Defence of the Alamo... Dryad, The. Early Rising... Evening Hymn, An.. Evolution. Face to Face.. Friendship.... .C. K. Bolton-Mag. W. Hist. H. R. Crane-St. Louis Mag. .E. L. Huggins-Overland. .Chas. F. Adams-Harper's. Mary E. Wilkins-Wide Awake. ..(Aug.)—All the Year Round. Clinton Scollard-Lippincott's. J. G. Saxe-Brooklyn Mag. .Reginald Heber-Quiver. .Edgar Fawcett-Lippincott's. .P. H. Hayne-Southern Biv. .F. W. J.-Temple Bar. From the Summit of Mt. Washington..F. A. Doughty-Outing. Lesson in Geography, A. Light That is Felt, A.. Links of Chance, The... Lost..... Lost Nora. Love Letter, A. Love of the Beautiful. Missing... Motherhood.. Roberts Burns-Welcome. .A. de Vere-Cath. World. Helen McClung-St. Louis Mag. .M. B. Jordan-St. Nicholas. J. G. Whittier-Young England. Outing. ..A. Hedbrooke-Atlantic. ......M. E. B.-Wide Awake. .Geo. E. Burgin-Home Chimes. ......A. G. B.-(2202) Littell's. .J. F. Smith-Sword and Trowel. F. L. Stealey-Wide Awake. E J. Pope-Welcome. .Florence Peacock-Chambers's. Lucile-Century. .Mary Knapp-Ballou's. .(Aug.) All the Year Round. ......Ballou's. .S. D.-Young England. ...London Society. ..Jas. Buckham-Brooklyn Mag. .B. Zim-Cosmop. Lizette W. Reese-St. Louis Mag. Nannie P. O'Donoghue-Chambers's. ...(Sept. 8)-Good Housekeeping. Poor Brown..... Revellers of Yore.. September Violet, A .Robert W. Cryan-Chambers's. ..Wm. Wordsworth-Harper's. H. M P.-Young England. .......J. H. Gurney-Young England. .Samuel Waddington-(2202) Littell's. Queen-M. E Wilkins-Wide Awake. Mariana N. Bisbee-Wide Awake. .E. L. Huggins-Overland. Sermon of a Statue, The... Quiver. .Sarah Doudney-Quiver. .Burt Ember-Literary Life. ..J. G. Saxe-Brooklyn Mag. .Esther B. Tiffany.-Wide Awake. ...... Mrs. J. S. Cressy-Ballou's .Clara Thwaites-Sunday Mag. ...J. B. Kenyon-Cosmop. .Malbecco-Phren. Jour. .H. W. Just-Sunday Mag. ..Sophie L. Schenck-Brooklyn Mag. .Robert W. Johnston-Century. ..S. M. B. Pratt-Century. Rose H. Lathrop-Atlantic. .Stephen E. de Vere (2202) Littell's. Sick Man to his Medicine Bottle..C. Helmore-London Society. Singing of the Magnificat, The.........E. Nesbit-Longman's. Sleepless......John Wentworth-(Sept 18) Good Housekeeping. Cornhill. Sleepless Night, A.. Slight Mistake, A.. Slumber Land, To.. Some Buttercups. Song... Song of Rest.. ..Clara J. Denton-St. Louis Mag. Song of the Farmer's Wife. W. S. Reed-(Sept.18) Good H'keep'g. Sonnets.. South Carolina Bourbon-Aet 79 Summer, Last of the. .Ethel Wilson-Welcome. ..A. H. L.-Church Mag. .S. Y.-South. Biv. Ballou's. .Mary L. Dickinson-Lend a Hand. ..E. D. Warfield-Literary Life. .D. J. Robertson-Longman's. .Harriet B. Stowe.. Fireside. .Hayley-Welcome. Margaret Johnson-St. Nicholas. ......M. B. M.-Cath. World. ..S. M. B. Pratt-Wide Awake. Rose Sedger-Sunday at Home. ....J. G. Whittier-South. Biv. Anna M. Pratt-St. Nicholas. .Lilian D. Price-St. Nicholas. ..Anna S. Reed-Overland. R. W. Gilder-Century. .S. G. Stock-Sunday at Home. . Alice Cary-Fireside. .F. W. B.-Leisure Hour. .E. Nesbit-Argosy. ..J. G. Saxe-Brooklyn Mag. Wilfred Woolam, B.A.-Cassell's. "Sardinian" When I Mean to Marry. Zahra of Bagdad, A. D. 1150. M. E. B.-Wide Awake. "Since brevity's the soul of wit, I will be brief."-HAMLET. TO THE READER. The books given under this heading comprise the principa books published during September. In the note, the idea has been to tell what the book is about, and the style in which it is written, rather than to give any criticism upon its merits. These brief, chatty outlines are in every instance the result of a careful reading and examination of each book by the editors of Book CHAT, and are not copied from other papers or reprinted from publishers' notices. ACCIDENTS AND POISONS.-A manual of simple, easy remedies to be tried in case of emergency, in cases of poisoning or sudden sickness, that will prove useful till the doctor comes. Symptoms of the various kinds of poisoning are given with the special treatment necessary. A chapter on calisthenics and the general care of the health is added.-Rand & McNally, .25 ADIRONDACK STORIES. By P. Deming, author of "Tompkins and Other Folks." New edition (Riverside Pocket Series).-This is a good season to reprint these sketches. To those who have spent the summer in the noble Adirondacks they will recall the flavor of the happy days, and those who did not roughit can have the pleasure without the inconvenience. Thus does philosophy multiply our joys and minify our sorrows. The eight stories are bright, real pictures of inan and nature in the mountain wilderness.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co. ADMIRAL BLAKE. By David Hannay. (English Worthies Series.)-The biographies of Robert Blake, we are told, are few and unreliable. This one is devoted almost entirely to the naval achievements of the admiral, the war with Holland, the fight with Tromp, the struggle in the Mediterranean, and the pursuit and capture of the plate ships. It is an interesting life, and important as being history and biography combined.-Appleton, .75 AGE OF ELECTRICITY. From Amber-Soul to Telephone. By Park Benjamin.-From the days back in the dusty archives of antiquity, when the attractive force of amber and similar substances first put thinking men on the track of discovering the hidden mystic power, down to to-day, when the telephone bell jingles persistently in our ears, is given a clear, practical idea of the progress of electrical science, and a simple, easy exposition of electro-magnets, motors, lights, telephones and telegraph Scribner's Sons, 2.00 THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. By the Comte de Paris. In the current discussion and testimony on scenes and battles of our late war, now waged in the magazines, this reprint from the Comte de Paris' History of the Civil War in America is specially valuable. It is the work of years of careful research and investigation of official sources of information, and has none of the prejudices or partisan spirit which tinges to some extent all American histories of the period.-Porter & Coates, 1.50 BERRIES OF THE BRIER. A collection of the poems of Arlo Bates, author of "A Wheel of Fire," etc. 16mo, gilt top. -Dainty outlines in a poet's sketch-book. Love, beauty, nature, each touch a chord in the hear; of the poet that vibrates after the thought that moved it is past. This collection of sixtythree poems is clever and pretty.-Lothrop, 1.00 THE CULTURE OF THE CRADLE.-These sincere, fervent chapters on the training of very young children, have a clearly defined religious spirit. The soul should be trained as early as the mind or body, and the education of the little ones is a most sacred trust as well as a joyous privilege. The deep thought, and loving, heartfelt experience shown in every line of these essays must prove of sympathetic aid to many mothers.Pott & Co., .50 THE CHRISTMAS WRECK. By Frank R. Stockton.This second series of short stories, reprinted from the magazines, contains: "The Christmas Wreck," "A Story of Assisted Fate," "An unhistoric Page," "A Tale of Negative Gravity," "The Cloverfield's Carriage," "The Remarkable Wreck of the 'Thomas Hyke,'" "My Bull-Calf," "The Discourager of Hesitancy (sequel to 'The Lady, or the Tiger?")," and "A Borrowed Month (East and West)."--Scribners, 1.25 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION. By William H. Payne, A. M.-Nearly twenty essays on 'open questions" in education, written with a view to incite deeper interest in the minds of teachers in the importance and nobility of their vocation, by bringing before them practical issues for their discussion and consideration. The intellectual life has its beauties and sturdy attractions in the school-room as well as in the library, and needs but thought to bring them out.-Harpers, 1.25 THE CHILD'S BOOK OF HEALTH. By Albert F. Blaisdell.-In very simple words, is given the story of the wonders of the human body, its structure, powers and use. Attention is paid to little things in care of the system by observing which health can be preserved. It makes physiology take its position in the primary school, where its importance should properly place it.-Lee & Shepard, .30 CARTHAGE.-By Alfred J. Church. (Story of the Nations. -The history of Carthage from its legendary founding by Dido, about 900 B. C., to its capture by Scipo 146 A. C. and its mergence into the Roman Empire, is unbroken in its continuity. It is divided into four parts-the early history, Carthage and Greece, Internal history of Carthage, and Carthage and Rome. The period covered has noble heroes, terrible wars, splendid buildings and luxurious life among the people have their picturesque side presented to the reader.-Putnam's, 1.50 DEEPHAVEN. By Sarah Orne Jewett. New edition (Riverside Pocket Series).-There is no plot, for the book does not need it; it is purely and simply the tale of life in a country town. Two real, lively young ladies, tired of the ordinary summer routine, hit upon the plan of roughing it by themselves in the romantic, rambling old Brandon house, near the sea. The story of their happy summer attracts us by its naturalness, simplicity and sympathy,-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., .50 ELOCUTIONIST'S ANNUAL, No. 14. Compiled by Mrs. Shoemaker.-New selections from the poets and humorists, and old favorites whose beauty makes them ever new, with a supplement of dialogues, tableaux, charades, and other matter to gracefully round off an evening's entertainment.-Nat. School of Oratory, .30 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. By Louisa Parsons Hopkins.-A treatise for parents and educators on the importance of a thorough understanding of the laws of the human mind and soul before assuming the position of instructor of the young. The subjects touched upon are: physiological psychiology, sense, perception, memory, imagination, judgment and reason, and taste, or the sense of beauty.-Lee & Shepard, .50 EXILE. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. New edition (Riverside Pocket Edition.)-Six short stories that, by virtue of some subtle power, the critics of the age have pronounced "classics." They comprise Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand," Griffin's "Swans of Lir," Greenwood's "Night in a Workhouse," Bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker Flat," Hale's "Man Without a Country," and De Quincey's Flight of a Tartar Tribe."Houghton, Mifflin & Co, .50 i A FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING. By H. Ewing. The incidents attendant to the purchase of the flat-iron increased and brought so much of interest in their train as almost to dwarf the importance of the original purchase. The life of a younger son is given with a realness and daintiness that has proven and will prove of interest to boys and girls.-Roberts, 1.00 FRANCIS. By M. dal Vero.-Miss Rose Caldicott, the squire's daughter, ventures to cross a narrow stream on a shaky tree-bridge. As she has nearly crossed, she looks back to observe a young man on the bank. Like Lot's wife, her indiscretion is speedily punished, for her foot slips, and she falls into the stream. Her gratitude to her rescuer leads her to patronize him, and she loans him books, and proceeds romantically to develop what she believes his rustic nature. But he is not the gruff worker he appears to be.-Harpers, .25 FOOTPRINTS IN THE FOREST. By Edward S. Ellis.— Otto Relstaub, a young German lad wandering away from his party on the journey from Kentucky to New Orleans, loses his horse and is captured by the Indians. Search is made for him, and the exciting adventures and perilous situations usually incident to such work, are here present in full force.Porter & Coates, 1.25 FULTON (ROBERT), AND A HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION. By Thos. W. Knox.-The one-third of this volume that relates to Fulton gives in plain untechnical language the story of the wonderful discoveries and inventions of the early days of steam engineering, with interesting data of other men who have aided in developing this wondrous power. The recent studies of marine science is shown by illustrations and descriptions of modern ocean steamers.Putnam's, 1.75 GLORIA VICTIS. By Ossip Schubin, translated by Mary Maxwell-In the gay city of Paris, Conte Capriani, a parvenu of doubtful ancestry, aspires for the hand of the daughter of an Austrian nobleman, Count Truyu, for his son. The latter rebels, so does Miss Gabrielle. The love story is pretty, tender, yet sad withal. The struggle of money against family name and lineage, the war of society, is strongly presented in the pictures of social life in France and Austria.-Gottsberger, paper, .50; cloth, .90 GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS. By Mrs. S. K. Bolten. -Histories of the world's heroines famous in literature, art, science and philantrophy. Some of our girls should read books of inspiring biographics to waken them from their dream of life as society martyrs. Many of them think a winter consists of so many balls, parties, teas and recreations, chasing each other in endless succession, like the motes in a ray of sunlight. They are blind to the golden opportunities in their daily life; these famous women were not, and it was this that helped to make them famous.-Crowell, 1.25 GRAMMAR FOR COMMON SCHOOLS. By B. F.Tweed. -This elementary grammar pre-supposes the scholar is able to talk fairly well and correctly, as far as his knowledge is gained by use and familiarity with the speech of others. He now requires to know the general principles, and to apply them to the sentences under discussion. The illustration is in each case given before the technical name is assigned, thus making the idea superior to the mere label.-Lee and Shepard, .30 GENIUS IN SUNSHINE AND IN SHADOW. By Maturin M. Ballou, author of "Edge-Tools of Speech."-Gossip about the great men of the world, showing what they accomplished under difficulties, their diverse powers, precocity, sacrifices of genius to gold, plagiarisms of authors, great fortunes and the thousand and one little incidents about great people that biographies conscientiously omit. Nearly 600 names are referred to. Will prove invaluable to lecturers and others for illustrative anecdotes.-Ticknor, 1.50 HELPING HIMSELF; OR, GRANT THORNTON'S AMBITION. By Horatio Alger, Jr.-In order to do his share towards bearing the load of family responsibility, Grant Thornton, a bright, plucky boy, gave up his hopes of a college education, and pushes on to New York to make his fortune. He was lucky in obtaining a foothold in the metropolis, and had just enough troubles, discouragements, and false accusations to defend, and brave acts to perform, to put him to his mettle, and make his adventures attractive to his young readers.-Porter & Coates, 1.25 HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE. By Frank B. Jevons, M.A.-The literature of Greece from the earliest period down to the death of Demosthenes, is grouped under six heads: Epic Poetry, Lyric Poetry, The Drama, History, Oratory, and Philosophy. It is designed mainly for students in universities and public schools. The best treatises in English, French and German, have been freely drawn upon for whatever of interest or value they may contain.-Sribners, 2.50. HOW. By C. M. W.-The latest rulings of the world of society on what is the proper thing in calls and receptions, weddings, debuts, parties, chaperons, guests, letter-writing, etiquette of street, home and table, giving a few hints on the unwritten law of the fashionable world, that one violates at his peril.-Ward & Co., .25 THE ILIAD OF HOMER. Books XVI.-XXIV. By W. S. Tyler, D.D.-This critical edition, prepared for the use of students who are already familiar with Greek Grammar and the archaic and dialectic forms of the Iliad. The text is for the most part that of Dindorf, though other readings are incorporated where advisable. The notes are full, and are the result of original study and a comparison with the wisdom of the best Homeric commentators.-Harpers, 1.50 IN BOHEMIA. By John Boyle O'Reilly.-Perhaps the most spirited poem in Mr. O'Reilly's new collection is "Ensign Epps" the hero of Flanders. Unlike the poet's previous volume, there is little in this one of powerful dramatic force. The verse is rather the gentle musical cadences of a poet's revery, graceful, dainty and sympathetic.-Pilot Publishing Co. the IN PERILS OFT. By W. H. Davenport Adams.-Biographies of some nineteenth century heroes whose checkered In careers read like pages from some thrilling romance. character, life and temperament, they differ widely, but their adventurous lives, in peril oft, rouse the latent spirit of hero-worship in hearts of all who can appreciate grand of fearlessness or self-forgetfulness. The names taken are Sir Sidney Smith, Armenius Vambéry, Earl of Dundonald, Joseph Wolff, Lieut. Schwatka, Sir Samuel Baker, Sir James Brooke, Wm. Gifford Palgrave, Edward O'Donovan, Prof. E. H. Palmer, and Gen. Gordon. -Crowell, 1.50 acts INTO UNKNOWN SEAS; OR, THE CRUISE OF TWO SAILOR BOYS.-By David Ker, author of "The Lost City." -The essential of a successful story for boys is action. Mr. Ker has had this idea well in mind in this tale of adventure in foreign seas. From Catania, near Mount Etna, they cruised in the yacht St. Christopher to Africa, passing many perilous and exciting situations, made even more striking by the strange people and countries on their way.-Harpers, 1.00 THE IRISH QUESTION. By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.-The "Grand Old Man," as he has reverently and affectionately been called, defines very clearly his platform, in the history of the idea and the lessons of the election, answering to some extent the doubts cast by some on his sincerity and his honor in the views taken by him, and in his manner of expressing them. He sees for Ireland a free, happy future, by a government that will leave the nation at liberty to develop its innate possibilities.-Scribner, .10 JOE WAYRING AT HOME; OR, THE STORY OF A FLY-ROD. By Harry Castlemon.-In a talkative mood a fish-rod tells the story of the fun it had fishing with Joe Wayring and his friends in their varied pleasures and escapades on the water. They organized a canoe club, held a meet in regulation style, hunted, tramped the wood, fearlessly shot the rapids, practised archery, spent their time in the open air, and had a jolly healthful life.-Porter & Coates, 1.25 JOHN PARMELEE'S CURSE. By Julian Hawthorne.-The curse that blighted the Parmelee household was opium. John Parmelee strangely disappears from his position of trust in the Tisdale Bank, on the night on which the bank is robbed. The scene of action changes to New York, giving sketches of the schemes of a trio of gay burglars, a Chinese opium joint, a court-trial, and other incidents peculiar to the metropolis.Cassell, 1.00 By Prof. THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. R. T. Ely.-An accurate, impartial story of the labor question in America, to plainly show the danger in the present crisis, and, by collecting evidence on both sides, to bring out more fully a discussion of the remedies that should be applied. The point of remedy, however, is rather incidental, as the paper is an excellent historical sketch of the movement. The best sources of information have been drawn upon, and the presentation's clear and logical.-Crowell, 1.50 LIVING PARIS AND FRANCE.-A guide to the monuments, manners, institutions, and the life of the people, and handbook for travellers on an entirely new and original plan. It comprises chapters on society, the clubs, the journals, sports and games, art, literature, the theatres, dining in Paris, museums and other public establishments,street monuments,and politics and the public service.-London, 3.00. THE LONG LANE. A novel. By Ethel Coxon.-Honor Denue, weary of her unhappy married life in Dorsetshire, fled to Wales, for rest and seclusion, in the quiet home of an old governess. Here she meets Stephen Nugent, who loves her madly at first sight. Like a noble woman she treats him coldly, but like a noble man he does not mind a trifle like that but loves on in spite of it. The long, dark lane of doubt and uncertainty turns slowly into the light of truth and duty.Harpers, .25 LOVE'S MARTYR. By Adolphe D'Ennery, author of "The Two Orphans."-Two Italian Bohemians, Peppo and his sister Gorgon, children of a low dancer, come into possession of papers and information which suggests to them the daring scheme of claiming a fortune of twenty million francs in Paris. They carry their plan into execution, are introduced to the best society of the metropolis, and by their beauty, brilliancy, and bold demeanor, have for a time most dazzling success.--Rand & McNally, .25 MAKING OF NEW ENGLAND, 1580-1643. By Samuel Adams Drake.-A series of pictures of sixty years of the early life of the colonies, arranged in order and time to form a complete story, although each sketch is perfect in itself and would form an admirable commentary to the study of early American history. It touches deep into the roots of the manners and customs of the time that have moulded the nation since grown from them.-Scribner's Sons, 1.50 MARY AND MARTHA. By Benson J. Lossing, LL.D., author of "Field-book of the Revolution."-This biography of the mother and the wife of George Washington gives in an entertaining form the result of deep and persistent historical research, which has discovered many fresh and interesting items not only of the home life of Washington, but of the early history of our nation, and men who figured therein as important factors.-Harpers, 2.50 MEDITATIONS OF A PARISH PRIEST. By Joseph Roux. These thoughts of a poetic mind have crystallized into happy metaphor, brilliant epigram, and striking paradoxes. The power of words in the hands of a master in photographing men and things in miniature is shown in his characteristics of groups of authors. Life, love, time, and religion, cover in a generic way the sum of his philosophy.-Crowell, 1.25. MEMOIRS AND LETTERS OF DOLLY MADISON, wife of James Madison, President of the United States. Edited by her grand-niece. The letters of Mrs. Madison are graceful, easy, and thoroughly free and unrestrained, as those an educated woman can only write. They tell of public events, private cares and worries, fashions, love affairs, marriages, and of many trials and troubles laid upon her lot. The pictures of men and women of the time are well worthy of note and careful reading.-Houghton, Mifflin, 1.25 AND A NATURAL SYSTEM OF ELOCUTION ORATORY. By Thos. A. Hyde and Wm. Hyde.-The human constitution and its qualities is the basis of this system. The idea has been to awaken the true passion fully, making the elocutionary expression of it real and subordinating gestures, inflection and tones to the feeling which they merely represent. Every mental act and emotion is carefully analyzed that its spirit and es sence may be thoroughly appreciated and applied. The selections for practice are appropriate and strong.-Fowler & Wells Co., 2.00 OGILVIE'S POPULAR READINGS, No. 34.-Complete stories by popular authors, comprising: "A Thorny Path," by Hesba Stretton, "Into the Shade." by Mary Cecil Hay, "For Love or Gold," by Miss J. S. Alcott," Upon the Waters," "Like No Other Love." "Proposing to Her," "Guiltless Prodigal," "At Last," and other stories.-Ogilvie & Co., .30 OLD COOKERY BOOKS AND ANCIENT CUISINE. By W. Carew Hazlitt.-The author, beginning with early MSS. and the earliest printed cookery books, gives an enteresting historical sketch of the subject of cookery, royal feasts, food of the early Englishman, meats and drinks, meals, and kitchens, with odd anecdotal lore, drawn from many sources. Some of the titles to the recipes, like politicians' letters, are susceptible of more thau one rendering, as, "To collar a pig," "To make a lumber pye,” To make the light wigs," and " To make worm-wood cakes." How appetizing they must be!-Geo. J. Coombes, 1.25 OUR GOVERNMENT. By Jesse Macy, A.M.-Aims to give in plain, simple language, an outline of the departments of the government, their scope, power and duties, their relation to each other and to the general internal workings of the nation. Great attention is paid to some points which works on this subject too often omit, that is, local government of towns and cities and their enactments on education, taxation, elections, and care of paupers. Ginn & Co., 1.00 OUTLINES OF ÆSTHETICS.-Dictated portions of the lectures of Hermann Lotze, translated by Geo. T. Lodd.-These notes on the beautiful comprise a systematic presentation of the author's opinions on the subject as viewed from a philosophic point of view. His belief is that beauty is given to man in the form of the idea, not as a concrete intuition or a finished conception. The beautiful in music, architecture, plastic art, painting and poetic art is considered.-Ginn & Co., 1.00 A PHANTOM LOVER; a Fantastic Story. By Vernon Lee, author of " Baldwin," &c.--An artist, telling the story of a sketch in his study, recounts his visits to a fantastic, lonely, ghosthaunted country house of Okehurst. The narrative is rather weird, strong, and thoroughly fantastic. In truth, Mr. Oke and his wife were an odd couple, and their doings and sayings consistent with their life.-Roberts .50. POVERTY GRASS. Short stories by Lillie Chace Wyman.Poverty grass gains nourishment from the sands, where other plants perish. These sketches are of those to whom life is a struggle, a hard battle with fortune against odds, and whose every step of progress is attained through difficulty. Almost unconsciously to the author the stories developed into a series illustrating Yankee, English, Irish and French characteristics-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.25 PRACTICAL VIOLIN SCHOOL. By J. M. Fleming. author of "Old Violins and Their Makers."-These papers are a re-issue of certain essays on learning to play the violin, that appeared in The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart. They have been carefully revised, and much new and valuable matter added. The illustrations are clear, and add much to the success of the book by readily supplementing the instructions given.-London, 3.00 RESCUE OF GREELY. By Comm. W. S. Schley and Prof. J. R. Soley.-Introductory to the story of the rescue of Greely is given an account of the original expedition to Lady Franklin Bay and of the two voyages undertaken for its relief before it left Discovery Harbor. The aim has been to give a clear history of the expedition rather than a criticism on individual acts. Much of the matter as to statements of facts was taken before the Court of Inquiry.--Scribners, 2,00 RIVERSIDE MUSEUM. By Jak.-Mr. Plimpton offered to his children an old vacant house on condition of their using it for some purpose that would tend to their mental and moral improvement. A museum was proposed, and successfully begun, and a library added. This is the centre of interest, but lots of fun in the shape of excursions, mysteries and youthful pranks, very naturally take up much time of the young enthusiasts.Crowell, 1.25 A ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY. By Robert Grant.-This romantic young lady, fair, well-educated and wealthy, had all the essentials of a most sentimental existence. She falls into love, or thinks she does, with a young man who adores her father's fortune. Then by natural evolution she turns her attention to deep study of the soul, the balance of the over-soul and other current riddles of the philosophers. When she becomes quite sensible she does more romantic things than before. The story is witty, clever, interesting. and so keenly cynical that you wonder it is with his readers or with his characters the author is jesting.-Ticknor, 1.50 A SECRET OF THE SEA, and Other Stories. By Brander Matthews.-The initial story records the adventures of an ocean steamer with a shipload cf pirates who attack her and search for ⚫ her treasures. The other tales are clever and pleasant reading"Love at First Sight," "Brief-as Woman's Love," "Perchance t Dream," Perturbed Spirits," and "Esther Feverel."-Scribners, cloth, 1.05; paper, .50 SERVICES OF WASHINGTON. By Wm. Everett.-An anniversary address, delivered in the historic Old South Meeting House, Boston, before the school children of the "Hub," bringing charly to their minds the lesson that the greatness of America's hero was his goodness, and that though they may never be tamous as he, they can ever emulate his good example and strive to be true, wise, fearless, noble, patriotic and masters of themselves and circumstances.-Roberts, .15 SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS. By Henry M. Brooks (Olden Time Series, No. 5).-We read ofttimes, in old romances and histories, of criminals having the choice of punishments for their crimes. Here is a good list to choose from: branding and burning, cropping ears, fines and imprisonments, gagging, dipping and ducking, hanging in chains, placing in the bilboes, the pillory and the stocks, selling into slavery, tying neck and heels and throwing into a pond, tying to guns and trees, boring the tongue with a hot iron, traversing the treadmill, exposing upon the gallows, and whipping at the cart's tail and the whipping post. And all this in our grandfather's time !-Ticknor, .50 A STEP ASIDE; a Novel. By Charlotte Dunning Pauline Valrey, daughter of a French artist, and teacher in a New York boarding-school, is beloved by Hugh Langmuir. Circumstances place her in a wealthy family, where she is dazzled by the glare and glitter and beauties around her. But that one step aside gave opportunity to a noble man to bear the sin of another.-Houghton, Mifflin, 1.25 ST. JOHN'S EVE. By Nikolai V. Gogol.-Five short stories, told to pass away the long evenings in the house of the bee-farmer, Rodnii Panks, near Dikanka. They are strong sketches, almost fierce in parts, but powerful in description and observation. Besides the title-piece, "St. John's Eve," are: "Old Fashioned Farmers," How Ivan Ivanovitch quarrelled with Ivan Mikiforovitch," "The Portrait" and "The Cloak," all excellent pictures of life among the common people of Russia.-Crowell, 1.25 SHORT STORIES FROM THE DICTIONARY. By Arthur Gilman.-Probably the dictionary is the last book in the world, possibly excepting the Fatent Office Report that the average reader would care to read and study. But there are real beauties in thought, origin and application of the words we daily use. Young people will find lots of information in these careful chapters that may lead them to follow the example of that great orator who read the dictionary through regularly at certain intervals.-Interstate Publishing Co. STORIES FROM LIFE. By Sarah K. Bolton, author of "Poor Boys Who Became Famous."-A collection of stories taken from every-day life, tales of the home, the store and the workshop, treating of the mistakes, troubles, hardships, joys, pleasures, hopes and fears, and the victory gained by temptation resisted or reverses nobly borne.-Crowell, 1.25 VAGRANT VERSES. By Rosa Mulholland.—“ Vagrant is a fit word to describe Miss Mulholland's verse, when we define it as going from one subject to another, like a bee flying from flower to flower for honied sweetness. Love for Ireland, her patriots and heroes, permeates every thought. The beauty of nature in her varied moods finds a sympathetic observer in the author. The poems of love and religion are dainty, chaste and heartfelt.-Gill & Co., Dublin, 1.50 VIEWS OF ENGLISH SOCIETY, By a Little Girl of Eleven.-A child of eleven sometimes has the ability to make uncalled-for remarks at table, sincere but unnecessary comments on the dress and acts of others, exposures of family secrets, and candid expressions of opinions, &c., that would make a grown person an acknowledged bore, but we pass it over and call it "cunningness." Miss Dolly lets the cat out of the bag frequently and successfully.-London, 1.00 VOYAGES OF A MERCHANT NAVIGATOR OF THE DAYS THAT ARE PAST, compiled from the journals and letters of the late Richard J. Cleveland, by H. W. S. Cleveland. -The perilous and adventurous voyages of Mr. Cleveland began in the latter part of the 18th century, when the shipping of the young republic was commencing to show its first signs of enterprise The long cruises to Cape of Good Hope, Italy, Mexico, Peru and other distant ports, are described with picturesque force, and a happy power of making graphic and real some most thrilling episodes.-Harpers, 1.25 WATERY WANDERING 'MID WESTERN LOCHS. By T. H. Holding.--Four enthusiastic canoeists leave Greenock for a cruise through the Firth of Clyde and the western Lochs of Scotland. It was no easy trip in open lake, with great waves and a stiff breeze from the mountains keeping the water in constant motion. Occasional landings and investigations into local points of interest, with fun and conversation, made the cruise happy, yet spiced with exhilarating danger.London, 1.25 A WHITE HERON, and Other Stories. By Sarah Orne Jewett. Miss Jewett's writings are always dainty, pure and nature-loving. You are out of doors with her, and feel a frank fellowship with her characters and descriptions. These nine stories, with two exceptions, are reprinted from Harper's and the Atlantic. The titles are: "A White Heron," "The Gray Man," "Farmer Finch," Marsh Rosemary." "The Dulham Ladies," "A Business Man," 'Mary and Martha," "The News from Petersham," and "The Two Browns."-Houghton, Mifflin, 1.00 A WICKED GIRL. By Mary Cecil Hay.-A certain amount of wickedness can be tolerated in a man, but when a girl like Miss Ella Hope becomes wicked we have a strangely mixed sensation of horror and impatience. Under the semblance of gentle rectitude she covered a black heart that Milton's fallen angels would have shuddered at. We hope she was insane, and if she were not she should be.-Harpers, .25 WRITING FOR THE PRESS. By Robert Bruce.-This does not pretend to be a cyclodædia of journalism. It is a simple, practical manual to show people who have brains enough to write for the press, a few of the snags they must avoid, and a friendly caution as to the use of certain words or classes of words, and forms of expressions tabooed in the best newspaper offices.-Robert Luce, Boston, .25 YOUNG FOLKS' ENTERTAINMENTS. By E. C. and L. J. Rook.-The material here collected to make the school entertainments of the young folks bright and attractive are grouped as acting-charades, pantomine-charades, shadows, dialogues, tableaux, concert exercises, and readings and recitations. Two pretty drills, for fan and tambourine, modelled after the famous broom brigades, should meet with favor by those on the lookout for good things-Nat. School of Oratory, .40 |