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Curb, Snaffle, and Spur.-Mr. Anderson's manual will be a useful one to those for whom it is designed. His advice seems to be sensible, at least from a civilian point of view, and the illustrations, which are taken from photographs, add immensely to the value of the little book. Riders who do not belong to the cavalry will find his advice worth remembering. (Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.)

Crowell's New Sets of Standards. In the preparation of Crowell's New Illustrated Library, it has been the aim of the publishers to produce a series of books that would meet the wants of those desiring inexpensive editions in attractive bindings, carefully edited, illustrated by the best artists, printed on good paper from clear type, and especially appropriate for holiday gifts or library use. In the pursuance of this plan no pains or expense have been spared to make this series the finest that has ever been produced at so low a price. (Per volume, $1.50.)

Quiet Stories from an Old Woman's Garden.This book, by Alison McLean, is well named. It is made up of half a dozen stories of rural life, far from the noise and activities of trade. They have the odors of the garden and the meadow and forests, and touch the heart and make the reader wiser and better. One seldom finds rural English life more charmingly sketched. It enlarges the human soul, and enlarges its capacities to love the pure and the good and beautiful to read the chapters. What better could be said of a book? (Warne. $1.25.)

The Old Brick Churches of Maryland.-A six months' tour among the old brick churches of Maryland has furnished material for a delightful book, full of historic memories and reminiscences of colonial and revolutionary days. The narrative is by Helen West Ridgely, the many full-page and text illustrations are by Miss Sofie de Butts Stewart, and both author and artist have brought out to the utmost the charms and pleasures of this " pleasure-trip in quest of the old brick churches.' The book is a small quarto, beautifully printed and daintily bound. (Randolph. $2.50.)

International Sunday-School Lessons.-"The Illustrative Notes for 1895," by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut and Robert Remington Doherty, is Mr. Hurlbut's Sunday-School Guide for the coming year, done, says The Independent, on substantially the same plan which has brought his previous volumes into such widely extended use, with original selected comments, illustrations literary and graphic, notes on Eastern life, and copious maps. The illustrative features of the guide are more striking than ever. The hints to teachers, and the arrangement of the material for presentation and use in the school, indicate everywhere the work of an editor who is himself a good teacher. (Hunt & Eaton. $1.25.)

Lorenzo Lotto.-In his earlier volume, "The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance," Mr. Berenson won for himself a name as a scholarly and appreciative art critic. In his new work he makes an exhaustive study of Lotto, claiming for this painter the interest of having

represented that considerable Italian minority, which at the height of the Renaissance was less in sympathy with the dominant Paganism, and therefore more inclined toward the Reformation. The book contains thirty full-page heliotype reproductions of the most representative works of Lotto and his precursor, Alvise Vivarini. In addition to its value to the art student, the volume is so attractively illustrated that it is admirably suited for use as a giftbook. (Putnam. $3.50.)

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Twelve Bad Men.-It is probably true that some people would be more interested in the Lives of the Saints than in the "Newgate Calendar," but the proportion would be very small. Wickedness is generally attractive, and every one knows that there is something fascinating about a very bad man. Therefore it is unnecessary to dwell upon the interest of these "original studies of prominent scoundrels"-the title of the book is its own recommendation. The studies are by different writers, and cover a wide range of unworthies, from "Black Bothwell," to Thomas Wainewright, the poisoner. They are edited by Thomas Seccombe, sub-editor of the "Dictionary of National Biography," and have numerous portraits. (Putnam. $3.50.)

L'Abbé Daniel.-The little story of "The Abbé Daniel," by André Theuriet, which has been exquisitely and sympathetically translated by Mrs. Nathan Haskell Dole, is one of the most delightful things in its way that has of late years been added to prose fiction. It is a very simple tale, very simply told, but it has the indescribable quality called charm, and its pathos is so tender and genuine, and its humor so spontaneous and natural, that to find its parellel one is almost obliged to go back to Goldsmith and "The Vicar." Theuriet is a poet, as Goldsmith was, and he has appreciation of human nature on its lovable side. "The Abbé Daniel" is got up in a style that makes it doubly attractive. There are a score or more of dainty illustrations after French originals, and the binding, though delicate, is very pretty. (Crowell. $1.)

Brentano's Publications.-Brentano's cater to Lovers of the stage, of the leisure classes. music, and of games may be gratified from their list. On it may be found Eric Mackay's "Love-Letters of a Violinist," illustrated by thirty-five designs in charcoal by James Fagan; "Princesses in Love," by Henri Pène Du Bois, also illustrated by James Fagan; and "French Folly in Maxims," in four bewitching little volumes. A Library of Masks and Faces is the general title of a series prepared by William T. Price, which will contain biographical and critical essays on the great European and American actors and actresses. "Charles Macready" and "Charlotte Cushman" are discussed in the two volumes now ready. Foster's Whist Manual" and, "Baby's Biography" may also be turned to account as Christmas gifts.

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Two Dainty Volumes. Mrs. Huntington Smith's admirable compilation, "Golden Words for Daily Counsel," is full of comforting and helpful extracts, and has met with a success which will surely be increased by the new edition illustrated with portraits of sixteen of the best known of the authors, and whose words are

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enshrined in its pages. Another tasteful giftbook is the illustrated edition of "Faber's Hymns." The author of "Hark! Hark! My Soul! Angelic Songs are Swelling,” and of “Ó Paradise! needs no introduction to religious readers. Many of Faber's hymns were specially composed for the London Oratory, which he founded, and of which he was so long the head; but they have an interest and beauty quite apart from the narrower use to which he put them, and the majority of them have been accepted by the whole Christian world without distinction of creed. The collection, which Mr. Bridgman has so sympathetically illustrated, will be found acceptable to all classes of readers. (Crowell. Ea., $1.25.)

The Yellow Fairy Book.-First in our rapidly lengthening list of books of fairy and other stories published especially to meet the claims of our young people, says the London Literary World, we must certainly rank Mr. Andrew Lang's "Yellow Fairy Book," an addition to the series which is becoming as tinted as the famous coat of many colors. The continual drain on his resources has sent Mr. Lang further afield for the materials with which to build the present volume, and, in consequence, there is a greater sense of originality about the contents, which have been levied from Russian, German,

French, Icelandic, and Red Indian folk and fairy stories, and are, if not entirely new to us, at least comparatively so. Mr. Lang explains that he has published this book entirely for children, and so that they are pleased he does not very much care for what other people may say. "The Yellow Fairy Book" is well and copiously illustrated, and tastefully presented in a yellow binding, of course, as the title necessitates. (Longmans, Green & Co. $2.)

D. Appleton & Co.'s Miscellaneous Publications. Not strictly to be classed as holiday publications, but most suitable as gift-books, are "Woman's Share in Primitive Culture," by Otis Tufton Mason, the first volume of the Anthropoligical Series, edited by Frederick Starr, of the University of Chicago, which traces the interesting period when with fire-making began

the first division of labor-a division of labor based upon sex-the man going to the field or forest for game, while the woman at the fireside became the burden-bearer, basketmaker, weaver, potter, agriculturist, and domesticator of animals ($1.50); "In the Track of the Sun," readings from the diary of a globe-trotter, by Frederick Diodati Thompson, profusely illustrated with engravings from photographs and from drawings by Harry Fenn, of which The Outlook says: "We know of no equally convenient and handsome publication illustrating a journey round the world" ($6); and Professor Maspero's "The Dawn of Civilization," edited by Rev. Professor Sayce, with map and nearly 500 illustrations.

theory of team plays, signals, and general football tactics. But it goes further. It describes with the aid of intelligible and easily understood diagrams, sixty-nine different methods of attack, including all the long passes and 'crisscross' plays, which are likely to come into use again under the new rules. Any spectator at a football game, after a study of this book, ought to know where to look for clever work and to appreciate it as thoroughly as the college boys do. Football has become the national fall game of the country, and every American naturally desires to understand it. This book will give him the required aid." (Appleton. $1.25.)

American Foot-Ball for Schools and Colleges.This is one of the books that fill 66 'long-felt wants." A. A. Stagg and Henry L. Williams know the game of football as it is played today. "Now here is a book," says the N. Y. Times, "which will make it all clear. tells the duties and dodges of centres, guards, tackles, ends, and backs. It describes the manner in which each ought to play his position individually, and it gives in plain language the

Flammarion's Popular Astronomy.-" M. Cawriter in France. mille Flammarion is the most popular scientific Of the present work no fewer than one hundred thousand copies were sold in a few years. It was considered of such merit that the Montyon Prize of the French Academy was awarded to it; it has also been selected by the Minister of Education for use in the public libraries—a distinction which proves that it is well suited to the general reader. The subject is treated in a very popular style, and the work is at the same time interesting and reliable. It should be found very useful by those who wish to acquire a good general knowledge of astronomy without going too deeply into the science. In translating this work I have endeavored to make as close a translation as

possible, with, of course, due regard to the I have reduced the figures English idiom. given by the author to English measures. Many new illustrations have been added, and I have also given some notes with reference to recent researches and discoveries, so as to bring the work up to date." Thus writes J. Ellard Gore, who has made the translation of this edition of Flammarion's work, which the publishers have provided with three plates and 288 illustrations. (Appleton. $4.50.)

Historical Characters of the Reign of Queen Anne. It is always pleasant and profitable, says The Nation, to study the treatment by an intelligent woman of matters that have been handled chiefly by men ; and especially is this the case when the characters and actions of women are the subjects of discussion. Even where there is no lack of sympathy and goodwill, men can hardly avoid judging women by masculine standards, and pronouncing an action wrong or weak because it would have been wrong or weak in a man. So, as a study of a woman by a woman, we have read with especial pleasure the vivid and sympathetic sketch of Queen Anne which Mrs. Oliphant here gives us. Certainly that royal lady has had rather hard measure dealt to her by writers of this century, among whom, as the greatest sinner against knowledge, Macaulay is most to blame. The extreme partisanship which so seriously vitiates his history, saw in Anne a Tory, a HighChurchwoman, and a dislike not without cause of his glorified William ; and the least of these crimes deserved no mercy, and even justified a little wresting of the truth "in the cause of the right," as Mr. Wegg puts it. Much space in the volume is devoted to Swift, Defoe, and Addison. The external appearance of this very attractive volume, with all the furtherances of the printer's, engraver's, and binder's arts, is worthy of the Century Company. ($6.)

ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. APTHORP, W. FOSTER. Musicians and music lovers, and other essays. Scribner. 12°, $1.50.

Contents: Musicians and music lovers; Johann Sebastian Bach; Additional accompaniments to Bach's and Handel's scores; Giacomo Meyerbeer; Jacques Offenbach; Tvo modern classicists; John Sullivan Dwight; Some thoughts on musical criticism; Music and science.

FREYTAG, GUSTAV. Freytag's technique of the drama: an exposition of dramatic composition and art; an authorized tr. from the 6th German ed., by Elias J. MacEwan. Griggs. 12°, $1.50.

An historical and philosophical exposition of dramatic composition and art, stating the general principles governing the structures of plays, the creation of characters, and the rules of act

ing. The qualifications of actors are clearly set forth, and attention is given to stage arrangement. An important feature of the work is its critical examination of the plan, motive, color, characters, etc. of the principal dramas of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller, thus making it of special value to dramatic authors, critics, and students of literature. Dr. Freytag ranks among the first of living playwrights and novelists, and play-goers will find in the work that which must be helpful to a better appreciation of the nature and value of the drama.

HEALY, G. P. A. Reminiscences of a portrait painter. McClurg. 12°, $1.50. MARGARET, (pseud.) Theatrical sketches here and there with prominent actors. Merriam

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. BRACE, C. LORING. The life of Charles Loring Brace chiefly told in his own letters; ed. by his daughter, [Emma Brace.] Scribner. pors. 8°, $2.50.

The story of Mr. Brace's life may almost be said to be the history of philanthropic effort in the United States. Thirty-five years ago he first turned his attention to the youthful criminals and outcasts of the city of New Yorkthe result being the establishment of the grand and useful organization of the Children's Aid Society, which now comprises industrial schools, night schools, lodging-houses like the NewsBoys' Lodgings and the Girls' Lodging-Housefarm school for boys, summer and health homes, dressmaking and typewriting schools, a printing shop, etc. Through these, thousands of waifs and strays have been rescued, taught to earn a living, and placed in comfortable homes. The organization has furnished to many cities in this country and Europe an inspiration and a model. He was the author of "Gesta Christi," The unknown God," The dangerous classes

of New York," etc. His daughter tells his life from his earliest years, through his correspondence, which is held together by her comments and exposition.

BROOKS, NOAH. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. Putnam. il. 12°, (Heroes of the nations ser., no. 14.) $1.50. Now added to The heroes of the nations series. First published in 1888.

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George William Curtis. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12°, (American men of letters.) $1.25. DUMAS, ALEX. Napoleon; from the French, by J. B. Larner. Putnam. 12°, $1.50. A brief and interesting biography of Napoleon. This is the first time it appears in the English language.

GROSSMANN, Mrs. EDWINA BOOTH.

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Booth recollections by his daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and letters to her and his friends. The Century Co. pors. 8°, $3. Edition de luxe, on Holland paper, $12.50; on Whatman paper, $25.

Mrs. Grossmann's recollections cover twentyeight pages, and describe Edwin Booth as a loving father, most tender in all his family relations. The rest of the handsome volume is occupied with letters from Booth to his daughter and to others of his friends. They are simple and unaffected, and convey a more intimate knowledge of the character of the man than could be gained from any memoir. The regular edition and the edition de luxe are illustrated with twenty artotype reproductions of portraits, trophies, etc., of the great actor, and are printed and bound in a most artistic form. HARE, A. J. C., ed. Life and letters of Maria Edgeworth. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 8°, $4. LINTON, W. J. Threescore and ten years; 1820 to 1890; recollections. Scribner. por. 8°, $2. MASSON, FRÉDÉRIC. Napoleon and the women of his court; from the French. Lippincott. pors. 8°, $5.

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MASSON, FRÉDÉRIC. Napoleon at home: the daily life of the emperor at the Tuileries; tr. by Ja. E. Matthew. Lippincott. 2 v., 12 pl. 8°, $7.50.

PICKARD, S. T. Life and letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v., pors. il. 12°, $4.

RITCHIE, Mrs. ANNE THACKERAY. Chapters from some unwritten memoirs. Harper. 8°, $2.

Reminiscences of Jasmin, Chopin, Louis Philippe, Mrs. Kemble, Madame Martin, and of Mrs. Ritchie's early home, and the many noted people that visited her father are contained in

While Webster's International Dictionary has been adopted as the standard authority, all important variations in spelling given in Worcester, Stormonth, the Century, and Standard dictionaries are quoted.

VAN DYKE, J. C. A text-book of the history of painting. Longmans, Green & Co. 12°, (College histories of art.) $1.50. The object of this series of text-books is to provide concise, teachable histories of art for class-room use in schools and colleges. The main facts of history as settled by the best authorities are given. The bibliography cited at the head of each chapter will be found helpful to the reader who wishes to enter into particulars. At the end of each chapter are enumerated the principal extant works of an artist, school, or period, and where they may be found. This volume on painting, the first of the series, omits mention of such works in Arabic, Indian, Chinese, and Persian art as may come properly under the head of ornament—a subject proposed for separate treatment.

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ALLEN, J. LANE. A Kentucky cardinal: a story. Harper. i. 16°, (Harper's little novels.) $1. The natural beauties of Kentucky in the year 1850 are described month by month with the art of the writer of "The blue grass region of Kentucky." The Kentucky cardinal is a beautiful red-breasted bird, whose nesting and family life the author has watched with loving eye. A little love idyl is sketched with lightest touch among the rhapsody the author offers to nature and her songsters.

BARING-GOULD, SABINE. Kitty Alone: a story of three fires. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12o, $1.25.

Coombe Cellars, the pretty scene of a prettier love-story, lies in the southern part of Devonshire. Kitty Alone is the daughter of a man full of schemes for making money, visionary and unpractical, who keeps his friends in continual mental unrest. Her name has been given her because she seems to live within herself among her uncongenial, rough surroundings. After suffering accusation and trial through circumstantial evidence. Kitty Alone finds happiness with her faithful, joyous lover.

BARRETT, FRANK. The justification of Andrew Lebrun: a novel. Appleton. 12°, (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 157.) $1; pap., 50 c. An old clockmaker whose leisure hours have been spent in deep scientific experiments in chemistry, buys an old house in the slums of London, to which is attached a chemical laboratory unused for one hundred years. The former owner has imposed certain conditions upon a buyer, all of which the old chemist fulfils. The consequences are strange and weird, and the story works up to a most exciting climax. Suspended animation and chemical resuscitation are the secrets carefully guarded by the old deserted laboratory.

BIKELAS, DEmetrios. Tale from the Ægean; tr. by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke; with an introd. by H. Alonzo Huntington. McClurg. 16°, $1.

Eight little stories, originally written in modern Greek and now translated into English,

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make up this attractive little volume. Bikélas is, perhaps, the most popular living author in his own land; his historic tale, "Loukis Laras," made so great a sensation when published at Athens about fifteen years ago that it was translated into nearly every language of Europe. Of these tales some are sad, some imbued with a gentle humor-cheerful rather than merry-and all are pure and refined in sentiment." But their especial value lies in the realistic pictures they paint of Greek life in our own times-the social customs, dress, courtship, and marriage.

BLACK, CLEMENTINA. An agitator: a novel. Harper. 16°, (Harper's little novels.) $1. Kit Brand, the agitator, is secretary of a labor union which has been directing a strike of English wire-workers. Kit is a single-minded man who has lost his wife and child and gives up all personal pleasures, his whole intelligence and strength to help his fellow-workman. Circumstantial evidence makes it appear that Kit is unfaithful to his trust, and he is imprisoned and prosecuted. Some wise thoughts regarding capital and labor are interwoven.

CROCKETT, S. R. The lilac sunbonnet: a lovestory. Appleton. 12°, $1.50. CROCKETT, S. R. The play-actress. Putnam. 24°, $1.

In a Scotch parish, a great preacher had ended a stirring mission sermon, when a young woman approached him, leading a little child, which she convinced him was his dead son's baby-girl. She explained that she and her sister, the child's mother, were "play-actresses," and on this account unfit to bring up a daughter. The aunt had carefully taught the little girl. The great preacher goes to London to look up the mother, and the pathetic tale gives glimpses of the perfect self-sacrifice of sisterly love, sacrifice in a wholly hopeless cause. The great preacher hears a sermon from the heart of a "play-actress.'

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DELAND, Mrs. MARGARET. Philip and his wife. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12°, $1.25. DILLINGHAM, LUCY. The missing chord: a novel. G. W. Dillingham. 12°, $1.25. Juliet Lea, the daughter of a mother devoted to social pleasure, decides to study music in Berlin before making her début in New York society. The story tells of her life with an aunt and cousin who are surrounded by German