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as in the poems. The letters which Mrs. Todd has edited bear dates from 1845, when the writer was a girl of fourteen, to the time of her death in 1886. Many are to members of her family or more distant relatives and to intimate friends unknown to the general public; but there are a goodly number to Colonel Higginson, whom she called in a characteristic semi-whimsical way " Master;" to J. G. Holland and wife;

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about one hundred pages each, and shorter chapters of vary ing length upon "Construction of Scenes," "The Characters, Verse and Color," and "The Poet and His Work." While this is a work of German learning and logical analysis, the style is attractive and the treatment has the merit of good perspective. The examples chosen to illustrate the criti cism are drawn from Sophocles, Shakespeare, Lessing, Goethe and Schiller. The publishers have given the book excellent typography, and a neat, serviceable binding.

In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers. By Agnes Repplier. 16mo, pp. 235. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.

Miss Repplier has within the past few years attained a recognized place among our literary essayists and her new volume will be welcomed by many admirers. In tone these lately issued essays do not differ materially from those of earlier date. They are rich in quotation, in personal literary reminiscence and preference, in carefully, cleverly turned sentences, in a certain sparkling yet restrained vivacity; they belong to the world of books, social intercourse and contented eo leisure; not in any considerable degree to the world of struggle or aspiration. Among the score of chapter headings are Gifts," The Discomforts of Luxury: a Speculation," "Reviewers and Reviewed," "Guests," Opinions," "The Children's Age," ""A Kitten" and "The Passing of the Essay."

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to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bowles. In large measure the let-
ters show the caprice, and mystical, symbolical language of
the poems, the curious mingling of heart skepticism with in-
tellectual piety; but they show other sides of the writer's na-
ture, the humorous and the sympathetic in particular, and
reveal the development of her mental traits from girlhood
onward. Fac-similes of her handwriting-as peculiar and
"disjointed" as her versification-at different dates are given.
A portrait taken early in life and a view of her Amherst
(Massachusetts) home-the house which she did not leave for
many years before her death-are also of interest.

Freytag's Technique of the Drama. By Dr. Gustav
Freytag. 12mo, pp. 375. Chicago. S. C. Griggs &
Co. $1.50.

All students of dramatic and literary criticism who do not read German will be so grateful to Mr. Elias J. MacEwan for this translation (from the sixth edition) of Freytag's Technik des Dramas that they will not be inclined to deal harshly with his rendering, which, however, seems to be admirable. The work was first published in 1863 and has since been considered a first class authority in its field, though, curiously, it has not heretofore been translated into English. It is not a criticism of the actor's art or of stage management but of the written drama, though what is known as the closet drama not intended for the boards is in Freytag's opinion an anomaly. The work is divided into chapters upon "Dramatic Action" and "The Construction of the Drama," occupying

The Great R fusal: Being Letters of a Dreamer in Gotham Edited by Paul Elmer More. 16mo, pp. 157. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.

The artistic form of this little creation is simple. The book contains forty sections supposed to be forty letters written by a young man to the woman he loved, in a dreamy, platonic way; whom he finally renounces entirely, in order that he may withdraw into the depths of an Oriental, mystical contemplation. This dreamer resembles Amiel in his preference for imaginative life over the active; his letters have a flavor of medievalism and the kinship of this book with Dante's Vita Nuova is evident, though the influence at work upon the Gothamite is that of Indian (Buddhistic) philosophy. The literary quality of both the prose and the numerous included poems is of a high, delicate order.

Talk at a Country House. Fact and Fiction. By Sir
Edward Strachey, Bart. 16mo, pp. 249. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.35.

The "Country House" of the title is an old English
manor in Somersetshire, England, and it is an old country
gentleman who rambles on in pleasant narrativo in these
pages, or enters into extended conversations with a young
friend of his, here called "Foster." There are discussions of
literary matters, partly in their historical, philosophical and
ethical relations, and accounts of interesting phases of local
life as the old "Squire " has seen it. The subjects of the nine
chapters are The Squire and His Old Manor Place,"
sian Poetry" (with an extended translation from Sa'di), “The
Old Hall and the Portraits," "A General Election," "Love
and Marriage," "Books: Tennyson and Maurice," Riding
Down to Camelot," "The Arrow Head Inscriptions" and
"Taking Leave." The book is written in quiet, genial style,
showing high and wide thought, knowledge of men and
books; it is cultured without being artificial.

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Women in Epigram. Compiled by Frederick W. Morton. 16mo, pp. 241. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.

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Mr. Morton has aimed to bring together a large number
of the "best things" in literature concerning_woman, not
debarring opinions uttered by her own sex. These
shots," to use a convenient word of the hour, show very vary.
ing results, but there are few that are uninteresting. Some
are brilliant, some wise, not a few cynical, some intensely de-
voted, some humorous, some religiously sincere. Mr. Morton's
index of authors shows that among chief contributors to the
collection are Addison, William Rounseville Alger, Balzac,
Junius Henri Browne, Byron, William Ellery Channing,
George Eliot, Euripides, La Bruyère, Plautus, Ruskin, and the
popular voice in proverbs. It is an entertaining and com-
panionable little book.

Things of the Mind. By J. L. Spalding. 16mo, pp. 235.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.

The general quality and style pervading these new essays of Bishop Spalding's, and also to a large extent the matter itself, show close kinship with his earlier volume on "Education and the Higher Life," published a few years ago. Bishop Spalding discusses matters of so high interest as Views of Education, "“Theories of Life and Education," "Culture and Religion" and "Patriotism "in a spirit of intelligent religious faith and of living, persistent idealism. His words are en

couraging to the soul and intellect, of younger people especially.

The World Beautiful. By Lilian Whiting. 16mo, pp. 194. Boston: Roberts Brothers. $1.

In idealism and in sympathetic humanity, these essays by Lilian Whiting resemble not a little those of Bishop Spalding. They are, however, of wider range. In a cynical mood, one would call them perhaps too easily optimistic, but optimism is still a useful force in the world. From four to six essays are grouped under each of the headings "The World Beautiful," Friendship,""Our Social Salvation," "Lotus Eating" and "That Which is to Come." In the latter part of the book the author states her belief that an occult psychic power, the value of which we do not yet sufficiently recognize, is to become a practical working force in daily life.

Twenty-five Years of Scientific Progress, and Other Essays. By William North Rice, Ph.D. 16mo, pp. 174.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cents. Doctor Rice, Professor of Geology in Wesleyan University, brings together in this volume four essays relating more or less closely to evolution. The second essay is a direct championship of evolutionary doctrine; the third is a philosophical, logical examination of the "Degree of Probability of Scientific Beliefs," and th fourth treats the old topic "Genesis and Geology." Doctor Rice, we understand, believes in the moral teaching of the first book of the Bible, but considers that "a reconciliation between Genesis and modern science is as unnecessary as it is impossible." The language of these essays is clear and direct; the matter will not seem too technical to any educated reader.

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-her beautiful but disreputable mother, her mother's very affectionate sister, who is the "Play-Actress," and several minor characters. The scenes are partly in Scotland and partly in London. One effect of this tender and pathetic little story is to remind us that even a humble London actress may be a very true, lovable woman. The book can hardly fail to find welcome with all who love child life and the record of the affections. In the frontispiece Bessie, the aunt, enacts the rôle of Cinderella for the little girl's amusement.

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Little Ike Templin, and Other Stories. By Richard Malcolm Johnston. 12mo, pp. 259. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company. $1.

Colonel Johnston has brought together from the periodicals another collection of his charming stories of Georgia life. While these tales-there are a baker's dozen-are primarily written for the boys and girls, they are excellent reading for adults. The characters are real people and Colonel Johnston knows how they act and how they talk. By choosing types among the poor whites and the negroes he keeps us close to the life of the common people and to such common sentiments as love, fun, pathos, superstition, homely wisdom, delight in childhood and animal life. The background, as well as the pictures, is thoroughly Georgian. The volume has an attractive portrait of the author, and a number of appropriate illustrations.

The Story of a Bad Boy. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 12mo, pp. 299. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2.

It is just about a quarter of a century since Mr. Aldrich ventured to give the world that charming bit of autobiographical reminiscence, "The Story of a Bad Boy," which, in the words of his preface to this new edition, chanced to appeal directly" not only to the sense of youthful readers, but to the sympathy of such men and women as still remembered that they once were young." It has become a classical addition to the literature of boyish life in its New England manifestations. The new edition is enriched by a happy bit of prefacing, and by sixty designs of Mr. A. B. Frost's, illustrating, some of them, memorable situations in "Tom Bailey's " career at Rivermouth.

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This is among the best of the most recent novels of a serious cast. The characters, well-drawn and of distinctly separate types, belong to high English social and public circles, and there is a background of political life. The reader's interest is mainly concerned with marriage relations of Sibylla and her husband. Affairs are strained exceedingly at one time, but they resolve themselves happily. This is a novel of character study, rather than of incident, and is written in a finished, restrained style.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. By Ian Maclaren.

12mo, pp. 322. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.

Mr. Maclaren's book contains four stories of a Scotch rural parish, told very largely in dialect and belonging to the same class of literature as Jane Barlow's "Irish Idylls" or Mr. Barrie's local Scotch fiction. These stories are rich in characteristic Scotch qualities; pathos, humor, good nature, closeness to real life. The reader is not looking so much into the author's imagination as through his observation and sympathy into the world of people and events.

My Lady: A Story of Long Ago. By Marguerite Bouvet. 16mo, pp. 84. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.

This is a love story for adults by the author of the favorite children's stories, "Sweet William," "Prince Tip Top," etc. It gives account of the fortunes of French refugees in England during and after the French Revolution, affording some glimpses of life in both countries, and is supposed to be told by the lips of "My Lady's" devoted nurse. A chief charm lies in the exquisitely simple and transparent English, with the spirit of which the twelve illustrations by Helen Maitland Armstrong are in full accord.

Under Fire. By Captain Charles King, U. S. A.

12mo,

pp. 511. New York: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. $1.25.

Captain King's new story deals with life as a certain cavalry regiment saw it on our Western plains back in the seventies. It gives stirring accounts of Indian fighting, moves rapidly from event to event and holds the interest of all who like to follow exciting action. Character drawing, however, is not omitted. There are a number of good full-page illustrations by C. B. Cox.

Otto's Inspiration. By Mary H. Ford. 12mo, pp. 243. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. $1.

This is a double love story, told in sympathetic and clearly-written language, in which a young musical genius is the central figure. There are scenes upon a New England farm and in its neighborhood and in New York City. The final fortunes of the principal characters are happy and the story is cheery throughout.

Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted.
Harper. Paper, 12mo, pp. 281.
Earle. 50 cents.

By Frances E. W. Boston: James H.

This is the third edition of a novel by the widely known colored temperance worker and writer, Mrs Frances E. W. Harper. It deals with the negro before, during and after the war, especially with the race prejudices which still complicate the negro problem. The characters are natural and the book contains many passages of effective humor or pathos. It is not surprising that it is pitched in a very sympathetic and rather intense key.

Christ, the Socialist. By the Author of "Philip Meyer's Scheme." 12mo, pp. 357. Boston: Arena Publishing Company. $1.25.

This story belongs to the common type of our modern novel which does not aspire to high rank as a form of art, but utilizes the advantages of fiction to teach the author's convictions. The scenes are laid in a New England manufacturing village, the chief characters being the retired school principal an elderly Scotchman and a strong pleader for socialistic doctrine-a minister whom he finally converts after much argumentation, employers and employees connected with the mill, etc. The author endeavors to show that Christ was in reality a preacher of socialism, in its essential teachings. The Crucifixion of Phillip Strong. By Charles M. Sheldon 12mo, pp. 267. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.

An interesting story in itself. though evidently a "novel of purpose." The hero is a young American minister who endeavors to lead his church out of its luxurious selfishness to a conception of real Christianity and its relation to modern

society. He is vigorously opposed and is forced to carry so heavy a physical and mental burden that death itself comes to relieve him. If the pathos is somewhat overdrawn, here is at least a cutting accusation against the lethargic, social-club type of the present-day church.

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at the rented villa of a rich and selfish English lady who had taken a sudden fancy to Piccino. The attachment is not reciprocated and the boy-only six years old-escapes and trudges back to his father's hovel and his pet donkey. The second story, "The Captain's Youngest," is pathetic in the third, "Little Bessie's Kitten Tells Her Story," and the closing one explains how the real "Little Lord Fauntleroy"-now a sixteen year old athlete and student-became the ideal one of Mrs. Burnett's popular book. These stories have been graced by considerable illustration after the pencil of Reginald Birch.

Little Mr. Thimblefinger and his Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There. By Joel Chandler Harris. Octavo, pp. 230. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2.

The author of "Uncle Remus" in these fresh pages conducts some children via the bottom of a spring to a strange land where dwell a Mr. Rabbit, large as a man, a Mrs. Meadows, little Mr. Thimblefinger and some other queer people. The children see some strangely amusing things and hear fascinating stories about witches, enchantment," The Ladder of Lions," "Brother Terrapin's Fiddle-String," etc. Mr. Harris tells the reader that the stories divide themselves into those gathered from the negroes, those which belong to

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"Chatterbox appears this year in all its customary gay and various wealth, to delight the hearts of thousands of old friends; to win the affection of thousands of children just becoming old enough to appreciate it. Decorated cover, puzzles, anecdotes of bravery, poems, natural history lessons, etc., are all here, together with hundreds of illustrations prepared expressly for Chatterbox " pages. A glance within its covers is enough to make the mature give a sentimental sigh and express the wish: Backward, turn backward, O Time in thy flight!"

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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Told for the Children's Library. 16mo, pp. 280. New York: Macmillan & Co. 75 cents.

In preparing this favorite old classic for the "Children's Library," the editor has shortened some sentences and paragraphs, cut out some needless matter and made occasional substitution of a simple word for a less intelligible one. There are about a score of small illustrations by George Cruikshank. When Molly was Six. By Eliza Orne White. 12mo, pp. 133. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.

A delicately told child's story giving the varying experi ences of Molly, who is a natural and attractive little creature, month after month of the year when she was six. Some grown up people figure in the background. There are several illustrations by Katharine Pyle, which are in the same dainty and cheery spirit as the text.

Lost on Umbagog. By Willis Boyd Allen. 12mo, pp. 120. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company.

cents.

75

Mr. Allen's story has the style and the matter after the boyish heart. It tells of the exciting adventures of some Boston boys who camp out in the Maine woods in the winter season. The volume is the first issue in a proposed "Camp and Tramp Series."

Aladdin the Second. By Theo. C. Knauff. 12mo, pp. 279. New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons. $1.25.

A tale of a city boy who accidentally becomes the possessor of a lamp as wonderful as that of Aladdin. Good luck comes to his side at every request, though not without occasional delays. There is much playful exaggeration in the manner of telling the story. Ten full-page illustrations are given.

Father Gander's Melodies, for Mother Goose's Grandchildren. By Adelaide F. Samuels. Octavo, pp. 121. Boston Roberts Brothers. $1.25. A collection of rhymes after the Mother Goose fashion, most of them purposely more or less nonsensical, and very freely supplied with humorous illustrations by Lillian Trask Harlow.

EDUCATION AND TEXT-BOOKS.

International Education Series. The Education of the Greek People and Its Influence on Civilization. By Thomas Davidson. 12mo, pp. xiv, 229. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

In an earlier work, "Aristotle and the Ancient Educational Ideals," Professor Davidson gave an historical outline of the facts of Greek education. His present volume deals with matters less directly professional in interest; its purpose being to "show how the Greek people were gradually educated up to that stage of culture which made them the teachers of the whole world, and what the effect of that teaching has been." The whole work is written in clear, attractive English, and in a spirit which is philosophical and scholarly without losing the power of personal enthusiasm. In an introductory chapter upon "Nature and Education," Professor Davidson gives the distinction between the actual original "nature" of the child and that ideal nature toward which it is the function of education to elevate him. The last five chapters of the entire nine consider: "The Effort to Find in Individualism a Basis of Social Order," "The Endeavor to Found an Educational Stat on Philosophical Principles and its Results," a like attempt to build on scientific principles, "Greek Education in Contact with the Eastern World," and

in contact with the Western World. To all concerned with the larger meanings of education and not familiar with the ground here covered, Professor Davidson's study will prove profitable and stimulating reading.

Systematic Science Teaching: A Manual of Inductive Elementary Work for all Instructors. By Edward Gardnier Howe. 12mo, pp 355. New York: D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.

This work, like the one by Professor Davidson just noticed, is an issue in the "International Education Series," edited by our United States Commissioner of Education. The lessons of the manual have been used with success in the classes of the author for more than a decade. Mr. Howe has aimed to give much matter actually used in teaching; references to sources of information concerning further material; to exemplify methods of instruction-this being a most im portant function of the book--and to explain the methods of investigation adapted to the different fields of nature. The course of study is very carefully gradated and is given in great detail. It begins with the first instruction in natural science given to the child and arranges matter for nine years' progressive work. Most space is given to plants and animals, but the aspects of "Stars and Earth "and Minerals and Rocks" are also considered throughout the course. A few simple illustrations are used, and the volume is indexed. Harvard College by an Oxónian. By George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L. 12mo, pp. 339. New York: Macmillan & Co. $2.25.

Dr. Hill has described Harvard's life and spirit, as well as her organization, in a way well suited to impart to the English university man some conception of the forces at work and the means at command in our oldest American seat of learning. Sometimes the innocence of this observing Oxonian on his first visit to the New England Cambridge was the cause of his betrayal at the hands of a fun-loving undergraduate, and a few amusing statements about Americans and their ways appear in the book; but this was to be expected. The wonder is that the author was not more imposed upon than he seems to have been. Dr. Hill could have done a still better piece of work if he had possessed Mr. Bryce's comprehensive knowledge of the American educational system. The book contains an excellent frontispiece portrait of President Eliot, and a dozen representations of Harvard buildings, old and

new.

A System of Physical Culture, Prepared Expressly for School Work. By Louise Preece. Quarto, pp. 287. Syracuse, N. Y. C. W. Bardeen. $2.

The demand on the part of teachers and others for the publication of this work, analyzing a particular system of physical culture, is one more proof of the tremendous interest now manifested in the education of the mind through the education of the body. The exercises here given are such as can be taken by public school pupils in the aisles adjoining their seats and no apparatus is required. Besides elementary work, forming a system complete in itself, some thirty pages are given to "chorography," and a large amount of space to "Esthetic Work," "Gesture" and "Pantomime." These last subjects are explained largely by illustrations, which are also used very freely in the earlier portions of the volume.

Higher Medical Education, the True Interest of the Public and of the Profession. By William Pepper, M.D. Octavo, pp. 100. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.

This volume contains two addresses given before the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, one in 1877 and one in 1893. In the former an attempt was made to present the position of medical teaching in America at the time and to call attention to some of its serious defects. The second address summarizes the progress made since 1877 and indicates lines of still further advancement. Appendices give intelligible synopses of the condition of medical education in various foreign countries and in the States of the Union in 1877 and in 1893.

A Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry. By G. S. Newth, F.I.C., F.C.S. 12mo, pp. 680. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. $1.75.

What is known as the "periodic "system in the classification of chemical elements is made the foundation on which this text-book is built. A systematic course of elementary instruction is presented, arranged in three parts; the first treating of the fundamental principles and theories of modern chemistry, the second being a study of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and important compounds, and the third

being a systematic study of the other elements, omitting some rarer ones. This particular work does not give any directions for laboratory exercises, but contains frequent reference to the author's Chemical Lecture Experiments." It is illustrated and contains a thorough index.

An Elementary Chemistry. By George Rantoul White, A.M. 12mo, pp. 301. Boston: Ginn & Co. $1.10.

The course in elementary chemistry given in this book has grown out of experience in teaching. It is particularly intended for beginners whose instructor cannot devote his entire time to chemistry and for those who study without a teacher. It is based entirely on the great modern pedagogical principle of induction and on the great modern practical method of laboratory experimentation. Part II is given to History and Development of the Laws and Theory of Chemistry," but even here the student is directed in the proper experiments. The book seems excellent in its purpose and plan.

Technical Drawing Series. Elements of Mechanical

Drawing. Use of Instruments. Geometrical Problems and Projection. By Gardner C. Anthony, A.M. Octavo. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. $1.50.

In the preparation of this series the aim has been to furnish"text-books rather than copy books." This issue of the series contains about ninety pages of text and thirty-two plates.

Theoretical Mechanics: Fluids. By J. Edward Taylor,

M.A., B.Sc. 12mo, pp. 230. London: Longmans,
Green & Co. 80 cents.

This text-book is of English origin and contains sufficient instruction for those preparing for the matriculation examination of London University. The special feature of the book is the large number of examples which are fully worked out." Diagrams and illustrations are used to some extent. The Making of the Body. A Children's Book on Anatomy and Physiology. By Mrs. S. A. Barnet. 16mo, pp. 298. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 60 cents. This book being designed to reach children in schools and the home, or ignorant adults, has been written with exceeding simplicity and somewhat in the style of a story. Yet technical terms are given in their proper place, and the instruction is thoroughly scientific. A goodly number of illustrations are used.

An Introduction to the Study of English Fiction. By William Edward Simonds, Ph.D. 12mo, pp. 240. Boston: D. C Heath & Co. $1.

Mr. Simonds' title-page shows one that he took his doctor's degree at Strassburg and is now Professor of English Literature at Knox College (Illinois). These two facts are well worth noticing because of the comparative rarity of publication by the overworked professors of our Western colleges, and because nine out of ten men who go into our chairs of English," after German university training, do philological rather than literary work. The significance of Professor Simonds' volume does not depend on its size, and will be apparent to all observers of the trend of the collegiate study of literature in this country. The book contains an outline history of the development of English fiction, occupying some seventy pages, selected representative texts from Beowulf to Sterne's "Tristram Shandy," chronological tables, and a list of one hundred works of fiction, English and continental, "which for one reason or another are worth reading So far as it goes the volume is suggestive to teachers. There is a sufficient index.

An Introduction to English Literature, Pancost. 16mo, pp. 484. New York: & Co.

$1.25.

By Henry S. Henry Holt

Mr. Pancost's aim in this volume has been to furnish a "working hand-book" serviceable as an introduction, omitting many writers of unquestioned standing in English literature in order that the student may find a few great authors and their works presented in a clear and impressive manner. The matter is mainly historical and critical; representative extracts are omitted, but "reading lists are supplied liberally. Mr. Pancost gives ninety pages to the "Period of Preparation," including Chaucer; about the same space to the "Period of Italian Influence," including the Elizabethans and Milton; a few pages to the "Period of French Influence," including Pope, and 200 pages to the period from 1750 to the present time. A map of London in 1593, a literary map of England, some valuable chronological tables and other useful materials are supplied. The index is extensive.

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Following the plan of Mr. George P. Baker's "Specimens of Argumentation," Mr. Lamont aids the student of English composition by bringing together examples of excellent exposition" in the fields of science, government and law, history, philosophy, literature, etc. There are brief notes, and four sample plans of analysis of Matthew Arnold's essay on Wordsworth.

Endymion. By John Lyly, M.A. Edited with Notes, Bibliography and a Biographical Introduction by George P. Baker. Boards, 16mo, pp. 305. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 85 cents.

Mr. Baker's biographical introduction occupies about two-thirds of this little volume. It is a work of research, making use of all known materials in regard to Lyly, and attempting to throw new light on a number of disputed or obscure matters concerning his career.

An English Grammar and Analysis for Students and Young Teachers. By G. Steel. 12mo, pp. 300. New York: Longmans, Green & Co.

Mr. Steel attempts improvement in the method of presenting grammar; the language itself has been made to furnish its facts in such a way as to assist in the classification of them and in the establishment of principles." The history of the language receives a brief separate treatment, and nearly forty pages are given to an analysis of the English vocabulary.

The Odes and Epodes of Horace. Edited by Clement Lawrence Smith. 12mo, pp. 491. Boston: Ginn & Co.

$1.60.

Professor Smith, of Harvard, has prepared this volume for the "College Series of Latin Authors," of which he is joint editor with Professor Tracy Peck. The text of the Odes and Epodes is arranged at the top of the pages, and the very extensive notes find place immediately below. A distinctive and valuable feature of this edition is the introduction of nearly ninety pages in which Professor Smith, after treating in general of the life and writings of Horace, passes on to an orderly examination of his "Language and Style," and the "Versification and Prosody of the Lyric Poems." This the author believes to be the first attempt at a general exposition of these subjects.

Latin at Sight. By Edwin Post. 12mo, pp. 220. Boston: Ginn & Co. 90 cents.

Mr. Post writes his prefa e from De Pauw University (Indiana), and his little work is the outgrowth of professional experience. An examination is made of the principal points to be borne in mind in a methodical attempt to learn to read at sight; and about one hundred and eighty selections for practice in translation follow. These are mainly in prose, but some verse is given. The numerous notes are arranged at the bottom of the page, beneath the text.

The First Latin Book. By William C. Collar, A.M., and M. Grant Daniell, A.M. 12mo, pp. 298. Boston: Ginn & Co. $1.10.

This is not a revision of the author's familiar "Beginner's Latin Book," though it follows, with a few improvements, the method of that work. It requires about two thirds as much time, and the reduction has been made largely by shortening the exercises for translation into Latin. The few illustrations add to the general brightness of the book.

Must Greek Go? By John Kennedy. 12mo, pp. 66. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen. 50 cents.

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Mr. John Kennedy, Superintendent of Schools in Batavia, N. Y, makes in this booklet a plea for the place of Greek in secondary education. He gives large attention to the beautiful White City of 1893, and considers the great lesson of the Columbian World's Fair was the continuity of culture and the all-dominating supremacy of classical ideals." Difficult Modern French. Extraits Choisis parmi les

Plus Difficiles de la Littérature Moderne. Par Albert Leune. 12mo, pp. 164. Boston: Ginn & Co. 85 cents.

The compiler of this volume has selected_brief difficult passages from Balzac, Hugo, Théodore De Banville, Zola, Flaubert, Bourget, Pierre Loti and other recent eminent French writers of prose and verse. Short biographical and bibliographical notes (in French) precede the selections from each author, and nearly twenty pages of notes, also in French, are placed together at the close of the book.

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