New Books from a New from a New House Book lovers will find in the list given below, books by well-known and new authors worthy a place in their library. The bindings are refined, but rich in color scheme and decoration, and the publishers have not admitted to their lists any publication that tends to continue the morbid craze for moral impurity in literature. By the Author of “ My Japanese Wife.” The Lure of Fame BY CLIVE HOLLAND. With a frontispiece and decorative drawing by George Wharton Edwards. Square 16mo, cloth, $1.00. Those who have read that exquisite little idyl, "My Japanese Wife," now in its tenth edition, need no introduction to Mr. Holland. His present work is a musical story, touching and pure. "What is the Eleventh Commandment?" The Eleventh Commandment BY HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. This book is issued by us in conjunction with Mr. William Heinemann, of London, whose reputation as a discriminating publisher is international. The subject is of present interest, and the work will commend itself to all fovers of good fiction. A Timely Publication. Political Parties in the United States: Their History and Influence By J. HARRIS PATTON, M.A., Ph.D., author of "Four Hundred Years of American History," "Natural Resources of the United States," "Political Economy for American Youth, written from an American Standpoint," etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.25 Professor Patton approaches much nearer the ideal historian than any writer of similar books. His work must be given the highest place among short histories of the United States.-Christian Union, New York. Nearly Ready. Orders Received in Advance. To be Read during “The Heated Term,” By GEORGE MANVILLE FENN, assisted by Compton A story of remarkable ability, in which is told the adventures of a scientific expedition near the North Pole. They meet with many amusing incidents, and the book contains hints (not scientific, but reasonable), of a new method of "Re-generation." Now in its Tenth Thousand. The Copsford Mystery, or, is He the Man To readers familiar with W. Clark Russell only as a writer depicting with marked vividness and truth real life at sea, a departure from his usual style in the writing of a novel, the plot of which excels in mystery even the strangest adventure of the immortal "Sherlock Holmes," is of unusual interest. No other book published this spring has met with such general acceptance. The Secret Societies of all Ages and Countries By CHARLES WILLIAM HECKETHORN. 2 vols., about 800 pp., demy 8vo. In Press. The Babylonian Talmud Edited, formulated and punctuated for the first time in English by MICHAEL L. RODKINSON, under the editorial supervision of Dr. Isaac M. Wise, President of the Hebrew Union College. In ten English volumes. Sold by subscription only. The need of an adequate English translation has long been felt by Jewish and Gentile scholars........Such a work will be a boon, not only to Jewish scholars, but also to English readers, to whom the Talmud in the original tongue is a sealed book........ When complete the work will represent one of the most valuable and important contributions to modern literature.-Boston Transcript. We shall be pleased to send readers of THE BOOKMAN notice of our new books as issued if they will send us by postal card or letter their name and address. It costs nothing to be well posted on "The Latest Books." New Amsterdam Book Company 156 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers. * Important New Book of Travel and Exploration. TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA. By WILLIAM ASTOR CHANLER, Honorary Member of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society of Vienna. 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The above picture is an exact facsimile of the first Brownie cut which Palmer Cox published, and which we are able to present to our readers through the courtesy of the Lothrop Publishing Company. It is called "The Rebellion of the Types," and was drawn to illustrate a story by Professor Arthur Gilman, entitled "The Battle of the Types," which appeared in Wide Awake for February, 1881. Looking over an old file of Wide Awake, which was incorporated with St. Nicholas about three years ago, we were surprised at the number of names now well known in wider fields of literature, which appear with frequency in the pages of this old-time juvenile periodical. As far back as 1875 we see stories and poems from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louise Chandler Moulton, and Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt, while among those who tried their 'prentice hand at literature and began with juvenile essays in fiction between, on an average, ten or fifteen years ago, are Mary E. Wilkins, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Charles Egbert Craddock, Sarah Orne Jewett, "Droch" (Robert Bridges), James Whitcomb Riley, and Rossiter Johnson. Mrs. Phelps Ward may plume herself on her later works in her reminiscences now appearing in McClure's, but in spite of her depreciation of her early work, some of her best writing was contributed in those earlier years to Wide Awake, and had a wider range of influence. In Lady Eastlake's Letters and Journals, recently published in England, there are some good stories, but none so delicious as that which tells of the French lady who elucidated the passage periodi-Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon," thus: Gath and Askelon-two famous clubs in London" ! printed on another page, kindly send her name and address to the Editors of THE BOOKMAN? 66 A recent number of Harper's Weekly has a very clever article on The Bombardment of Chicago," which event is set down for June 10th of the present year, and is supposed to be related by a British naval officer. A double-page illustration by Mr. Zogbaum shows a hostile squadron knocking the Auditorium and other familiar structures to pieces. But we would ask the real author of the text whether the word "Dago" has yet made its way into the vocabulary of the British; and as for the picture, we are very certain that the particular form of tub drawn by Mr. Zogbaum is not at the present time included in the register of Her Majesty's Now we are Mr. Charles A. Dana delivered at New Haven on March 10th a most fascinating lecture on President Lincoln, enriched with several new anecdotes hitherto unpublished and drawn from his own recollections of Mr. Lincoln. But there is one thing in the lecture that troubles us. At the very beginning of it, Mr. Dana, speaking of slavery, represents the South as saying, denied this right." As this appeared in Mr. Dana's own paper, we cannot help believing that he has been reported. correctly, and yet— Can it be that having for so many years preached to others the true gospel of the passive voice, he must now be regarded as himself a grammatical castaway? Lasso! Hélas! Good gracious! An energetic inquirer who lately asked Mr. Andrew Lang to write down the names of the "hymns that have helped me," did not find much in Mr. Lang's choice to advertise a hymn-book, for he replied that the Homeric Hymns had helped him most, especially those to Demeter and Aphrodite! Mr. Richard Harding Davis appears to have long lingered in New York, although, as we announced some time ago, he had intended to visit Greece this spring and witness the revival of the Hellenic Games. His luggage was packed, passports innumerable were in his possession, and he was fairly bursting with notes of introduction, letters of credit, pale-blue billets de banque, |