tain little that is new, or of great interest. The style is rather diffuse and garrulous, although sometimes the garrulity may be even attractive, as in Chapters V. and VI. In the opening of Chapter XXIII. is a suggestive account of a bear who domesticated himself at a Yellowstone Park hotel as readily as a sparrow; and we quote this account as an example of Mr. Field's method of description:

"He was not an old acquaintance, as he had come from the woods only a week or two before, but was of such a domestic turn of mind that he made himself at home anywhere, whether under the greenwood tree,' or under a house or barn. But in coming to abide with men he did not submit to be a servant under bondage, to be confined in a cage or held by a chain; but was a free and independent citizen, free in all his goings out and comings in, as if he took the place of a faithful old servitor, who has earned the right to have his own way; to have the run of the kitchen, or what was thrown out from it; and in all respects to live as a pensioner of the family. . . . I was curious to see this addition to the family, and asked Where is he?' with vague suspicions that he might be a myth. But No, no,' said the innkeeper; by and by he will make his appearance. Perhaps he is here now.' With that he went about the house, looking underneath it, till suddenly he exclaimed, Why, there he is.' I was down on my knees in an instant, and sure enough, right under the floor, indeed, under my very feet, where I had been writing, was what might be a bear or a buffalo. The next thing was to stir him up, and make him show himself. The master of the house tried to poke him with a stick, but had not one long enough. Then he threw stones at him. But the thick brown hair was proof against stones, and the burly old creature slept on with proper contempt of the pygmies that were trying to disturb his repose. I confess, I rather respected him for his royal indifference to his puny assailants. The landlord apologized for his want of deference to his visitors, but explained it thus: The old fellow takes his time about everything. He has probably been off in the woods to visit his family, to see Mrs. Bear and his children or grandchildren, and is now a little tired. By and by he will wake up and feel hungry, and then he will come round to the door for his breakfast, which he will take from our hands as if he were a Newfoundland dog.'"

Dr. Field's pleasant, easy-going, optimistic personality permeates the whole book. He was accompanied by his niece, and his references to her are hardly in taste in a book designed for the general reader. Thus, "Oh, dear, oh, dear, my poor little chicken, that was hardly out of the hen-coop," etc. (p. 235). Mr. Field's remarks regarding his friends are apt to be rather fulsome; as, for instance, in regard to Lord Dufferin and Mr. Harper (pp. 21, 25). The book is illustrated with process cuts, and is provided with a map.

The first volume of Mr. Henry M. Stanley's latest work, "My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia," is a series of letters, which, as he himself acknowledges, "were not written with a view to permanent publication, but for the exacting and imperious necessities of American newspapers, principally for The Missouri Democrat' of St.

Louis, and a New York paper." As special correspondent, Mr. Stanley accompanied General Hancock, and, later, General Sherman, in expeditions against the Indians; and he narrates in vigorous and terse style many incidents of Indian and frontier life. The book throbs with the wild and progressive spirit of the sixties in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, and will be found very interesting by all who have had any experience of pioneer life. The story of the Plum Creek Massacre is particularly vivid. Mr. Stanley's description of the buffalo is quotable:

"Until to-day we were not prepared to accept all the statements we heard about the numbers of buffalo on the plains, for prairie folk are like sailors, fond of embellishing the truth. When we were told that the prairie has been so packed with them that one might walk on their backs for ten miles, we set it down to the narrator's desire to express a countless number, rather than as a literal fact. When they swore that, not many years ago, military expeditions were compelled to mow a passage through them with grape shot from their howitzers, we thought they were taking advantage of the credulity of youth, and inwardly lamented their depravity. We are becoming wiser every day, however. We think of all the bales of buffalo robes annually exported East, of the many thousands of hides required by the 150,000 Indians of the plains for their wigwams, of the thousands of robes in use among the military and civilians out West; and we are not so skeptical as formerly. We have seen many herds at various times, but to-day we had the pleasure of seeing ten great herds, of about a thousand head each, guarded by their sentries and videttes, which suspiciously watched our advance, and continually snorted the alarm to the respective hosts. It was to me a thrilling sight." Occasionally these letters show defective editing, thus (p. 157), a "first letter" is referred to, which nowhere appears. And again (p. 160), there is a hiatus after "when it had gathered." If most of the official speeches and all the official letters and inventories (as on pp. 45, 135, 229), and all other matter of historical value, but of no interest to the general reader, had been relegated to an appendix, and the remaining matter were disconnected from the epistolary form and chronological order, and thrown by subjects into chapters, we would have a very interesting book. As it is, the reader must do some judicious skipping, which is always vexatious. Mr. Stanley's second volume contains newspaper letters on the inauguration of the Suez Canal, on a Nile trip, on explorations in Jerusalem, and on a journey to Persia. Some of this material may have a historical value, but to the general reader much in these reports will appear dry and perfunctory. Some portions of the Persian journey may be read with interest, particularly the visit to Teheran. However, most of the topics discussed have been much more fully and better treated by other writers. In short, we do not think this book will much enhance Mr. Stanley's reputation. He has given us the scrapings from his barrel, and we find them little satisfying.

HIRAM M. STANLEY.

A sensible book about America,

BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.

The misgiving with which we naturally take up a book about the United by a Frenchwoman. States, written by a foreigner after a few months' sojourn in the country, is soon dispelled after opening the pages of Madame Blanc's (Th. Bentzon) "The Condition of Woman in the United States," in Miss Alger's excellent translation (Roberts). The accomplished author has wisely added the modest sub-title, "A Traveller's Notes," thus saving the reader all disappointment at a somewhat careless composition, or rather disposition of the material, for the style is all that could be desired. Less stimulating to thought than more pretentious publications of this class by writers with whom philosophizing is more of a profession, Mme. Blanc's chapters appeal rather to the emotions, and will be read with satisfaction and profit by those not very familiar with the amount of good done in this country by individual women and women's organizations. For the interest of the book centres in its subject, not in its foreign authorship, though the latter frequently heightens the relief in which things appear. The vivid accounts of repeated visits to Hull House, for example, cannot fail to awaken the strongest sympathy for Miss Addams's noble work. So with regard to other institutions in the West and in the East. The generous hospitality enjoyed by the French visitor at the homes of so many distinguished women in the land has not, it seems to us, betrayed her into any indiscretions, though modesty might have prevented some of her hostesses from too positively sanctioning all of her statements. Neither, do we believe, will sensible Americans take umbrage at some instances of candid and good-natured disapproval, out-balanced as they are by the author's unrestrained admiration for what is good and beautiful. Individual readers will no doubt occasionally differ with Mme. Blanc in matters of judgment and opinion, but her book will give rise to no bitterness of feeling. Miss Alger contributes to the volume a brief biographical sketch of the author, and a strikingly good half-tone portrait of the latter is inserted as frontispiece.

The remarkable life-story of a Russian woman.

The life of the remarkable Russian woman, Sonya Kovalevsky, who died four years ago at Stockholm, is one of very uncommon interest. At the age of twentyfour she had received a doctor's degree from the University of Gottingen; at thirty-one she was made a privat-docent by the University of Stockholm, and three years later a professor of mathematics (one of the most distinguished of the University's positions), thus sweeping away the traditions, prejudices, and customs of centuries. This appointment, made when the universities of Germany would not even consider the question of permitting women to study in them, made a marked sensation in the learned world. Still another sensation was produced

when it was discovered that she was the winner of the greatest scientific honor ever gained by a woman, one of the greatest, indeed, to which anyone can aspire, the Bordin prize from the French Academy of Science. The jury of the Academy made the award in entire ignorance that the winner was a woman, though it doubled the prize (making it five thousand francs) on account of the "quite extraordinary service rendered to mathematical physics by this work." These brilliant achievements were terminated by Sonya Kovalevsky's death, at the early age of forty-one. The event called out remarkable manifestations of sympathy and appreciation. Telegrams of condolence poured in from nearly all parts of the civilized world; cartloads of flowers were heaped upon her grave; Russian women

resolved to erect a monument on her tomb at Stockholm. Yet Sonya Kovalevsky was the last woman to be satisfied with being regarded simply as a kind of mental giant, a woman with an unusually developed brain. Her emotional nature the hunger of the heart for loving and for being loved was as strongly marked as her intellectual development. There was thus in her life a sort of double nature, at war with itself; and the story of this life is one of fascinating, almost tragic, interest. She was never happy, even when most honored. Near the close of her life she wrote: "It is a great misfortune to have a talent for science-especially for a woman, who is forcibly drawn into a sphere of action where she cannot find happiness." She considered her life a failure, and said: "Some other human being must have received the part of happiness that I longed for and dreamed of." This unusual and engrossing life story in part autobiographical has been simultaneously published by the Century Co. and by Messrs. Macmillan & Co., the first-named using the translation from the Russian made by Miss Isabel F. Hapgood, and the latter the translation from the Swedish made by Louise Von Cossel.

Questionable editing of Poe.

The fifth volume of the new edition of Poe's Complete Works (Stone & Kimball) is noteworthy for its reprint of "The Journal of Julius Rodman," not before This included in any collection of Poe's tales. sketch of adventure along the shores of the Missouri seems almost to have been written to show what the romancer could not do: its incident is meagre, characterization is entirely lacking, and the style itself is hardly to be recognized. The real inspiration of the story was doubtless the unpleasant necessity of eating. In this volume of the series, and its predecessor, the promised notes begin to appear. The chronological list of the tales will be gladly consulted by all students of them. An equal amount of research has been devoted to showing that Poe borrowed his quotations at second-hand, and paraphrased much of his material in geography and natural history from extant scientific works. The value of such scholarship is more questionable. It is as if the editor had determined that this luxurious

edition, with its special paper, its portraits, its sympathetic illustrations, should not delude the public into too favorable opinion of the author. Editoral criticism nowadays is not depreciative. Imagine an edition of Longfellow which should set itself the task of indicating that poet's frequent obligation to his sources! But Poe, since the days of Griswold, has been doomed to have his fame reduced to its lowest terms. Fortunately, the most scathing rebuke cannot invalidate the genius of the man who is to-day the commonplace of the literary conversation of Frenchmen with Americans, and whose poems were esteemed by Dante Rossetti along with Tennyson's.

Far West sketches

by Mr. Remington.

Mr. Frederic Remington's "Pony Tracks" (Harper) embraces fifteen sketches, the drift of which is indicated by such titles as "Lieutenant Casey's Last Scout," "A Rodeo at Los Ojos," "Coaching In Chihuahua," "Policing the Yellowstone," "A Merry Christmas in a Sibley Tepee," etc. Little need be said of Mr. Remington as a delineator of Far Western life and types. His studies, descriptive and pictorial, of the "Cow-puncher," the "Greaser," the post soldier, etc., are inimitable in their way, and the present work contains some of the best things he has given us. The volume is a handsome one, and the seventy odd drawings are done in the author's usual spirited, if somewhat overliteral, style. We have spoken before of the comical Muybridge effects of Mr. Remington's more miraculous horses.

Safe advice about books and reading.

"The Choice of Books," by Charles F. Richardson (Lovell, Coryell & Co.), is one of those curious productions that seem the result of spontaneous generation. No date of publishing is given, no hint of copyright, no preface, no information concerning the author, beyond his name; while the contents have come together mostly from other publications. We believe that the book was originally published about fifteen years ago, by an author who has since that time given us some more original work. If such be the case, the book may have a certain right to its title, which, if it were a more recent production, would seem to belong to Mr. Frederic Harri

son.

Whether this be so or not, it might just as appropriately have been called "A Choice from Books"; for, as is not uncommon nowadays, it consists almost entirely of quotations. Of the three chapters which we have particularly examined, one has a sixth original matter, one a fifth, one a fourth. In the two hundred pages we have one hundred and forty-seven extracts, of which about twenty are two pages or more in length, the others being shorter. "In this chapter," remarks the author on page 27 (but the limitation was unnecessary), "I prefer to express my own conclusions principally in the words of mightier men." Such a practice has decided advantages to the reader: it is much easier to recog

nize a good passage than to write one, so the reader is surer of getting them. This volume, then, has in it a great deal that is interesting about books and reading, and may be confidently recommended to anyone who desires advice on the subject in hand. The cover presents a design having one book in the centre between three other books. From the inside it would appear that these other books must be respectively by Noah Porter, Hamerton, and Emerson.

Specimens of the humor of Russia.

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A fresh and very acceptable addition to the "Library of Humor ries (imported by Scribner) is the "Humor of Russia," admirably translated by E. L. Voynich, and furnished with an introduction by S. Stepniak. The translator has aimed to give samples not only of the best, but of all, Russian humor; hence her list includes, beside the masters, such names as Glyeb, Nikolai, V. Slyeptzov, and even Gorboundv. As M. Stepniak observes, "there is hardly a name worth mentioning that could be added to these." Among the selections are Gogol's "Marriage" and "A Madman's Diary," Shchedrin's (Saltykov) "The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit," Dostoyevsky's "The Crocodile," Gorbounòv's "La Traviata," and Stepniak's delightful "Story of a Kopeck." The book sparkles from end to end with good things, and the collection is fairly representative.

BRIEFER MENTION.

Richard Whately wrote his "Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte " (now reprinted by Messrs. Putnam's Sons) in 1819, to show that theories of evidence like those Hume developed in his "Essay on Miracles " break down in quite a ridiculous fashion when applied even to well-known historical facts, and consequently are not to be trusted in the criticism of the Scripture narratives. As a controversial tract belonging to the first quarter of the century, its reputation for acuteness need not suffer. Its interest is, however, purely historical, because its argument has no point in the controversy about more recent methods of criticism. It is not often that a railroad company, desirous of providing a seductive handbook for travellers over its tracks, presses into its service so distinguished a man of letters as Professor Charles G. D. Roberts. This, however, is what has been done by the Dominion Atlantic Railway of Nova Scotia, and the resulting book, called "The Land of Evangeline," is equally good reading, whether one travels in Acadia or remains at home. It is prettily printed and illustrated, and, we presume, distributed free of charge by the company that issues it. It is a little curious that the sprightly Frenchwoman who writes under the name of "Gyp" should not have found favor with English translators. Her bright and entertaining stories of up-to-date society have a considerable degree of literary merit, and are exceptionally readable. One of the best of them, "Le Mariage de Chiffon," recently published in the "Revue de Paris," has, however, just found not one translator, but two— Mr. Henri Pène du Bois, who calls his version "A Gallic Girl” (Brentano's); and "M. L. J.," whose translation is more

literally styled "Chiffon's Marriage" (Lovell). Both books are neatly and attractively made.

A recent issue of "Sound Currency" reprints from Mr. W. A. Shaw's "History of Currency" the chapter which discusses bimetallism in France, remarking that "of all the Quaker artillery that has been used by our friends of the Bimetallic League (alias U. S. silver mine owners), none has done better service than the alleged experience of France." Of course, every well-informed student of finance knows that France never had bimetallism in the sense of concurrent circulation of the two metals. The superstition is a hard one to kill, and "Sound Currency" provides some effective ammunition, while its gun is not of the Quaker sort. The semimonthly pamphlets of which this is one are doing excellent service in the cause of honest money, and friends of that cause will do well to aid in their circulation. They are issued by the Sound Currency Committee of the New York Reform Club.

"Maid Marian" and "Crotchet Castle," combined in a single volume of the Macmillan series of old-fashioned fiction reprinted, will be welcome to all existing Peacockians, and will probably bring some new members to that select guild. The introduction to this volume is by Mr. George Saintsbury, who has recently discovered in Marmontel's "Contes Moraux" what he believes to be the model that Peacock had in view when he wrote "Headlong Hall," and who has thus brought the whole Peacockian series of tales into at least a shadowy connection with the literature of that period.

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Hypatia" is the first volume of a new "pocket" edition of Charles Kingsley's novels, published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co.

The publications of the Century Co. will hereafter be issued in England by Messrs. Macmillan & Co., who succeed Mr. T. Fisher Unwin in the agency.

"Richard III." and "Henry V.," the newest volumes of the "Temple " Shakespeare (Macmillan), delight the sense no less than have done their many predecessors.

The long looked for "Letters of Matthew Arnold," as also the "Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble," are promised for the present month by Messrs. Macmillan & Co.

Holger Drachmann, the Danish novelist and poet, a sketch of whose life and work appears in this issue of THE DIAL, is shortly to be introduced to American readers by a translation of one of the best and most characteristic of his shorter stories—"Paul and Virginia of a Northern Zone," to be published by Messrs. Way & Williams.

The International Congress of Journalists, now (September 13-17) in session at Bordeaux, is particularly occupied with discussing the desirability of a Bureau Central des Associations de Presse, "for the purpose of establishing friendly feelings and common action between them in regard to all purely professional ques

tions, irrespective of creeds, political opinions, races, and nationalities."

The Hakluyt Society will issue almost immediately a volume from the pen of its president, Mr. Clements R. Markham, C.B., consisting of a translation of the journal kept by Pedro Sarmiento during his voyage to Magellan's strait in 1579-80, supplemented by documents procured from the archives at Madrid. Another of the Society's volumes, which, under the joint care of Mr. C. A. Gosch and Mr. Miller Christy, deals with the Arctic voyages of Jens Munk and James Hall, is in the press, and may be expected shortly; while a commencement has also been made with the printing of Dr. Robert Brown's edition of the "Travels of Leo Africanus."

A meritorious bit of bibliographical work is the “ Bibliografia di Pompei, Ercolano e Stahia," by M. Friedrich Furchheim. It presents with great exactness the titles of the works, both large and small, that have been written about the buried cities of Campania, dealing with the popular as well as the scientific side. More than five hundred titles are given, in one hundred and sixteen attractively printed pages; and there is an introduction of fifteen pages (in Italian), giving a general survey of the literature. It is announced that a similar bibliography covering Vesuvius, Capri, and other points of interest about the Bay of Naples, is in preparation. (Naples: F. Furchheim, 59 Piazza dei Martiri.) The "Baconian craze can hardly be said to be extinct, since three new books inspired by it are announced - two of them by lawyers: Mr. T. S. E. Dixon of Chicago (“Francis Bacon and his Shakespeare," The Sargent Publishing Co.), and the other by Judge Stotsenberg of Indianapolis. The third is a recent German work, a translation of which is promised by Mr. Henry Brett. The aim of Mr. Dixon's work is stated to be "to present, in a critical exposition, the data (almost wholly new) whose consideration has convinced him of Bacon's authorship of the plays. The hypothesis is also given a crucial test in a novel and striking interpretation of the play of Julius Cæsar,' under the illumination afforded by Bacon's acknowledged writings."

The speech made by Professor Charles Eliot Norton at Ashfield, Mass., about three weeks ago, attracted much attention by its outspoken strictures upon popular education in this country. We reproduce the most significant passage of the address: "We speak of popular education as the foundation of republican institutions, and so, indeed, it is. But when we boast that it exists in America we delude ourselves. We have indeed a very imperfect system of popular education, but of true education of the people there is not enough to guarantee the prosperity of the republic. The minds of the mass of Americans are still in a prehistoric, or at least in a medieval stage. It is folly to call a community educated in which such an organization as the A. P. A. can spread widely. Its members have not learned the first, the simplest lesson of good citizenship. The records of our recent Legislatures, the records of both houses of Congress, give evidence that a very large proportion of their members have no claim to be recognized as educated men. The great body of our newspapers in every part of the land not merely display, but contribute to, the lack of education of the community. The speeches and the acts of many of our most prominent men, public men, men who have had every advantage that school and college can afford, give proof that their authors belong among the uneducated or the miseducated."

ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL BOOKS.

In accordance with our established custom, we present herewith our annual list of the more important books to be issued during the Fall season by American publishers. The list contains nearly seven hundred titles, and represents forty-two publishers; the largest number of entries for one house is over a hundred, and the smallest is one, the average being about seventeen. The unusual size of the list makes it necessary to exclude juvenile books, the most of which appear rather late in the season, and the announcement of which is of minor literary interest. In all other departments, however, the list is believed to be full and representative. The proper classification into departments is of course the difficult part, and it is made doubly difficult by the inadequate or misleading information sometimes supplied. Books that have not yet been received by THE DIAL, and hence that have not yet appeared in its regular printed List of New Books, are included among the books announced, although in some cases the books may have been actually issued by the time this list is published. The books in the list are presumably all new

new editions not being included unless having new form or matter. Some analysis of the list, and comments upon its more interesting features, may be found in the leading editorial article of this issue.

HISTORY.

The United States of America, 1765-1865, by Edward Channing. The Beginning of the Middle Ages, by Dean Church, "Eversley Series."-Western Europe in the Fifth Century, by E. A. Freeman. Western Europe in the Eighth Century, by E. A. Freeman.- History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, by Ferdinand Gregorovius, Vol. III. - History of Greece from its Commencement to the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation, from the German of Adolf Holm, Vol. III.- Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, by Israel Abrahams.-Essays in Historical Subjects, by J. B. Lightfoot, D.D. History of the Ptolomies, by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy.-A History of Mankind, by Friedrich Ratzel, trans. by A. J. Butler, M.A., illus., 3 vols.-The Political History of England, by Goldwin Smith.- The King's Peace, a historical sketch of the English Law Courts, by F. A. Inderwick, Q.C., illus. Outlines of Church History, by Prof. Sohm, trans. by May Sinclair. The Oxford Church Movement, sketches and recollections by George Wakeling. — Virgil in the Middle Ages, by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke. (Macmillan & Co.)

The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan, 1398–1707, by Edward S. Holden, illus., $2.-The Revolution of 1848, by Imbert de Saint Amand, with portrait, $1.25.- The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, by Henry M. Baird, 2 vols., with maps, $7.50. (Chas. Scribner's Sons.) Life in the Tuileries under the Second Empire, by Anna L. Bicknell, illus., $2.25. (Century Co.)

The Story of the Indian, by George Bird Grinnell, first volume in the "Story of the West Series," edited by Ripley Hitchcock. (D. Appleton & Co.)

The Mycenæan Civilization, trans. from the Greek of Dr. Crestos Tsountas, and edited and enlarged by Prof. J. Irving Manatt and Dr. Barker Newhall, illus.- Reconstruction during the Civil War in the United States, by Eben Greenough Scott. - Papers of the Massachusetts Military Society, edited by Theodore F. Dwight, 2 vols., $4. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, by Anatole LeroyBeaulieu, Vol. III.. The Religion, $3. - Traill's Social England, Vol. IV., From the Accession of James I. to the Death of Anne, $3.50.-History of the Fifth Army Corps, by William H. Powell, U. S. A., $6. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Turning on the Light, a dispassionate survey of President Buchanan's administration, from 1860 to its close, by Horatio King. The American in Paris, by Dr. Eugene C. Savidge, a study of phases of the Franco-Prussian war outlining the influence of the United States upon the conflict, $1. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)

Battles of English History, by H. B. George, M.A., with numerous plans, $2. (Dodd, Mead & Co.) Constitutional History of the United States, by George Ticknor Curtis, Vol. II., $3. (Harper & Bros.)

History of the People of Israel, by Ernest Renan, Vol. V., Period of Jewish Independence and Judea under Roman Rule, $2.50. (Roberts Bros.)

Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth Century, by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer, illus., $2.50. (A. C. McClurg & Co.) Two Years in the Alabama, by Arthur Sinclair, Lieut. C.S.N., illus., $3.- The Campaign of Trenton, 1776-7, by Samuel Adams Drake, 50 cts. History of the Battle of Bunker's (Breed's) Hill on July 17, 1775, by George E. Ellis, D.D., new edition with additions, 50 cts.-Reference Handbook of Grecian History, by the library method, by Caroline W. Trask. (Lee & Shepard.)

The Minute Man on the Frontier, sketches, by the Rev. William G. Puddefoot, illus., $1.25. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) Torch Bearers of History, second series, from the Reformation to the beginning of the French Revolution, by Amelia Hutchinson Sterling, M.A., 80 cts. (Thos. Nelson & Sons.) BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.

Gustave Flaubert, as seen in his works and correspondence, by John Charles Tarver, with portraits, $4. General Sherman, by Gen. M. F. Force, in the "Great Commanders Series." (D. Appleton & Co.)

The Life of Francis Parkman, by Charles H. Farnham, to which is added Mr. Parkman's uncollected papers; with portraits, $2.50. (Little, Brown, & Co.)

Napoleon at Elba, and his Last Voyage, being the diaries of Admiral Sir Thomas Ursher, R.N., and John R. Glover, secretary to Rear-Admiral Cockburn, illus., $3. The Great Astronomers, by Sir Robert Ball, $2.50.- From Manassas to Appomattox, being the memoirs of James Longstreet, Lt.-Gen. C.S.A. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)

Life and Letters of Louis Agassiz, by Jules Marcou, 2 vols., with portraits.-John Knox, by P. Hume Brown, 2 vols., illus. Dundonnald, by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue, “* English Men of Action."-Richelieu, by Prof. Lodge, "Foreign Statesmen."- François Severin Marceau, by T. G. Johnson, with portrait.-The Private Life of Warren Hastings, by Sir Charles Lawson, illus.-Life of Henry E. Manning, by Edmund S. Purcell, 2 vols., with portraits. (Macmillan & Co.)

Personal Memoirs of General Grant, new edition from new plates, with notes by Col. Frederick D. Grant, 2 vols., illus., $5.- Washington in Lincoln's Time, reminiscences of men and events by Noah Brooks, $1.25. (Century Co.) Napoleon III., by Pierre de Lano, trans. by Helen Hunt Jackson, with portrait, $1.25.-Life of Hans Christian Andersen, by R. Nisbett Bain, with portrait, $3.50.-Anecdotal Recollections of Notable People, by Charles K. Tuckerman, 2 vols., $5. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)

New volumes in the "Heroes of the Nations": Charles XII., by R. Nisbett Bain; Lorenzo de' Medicis, by Edward Armstrong, M.A.; Joan of Arc, by Mrs. Oliphant; each, illus., $1.50.-Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, Vol. III., $5. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)

Memoirs of Constant, first valet de chambre of Napoleon, trans. from the French, with introduction by Imbert de Saint Amand, 4 vols., $5.-Margaret Winthrop, by Alice Morse Earle, with fac-simile reproduction, $1.25. (Chas. Scribner's Sons.)

Famous Leaders among Women, by Sarah K. Bolton, $1.50. -Turning Points in Successful Careers, by W. M. Thayer, with portraits, $1.50.-Under the Old Elms, personal recollections of Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson, and other visitors to Governor Claflin's Newtonville estate, by Mary B. Claflin, $1. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.)

Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, by his valet de chambre, Constant, trans. by Walter Clark, 3 vols., illus. -Josephine, Empress of the French, by Frederick A. Ober, illus. (Merriam Co.)

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865, by Ward Hill Lamon, edited by Dorothy Lamon, $1.50. (A. C. McClurg & Co.)

M. Stambuloff, by A. Hulme Beaman, in the "Public Men of To-day Series." (Frederick Warne & Co.)

A Memoir of the late John L. Nevius, D.D., for forty years a Chinese missionary, by his wife, illus. from photographs. (F. H. Revell Co.)

The History of the Hutchinson Family, by John Wallace Hutchinson, with introduction by Frederick Douglass, illus. (Lee & Shepard.)