SOME FRENCH BOOKS. GONCOURT, DE EDMOND. Outamaro. (Bibliothèque Charpentier, Paris.) 8vo. Price 3f. 50c. Life of a famous Japanese artist and designer, by the well-known historical writer and novelist. LACROIX, OCTAVE. Quelques Maîtres Etrangers et Français. (Hachette et Cie., Paris-London.) 16mo. Price 3fr. 50c. Literary essays on some timely European writers, including Boccaccio, Rabelais, Thomas Moore, Cervantes, Madame de Sévigne, etc. etc. Forms part of the Bibliothèque Varice. LAIGLE, ALPHONSE. L'Education. (Lecour, Oudin et Cie., Paris.) 8vo. Price 3f. 50c. Exhaustive work on education, comprising a study of heredity, habits, etc. Full of practical suggestions. La Duchesse de Gontaut Mémoires. (Plon, Nourrit et Cie.) 8vo. Price 7f. Memoirs of the gouvernante of the children belonging to the Royal PITRAY, DE VICOMTESSE. Lettres de la Comtesse de Ségur. (Hachette et Cie., Paris-London.) 16mo. Price 4fr. Very interesting addition to the social and religious history of the nineteenth century. Edited by the daughter of the writer, née Princess Rostopchine. PRESSENSÉ, E. DE La Famille Chrétienne. (Librairie Fischbacher, Paris.) 8vo. Price 3f. 50c. Last work written by the well-known Huguenot pa tor. Portrait and fac-simile autograph. SAROLEA, CHARLES. Henrik Ibsen. (Lecour, Oudin et Cie., Paris.) 8vo. Price 2fr. Interesting account of Ibsen as man and dramatist. Fine portrait. SOME BLUE BOOKS OF THE MONTH. The following list comprises all the more important Blue Books issued during the month of June. A complete list may be obtained of Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, Queen's Printers, East Harding Street, E.C. I.-COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. EAST INDIA. Financial Statement. A Return, giving, in the first part, the Imperial Revenue and Expenditure for the financial year 1891-2, and dealing in the second part with Imperial, Provincial, and Local Finance. There is an appendix showing the course of prices and wages in 189): another dealing in accounts and estimates; and a third giving commercial and financial statistic'. (Pp. 94. Price 10d.) II.-COMMERCIAL. WORKING CARGOES ON SUNDAYS. Reports. Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls respecting the working of cargoes on Sundays in foreign ports. (Part I. Europe). Replies to a circular letter sent by Sir James Fergusson to Her Majesty's Consular officers in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands. Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Norway and Turkey. (Pp. 38. Price 23d.) III. DOMESTIC. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SPIRITS. Report. Report from the Select Committee on British and Foreign Spirits, together with the proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence. Appendix and Index. This Committee-which was appointed to consider whether on grounds of public health it is desirable that certain classes of spir ts, Br.tish and foreign, should be kept in bond for a definite period before they are allowed to pass into consumption-have collected a good deal of valuable evidence, to which they have prefixed a brief but interesting report. The report deals (1) with the production and consumption of spirits; (2)with the distillation of spirits; (3) with the definition and classification of spirits; (4) with the character and purity of spirits; (5) with the blending of spirits; (6) with the bonding of spirits; (7) with ether and methylated spirit; (8) with the effect of spirits on public health; and (9) with the suggested application of the Foods and Drugs Act, and the Merchandise Marks Act to British and foreign spirits. On the whole the Committee recommends very little. (Pp. xxix. 150. Price 1s. 54d). MINES AND MINERALS, Statistics for 1890. Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with the Isle of Man, for the year 1890, prepared by H.M Inspectors of Mines, by the direction of the Home Secretary, gives statistics as to the value of the minerals wrought in mines or obtained from open works, and shows the production of minerals in the British Colonies and possessions. According to the general summary, coal, iron-ore, and stone are the most important minerals worked in the United Kingdom. (Pp. 122. Price 1s. 4 d.) MINES. Reports from District Inspectors, 1890. Fourteen Reports from various Inspectors in various districts to the Home Secretary under (1) the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1877, (2) the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 and 1875, and (3) the Salt Mines (Gunpowder) Act, 1882, gives information concerning accidents, output of minerals, number of persons employed, etc. A complete list of these reports is subjoined :— District. East Scotland West Scotland Newcastle Durham Pages. Price. North Staffordshire.. 2d. Scuth Wales etc., and Isle of Man 26 (Metal and Slate Mines only). IRELAND. Annual report. Annual Report of the Commisstoners of Education in Ireland for the year 1890-91. Tables of attendance, balance-sheets, etc., for schools under the control of the Commissioners of Education for Royal schools, private schools and Diocesan schools. (Fp. 12. Price 1 d.) V. FOREIGN. ANGLO-PORTUGUESE CONVENTION. Papers. Papers relating to the Anglo-Portuguese Convention signed at Lisbon, June 11th and 12th, 1891; being a summary of the fifteen articles of which the Convention consists. (Pp. 6. Price 1d.) CRETE (AFFAIRS OF). Correspondence. Further Correspondence respecting the affairs of Crete; being numerous letters to and from Sir William White, Consul Bilotti, Lord Salisbury, and others. Many of these relate to the violation of Maria Damianopoula-a Christian-by Major Rifaat Bey, a Turkish officer, and to other outrages upon Christians by the Mussulmans. (Pp. x. 128. Price 1s. 1 d.) VI. TRADE AND FINANCE REPORTS. UNITED STATES. Behring Sea Fisheries. Further correspondence respecting the Behring Sea Seal Fisheries-letters to and from the Marquis of Salisbury and Sir John Paunce fote. (Pp. 62. Pr.ce 6d.) VII. THE NAVY. NAVIGATION AND SHIPPING. Annual Statement. The Annual Statement of the Navigation and Shipping of the United Kingdom for the year 1890. Nine abstract tables, followed by general tables, giving the number, tonnage, and nationality of the sailing and steam vessels that have taken part in our foreign, colonial, and coasting trade during the past year; and comparative tables for the years 1886 and 1890. (Pp. x. 382. Price 38. 1d.) R.N. ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS. Report. Report of the Committee presided over by Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, K.C.B. The Committee are of opinion that there is no good reason for maintaining two corps of Royal Naval Volunteers; and that there is no sufficient reason for maintaining the corps raised on the system established under the Act 36 and 37 Vic., cap. 77, and recommend that it should be no longer maintained. The Committee are further of opinion that if a seccnd volunteer force is required, it should be established on the lines of the Royal Marine Artillery, to which force it should be connected in the same manner as the Volunteer Artillery are associated with the Royal Artilery in the Army. (Pp. 20. Price 24d. ROYAL NAVY. Ships Available. Return of the vessels in the Channel and home waters (exclusive of the Channel Squadron) available at very short notice on April 1st, 1891. These include (1) four armour-clads in commission as flagships at home ports, ready at a few hours' notice; (2) n'ne armour-clads in. commission, connected with the coast guard, ready for sea in fortyeight hours; and (3) vessels in first-class steam reserve in home ports, comprising six iron-clads, two belted cruisers, and sixteen cruisers, besides coast-defence vessels and gun and torpedo boats-ready at fivedays or less. Full particulars of these vessels-name, displacement, tonnage, armaments, speed, etc.-are given, as also is similar infor-mation concerning the Channel Squadron. (Pp. 8. Price 1 d.) NEW REVIEW. July. 9d. 2. By the Hon. E. LYULPH STANLEY. Hyperboreans of To-day. FRANCIS PREVOST. Malle. BLAZE DE BURY. Guy de Maupassant: A Sketch. CAMILLE FLAMMARION. NINETEENTH CENTURY. July. 2s. RAJAH MURLI MANOHAR. The Wild Women. No. I. As Politicians. A Lab ur Inquiry. H. H. CHAMPION. How to Utilise the Naval Volunteers. The Congregationalist Council. The Poet of the Klephts. 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The Poet of the Australian Bush (Adam Lindsay Gordon), Arthur Patchett Martin. People's Friend. July. 63. Some Nicknacks in Wood and how to make them. Norway in Spring. III. Phrenological Magazine. July. 6d. Mr. W. S. Caine. With Portrait. L. N. Fowler. Faces. Practical Teacher. July. 63. Housework. Mrs. E. A. Sharman. A Sunday in Norway. (Illus.) A. E. Bonner. Through the Closed Gates. Laura Bridgman. (Illus.) Scribner's Magazine. July. 1s. Speed in Ocean Steamers. (Illus.) A. E. Seaton. Starting a Parliament in Japan. (Illus.) John H. Wigmore. Izard Hunting in the Spanish Pyrenees. (Illus.) Paul Van Dyke. Outlawry on the Mexican Border. James E. Pilcher. An Old Danish Town-Ribe. (Illus.) Jacob A. Riis. The Haunts of the Black Sea-Bass. (Illus.) Charles Frederick Holder. Training a Tropic Torrent: An Engineer's Glimpse of Hayti. Foster Crowe 1. Landor Once More. W. B. Shubrick Clymer. Temple Bar. July. 1s. Reminiscences of Sir Richar? Burton. Wayfaring by the Upper Dordogne. Theatre. 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