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Re-writing the history of

Italian Painting.

Mr. Berenson's book on "Lorenzo Lotto" (Putnam) will hardly prove interesting reading to the average person. It is not, strictly speaking, a biography, but "an Essay in Constructive Art-Criticism," as the secondary title tells us. The matter of it has been of more moment to the author than the style of it. The author has had something to say, and has not cared too much about how he has said it. So, beginning with a catalogue of facts, as though he were a German instead of an American, he ends with a conclusion, logical enough, if it does not meet with entire acceptance. He has reconstructed the masters and influences of Lorenzo Lotto, and incidentally overhauled the history of early Venetian art to prove (what is undoubtedly true) that the Bellini were not the only teachers in Venice in Lotto's early days, and that there was a large following of the now-neglected Vivarini from whom Lotto descended, rather than, as formerly supposed, from the Bellini. What this book proves about Lotto and the early Venetian school is perhaps not so important as the method taken to prove it. We are here brought face to face with the working of the Higher Criticism in art-the scientific method of arriving at the authorship of pictures. Mr. Berenson, since the death of Morelli, has become its high priest; and while people may smile as they please about the art-criticism which consists in measuring ears and finger-nails and studying draperies and backgrounds, it is yet the only accurate basis upon which the study of ancient painting can rest. Moreover, Mr. Berenson has modified the method of Morelli, and is not flinging aside all the views of the past as "antiquated rubbish." Where he establishes a new view, he does it with a reason and with a mastery of facts that few will venture to dispute. Indeed, Mr. Berenson is to be treated seriously and with respect, not sneered at, as was the unjust fate of his learned forerunner, Giovanni Morelli. It is understood to be his ambition to rewrite the history of Italian painting; and, if we take his "Lorenzo Lotto" aright, the book is merely to show us the method whereby he proposes to execute his larger task. A new and critical history of Italian art is much needed; and if every important Italian painter is treated with the thorough study that characterizes the present volume, we shall have an epoch-making work.

A volume of essays from

The sight of Mr. E. L. Godkin's

shapely volume of "Reflections and "The Nation." Comments" (Scribner) calls to mind Matthew Arnold's curt comment in his recently published Letters: "Far the best paper here is the Evening Post,' written by Godkin." Few cultivated Americans, we fancy, will gainsay Mr. Arnold here at least very flatly. Mr. Godkin's writing has long been a potent social and political force in this country; and in so far as it lies in the way of the journalist qua journalist to do good in the society he lives in, he has done it. The volume is

made up of thirty-three articles selected from the author's contributions to "The Nation" during the past thirty years. Those have been chosen, of course, which seemed to him of most permanent value; and while their prevailing tone is social and literary, political themes have not been avoided. Among the titles we note: "The Short-Hairs" and "The Swallow-Tails,"" Organs," "Panics," "John Stuart Mill," "Rôle of the Universities in Politics," "Physical Force in Politics," "The Evolution of the Summer Resort," "Tyndall and the Theologians," etc. Ranging in tone, as in theme, from grave to gay, the volume shows Mr. Godkin at his best-and Mr. Godkin is, as we all know, an engaging as well as a sound and scholarly writer. Some of the papers, it may be fairly said, are literature, not journalism.

Norwegian Immigration to the U. S.

The census of 1890 indicated that there were at that time in the United States 1,535,597 persons who were born in Scandinavian countries or were children of Scandinavian parents. An enumeration to-day, taking into account grand-children and great-grandchildren, would show upwards of two million of representatives of this blood among us, these being scattered through every state and territory of the Union. Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, the wellknown champion of the Northmen, has recently published a volume of nearly five hundred pages, well-arranged and well-indexed, which he calls a "first chapter" in the history of Norwegian Immigration, from 1821-1840. There were very few Scandinavians in the United States before 1821. In the years between that time and 1840, six main settlements were made: one in Orleans county, New York; one in LaSalle county, Illinois; one in Chicago; three in Wisconsin; besides a number of smaller colonies elsewhere. Himself the son of immigrants of 1836, Mr. Anderson has gathered a vast fund of information about the Norwegians, showing in some measure the contribution which they have made to the history of the world, and especially to that of the United States of America. The privations of the pioneers are well set forth, and a large number of biographical sketches are given, which, interspersed with pictures of individuals, of homes, and of public buildings, will be of great service to the thoughtful historian of later years, who, looking at the cosmopolitan population of this country, attempts to show what each raceelement has contributed to its upbuilding. Others have presented the claims of the Scotch, the Irish, the Scotch-Irish, the French, the Huguenots as a special branch of French, the Dutch, the Pennsylvania Dutch, the Germans, and the Welsh, and this new volume will be welcomed as a valuable addition to the growing literature of American population. A creditable list of the names of prominent persons of this Norwegian descent might be made; but far more satisfactory is the feeling, which many share with Mr. Anderson, that the stock has been

uniformly excellent, and welcomed everywhere during the busy three-score years and ten since the first stragglers came to cast their lot in the Western land. Occasionally in the volume there are indications of what might be written in a "second chapter," but the pioneer historian is the one who is especially to be commended, for the collection of material from the older citizens, who are fast dying out, is far more difficult than the compilation of facts about the life of the period since 1840. The book is published by the author, at Madison, Wis.

The story of Marcus Whitman.

Mr. O. W. Nixon's narration of "How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon" (Star Publishing Co., Chicago) is the work of an enthusiast rather than an historian, and is a collection of newspaper sketches rather than a book. The story of Marcus Whitman, with reference both to his ride to save Oregon and to the tragedy at Waiilatpui, has already been adequately told, and in much better English, by Mr. Barrows, in his volume on Oregon for the "Commonwealths Series." The present work, although based upon tradition mainly, is substantially correct in its statements; yet there is an atmosphere of rhapsody for the hero and of disparagement for those whom he overcame which is not historical. Mr. Barrows has given the true setting of the story with regard to Daniel Webster, and it is not necessary to belittle him in order to magnify Whitman's great service. The proof-reading of this work is very careless, and the author's English is most slovenly, while his dates are occasionally incorrect for standard events. The "Introduction," by another hand, illustrates one of the abuses of bookmaking. If the book is worth anything, it should go on its own merits; and this introduction by the Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus does not help it. It would be difficult to put into four scant pages more bad English, mixed figure, and distortion of historical proportion. One knows not what to say of such a statement as this concerning Whitman: "He was more to the ulterior Northwest than John Harvard has ever been to the Northeast of our common country."

Stories of the Wagner operas.

to the simple aim expressed by its title. No attempt is made to discuss the "music of the future," to discourse of aria parlante or leit-motif, nor even to deal with the author's biography except so far as it concerns the choice of his subjects and the sources of his inspiration. The stories of the Wagner music dramas are here retold in straightforward and attractive prose, according to the same principle that has made Mr. Guerber's other books so popular. The illustrations, one for each story, are of uncommon beauty, some being copies of familiar designs by the best masters, and others being apparently drawn specially for this work.

A volume from

Froude's successor

at Cambridge.

The appointment of Lord Acton as Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, to succeed Froude, aroused much interest last winter, and not a little curiosity to know more of his life and work than had previously been made public. For many years it has been noticeable that when English scholars have spoken of Lord Acton, it has been in terms of the greatest respect, although he has published hardly anything. On June 11, he delivered his inaugural lecture at Cambridge, and this is now printed in a small volume called "A Lecture on the Study of History" (Macmillan). A single lecture, of course, cannot provide sufficient material to justify so great a reputation as that which Lord Acton has so long enjoyed, but as far as it goes it shows that in him Freeman and Froude have found no unworthy successor. It reveals wide reading and philosophic breadth of manner, although there are indications that the writer has not fully digested his vast stores of information. The notes, which are about twice as voluminous as the text of the lecture proper, admit us perhaps too freely into the secrets of his workshop. It would be interesting to know who is responsible for the bad proof-reading of this volume, which has necessitated a list of no less than forty-three errata; even in the list itself we have detected two errors and one unintelligible correction.

Elizabethan plays. Few works of equal length have

called forth so large an amount of comment and criticism as the eleven operas of Richard Wagner. The author has been discussed as poet, as musical composer, as dramatist; his theories have been recklessly assailed and as recklessly praised; his character and career as a man have been in turn lauded and decried. A catalogue of a Wagner library, compiled by an enthusiastic bibliographer and published some years ago, had already reached three large octavo volumes, and many additions have since accumulated. A new book on Wagner, covering new ground, would seem to be almost impossible; yet such an one has just come to hand in Mr. H. A. Guerber's "Stories of the Wagner Operas" (Dodd, Mead & Co.). The charm of the book is in its adherence

Students of the Elizabethan period Italian influence on of our letters are, of course, conscious of the immense debt of Shakespeare and his fellow-writers to Italian sources, and of the very strong influence of Italian literature upon our own. In this connection, an exceedingly important study has been undertaken by Dr. Mary Augusta Scott, who has aimed to bring together, with suitable annotation, the titles of the many Elizabethan translations from Italian into English. She has already collected, she informs us, "more than one hundred and sixty translations from the Italian, made by ninety or more translators, including nearly every well-known Elizabethan author, except Shakespeare and Bacon." In a pamphlet entitled "Elizabethan Translations from the Italian," now published by the Modern Language Association of America, Dr. Scott presents a first instalment of the fruits of her research, in the shape of a cata

logue of English versions of Italian novelle. Translations of poetry, plays, metrical romances, and miscellaneous books are reserved for enumeration in the subsequent papers. The present publication may be described as an expansion of Warton's chapter on "Translation of Italian Novels." The subject is one of much importance to students of English literature, and we shall await with interest the further papers promised by Dr. Scott. She already estimates that one-third of the extant Elizabethan plays "can be traced to Italian influence in one way or another."

Under the title of "The Constitution A century of the Constitution of the of the United States at the End of United States. the First Century" (Heath), Mr. George S. Boutwell publishes a manual presenting the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Territorial Ordinance, and the Constitution of 1787; the lastnamed document accompanied with annotations, section by section, giving the decisions of the Supreme Court relating thereto, and followed by a copious and convenient analytical index of its various provisions. A chapter on "the progress of American Independence and its basis in the law of England" gives a clear summary of the events which evidence the growth of the disposition toward independency, beginning in the seventeenth century, and illustrating the evolution of the idea out of the principles of the British Constitution. This chapter is a valuable contribution to our national history. Succeeding chapters take up, clause by clause, the provisions of our Constitution, stating in familiar language the purport and effect of the judicial opinions in which these provisions have severally been expounded. The manual will be of value to constitutional students, and will doubtless interest a large circle of non-professional readers of our constitutional history.

The evolution of the Budget.

It is quite appropriate that one function of a state university, supported by the public funds, should be the diffusion of knowledge among the people at large. This is done by the University of Wisconsin through the medium of its "Bulletin," consisting of monographs by the instructors and advanced students in the various departments, which are printed at the public expense and distributed without charge to libraries and individuals within the state. The second number of the "Economics, Political Science, and History Series" is a study, by Mr. Charles J. Bullock, of "The Finances of the United States from 1775 to 1789, with especial reference to the Budget." The Revolutionary period is of such importance that it has frequently been chosen for special investigation by students of American financial history; but on the other hand the mode of procedure in making appropriations, which is the particular subject of Mr. Bullock's inquiry, has usually been neglected by American writers on finance. This

essay gives evidence of much patient research among governmental records and possesses interest for the student as showing the development of budgetary methods in America.

taining dog-stories.

Of all modern men, the Briton is A volume of enter easily the chiefest of dog-lovers, as is most apparent from the fact that he fills columns of his most esteemed political and literary journal, "The Spectator," with dog-stories. From the hundreds of these stories, Mr. J. St. Loe Strachey has made selections for a volume of "Dog Stories" (Macmillan). However, we cannot commend the editor's work very highly. The introduction is of little value, and the classification clumsy : e.g., he separates the "syllogistic" dog from the "reasoning"! Again, the stories on pages 208-9 plainly belong under the heading, Dogs and Language; and the story on page 198 is clearly not a dog-story at all, but a cow-story. The only thing of any very serious scientific interest in the volume is Sir John Lubbock's two letters on teaching dogs to read. This book, however, is not meant for the

scientist, but for the dog-lover, to whom it will appeal most effectually by its many very interesting narratives of actual experiences.

Town-life in New England.

Mr. Frank Samuel Child's "An Old New England Town" (Scribner) is a pretty volume containing a sheaf of brief papers descriptive of life, scenery, and character in Fairfield, Conn. New England towns have borne a conspicuous part in the moulding of our social life and political institutions; and few of them have won a more honorable distinction in this direction than the one that is here described. The author has gleaned his material from the best public and private sources, and his little book is brimful of that saving spirit of old-time American patriotism which such societies as the Daughters of the Revolution tend (or should tend) to perpetuate. The work is plentifully illustrated with photogravure plates of Fairfield views and worthies.

BRIEFER MENTION.

Half a dozen of M. Zola's short stories, put into exceptionally finished and accurate English by Mr. W. F. Apthorp, make up a small volume entitled "Jacques d'Amour" (Copeland & Day). The other stories are "Madame Neigeon,' 39 66 Nantas," ," "How We Die," "The Coqueville Spree," and "The Attack on the Mill." The publishers have made a striking book of this collection by imitating (although in cloth covers) the common French style of lettering for the outside of their papercovered publications. The effect is so pretty that we hope to see more of it.

There are good names, such as those of Dr. Garnett and Mr. Kenneth Grahame-names that give promise of entertainment, such as those of Mr. Henry Harland, Mr. A. C. Benson, and Miss Ella d'Arcy; and names that have no particularly definite subjectiveness in "The Yellow Book" for October, and there are some

very fair pictures as well; but the volume includes nothing striking, unless it be the amusing screed about current literary criticism, which takes the form of "a letter to the editor," and is signed "The Yellow Dwarf." Messrs. Copeland & Day are the American publishers of this quarterly magazine.

The annual bound volume of "St. Nicholas" and the "Century" magazine are at hand, no less attractive than the broad shelf-full of their predecessors. The "St. Nicholas" volume is in two parts, covering a whole year, while the "Century" volume is for the six months ending last October. The former has articles by Prosessor Brander Matthews, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, and others; the latter gives us a large section of Professor Sloane's "Life of Napoleon' as its chief feature, flanked by all sorts of timely and readable contributions in the shape of essays, descriptive papers, stories, and poems.

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Langland's Vision of Piers the Plowman," translated into modern English prose by Miss Kate M. Warren (Imported by Putnam), provides university extension circles and amateur students of our literature with an excellent introduction to the work of Chaucer's great contemporary. While the book makes no pretence of being more than a compilation, it is praiseworthy for the careful use that has been made of the best authorities, and for the quality of its language. The style of the translation is modeled to a considerable extent upon the Biblical English of Wyclif, although obsolete words are but sparingly used. The apparatus of introduction, notes, and appendices supplies the beginner with the essentials, and the book as a whole may be said to accomplish its modest purpose in a very satisfactory

manner.

Many poets miss their proper audience for being too voluminous or too widely dispersed in unrelated tomes. No greater service can be done for such a poet than the preparation of a careful and choice selection from his various books the service done, for example, by Arnold for Byron, by Mr. Stopford Brooke for Shelley, by Professor Woodberry for Mr. Aubrey De Vere, or by Mr. Swinburne for himself. An exquisite example of this sort of service is afforded by Mrs. Meynell's selection of examples from the poems of Mr. Coventry Patmore. "Poems of Pathos and Delight" the book is called, and is a book of delight in more senses than one. Mrs. Meynell's preface is brief but adequate, the comment of one true poet upon the work of another. Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons publish the volume in this country.

Miss Lily Lewis Rood is the author of a brochure sketch of M. Pavis de Chavannes, her treatment being sketchy but sympathetic, anecdotal and mildly critical. The pamphlet is beautifully printed on French hand-made paper by Messrs. L. Prang & Co. There are several illustrations, including a portrait of the artist and the decorative printing for the Boston Public Library.

We noticed Dr. Tracy's "Psychology of Childhood" when it first appeared, expressing the opinion, which we see no reason for retracting or modifying, that it is one of the best studies of the child that American students have produced. The new edition (Heath), which is much improved in its mechanical form, presents no new features calling for comment. The bibliography, which is one of the best features of the book, has been brought up to date, embracing 105 titles.

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Eugenie Grandet," translated by Miss Ellen Marriage, is the latest volume of the Macmillan edition of Balzac. "The Fortunate Mistress" fills two volumes, numbered twelve and thirteen, in the Dent edition of Defoe, which Mr. Aitkin is editing so acceptably. In the Lippincott edition of Smollett, we have, also in two volumes, a reprint of "The Adventures of Count Fathom." "The Lyric Poems of Sir Philip Sidney," edited by Mr. Ernest Rhys, is the newest volume in this charming Dent series of "The Lyric Poets." All of these books are manufactured in a highly tasteful

manner.

The edition of Scheffel's "Ekkehard" just published by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. is one of the prettiest things of the season, and one for which lovers of the best literature should be unusually grateful. Of the work itself, we need not speak; it is simply one of the greatest historical novels ever written. This edition is in two volumes, with some charming illustrations, and all the notes of the latest German edition. The translation is an old one, revised by Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole, who also contributes a highly readable introductory account of the author.

"My Double, and How He Undid Me," by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, is almost as well established among our short-story classics as "The Man without a Country" itself. Messrs. Lamson, Wolffe & Co. have just made of it a very pretty booklet, tastefully oldfashioned in get-up, and including both a portrait of the author and a preface written especially for this edition. We note that Dr. Hale promises a new story, to be entitled "A Man without a City," to be brought out by the same publishers.

Messrs. Way & Williams publish a charming reprint of Shelley's translation of the "Banquet " of Plato, with decorative initials and title-page by Mr. Bruce Rogers. A heavy-faced type, a well-proportioned page, and a tasteful buckram cover, are the chief mechanical features of this edition of this little classic, which will be highly prized by lovers of Plato and of Shelley alike. As one of the two most characteristic examples of Shelley's prose, it was well worthy of this separate publication.

A collection of fifty original charades has been published by the members of St. Agnes Society, Ogdensburg, N. Y., in a dainty little volume entitled "Guess Again." The charades are for the most part very good, and the book can be cordially recommended to those who are interested in this form of entertainment. In this connection we may mention a similar volume containing over a hundred original charades by Mr. Herbert Ingalls, entitled "The Boston Charades," and published by Messrs. Lee & Shepard.

"Poets' Dogs" is the latest of the anthologies, and is edited by Miss Elizabeth Richardson (Putnam). The idea of the book seems amusing at first, but is amply justified when we examine the selections, which range from the "Odyssey" to "Geist's Grave" and "Owd Roä." On the cover is stamped as a quaint device “The little dogs and all.”

The Macmillan miniature edition of Tennyson now includes volumes headed, respectively, by "Locksley Hall" and "A Dream of Fair Women," each booklet containing besides a group of poems chronologically associated with the titular pieces.

The "Century Science " series of biographies aims to give brief accounts, by authors of recognized authority, of the life and work of nineteenth century leaders of

scientific thought and investigation. Dalton, Rennell, and Maxwell have already found treatment in this admirable series, and we now have volumes on Liebig, Lyell, and the Herschels. Mr. W. A. Shenstone is the author of the first, Professor T. G. Bonney of the second, and Miss Agnes M. Clerke of the third of these satisfactory books. Faraday, Davy, Pasteur, Darwin, and Helmholtz are soon to appear in the series. Of a still more popular sort is the science contained in Sir Robert Ball's "Great Astronomers" (Lippincott), which gives us about a score of sketches from Ptolemy to Adams, the whole beautifully illustrated.

The "Mermaid" series of old English dramatists, having rounded its first full score of volumes, enters upon what we hope may become a second score with a selection from Chapman, edited by Mr. M. L. Phelps. Selection was an easy matter in this case, for in no other Elizabethan dramatist is the distinction between good and inferior work so marked as it is with Chapman. The volume contains "All Fools " the two Bussy d'Ambois plays, and the two Byron plays, a selection that way nothing less than inevitable. Mr. Phelps writes a scholarly introduction, but makes a lower estimate of the value of Chapman's work than we are disposed to accept. Mr. Swinburne and Mr. Lowell came much nearer justice, in our opinion, than does the present editor. (Imported by Scribner.)

The "Cambridge Edition" of "The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes" (Houghton) is similar in all mechanical respects to the " Cambridge Longfellow, Whittier, and Browning, except for the lesser number of pages and the consequently thicker paper. There is an etched portrait, a biography by Mr. Scudder, with notes and indexes. We have so often before praised these editions that we need now do no more than refer to what we have said of the earlier volumes of the series. Few books accomplish their purpose as completely as these, or are so satisfactory in every way.

Messrs. Ginn & Co. send us a new and very attractive school edition of Messrs. Greenough and Kittredge's "Eneid," Books I. to VI. The illustrations are particularly well-chosen and interesting, while the notes include many references to parallel passages in English poetry. From the same publishers we have a little volume of "Selected Lives from Cornelius Nepos," edited by Dr. Arthur W. Roberts. Dr. W. B. Owen has edited for Messrs. Leach, Shewell & Sanborn the first book of Cicero's "De Oratore," making a neat and useful text-book. While on the subject of Cicero, we may also mention Dr. W. Peterson's translation, with notes, of the speech in defence of Cluentius. (Macmillan.)

Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. publish "A German Reader for Beginners," by Professor Charles Harris. The selections are grouped according to their difficulty, and include several lengthy pieces. A vocabulary permits this book to be used without the aid of the dictionary. From the American Book Co. we have an edition of Stifter's "Das Heidedorf,” edited by Mr. Max Lentz; and a volume of "Bilder aus der Deutschen Literatur," by Professor J. Keller. The latter work is an elementary history, with selections. We may also note in this connection the "Three German Tales" (from Goethe, Zschokke, and Kleist), edited by Mr. A. B. Nichols (Holt); and Dr. Max Poll's edition of "Emilia Galotti" (Ginn). Each of these books has an introduction and notes.

"The Lady of the Lake," edited by Dr. Homer B. Sprague; "The Vicar of Wakefield,” under the same editorial supervision; and "Select Minor Poems of John Milton," edited by Mr. James E. Thomas, are three recent additions to the "Studies in English Classics" of Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co. Messrs. Maynard, Merrill & Co. send us, in their “English Classic" series, More's "Utopia," and a selection from Lamb's essays, both anonymously edited, and hence open to suspicion. A far better book than any of these is Professor O. F. Emerson's edition of "Rasselas," published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.

Two school editions of Cicero's "De Senectute" have just come to us. One, by Professor Frank E. Rockwood, is published by the American Book Co.; the other, edited by Mr. E. S. Shuckburgh and Dr. James C. Egbert, is a volume in the "Elementary Classics" series of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish, in their " College Series of Greek Authors," "Eight Orations of Lysias," edited by Dr. Morris H. Morgan. We may also mention, in this connection, Mr. John H. Huddilston's "Essentials of New Testament Greek," published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co.

Professor Ralph M. Tarr's "Elementary Physical Geography" (Macmillan) is a book so attractive in appearance, and so modern in method, that it should make instant appeal to the progressive educator. For one thing, it is a book like other books- not the ungainly and unwieldy quarto of which most children think when the word "geography" is mentioned. Much is gained by the octavo form, and little or nothing lost. Physical maps, fortunately, do not need the acreage of paper demanded by maps of the ordinary sort. It is hard to find a place for physical geography in the school curriculum; the high school does not want it, and the grammar school is not up to it. Such a book as Professor Tarr's, at any rate, is distinctly a manual for the secondary school.

LITERARY NOTES.

New editions of Mr. L. B. Seeley's "Horace Walpole and His World " and " Fanny Burney and Her Friends " are among the latest importations of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.

"La Recherche de l'Absolu," translated by Miss Marriage, with a preface by Mr. Saintsbury, is the latest addition to the acceptable Dent-Macmillan edition of Balzac in English.

Messrs. Putnam's Sons publish in their pretty leathercovered "Fly Leaves" series Thackeray's "Novels by Eminent Hands," and "The Echo Club" by Bayard Taylor, with a prologue by Mr. R. H. Stoddard.

Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole has translated half a dozen short tales from the Italian of Signor Giovanni Vergo, and published them through the Joseph Knight Co. in a neat volume. "Under the Shadow of Etna "is the title.

Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. have just published a selection from the poems of Mr. Austin Dobson, with illustrations by Mr. Hugh Thomson. "The Story of

Rosina and Other Verses" is the title of this charming volume.

"The Proverbial Philosophy of Confucius" is a yearbook from the Chinese classics, compiled by Mr. F. H. Jennings, and prefaced by the Hon. Pom Kwang Soh, Korean Minister of Justice. Messrs. Putnams are the publishers.

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