ELEMENTARY CHEMICAL TECHNICS. By George Cross, A. M.-A handbook of manipulation and experimentation for teachers of limited experience, and in schools where chemistry must be taught with limited appliances. The work is not a text-book, but rather designed as a supplement to such a work, as text-books from a regard for brevity or from a lack of appreciation of the teacher's needs on the part of his authors, ofttimes fail to give that careful detail of direction which is indispensable to success in experimentation. The terms of both the English and metric systems are used, and in the chapter on metals no mention is made of the more rare ones.-Eastern Educ. Bureau, Boston.

ESTHER DENISON. By A. Sergeant.-James Denison, a Methodist preacher who does not believe in the Calvinistic teachings of his sect, at last repudiates their stern, harsh ideas of hell and the eternal perdition of unconverted children, and thus thrusts himself, his wife and only child Esther on the world. Part of his old parishioners secede and form a new sect of which Denison is made pastor. Esther has before this discovered that a cloud hangs between her parents, but the misery of their new position disperses the cloud and draws them closer together.-Holt & Co., 1.00, .30.

FIVE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM PROSE AND POETRY FOR GRAMMATICAL EXERCISES AND MEMORIZING. By Frances Lewis, A. B.-The book is the outcome of a careful study of the difficulty many teachers in high schools, academies, and normal schools experience in attempting to induct their students into the principles of rhetoric, as the pupils require review in grammar and analysis before they are fitted to grasp the application of rhetoric. The book is divided into two parts: the first containing a carefully arranged order of lessons, the second and excellent selection of quotations from the greatest American and English authors.-East Educ. Bur., Boston, .75.

FOREIGN VISITORS IN ENGLAND, AND WHAT THEY HAVE THOUGHT OF Us. By Edward Smith. The notes taken from the books of visitors to England during the last three centuries have been arranged with rare skill by the editor, who has succeeded in compiling a volume of the greatest interest to students. Among the writers from whose notes quotations have been made, are: Gruthuyse, Van Meteren, Sully, Basompierre,Cosmo III,Grand Duke of Tuscany, Voltaire, Du Bocage, Von Pückler-Muskau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Esquiros, Taine, Sorbière, Jorévin, Gemelli, La Motraye, Baron de Pollnitz, etc.-A. C. Armstrong & Son, N. Y., 1.25.

THE FOLK-LORE OF PLANTS. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer.-The chapter headings explain the contents of this volume: Plant Life, Primitive and Savage Notions respecting Plants, Plant Worship, Lightning Plants, Plants in Witchcraft, Plants in Demonology, Plants in FairyLore, Love Charms, Dream Plants, Plants and the Weather, Plant Proverbs, Plants and their Ceremonial Use, Plant Names, Plant Language, Fabulous Plants, Doctrine of Signatures, Plants and the Calendar, Children's Rhymes and Games, Sacred Plants, Plant Superstitions, Plants in Folk-Medicine, Plants and their Legendary History, Mystic Plants. Index.-Appleton, 1.50.

FREDERICK STRUTHER'S ROMANCE. By Albert Ulmann.-Disinherited by his parents through the machinations of his brother-in-law, Frederick Struther is compelled to earn his own living as a jeweler's clerk, His business brings him in contact with Glasshütte, an old German watchmaker, who loves the tiny wheels and springs with which he works daily as his children. Struther pays a visit to Glasshütte's house in the lower part of the city and makes the acquaintance of his daughter Mina, The young people fall in love with each other and are enpaged to be married, when Mina's sister returns home.-Brentano's, .50.

FRENCH JANET. By Sarah Tytler.-Allan Windygates, a sturdy young Scotchman, is sent to Paris by his mother to acquire the polished manners of Louis the Fifteenth's court, under the guidance of his infidel relative, Robbie Wedderburn, of Braehead. During his stay in the French capital Allen falls sick and is nursed by Madame Janet Ste. Barbe, an aristocratic adventuress with a misty past. Braehead soon scents the danger guileless Allan is running, and resolves to save him by taking him back to Scotland. Madame Ste. Barbe throws herself under the carriage wheels as they are leaving Paris, and is killed. Her spirit begins to haunt young Windygates.-Harpers, .30.

THE GREAT WAR SYNDICATE. By Frank R. Stockton, In the Spring of a certain year the much discussed fishery question causes a war between the United States of America and Great Britain. The Washington government is not prepared to cope with England's naval force and accepts the proposal of a syndicate of citizens to carry on the war for a certain amount of money. Yankee ingenuity renders the British fleet powerless, and the war is brought to a satisfactory close with the accidental loss of one American. Mr. Stockton has prophesied the mission of the American people: that of preserving peace on earth.-P. F. Collier, N. Y., .25.

HIS FATAL SUCCESS. By Malcolm Bell.John Stuart, a young Scotchman, who is deeply interested in supernatural researches, disappears suddenly from his rooms, without leaving any trace, while the fact that the doors and windows were barred on the inside and had to be broken open, deepens the mystery. His friend, the editor of this narrative, succeeds just one year later in recalling him by his superior will power. Stuart then tells the startling story of his adventures with the spirit of Richard Travers who lived three hundred years ago, and of the mission he is forced to undertake on this earth under an assumed form.-Belford, Clarke, .50.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY OF ROBERT BROWNING. By William John Alexander, Ph. D. —A careful compilation of extracts from Browning's works, accompanied by minute analyses and a copious critical commentary. Mr. Alexander treats of: General characteristics of Browning, his Philosophy, Christianity presented in Browning's works, Browning's theory of Art, and the periods of his development, giving also an analysis of Sordello and an index of poems. The papers of which the book consists were originally delivered in the form of lectures to a class of advanced students. -Ginn & Co, 1.10.

JANUS. By Edward Irenaeus Stevenson.Moritz Reisse, a rising young componist, has arranged everything for his elopement and marriage with Nadine von Lilienberg, the daughter of a dissolute German nobleman, but receives at the last moment a letter from her declaring that she cannot marry him. Some years afterwards Reiss's new opera obtains a brilliant success, due in part also to the marvellous voice of a young lady who plays the principal part. Shortly afterwards Reiss accepts an invitation from his old friend Alexis von Gravenhorst, in whose wife he recognizes his former love.-Belford, Clarke, .50.

LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL. By F. C. Montague. The life of Robert Peel contained in this volume is offered to the public as a candid summary of the facts hitherto ascertained respecting his life and personality. The part he took in the political movements of his time is well defined, and the three most memorable periods of his life: the period of Catholic Emancipation, the period of his first administration, and the period of the repeal of the Corn Laws narrated at length. Like its predecessors in the same series, the book contains a marvellously clear and comprehensive estimate of the character of its subject.-Lippincott, .75.

THE LAST AMERICAN. A FRAGMENT FROM THE JOURNAL OF KHAN-LI, PRINCE OF DIMPHYoo-CHUR, ETC. Edited by J. A. Mitchell,— The prince's diary of his visit to the desolated continent where once the Mehrikan held sway. He visits the ruins of New York and of Washington where the last American is found in the deserted halls of the Capitol. Although the race has disappeared, traces of the Yankee's expressive vernacular may be found by the Max Müller of the prince's period in the names of the latter's companions: No-Fuhl, Noz-yt-Ahl, and Hedful, -Stokes & Bro., 1.00.

A MISSING HUSBAND; AND OTHER TALES By George R. Sims.-Jack Smedley, who has risen step for step in the office of his employers, and who has at last taken the management of the firm's affairs entirely in his own hands, is informed by its two elderly members that they will take him into partnership. The books have to be balanced, and Jack suddenly disappears after taking leave from his wife, and telling her that he will be away a short while on business. The other stories contained in the volume are: Seraphim Soap, A Casual Meeting, The Lost Bride, A Railway Romance, and The Prison Baby.-J. S. Ogilvie, N. Y., .25.

AMUSING PROSE CHAP-BOOKS. Chiefly of Last Century. Edited by Bobert Hays Cunningham. -The collection of tales for the people brought together by the editor consists of the following stories: The King and the Cobbler, The Wise Men of Gotham, Thomas Hichathrift, Jack, the Giant-Killer, Simple Simon's Misfortunes, Adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew, Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork, Dick Whittington, Tom Tram, York Dialogues between Ned and Harry, Daniel O'Rourkes Wonderful Voyage to the Moon, Mother Bunch's Closet, etc.-Brentano's, 1.80.

OUTLINES OF LESSONS IN BOTANY. By Jane H. Newell. Illustrated by H. R. Symmes.— This book has been compiled for the use of teachers and mothers studying with their children, its system being based on the author's belief that the beginning of the study of any natural science by the young should be the observation of the most obvious things. She therefore treats in this first part only of Flowering Plants. A second part, to be issued soon, will be on Flowers. The contents are arranged as follows: Plants and their Use, Seedlings, Roots, Buds and Branches, Stems, Leaves. The illustrations are well-drawn and will prove of great value to the teacher.-Ginn & Co., .55.

PASSE ROSE. By Arthur Sherburne Hardy.— In the days of Charlemagne a good merchant of Maestricht finds a little girl on his road and takes her home with him to be his daughter, as he is childless. Passe Rose, as the child calls herself, is a daughter of Southern France, and teaches her adopted mother many arts in the preparation of dishes. On a certain day Passe Rose returns from the woods where she has been plucking herbs, with a gold necklace which, she says, has been given her by a wood fay. The necklace awakens memories of times gone by in the breast of the porter of the abbey of St. Servais.-Houghton, Miffin & Co., 1.25.

THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF MICRO-ORGANISMS, A Study in Experimental Psychology. By Alfred Binet. Transl. from the French by Th. McCormack. The author's aim in writing this essay upon micro-organisms has been to demonstrate that psychological phenomena begin among the very lowest classes of beings, and that they are met with in every form of life, from the simplest cellule to the most complicated organism, that they are the essential phenomena of life, inherent to all protoplasm. Motory organs and organs of sense, nutrition and its psychology, colonies of unicellular organisms, etc. are fully explained. Open Court Pub. Co.,.75.

THE ROMANCE OF A SHOP, By Amy Levy.After the death of their father the four Misses Lorimer resolve not to accept the offers from several relations to give them separate homes, but to stay together and start in business. They open a photograph gallery in London, and begin the struggle for daily bread. Their daily life with its prose and poetry is told and brought to a very true ending, the book showing to perfection how interesting and poetic a realistic novel can be made, if only the author be an artist who knows how to mix the colors and how to put them on.-Cupples and Hurd, 1.50. THE ROSE OF FLAME; AND OTHER POEMS OF LOVE. By Anne Reeve Aldrich.-A collection of four and sixty love songs, vying in intensity with Mrs. Wilcox's effusions. In the first poem, New Eden, the singer proposes to somebody to slay shame, informing him at the same time of the fact that "In that first Eden, Love gave birth to shame, and died of horror at its loathsome child." The tragic view of Cupid's domain largely predominates, as may be seen from the headings: The End, Love the Destroyer, In Shadow, Separation, Bereft, Sleeplessness, etc. The strophes entitled Confession should be dedicated to doting husbands, that they may ponder over them.-Putnam, .75.

STEADFAST. The story of a Saint and a Sinner. By Rose Terry Cooke.-After the death of her husband, the physician of a poor New England village, nearly a hundred years ago, Mrs. Dennis resolves to write to her uncle Dyer, a retired merchant living at Trumbull. Mr. Dyer responds and asks the penniless widow and her innocent, beautiful daughter Esther to live with him. Philemon Hall, the minister of Trumbull, soon learns from his invalid wife that Mr. Dyer intends to marry Esther to his nephew, Philip Kent, a selfish, worthless fellow. The uncle falls very sick, and Kent confides to Esther his fears about the provisions in the will.-Ticknor & Co., 1.50.

THE STORY OF PHOENICIA. By George Rawlinson, M. A. "The Story of the Nations."The story of this small country by the sea, which had so decided an influence on the civilization of the world, and which in a certain sense shaped its history, is followed from the early days in which the Phoenicians moved from the Persian Gulf to the coast of the Mediterranean. Archaeology, mythology, and art receive a great deal of attention from the author who gives in this way additional interest to the history he has written. The illustrations of Phoenician antiquities scattered through the book, and of the Phoenician alphabet will prove of great service to the reader.-Putnam, 1.50.

THE STORY OF THE PURITANS. A Go-asyou Please History. By Wallace Peck.-The author of The Golden Age of Patents gives in this little volume evidence of historical knowledge of a very high order. The facts he tells about the Puritan fathers have thus far escaped the attention of the historians of colonial Massachusetts. Referring to Macaulay's well known words “There is a vile phrase of which bad historians are very fond-The Dignity of History,' he declares that "if any dignity has crept into this history, it has sneaked in unknown, and will be eliminated in the succeeding editions."-C. T. Walter, St. Johnsbury, 1.00.

THE STORY OF WASHINGTON. The National Capital. By Charles Burr Todd.-The biographer of the City of New York first treats of the historical city, its birth and the magnificent intentions of its founders. He describes the rearing of the Capitol and of the President's home, and follows the vicissitudes and prosperity of Washington through the days of 1812 and the Civil War till the days of Alexander Shepherd and President Cleveland. The second part is devoted to the modern city, its Capitol, Departments, churches, public schools, journalism, social life, etc.-Putnam, 1.75.

TESTA; A BOOK FOR BOYS. By Paolo Mantegazza. Transl. under the supervision of Luigi D. Ventura.-Enrico, the young hero of 'Cuore," who has been in very bad health for some time, is sent to his Uncle Baciccia who lives at the seaside. Enrico's stay at this uncle's house forms the subject of the narrative. Interleaved with the story are blank pages to be filled out by the young reader with "good resolves" for each month. Mr. Ventura's introduction is very interesting, and embodies a vigorous plea for the study of contemporary authors who suffer but too often from the competition of the deified classics.-Heath & Co.

WHERE THE TROUT HIDE. By Kit Clarke.The author is so eloquent in his picturing of the excitement and pleasure of fishing that his enthusiasm carries the reader entirely away, and makes him resolve to become a votary of the rod and to taste the healthy enjoyment it gives. Mr. Clarke is a generous victor and pays homage to the many virtues of his finny opponents. Trout, black-bass, wininnish and muscalonge are immortalized in this epic in prose, while the descriptions of the scenery around the lake are expressively written. An appendix gives the open seasons in Quebec, Michigan and Wisconsin.-Brentano's, .50.

A WHITE UMBRELLA IN MEXICO. By F. Hopkinson Smith. With illustrations by the author. These idie sketches by an artist alike of brush and pen, breathe the lazy sun-pervaded atmosphere of Mexico to perfection. The blending whiteness of the houses, the delicious coolness of the interiors, the sense of perfect freedom from care, so characteristic of this country, are described with admirable skill. To those who have visited this blessed country no greater enjoyment can be given than a hammock, a cigarilla and a place under Mr. Hopkinson Smith's White Umbrella.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.50.

THE WHITE KING; OR, CHARLES THE FIRST, By W. H. Davenport Adams. 2 vols.-The author deals in these volumes exclusively with those incidents and details in the life of Charles the First which are only briefly alluded to or overlooked entirely by the historian. The personal history of the White King (as the astrologers called him) occupies the principal part of the work, which gives further sketches of some of the notable men and women of the period, and an outline of the condition of English art and literature in the early Stuart period. The famous trial has been treated with great fulness and is described principally from a new point of view.-Brentano's, 6.00.

Latest French Books.

DÉCAPITÉE. PAR FORTUNÉ DU BOISGOBEY. -At a great masked ball given by Paul Vitrac, the favorite Parisian artist. Captain Jacques Cavaroc and his friend Joville are looking on with the expectation of the finale which has been arranged by one of the painter's pupils. When the merry making is at its highest two powerful men, closely masked and completely disguised, enter the ball room and empty on the floor a bag of flour. They then disappear. The guests crowd around the little white heap and discover to their horror that with the flour the head of a young woman has been thrown down.-Brentano's 1.25.

LE DIVORCE DE JULIETTE. Par Octave Feuillet. A comedy in three acts in which Pierre de Rhodes by an admirable strategic move prevents the wife of his old friend, Roger d'Epinoy, from obtaining a divorce. The charming comedy is in three acts, and is written for eight characters: three ladies and five gentlemen. Charybde et Scylla, a proverbe for five characters: three ladies and two gentlemen, which follows Le Divorce, is a very clever play in which a husband who complains of his wife's ignorance is suddenly surprised by her knowledge. Le Curé de Bourbon, a short story, closes the book. -Brentano's, 1.25.

L'EPOUSEE. Par Henry Rabusson.-At a garden party on the lawn of Madame de Talayrac's summer-house near Versailles, Max de Pontvicq tells to his old college friend his love for Simone de Nives, a poor but handsome young girl who has lived with Madame de Talayrac and her only daughter since the death of her parents. Miss de Nives is thrown by her horse, and de Pontvicq discovers that he has a rival in young de Talayrac, his friend and boon companion. He also begins to suspect that his charmer is a hartless coquette.-Brentano's, 1.25.

FRANÇOIS COPPEE. L'Homme, la Vie, l'Oeuvre. Par M. de Lescure Avec des Fragments de Mémoires par François Coppée.-Mr. de Lescure's study of Coppée's life and work begins with the year of the poet's birth in 1842, and follows him till the present day. The book s divided into ten periods: 1842-1863, Première eunesse; 1863-1868, Vita Nuova; 1869-1870, l'Hégire; 1870-1874, Les Vaches Maigres; 1874, Olivier; 1870-1888, le Théatre; 1880-1884, Quatre Ans de Feuilletons; 1871-1887, Romans et Contes Parisiens; 1878-1888, La Double Veine and 1874-1889, Intimités.-Brentano's 1.25.

LES GRANDES FORTUNES AUX ETATS UNIS ET EN ANGLETERRE.-Par C. de Varigny.-The papers this volume contains appeared originally in the Revue des Deux Mondes, where they attracted considerable attention. The interesting subject has been treated with great skill by the writer, who gives some short lessons on political economy and sociology in connection with his discussions of the fortunes of Jay Gould, James Gordon Pennett, the Vanderbilts, the Rothschilds,etc. The articies treating of wealth in the United States are very complete and include the great and only surplus of the nation as well as private collections of dollars.-Brentano's, 1.25.

L'INIMITABLE BOz. Etude Historique et Anecdotique sur la Vie, l'Oeuvre de Charles Dickens. Par Robert du Pontavice de Heussey. This biography of Dickens with the sympathetic and exhaustive study of his work and the good it has accomplished for the poor and oppressed, is more adapted for the nation in whose language it is written than for the English-speaking races to whom but little of Charles Dickens' life is unknown. Yet no admirer of Dickens can consider his library complete without this loving tribute to the greatest novelist the world has ever seen, this admirable study of l'Inimitable Boz -Brentano's, 2.00.

JUSTICE. Par Hector Malot.-The sequel to Conscience brings the story of Caffié's murderer to a close. Dr. Saniel obtains a divorce from his wife, Phylis Cormier, whose brother has been convicted of his crime and is in prison, and marries a wealthy widow with two weak, sickly children. Cormier, who has escaped from prison, enters Saniel's service as a gardner and becomes their playmate, while he tries to gather evidence to establish his innocence. Shortly after the marriage the children die, and Saniel is accused of causing their death to obtain control of their fortune.-Brentano's, 1.25.

LA LINDA. Par Alfred Sirven. Avec un Préface de Jules Claretie.-Vicomte Antonin de Bizeux, a handsome young Breton, has been in Paris only a short while when he falls in love with La Linda, the diva of the Opera, with whose phenomenal success all Paris occupies itself. After having resisted the temptation of seeing her for two weeks, de Bizeux feels sure that he has killed his love and goes to hear the beautiful singer again. A fire breaks out after the representation and de Bizeux saves La Linda at the peril of his life. The powerful and dramatic story gives a marvellous picture of theatrical life, of which it reveals a new phase. -Brentano's, 1.25.

MADEMOISELLE DE MORON. Par Alexandre Lambert de Sainte-Croix.- Deserted by the man who had promised to marry her, Ursula de Moron takes the veil and becomes the abbess of a cloister in Jerez. Her brother, the duc de Moron, leads a lonely life on his estates near the town since the death of his wife who has left him an only daughter. Years pass by and the abbess receives a letter from the son of the man who deceived her, saying that in his father's will there is question of a treasure

left in her hands. To facilitate matters the young heir resolves to visit the abbess at Jerez. -Brentano's, 1.25.

MARIE FOUGERE.-Guillaume Gervois, the son of a poor widow, returns from the disastrous Franco-German war only to die in his mother's arms. During the night the distracted woman sets fire to the miserable hovel in which they have lived so long together, and mingles forever the ashes of her adored son with the dust of his native heath. Guillaume's former companions resolve to take care of the now demented woman, and of her little daughter Marie, to whom her love for ferns has given the surname Fougère. The story is a protest against the naturalistic school of fiction. (See Paris Letter, February issue, 1889).—Brentano's, 1.25.

PARISIENS ET PARISIENNES EN DESHABILLÉ. Par Zed. The volume with this shocking title contains a collection of sparkling, cutting papers on the fads, follies and fashions of contemporary Paris. Snobbery as a fine art is studied under the following headings: Snobism politique, littéraire, artistique, hippique, de Club, du Bibelot et de la Curiosité. The other papers, many of which are reprinted from La Vie Parisienne, are: Aux Eaux, Demi-Castors, Silhouettes de Demi-Castors, Parasites, Bas-Bleus, l'Idole, Les Amoureux de ces Dames, Vieille Coquette, La Sportomanie des Femmes, and L'Art de Suivre.-Brentano's, 1.25.

PASTELS, DIX PORTRAITS DE FEMMES. Par Paul Bourget.-The author's favorite character, Claude Larcher, tells the first story: Gladys Harvey. It is simply the narrative of the love of a young girl. The other stories are Madame Bressuire, La Comtesse de Candale, La Senorita Rosario, Claire, Trois Petites, Filles: Simone, Lucie, Aline, Inconnue, Autre Inconnue. The tales are told with Bourget's usual cleverness and minute analytic power. They are amusing and interesting alike if their author be only not taken by the reader au grand sérieux, for that he never is. The introduction to Gladys Harvey contains a brilliant portrait of a parvenu.— Brentano's, 1.25.