Poets," with Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Lamb as its central figures. One is again struck with Mr. Mitchell's happy art of characterization, in noting how he succeeds in giving in a few lines a more vivid impression than the whole of some big biography furnishes. Take, for example, Miss Edgeworth: the entire two volumes of her recently published "Life and Letters" contain no such clever analysis of her life and work as the five pages devoted to her in this little book. Life and influence of John Knox. In Miss Florence A. Maccunn's brief "Life of John Knox" (Houghton) we have an admirable sketch of the work of the great Scottish reformer, of the Reformation in Scotland, and of the miserable failure of the brilliant Mary Stuart as both and woman. queen The narrative moves straight on, with little of praise or denunciation, yet is so presented as to make the leading characters live before us, with their good and bad traits, their mistakes and their successes, and with their motives so far as their words or their acts have disclosed them. grand and heroic qualities of Knox are appreciatively set forth, but the other side is not hidden, -the side that shows his arrogance, pride, ambition, harsh cruelty, and personal hatreds. But with all his faults, we are shown his wonderful influence for good upon the character of the people of Scotland, perhaps a greater shaping influence than any other man has ever exercised over a whole nation. BRIEFER MENTION. The The historical text-books of Professor Philip Van Ness Myers have been favorably known to American teachers for many years. They certainly have no superiors for high school and college use, and it is doubtful if they are equalled by any of their competitors. Professor Myers has now issued a "History of Greece (Ginn), upon the general lines of his earlier treatment of the subject, but expanded to more than double the length. The work is compact, up to date, and abundantly illustrated with well-chosen maps, diagrams, and cuts. "A Short History of Greece" (Macmillan), by Mr. W. S. Robinson, is a work of perhaps half the compass of the preceding, sparingly illustrated, but trustworthy and straightforward as to text. A number of the lesser known writings of Defoe are collected in volumes fifteen and sixteen of the charming Dent-Macmillan edition of that author, and complete the publication. Our gratitude for this entirely satisfactory set of books should be shared about equally by the publishers, the learned editor, Mr. George Aitken, and the skilful illustrator, Mr. J. B. Yeats. The books form as pretty a series as has been seen for many a day. The publication of Parts 23, 24, and 25 of "The Book of the Fair" (Bancroft Company) brings to its close that valuable and handsome work. These instalments discuss the special buildings of the foreign governments, with their contents, and the work of the World's Congress Auxiliary. A chapter follows on "Results, Awards, and Incidents," and then comes a final chapter on the California Midwinter International Exposition, which was in some respects an offshoot of the Chicago Fair. An index completes the work, bringing it up to an even thousand pages. We congratulate Mr. Bancroft and his associates upon their work. The publication is not without some minor defects, but is, on the whole, extremely creditable, and very fully accomplishes its purpose. Professor C. F. Bastable's work on "Public Finance" is so well known to students of the subject that little need be said of the new edition recently published (Macmillan) beyond remarking that the author's revision has brought the work fully up to date, adding many new facts and figures, new chapters on "The Maxims of Taxation" and "Death Duties," and a new subjectindex. Even so recent a matter as the abortive incometax law enacted by our last Congress is brought into the discussion, and offers only one among many illustrations of the timeliness of the new publication. The "Arden" Shakespeare, published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co., is a new series of texts for school use. It is aimed in this edition "to present the greater plays of the dramatist in their literary aspect, and not merely as material for the study of philology or grammar.” This is the best of theories upon which to prepare a set of the plays, and the names of the editors inspire confidence. The volumes thus far published include "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," both edited by Mr. E. K. Chambers; "Richard II.,” edited by Mr. C. H. Herford; "Twelfth Night," edited by Mr. Arthur D. Innis; "Julius Cæsar," edited by Mr. Arthur D. Innes (can this be the same gentleman ?), and "As You Like It," edited by Mr. J. C. Smith. We may note at the same time the admirable edition of "A Midsummer-Night's Dream," edited by Miss Katharine Lee Bates, and published by Messrs. Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn. Dr. Charles Waldstein's inaugural lecture as Slade Professor of Fine Art in Cambridge University is published in a neat volume of 130 odd pages, by Messrs. Harper & Brothers. Dr. Waldstein, treating his theme from the three standpoints of the production, the enjoyment, and the understanding of art, sketches what may be considered an ideal scheme of organization for university art study. The book is a most useful and suggestive one; and its point of view is timely. Washington a Model in his Library and Life " (Young & Co.) is the outcome of a lecture by Dr. Eliphalet Nott Potter, now extended and arranged in four parts. Dr. Potter has not the gift of clear and systematic presentation, but he has gathered together some good material concerning Washington's books and his way of regarding them and using them. Several times the author touches on an attractive topic- the present whereabouts of Washington's books; and it is to be hoped that he will be able to carry out his plan for treating this subject fully and in detail. We have frequently had occasion to commend the "University" series of manuals, designed for the uses of the general reader and university extension student, and their excellence has often suggested the painful contrast that exists between these books and most of the books written for a similar purpose by an American scholar. Their aim "is to educate rather than to inform❞— this is the keynote of their success, and the index of the contrast that we have suggested. Mr. J. W. Mackail's "Latin Literature" (Scribner), just added to the series, is one of the best of them all. - a really intelligent and delicately critical account of the whole subject within moderate compass. It is the work of a pupil of the late William Sellar, reflects much of the inspiration of his method, and may be unreservedly commended. A trip to the Mediterranean offers an American the happiest means of escaping from the severity of a Northern winter, and the number of persons taking such a trip grows yearly. Under the title of "The Mediterranean Trip" (Scribner), Mr. Noah Brooks has prepared a brief guide-book for the use of travellers, including the Azores and Madeira in the itinerary. The book is useful as far as it goes, but it has the fault of most American guide-books in failing to give the exact and detailed information that one is so sure to find in his Baedeker. Again, illustrations in such a book are an impertinence where maps are lacking, and with maps this book is most pitifully supplied. To give the traveller a photograph of Athens when he wants a diagram of the streets is like giving stones for bread--a fact that cannot be too strongly impressed upon the consciousness of most guide-book makers. It is safe to say that no prettier book for children has been published this season than "The Arabella and Araminta Stories," just issued by Messrs. Copeland & Day. The stories are by Miss Gertrude Smith, and they are embellished by fifteen illustrative designs, the work of Miss Ethel Reed. A charming introductory poem by Miss Mary E. Wilkins gives the book the happiest kind of a send-off. The title-page describes the book as belonging to the "Yellow Hair Library," which indicates, we trust, that it is the forerunner of others of like design. "Brown Heath and Blue Bells" (Macmillan), a dainty booklet of Scottish travel-sketches from the pen of Mr. William Winter, forms a welcome addition to that graceful writer's familiar series -"Shakespeare's England," "Gray Days and Gold," and "Old Shrines and Ivy." The new volume contains, in addition to the twelve Scottish sketches, a half-dozen fugitive papers on various themes, besides several personal tributes (to Doctor Holmes, George Arnold, Fitz-James O'Brien, Jefferson, etc.), added, the author says, "with the feeling that admiration for fine spirits may fitly consort with remembrance of beautiful scenes. ." The merits of Mr. Winter's delicate and lucid prose are familiar to our readers; and we need only say of the present volume that it fulfils the fair promise of its predecessors. A book of "French Folly in Maxims " (Brentano) is a collection of seven hundred sayings, more or less epigrammatic, gathered from the literature which is most happy in such utterances, and translated and edited by Henri Pène du Bois. The names of Jules Janin, Coquelin, Paul Bourget, Alexandre Dumas fils, Francisque Sarcey, Jules Lemaître, Joubert, Chateaubriand, Pierre Loti, Sainte-Beuve, Ferdinand Brunetière, Victor Hugo are an evidence that there is something beside" Folly" in these pages; neither is the sub-title "Of the Stage" strictly descriptive. The Rev. S. Humphreys Gurteen's volume on "The Arthurian Epic" (Putnam) is a somewhat unscholarly attempt to trace the development of the Arthurian stories from their inception to the "Idylls of the King." The writer is quite unfamiliar with modern investigations on his subject, and the historical part of his book is therefore not to be treated seriously. The extended comparison between Tennyson and that poet's predeces sors in Arthurian fields resolves itself into this: when Tennyson follows Walter Map's lead, he is right; when he strikes out for himself, he is inartistic. The criticism of « Merlin and Vivien” is a fair sample of Mr. Gurteen's critical range. The poem is roundly scored on Christian grounds because Tennyson did not make Vivien the "female Galahad" that Walter Map intended her to be. Then follows several pages of proof that “ Vivien of the Idylls no longer retains this character"! Further comment is unnecessary. LITERARY NOTES. Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons have reissued Mr. Conway's edition of Paine's "Rights of Man" in a separate volume. "Yeast" and "The Water Babies" are the latest additions to the Macmillan "Pocket Edition" of Charles Kingsley's novels. The memoirs of Mr. Locker-Lampson, edited by his son-in-law, Mr. Augustine Birrell, will shortly appear under the title of "My Confidences." Volume X. of the Gibbings-Lippincott edition of Smollett's novels, containing “The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves," has just been published. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. send us a new edition of Mr. Arthur Waugh's "Alfred, Lord Tennyson," the most satisfactory life of the poet yet published. “Ursole Mirouët,” translated by Mrs. Hamilton Bell, has just been added to the Dent-Macmillan edition of Balzac. "Old Goriot" will be the next volume. The United States Book Co. reprints in two papercovered volumes its well-known editions of "The Prose Dramas of Henrik Ibsen," including eight of the modern plays, translated by various hands. The long-promised Life of Agassiz, by his pupil and associate Jules Marcou, is about ready for publication by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. They will also issue immediately “England's Darling, and Other Poems," by the new laureate. Lord Beaconsfield's "Sybil," and Captain Marryatt's "Peter Simple" are the latest works to be reprinted in the Macmillan edition of standard English fiction. Mr. H. D. Traill and Mr. David Hannay write introductions for the respective volumes. A chapter on "The Mercantile System," translated from Professor Schmoller's "Wirthschaftliche Politik Friedrichs des Grossen," is the latest addition to Professor Ashley's series of "Economic Classics," published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. That clever politico-military brochure, "The Battle of Dorking," is reprinted in pamphlet form by Messrs. Way & Williams. Older readers will recall its remarkable vogue in England and America on its first appearance twenty-five years ago, and the drift of current events seems to make its reappearance hardly less timely and pertinent. The Rev. J. L. Spalding, Bishop of Peoria, has published through Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. a volume of "Songs Chiefly from the German." The work of translation is gracefully done, reproducing much of the feeling and beauty of the originals. An index of authors is lacking to the volume, for which defect we find it difficult to account. A second volume of the selection of "Lyrical Poetry from the Bible," made by Mr. Ernest Rhys, has just appeared with the Dent-Macmillan imprint. Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, the Prophetic Books, and the Gospel of St. Luke are drawn upon for the contents of this volume, which thus supplements the earlier selection from the Psalter and Job. A new edition of Professor A. E. Dolbear's "Matter, Ether, and Motion" (Lee & Shepard) contains three chapters hitherto unpublished, and embodies several corrections of the former text. The note of mysticism, apparent in the earlier edition, is still more pronounced in this revision, and puts the book, in part, into the category of metaphysical publications. The progress of specialization in physical science has a striking illustration in the newest periodical publication of the University of Chicago. It is a quarterly devoted to "Terrestrial Magnetism," and the subject gives it a title. It is published under the auspices of the Ryerson Physical Laboratory, with much learned American and European collaboration. The "Journal of Pedagogy," published quarterly at Binghamton, New York, is in appearance an unpretentious periodical, but it takes high rank among our educational reviews. Its contents are varied and dignified, while its editorial comment is serious in tone, advocating, as it does, progressive and praiseworthy ideals. No teacher who adds this excellent paper to his list will regret having done so. "The National Review" has never been as well known in this country as the other three great English monthlies, partly because no effort has been made to distribute it, and partly because it has not had quite the power of its older contemporaries to secure the services of the greatest writers. But for all that, it is an excellent and readable periodical, and we note with pleasure that it is now supplied to American subscribers by the publisher, Mr. Edward Arnold, who has recently established a branch office on this side of the Atlantic. "The Auk," which is the official organ of the American Ornithologists' Union, enters upon the thirteenth volume of its new series with the January number. It is one of the most creditable scientific periodicals that we have, and is of interest to more than ornithologists, unless we may give that name to all interested in birds. Publication is quarterly, and each issue contains a highly-attractive colored plate. Mr. L. S. Foster, 35 Pine street, New York, is the publisher, as well as the agent of the Union for all its other publications. The July-September number of the "American Journal of Archæology," just published, contains three papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, an account of "Some Sculptures from Koptos in Philadelphia,” an article, by the Rev. John P. Peters, on "Excavations at Nippur," and a rich miscellany of "Archæological News." Two of the American School papers are by Mr. Edward Capps, of the University of Chicago, and treat, respectively, of the chorus in the later Greek drama, and of recent excavations at Eretria. The "Journal" is published quarterly by the Princeton University Press. On the 25th of January, news was received in this country of the death of Alexander Macmillan, the younger of the two brothers who founded the great publishing house that bears their name. He was seventy years of age at the time of his death, and had retired ten years previously from active participation in the business. He made two visits to this country, the sec ond, in 1869, leading to the establishment of the American branch of the house. The business is now left in the hands of his two sons, Frederick and Maurice, of George, his nephew, of Mr. George L. Craik, and of Mr. George P. Brett, the latter of these gentlemen representing the firm in the United States. An American observer cannot help marking the close coincidence of this death with that of the senior member of the house of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Mr. Morley Roberts, whom some of our readers may possibly know as the writer of a few fairly clever short stories, has voiced in "The Saturday Review" his indignant protest against what he calls the "whining appeal to the authors of the United States " framed by Mr. Hall Caine on behalf of the London Society of Authors. He is kind enough to put aside the point," which could be strongly urged, that there are no authors to appeal to on the other side of the Western Ocean," but cannot rest under the imputation of having been in any way concerned in such a demonstration of friendliness and good-will. "Those who sign this precious paper go on to say that we are proud of the United States. Sir, we might be proud of them; but to say that we are proud of them is to speak most disingenuously. Who can be proud of our connection with a politically corrupt and financially rotten country, with no more than a poor minority vainly striving for health? . . . If our literature is the only bond between us and this most illmannered country, it may be time for us to repudiate American copyright before the Americans repudiate it. But literature is no real bond, because not one American in a thousand, no, not one in ten thousand, has had his manners made less brutal by the most casual acquaintance with it." Bravo, Mr. Roberts! If we have not heard of you before, we have heard of you now, and are not likely to forget the lesson in international amenity conveyed by the courteous phrases of your disclaimer. The first number of "Cosmopolis" has reached us, and amply fulfils our expectations. It is a monthly review in the three culture-languages, English, French, and German, published by Mr. Fisher Unwin. Each number is to contain 320 pages, so that the purchaser really gets a good-sized English magazine, a good-sized French one, and a good-sized German one, all within the same covers. Among the contents of this January issue are the beginnings of serials by Robert Louis Stevenson and Mr. Henry James; an acute critical study of "Othello," by Dr. Brandes; a piece of pure literature in the shape of "Le Chanteur de Kymé," by M. Anatole France; an essay on the Roman death-penalty, by Professor Mommsen, and papers by Herr Spielhagen, Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. Edmund Gosse, M. Edouard Rod, M. Francisque Sarcey, and several others. Besides these leading articles, there are series of "chronicles" which constitute perhaps the most noticeable feature of the publication. The political chronicles will appear monthly, one for each country; the three dramatic chronicles are to be written tri-monthly; while the literary chronicles will be bi-monthly for England and Germany, monthly for France. Mr. Andrew Lang and M. Jules Lemaître are the literary chroniclers for France and England. We understand that occasional chronicles from other countries will appear, thus giving the subscribers to this periodical a fair conspectus of what is going on throughout the world of politics, literature, and art. We have long wished that someone would undertake such a publication as " Cosmopolis," and we heartily welcome the enterprise. TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. February, 1896 (First List). Baltimore. Stephen Bonsal. Harper. Jew, The Modern. Dial. Mind, The Science of. Joseph Jastrow. Dial. Public School Ethics. Preston W. Search. Educational Rev. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. [The following list, containing 68 titles, includes books received by THE DIAL since its last issue.] HISTORY. Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895. By H. W. Wilson; with Introduction by Captain A. T. Mahan. In 2 vols., illus., 8vo, gilt tops. Little, Brown, & Co. $8. Studies in Diplomacy. From the French of Count Benedetti, French ambassador at the Court of Berlin. With portrait, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 323. Macmillan & Co. $3. The Development of Parliament during the Nineteenth Century. By G. Lowes Dickinson, M.A., author of "Revolution and Reaction in Modern France." 8vo, uncut, pp. 183. Longmans, Green, & Co. $2.50. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus. By the Rev. A. H. Sayce. 12mo, uncut, pp. 342. Macmillan & Co. $2. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS. Life of Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. By Edmund Sheridan Purcell. In 2 vols., with portraits, 8vo, gilt tops. 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By R. Garnett, LD.D. 16mo, pp. 292. Macmillan & Co. $1. A Handbook of German Literature. By Mary E. Phillips, L.L.A.; revised, with Introduction, by A. Weiss, Ph.D. 12mo, uncut, pp. 157. Macmillan & Co. $1. Lyrical Poetry from the Bible. Edited by Ernest Rhys. Vol. II.; with frontispiece, 18mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 199. Macmillan & Co. $1. NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry. In 10 vols. Vols. VI., VII., VIÏI., IX., and X.; each, illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut. Stone & Kimball. Per vol., $1.50. Ursule Mirouët. By H. de Balzac; trans. by Clara Bell; with Preface by George Saintsbury. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 259. Macmillan & Co. $1.50. Sybil; or, The Two Nations. By Benjamin Disraeli; with Introduction by H. D. Traill. 12mo, uncut, pp. 455. Macmillan & Co. $1.25. Peter Simple. By Captain Marryat; with Introduction by David Hannay. Illus., 12mo, uncut, pp. 493. Macmillan & Co. $1.25. 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