WHITE DEVIL AND THE DUCHESS OF MALFY. By John Webster. Edited by Martin W. Sampson. With frontispiece. 16mo. D. C. Heath & Co. New volumes in the Belles-Lettres series. This reprint of classics covers more ground than most undertakings of the kind. Particularly is it valuable for the works in the older English which it contains. The editorial work has been given into the hands of scholars whose competency is not to be questioned, while the binding and general make-up is distinctly unique, the idea being to endow the volumes with an atmosphere and the appearance of worn, much-used books. The style of the binding is also antique. MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, THE. By Edward Everett Hale. With a new introduction and notes by the author. 48 pp. 16mo. Little, Brown & Co. A new, small volumed edition of Dr. Hale's famous work, now issued in popular priced form. Educational ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. KING HENRY THE FOURTH. Parts 1 and 2. KING RICHARD THE SECOND. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Edited with notes by W. J. Rolfe. Illustrated. 16mo. American Book Co. Additional volumes in the new Rolfe Shakespeare. One of the most reliable editions published, and here issued in neat volumes of convenient size, with notes brought up to date and interesting introductions. CANADA AT WORK AND AT PLAY. With a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador. By A. L. Haydon. With an introduction by Lord Strathcona. Illustrated. 207 pp. 12mo. Cassell & Co. A short book about Canada, intended for English children, illustrated by photographs, giving a cursory description of the resources of the Dominion, preceded by a preface by Lord Strathcona. DER SCHUSS VON DER KANZEL. VON CONRAD FERNINAND MEYER. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Martin H. Haertel. 141 pp. 16mo. Ginn & Co. A well-conceived little volume, with introduction, notes, exercises and vocabulary, the spelling having been revised in accordance with the latest (seventh) edition of Duden's Orthographische Worterbuch. EL COMENDADOR MENDOZA. POR JUAN ValeRA. With introduction, notes and vocabulary by Rudolph Schwill. 255 pp. 16m0. American Book Co. A condensation of a novel by the leading Spanish figure in fiction, whose "pepita Jimenez" has been translated into English. The work is provided with a glossary. It is, in its effective characterization and singular elevation, a novel which ranks with his more familiar work. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. FROM 986 A. D. TO 1905. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson and William MacDonald. Illustrated. 610 pp. 12mo. Harper & Brothers. When Thomas Wentworth Higginson published this history, in 1882, it was at once recognized as the most satisfactory of short histories of the United States for school use. It originally came down only to the close of Jackson's administration. It has been extended, and appears now enlarged, revised and brought down to the last Presidential canvass. This adds somewhat to its size, but elisions have made up in part for the additions. IVANHOE. By Sir Walter Scott. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Francis Hovey Stoddard. 550 pp. 16mo. American Book Co. SCOTT'S "LADY OF THE LAKE." Edited by Raymond MacDonald Alden. With frontispiece. 250 pp. 16mo. American Book Co. TENNYSON'S "THE PRINCESS." Edited by Katharine Lee Bates. 249 pp. 16m0. New volumes in the "Gateway Series," prepared under the general editorship of Dr. Van Dyke. For school-room classics these have scholarship in the text, and neatness and serviceableness in the binding. LA MARE AU DIABLE. Par George Sand. With introduction and notes by Adele Randall-Lawton. 137 pp. 12mo. American Book Co. A textbook designed for second-year French. The story is George Sand's "The Haunted Pool," a simple tale of French peasant life. LA NEUVAINE DE COLETTE. Par Jeanne Schultz. With introduction and notes by R. E. Bassett. Paper. 12mo. William R. Jenkins. This young French authoress has written four novels, "La Neuvaine de Colette," "Le Qu'elles Peivent," Les Francailles de Gabrielle," "Jean de Kerden," besides numerous short stories. The present volume is most interesting, the story being woven around a young girl, sweet and wholesome as a flower, LE ABBE DANIEL. Par Andre Theuriet. Edited, with notes, by Professor C. Fontaine. Paper. 12mo. William R. Jenkins. A light little story of the sort reserved in France for young women, with notes explaining the grammatic expressions and unusual Fairy tales, by an author who has sought to give the book a moral turn, the opening story being on the same motif as "The Ugly Duckling," and the second dealing with two children who win forgiveness through courage and unselfishness. These stories are accompanied with questions, a translation and a glossary. They are written for the very first beginning in French, leaving very little for the child to do. LE VERRE D'EAU OU LES EFFETS ET LES CAUSES. Par Eugene Scribe. Edited, with introduction and notes, by F. G. G. Schmidt. Theatre Contemporain series. Paper. 12mo. William R. Jenkins. A play by the first French dramatist, Augustin Eugene Scribe (1791-1861), laid in 1840, the historical background of which is the war of the Spanish Succession, in which Queen Anne, the Duchess of Marlborough, Bolingbroke, and other figures of the day, appear. It represents the dramatist's best success of presenting history through stagecraft rather than through dramatic capacity. NATURE STUDY. By Frank Overton. Assisted by Mary E. Hill. 138 pp. Indexed. 12mo. American Book Co. A textbook comprising the most elementary studies in Botany and Zoology. QUIEN ES ELLA? Por Manuel Breton De Los Herreros. With introduction and notes by Samuel Garner. With frontispiece. 176 pp. 12mo. American Book Co. The author, 1796-1873, was the leading Spanish dramatist in the romantic movement of the first half of the nineteenth century. This play appeared in 1849. Its scene is laid in the reign of Philippe IV, introducing the monarch and Quevado, a leading litterateur of the day. SHORT STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY. By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball. Illustrated. 142 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Ginn & Co. Intended to be used as a supplementary historical reader for the fourth and fifth grades of our public schools, or for any other children from ten to twelve years of age, this volume gives simple narration of colonial incident and revolutionary adventure. STORY OF COLUMBUS AND Magellan, THE. By Thomas Bonaventure Lawler. With frontispiece. 151 pp. 12mo. Ginn & Co. The well-known story of Columbus, beginning with the Portuguese explorers of 13941580; Columbus and his discoveries, 1446-1492, with a description of the preparations for the great voyage and the journey across the Atlantic, with illustrations and maps; the return to Palos March 15th, 1493. The closing chapter is devoted to Magellan's expedition around the globe, 1519-1522. TALES OF FRANCE. From the works of George A collection of tales by Georges D'Esparbes, Auguste Marin, Anatole Le Braz, Jules Claritie. Francois Coppee, with introductory notes and vocabulary. These tales are illustrative of the North and South of France, and some of the conditions of its capital. The object of the volume is to help French study by presenting French in an interesting guise, and thus stimulating interest as well as giving fruit for study. VAN DYKE BOOK, THE. Selected from the writings of Henry Van Dyke. By Edwin Mims. With biographical sketch by Brooke Illustrated. Van Dyke. 172 pp. Charles Scribner's Sons. 12mo. Selections from Mr. Van Dyke's prose and poetry, intended to be used by children as a reader. They deal wholly with nature and outdoor life. Reference COLLIER'S SELF-INDEXING ANNUAL. 1905. A contemporary encyclopedia and pictorial history of men and events of the past year. Recorded and described by specialists in every department of human progress. Illustrated. Quarto. P. F. Collier & Son. Many of the contents of "Collier's" .in special articles, with additions on many other subjects, have been brought together in a single volume, arranged alphabetically. The work is almost wholly devoted to American affairs, though lynching is omitted. Biographical material and accounts of organizations are covered in articles by experts. The volume promises to be a useful addition to current works of reference. DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH, A. Abridged from the seven-volume work, entitled "Slang and Its Analogues." By John S. Farmer and W. E. Henley. 534 pp. 8vo. E. P. Dutton & Co. The reissue in one volume of a work in seven volumes, published with the longer articles of the previous work being reduced to a brief glossary. American words are included, but most of the discussion is based upon English thieves' slang, and the utterances of the slums. COPYRIGHT IN CONGRESS. 1789-1904. A bibliography and chronological record of all proceedings in Congress in relation to Copyright from April 15, 1789, to April 28, 1904. Prepared by Thorvald Solberg. 8vo. Government Printing Office, Washington. The author, who has been known for many years for his work in behalf of international copyright and by his bibliographies upon the subject, has collected in this volume, published by the Government and carefully indexed, a full summary of the proceedings of Congress on copyright law from the beginning of legislation on the subject. TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOlogy to the SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 1900-1901. J. W. Powell. In two parts. Part 2. Illustrated. 8vo. Government Printing Office. This issue of the United States Bureau of Ethnology (Part II of Volume XXII), holds the rituals collected by Miss Alice C. Fletcher, the well-known student of Omaha tribal practices. After 15 years' effort, the entire ritual used by these Indians is presented with music, the original Indian songs, a translation and a careful account, both of action and esoteric meaning. The volume constitutes one of the most important contributions which has recently been made to Indian ethnological knowledge. Music Books GUIDE TO PARSIFAL, A. By Richard Aldrich. Illustrated. 72 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Oliver Ditson Co. The author frankly states in his preface that this little book makes no claim to originality, but that it is an attempt merely to assemble for the interest and guidance of listeners of "Parsifal" some of the more important facts about the sources, origin and character of the work. The basis of "Parsifal" is found in the series of mediaeval legends relating to the Holy Grail. The little volume gives the story complete through the body of the book, and in Part III takes up the music itself. LESSONS IN MUSIC FORM. By Peroy Goetschius. 146 pp. 12mo. Oliver Ditson Co. An analysis of musical compositions, dealing with the necessity of form in music to secure unity and variety. The author takes up consecutively fundamental details, figure and motive, the phrases, cadences, irregular phrases, enlargement of form, song form, application of the forms, etc. Physical Culture PHYSICAL CULTURE LIFE, THE. By Irving Hancock, author of "Japanese Physical Training," etc. Illustrated. 229 pp. 12mo. G. P. Putnam's Sons. After writing a number of works on Japanese physical training for men and women, jiujitsu, etc., the author has in this work endeavored to deal with the general subject of physical development in all lines and direcMuch attention is paid to "resistant work" or the use of the opposing muscles in exercise, a caution being given against its undue effect on the heart. The general description of exercise is accompanied by an account of its physiological rationale. tions. POWER AND HEALTH THROUGH PROGRESSIVE EXERCISE. By George Elliot Flint. With an introduction by Dr. Austin Flint. 218 pp. The Baker & Taylor Company. Dr. Austin Flint, a leading physician of New York, has provided a preface for his son's work, which represents the current reaction in physical exercise from light gymnastics to the use of parallel weights, parallel bars and heavy apparatus. The assertion is made by Dr. Flint and echoed by his son that interest in physical culture will remain apathetic so long as the light-weight system is used, and will only change when men are given an opportunity "to do something" by exercise in heavy gymnastics. Business MODERN ADVERTISING. By Ernest E. Calkins and Ralph Holden. Illustrated. 353 PP. 12mo. D. Appleton & Co. Dealing with the best methods of advertising in order to obtain the best results. The consecutive chapters take up channels of trade; magazines and newspapers as mediums; the general advertiser; the advertising manager; retail advertising; mail order advertising. The volume is replete with general information of a useful character on the subject. Juvenile BOOKFUL OF GIRLS, A. By Anna Fuller, author of "Katharine Day," etc. Illustrated. 262 pp. 12mo. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Six stories: "Blythe Holidays;" "Voyage;" "Artful Madge;" "The Ideas of Polly;" "Nannie's Theatre Party;" "Olivia's Sundial;" "Bagging a Grandfather." BOYS OF BOB'S HILL, THE. By Charles Pierce Burton. Illustrated by George Alfred Williams. 182 pp. 12mo. Henry Holt & Co. A boy's juvenile, whose scene is laid near Graylock, a mountain near Williamstown, Mass., during a vacation of schoolboys in the Berkshires. The illustrations are trivial, winding up with the discovery of a treasure trove. |