ory it is Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses.'' There have been any number of editions of this classic, but there is none quite comparable to the one just issued, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith (Scribner's, $2.50). It would be difficult to imagine any more charming illustrations than those of the new edition. Not only the colored ones covering the full page-what could be more exquisite than that of the little sick boy in bed!-but the pen-and-ink sketches on the margins are full of life. The very binding is a work of art. Altogether, while not the most expensive, it is the most beautiful gift book for children that the season has as yet offered.

"American Heroes and Heroines,'' by Pauline Carrington Bouvé (Lothrop, $1.25) is well worth the reading. Containing some twenty brief sketches of men and women who have had a notable share in making American history, it will be helpful in fostering the patriotic spirit in our young people.

Among books for girls we note "Cordelia's Pathway Out" (Lee & Shepard, $1), by Edna A. Foster, editor of the children's page in the Youth's Companion. It is an excellent story of a girl who made her life worth while by simple perseverance and the endeavor to do well whatever she undertook. "My Little Lady-in-Waiting" ($1.25), by Louise Catlin, is somewhat of the order of the "impossibles, "" a little tenement-house girl gradually evolving into the prospective wife of a German baron. Under the imprint of the same publishers (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard) we have "Randy's Luck, by Amy Brooks ($1), the sixth in a series of "Randy Books" "; "Dorothy Dainty at the Shore, the same author, fourth in a series, and "How Barbara Kept Her Promise," by Nina Rhoades ($1), fifth of the "Rhoades Books."'

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Amanda M. Douglas adds a third to her "Helen Grant" series under the title "Helen Grant at Aldred House" ($1.25), a helpful story for girls.

For little people Mrs. Henrietta R. Eliot, one of the editors of an American edition of Froebel's "Mother Play," has written "Laura in the Mountains" (fifty cents). "Dolly's Double, by Ethel Wood ($1), is a simple little story of two little children who looked so much alike that funny mistakes were always happening. A quaint and pretty story entitled "Lady Dear," by Millicent E. Mann (McClurg, $1), is an account of the little mistress of a castle in Spain, at the time when Columbus started on his voyage of discovery of America. The little lady's father accompanies him and the story tells what happened meanwhile. The many readers of the well-known "Pepper" books by Margaret Sidney will be glad of an addition in the story of "Ben Pepper" which is now ready (Lothrop, $1.50).

"When Grandmamma was Fourteen," by Marion Harland (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, $1.25), is one of the stories of which one is not sure whether the author's purpose is to write for juveniles or adults. It presents a picture of schoolgirl experiences of a somewhat extravagant order, and by no means of a high standard. The story is clever but is not inspiring.

"The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys," by Gulielma Zollinger (A. C. McClurg & Co.), has become so widely popular that the appearance of this new illustrated edition will be welcome. "The Gregory Guards," "a boys' club which made men, " is a good story for boys by Emma Lee Benedict, illustrated by Frank T. Merrill (Lee & Shepard, $1.25). The same publishers give us also the following: "Dave Porter at Oak Hall, or the Schooldays of an American Boy," by Edward Stratemeyer ($1.25). It is to be the first of a series by this well-known writer. "The Children of Bedford Court," by Grace Le Baron (seventy-five cents), is the third volume of the "Janet Series" and has for its hero a boy named Roy Fitzpatrick, whose great ambition to be a soldier is fulfilled when he takes part in the Spanish-American War. "In the Line," by A. T. Dudley ($1.25, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard), is like those already produced by this author, an excellent book for boys. The verdict of one boy who has read it is: "It is about a boy that went to college and how he became acquainted and then he made the football team. The last chapter is about the game. It is a very good book." The same publishers issue "Dan Monroe, a story of Bunker Hill," by W. O. Stoddard ($1.25), and "The Scarlet Patch, the Story of a Patriotic Boy in the Mohawk Valley," by Mary E. Q. Brush ($1.25).

No more practical book was ever printed than "The Young Craftsman," by A. Neely Hall (Lee & Shepard, $2). It will tell your boy how to do everything, from handling tools to building a log cabin; from developing photographs to building canoes and a back-yard circus. It contains suggestions for Hallowe'en performances and toy railways. In fact, it covers every interest which a lively boy is likely to possess. It ought to be in every family and the text-book of every growing boy.

Howard Pyle has added to the list of his boys' books "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table" (Scribner's, $2.50 net). As the title implies, it is one of Mr. Pyle's incomparable retellings of the stories of chivalry. Both in content and in illustration it is a book that will delight the heart of any boy.

John Gilmer Speed in "The Horse in America" (McClure, Phillips & Co., $2 net), has done something that will be welcomed most cordially, not only for its admirable illustrations, but for the exceedingly interesting and well-arranged information which it contains. It is not every

one who knows just how American horses differ, or if indeed they do differ, from those of other countries. Mr. Speed will tell him what he needs to know. But the volume is something more than that of a mere veterinarian. It is brim full of anecdote and the interest of the race track. More than that the man who is interested in driving horses will welcome the account of the Morgan, Messenger, Knox and other American types, but there will be those who will wish that he had given some attention to the horse that is still one of the idols of New England"Nelson."' The ordinary driver will appreciate the chapter on how to buy a horse, which is full of good advice as well as warning.

United States

President

Administration. October 17. Roosevelt authorized an amendment to civil service rules giving power to a cabinet officer to remove summarily and without hearing any employee, provided he has personal knowledge of the misconduct or inefficiency of the person and states the same in writing.

Casualties.-October 20.-A storm on the lakes caused the loss of several lives and some thirtyfour wrecks, with much damage to property.

-October 30.-Twelve persons killed and thirty injured in an accident on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad near Kansas City.

-November 4.- Nine persons killed and others injured by a tornado in Mountain View, Oklahoma, and thirteen in the neighboring village of Cement.

Commerce.-October 26.-The interstate commerce law convention met in Chicago, and divided into two factions over the question of freight rate revision. (See Events.'')

Education.-October 17.-Edward D. Eaton resigned the presidency of Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.

-October 18.-Edmund Janes James inaugurated president of the University of Illinois. -October 25.-Dr. Lancaster inaugurated president of Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan.

Elections.-November 7.-New York: Tammany's candidate for mayor, McClellan, won; also William Travers Jerome as district attorney on independent ticket; Philadelphia: The Republican party defeated; Maryland: Senator Gorman's amendment to disfranchise negroes defeated; Ohio: John M. Pattison, Democrat, elected governor; Rhode Island: George H. Utter, Republican, elected governor; Massachusetts: Curtis Guild, Jr., Republican, elected governor; San Francisco: Reëlected Mayor Schmitz, Labor candidate; Salt Lake City: American (anti-Mormon) candidate wins; Virginia: Claude A. Swanson, Democrat, elected governor. (See "Events."')'

Industry.-October 17.-The Cotton Manufacturers' Association, of Fall River, Massachusetts, announced an advance in wages.

Insurance.-October 17.-Richard A. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, acknowledged before the legislative investigating committee that former state insurance commissioners and others were paid large sums to look after the interests' of the company. Mr. McCurdy refused to explain the reduction in dividends on policies while business was increasing and assets were piling up, and the salaries of the officers were increased. Checks aggregating $100,000 were paid last year by the Mutual for confidential law services.

-October 24.-Disclosed that the Mutual Life spent $11,000 or $12,000 last month for "doc

tored" reports of the proceedings of the committee. Charles J. Smith testified that he had been employed by the Mutual for eighteen years to counteract through the newspapers injury

done to life insurance business.

-October 25.-President McCurdy, of the Mutual Life, asked its board of trustees to investigate its affairs. A committee of three was appointed to do so.

-November 4.-Twenty true bills voted by Hennepin County, Minnesota, grand jury against former officials of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company of Minneapolis. Bribery was the charge.

-November 8.—Missouri State Superintendent of Insurance, W. D. Vandiver, issued an order prohibiting the New York Life Company from doing business in Missouri.

Land Frauds.-October 15.-Willard N. Jones, former representative to the state legislature of Oregon, and Thaddeus Potter, an attorney, found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States of lands.

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Lynching.-October antagonism roused by Thomas A. Dixon's play, "The Clansman," caused the lynching of Gus Goodman, a negro, who had fatally shot Sheriff Stegall.

Municipal.-October 16.-The Chicago city council voted 37 to 27 against city ownership of street railways.

-October 29.-Mayor Weaver's board of investigating engineers reported that Israel W. Durham and State Senator J. P. McNichol were found guilty of graft to the extent of $6,330,000 in the filtration and boulevard contracts of Philadelphia.

President.-October 18.-President Roosevelt began his tour of the South.

-October 26.-The President was received in New Orleans with so much enthusiasm that his out-door speech had to be omitted.

-October 31.-President Roosevelt returned to Washington.

Religion.-October 16.-The general council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church adopted a canon recommending insistence upon the uniform practice of its ministers to decline to marry divorced persons unless the divorce be secured on the grounds of adultery or wilful desertion, in which case the innocent party may be remarried, but not within a year after the divorce has been granted.

Sport.-October 14.-Hemery, of the French team, won the second automobile race for the Vanderbilt cup, over the Mineola, Long Island, course, covering the 283 miles in four hours, thirty-six minutes and eight seconds....New York won the fifth and deciding game of the world's championship baseball series, beating the Philadelphia Athletics 2 to 0.

city of London conferred on General William Booth in recognition of his Salvation Army work.

Canada

Deaths.-November 1.-Christopher Robinson, a great constitutional lawyer.

Spain

Ministry.-October 27.-Owing to continued divisions in the cabinet the ministry resigned.

Belgium Deaths.-October 22.-Florent Willems, genre painter, died in France.

Austro-Hungary

Riot.-November 6.-Five persons were killed and more than one hundred wounded in a conflict between the social democrats and the troops in Prague; two hundred rioters were arrested. Hungarian Premier.-October 17.-Official announcement of reappointment of Baron Fejervary as premier, charged with the duty of preparing for a general election on the basis of universal suffrage.

Sweden

Flag.-October 16.-The Riksdag passed the new flag law; the emblem to be a yellow cross on a blue ground, the same as existed prior to 1814.

Regency.-October 15.-King Oscar resumed the reins of government, putting an end to the regency of Crown Prince Gustave.

Treaty.-October 16.-Both houses of parliament unanimously adopted the government bill providing for the ratification of the Karlstad treaty.

Norway

King.-October 18.-M. Michelsen, the Norwegian premier, notified the Danish government that a full agreement had been reached by the government as to an occupant for the throne. The Danish court, after a ministerial council, announced that Prince Charles, of Denmark, would accept the crown of Norway when elected by the Storthing.

-October 27.-King Oscar definitely and formally declined the Norwegian throne for a prince of the house of Bernadotte.

Russian Empire

Assassination.-October 13.-M. Ossovsky, assistant chief of police at Kishinev, assassinated. Held to have been largely responsible for the massacre of Jews in 1903.

Deaths.-October 12.-Prince Sergius Troubetskoy, Liberal leader, aged 43.

Jews.-October 22.-The Empress of Russia for the first time received the wife of Minister Witte. She was a Jewish peasant girl of obscure birth and heretofore had not been recognized by the court.

Premier.-Announced that Count Witte would be appointed premier and head of a responsible cabinet.

Reform.-October 15.-By command of the Emperor the council of the empire suspended

the greater part of its legislative labors and returned the bills awaiting its consideration to the ministerial departments for submission to the imperial douma.

-October 26.-The Czar, after counsel with Count Witte, conceded certain reforms, namely: A ministry responsible alike to the crown and the representatives of the people; practical freedom of the press, of speech and of meeting; more power and broader scope for the people's assembly.

-October 30.-The Czar issued a manifesto granting civic liberty and electoral rights to those hitherto deprived of them. Count Witte made prime minister. (See "Events."')

-October 31.-The Czar pledged civil liberty to the Finns.

-November 3.-The Czar signed ukase granting amnesty to political prisoners. Censorship of the press withdrawn.

-November 4.-The Czar signed a manifesto restoring to Finland the system of government it had before the annulment of the constitution in February, 1899. He convoked the Finnish Diet for December 20 and empowered it to regulate the budget and to discuss new laws for wider electoral suffrage. Count Witte settled

the railroad strikes by granting higher wages and special privileges.

-November 7.-The Czar issued manifesto extending the suffrage. Workingmen given representation on same basis as peasants; one for each 250,000. Tenants paying annual rent of $240, petty traders, holders of high-school diplomas, and officials of St. Petersburg and Moscow with salaries of not less than $600, are also given the suffrage.

Resignations.-November 1.-Pobiedonostseff, procurator-general of the holy synod, resigned.

-November 4.-The Czar accepted the resignations of the entire Finnish senate. M. Bouligin, Russian minister of the interior, resigned. Revolution.-October 15.-Red flag demonstrations in St. Petersburg.

-October 16.-The printers in St. Petersburg struck, and most of the newspapers had to suspend publication.

-October 22.-The railway strike extended so that eight lines were tied up and Moscow was practically isolated.

-October 24. Railroad strikes spread throughout the empire. Mails and passengers stopped. The trade and industry of Russia paralyzed because of strikes. Meat prices increased fifty per cent.

-October 25.-Several persons killed in riots in St. Petersburg. No railroad trains went in or out of the city. The Czar isolated at Peterhof. Anarchy prevailing everywhere. Famine threatened. All the stores closed.

-October 26.-Troops took possession of the water, gas and electric light works in St. Petersburg, and a strong guard was placed round the treasury. The strike contagion spreading. At Kharkoff the university students converted the school into a fortress whence they defied the authorities.

-October 27.-Monster massmeetings held in St. Petersburg without interference from the

police or troops. Resolutions passed for a general strike, including the government departments. There was no rioting in St. Petersburg. Banks, shops and theaters closed. Street cars were not running; newspapers suspended publication and the streets were unlighted. In all the large cities of Russia revolutionary conditions existed. Committees of public safety were acting in Moscow, Kharkoff and Saratoff. -October 29.-Conflict between the troops and the revolutionists at Odessa; thirty-two killed.

-October 31.-The strike ended in some of the railroads connected with Moscow. Finland revolted. The senate appointed by the Czar forced to resign. The governor-general, Prince Obolensky, virtually a prisoner in his own palace. Fresh demands made for complete political amnesty, the abolition of capital punishment, formation of a national militia and the repeal of martial law in the empire. Excited crowds paraded the streets, the "reds" and the "whites" forming two factions. The latter accepted the Czar's manifesto in good faith. Warsaw in an uproar.

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-November 1.-Odessa in the hands of a lawless mob. Hundreds killed and wounded. Kiev, Warsaw and Kazan rioting, Jew baiting and bloodshed. In St. Petersburg order partially restored. The red flag on all official buildings in Helsingfors.

-November 2.-The citizens' provisional gov ernment in complete control in Helsingfors. The police surrendered their arms to the citizens. Russian officials deposed. Schools and shops closed. Perfect order maintained.

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-November 3.-Mobs burned Kishinev. dreds of Jews killed. In Kiev and Odessa also Jews were murdered and Jewish houses and shops destroyed. A reign of terror prevailed. The general strike in St. Petersburg raised.

-November 4.-The socialists disturbing Helsingfors. Three Russian battleships and 10,000 troops reached that city. The governor-general fled to St. Petersburg. The Jewish quarters in Odessa completely devastated. Jews killed without mercy.

-November 5.-The St. Petersburg newspapers resumed publication. Urgent demand by them for removal of General Trepoff.

-November 6.-The general strike declared off in Helsingfors, the Czar's manifesto being received with demonstrations of joy.

Treaty of Portsmouth.-October 15. - The Czar signed the treaty of Portsmouth at Peterhof.

China

Massacre.-November 1.-Five Presbyterian missionaries murdered at Lienchow, at the head of the gulf of Tongking.

-November 4.-China offered full redress for

massacre of missionaries. An imperial edict directed the Viceroy of Canton to furnish efficient protection to the missions and to punish the guilty persons.

Japan

Treaty of Portsmouth.-October 14.-The Emperor signed the treaty of Portsmouth,