Lisbeth Longfrock. By Hans Aanrud. This is a translation by Laura E. Poulsson, from the Norwegian of Aanrud's delightful story, "Sidsel Sidserk." The story centers about the life of a little peasant girl on a Norwegian farm. Two lively boys are her companions in herding, and they, with various fourfooted animals, contribute comic and dramatic elements to the book. The translator resided for some months in the region depicted in the story, and had the benefit of local knowledge concerning old-fashioned peasant expressions and customs. The illustrations are by a Norwegian artist, and were made in Norway. Children who found delight in "Heidi” will have in this book a companion story fully as interesting and charming. Ginn & Co.

What Can a Young Man Do? By Frank W. Rollins. This book, by the ex-governor of New Hampshire, is intended to help a young man in the selection of a calling. It contains a great deal of practical information in regard to all the leading professions or lines of business into which a young man may be supposed to be looking with a view to the future. The first chapter is "To Parents." The second treats of education; then follow chapters on the ministry, medicine, the law, mechanical life, college professorship, teaching, tutoring, the bank, stock and bond, brokerage, railroading, insurance, manufacturing, the buying agent, the chemist, commercial traveling, journalism, farming, civil and mechanical engineering, etc. In these days competition is so keen that careful thought and preparation for one's calling has become a necessity. This volume will be useful and helpful to a large and infinitely important class of citizens. Little, Brown & Co. Price, $1.50 net.

Father and Baby Plays. By Emilie Poulsson. With illustrations by Florence E. Storer, and music by Theresa H. Garrison and Charles Cornish. No publishing house in the United States does finer or more artistic work in bookmaking than the publishers of this volume. It is a book that should appeal to every home and to all teachers. The author's thought is that the mother in her constant intimate relations to the baby has greater opportunities for winning its love than has the father, who is necessarily absent a large part of the time, engaged in the affairs of life. The book is designed to help the mother in keeping before the child in the early years of life the father's image and the father's love. So the volume abounds in rhymes, shadow-play, fingerplay, climbing-play and fifteen charming original songs, all turning upon the thought of the father, present, absent or approaching. The illustrations are works of art. Century Company, $1.25.

A charming series of books, known as Pioneers in Education Series, is being published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York, N. Y. We have in hand the following titles: Horace Mann and The Public School in the United States. By Gabriel Compayre. Rousseau and Education from Nature. By the same author. Pestalozzi and Elementary Education. Spencer and Scientific Education. Herbart and Education by Instruction. These books give a complete history of the rise and growth of popular education as illustrated, indeed, we may say illuminated, by the lives and work of these great pioneers. The author is an authority in both hemispheres in regard to all pedagogical subjects. Each volume has a fine portrait as a frontispiece. The type is large and clear, and the books are in general a model of modern bookmaking. The series is a distinct contribution to pedagogical literature. T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York, N. Y. Price, 90 cents net per volume.

Elements of Biology. By George William Hunter. This book aims to correlate the allied subjects of botany, zoology and human physiology in a general course of biology for the first year of the high school. The book is the result of the author's experience with large classes of young students in their first year of the high school. In most courses of study in high schools botany is found as a distinct study in one year, zoology another year, and physiology, if not altogether omitted, is still another unrelated study in the third or last year. There is no attempt made to correlate the three studies. Mr. Hunter has done the most natural thing in the world in his book. The foundation principles upon which this correlation is made are that the life processes of plants and of animals are similar, and in many respects identical; that the properties and activities of protoplasm are the same whether in the cell of a plant or of an animal; and that the human body is a delicate machine built out of that same mysterious living matter. With such a foundation correlation is not only possible, but natural. The method employed is attractive and stimulating; the student is led to observe the various processes carried on by plants and animals, and to study the general structure of the human body and how to care for it. The laboratory and field work is of a kind to require only inexpensive equipment. In purpose and plan, in method and arrangement, in harmony of correlation and correctness of statement the work is a distinct and striking fact. American Book Company.

Foods and Their Uses. By Frank O. Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter is the head of the department of commerce in the English High School, Boston. He has by spoken and written word contributed much to the subject of commercial and industrial geography; his department is among the best known in the country. "Foods" is the initial volume in a series of Industrial Readers which Mr. Carpenter is preparing, the other books to follow are to treat of Clothing, Buildings, Fuels, Minerals, Transportation and Human Industries. In this first book of the series the subject of foods is dealt with in a manner that is at once engaging by reason of the method of presentation and style, and informing from the pertinency and interest in the facts set forth. Mr. Carpenter discusses the subject of foods from the standpoint of the user thereof; he begins with the viands of the dinner table, and the subject radiates therefrom until it embraces every food known to man. The various chapters treat of kinds of food, uses of food, cereals, fruits and nuts, vegetables, sugar, spices, starches, gums and oils, meats, fish and sea food, dairy products, mineral foods, beverages and medicines, preparation and serving of food, marketing and storing, food adulteration, etc. Every phase of the subject of foods is taken up and illuminated by pertinent fact, apt illustration, and informing picture. The subjectmatter is presented in a manner to interest alike the old and the young, but the book is especially prepared for use in schools either as a supplementary reader or a text-book. It will find a distinctly fitting place in reading circles. The book is a fine, strong and interesting work, original in presentation of matter, scientific in statement, and insistently accurate of fact. Charles Scribner's Sons.

The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding. By Annie Fellows Johnson. This new volume from the pen of Mrs. Johnson is destined and worthy to receive an enthusiastic welcome from a host of young people who have read with ever-increasing interest and delight the previous volumes of the "Little

Colonel Series." It is doubtful if another series of juvenile works has been more popular or given more pleasure to hundreds of readers than this same "Little Colonel Series." In the present book Mrs. Johnson portrays the "Little Colonel grown into winsome womanhood," and tells of the coming of her chosen knight," who is none other than a playfellow of her childhood days. The whole story is just as bright and charming and sweet as its predecessors, and its readers will come to the last pages with real regret. Published by L. C. Page & Co. Price, $1.50.

Life in the Homeric Age. By Thomas Day Seymour. The author is professor of the Greek language and literature in Yale University. The book is based upon a careful study of the Homeric poems. In addition to a wide familiarity with other books on the same subject, he has collected his own material for a careful examination of the subjects of which the book treats. Acknowledgment of indebtedness to other writers is given in page footnotes. His point of view has been mainly philological. From Homer's own words he has attempted to discover what was before the poet's mind. His plan was steadily enlarged as his studies for this volume progressed. We can easily imagine how his enthusiasm must have been stimulated as he worked in this rich field, constantly discovering new material and gaining a more and more adequate conception of life in the age which was the subject of his studies. Much new material has been placed within easy reach of Homeric students, and it will be very welcome. There are chapters on cosmography and geography, the Homeric state, women and the family, education and recreation, dress and decoration, house and furniture, food, property, slavery, trade and the crafts, sea life and ships, agriculture, plants and animals, mythology, religion, the Troad, Homeric war and arms. The volume is thoroughly scholarly in all respects. The publishers have given the author's thought and research worthy setting. The volume is of seven hundred and four pages, and there are numerous illustrations, maps and indexes. Macmillan Company. Price, $4 net.

The Iliad for Boys and Girls. Told from Homer in simple language by the Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. The title of this volume tells what the book is intended to do. It is an excellent idea to put into plain English the fascinating story of the Trojan war. The style is simple and clear, and the book reads like an interesting story book. The chapters are short, and each one has a chapter head that invites the young reader's attention. This is an excellent supplementary reader for pupils in the last year of the grammar school or the first year of high school; and for the general reader who is unacquainted with the Greek language it will be valuable, making him familiar with the history of Greece and with the mythology and customs of those days. The Macmillan Company. Price, $1.50.

The Modern Readers' Bible. Edited, with introductions and notes, by Richard G. Moulton, M.A., Ph.D. Professor Moulton's work as a literary critic and lecturer is well known. His edition of the Bible, printed in sections, published in small volumes, has been very highly appreciated by a large number of people. To treat the Bible as literature, and to put it into modern literary forms, makes it far more intelligible than when it is given in the ordinary and arbitrary arrangement by verses. This volume includes the books of the ordinary Bible with three books of the Apocrypha. There are six

general divisions, namely, Bible History: The Old Testament; The Books of the Prophets; Bible Poetry (including Psalms, Lamentations and Solomon's Song); Bible Philosophy; Bible History: the New Testament; the New Testament Literature. The book is printed on thin paper, and in a not over bulky volume we have one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three pages. It is perhaps a necessary result that the type is not over large, and the print from one page shows through to the next page in a way that makes the pages somewhat trying to the eyesight. It is sold at the low price of $2. The Macmillan Company, Publishers.

Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman. Edited by Maurice Francis Egan, LL.D. These selections have been brought together less with the aim of affording readers an opportunity of knowing Newman through his writings, but rather with the distinct purpose of showing Newman's style. It is intended for younger students who ought to begin to consider English style in the light of an art as soon as they begin to write. Newman's style was the result of constant care on his part, the result of study as conscious as that of Stevenson. He ranks high among those who possessed a style that may be used for guidance and investigation. Dr. Egan's selections have been made with loving care and wise discrimination. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

What Robin Did Then. The story of a Sierran home. By Mirian Warner Wildman. Tais is an excellent book for boys, and would make an acceptable Christmas present to a youth in his teens. It describes a boy's adventures in following Horace Greeley's well-known advice, Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." There are naturalistic glimpses of life in the mining camps, exciting adventures with wild animals, and throughout, a warm and human interest and a helpful, manly tone, which makes the book above the average of young people's stories. The plot deals with the things in which boys are really interested. It is an agreeable volume to read because the print. is large and clear, the paper restful to the eye; and the illustrations are of a high order. Boston: Dana Estes & Co.

The True Lovers' Treasury. By Carrie Thompson Lowell This is a truly dainty volume, beautifully printed and bound and richly illustrated. It would, of course, be impossible to bring into the limits of a single volume the stories of all the famous lovers of literature and art, but the romances here recited are probably typical of the entire range of human experience along this interesting line. One would hardly be called normal who did not enjoy the story of Romeo and Juliet, Dante and Beatrice, Hero and Leander, Lancelot and Guinevere, Faust and Marguerite, Hermann and Dorethea, Jacob and Rachel, Evangeline and Gabriel; in fact, it has become a proverb that “ All the world loves a lover "; and fully to appreciate literature and art, history and religion, one must be familiar with these and other similar stories. The compiler of this volume is the editor of the " Art Lovers' Treasury," and she has done a real service in gathering together these romances. The book contains thirtytwo reproductions of famous pictures, accompanied by poems of noted writers. The pictures are real works of art. We especially commend this book to young : men for Christmas gift purposes. Dana Estes & Co.

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Money and Investments. By Montgomery Rollins. This is a reference book for the use of those who wish information in the handling of money or its investment. We are sure that it will fill a want that has been very generally felt, and that has never to date been met by any adequate treatment in a single volume. In a brief foreword, the author speaks of the large amount of financial slang which one meets with in reading the daily press, and points out the evident fact that this is " all Greek" to a majority of readers. He aims to give an explanation of the terms used in the money market. These explanations are given under alphabetical headings: for instance, there are three pages on the word "margin," a brief paragraph on "bull," and another on "bear." There is a clear exposition of bucket shops, etc.; and in addition to these terms of the purely speculative markets there are full definitions and suggestions of instructions in regard to checks, stocks, bonds and insurance, and a thousand and one subjects that any one needs to be informed about, before handling his own or another's property. As a reference volume this book will find a wide use and will serve a valuable purpose. Boston: Dana Estes & Co. Price, $2 net.

Outline for Review of Roman History, also Greek History. By Charles Bertram Newton, A.B., and Edwin Bryant Treat, A.M. These are admirable little booklets, outlining Roman history to the time of Charlemagne, and Greek history including Oriental nations. They are intended as a means of a thorough review of the subjects after the text-books have been carefully studied through the course. As an aid in preparation for examinations they are unsurpassed. Each book closes with a list of fifty typical examination questions. They will serve a most useful purpose. American Book Company.

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We acknowledge the receipt of the 24th and 25th annual reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology, covering respectively the years 1902-1903 and 1903-1904. Also Bulletin No. 30, Part I, A-M, of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The last-named volume consists of a handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. It is a very comprehensive book; in fact, a complete encyclopædia of Indian mythology, customs, games, architecture, weapons, history, etc., fully illustrated with numerous cuts of people and things. The other volumes are uniform with those already published in this monumental series, and are reservoirs of information about the original inhabitants of our country. The government spares no pains or expense to make these works comprehensive; and they are distinct contributions to the record of splendid American scholarship. Washington: Government Printing Office.

Other Public Documents of great interest and value are The Library of Congress Publications. First, A Volume on Washington Papers, being the calendar of the correspondence of George Washington, Commander of the Continental Army, with the Continental Congress, prepared from the original manuscripts in the Library of Congress, by John C. Fitzpatrick, Division of Manuscripts. Another volume is composed of the Naval Records of the American revolution, 1775-1788, by George Henry Lincoln, of the Division of Manuscripts. A third volume is a preliminary check list of American Almanacs, 1639-1800, by Hugh Alexander Morrison, of the Library of Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office.