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HANNAH LOGAN'S COURTSHIP. A true rative. Edited by Albert Cook Myers. With portraits, manuscripts, relics, etc. 350 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Ferris & Leach.

A companion volume to "Sally Wistar's Journal," with many illustrations, and excerpts from letters written during the somewhat stormy courtship. But John finally "receives the fullest Assurances of a Reciprocal Love and Tenderness," in odd spelling and quaint mode of speech. Interesting as a story and of value as a chronicle of the people and methods of a period a century and a half ago.

OLD SHIPMASTERS OF SALEM, THE. By Charles E. Trow. Illustrated. 337 pp. 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

An account of the leading captains of Salem, the centre of the Indian trade three-quarters of a century ago, illustrated by photographs of Salem, reproductions of prints and paintings of vessels built there, and portraits. Logs and records have been freely drawn upon and the book keeps steadily to the purpose expressed in the preface of "commemorating the character of that loyal class of men, the master mariners of Salem, who lived and flourished in the long ago." It avoids close biographical detail.

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OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS. Gardner W. Allen. Illustrated. 339 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. A review of the naval warfare, carried on by the United States with the Barbary pirates from the beginning first of protest and then of hostilities, from 1793 to the treaties of peace, 1806-1816. The work opens with a sketch of the previous operations on the Barbary coast. It has been carefully compiled from published documents and the papers of Preble, Decatur and others. The work furnishes a complete and careful narrative but is not cast in a comprehensive history.

SOCIETY IN THE NEW REIGN. By a Foreign Resident, author of "Society in London." Illustrated. 8vo. A. Wessels Co.

In 1886 the author published "Society in London," one of a group of books which purported to give an inner view of social life in Eastern capitals. Returning, as the author says in the preface, after an absence of some years, he re

views in this volume the England of Edward. There are light sketches of the leading figures in English society, a study of current political life, the effect of the increased attention paid to literature, and the increased influence of wealth. Something about the Americans is included, and a plea that the world is on the whole better than it seems, if at points it does not seem as bad as it is.

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SOME NEGLECTED HISTORY OF NORTH CAROBeing an account of the Revolution of the Regulators and the Battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American Revolution. By William Edwards Fitch. 297 pp. Indexed. 12mo. The Neale Publishing Co.

Dr. Fitch, who is a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, brings to his task a wide familiarity with his subject, and endeavors to prove in this volume that the Regulators of North Carolina were "not the mob made up of rowdy characters, but the staunch yeomen of the provinces." His sources of information are many and well known to readers of history.

WAR BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE ConfedERACY AND ITS LOST OPPORTUNITIES, THE. By General William C. Oates. Illustrated. 797 pp. 8vo. The Neale Publishing Co.

General Oates served in an Alabama regiment during the Confederacy and held the position of Brigadier-General in the Spanish war. In Congress for six years, Governor of his State twice, conspicuous in all its life, from this standpoint he has written a personal account of two wars, equally full of general decision and narrative, with often some sharp, personal incident going home to the immediate issue. An account of the men in Colonel Oates's regiment-15th Alabama-engaged in 48 battles, renders the book a regimental history. Desultory as it is, it constitutes a very important addition to the literature of the war.

father's of the magician "Merlin." The volume gives a biography of Herrmann, and his brother, with a close study of his character. The close of the volume is devoted to a description of his tricks and secrets.

SENATOR, THE. A threnody. By Henry Christopher McCook. With frontispiece. 245 pp. 12mo. George W. Jacobs & Co.

Dr. Henry Christopher McCook, for 40 years the pastor of the Tabernacle, one of the leading Presbyterian churches of Philadelphia, the author of an historical novel, of studies of the Scotch-Irish migration, and of early Pennsylvania history, was associated in his boyhood in Ohio with Senator Hanna. He has reviewed their early association, Senator Hanna's public work and his personality in a long narrative poem, written with evident interest by the author and constant affection for its subject. Biographical notes upon Senator Hanna's life give the volume unusual historical interest.

LETTERS OF THEODORA, THE. By Adelaide L. Rouse, author of "Under My Own Roof." 307 pp. 12mo. The Macmillan Co.

These letters tell with some humor, the heroine's efforts in literary work, most of which is regularly returned by unappreciative publishers. She tries, successfully, some readings, incidentally gains some recognition of her writing, in a form especially agreeable to herpecuniary—as she "needs the money." She becomes engaged to a wealthy politician, but finds on the eve of her marriage that her love for the writer of verse, whom she has known always, is stronger than her desire for a life of

ease.

MYSTERIES OF THE ZIMNIY DVORETZ, THE. By Charles W. Pafflow. 292 pp. 12mo. The Neale Publishing Co.

The "Winter Palace" is the translation of the two Russian words of the title. The book is written by a Russian author, and deals sensationally with conditions of court life, ending with the assassination of the Emperor. It is an endeavor to use some of the incidents attending the assassination of Alexander II and is couched in the extreme form of gory novels.

OUT OF BONDAGE AND OTHER STORIES. By Rowland E. Robinson. 334 pp. 16m0. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

A collection of interesting stories, many of which first appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly," "St. Nicholas," Youth's Companion," McClure's," etc.

PROBATIONER AND OTHER STORIES, THE. By Herman Whitaker. 329 pp. 12mo. Harper & Bros.

A collection of short stories whose scene is laid in the Canadian Northwest, touching upon its winters, its mixture of races, American, English, Indian and French, and the new settler's work.

WEDDING OF THE LADY OF LOVELL AND OTHER MATCHES OF TOBIAH'S MAKING, THE. By Una L. Silberrad, author of "Petronilla Heroven," etc, 310 pp. 12mo. Doubleday, Page & Co.

A group of six stories, the opening one longer than the rest, which circle around the life of an English town in earlier days, touched with archaic expression, a whimsical fancy and a sense of the world of nature and rural individuality.

WINGED HELMET, THE. By Harold Steele Mackaye, author of "The Panchronicon," etc. Illustrated by H. C. Edwards. 389 pp. 12mo. L. C. Page & Co.

A historical romance of the time of Francis I of France, opening in 1523, introducing both French and German life. The scene changes from Southern France to Italy, passing through the usual combat and turmoil of the period. The work as a narrative has a lack of romance.

DR. GRENFELL'S PARISH. By Norman Duncan, author of "Dr. Luke of the Labrador." 12mo. Fleming H. Revell Co.

Dr. W. T. Grenfell has for a number of years worked in the Royal National Mission with deep-sea fishermen, on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Using as a part of the material articles which have appeared in "Harper's," the author sketches the life and work of a missionary who has been of service in a most difficult field. The preface denies that "Dr. Luke," the novel written by the author, was "drawn from" "Dr. Grenfell."

ETHICS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, THE. The Science of Right Living. By Henry E. Robins. 477 Pp. Indexed. 8vo. The Griffith & Rowland Press.

The author, who holds the chair of Christian Ethics in the Rochester Theological Seminary, and who wrote "The Harmony of Ethics With Theology," an attempt to adjust accurately the relations between these two fields, often separated, was for some years, 1873-1882, President of Colby University. In this treatise he has sought to expand the thesis that "the Christian life is the highest mode of moral life of which man is capable, and is distinguished from the lower forms of ethical life by its own characteristic manifestations." It does not replace, it rather exalts the natural moral life of man. The nature, the scope, and the method of the application, the principles of the Christian life, are expanded in this volume, which defines Christian ethics in its first part, assumes a moral disorder and finds its remedy in human nature through the salvation offered by Christ. These ethics are applied in the second part to self, to society, to nature, and to God, while the third takes up the method of ethical growth.

A study of Westcott's preaching and teaching intended to make clear his reliance on the fundamental truth of the incarnation and resurrection, the work of the Holy Spirit and the atonement. This is done in part by a general discussion, and still more by citations from his sermons and published writings.

Travel and Description MEDITERRANEAN TRAVELLer, The. By D. E. Lorenz. Illustrated. 351 pp. Indexed. 8vo. Fleming H. Revell Co.

A guide to the Mediterranean which shows the evident influence of Murray's issue, though arranged on an entirely different plan. The volume follows the familiar route of the Mediterranean excursions now frequent, beginning at Madeira, and passing through the length of the Mediterranean, presenting a list of works

on each country, a brief account of its history, and enough in the shape of maps and local discussion to guide the traveller. The slightest possible reference is made to the details of land travel, the book evidently having been prepared with reference to the steamer excursions which are mentioned above. For this it fills a want long apparent.

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WAYFARERS IN ITALY. By Katharine Hooker. Fourth Edition. Illustrated. 306 pp. dexed. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons. A study of Italy, gathered in trips from Lombardy to Umbria and from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean, across the Apennines with a touch of the shores of each sea. Plentifully illustrated, this volume, which closes with Venice and opens with the Lombard Plain, is a personal record, without adding any special knowledge.

YEAR'S WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS, A. By George Aaron Barton. Illustrated. 276 pp. 12mo. Ferris & Leach.

Professor Barton, of Bryn Mawr College passed his Sabbatical year in charge of the new school in the Semitic languages intended for theological students in Jerusalem. He has covered in this volume an account of his entire trip, including the share of Europe he saw.

Political and Social Science

COMMONWEALTH OF MAN, THE. A series of discourses. By Robert Afton Holland. 198 pp. Indexed. 12mo. G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Slocum lectures, delivered in 1894, are the substance of this collection of discourses. They were intended to be published at that time, but owing to the ill-health of Mr. Holland this was delayed, and they are now published in a new form, as they later appeared in the St. Louis "Globe-Democrat."

CREDIT MAN AND HIS WORK, THE. By E. St. Elmo Lewis. The Office Library. With frontispiece. 304 pp. Indexed. 12mo. The Bookkeeper Publishing Co., Detroit.

A study of American methods of credit unknown abroad, in which the attempt has been made by increasing information to render dishonesty more difficult. The character of the statements on which knowledge of a man's credit are based are carefully described, classified, and the best way of answering and recording them given. There is also a summary of the credit laws of foreign countries. It is a useful manual in a new field.

DRINK PROBLEM IN MODERN LIFE, THE. BY Henry C. Potter. 35 pp. 12mo. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.

A re-issue of a charge of Bishop Potter to his diocese immediately after his share in opening a saloon in New York City. It is a plea for the regulation of traffic rather than its sup

pression, and for the recognition of the fact of the immediate place in the social life of those who frequent it.

READY MONEY. By George H. Knox. Personal Help Library. With frontispiece. 317 pp. 12mo. Personal Help Publishing Co.

Mr. Knox is President of the "Personal Help Publishing Company" and founder of a personal help school of achievement. The first two-thirds of this volume takes up in rapid. successive chapters, getting started, the qualities necessary to success, with a detailed list of things to think about. Part II has 23 "bits of eloquence," gathered from familiar sources.

UNWRITTEN CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION, AN. By H. Kingsmill Moore. 336 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Macmillan Co.

In 1811 the English Government, having secured the union of Great Britain and Ireland by means which could neither be justified nor defended, addressed itself to the task of promoting the education of the poor of Ireland through a society which, from its office in Kildare Place in Dublin came to be familiarly known as the Kildare Place Society. It continued from 1811 to 1831 the difficult task of giving elementary education to a peasant population cut off from all industries, paying exorbitant rents, and separated by faith from those who sought to teach them. This volume reviews this work, the immediate effects of which were not large, but which form an important part of the earliest steps taken by the British Government to develop local education in Ireland.

Educational

MANUAL OF MEDIAL WRITING. Designed to accompany the Medial Series of Writing Books. By Horace W. Shaylor and George H. Shattuck. Paper. 16mo. . Ginn & Co. NATURE TEACHING. Based upon the general principles of agriculture. By Francis Watts and William G. Freeman. 188 pp. Indexed. 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

A manual of nature teaching as a basis of agricultural study intended for advanced high school classes, written originally for use in the West Indies, but so generally treated as to be available anywhere.

ODYSSEY OF HOMER, THE. Done into English prose. By F. H. Butcher and A. Lang Abridged edition. With frontispiece. 293 pp. 18mo. The Macmillan Co.

A translation of Homer's "Odyssey." On the whole, more satisfactory than any which has appeared in English. Written in rhythmic prose, it expresses much of the charm, but misses much of the power of the original. Here abridged for the use of students.

RIGHT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT, THE. By Henry A. Stimson. With an introduction by Dr. William H. Maxwell. 256 pp. 12mo. A. S. Barnes & Co.

A discussion of ethics from the standpoint of organized society, intended for the use of children of school age, strongly recommended by William H. Maxwell, city superintendent of schools in New York.

Reference

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS, A. By Oscar Fay Adams. Fifth edition. 587 pp. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

A re-issue of a standard work of reference, first published in 1884, revised. A supplement with 1320 names has been added. It is invaluable for its list of works under each author, with date of publication.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MISSIONS, THE. Second Edition. By Rev. Henry O. Dwight, Rev. Allen Tupper and Rev. Edwin Munsell Bliss. 851 pp. Quarto. Funk & Wagnalls Co.

A revision of a standard work, covering the entire field of missions, giving, under countries, places and churches cited, the information necessary for comprehension of their relation to the mission movement. Aside from its primary purpose, the volume constitutes a work of reference of great value.

ETIQUETTE OF CORRESPONDENCE, THE. By Helen E. Gavit. Second Edition. 275 pp. 12mo. A. Wessels Co.

Dedicated to the Misses Ely, those famous instructors of young women in the way they shall walk and talk, this little volume is an attempt to give instructive lessons or suggestions on the present use and established custom in the art of writing letters of a business, social and even affectionate character.

LITTLE GIANT QUESTION SETTLER. By Prof. James A. Beaton. 288 pp. 32mo. Laird & Lee.

A collection of miscellaneous facts, likely to be in demand, covering all phases from biographical and geographical to popular information, the United States Constitution in abstract, mythology and explanations of current

events.

WEBSTER'S NEW STANDARD DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Compiled by E. T. Roe and others. Illustrated. Library Edition. 12mo. Laird & Lee.

A condensed dictionary, based on Webster, retaining his pronunciation instead of accepting those more recently appearing in his issues, following what is known as the quarto-Webster nearly fifty years ago condensed, modernized and illustrated.

KOBO. A story of the Russo-Japanese War. By Herbert Strang, author of "The Light Brigade in Spain," etc. Illustrated. 367 pp. Indexed. 12mo. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

The author has become the current-adventure novelist of the boy generation in England. He has guided the footsteps of his present boy hero through the opening stages of the Russo-Japanese war. A glossary explains the local terms with which the pages are plentifully sprinkled. A careful study of the region is apparent, and of the four nationalities concerned, Japanese, Koreans, Russians and Manchu.

Miscellaneous

BOOK OF THE Topiary, The. By Charles H. Curtis and W. Gibson. Vol. XVIII. Handbooks of Practical Gardening. 78 pp. 12mo. John Lane.

An historical account of the practice in gardening of pruning box, yew, and other trees into various forms. This work reviews the growth of the practice at the close of the Middle Ages, carrying it on down to the present time. Photographs illustrate the work.

CONCERNING GENEALOGIES. By Frank Allaben. 71 PP. 12mo. The Grafton Press.

A study of the methods and best means of carrying on genealogical research. It is based on experiences of a practical order, but lacks in knowledge of methodical work already done. Intended for beginners, it has much that will be valuable in suggestion and it glows with genial enthusiasm.