SCIENTIFIC AND

TECHNICAL.-Overland, (Dec.) "Hawaiian Volcanism," by E. P. Baker; Lick Observatory," by E. S. Holden.-Popular Science, (Dec.) Refractory Telescope," by C. P. Howard; "Spirit and Method of Scientific Study," by J. P. Lesley; (Jan.) "Progress in Tornado-Prediction," by Wm. A. Eddy; "Science in its Useful Applications," by W. Odling.

SERIALS.-Atlantic, (Jan.) "In the Clouds," by Chas. E. Craddock.-Lippincott's, (Jan.) "Taken by Siege"; "A Bachelor's Blunder," by W. E. Norris.Overland, (Jan.) "For Money," by Helen Lake.

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SHORT STORIES.-Atlantic, (Dec.) "Two Halves of a Life," by R. Machray; (Jan.) "Two Bites at a Cherry," by T. B. Aldrich.-Catholic World, (Jan.) "A Still Christmas," by Agnes Replier; A Cablegram and What Came of It," by Nugent Robinson; The Fault of Minneola, by Wm. Seton; "Domenico's New Year," by Thos. F. Galwey; "The Knickerbocker Ghost," by E. L. Dorsey.-Century, (Dec.) "A Child of the Age," by H. H. Boyesen; "Private History of a Campaign that Failed," by Mark Twain; "At Mrs. Berty's Tea," by Thos. A. Janvier; (Jan.) "The Cloverfields Carriage,' by F. R. Stockton; "Trouble on Lost Mountain," by I. C. Harris.-Eclectic, (Dec.) "The Chess-Player;' (Jan.) Daniel Fosque;" "The Atheists' Mass.' Harper's, (Dec.) "Esther Feverel," by Brander Matthews; "Wyvern Moat," by G. H. Boughton; "The Madonna of the Tubs," by Elizabeth S. Phelps; "Way down in Lonesome Cove.' by Chas. E. Craddock; "The Garroters," by W. D. Howells;* (Jan.) "Sis," by Mary T. Magill; "Unc' Edinburg's Drowndin," by Thos. Nelson Page.-Lippincott's, (Dec.) "The Ferryman's Fee," by Margaret Vandegrift; "In a Suppressed Tuscan Monastery," by Kate J. Matson; The Substitute," by Jos. Payn.Overland, (Dec.) "A Problem of Love," by Chas. A. Murdock; Shasta Lilies," by Chas. H. Shinn; (Jan.) "Golden Graves," by Leonard Kipp; "In Love with Two Women,' by Sol. Sheridan; "Mr. Grigg's Christmas," by Kate Heath.

FRESHEST NEWS.

THE EXCELSIOR PUBLISHING HOUSE, N. Y., will publish, immediately, "The Life of Charles Stewart Parnell, and what he has Achieved for Ireland," by J. S. Mahoney.

EDWARD BIERSTADT, New York, has issued a collection of seventy-four artotype views of scenes among the Adirondacks, entitled Among the Mountains and Lakes of the North Woods." There are two editions-one printed on tinted paper, bound in imitation birch bark covers. The other comprises the same views, with ten additional ones, on India paper with large margins.

ROBERTS BROS. will publish at once "Zeph," a posthumous story, by Helen Jackson; "Madame Mohl, her Salon and her Friends," a glimpse of Parisian society during the time of Louis Phillippe, by Kathleen O'Meara, with two portraits, one by W.W. Story, and the other from a sketch by Madame Mohl herself; "Rachel," by Mrs. Kennard, a new volume in the Famous Women series, and Prof. J. R. Seeley's Brief History of Napoleon I."

CASSELL & Co. have just issued Charles Lowe's historical biography of Prince Bismarck. This work, which is in two volumes, is the first attempt yet made to supply the English reading public with a complete

statesman. Heretofore we have had to content ourselves with translations from the German, dealing with isolated phases of Bismarck's work and character, but now we have a connected and elaborate acpolitical history of modern Germany; count of his whole career, and at the same time a Professor Norman Smith, of Columbia College, has written a preface for the American edition. Mr. Lowe has been for some years the correspondent of the London Times at Berlin.

D. LOTHROP & Co. have just published "December," edited by Oscar Fay Adams, which is the first of a series of monthly volumes of poetry, the contents of each of which relate to the special month of its issue: "An American Banker in England," by a well-known banker of Boston; "Clover Leaves," a dainty volume of poems, by Ella M. Baker; "Woman in Sacred Song," sketches of female composers of sacred music, with specimens of their work (sold by subscription); also "In Time of Need," a small quarto, made up of Scriptural texts, with blanks for additions, prefaced by a poem by W. F. Sherwin, of the New England Conservatory of Music. They also "Social Studies in promise, for early publication, England," by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. The work will embrace such subjects as woman's higher education, the relations of labor and capital, and various philanthropic movements, art and industrial establishments for women, etc. The many admirers of Canon Farrar's genius will be glad to know that a volume has been compiled from his writings by Miss Rose Porter, and will soon be published by this house under the title of "Treasure Thoughts.'

"The New Princeton Review (A. C. Armstrong & Son) is so different from the old one" says the N. Y. Tribune, "that it is not quite clear why the proprietors should have retained a title likely to mislead people as to the character of the present publication. This is not a revival but a fresh venture. The periodical is emphatically not theological. Its field comprises general literature, criticism, philosophy, politics, economics, the physical sciences, and all the topics usually treated by secular reviews, and in its general plan it is modelled upon the Contemporary Review, The Fortnightly, and The Nineteenth Century. No journal has attempted to occupy in America the peculiar province which these publications have so well worked in England, and it seems to us that The New Princeton steps into a tempting vacancy. Appearing once in two months, it will avoid in a measure the tardiness which has driven the old quarterlies that deliberate editing which is essential to the estabout of fashion, while it will have ample chance for lishment of a serious review. The first number offers a well-chosen table of contents, sufficiently grave but without heaviness. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner leads with an animated and appreciative study of 'Society in the New South,' not discussing the race problem, but contrasting the new manners and views of life with the old. Dr. McCosh, starting with the assumption that it is time for us to have a meta-physical school of our own, inquires 'What an American Philosophy should be?' The Rev. C. H. Parkhurst considers The Christian Conception of Property.' Professor Young's lucid exposition of 'Lunar Problems now under Debate' is one of the most interesting articles in the number. Mr. John Bach McMaster, under the title of A Free Press in the Middle Colonies,' reviews the career of William Bradford, the noted

Philadelphia publisher. An anonymous article on The Political Situation' lacks incisiveness and strength. The anonymous story of 'Monsieur Motte,' on the other hand is fresh, vigorous and well written. A department of criticisms and notes presents a summary of recent important public movements, speculations, and discoveries.

A-Fiction, Poetry, and the Drama.

FICTION.

ΒΑΚΙΝ. A captive of love; founded upon Bakin's Japanese romance Kumono Tayema Ama Yo No Tsuki (The moon shining through a cloud-rift on a rainy night), by E. Greey. Lee & S. 12°. $1.50. Mr. Greey has done excellent work in opening up the history, manners, and customs of the Japanese for English readers. This romance, which is founded upon old stories told by aged persons, was written to promote filial devotion among the young, and to show that even a priest (bozu), trained in the austerities of a holy life, and fortified in a hundred thousand ways against temptation, may become, like the wisest of us, "the captive of love." The time is five hundred years ago. The descriptions of superstitions give insight into the methods of Japanese thought. Illustrated with Japanese pictures. The kind reception accorded "The loyal Ronins," of which Mr. Greey was one of the translators, led him to undertake this work.

BALZAC, Honoré de. The Duchesse de Langeais; [also] An episode under the terror, The illustrious Gandissart, A passion in the desert, and The hidden masterpiece. Roberts Bros. 12° hf. mor., $1.50.

The Duchesse de Langeais" belongs to "Scenes from Parisian Life," and is one of the three stories called Histoire des treize. The style is quite different from "Père Goriot," being less realistic and more passionate. The story deals with unlawful love, and is powerfully narrated. The other four tales are offered as examples of the author's scenes from political, provincial, and military life, and his philosophical studies.

"This translation is excellent; and those who can only read Balzac through such a medium have little to lose. We wish this literary enterprise especial success. It is needed just now, as perhaps never before."-N. Y. Independent.

BLACK, W. White heather. Harper. 12° $1.25; 4° pap., 20 c.

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CAMPBELL, Mrs. HELEN. Mrs. Herndon's income: a
novel. Roberts. 16° $1.25.
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DAWNING (The): a novel.

Lee & S. 12° $1.50.

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GRÉVILLE, HENRY [pseud. for Mme. Alice Marie Durand]. Dosia's daughters; tr. by Clara Erskine Clement. Ticknor. 16 $1.25.

Ticknor & Co. have become the authorized publishers in America of Madame Gréville's books. The manuscript of this story was brought over from Paris by the author, and is given to the world for the first time in any language. It opens with the twentieth anniversary of Dosia's" marriage, and Dosia's young daughter 'Agnes" is introduced. 'Agnes" has much of the waywardness of her mother, mixed with a stronger element, that appears almost like obstinacy, which she inherits from her good father.

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The little heroine's life is not exciting, the incidents being simple and usual, with one exception-and that is where she runs away from home, in an angry fit, and becomes a governess. The scene is, of course, Russian, and the story descriptive of Russian home life. HIGH-LIGHTS. Houghton, M. 12°. $1.25.

"In these days of clinical' fiction it is a refreshment to meet with a novel as healthfully true to the old standards as 'High Lights.' 'Heroes and heroines used to be interesting people; nowadays they are mostly beautiful cases'-remarks Robina Cary, its heroine, and we agree with her that it is pleasant to make friends on paper as one does in reality.' Walking a hospital is nothing like so agreeable. Making Friends' with Robina is easy enough, and with Conrad Faulkner as well. These two, the lover and his lass of the tale, are, as they should be, central and paramount figures, round whom the subordinate characters naturally group themselves. The scene is the hill country of New England, which is sketched in with the skilled tenderness of one who knows and loves it; there is humor as well as senti

ment in the story, and good breeding, a rarer ingredient still, and no less important. If, as we suppose, 'High Lights' is the maiden essay of a new writer, or presumably writeress, we shall be disposed to auger good things of her in the future."-Literary World.

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. A mortal antipathy; first opening of the new portfolio. Houghton, M. 12°. $1.50.

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MCCLELLAND, M. G. Oblivion: an episode. 16°. (Leisure hour ser.) $1.

Holt.

'The author in a short preface calls attention to some resemblance in the plot of the story of ‘Oblivion,' recalling Mr. Fargus' 'Called Back,' but the psychological incident used has served the purposes of romance writers centuries ago, and so any charge Oblivion' of plagiarism is not worthy of attention. is a well written story. In taking the condition of the heroine, the accident which deprives her of her reason, and the methods used to restore her to her senses, the author has shown no small skill. It is a very pretty and touching incident where Dick Corbin, while teaching the dazed woman to speak English again, receives a lesson, too, on proper pronunciation. The rough life of the North Carolina mountaineers (a class of people who differ but little from the Tennesseeans), is well described. We do not wish in the least to find fault with the author for having placed the action in the mountain region, and given us their methods of speech, only since Miss Murfree's remarkable success we may expect for some time to come to be treated to all the strange vernacular employed by people living in these littlevisited regions of the South. Notwithstanding, then, the two reflections of Fargus and Miss Murfree. 'Oblivion' is a very good story, written with true feeling and pathos."-N. Y. Times. PORTER, ROSE. Honoria; or, the gospel of a life. Randolph. 16°. $1.25.

The author of "Summer Driftwood," "The Win

RAME, LOUISE DE LA. ["Ouida," pseud.] Othmar: a novel. Lippincott Co. 16° $1.

The Princess Napraxine" became the wife of Count Othmar at the close of the story to which she gave the title, and in this book she begins her career as a woman of thirty two, the mother of two of Othmar's children. The scene alternates between Russia and Italy. All Ouida's glowing descriptions of scenery is as fascinating as ever. Her pessimism, her metaphysics, her knowledge of the human heart, are utterly uncontrolled. She is at her best and She has her usual characters, the men and women of the world, and the innocent, loving young girl. The plot is diffuse. Othmar is Ouida's ideal

worst.

hero. Husband and wife are reconciled at the end.

RITCHIE, Mrs. ANNE THACKERAY. Miss Dymond. Harper. 16° (Harper's handy ser.,) pap., 25 c. "The great quietness and repose of Miss Thackeray's style are obvious in her latest novel, Mrs. Dymond," which has just been placed among Harper's Handy Series. The shadow-or shall we say the sunshine-of a great satirist rests upon her, but there is nothing of satire in her style. That reminds one of a quiet woman whose meekness is the tranpuility of strength and self-knowledge rather than that of necessary submissiveness to hated tyranny. In 'Mrs. Dymond' she tells the story of a young girl, Susanna, who marries, first, a man she does not love; who is then left a widow; and who finally, through much tribulation, attains a happy second marriage. Throughout the narration of the checkered events of joy and sorrow it may be seen that Miss Thackeray sympathizes with her dramatis persona. She does so deeply, though quietly, and even when she claps her hands, so to speak, she does so with a sort of chastened cheerfulness. She does not belong to the realistic school which presents things gauntly and grimly, in the sunlight or in the shadow, as the case may be, with a sphinx-like expressionlessness which reflects the apathy of fate. She has divided her story into three parts, and not only names each chapter, but prefaces each with a stanza of poetry, often from Shakespeare, once from her father-and it is interesting to see how inexhaustible Shakespeare is in thus giving point to an author's purpose."-N. Y. Telegram.

STORY, W. WETMORE. Fiammetta: a summer idyl. Houghton, M. 12° $1.25.

"Tells of the vacation experiences of an artist of noble birth but of humble fortune, who visits the home of his ancestors, and there meets with the lovely Fiammetta, the natural daughter of a patrician father and an Italian peasant mother. The girl is beautiful, pure and of exquisitely innocent nature. She becomes the model of the artist for his picture, The Naiad of the Stream.' Of course they fall in love with each other, and the delicate, touching and refined manner in which the story of their love is related, the simple unreserve of the girl in her devotion to him, and the manly strength of the man against the influence of her charms and the dangers that would attend a marriage with her, are exquisitely depicted. The climax is searchingly tender. The style of the book is graceful and picturesque to a fascinating degree. The local color of the whole is charming, and the effect generally is that of a delightful prose poem of the most impressive and most artistic description. The chastity of sentiment and

sweet moral tone of the story are not the least admirable of its many fine qualities.”—Boston Gazette. STURGIS, JULIAN. John Maidment. Appleton. 16°

pap., 50 c.

The story of a rising man-of his entry into the political and the social worlds, and what he found there; his friendships and his love; his marriage; and his strange discoveries.

TIERNAN, MARY SPEAR. Suzette: a novel. Holt. 16° $1.25.

'Suzette' is a pretty story, brightly told. Its setting-Virginia of forty years ago-is picturesquely and deftly handled. Some of its descriptions of scenery are excellent. Here and there it contains clever flashes of humor and touching bits of sentiment. The dialogue is generally amusing, though perhaps too high flown. The people are well drawn, and, in the main, interesting. But one could wish that they were a trifle less aristocratic and had a trifle less pride of ancestry. The humble, every-day reader feels ill at ease and out of place among the great folks to whom the author introduces him. becomes conscious of his hands and feet, is troubled

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by a sense of his social inferiority. Grand Kitty' and her son Geoffrey, oppress him with their supercilious manners, and punctilious regard for ceremony. He is awed in the presence of so many ancient family portraits. But, on the other hand, he is charmed by the hazy, poetical atmosphere of old Virginia; he delights in the color and fragrance of the Amherst garden, and in the high wainscots, ivycovered walls, and broad, sunny verandas of the Amherst homestead. And with Suzette and Innis he falls completely in love from their first appearance. He follows their fortunes sympathetically to the end; and when the end is reached, he regrets All of which means that that there is no more. 'Suzette' is a sincere and earnest artistic effort, and one that can be recommended to those who are on Commercial

the look-out for a readable novel." Advertiser.

WINTER, J. S. In quarters with the 25th (the Black horse) dragoons. Harper. 16° (Harper's handy ser.) pap., 25 C.

A series of sketches of regimental life in English barracks; some amusing practical jokes and stories of heroic deeds lend variety to the little book. By the author of Mignon" and "Houp-la."

"Mr. J. S. Winter gives the readers of his brief sketches, 'In Quarters with the 25th (the Black Horse) Dragoons' (Harper's), a peep into the life of an English cavalry company in some of its more playsome moods. Its jollity and fun are exemplified by practical jokes and deliberate waggishness, and at the same time there are not wanting bits of pathos and genuine heroism. The narrative is unflaggingly interesting and at times very dramatic, as when the young man who had worked his way up from the ranks was disgraced for discourtesy to an officer he despised, and, having resigned, came back in a dog cart in his true character of a real lord to avenge himself. 'Jewel or Paste' is a first-rate little story of bravery and pluck and generosity."- Evening

Post.

WYLDE, KATHARINE. An ill-regulated mind. 16° $1; pap., 25 c.

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Holt.

'An Ill-Regulated Mind' is a story as quaint as it is sad. It relates to the fortunes and misfortunes of a certain Lewis Cole, a dreamy and fantastically educated young fellow, the only son of an old dealer in antiquarian books. By a family arrangement he is destined to wed the daughter of his father's early love. This fate is not altogether unpleasant, since the designated bride is as rich as she is fair; but, unluckily, Lewis falls in love with her 'ill-regulated' little cousin Eleanor. The course of their affairs

runs anything but smoothly. Eleanor, an inexperienced, romantic child, is easily played upon and enticed away by her mother, a worthless vagrant and strolling actress, and after that hard Destiny supervenes, and little Nellie never finds her true love again till she is on her death-bed. It seems a useless little tragedy, but none the less tragic, and the reader is not at all consoled when in the end Lewis is made happy with the irreproachable Hugoline."-Boston Literary World.

POETRY.

DORR, JULIA C. R. Afternoon songs. Scribner. 12° $1.50.

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Julia Dorr's poems are not attractive because they are great. Her place is among the minor poets. Her thoughts are not those that wander through eternity. She is pretty, beautiful, tender, graceful, moral, pious, fanciful and melodious, and in this age of the world these qualities must be accounted something when united in the same writer. Her sonnets are much more musical and technically correct than sonnets usually are, even when written by versifiers not without rhythmic ability. There is a great delicacy in her Three Laddies.' The poem entitled 'Sealed Orders' embodies forcefully that stern sense of duty which animates the truly heroic. 'A late rose' is very beautiful in the ineffableness of its feeling."-Philadelphia Telegraph.

GILDER, R. WATSON. Lyrics, and other poems Scribner. 16° $1.75.

"There is more of tangible excellence in this group of poems than in any new volume we have recently seen. . . It is decidedly refreshing to find in this volume so much that is neither morbid nor wire-drawn. Here are verses that, while they have the accent of the scholar, glow with an honest health and a frank geniality."-Brooklyn Times. RANDOLPH, A. D. F. Verses. Scribner. 16° $1.

'Mr. A. D. F. Randolph is well known as a publisher, and he ought to be equally well known as a poet. In 1866 he gave to the world a small volume of Verses,' which now is reissued with the addition of a number of poems written since then. His poetry is chiefly religious in character, and in its simplicity of form, uniform nobility of sentiment, frequent pathos, and adaptation to interest and benefit minds of every class, it is conspicuous above most which we have occasion to read."— The Congregation

alist.

HUMOR AND SATIRE.

BEARD, W. H. Humor in animals; a series of studies in pen and pencil. Putnam. 8° $2.50. "The author of this book says: All animals are now held by science to be more or less similar in kind; and it is, therefore, not impossible that every living creature has, dormant or active, the quality of humor. It is, to be sure, difficult for vivacious man to conceive of a staid, matter-of-fact old turtle having any fun in him. And yet, in his solemn way, he may have considerable mild enjoyment of that sort, though he never expresses it by mirth, or even by a smile. This is not his way. What might tickle his sluggish sense of drollery would not, probably, seem so funny to ourselves. No more can we comprehend where he finds his domestic felicity in his slimy home, though this is undoubtedly "clear as mud" to him. Certainly, life must have its strong attraction, even for a turtle. And as he clings to it with great tenacity for an indefinite length of time, it is not impossible that a little dull fun mingles in now and then to season it withal.'"-Chicago Standard.

NEW King Arthur (The): an opera without music; by the author of "The Buntling ball." Funk & W. 12° $1.50.

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B-General Literature.

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

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ALLEN, GRANT. Charles Darwin. Appleton.
(English worthies, ed. by Andrew Lang) cl., 75 c.
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BUTLER, W. From Boston to Bareilly and back.
Phillips & H. 12° $1.50.

The Rev. Dr. William Butler was born in England, and brought up in the Episcopal Church. When quite a young man he was turned to Methodism by the wife of a Member of Parliament, herself a new convert to that faith. He came to America, studied for the ministry, was ordained, and in 1856 was sent to India to begin a mission from the Boston Methodist Church. He settled at Bareilly, under the shadow of the Himalayas, in the heart of the valley of the Ganges. During the Sepoy rebellion he suffered much, but afterward resumed and carried on a most successful work. Many years ago he returned to Boston, leaving his mission field to younger men. By the kind generosity of friends he was enabled to revisit the scene of his early labors in 1884, and the present volume is the outcome of that visit. The founding of the mission was described in Butler's "Land of the Veda," and this volume is a sequel to his former work.

CHARLES, Mrs. ELIZ. Three martyrs of the nineteenth century: studies from the lives of Livingstone, Gordon and Patteson. Young. 12° $1.05. Mrs. Charles has studied the lives of David Livingstone, John Coleridge Patteson and Charles George Gordon, all three martyrs to their high ideals, with sympathetic insight into their plans, motives and circumstances. "Evolved as these lives are out of the continuity of the past, belonging to all ages, they nevertheless belong especially to the present age; they could not have been just what they are in any age but this. The spirit of the age' breathes through them. Essentially also they belong to England and to this nineteenth century, with the large tolerance for differences of thought, the passion for truth and scientific accuracy, the love of natural beauty and the pity for all weak and suffering creatures."-Preface. The death of Gen. Gordon led to the writing of the volume. Each hero is sketched separately.

HOLLOWAY, LAURA C. Adelaide Neilson: a souvenir. Funk & W. 12° pap., ribbon-tied, $2. Noticed elsewhere in this issue. MCCLELLAN, H. B. The life and campaigns of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart, Commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. Houghton, M.; J. W. Randolph & English. 8° $3.

The story of the military career of the most form. idable and dashing cavalry officer of the Confederate army is told by a former officer of his staff. The part of the Southern troops in the campaigns of Manassas, Williamsburg, Chickahominy, the seven days' battles around Richmond, the Maryland campaigns, the Chambersburg raid, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg is related with much graphic power, adding invaluable evidence to the accumulating testimony of war records. There are six authentic maps of important engagements and an excellent likeness of General Stuart.

MACDONALD, Rev. F. W. Fletcher of Madeley. Armstrong, 12° 75 c.

"John Fletcher, the designated successor of Wesley,' was a native of Switzerland, but removed to England and joined the Methodist revival movement in that country, about 1739, and became an earnest and prominent evangelist. His name was anglicised for the sake of brevity from Jean Guillaume de la

Fletchere to plain John Fletcher. He was a successful coadjutor of Wesley and Whitefield, and he is known as Fletcher of Madeley,' where he resided and where his remains are buried. This biography is of special interest to Methodists and to all Evangelical Christians who desire to learn of the personal labors and career of this active revivalist of the last century.-Lutheran Observer."

MERRIAM, G. S. The life and times of Samuel Bowles. The Century Co. 12° 2 v. por., $3; hf. mor., $5.

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MOFFAT, J. S. The lives of Robert and Mary Moffat, by their son; with an introduction by W. M. Tay. lor, D.D. Armstrong. 8° por. and maps, $2.50.

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ROPES, J. CODMAN. The first Napoleon: a sketch, political and military. Houghton, M. 12° $2.

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RINGWALT, J. L. Anecdotes of General Ulysses S. Grant, illustrating his military and political career and his personal traits. Lippincott. 16° 50 c. Mr. J. L. Ringwalt has collected a few of the more interesting anecdotes about General Grant's life and military and civic career, and published them in cheap and popular form for general reading. Few of them have found a place in the larger volumes of biography which have been issued since the death of the great soldier, and all of them are instructive and interesting. They tell the story of his life in a simple and highly attractive manner."-Commonwealth.

DESCRIPTION.

ADAMS, W. H. DAVENPORT. Egypt past and present, described and illustrated; with a narrative of its occupation by the British, and of recent events in the Soudan. Nelson. 12° $1.25.

"The object is to bring together, within the compass of a moderate number of pages, the principal facts on which the great majority of critics seem to have agreed in connection with the history and monuments of Egypt. We have endeavored to look coldly on the sanguine speculations of enthusiastic Egyptologists, and, so far as our design allowed, to keep within the most precise limits of actual and positive knowledge. . . . We venture to believe that in no other volume of equally humble pretensions has there been brought together so much exact information on the past and present of the 'Land of the Nile.'"-Preface. The illustrations are from authentic sources. A brief account of the Suez Canal is furnished in the appendix. The narrative of the occupation of Egypt by the British and of Gen. Gordon's work at Khartum is no small attraction of the book.

COLLIER, ROB. LAIRD. English home life. Ticknor. 16° $1.

"Dr. Collier has evidently pleasant reminiscences of England, and in this well-written little volume he gives a rose-colored description of English home life. His admiration for it is frank, hearty and unrestrained, and though he tries to temper the exuberance of his laudation by occasional qualifications, on the whole his verdict is favorable. He admires the domesticity of the English, their harmonious family life, the simplicity and unaffectedness of their home habits, the strict, yet not irksome, discipline in which they train their children, the wholesomeness of their outdoor amusements, their strong love of nature, and the force and depth of their religious feeling.

The sketch of the relations of children to parents, and the account of the training of the former, will be read with interest by fathers and mothers, whether or not they approve of the principles followed. The book is fresh and genial, the expression of a man who sees

the best side of everything, and whose impressions are shrewd and at the same time kindly.”—N. Y. Tribune.

FIELD, H. M., D.D. The Greek islands and Turkey after the war. Scribner. 12° $1.50.

"A bright and pleasing descriptive and historical sketch of the Grecian Archipelago and of Turkey in Europe, by the Rev. Henry M. Field, D.D. The book opens with a very cleverly written chapter on the scenery one sees during a voyage from Bierut to Cyprus, which takes about eight hours. Then there is an accurate and careful historical review of the famous island from the time it was occupied by the Phoenicians, two thousand years before Christ, down Russo-Turkish war. to the occupation of the British, at the close of the The good ship in which the author sailed touched also at Rhodes, Smyrna and Mitylene before it entered the Sea of Marmora, and anchored off Constantinople; and some very interesting bits of ancient history are recalled in which these famous places figured. The historic places of the Turkish capital are next described, and Dr. Field closes his work with a vivid sketch of the events results of that famous struggle on European civilizawhich led to the last great war against the Turk, the tion, etc. Just at this time, when the Eastern quesbook will be found exceedingly useful and instruction has once again been lifted into prominence, the tive."-Boston Gazette.

HERE and there in our own country; embracing sketches of travel and descriptions of places, etc., by popular writers. Lippincott. 8° $2.50. LANHAM, C. Farthest north; or, the life and explorations of Lieut. James Booth Lockwood, of 16° the Greely Arctic expedition. Appleton. $1.25.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

LOWELL, PERCIVAL. Chosön, the land of the morning calm: a sketch of Korea; il. after photographs taken in Korea. Ticknor. 8° $5.

... Until last year Korea has been in the world, but not of it; it has been a land of mystery, of which even the maps have been made by guess. Last year it opened some of its ports to foreigners. Its climate resembles that of our Eastern seacoast, cold in winter, hot in summer; with this difference in favor of Korea, that there is an early and beautiful spring, developing without caprice or backsliding into the summer and rich in flowering trees. In spite of its sombreness and discomforts, Mr. Lowell seems to have become attached to Korea, and to have left it with a good deal of sentimental and poetical regret. He has made an interesting book about the isolated country and people, who will soon be isolated no longer; but most readers will be very glad that their knowledge of Korea comes through Mr. Lowell, and not from personal observation. Even the beacon fires may be as beautiful in the words of a poet as in reality, and it is far easier to see them in that way."-Boston Advertiser. NINDE, MARY L. We two alone in Europe. Jan12° $1.50.

sen, McC.