typical examples of each being given. The daintiness and delicacy that characterize Bonnington are shown in such a gem as the "Rue du Gros Horloge," and the broad humor of Daumier in "Le Public du Salon." There is an excellent caricature by Charlet, an artist who had the rare gift of humor that enabled him to treat his inimitable drunken soldiers in a way that amuses without giving offense, and several that show the bitter, biting cynicism of Gavarni, greatest genius of them all. What keen insight, combined with vigor and breadth of treatment, there is in his pictures of the "Lorettes Viellies," "Les Anglais chez Elles,' ""Le Retour du Marche," in which latter Thackeray might have posed as the model for the central figure. We could wish that space had enabled Mr. Curtis to give more examples of the work of this Balzac of the crayon. This is a book for the artist, the connoisseur and the student of human nature to linger over and delight in. N. Y. Sun.

The Burglar Who Moved Paradise. By Herbert D. Ward. With a frontispiece. 226 pp. 12m0, 90 cents; by mail, $1.01.

Those who have enjoyed Mrs. Phelps-Ward's stories of the old maid's Paradise will be delighted with this book. To be sure. it is rather peculiar for the husband to take up and carry on the work of his wife, but in the present instance the spirit of the tale is so well preserved and the book is so fascinatingly funny that everyone will be delighted with the experiment. The love affair of the younghearted old maid, her marriage and her very human husband, who is after all a fine fellow, will prove more than entertaining. There is a fund of human nature between its covers. Philadelphia Times.

The Land of the Dollar.

By G. W. Steevens, author of "Naval Policy." 316 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.23.

"The Land of the Dollar" is the title which Mr. G. W. Steevens, who was in the United States during the late Presidential campaign, gives to a volume of travel sketches and social verdicts. He describes in a vivid picturesque manner the great political struggle which ended in making Mr. McKinley twenty-fifth President of the United States. Society as well as politics falls within the scope of Mr. Steevens's survey. He went up and down the land, and he gives us his swift and, for the most part, sensible conclusions about places and people. The book is not only brightly written, but it has a value as contain

Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

From "The Burglar Who Moved Paradise."

is very real and very widespread, and that the Eastern States are, unfortunately, not entitled to speak for the American commonwealth as a whole. A book like that of Mr. Steevens's drives these points home. It also helps the reader to realize the profound unsettlement of society in the United States, and the tremendous size of the questions-not currency questions, but those which affect the fundamental relations between classes-which are coming on for decision. Mr. Steevens, as he says, only scampered through the States, and many of his judgments are therefore hasty and too picturesquely worded; but there is a good deal in his book for English people to think

thinks that the love of acquiring money calls forth "the keenest powers of the mind." Possibly the dollar is more to the front because we are all in the public gaze, and are not a reticent people, with the caution of the English, and especially of the French. We make too much noise when intent on the acquisition of wealth. If the money-making man does not talk of how he is making his money the public press prints it-and in this respect we are immensely provincial.

candidly content to pose under his own name, and in the quality of a visiting Englishman. who had formed no embarrassing preconceptions for obscuring prejudices. In fact, he came over with actual prepossessions in our favor. Strange to say, the prepossessions were confirmed by his visit.

Not, indeed, that he found nothing to criticise. But the criticisms are offered in all friendliness and good humor.

Mr. Steevens came over to this country as the correspondent of the London Daily Mail, mainly interested in the last Presidential campaign. He met the leaders of both parties, and he does full justice to both. He likes Americans, but he acknowledges that Americans do not like the English. He knows how to account for it. The Americans, he explains, have a very keen feeling for their past history; it is far more alive to them than English history to the English. In America the Revolutionary War is as much a matter of personal right or wrong as it was a hundred years ago. It is kept alive by anniversaries and quinquennials and semi-centennials and centennials. Each of the massacres recounted in the history books is commemorated and crystallized forever by a monument.

Mr. Steevens believes that every year puts America in better fighting trim. The pension list, for example, is enormous. The continuous deaths of the pensioners will leave a larger and larger margin, which can be diverted to armaments without a cent of extra taxation. twenty years this country will be easily able to turn out a dozen battle ships a year without taking a cent out of anybody's pocket. And that means the naval supremacy of the world.

In

The keynote of the American character he holds to be its irresistible impulse to impress all its sentiments externally by the crudest and most obvious medium. The Americans, in his view, are the most demonstrative of all the peoples of the earth. Everything must be brought to the surface, embodied in a visible, palpable form. N. Y. Herald.

Noah makes casual mention of the Ark, and Socrates introduces the first version of the Xantippe joke, the most obtuse reader will recognize the fact that this is a work of humor, and from that point onward the jokes fall thick and fast, and with a rhythmical and soothing regularity. Socrates and Xantippe, Noah and his ark, Boswell and Dr. Johnson, and all the rest contribute their well-known "specialties" under the skillful management of Mr. Bangs, who manipulates them with the easy confidence of those gentlemen of the stage who never fear to produce the old familiar quips, because they've been tried before and they always go."

Mrs. Hays Hammond's little book will probably do more to bring the actual facts of the Johannesburg revolution home to the general reader than many a more pretentious work. As far as possible she leaves politics on one side and describes what she did and what she saw during the whole course of the movement. The prominent part which was taken in the movement by her husband guarantees her in the possession of first-hand information as to the views and intentions of the Reform Committee. She has, however, the wisdom to avoid argument and to confine herself strictly to narrative. Under her pen the story unrolls itself like a bit of graphic fiction. There is humor as well as pathos in her treatment of it, and the grateful reader is carried with. interest to the last page. London Times.

Mrs. Hammond's volume is full of dramatic incidents; in fact, it contains nothing else; it palpitates, as the jargon is, with actuality. An English reader finds some of her notes and impressions rather odd. She found it wonderful," as an American woman who retained a vivid recollection of Presidential

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elections," to see the two sides agreeing to an armistice over the Sabbath. President Kruger, she says, kept the Boers from storming Johannesburg by only promising each a new suit of clothes; these they had since been seen carrying, tied to the cantle of their saddles." She appreciates the gentlemanly action of Lieutenant de Korte, her husband's gaoler, when through ill-health he had been removed to his own home-"he never wore his uniform in the house."

We need not analyze Mrs. Hammond's volume at length. It is the first inside description of the imprisonment of the Reform

New Light on Queen Victoria.

The Personal Life of Queen Victoria. By Sarah A. Tooley, author of "Lives Great and Simple," etc. Illustrated. 276 pp. 8vo, $1.50; by mail, $1.64.

"The Personal Life of Queen Victoria" will be welcomed by those who wish for a reliable history of the Queen's home-life apart from her connection with the political and territorial development of the land over which she has ruled so long. The volume treats successively of the Queen's childhood, her girlhood, her married life and her widowhood. In the first part there is considerable detail and much that is new with regard to the hitherto generally accepted account of the historic interview between the Queen, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, when her accession to the throne was announced. Dean Stanley is quoted as having it from the Queen herself that upon being told she must see Lord Conyngham immediately, "she got up, put on her dressing gown and went into a room where she found Lord Conyngham, who knelt and kissed her hand and gave her the certificate of the King's death." Most of the leading incidents of her life are illustrated, and there are numerous portraits of the Queen and her relatives at all ages. The information has been taken partly from the Queen's own memoirs and partly from lives and reminiscences of eminent statesmen, to which has been added a large amount of private information given by those intimate with her Majes ty. It is quite free from high coloring and may be relied on Philadelphia Times.

The Little Path threading the Vineyards on the Slopes of Etna.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
From "Mountain Climbing."

Mountain Climbing.

By Edward L. Wilson, Edwin Lord Weeks, A. F. Jaccaci, Mark Brickell Kerr, William Williams, H. F. B. Lynch, Sir W. Martin Conway. Illustrated. 358 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.27. A noteworthy feature of this volume is the way in which our American peaks hold their own in the matter of climbing attractions. The thrilling interest of the ascents of Mt. Washington in winter and of Mt. St. Elias rivals anything in the Alpine experiences. The latter contain some remarkable pictures by Edwin Lord Weeks and a fine chapter by the famous climber, Sir W. Martin Conway. Publishers' Weekly.

Mr. Crane's New Book.

The Third Violet. By Stephen Crane, author of "The Red Badge of Courage," etc. 203 PP. 12mo, 75 cents; by mail, 84 cents.

A precipitate outpouring of lively pictures, a spontaneous dazzle of color, a frequent success in the quest of the right word and phrase, were among the qualities which won for "The Red Badge of Courage" immediate recognition as the product of genius. It was felt to be the work of one who had sought deep down in his inner consciousness for the thought and for the image, and had been rigorous in rejecting inadequate expression. These qualities, with less of their excess, are manifest in the "The Third Violet "; and the sincere psychology, the scientific analysis, which in the earlier work lay at the root of the treatment of its subject-matter, are no less sure in the author's portrayal of more daily emotions-of the hackneyed, yet never to be outworn, themes of a man's love, a woman's modesty, and the snobbery which is very near to us all. Of the hundreds who strive after this inward vision, and this power of just expression, once in a decade of years, or in a score, one attains to them; and the result is literature.

She

Briefly, the story is that of an inpecunious landscape painter's love for a rich girl. He meets her at a mountain summer resort. gives him two violets during their stay out of town over which he moons upon his return to New York, until she presents him with the third violet and accepts him as her husband.

By this latest product of his genius our impression of Mr. Crane is confirmed; that for psychological insight, for dramatic intensity, and for potency of phrase he is already in the front rank of English and American writers of fiction; and that he possesses a certain separate quality which places him apart. It is a short story and a slender; but taking it in conjunction with what he has previously given us, there remains, in our judgment, no room for doubt. London Academy.

"General" Inspiration. The Bible; Its Meaning and Supremacy. By F. N. Farrar, D. D., F. R. S. 359 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $1.50; by mail, $1.66.

Dean Farrar is an indefatigable worker, and the numerous essays in Christian apologetics or Scriptural exegesis to which so many years of his life have been devoted undoubtedly appeal to a very wide circle of readers. They will not be disappointed with his latest work, "The Bible; Its Meaning and Supremacy,' in which he employs his great powers of facile exposition and his marvelous acquaintance with the literature of all ages in the endeavor to show that the authority of the Scripture is as firmly based as ever, and that its dangers have arisen not from the attacks of its enemies, but from the mistakes of its defenders. He does not enter into disputed questions of disputed questions of authorship or of textual criticism, nor does he advance any profound or original theory. Somewhat diffusely the author explains that

the Bible is not so much a book as the remains of a wider literature, and that this variety is

not inconsistent with an essential unity, of

which the true centre is Christ. "The Bible

contains an ever-advancing revelation," of which the earlier stages are "transitory and imperfect as compared with its latest developments.'' From the failure to recognize this fact, to us in the days of the Higher Criticism so obvious, and from the adoption of a theory of inspiration that annihilated the activity of the human faculties, arose the need of such a system of allegoric interpretations as, by the Stoics, had been applied to the Homeric poems. Thus, according to Philo, the words, "God did not rain upon the earth," signify that God did not shed the perceptions of things upon the senses; with my staff I passed over this Jordan" means, "by discipline I have overcome baseness." From the Jewish Church the method was transmitted as a legacy to the Christian Fathers, and as time went on it received some extraordinary developments. Thus Origen elaborated a system of three-fold interpretation which reduced the exposition of Scripture to a kind of divination; and this method he pretended to justify by the text, "The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life -of which the true sense is a contrast between the Mosaic law, which threatened death to such as disobeyed it, and the spirit of the Gospel, which offers life to such as accept it. On these subjects he says much that is worth reading, especially as to the misuse and misinterpretation of Scripture, both by its critics and its apologists; and in the last six chapters will be found a perfect storehouse of anecdote and literary allusion illustrating the value and universal influence of the Bible at all times and in all countries. London Times.

NOTES

Richard Mansfield has just completed arrangements with L. C. Page and Company, of Boston, for the publication of his first book, to be entitled Blown Away."

R. F. Fenno and Company announce a detective story by Jules Claretie of the French Academy, the title of which will be "The Crime of the Bullevards."

The Roxburghe Press will shortly issue a book entitled "The New Gulliver, or Travels in Athomnia," by C. T. Druery.

London Publishers' Circular.

"Some Observations of a Foster Parent" is the title of a book on educational questions which Archibald Constable and Company are about to publish. London Publishers' Circular.

Mr. R. N. Stephens will soon bring out the historical romance, "An Enemy to the King," based upon his drama of the same name. The book will be published by L. C. Page and Company, of Boston.

A new book by Leonard Merrick, author of "A Daughter of the Philistines," is announced for early publication by R. F. Fenno and Company. The title of the new book is "The Man Who Was Good."

-Miss Dorothea Gerard has in preparation, for issue in the early autumn, a novel entitled "Miss Providence," which Messrs. Jarrold and Sons will publish.

London Publishers' Circular.

Dr. Robson Roose has written a series of

essays, under the title of Waste and Repair in Modern Life," with the object of inculcating better notions as to how we moderns should live; and Mr. Murray is now producing the book. London Saturday Review. "My

Laird and Lee will publish at once Wife's Husband, a Touch of Nature," by Alice Wilkinson Sparks. The book is described as a "very frank rejoinder to Josiah Allen's Wife,' from the husband's standpoint, and in a similar homely idiom." Publishers' Weekly.

Maynard, Merrill and Company, New York, have in press for immediate publication "The Young American," by Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, Professor of Political Science in the University of Chicago. The book is intended for supplementary reading in schools and for general circulation.

Prof. Sully has revised his monograph on children- Studies in Childhood"-to bring it more within the popular grasp. He has rewritten some chapters, added others, and introduced many new stories. The result, to be called "Children's Ways," will virtually be a new work. London Academy.