Kirke " (Lee & Shepard) is by Miss Penn Shirley, the author of "Little Miss Weezy," and that popular maiden appears again in these pages. The little family is taken down to Mexico, and the writer gives one too slight a glimpse of that picturesque country." Frowzle the Runaway" (Roberts), by Miss Lily F. Wesselhoeft, is described on the title-page as a fable for children; but it is merely a pleasant, wholesome story, which takes a dog for a hero, — wisely enough, too, for dogs are so often more heroic than boys.- Messrs. Roberts publish three little books by Miss M. Carrie Hyde, which are cleverly illustrated by Mr. Victor A. Searles. "Under the Stable Floor" is a romance of the rat kingdom; "Goostie" of a pathetic little waif of humanity; and "Yan and Nochie of Tappan Sea" tells the story of some Dutch children who were transplanted to this country early in the century. Miss Hyde's style is good, and she knows so well how to evolve an entertaining story that children will welcome her into their kingdom.

In spite of the many books for boys mentioned in our previous number, a few must still be added to the list. A profitless undertaking was that of Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks in searching out "Great Men's Sons" (Putnam) and writing their lives. It is almost always a disappointment to learn of the sons of distinguished men, so rarely have they done anything worth recording. Mr. Brooks's style is light and even gay, but one feels all the time that he is making an effort to be bright and picturesque. With these subjects he has some difficulty in compassing it. The book is well and abundantly illustrated, and carries one from Socrates to Napoleon.

The children are indulged with a share of the current fads, and therefore they are presented with "The Boy Life of Napoleon" (Lothrop), adapted and enlarged from the French of Madame Eugènie Foa. The subject could not well be more interesting, for there is much in the story of the Conqueror's youth that suggests his later triumphs. And if Mme. Foa has enlarged a little upon the truth, she has not perverted it, and she has made a readable narrative.-Captain Charles King, U.S.A., knows how to make an entertaining story, and the boys will be glad that he has turned his attention to them. "Trooper Ross and Signal Butte" (Lippincott) gives them two stories containing plenty of soldiers, Indians, and cowboys. The first story is the quieter of the two, but Captain King knows his material and his audience, and he furnishes spirited tales. - A second book by Mr. George Manville Fenn relates to the English civil war. "The Young Castellan" (Lippincott) is written chiefly in dialogue and relates entirely to adventure. A boy who likes the clash of arms will be absorbed in this book.-"The Boy Officers of 1812" (Lee & Shepard) is written by Mr. Everett T. Tomlinson, who wishes to give his readers a conception of that struggle, in the belief that it will "lead to an increased patriotism." But the English of the book is so bad that even such a result does not seem worth while at the expense of reading it." A Lieutenant at Eighteen" (Lee & Shepard) is the third of the series of "The Blue and the Gray, on Land," by Oliver Optic, and the Rebellion is an absorbing subject to boys."The Knight of Liberty " (Appleton) is a tale of the fortunes of Lafayette, always a fascinating figure. Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth writes the narrative of Lafayette's young life, and his work in America, in a spirited manner. He leans somewhat too much, however, towards eulogy.- Emigrants and axes, Indians and toma

hawks, are the materials with which one's blood is curdled in looking at the frontispiece of "Chumley's Post, a Story of the Pawnee Trail" (Lippincott), by Mr. William O. Stoddard. And it will give as good an idea as any words of the nature of this thrilling tale. It is necessary to add, though, that if anyone likes that kind of work, Mr. Stoddard does it well. -"The Young Cascarillero" (Lothrop), by Mr. Marlton Downing, takes one into Ecuador; while the second story in the same book, by Mr. Harry W. French, tells of the startling adventures of a globe-trotter."The Hobbledehoy" (Lothrop), by Mrs. Belle C. Green, and "The Missing Pocket-Book" (Coates), by Mr. Harry Castlemon, are not quite so wildly thrilling. The former is a good piece of work, and its hero is at the most awkward age, just between boy and man.. "The Brown Ambassador" (Macmillan), by Mrs. Hugh Fraser, is a strangely contrived story most effectively told. The vacation of an English boy with some strange relatives is the basis of the action; and Donald is met at the station by a brown ambassador in the shape of a dachshund. This intelligent animal is so well trained that he speaks the English language and gives the boy a surprising welcome. Donald's embarrassed introduction to the family is cleverly conceived, and his later experiences with man and beast have an agreeably romantic flavor. The scene of the perilous sleep-walking is even poetic. But the book has rather too much of ghosts and intrigue to be entirely healthful for children.

A thrilling tale of revolution in Nicaragua, by Mr. Herbert Hayens, is called "Under the Lone Star" (T. Nelson & Sons). We open the book at random upon the sentence, "One glance told me that escape was impossible." And yet he did escape to write chapters with such hair-raising titles as "Unearthing a Conspiracy," "A Struggle for Life," "A Death-Trap," and "Hemmed In." These will give a sufficiently vivid idea of the nature of the book."The Sheik's White Slave" (Lovell, Coryell & Co.), by Mr. Raymond Raife, is of much the same calibre. But the heroes of this tale try to unravel the mysteries of a temple in a city of the desert. The extraordinary adventures which are the result of this effort are too impossible to be exciting. Some decidedly blood-curdling pictures introduce us to "How Jack Mackenzie Won His Epaulettes" (T. Nelson & Sons), by Mr. Gordon Stables, Surgeon of the Royal Navy. It is a story of the Crimean War, and the author declares it to be "all true, sadly, terribly true." There are many stories of bravery on the field; but there are also others of the courage necessary to patient endurance and rigorous training. A boy will learn from the book that other qualities are required for a soldier besides fearlessness in the excitement of battle.-"A Lost Army" (T. Nelson & Sons), by Mr. Frederick Whishaw, tells of the Russians in Central Asia; and "Leaves from a Middy's Log" (T. Nelson & Sons), by Mr. Arthur Lee Knight, is quite as adventurous.

There are still quieter books for boys, however, some that are less exciting and less feverish. But whether "Joel, a Boy of Galilee" (Roberts) is one of these or not, is hard to determine. It is certainly simpler and calmer, but in a different way it is quite as thrilling. Written by Annie Fellows Johnston, and illustrated tolerably well by Victor A. Searles, it describes the experience of a lame boy who lived in the time of Christ. He is himself cured by the Lord; he is in the boat when He stills the storm, and he witnesses others of the

miracles. He knows nothing of the Crucifixion until it is over, but the description of the earthquake and of his discovery of the crime is impressive. The story is told without undue emotion, but its attitude towards Christ is too familiar.-A book dealing with the same subject is Mary Hastings Foote's "Life of Christ for Young People" (Harper). But it will never be read by the young, so didactic and uninteresting is it, and so impossible for continuous reading is the form of question and answer which it adopts. To parents and to Sunday-school teachers, however, it will doubtless be useful, as it is accurate and carefully compiled.- The title of "Sunday Reading for the Young " (E. & J. B. Young & Co.) sufficiently explains its character. It is a large book, containing many illustrations and stories and descriptions of all kinds. But a book of this kind may do more harm to a boy's literary taste than good to his heart.

The bound volume of "Harper's Round Table" for 1895 (Harper) is full of delightful things for boys and girls. It is an excellent periodical, well-written, and well illustrated; and it contains wholesome food enough to satisfy the most exacting young appetite. Peter Newell's drawings alone should make it popular, so rich are they in originality and humor.

LITERARY NOTES.

"The Fly Leaf" is the newest of the opuscule periodicals, and hails from Boston. It is conducted by Mr. Walter Blackburn Harte.

"Pride and Prejudice," with an introduction by Mr. Austin Dobson, and illustrations by Mr. Charles E. Brock, has been added to the Macmillan series of standard fiction.

Mr. A. S. Murray's "Manual of Mythology" has long been a favorite with students and teachers. It is now republished by Mr. David McKay, of Philadelphia, in a carefully-revised edition.

"The Man Who Became a Savage" is the attractive title of a book by the well-known traveller and writer Mr. W. T. Hornaday, to be issued in January by the Peter Paul Book Co. of Buffalo.

The autobiography of that veteran educator the late Dr. E. G. Robinson, formerly President of Brown University and afterwards a Professor in the University of Chicago, is to be published early in the new year by Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co.

"The Educational Review," beginning with the January number its sixth year and eleventh volume, offers a very attractive programme for the coming issues. The "Review" is now well established as the chief organ of serious educational thought in America, and no teacher of any grade can possibly afford to go without reading it.

The distinguished artist, Mr. G. F. Watts, has given to the National Portrait Gallery portraits of Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Andrew Clark, Sir Charles Halle, Lord Lawrence, Sir Henry Layard, Lord Lytton, Cardinal Manning, John Stuart Mill, Sir Anthony Panizzi, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Sherbrooke, Sir Henry Taylor, Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Wright.

George Augustus Sala, who was born in 1828, died on the seventh of this month. He was essentially a journalist, and produced journalistic work of almost

every conceivable sort from war correspondence to cookbooks. He was also the founder of "Temple Bar," and, later, of the short-lived weekly, "Sala's Journal." He did nothing to entitle him to a place in literature, voluminous as was the output of his pen.

The December number of the "Midland Monthly " has for its chief feature an illustrated article upon some of the literary folk now living in Chicago, the work of Mrs. Mary J. Reid. The writer has been at considerable pains to collect material for this article, and, although she has omitted some names that ought to have been included, and does not in her discussion show a due sense of proportion, her account is amiable, and, for the most part, just.

The centenary of the birth of Thomas Carlyle was celebrated at his birthplace, Ecclefechan, near Dumfries, Scotland, the other day. A large number of wreaths were sent from all parts of Great Britain and the Continent, one of them being presented by Emperor William of Germany, with the inscription: "In memory of the writer of the Life of Frederick the Great." A meeting was held at Chelsea, England, where the Carlyle house in Cheyne Row, which was bought with money subscribed in England and America, was formally handed over to the trustees. Mr. John Morley presided and made an address.

The following note is from a recent number of the Japan Mail," published at Tokio: "Mr. Miyake Yujiro, joint editor of the Nippon-jin,' has an interesting article on the late Oliver W. Holmes, a writer hitherto little studied in this country. Mr. Miyake tells his countrymen that in the great American poet they will certainly find much to enjoy and admire. He draws attention to a remarkable coincidence in conception and tone between The Last Leaf' and a celebrated poem by the Chinese scholar Liu Ting-che. The two pieces are published side by side. The resemblance is really striking, all the more so in that the American author could never by any possibility have possessed a knowledge of the Chinese writer's verses.

The Modern Language Association of America, which is to meet at New Haven from the 26th to the 28th of this month, offers an attractive programme of papers, among which we note: "The Conventions of the Drama," by Professor Brander Matthews (a paper prepared for the Twentieth Century Club of Chicago a year or more ago); "English as a Living Language," by Professor James Morgan Hart; "John Wesley's Translations of German Hymns," by Professor J. T. Hatfield; "The Comparative Study of Literature," by Professor Arthur R. Marsh; "Richardson and Rousseau," by Professor B. W. Wells; "Chaucer's Development in Rime-technique," by Professor G. Hempl; "The Italian Novella," by Dr. Mary A. Scott; "Troilus and Criseyde," by Professor Thomas R. Price; and "Fiction as a College Study," by Professor Bliss Perry. The large number of papers on the culture side of modern language study makes this programme noteworthy, and emphasizes a healthful tendency.

We have had all sorts of wild suggestions concerning the appointment of a new Poet Laureate. One of the later and more sensible expressions of opinion on the subject is that made by the "Saturday Review" in the following terms: "The Laureateship is still unfilled, and there is a great deal more to be said for than against the abolition of an office which is really an awkward survival in this modern world of ours; but if

we must have a Laureate, there is no one better fitted for the post than Mr. Patmore. There are good reasons why Mr. Swinburne and Mr. William Morris would not care to accept the Laureateship, and so among the greater poets there is no one left except Mr. Patmore. It would be a graceful and a wise thing if Lord Salisbury, should he decide against the abolition of the office, were to offer to this great religious poet and noble moralist an office which Mr. Patmore, a staunch Conservative and lover of the old order, could accept without any loss of dignity. This would save the appointment from the jostling and conceited crowd of minor poets and poetasters who are struggling for it; while it would mark the growth of faith and the decline of unfaith in our time that the author of The Unknown Eros' should be the Laureate of a nation at heart so deeply religious as our own."

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

The following list, containing 120 titles, includes books received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]

HOLIDAY GIFT-BOOKS. Constantinople. By Edwin A. Grosvenor; with Introduction by Gen. Lew. Wallace. In 2 vols., illus., large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Roberts Bros. Boxed, $10. La Chartreuse de Parme. By Marie-Henri Beyle ("De Stendhal"); trans. by E. P. Robins. In 3 vols., illus. with 30 etchings, 16mo, gilt tops, uncut. Geo. H. Richmond & Co. $7.50.

Spain and the Spaniards. By Edmondo de Amicis, author of "Holland"; trans. from 10th Italian edition by Stanley Rhoads Yarnall, M.A. In 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, 12mo, gilt tops. Henry T. Coates & Co. Boxed, $5. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry. Compiled and edited by Henry T. Coates. Thirty-first edition, revised and enlarged; large 8vo, gilt edges, pp. 1021. Porter & Coates. Boxed, $3.50.

A Doctor of the Old School. By Ian Maclaren; illus. by F. C. Gordon. 12mo, gilt edges, pp. 208. Dodd, Mead & Co. $2.

The Spectator in London: Essays by Addison and Steele. Illus. by Ralph Cleaver; 12mo, gilt edges, pp. 323. Macmillan & Co. $2.

Old Chester. Etched and described by H. Hovell Crickmore. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 133. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $2.50.

George Washington Day by Day. By Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, author of "Original Portraits of Washington." Illus., large 8vo, pp. 207. Baker & Taylor Co. $2.50. Lyrics and Ballads of Heine, and Other German Poets. Trans. by Frances Hellman. Second edition, revised and enlarged; 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 256. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Boxed, $1.50.

About Men: What Women Have Said. Chosen and arranged by Rose Porter. 18mo, gilt top, pp. 189. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.

BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. Harper's Round Table for 1895. Illus., 4to, pp. 1096. Harper & Bros. $3.50.

Sinbad the Sailor, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Illus. by William Strang and J. B. Clark. 8vo, pp. 279. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $2.

Trooper Ross, and Signal Butte. By Capt. Charles King,
U.S.A. Illus., 12mo, pp. 297. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Under the Lone Star: A Story of Revolution in Nicaragua.

By Herbert Hayens. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 390.
Thos. Nelson & Sons. $2.

Great Men's Sons: Who They Were, What They Did, and How They Turned Out. By Elbridge S. Brooks, author of "Historic Boys." Illus., 12mo, pp. 303. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.

The Boy Life of Napoleon. Adapted and extended for American readers from the French of Madame Eugénie Foa. Illus., 8vo, pp. 251. Lothrop Pub'g Co. $1.25.

The_Brown_Ambassador: A Story of the Three Days' Moon. By Mrs. Hugh Fraser. 12mo, pp. 197. Macmillan & Co. $1.25.

Child Sketches from George Eliot. By Julia Magruder, author of "The Child Amy." Illus., 8vo, pp. 214. Lothrop Pub'g Co. $1.25.

How Jack Mackenzie Won his Epaulettes: A Story of the Crimean War. By Gordon Stables, M.D. Illus., 12mo, pp. 373. Thos. Nelson & Sons. $1.25.

The Hobbledehoy: The Story of One Betwixt Boy and Man. By Belle C. Greene. Illus., 12mo, pp. 262. Lothrop Pub'g Co. $1.25.

A Lost Army: A Tale of the Russians in Central Asia. By Fred Whishaw. Illus., 12mo, pp. 363. Thos. Nelson & Sons. $1.25.

The Young Cascarillero, and Colonel Thorndike's Adventures. By Marlton Downing and Harry W. French. Illus., 12mo, pp. 183. Lothrop Pub'g Co. $1.

The Missing Pocket-Book; or, Tom Mason's Luck. By Harry Castlemon. Illus., 12mo, pp. 370. Henry T. Coates & Co. $1.25.

Leaves from a Middy's Log. By Arthur Lee Knight. Illus., 12mo, pp. 294. Thos. Nelson & Sons. $1. Chatterbox for 1895. Edited by J. Erskine Clark, M.A. Illus., large 8vo, pp. 412. Estes & Lauriat. $1.25.

BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.

The Private Life of Napoleon: Memoirs of Constant, First
Valet de Chambre of the Emperor. Trans. by Elizabeth
Gilbert Martin; with preface by Imbert de Saint-Amand.
In 4 vols., 12mo, gilt tops. Chas. Scribner's Sons. Boxed,
$5.
Froissart. By Mary Darmesteter; trans. by E. Frances
Poynter. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 150. Chas.
Scribner's Sons. $3.

The German Emperor, William II. By Charles Lowe, M.A., author of "Prince Bismarck." With portraits, 12mo, uncut, pp. 274. Warne's "Public Men of To-Day." $1.25.

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Antonio Allegri da Correggio: His Life, his Friends, and his Times. By Corrado Ricci; from the Italian by Florence Simmonds. With 37 full-page plates and 190 text illustrations, 4to, uncut, pp. 408. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $12. net.

Mrs. Jameson's Writings on Art. New vols.: Legends of the Monastic Orders, 2 vols.; Memoirs of Italian Painters, 1 vol. Illus, 8vo, gilt tops. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Per vol., $3.

Imagination in Landscape Painting. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton, author of "The Graphic Arts," Illus., 12mo, pp. 237. Roberts Bros. $2.

Imagination in Landscape Painting. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton, author of "Etching and Etchers." New edition; illus., 8vo, uncut, pp. 246. Macmillan & Co. $1.75.

HISTORY.

The Two First Centuries of Florentine History: The Republic and Parties at the Time of Dante. By Professor Pasquale Villari; trans. by Linda Villari. Vol. II.; illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 399. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $3.75.

The Story of the Indian. By George Bird Grinnell, author of "Blackfoot Lodge Tales." Illus., 12mo, pp. 270. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.

Historical Essays. By the late J. B. Lightfoot, D.D. 12mo, uncut, pp. 245. Macmillan & Co. $1.50.

Stories from English History from Richard II. to Charles I. By the Rev. A. J. Church, M.A. Illus., 16mo, uncut, pp. 210. Macmillan & Co. $1.

GENERAL LITERATURE. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860. By George Saintsbury. Second series; 12mo, uncut, pp. 423. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $2.

English Essays from a French Pen. By J. J. Jusserand. Illus., 12mo, pp. 215. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.25. Essays. By Arthur Christopher Benson, of Eton College. 12mo, uncut, pp. 312. Macmillan & Co. $2.

That Dome in Air: Thoughts on Poetry and the Poets. By John Vance Cheney. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 236. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.

Bibliographica: A Magazine of Bibliography. Part VII.; illus., 4to, uncut. Chas. Scribner's Sons.

The Best Plays of George Chapman. Edited, with introduction and notes, by William Lyon Phelps, M.A. With Mermaid portrait, 12mo, uncut, pp. 479. Scribner's "* Series." $1.25. Poetry of Pathos and Delight. From the Works of Coventry Patmore; selected by Alice Meynell. With por trait, 16mo, uncut, pp. 136. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.75. English Pastorals. Selected, with an introduction, by Edmund K. Chambers. 12mo, uncut, pp. 280. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $1.50.

Horace Walpole_and_His_World: Select Passages from His Letters. Edited by L. B. Seeley, M.A. With frontispiece, 12mo, uncut, pp. 296. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $1.25.

Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from her Diary and Other Writings. Edited by L. B. Seeley, M.A. With frontispiece, 12mo, uncut, pp. 331. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $1.25.

NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE. "Thistle" Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Works. New vols.: David Balfour; The Merry Men, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Black Arrow, and Other Tales; The Master of Ballantrae. Each with frontispiece, 12mo, gilt tops, uncut. Chas. Scribner's Sons. (Sold only by subscription.) Per vol., $2.

New Series of Romances by Alexandre Dumas. Comprising: Ascanio, 2 vols.; The War of Women, 2 vols.; Black, the Story of a Dog, 1 vol.; Tales of the Caucasus, 1 vol. Each vol. with etched frontispiece, 12mo, gilt top. Little, Brown, & Co. $9. The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cambridge edition; with portrait and vignette, 8vo, gilt top, pp. 352. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2. Pride and Prejudice. By Jane Austen; with Introduction by Austin Dobson. Illus., 12mo, pp. 352. Macmillan & Co. $1.25.

Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens; with Introduction by Charles Dickens, the Younger. Illus., 12mo, pp. 788. Macmillan & Co. $1.

A New Voyage Round the World. By Daniel Defoe; edited by George A. Aitken. Illus., 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 343. Macmillan & Co. $1.

POETRY.

Apples of Istakhar. By William Lindsey. 8vo, uncut, pp. 100. Copeland & Day. $1.50.

Mimosa Leaves. By Grace Denio Litchfield. Illus., 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 112. G. P. Putnam's Son. Boxed, $1.50.

The Death-Wake; or, Lunacy: A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras. By Thomas T. Stoddart; with Introduction by Andrew Lang. 16mo, uncut, pp. 124. Way & Williams. $1.50 net.

Under the Pines, and Other Verses. By Lydia Avery Coonley. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 104. Way & Williams. $1.25.

Song Favours. By C. W. Dalmon. 16mo, uncut, pp. 77. Way & Williams. $1.25 net.

Whiffs from Wild Meadows. By Sam Walter Foss, au

thor of "Back Country Poems." Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 272. Lee & Shepard. $1.50.

To-day and Yesterday. By Edward Willard Watson. 12mo, pp. 154. Henry T. Coates & Co. $1. The Legend of Aulus. By Flora Macdonald Shearer. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 95. San Francisco: William Doxey. $1.25.

Poets' Dogs. Collected and arranged by Elizabeth Richardson. 16mo, gilt top, pp. 192. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.

In Unknown Seas. By George Horton. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 38. Cambridge, Mass.: The University Press.

FICTION.

The Amazing Marriage. By George Meredith. In 2 vols., 12mo. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $2.50. Slain by the Doones, and Other Stories. By R. D. Blackmore, author of "Lorna Doone. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 244. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25. The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories. By Mary Hallock Foote. 16mo, pp. 273. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25. In a Walled Garden. By Bessie Rayner Belloc. 12mo, uncut, pp. 324. Macmillan & Co. $1.75.

Herbert Vanlennert. By C. F. Keary, author of "The Two Lancrofts." 12mo, pp. 515. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.25.

The One Who Looked On. By F. F. Montrésor, author of " Into the Highways and Hedges." 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 215. D. Appleton & Co. $1.25.

Paul and Virginia of a Northern Zone. From the Danish of Holger Drachmann. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 208. Way & Williams. $1.25.

The Little Room, and Other Stories. By Madelene Yale Wynne. Illus., 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 145. Way & Williams. $1.25.

A Japanese Marriage. By Douglas Sladen. 12mo, pp. 401. Macmillan & Co. $1.25.

Aftermath: Part Second of "A Country Cardinal." By

James Lane Allen. 18mo, pp. 135. Harper & Bros. $1. Some Unconventional People. By Mrs. J. Gladwyn Jebb, author of "A Strange Career." 12mo, pp. 216. Roberts Bros. $1.25.

A Pitiless Passion. By Ella MacMahon, author of "A Modern Man." 16mo, pp. 371. Macmillan & Co. $1.25. Moody's Lodging House, and Other Tenement Sketches. By Alvan Francis Sanborn. 16mo, uncut, pp. 175. Copeland & Day. $1.25.

The Youth of Parnassus, and Other Stories. By Logan Pearsall Smith. 12mo, uncut, pp. 277. Macmillan & Co. $1.25.

The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations. By Arthur Machen, author of "The Great God Pan." 16mo, pp. 215. Roberts Bros. $1.

The Desire of the Moth. By Capel Vane. 12mo, pp. 350. D. Appleton & Co. $1.

Dolly Dillenbeck. By James L. Ford, author of "The Literary Shop." Illus., 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 392. George H. Richmond & Co. $1.

The Sheik's White Slave. By Raymond Raife. Illus., 12mo, pp. 320. Lovell, Coryell & Co. $1.25.

Mrs. Tregaskiss: A novel of Anglo-Australian Life. By Mrs. Campbell - Praed, author of "Christina Chard." 12mo, pp. 401. D. Appleton & Co. $1.

Amos Judd. By J. A. Mitchell. 18mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 199. Chas. Scribner's Sons. 75 cts.

A Savage of Civilization. 12mo, pp. 405. J. Selwin Tait & Sons. $1.

The Doom of the Holy City; Christ and Cæsar. By Lydia Hoyt Farmer. 12mo, pp. 386. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. $1.25.

The Heart of Old Hickory, and Other Stories of Tennessee. By Will Allen Dromgoole. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 208. Arena Pub'g Co. $1.25.

Courtship by Command: A Story of Napoleon at Play. By M. M. Blake. 16mo, pp. 226. D. Appleton & Co. 75 cts.

A Social Highwayman. By Elizabeth Phipps Train. Illus., 18mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 196. J. B. Lippincott Co. 75 cts. The Invisible Playmate: A Story of the Unseen. By William Canton. 18mo, gilt top, pp. 95. J. Selwin Tait & Sons. 75 cts.

Fifty Thousand Dollars Ransom. By David Malcolm, author of "A Fiend Incarnate." 18mo, gilt top, pp. 227. J. Selwin Tait & Sons. 75 cts. Which Way, Sirs, the Better? By James M. Martin. 18mo, pp. 210. Arena Pub'g Co. 75 cts.

NEW VOLUMES IN THE PAPER LIBRARIES.

Neely's Library of Choice Literature: A Daughter of the King, by "Alien"; 12mo, pp. 277, 50 cts.

TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION. King Stork and King Log: A Study of Modern Russia. By Stepniak. In 2 vols., 12mo, uncut. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $5.

New Orleans: The Place and the People. By Grace King, author of "Balcony Stories." Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 404. Macmillan & Co. $2.50.

Travel and Adventure in Northern Queensland. By Arthur C. Bicknell. Illus., 8vo, uncut, pp. 219. Longmans, Green, & Co. $5.

Chronicles of Uganda. By the Rev. R. P. Ashe, M.A., author of "Two Kings of Uganda." Illus., 8vo, uncut, pp. 480. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. $2.

The Book of Old Edinburgh. By John Charles Dunlop and Alison Hay Dunlop. New edition; illus., 12mo, pp. 160. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $1.

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND FINANCIAL

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