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The great, plain, noble teacher, who directs the affairs of the young university of the West, gives us in the "Innumerable Company" a little of his charming personality and much of the originality and unconventionality so characteristic of the man. The volume is made up of separate sketches, historical or allegorical, having in some degree a band of union in the idea of "the higher sacrifice." The nine chapters are embellished by twenty illustrations of rare excellence. We extract two thoughts for our readers. They are needed: "He is given a medley of words without ideas. He is taught declensions and conjugations with out number in his own and other tongues. He learns things by rote. Hence grammar and language have become stereotyped as teaching without a thought as to whether undigested words may be intellectual poison." ***"There is no intellectual craze so ab. surd as not to have a following among educated men and women. There is no nonsense so unscientific that men called educated will not accept it as science. It should be a function of the schools to build up commonsense." We urge our readers to send for the book.

The Mary Lyon Year-Book. Edited by Helen Marshall North. Introduction by President Elizabeth Storrs Mead, Mt. Holyoke College 16mo, frontispiece, no pagination. Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday. School and Publishing. Society......

The Year Book is a rare gem of literature breathing the spirit of her whose memory is enshrined in the hearts of many of her countrymen and countrywomen. For every day in the year there are sayings from the lips of Mary Lyon,supplemented by Scripture texts, all chosen for daily guidance and encouragement. Would that every teacher and student in Kansas could have it on their desks during the year, for it would day by day breathe the spirit of power and faith, and lead to a nobler realization of life and its duties.

A Primer of American Literature. By Charles
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The volume is called a primer, yet many readers of the higher classes could well return to it for a review. It is remarkably full of good things and plain directions as to where more can be found. The illustrations are most excellent and altogether it is a book which one feels is misnamed and worthy of much more credit than it will ever receive. W. V., Her Book and Various Verses. By William Canton. Illustrated, 16mo, pp. 150. New York: Stone & Kimball 125

W. V is a delightfully original and girlish little girl, and just 'scruciatingly good." The stories and poetry filling the volume are fresh and of a high moral tone. The lack of conventional stiffness and the abundant variety of childhood anecdote at one extreme, while at the other are poems of rare excellence on such subjects as "Trafalgar" and "Trees of Righteousness," make the volume one to be treasured and its author's name one to be remembered. For various reasons the following beautiful little verse pleased

us most:

THE FIRST MIRACLE.

The huge weeds bent to let her pass,
And sometimes she crept under;
She plunged through gulfs of flowery grass;
She filled both hands with plunder.
The buttercups grew tall as she,

Taller the big dog-daisies;

And so she lost herself you see,

Deep in the jungle mazes.

A wasp twang'd by; a horned snail
Leered from a great-leafed docken-
She shut her eyes, she raised a wail
Deplorable, heart-broken.

"Mamma!" Two arms, flashed out of space Miraculously, caught her;

Fond mouth was pressed to tearful face"What is it, little daughter?"

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In an Old-Fashioned Gard-n, by Elizabeth Robinson; drawing by Maude A Cowles. Nature's Lesson-Poem, by Flavel Scott Mines. The Flowers and the Birds, by Edith M. Thomas. When General Grant Went Round the World, by Hon. John Russell Young; drawings by C. D. Weldon and T. de Thulstrup. The American Woman, by Alice Barber Stephens; III-The Woman in the Home. My Wife in a Tempest-Poem, by Mae St. John Bramball. My Thought-and Hers?Poem, by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. The Colonel and Me-II, by Isabel A. Mallon. The Domestic Side of the White House, Hon. Benjamin Harrison; Illustrations from Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston. The Burglar Who Moved Paradise-Conclusion, by Herbert D. Ward; drawing by W. K. Taylor. Old Gabe Carter's Company, by Julia Truitt Bishop; drawings by Elizabeth Shippen Green. My Mother as I Recall Her, by Mrs Raymond Maude; Illustrations by Henry B. Wechsler and from Photographs.

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Colonel Emerson's "Grant's Life in the West," closes Grant's career in Mexico. The Midland's editorial departments abound in interesting reading.