PUERTO RICO AND ITS RESOURCES. A book for Travellers, Investors, and others, containing full accounts of Natural Features and Resources, Products, People, Opportunities for business, etc. By FREDERICK A. OBER, author of "Camps in the Caribbees," "Crusoe's Island," etc. With maps and illustrations. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. The aim has been to produce a work that will answer all questions likely to arise in connection with the acquisition and occupation of this new tropical possession of ours. The book is not a sketch for the casual visitor, or impressions of a traveller in search of the picturesque, but it is a comprehensive, informing, and interesting account of the people, land, and products, with the full explanations of the actual conditions and opportunities which are needed by visitors and intending investors. CANNON AND CAMERA. Sea and Land Battles of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, Camp Life and Return of the Soldiers. Described and illustrated by J. C. HEMMENT, War Artist at the Front. With over 100 full-page pictures taken by the author, and an index. Large 12mo, cloth, $2.00. "The most interesting book about the war so far is 'Cannon and Camera.' It is also the best, considered purely as a narrative. Mr. Hemment was at the right places at the right times. No series of pictures as good as this on the scenes and events of the war has been made by any other man."-Boston Herald. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR. By CHARLES A. DANA. With portrait. Large 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut, $2.00. "Out of his rich material Mr. Dana has woven a marvellous narrative. Written as the book is in Mr. Dana's inimitable English, it is worthy to rank with the autobiography of Grant in the list of the really great works which will bear down to posterity the true story of the great war for freedom and for the Union."-Boston Journal. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. From the Earliest Historical Time to the Year 1898. By EDGAR SANDERSON, M.A., sometime Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, author of "A History of the British Empire," "The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century," "Outlines of the World's History," etc. Uniform with "Natural History," "Astronomy," and "The Historical Reference Book." Small 8vo, half leather, $2.00. The thoroughness and compactness of this well-digested and comprehensive work render it invaluable as a convenient book of reference. The American edition has brought the history of our own country down to the close of the war with Spain. THE STORY OF THE RAILROAD. By CY WARMAN, author of "The Express Messenger," etc. A new volume in the "Story of the West Series," edited by Ripley Hitchcock. With maps, and many illustrations by B. West Clinedinst and from photographs. Uniform with "The Story of the Cowboy," The Story of the Mine," and "The Story of the Indian." 12mo, cloth, $1.50. PLAYTIME AND SEEDTIME. By FRANCIS W. PARKER and NELLIE L. HELM. Illus- 12mo, LATITUDE 190. A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord 1820. Being a faithful account and true of the painful adventures of the Skipper, the Bo's'n, the Smith, the Mate, and Cynthia. By Mrs. SCHUYLER CROWNINSHIELD. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. "A volume of deep, undeniable charm. A unique book from a fresh, sure, vigorous pen. "-Boston Journal. "A story filled with rapid and exciting action from the first page to the last. A fecundity of invention that never lags and a judiciously used vein of humor."-The Critic. DAVID HARUM. A Story of American Life. By EDWARD NOYES WEST12mo, cloth, $1.50. COTT. "Mr. Westcott has created a new and interesting type. The character sketching and building, so far as David Harum is concerned, is well-nigh perfect. . . . The book is wonderfully bright, readable, and graphic."- New York Times. A HERALD OF THE WEST. An American Story of 1811-1815. By J. A. ALTSHELER, author of "A Soldier of Manhattan" and "The Sun of Saratoga." 12mo, cloth, $1.50. "A Herald of the West' is a romance of our history which has not been surpassed in dramatic force, vivid col oring, and historical interest."-San Francisco Chronicle. THE PHANTOM ARMY. By MAX PEMBERTON, author of "Kronstadt." HER MEMORY. Uniform By MAARTEN MAARTENS, author of "God's Fool," "The "To us it stands easily first among the best and most satisfactory novels of the year. It is a good story, and a good work of art."-Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. RECENT VOLUMES IN Appletons' Town and Country Library. Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents. No. 255. THE KEY OF THE HOLY HOUSE. A Romance of Old Antwerp. By ALBERT Lee. This is a stirring romance of Holland's struggle for liberty against the Spaniards in the latter part of the sixteenth century, when Don Luis de Requesens succeeded the Duke of Alva as Viceroy of the Netherlands. The story pictures the terrors of the Inquisition and thrilling episodes of the gallant war for liberty waged by William, Prince of Orange, on the land, and the "Water Beggars" on the sea. The destruction of a Spanish fleet, after a fashion repeated at Manila, is among the dramatic chapters of this fascinating romance. No. 254. BELINDA — and Some Others. By This bright and humorous story offers a relief to the problem novel and the didactic tale, and it is certain to be welcomed by readers who relish wholesome entertain ment. This is the first volume of Uncle Robert's Geography, consisting of six books, graded for school use as well as for the home. Colonel Parker begins his lessons in geography and the phenomena of Nature by relating the experiences of a family of children upon a farm. He gives them free scope to extend their observations and investi- No. 253. THE IMPEDIMENT. By DOROTHEA gations with the aid of their parents and "Uncle Robert," whose visit is described in the third book. Dr. Harris says: "If these books are read by the school children, they will suggest a great variety of ways in which real mental growth and increase of practical power may be obtained." "Miss GERARD, author of "A Forgotten Sin," This is a story of modern life which shows a clear insight into character and rare adroitness and power of sympathy in its delineation. THESE BOOKS ARE FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 72 Fifth Avenue, New York. The News HARRD COLLEGE LIDRA JAN16 1899 Jn winter you may reade them,, VOL. XX. ghem, by the fireside; and in summer, ad umbram, under some shadie tree, and therewith pass away the tedious Hotores. CAMBRIDGE JANUARY, 1899. South London. It doesn't require any leaning toward Anglomania to enjoy this new work by Sir Walter Besant. On the contrary, it requires only the slightest knowledge of some of the most memorable events in English history, and the slightest possible interest in the life and death of No. I. after the discovery of her marriage with Owen Tudor. There it was that Elizabeth Woodville, the Queen of King Edward. died. The chapter on "The Royal Houses of South London" introduces us anew to Harold Harefoot, son of Cnut, who was crowned at Lambeth. Then we read many strange generations of people and in the picturesque relics that note their endeavors to build monuments. "South London" is the successor to "London" and "Westminster." Like its predecessors, it is not an ambitious history; it is, rather, a series of ever-interesting pictures of the condition, the manners, and customs of the people that for centuries had any connection whatsoever with the country that runs from the east, and from the river on the Battersea in the west to Greenwich in north to the first rising ground on the south. In the days when South London was merely Southwark, a single bare bridge joined it to the growing city. That was far back in history. The bridge gradually became a causeway, and the author discusses this picturesquely. A chapter on Bermondsey Abbey brings in the second love-story of the beautiful widow of King Henry v., who retired to the monastery of the old pageants and riding of Sir John Fastolfe, of the pilgrimages that went out to Canterbury, of the lady fair, the pretty churches, the show folk, the theatres of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the debtors' prisons, and the popular pleasure gardens, in which prince and servant, princess and quean, made merry night and day. The book is a deep, rich mine of most interesting information. The author has not trespassed upon the ground of the strict historian. He has been content, as he says, with showing how the people, his forefathers lived; what they thought and how they sang, and feasted, and made love, and grew old, and died. "I am like the showman in the Cries of London,'" he says, "I pull the strings and the children peep. Lo! Allectus goes forth to fight and die on Clapham Common. William's men burn the fishermen's cottages; little King Richard, that lovely boy, rides out, all in white and gold, from his palace at Kensington-saw one ever so gallant a lad? The Bastard of Falconbridge bombards the city; Sir John Fastolfe's man is pressed into Jack Cade's army; the Minters make their last Sanctury opposite St. George's; the debtors languish in the King's Bench. There are many pictures in the box-but how many more there are for which no room could be found!" The author says the chief difficulty has been that of selection from the great treasures that have accumulated about the spot he calls "South London." The contents of the volume do not form a tenth part of what might be written on the same plan, and still without including the history proper of the Borough. The book is handsomely and profusely illustrated. (Stokes. $3.)-Boston Weekly Journal. Wild Eelin. "WILD EELIN," by William Black, is a novel in the author's happiest vein, and the heroine, Wild Eelin, receives from and gives charm to the scenery in which she is placed; she is drawn with the most loving care and the rarest sympathy and art, and in her sweet inconsistency naturally converts her life into a tragedy. The story of her love is told with appealing sympathy, tenderness, and pathos, particularly in the chapter where the half-conscious Eelin imagines she is in the arms of the man she loves and reveals her affection for him, to the agony of her other lover, to whom she is engaged to be married. Mr. Black yields to the funereal demands of the time by killing Eelin, which naturally affects the reader, though it suggests soulfulness rather than fine The descriptive passages are, as might be expected, written with rare art, for the author's foot is on his native heath, and his name is William Black. "Wild Eelin" is a charming addition to this author's gallery of women portraits. (Harper. $1.75.) Boston Gazette. art. A Child's History of England. OF the countless histories of England for young people which have been prepared for either home or school use during the past halfcentury there is none which for clearness, comprehensiveness, impartiality of statement, and general fascination equals Dickens' "A Child's History of England." It was specially written, as most readers know, for the author's own children, although the children or other people were not considered out of the question. It was first published as a serial in Household Words, the first number appearing January 25, 1851, and the last December, 1853. As a book it was published in three separate volumes in 1852, 1853, and 1854. Dickens had very little respect for people in high places if they lacked those qualities of mind or character which their |