Virginia. State Bd. of Agriculture. Annual rept. 9. 1896.

In no period of its existence has the Board found the difficulties so great for the progressive and satisfactory accomplishment of many of the important and valuable results contemplated in its organization. The unfavorable conditions, commercial and financial, which have been almost universally prevalent throughout the State and country for several years past still continue, and in the main without mitigation.-A. S. Buford, Pres. of the Bd.

Williams, B. S. Choice stove and greenhouse flowering plants. 2 v.

Wing, H. H. Milk and its products.

A small handbook that gives in simple and concise form the principles underlying dairy practice.

PREPARATION OF FOOD AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

Class 63c.

Historicus, pseud. Cocoa; all about it.

The first comprehensive work that has up to the present been published, concerning a staple commodity which is daily becoming more popular.-Public Opinion.

Rorer, Mrs. S. T. Mrs. Rorer's Philadelphia cook book.

Comprehensive and reliable. Brief introductions explain the chemistry and the mode of selecting the viands.—Leypoldt & Iles.

Salmon, L. M. Domestic service.

It is hoped that the tabulation and presentation of the facts will afford a basis for general discussion, that a knowledge of the conditions of domestic service beyond their own localities and households will enable some housekeepers in time to decide more easily the economic questions arising within every home, that it will do a little something to stimulate discussion of the subject on other bases than the purely personal one.-Preface.

FISHING.

Class Ref. 63d.

Pennsylvania. Comm'rs of Fisheries. Report. 1895.

U.S. Comm'n of Fish and Fisheries. Report of the Comm'r. v. 19-21. 1893-95. Each volume contains a number of valuable appendices.

ART. Class 64.

Grosse, E. Beginnings of art.

The author of this book is a professor in the University of Freiburg in Baden. He is an instructor of unusual power,

and is popular with his students. His present work makes no claim to exhaust the subject, but aims to incite other workers. Attention is confined to such material only as is supplied by the lowest stage of culture to be found among existing tribes.

Santayana, G. Sense of beauty; being the outlines of æsthetic theory.

Mr. S. is a pupil of Wm. James, and his æsthetics are, as is the way nowadays, founded on psychology. They are not, therefore, always easy reading for the learner. But they will repay a little effort with an intelligible theory and with occasional passages of eloquence. The paragraph, for instance, on the part which the flying buttress plays in the charm of the Gothic cathedral is the best on that matter that I have ever met with.-C. A. Cutter in Library Fournal.

Is not a devotional work nor a study of interpretation, the subject being treated only from the legendary and picturesque point of view.-Publisher's Weekly.

Litzmann, B. Das deutsche Drama in den litterarischen Bewegungen der Gegenwart.

66b

Litzmann is a young man thoroughly in harmony with the time in which he lives, and he points to the most recent school of writers, under the leadership of Sudermann and Hauptmann, as the regenerators of German literature.Literary World.

Roscoe, W. C. Poems and essays. v. 1. Poems. 67b

Some of his smaller poems and sonnets are very fine condensations of the moral air which human characters carry with them everywhere, just as the earth carries with it its own atmosphere.Richard Holt Hutton.

Swinburne, A. C. Tale of Balen. 67b

The poetic gift of lasting youth keeps the likeness strong between the early and the later Swinburne; though youthfulness would better express this quality, for not only are grace and agility his still, but so is the undisciplined spirit. He very early came to his own maturityto maturity in a general sense he never will come.

White, W. Principles of art as illustrated by examples in the Ruskin Museum at Sheffield; with passages from the writings of R. 65

It is a fascinating book, breathing from its pages the noble soul of Ruskin in his efforts to raise art to its pinnacle of spirituality; one which all should read.... It pretends to being little more than a catalogue of the Museum, each item being fully annotated with explanatory passages from Ruskin's writings. But it is a good deal more. Mr. White's independent work is frequent and extensive, and it is lucid; and he has made his book a veritable encyclopædia of his Master's writings and teaching. We need but point out the thoroughness of the work, both in the treatment and the arrangement of the book.-Magazine of Art.

DRAWING AND PAINTING.
Class 65c.

Conway, W. M. Early Flemish artists and their predecessors on the lower Rhine.

Hall, S. C. The Vernon gallery of British art. 2 v.

This gallery of pictures was presented by Robert Vernon to the National Gallery in 1847. It consists of 152 pictures, besides works of sculpture. Healy, E. On Christian art.

This little book, written by the daughter of one of the most gifted artists of America, will, I feel confident, help to cultivate a love of art, and to inspire at least a few of our young Americans with a desire to emulate the great men and women who have given us higher aims and diviner thoughts.7. L. Spalding, Bp. of Peoria.

MUSIC. Class 65f.

Ambros, A. W. Boundaries of music and poetry.

Entertaining as well as suggestive. It combats the notion that feelings are neither the aim nor the content of music, but points out the limitations of musical expression and warns against the extravagances of descriptive, or programme, music.-Leypoldt and Iles. Corder, F. The orchestra and how to write for it.

For the string band, the theater band, the band found in open-air places of entertainment and at promenade concerts. Intended for the inexperienced as well as the trained musicians. Fillmore, J. C. Pianoforte music; its history; with biog. sketches and critical estimates of its greatest masters.

Unnecessarily extended in its bio

graphical department, but valuable, especially to the younger pianoforte students, in its exposition of the growth of the mechanics of pianoforte playing.Leypoldt and Iles.

Gould, S. B. English minstrelsie. v. 6. S. S.

A collection of English song with notes and historical introductions. The airs are by H. F. Sheppard and

others.

Hadow, W. H. Studies in modern music.

2 v.

Chiefly taken up with critical biography, written with discernment, independence and forcefulness, and in an agreeable style.—Leypoldt and Iles. Henderson, W. J. Preludes and studies; musical themes of the day.

A book of criticisms, suggestive, instructive and filled with the charm of good literature.-Leypoldt and Iles. Kleczynski, J. Chopin's greater works; tr. by N. Janotha.

I am extremely glad to hear that Miss Janotha is giving her aid to the interpretation of Chopin, whom she so deeply venerates, for I feel sure that no one living is more competent to do it.Gladstone.

HISTORIES OF POETRY AND
CRITICISMS.
Class 66a.

Austin, A. Poetry of the period.
Craigie, W. A. Primer of Burns.

Mainly intended to supply the readers of Burns with such facts concerning his life and works as are most necessary for the understanding of his poetry. There is also a very complete bibliography. Forman, H. B. Our living poets; an essay in criticism.

Moore, E. Studies in Dante. 1st ser.
Scripture and classical authors in Dante.
Appeals chiefly to serious students of
the works of Dante.-Pref.
Poet-lore. v. 8.

1896.

Ref.

Devoted to the comparative study of literature.

Rabb, K. M. National epics.

Gives an historical and descriptive sketch of each of the great epics of various nations, with a short bibliography of the same, and with illustrative extracts from the poems themselves.

Sharp, A. Victorian poets.

Treated in a broad and philosophical spirit.

Swannick, A. Poets the interpreters of

their age.

Inhaling the atmosphere of their age, while breathing forth, in strains of impassioned music, their inmost thoughts and feelings, the immortal poets of our race have unconsciously reflected in their works the tendencies, moral and intellectual, of the period in which their lot was cast; in their ideal world we see transfigured the actual world by which they were surrounded, and, while themselves the heirs of the ages which preceded them, they have in turn bequeathed new elements of progress to their successors.-Introd.

Van Dyke, H. The poetry of Tennyson. This edition has been much enlarged in the chronology. It contains also an altered and improved estimate of Maud. -Note to 3d ed.

AMERICAN POETRY.

Class 67a.

Allen, L. W. Abraham Lincoln, a poem. A revised edition of the prize poem published in The N. Y. Herald, Dec., 15, 1895.

Bryan, W. H. Eagleid, an epic poem;

or, The causes which led to the war of
1812, with the events rhythmically re-
lated.

Byars, W. V. New songs to old tunes.
See review in June number.
Dunbar, P. L. Lyrics of lowly life.

A true singer of the people-white or black, it makes no difference-has been found.-N. Y. Times.

Sangster, Mrs. M. E. (M.) Easter bells.

Tender and graceful. filled full of a sweet spirit, musical, appealing in a gentle way to the heart.-Independent.

fession, and struggle towards expiation. The power of passion is forcibly presented. The style is strong though

monotonous.

ENGLISH NOVELS AND TRANSLATIONS.

Class 69b.

Abbott, C. C. When the century was

new.

In this charming novel we have the best of Dr. Abbott's character-drawing up to date, and the plot is exceptionally well planned.

Ade, G. Pink Marsh, a story of the

streets and town.

Mr. George Ade... has attempted a most difficult task. He has written a series of conversations between a bootblack and his morning customer, and published them as a book. The character of the bootblack is made interesting as a type of a colored boy without education or friends, possessing the virtues and vices of his races who secures a foothold in what he calls, his "profession," and rises to the dig nity of a Pullman car porter.—Outlook. Alexander, Mrs. pseud. A crooked path. Allen, J. L. Choir invisible.

Several years ago the author wrote another book called "John Gray," which he has greatly developed and strengthened in this.

Barnes, J. A loyal traitor.

One of the best romances lately published. It is a story of the war of 1812, full of adventure, brilliantly told, smacking sharply of the good old time tale of vagabond heroism and at length falling naturally into love experiences.-Independent.

Barr. R. Mutable many.

Deals seriously with a serious subject -namely, the relations between capitalist and employee. His account of a typical strike is clever, spirited and made from evidently careful study of average workmen and employers.- Outlook. Barr, Mrs. A. E. (H.) Prisoners of conscience.

An account of the life, love and death of the hero's father, which strengthens this powerful little tragedy of a Shetland fisher-village.

Becke, L., and Jeffery, W. First Fleet family.

A story, purporting to be based on fact, of the founding of Botany Bay and the first convicts sent there.

Bellamy, E. Equality.

After years of preparation the author now puts forward a work which will command universal attention. The author has much to say of the meaning of the events of our own times, which he links with the future by predictions of changes now close upon us. --St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Bolton, Mrs. S. K. Stories from life.
Brown, A. The day of his youth.

The aim of the story is to show how a boy bred in the solitude of the woods develops into a noble manhood through the suffering which treachery in love produces, then through a life of unselfish devotion to humanity. The subject is of large significance and is treated with a vigorous hand and in excellent taste. Burnham, Mrs. C. L. (R.) Miss Archer Archer.

The scene is partly on the coast of Maine and partly at an old "before-thewar" homestead in Virginia. Some chapters take in Fortress Monroe, Hygeia Hotel, and Washington.-Pub. Weekly. Charles, Mrs. E. (R.) Bertram family. Conquering and to conquer. Chateaubriand, F. A. R. vicomte de. Atala; illus. by Doré. Ref. Cherbuliez, V. With fortune made.

Relates the experience of a Frenchman who makes a fortune in America and returns to his native town, taking some of his poorer relatives to live with him.-Pub. Weekly.

Cholmondeley, M. Devotee.
Crawford, F. M. Rose of yesterday.

Notwithstanding Mr. Crawford's public condemnation of the novel with a purpose, in his latest book the motive seems to be the discussion of divorce. The characters are drawn with the author's usual charm and skill and one wonders that he preserves his light and happy touch in description, after the number of books that he has produced so rapidly.

Dana, F. Leonora of the Yawmish.

A moral

may easily be found

in the evidence furnished to show that a man really counts for what he is rather than for what he has.

Davis, R. H. Soldiers of fortune.

It is the strongest piece of writing that Mr. Davis has ever done, and shows him a larger man in a literary way than even his admirers anticipated.-R. H. Stoddard.

Abounds in action, and the reader's interest is kept at a high point continuously, although mere sensationalism is avoided.-Outlook.

Deland, Mrs. M. W. (C.) Wisdom of fools.

Is composed of four sociological problems in the form of stories, although the ethical purpose is not disguised

There is much to commend in the manner in which these problems are presented, and Mrs. Deland's style has never been shown to better advantage. She possesses that rare quality of judgment which tells her not to preach arrogantly, but to make her readers think for themselves, or at least to think that they are thinking for themselves, which after all is not so very different.-Outlook.

Doyle, A. C. Uncle Bernac.

Rewritten and lengthened by onethird since its appearance in serial form.

Dumas, A. D. Ange Pitou.

Olympe de Clèves; a romance of the court of Louis XV.

She-wolves of Machecoul.-The Corsican brothers.

Whites and the blues.

Same as The first republic.

Du Maurier, G. The Martian.

Du Maurier has called to his aid his own experiences in school, in art life, in society, and in curious and now bygone phases of life in France. The best pages of the book are those in which the author's individuality is most prominent. There are many charming passages, many delightful reminiscences; the reader is admitted in a free and friendly way into a world of good-fellowship, and makes one of a cheerful, witty and unconventional society. Who but Du Maurier, for instance, would have thought of casually introducing himself into the plot under his own name? Who but he could have chatted with such flavor and local color of French boyish experiences, of German watering places, of London clubs, of English country life, of studio gossip, of music-lovers' talk-the whole interspersed with bits of odd French, outworn London slang, or apt lines from German lyrics; in short, who else could have made such an olla podrida of spicy literary morsels, grateful to the taste and of easy digestion?-- Outlook.

Ebers, G. M. A thorny path.

A story of the early Christians under Caracalla. The scene is laid in Alexandria. The author's ability to write an interesting novel with an accurate historical setting is too well known to need comment.

Edwards, M. B. Romance of Dijon.

Nothing she has hitherto done has more colour or vivacity than this story of certain effects of the French Revolution in the wine country.-Pall Mall Gazette.

Eschstruth, N. von. or, Polish blood..

Countess Dynar;

Her little highness.
The opposite house.
A princess of the stage.
Gissing, G. Eve's ransom.

Direct and frank, both in statement and judgment, and inclined to harp on the dreary and rather awful phases of existence.-Leypoldt and Iles.

Gould, J. T. Genuine girl.

Graham, P. A. Red scaur.

A story of rustic life in Northumberland.

To read the book is to get away into the country as it was a good many years ago. It is, moreover, to be refreshed by contact with a writer who knows the English tongue and uses it beautifully.— Black and White.

Grant, C. Stories of Naples and the Camorra.

Contains records of a shrewd and original observer who loved the Neapolitans and the Naples of which he writes, and who has lavished upon these simple stories all his varied lore as to Neapolitan character,

religion and superstition. Merely superficial local color is, in these days, very easily acquired, but here we have something unique, an intimate and sympathetic knowledge of the lazzarone, the galantuomo, and the camorrista which it seems almost miraculous for an Anglo-Saxon to have acquired.-Nation. Grant, R. Carletons.

Sketches every-day life with a light and entertaining touch.-Leypoldt and Iles.

Mrs. Harold Stagg.

Mr. Grant is a shrewd observer, and has a vein of refined sentiment.-Leypoldt and Iles.

Green, E. E. The sign of the Red Cross. A tale of old London.

Hale, E. E.—Christmas at Narragansett.

Short stories told by old friends gathered together about Christmas time at Narragansett.-Sargent. Susan's escort, and others.

Susan's Escort and Others has brought together many of Dr. Hale's inimitable stories. "Colonel Clipham's Calendar" is a subtle revelation of the power that lies in fidelity to a great life-principle, but the story is told with Dr. Hale's lightest touch. "Bread on the Waters" is a strong, vigorous story showing the power for destruction that lies in the press, and the gratitude in the human heart. In every story the good in man is the dominant note, and the reader is grateful for the clean, pure, vigorous pen that gives him not only pleasure but renews his faith in his fellow man.-Outlook.

Hamilton, M. Self-denying ordinance.

A novel of absorbing interest.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Higginson, E. From the land of the snow-pearls.

Stories of superior merit. . . pictures of life sincerely drawn with a firm hand and a clear vision, romantic enough, yet simple, often homely. The author is wise in choosing subjects.

Some of the incidents are sketched so vividly and so truthfully that persons and things come out on the page as if life itself were there.-N. Y. Independent.

Hornung, E. W. Irralie's bushranger, a story of Australian adventure.

A delightfully tormenting tale, compacted of all the good qualities of romantic adventurous fiction, in combination with a plot ingenious enough to keep Mr. Stockton awake at night reproaching himself for not having thought of it himselt.-N. Y. Tribune.

My lord duke.

Mr. E. W. Hornung has many of the qualifications of the born story-teller. His My Lord Duke is essentially rather improbable-it transports an ignorant Australian cattle-tender into the place of an English Duke as though by magic -but it never lets the plot-interest flag, and tells its story with forcible directness.-Outlook.

Howells, W. D. Landlord at Lion's Head.

A capital piece of workmanship; story, scenery, portraiture, analysis of character, all are good, and the writer's accomplished skill weaves the whole together.--London Athenæum.

Jerome. J. K. Sketches in lavender, blue and green.

Shows a marked advance in dramatic force and rapidity of movement. While his prevailing tone is gay, several of the tales, however, have a strong emotional interest.

Kingsley, F. M. Paul, a herald of the Cross.

A reverent attempt to throw into the form of fiction Bible history. . . . The author has a strong, earnest, religious spirit, and the story is free from sensationalism.--Outlook.

Lyall, E. Autobiography of a truth.

This little story, told with the force of a practiced writer, may do more to bring home to popular apprehension the horrible cruelty with which the Armenians are being treated than acres of newspaper writing and reams of official reports. We most heartily commend it to our readers.--Pacific Churchman, San Francisco.

MacQuoid, Mrs. K. (S.) Appledore

Farm.

Her stories are simple and pleasantly narrated, her women being especially attractive.--Leypold and Iles.

Man or dollar, which? A novel by a newspaper man.

We have been so absorbed in our pursuit of money, the means, that we have lost sight of virtue and happiness, the end of life. Let us pause in this mad race and ask ourselves in what direction we are progressing.--Preface. Melville, W. Good for nothing. Merrick, L. One man's view. Mitchell, F. A. Sweet revenge.

A romance of the Civil war. Molesworth, Mrs. M. L. (S.) Uncanny tales.

Eight stories notable for ghostly visitations and supernatural influences.