The phonographic phrase book. 1889. The phonographic reporter; or, Reporter's companion; an adaptation of phonography to verbatim reporting. 1889. The phonographic teacher; a guide to the art of phonography or phonetic shorthand. 1889. 1889. - Key to the phonographic teacher. Plympton, A. G. Dear daughter Dorothy. Narrates the sunshiny course through babyhood to the early maturity of eight years of age of a charming little girl." Ramakrishna, T. Life in an Indian village; with introd. by Sir M. E. G. Duff. "A series of bright and pleasing descriptive sketches with dialogues illustrating the manners and customs that prevail in small villages of some fifty or sixty houses in the Madras Presidency. The book is thoroughly interesting and readable. Varied and lively pages, the accuracy of which is attested by Sir M. E. Grant Duff, who supplies an excellent introduction.". Sat. rev., Nov. 7. Remy, P: Catalogue des tableaux et dessins précieux des maîtres célèbres, figures de marbres, de bronze, etc., du cabinet de feu M. Randon de Boisset. 1777. Rollin, F. A. Life and public services of Martin R. Delany. 1883. Rome. Istituto di Diritto Romano. Bullettino; pubb. per V. Scialoja. Anno. 1, fasc. 1-6. 1888. Roth, H. L. The aborigines of Tasmania; assisted by M. E. Butler; with a chapter on the osteology by J. G. Garson; pref. by E: B. Tylor. "It is not likely that any material addition will here. after be made to our sources of information about the Tasmanian people, and the time has come, therefore. for Mr. Roth's work to be acceptable and useful. That it is trustworthy and thorough may be assumed from the circumstance that he has secured the assistance and the approval of judges so competent as Dr. Tylor, and Dr. Garson." Athenaeum, Oct. 18. Russell, W: H. A visit to Chile and the nitrate fields of Tarapacá. "To a mere incident the public are indebted for this delightful volume from the still bright and graphic pen of the veteran Times 'Crimean correspondent. The results of Dr. Russell's observations on the spot are here placed before the reader in the lucid manner we should expect from a recognised master of descriptive language. His report is all the more welcome that, despite their great economic value, and scientific interest, there exists no trustworthy popular account of the rich deposits of raw nitrate of soda, spread over a large extent of the rainless zone on the South American seaboard, and not known to occur in any other part of the world." Academy, Oct. 18. Salt, H. S. Life of H: D: Thoreau. "There is ample room for Mr. Salt's biography, and it is timely. It is not a great critical study, nor is it such a revelation of the inner man as a discreet disciple could give. I should say Mr. Salt has been neither a profound student nor a disciple of Thoreau, but has considered him and learned what he knows about him mainly for the purposes of this biography. He has taken pains to make his work complete and accurate, and the mistakes are few and not important. He gives the details of Thoreau's career, describes his person, his habits, his work, and his opinions. He provides just the book on the subject that is needed at the present time, producing for the first time, a clear, system. atic story of Thoreau's remarkable career." -Acad. emy, Oct. 25. Scherr, J: Haidekraut, ein neues Skizzen- und Bilderbuch. [1883.] Shakespeare, W: Shakespearean extracts from E: Pudsey's booke, temp. Q. Elizabeth and K. James I.; which include some from an unknown play; also records of the Shakespeares of Smithfield and Wroxall; coll. by by R: Savage. [1888.] Spalding, Lieut.-Col. H: Suvoróff. "On the whole Colonel Spalding has done his work very well. He has gone to Russian not to French sources, for his information. From first page to last, the book is intensely interesting." Spectator, Oct. 25. Taunton, Mass. Quarter-millennial celebration, June 4, 5, 1889. Tennyson, F: The isles of Greece; Sappho and Alcæus. "The fluency and freshness of Mr. Tennyson never fail him; his heroines and heroes live to him, in a land of eternal summer, amid immortal memories, and with a dim hope clinging to them that death may not be the end that it appears. It contains between twelve and thirteen thousand lines, and there is not really poetic material in it, corresponding to this bulk. There is no growth, no concentration of interest in it: Linked sweetness long drawn out' defines it exactly. The sweetness saves it from being dull. The personality of Sappho as here depicted seems to me to be just such a shock to all previous notions of her as would be received by a person, who, looking for a draught of fiery wine, quaffed by mistake a sort of drench of pure but tepid water." - Academy, Nov. 1. Thomas, C. The circular, square, and octagonal earthworks of Ohio. The problem of the Ohio mounds. Vermont Centennial Commission. Centennial anniversary of the independence of the State of Vermont, and the battle of Bennington, Aug. 1877. 1879. Five years with Ward, H., and Bidwell, D. D. the Congo cannibals. "This book has a special interest from the fact that the author was a member of the Rear Guard of Mr. Stanley's expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha. His book is not a continuous narrative, but a series of sketches of the various river-tribes between Stanley Falls and the sea, and of personal adventure. They are in the main well told, and give a good idea of the habits and appearance of the native, as well as of the life of an officer of the Free State."- Nation, Nov. 6. Watkins, H: W: Modern criticism in its relation to the fourth Gospel; Bampton lectures, 1890. "Archdeacon Watkins is a scholar who has some claim to be ranked so far as his mastery of the modern criticism on his subject goes with the late Bishop Lightfoot himself. We will not say that he brings quite the same sagacity and force of judgment to bear on his learning, but he certainly seems to bring a mass of learning almost or quite as elaborate to his task, and to arrange and classify that learning with a clear and sound apprehension of its practical drift and upshot. The part of his subject which he has treated with the greatest force, and which is intrinsically the most interesting in his lectures, is the bearing of modern criticism on the question as to the early existence of the Fourth Gospel in its present form, and the earliest date at which it can be formally proved that it was acknowledged as the Gospel of St. John." - Spectator, Oct. 25. Wilson, Sir D. Address at the convocation of the University of Toronto, Oct. 1st. Zacher, J. Pseudo callisthenes; Forschungen zur Kritik und Geschichte der ältesten Aufzeichnung der Alexandersage. 1867. Abbott, C: C. Outings at odd times. "More in the vein of the naturalist and the investigator than of the landscape-lover. This little volume is distinguished from others of its kind by freshness in the subject, by an individual point of view, and by attention to what seems exceptional in the open book of the fields and woods. The brief essays are well varied, and make the most agreeable of way-side reading; but we must regard the winter scenes and adventures, the explorations under the mud and by night, as the most successful parts of his work."- Nation, Nov. 2. ... "That Mr. Stanley deliberately made a Uriah of the Major, as his brother seems half to believe, or only expected him to be of use in an ivory-carrying expedition, we need not hold. But there is no doubt that he so arranged matters that almost all the chances of success were with himself, and all those of failure were with his subordinate. The book is painful reading. The redeeming point is the curious simplicity and affec tionateness of the man. Harsh as his discipline was, and was necessarily, he seems not to have taken the slightest pleasure, but the reverse, in severity: His letters to his parents, his sisters, his little nephews and nieces are delightful. Throughout he goes, except for pluckiness, as a sheep to the slaughter, and we can quite understand the indignation with which his family regard Mr. Stanley's at the best most ungenerous treatment of one who was his scapegoat, and his whipping boy, and who may not too unjustly be called his victim." Sat. rev., Nov. 8. Beale, W. (pseud. W. Maynard). The light of other days; seen through the wrong end of an opera glass. 2 v. "Mr. Beale does not profess to write a history of the musical world during the period he has known it, and we miss much that we should have been glad to hear of musicians who visited and distinguished themselves in England in the years which the book covers. But perhaps the author does well to confine himself to people and matters that have come under his personal observation, and we gladly bear witness to the fact that his recollections are given with no transgression of good taste. There seem to have been few famous singers and instrumentalists of the day that did not perform for Mr. Beale in his capacity of impresario. A considerable portion of the two volumes is taken up with reminiscences of Signor Mario and his no less famous wife."- Sat rev., Nov. 29. Belleval, R., marquis de. Azincourt. 1865. Blades, W: Bibliographical miscellanies. No. 1, 3. Bonnières, R. de (pseud. Janus). Mémoires d'au jourd'hui. 3e sér. 1888. "Under the signature of 'Janus' he contributed to the Figaro' between 1880 and 1884, a series of portraits and criticisms from among which two volumes have already been published."- Nation, Mar. 31, 1887. "C'est un supplément precieux au Dictionnaire des contemporains' de Vapereau. Janus vous raconte pré. cisément ce qu'on aurait bien voulu savoir et qu'un grave Dictionnaire ne pouvait décemment vous dire." — Bibl. univ., avr., 1883. Browne, W: H. George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Baltimore. (Makers of America.) "Altogether this is a solid and scholarly performance, well planned and adapted to its subject, with little attempt at description of manners, with few moving accidents, never exciting, but excellently written and readable." - Nation, Nov. 27. Bruce, H: Life of General Oglethorpe. (Makers of America.) "Had Mr. Bruce given less space to Prince Eugene, and Bishop Berkeley, and the deathbed of Pope, at which Oglethorpe was not present, and to half a hun. dred other people and events but remotely connected with his subject, he would perhaps have written a less amusing book, but he might have found space to make clearer to us the behaviour of Charles Wesley as the General's secretary, and might even have had room for a little more information than he has chosen to insert about the colony of Georgia and Oglethorpe's campaign." Nation, Nov. 27. Bunner, H: C. "Short sixes;" stories to be read while the candle burns. Burn, J: S. Registrum ecclesiae parochialis; the history of parish registers in England, foreign countries, the Fleet, etc., with observations on bishops' transcripts, and the act of 52 George III, cap. 146. 1829. Caine, W: S. Picturesque India; a handbook for travellers. "The body of the work is excellent, and, at every point where we have tested it, it bears examination well. He has worked into a consecutive narrative the cream of the knowledge accumulated by careful perusal of the books of Mr. Fergusson on Indian architecture, and Sir George Birdwood on Indian art. His directions to the traveller as to kit and habits are very good." Athenæum, Nov. 8. Castelnuovo, E. Nella lotta; romanzo. 1884. Chapman, E. R. A companion to In memoriam. 1888. Cook, E: T. Studies in Ruskin; some aspects of [his] work and teaching; with reprod. of drawings by [him] in the Ruskin Drawing School, Oxford. "The first part deals with the Gospel according to Ruskin its principles of art, its applications to life. The second, which will be read with even greater attention has to do with some practical aspects of Mr. Ruskin's work -- his Oxford Professorship and the outAnother come of it, the Ruskin Drawing School. chapter is devoted to the annual May Queen festival at Chelsea, for which Mr. Burne Joues or Mr. Severn de sign the queen's' golden cross. The St. George's Guild is next referred to, with its museums, its lands, its mills and other industries." Corbett, E: An old coachman's chatter; with some practical remarks on driving. "Reminiscences of professional driving; and in spite of the exhaustive work recently issued in the Badminton Library,' we are inclined to think a good many excellent lessons may here be picked up by the aspirant, as well as many glimpses of a time when life was more picturesque than it is now if not so luxurious. The author disclaims any acquaintance with the Duke of Beaufort's compilation, the reading of which he has postponed till the publication of his notes of a long career on the road, and we doubt not he will be gratified to find how often he 'travels in good company." "-Athendum, Nov. 8. Drayson, Major Gen. A. W. Untrodden ground in astronomy and geology; further details of the second rotation of the earth, etc. "General Drayson's theory enables him from a sin. gle observation to calculate the polar distance of a star for any future date a feat far beyond the intellectual calibre of certain gentlemen who have distinguished themselves by rushing in where more prudent persons would hesitate to trend.' He has told them so; and they characterize his discovory as a vague theory with which they do not agree.' He has plied the Royal As tronomical Society with nautilus curves, and has been met, he says, with polite pigeon-holing." — Sat. rev., Oct. 18. Duckett, Sir G: F. Visitations of English Cluniac foundations, 1262-79, tr. from the orig. records; added, in part, those of 1298-1405; with [an] ordinance. ... "Sir George Duckett, who has done so much to inintroduce the records of Cluny to the notice of the English readers, has dealt in this brochure with some documents of unusual interest. The most striking feature of all these reports is their tone of frankness and fairness amidst the jangle of testimony, condemnatory and the reverse, adduced by polemic students writing with a parti pris,' it is refreshing to meet with the wit ness of those who have no case to establish, and who record with equal fidelity the good and the bad.". Athenæum, June 14. Dürrbach, F. L'orateur Lycurgue, étude historique et littéraire. Farjeon, B: L. A very young couple. "In A very young couple' Mr. Farjeon tries a vein of humour for which he is totally unfitted; and in consequence, it is, all things considered, the greatest blunder he has ever made in fiction." — Academy, Nov. 8. Farrar, F: W: The minor prophets. "He has compressed into a small space, and arranged clearly and conveniently, a large mass of information." Academy, Aug. 2. Fischbach, Fr. A magyar házi ipar diszitményei; [ornament in the domestic industries of Hungary. 18-] 32 plates. Fletcher, J. S. A short life of Cardinal Newman. "A brief, pleasant, and unpretentious biography, the work of a Catholic who aims rather at telling a plain story than at controversial display." — Academy, Nov. 15. "Saving the interesting set of letters addressed to Mrs. Brydges Willyams, which constitutes the only part of the work novel to the public, Mr. Froude has had access only to material which is open to all the world, and with it he has constructed a volume most attractive as an example of English style, and highly interesting as a criticism of the work of one great writer by another; and when we contemplate the possibility that in the future the history of the great educator of the Tory party may be written by a Conservative Democrat of that new type which he created, but which, like most created things, has no conception of its creator, and that the wondrous figure of Disraeli may be fash ioned like that image of Lord Beaconsfield in Palace Yard bedecked with tributary garlands, we regretfully wish that the powerful hand which has produced this sketch of a biography may retain its strength long enough to complete the work."— Athenæum, Nov. 15. Godwin, Mrs. M.. W. Vindication of the rights of woman; with strictures on political and moral subjects. New ed.: with introd. by Mrs. M. G. Fawcett. Green, A.. K.., now Mrs. Rohlfs. A matter of millions; a novel. "An excellent story, though the complications of the plot are almost extravagant."— Spectator, Oct. 18. Haggard, H: R., and Lang, A. The world's desire; a novel. "It is not yet quite an every-day feat to write a novel successfully in collaboration, and it is audacious to take up the story of Ulysses where tradition or the classics of the second rank leave it and carry it on to his death. Messrs. Rider Haggard and Lang have done both, and that with a degree of success upon which it is pleasant to congratulate them. The blend is singularly successful. Among the courageous ingenuities which the volume contains, perhaps none is more striking than Helen's explanation that when she went off with Paris, he had by magic arts made up as Menelaus, and she thought him her husband. This account of the matter may be true; but there have been several others." Sut. rev., Nov. 22. Harte, F. B. A ward of the Golden Gate. "Among the mass of weak and poorly written fiction, English and American, that continues to flow from the press, Mr. Bret Harte's vigourous and careful work always makes an agreeable contrast. Though this is not one of his best stories, it has the merits of a fairly interesting plot, a good deal of real humour, and some dashes of strong pathos."— Athenæum, Nov. 15. ... Hayden, E. West Indian hurricanes and the March blizzard, 1888. Hector, Mrs. A. F. A woman's heart; a novel. Higginson, T. W., and Bigelow, E. H. American sonnets. Imbert de Saint-Amand, A. L., baron. CitizenessBonaparte; tr. by T: S. Perry. Marie Louise and the decadence of the Empire; tr. by T: S. Perry. "In these narratives, or pictures, as they might fairly be called, the author takes us behind the scenes of the great Napoleonic drama. He shows us the human interests that lay behind the attitudes, the speeches, the actions of the great players. Notwithstanding that he comes to the task of narrating this epoch in the history of his country with the convictions and prejudices of a royalist, his treatment of it is very just, very moderate, and let us say, very human." — Nation, Dec. 18. International American Conference, Wash., 1889. Minutes; [in Eng. and Span.]. Ireland. Register Office General. Varieties and synonyms of surnames and Christian namesin Ireland, by R. E. Matheson. "It contains a list of nearly 2000 surnames in Ireland, with their variations and equivalents in common use. Many of the equivalents are to all appearances totally distinct names. Variations in Christian names are also made the subject of a short chapter. Three short preliminary chapters touch on the origin and philosophy of the changes which names in Ireland have undergone." Nation, July 24. Jephson, A. J. M., and Stanley, H: M. Emin Pasha and the rebellion at the equator; a story of nine months' experiences in the last of the Soudan provinces. "More than a mere narrative of personal adventure. It gives an account of the downfall of the Equatorial Province, and furnishes, as well, an important chapter in the history of Mr. Stanley's expedition. There is nothing in it of the dry official tone of a report, but it is an unaffected, straightforward statement of what the author saw, told with more than ordinary descriptive power." -Nation, Nov. 13. Jerome, J. K. Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog). "Written entirely in colloquial clerk's English of the year 1889. ... It is intensely colloquial, and as an attempt to reproduce without any kind of literary admixture, the ordinary talk of ordinary young people of today, it seems to us remarkable, especially as the whole book is kept at the same simple and yet abnormal level of style. For the future student of late Victorian slang, Three men in a boat' will be invaluable, if he is able to understand it."- Sat. rev. Kidson, F. Old English country dances; gathered from scarce printed collections and mss., with notes and bibliography of English country dance music. Lancaster, Mass. Birth, marriage, and death regter, church records, and epitaphs, 1643-1850; ed. by H: S. Nourse. Livre moderne, Le; revue du monde littéraire et des bibliophiles contemporains; pub. par O. Uzanne. Vol. 1. Lowell, J. R. Writings. (Riverside ed.) Vol. 1-4, 7-10. 8 v. Macklin, Rev. H. W. Monumental brasses. "A cheap and portable handbook dealing with monumental brasses has long been a desideratum, existing books on the subject being for the most part costly and necessarily large in size. Mr. Macklin's little volume is specially intended for collectors and makers of brass rubbings. It is to be commended for the pur poses for which it is written, and within the limits which the author intended." - M. W. Conway in the Academy, Nov. 22. Marston, E: How Stanley wrote "In darkest Africa;" a trip to Cairo and back; partly a repr. from Scribner's magazine. Martin, E: S. A little brother of the rich; and other verses. verse. "A delightful little book of thoughtful and clever The author writes gracefully, is fairly care. ful of his art, and always has something to say." Critic, Nov. 15. Mayo, Rev. A. D. The third estate of the South; address before the Amer. Soc. Sci. Assoc., at Saratoga. Modern Language Assoc. of Amer. Transac tions and proceedings. Vol. 1-3. 1884-88. Modern men; from the Scots observer. "Some of the sketches are affected by party politics others are too‘savage,' but many of them are decidedly clever."- - Athenæum, Sept. 20. Moore, A. W. The surnames and place-names of ... the Isle of Man; with introd. by J: Rhys. "Mr. Moore has done, and done well, a kind of work which is, so far as we know, unique in its class. Like almost every other good book, Mr. Moore's volume contains much of interest beyond the subject on which it professedly treats. The student of folk-lore should carefully examine its pages." Notes and queries, Oct. 11. Moore, J. B. Report [on] extradition. Munro, R. The lake-dwellings of Europe; Rhind lectures in archæology, 1888. "Doctor Munro's book is infinitely rich in detail, is very clear and systematic, and has every aid that can be given by illustration, index, and bibliography. It is a great addition to the valuable series of Rhind lectures." Sat. rev., Oct. 18. Noyes, I: P. How to be weather wise; a new view of our eather system. [1882.] Our national cathedrals; their history and architecture; with accounts of modern restorations; illust.; comp. and rev. with the aid of dignitaries of the Anglican Church. 188789. 3 v. Pellow, T: Adventures; 23 years in captivity among the Moors; ed., with introd. and notes, by Dr. R. Brown. (Adventure ser.) "The true history of a naughty boy who persuaded his fond parents to let him take a trip to sea, in 1715. The naïveté' of his utterances is engaging, and the ancient English of Queen Ann in which they are couched gives the whole a Robinson-Crusoe-like air very appetizing to lovers of the strange adventures of a runaway.' Critic, Nov. 15. Perry, N. Another flock of girls. A scamper through some cities of America; record of a three months' tour in the U. S. and Canada. "Pleasantly and modestly told, and here and there he drops a hint that might be valuable to young travellers." Prudden, T. M. Dust and its dangers. "An admirably practical little handbook." Rame, I... de la (pseud. Ouida). Ruffino; and other stories. "Ouida appears to be more and more cultivating what may be called her later manner. No more roses dipped in Burgundy; no more allusions to the less reputable personages of classical mythology; no more superfluity of naughtiness in men, women, and children. She has become a melancholy, improving story-teller, a kind of Miss Edgeworth dashed with Schopenhauer."— Athenæum, Oct. 25. Rayner, J. ... Chess problems; their composition and solution. "Its purpose is to popularise problem composition and solution among young players. The reader is assumed to know little or nothing beyond the moves, and everything has been done to make the whole as simple and interesting as possible." Richer, J: Le Mercure françois, ov svitte de l'Histoire de la paix, etc. T. 1, 14, 18. 1611-33. 3 Y. A continuation of the Chronologie septenaire [of V. P. Cayet. Rondeaux et autres poésies du 15e siècle, pub. par G. Raynaud. (Soc. des Anc. Textes Franç.) Rowing at Westminster, 1813-83; extracted from the school water-ledgers. "An interesting memorial volume illustrated by some pretty etchings by Mr. Herbert Marshall. The record preserves the names of the various crews and those of their opponents, with a complete list of 'heads of the water, whether Queen's scholars or town boys."— Sat. rev., Aug. 30. Ryland, F: Chronological outlines of English lit erature. "The plan of Mr. Ryland's book, broadly speaking, is that of a synchronism of books and events. In five parallel columns he professes to supply us, firstly, with the titles of all English publications assignable to any given year; secondly, with such concurrent biographi cal facts as go to make up the literary perspective; thirdly, with the names of European works of paramount importance appearing at the same time; fourthly, with all contemporaneous historical events of firstrate moment; and, lastly, under the head of Annotations' with any leading bibliographic details which may ap pear to demand mention. It is only fair to admit that this volume contains a vast mass of admirably arranged facts, testifying to immense labour on the part of their compiler; and we have no reason for supposing that the work does not in general represent such a degree of accuracy as the student has a right to demand."- Specta tor, Nov. 22. Sargent. J. F. Reading for the young; classified and annotated catalog. Schrader, O. Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples; a manual of comparative philology, and the earliest culture; tr. by F. B. Jevons from the 2d Germ. ed. ... "Excellent translation of Dr. Schrader's important work. This volume brings together almost all the evidence which language, prehistoric relics, and the no. tices of classic writers can furnish on the subject. As a storehouse of materials for the study of prehis toric times, and as an important summary of the latest discoveries within the limits indicated by its English title it is decidedly superior to all others that have been pub. lished on this subject." Critic, Nov. 22. Scott, Sir W. Journal; from the original manu script at Abbotsford. 2 v. "Scott would hardly have been persuaded that in many respects this private journal was his greatest work, and of course, imaginatively speaking, it is far from his greatest work, but it is certainly the work which is more likely to subdue other minds, struggling with much less, but to their lesser powers perhaps relatively equal burdens, to that spirit of deep resignation and grave resolve with which Scott met some of the greatest trials man can have to bear, than anything he had written in the heyday of poetic inspiration and of dazzling immaginative triumphs. This book is one of the greatest gifts which our English literature has ever received." Spectator, Nov. 8. Smalley, G. W. London letters; and some others. 2 v. "A good selection from his able letters to the New York tribune. The first five are the best: Those on Prince Bismarck, Count H. Bismarck, the dismissal of Prince Bismarck, the German Emperor, and Gambetta; the next best being those on Lord Iddesleigh, and on Mr. E. W. Hamilton, under the title of "The Private Secretary."" -Athenæum, Nov. 15. (Scot. Smith, G. G. The days of James IV.; extracts from the royal letters, P. Vergil, etc. hist. by contemp. writers.) "Contains a good deal of curious information. The period covered is one of the greatest importance in Scottish history, and the time of Scotland's naval and commercial expansion. The material is well and carefully edited, and the brief notes as to authorities cited are valuable." Stevenson, R. L: Father Damien; an open letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu. Stockton, F. R: Ardis Claverden. "Mr. Stockton is generally amusing; yet here he has somehow managed to be almost dull. The Eng. lishman Prouter is the best character in the book." Sybel, H: K: L. von. The founding of the German Empire by William 1.; based chiefly upon Prussian state documents; tr. by M. L. Perrin, [and] G. Bradford, Jr. Vol. 1. "It is an open secret that Bismarck took an active part in the production of the work: in fact, all the anecdotal matter is directly from his pen, and many of the diplomatic disclosures (a few of which go beyond the archives themselves) may be traced to the ex-Chancellor's dictation. Much of the diplomatic material is given fuller than in the official documents; and in other directions it is apparent that von Sybel has been per. mitted to draw upon sources inaccessible to others.' Technology quarterly. Vol. [1] 2. 1887-89. 2 v. B. Tseytline et E. Jaubert. Trotter, Capt. L. J. Warren Hastings. (Rulers of India.) "An interesting and instructive volume one, too, which will take a worthy place in the new and popular series for which it is designed." — Athenæum, Nov. 22. Troup, J: R. With Stanley's rear column. He writes temperately and evidently truthfully, but such entries as that under April 23d, John Henry received three hundred lashes' tell their own story. Had it not been for the astounding and painful charges brought forward against the two leaders of the rear column, we should have been inclined to accept Mr. Jephson's es timate of the character of the efforts which these offi cers made to perform the task which was set them. As it is, we must reserve our judgment until the whole of this matter has been sifted; and as every one of the officers is undoubtedly liable to English law for every flogging and shooting that took place in the course of the expedition, the probability is that the whole of the story of the rear guard will be investigated in a court of justice."- Athenæum, Nov. 22. Van Rensselaer, Mrs. M. K., wife of J: King. The Devil's picture-books; a history of playing-cards; illust. "The information is in a large measure derived from Les cartes à jouer' by Paul La Croix; Facts and speculations about playing-cards' by Mr. Chatto, The history of playing cards by the Rev. E. Taylor; and "The history of playing cards' by Mr. Singer. These books are now out of print, and difficult to obtain; hence many readers will be glad to find their interesting facts in an obtainable and attractive form. The cards of all nations are described and illustrated." Vincent, B., and Pénaud, E: Dictionnaire de droit international privé; [suppl.] Washington, G:, and Duché, J. The WashingtonDuché letters; with introd. note by W. C. Ford. Welsh, A. H. Digest of Eng. and Amer. literature. "A wondrous production. A condensed parallel view of history and literature in England and the United States from the Roman Invasion down to the present. On one page are two columns of events,' and 'characteristics,' and facing this another of two columns of 'writers,' and 'writings.' The last forty pages, so sterile in enterprise, is the 'Victorian age,' or so embarassingly richas Mr. Grant Allen thinks its literary genius, are entirely free from any events or characteristics." Sat. rev., Nov. 15. Westbury, H. Acte; a novel 2 v. "A romance which obeys the laws of symmetry and proportion, which has the impressive unity of a work or finished art, and which possesses, moreover, the interest secured by truthfulness of character, variety of incident, and dramatic picturesqueness of situation.". Athenæum, May 31. Whitney, J. D. The Yosemite guide-book; a de scription of the Yosemite Valley, the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and the big trees of California; illust. 1869. Wise, C. Puritanism in power; an argument in three books. "Property in power is the ruin of all states, Puritanism in power is their sole redemption' - such is the text of Mr. Wises's treatise. Great things are to come to pass when Puritanism prevails, as Mr. Wise prom. ises it shall prevail in our legislative councils, School Boards, and so forth. But the signs of these things are not particularly active at present. Puritanism may be a force in the land: but it is, we fear, a latent force. Whether it has the power to effect the revolution prefigured in Mr. Wise's fervid and oracular volume is very doubtful indeed." — Sat. rev., Nov. 22. |