Arbor Day, graduation day, and other important occasions in school life, as well as for the usual routine periods. The print of both music and words is very clear and attractive. JUVENILE. The Young Navigators; or, The Foreign Cruise of the "Maud." By Oliver Optic. 12mo, pp. 356. Boston: Lee & Shepard. $1.25. Oliver Optic's indefatigable pen is still moving and producing books to satiate the boys' appetite for the adventurous and marvelous. In the "Young Navigators" the hero and his friends sail about storied Greece, and the author weaves in mention of many historical and mythological events. The book is the second volume of the second series of All Over the World Library." Oscar Peterson, Ranchman and Ranger. By Henry Willard French. 12mo, pp. 380. Boston: D. Lothrop Co. $1.50. Boys will appreciate a story which tells in a live way of adventures with wild animals, Indians and desperadoes in Manitoba and along a trail through the Dalrymple farm and Deadwood to the Colorado mines. The book is illustrated by a number of full page and lesser cuts. Through Thick and Thin, and The Midshipmen's Mess. By Molly Elliot Seaweli. 12mo, pp. 215. Boston: D. Lothrop Co. Molly Elliot Seawell writes two stories which are, in the main, recitals of two sensible heroic deeds in the United States army and in the naval service respectively. The author tells us that the incidents related are both real happenings. The cover and illustrations are such as boys like. Odd Business: High Art in Fun, Frolic and Fancy with the Pencil and Quill. By L. J. Bridgman Boston D. Lothrop Co. $1.25. Quarto. Mr. Bridgman's book has fun per pencil and pen on every page and a pun upon a good many of them. He is a capital humorist and surely successful in the pleasant task of making little folks laugh. The Child's Day Book: With Helps Toward the Joy of Living and the Beautiful Heaven Above. Arranged and compiled by Margaret Sidney. Quarto. Boston: D. Lothrop Co. 50 cents. Margaret Sidney's compilation has morning and evening prayers, grace before meals, a text from the Bible and a prose or poetical selection for each day of the month, all adapted for young children. There is a large number of illustrations, including five full-page colored inserts. Chatterbox for 1893. Edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A. Quarto, pp. 412. $1.25. The favorite annual Chatterbox has already, in its 1893 covers, delighted the hearts of thousands of children, but if any parents have overlooked it in the stress of the gift-giving season it will still be a welcome addition to the young folks' book shelves. We do not see that the anecdotes of great men, of adventure, of heroic deeds, of animal life and the puzzles, stories, poems and, of course, the illustrations, are less interesting than they were in our own "Chatterbox" days. The Out-Door World; or, Young Collector's Hand-Book. By W. Furneaux, F.R.G.S. 12mo, pp. 439. New Mr. Furneaux has had the enviable purpose of cultivating a taste for natural history in the minds of young people, and has told accurately. but in popular language, about a large number of insects, birds and larger animals, sea-weeds, wild flowers, forest trees, etc., etc. He has also given practical directions about the collection and care of specimens. The text is made very attractive by sixteen colored plates and by over five hundred minor illustrations. Unfortunately for young enthusiasts in America, the author deals mainly with British animal and vegetable life. Talk by Queer Folks: More Land and Water Friends. By Mary E. Bamford. Quarto, pp. 179. Boston: D. Lothrop Co. $1.25 Mary E. Bamford allows the Hyena, the Blue-Jay, the Anemone, the Earth Worm and various other interesting people to tell some portion of their own story for the benefit of the little folks. Her book is printed in large type and is well illustrated; it is apparently fitted to yield both entertainment and instruction for children eight or ten years of age or even younger. TECHNOLOGY AND MANUFACTURE. Photographic Mosaics: An Annual Record of Photographic Progress. Edited by Edward L. Wilson. Thirtieth Year. Paper, 16mo, pp. 295. New York: Edward L. Wilson. 50 cents. Mr. Edward L. Wilson has been prominent in photographic circles for something over a quarter of a century, and the new issue of his annual, Photographic Mosaics," is the thirtieth. It contains a summary of progress in the various departments of photographic science for the year 1893, and a long series of short, specially contributed articles by prominent lovers of the art, devoted mainly to matters of technique and artistic judgment. To the progressive amateur the whole volume is indispensable, and the fully-illustrated article upon Brittany, by A. R. Dresser, will be of general interest. The volume is indexed and in every way seems creditable. A Field Book for Civil Engineers. By Daniel Carhart, C. E. 16mo, pp. 293. Boston: Ginn & Co. $2.50. Mr. Carhart, who is Professor of Civil Engineering in the Western University of Pennsylvania, has prepared a new manual treating systematically of field work in railroad surveying from reconnoissance to track laying. It presents a neat appearance, is well illustrated and apparently serviceable. Continuous Current Dynamos and Motors. By Frank P. Cox. 12mo, pp. 271. New York: The W. J. Johnston Company. $2. The student for whom this work has been prepared is supposed to possess a "general knowledge of electricity and is conversant with the names of the different parts of the machines," and, in the mathematical field, with algebra and elementary geometry. It is an eminently practical manual and illustrated with a number of helpful diagrams. Two chapters are devoted to the action of steam in an engine. A Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing. Part III. Machine Drawing. By Gardner C. Anthony, A.M. Tufts' College, Mass.: Published by the Author. This illustrated treatise is, according to the preface, "intended to teach the practical application of the principles of projection to the illustration of machinery; to inform the student concerning many of the exceptions to the laws of projection; and, finally, to furnish such practical examples as may serve for problems to the student and suggestions to the draftsman The Manufacture of Liquors and Preserves. Translated from the French of J. De Brevans. 12mo, pp. 204. New York: Munn & Co. $3. This book is a translation of a practical and precise manual for the distiller and liquor manufacturer, which appeared in France a few years ago. The translator states that the value of the work "consists in the formulas, which are so arranged that if the manufacturer has no distilling plant, he can still make many of the liquors from the essences." With sixty-five illustrations. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE AND BUSINESS. Congressional Manual of Parliamentary Practice. By J. Howard Gore, Ph.D. 32mo, pp. 112. Syracuse: C. W. Bardeen. 50 cents. Dr. Gore has deduced the contents of his little manual from the rules and rulings of the national congress. The subjects are arranged alphabetically. Parliamentary Tactics for the Use of the Presiding Officer and Public Speakers. Arranged by Harry W. Hoot. 12mo, pp. 51. New York: Scientific Publishing Company. 50 cents. A novel feature in this flexible covered booklet is the marginal index, which serves also as a list of motions in the order of precedence. Rapid reference is the object in view. Walsh's Perpetual Calendar and Almanac. By James A. Walsh. Washington: Brentano's. $1. Mr. Walsh's perpetual calendar is simple and convenient, and with its added moon table, sun table and other matter will probably prove of service to lawyers and professional and business workers in general. CONTENTS OF REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. American Amateur Photographer.-New York. November. The Photograpic Salon. George Davison. Fallacy of Using Different Developers. A. L. Simpson. Film in Relation to Amateur Photography. The American Journal of Politics.-New York. December. The South for a Protective Tariff in 1896. G. C. Sibley. What the American Civil War has Not Done. H. Olerich. Our Public Schools-The Nation's Safeguard. Mabel C. Jones. Cranks. E. R. Gregg, A. J. Palm. Andover Review.-Boston. November-December. The Christian Ministry. T. C. Pease. Theory of the Marriage Tie. Samuel W. Dike. Missions and Colonies.-II. C. C. Starbuck. "Born of the Virgin Mary." C. J. H. Ropes. Archæological Notes. J. P. Taylor. Antiquary.-London. December. The Real Sir Harry Lee, of Ditchley. Viscount Dillion. Notes on Archæology in Denstone College Museum. A. Archibald Armstrong. Holy Wells of Scotland: Their Legends and Superstitions. R. C. Hope. The Arena.-Boston. December. The Ascent of Life. Stinson Jarvis. Aims and Methods of the Higher Criticism. W. Sanday. The Wonders of Hindoo Magic. Heinrich Hensoldt. Rent: Its Essence and Place in the Distribution of Wealth. Realism in Literature and Art. C. S. Darrow. A Southern View of the Financial Situation. G. C. Kelley. Gerald Massey: Prophet and Reformer. B. O. Flower The Art Amateur.-New York. Art in Public Schools and Colleges. December. Artistic Qualities and Use of Oil Colors in Figure Painting. Flower Painting in Oil.-II. Landscape Painting in Water-Colors.-I. M. B. O. Fowler. Hints about Magazine Illustrating. The Art Interchange.-New York. December. Mary E. Tillinghast. Gilson Willets. Pen and Ink Illustration. Women in the Secondary Arts. Taste in House Decorations. Isa C. Cabell. Ornamental Iron Work at Elmhurst. G. H. Willets. Atalanta.-London. December. The Stately Homes of England: Haddon Hall. Edwin Oliver. The Atlantic Monthly.-Boston. December. Thoreau and his English friend Thomas Cholmondeley. F. B. Sanborn. Birds at Yule-Tide. Frank Bolles. In the Flat-Woods. Bradford Torrey. Ideal Transit. Democracy in America. Francis N. Thorpe. Bankers' Magazine.-London. December. The Year 1893: A Retrospect. R. H. Inglis-Palgrave. A Knotty Point in Employers' Liability. Blackwood's Magazine.-London. December. Armed Europe: How Coming Events Cast their Shadows Before. Gen. Sir A. Alison. Ben Johnson in Edinburgh. Prof. Masson. Man's Place in the Cosmos: Professor Huxley on Nature and Man. Prof. Andrew Seth. Successful Fish-Culture in the Highlands. John Bickerdyke. Pope Alexander VI and Cæsar Borgia: Were They Poisoned? W. W. Story. How Tommy Atkins is Fed. The Rise of our East African Empire. Stealing a Session. Board of Trade Journal.-London. November. Meeting of the International Statistical Institute at Chicago. The Russian Cotton Manufacturing Industry. Bookman.-London. December. In Memory of Sir Andrew Clark. The Poetry of Christina Rossetti. With Portrait. Katharine Tynan. Mr. Espinasse's Recollections. William Wallace. Californian Illustrated Magazine.-San Francisco. December. The Golden Jubilee of the Pope. Fannie C. W. Barbour. The Romance of Fort Ross. Gertrude Atherton. Adrift in the Desert. R. E. L. Robinson. The Canadian Magazine.-Toronto. December. Our Militia. Lieut.-Col. O'Brien. The Manitoba School Question. John S. Ewart. Mr. W. T. Stead on Telepathy. Adam Byrne. An Hour with Oliver Wendell Holmes. J. L. Hughes. Salmon Fishing and Canning on the Fraser. H. H. Gowen. Down the Yukon. Wm. Ogilvie. Lord and Lady Aberdeen. J. C. Hopkins. Cassell's Family Magazine.- London. December. Is Marriage a Lottery? Rev. E. J. Hardy and George B. Burgin. A Talk with Mr. Jerome K. Jerome. Raymond Blathwayt. New Serial Stories: "The Sleeve of Care," by C. E. C. Wei- Cassier's Magazine.-New York. December. Fast Ocean Steamships. Francis Elgar. An Engineer's View of the Money Question. A. F. Nagle. Tangential Water Wheels. John Richards. The Life and Inventions of Edison.-XIV. A. and W. K. L Dickson. False Ideals of the Beautiful in Machinery. W. Fletcher. Catholic World.-New York. December. Most Rev. Francis Satolli, D.D., T. S. Duhigg Emmitsburgh-The Ves ibule of Heaven. Helen M. Sweeney The Soul of a Book. P. J. MacCorry. A Skull, a Prince-s and a Black Friar. V. C. Hansen. A Plea for the Wage-Earner. William I. Simmons. The Century.-New York. December. Old Dutch Masters: Rembrandt. Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer. A Picture by Rembrandt. R. W. Gilder. Rembrandt and "The Night Watch "-Jan Steen. Timothy Cole. A Christmas Sermon. Phillips Brooks. Chats with Famous Painters. Wallace Wood. Bäader. (Artists' Adventure Series). F. Hopkinson Smith. Cable. Hector Berlioz. Ernest Reyer. George W. What Causes Depression of Trade? L. Irwell. From Vienna to Varna. John H. Vincent. Chemistry at the World's Fair. Marcus Benjamin. Social Condition of Workingmen. Ralph D. St. John. Christian Thought.-New York. (Bi-Monthly.) December. Church at Home and Abroad.-Philadelphia. December. Unrecorded Results in Syria. F. W. March. Church Missionary Intelligencer.-London. December. The Autobiography of a Missionary. Rev. C. F. Childe. The History of the Church Missionary Society. Rev. C. Hole. The Model Parish, from a Missionary Point of View. Rev. T. C. Chapman. Recollections of a Bengal Missionary. Rev. A. P. Neele. Classical Review.-London. November. Contemporary Review.-London. December. Compulsory Purchase of Land in Ireland. Anthony Traill. Man in the Light of Evolution. Emma Marie Caillard. A Rejoinder to Professor Weismann. Herbert Spencer. Cornhill Magazine.-London. December. Memories of the Master of Balliol. The Cosmopolitan.-New York. December. A Farewell to the White City. Paul Bourget. A White Umbrella at the Fair. F. Hopkinson Smith. A Nation of Discoverers H. C. Taylor. Last Impressions. A. S. Hardy. The Finances of the Exposition. Lyman J. Gage. American Notes.-II In the Year of the Fair. Walter Besant. Demorest's Family Magazine.-New York. December. Christmas Eve at Bethlehem. E. A. Fletcher. Children of the Stage. Elfried de B. Gudé. How to Become Successful Professional Women.-I. Margaret Bisland. An Excursion to the Land of Dolls. The Care of Growing Children. Susanna W. Dodds. The Dial.-Chicago. November 16. The Endowments of Culture in Chicago. Art and Life Once More. John Burroughs. December 1. The Public Libraries of the United States. Education.-Boston. December. Limitations of Secondary Teaching of English Composition. The Management of the Public School. L. J. Block. The Dominical Letter in Theory and Practice. C. R. Ballard. The Chronological Order of Plato's Writings. W. S. Scarborough. Pedagogic Orthography and Orthoepy. Henry A. Ford. On the Education of Girls. A. Witte. Educational Review.-New York. December. Geography in the European Universities. Hugh R. Mill. Exceptional Children in School. E. H. Russell. Study of Education at the Michigan University. B. A. Hinsdale. Mental Defect and Disorder from the Teacher's Point of View. A System of Color Teaching. Brother Azarias. With Portrait. George E. Hardy. The Jansenists and Their Schools. H. C. Bowen. Educational Review.-London. December. University Extension: A New Aspect. R D. Roberts. Engineering Magazine.-New York. December. The Growing Difficulty of Getting Gold. T. A. Rickard. English Illustrated Magazine.-London. December. Expositor.-London. December. The Galatia of the Acts: A Criticism of Prof. Ramsay's Prof. Marshall's Aramaic Gospel. Prof S. R. Driver. Expository Times.-London. December, Benjamin Jowett. Rev. W. Berkley. The Latest Argentine Railway Reports. Pennsylvania Railroad System as a Trust. Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies.— Chicago. October. Modern Street Pavements. O. B. Gunn. Problems in the Treatment of the Hyde Park Sewage. F. W. The Lighthouse System of the United States. E. P. Adams. Journal of Political Economy.-Chicago. December. Richard D. Volta. Italian Banking Crisis. German Labor Colonies and the Unemployed. James Mayor. Protective Purpose of the Tariff Act of 1789. William Hill. Walker's Shares in Distribution. Frederick C. Hicks. Wages and Prices in England, 1261-1701. Katharine Coman. Jewish Quarterly Review.-London. October. The Reading of the Law and Prophets in a Triennial Cycle.- mons. The Jews in the Works of the Church Fathers.-II. Krauss. Dr. S. Mr. Smith: A Possibility: The Jews and Proselytism. C. G. Miss Smith: An Argument. I. Abrahams. Notes on Hebrew MSS. in the University Library at Cambridge.-VI. S. Schechter. Knowledge.-London. December. Antartic Seals. William S. Bruce. Shooting Stars and Their Trails. A. C. Ranyard. Leisure Hour.-London. December. Khama, the Bechwana Christian Chief. With Portrait. Flowers of the Market: Foliage Plants. W. J. Gordon. How They Live in Matabeleland. With Map. Rev. D. Carnegie. Lend a Hand.-Boston. November. The Mohonk Conference. Change of Administration in the Indian Service. P. C. Garrett. Indian Depredation Claims. L. W. Colby. The Present Crisis. H. L. Dawes. Floating Hospitals. R. B. Tobey. Child Saving. C. D. Randall. Lippincott's Magazine.-Philadelphia. December. Sergeant (rosus. A Complete Story. By Captain Charles King. A Newspaper Sensation. Louis N. Megaree. The Australian Rabbitt Plague. J. N. Ingram. Longman's Magazine.-London. December. The Forgery of Antiquities. Sir John Evans. Why Men don't Marry: an Eighteenth Century Answer. Mrs. Alfred Pollard. Water Bacteriology and Cholera. Mrs. Percy Frankland. Lucifer.-London. November 15. Conviction and Dogmatism. Annie Besant. Theosophy Historically Considered as Underlying all Religions and Sacred Scriptures. Dr. J. D. Buck. Ibsen's Works in the Light of Theosophy. Hon. Otway Cuffe. Ancient Egypt. H. L. Intuition. G. R. S. Mead. The Battle of Salamis. Hume Nisbet. Ludgate Monthly.-London. December. Cheltenham College. W. C. Sargent. A Trip to Chicago and Its World's Fair, Pen and Pencils of the Press. Joseph Hatton. Western Magic: a Chat with Mr. Maskelyne and Mr. Chas. Bertram. H. Fitzgerald. McClure's Magazine.-New York. December. Archdeacon Farrar. Arthur Warren. "Human Documents: William T. Stead. Whitelaw Reid. Gov. William McKinley. Tennyson's Friendships. Edwin C. Martin. Manliness in Boys-By a New Process. Henry Drummond. Gov. William McKinley: What he is and What he Stands For. E. J. Edwards. Jerusalem. Notes of a Recent Journey C. A. Dana. Macmillan's Magazine.-London. December. Three Humorists: Hook, Barham, Maginn. George Saintsbury. The New Athens. A Discourse on the Homilies. The Menorah.-New York. December. What the Hebrew Scriptures Have Wrought for Mankind. Heinrich Heine. Rudolph Grossman. Missionary Review of the World.-New York. December. Metlakahtla, a Marvel Among Missions.-II. D. L. Leonard. Work Among the Women of Egypt. Miss A. Y. Thompson. Missions in Palestine. A. W. Payne. Evangelical Missions in Syria. G. A. Ford. The Y. M. C. A. in the Universities of India. L. D. Wishard. Student Volunteers at Keswick. D. L Pierson. Month.-London. December. Recollections of Father John Morris. Father J. Pollen and Others. English Guilds in the Middle Ages. Rev. W. D. Strappini. The Life of a Siberian Priest: Father Gromadski. Lady Herbert of Lea. Dr. Pusey. C. Kegan Paul. Christ in Modern Theology.-III. Rev. John Rickaby. Munsey's Magazine.-New York. December. The Great Living Composers. George Holme. The Presbyterian Church in New York. A. C. Mackenzie. The National Magazine.-New York. November. Sir Danvers Osborn and Sir Charles Hardy, 1753-61. F. G. John Brown as a Popular Hero. A. E. Allaben. Title and Office of Schephen. J. W. DePeyster. Bering Sea Arbitration. A. S. Cameron. National Review.-London. December. Is Our Sea Power to be Maintained? Lord George Hamilton. The Voluntary Schools Crisis. Rev. Canon Hayman. The Kirk and Presbyterian Union. Rev. Dr. H Story. The Unsolved Irish Problem. The O'Connor Don. New England Magazine.-Boston. December. The Assassination of President Lincoln. Horatio King. G. H. Count Rumford and His Daughter. Frances M. Abbott. Carlyle and Ruskin and Their Influence on English Social Thought. The Colliery Conflict in England. S. A. Brooke. The Burying-Ground of Honey Locust Hill. Elizabeth C.. Shipman. The Abbé Vogler. Kenyon West. William H. Prescott. Samuel Eliot. Experiences During Many Years. Benjamin P. Shillaber. New Review.-London. December. The Problem of the Unemployed. J. A. Murray Macdonald. New Employments for Educated Women. Lady Knightley of Fawsley. Jean Martin Charcot: His Life and Work. Mdlle. Blaze de Bury. Constantinople in 1893. Prof. F. Max Müller. The Indictment of Dives. W. S. Lilly. Paul Verlaine. Arthur Symons. The Mystery of Ancient Egypt. W. Marsham Adam. Liberalism and Social Reform: A Warning. L. Atherley Jones. The Decay of Beauty. Frederick Boyle. The Armenian Agitation: A Rejoinder to Sadik Effendi. F. The New World.-Boston. December. Heresy in Athens in the Times of Plato. F. B. Tarbell. The Parliament of Religions. C. H. Toy. Nineteenth Century.-London. December. Fabian Fustian. Michael Davitt. Socialism in France. Yvés Guyot. What Lond n People Die of. Hugh Percy Dunn. Recollections of Professor Jowett. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Upper Houses in Modern States.-I. The Italian Senate. Marchese F. Nob li-Vitelléschi. The Anonymous Critic. H. D. Traill. Queen Elizabeth and Ivan the Terrible. W. Barnes Steveni. Confessions of a Village Tyrant. Rev. Edward Miller. The Queen and Her First Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Hon. Reignald B. Brett. The Index and My Articles on Hell. Prof. St. George Mivart. A Wedding Gift to England in 1662. Walter Frewen Lord. North American Review.-New York. December. Political Causes of the Business Depression. William E. Russell. The Battle-Ship of the Future. W. T. Sampson. Railroad Accidents in the United States and England. H. G. The Servant Girl of the Future. Kate G. Wells. E. A. Freeman. |