inspiration from English action; and it is not presumptuous to say that no one can really understand English history until to the study of the English historians he has added the study of the English poets. This volume has been carefully prepared, and draws upon English literature from the time of the balladists to the time of Tennyson and Browning, including, therefore, not only a great mass of poetry which is of importance from the standpoint of the book, but presenting a selection which is of profound interest by reason of its illustration of English verse. The volume is supplied with notes.

Family of the Herods (The); or, The Last Dynasty of Jewish Kings. By Florence M. Ferguson. C. E. Brown Printing Co., Kansas City, Mo. 5x8 in. 174 pages.

Famous Paintings Described by Great Writers. Edited and Translated by Esther Singleton. Illus trated. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 5%×8% in. 366 pages. $1.60, net.

Miss Singleton's first series of "Famous Paintings Described by Great Writers" has met with such deserved success that a second series is amply justified. For lack of space certain painters-Perugino, Mantegna, Luini, and Giorgione among others were omitted from the first series. They are to be found in this second series, and by such excellent selections as Perugino's "Tobias and the Angel Raphael," described by Paul Lafond; Mantegna's "Parnassus," described by Jules Guiffrey; Luini's "Columbine," described by Marcel Reymond, and Giorgione's "Concert," described by Walter Pater. The citation of these four examples should be enough, we are sure, to stimulate the reader's curiosity as to the others; altogether they are about fifty in number. Looking now at the author's two volumes together, many favorite pictures are sure to be missed; but it is of course impossible to include within these limits every work which holds a firm place in the affections of all who reverence great art. The present volume is especially strong in the matter of portraits, some of them being in the very first rank of portraiture-Velasquez's "Innocent X." for instance, and Van Dyck's "Charles I.," Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Woman," Philippe de Champaigne's "Cardinal Richelieu," and Bellini's "Doge Loredano." The illustrations would be of even greater interest if, in addition to the names of subject and painter, the location of the picture were indicated, as in the list of illustrations preceding the text. Foundation Lessons in English Language

and Grammar. By O. I. and M. S. Woodley and G. R. Carpenter. The Macmillan Co., New York. 6x7% in. 166 pages. 65c.

Four Addresses. By Henry Lee_Higginson. D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. 4x8 in. 107 pages. Limited Edition on Japan Vellum, 150 copies at $5, net; regular edition at 75c., net.

Those who value strong, direct, lucid English diction for its own sake will find in these addresses a genuine source of pleasure. Harvard men, in addition, will value them for their author's sake, to whom they owe the Soldiers'

and, in great measure, the Harvard

Glimpses of California and the Missions. By Helen Hunt Jackson. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 51⁄2×8 in. 292 pages. $1.50. Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson was at her best in those records of impressions of places and persons which she gave the world in her travei sketches. Indeed, there is no exaggeration in the statement that no American writer has surpassed, if any has equaled, her in keen aptitude for new places and fresh types of people, in quick response of imagination to new scenes and novel aspects of life, and in graphic power in putting these impressions into words.

Mrs. Jackson, having a touch of genius in her rare personality, not only gave her readers the facts about people and places, but conveyed also the subtle and characteristic atmospheric influences which gave persons and places their peculiar quality. To a great many Americans she was the discoverer of Colorado and Southern California, and it is quite impossible to estimate the influence which she exerted in attracting attention to two climates whose radiant qualities she described with all the vividness and enthusiasm of a discoverer. The essays written by Mrs. Jackson from Southern California, as a record of her earliest trip, include " Father Junipero and his Work," which gives very vividly the pathetic history of Franciscan missions; "The Mission Indians in Southern California," "Echoes in the City of Angels,"" Outdoors Industries in Southern California," and "Chance Days in Oregon." These essays, originally printed with her European travel sketches, have very properly been given a place by themselves in a handsome new volume under the title "Glimpses of California and the Missions," with a series of illustrations by Mr. Henry Sandham, who was Mrs. Jackson's companion on the trip in which these records were made, in her mind, if not by her pen. These articles are of great interest, not only because of what they are in themselves, but as a kind of prelude and preface Ramona," and to that period of her life which Mrs. Jackson regarded as far the most significant and important.

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Guardian of Marie Antoinette (The). Letters from the Comte de Mercy-Argenteau to Marie Thérèse, Empress of Austria (1770-1780). By Lillian C. Smythe. Illustrated. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 2 vols. 512x9 in. 699 pages. $6.50,

net.

Reserved for later notice.

Heart of Christianity (The). By William Hayes Ward, D.D., LL.D. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 37 pages. 25c.

Help to the Study of the Holy Spirit. By W. E. Biederwolf. J. F. Earle & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 155 pages. 75c.

Herr Doctor (The). By Robert MacDonald. Illustrated. Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York. 42x61⁄2 in. 136 pages. 40c., net.

Hole in the Wall (The). By Arthur Morrison. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. 5×7% in. 415 pages. $1.50.

No English novelist surpasses Mr. Morrison in clear-cut, vivid pictures of London low life. “The Hole in the Wall" is a study of Ratcliffe Highway two or three generations ago. Sailors' lodging-houses, crimps, thieves, drabs,

and murderers abound. A genial old villain who keeps the tavern which gives the book its title is the grandfather of the boy whose story is the subject of the book; and the love of the two and final reform of the old tavernkeeper are delicately and skillfully narrated. The book is hard and repellent in its subject matter, but is written with remarkable force. House Opposite (The). By Elizabeth Kent.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5x7 in. 276 pages. $1.

An unusually cleverly constructed detective story without a particle of literary interest.

How Can I Cure My Indigestion? By A. K. Bond, M.D. The Contemporary Publishing Co., New York. 44X7 in. 180 pages.

Human Nature and the Social Order.

By Charles H. Cooley. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x8 in. 413 pages. $1.50, net.

A discussion in clear, non-technical language of the relations of society to the individual, developing the thesis that the two terms do not denote different things, but the same thing-human nature-in different aspects, and that the antitheses so often developed between individual faculties and social faculties, individual and social emotions, ends, and aims, are largely false. The human mind and the forces working for human progress are not thus divisible into antagonistic elements. Il Vero Amico. By Carlo Goldoni. Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary by J. Geddes, Jr., and F. M. Josselyn, Jr. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. 42x6 in, 119 pages.

Indian Boyhood. By Charles A. Eastman. Illustrated. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. 5x81⁄2 in. 288 pages. $1.60, net.

As most of our readers know, Dr. Eastman is a Sioux Indian. His father's name was Many Lightnings, and he was a warrior of note. The father was captured in the Minnesota Indian war, became on release a Christian and a farmer, and returned to his tribe to find the son who writes this and to bring him into civilized, Christian life. Dr. Eastman is a graduate of Dartmouth, a physician of skill and experience, a writer of many articles and stories. In this beautifully printed and illustrated book he tells of his own boyhood with the Sioux, his playmates, games, hunting adventures, and incidentally gives a vivid and true picture of Indian life in all aspects. The book is splendid reading for boys; it has also a real and large value for students of folk-lore and for race-character. Some of the legends have a true poetic charm.

Key to the Missionary Problem. By Andrew Murray. (Third Edition.) American Tract Society, New York. 42x7 in. 204 pages. 75c.

King Mombo. By Paul du Chaillu.

Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5×8 in. 226 pages. $1.50, net. This is one of Mr. du Chaillu's characteristic stories of native African life. It is not very thrilling, but it contains a good deal of incidental information about the natives, their habits and customs, and the wild animals of the jungle.

King's Steward (The). By Rev. A. L. Banks, D.D. American Tract Society, New York. 6×8% in. 315 pages. $1.25.

The fact that these sermons, like almost all of

those by Dr. Banks, are packed full of illustrative stories will make them readable to people who would seldom read a sermon for its thoughtfulness alone. Many of the illustrations are taken from modern commercial life, as a number of New Testament parables and figures are based on the commercial life of New Testament times. The purpose evident throughout the book is to make clear the practical bearing of Christianity upon every-day living.

Little Girl Next Door (The). By Nina Rhoades. Illustrated. Lee & Shepard, Boston. 52x7% in. 248 pages. $1.

Showing how two little girls made acquaintance from the windows of neighboring houses, and how each affected the subsequent fortunes of the other. The lifelong blindness of one creates a strain of pathos sustained throughout.

London as Seen and Described by Famous

Writers. Edited and Translated by Esther Singleton. Illustrated. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 52X81⁄2 in. 350 pages. $1.40, net. This handsome volume is a compilation of views and impressions of the British metropolis selected from the best descriptive writing of places and localities. The plan is identical with that followed by the same author in her interesting book on Paris, published last year, In that volume the selections were devoted mainly to special monuments; in this volume they are devoted mainly to the characteristic sections of London, with many descriptions of the chief monuments, streets, squares, old churches, and civic buildings. In making her selections Miss Singleton has endeavored to present the great city in all its different phases, and to bring to the imagination of the reader not only localities, but the atmosphere in which they are enveloped; for London without its atmosphere would lack its most poetic and also its gloomiest quality. Beginning on the east, and following the Thames westward, the reader has the opportunity of looking through the eyes of trained observers at the most famous streets and monuments, and the book combines, therefore, many of the qualities of the guide-book with an interest, a fullness, and a literary element which guide-books as a rule entirely lack.

Love and the Soul Hunters. By John Oliver Hobbes. Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York. 5x7 in. 343 pages. $1.50.

Reserved for later notice.

Lux Christi: An Outline Study of India. By Caroline A. Mason. The Macmillan Co., New York. Paper. 5x71⁄2 in. 280 pages. 30c.

An extremely useful manual for popular study of India, its life, its religions, its history, and its Christian missions. It is to be strongly recommended to the people of the churches. It is especially intended for the use of women's missionary societies, but it ought not to be limited to that.

On Fortune's Road. By Will Payne. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 5×71⁄2 in. 290 pages. $1.50.

A collection of short stories of business and political life in Chicago. They deal with the strong passions and crude ethics which prevail where man's first thought is for "his own

pocket all the time." The stories are interesting and readable, and touches of the romantic element here and there give a welcome relief among the sterner realities of the business world.

Paul Kelver. By Jerome K. Jerome. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 5×71⁄2 in. 424 pages. $1.50. Mr. Jerome has always longed to be known as something more than a humorist, and his hero in this novel is burdened by the same feeling. "Paul Kelver" is a long and purposely desultory novel. It follows its hero's career from birth to marriage in the good oldfashioned way in which "David Copperfield and "Pendennis" and countless other books were written a generation ago. To-day this method has gone out of vogue, yet it may be worth while now and then to revive it. There are in "Paul Kelver" some amusing and interesting glimpses of newspaper and theatrical life, and some well-told single episodes. When Mr. Jerome writes of the life he has known, he is capital; when he turns to imaginative pathos and sentiment, he fails to hold the reader. The prologue to this novel illustrates the latter fact impressively.

Pharaoh and the Priest. From the Polish of Alexander Glovatski. By Jeremiah Curtin. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 52×8 in. 696 pages. $1.50.

This long and intricate story of ancient Egyptian days is not without strong dramatic situations and distinct characters. Its author is a prolific Polish novelist, who, like Sienkiewicz, deals both with modern society and with the romance of antiquity. The time of the novel is that of Rameses XII. (eleven centuries before Christ), and its subject is the temporary triumph of the priesthood over royalty. The learning of the author is not allowed to overwhelm his imaginative powers, and although the length and subject of the work may at first repel the average novel reader, the book once fairly entered upon will hold his attention thoroughly.

Plain Facts as to the Trusts and the Tariff,

with Chapters on the Railroad Problem and Municipal Monopolies. By George L. Bolen. The Macmillan Co., New York. 52x7 in. 451 pages. $1.50.

Reserved for later notice.

Poems and Verses. By Edward Sanford

Martin, Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 52×8 in. 125 pages. $1.25, net.

There is clever verse-making in this volume, both of the serious and of the jocose order. Rob and His Gun. By William Alexander

Linn. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York. 5x7 in. 211 pages. $1, net.

This little book is written with the twofold purpose of awakening interest in the many pleasures of country life commonly overlooked, and of showing how a true sportsman differs from those who take the life of their wild neighbors at random. The book is well written and interesting.

Shakespeare and Voltaire. By Thomas R. Lounsbury, L.H.D., LL.D. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x8 in. 463 pages. $2, net. Reserved for later notice.

Saving the World: What It Involves and How It Is Being Accomplished. By the Rev. D. F. Bonner, A.M., D.D. Hanford & Horton, Middletown, N. Y. 5x71⁄2 in. 259 pages. $1, net. Seeds of April's Sowing. By Adaḥ Louise Sutton. The Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio. 5x7 in. 96 pages.

Sheep-Stealers (The). By Violet Jacob. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 402 pages. $1.20, net.

A new English novelist, and a more than promising one. There is new and interesting material here drawn from the "Rebecca" or anti-toll-gate riots of South Wales early in the century, and from the curious prevalence at the same period and country of a systematic trade in stolen sheep. There are also original drawing of original characters and a certain subtlety of analysis combined with realism that recalls the methods of Thomas Hardy. In construction the story is faulty, but in the positive reality of its countryside men and women and in the delicacy of its literary workmanship it is a book to appeal to the more fastidious class of novel-readers.

Sir Joshua Reynolds. By Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, F.S.A. The Macmillan Co., New York. 5x8 in. 144 pages. $3.

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Songs of England's Glory. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 4×6% in. 234 pages. $1.20, net. Study and Criticism of Italian Art. By Bernhard Berenson. Illustrated. The Macmillan Co. New York. 2 vols. 6x9 in. $3 each. Reserved for later notice.

Teacher's Manual of Geography (A).

By

Charles McMurry, Ph.D. The Macmillan Co., New
York. 52x71⁄2 in. 107 pages. 40c.

Temple Bible (The). Psalms, edited by A. W. Streane, D.D. Acts, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, edited by G. G. Warfield, D.D. Chronicles I. and II., edited by Archdeacon A. Hughes-Games. Kings I and II., edited by J. Robertson, D.D. The J. B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia. 4×5% in. 60c., net, each.

The Introductions and Notes to the successive volumes of this artistic edition of the Authorized Version continue to show a well-marked conservative interest.

Text-Book of Applied English Grammar. By E. H. Lewis. The Macmillan Co., New York. 52x61⁄2 in. 362 pages. 50c.

Tom Winstone, "Wide Awake." By Martha James. Illustrated. Lee & Shepard, Boston. 5×7% in. 234 pages. $1.25.

A boy's story, instinct with life and action. Its tone is wholesome, and it is astir with breezy, outdoor air.

Toward the Rising Sun. Illustrated. Ginn & Co., Boston. (Youth's Companion Series) 5x7 in. 138 pages.

What's What at Home and Abroad. By F.S. Allen. The Bradley White Co., New York. 4×6% in. 122 pages.

Wooing of Wistaria (The). By Onoto Wa tanna. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 388 pages. $1.50.

A Japanese romance by a Japanese writer. Its sentiment is a little excessive, perhaps, for the taste of English-speaking readers, but there is a very pretty vein of dainty love story, and the historic background has the Japanese spirit and reality.