review of this book appears elsewhere in this number.

Lane:

The MS. In a Red Box. Anonymous..

The mystery in connection with the receipt of this manuscript by the publishers is being used as an advertising feature. It is said that the publishers received the manuscript in a red box and that they have actually no idea who the author is. Whether this is a clever advertising dodge or not one cannot say at the present moment.

The Motor Book. By R. J. Mecredy.

A small book of interest to persons who desire to learn something about motor cars. The writer is an authority on this subject, being editor of "The Motor News" and "The Dictionary of Motoring," both of which are published in Dublin.

Songs of Dreams. By Ethel Clifford.

A book of verse which deserves much more than a passing notice. The contents are divided thus: "Songs Out of Doors," "Songs in the Night," "Songs in Remembrance," "Songs of Love," "Songs in Imitation," "Songs of Dreams." The poems are written by an Englishwoman, many of them having appeared in the Westminster Gazette and the Pall Mall Gazette.

Life in the Mercantile Marine. By Charles Protheroe.

In these sketches of nautical life the author, writing in the first person, gives an account of the conditions which prevail in the lives of the "men who go down to the sea in ships."

Masters of English Landscape Painting. J. S. Cotman. David Cox, Peter de Wint. Edited by Charles Holme.

A special summer number of the International Studio which contains many beautiful reproductions of the work of the three painters discussed.

The Tree Book. By Mary Rowles Jarvis.

The third volume in the Country Handbooks series, edited by Harry Roberts. "A life-long love of trees, and much lore concerning them, gleaned from foresters, charcoal burners, and other men of the woods . . . are the writer's chief. qualifications for the making of this tree book."

A Girl's Life in a Hunting Country. By Handasyde.

A story with an English setting, written in the first person.

The House on the Sands. By Charles Marriott.

A new novel by the author of "The Column." The house on the sands is occupied by a man and a woman who have decided to experiment with Platonism.

The man is an ascetic, and for a time the woman believes as he does. But when a change comes over her and new interests enter her life sufficient good material is provided for an interesting novel. Eleanor Dayton. By Nathaniel Stephen

son.

A new novel by the author of "The Beautiful Mrs. Moulton." The scenes of the story shift from the Court of Louis Napoleon to cities in the United States. A review appears elsewhere in this number.

Life Publishing Company:

Cirillo. By Effie Douglas Putnam.

A story, the scene of which is laid in Florence, and which has a musical atmosphere. The author is a harpist by profession, living in Paris, and this is her first novel.

New Harlem Publishing Company:

New Harlem Past and Present. By Carl Horton Pierce, William Pennington Toler, and Harmon de Pau Nutting. According to the title page this is the story of an amazing civic wrong, now at last to be righted, with a review of the principles of law involved in the recovery of the Harlem Lands. The purpose of the book is "to prove that the town of New Harlem has not been erased from the map; that there is not only a 'past,' but a 'present New Harlem.'" The volume contains many illustrations.

Ogilvie Publishing Company:

The Monarch Billionaire. By Morrison
I. Swift.

A novel dealing largely with the conditions existing between the very rich man and the laborer. Giles Wyndon, the billionaire, and his daughter, Margaret, are the principal characters. Outlook Company:

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. By John Dickinson. With an Historical Introduction by R. T. H. Halsey.

The first of these "Letters" made their appearance in the Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser, November 30December 3, 1767. A letter followed for twelve successive weeks, and such was their popularity that they were reprinted in almost all the Colonial newspapers. The present volume is a large one, and is bound in blue paper boards with vellum backs, after the style of the original edition.

Pott and Company:

The Eastward Road. By Jeannette Bliss Gillespy.

A small book of poems, some of the poems having appeared in Harper's,

Old Paths and Legends of New England. By Katherine M. Abbott.

Miss Abbott is the author of the little paper-bound book "Trolley Trips," which described the old New England haunts that may be reached by trolley. In this more pretentious work she has not limited her wanderings to the trolley track, but has penetrated to out-of-the-way places, visiting old homesteads and spots of historic interest in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The book is well bound and profusely illustrated.

The Shadow of Victory. By Myrtle Reed.

A new novel by the author of "Lavender and Old Lace." The action of the present story takes place among the stirring scenes of an early Western trading post, and it bears the sub-title "A Romance of Fort Dearborn.'

Rains Company:

The Hasheesh Eater. By Fitzhugh Ludlow.

A reprint of a book originally published in 1857. It is not fiction, but the personal experiences of the author while using the drug, Hasheesh, or Indian Hemp. Scribner:

The Diary of john Evelyn, Esquire, F.R.S. Edited by William Bray.

An imported book, bound in limp leather. Mr. Evelyn lived in the times of King Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, King Charles II., King James II., and King William, and it was his custom to make notes of such events as he thought worth recording.

Sir David Wilkie, R.A. By William Bayne.

The

This is also an imported volume, illustrated with twenty plates after Wilkie and a photogravure frontispiece. preface speaks of the work of this Scotch artist as being of interest to the whole art-loving public. "It is probably at the present day not sufficiently well recognised how great was the homage universally paid to his genius in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, and how he was held to be representative of British art in general as well as of that of the land of his birth."

Rossetti Papers, 1862 to 1870. A ComIpilation by William Michael Rossetti.

In 1899 the compiler of this volume brought out two separate books, "Ruskin, Rossetti, Præraphaelitism," and "Præraphaelite Diaries and Letters." They consisted of letters, journals, etc., and were intended to show forth the career of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The record was carried up to February, 1862, while in

the present volume it is brought up to April, 1870. The material in the present book, which is an imported one, is arranged chronologically.

Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad. Edited by A. Wallis Myers, with Contributions by H. S. Mahony, H. S. Scribner, G. W. Hillyard, Mrs. Sterry, and other Authorities on the Game.

This book gives a pretty good idea of what a book on a certain sport should be. It is comprehensive and entertaining and excellently illustrated. In it the subject has been covered in a broader way than has been done before. We have, however, just one criticism to make. The volume purports to treat of Lawn Tennis "at home and abroad." The title should read "Abroad and at Home," for the marked precedence given the English side of the game is one unwarranted, even when one takes into consideration the remarkable showing of the English challengers during the past summer. Of course as this is an imported book, this precedent is understood by those who realise the fact. But bearing the imprint of an American house the volume in this respect will puzzle the average American reader. And it is in his behalf that we offer the criticism.

A Search for the Masked Tawareks. By W. J. Harding King. (Imported.)

A book describing a race of marauding nomads who live in the trackless wastes of the Sahara, south of Algeria. On account of their impious character, says the author, they have been named by the Arabs "Tawarek," or "Godforsaken." The text is accompanied by over forty illustrations.

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. By John Fox, Jr.

As a serial in Scribner's Magazine this story has attracted favourable comment. The story pictures boy life among the Kentucky mountaineers, and life at a blue-grass college in the days before the

war.

Mr. Fox also shows how Kentucky was affected by the Civil War. A review appears elsewhere in the present issue.

The Vagabond. By Frederick Palmer.

The first novel of a man who has already become known as a newspaper correspondent and as a writer of short stories. It is a Civil War story, and has been running serially in Collier's Weekly. A Doctor of Philosophy. By Cyrus Townsend Brady.

A love story which will not please those readers who demand the often inevitable "happy ending." The doctor of philosophy is a woman, and a taint of negro blood adds a tragic element to the story. A further notice of it appears elsewhere in this issue.

Travels of Marco Polo. In Two Vol

umes.

The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East. Translated and edited, with notes, by Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I. The third edition of this work has been revised throughout in the light of recent discoveries by Henri Cordier of Paris.

A Song of Speed. By William Ernest Henley.

The Messrs. Scribner have imported this poem of Mr. Henley's, and have brought it out in paper covers. It is dedicated to Mr. Alfred Harmsworth, but it might appropriately have been dedicated to all automobilists.

Smart Set Publishing Company:

The Middle Course. By Poultney Bigelow.

An ultra modern novel. The lady of the frontispiece is described as being "dressed in the fashion of the day-afterto-morrow-for which she did not mean to pay till the day after that."

Miss Sylvester's Marriage. By Cecil Charles.

A novel, the reading of which will not overtax the brain. There is a great deal about Miss Sylvester and her husband, also a good deal about Miss Sylvester's aunt, who is described as being "non-irritant, non-astringent."

Hearts Aflame. By Louise Winter.

A story which depicts the efforts of a society leader to re-establish in the social world a woman friend who has been sensationally divorced. The illustrations in the book are by Archie Gunn.

Street and Smith:

Conversations of a Chorus Girl. By Roy L. McCardell,

This particular chorus girl is described as a "peroxide blonde," and her "conversations," in which the interlocutor is a dramatic editor, may be said to be of the peroxide type also. They tell of her experiences "on the road," of her various flirtations, and other things dear to the heart of the chorus girl.

Walker-Ellerson Publishing Company:

The Curse of Caste. By N. J. W. Le Cato.

A novel dedicated to the President. The author has much to say about the negro question, and for his frontispiece he has chosen the picture of a negro, with the following caption "I allus 'low'd dat it was bad business to free the nigger 'thout making him white."

Werner Publishing Company:

The Exact Science of Health. By Robert Walter, M.D. Volume I.: Principles. The author of this book holds that the care of the body and the preservation of the vital forces may be developed into a

science, determined by laws as exact as those which control the movements of the stars.

Boston.

Dana Estes and Company:

Whitewash. A Novel. By Ethel Watts Mumford.

"Whitewash" first appeared in The Smart Set. The scene is laid in New York, the characters are members of fashionable society, and a mysterious robbery and the exposure of a clever criminal furnish the main motive.

The Millionaire's Son. By Anna Robeson Brown.

This novel, to quote the publishers, "is a study in temperament and heredity, and a satire on social conditions in America." A further notice of this book appears elsewhere in this issue.

Ginn and Company:

Agriculture for Beginners. By Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, and Daniel Harvey Hill.

The authors of this book, professors respectively of agriculture, biology and English in the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, have collaborated in the belief that there is no line of separation between the science of agriculture and the practical art, and that the child intended for the farm cannot too early be taught the fundamental truths of farming.

The Jones First Reader.
The Jones Second Reader.
The Jones Third Reader.
The Jones Fourth Reader.
The Jones Fifth Reader.

These are school books by L. H. Jones, president of the Michigan State Normal College. The series covers the reading work of the eight grades of the elementary schools.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company:

Zut and Other Parisians. By Guy Wetmore Carryl.

A collection of short stories dealing, as the title suggests, with Paris and Parisians.

Lothrop Publishing Company:

Gorgo. By Charles K. Gaines, Ph.D.

A romance of Old Athens by the Professor of Greek in St. Lawrence University. Gorgo is the daughter of a Spartan chief, reared in Laconia, and her lover is a young Athenian. The story abounds in battle scenes.

Mutual Book Company:

The Knocker. By Frank C. Voorhies. Illustrated by E. B. Bird.

A book intended to be funny. Here is a typical quotation: "A knocker is a sourball who thinks he knows it all. . . . Why

The New Tokology. Mother and Child Culture. By Eli F. Brown, M.S., M.D., and Joseph H. Greer, M.D.

A book which gives considerable information about the vital functions of the body and which also contains a dictionary of medical terms. There are numerous instructions for the prevention or the cure of disease, and special illustrations have been made by Dr. Ruth Blake.

Towards the Rising Sun. A Story of
Travel and Adventure. By Sigmund
Krausz.

An account of the author's trip through the Orient, beginning at Constantinople, leading to Asia Minor, Greece, and Egypt, and extending from there through the Red Sea to Ceylon, Calcutta, and overland through Central India to Bombay. Webster's New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. Based on the most eminent Authorities by E. T. Roe, LL.B., and Professor O. H. L. Schwetzky, Editor.

This is a concise lexicon, bound in half leather, and containing, besides definitions and pronunciations of words and the various departments of the regulation dictionary, several cyclopædic features and a number of attractive coloured plates and maps.

Open Court Publishing Company:

Babel and Bible. Two Lectures on the Significance of Assyriological Research for Religion. Embodying also the Most Important Criticisms and the Author's Replies. By Dr. Friedrich Delitzsch. Translated from the German by Thomas J. McCormack and W. H. Carruth.

Dr. Delitzsch is Professor of Assyriology in the University of Berlin, and these lectures were delivered under the auspices of the German Oriental Society. Hadley Ballads. By Julia Taft Bayne.

A small book of poems. "Her sons and daughters have gathered these," says the introduction, "from the New England Magazine, the Independent, the Youth's Companion, St. Nicholas, Springfield Republican, and Hartford Courant, into this little volume, which they present to their mother as a birthday gift, knowing also that it will give pleasure to her many friends."

A work translated from the second revised French edition by Thomas J. McCormack. It treats of the origin and history of the Mithraic religion, and is accompanied by a number of illustrations. The author, Franz Cumont, is Professor in the University of Ghent, Belgium. Stone and Company:

My Friend Annabel Lee. By Mary Maclane.

This is very much the sort of book that one might expect from Mary Maclane. Waite and Company:

Homophonic Conversations in English,
German, French and Italian. Being a
Natural Aid to the Memory in Learning
those Languages. By C. B. and C. V.
Waite.

A small book based upon the similarity in sound and in signification of the principal words used in the sentences which are chosen as examples. Nearly five hundred homophonic words are used, giving the form of the word in each language. Winona Publishing Company:

The Bible in Shakespeare. By William Burgess.

A study of the relationship of the works of William Shakespeare to the Bible, in which the author undertakes to prove, by numerous parallel passages, quotations, and references, that Shakespeare-notwithstanding all opinions to the contrary -was a true Christian.

Philadelphia.

Ferris and Leach:

The Independence of the South American Republics. A Study in Recognition and Foreign Policy. By Frederic L. Paxson, Fellow in History in the University of Pennsylvania.

The Monroe Doctrine has been, almost since the beginning of the last century, a vital question in American politics, and its history has never, so far as we know, been comprehensively presented in a single volume before.

McKay:

Consumption a Curable and Preventable Disease. What a Layman Should Know About It. By Lawrence F. Flick, M.D.

A sane and helpful little book on the subject of tuberculosis, which should help those who read it to understand what the disease is, and therefore to do much toward preventing its spread.

Akron, Ohio.

The Saalfield Publishing Company:

The Man in the Camlet Cloak. By Carlen Bateson.

This is an historical novel, the plot being founded upon the conspiracy of Aaron Burr. It is put forth in the guise of "an old writing transcribed and edited."

Under Mad Anthony's Banner. By James Ball Naylor.

Mr. Naylor, author of "In the Days of St. Clair" and several other historical novels, has written a story founded upon the career of Gen. Anthony Wayne in the Northwest Territory. He dedicates his book, quite appropriately, to the memory of the hero of its pages.

Charleston, S. C.

Walker, Evans and Cogswell Company: Life of John C. Calhoun. By Gustavus M. Pinckney.

A sketch of the "Great Nullifier," giving a brief biographical account of his life and work, but portraying him chiefly by means of extracts from his letters and speeches.

Indianapolis.

Bobbs-Merrill Company:

The Fortunes of Fifi. By Molly Elliot Seawell.

A sprightly romance of the early part of the nineteenth century, with the scenes laid in Paris. The story has been running serially. This book is noticed in another column.

Ithaca, N. Y.

Press of the Ithaca Democrat:

The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America. By Ebenezer Mack Treman and Murray E. Poole, D.C.L., LL.D. Two Volumes.

This history appears in two massive volumes of over a thousand pages each. To those persons interested in genealogy it may be well to state that the history concerns itself with Joseph Truman of New London, Connecticut (1666); John Mack of Lyme, Connecticut (1680); Richard Dey of New York City (1641); Cornelius Board of Boardville, New Jersey (1730); John Ayer of Newbury, Massachusetts (1635), and their descendants. Oxford, England.

At the Clarenden Press:

A History of the Peninsular War. By Charles Oman, M.A.

This, the second volume of Professor Oman's exhaustive work, Covers the ground from January to September of 1809, that is, from the Battle of Corunna to the end of the Talavera Campaign.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Schools for Spirits. By E. M. Wood, D.D., LL.D.

In this paper covered volume the author touches upon theosophy, spiritual