Notes.

Will Mr. Gladstone kindly write a review of some other book and start our clergy on a new line of thought?

A Bibliotheca Bibliographica Italiana by G. Otlino and G. Fumagalli will soon be issued in Rome.

Henry George's Progress and Poverty, and Protection or Free Trade have been translated into French.

In the review of Jesus Brought Back in the December issue of vol. III, the name of the author has been given as Joseph Henry Hooker. This should be Joseph Henry Crooker.

Lies is the striking name of Alfred Trumble's new weekly, the first number of which was issued on January 10th. The paper is bright and trenchant, and the name of its editor is a guarantee for its cleverness in the future.

Das Buchgewerbe: Berliner Blätter für den graphischen Weltverkehr is the name of a new periodical begun in Berlin on January first. It is devoted to the book and printing trade, typecasting, illustrating, copyright questions, etc.

Canadiana is the name of a new monthly just

started in Montreal. It is intended to furnish students of the history of the Dominion with a means of communicating the results of original research, and preserving interesting discoveries.

The Storm of '92. A Grandfather's Tale Told in 1932 is the name of a story which out-haggards the author of She. It gives a graphic picture of the tremendous whipping Uncle Sam is going to get from Canada and the "mother country" in 1892.

The companion to the Observatory for the year 1889 has come to hand. Some changes

have been made in this issue, the number of Variable Stars has been increased, the list of Binary Stars has been revised, and tables of the declination of the Sun and Moon and of the Configuration of the satellites of Jupiter have been added.

Messrs. Brentano's will publish early in February: The Romance of an Alter Ego, by Congressman Lloyd Bryce, author of Paradise, etc. Frederick Struther's Romance, by Albert Ulmann, Where the Trout Hide, by Kit Clarke, and the second volume of the Romantic Library which will contain three stories and a comedietta by de Musset, translated by Mr. E. de V, Vermont, and with a portrait of Alfred de Mussett.

Himmel und Erde is the name of a new periodical, begun in Berlin.

Poet-Lore is the name of a new monthly published in Philadelphia, devoted to Shakespeare, Browning, and the comparative study of literature. The first issue, published on January 15th last, is highly interesting, and contains among many other good things, A Study in Shakespeare's Fairy Rhythms by Charlotte Pendleton, which is recommended to all lovers of William of Avon. The artistic designs for the cover and head-piece have been furnished by J. L. Gerome Ferris, who deserves praise for his excellent work.

Another publication which should be mentioned not only for its literary merits but also for its excellent "make-up," is The Book-Lover, published in New York.

HERMAN MELVILLE.

Editor Book Chat:

DEAR SIR:-I plead for a forgotten genius. America produced forty years ago a teller of tales of the sea who has been unequalled before or since. Clark Russel, our best living writer in that line, has owed his debt to him and confesses his mastership. The Englishman's books sell by the thousand and the American's works are practically unknown to the general reading public. Omro and Typee have been acknowledged on both sides of the Atlantic to be English classics, and yet one of them is out of print and the other might as well be. In these days when romantic tales are so popular, surely such stories as these should please the public taste. They have every element on which

the success of the modern romantic novel is based, and, in addition, the merit of a literary style beyond all praise. They combine the best qualities of R.L. Stevenson and W. Clark Russell, and add to these a familiarity with the South Seas due to personal experience which is invaluable because unequalled at the time and impossible since.

My object in writing this is not to save Melville from obscurity, for as long as men love a good tale well told, his name will live. My aim is to call the attention of the average reader who has cut his literary eye teeth since the time of Melville's fame waned to the fact that an American sailor, forty years ago, wrote a series of stories of adventure by land and sea which, in interest of incident and movement, grace and delicacy of treatment, familiarity with the subject treated, beauty of language, and other things which go to make up literary merit, have been unequalled in their way by any thing ever published in the English language. J. M.

New Books.

TO THE READER.

The books given under this heading comprise the principal books published in January. 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.

ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES, AND HOW TO TREAT THEM. By Joseph B. Lawrence.-This handbook has been compiled with the object of informing the general reader of what to do first in cases of emergency and how to do it, describing the symptoms in each case, and giving a list of the principal poisons with remedies and antidotes. The range of accidents is very wide, from a fish-hook in the flesh to apoplexy and asiatic cholera, and from bruises to broken bones and epilepsy. The prescriptions and rules are simple and intelligible.-Vail & Co., N. Y., .75.

ALLEN AND GREENOUGH'S LATIN GRAMMAR FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. Rev. and Enl. by J. B. Greenough and G. L. Kittredge.-This edition proves to be in every regard a great improvement on its predecessor. The revision has been made with especial reference to the needs of the work as a class-book, and much new matter of high importance has been added. Chapters have been rewritten and completed, the examples been increased in numbers, and the indexes of words and subjects, lists of authors, glossary of terms, etc., have been considerably enlarged.—Ginn & Co., 1.20.

ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS, HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC. Translated with Notes by J. G. Lockhart. Illustrated. "Knickerbocker Nuggets."-Mr. Lockhardt's translations are reprinted from the edition published in 1841, and have now been issued in the handsome series of which they form one of the most attractive volumes. The ballads given are arranged according to subject: Historical Ballads, Modern Ballads, and Romantic Ballads, each ballad having been provided with an explanatory note by the translator. The introductory note on old Spanish minstrely, is highly interesting, and gives much information about the earliest Cancioneros published.-Putnam, 1.50.

THE ANDERSONVILLE VIOLETS. By Herbert W. Collingwood.-John Rockwell and Archie Sinclair, two Maine boys, have been taken prisoners by the Confederates, and brought to Andersonville. Rockwell is deeply in love with Sinclair's sister and watches over him with tender care, nursing him through sickness and shielding him as much as possible against the

hardships of life in a rebel prison. Sinclair expresses the wish to obtain some violets growing beyond the death-line, and Rockwell risks his life to satisfy him. Jack Foster, the guard, spares his life and is discharged.-Lee & Shepard, Boston, 1.00.

ASPECTS OF EDUCATION. A study in the History of Pedagogy. By Oscar Browning, M. A. The several chapters of which this treatise on the Aspects of Education is composed, appeared originally in Science as separate articles. They are now republished, after careful revision by the author, as a contribution of great value to the critical history of educational doctrines. The aspects discussed are: Humanism, realism, and naturalism, while a fourth aspect-though in a different sense-is found in the article on the English public school, which occupies the closing pages of the interesting paper.-Industr. Educ. Ass., N. Y., .20.

THE BIBLE AND LAND. By James B. Converse. This work, founded upon the Bible and the laws laid down in it, demands the single tax because the author thinks it the only mode of taxation which is in accord with the plans of the Creator. The author coincides with Henry George in advocating the land-tax, but differs from him in all other regards, an entire chapter of the work being devoted to the refutation of the "economical portion of Progress and Poverty." An appendix of Bible texts throwing light on the land question is added.-Author, Morristown, Tenn., 1.00.

BUSINESS. By James Platt, F.S.S.-This book which has passed through seventy-five editions in England is now for the first time issued by an American publisher. It is not intended to supply any technical knowledge of any particular business, but to demonstrate the importance of certain qualities which constitute the character of the true businessman-Industry, Perseverance, Arrangement, Punctuality, Calculation, Prudence, Tact, Truthfulness, Integrity, as well as Health and Education. Money, bank-shares, depression of trade, coöperative trading, and numerous other subjects are also discussed in this marvellous compendium of practical knowledge.-Putnam, .75.

CRESSY. BY Bret Harte.-The school-teacher of Indian Spring, in Southern California, is greatly astonished to find Cressy McKinstry, a budding young girl who had left the village school and was engaged to be married soon, sitting in her accustomed place one morning. On making enquiries he learns that the match has been broken off.

The teacher promises on

the same day to give lessons to "Uncle Ben," a sturdy miner, who is working a modest claim in the neighborhood and wishes to prepare himself for a possible "strike."-Houghton, Mifflin, 1.25. A FAIR EMIGRANT. By Rosa Mulholland.— Having emigrated from Ireland, Arthur Desmond, an Irish gentleman, finds his way to Minnesota, where he settles, far away from civilization. The silent, gloomy man prospers, and takes at last a wife who dies, however, a year afterward, leaving him a daughter. Desmond's past contains a mystery of which he had never spoken even to his wife, but he confides his secret shortly before his death to Bawn, as the child is called. After her father's burial Bawn starts for Ireland, resolved to clear her father's name.-Appleton, .50.

FORWARD FOREVER, HEAVEN ON EARTH AND OTHER POEMS. By William J. Shaw.-Forward Forever is a protest against Lord Tennyson's gloomy views of life and the future as set forth in his famous Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. The poem points to many features of contemporary life which show that mankind is progressing in moral and material affairs alike. The other poems the little pamphlet contains are: Stand Fast, and the Evening Hour. Like the poem to which it is an answer, Forward Forever has been written in Alexandrines.-Fowler & Wells, .25.

FRAGOLETTA. By Rita.-After the death of her father, Fragoletta who has been born in Italy and lived under its blue skies for sixteen years, is adopted by her two aunts who live on a country-place in one of the shires. While roaming about the gardens one day, Fragoletta enters the grounds of the neighboring estate, and discovers an old, rusty-looking iron door in the wall of a ruin. Following the impulse of the moment she opens it and descends a flight of stone steps leading into a dark passage.— Lippincott, .25.

GREENE'S LANGUAGE HALF BLANKS. By Harris R. Greene, A. M., in four Parts. Part I.The first part treats of the sentence and its principal parts: Noun, pronoun and verb, and gives graded exercises in analyzing and diagraming, parsing and tabulating, construction and composition. A new, scientific system of diagraming, which leaves the sentence intact is used by the author, who gives some introductory hints to the teacher, and a clear exposition of the benefits of diagraming to both teacher and pupils by way of preface. The matter contained in the book is divided into 24 lessons.-A. Lovell, N. Y.

A HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1888. By Hon. Edward McPherson, LL.D.—This volume, the eleventh of the series, contains a record of important political action, executive and legislative, national and state, from July 31, 1886 to August 31, 1888. The many important questions settled within the last two years are included, among them being the Electoral Count Act, the Mexican War Pension Act, Common School Bill, South Dakota Admission Bill, etc. The questions now pending are accurately stated, and their present attitude recorded.-J. J. Chapman, Washington.

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH. BY Rev. A. D. Mayo.-The monograph by the Rev. Mayo who has been investigating the problem of education in the Southern states during the past eight years, is not a discussion of scholastic methods, but an exposition of the reasons for the growing interest in industrial education through the whole country, and the special need of this type of educational work in the development of the marvellous resources of the South. Appendices of statements regarding leading southern educational institutions which have adopted industrial training, and an address by W. H. Council on educated labor in the South are added.—Bureau of Education, Washington.

INTERNATIONAL LAW. By Henry Sumner Maine, K. C. S. I.—A series of twelve lectures delivered by the author before the University of Cambridge in 1887. The lectures are: I., International Law: Its Origin and Sources; II., Its Authority and Sanction; III., State Sovereignity; IV., Territorial Rights of Sovereignity; V., Naval or Maritime Belligerency; VI., The Declaration of Paris; VII., The Mitigation of War; VIII., The Modern Laws of War; IX., Rules as to Prisoners and Quarter; X., Relations of Belligerents on Land; XI., Rights of Capture by Law; XII., Proposals to Abate War. Fully indexed.-Holt, 2.75.

RAMBLES

JONATHAN AND HIS CONTINENT. THROUGH AMERICAN SOCIETY. By Max O'Rell and Jack Allyn.-This series of impressions of America and Americans by the witty author of "John Bull and his Island," is remarkable alike for his deep insight into American institutions and character and for his inimitable, pleasing, good-natured way of saying things. Max O'Rell has succeeded in saying more truths about Jonathan without hurting his pride, than all other writers about this country combined, and Jonathan and his Continent is probably the first book about himself which the American will read with pleasure.-Cassell, 1.50.

THE LEGEND OF PSYCHE, AND OTHER Verses. By Carrie Warner Morehouse.-This dainty edition contains besides The Legend of Psyche, the following poems: Spring's Blossoms, Margery's Quest, Edelweiss, Two Days, A Legend, A Window Picture, Apple Blossoms, May Flowers, In Late Summer, If We Could Know, Sir Gondebert, The Robin's Nest, Trailing Arbutus, The Erlking, Good Night, Compensation, A Winter Legend, In Memory, Loves Me, Loves Me Not, A Memory, Alone, The Maple Tree's Lament, The Brooklet, Harry's Journey, Only a Violet, The Message on the Wires, etc.-C. T. Walter, St. Johnsbury, 1.00.

LITTLE MRS. MURRAY. By F. C. Phillips.Following the advice of Tom Hurst, an old friend of her deceased husband, Mrs. Murray resolves to go on the stage, as she has been left a widow without a penny, and does not see any other way of gaining a livelihood. An engagement for a tour in the provinces is easily obtained, and little Mrs. Murray begins her career as an educator of the people, but, though she is tolerably successful, she soon tires of the "profession," and accepts a position as companion to a lady. Though not so clever as As in a Looking Glass, the book is probably the best one of Mr Phillips' latter novels.-Munro, .20.

LOUIS LAMBERT; AND, FACINO CANE AND GAMBARA. By Honore de Balzac.-Louis Lambert's story is largely an autobiography of de Balzac, who in it puts forth several psychical speculations which were in his time unheard of. To shield himself against possible criticism, Balzac hints at a state of madness in his hero. To those who have read Louis Lambert in the original, George Frederic Parsons' introduction to this marvellous translation should be strongly recommended; it embodies a clear, masterly study of Balzac, his aim in writing Louis Lambert, and of metaphysic theories in general.Roberts Bros., 1.50.

NERVOUSNESS: ITS NATURE, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT. By H. S. Drayton, M.D. The little pamphlet contains an immense amount of thoroughly practical information and advice on a malady which is daily attracting more attention. The common causes of nervousness of men and women have been pointed out, and the remedies added, existing for the most part in simple changes of customs and in some cases in the sacrifice of certain forms of food, and light is thrown upon unintential errors that people are constantly committing in their ways of life. Notes of cases have been added.— Fowler & Wells, .25.

THE PERIL OF RICHARD PARDON. By B. L. Farjeon. Mr. Wilmot, Richard Pardon's rich old uncle, visits his nephew after an absence of many years, and hears for the first time of the engagement of Eunice, Richard's daughter, to Mr. Clanronald. He forbids the marriage, and declares that he will disinherit Richard if his wishes are not strictly followed. The next morning Mr. Wilmot is found dead in bed, and marks of strangulation around his neck point conclusively to murder. An intricate plot is skillfully unwoven, in which Richard Pardon's somnambulism plays an important part.-Harper, N. Y., .30.

PORTFOLIO PAPERS. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton. A series of essays and articles by Mr. Hamerton, collected from old numbers of the Portfolio. The articles were first published in that periodical at different times from 1870 till the latter part of 1888. The collection consists of four parts: Pt. I. Notices of Artists, Pt. II. Notes on Aesthetics, Pt. III. Essays, and Pt. IV. Conversations. The notices of artists are those of Constable, Ettv, Chintreuil, Adrien Guignet, and Goya. Four Essays on Style, Soul and Matter in the fine Arts, Can Science Help Art?, etc. follow.-Roberts Bros., 2.50.

THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM WASHINGTON TO CLEVELAND. By John Frost, L.L.D. Brought down to the present time by Harry W. French.—The sketches of the twenty-two presidents of the United States given in this volume do not embrace a full history of their various administrations. The object has been to give a clear view of the whole career of each president, as each portion of their history is of great value to the student. Discussions of measures, etc., have been entirely omitted. A portrait prefaces each biography.Lee & Shepard, 1.50.

Keeping

PROGRESSIVE HOUSEKEEPING. House without Knowing How, and Knowing How to Keep House Well. By Catherine Owen. -In her introduction the author says that she has come to the conclusion, that no book on housekeeping has ever been written, that all manuals on housekeeping are in reality simply cook-books. Therefore she has set to work to fill this want in the literature of domestic economy, and, keeping in view her favorite maxim: "Keep house in order to live comfortably; don't live in order to keep house," she has written an excellent work on the subject. Special mention deserves the author's division of work in the household. The system she follows in this regard is an illustration of the maxim given above.-Houghton, Mifflin, 1.CO.

THE SPHINX, AND OTHER POEMS. By Arthur A. D. Bayldon.-The collection of verse given under this title is dedicated to the memory of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "painter and poet, whose works have been and are a never-failing source of pleasure to the author of this little volume." Besides a masterly invocation, the book contains: The Sphinx: an Autobiography, Kasper Stein: a Narrative Piece, ten lyrics, and thirty sonnets, among the latter being verses devoted to Wordsworth, Isaac Walton, Chatterton, Byron, David Gray, and Rossetti. Part of the poems have been published before.-J. R. Tutin, Hull, England.

A STIFF-NECKED GENERATION. By L. Walford-Having no male issue, old Lord Hartland resolves to leave as little as possible of his unentailed fortune to his hated nephew and heir, and succeeds beyond expectation. At his succession to the title the new Lord Hartland finds that he has no income with which to maintain his estate. He resolves to arrange his affairs quickly, and to return to his regiment in India, when Lady Julia, the elder daughter of old Lord Hartland, who has inherited from her mother a great fortune, proposes another arrangement. The young nobleman finally accepts her proposition, and resolves to remain in England.Holt, 1.00, .30.

THIS MORTAL COIL. By Grant Allen.Hugh Massinger, poor, and what Mr. Daudet calls a "struggle-for-lifer," goes to pay a visit to his only relative, a young girl who is employed as governess and to whom he has practically been engaged for years. When he arrives at the village on the coast where his cousin's employer lives, he finds in the latter's daughter not only an attractive young girl, but also a rich heiress, and this attracts him powerfully. He proposes, is accepted, and breaks the news to his cousin who throws herself in the sea. Massinger forges her name to a letter telling her friends that she has gone away for special reasons. Appleton, .50.

TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA. By W. T. Stead.Mr. Stead's articles have been reprinted from the columns of the St. James Gazette, in which they orginally appeared. The volume is divided. into seven books as follows: Book I., From London to St. Petersburg; Book II., War or Peace? Book III., New Fields for British Enterprise; Book IV., The Tribune of all the Russias; Book V., The Ideas of General Ignatieff; Book VI., The Shadow on the Throne; Book VII., Count Tolstoi and his Gospel. The book is probably the most interesting ever written about the Empire of the North. -Cassell, 2.50.

THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. By Herbert B. Adams, Ph. D.— A study of Thomas Jefferson and his relation to the University of Virginia, with brief historical sketches of the colleges in that State. Dr. Adams shows that Jefferson was the first conspicuous advocate in this country of centralization in University education, and that his views regarding the relation of the State to University education are of the highest importance today. Sketches are added of Hampden-Sidney, Randolph-Macon, Emory-Henry, Roanoke, and Richmond College, Washington and Lee Universities, and of Virginia Military Institute.Bureau of Education, Washington.

VIRGIL'S AENEID. The First Six Books. Translated into English Rhyme by Henry Hamilton.-The most striking innovation in this translation of the adventures of pious Aeneas is the change of measure with each recurring speaker, which the translator holds warrantable for the sake of the relief it affords the ear." The reading is certainly greatly facilitated by this expedient, and though the latin text has only been followed as far as that could be done without sacrificing English grammar and verse rules, the spirit of the epos has been truthfully reflected throughout.-Putnam, 1.25.

WHEN A MAN'S SINGLE. By J. M. Barrie.— Rob Angus has promoted himself from a hand in a saw mill to a writer on a provincial newspaper, and in this capacity has occasion to criticise rather fiercely a novel which he finds afterwards has been written by the daughter of Colonel Abinger, to whose house he has been sent to report the Colonel's annual banquet to his tenants. Angus falls in love with the Colonel's daughter, and goes to London to make his fortune. The story gives glimpses of life among the journalists of the metropolis and ends well. A delectable vein of humor run through its pages.

Harpers, .35.

THE YEAR'S BEST DAYS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. By Rose Hartwick Thorpe.-Twentyeight stories and verses for the young by the author of "Curfew Shall not Ring To-night." The year's best days are: Christmas, Santa Claus, Valentine's Day, Easter Day, Thanksgiving, Birthdays, etc., several stories of the collection being connected with each one of them. The verses the volume contains are: The Year's Best Days, the Christmas Doll, February, Easter Flowers of Texas, Where is Polly, Mamma's Breadwinners, the Queen's gift, and Drifted out to Sea. Many illustrations brighten the pages of the little book.-Lee & Shepard, 1.co.