graphed from the oil paintings (many of them by famous masters) which hang on the walls of the university buildings. There are also full-page phototypes of Presidents Eliot of Harvard (from Hardie's painting), Dwight of Yale, Patton of Princeton, and Low of Columbia, also of Dr. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education. The engravings are finely executed and beautifully printed, but the phototypes leave much to be desired, and are the only disappointing thing in the volume. This shortcoming-and a very slight one-will doubtless be corrected in the succeeding volumes, of which the four remaining are to be issued at intervals of about three months.

Volume II will consist of biographical sketches and portraits of officials, professors, instructors, benefactors, etc.-the men who have founded, fostered and developed the institutions treated of, and thus have promoted the cause of higher education in the United States.

Other volumes will be devoted to life sketches and portraits of University Sons, compiled with the especial purpose of demonstrating, by a study of the careers of graduates, "the practical influence which the higher education of the country has upon its business, politics and literature, and in general upon the directive power of the nation." (R. Herndon Company, Congregational House, Beacon Street, Boston. $15 per volume.)

The possible condensation of narration is well exemplified in Duruy's "General History of the World," to which Professor Grosvenor of Amherst has added but one hundred and fifty small 12mo pages to cover the last fifty years. This has not been his only share in the work, however. Naturally, France received greater attention in the original than was desirable for an American text-book. History, too, is progressive and often changes her verdicts in view of later discoveries. So where Duruy's original observations or statements may have become antiquated, Professor Grosvenor, availing himself of the best authorities, has modified them or replaced them with better-founded facts and conclusions. Some few chapters he has entirely recast, but the charm of style is not lost in them. There are many good maps and the book is most complete, up to date and satisfactory. (T. Y. Crowell & Co., Boston. $2.00.)

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"Things of Northfield and Other Things" is a collection of five practical and energetic sermons by Rev. David Gregg of Brooklyn. "Things of Northfield" he means emanations from Mr. Moody, which, starting from the Northfield summer conferences, have done much to stir up many of the churches to greater vitality. "Am I Worldly?" and "Our Duty to Our Young Men" are subjects of two of the best of these discourses. (E. B. Treat & Co., New York. 60 cents.)

A new evidence of the very welcome tendency to send our students to original sources for their information is furnished in "Studies in American History," by Howard W. Caldwell, which contains tracts or leaflets illustrating by quotations from the actors in the various periods the different stages of our American history, from the founding of the colonies to the Civil War. (J. H. Miller, Lincoln, Neb.)

A historical story of the oppression of the Bohemian peasants by Maria Theresa and Joseph II of Austria is told in Caroline Světlá's "Maria Felicia."

The heroine is the daughter of one of the Emperor's most intimate friends; but unlike her father, she cares nothing for court life, her sympathy being with the poorer class. In spite of her father, and after his death, she continues her work among the oppressed, even disguising herself as a man to do so. In this way, as a wandering harpist, she becomes fully acquainted with the peasants' mode of life and their feeling toward her as their ruler.

Her pity is so aroused that she gives up home, wealth and friends, becomes the wife of Andrew, the porter's son, and when the peasants are exiled, she goes with them.

The story is cleverly told, and one's interest does not lessen from beginning to end. (A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, $1.00.)

"The Story of the Revolution" cannot be told too often, and it is now once again set forth in most readable fashion by Henry Cabot Lodge. No one can exceed this author in his admiration for Washington, and every heart must dilate with patriotic pride, in reading the enthusiastic appreciations of that great man's wisdom, courage, and, more than all, his patience from the time he took command of the army under the Cambridge elm, till he entered New York on the heels of the retiring British. The description of the battle of Bunker Hill is the story of a great thing, greatly told, and words could hardly contain a more forcible impression. Mr. Lodge holds the British commanders in light esteem, never missing a chance to apply contemptuous epithets to Gage, Clinton or Howe. Indeed his attitude towards England, down to the last year is far from conciliatory. But by the jumping of that nation with the author's views on expansion and imperialism, Mr. Lodge is willing to concede something in its favor. The book concludes with a merry jingoistic clang that can hardly be called legitimate history, and serves to emphasize that there are no facts, however noble, that cannot be ingeniously veneered upon prejudice. The two handsome volumes are amply illustrated, and enclosed in a substantial box. (Charles Scribner's Sons, N. Y. $6.00.)

A score of pictures of Miss Nethersole in character are tied together as a souvenir of that actress and the plays of her repertoire by R. H. Russell (New York. 25 cents). It is intended, doubtless, to be sold in the lobby of the theatre.

"The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales," by S. Levett Yeates, has a foreign and supernatural touch that is very fascinating to a large class of readers. (Longmans, Green & Co., N. Y. $1.25.)

It would be interesting to know what kind of criticism Mr. E. C. Stedman would accord to the tale "That Duel at Château Marsenac," inscribed to him by its author, Walter Pulitzer. It does not seem worth while to burden our pages with even the quotation or two which would furnish ample taste of its quality. (Funk & Wagnalls, New York. 75 cents.)

In our April issue we spoke appreciatively of Professor Grosvenor's editing and modernizing of Duruy's "General History of the World.' The publishers now offer it in two volumes of greater convenience to hold and at the same cost, the first being Duruy's "Ancient History" and the second Grosvenor's "Contemporary History,"-i. e., the last fifty years. (T. Y. Crowell & Co., Boston. $1.00 each.)

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A rather concise description, historical and physical, of our recently acquired possessions to take is and of those we hope and mean Charles Morris's "Our Island Empire." Fully a third of the book is devoted to Cuba which, our author evidently is sure, will be promptly "absorbed" by the United States. Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines also have due attention, but a tiresome failure to give intelligent headlines to the pages mars it as a reference guide which its almost entire and welcome lack of "fine writing" otherwise fits it for. The volume seems to combine information that, without it, must be sought in many distinct books. (J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $1.50.)

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An unusually good story of the romantic school so popular in recent years is "Hugh Gwyeth, a Roundhead Cavalier," by Beulah M. Dix. The hero, a mere lad, runs away from his grandfather's grudging care to seek a father and a career in the royal army and only returns, after he has secured both, to whip and magnani

mously forgive his rebel relatives. A girl's love plays a small but pretty part in the tale which is well worth the reading. (Macmillan Co., New York. $1.50.)

The "Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Boston," of which the fourth edition is just issued (Associated Charities, Boston, $1.00), is a book to be welcomed heartily, not only by philanthropists and clergymen, but by all citizens. In compact form and pleasing type it presents not merely a list of institutions with addresses, but all essential facts about them. It states what hours they are open, whether connected with telephone, terms of admission, if they are in the suburbs, their distance from street cars, etc.

A large part of the book treats of subjects closely related with economic questions and relief work, such as, licenses, pawnbrokers, pensions, free libraries, municipal lectures, baths, playgrounds, cemeteries, etc.

A large and valuable appendix gives legal suggestions by Hon. George S. Hale, revised by his son. These are specially valuable to district visitors. To them are subjoined a "Summary of the more important Laws applying to Dwellings in Boston," prepared by Mr. Estabrook of the Twentieth Century Club. These contain laws concerning garbage, drainage, overcrowding, building permits, etc., and make easily accessible what a district visitor constantly needs to refer to. An index completes the book, which is a monument of research, painstaking care and good sense on the part of its compilers.

Three very unusual studies of character are to be found in "Strong Hearts" by George W. Cable. The first, when appearing in magazine form, was called "Gregory's Island," but here bears the title of "The Solitary." It is of tremendous force. A good man stumbling down hill to a drunkard's fate, voluntarily pulled himself up on an uninhabited island, cut his boat in pieces, resolved to conquer his degrading habit, or to die in the attempt. The descriptions of the return of the appetite, the vain energy of despair, the terrible agony, are told as only a master in words can tell such things. The reader must hold his breath and feel the chills run down his back, in the excitement of those dread hours of battle. That this human tragedy result well is positively necessary to the reader's comfort. The second study is of "The Taxidermist," and is very lovely in the simplicity and beauty of the lives portrayed The third, "The Entomologist,"

is the longest tale in the book, but is rather confusing in the continual movement of neighborhood ministrations during a yellow fever epidemic, and an unsuccessful attempt to invest a dryasdust scientist with romantic tendencies. (Chas. Scribner's Sons. New York. $1.25.)

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The collection of delightful southern myths de-serves a prettier title than the author, Charles W. Chesnutt, has bestowed upon it, viz., "The Conjure Woman" Many of these myths are invented, or adapted, as occasion requires the shrewd darkies to hoodwink and outwit the unsophisticated Yankee who has come among them to buy and cultivate a vineyard. The element of surprise is well developed and capitally managed to produce amusing endings to the chapters. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. $1.25.)

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The author, W. B. Winston, of "Waters That Pass Away," would have left us more interest in his story if he had put the careful synopsis at the end instead of at the beginning of the book. As it is the dénouement is not in question and only the way in which it will be worked out furnishes a motive for turning over the pages. And, truth to tell, the working out of the plot is tediously burdened with similar successive events. Seldom does the heroine step out for a walk within sight of her own cottage windows, or under the loving gaze of her invalided husband, cross the Jersey ferry or visit a picture gallery, that the two gallants bent upon her ruin do not appear to seize her hands and avow their passion. One of these men carries on a large business but is never too absorbed to be on hand to harry his victim, while the other is idle enough by habit to have her always under surveillance. It is a sad story with few mitigating exceptions, and some very strong situations. Why men do not turn under this continuous showing them up as voluptuaries, cruel, selfish, with no ray of pity or remorse, it is not easy to explain. (G. W. Dillingham Co., New York. $1.00.)

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"The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century," by Leo Wiener of Harvard University, is a most scholarly and painstaking book, entering a field which to most American readers is unfamiliar indeed. term Yiddish is a corruption of Jüdisch, the subject of Dr. Wiener's book being the Judeo-German literature. The history is the result of most careful research in the libraries of Russia and Germany, and of personal visits to almost all the living Yiddish writers of any note. Dr. Wiener studies the language itself, the folk-lore, and the Yiddish poetry and prose writings both in Europe and America to the present time. The most original poet among the Russian Jews of America is Morris Rosenfeld, the worker in the New York sweat-shops, whose "Songs From the Ghetto" are so touching and powerful, and to whose work altogether Dr. Wiener himself has

It is a pity to have left out a simple map of the region in "In the Klondyke," as, otherwise, Frederick Palmer's book is the clearest kind of a picture of the gold fields and a most interesting account of how he got there. The illustrations point the moral and adorn the tale which ought to have been in the hands of thousands of the tenderfoots who thought they had but to arrive to stake a paying claim. The reader will find the book one. (Charles Scribner's Sons, N. Y. $1.50.)

Everything that comes from the hand of Professor George Trumbull Ladd of Yale University is thoughtful, earnest, and scholarly, and such certainly are the "Essays on the Higher Education" (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $1.00), just published. There are four of these essays,-The Development of the American University, The Place of the Fitting School in American Education, Education New and Old, and A Modern Liberal Education,-emphasizing the certain principles which the author holds to be permanent, belonging to all educational systems in all times. But every age and every country has, he holds, its own problems. and he seeks to apply his unchanging general principles to the demands and interests of the higher education in America to-day.

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In Wilson Barrett's and Robert Hichen's joint creation, "The Daughters of Babylon," we have a spectacularly dramatic pen-picture of the times and scenes of Israel's captivity, although the book cannot fairly be criticised from the standpoint of either fiction or history. The contrast between the pure lives of the simple shepherds of Judea, ever communing with nature, and merciless and unyielding to the law breaker, and the artificial, sybaritic existence of the Babylonians, who wielded with unchecked restraint the omnipotent power that wealth possesses, is most forcibly portrayed. The authors relate their story in the solemn form of biblical prose; but occasionally they seem to forget the unities of style and vary the monotonv by introducing language of a much more modern date; the dialogue then becomes picturesque, every sentence suggests a dramatic situation, with such strong climaxes, that one can fancy hearing the vociferous applause of the audience. (J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. $1.50.)

John Fiske's "The Destiny of Man" and "The Idea of God" performed a distinct service for thought and for religion in America. Standing absolutely as they did for evolution, they showed, as nothing before had done, that that doctrine was properly understood only when charged with the teleological principle. They stated the doctrine in a way which satisfied the poetical and religious demands of the mind. A similar unique service is performed by a third thin volume, which now comes from Mr. Fiske, entitled "Through Nature to God." This little book is a theodicy. In an earnest and philosophical way it grapples with the mystery of evil, and undertakes to show how sin and suffering are to be honestly viewed by those who

would justify the ways of God to man. At this time, when the greatest damage is being done to religious sentiment by the Ingersoll type of man, who uses the census of the world's imperfections and evils as an argument for atheism, there is no work in the religious field that has more need to be done well than that which Mr. Fiske has here attempted. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. $1.00.)

"It may be reasonably questioned whether any single character in American history was more devoted to right doing, or has been more thoroughly made to appear to be what he was not, or more completely undervalued and neglected by his friends and traduced by the indifferent since his own generation, which highly appreciated and honored him, than the second governor of Massachusetts, whose life work we purpose to sketch." These are the opening words of the volume on "The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley," by Augustine Jones, the scholarly master of the Friends' School in Providence, which just comes to us from the press of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. ($5.00.) It is by far the most thorough and important work upon Governor Dudley which has been published in America, and it is a contribution of unusual value to our early New England history. The memory of Dudley has suffered because in certain critical exigencies he came into sharp collision with Winthrop, whom Massachusetts holds in such high reverence. In his later years, Winthrop, who in the heat of controversy had written some sharp words of Dudley, paid high tribute to his worth; and the reader of Mr. Jones's careful study will close the volume with a higher appreciation of Dudley's character and services. It is interesting to note that the book is dedicated to Thomas B. Reed, the friend and classmate of the author, whose illustrious career he pronounces in striking accord with that of Dudley. The modern reader will like to think of the suggested parallelism as he reads.

A volume that treats of spiritual realities in a simple and practical way, and with much beauty of style, is "The Victory of the Will," by Victor Charbonnel, translated from the French by Emily B. Whitney, with an introduction by Lilian Whiting. Some of the principal subjects dealt with are, "The Formation of Character," "Sorrow and Life," "The Religion of the Ideal," "The Gospel of Morality," "Prayer and the Unknown God."

The Revue Bleue says

of this work: "Victor Charbonnel has made a close study of our great moral problems. 'The Victory of the Will' is full of consoling optimism, and exhales a firm faith in God and his truth. The writer discusses lofty themes. He upholds individual liberty and the freedom of the will, and his conception of suffering is that it is an indispensable part of the highest kind of life. It will appeal to the spiritual-minded of all sects." (Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $1.50.)

A very amusing volume of "Caricatures of the Stage" is selected from a series of sketches, first published in the Sunday Chicago Tribune, by Sewell T. Collins, Jr. Among others, Dan Daly, Sousa, Mostyn, and, best of all, Chas. A. Bigelow, are hit off to the very life. (Stratford Press, Chicago. $2.)

Murder committed under hypnotic influence is at the bottom of all the trouble narrated in W. N. Harben's "Caruthers Affair." Sherlock Holmes seems to have been resurrected, friendly chronicler and all. (F. Tennyson Neely, New York, 50 cents.)

The Klondyke literature grows. "The Trail of the Gold Seekers" is in Hamlin Garland's best vein, and the pitiless picture of nature's obstacles and man's attack upon them could hardly be improved upon. The pathos and loneliness of the situation, and the hardships undergone-almost always without sufficient ultimate compensation -the cheerfulness of some, the cruelty and vulgarity of many, the insane urgency to get on, though unprepared and doomed to almost certain failure, all are here.

Again, as in Mr. Palmer's book mentioned in our June issue-a book from as different a point of view as the trail followed-we regret the omission of a map, even though a rough one. We should like, too, to see the results of Mr. Garland's camera, carried through this most interesting trip most delightfully told. (Macmillan Co., New York. $1.50.)

It wouldn't be quite modest, perhaps, to say that Charlotte Perkins Stetson's "Yellow Wall Paper" was good enough to class with Poe's tales. But that it is a very remarkable story, any of our readers may now reassure himself without getting the rare number of the NEW ENGLAND

MAGAZINE in which it first appeared, as a vividly appropriate reprint of it has been made by Small, Maynard & Co. (Boston, 50 cents.)

A fascinating study of the most interesting of insects is Margaret Warner Morley's "The Bee People." Those well-instructed children who have already learned about birds and butterflies will be eager to add another humane interest to their outdoor life. Miss Morley adopts the generic name of the honey-bee to the exclusion of pronouns, and not, we think, to the benefit always of her style, but otherwise the subject is attractively presented. (A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. $1.25.)

The same repetition of names, greatly exaggerated, occurs in "How Count L. N. Tolstoy Lives and Works," by P. A. Sergyeenko. When this confusion is overcome, the narrative is found to be delightful, and the reader will be grateful for these vivid pictures of the daily life of this remarkable man. The translation from the Russian is by Isabel G. Hapgood. (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Boston. $1.25.)

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"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly," by Hamlin Garland, is a painful story of a beautiful, ambitious, selfish girl. Her extraordinary beauty of person is much emphasized, but her nature is unlovely. Her noble old father's sacrifices and loneliness touch her only superficially, while her vague notions of her own superiority are thrust upon the notice of both stranger and acquaintNothwithstanding the author's assurances that the influence of his heroine's beauty is most marked upon every man who comes within her sphere, she rather forces herself upon a not overardent lover, and he leaves her without an ambition fulfilled. One wonders why the study of such a character should interest a writer like Mr. Garland, especially to the degree of making her the principal figure in his book, when he has shown by the portrayal of the father, his appreciation of noble self-renunciation and generous love. (The Macmillan Co., New York. $1.50.)

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Much nicer than "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly" are "Those Dale Girls," by Frances Weston Carruth. When disasters overtook them, their fortune lost, their father paralyzed, they energetically and loyally faced the altered conditions, retained the respect of old friends and gained that of new ones. It is a wholesome, breezy tale, full of bright conversation and right conduct. (A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. $1.25.)

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