The story is exquisitely told with a quaint blending of humor and pathos, but the latter lingers longest, as we read of the loyal devotion of the slave to his young master when he follows him to the war and finally buries him. The denouement is well worked up, though it is foreshadowed through the entire story.

Juvenile Books:

The Boy Tramps; or, Across Canada. By J. Macdonald Oxley, LL. B., B. A., author of The Romance of Commerce, etc. With 16 illustrations by Henry Sandham. 361 pp. 12mo. $1.50. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co.

The author has, in this volume, “opened up a new and hitherto unexplored field. Many delighted travellers have crossed the continent on the line of the Canadian Pacific, but it was a brilliant thought to convoy two enterprising boys afoot through that wonderful stretch of prairie and mountain. Mr. Oxley's perfect familiarity with the whole region enables him to give the accuracy of a guidebook to his descriptions of scenery; but these details are introduced with a sparing hand. It is the adventures of his heroes that occupy

the most of his and the reader's attention."

The True Story of Abraham Lincoln, the American. Told for boys and girls. By Elbridge S. Brooks, author of The True Story of Christopher Columbus, etc. Illustrated. 239 pp. Quarto. $1.50. Boston: Lothrop.

"It is neither a history of American politics nor of the Civil War, but is simply the plain unvarnished tale of the life of the raw Western boy who rose from poverty to power and became the preserver of the Union and the savior of the republic."

Sweetheart Travellers. A child's book for children, for women, and for men. By S. R. Crockett, author of The Lilac Sunbonnet, etc. Illustrated by Gordon Brown and W. H. C. Groome. 314 pp. 12mo. $1.50. New York: F. A. Stokes Co.

Sweetheart Travellers is “full of the glint of spring flowers when they are out and the sun shines slantways upon them; full of freshening winds and withdrawing clouds, and above all, of the unbound gladness of children's laughter." It has all that its author says it should have, and bright observation of men and things seen by the pair of loving travellers, the father and four-year-old daughter on their tricycle.

Illus

Air Castle Don, or, From Dreamland to Hardpan. By B. Freeman Ashley, author of Tan-Pile Jim, etc. trated. The Young America series, (4th volume). 340 pp. 12mo. Holliston linen, gilt top, $1.00. Chicago: Laird

& Lee.

Mr. Ashley's stories are universal favorites with boys and girls who can read; and the present volume, while beyond its predecessors in some difficulties of style, is eminently a fitting companion book to Tan-Pile Jim and Dick and Jack's Adventures. Its plot is of intense nterest, without any savor of crude sensationalism. It is the story

of a boy of fourteen who starts out to seek his fortune, and has many opportunities to show his manliness, courage, and his sense of right. The principal part of the story is laid in Boston, the time being a generation or two ago. Many prominent clergymen and writers are introduced in an easy way which tends to make the reader acquainted with them.

Miscellaneous:

Manhood's Morning; or, "Go it While You're Young." A Book to Young Men between Fourteen and Twentyeight Years of Age. By Joseph Alfred Conwell. 242 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; Paper, 25 cents. Vineland, N. J.: The Hominis Book Co.

An excellent book, written in straightforward, manly style, giving much valuable advice and adducing examples to show the inevitable effects of habits of virtue and industry upon success in life.

A Primer of College Football. By W. H. Lewis. With illustrations from instantaneous photographs. 205 pp. 18mo. Paper. 75 cents. New York: Harper &

Bros.

Mr. Lewis covers the entire subject in a manner especially helpful to beginners in our most popular college_game. He does not neglect, however, to consider the science and strategy of the game. There are separate chapters on offensive and defensive play, and a supplementary paper is devoted to the grave subject of training.

Lee's Home and Business Instructor. Penmanship, Letter-writing, Bookkeeping, Banking, Every-day Law, Mercantile and Technical Terms. Social Forms and Speeches. Miscellany. Illustrated. Lee's Pony Reference Library. 372 pp. 16mo. Russia leather, full gilt, $1.00; extra silk cloth, marbled edges, 75 cents. Chicago: Laird & Lee.

A novel and useful compendium, containing a wealth of informa tion that almost anyone in the home or office is sure to find use for some time or other, and which is here ready to hand. There are ten departments, each the work of a specialist.

Platform Pearls. For Temperance Workers and other Reformers. Compiled by Lilian M. Heath. 12mo. Cloth. 256 pp. 75 cents. New York, London, and Toronto: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

Here is a collection of choice recitations in prose and poetry that will be welcomed at once by all who have occasion to arrange or take part in public gatherings. W. C. T. U. members, and other temperance workers, woman-suffrage advocates, educational and religious societies, Y. P. S. C. E. members, college clubs, and others will be especially interested, because this convenient little book supplies just the material needed to make their meetings attractive and successful. The selections are made with great care and with good taste and judgment. There are recitations pertinent to the great issues of the

day; and, in addition to a number of fine poems from the American classics, and extracts from Lincoln, Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Beecher, Greeley, and other famous orators, there are many new selections, some specially contributed for this book. A carefully prepared topical index facilitates quick selection of any subject wanted.

American:

NECROLOGY.

ANTHONY, GEORGE T., ex-governor of Kansas; born in Matfield, Fulton co., N. Y., June 19, 1824; died in Topeka Aug. 5. He was in command of the 17th Independent battery in the Army of the Potomac, and served through the war. In 1876 he was elected seventh governor of Kansas as a republican, serving two years.

BALFOUR, WILLIAM DOUGLAS, provincial secretary of Ontario; and M. P. P. for South Essex; born in Forfar, Scotland, Aug. 2, 1851; died in Toronto, Ont., Aug. 19. He had represented South Essex in the Ontario legislature since 1882; in 1895 became speaker; and entered the cabinet as provincial secretary on the accession of Sir O. Mowat to the portfolio of minister of justice in the present ministry of Hon. W. Laurier (p. 662).

BLUNT, ELBRIDGE G., one of the colleagues of John Brown in conducting the "underground railway" in Kansas, and also an active scout in the Civil War; died in Chicago, Ill., Sep. 17.

CHILD, PROFESSOR FRANCIS JAMES, professor of English literature in Harvard University; born in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 1, 1825; died Sep. 11. He was prepared for college at the English High School, Boston; and was graduated at Harvard in 1846. He held various positions on the staff, finally becoming professor of English literature in 1876. Since that time he had been known to undergraduates largely through his courses in Anglo-Saxon, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. His most noted contribution to literature was his work on English and Scotch ballads, which is the universally recognized standard collection. His other published works are Four Old Plays (1848); Poems of Sorrow and Comfort (1865); and Observations on the Language of Chaucer and Gower in the first part of Ellis's Early English Pronunciation.

COXE, RT. REV. ARTHUR CLEVELAND, D. D., LL.D., second Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Western New York; born in Mendham, N. J., May 10, 1818; died suddenly in a sanitarium at Clifton Springs, N. Y., whither he had gone for rest, July 20. He was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1838, and at the General Theological Seminary in 1841. Having taken deacon's orders, he was placed in charge of St. Ann's church, New York, where he remained till Easter, 1842. Ordained priest in that year, he was rector of St. John's church, Hartford, Conn., till 1854, when he accepted the rectorship of Grace church, Baltimore, Md. In

1863 he became rector of Calvary church, New York. He was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Western New York Jan. 4, 1865, and, on the death of Bishop De Lancey three months later, succeeded to the bishopric. He visited England in 1851, and made an extensive tour of the continent. Visiting Hirscher, he felt convinced that a movement toward primitive Christianity was on foot, in both Germany and Italy. He translated a work of Hirscher, with an introduction detailing facts which he had learned in Italy. He published it in the following year under the title Sympathies of the Continent. He was one of the founders of the Anglo-Continental Society. In 1856 he was elected bishop of Texas, but declined. In 1853 he moved an addition to the litany. At the same time Bishop Alonzo Potter moved it in the House of Bishops. This led to the movement for the revision of the Prayer Book. He became D. D. at the University of Durham in 1888.

Among his many publications are Christian Ballads; Athanasian and Other Poems; Hallowe'en; Saul, a Mystery; Sermons on Doctrine and Duty; Impressions of England; Criterion; Moral Reforms; Apollos; Lady Chace; The Penitential; and Apology for the English Bible, directed against the English translation recently made by the American Bible Society. In 1885 Bishop Coxe founded the Christian Literature Society of New York, and edited nine volumes of the series of Ante-Nicene Fathers, and also its edition of St. Augustine on the Psalms. In 1887 he was Baldwin lecturer at the University of Michigan; and the first volume of these lectures appeared in that year with the title of Institutes of Christian History. He became Bedell lecturer in Kenyon College at Gambier, O., in the same year. His lectures there were published under the title of Holy Writ and Modern Thought. In 1889 appeared The Paschal, a collection of Easter poems. In 1892 he was Paddock lecturer in New York. He was a frequent contributor to periodical literature, and he published in Paris several works in the French language. In 1888 he preached frequently in Paris, and officiated in the Gallican chapel as bishop in charge of the Gallicans" of France, a position which he resigned in 1892, when, as he had constantly urged as a desirable result, the archbishop of Utrecht consented to assume this work. Since 1892 he had led a somewhat retired life, looking after the duties of his diocese and continuing his literary labors. He attracted considerable attention a couple of years ago by his public protest against the appointment of Cardinal Satolli as Papal delegate to the United States. For portrait of Bishop Coxe, see Vol. 5, p. 972.

CRANFORD, COL. HENRY L., distinguished veteran of the Civil War; died at Mount Pleasant, near Washington, D. C., Aug. 23. He served with great gallantry throughout the war, first in the Army of the Potomac, and then in the Army of the Shenandoah.

CROUCH, PROF. FREDERICK WILLIAM NICHOLLS, author and composer of the song Kathleen Mavourneen; born in London, Eng., July 31, 1808; died in Portland, Me., Aug. 18. He composed altogether about 2,000 songs. He fought throughout the war in the Confederate service. His home was in Baltimore, Md. He was one of the founders of the Society of Science, Letters, and Art, and an honorary member of the Royal Society. Among the most familiar of his songs besides that mentioned above, were O'Donnel's Farewell; The Emigrant's Lament; Sing to Me, Nora; and Dermot Asthore.

DODGE, MARY ABIGAIL, who wrote under the nom de plume of "Gail Hamilton;" born in Hamilton, Mass., in 1830; died there Aug.

17. She became an instructor in physical science in the Hartford (Conn.) High School in 1851, and held that position several years; subsequently was a governess in the family of Dr. Gamaliel Bailey of Washington, and became a contributor to his paper, The National Era. She was in 1865-67, one of the editors of Our Young Folks (Boston, Mass.), a magazine for children. She first adopted the nom de plume of "Gail Hamilton" in 1862, and made it known throughout the country by reason of her witty and aggressive style.

Among her published works are: Country Living and Country Thinking (Boston, 1862); Gala Days (1863); A New Atmosphere, Stumbling Blocks (1864); Skirmishes and Sketches (1865); Red Letter Days in Applethorpe, and Summer Rest (1866); Wool Gathering (1867); Woman's Wrongs, a Counter-Irritant (1868); Battle of the Books (1870); Woman's Worth and Worthlessness (1871); Little Folk Life (1872); Child World (1872-3); Twelve Miles From a Lemon (1873); Nursery Noonings (1874); Sermons to the Clergy, and First Love is Best (1875); What Think Ye of Christ? (1876); Our Common School System (1880); The Insuppressible Book (1885). She wrote in 1887 for a New York newspaper a series of vigorous letters on civil service reform. She was a cousin of Mrs. James G. Blaine, and to her the late secretary intrusted the writing of his Life, which was recently published. This was her last literary work. She was very active in efforts, during the past three or four years, to secure the release of Mrs. Maybrick, the American woman sentenced to life imprisonment in England for poisoning her husband. She derived her pen name from the last syllable of her middle name and the name of her birthplace.

EVANS, GEORGE W., captain, United States Army (retired); born in Baltimore, Md., in 1841; died there Aug. 11. He served in the 8th Army corps for a time during the war, and was at Gettysburg, and later under Gen. Lew Wallace against Gen. Early at Monocacy Bridge, Md. After the war he entered the regular army, and saw much service against the Indians in Arizona. For a long time he was judge advocate of the General Court-Martial. Was retired in 1886 for physical disabilities.

FOWLER, LORENZO NILES, who did much to make phrenology widely known and properly valued; born in Cohocton, N. Y., June 3, 1811; died in West Orange, N. J., Sep. 2. He was a classmate of Henry Ward Beecher. His brother, Örson S. Fowler, also attained distinction as a phrenologist.

GAIL HAMILTON, See Dodge, Mary Abigail.

GARBER, DAVIS, since 1870 professor of mathematics and astronomy at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Penn.; died in Allentown Sep. 27, aged 57. He was graduated at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in 1863.

GARRETT, ROBERT, ex-president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and head of the banking house of Robert Garrett & Sons; born in Baltimore, Md., Apr. 9, 1847; died at Deer Park, Md., July 29.

GAST, JOHN, a well-known lithographer, inventor of the threecolor process; born in Germany; died in New York city July 26. The New York Daily Graphic, started by him, was one of the first daily papers in America to print lithographs as a feature.

GAUNT, PERCIVAL, song writer, composer, and musical director; born in Philadelphia, Penn.; died in Lawrenceville, N. Y., Sep. 5, aged 44. His most popular work was the music of Hoyt's A Trip to Chinatown.