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UNDER THE WATER-OAKS.

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Volume Thirteen of THE DIAL, comprising the numbers from May 1 to December 16, 1892, inclusive, is completed with the present issue. The volume thus includes, like its predecessors, twelve numbers. Future volumes will be semi-annual, beginning with January and July, and consequently of twelve numbers each, thus preserving uniformity in complete sets. A title-page and index to the volume now completed will be furnished with the issue for January 1, 1893. Volume Thirteen will be supplied in cloth binding, with gold stamps on back and side, for two dollars. Subscribers who forward the numbers comprising this volume, accompanied by one dollar, will receive the bound volume in exchange.

CONTENTS- Continued.

MORE BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG

Henty's Condemned as a Nihilist.-Henty's In Greek Waters.- Leighton's The Thirsty Sword.-Stoddard's The Battle of New York.- Coffin's The Life of Abraham Lincoln.-Louise Putnam's The Children's Life of Abraham Lincoln.- Butterworth's In the Boyhood of Lincoln.-Goss's Tom Clifton.Elizabeth Seelye's The Story of Columbus.- Butterworth's Little Arthur's History of Rome.Church's Pictures from Roman Life and Story.Montgomery's Tales of Ancient Troy and the Adventures of Ulysses.- Griffis's Japan in History, Folk-lore, and Art.-Lummis's Some Strange Corners of Our Country.- Holder's Along the Florida Reef. Glave's In Savage Africa.- The Story of Mackay of Uganda.- The Story of John G. Paton.

Knox's The Boy Travellers in Central Europe.— Mrs. Champney's Three Vassar Girls in the Holy Land. Butterworth's Zigzag Journeys on the Mississippi. Ober's Knockabout Club in Search of Treasure. French's Through Arctics and Tropics. -Frank Fairweather's Fortunes.-The Roundabout Books. Mrs. Deland's Story of a Child.-Marie Marsh's Vic. - Mme. Colomb's Herminie's Triumphs.- Jewett's The Bunny Stories.- Miscellaneous Children's Books.- Lockwood's Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey. Atkinson's Scenes in Fairyland.- Cassell's The Children's Library. Christmas in Foreign Lands.- Susan Coolidge's Rhymes and Ballads for Girls and Boys.Mrs. Wilcox's The Beautiful Land of Nod.- Francis's A Book of Cheerful Cats.-Wister's The Dragon of Wantley.- Carryl's The Admiral's Caravan.Frances Austen's Elfie's Visit to Cloudland.- Treasury of Pleasure Books for the Young. New illustrated edition of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.— Good's Magical Experiments.- Miscellaneous Books for Younger Children.- Bound Juvenile Periodicals. BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS

Scientific Criticism as Applied to Modern Music.The Historical Truth of "Barbara Fritchie."-A Good Work for the Amateur Book-Collector.-The Youth's Dear Book" of Dante.-Novel Sport and Adventure in Arctic Canada.

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Flagg's The Life and Letters of Washington Allston. New illustrated edition of Green's Short History of the English People.- The Armies of To-day.Child's The Praise of Paris.- Mrs. Oliphant's The Makers of Venice.- Charles Morris's Tales from the Dramatists.- Harrison S. Morris's Tales from Ten Poets.- Lanciani's Pagan and Christian Rome.Johnson's The New England Country.- Mrs. Dorr's The Fallow Field.- Gleams and Echoes.-Sir Roger de Coverley, illustrated by Hugh Thomson.- "Kirriemuir" edition of Barrie's The Little Minister.The Magazine of Art.- Mrs. Toland's Atlina.- Scollard's Under Summer Skies.- Lippincott's new edition of The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope.Holiday edition of Warner's In the Levant.- Holiday edition of Ware's Zenobia.- Molloy's The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington.- Songs from the Operas.- Miss Cone's Scenes from the Life of Christ. Putnam's Literary Gems.

THE WORLD'S CONGRESS AUXILIARY. Next year's celebration of the four completed centuries of American history is planned upon so colossal a scale that few people besides those directly concerned in the work have anything like an adequate notion of its magnitude or the diversity of its aims. The most industrious dissemination of information, verbal and pictorial, has been going on for two years or more, but it does not seem to have really helped the world outside Chicago to understand very clearly or completely what may be expected of the coming summer. Those who came to inspect the Exposition buildings and grounds in Oc

tober, during the week of the dedicatory exercises, were unanimous in declaring that all their preconceived notions had fallen far short of the reality. Facts of this sort go to show that even the material features of the coming Exposition, open as they are to the gaze of the observer, fail, from their very magnitude, in securing proper appreciation, except from the few who deliberately settle down to their prolonged study and the careful estimation of their import. If those aspects of the Exposition which are thus clearly en évidence are but imperfectly apprehended, it goes without saying that the many other aspects, in process of elaboration by the intellectual forces enlisted in the enterprise, and having thus far no other expression than is given them by the proceedings of committees and their occasional reports and announcements, do not make to the public as yet any appeal at all commensurate with their real significance. Few people have any realizing sense of what the Exposition is to provide in the way of music, or painting, or educational methods and appliances, or object lessons in cosmopolitanism.

The most important work of the Exposition upon its intellectual side, as we have had occasion to state in an earlier article, is that which is being organized by the officers of the World's Congress Auxiliary. Carried on, as this work is, with little publicity, and overshadowed as it is by the preparations for the material Exposition, it receives comparatively slight public attention, although its importance is such that, were it standing by itself, it could not fail to elicit the eager interest of the entire thinking world, and secure the widest recognition as one of the most notable enterprises ever planned in the interest of civilization and the comity of mankind. A well-qualified writer, speaking recently of the prospects of the material Exposition, expressed the belief that the World's Fair grounds next summer will simply be the most interesting spot in all the world. This opinion requires, however, to be supplemented by saying that, for all persons having interests of the strictly intellectual sort, the Art Building in the heart of Chicago, now being erected for the purposes of the Auxiliary, will, as a centre of attraction, at least rival the White City and its palaces. In this Art Building, during the six months of the Exposition, there will be held a succession of the most important gatherings ever held anywhere, gatherings of the representative workers in every department of thought, coming from all parts of the world to participate in the Congresses of the Auxiliary. Every morning, every afternoon, and every evening, there will be a score or more of sessions, in which both the broadest and the most special results of investigation will be presented to the public by men eminent in science, art, and literature; in which the scholars of Europe and America will meet for the comparison of their views, to sum up the past achievements of thought, and chart the courses for the future.

The work of the Auxiliary is now so far advanced in most of its lines that this forecast may be made with confidence. The credit for the work is to be shared by the United States Government, the local authorities of the Columbian Exposition, the officers of the Auxiliary, and the committees in charge of the various departments. The support of the Government takes the shape of its official recognition of the Auxiliary, of instructions to its diplomatic and consular representatives in other countries, and is expected to take the further shape of a provision for the publication and distribution of the proceedings of the Congresses. The support of the local authorities has been given in the form of liberal appropriations for the work, including the provision of the building in which the Auxiliary will have its home. Among the officers of the Auxiliary, the real burden of its work is borne by the shoulders of the President, Mr. Charles C. Bonney, to whom has fallen an executive task comparable only with that of organizing a great university, and who is performing the labor with a clear recognition of its comprehensive nature, with discrimination in dealing with its problems, and with the tact so indispensable for bringing into harmonious adjustment the activities of so many men in so many departments. All the detailed work of the organization is in the hands of the Department Committees, composed of public-spirited residents of Chicago and vicinity, freely giving their services in a cause to the importance of which they are fully alive, and carrying on the multifarious correspondence which is necessary for the arrangement of their programmes. Each of these Committees has constituted an Advisory Council of non-residents, who cooperate, as far as they may from a distance, in planning the programme of the Department in question. The Woman's Branch of the Auxiliary is also entitled to a distinct share of the general credit attaching to the work. The organization of women is parallel, as to committees both resident and nonresident, with that of the Auxiliary proper, and the work of women is thus sure of receiving the fullest recognition.

The work of the Auxiliary as now planned is classified under nineteen Departments, which, with the dates assigned for their respective Congresses, are as follows: May.-Woman's Progress, The Public Press, Medicine and Surgery. June. Temperance, Moral and Social Reform, Commerce and Finance. July.-Music, Literature, Education. August.- Engineering, Art, Government, General Department, Science and Philosophy. September.Labor, Religion. October.- Sunday Rest, Public Health, Agriculture. It will be noticed in this arrangement that subjects of allied interest are brought near together, as in the cases of the July and August Congresses. Each of the nineteen Departments above named has several Divisions, in charge of special Committees. The Department of Literature includes these five Divisions: Libraries, History, Phi