which Zola has painted for us with so masterly a hand. Many of the great figures of that era of adventurers and adventuresses are introduced to us, and we get vivid pictures not only of the Emperor and Empress but of De Mornay, Rouber and others whose names were once familiar. It is difficult even for those of us who remember the palmy days of Imperialism to realize that such a state of things as we find depicted in these pages existed in France within living memory. To younger readers the story may well seem incredible, and yet it is absolutely true. London Speaker.

In Buff and Blue. Being Certain Portions from the Diary of Richard Hilton, Gentleman of Haslet's Regiment, of Delaware Foot in our ever glorious War of Independence. By George Brydges Rodney. 206 pp. 16mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.02.

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The sub-title of this story gives a general idea of its character. It is one of those many works whose themes are drawn from Revolutionary historical sources which began to be published in the centennial year, and hold the most of interest for that portion of the public which has made a study of American history. The story forms one of a series of romances of early American history, other numbers of which are Captain Shays," a story of the Shays' Rebellion in Massachusetts, and the "Governor's Garden,' a story of the life of old Gov. Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts, both by George R. Rivers. The author of the present story has rather a graceful style, and tells pleasantly his tale. The pictures he gives of the Revolutionary campaign in Delaware and Pennsylvania are well and accurately drawn, and he has evidently made a careful and intelligent study of the records of the times. A thread of a love story runs through the book, but really does not belong to what is, after all, a chapter of history disguised as fiction. N. Y. Times. In Simpkinsville. Character Tales. By Ruth McEnery Stuart, author of "A Golden Wedding,' "The Story of Babette," etc. Illustrated by Smedley, Carleton and McNair. 244 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.0I.

A new book by Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart is in need of no introduction beyond the mention of the author's name. In the volume entitled "In Simpkinsville," Mrs. Stuart takes us back in six short stories to the imaginary Southern village which has formed the background in so much of her striking work. These six stories are Mrs. Stuart's latest, and unquestionably her best, at least one of those included in the volume, "The Unlived Life of Little Mary Ellen," being among the recognized masterpieces of American fiction.

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In the Old Chateau. A story of Russian Poland.

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Richard Henry Savage. Oriental Library. 339 PP. 12mo, paper, 20 cents; by mail, 25 cents. A story of an odd people by a fertile pen. Appears in paper covers and in a pocketable size. Joan Seaton. A story of Percival Dion in the York

shire Dales. By Mary Beaumont. 303 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.03.

This story of "Percival-Dion in the Yorkshire Dales" has some humor in it and more tragedy. It is a tale of considerable power, the outcome of knowledge of the country and the people portrayed therein. The Yorkshire character, with its common sense, its sarcasm, its outward roughness and inner kindliness, and its pervading superstition, is well delineated, and the authoress leaves no doubt in the reader's mind of her familiarity with the class of people about whom she writes. Here is her estimate of the Dalesman: "But the ancient virtues still abide. The soil which has tenaciously cherished old superstitions has fostered in some minds a religious

faith and a spiritual insight to be matched only in the lives of the greater saints." London Academy. King of the Mountains, The. By Edmund About. Translated from the French by Mrs. C. A. Kingsbury. 246 pp. 12mo, 75 cents; by mail, 85 cents. Hadji Stavros, called the King of the Mountains, was, according to the German student, Hermann Schultz, who is supposed to be telling his history, a famous brigand, who lived on Mount Parnassus in the vicinity of Athens, terrorizing not only the Greeks, but also travelers from foreign countries. Schultz tells of his own capture by the bandit, giving a wonderful account of incidents worthy of the pen of Münchausen. The time is from 1840-1856. Written by About in 1856. Publishers' Weekly.

Lost Illusions. (Illusions Perdues.) By H. De Balzac. Translated by Ellen Marriage, with preface by George Saintsbury. With frontispiece. 385 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.22.

As usual, Mr. Saintsbury gives an excellent idea of the novel in his preface. He says that "Lost Illusions" is the longest of Balzac's books, and contains hardly any passage that is not very nearly of his best. It is a book of multifarious interest, and its bibliography is most curious. A notable fact is that this is almost the only book which contains verse, some written by Balzac, some given to him by poetical friends. The translation is, as usual, carefully done, and the expressive French prose has been rendered into English of almost equal quality.

London Publishers' Circular. Many Cargoes. By W. W. Jacobs. 247 pp. 12m0, 75 cents; by mail, 87 cents.

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Many Cargoes," a collection of short stories of seafaring life by Mr. W. W. Jacobs, an author who, to judge from his first essay, is as richly equipped with the sense of the ludicrous as any writer now before the public. To tell in cold blood the plot of any one of his stories would probably affront the sensibilities of our readers,-they are so wildly improbable. Take, for example, the story of the henpecked mariner who induces a friend to dress up as the first husband of his cantankerous wife, or that of the amorous skipper who organizes a mock mutiny among his crew, and having induced the unresponsive object of his affections to come aboard his ship, assumes the rôle of a helpless spectator as his men promptly weigh anchor and carry her off to sea. But the initial improbability is soon lost sight of in Mr. Jacobs's consistent and circumstantial working out of his plot. Even where he frankly admits at the outset that the tale is of the "long-bow" order, he never loses touch with his reader. There are no failures in this collection, while half a dozen of the stories are quite irresistible in their sustained merriment. Mr. Jacobs's strong sense of the ludicrous never leads him into lapses from taste or decorum. His fun is always innocent and wholesome, while the comic element in many of his stories alternates with a vein of homely but chivalrous romance.

London Spectator. Martian, The. A novel. By George du Maurier, author of "Trilby,' "Peter Ibbetson." With illustrations by the author. 477 pp, with glossary. 12mo, $1.35; by mail, $1.51.

See review.

In "Mr. Peters" circumstantial evidence suffices to execute an innocent man. There is a subsequent vendetta with strong dramatic interest. The patience of the murdered man's son in his pursuit of vengeance is powerfully brought out. London Speaker. My Run Home. By Rolf Boldrewood, author of Robbery Under Arms," "The Miners' Right," etc. 458 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.02. In this new work the author of " Robbery Under Arms" leaves the land of the Southern Cross, and pays his first visit to "that old world' which had been to all my foregone life a world of shadows and dreams." It is a delightful account of a young Australian's pilgrimage to the old home of his ancestors, ingeniously embroidered with endless tales of fact and fiction. He tells us what he thinks of life as he sees it in the Parent Isle, and though, in his eagerness to see the sights, he occasionally rushes us about from pillar to post, there is nothing of the ordinary globe-trotter's style in any part of the book. We like best his many charming pictures of life at Boldrewood Chase, his uncle's seat in the country, where sport and romance occupy our hero for many a pleasant week. Then he makes a stay in Ireland, is inveigled into a proposal of marriage with a fascinating and designing beauty-but discovers her true nature in time to escape-and returns to England to win the Grand National Steeplechase, after a thrilling race in which Rolf Boldrewood, both as author and hero, is perhaps seen at his best. At last his father calls him back to the Colonies, and his long visit comes to an end-not, however, before he is happily married to his fair cousin Gwendoline.

London Publishers' Circular. My Wife's Husband. A Touch of Nature. By Alice Wilkinson Sparks. 300 pp. 12m0, 75 cents; by mail, 86 cents; paper, 20 cents; by mail, 25 cents. An amusing series of sketches, told in country dialect, being the adventures and the opinions about many things of Elias Chatterton, of Lynxville, N. Y. They relate to preachers and typewriters, street car etiquette, bicyclers, Trilby, etc.

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Mystery of the Ocean Star, The. A collection of Maritime Sketches. By W. Clark Russell, author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," etc. 311 pp. 12mo. 75 cents; by mail, 85 cents. Twenty-three short sea-tales by the arch storyteller of the sea.

Noble Haul, A. By W. Clark Russell, author of "The Copsford Mystery,' 'An Ocean Free Lance,' etc. 158 pp. 16m0, 38 cents; by mail, 45 cents. A stirring sea-tale by a master-hand. The noble haul was the " Mary Carver" which was picked up at sea and yielded a salvage of seven thousand pounds. Nulma. An Anglo-Australian Romance. By Mrs. Campbell-Praed, author of "Mrs. Tregaskiss, "Christina Chard," etc. Appletons' Town and Country Library. 291 pp. 12mo, 75 cents; by mail, 86 cents.

Nùlma is an Australian maiden, charming in her innocence and beauty, and strenuous and loyal in her spirit. To her in her opening spring of youth come, from the old country and the old conventional society, a group of people, truly antipodean, whose contact ripens her to womanhood. The battered old professional Governor; his nephew and secretary; the nephew's wife, Lady Arthur Keefe; and the intellectually keen and forceful, but morally lymphatic Kenward, who comes with them, almost in their suite, to take up the Chief Justiceship of 'Leichart's

Land," are vividly thrown into relief by their colonial surroundings. In an evil hour the gaieties which herald the new Governor's accession bring Nùlma into the constant society of a man who can appreciate her freshness and animation none the less for the contrast these afford to the qualities of the mature Lady Arthur, with whom he shares a secret as discreditable as it has hitherto been engrossing. The growing love, which must inevitably end cruelly for the innocent and inexperienced, is naturally traced to its climax in disillusion, when Nùlma breaks away with strong repulsion from the man who has her heart, to fortify herself against him by marriage with the patient old friend who has had her daughterly esteem. The process by which Van Vechten teaches her to love him is assisted by a fortunate development of events, otherwise his task would have seemed hopeless. But the story is more mercifully tempered to the strength of the heroine than is altogether London Athenæum. probable. "Odd Folks." By Opie Read, author of "A Captain's Romance." 207 pp. 12mo, 75 cents; by mail,

86 cents.

A set of brief sketches and stories of life in various American localities, principally in the Southwest. Many of them are quite trifling, but the best show ideas and humor. Philadelphia Telegraph.

On a Western Campus. Stories and sketches of undergraduate life. By The Class of Ninety-Eight, Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. Illustrated by Frank Wing. 247 pp. 16mo, 90 cents; by mail, 99 cents.

The annual literary harvest of a college class of Grinnell College, Iowa. Text and illustrations show commendable ambition.

Philanderers, The. By A. E. W. Mason, author of "The Courtship of Morris Buckler." 232 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.00.

Mr. Mason here deserts the historical romance by which he first achieved success for the novel of sentiment, and he has again achieved success. This is a well-observed and well-thought-out study of weakminded sentimentalists contrasted with a strong man, master of himself and of his passions. The sentimentalists-or philanderers, as Mr. Mason prefers to call them-form a dreary society of humbug and weakness and craven feelings, but they are not dreary to read about; Mr. Mason avoids this by his capacity for entering into their point of view and making the reader, while condemning their actions, understand their motives. Clarice, wayward and capricious, capable of the meanest actions, yet quite wide-awake to true nobility and strength of character, would be unintelligible in less skillful hands; but Mr. Mason understands her so well that her actions never excite surprise. Mallinson, too, her currish husband, is equally truly felt. And the author's ability to bring to light the springs of weakness makes him no less capable of realizing a fine man such as Drake is represented. London Athenæum.

Philosopher of Driftwood, The A novel. By Mrs. Jenness Miller. With frontispiece. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.25.

323 PP.

A novel by the noted dress reformer and lecturer on physical culture. Love making on both sides of the sea. The philosopher lives at Driftwood, a seat

on the Eastern coast.

Pink Marsh. A story of the Streets and Town. By George Ade, author of “Artie." Pictures by John T. McCutcheon. 197 pp. 16m0, 90 cents; by mail, $1.00.

It is some time since we have met with a more amusing character than is "Pink Marsh," or, to give him his full title, Willlam Pinkney Marsh of Chicago. He is only a colored bootblack, and he talks in a dialect that cannot always be followed without some

effort; but, in a series of deftly written sketches, Mr. George Ade succeeds in building up the personality of the boy till he stands out as a delightfully fresh and original type. His conversations with the author, one of his regular morning customers, are full of humor and quaint philosophy, and his love affairs with Miss Lo'ena Jackson, Miss Jennie Taylah, and some of the other "wa'hm babies of "Deahbo'n st'eet" and the South Side, and his deadly rivalry with ol' Gaw'ge Lippincott are described in a way that is inimitable. "Pink" is not the conventional coon" of the comic paper and the variety hall, but a genuine flesh and blood type, presented with a good deal of literary and artistic skill. Some of Mr. John T. McCutcheon's pen-andink sketches are excellent. N. Y. Sun. Princess and a Woman. A romance of Carpathia. By Robert McDonald. 252 pp. 16mo, 25 cents; by mail, 35 cents.

A novel of life in Russia. Issued by the publishers of Munsey's Magazine at a price relatively low. Rose of Yesterday, A. By Marion Crawford, author of "Dr. Claudius," "The Ralstons," etc. 218 pp. 12m0, 90 cents; by mail, $1.12.

See review. Snarleyyow. By Captain Marryat. Illustrated by H. R. Millar. With an introduction by David Hannay. 405 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.23. Snarleyyow," originally called the "The Dog Fiend," appeared in 1837, the same year which saw the publication of Marryat's "Code of Signals; and Mr. David Hannay, who edits the reprint, suggests that the story was written "not only because Marryat was, as he candidly confessed not long after his time, 'somewhat in want of money,' but as a relaxation from the really considerable toil of

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compiling his code." Snarleyyow" is in part an historical novel. When he wrote it, says Mr. Hannay, Marryat "probably felt that he had used up, at any rate for the present, the navy of his own time, and he turned to the past for a new field." But the story "is in reality a fantastic tale which Marryat made up partly, no doubt, out of his reminiscences of the time when he was cruising against smugglers in the Channel, partly, and in a much smaller degree, out of books, but most of all, as the children say, out of his Own head." Snarleyyow' has something in common with "Poor Jack," inasmuch as it is in these two books that Marryat's verse can be best studied. The song, "The Captain stood on the Carronade," from Snarleyyow," was included by Mr. Henley in his “ Lyra Heroica."

The young literature of Australia is indebted to Mr. Mackie for a tale which, while it abounds in local color from the authoritative brush of one who, as he puts it in the preface, "figured in a humble way as a pioneer of civilization" in the wilds of the northern continent, is also thrilling enough for any boy's book. What more can one ask in the way of peril and adventure than to have half-a-dozen whites, including ladies, beseiged in a cave by as many hundred blacks; furious onslaughts repulsed with terrible slaughter; provisions raided, and ammunition stolen ; a thrilling climb up an impossible cliff, and, eventually, a rescue in the very nick of time? But it would be a grave injustice to class Mr. Mackie's book as merely sensational. The other interests of it are well maintained; and one may safely say that no more accurate picture has been presented of bush life in what is probably the most grotesque corner of the world. The writer knows it well-better, probably, than most people would care to do; he tells us that he has subsisted for weeks together "on crows, hawks, snakes, and currajong roots." He has a pleasant and graphic pen, and the description of the trial-scene in MacArthur is a very telling piece of work. The characterization, too, is much above the ordinary run of "bush" novels. The heroine suffers from the usual tendency of Australian heroines to excessive versatility, but she is so genuine a girl that one need not carp at her prowess with the stock-whip and her astuteness as a detective. London Academy.

Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire. By A. Conan Doyle, author of " Rodney Stone," "The Stark-Munro Letters," etc. Illustrated. 308 pp. 12m0, $1.10; by mail, $1.24.

See review.

Which Loved Him Best? A novel. By Bertha Clay. Globe Library. 342 pp. 12mo, paper, 20 cents; by mail, 25 cents.

A tale of Lisbon and England and the love of an English lord for a Southern beauty.

FRENCH BOOKS.

Study and Practice of French in School. For Advanced Classes. Part Third. Irregular Verbs and Idioms. Construction Syntax. By Louise C. Boname. 283 pp. 12m0, $1.00, postpaid.

London Academy.

A set of eighteen short stories collected from various periodicals, all of them giving evidences of Mr. Hale's neat fancy and engaging humor. A good many people will remember the title-story, which first appeared in Harper's Magazine. It narrates the idea of a Boston girl, who having no escort to conduct her to concerts, etc., constructs a kind of layfigure which answers the purpose quite as well as a "real man" would have done; and even more to her satisfaction. Philadelphia Telegraph. Tales of the Sun-Land. By Verner Z. Reed, author of "Lo-To-Kah.' Illustrated by L. Maynard Dixon. 250 pp 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.03.

See review.

GUIDE BOOKS.

Going Abroad. Some Advice. By Robert Luce. 163 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $1.00, postpaid; paper, 50 cents, postpaid.

A handy manual by an experienced traveler. Covers many points on which tourists may be ignorant.

Walks and Rides in the Country Round About Boston. Covering Thirty-six Cities and Towns, Parks and Public Reservations, within a Radius of Twelve Miles from the State House. By Edwin M. Bacon. 419 pp. Indexed. 16mo, $1.25; by mail, $1.35.

Adopting Dr. Holmes' happy conceit of "Boston State House,' as the hub of the solar system," Mr. Bacon has described forty-eight walks and rides radiating from it, and covering all the country known as the suburbs of Boston and the adjoining regions; the walks in one direction extending far enough to

American History Told by Contemporaries. Vol. I.
Era of Colonization, 1492–1689. Edited by Albert
Bushnell Hart, author of Formation of the
Union,"
Epoch Maps," etc. 606 pp. 12mo,
$1.50; by mail, $1.71.

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A laudable effort to broaden "the highways for those who would visit their forefathers." Timely volumes on American history; this, the first, dealing with the era of Colonization, consists of rare authoritative texts well collated.

Fort Amsterdam in the Days of the Dutch. By Maud Wilder Goodwin. Half Moon Series. Papers on Historic New York. Vol. I. Number VIII. 35 pp. 16mo, paper, 10 cents, postpaid. An interesting chapter in the early history of New York, giving many details from scarce sources which are put into narrative form by a mistress of this art. Great Round World, The. A History of Our Own Times, for Boys and Girls. Part I. November 11th to February 18, 1897. 387 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.01.

Fifteen numbers of a useful little magazine which weekly serves up the news of the world for young people.

Le Morte D'Arthur. By Sir Thomas Malory.

Part

the Fourth. With frontispiece. The Temple Classics, edited by Israel Gollancz, M. A. 324 pp, with glossary, 16m0, 38 cents; by mail, 43 cents; leather, 57 cents; by mail, 62 cents. Exquisite text in little space. Frontispiece from Aubrey Beardsley's illustration to Malory.

Heroic Japan. A History of the War between China and Japan. By F. Warrington Eastlake, Ph. D. and Yamada Yoshi-Aki, LL. B. With maps and illustrations, 556 pp. 8vo, $4.50; by mail, $4.69. This is a somewhat disconnected and episodical sort of book, containing much interesting matter, but not in itself interesting. No approach to a true history of the China-Japan war is ever likely to be written; the despatches on both sides will not be accessible to the student of a conflict whose origin was as singular as its result was unexpected by the victorious party, while those emanating from the Chinese commanders are almost certainly elegant compositions rather than statements of fact. The heroic stories relate for the most part acts of endurance prompted by loyalty. The chiushin, familiar to those who know the history of old Japan, has clearly survived into the meiji period. We have no space to tell any of these feats as they should be told. It is, however, hardly fair to the "soldiers and sailors of Japan," who "carried all before them," to claim that "all these triumphs are due to the virtues, the exalted spirit of His Majesty the Emperor." Το many of the stories too close a criticism should, perhaps, not be applied. So far, however, as their heroism turns upon contempt of death they are all of them in full accord with the national character or tradition as exemplified over and over again in Japanese history and romance. London Athenæum.

History of Our Own Times, A. Vol. V. From 1880 to the Diamond Jubilee. By Justin McCarthy, M. P., author of "A History of the Four Georges," etc. Illustrated. 473 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $1.35; by mail, $1.51.

See review.

Real Condition of Cuba To-day, The. By Stephen Bonsal, author of "Morocco As It Is," etc. With frontispiece and map. 156 pp. 12mo, 45 cents; by mail, 50 cents.

Many books on Cuba have been written within the last year or two, but very few of them are as attractive or as instructive as this one. All thinking Americans are more or less interested in the stubborn rebellion of the Cubans, and any writer who throws a new light on the subject is sure to receive adequate recognition from them. Mr. Bonsal is entitled to such recognition, for the reason that he gives us many vivid pictures of actual life in Cuba as it is to-day. Moreover, he does not write from heresay, but from personal knowledge. He has mingled with the combatants on both sides; he has seen them fighting; he has carefully noted and set down for us the lamentable result of such warfare; he has visited many picturesque parts of the island and gathered trustworthy information from all available sources; in a word, he has done his best to properly equip himself for writing such a book as this. All, then, no matter whether they are friends of Spain or of Cuba, may read the book with profit. The friends of Spain may find some passages in it not to their liking, but, unless they are insufferably prejudiced, they cannot claim that the author has distorted facts or wilfully gone out of his way in order to produce a misleading impression. Mr. Bonsal tells us what he saw, and, though some of us may not like what he tells us, we should not on that account assume that his vision is defective or his judgment erroneous. N. Y. Herald.

Story of an African Crisis, The. Being the truth about the Jameson Raid and Johannesburg Revolt of 1896, told with the assistance of the leading actors in the drama. By Edmund Garrett, author of "In Afrikanderland," etc., and E. J. Edwards. Illustrated. New and revised edition. 308 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.05. It is difficult to get at the true Story of an African Crisis," and the book with that title, in spite of a great parade of candor, is somewhat disappointing. No doubt it is not easy for a journalist like Mr. Garrett, who has gone right through the political upheaval which he describes in these pages, to write dispassionately on such a subject. Moreover, just now party feeling in England as well as in South Africa still runs high, and though most men admit that the Jameson Raid was a criminal act of folly, there is considerable diversity of opinion about the measure of responsibility in regard to it which attaches to Mr. Cecil Rhodes. Needless to say, Mr. Garrett has decided views on that matter, and they clash with those of Mr. Statham, to leave "Peter Halket" and Olive Schreiner for the moment out of account. We differ from Mr. Garrett when he asserts that we are already far enough removed in point of time for the history of recent events in South Africa to be "no longer sub judice." Surely that is a rash assertion whilst evidence of one kind and another is coming almost every day to light, and the actual "Story of an African Crisis" in all its prosaic aspects is slowly being threshed out in cross-examination before the Select Committee of the House of Commons. Mr. Garrett admits that the Jameson Raid has left the Transvaal burghers not merely uneasy, but suspicious, and it must be confessed that there is a good deal to be said for such an attitude on their part. London Speaker.

Student's American History, The. By D. H. Montgomery, author of "The Leading Facts of History series. With frontispiece and maps. 523 pp. 12mo, $1.55, postpaid.

This work follows the same general lines as the author's "Leading Facts of American History.' It differs, however, from the more elementary manual in many important respects. It is much fuller in its treatment of political and constitutional history, and of the chiefs events bearing on the development of the nation. It quotes original documents, authorities, and standard writers on the points of greatest interest to the student and the teacher, the object being to let the history of our country speak for itself. As a help to further research, note numbers have been inserted throughout referring to upwards of two thousand works of acknowledged merit cited in the appendix. There is also a classified list of books on American history covering six pages. Publishers' Weekly.

LECTURES AND ADDRESSES. Cromwell's Place in History. Founded on six lectures, delivered in the University of Oxford. By Samuel Rawson Gardiner, D. C. L 120 pp. Indexed. 12mo, 75 cents; by mail, 83 cents.

No living writer is better qualified than Professor S. R. Gardiner to determine Cromwell's place in history, and certainly no previous historian has ever enjoyed his opportunities. Professor Gardiner has devoted the studies of a lifetime to the history of the earlier Stuart monarchy and of the Commonwealth. He has taken full advantage of what Lord Acton calls "the opening of the archives," and the larger knowledge thus rendered accessible has been treated by him in the judicial and dispassionate temper which belongs to disinterested research. It is not to defend a thesis nor to glorify a hero, but to ascertain the real facts and to determine their true relations and issues that Professor Gardiner has devoted his rare energies and gifts to the study of the Commonwealth and its antecedents. Hence, when he undertakes to set forth his conclusions in a little volume of less than 120 pages, the value of the performance must be measured by no quantitative standard. It is determined by the personal equation of the writer, and in this the main factors are lifelong study, unrivaled knowledge, the assimilation and presentation of material hitherto inaccessible, and a rigid impartiality of appreciation. The volume contains the substance of six lectures delivered extempore last year on the Ford foundation at Oxford. But to some extent the lectures have been recast since they were originally delivered. "It would," says the professor, "be as undesirable as it is impossible to reproduce in print words spoken without notes to a sympathetic audience. Things fit to be spoken are not always fit to be printed, and things fit to be printed are not always fit to be spoken." No one will doubt, however, that the lectures as now published are eminently fit to be printed and very worthy to be pondered. They are the work of a man who is saturated with the knowledge and yet wholly disengaged from the conflicting passions of the most troublous period of our national history. London Times. The Romanes lecture delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, June 2, 1897. By the Right Hon. John Morley, M. P. 63 pp. Svo, 38 cents; by mail, 44 cents.

Machiavelli.

Mr. Morley is rather inclined to try Machiavelli by the standards of our day. Machiavelli, with his many shortcomings, really loved his country, and that in the Italy of the Borgias was no small thing. London Athenæum. Manhood's Morning. By Joseph Alfred Conwell. 242 pp. Indexed. Second edition. 12mo, 75 cents; by mail, 86 cents; paper, 20 cents; by mail, 25 cents.

The tone of the book is fresh and telling. Dr. Conwell does not take on the patronizing tone so repelling to many young readers. He addresses his audi

ence in a straightforward, manly style which at once inspires confidence and claims attention. Philadelphia Telegraph. Shall We Continue In Sin? A vital question for believers answered in the Word of God. By Arthur T. Pierson. 122 pp. 12mo, 57 cents; by mail, 65 cents.

In this little brochure the topic is St. Paul's discussion, in Romans VI., VII. and VIII., of the duty and privilege of non-continuance in sin. The doctrine of sinlessness is not here taught, but of not continuing in sin. The disciple's security for non-continuance in sinning is found in his union with Christ. What has been the sole ground for justification is now presented as the sole basis and hope of sanctification; as Christ does away with the penalty for sin by his death, so by his life he puts an end to its power over the true believer. This union with Christ is considered in a seven-fold aspect, and is treated in the present work under as many chapter headings, as judicial, vital, practical, actual, marital, spiritual and eternal. Chicago Inter-Ocean.

LITERATURE.

Johnsonian Miscellanies. Arranged and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, D. C. L., LL. D., editor of "Boswell's Life of Johnson," and "The Letters of Samuel Johnson." In two volumes. 8vo, 488, 509 pp. Indexed. $5 50; by mail, $6.00 See review.

Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., The. With a biographical introduction by W. E. H. Lecky, M. P. Vol. I. 329 pp. 12mo, 85 cents; by mail, 98 cents.

Students of eighteenth-century literature have long been of one mind as to the necessity for a new edition, with notes, of "The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift." Early in the present century Sir Walter Scott brought out his well-known edition, and all through the Queen's reign it has been regarded as authoritative. Historical research and literary criticism have alike been busy in the long interval with the great Dean's fierce but strenuous life, and his superb, though often sardonic, achievements in creative prose. Swift appeals to many moods, and he has fascinated many men, and in recent times, amongst a multitude of less well-equipped students and critics, Mr. Elwin, Mr. Leslie Stephen, Mr. Churton Collins, Mr. Henry Craik, and Mr. Courthope. This edition contains an elaborate biographical estimate by Mr. Lecky. The author has aimed to give a correct, authentic, and, as far as possible, complete text of Swift's works, and with this end in view early printed editions, scarce and half-forgotten pamphlets, and original manuscripts have been carefully collated. London Speaker.

MUSIC.

Songs of Love and Praise. No. 4. For Use in Meeting for Christian Worship or Work. Editors John R. Sweney, H. L. Gilmour and J. H. Entwisle. 222 pp. 12mo, 30 cents; by mail, 39 cents. For use in meetings for Christian worship and work. A collection of hymns.

NATURAL HISTORY.

Insect Life. An Introduction to Nature Study and a Guide for Teachers, Students, and others interested in out-of-door Life. By John Henry Comstock. With many original illustrations engraved by Anna Botsford Comstock. 349 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $1.90; by mail, $2.05.

A popular book of general value and interest which will meet a want felt by teachers and be indispensable for classes, and will also prove of constant service to those who have felt the need of a guide to the identification and study of insects. It is a book for