The Peter Newell Mother Goose. By Carolyn S. Bailey. Illustrated by Peter Newell. The old rhymes are here reproduced in connection with their veracious history. Such well-known characters as Dame Trot, Jack Horner, Little BoPeep, Wee Willie Winkle, etc., are the chief figures in these stories. The twenty-one full-page illustrations add much to the interest of the book. Selected and edited by English Essays. This book "is intended for use with college classes in introductory courses in literature; and the chief purpose of it is to cultivate in the undergraduate a liking for good English prose, and to give him some knowledge of English thought as it has found expression in English essays of the last three hundred years, by putting into his hands a not too bulky collection of interesting texts by some of the greater essayists from Bacon to Stevenson. The Professor's Legacy. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. When the beautiful, young German girl marries her stern English husband, she does so out of pique, but she learns to love him. These two, with the Englishman's sister, who has a passion for music and animals, and her German lover, are the people about whom Mrs. Sidgwick has woven her story. Extinct Animals. By E. Ray Lankester. This volume is a corrected shorthand report of a course of lectures adapted to a juvenile audience given by Mr. Lankester at the Royal Institution, London. Its purpose is to excite in young people an interest in the study of extinct animals. The work contains over two hundred illustrations. The Devil is an Ass. By Ben Johnson. The twenty-ninth volume to be issued in the series of "Yale Studies in English," bound in paper. Dr. William Savage Johnson has edited the work, written the introduction and furnished it with notes and a glossary. John Lane Company: Euphranor. By Edward Fitzgerald. This dialogue on Youth is the fifteenth volume in the "New Pocket Library" series. It is reprinted in the edition of 1851. Mr. Frederic Chapman has written an appreciative preface. The Poems of William Watson. Two vol umes. This two-volume edition of Mr. Watson's works includes a larger number of poems than the volume recently published. The first volume contains Elegiac Poems, Odes and Lyrics, Miscel laneous Poems, and Narrative Poems; in the second volume are Miscellaneous Sonnets on Public Affairs, Epigrams and Early Poems. The Singing of the Future. By David Ffrangcon-Davies. "This book is meant not only for singers, but for all who are interested and concerned in the subject of speech or song-preachers, readers, pleaders, lecturers, reciters (with or without music) and actors-all of whom do their best work when they employ their best selves upon the best products of the best poets, dramatists and musicians. Our book deals also with the subject of daily speech, which is, in truth, the foundation of all artistic and, in the good sense, utilitarian utterance." Longmans, Green and Company: The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt. By Florence K. Upton. Verses by Bertha Upton. Juvenile. The story of this fox hunt is told in verse. The thirty full-page colour illustrations and smaller ones in tint are humorous and add much to the interest of the story. Starvecrow Farm. By Stanley J. Weyman. A story of the Lake District in England, in 1819-a time when the working classes, impoverished by the long struggle against Napoleon, were discontented and rebellious. The heroine, who knows the whereabouts of her former lover, is compelled to endure many hardships and adventures with the chaplain of her suitor as her only protector. The romance contains an elopement, which is attended by unusual results: the girl marries the man from whom she is fleeing, not her companion; there is, also, imprisonment for the hero, the abduction of a child, and threatened murder for the heroine. McClure, Phillips and Company: A Modern Symposium. By G. Lowes Dickinson. Reserved for future notice. The Work of Our Hands. By H. A. Mitchell Keays. The morals of business life and the responsibility of riches are portrayed in this novel. It is the story of a young woman, brought up in religious surroundings, who endeavours to make her husband, who is a millionaire, realise that wealth should be a means of aid to the poor-not a source of injury. Told by Uncle Remus. By Joel Chandler Harris. These new stories of the old plantation are told by Uncle Remus to the "little boy's little boy." "Brer Rabbit" and "Brer Fox" continue to take a The Macmillan Company: Yolanda. By Charles Major. This is the story of a Prince and a maid of Burgundy. Mr. Major tells in his own way how Maximilian, Count of Hapsburg, is taken to the court of Burgundy by his tutor, a nobleman of the house of Pitti. Here he is to win in marriage the Princess Mary, with whom he has already exchanged some sentimental tokens. The poverty of the Hapsburgs and wealth of the Burgundians make this a very difficult affair, and the young count is obliged to overthrow many obstacles before he wins out in the end. Whitewashing Julia. By Henry Arthur Jones. An original comedy in three acts and an epilogue by the author of "Mrs. Dane's Defence." The City. By Arthur Upson. The title poem in this collection is a drama in four acts. The remainder of the volume is occupied with "Octaves in an Oxford Garden" and sonnets on various themes. An Island in the Air. By Ernest Ingersoll. While this story is designed to interest young people, it is also intended to instruct them. It relates the experiences of a party on their way to California a half century ago. The young people are separated from their elders, become marooned on a desert island, and are obliged to fight Indians and wild beasts, but they come out successful. Sir Thomas Browne. By Edmund Gosse. Issued in the "English Men of Letters" series. A good idea of the way in which this biography is handled may be had by glancing at the table of contents: Early Years: 1605-1641, "Religio Medici," The "Vulgar Errors," "UrnBurial" and "The Garden of Cyrus"1658, Last Years: 1659-1682, Posthumous Writings-Personal Characteristics, Language and Influence. Tales of the Fish Patrol. By Jack London. The experiences of the author when he was sixteen during a year of service with the Fish Commission are here narrated. The titles of the tales are: White and Yellow, The King of the Greeks, A Raid on the Oyster Pirates, The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen,” Charley's Coup, Demetrios Contos, and Yellow Handkerchief. Georg Varian has made the seven illustrations which are reproduced in half-tone. Government Regulation of Railway Rates. By Hugo R. Meyer. In this volume Professor Meyer has made a comparison of the foreign policy of equality of charges for equal services, and the policy of charging pursued in America. It presents a study of the experience of the United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia and Australia. Heart's Desire. By Emerson Hough. Reviewed elsewhere in this magazine. Alcestis and Other Poems. By Sara King Wiley. The themes of the first two poems in this collections of eight are taken from the plots of Euripides. Others are upon Age, Spring, Winds, The Clock, The Mocking Bird, etc. Some Ethical Gains through Legislation. By Florence Kelley. The four divisions of this book "discuss the gain achieved in legislation, and also that remaining to be achieved, in the particular right named in the title." The divisions are: The Right to Childhood, The Right to Leisure, The Purchaser's Right to Knowledge, The Right of Women to Vote. The Mighty Pen Publishing Company: The initial volume to be published by this company is intended for very young children. There are a number of illustrations, and the jingles are surrounded by appropriate marginal decorations, the work of Ida P. Nichols. Blue and white are the colours used in illustrations and binding. Moffat, Yard and Company: Stork's Nest. By J. Breckenridge Ellis. The "Storks" are two villains who coin counterfeit money in a weird house, to which a mystery is attached. Northern Missouri is the setting for the story. The heroine is a plucky child whose desire it is to become "a Person." The Story Bible. By Margaret Sangster. In this volume the author's aim has been "so to tell again the tales from Holy Writ familiar through the centuries, that our children of to-day may read and love them." Each story has been separated from surrounding passages in order that it may stand out by itself. The stories are arranged in Biblical sequence and are told so simply as to be readily understood by all. The volume contains twelve full-page coloured illustrations. The Ugly Duckling. By Hans Christian Andersen. A centenary edition of a famous story. There are a number of full-page illustrations in black and white and in colour by M. H. Squire. The Orange Judd Company: The Promise of Life. By Herbert Myrick. The purpose of life and the attainment of high ideals in connection with it would seem to be the general theme of this volume. Some of the thoughts emphasised are: activity, truth, enjoyment, love, responsibility, etc. G. P. Putnam's Sons: The Life of Charles Lamb. Volume I. By E. V. Lucas. The biographer has endeavoured to include in this work a large amount of new material which has been brought to light after the previous biographies of Charles and Mary Lamb were written. He has also aimed to keep the story of these two lives confined to their own words. The first volume extends to the year 1817, when Charles Lamb was thirty-eight years of age. The work is well illustrated, there being over thirty illustrations in this volume. Portraits of the Eighteenth Century. By C. A. Sainte-Beuve. These historic and literary portraits include sketches of Duchesse du Maine, Madame de Staël-Delaunay, Le Sage, Montesquieu, Adrienne le Couvreur, Voltaire, Marquise du Deffand, Earl of Chesterfield, Benjamin Franklin, Madame Geoffrin, The Abbé Barthélemy and Louis XV. Katharine P. Wormeley has made the translation. There are over a dozen illustrations. The Life of Goethe. Volume I. By Albert Bielschowsky. This is the first volume in a series of three on the life of Goethe, to which work Albert Bielschowsky is said to have devoted practically all of his life. The period covered by this book is from 1749-1788-from Goethe's birth to his return from Italy. The work, which is well illustrated, has been translated by William A. Cooper. What to Have for Breakfast. By Olive Green. The first volume in the "Homemaker" series. It contains breakfast menus for every day in the year, as well as recipes for many of the articles mentioned in the menus. The book is bound in ging ham. The Companionship of Books and Other Papers. By Frederic Rowland Marvin. a This collection of essays Covers wide range of subjects, some of which are Modern Builders of Air-Castles, The Catholicity of Culture, Forgotten American Poets, Heroes of Humble Life, Art and Life, Dust to Dust, Success, The Resources of Nature, etc. Our Best Society. Reviewed elsewhere in this magazine. Fleming H. Revell Company: A World Without a Child. By Coulson Kernahan. In this "story for women and men" there is said to be a picture of life in Anglo-Saxon cities where the race-suicide theory is carried to its logical out come. Modern India. By William Eleroy Curtis. The series of letters which Mr. Curtis cerning England's possession bed lier The Universal Elements of the ligion. By Charles These six lectug co in Villiams Charles Scribner's Sons: Queens of the French Stage. By Kingsley, Reade, Hardy and Lecouvreur, Mlle. de Cam Marie de Champ and Mlle. Clairon. rs. Scribner's Sons, are: The this volume, impor The Queens of the French Sta strated. Like Mr. Curtis's book on India, the material for this volume was gathered while touring the countries of which it treats. It is said to contain the most recent information available. Under Egypt, the author describes its principal cities, its government, the pyramids and the Sphinx, its courts, commerce, education, society, rivers, etc.; under Burma is described the cities of Rangoon and Mandalay, the Buddhists, the kings, and the rivers and railroads; the British East Indies, the city of Hong Kong, and the salaries of the official in the East are dealt with under the title of "British Malaysia." The volume is well illustrated. Sir Raoul. By James M. Ludlow. The sub-title, "A tale of the theft of an empire," is explanatory of the general theme of this book. The story is based upon the plot of the crusade of the thirteenth century, which was turned from its purpose to conquer the Moslems, in order that they might capture the city of Constantinople. There is a romantic side to the story as well as historical, in which is told the love-story of Sir Raoul and Lady Renée. The Makers of English Fiction. By W. J. Dawson. The Spirit of Christmas. By Henry van Dyke. This small volume contains a dream story entitled "The Christmas Angel;" a short essay on "Christmas-Giving and Christmas-Living;" a little sermon on "Keeping Christmas;" and two Christmas prayers, one for "The Home" and one for "Lonely Folks." Jungle Trails and Jungle People. By Caspar Whitney. In this volume the author tells some of his experiences in a recent hunting journey in parts of India, Siam, Burma, and Sumatra. There are descriptions of hunts for elephants, rhinoceroses, crocodiles, buffaloes, tigers and wild boars; of the travels necessary to reach the hunting territory; and of the people in this part of the Orient. The book is copiously illustrated. A Satire Anthology. Collected by Carolyn Wells. These selections are said to be compiled from the best satirical verses ever published. There are verses from Aristophanes, Horace, Villon, Shakespeare, Dryden, Browning, Kipling and many others. Constable. By M. Sturge Henderson. The aim of this book, which is an importation, is to present the "actions and interest of the artist as vividly as is compatible with a strict chronological arrangement.' In addition to the biography, the work deals with the Lucas mezzotints, Constable's lectures. his characteristics, and his influence on landscape painting. About forty illustrations are included in the book. Pisanello. By G. F. Hill. Pisanello is included in the "Library of Art" series on account of his importance as a medallist, although he is also dealt with from the standpoint of a painter. The volume, which contains about seventy-five illustrations, is imported. The Children of the Night. By Edwin Arlington Robinson. A collection of ballades, sonnets and other verse on various themes. Charlotte Brontë. By Clement K. Shorter. This addition to the series of "Literary Lives" is said to contain information, much of it gleaned from letters by the novelist herself, not known at the time Mrs. Gaskell wrote the biography of Charlotte Brontë. There are chapters devoted to her father, mother, sisters. brother, birthplace and to her life and works. The volume is well illustrated. The City. The Hope of Democracy. By Frederic C. Howe. "An attempt at the Economic Interpretation of the City. It holds that the corruption, the indifference, the incompetence of the official and the apathy of the citizen, the disparity of wealth, the poverty, vice, crime, and disease, are due to causes economic and industrial. They are traceable to our institutions, rather than to the depravity of human nature. Their correction is not a matter of education or of the penal code. It is a matter of industrial democracy. The incidental conditions are personal and ethical. Whether we adopt the personal or the economic interpretation will determine our attitude towards the problems of modern city life." The foregoing quotation from the preface gives the general trend of this book. A Thief in the Night. By E. W. Hornung. Ten further adventures of A. J. Raffles, the cricketer and cracksman. The first adventure is the title story. Others are: The Chest of Silver, The Rest Cure, A Bad Night, The Criminologists' Club, The Spoils of Sacrilege, The Raffles Relics, etc. The tales are illustrated in black and white. The Deep Sea's Toil. By James B. Connolly. A collection of eight new tales of the sea. The titles are: Patsie Oddie's Black Night, The Wicked Celestine, The Sail Carriers, The Truth of the Oliver Cromwell, Strategy and Seamanship, DoryMates, The Salving of the Bark Fuller, and On Georges Shoals. There are several full-page illustrations in the book by W. F. Aylward and H. Reuterdahl. Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. By Theodore Roosevelt. The hunting and ranch life experiences of Mr. Roosevelt are told in this work, which is dedicated to John Burroughs. Some of the titles of the eleven chapters are: With the Cougar Hounds, A Colorado Bear Hunt, WolfCoursing, A Shot at a Mountain Sheep, The Whitetail Deer, etc. The book contains a photogravure portrait of the author and forty-eight illustrations. The House of Mirth. By Edith Wharton. Reviewed elsewhere in this issue of THE BOOKMAN. Visionaries. By James Huneker. Reviewed elsewhere in this magazine. Essays in Application. By Henry van Dyke. In these essays the author aims to "touch on certain points in education, in politics, in literature, in religion, in the conduct of life, from the standpoint of one who wishes to be guided in everyday judgments and affairs by a sane idealism." Some of the titles are: Is the World Growing Better, The Powers That Be. Christianity and Current Literature, Property and Theft, The School of Life, etc. Our Neighbours. By Charles Dana Gibson. This tenth collection of drawings is said to be the last work of its kind which will appear from Mr. Gibson's pen. Society, politics, love, business and various other phases of life are portrayed in the cartoons. Like previous volumes, with which this is uniform, the book is bound in white and lettered in black. The Wood Fire in No. 3. By F. Hopkinson Smith. A collection of short stories told in Sandy MacWhirter's studio to the company of artists who sat by the fire and smoked every night. The illustrations in colour, by Alonzo Kimball, are eight in number. The Story of the Champions of the Round Table. By Howard Pyle. The A companion volume to "The Story of King Arthur and His Knights.' work is divided into three books, each part containing the history of one of the Court's great men. The first book tells the story of Launcelot, the second of Sir Tristram, and the third of Sir Percival. There are thirty full-page illustrations. The Mayor of Troy. By Quiller-Couch. Solomon Hymen, a former mayor of Troy, in Cornwall, comes back to his native town ten years after his supposed death. He visits the hospital built and endowed by the terms of his own will, sees the portrait bust of himself, and listens to an old servant recite his deeds and good qualities to visitors and exhibit a horn book and marble that he used to possess when a boy. The story is said to be told in the serio-humorous style characteristic of the author. The Voyage of the "Discovery." Two volumes. By Captain Robert F. Scott. These two large volumes narrate 'the experiences undergone by Captain Scott and his companions during recent explorations into the Arctic regions. The explorers face many hardships and their journey is attended by great danger, but the observations made by Captain Scott are said to be more accurate than his predecessors. There are nearly three hundred illustrations, twelve of which are in colour, as well as several maps. Memories and Portraits. By Robert Louis Weir of Hermiston. By Robert Louis The Merry Men and Dr. Jekyll. By Robert Louis Stevenson. In the South Seas. By Robert Louis Steven son. Across the Plains. By Robert Louis Steven son. |