BOOKS OF THE MONTH. [The following list includes all books received by THE DIAL during the month of March, 1890.] LITERARY MISCELLANY. Letters of Philip Dormer, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, to his Godson and Successor. Edited from the Originals, with a Memoir of Lord Chesterfield, by the Earl of Carnarvon. With Portraits and Illustrations. Large 8vo, pp. 320. Uncut. Macmillan & Co. $4.50. What I Remember. By Thomas Adolphus Trollope, author of "Lindisfarn Chase." Vol. II. Svo, pp. 337. Harper & Bros. $1.75. In a Club Corner. The Monologue of a Man Who Might Have Been Sociable. Overheard by A. P. Russell, author of "A Club of One." 12mo, pp. 328. Gilt top. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25. The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey. By David Masson. In 14 vols. Vol. IV. Biographies and Biographic Sketches. Illustrated. 16mo, pp. 439. Uncut. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black. $1.25. The Pope and the New Era: Being Letters from the Vatican in 1889. By William T. Stead. 12mo, pp. 256. Cassell & Co. $1.50. HISTORY-BIOGRAPHY. History of New England. By John Gorham Palfrey. Vol. V. 8vo, pp. 670. Uncut. Little, Brown, & Co. $4. A History of Modern Europe. By C. A. Fyffe, M. A. Vol. III., 1848 to 1878. 8vo, pp. 572. Henry Holt & Co. $2.50. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES. Problems of Greater Britain. By the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., author of "Greater Britain." With Maps. 8vo, pp. 738. Uncut. Macmillan & Co. $4. Local Government in Wisconsin. By David E. Spencer, A.B. 8vo. pp. 25. Paper. Johns Hopkins University Studies. 25 cents. Emigration and Immigration. A Study in Social Science. By Richmond Mayo Smith, A.M. 12mo, pp. 316. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. FOLK-LORE. Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland. By Jeremiah Curtin. With an Etched Frontispiece. 8vo, pp. 345. Gilt top. Little, Brown, & Co. $2.00. POETRY. Easter Gleams. By Lucy Larcom. 18mo, pp. 46. Uncut. Paper. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 75 cents. Robert Browning's Principal Shorter Poems. 16mo, pp. 308. Paper. Appleton's "Town and Country Library." 50 cents. Gettysburg, and Other Poems. By Isaac R. Pennypacker. 16mo, pp. 94. Porter & Coates. FICTION. María: A South American Romance, By Jorge Isaacs. Translated by Rollo Ogden. With an Introduction by Thomas A. Janvier. 16mo, pp. 302. Uncut. Harper & Bros. $1.00. Jack Horner. By Mary Spear Tiernan, author of "Homoselle." 16mo, pp. 347. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25. A Chronicle of Conquest. By Frances C. Sparhawk, author of "Little Polly Blatchley." 12mo, pp. 239. D. Lothrop Co. $1.25. Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York. A Series of Stories and Sketches by Lemuel Ely Quigg. Illustrated by Harry Beard. 12mo, pp. 297. Cassell Publishing Co. $1.50. Three Men in a Boat. By Jerome K. Jerome, author of Stage Land." Illustrated by A. Frederics. 12mo, pp. 298. Henry Holt & Co. $1.25. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. A Book for an Idle Holiday. By Jerome K. Jerome, author of "Three Men in a Boat." 12mo, pp. 209. Henry Holt & Co. $1.00. Five Hundred Dollars, and Other Stories of New England Life. By Heman W. Chapin. Second Edition. 16mo, pp. 305. Paper. Little, Brown, & Co. 50 cents. Frozen Hearts. A Romance. By G. Webb Appleton, author of "A Terrible Legacy.' 16mo, pp. 380. Paper. Appleton's "Town and Country Library.' 50 cents. The Dean's Daughter. By Sophie F. F. Veitch, author of Angus Graeme." 16mo, pp. 291. Paper. Appleton's "Town and Country Library. 50 cents. David Todd. The Romance of his Life and Loving. By David Maclure, author of "Thoughts on Life." 12mo. Paper. Cassell's "Sunshine Series." 50 cents. REFERENCE-SCIENCE. The Century Dictionary. An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language. Prepared under the Superintendence of William Dwight Whitney, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology and Sanscrit in Yale University. In 6 volumes. Vol. II., Cono-Fz. 4to, pp. 1222. The Century Co. $10.00. Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens. By Sir Robert Stawell Ball, F.R.S., Royal Astronomer of Ireland, author of "The Story of the Heavens." Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 376. Cassell & Co. $2.00. TRAVEL-GUIDE-BOOKS. Two Years in the French West Indies. By Lafcadio Hearn, author of "Chita." Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 431. Harper & Bros. $2.00. A Handbook of Florida. By Charles Ledyard Norton. Part I. The Atlantic Coast. With Maps and Plans. 16mo, pp. 240. Longmans, Green, & Co. 75 cents. RELIGION. God in His World: An Interpretation. 12mo, pp. 270. EDUCATION-TEXT-BOOKS. Thomas Jefferson on Public Education. By John C. Henderson. With Frontispiece. 8vo, pp. 387. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.75. Federal and State Aid to Higher Education in the United States. By Frank W. Blackmar, Ph.D. 8vo, pp. 343. Paper. Government Printing Office. Proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, at Its Meeting in Washington, March 6-8, 1889. Svo, pp. 300. Paper. Government Printing Office. A German Reader for Beginners in School or College. With Notes and Vocabulary. By Edward S. Joynes, M.A. 12mo, pp. 277. D. C. Heath & Co. $1.00. Aus dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen. By Gustav Freytag. Edited, with Notes, by Herman Hager, Ph.D. 16mo, pp. 115. Paper. Heath's Modern Language Series." 30 cents. [Any book in this list will be mailed to any address, post-paid, on receipt of price by Messrs. A. C. MCCLURG & Co., Chicago.] A. C. MCCLURG & COMPANY WILL PUBLISH IN APRIL: Russia: Its People and Its Literature. By EMILIA PARDO BAZAN. Translated from the Spanish by FANNY HALE GARDINER. 12mo, $1.25. This remarkable and brilliant work is the production of a distinguished Spanish lady, Señora Emilia Pardo Bazán, and was originally given in the form of lectures before the Spanish Athenæum at Madrid,-a body composed of the foremost authors and scholars of Spain. The lectures received such hearty recognition that they were issued in book form; and they now appear, for the first time, in an English translation. A Short History of Mexico. By the Rev. ARTHUR HOWARD NOLL. 16mo, $1.00. Between the numerous books on Mexico that have appeared in the last few years-chiefly books of travel, guidebooks, etc.--and the elaborate work of Prescott, there has seemed to be a distinct place for a compact work covering the whole ground of Mexican history in a single volume. Such a work has been prepared by Mr. Noll. The descriptions of the Mexico of to-day are sufficiently full for the needs of the average tourist, while the compact presentation of the whole history of the country makes the book invaluable not only to tourists, but to the general reader. It is also well adapted to the needs of libraries as a reference-book, being supplied with a well-made and copious Index. A Foreign Match. By MARY HEALY (Jeanne Mairet). 16mo, $1.00. The author of this work, Madame Charles Bigot, of Paris, is perhaps better known in this country as Miss Mary Healy, daughter of the well-known portrait-painter. Her charming little story, A Mere Caprice," written first in English and published a few years ago in this country, was afterward written by her in French, and received the high honor of being crowned" by the French Academy. Her new story, "A Foreign Match," is, like the former, a tale of Parisian life, such as the author is so peculiarly fitted to tell. A Winter Holiday in Summer Lands. 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