dicted certain results of changes then proposed. Reduced to its simplest terms, the thesis he maintained was that unless due precautions were taken increase of freedom in form would be followed by decrease of freedom in fact; and, as he states in the preface to the new volume, "nothing has occurred to alter the belief then expressed Regulations have been made in yearly-growing numbers, restraining the citizen in directions where his actions were previously unchecked, and compelling actions which previously he might perform or not as he liked; and at the same time heavier public burdens, chiefly local, have further restricted his freedom by lessening that portion of his earnings which he can spend as he pleases, and augmenting the portion taken from him to be spent as public agents please." In the four essays added to the present volume, the author sets forth and emphasizes kindred conclusions respecting the future; and to meet certain criticisms and remove some of the objections likely to be raised, a postscript has been added. Bearing as it does so directly upon problems that present themselves daily to thoughtful intelligent people, "Social Statics" is one of the most usefully suggestive and generally interesting of Mr. Spencer's books.

IN "The Early Renaissance, and Other Essays" (Houghton), we have an attractive volume containing a series of twelve papers on art subjects,Principles of Art," "Tendencies of Modern Art," French Landscape-Painting," "Murillo," "Critique of a Greek Statue," "Hellas," etc.,- by Professor James M. Hoppin of Yale University. The papers are throughout more critical than one is led to expect from the preface, wherein, after a rather extravagant estimate of the direct art-teachings of Mr. Ruskin, the author tells us that he (Mr. Ruskin) has shown us that the "deepest foundations of Art are moral," etc., etc.; a Ruskinian flourish which, as it stands, seems to us about as capable of being rendered into actual thought as the Trinitarian mystery. If Professor Hoppin had chosen to tell us directly and simply that art should never be put to immoral and may sometimes be put to moral uses, which is, perhaps, what he means,- -all would understand him and few would dispute him. And we may add that since the advent of a class of artwriters who, like Mr. Hamerton, Professor Brown, and M. Chesneau, deign to state a plain fact in a plain way, without mysticism or mannerism, the curious notion, for which Mr. Ruskin is largely responsible, that Art is a sort of occult compound of religion, morals, political economy, and what not, is happily giving way to something more definite. Art is a spontaneous activity indulged in for its own sake - at bottom a refined handicraft,- having, originally and essentially, no more to do with "morals" than it has with cookery; and, as we have before had occasion to suggest, the first step in the direction of intelligent art-appreciation is the disengaging of the purely artistic from other

standards; the cultivation of the capacity to discern in a work of art the presence of or the lack of the fruit of that hard-won manipulative skill which belongs to the painter as painter, to the sculptor as sculptor. Happily, after having piously sacrificed at Mr. Ruskin's altar in the preface, our anthor elects to steer his own course; and the Essays, notably the excellent papers on "French Landscape Painting" and "Art in Education," are scholarly, discriminative, and independent in tone, implying throughout the writer's special knowledge of his theme. In point of style, Professor Hoppin is not always happy; and we trust his fashion of occasionally stringing together the elements of a sentence haphazard, and regardless of logical connections, will not be adopted by the young gentlemen who meet in his class-rooms.

CARLYLE was not fond of the lecture as a medium of expressing himself. In one of his letters to Emerson, he exclaims, "Ah me! often when I think of the matter [lecturing], how my one sole wish is to be left to hold my tongue, and by what bayonets of Necessity clapt to my back I am driven into that lecture-room, and in what mood, and ordered to speak or die, I feel as if my only utterance should be a flood of tears and blubbering." Yet it was in the form of lectures that his most popular and widely-read book, "Heroes and Hero-worship," was first given to the world. And now we have a new volume of his lectures, which, delivered two years before the lectures on "Heroes," have never before been published. This volume is entitled "The History of Literature" (Scribner). This new series has evidently not received the same careful attention as the more familiar series, and indeed is not even published from the author's own manuscript, but from the full reports made on the spot by Mr. Thomas Chisholm Anstey. Out of the course of twelve, only one lecture (the ninth) is lacking. That Carlyle did not publish these lectures during his life-time is due, according to the theory of the editor, Professor J. Reay Greene, to Carlyle's shrinking from the slow labor of preparing for publication discourses which deal with topics demanding careful treatment while almost infinite in their extent and variety; his natural impatience, his glowing productivity, urged him to other work at this period (1838), when his genius may be said to have reached its highest and most fervid epoch. Nor is that genius depreciated by the present posthumous publication. It is true that no one would think of offering this book as a manual for a beginner; but to one already acquainted with the facts of literary history, these lectures are a delightful résumé, from a Carlylean point of view, of the causes of literature, its course, and its signifi

cance.

THE collection of "Letters of Charles Dickens + to Wilkie Collins" (Harper), edited by Laurence Hutton, forms a dainty and acceptable volume. While the letters are in themselves, as compared

with the weighty budgets of the palmy days epistolary of Lamb and Southey,- generally of slight texture, the eminence of writer and recipient lends them a relative importance. Dickens and Collins first met in 1851, the former being then nearly forty years of age and already the recognized head of his guild in England, and the latter a man of six-and-twenty and relatively a beginner in literature. It is pleasant to record that the intimacy then begun, and cemented later by the marriage of the daughter of Dickens to the brother of Collins, continued unbroken until Dickens died in 1870. The correspondence between them was frequent and familiar. Some portions of it have already appeared in "The Letters of Charles Dickens," edited by his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter, and first published in 1880 as a supplement to Forster's "Life"; but a large number of letters from Dickens to Collins were found after the latter's death, and the best and most characteristic of these, selected by Miss Hogarth and printed under her supervision, form the contents of the present volume. The book is of interest mainly as throwing light upon the relations, personal and literary, which subsisted between the two great novelists, and as indicating their methods of collaboration. There are casual bits of comment and criticism touching the works of contemporaries (notably an interesting letter in which the writer sets forth his opinion of certain debated passages in Reade's "Griffith Gaunt"), and the whole is leavened with a fair sprinkling of characteristic humor. Mr. Hutton's editing is in the best taste, thorough, unobtrusive, and helpful, a thread of explanatory matter and occasional parenthetic comment clearing up the obscure allusions in the text. There are two portraits and several facsimiles of play-bills and letters.

FRESH proof of Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith's ability to wield the quill with the same brisk dexterity as the brush, is afforded in the shape of a neat volume entitled 66 A Day at Laguerre's, and Other Days" (Houghton). The book is made up of nine cheery, sketchy papers, under such titles as "Espero Gorgoni, Gondolier," "Under the Minarets," "A Bulgarian Opera Bouffe," "Six Hours in Squantico," etc.,- enlivened throughout with bits of local color, incident, and genre, the pleasantly idealized and sentimentalized records of recent vagabondizing days and sentimental journeys in search of the picturesque at home and abroad. Like all sensible travellers not immediately bent on statistics, Mr. Smith dons his rose-colored spectacles before starting; hence, in his optimistic pages, French inn-keepers, Venetian gondoliers (to the jaundiced eye a vociferous unsavory sort of water-cabbies, tuneless, prosaic, careless of decency and greedy of the pour-boire), Turkish dragomen, etc., etc., take on a pleasantly sentimental tinge, and supply in two or three instances a thread of romance deftly interwoven in the descriptive text.

Mr. Smith's gondolier, Espero Gorgoni, was a specially charming man of the right Byronic flavorthe black swan, we suspect, of his craft. When breakfasted by Mr. Smith at the "Caffe Florian," -a rather unusual proceeding, by the way,- this paragon seems to have comported himself with the grace of a Chesterfield and the propriety of a "Turveydrop," discovering a knowledge of the polite mysteries of napkins and finger-bowls not unworthy of the "late Prince Regent" himself. For the behoof of prospective travellers, we may add that Espero is still within hail at the Molo. The book is vivaciously written, and will serve admirably to while away an evening or two. There are no illustrations.

NO ELOQUENCE is quite the same as that of the bibliophile when he discourses upon his own rare copies and first editions. Such is the theme of Mr. Edmund Gosse in his recently published "Gossip in a Library" (Lovell). Its twenty-five chapters are the ten-minute sermons of a book-collector con

cerning the history and contents of as many famous or curious books, the original editions of which happen to form a part of his private library. This furnishes an opportunity for their scholarly owner to regale us with many recondite and charming bits of biography, criticism, and bibliography, connected with the personal character and adventures of his favorites. The full title-page is given, so that we feel somewhat as though the volume actually lay in our hands. Among the older books are Camden's "Britannia" (1610), "A Mirror for Magistrates (1610), George Wither's "The Shepherd's Hunting" (1615). John Donne's "Death's Duel" (1632). Yet some of the newer ones are not less interesting. A very delightful chat on "Peter Bell and his Tormentors" arises à propos of the first edition of Wordsworth's poem (1819); another on "UltraCrepidarius" (1823), the scarcest of all Leigh Hunt's poetical pamphlets, and giving curious proof of the crude taste of the young school out of which Shelley and Keats were to arise; still another, on George Meredith's "Shaving of Shagpat," which Mr. Gosse declares to be the latest book in which any Englishman "has allowed his fancy, untrammelled by any sort of moral or intellectual subterfuge, to go a-roaming by the light of the moon." The volume is handsomely printed on heavy paper with uncut edges, and externally as well as internally is one to rejoice the heart of a book-lover.

ANOTHER volume about uncommon books is "Wells of English" (Roberts), by Isaac Bassett Choate. The aim in Mr. Choate's case, however, is quite different from that of Mr. Gosse, the result being somewhat of the nature of a manual or hand-book of information concerning the lesser lights of English literature. The author's principle is, that while it is the great writers who show us what our literature ought to be, it is those of lesser rank to whom we must go when we wish to

find out what our literature has been and is. They, too, are our "wells of English undefyled." Forty different writers are included, beginning with Thomas of Erceldoune and ending with John Evelyn. Each is supposed to be somewhat typical of the respective groups to which they belonged, and the volume presents a very readable and useful body of criticism on subjects not often treated.

MR. EDWARD WATERMAN EVANS is the author of a little book devoted to a critical study of Walter Savage Landor (Putnam). The book was written as a college thesis, and includes an idyl in what aims to be the Landorian manner, written in competition for a college prize in poetry. Mr. Evans justifies the publication of his monograph by saying that "no critique at once adequately exclusive and inclusive has been written in the effort to determine Landor's place and function in literature." We should say that fully a dozen such critiques, at least as adequate as the present one, were already in existence, and if there is still room for a more exhaustive and searching study, Mr. Evans has certainly not occupied it. Careful and conscientious as his essay is, half a dozen pages of Colvin or Stedman or Woodberry are far more weighty, to say nothing of Lowell and Swinburne. The conspicuous faults of this new treatment of a noble subject are diffuseness and a sophomorical style. And even less pardonable is the patronizing air which the writer allows himself to assume. To seriously discuss the claim of Landor to a place among the immortals is no longer a permissible thing. That place is securely taken, and forever. We do not imply that Mr. Evans is alone in making this mistake, but we do distinctly say that it is time for critics to abandon this apologetic attitude, and take for granted what everybody with a sense for literature knows - - that nineteenth century England can boast no greater writer of prose, and few greater poets.

TO THEIR recently issued series of reprints from W. D. Howells, G. W. Curtis, and C. D. Warner, Messrs. Harper & Brothers add a fourth number, "Concerning All of Us," by Thomas W. Higginson. Col. Higginson's merits as a writer of crisp lucid English need no introduction here, and these essays in miniature, familiar, half-humorous dissertations, with the due infusion of sound thought and good literature, on current themes broachable in club and drawing-room,- are, in many respects, models of their class. As to one point, and we approach it with diffidence,—we shall venture to criticise. Col. Higginson is, as the world knows, an ardent champion of the cause of the fair (or, as "man, proud man" in the insolent pride of his physical superiority is prone to style it, the "weaker") sex; and his chivalrous defense of the natural and inalienable right of its members to be as masculine as they choose, seems to us a trifle obtrusive in these essays. Like King Charles's head in the memoir of the unfortunate "Mr. Dick,"

the theme crops out inopportunely. The book is, however, suggestive and readable, the best, perhaps, of the series; and we may add, for the special behoof of the down-trodden ones in whose behalf Col. Higginson has assailed so many windmills, fulling-mills, and other malevolent giants, that it is graced with a good portrait of the author.

THE "Best Letters" series issued by Messrs. McClurg & Co. reaches a fifth volume in selections from the correspondence of Charles Lamb, edited by Mr. Edward Gilpin Johnson. The earlier volumes of the series bore the names of writers famous chiefly by reason of their letters, Chesterfield, Walpole, Montagu, Sévigné. But with Charles Lamb, the letters count only as one more point of attraction toward a figure already fascinating as a man, an essayist, a humorist, a poet, and a hero of a most difficult and uncommon type. Lamb is not one of those writers whom we are content to know simply through their works; we are interested in all that relates to him as a man, and this feeling has increased rather than lessened in the fifty-eight years since his death. Moreover, the group to which he belonged-containing Coleridge, Hazlitt, Southey, Wordsworth, Godwin, Proctor-is one of the most interesting that literary history has to offer. Therefore, letters to these and concerning these have the advantage of most fortunate material. Mr. Johnson's Introduction is a happy example of a new treatment of an old subject, witty and piquant at times as "Elia" himself, yet scholarly and dignified throughout.

TO THE many Americans who remember with pleasure the series of lectures on ancient Egypt delivered here by the late Amelia B. Edwards, the sumptuous volume entitled "Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers" (Harper), containing the substance of those lectures, with large additions, notes, and references, and a profusion of illustrations selected from the works of eminent Egyptologists, will prove a welcome publication. Miss Edwards's chapters on Egyptian portrait painting and portrait sculpture seem to us especially satisfactory; she has succeeded in giving an unusually sound and critical summary of Egyptian art from the artistic as well as from the religious point of view. The illustrations of these two chapters-notably the reproductions from Mr. Petrie's series of funerary portraits

are of the greatest interest. The book is, perhaps, the best popular exposition of the subject yet issued, and it acquires additional, though melancholy, interest in that it is the last considerable work from the pen of this versatile writer, whose laurels were won in such diverse fields.

THE series of Shakespeare's plays, edited chiefly by K. Deighton, and issuing from the press of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., is an excellent one for beginners in the study of Shakespeare. Each play makes a separate volume, of a convenient form and size, tastefully bound in cloth. To each there is a

brief introduction on the date of the play, origin, plot, characters, time analysis, etc. The text is followed by notes, very abundant, and learned without being recondite or pedantic. The serviceableness of the notes is enhanced, and the objection to their abundance diminished, by the addition of an index. Altogether, the series will be found a good one not only for use in schools but also for the home perusal of those who desire to read Shakespeare intelligently.

TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
May, 1892.

Air and Health, II. Popular Science.

America, Discovery of. R. B. Anderson. Dial. American Morals. H. R. Chamberlain. Chautauquan.

Lippincott.

Ballestier, Wolcott. Illus. Henry James. Cosmopolitan.
Behring Sea Controversy. North American.
Bicycling. Thomas Stevens.
Black Forest to Black Sea. Illus. F. D. Millet. Harper.
Botanist's Journeyings, A. Anna B. McMahan. Dial.
Brownings, The. Illus. Anne Ritchie. Harper.
California's Floral Society. Illus. Prof. Wickson. Overland.
California's Raisin Industry. Illus. J. T. Goodman. Overl'd.
Cave Dwellings. Illus. W. H. Larrabee. Pop. Science.
Children of the Poor. Illus. J. A. Riis. Scribner.
Chinese Question. J. R. Young. North American.
College Personal Economics. F. B. Wilson. Lippincott.
Columbus and his Age. Illus. E. Castelar. Century.
Correspondent, The Travelling. W. J. C. Meighan. Lipp.
Couture, Thomas. Illus. G. P. A. Healy. Century.
Dakotas, The. Julian Ralph. Harper.

Dendrites. Illus. M. S. Meunier. Popular Science.
Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence. F. B. Sanborn. Atlantic.
European Anthropological Work. Illus. Popular Science.
Evolution in Folk Lore. D. D. Wells. Popular Science.
Flower Shows. S. A. Wood. Chautauquan.
Flying Machines. S. P. Langley. Cosmopolitan.
Freeman, E. A., Some Autobiography of. Forum.
Geology Teaching. A. S. Packard. Popular Science.
German Army. Illus. Lieut.-Col. Exner. Harper.
German Emperor and Trade. Poultney Bigelow. Forum.
Gerrymander, Slaying the. Atlantic.

Girls' Private Schools. Anna C. Brackett. Harper.
Glaciers of America. Illus. Californian.
Harvard Requirements for Admission. Atlantic.
Healing Art. H. Nothnagel. Popular Science.

Henri Christophe I. Illus. L. G. Billings. Cosmopolitan.
Hill and the New York Senate. Matthew Hale. Forum.
Hill in New York. F. R. Coudert. Forum.
Hopkins, Mark. E. P. Anderson. Dial.
Kentucky Homes. Illus. J. L. Allen. Century.
Lamartine. E-M. de Vogué. Chautauquan.
Languages, Learning of. P. G. Hamerton. Forum.
Lapland. Illus. H. H. Boyesen. Cosmopolitan.
Luini. Illus. by T. Cole. W. J. Stillman. Century.
Man or Platform? Messrs. Key, Vest, etc. No. American.
McMaster's History of the U. S. C. H. Haskins. Dial.
Merit System. Theodore Roosevelt. Cosmopolitan.
Mexican Trade. M. Romero. North American.
Microscope and Biology. H. L. Osborn. Dial.
Monkey Speech. R. L. Garner. Forum.

Nicaragua Canal, III. Consul-Gen. Merry. Californian.
North in the War. J. B. McMaster. Chautauquan.
Olympian Religion, IV. W. E. Gladstone. North American.
Opium Traffic. Illus. F. J. Masters. Californian.
Party Government. Goldwin Smith. North American.
Perry's Victory. Illus. J. C. Ridpath. Chautauquan.
Phrenology. G. P. Serviss. Chautauquan.
Poetry: Creation and Self-Expression. E. C. Stedman. Cent.
Poor in Cities. C. G. Truesdell. Chautauquan.
Religion in Business. Geo. Hodges. Chautauquan.

Roman Private Life. Mrs. Preston and Louise Dodge. Atlan.
Russia's Famine. C. E. Smith. North American.
San Francisco Press. Illus. Californian.

San Francisco Street Characters. Illus. Overland.
Science and Fine Art. E. Du-Bois Reymond. Pop. Science.
Sea and Land. Illus. N. S. Shaler. Scribner.
Seriousness, A Plea for. Atlantic.

Severn's Roman Journals. Wm. Sharp. Atlantic.
Simian Speech. Illus. R. L. Garner. Cosmopolitan.
Southern Confederacy. Henry Watterson. Chautauquan.
Southern Homes at the End of the War. Atlantic.
Spencer and his Philosophy. W. H. Hudson. Pop. Science.
St. Augustine, Florida. Illus. Chautauquan.
Transit, Rapid. Illus. T. C. Clarke. Scribner.
Unter den Linden, Berlin. Illus. Paul Lindau. Scribner.
Unwritten Constitution, Our. J. O. Pierce. Dial.
Helen F. Shedd. Chautauquan.
Eugene Lawrence. Harper.

U. S. Patent Office.

Vespucci, Amerigo.

Violin for Ladies. J. Y. Taylor. Lippincott.

Volta, Allesandro. With Portrait. Popular Science.
Whitman, Walt. John Burroughs. North American.

Whitman, Walt. W. H. Garrison. Lippincott.
Whitman, Walt. W. S. Walsh. Lippincott.
World's Fair Architecture. Illus. H. Van Brunt. Century.
Yachting. Illus. F. W. Pangborn. Century.

BOOKS OF THE MONTH.

[The following list, embracing 112 titles, includes all books received by THE DIAL during the month of April, 1892.]

HISTORY.

The Discovery of America, with Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest. By John Fiske. In 2 vols., with portrait, 12mo, gilt tops. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $4.00.

History of the Nineteenth Army Corps. By Richard B. Irwin. Large 8vo, pp. 528, gilt top, uncut edges. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $4.50.

The First International Railway, and the Colonization of New England. (Life and Writings of John Alfred Poor.) Edited by Laura Elizabeth Poor. 8vo. pp. 400, gilt top, uncut edges. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3.00.

A History of Greece. By Evelyn Abbott, M.A. Part II.,. From the Ionian Revolt to the Thirty Years' Peace, 500445 B. C. 8vo, pp. 542, gilt top, uncut edges. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.25.

The Kansas Conflict. By Charles Robinson, late Governor of Kansas. 12mo, pp. 487. Harper & Brothers. $2.00. Stories from English History for Young Americans. Illus., 12mo, pp. 784. Harper & Brothers. $2.00. "Monsieur Henri": A Foot-note to French History. With frontispiece, 18mo, pp. 139. Harper & Brothers. $1.00.

ARCHEOLOGY.

The Remains of Ancient Rome. By J. Henry Middleton, author of "Ancient Rome in 1888." In 2 vols., illus., 8vo, uncut. Macmillan & Co. $7.00.

BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCE. The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792. By Kate Mason Rowland. Including his Speeches, Public Papers, etc., with Introduction by General Fitzhugh Lee. În 2 vols., with portrait, 8vo, gilt top, uncut edges. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $8.00.

The Life of Joshua R. Giddings. By George W. Julian, author of "Political Recollections." With portrait, Svo, pp. 473, gilt top. A. C. McClurg & Co. $2.50. The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. By George A. Aitken. With portrait, 8vo, pp. 516, uncut. Macmillan & Co. $4.00.

Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Sidney Lee. Vol. XXX., Johnes-Kenneth. 8vo, pp. 446, gilt top. Macmillan & Co. $3.75.

Politics and Pen Pictures, At Home and Abroad. By Henry W. Hilliard, LL.D. With portrait, large 8vo, pp. 445, gilt top, uncut edges. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3.00.

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, while United States Minister to Russia, 1837-9, and to England, 1856-61. Edited by Susan Dallas. With portrait, Svo, pp. 443, gilt top. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.00.

The Autobiography of Isaac Williams, B.D. Edited by his brother-in-law, the Ven. Sir George Prevost. 12mo, pp. 186, uncut. Longmans, Green & Co. $1.50. The Duchesse of Angoulême and the Two Restorations. By Imbert de Saint-Amand. Translated by James Davis. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 403. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25.

The German Emperor and his Eastern Neighbors. By Poultney Bigelow. With portrait, 16mo, pp. 179. C. L. Webster & Co. 75 cts.

ESSAYS AND GENERAL LITERATURE. Essays on German Literature. By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. 16mo, pp. 360. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. Concerning All of Us. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. With portrait, 18mo, pp. 210. Harper & Brothers. $1.00. The Golden Guess: Essays on Poetry and the Poets. By John Vance Cheney, author of "Thistle-Drift." 12mo, pp. 292. Lee & Shepard. $1.50.

A Day at Laguerre's, and Other Days. Being nine sketches, by F. Hopkinson Smith. 16mo, pp. 191, gilt top, uncut edges. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.

The Presumption of Sex, and Other Papers. By Oscar Fay Adams, author of 'Post-Laureate Idylls." 16mo, pp. 149, gilt top. Lee & Shepard. $1.00. Walter Savage Landor: A Critical Study. By Edward Waterman Evans, Jr. 16mo, pp. 209, gilt top, uncut edges. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.

Political Pamphlets. Edited by George Saintsbury. 24mo, pp. 303, uncut. Macmillan & Co. $1.00. English Writers: An Attempt towards a History of English Literature. By Henry Morley, LL.D. Vol. VIII., from Surrey to Spenser. 12mo, pp. 416, gilt top. Cassell Publishing Co. $1.50.

The Variorum Shakespeare. Edited by Horace Howard Furness. Vol. IX., The Tempest. Large Svo, pp. 465, gilt top, uncut edges. J. B. Lippincott Co. $4.00. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. By Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 24mo, pp. 244, gilt top. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.00.

POETRY.

The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 16mo, pp. 155, uncut. Macmillan & Co. $1.25.

Poems by the Way. Written by William Morris. 12mo, pp. 196, gilt top. Roberts Brothers. $1.25.

Marah By Owen Meredith. 12mo, pp. 202, gilt top. Longmans, Green & Co. $1.50.

Selected Poems by Walt Whitman. Edited by Arthur Stedman. With portrait, 16mo, pp. 176. C. L. Webster & Co. 75 cts.

The Odes and Epodes of Horace. Translated into English verse, with an introduction and notes and Latin text, by John B. Hague, Ph.D. 4to, pp. 188, gilt top, uncut edges. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.75.

Tributes to Shakespeare. Collected and arranged by Mary R. Silsby. 16mo, pp. 246, gilt top, uncut edges. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.

Poems and Proverbs of George Herbert. 24mo, pp. 260. Longmans, Green & Co. 40 cts.

FICTION.

The Quality of Mercy: A Novel.

By W. D. Howells. 12mo, pp. 474. Harper & Brothers. $1.50. On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War. By Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus." Illus., 12mo, pp. 233. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.

San Salvador. By Mary Agnes Tincker, author of "Two Coronets." 12mo, pp. 335. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25. The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani. By Henry B. Fuller. New edition, revised. 12mo, pp. 185, gilt top. Century Company. $1.25.

Tales of a Time and Place. By Grace King. 12mo, pp. 303. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.

A Capillary Crime, and Other Stories. By F. D. Millet. Illus., 12mo, pp. 284. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.

Van Bibber and Others. By Richard Harding Davis, author of "Gallegher." Illus., 12mo, pp. 249. Harper & Brothers. $1.00.

Manulito; or, A Strange Friendship. By William Bruce Leffingwell, author of "Wild Fowl Shooting." 12mo,

pp. 320. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.25. Love-Letters of a Worldly Woman. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford, author of "Mrs. Keith's Crime." 16mo, pp. 278, gilt top, uncut edges. Harper & Brothers. $1.25. A Member of the Third House: A Dramatic Story. By Hamlin Garland, author of Main Travelled Roads." With portrait, 12mo, pp. 239. F. J. Schulte & Co. $1.25. The Opal Queen. By Eliza B. Swan, author of "Once a Year." 12mo, pp. 387. Robert Clarke & Co. $1.25. Sylvester Romaine: A Novel. By Charles Pelletreau, B.D. 12mo, pp. 255. James Pott & Co. $1.00.

In Beaver Cove and Elsewhere. By Matt Crim. 12mo, pp. 346. C. L. Webster & Co. $1.00.

Sea Mew Abbey. By Florence Warden, author of "The House on the Marsh." 12mo, pp. 336. U. S. Book Co. $1. The Wrong that Was Done. By F. W. Robinson, author of "Our Erring Brother." 12mo, pp. 467. U. S. Book Co. $1.00.

The Misfortunes of Elphin. By T. Love Peacock. With frontispiece, 16mo, pp. 159, uncut edges. Macmillan & Co. $1.00.

The Pickwick Papers. By Charles Dickens. Reprint of the first edition, with the illustrations, and an Introduction by Charles Dickens the younger. 12mo, pp. 759, uncut. Macmillan & Co. $1.00.

The Three Fates. By F. Marion Crawford. 12mo, pp. 412. Macmillan & Co. $1.00.

A Princess of Thule. By William Black. New and revised edition. Harper & Brothers. 90 cts.

Merry Tales. By Mark Twain. 16mo, pp. 209. Webster's "Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series." 75 cts.

Cassell's "Unknown" Library: In Tent and Bungalow, by an Idle Exile. 50 cts.

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