six contributors and thoroughly in line with recent advances in medical science. Cloth $5.00, Leather or Half Mor. $6.00.

Hartley-Auvard System of Obstetrics; third (1898) edition, 436 pages, 543 illustrations. Revised by Dr. John D.

Hartley.

This work is essentially Auvard, and embodies the author's personal experience, the text is clearly pictured by hundreds of original drawings to be found in no other book. Cloth $4.00, Leather or Half Mor. $5.00.

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Pozzi System of Gynecology; third edition. Revised by Dr. John D. Hartley.

Books.

From LAMSON, WOLFE & CO.,

Publishers&Boston.

Mademoiselle de Bernny; a story of Valley Forge, by Pauline Bradford Mackie, illustrated by Frank T. Merrill, gold top, rough edges, pp. 272, price $1.50.

The past twelve months have certainly been most fruitful in colonial literature, and none of the fruitage has been more savory, none more pungent, none more inviting than Miss Mackie's story, so charmingly told, of Mlle. de Bernay.

There is of a verity fashion in fiction and we are reminded of Butler's saying "In words as fashions the same rule holds, alike fantastic if too new or old. Mlle. De Berney is the happy medium- a good woman, sprightly, and full of vim vigor and vitality- a trinity which has been omitted in the clothing of a majority of these colonial dames of fiction, for to tell the truth the women as a rule are not as desirable sort, good enough, just good enough.

We cordially congratulate Miss. Mackie and felicitate her publishers on Mlle. De Berney.

From LAIRD & LEE,

Publishers Chicago.

A mile of gold; Strange Adventures. on the Yukon, by

William M. Stanley. Illustrated with views taken on the spot. Price 50 cents in boards, 25 cents paper.

A Mile of Gold, or Strange Adventures on the Yukon, proves once more, how true it is that "truth is stranger than fiction." It tells, in simple, modest language, of the torments, dangers and privations courageously endured by its author, William M. Stanley, of Seattle, one of the discoverers and happy possessors of the new El Dorado. For the first time the public is given a knowledge of the inside life of the gold hunter, and this is as thrilling reading matter as any romance ever published.

From WAY & WILLIAMS,
Publishers Chicago.

The Story of Ab; a tale of the Cave Man, by Stanley Waterloo, illustrated, gilt top, rough edges, pp. 35.

The very name implies a beginning, a rudimentary sort of life, a foundation for greater thing and Mr. Waterloo has most ingeniously carried these primitive people along a sea of events that are consistent and interesting and that is saying a good deal. Coming down to primitive days a great deal of the furniture of fiction and the dressing of characters must be dispensed with, and yet the plot not be grewsome nor repulsive. The story of this alphabetical hero indicates much originality and is a good story.

Constantine; a tale of Greece under King Otho, by George Horton, cloth, pp. 232.

Mr. Horton has been fortunate in vesting an interesting time with a most thrilling story. For the past year Greece, modern Greece has assumed more than a usual amount of interest in the world and this story of Constantine is full of hints about the real life of the modern Greek. The story is sad and the end tragic, but so is life.

The story is worth a careful reading and will help to make an idle hour of value.

The Teacup Club; by Eliza Armstrong, cloth, gilt top, rough edges, pp. 307.

Our new civilization is rapidly evolving the women into

a coterie of clubs, to be alien to clubs, argues that you are out of the social world, and so womankind is given to clubs, and hence this gentle satire, which is full of fun and satirically shows us where we stand.

Afloat on the Ohio; by Reuben Gold Thwaites, cloth, gilt top, rough edges, pp. 328.

The author has made a very valuable contribution to the history of this middle west, in this book which is in truth a history of the vast Ohio river, and its tributaries. The history is well written and full of choice information and is a most desirable book to place in every home.

COMFORTS AND SECURITY DURING SICKNESS.

"During the progress of any contagious or mal-odorous disease, nothing gives greater comfort and security than the intelligent use of Platts Chlorides.' As a disinfectant and deodorizer its safety, cleanliness and convenience appeal alike to patients and attendants."

"Gaseous disinfectants, owing to their irritating vapors are inadmissable until the sick-room is vacated.

WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE.

Mis. Margaret Long, the daughter of the Secretary of the Navy, has just passed a most brilliant examination and matriculated in the senior class of the medical schcol of the Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore. Miss. Loug intends to continue her studies in this institution until she recaives her degree. She will practice medicine in her home.. -Boston.

The next chapter of Charles A. Dana's Reminiscences, in McClures Magazine, will give Mr. Dana's impaessions of Secretary Station as he saw him in the intimacy of the daily work of the War Department. It will give also an inside view of the immence work of the Department in war times.

The anticipated demand for "A Desert Drama," the last important novel by Dr. A. Conan Doyle, has been realized, and the Lippincott's, its publishers, are prepared for a

liberal first edition, which will appear on February 19. Dr. Conan Doyle carries his readers up the Nile and shows them some fighting and love-making of a new order for the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Lippincott's Lotus Library has made repute by avoiding bad stories. Its largest issue contains "Ray's Recruit," by Captain Charles King. Verbum sap, to story readers.

In the department entitled "The Progress of the World" the editor of the American Monthly Review of Reviews, reviews the De Lome incident, the Maine disaster, the Zola trial, and other important developements of the month at home and abroad. There is also in this editorial summary an interesting discussion on the changed position of the Republican party on the money question.

It is like going to the theatre in your own arm-chair to read Elixabeth Phipps Train's stories. The last one, about to issue through the Lippincotts, is mysteriously called "Madam of the lives." is in a vein wholly new to the author of "A Social Highwayman."

The student will find it hard to do without "Aids to Aseptic Technique," by A. D. Whiting, M. D., published by the Lippincotts. Its hundred and fifty pages contains a complete course in the accepted methods of aseptic operation, and the text is so clearly and simply written as to make it valuable to the professional nurse or to the lay reader.

Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company announce for early publication, "From Tokis to India," being a narrative of travel and adventure in the far East, by Prince Henry of Orleans.

The present crisis in China gives much interest and importance to Prince Henry's travels there during 1895. His journey covered a distance of over 2,000 miles, of which 1,600 was through absolutely unexplored country. The journey was made remarkable by the discovery of the sources of the Irrawaddy, and to the difficulties of his journey were added the danger of constant attacks from Savage tribes.