but which was instantly swallowed up in a misty ocean of liabilities. Lord Byron, generous at first, wearied of his position in Hunt's commissariat, and definitely withdrew. His withdrawal was doubtless inconvenient, and has been sharply criticised. For some rea