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navel of a quarto volume." Closely allied with plainness of speech is strength of conviction. Here again Anderson is not wanting. He persuades because he is persuaded. A single illustration of his outspokenness may suffice: The Essays are an epitome of worldly wisdom, a handbook for him who wishes to work men to his ends, a digest of most of the arts and shifts whereby the crafty and the unscrupulous succeed in that scramble for place and wealth in which the weaker goes to the wall." The qualities noted in the Introduction make it a revelation-regard being had to its narrow compass of the man Bacon and his aphoristic wisdom of experience. It is not a piece of cunning self-glorification of Anderson; and this is its praise.

The book is well printed, of convenient form and size, and neatly bound. It is, and is likely. for some time to remain, the reader's handy edition. ALBERT S. COOK.

BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.

SOME of the best of the rather well-known "London Letters" written during the last five years by Mr. G. W. Smalley to the New York "Tribune". are reprinted in two handsome volumes by Messrs. Harper. Naturally, one inclines to take a book more seriously than a newspaper; the former stands for, we may say, the guide and philosopher, the latter for the friend; and the "Clothes Philosopher" himself might sometimes wonder at the change wrought

in the friend when he dons a fine blue coat with gilt trimmings that is to say, a binding. The judgment usually passed upon volumes reprinted from the daily press, that they lack permanent interest and seriousness of treatment, by no means implies the unfitness of the matter for its original setting. Indeed, one may almost say that it implies its fitness. The journalist's first duty is to make himself readable; and experience tells him that his patrons, in the mass, do not look for or care for those weightier qualities of style and treatment without which few books are worth the printing. We speak now, of course, of American newspapers and readers. In England-where pater-familias at breakfast takes his "Times" with the easy hardihood of an ostrich pecking up a luncheon of fourpenny nails a different rule prevails. There is, however, a happy medium-fairly represented by these "London Letters"-between the extremes of ultra-American and conservative-British journalism: a union of the two, with a due weeding out of flippancy on the one side and heaviness on the other. This we apprehend to be what Matthew Arnold meant by the "New Journalism." The power of tempering the qualities of style and treatment which

one looks for and does not always find-in a book, with the lightness and rapidity of touch, timeliness of allusion, and sure choice of the right topic for the right moment, that mark the work of our "newspaper men," implies not only a union of journalistic gift. We read in one of these "London Letters," tact with literary training, but a certain personal

of Mr. Gladstone, that "in his hands, whatever it [the subject] be, it is entertaining; he has been known to discourse to his neighbor through the greater part of a long dinner on the doctrine of copyright and of international copyright. His neighbor was a beautiful woman who cared no more for copyright than for the Cherokees. She listened to him

throughout with unfailing delight." We may say parselves interesting and morally intelligible to their enthetically, that those who have tried to make themfellow-man on the subject of international copyright will best appreciate Mr.Gladstone's feat. A fair share of this gift of brightening up a serious topic is possessed by Mr. Smalley, some of his most readable letters presupposing in the reader an intelligent interest in and a decent knowledge of current European politics and social questions. Writing for an American newspaper, he provides, of course, a liberal sprinkling of gossip and personal details-sometimes, we are bound to say, rather trivial, but always decent. Mr. Smalley is no scandal-monger; and that portion of the public which looks to the "correspondent" to supply it with the unsavory details of unsavory events will find cold comfort in his letters. With this exception, the range of topics touched upon in the volumes is ample enough to suit all tastes; like the German prescription, they contain something of everything, so that each case or individual may be met. The letters are the more interesting from the fact that the author has had personal relations with many great men of whom he writes; and those readers who turn anxiously to the chapters on "London Society," its customs, diversions, distinctions, rivalries, and outward aspects, may rest assured that Mr. Smalley's account is more authentic than that, say, of Thackeray's journalist, whose glowing descriptions of May Fair were written in a back garret by the light of a "penny dip."

IN September, 1889, the first volume of the Century Dictionary was reviewed at some length in THE DIAL; the succeeding volumes have followed at regular intervals, and we now have before us the fourth volume comprising the letters M, N, O, and P. This volume, which is larger than any of its predecessors, contains more than 1,300 pages adorned by nearly 1,500 cuts. The whole number of pages thus far is 4,880. The publishers originally promised their subscribers a total of 6,500 pages containing 200,000 words separately defined. They now inform us that the total number of pages must be increased to 7,000 which will contain in the neighborhood of 225,000 words defined. So long as books last, this splendid work is likely to stand as a monument of the scholarship, taste, skill, and enterprise

Persia, and Egypt, being reproduced very fully and accurately. The chapter upon "Philip and his Army" contains an excellent description of the Macedonian phalanx and of the whole military equipment of the phalangite. This chapter can be commended as the best available résumé on the sub

The auther follows Alexander from Macedonia to the Indus, and interprets the military side of this wonderful triumphal march so understand

realized the consummate military skill that made Alexander the conqueror of the Orient. The material from which a completely accurate account of this march could be constructed is, of course, wanting. Colonel Dodge has relied principally upon Arrian, Quintus Curtius, Diodorus Siculus, among the ancients; and, adding what can be gathered from other sources, has interpreted the hero to us in the light of modern military science. As he himself remarks, in speaking of the charts, etc., of the campaigns, "accuracy is not always possible"; but so far as the material will admit, the author has been conscientious in its use as well as logical in his conclusions.

of contemporary America. Not the least remarkable feature is the punctuality with which the publishers are placing the successive parts and volumes at the disposal of subscribers. If the next two volumes are produced with the same speed as the four now in our hands, next New Year's day will see this magnificent dictionary completed. Six hundred and sixty pages,-or about half the present volume, -are occupied by the letter P, which, after S and C, is the most important of the alphabet. The letter Cingly that the reader feels that he has never before covers something less than 700 pages, and the letter S is yet to come. In the new International Webster, P claims 132 pages, C 164, and S 200. These figures may indicate the relative comprehensiveness of the two works. The 660 pages devoted to the letter P contain some 30,000 definitions and encyclopædic articles. But these figures are bewildering. One gladly turns from them to the most attractive feature of this dictionary, the illustrations, which distinctly surpass those of any similar work known to us and are equalled nowhere save in the best special works relating to art, natural history, etc. For pure æsthetic delight, commend us to the illustrations of sculpture, of architecture, of the mechanic arts, of plants, birds, snakes, and monkeys in this dictionary, above the dilettantism of any gift-book of the season. It may not be amiss to remind our readers that this book is a combined dictionary and encyclopædia of things (not of persons and places), under one alphabet. As a dictionary of words, it is doubtless the most accurate, as it is the completest and the most comprehensive, that has yet been produced. As an encyclopædia it is characterized by the greatest precision possible without. violence to clearness. It is an American work in the best sense, and naturally gives more space to domestic arts, animals, plants, etc., and to cis-Atlantic locutions, than any foreign dictionary or encyclopædia could be expected to give. (The Century Co., New York; McDonnell Bros., Chicago.)

FEW volumes more interesting to the student of the growth of military science have lately been issued than "Alexander, a History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus," written by Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, and published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., in the series entitled "Great Captains." In seven hundred ample pages, Colonel Dodge follows the history of Alexander's campaigns with critical analysis, and in a style and method especially fitted to the needs of the modern reader. The earlier chapters are devoted to an account of the methods of ancient warfare, and contain spirited descriptions of military usages of early nations. These chapters are fully illustrated by cuts from coins, marbles, and ceramics. The combat of the Greeks and Trojans, for example, as represented upon the marbles from Egina (now in Munich), has been so treated as to bring out the details of the armor and weapons of the Trojan time,―swords, spears, axes, shields, and weapons of every sort, from Greece,

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No writer has pictured more vividly the stirring incidents of frontier army life, the march across the plains, the bivouac, the dash and hurry of Indian fighting, than Captain Charles King; and his breezy, wholesome books are always sure of their public. Under the title "Campaigning with Crook," Harper & Brothers issue a series of sketches by Captain King-originally contributed to a Milwaukee daily-descriptive of the Sioux campaign of 1876. The papers were not subjected to a polishing process as a preliminary to their appearance in covers, and the author rates them, in his preface, rough sketches, but no rougher than the campaign." While an occasional amendment might be suggested, we think that on the whole the book is better as it is; the direct, rapid style is well suited to the matter; the sketches were written shortly after the events narrated took place, and the vigor of expression born of vivid recollection and quickened feeling might, perhaps, have been refined away in later revision. There are several noticeably good bits of descriptive writing in the volume, of which the following example-relating the death-scene of the Chief "American Horse "-may be selected : "Dr. Clements examines his savage patient tenderly, gently as he would a child; and though he sees that nothing can save his life, he does all that art can suggest. It is a painful task to both surgeon and subject. The latter scorns chloroform, and mutters some order to a squaw crouching at his feet. She glides silently from the tepee, and returns with a bit of hard stick; this he thrusts between his teeth, and then, as the surgeons work, and the sweat of agony breaks out upon his forehead, he bites deep into the wood, but never groans nor shrinks. Before the dawn his fierce spirit has taken its flight, and the squaws are crooning his death-chant by his side."

The volume is tastefully bound and well illustrated, and contains, in addition to the campaign sketches, three short stories in the author's familiar vein.

AN elementary history of Indian literature has long been needed, and the want is now supplied in the manual prepared by Mrs. Elizabeth B. Reed. The work is entitled "Hindu Literature; or, The Ancient Books of India" (Griggs), and, without being a work of original scholarship, is a careful compilation of the results obtained by the last halfcentury of fruitful investigation. Mrs. Reed is Mrs. Reed is evidently familiar with the best English work done in this field, and makes a judicious use of the writings of Wilson, Müller, and Monier-Williams. The book is, of course, far more elementary, besides being more limited in its scope, than Weber's history of the subject, and is prepared for a different class of readers. Its scope, in fact, only includes the Vedic literature and the epics, nothing being said of the drama, of the great body of Buddhist literature, or of the work done by the later Sanskrit writers in grammar, philosophy, and criticism. other hand, the Vedic literature, including the Upanishads and the Puranas, is fully analyzed and described; the epics and the legislation of Manu are treated at considerable length, and there are carefully written chapters upon the subjects of cosmogony and metempsychosis. The chapter upon Krishna has been revised by Professor Monier-Williams, and other portions of the work have had the benefit of Professor Max Müller's authoritative criticism. So the work comes to us with an authority not often possessed by compilations of the sort, and, as far as we have been able to observe, its statements of fact are in accordance with the results obtained by the most advanced scholarship. A characteristic feature of the work is found in the abundance of passages translated and introduced for the purpose of illustration.

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THERE is perhaps no more delightful experience in life than to listen to the conversation of a

trained scholar or man of letters in his own study, when the company is small (if only one-to-one so much the better), when he is without thought of the public, and is under no obligation to be exhaustive or consecutive. Scarcely second to the pleasure of such a personal meeting is the reading of a book which gives the impression of similar conditions,―a full mind loving to talk and sure of the sympathy of his listeners. We feel this charm in Charles Lamb nearly always, in James Russell Lowell very often, in William Hazlitt in his occasional informal moods; and now we have a new volume of essays worthy to be named even with these,- 66 My Study Fire" (Dodd) by Hamilton Wright Mabie. There are thirty-two chapters, the special headings of which are of small consequence. For let the subject be what it may"The Fire Lighted," "A Text from Sidney," "The Cuckoo Strikes Twelve," or even anything so commonplace as "A New Hearth,"-immediately a

whole brood of delicate thoughts, fancies, and reflections arise and cluster around it and us with

their subtle indefinable grace. It is not too much to say of Mr. Mabie, as Saintsbury has said of Hazlitt, "He is a born man of letters, and cannot help turning everything he touches into literature."

ANOTHER Volume of essays in a similar vein as those of Mr. Mabie is Mr. E. Conder Gray's "Making the Best of Things" (Putnam). But the nameless spell of Mr. Mabie is absent in Mr. Gray. It is not that his book is dull, nor lacking in worthy thoughts, nor without a certain value for a large variety of apt quotations; but it seems the work of an artisan rather than an artist. Almost anyone, if so minded, could, we should think, produce such a book, provided he should for a sufficient length of time keep a commonplace-book, or file his notes of the books he reads. For example, in the chapter called "Falling in Love" not only are there brief illustrative citations from Shakespeare, Tennyson, George Meredith, Leland, Matthew Browne, Dante, and others, but Browning's poem of "Evelyn Hope" is given in full with the exception of the first stanza, closely followed by a long extract from Longfellow's "Courtship of Miles Standish" and another from Vere Clavering's novel of Barcaldine." Still there are doubtless many who will relish the not unwholesome ragout served in this book.

A USEFUL and compact little "Handbook of Historic Schools of Painting," by D. L. Hoyt of the Massachusetts Normal Art School, is published by Ginn & Co. The author's aim is to give in a simple and condensed form some general knowledge of the great historic schools of painting, their characteristics, chief artists, and some of the most noted paintings of each. The present condition of painting in the different schools is also briefly touched upon; and at the close of the book are to be found a list of the emblems by which different saints and other characters in old religious paintings may be known, definitions of technical art terms, and an index of artists' names together with their proper pronunciation. This little man

ual seems to us careful and accurate so far as it goes, and should be especially useful to lay readers who desire a decent knowledge of historic art, and lack courage or time to attack the voluminous works of Lübke and Kügler.

MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. issue in a wellprinted volume of 230 pages the "Tale of Troy," done into English by Aubrey Stewart, M.A., Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. This little book, containing a compact, clearly-told narrative of the chief events from the carrying off of Helen to the fall of Troy, should prove both interesting and instructive to young readers; and may even serve, in a small way, as a royal road to Homeric learning for those who lack taste or opportunity to go to the fountain-head.

BOOKS OF THE MONTH.

[The following list includes all books received by THE DIAL during the month of December, 1890.]

ARCHEOLOGY.

The Finding of Wineland the Good: The History of the Icelandic Discovery of America. Edited and translated from the Earliest Records, by Arthur Middleton Reeves. Illustrated with phototype plates of the Vellum MSS. of the Sagas. 4to, pp. 205, uncut, gilt top. London: Henry Frowde. Half-vellum, $11.00. Fingal's Cave, in the Island of Staffa: An Historical, Archæological, and Geological Examination. Illustrated, 8vo, pp. 49. Robert Clarke & Co. 75 cents.

HISTORY-BIOGRAPHY.

The Greek World Under Roman Sway, from Polybius to Plutarch. By J. P. Mahaffy, author of "Social Life in Greece." 12mo, pp. 418, uncut. Macmillan & Co. $3.00. A. M. Mackay, Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society of Uganda. By his Sister. With Portrait and Map, 12mo, pp. 488. A. C. Armstrong & Son. $1.50. The Life of an Artist: An Autobiography. By Jules Breton. Translated by Mary J. Serrano. With Portrait. 12mo, pp. 350. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.

LITERARY MISCELLANY.

The Writings of George Washington. Collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. In 14 vols. Vol. VIII., 1779-1780. Royal 8vo, pp. 508, uncut, gilt top. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $5.00.

Curiosities of the American Stage. By Laurence Hutton, author of "Plays and Players." Illustrated, 8vo, pp. 347, uncut, gilt top. Harper & Bros. $2.50. Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. By Jeremiah Curtin. 12mo, pp. 555, uncut, gilt top. Little, Brown, & Co. $2.00. The Story of My House. By George H. Ellwanger, author of "The Garden's Story." With Frontispiece, 16mo, pp. 286, uncut, gilt top. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50. The Philosophy of Fiction: An Essay. By Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, author of "Social Progress." 12mo, pp. 224. Longmans, Green & Co. $1.50.

Life. By M. J. Savage. 12mo, pp. 237. Geo. H. Ellis. $1. The Lady from the Sea, and other Plays. By Henrik Ibsen. Translated by Clara Bell. 16mo, pp. 520. Lovell's Series of Foreign Literature." Paper, 50 cents.

POETRY.

Songs of a Savoyard. By W. S. Gilbert. Illustrated by author. 8vo, pp. 142. George Routledge & Sons. $2.50. The Lion's Cub, with Other Verse. By Richard Henry

Stoddard. With Portrait. 16mo, pp. 153, gilt top.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25.

Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other
Verses. By Rudyard Kipling, author of "Plain Tales
from the Hills." 12mo, pp. 270, uncut, gilt top. U. S.
Book Co. $1.25.

Ballads. By Robert Louis Stevenson. 16mo, pp. 85, gilt top. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.00.

Rose Brake. Poems by Danske Dandridge, author of "Joy, and Other Poems." 24mo, pp. 110. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 75 cents.

Under the Nursery Lamp: Songs about the Little Ones. 24mo, pp. 87, gilt edges. A. D. F. Randolph.__ 75 cents. Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning: A Pocket Volume. Sm. crown 8vo, pp. 319. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 40 cents.

The Franklin Square Song Collection, Number 7: Songs and Hymns. Selected by J. P. McCaskey. 8vo, pp. 184. Harper & Bros. Paper, 50 cents.

The Morning Hour: A Daily Song Service for Schools. By Irving Emerson, O. B. Brown, and George E. Gay. 8vo, pp. 112. Ginn & Co. 60 cents.

FICTION.

Widow Guthrie. A Novel. By Richard Malcolm Johnston. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. 12mo, pp. 309. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.

The Demagogue. A Political Novel. By David Ross Locke (Nasby "), author of "Hannah Jane." 12mo, pp. 465. Lee & Shepard. $1.50.

Aunt Dorothy: An Old Virginia Plantation Story. By Margaret J. Preston, author of "Colonial Ballads." IIlustrated, 16mo, pp. 92. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. 60c.

Tales by Coppée. Ten Tales translated by Walter Larned. With 50 pen-and-ink drawings by Albert E. Sterner, and an Introduction by Brander Matthews. 16mo, pp. 219, uncut. Harper & Bros. $1.25. Seven Dreamers. By Annie Trumbull Slosson. With Frontispiece. 12mo, pp. 281. Harper & Bros. $1.25. Patience. By Anna B. Warner, author of "Dollars and Cents." 16mo, pp. 412. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.25. A Successful Man. By Julien Gordon, author of "A Diplomat's Diary." 16mo, pp. 184. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1. The Elixir, and Other Tales. By Georg Ebers, author of

Margery." Translated by Mrs. Edward Hamilton Bell. Authorized edition, with Portrait, 24mo, pp. 261. W. S. Gottsberger & Co. 90 cents.

Harper's Franklin Square Library-New volumes: The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician, by Edwin Lester Arnold, illustrated, 50 cents; Marcia, by W. E. Norris, 40 cents.

Lovell's International Series-New volumes: Heart of Gold, by L. T. Meade; The Sloane Square Scandal and other Stories, by Annie Thomas (Mrs. Pender Cudlip); Famous or Infamous, by Bertha Thomas; Between Life and Death, by Frank Barrett; Alas! by Rhoda Broughton; Dramas of Life, by George R. Sims; The House of Halliwell, by Mrs. Henry Wood; Ruffino and other Stories, by Ouida; The Honorable Miss, by L. T. Meade; Wormwood, by Marie Correlli; Basil and Annette, by B. L. Farjeon The Demoniac, by Walter Besant; The Black-Box Murder, by the Man who Discovered the Murder. Each volume, 50 cents.

Lovell's Westminster Series-New volumes: Work while Ye Have the Light, translated from the Russian of Count Lyof N. Tolstoï, by E. J. Dillon; A Black Business, by Hawley Smart; He Went for a Soldier, by John Strange Winter; Missing A Young Girl, by Florence Warden; Le Beau Sabreur, by Annie Thomas; A Very Young Couple, by B. L. Farjeon; A Bride from the Bush, by a New Writer; A Laggard in Love, by Jeanie Gwyn Bettany. Each volume, 25 cents.

Worthington's International Library - New volume: Christmas Stories, translated from the German of W. Heimburg, by Mrs. J. W. Davis, illustrated, 75 cents. Worthington's Rose Library-New volume: One of Cleopatra's Nights, and other Romances, by Theophile Gautier, translated by Lafcadio Hearn, illustrated by J. M. Gleeson, 50 cents.

Lovell's American Authors' Series-New volumes: By Whose Hand? by Edith Sessions Tupper; On the Heights of Himalay, by Å. Van Der Naillen. Each volume, 50c. Lippincott's Select Novels - New volumes: The Other Man's Wife, by John Strange Winter; A Homburg Beauty, by Mrs. Edward Kennard. Each volume, 50 cents.

TRAVEL.

Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets, and Poets. By Mrs. Oliphant, author of "Makers of Florence." Illustrated by George Reid, R.S.A. 12mo, pp. 520, uncut, gilt top. Macmillan & Co. $3.00.

A Woman's Trip to Alaska: Being an Account of a Voyage through the Inland Seas of the Sitkan Archipelago in 1890. By Septima M. Collins, author of "A Woman's War Record. Illustrated, 8vo, pp. 194, uncut, gilt top. Cassell Pub'g Co. $2.50.

NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE. Wild Beasts and their Ways. Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. By Sir Samuel W. Baker, F.R.S. Illustrated, 8vo, pp. 455. Macmillan & Co. $3.50. Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine. By W. Hamilton Gibson, author of "Pastoral Days." Illustrated by the author, 4to, pp. 194, gilt edges. Harper & Bros. $3.50. Through Magic Glasses, and other Lectures: A Sequel to "The Fairyland of Science.' By Arabella B. Buckley, author of "Winners in Life's Races." Illustrated, 12mo, pp. 234. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.

LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE. Hindu Literature: or, The Ancient Books of India. By Elizabeth A. Reed. S. C. Griggs & Co. $2.00. English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880). Chosen and arranged by James M. Garnett, M.A., LL.D. 12mo, pp. 701. Ginn & Co. $1.65.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud, Babli, and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Compiled by M. Jastrow, Ph.D. Part IV., 4to, pp. 289 to 384. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Boards, per part, $2.00.

RELIGION-THEOLOGY.

The Evidence of Christian Experience. Being the Ely
Lectures for 1890. By Lewis French Stearns. 12mo, pp.
473. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.00.
My Note-Book: Fragmentary Studies in Theology, and Sub-
jects Adjacent thereto. By Austin Phelps, D.D. With
portrait, 16mo, pp. 324. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
Indications of the Book of Genesis. By Edward B.

Latch, author of “A Review of the Holy Bible." 12mo,

pp. 409. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.

The Evolution of Immortality; or, Suggestions of an In

dividual Immortality. By C. T. Stockwell. 3d edition, with Appendix. 16mo, pp. 104. C. H. Kerr & Co. 60 cts. Deacon Herbert's Bible-Class. By James Freeman Clarke. 32mo, pp. 138. George H. Ellis. 50 cents.

JUVENILES.

The Red Fairy Book. Edited by Andrew Lang. Illus

trated by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed, 12mo, pp. 367,

gilt edges. Longmans, Green & Co. $2.00. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Games and Sports.

By John D. Champlin, Jr., and Arthur E. Bostwick.

IICrowded Out of Crofield; or, The Boy Who Made His

lustrated, 8vo, pp. 831. Henry Holt & Co. $2.50.
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Way. By W. O. Stoddard. Illustrated, 12mo, pp. 261.
D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.

King Tom and the Runaways: The Story of What Befell

LADIES' STATIONERY.

A few years ago, our fashionable people would use no Stationery but Imported goods. The American styles and makes did not come up to what they required. Messrs. Z.& W. M. CRANE set to work to prove that as good or better goods could be made in this country as abroad. How well they have succeeded is shown by the fact that foreign goods are now scarcely quoted in the market, while CRANE'S goods are staple stock with every dealer of

Two Boys in a Georgia Swamp. By Louis Pendleton, any pretensions. This firm bas done

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Little He and She. By Grace Denio Litchfield, author of "Criss-Cross." Illus., 4to, pp. 175. D. Lothrop Co. $1.50. A Rough Shaking. By George Macdonald, author of "Da

vid Elginbrod." 12 full-page illustrations by W. Parkin

son. 12mo, pp. 384. George Routledge & Sons. $1.50. A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the

Great. By Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. Illustrated,

12mo, pp. 325. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.

Under Orders: The Story of a Young Reporter. By Kirk

much during the past two or three years to produce a taste for dead-finish Papers, and to-day their brands of 'Grecian Antique,' "Parchment Vellum,' 'Old-style,' and 'Distaff,' are as popular as their finest 'Satin Finish' goods. The name for each of their brands is copyrighted; and their Envelopes, which match each style and size of Paper, are high-cut pattern, so that the gum cannot come in contact Prince Dimple and His Everyday Doings. Told for the with a letter enclosed, during sealing.

Munroe, author of " Dorymates. Illustrated, 12mo, pp. 348. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25. Double Play; or, How Joe Hardy Chose his Friends. By William Everett, author of "Changing Base." trated, 16mo, pp. 244. Roberts Bros. $1.25.

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By William Everett, author of "Double Play." Illustrated, 16mo, pp. 282. Roberts Bros. $1.25. Thine, not Mine: A Sequel to Changing Base." By William Everett, author of "Double Play." Illustrated, 16mo, pp. 297. Roberts Bros. $1.25.

Little Ones by Mrs. George A. Paull (Minnie E Kenney). Illustrated, 12mo, pp. 129. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. $1.25 History of My Pets. By Grace Greenwood, author of "Stories of My Childhood." New edition, illustrated, 12mo, pp. 222. U. S. Book Co. $1.00.

Stories of My Childhood, and Other Tales. By Grace Greenwood, author of "History of My Pets." New edition, illustrated, 12mo, pp. 249. U. S. Book Co. $1.00. Pards: A Story of Two Homeless Boys. By Effie W. Merriman. Illus., sq. 16mo, pp. 202. Lee & Shepard. $1.00. Captain January. By Laura E. Richards. 16mo, pp. 64. Estes & Lauriat. 50 cents.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Good Living: A Practical Cookery-Book for Town and
Country. By Sarah Van Buren Brugière. 8vo, pp. 580.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.25.
Society As I Have Found It. By Ward McAllister. With
Portrait. Svo, pp. 469. Cassell Publishing Co. $2.00.
The Illustrated Gamekeeper at Home. Sketches of Nat-
ural History and Rural Life. By Richard Jefferies, au-
thor of "The Amateur Poacher." New edition, illus-
trated, 12mo, pp. 221. Roberts Bros. $1.50.
Millionaires of a Day: An Inside History of the Great

Southern California Boom. By Theodore S. Van Dyke.
12mo, pp. 208. Fords, Howard & Hulbert. $1.00.
A Dream of a Modest Prophet. By M. D. Leggett. 16mo,
pp. 207. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.00.
Hermetic Philosophy. Designed for Students of the Her-
metic, Pythagorean, and Platonic Sciences, and Western
Occultism. By an Acolyte of the "H. B. of L." Vol. I.
16mo, pp. 184. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.00.

[Any book in this list will be mailed to any address, post-paid, on receipt of price by Messrs. A. C. MCCLURG & Co., Chicago.]

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stamp to Dr. COAN for prospectus at 20 West 14th St., New
York City.

Through Vestibuled and Colonist Sleepers
Between Chicago and Tacoma, Wash.,
and Portland, Ore.

THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL and NORTHERN PACIFIC
lines run through Pullman Vestibuled and Colonist
Sleepers between Chicago and Tacoma, Wash., and Port-
land, Ore. The train known as the "Pacific Express"
leaves the Grand Central Passenger Station, at the cor-
ner of Fifth Avenue and Harrison street, at 10.45 P. M.
daily. For tickets, berths in Pullman or Colonist Sleep-
ers, etc., apply to GEO. K. THOMPSON, City Passenger
and Ticket Agent, 205 Clark Street; or to F. J. EDDY,
Depot Ticket Agent, Grand Central Passenger Station,
corner Fifth Avenue and Harrison street, Chicago, Ill.

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