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The Exploits of Brigadier | Old Faiths and New Facts.

Gerard.

By WILLIAM W. KINSLEY, author of "Views on Vexed
Questions." 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

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There is a flavor of Dumas's "Musketeers" in the life of the redoubtable Brigadier Gerard, a typical Napoleonic soldier, more fortunate than many of his compeers because some of his Homeric exploits were accomplished under the personal observation of the Emperor. His delightfully romantic career included an oddly characteristic glimpse of England, and his adventures ranged from the battlefield to secret service. In picturing the experiences of his fearless, hard-fighting, and hard-drinking hero, the author of "The White Company" has given us a book which absorbs the interest and quickens the pulse of every reader. The popularity of these stories when they were published serially, each one securely protected by copyright, insures the success of this book.

With a New Discussion of the Causes of the Ice Age.
By G. Frederick Wright, D.D., LL.D., author of "The
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Greenland Icefields, and Life in the North Atlantic. has deemed it best to thoroughly revise it, embodying

Since the original publication of this book, in 1881, great advances have been made in our knowledge of the sun; and although, in subsequent editions, notes and appendices have kept the work fairly up to date, the author

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MARCH, 1896.

VOL. XVII.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family Letters.

It was proper enough for Mr. William Rossetti to give precedence in the title of this work to the Letters, yet this arrangement of the

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title-page is somewhat misleading, as the entire first volume, which is the larger of the two, is occupied by the memoir, while there are copious notes to the letters inserted in the second volume. There is, therefore, found to be considerably more memoirs than letters.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as he was called in later years, Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, as the name really ran, was born in London on

GABRIELE ROSSETTI. [By his son, D. G. Rossetti, 1853.]

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the 12th of May, 1828, the second of four children born within as many years, all of whom inherited their father's interest in intellectual pursuits. . .

As one sees Dante Rossetti through the medium of his brother's account of him and still

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Egyptian Decorative Art.

PROF. PETRIE is the most active popularizer of Egyptological subjects at the present time, and is, in this line, a worthy successor of the late Amelia B. Edwards, for whom his professorial chair is named. He lacks something of the literary charm which belonged to his patron, but the greater stores of his special and detailed knowledge make ample atonement in

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Prof. Petrie won his spurs as an explorer and excavator rather than as a professor, and has paid special attention to the forms of characters, signs, art-motives, and architectural designs, with a view to discovering their origin and genesis. We are all familiar with most of the artistic forms and devices portrayed by him in this volume, and the charm of his treatment is to be found in the tracing of artistic motives from their historical origination down through their successive stages of development and then into the art of other lands. This last is done to only a limited degree, yet sufficiently to show that a wide, varied, and interesting field is opened to view. The stages of decoration treated are the geometrical, the natural, the structural, and the symbolic. In each case the text is well illustrated with appropriate drawings taken from printed books, public and private collections, and from a fund of personal knowledge which has resulted from long-continued and varied observation at home and afield. (Putnam. $1.50.)-The Nation.

From "The Rule of the Turk."

The Lost Stradivarius.

IN "The Lost Stradivarius," which is a story having for foundation a theme that is far

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removed from the usual, Mr. Meade Falkner has succeeded in supplying us with a book of note. The story deals with a mysterious influence for which it is impossible to discover proper terms, and it is so treated by the will of the author that the reader is sensible of mental pressure arising from the indefinable communion between the quick and the dead as recorded in these able chapters. This air of disaster, this overhanging dread, is maintained from beginning to end, so that it is possible for all, save the dense and wholly unimaginative, to experience a thrill while learning the events which pushed Sir John Maltravers on to his early death. At the time when this story commences Sir John was an undergraduate at Oxford, where his chief friend was a young musician named Gaskell. Together these two were in the habit of trying many a piece written for violin and piano, and so continually did they play that we, knowing something of Oxford impatience, marvel that their neighbors on the staircase did not protest in several practical ways. In an evil hour they became acquainted with Graziani's "Areopagita " suite, which contained a Gagliarda, that is, music for a certain licentious dance. One day it happened that Sir John moved some old bookshelves in his room, in the course of which proceeding he discovered a secret cupboard, in which he found a Stradivarius violin covered with dust and cobwebs. The finding of this treasure only increased the gloom which was gradually spreading over Sir John's face and heart. He saw visions, he dreamt dreams, and at last he saw the sight which had blasted the lives of two men before him. Mr. Falkner uses nothing revolting. His are simple expedients, but, nevertheless, he has the secret of commanding our nerves. (Appleton. pap., 50 c.; $1.)-London Literary World.

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From Conan Doyle's "Brigadier Gerard." Copyright, 1895, by D. Appleton & Co.

44 THE EMPEROR WAS STANDING BEFORE ME."

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. THERE is a flavor of Dumas's Musketeers in the life of the redoubtable Brigadier Gerard, a typical Napoleonic soldier, more fortunate than many of his compeers because some of his Homeric exploits were accomplished under the personal observation of the Emperor. His delightfully romantic career included an oddly characteristic glimpse of England, and his adventures ranged from the battlefield to secret service. In picturing the experiences of his fearless, hard-fighting, and hard-drinking hero, the author of "The White Company" has given us a book which absorbs the nterest and quickens the pulse of every reader. The hand which penned the exploits of Sherlock Holmes has not lost its cunning. Conan Doyle's romances rest upon a sure foundation of scientific accuracy. (Appleton. $1.50.)

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