Juvenile

AT THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR.

By Edward Stratemeyer. Illustrated by A. B. Shute. 281 pp. 12mo. Laird & Lee.

A third volume in the "Soldiers of Fortune" series, written for boys. The book is based on fact, but enough of the fiction element is present to suit the cravings of a youthful imagination.

HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, THE. By Wesley Johnston, author of "The Mystery of Miriam," etc. 253 pp. 12mo. Eaton & Mains. Opens with the christening of the hero and carries him through the successive stages of mischievous childhood, into the realm of school life. When he is twelve years of age his father met with a painful accident which disabled him, so that "Jack" leaves school and takes up the burden of ways and means. He puts his hand to the wheel and wins success. JIMMY BROWN TRYING TO FIND EUROPE. By W. L. Alden, author of "The Adventures of Jimmy Brown," etc. Illustrated. 164 PP. 16mo. Harper & Brothers.

In this volume Mr. William L. Alden, an editorial writer on the New York Times, 18651885, more recently American Consul General at Rome, and now living in London, has taken "Jimmie Brown," of whom he wrote over a score of years ago, and given him a trip to Europe, the humor of the volume having stood somewhat long on the lees.

THISTLES OF MOUNT CEDAR, THE. By Ursula Tannenforst. Illustrated. 453 pp. 12mo. The John C. Winston Co. A delightful story for young girls, beginning with the advent in an alien school of a young foreigner, how she wins friends, the various fun and mishaps that attend a group of girls at school. Each chapter is full of interest and of an elevating tone. It is a book girls will love, laugh over and pass on to their friends.

Social and Political Science CHILD AND GOD, THE. By Rev. M. T. Lamb, author of "The Mormons and Their Bible," etc. Illustrated. 121 pp. 16mo. American Baptist Publication Society.

A study of the neglected and abandoned child, and an account of the efforts to place such children in families, given as a report upon the operations of the Children's Home Society. The work makes no mention of similar and earlier efforts by other societies on better plans, to do the same work.

ETHICS OF FORCE, THE. By H. E. Warner. 126 pp. 12mo. Ginn & Co.

This discussion of the various ethics of heroism, patriotism and the question if mere war _can be defended on the authority of Christ or the grounds of reason, was prepared to be read before the Ethical Club in Washington. It is an attempt to show that no logical justification can be made for war, and it is printed by the

International Union for Peace. Its general thesis is based upon the theory that the development of society passes from brute courage to cunning and from cunning to the control of moral sentiment.

HUSBAND, WIFE AND HOME. By Charles Fred eric Goss, author of "The Loom of Life," etc. Introduction by Sylvanus Stall. With frontispiece. 276 pp. 12mo. The Vir Publishing Company.

The author of "The Redemption of David Corson," a book written after many years' service as co-worker and pastor in charge of Moody's Chicago Church, and later as assistant pastor in the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and of the Avondale Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, has in this work endeavored to deal with the family issues. The customary plea is made for marriage. Women are classified as either home-makers or housekeepers. Parentage and the various problems of married life, from expenses to corporal punishment, are discussed in these three simple homely essays, without any special gift of diction, with constant common sense and a somewhat austere and set idea. Dancing is prohibited.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S RAILROAD POLICY. Report of a discussion before the Economic Club, of Boston, March 9, 1903. Including addresses by Hon. Charles A. Prouty, David Willcox, Peter Stenger Grosscup and Prof. Frank Parsons. 79 pp. 12mo. Ginn & Co. Four addresses before the Economic Club last March, in which Charles A. Prouty, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, defended its position. David Willcox, president of the Delaware & Hudson, urged the right of the railroads to make their own rates, Judge Grosscup pleaded for supervision by the Courts, and Professor Frank Parsons, of t Public National Ownership League, for Government supervision. While the addresses add little to the exact knowledge of the subject. they summarize the existing state of the discussion.

Essays

AMERICAN THUMB PRINTS. By Kate Stephens. 343 PP. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co.

These essays, of which the most important, "A New England Woman," appeared in the Atlantic, and "Mysogyny" and "Plagiarizing Humors of Benjamin Franklin," in the "Bookman," include studies of the University of Kansas, of the Kansas Puritan, of St. Louis and of cooking. They all display a mingled flavor of New England tradition and of Western birth and residence.

FREE OPINIONS. By Marie Corelli. 12mo. Dodd, Mead & Co.

Miss Corelli's forceful utterances are sometimes more amusing than they are valuable, at least from a practical standpoint. She is essentially a woman of theories and when it is added to this that she is primarily a woman

of feelings, it can be readily understood that she takes herself seriously. Miss Corelli's stories are very entertaining and at times she shows in them a real power, but her essays will never reform the world, no matter how strenuously she sails into church and state. OUTLOOK BEAUTIFUL, THE. By Lilian Whiting, author of "The Life Radiant," etc. 182 pp. 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

Another book of Miss Whiting's peculiar philosophy, which someone has called a direct product of Emerson's transcendentalism. Highly colored and intense, feminine and inclined to flamboyancy, it appeals to a certain number, of certain temperament, only.

"Sybil," "Tancred," and "Contarini Fleming." "Venetia" was published in 1837. Its scene was put back to the time of our War of Independence and its hero is a combination of Byron and of Shelley. A preface by Lord Iddesleigh draws attention to these facts.

POCKET R. L. S., THE. 18mo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

A collection, made up into a dainty pocket volume, of favorite passages from the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. The Stevenson lover will meet with many old friends here.

WRECKERS, THE. By R. L. Stevenson.

Four more volumes in the interesting "Biographical Edition" of Stevenson's works. Mrs. Stevenson tells many things of interest in the prefaces. For instance, she writes concerning

composition of "The Bottle Imp," one of stories in the collection, "Island Nights' Entertainment," that the idea for the tale came from a melodrama founded on an old German legend, the chief points of which Stevenson recognized as common to the Hawaiian folkstories. This made a direct appeal to the native mind possible and a missionary was found to translate the story into the Samoan, after which it was published under the title "O Le Fangu Aitu" in the Sulu. It was firmly believed by many of the people that the unopened bottle was still in existence and that Stevenson was hiding it in his house.

HAMLET. The First Folio Edition. Edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 16mo. T. Y. Crowell & Co.

Another addition to the First Folio Edition, which is coming out slowly. The notes here are very convenient and are done by two writers well qualified.

VENETIA. By the Earl of Beaconsfield. With an introduction by the Earl of Iddesleigh. 649 pp. 16mo. John Lane.

This issue is Volume 25 in the "New Pocket Library" and the fourth of Lord Beaconfield's novels in the series, the other three being

12mo.

Verse

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By Ernest Crosby, author of 126 pp. "Tolstoy and His Message," etc. Funk & Wagnalls Company. The author, the son of the well-known clergyman, Howard Crosby, has become known for his socialism and his studies of Tolstoy. has in this volume, adopting Walt Whitman's form, written on a broad range of subjects which suggest themselves to a careful student of this author. He succeeds in some cases in reaching a high level of verse and is in others grotesque.

Educational

ALL THE YEAR ROUND. A nature reader. Part IV. Summer. By M. A. L. Lane and Margaret Lane. Illustrated. 99 pp. 12mo. Ginn & Co.

This series consisted of three volumes-"Autumn," Winter" and "Spring" and was intended for morning reading for school children The first three volumes proved so popular that a fourth has just been issued entitled "Summer." The authors explain in their preface that the purpose of this little book is not merely to furnish new reading matter, but also to stimulate the thought, enlarge the vocabulary, and open the eyes of children to the wonderful world around them.

BUTTERFLIES AND BEES. Vol. II. The Insect Folk. By Margaret W. Morley, author of "Seed-Babies," etc. Illustrated by the author. 267 pp. 12mo. Ginn & Co.

A manual for children, disguised in the form of a running narrative, describing the habits of insects. The book is intended, the publishers announce, for children of eight to eleven years of age, and its chief object is to instil in the young mind a sense of the wonderful unity of all forms of life.

ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA. By Walter R. Marsh. 395 pp. 12mo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

This text book in Algebra follows the requirements of the college examination, special emphasis being placed upon the principles which are the tools in more advanced work. Algebraic problems are omitted, giving place to a discussion, simply told, of the fundamental principles. It is especially noteworthy for a very large number of examples, nearly 1000

taken from recent college entrance papers. Graphical methods are freely used and its treatment of equations used in physics, progression, permutation and combination are all based upon the requirements of future college work.

READING JOURNEY THROUGH CHAUTAUQUA, A. By Frank Chapin Bray. Introduction by Chancellor John H. Vincent. Illustrated. 8vo. Chautauqua Institution.

A careful sketch, with lavish illustrations of the origin, organization, development and distribution of the various features of the original Chautauqua, intended to furnish a complete handbook for those who visit the place and desire to understand what they see. Prefaced by an introduction from Bishop John H. Vincent, the work presents an official and authorized account of the present condition of Chautauqua. The past history of the work and its imitation elsewhere are also briefly touched upon. SOUTHERN WRITERS. Edited by W. P. Trent, author of "A History of American Literature," etc. 424 PP. 12mo. The Macmillan Company.

The author, once a professor of literature in the University of the South, now holding a similar position in Columbia University, has brought together for use as a reading book in Southern schools, extracts from Southern authors, from John Smith down to the present time. It is unusually full of extracts from the speeches of statesmen and from the work of little known authors in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. A brief reference summarizes each man's life and gives works in which more can be learned.

Reference

JAPANESE FOR DAILY USE. By E. P. Prentys, assisted by Kametaro Sasamoto. 63 pp. 18mo. William R. Jenkins.

A small pocket manual of Japanese words and phrases, with the English translation facing each. It is necessarily brief and covers only conversational phrases needed to make oneself understood in simpler matters.

Humor

FOOLISH FINANCE. Compiled by Gideon Wurdz, author of "The Foolish Dictionary," etc. Illustrated by Wallace Goldsmith. 16mo. John W. Luce Company.

130 PP.

This work by the author of the "Foolish Dictionary" of which more than 100,000 copies are said to have been sold, deals in aphorisms which, in their application and explication show a close knowledge of recent financial revelations, particularly in insurance.

SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET, THE. By Marshall P. Wilder, author of "People I've Smiled With." Illustrated by Bart Haley. 359 pp. 12mo. Funk & Wagnalls Company. Marshall P. Wilder, a dwarf, now 46 years of age, has for many years been a noted parlor

entertainer, his success turning upon his mimetic ability and a mobile expression. In this volume, the second he has written upon his experiences, the first being "People I Have Smiled With," he has given brief pictures of men of distinction in the past twenty yearsRichard Croker, Recorder Goff, President McKinley, Horace Greeley, Henry Watterson, Adeline Patti; a group of young millionaires. Vanderbilt, Mackay, Rockefeller, and Jay and George Gould. Actors: Irving, Jefferson, Hilliard, Mansfield and a number of lesser men upon the stage. The volume is lightly written, full of short anecdotes, and illustrated with outline drawings and a photograph, while the cover is cut to show a colored view of Madison Square on the half title as the "Sunny Side of the Street."

Miscellaneous

DOG BOOK, THE. By James Watson. Part III. Complete in 10 parts. Illustrated. 8vo. Doubleday, Page & Co.

This part of what has already become a standard work on the dog in England, takes up setters, Irish, Gordon and Spaniel, profusely illustrated by reproductions of wood cuts and engravings. As in previous volumes it traces the development of each variety through the modern period. Its conclusions are guided not only by great knowledge, but sound reason as in regard to that vexed canine issue, the Gordon Setter.

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, THE. By Grace Peckham Murray. Illustrated. 194 PP. F. A. Stokes & Co.

12mo.

A conventional work on the care of the body. Most of what is in the book has been said before, though it is well to have some of these very excellent suggestions made more impressive.

HANDBOOK OF PRINCETON, THE. By John Rogers Williams. With an introduction by President Woodrow Wilson. Illustrated. 12mo. The Grafton Press.

A history of the University and a description of it as it now stands, make this book, first of all, one of tangible value. The additional interest is afforded in the description of the town. with something of its literary associations, and in the general manner in which the work has been done, for Mr. Williams has put sympathy as well as knowledge into the making of the book. The author is Assistant Secretary of the College and is editor of the Historical Society. Dr. Wilson writes the very pleasing introduction, and the numerous illustrations comprise photographs and several very able sketches by John P. Cuyler.

STRAY LEAVES FROM A SOUL'S BOOK. 178 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger.

Rhapsodies of passion and introspection, written in rhythmical prose, the sentimental outpouring of a note book.,