Hildeburn, Charles R. Sketches of printers and printing in colonial New York. With numerous illustrations. N. Y., 1895. 12°.

655.1-H 54

Johnson, J. B. Engineering contracts and specifications; including a brief synopsis of the law of contracts, and illustrative examples of the general and technical clauses of various kinds of engineering specifications. Ist ed. N. Y.,

1895. 8°.

Metcalf, William. Steel: a manual for steel-users. 1896. 12°.

620-J62

N. Y.,

669-M 56

Pinchot, Gifford, and Graves, Henry S. The white pine: a study. With tables of volume and yield. N. Y., 1896.

Plates. 16°.

Putnam, George Haven. The question of copyright: com634.9-P65 prising the text of the copyright law of the United States, a summary of the copyright laws at present in force in the chief countries of the world, together with a report of the legislation now pending in Great Britain, a sketch of the contest in the United States, 1837-1891, in behalf of the international Copyright, and certain papers on the development of the conception of literary property, and on the results of the American act of 1891. 2d ed., revised, and with additional ma

terial. N. Y., 1896. 12°.

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Broadfoot, William, and others. Billiards.

655.6-P98

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Davies, and from photographs, also by numerous diagrams and figures. London, 1896. (Badminton library of sports

and pastimes.) 12°.

794-B78

Fletcher, Banister and Banister F. History of architecture for the student, craftsman, and amateur: being a comparative view of the historical styles from the earliest period. With 115 plates, mostly collotypes, and other illustrations in the text. London, 1896. 12. Humphreys, Frank Landon.

720.9-F63

Evolution of church music. [N. Y., 1896.] 8°.

With preface by H. C. Potter.

783-H88

Park, William, jr. The game of golf. With numerous illustrations. London, etc., 1896. 12°.

796-P 21

Phillips, L. Vance-. Book of the china painter: a complete guide for the keramic decorator. Practical papers on special branches of the art, by other experienced teachers; instructions for under-glaze decoration and glass painting. 150 illustrations in the text, 7 colored plates. colored plates. N. Y., 1896. (Art amateur handbooks; ed. by M. Marks.) sq. 8°.

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Russell, Fox. In scarlet and silk; or, recollections of hunting and steeplechase riding. With 2 drawings in colour, by F. London, 1896. 12°.

Mason.

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796-T67 Ward, Maria E. Bicycling for ladies; with hints as to the art of wheeling, advice to beginners, dress, care of the bicycle, mechanics, training, exercise, etc. Illustrated.

[1896]. 8°.

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Arnold, Sir Edwin. East and west: being papers reprinted from the "Daily Telegraph" and other sources. With 41 illustrations by R. T. Pritchett. London, etc., 1896. 8°.

828-Ar 62

Collins, Mortimer. Selections from the poetical works of Mortimer Collins, made by F. P. Cotton. London, 1886. 8°. 821.8-C 696 Couch, Arthur T. Quiller-. ("Q.") Adventures in criticism. N. Y., 1896. 16°. 824-C831 Crawfurd, Oswald, ed. Lyrical verse, from Elizabeth to Victoria. With notes and index. London, 1896. 16°. 821.04-C85 Crawshaw, W. H. The interpretation of literature. N. Y., 1896. 16°. 801-C 85 Dalbiac, Philip Hugh. Dictionary of quotations (English). With authors and subjects indexes. London, 1896. 12°.

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Contains quotations from English and American authors, excluding all translations except in the case of the English Bible. Franklin, Benjamin. "The sayings of Poor Richard." The prefaces, proverbs, and poems of Benjamin Franklin, originally printed in Poor Richard's almanacs for 1733-58. Collected and edited by P. L. Ford. Brooklyn, N. Y., privately printed, 1890. Plates. 8°. 818-F851 Fuller, Henry B. The puppet-booth: twelve plays. N. Y., 1896. 12°. 812-F954

Contents: The cure of souls; On the whirlwind; The love of love; Afterglow; The ship comes in; At Saint Judas's; The light that always is; The dead-and-alive; Northern lights; The story-spinner; The stranger within the gates; In such a night.

Gosse, Edmund W. Critical kit-kats. N. Y. [London], 1896.

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824-G 696 Contents: Sonnets from the Portuguese; Keats in 1894; Thomas Lovell Beddoes; Edward Fitzgerald; Walt Whitman; Count Lyof Tolstoi; Christina Rossetti; Lord De Tabley; Toru Dutt; M. José-Maria de Heredia; Walter Pater; Robert Louis Stevenson.

Jones, Richard. The growth of the Idylls of the king. Phila., 1895. 12°. 821.8-T 2574 Manly, Louise. Southern literature, 1579-1895: a compre hensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms, for the use of schools and the general reader. Containing an appendix with a full list of southern authors. Illustrated. Richmond, Va., 1895. 12°. 810.8-M31

Plautus, Titus Maccius. The captives of Plautus. Tr. into English prose, by J. R. Taylor. Boston, 1896. 8°. 872.3-T 21

This translation was prepared as the libretto for the public performance of The captives, given by the students of Boston university.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Poems and ballads. N. Y., 1896. Portrait. 16°. 82 1.8-St 471 Contents: A child's garden of verses; Underwoods; Ballads. A complete collection of Mr. Stevenson's poems, including some verses written since the publication of the separate volumes.

Vanbrugh, Sir John. [Plays.] Ed., with an introduction and notes, by A. E. H. Swaen. London, 1896. Portrait. (Mermaid series. The best plays of the old dramatists.) 16°. 822-V 27

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Brown, Alice. By oak and thorn: a record of English days. Boston and N. Y., 1896. 12°. 914.2-B81

Contents: In praise of gypsying; The food of fancy; A still hunt; The pilgrim in Devon; The haunt of the Doones; The land of Arthur; The Brontë country; The quest of a cup; An unresisted temptation; Latterday Cranford; Under the great blue tent.

Brownell, W. C. Newport.

Illustrated by W. S. Vanderbilt Allen. N. Y., 1896. 85 pp. (American summer resorts.) 16°. Grant, Robert.

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The north shore of Massachusetts. Illustrated by W. T. Smedley. N. Y., 1896. 64 pp. (American summer resorts.) 16°. Guest, Lady Theodora. A round trip in North America.

With illustrations from the author's sketches. 8°.

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London, 1895. 917-G93

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Henry, Stuart. Paris days and evenings. tions. Phila. [London], 1896. 12°. Molteno, Percy Alport. A federal South Africa: a comparison of the critical period of American history with the present position of the colonies and states of South Africa,