The author, whose real name is not known, was apparently employed as an engraver, under the Committee of public safety. The social conditions and the daily life of the people were the real objects of his study. Lightfoot, Joseph B. Historical essays. London, 1895. 16°. 904-L62 Contents: Christian life in the second and third centuries; Comparative progress of ancient and modern missions; England during the latter half of the thirteenth century; Chapel of St. Peter and the manor-house of Auckland; Donne, the poetpreacher. Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: memoirs of the civil war in America. Illustrated with plates, maps, portraits, and engravings specially prepared for this work. Phila., 1896 [1895]. 8°. 973-7-L86 "It is safe to say that no investigator will fail to reckon the memoir among the most important sources of information on which the history of the Confederacy must be built.” — Nation. March, Thomas. History of the Paris commune of 1871. London, 1896. Maps. 8°. 944.08-M 33 Merrill, Mrs. Estelle M. H., ed. Cambridge sketches, by Cambridge authors. With preface by Alexander McKenzie. [Boston, 1896.] Illustrated. 12°. A volume of miscellanies in prose and verse. articles are of particular interest. 974-44-M 55 The historical Powell, William H. The 5th army corps (army of the Potomac): a record of operations during the civil war in the United States of America, 1861-65. With maps and illustrations. N. Y., 1896. 8°. 973-74-P 87 Berenson, Bernhard. FINE ARTS. Florentine painters of the renaissance. With an index to their works. N. Y., 1896. Portrait. 12°. 759-5-B 45 A valuable feature of the book is the index which shows where the works of the principal Florentine painters are to be found. Berlioz, Louis Hector. Treatise on modern instrumentation and orchestration, to which is appended the Chef d'orchestre. Tr. by Mary Cowden Clarke. New edition, revised and edited by J. Bennett. London and N. Y., n. d. (Novello's library.) 8°. 781.6-B 45 Crowest, Frederick J. Story of British music, from the earliest times to the Tudor period. 8°. London, 1896. Illustrated. 780.9-C 88 Deals specifically with the birth and growth of English music. The next volume will be devoted to the music of the Elizabethan period. Gardner, Ernest Arthur. Handbook of Greek sculpture. London, 1896. Illustrated. (Handbooks of archæology and antiquities.) 12°. 733-G 17 Isham, Norman M., and Brown, Albert F. Early Rhode Island houses: an historical and architectural study. Providence, 1895. 60 plates and one folded map. 8°. 728-Is3 "This book is probably the most valuable historic architectural treatise that has as yet appeared in America."- Nation. Sturges, Joshua. cal situations. Guide to the game of draughts, with critiRevised with additional play on the modern openings by J. A. Kear. London, 1895. Diagrams. 12°. 794-St9 White, Mary. 16°. Book of a hundred games. N. Y., 1896. 793-W 58 A book of indoor games, including a few for special occasions, such as St. Valentine's day and Washington's birthday. LITERATURE. Baker, George Pierce. Principles of argumentation. Boston and London, 1895. 12°. 808-B 17 Carman, Bliss. Behind the arras: a book of the unseen. With designs by T. B. Meteyard. Boston and N. Y., 1895. 16o. 811-C211 Chambers, Edmund K., ed. English pastorals, selected and with an introduction by E. K. Chambers. London, 1895. (Warwick library of English literature; ed., by C. H. Herford.) 12°. 821.06-C 35 The first of a series of literary guide-books, each volume of which "will be devoted to the history of some single literary growth, bringing together representative illustrations of it in sufficient quantity to enable the reader to follow, at first hand, all its important phases."— Preface. Dowden, Edward. Introduction to Shakespeare. 1895. Portrait. 12°. N. Y., 822.3-D 75 A revision, with additions, of the author's general introduction written for the "Henry Irving Shakespeare." Field, Eugene. The love affairs of a bibliomaniac. 1896. 16°. N. Y., 010-F 45 "Field conceived the volume as recording the talk and recollections of a collector of mature years, looking back fondly upon the passions of his life and passing them on to his fellows with modesty, but withal a conviction that he who makes two bibliomaniacs to grow frenzied where only one was mad before is a benefactor to the human race."-N. Y. Tribune. Gould, Sabine Baring-. Curiosities of olden times. N. Y. 828-G73 "Of Mr. Baring-Gould we are tempted to say what the old lady said of the dictionary, that he laneous information.' He is, contains a vast amount of miscel however, ever so much more inter esting than the dictionary, and his Curiosities of olden times is very entertaining reading."— National Observer. Harper's young people. Vols. 1-16. N. Y., 1880 [1879] 1895. 16 v. Illustrated. 4°. (con.) 051-H 231 Beginning April 30, 1895, the title was changed to Harper's round table. Attention is called to the fact that these volumes, which replace a worn-out set, have received a new number. Labouchere, Norna. Ladies' book-plates: an illustrated handbook for collectors and book-lovers. (Ex-libris series; ed. by G. White.) 12°. 64 London, 1895. 097-LII In this little monograph an attempt has been made to trace the history of women's plates and to give some account of those ex-libris which seem to call for special attention, either from the interest attached to the owners, or for the intrinsic merit of the designs."-Introduction. Lawton, William Cranston. Folia dispersa: poems. N. Y., 1895. Illus. 24°. 811-L 448 Norton, Charles Eliot, ed. Heart of oak books. [A collection of traditional rhymes and stories for children, and of masterpieces of poetry and prose for use at home and at school, chosen with special reference to the cultivation of the imagination and the development of a taste for good reading.] Boston, 1895. 6 v. 12°. 808.8-N 82 Vol. 1. Rhymes and jingles. 2. Fables and nursery tales. 3. Fairy stories and classic tales of adventure. 4-6. Graded selections of masterpieces of poetry and prose. Paget, Violet. (Vernon Lee.) Renaissance fancies and studies: being a sequel to Euphorion. N. Y., 1896. 12°. 824-P 1484 Contents: Preface; The love of the saints; The imaginative art of the renaissance; Tuscan sculpture; A seeker of pagan perfection, being the life of Domenico Neroni, pictor sacrilegus; Valedictory. Patmore, Coventry. The rod, the root, and the flower. London, 1895. 16°. 828-P 27 Contents: Aurea dicta; Knowledge and science; Homo; Magna moralia. Regeneration: a reply to Max Nordau. With introduction by N. M. Butler. N. Y., 1896. 8°. 801-R 26 “He has written what is in many ways an intelligent, thoughtful, earnest, spirited, and vigorous criticism of Max Nordau's book, which assaults it severely, but does not do it serious damage."— Literary world. Rossetti, Christina G. New poems, hitherto unpublished or uncollected. Ed. by W. M. Rossetti. N. Y., 1896. Por trait. 16°. 821.8-R 736 In his new History of 19th century literature George Saintsbury writes as follows: "Without attempting a too rigid classification we may certainly say that Miss Rosetti has no superior among Englishwomen who have had the gift of poetry." Saintsbury, George. History of 19th century literature, 1780-1895. N. Y., 1896. 12°. 820.9-Sa 21 An excellent history, in condensed form, of English literature during the period mentioned. Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. Letters and verses, 1829-1881. Ed. by R. E. Prothero. N. Y. [London], 1895. 8°. 826-St 23 |