ART, MUSIC, DRAMA.

BATE, PERCY H. The English pre-Raphaelite painters; their associates and successors. Macmillan. il. 8°, $12.

BURGESS, Gelett. The nonsense almanack, Stokes. unp. 8°, pap., 50 c.

The author of "The purple cow" has shown a genius for nonsense in words and pictures. There is a useful page devoted to the astronomical calculations, chronological eras, chronological cycles, equinoxes and solstices. The calendar of each month is faced by a fullpage picture in which many modern society fads and much human nature are burlesqued. DENIO, ELIZ. H. Nicolas Poussin: his life and work; with 8 photogravures from pictures by Poussin. Scribner. 8°, $3.50. GIBSON, C. DANA. Sketches in Egypt; written and il. by C. Dana Gibson. Doubleday & McC. 8°, net, $3.

A reprint of the text and pictures which appeared in McClure's Magazine. In shape and style this is now a handsome holiday giftbook.

HOPE, ROB. C. Mediæval music: a historical sketch. 2d rev. ed. Scribner. 8°, $2. HUBBARD, ELBERT. Joshua Reynolds. Putnam. 16°, (Little journeys to the homes of eminent painters, v. 5, no. 10.) pap., 10 c. LEHMANN, G. True principles of the art of violin playing. Scribner. 8°, $1. MELLEN, G. E. New pointers for amateurs: a vest-pocket reference booklet and exposure record. Mellen. il. 16°, pap., 15 c.

A little book on photography for amateurs. The following is a partial list of subjects: How to buy a new camera; How to save money on supplies; How to avoid mistakes on exposures; How to make money out of picture-making fun; Where to find good subjects; How to see the most picturesque part of a landscape; How to get clouds in landscape negative; How to "catch" moving figures at any rate of speed with any camera; What "stops" to use on different subjects; How to dry negatives in five minutes; Flash-light exposures in the day time; Panoramic pictures with any camera; Exposure tables for still subjects; Exposure tables and distance tables for moving figures,

etc.

tures of a young lawyer in settling the affairs of four clients of great originality. An oriental despot turning up and settling things seems quite natural among all the other extravaganza.

SCHOENER, REINHOLD. Rome; ed. and condensed by Mrs. Arthur Bell, (N. D'Anvers;) with 290 il. after original drawings by Terzi, Scribner. Barbasan, Fuchs, and others. 4°, mosaic binding, $12.50. TRISCHKA, J. Colored designs for wall and ceiling decoration in modern style, mostly executed in New York and other American cities: 16 chromolithographs. Hessling. 4°, $6.

WILLIAMSON, G. C. Bernardino Luini. Macmillan. 8°, (Great masters of painting and sculpture, no. 1.) $1.75.

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

BALZAC, HONORÉ De.

The personal opinions of Honoré de Balzac taken from his correspondence and his miscellaneous writings, preceded by the address of M. Ferdinand Brunetière delivered at Tours, May 6, 1899, on the occasion of the Balzac centenary; comp. and tr. by Katherine Prescott Wormeley. Hardy, Pratt. 12°, hf. rus., $1.50.

These personal opinions of Balzac on the men and women of his time, the politics, literature, theatre, social issues, etc., are selected from the concluding volumes of the Edition Definitive of his works. The separate works are not referred to, as such references would be monotonous and take up unnecessary space. The opinions follow chronologically, and cover the years from 1822 to 1838. The address delivered by Ferdinand Brunetière May 6, 1899, at the Balzac centenary, precedes the work. BARRETT, J. Admiral George Dewey: a sketch of the man. Harper. por. 16°, $1.25.

A sketch of Admiral George Dewey, by Hon. John Barrett, late United States Minister to Siam, and ten months war correspondent at Manila, from May, 1898, to March, 1899. The work is not an extended biography, but an attempt to give an adequate representation of the character and personality of the most prominent American of the present day. DAVIS, C. H. Life of Charles Henry Davis, Rear-Admiral, 1847-1877. Houghton, M. por. 8°, $3. HALL, A. D.

Life of the Pope [Leo XIII.] Street & S. 12°, $1; pap., 10 c.

MCCARTHY, JUSTIN. The story of Gladstone's life. New cheaper issue of the 2d ed., rev. and enl. Macmillan. por. il. 8°, price reduced to

$3.50. MUNGER, THEODORE THORNTON. Horace Bushnell, preacher and theologian. Houghton, por. 12, $2.

M.

Dr. Bushnell was born in 1802 and died in 1876. His career as an independent thinker and a courageous, progressive theologian covers

the religious history of New England during the first half of the century. Shortly after his death his daughter, Mrs. Mary Bushnell Cheney, prepared a biography, which was published by Harper & Brothers in 1880. From this the author takes his biographical data, but his plan is not so much to give a full history of the life of Bushnell as to present the real character of the man, to ascertain his place among the religious leaders of America, his relation to the thought of his day and his influence upon it. Gives chronology of events and list of public writings (3 p.).

MURISON, A. F. King Robert the Bruce. Scribner. 12°, (Famous Scots ser.) 75 c. NEUFELD, C. A prisoner of the Khaleefa: twelve years' captivity at Omdurman. Putnam. pors. plans, 8°, $4.

to

The author was captured by the Dervishes in 1887 while accompanying a caravan Kordofan for supposed business purposes. He

was also believed to have carried letters from

the English government, and arms, ammunition, and moneys to the loyal Sheikh of the Kabbabish, Seleh Bey Wad Salem. His caravan was betrayed and he was held a prisoner in the Soudan for twelve years. Mr. Neufeld has been the subject of much slander and misrepresentation, as he was accused of betraying the caravan he accompanied. His book is a detailed account of the horrors of his captivity and an answer to the accusations of his enemies.

DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC.

BESANT, Sir WALTER, and PALMER, E. H. Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin. 4th ed. enl. Lippincott. 8°, $3.

First written in 1870 and 1871. A new edition was prepared in 1888 by Walter Besant, after the death of E. H. Palmer, who was for years professor of Arabic at Cambridge University, and who had supplied the material from Mohammedan documents. A new chapter on researches and excavations brought the work up to date in 1888. Nothing new has been added since that revision.

BOND, FRANCIS. English cathedrals illustrated.
Lippincott. il. 12°, $2.
COLEMAN, Rev. AMBROSE.
Philippines.

25 c.

The friars in the Marlier. il., 12°, 50 c.; pap.,

Some corrections of what are alleged to be false and slanderous statements regarding the friars in the Philippines. The articles are entitled The work of the religious orders in the Philippines; The charges made against them considered; The rebellion largely the work of a secret organization; The rebels and their grievances; The sectarian missionary movement. These papers are supplemented by an appendix, containing: A short account of missions in China, conducted by the Dominican friars of the Philippines; Extracts relating to the friars, from the official correspondence of Generals Weyler and Moriones; The work of Freemasonry in South and Central America, etc., etc.

DARLEY, G. M., D.D. Pioneering in the San Juan. Revell. 12, $1.50.

DEWAR, G. A. B. Wild life in Hampshire Highlands. Macmillan. il. 8, (Haddon Hall lib.) $3.

LYNCH, HANNAH. Medieval towns: Toledo, the story of an old Spanish capital; il. by Helen M. James. Macmillan. 16°, $1.50. MELDRUM, D. STORRAR. Holland and the Hollanders. Dodd, M. il. 8°, $2.

MURRAY, J. Handbook for travellers in Ireland. 5th ed. rev. and ed. by John Cooke. Scribner. maps, plans, 12°, $3.60. PENFIELD, F. COURTLAND. Present-day Egypt; il. by Paul Philippoteaux and R. Talbot Kelly, and from photographs. Century. 8°, $2.50. SHOEMAKER, MICHAEL MEYERS. Quaint corners of ancient empires: southern India, Burma, and Manila. Putnam. il. 8°, $2.25. VIVIAN, HERBERT. Tunisia and the modern Barbary pirates. Longmans, G. il. 8°, $4. Contents: Historical introduction; The Bey; The modern Barbary pirates; The children of the morning; Islam; Jews and niggers; In and out of Tunis; The inside of the cup and the platter; Trade and agriculture; Justice and education; Beasts and feathered fowl; Tripoli. VLADIMIR, (pseud.) Russia on the Pacific, and the Siberian railway. Scribner. il. maps, 8°, $5.

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC.

LEE, GUY CARLETON. Principles of public speaking. Putnam. 12°, $1.75.

The principles comprise the technique of articulation, phrasing, emphasis; the cure of vocal defects; the elements of gesture; a complete guide in public reading; extemporaneous speaking, debate, and parliamentary law, together with many exercises, forms, and practice selections. There is a general index and an index to the Rules of Order compiled by a pupil of Johns Hopkins University, where the author is professor.

KINGSLEY, J. STIRLING. Text-book of vertebrate zoology. Holt. 8°, net, $3.

The present volume is intended to supplement both lectures and laboratory work, and to give in concise form the more important facts and generalizations concerning the vertebrates. It is also hoped that it will be of value to medical students in explaining many peculiarities in the structure of man which seem meaningless unless viewed in the light of comparative morphology. The first part of the work is devoted to an outline of the morphology of vertebrates based upon embryology. The remainder of the book gives an outline of the classification of vertebrates. The author says that on some ornithological points and in nomenclature he differs from the majority of American students as specified in the second part of the book.

FICTION.

BRADY, JASPER EWING. Tales of the telegraph: the story of a telegrapher's life and adventures in railroad, commercial, and military work. Doubleday & McC. il. 12°, $1.25.

Describes scenes in the author's career from the time he learned telegraphing at school in Kansas to the work done as a captain in the Signal Service during the Spanish-American War. He faithfully describes the sturdy, loyal men and women who keep the world connected by telegraph in times of death, pes

BULLOCK, SHAN F. The Barrys.

day & McC. 12°, $1.25.

Double

An Irish story full of description of beautiful scenery and of sketches of fine characters. The Barrys have many family misunderstandings, lose property, and one driven by despair over a dissipated wife takes to drink and breaks many hearts. The end is happy. The heroine, Nan," is a healthy, hopeful, unselfish, lovable Irish beauty.

CAMPBELL, FLOY. Camp Arcady: the story of four girls and some others who kept house in a New York flat. Badger. 16°, 75 c. Four girls who have left country homes to study art, music, etc., in New York City, make their home for one winter on the top floor of an old mansion turned into "flats." The details of their efforts, disappointments, and pleasures are given. At the end the girls give up their ambitious plans, all having found that the most satisfactory thing to which a girl can aspire is a home in its true meaning. CROCKETT, S. RUTHERFORD. Ione March; il. by E. Pollak. Dodd, M. 12°, $1.50. An American girl, refined, beautiful, and well educated, but of independent spirit, is the heroine. The scene is Switzerland and England, though the principal characters are American. An entertaining picture is given of hotel life in Switzerland and of the various odd characters to be found there. Chiefly, however, the author aims to portray the peculiarities and characteristics of American travellers abroad. Portions of the story appeared in The woman at home under the title of "The woman of fortune."

CROCKETT, S. RUTHERFOrd. Kit Kennedy, country boy; with il. by A. I. Keller. Harper. 12°, $1.50.

A secret Scotch marriage without a minister, lost marriage lines and the disappearance of witnesses, a deserted wife who cannot prove her marriage, and a boy with seemingly no legal right to the name he bears, is the familiar plot."Kit Kennedy " is the boy in question, and it is his story that the book has to do with. Many vivid descriptions are introduced of Scotch scenery and intense scenes of love and hatred.

FROISSART, Sir J. Stories from Froissart, by H. Newbolt. Macmillan. 12°, $1.50. HATTON, JOS. When rogues fall out: a romance of old London. Lippincott. 12°, $1.25. From Whibley's "A book of scoundrels " and Vincent's "Twelve bad men" the author selects his characters. Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, and many other "classic rogues figure in this romance, in which the heroines are almost as bad as the men. Hogarth the painter and Thomas Gay the poet play important parts in this story of the days of Queen Anne. HECTOR, Mrs. ANNIE FRENCH, ["Mrs. Alexander," pseud.] The step-mother. Lippin12°, $1.25.

cott.

HEWLETT, MAURICE. Little novels of Italy Macmillan. 12°, $1.

Contents: Madonna of the peach tree; Ippolita in the hills; The Duchess of Nona; Messer Cino, and the live coal and the judgment of Borse.

HILL, J. ALEXANDER. Stories of the railroad.

Doubleday & McC. 12°, $1.50.

Contents: An engineer's Christmas story; The clean man and the dirty angels; Jim lady of the eyes; Some freaks of fate; MorWainwright's kid; A peg-legged romance; My mon Joe, the robber; A midsummer night's trip; The polar zone. The author is a former locomotive engineer on the Rio Grande Rail

road.

HUSSEY, EYRE. On account of Sarah. Lippincott. 12°, $1.25.

its outdoor sports and home-life, the family A bright story of English country life with skeleton taking little walks abroad from the closet of the village squire and head of the third generation of rather unruly descendants. Sarah, a girl of twenty, who had come into this family as step-daughter to a son, is a strong minded Girton girl who plans to reform grandfather, grandsons and family friends, and to marry dependents. One grandson was Sarah, and he it is who tells the story and who had many happenings in his life "on account of Sarah."

La Strega, and other LA RAME, LOUISE DE. stories; with a frontispiece by J. H. Betts. Drexel Biddle. 12°, $1.50.

Contents: La Strega; An anarchist; Ruffo and Ruff; El Brug; Toto; Tonia. LYNCH, HANNAH. Autobiography of a child. Dodd, M. 12°, $1 25.

The mother of the child who describes

twelve years of her unhappy little life was a very handsome woman, married to her second husband, who had absolutely no love for her children, and delighted to make them suffer physical and mental tortures. The child was

sent to a warm-hearted Irish nurse, afterwards to a Catholic convent in England. Brief intervals of home visits contain more heart-break than would seem possible to fall to a baby girl.

LYNDE, FRANCIS. The helpers. Houghton,
M. 12°, $1.50.
MACGRATH, HAROLD.

Arms and the woman: a romance. Doubleday & McC. 12°, $1.25. A New York newspaper man is sent to London to look after the English correspondent who had fallen a victim to drink. He discovers the woman in the case, a princess of a minor German state. In the course of his reporting duties the young American runs across the princess, hiding from her guardian and doing a barmaid's work. She is fearless, and her knowledge of languages and firearms helps her to elude her pursuers. Her great resemblance to the girl who had refused him in America puts the reporter upon a combination of events that make a story of decided originality.

MASON, A. E. W. Miranda of the balcony. Macmillan. 12°, $1.50.

"Miranda of the balcony" is the supposed widow of a traitor to his queen and country,

dealer in contraband war munitions, and wife deserter. He had feigned death when discovered on a wreck off the coast of Africa in the Mediterranean, to escape justice. Miranda lived in Tangiers. A man conveyed to Miranda that her husband lived, and for two years extorted blackmail from her for shielding the scoundrel from discovery. A young English engineer saw a reflection of Miranda in the balcony in his mirror. He loved her, but deemed her tied to the traitor husband; later thought her free; then again knew her bound by law and deserted. He tracked the husband and brought him back. The end is surprising, Told in the vivid style of the author's "Courtship of Morrice Buckler."

MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT. Well, after all. Dodd, M. 12°, $1.50.

A little English town is the scene of the ofttold tale of woman's constancy and man's infatuation for whatever is new and near. A run on a country bank, a young girl's misfortunes, an innocent man's murder, and suspicion following the wrong clues until it settles finally in most unexpected quarter, are a few of the incidents the author of "The Jessamy bride" weaves into a romance, showing once more his keen knowledge of human nature. PENDERED, MARY L. Michael Rolf, Englishman. Doubleday & McC. 12, $1.25.

A girl of good family in reduced circumstances accepts the position of governess to the sister of a grocer in an English rural town. The brother is an athlete, a fireman, and in all things one of "nature's noblemen." In her entirely new surroundings the young governess learns to look into the conventions of various classes of society, and to study the essentials of true manhood and womanhood. A county election also brings out the good and evil of toryism, conservative liberalism, and socialism. Published in England under the title "The Englishman."

POLLARD, PERCIVAL. Cape of storms: a novel. Badger. 12°, $1.25.

The author's brilliant style is known to readers of Town Topics. A young artist of the modern "black and white" school leaves his home in the middle-west, conditionally engaged to a girl of eighteen. A few years of metropolitan disillusion, insincerity, greed and temptation teach him his art, but give him the "don't care," "ridicule everything" of the day. An up-to-date society woman, who takes care of herself while undermining others, finally opens his eyes to the advantages of a peaceful home. His first love has also had a history before they meet and are happy. ROBERTSON, MORGAN A. Where angels fear to tread, and other tales of the sea. Century. il. 12°, $1.25.

A collection of short stories from The Century and other leading magazines. The characters of the first story, from which the book takes its name, are fresh-water sailors from the Great Lakes, who, as the result of inhuman treatment, mutiny at Callao and bring their ship to New York as best they can. Other tales deal with battleships and pirate craft, with naval conditions of a past age, and with the future possibilities of war at sea. The author has been a sailor for many years.

SAWYER, WALTER LEON. A local habitation. Small & M. 16°, $1.25.

In the poorer quarter of Boston is found "a local habitation," a lodging-house which is all the home known to the printer, proof-reader, carpenter, shop-girls and newspaper man, who are the characters of the story. The latter is the hero. He becomes advertisement writer for a quack medicine firm and makes money. His character deteriorates, and the end is surprising. He went into lodgings in this district to study character for a novel he finally wrote with success.

SHERWOOD, MARG., ["Elizabeth Hastings," pseud.] Henry Worthington, idealist. Macmillan. 12°, $1.50.

The author of "An experiment in altruism" introduces another idealist, a professor of sociology in an American college, aged twentysix. A gift of money to the college, money ground out of the victims of department store methods, he thinks should be refused. The daughter of the donor of this money is the heroine. The book is a study of business conditions, showing how inextricably interwoven are right and wrong, selfishness and unselfishness. Individual responsibility and individual tolerance are inculcated.

STANNARD, Mrs. HENRIETTA ELIZA VAUGHAN, ["John Strange Winter," pseud.] A name to conjure with. Lippincott. 12, $1.25. The daughter of a man whose friends have helped him through years of business trouble begins to earn her living writing stories. She marries a journalist, who falls very ill, and she is forced to support husband and children. Finding her brain needs stimulant, she takes green chartreuse, and, although hating it, she becomes dependent upon it. Her husband discovers her weakness, and his love enables her to cure herself. A priest of the English church plays an important part in her regeneration.

STOCKTON, FRANK R. The vizier of the twohorned Alexander; il. by Reginald B. Birch. Century. 12°, bds., $1.25.

The hero is an oriental office-holder who

accidentally drank the entire contents of the Fountain of Youth, the result being that he has remained about fifty years of age for many centuries past. During these thousands of years he has been brought into more or less intimate contact with many of the world's most famous characters, including Abraham, Samson, Moses, Joshua, Nebuchadnezzar, Petrarch, Napoleon, Maria Edgeworth, and Charles Lamb. Of late years the vizier has been a resident of New York City, where Mr. Stockton has had frequent opportunities of hearing him tell of his unparalleled experiences. STUART, ELEANOR. Averages: a story of New York. Appleton. 12°, $1.50. WENDT, F. W. Transatlantics. 16°, $1.

Brentano's.

Stories based on incidents of ocean travel, entitled: A problem; The making of a man; A tale with a moral; The loss of the microbes; A quiet trip for the nerves; After many years; The “ yes" flag; A ghost-of-a-ghost story; Peter; "And while we fret on shore"; The professor; Revery of a bachelor steamer chair; Mr. and Mrs. Milford.

WILKINS, MARY ELEANOR.

The Jamesons. 16°, $1.

Doubleday & McClure. il. The Jamesons were the first boarders ever taken in a little New England country-place. They consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Jameson, Mrs. Jameson's mother, two daughters and a son, all characters possessed of strong individualities. They boarded with a character. Mrs. Jameson was up to date, and felt it her duty to instruct the inhabitants of the countryside in all she had learned at clubs and lectures, such as the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, Browning readings, health foods, physical culture, etc. The Jamesons came a second summer, but took a farm, and worked it on theories, also. In the end all benefited by seeing new things.

ZACK, [pseud. for Gwendoline Keats.] On trial. Scribner. 12°, $1.50.

HISTORY.

APPIAN of Alexandria. The Roman history of Appian of Alexandria; tr. from the Greek, by Horace White. Macmillan. 2 v., maps, il. 12°, $3.

Appian of Alexandria lived in Rome during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius. His works constitute an indispensable part of Roman history. The portions which have come down to modern times embrace the Spanish, Hannibalic, Punic, Illyrian, Syrian, and Mithridatic wars, and the civil wars of Rome, besides a considerable number of selections and fragments preserved in the writings and compilations of others. The last English translation of Appian was made in 1679, and the last one in any modern language (German) in 1831. The present translator has added many historical notes explaining obscurities and correcting inaccuracies. He says of Appian, "impartiality and the judicial temper are his striking characteristics." Bibliography (6 p.).

DENIKER, J. The races of man: a sketch of ethnography and anthropology. Scribner. 12, (Contemporary sci. ser.) $1.50. DRIVER, S. ROLLES, D.D., GARDNER, E. A., and others. Authority and archæology, sacred and profane: essays on the relation of monuments to biblical and classical literature. Scribner. 8°, $5.

FISKE, J. The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America. Houghton, M. 12°, $4. GRONOW, REES HOWELL. The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow: being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs, and society, 1810-1860; with por. and il. from contemporary sources, by Joseph Greco. New cheaper ed. Scribner. 2 v., por. il. 8°, $4. HALL, TOM. The fun and fighting of the Rough Riders." Stokes. 12°, bds., 50 c. A circumstantial history of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, better known as the "Rough Riders." Tom Hall was first lieutenant and quartermaster of the regiment, and took notes constantly when with it. While some of the pathetic incidents of the regiment's history are noted, it is the brighter side of the shield that is mostly presented to the reader's notice.

HAZARD, CAROLINE. The Narragansett Friends'

meeting in the XVIII century; with a chap

ter on Quaker beginnings in Rhode Island. Houghton, M. 8°, $1.50.

The first mention of the Quakers in Rhode Island occurs in a letter addressed to the gov ernor in 1657. The author has made a long study of the history of Rhode Island, and has had access to many very valuable unprinted records, from which she has drawn an interesting account of the social and religious life of Rhode Island in the eighteenth century, which she connects with the larger historic movements of the time. The visit of George Fox in 1672 is described in detail.

HOPKINS, TIGHE. An idler in old France; including a new picture of old Paris, the toilet, old Paris at table, the French medieval inn, the surgeons, barbers, and faculty of medicine, the chase, etc., etc. Scribner. 8°, $2. KING, BOLTON. A history of Italy; being a political history of Italy from 1814-1871. Scribner. 2 v., maps, plans, 8°, $7.50. LAUGHTON, J. KNOX, ed. From Howard to Nelson twelve sailors. Lippincott. pors. maps. 8°, $3.50.

Contents: Howard, by J. Knox Laughton; Drake, by Sir F. G. D. Bedford; Blake, by Montagu Burrows; Rooke, by C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald; Anson, by Albert Hastings Markham; Hawke and Boscawen, by Sir Edmund Rob. Fremantle; Rodney, by Sir R. Veysey Hamilton; Howe, by T. Sturges Jackson; Hood, by Sir R. Veysey Hamilton; St. Vincent and Nelson, by Philip H. Colomb.

McCook, H. CHRISTOPHER, D.D. The martial graves of our fallen heroes in Santiago de Cuba. Jacobs. 8°, $3.

The chaplain of the 2d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers was sent to Santiago by the United States Government to locate and designate the graves of the heroes who fell in the great July battles in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Since he made the notes and pictures of this volume most of the bodies have been disinterred at the nation's expense and shipped to their family burying-grounds. The author publishes this record at his own expense. One copy will go to the nearest relation of every fallen hero. The rest of the limited edition should be valuable to libraries and historical societies. An index to the men killed in battle and who died in 1898 in Cuba covers 26 pages double column.

PIKE, GODFREY HOLDEN. Oliver Cromwell and his times: social, religious, and political life in the seventeenth century. Lippincott. por. 12°, $1.50.

The book was written to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's birth, April

25, 1899. The author of "The life and work of Charles Haddon Spurgeon" sympathizes thoroughly with the religious views of Cromwell. He traces the free, enlightened, and Christian England of to-day to the work of Cromwell, which set the barrier to the encroachments of kingcraft and priestcraft. The private life of Cromwell is described as accurately as known documents make possible. SAYCE, Rev. ARCHIBALD H. Babylonians and Assyrians: life and customs. Scribner. 12°, (Semitic ser., no. 6, ed. by Ja. Alex. Craig.) cl., $1.25.

A new series of handbooks whose object is