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 66 can be traced to Italian influence in one way or another."

A century of the Constitution of the

United States.

Under the title of "The Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century" (Heath), Mr.

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.

A volume of enter

Of all modern men, the Briton is taining dog-stories. 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

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

guage; 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. thor 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.

The au

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," " 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.

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.

"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 vol

umes 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.

A reader of THE DIAL wishes to find a short poem, published some years ago, based on the farewell of Andromache (Eneid, Book III.), of which he can recall but one line: "Her grief is more than I can bear." Can anyone identify the poem from this fragment?

The concluding volumes of the charming AitkenDent edition of Defoe (Macmillan) will include the rare "Due Preparations for the Plague," and a number of pamphlets relating to Captain Avery, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, and other pirates and robbers, now reprinted for the first time.

Messrs. Scribner's Sons' popular "Thistle Edition " of Stevenson's works is now completed, the final volume (the sixteenth) being devoted entirely to poetry. This edition is distinguished by some forty new poems (seventy pages), written principally during Stevenson's life in the South Seas, from 1888 to 1894.

The "Extension Bulletins" of the University of the State of New York are doing valuable work as adjuncts to popular education. The latest issues (October and November) are devoted, respectively, to "Study Clubs" and "Extension of University Teaching in England and America." The latter work is by Dr. James E. Russell, of the University of Colorado.

"Stepniak," the Russian revolutionist, was run over by a railway train near London, on the 23d of December, and instantly killed. His real name was never divulged to the English public, and the current newspaper statements that it was Dragomanoff are without foundation. "Stepniak" visited Chicago about four years ago, and gave a lecture before the Twentieth Century Club. He was a forcible writer and speaker, and the command of English displayed in his books is remarkable.

The new international magazine, "Cosmopolis," the first number of which is to appear in January, will deal with the literature, politics, and drama of England, France, and Germany. Each writer will use his own language, and his remarks will be confined to his subject in so far as it affects the country which he represents. On the English side, Mr. Andrew Lang has promised to contribute the literary, Mr. Henry Norman the political, and Mr. A. B. Walkley the dramatic material. Mr. Fisher Unwin is the English publisher of the magazine.

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That genial and wholesome family journal, "The Outlook," announces that hereafter one of its issues every month will be a "magazine number" that is, will be enlarged, abundantly illustrated, and otherwise made more like a monthly magazine than a weekly paper. A series of papers on "The Higher Life of American Cities" is promised as one feature of these "magazine numbers." Dr. Albert Shaw will write of New York, Mr. Melville Stone of Chicago, Dr. Edward Everett Hale of Boston, Mr. Talcott Williams of Philadelphia, Miss Grace King of New Orleans, and the Rev. John Snyder of St. Louis.

A Paris correspondent gives these interesting particulars regarding the library of the late Ernest Renan: "The complete catalogue of Renan's library has just been published. It will be well to add it to the writer's own works, for it is the bibliography of what he accomplished. Renan was not a bibliophile, and doubtless he took comparatively little interest in the form of a work. Books were for him above all tools. In turning over the leaves of his catalogue you enter really into the laboratory where all his life long he pursued unremit

tingly his scientific work, without rest, without discouragement, with an imperturbable faith, the faith of his youth in the future of science. The Oriental and Biblical collection is incomparably rich. It includes more than three thousand works. There are to be found all the books, reviews, and pamphlets which he consulted for his exegetical, philological, archæological, and historical studies. These books Renan loved as the companions of his great labors. He often expressed the hope that after his death they would not be dispersed. It is his family's wish that that desire should be fulfilled. They would like to dispose of the library as a whole, or at least not to let the richest portion of it — namely, the Oriental collection be sold by auction."

MR. WATSON'S SONNET TO AMERICA.

O towering daughter, Titan of the West,
Behind a thousand leagues of foam secure,
Thou toward whom our inmost heart is pure
Of all intent, although thou threatenest
With most unfilial hand thy mother's breast,
Not for one breathing space may earth endure
The thought of war's intolerable cure
For such vague pains as vex to-day thy rest.
But if thou hast more strength than thou canst spend
In tasks of peace, and find'st her yoke too tame,
Help us to smite the cruel, and befriend

The succorless, and put the false to shame:
So shall the ages laud thee, and thy name
Be lovely among nations to the end.

TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
January, 1895 (First List).

Architecture in America. John Stewardson. Lippincott.
Arnold's Letters. Herbert W. Paul. Forum.
Assyrian Art 3000 Years Ago. H. Spencer. Mag. of Art.
Bahama Folk-lore. Frederick Starr. Dial.
Blaine's Defeat in 1884. Murat Halstead. McClure.
Borchgrevink, the Norwegian Antarctic Explorer. Century.
Cell-Life, Processes of. David S. Jordan. Dial.
Census, The Federal. Carroll D. Wright. Forum.
Children of the Road. Josiah Flynt. Atlantic.
Chinese, Responsibility among the. C. M. Cady. Century.
Christ as Doctrine and Person. John Bascom. Dial.
Church Entertainments. William Bayard Hale. Forum.
Congress Out of Date. Atlantic.

Currency and Banking. Adolf Ladenburg. Forum.
English Oil Pictures, Modern. F. G. Stephens. Mag. of Art.
Euripides the Rationalist. William C. Lawton. Dial.
Field, Eugene, and his Child Friends. McClure.
Landmarks. Charles C. Abbott. Lippincott.
Locker, Frederick. Augustine Birrell. Scribner.
London's Underground Railways. E. R. Pennell. Harper.
Longfellow. Richard Henry Stoddard. Lippincott.
Moonshiner of Fact, The. Francis Lynde. Lippincott.
Painting, A Century of. Will H. Low. McClure.
Plea for.Sanity. Dial.

Post-Office, Emancipation of the. J. R. Proctor. Atlantic.
Public Schools, Criminal Crowding of. J.H.Penniman. Forum.
Railroad Rate Wars. John W. Midgley. Forum.
Reconstruction. George W. Julian. Dial.
Rome. F. Marion Crawford. Century.

Schoolhouse as a Centre, The. H. E. Scudder. Atlantic.
Sculpture in America. William O. Partridge. Forum.
Sport in Art. John G. Millais. Magazine of Art.
Sun's Light, The. Robert Ball. McClure.
United States Naval Academy. T. R. Lounsbury. Harper.
Waterways from the Ocean to the Lakes. Scribner.
Woman and the Bicycle. Henry J. Garrigues. Forum.
Wood Engraving, Present and Future of. Magazine of Art.
World's Congresses, Bibliography of the. C. C. Bonney. Dial.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

[The following list, containing 106 titles, includes books received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]

HISTORY.

The Tribal System in Wales: Being Part of an Inquiry into the Structure and Methods of Tribal Society. By Frederic Seebohm, LL.D. 8vo, uncut, pp. 349. Longmans, Green, & Co. $4.

The Makers of Modern Rome. By Mrs. Oliphant, author of "The Makers of Florence." Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 618. Macmillan & Co. $3.

The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay. By Sir J. R. Seeley, Litt.D. In 2 vols., with portrait, 12mo, uncut. Macmillan & Co. $3.50.

The Pilgrim Fathers of New England and their Puritan Successors. By John Brown, B.A.; with Introduction by Rev. A. E. Dunning, D.D. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 368. F. H. Revell Co. $2.50. The King's Peace: A Historical Sketch of the English Law

Courts. By F. A. Inderwick, Q.C., author of "The Interregnum." Illus., 12mo, pp. 254. Macmillan & Co. $1.50. The Journal of a Spy in Paris during the Reign of Terror, January-July, 1794. By Raoul Hesdin. 12mo, pp. 204. Harper & Bros. $1.25.

The Story of Marcus Whitman: Early Protestant Missions in the Northwest. By the Rev. J. G. Craighead, D.D. 12mo, pp. 211. Presbyterian Board of Pub'n. $1.

GENERAL LITERATURE.

Little Leaders. By William Morton Payne. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 278. Way & Williams. $1.50.

The Century Magazine, Vol. L. Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 960. The Century Co. $3. The Reader's Shakespeare: His Works Condensed, Con

nected, and Emphasized. By David Charles Bell. In 3 vols.; Vol. I., 12mo, pp. 496. Funk & Wagnalls Co. $1.50. Idyllists of the Country Side. By George H. Ellwanger, author of "The Story of My House." 18mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 263. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25. Macaire: A Melodramatic Farce. By Robert Louis Stevenson and William Ernest Henley. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 108. Stone & Kimball. $1.

The Proverbial Philosophy of Confucius. Compiled by Forster H. Jennings; with Preface by Hon. Pom Kwang Soh. 16mo, uncut, pp. 120. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1. Lovers Three Thousand Years Ago. As Indicated in the

Song of Solomon. By Rev. T. A. Goodwin, D.D. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 41. Open Court Pub'g Co. 50 cts. Fables and Essays. By John Bryan. 12mo, uncut, pp. 245. New York: Art and Letters Co.

NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE. Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. By Joseph V.

Von Scheffel; trans. from the German. In 2 vols., illus., 16mo, gilt tops, uncut. T. Y. Crowell & Co. Boxed, $2.50.

The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Edited and illus. by Arthur Layard; with Preface by John Cameron Grant. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 414. Macmillan & Co. $2.

"Thistle" Edition of Stevenson's Works. New vol.: The Wrecker. With frontispiece, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 497. Chas. Scribner's Sons. $2.

The Echo Club. By Bayard Taylor; with Prologue by Richard Henry Stoddard. 18mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 196. Putnam's "Fly Leaves Series." Boxed, $1.75.

Novels by Eminent Hands. By William Makepeace Thackeray. 18mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 161. Putnam's "Fly Leaves Series." Boxed, $1.75.

The Quest of the Absolute. By H. de Balzac; trans. by Ellen Marriage; with Preface by George Saintsbury. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 226. Macmillan & Co. $1.50. "People's" Edition of Tennyson's Poems. New vols.: Locksley Hall, and A Dream of Fair Women. Each, 24mo, uncut. Macmillan & Co. Per vol. 45 cts. POETRY.

The Story of Rosina, and Other Verses. By Austin Dobson; illus. by Hugh Thomson. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 120. Dodd, Mead & Co. $2.

Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy. Together with the Love Sonnets of Proteus. By Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. 8vo, uncut, pp. 203. Copeland & Day. $3.

Songs of Night and Day. By Frank W. Gunsaulus. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 144. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50. Songs, Chiefly from the German. By J. L. Spalding. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 215. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25. Birds of Passage: Songs of the Orient and Occident. By Mathilde Blind. 12mo, uncut, pp. 147. London: Chatto & Windus.

Dumb in June. By Richard Burton. 24mo, uncut, pp. 88. Copeland & Day. 75 cts.

A Doric Reed. By Zitella Cocke. 24mo, uncut, pp. 91. Copeland & Day. 75 cts.

Essie: A Romance in Rhyme. By Laura Dayton Fessenden. Illus., 12mo, pp. 93. Lee & Shepard. $1.50.

The Old-Fashioned Garden, and Other Verses. By John Russell Hayes. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 101. John C. Winston & Co.

Nicodemus. By Grace Shaw Duff, Illus., 12mo. Arena Pub'g Co. 75 cts.

FICTION.

By Robert Blatch12mo, gilt top, pp.

Tommy Atkins of the Ramchunders. ford, author of "Merrie England." 284. Edward Arnold. $1.25. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly. By Hamlin Garland. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 403. Stone & Kimball. $1.50. Samantha in Europe. By "Josiah Allen's Wife" (Marietta Holley). Illus., 8vo, pp. 714. Funk & Wagnalls Co. $2.50.

The Gypsy Christ, and Other Tales. By William Sharp. 18mo, gilt top, pp. 281. Stone & Kimball. $1.

A House-Boat on the Styx. By John Kendrick Bangs.
Illus., 16mo, pp. 171. Harper & Bros. $1.25.
Pinks and Cherries. By C. M. Ross. 16mo, uncut, pp. 253.
Macmillan & Co. $1.75.

The Shadow on the Blind, and Other Ghost Stories. By Mrs. Alfred Baldwin. Illus., 12mo, pp. 309. Macmillan & Co. $1.50.

Frederick. By L. B. Walford, author of "The Baby's Grandmother." 16mo, pp. 251. Macmillan & Co. $1.25. A Journey to Venus. By Gustavus W. Pope, M.D., author of Journey to Mars." Illus., 12mo, pp. 499. Arena Pub'g Co. $1.50.

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