UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS • URBANA BOOKSTACKS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/descriptivelistoOOhoug ESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE OOKS PUBLISHED BY HOUGH- ON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY EXHIBITED IN THE MODEL LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION I 9°4 BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY jHiijerjtfxDe f&res#, Cani&riDge 1906 DESCRIPTION OF BOOKS V ( ) < \ V Volumes described as 32 mo, although not in all cases uniform , usually measure 4 inches in width by 5^ inches in height; iSmo, 4^ x 6 inches; 1 6 mo, 5x7 inches ; \2n10, 5} x inches crown Svo, 5^ x 8 inches ; 8 vo, 6x8^ inches; royal Svo, 7^x10 inches; \to , 10x12^ inches; folio, 13 x 15 inches. Special sizes , such as small \to, square i 6 mo, etc., are modifications of the sizes named above. All books are understood to be bound in cloth , unless it is otherwise indicated. 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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 4 Park Street , Boston ; 85 Fifth Avenue , New York ; 378-388 Wabash Avenue, Chicago . NOTE The A. L. A. Catalog for 1904 is a list of 7520 carefully selected volumes, made up by the American Library Association under the editorship of Mr. Melvil Dewey, with the critical assistance of many specialists and prominent librarians. The books included were exhibited as a model library at the St. Louis Exposition. Since that time the A. L. A. Catalog has been the standard of judgment for libraries, and the books which appear in it are regarded as the best books obtainable for library purposes. Since the aim of the American Library Association is to present a list which shall contain the most reliable books on the greatest variety of subjects, it fol- lows that the catalog contains the titles of books in many lines of particular value to specialists in those lines, as well as a large number of standard works of general interest to all book-collectors. It is therefore a most helpful guide [for all owners of private libraries, small or large. The list which follows embraces the publications of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. which appear in the A. L. A. Catalog, comprising about ten per cent of the whole number. In making up this list, the general plan of the A. L. A. Catalog has been followed, with the addition in a few cases of explanatory notes of our own or press notices of our own selection, inclosed in every instance in brackets to distinguish them from the notes furnished by the American Library Association. ' ooo GENERAL WORKS t 010 BIBLIOGRAPHY 014 Of special forms Frey, A. R. Sobriquets and nicknames. 1887. [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Reference.) Alphabetic dictionary of fictitious names applied to real persons in stones and poems; of personal epithets; nicknames of literary men; historical characters, etc., with index of true names. — New York state library. 016 Of special subjects 016.9 History Winsor, Justin. Reader’s handbook of the American revolution, 1761-1783. 1899. [i6mo.] $1.25. Beginning with the first discontent with British rule, indicates where the best information on each point is to be gathered. — C. K. Adams, Manual of historical literature. [It points out the original sources in which the writers have found their materials, and at the same time indicates many of the second-hand authorities. Mr. Winsor, however, has not confined himself to a list of titles, but has introduced a copious fund of brief critical notices, which are always opportune and suggestive, marked by singular discrimination and justness, and often ot great bibliographical value, as well as a practical guide to the student of American History. New "Y ovk TP T'tb'tiTtc • The volume furnishes a very complete bibliography of the Revolutionary struggle. The Independent (New York).] 020 LIBRARY ECONOMY 028 Reading and aids Counsel upon the reading of books. 1900. [i2mo.] $1.50* Contents: Preface on reading and books, by Henry Van Dyke; History, by H. Morse Stephens; Memoirs and biography, by Agnes Repplier; Sociology, economics and politics, by A. T. Hadley, c The study of fiction, by Brander Matthews; Poetry, by Bliss Perry; Essay and criticism, by H. W. Mabie. [Each writer treats of his specialty, and does it with the grace and vigor which has made every , one of the names given well known and trulv appreciated. — Boston J ournal .] 050 GENERAL PERIODICALS, MAGAZINES Poole’s index to periodical literature. Abridged edition covering 37 peri- odicals. 1815-1899. 1901. [Royal 8vo.] $12.00, net. [Postage, 52 cents.] (Reference.) The full set of Poole's index, comprising 5 vols. ([royal 8vo] $52, net), covering the full period 1815-1901, should be bought when libraries can afford it, especially if near large libraries owning many sets of magazines to which patrons may have access. — Editor for selection. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 2 PHILOSOPHY [No matter where you open the “Index,” it is both a surprise and delight to any one who examines or consults it. . . . It is impossible to exhaust, in a general way, the enumeration of the benefits which are likely to result from the circulation of this work. — New York Times. The Abridged Edition is now brought down to 1905 by the publication of a Supplement covering the years 1900-1904.] 051 American periodicals Atlantic monthly. Yearly. $4.00. Index to v. 61-66, 1888-1901. [8vo.] $2.00, net. [Postpaid.] [The quality and variety of the articles are not less noteworthy than the reputation of the con- tributors. Whatever is of most moment in the several departments of literature and criticism, of art and social life, of politics and morals, finds room in these pages; and both in the selection and treatment of topics so much skill and good taste are shown that it is wholly within bounds to say that no other American magazine contains so little that the average reader can afford to “skip.” — Boston Journal .] 100 PHILOSOPHY no METAPHYSICS 113-119 Cosmology Fiske, John. Outlines of cosmic philosophy, based on the doctrine of evolution. 4 vols. 1903. [Crown 8vo.] $8.00. By no means a mere reproduction of Spencer’s philosophy, but an independent exposition of Evolutionism showing originality, especially in regard to social evolution and the relation of religion and science. [You must allow me to thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. ... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and causation than other parts. It is hopeless to attempt out of so much to specify what has interested me most, and probably you would not care to hear. It pleased me to find that here and there I had arrived, from my own crude thoughts, at some of the same conclu- sions with you, though I could seldom or never have given my reasons for such conclusions. — Charles Darwin.] 120 OTHER METAPHYSICAL TOPICS 128 The soul James, William. Human immortality; two supposed objections to the doctrine. 1898. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Simple, clear, and candid. 130 Mind and body Jastrow, Joseph. Fact and fable in psychology. 1900. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Reprint of magazine essays. Discusses problems of psychic research, mental telegraphy, spiritualism, hypnotism, the psychology of deception, dreams of the blind, etc. — New York state library. PHILOSOPHY 3 150 Psychology Miinsterberg, Hugo. Psychology and life. 1899. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Contents: Psychology and life; Psychology and physiology; Psychology and education; Psy- chology and art; Psychology and history; Psychology and mysticism. Reprinted from the Atlantic monthly, Psychological review, and Educational review. Chief aim is the separation of conceptions of physiology from conceptions of our real life. Remarkably clear and vigorous. — T. E. Creighton, in Philosophical review. Shinn, Millicent W. The biography of a baby. 1900. [i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. (Popular treatment. Readable.) Psychologic study of the first year of a child’s life. 170 Ethics Bowker, Richard Rogers. The arts of life. 1900. [i6mo.] $1.25, net. [Postage, 8 cents.] On attainment of the highest results in character-culture and human relations through every- day life, and enlightened use of education, business, politics and religion. — New York state library. [In this little tastefully made volume Mr. Bowker happily combines the insight of a man of strong religious nature and definite ethical convictions with the results of intelligent observation and a deep sympathy with the best movements of his time and with the highest aspirations of his fellows. . . . This volume is the product of wise, broad, and sane thinking and observation. — The Outlook .] Gilman, N. P., and Jackson, E. P. Conduct as a fine art: laws of daily conduct, by N. P. Gilman; char- acter-building by E. P. Jackson. 1891. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. To aid public school teachers in giving moral instruction apart from religious doctrine. [Each essay is filled with true and helpful thoughts forcibly expressed. — The Nation (New York). Mr. Gilman’s essay will prove a delightful revelation to many a teacher who has sought in vain to gather inspiration from the current conventional handbooks on “mdral science.” — American Journal of Education.] Palmer, George Herbert. The field of ethics. (William Belden Noble lecture, 1899.) 1901. [i2mo.] $1.10, net. [Postage, n cents.] (Readable.) In respect of teaching power an excellent and wholesome essay. — Philosophical review. [Embodies a method unusual in such books, of determining “the place of ethics in a rational scheme of the universe.” “A timely production in view of the fact that the real domain of ethics is a question which is at present very much under discussion. . . . The literary quality of the book is unquestionable.” — Yale Review .] The nature of goodness. 1903. [i2mo.] $1.10, net. [Postage, 11 cents.] Contents: Double aspect of goodness; Misconceptions of goodness; Self-consciousness; Self- direction; Self-sacrifice; Nature and spirit; The three stages of goodness. The Field of ethics marked out the place which ethics occupies among the sciences. In this book the first problem of ethics is examined. RELIGION 4 171 Theories Harris, George. Moral evolution. 1896. [Crown 8vo.] $2.00. Its purpose is to establish the harmony of personal and social morality with the facts of evolution. 173 Family ethics Wiggin, Mrs. Kate Douglas. Children’s rights: a book of nursery logic. 1892. [i6mo.] $1.00. (Readable.) On the management and education of little children; talks on children’s reading, plays, the kindergarten, etc. — New York state library. 178 Temperance Koren, John. Economic aspects of the liquor problem; an investigation made for the Committee of fifty, under the direction of H. W. Farnam. 1899. [i2mo.] $1.50. Wines, F. H. and Koren, John, editors . The liquor problem in its legislative aspects. 2d ed. 1898. [With maps. i2mo.] $1.25. Work of a sub-committee of the Committee of fifty to investigate the liquor problem. 2d edition contains new chapter on operation of New York (Raines) liquor tax law, and brings down to date observations on South Carolina dispensary system, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania liquor legislation. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). 190 Modem philosophers Royce, Josiah. The spirit of modern philosophy. 1892. [8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. (Scholarly; by a recognized authority. Readable.) Historical account of the most prominent philosophic thinkers and their problems. Pt. 2, the author’s own confession of philosophic faith. — T. E. Creighton, in Philosophical review. 200 RELIGION 201 Philosophy of religion Abbott, Lyman. The evolution of Christianity. 2d ed. 1893. (Lowell institute lec- tures.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. For intelligent laymen, on the philosophy of Christianity. — George A. Gordon, in Andover review. [Dr. Abbott, being a devout Darwinian and Huxleyan, holds that Christianity is an evolution, and he avers that the present volume is “an attempt to restate the eternal yet ever new truths of the religious life in the terms of modern philosophic thought.” — New York Times. While Dr. Abbott in this book sets aside various traditional beliefs, in addition to its transcendent worth as a philosophical statement of what is commonly called “the new theology,” it has the negative merit of exhibiting no tokens of a wantonly iconoclastic spirit. Old and obsolete beliefs are treated tenderly and reverently. — Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody.] RELIGION 5 204 Essays Burroughs, John. The light of day. 1900. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. McKenzie, Alexander. Divine force in the life of the world. 1898. (Lowell institute lectures.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. 210 Natural theology Fiske, John. Through nature to God. 1899. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Contents: The mystery of evil; The cosmic roots of love and self-sacrifice; The everlasting reality of religion. An argument for theism from the evolutionary standpoint. — New York state library. 2 1 1 Deism Fiske, John. The idea of God as affected by modern knowledge. 1885. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Its value lies in the impression that it intentionally makes that theism is necessary to any com- prehensive view of evolution. — George Harris, in Andover review. [Mr. Fiske has done much in other productions to show his power of mastering and reporting the opinions of others, but in his two latest books he takes his rightful place as a clear, strong, and original thinker, advancing reverently into an untrodden field, and rendering a service to natural theology which is as great, if not greater, than any which he has heretofore rendered to science. — Boston Advertiser. So admirable in ' its precision, so clear in its logic, so reverent in its tone while sifting with uncompromising sincerity for truth and evidence, that it is like a beautiful geometric drawing. — The Critic (New York).] 215 Religion and science Shaler, Nathaniel S. The interpretation of nature. 1893. [i6mo.] $1.25. Points toward ultimate harmony between religion and science. — New York state library. 218 Immortality Fiske, John. The destiny of man. 9th ed. 1886. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. It may re-assure those who cannot deny many of the conclusions of evolution, yet who fear its effects on religious beliefs. — George Harris, in Andover review. Life everlasting. 1901. (Ingersoll lecture, 1900.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00, net. [Postage, 7 cents.] Infers from man’s past development the probability of his continued life. — New York state library. [At an early age inquiries into the nature of human progress led him (Fiske) to a careful study of the doctrine of evolution, and it was as an expounder of this doctrine that he first became known to the public. In 1871 he arrived at the discovery of the causes of the prolonged infancy of man- 6 RELIGION kind, and the part played by it in determining human development; and the importance of this contribution to the Darwinian theory, now generally admitted, was immediately recognized by Darwin and Spencer. — Appletons ’ Cyclopedia of American Biography. Mr. Fiske’s work, in the interpretation which it contains of the higher phases and aspects of the evolution philosophy, meets a real and growing need of the times. — Celia P. Woolley, in the Chicago Weekly Magazine .] Gordon, George A. Immortality and the new theodicy. 1897. (Ingersoll lecture, 1896.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. 220 BIBLE Royce, Josiah. The conception of immortality. 1900. (Ingersoll lecture, 1899.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. 220.1 Inspiration Gladden, Washington. Who wrote the Bible? 1891. [i6mo.] $1.25. (Popular treatment. Readable.) Gives compactly the principal facts on which scholars now generally agree concerning the literary history of the Bible. — New York state library. 221 Old Testament Abbott, Lyman. Life and literature of the ancient Hebrews. 1901. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Aims to show that the results of modern criticism enhance the value of the Bible as an instrument for the cultivation of spiritual faith. — New York state library. Gladden, Washington. Seven puzzling Bible books; a supplement to “ Who wrote the Bible? ” 1897. [i6mo.] $1.25. (Popular treatment.) Contents; Judges; Esther; Job; Ecclesiastes; The song of songs; Daniel; Jonah. 225 New Testament SAINT PAUL Abbott, Lyman. The life and letters of Paul the apostle. 1898. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. 230 Theology Allen, A. V. G. Continuity of Christian thought: a study of modern theology in the light of its history. 1900. [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. Mr. Allen has that rarest of gifts, the power to write on theological subjects with the calm temper and the fair judgment of a true historian. — The Christian Register (Boston). RELIGION 7 [This book cannot fail to commend itself to that great body of persons, in or out of the sects, who are tired of controversy, but who will not seek repose at the cost of either their religious instinct or their own reason. — The Nation (New York).] Bradford, A. H. Age of faith. 1900. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Interprets theories about God, man, and the universe in light of God’s fatherhood. — New York state library. [He discusses great truths of religion in their relation to the problems of life. Many passages linger in memory for their terse, telling condensation of vital truth. — The Congregationalist (Boston).] Clarke, J. F. Common-sense in religion: essays. 1901. [Crown 8vo.] $2.00. [Dr. Clarke has much to say which commends itself to our judgment and our feelings. There is a certain vigor in his thought, and an absolute clearness in his style, together with an evident and rugged honesty and strength of conviction underlying all, which make him an impressive teacher, even when we cannot bring ourselves to accept his instructions. — The Congregationalist (Boston).] Gladden, Washington. How much is left of the old doctrines? 1899. [i6mo.] $1.25. (Popular treatment.) Gordon, G. A. Ultimate conceptions of faith. 1903. (Lyman Beecher lecture, 1902.) [Crown 8vo.] $1.30, net. [Postage, 15 cents.] Hyde, W. DeW. God’s education of man. 1899. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Mulford, Elisha. Republic of God. 1897. [8vo.] $2.00. 232 Christology Gordon, G. A. Christ of to-day. 1895. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. (Readable.) Essay in modern theology. Characterized by deep reverence and a truly catholic spirit. — G. B. Stevens, in New world. Hughes, Thomas. Manliness of Christ. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Undertakes to show that character of Christ comprised all elements of true manliness not only as exhibited in charity, meekness and purity, but in patience, fortitude and courage. — Harper's monthly magazine. 234 Salvation Gordon, G. A. New epoch for faith. 1901. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. About one half of this volume Lowell institute lectures. Interprets spiritual meanings of 19th century, and maintains that religion has been lifted above old dogmas to a stronger and purer faith. — New York state library. 8 RELIGION 239 Evidences of Christianity Pascal, Blaise. Thoughts, letters and opuscules; translated from the French by O. W. Wight. 1887. [i2mo.] $2.25. This translation was first published in 1859. [We devoutly pray Heaven that these sublime Thoughts of one of the greatest souls vouchsafed to earth may inspire many a reader with humble reverence for religious truth. We regard Pascal not only as the greatest genius, but as the holiest man that France has produced. To the young men of America we commend a writer in whom greatness and rectitude of mind were combined in an equal degree. — O. W. Wight, in Preface.] 244 Miscellany Brown, A. F. Book of saints and friendly beasts. 1900. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Legends of the lesser saints and the animals associated with them retold as simple folk tales. — New York state library. [No child, and no grown reader, can take up the Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts without a sensation of pleasure that deepens as one reads, whether the stories are read for the first time, or reread with all the thronging memories of other days. The author has done her work with exquisite tact and skill. — Donahoe’s Magazine.] 252 Sermons Munger, T. T. Freedom of faith. 1883. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. 17 sermons, preceded by an essay on “The new theology.” Lamps and paths. 2d ed. 1885. [Crown 8vo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Sermons for children’s Sunday in June. — Editor for selection. Peabody, F. G. Afternoons in the college chapel: short addresses to young men on personal religion. 1898. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Supplements his Mornings in the college chapel. [The sermons, as such, deserve to rank with the noblest productions of modern times; they have the large sympathies of Beecher, the exegetical tact of Robertson, the literary finish of Vaughan, and the daring of Maurice. — British Quarterly Review. The prefatory essay certainly contains the fullest and clearest statement of what the “new theology” is with which we have ever met. . . . This volume is most fascinating. The Congre- gationalist (Boston).] 260 CHURCH: INSTITUTION 261 Church influence Gladden, Washington. Applied Christianity : moral aspects of social questions. 1886. [i6mo.] $1.25. Social salvation. 1902. (Lyman Beecher lecture, 1902.) [i6mo.] $1.00, net. [Postage, 10 cents.] [A consideration of the relation of the pulpit to social questions of the day, addressed not only to the ministry, but to all thoughtful citizens.] SOCIOLOGY 9 270 RELIGIOUS HISTORY 271 Monastic orders Pascal, Blaise. Provincial letters: a new translation with introduction and notes by Thomas M’Crie, preceded by a life of Pascal, a critical essay, and a biographical notice; edited by O. W. Wight. 1887. [i2mo.] $2.25. [As the Letters were the first model of French prose, so they still remain the objects of unqualified admiration. — Edinburgh Review.] 290 NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS Clarke, J. F. Ten great religions. 2 v. 1899. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00 each. Contents: Pt. i, An essay in comparative theology: Pt. 2, A comparison of all religions. His design is by comparing them with one another and with Christianity to bring clearly to view both their distinctive traits and their characteristic weaknesses. — Nation. 291 Comparative and general mythology Fiske, John. Myths and myth-makers; old tales and superstitions interpreted by comparative mythology. 1900. [Crown 8vo.] $2.00. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Tanglewood tales for girls and boys; being a second Wonder book; illustrated by G. W. Edwards. 1887. $2.50. (For young readers.) The library should have at least one copy of the edition illustrated by G. W. Edwards, Houghton $2.50, to attract children to plainer editions, Houghton (Little classic edition) $1, and Riverside school library 70 cents. — Editor for selection. Wonder book for girls and boys; with 60 designs by Walter Crane. 1902. $3.00. (For young readers.) The library should have at least one copy of the edition illustrated by Walter Crane, Houghton $3, to attract children to plainer editions, Houghton $1.25, and, in River- side school library, with Tanglewood tales, 70 cents. — Editor for selection. 293 Teutonic and northern mythology Brown, A. F. In the days of giants. 1902. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.10, net. [Post- age, 11 cents.] (For young readers.) Stories from Norse mythology. — New York state library. 300 SOCIOLOGY 304 Essays, addresses Abbott, Lyman. Christianity and social problems. 1896. [i6mo.] $1.25. Its value lies in its wide range of suggestions, — its earnest spirit of humanity. — C. R. Hender- son, in American journal of sociology. IO SOCIOLOGY Rights of man: a study in twentieth century problems. 1901. (Lowell institute lectures, 1901.) [Crown 8vo.] $1.30, net. [Postage, 14 cents.] Contents: Conflict of the centuries; Growth of democracy; Political rights; Industrial rights; Educational rights; Religious rights; American democracy; American domestic problems; Ameri- can foreign problems; Perils of democracy; Safeguards; Goal of democracy. Bibliography, pref. p. 9-1 1. [“It represents the views of an energetic mind on some of the most important questions of the day.” (Industrial, economic, political, social, and religious questions, as they grow out of, and in turn affect, the American democracy.) “It states without acrimony or exaggeration the short- comings, dangers, and imperfections of the present state of things in America.”] Morison, G. S. The new epoch as developed by the manufacture of power. 1903. [i6mo.] $0.75, net. [Postage, 7 cents.] (Readable.) Points out the astonishing changes wrought in business, capital, government, civil engineering, education, through increasing development, and application of power. — New York state library. 320 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mulford, Elisha. The nation: the foundations of civil order and political life in the United States. 1898. [8vo.] $2.50. (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) A theory of the state from standpoint of the Hegelian philosophy and the Christian religion. Learned, able, and valuable. — P. Schaff. [It is a very able discussion of what is to me one of the most important branches of political philosophy. Every page I have read surprises me with the extent and thoroughness of the author’s study, and the freshness and vigor of his discussion. — James A. Garfield. I have read The Nation from the first to the last with constant interest and sympathy. It is a most important contribution to our political literature, and cannot fail to strengthen and elevate our national life. — Charles Sumner.] 321 Form of state Godkin, E. L. Unforeseen tendencies of democracy. 1898. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Popular treatment.) Essays, abounding in apt illustration, on equality, nominating system, decline of legislatures, peculiarities of American municipal government, Australian democracy, etc. — New York state library. 324 Suffrage Stanwood, Edward. History of the presidency. 1898. $2.50. Enlarged and entirely rewritten edition of History oj presidential elections, 1896. Account of nominating conventions, relative strength of candidates, text of platforms, striking incidents of campaigns and tabulated results of elections. Impartial and accurate. — Literature oj American history. [The narrative is sane, clear, and unprejudiced. . . . We know of no book more worthy the atten- tion of students of politics, as containing the theories and disputed points on which party lines have been formed. — Annals oj the American Academy. It is now more a history of parties than a story of successive elections, and the political student will find the book exceedingly valuable in this direction. . . . Mr. Stanwood has compiled a volume which is of inestimable value to the historical student, the statesman, and the politician, for it is a work which may be trusted. — Brooklyn Eagle.\ SOCIOLOGY ii 327 Foreign relations Foster, J. W. American diplomacy in the Orient. 1903. [8vo, gilt top.] $3.00, net. [Postage, 20 cents.] (Readable.) Supplement and companion to his Century of American diplomacy. Reviews history of relations with China, Japan, Korea, Hawaii, Samoa, with chapter on Spanish war results. Text of treaties and protocols in appendix. — New York state library. [The work combines in a most unusual degree the qualities of a valuable book of reference, of a succinct history and of a readable narrative written in a delightful style. — Life (New York).] Century of American diplomacy; brief review of the foreign relations of the United States, 1777-1876. 1901. [8vo, gilt top.] $3.50. Chapter on Monroe doctrine covers Venezuela dispute. Written from wide experience and careful use of sources. — New York state library. [There is no portion of our history which reflects greater credit on the Nation than its diplomatic achievements. It is a record of the work of able men, placed often in positions of grave disad- vantage. From the earliest days there has been a singularly high level of statesmanship in the diplomatic service of the United States. — New York Tribune .] Wilson, Woodrow. Congressional government; a study in American politics. 12th ed. 1896. [i6mo.] $1.25. Directed particularly to system of government by committee, describing workings of that system in detail. Careful and thorough. — Literature of American history. 330 ECONOMICS Gladden, Washington. The tools and the man; property and industry under the Christian law. 1893. [i6mo.] $1.25. Applies moral tests. Sustains some socialistic ideas, but condemns advanced manifestations. — New York state library. 331 Capital. Labor and wages Calkins, Raymond. Substitutes for the saloon; investigation made for the Committee of fifty. 1901. [i2mo.] $1.30, net. [Postage, 13 cents.] (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) Bibliography, p. 389-91. Recognizes saloon’s value as a social center and discusses people’s clubs, mission, settlement and Y. M. C. A. work, lunch rooms, coffee houses, indoor and outdoor amusements, etc. — New York state library. Gilman, N. P. A dividend to labor; a study of employers’ welfare institutions. 1899. [Crown 8vo.] $1.75. Bibliography, p. 389-392. Both European and American enterprises for benefit of employees, with discussion of principles. Pt. 3 supplements his earlier Profit sharing, with results of last decade of 19th century. — New York state library. 12 SOCIOLOGY Profit sharing between employer and employee; a study in the evolution of the wage system. 1896. [Crown 8vo.] $1.25. Bibliography, p. 446-448. Standard for both students and profit-sharing employers. Woods, R. A., editor. Americans in process; a settlement study by residents and associates of the South End house, Boston. 1898. [i2mo.] $1.50, net. [Post- age, 14 cents.] (Readable.) Social, political and religious conditions among foreigners in north and west ends of Boston. Supplements The city wilderness. — New York state library. Maps showing distribution of nationalities, industrial character of the population, etc. The city wilderness: a settlement study, by residents and associates of the South End house, Boston. 1898. [i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Exhaustive study of south end of Boston and of the physical, racial, social, economic, criminal and political conditions of its inhabitants. — New York state library. 334 Cooperation Gilman, N. P. Socialism and the American spirit. 2d ed. 1896. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Select bibliography, p. 367-370. Maintains that socialism and extreme forms of individualism are alike unamerican, and that moral improvement is more needed than economic changes. — New York state library. 337 Tariff Stanwood, Edward. American tariff controversies in the nineteenth century. 2 v. 1903. [Large crown 8vo.] $5.00, net. [Postage, 37 cents.] Political and historical. Author protectionist, free from partisan rancor. — New York state library. [A work which for comprehensiveness, for lucidity, for general accuracy, for elevation of purpose, for catholicity of spirit, and for attractiveness of style in dealing with a usually banal theme, must be accounted a classic . . . and placed among the standard and authoritative reference books of the day. — New York Tribune. The most valuable contribution that has ever been made to the economic history of the United States. — New York Sun.] 342 Constitutional law and history Fiske, John. Civil government in the United States, considered with some refer- ence to its origins. New ed. 1904. [Crown 8vo.] $1.00, net. [Post- paid.] (For young readers.) Attractively written elementary account, descriptive and historical. — Literature of American history. [The Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Civics adopted a resolution declaring that “Mr. Fiske’s Civil Government is especially worthy of commendation by this body, by reason of the thoroughness with which the principles of constitutional government are traced to their origin and in their evolution, the distinctness with which the different forms and methods of administration SOCIOLOGY J 3 are treated, the clearness and precision of statement which mark the work, and its perfect candor and impartiality.” It is highly commended, not only for use in schools, but for careful study by all who wish to perform the duties of American citizens intelligently.] Lowell, A. L. Governments and parties in continental Europe. 2 v. 1900. [8vo, gilt top.] $5.00. Studies relations between development of parties and mechanism of government, sketching recent history of France, Italy, Germany, Austro-Hungary^ and Switzerland. Appendix contains con- stitutions in original languages. — New York state library. [A well-conceived, well-written, and extremely useful book. ... We strongly recommend it to all who are interested in political affairs or have any concern with them. — Pall Mall Gazette (London). These volumes may be described as truly indispensable; they constitute an invaluable storehouse of facts nowhere else accessible, so far as the English language is concerned. — New York Sun.] 370 Education Henderson, C. H. Education and the larger life. 1902. [Crown 8vo.] $1.30, net. [Post- age, 13 cents.] Contents: Point of view; The social purpose; Source of power; Organic education; Cause and effect; Childhood; Youth; Holidays; At the university; The experimental life; The agents of the social purpose. Its main value lies in its sincere and inspiring idealism. — Joseph Jastrow. [“The first non-academic book on the new education; ... as different from the usual writings of teachers as possible.” “A criticism of existing conditions and a clear indication of the way to a better order.”] 372 ELEMENTARY EDUCATION Kindergarten Smith, N. A. Children of the future. 1898. [i6mo.] $1.00. The interpretation of the spiritual side of the kindergarten. Not a technical book. — Outlook. Wiggin, Mrs. K. D., and Smith, N. A. Republic of childhood. 3 v. 1895-96. [i6mo.] $1.00 each. Contents: v. i, Froebel’s gifts; v. 2, Froebel’s occupations; v. 3, Kindergarten principles and practice. An untechnical setting forth of the modern American adaptation of Froebel’s philosophy. Dis- plays much wit, wisdom and philosophy. — Buffalo public library. [The three books are educational tracts for the times; and will not only give a new impulse to the growing interest in the kindergarten, but will aid not a little in that widespread, individual education which makes this country so interesting and promising at this time. — Hamilton W. Mabie.] 374 Self-education Munger, T. T. On the threshold. Revised ed. 1892. [Crown 8vo.] $1.00. Contents: Purpose; Friends and companions; Manners; Thrift; Self-reliance and courage; Health; Reading; Amusements; Purity; Faith. 14 SOCIOLOGY Paine, H. E. Girls and women, by E. Chester. 1898. (Riverside library for young people.) [i6mo.] $0.75. (Readable.) On health, education, self-support, charity, hospitality, emotional women, etc. The cogency of the reasoning is no less remarkable than its persuasiveness. — Nation. [I have been really delighted with the book. It is, for one thing, so fresh with practical illustra- tion. It is a presentation rather of facts and pleasant evidences, than of wise theories and counsels. Every topic treated is searched to some central principle; every chapter has its key-note of thought. The author knows what she has to say on every point, and she says it, not only keenly and truly, but with a very bright entertainingness. — Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.] 380 COMMERCE; COMMUNICATION 387 River, lake and ocean transportation Bates, W. W. American navigation; the political history of its rise and ruin and the proper means for its encouragement. 1902. [8vo.] $3.50, net. [Post- age, 22 cents.] (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) Deals almost exclusively with foreign trade and policies of reciprocity, subsidies, etc. — New York state library. 390 CUSTOMS 396 Woman’s position and treatment Higginson, T. W. Women and the alphabet; a series of essays. 1900. [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. 398 FOLKLORE, PROVERBS, etc. Bergen, Mrs. Fannie (Dickerson), compiler. Current superstitions, collected from the oral tradition of English- speaking folk, with notes, and an introduction by W. W. Newell. 1896. (American folk-lore society memoirs.) [8vo, gilt top.] $3.50, net. [Postpaid.] Harris, J. C. Uncle Remus and his friends; old plantation stories, songs and ballads, with sketches of negro character. 1892. [i2mo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Negro folklore gathered first-hand. The “ Creetur” tales and the manner of their telling are uniquely funny. — Leypoldt & Iles, List of books for girls and women and their clubs. Holbrook, Florence. Book of nature myths. 1902. [i2mo.] $0.65, net. [Postage, 8 cents.] (For young readers.) School edition, 45 cents, net. [Postpaid.] Mother Goose. Mother Goose’s melodies; or, Songs for the nursery, edited by W. A. Wheeler. 1878. [Illustrated. 4to.] $1.50. (For young readers.) SCIENCE 15 Scudder, H. E. Book of legends told over again. 1899. [With frontispiece. i6mo.] $0.50. (For young readers.) yj Fables and folk stories. 1890. (Riverside literature series.) $0.40, net. [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) Scudder, H. E., compiler. Children’s book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language. [New ed. 1903.] [Illustrated. Small 4to.] $2.50. (For young readers.) [A new edition of the best extant collection of children’s classics from Mother Goose up. . . . Mr. Scudder understood and loved children, and no one has ever lived better fitted than he to edit such a book. — The Outlook (New York).] 400 PHILOLOGY 420 English language White, R. G. Every-day English: sequel to Words and their uses. 1880. [Crown 8vo.] $2.00. (Popular treatment. Readable.) 428 Errors of speech. Composition White, R. G. Words and their uses, past and present. 33d ed., revised. 1899. [Crown 8vo.] $2.00. (Popular treatment. Readable.) 500 SCIENCE 504 Essays Burroughs, John. Birds and bees and other studies in nature; with biographical sketch and portrait. 1896. (Riverside school library.) [i6mo.] $0.60, net. [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) Tried and approved by children, to whom his way of investing birds, beasts and insects with human motives is always pleasing. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). 520 ASTRONOMY 523 Descriptive astronomy Langley, S. P. The new astronomy. 1900. [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. (Popular treatment.) Delightful description of the secrets wrested from the sky by aid of the spectroscope, the sensitive plate, and other modern physical appliances. — H. A. Howe, in Popular astronomy. i6 SCIENCE [We doubt if there is a single novel that leaps into the market that will have a fraction of the interest which this book will have for many readers. It deals with the marvelous, but it is marvel- ously real. . . . Professor Langley has an unusual power of presenting accurate scientific truth in a popular way. This book is not written for the specialist, but for the general reader. — Christian Register (Boston). Infinitely the best introduction to astronomy an educated reader can possibly desire. — Boston Beacon .] Lowell, Percival. The solar system; lectures at the Massachusetts institute of technology, 1902. 1903. $1.25, net. [Postage, 8 cents.] Contents: Our solar system; Mercury; Mars; Saturn and its system; Jupiter and his comets; Cosmogony; Elements of the solar system. 525 Earth Darwin, G. H. Tides and kindred phenomena in the solar system. 1898. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Popular treatment. Readable.) Authorities at end of each chapter. 526 Geodesy and surveying Gore, J. H. Geodesy. 1891. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $2.00. (Popular treatment. Readable.) Sketch of chief attempts to measure shape and size of the earth. — H. A. Howe, in Popular astronomy. [Contents: I. Some primitive notions: the Hindoo earth, the earth of Cosmos, the earth as a floating egg. II. Primitive determinations of the size of the earth. III. The beginnings of accurate determinations. IV. Some theories regarding the mathematical shape of the earth, and chapters on work in England, France, Russia, Norway, Sweden, India, Prussia.] • 530 PHYSICS 537 Electricity Mendenhall, T. C. Century of electricity. 1890. [Illustrated. i6mo.] (Riverside sci- ence series.) $1.25. (Popular treatment. Readable.) Sketches growth of the science and its principal applications. — New York state library. [Contents: From the beginning to the end of the eighteenth century; Galvani, Volta, the battery and the electric current; Oersted’s discovery and the electro -magnet; Who invented the electro- magnetic telegraph; Multiplex telegraphy and submarine cables; Faraday’s discovery of induction and the development of the dynamo; The electric light; The transmission of energy by means of electricity; The electric motor; The telephone; Secondary and thermo-electric batt'eries; Conclu- sion; Postscript, 1890.] 580 BOTANY 581.9 Geographic Weed, C. M. Ten New England blossoms and their insect visitors. 1895. [Illus- trated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.25. SCIENCE 17 (Popular treatment. Readable.) Admirably clear and interesting description of methods of fertilization. Beautiful illustrations. — New York state library. 590 ZOOLOGY 598 Reptiles. Birds Bailey, Mrs. F. A. (Merriam). Birds of village and field; a bird book for beginners. 1898. [Illus- trated. i2mo.] $2.00. (Popular treatment.) Descriptions, color key, tables of migration, of winter birds, of aids to observation, bibliography, etc. Illustrations by E. Thompson-Seton, L. A. Fuertes, and J. L. Ridgway. — New York state library. Handbook of birds of the western United States. 1902. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $3.50, net. [Postage, 19 cents.] Books of reference, pref. p. 83-88. Comprehensive manual complementing Chapman’s Handbook of birds of eastern North America. Excellent keys and descriptions of form, appearance, nest, habits, and landscape-setting. Thirty- three plates by Fuertes and over 600 cuts in text. — New York state library. Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann). First book of birds; by Olive Thorne Miller. 1899. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00. (For young readers. Readable.) Talks about their homes, clothes, schooling, food, how they behave and how to study them. Black and white and colored illustrations. — New York state library. Second book of birds: bird families; by Olive Thorne Miller. 1901. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00, net. [Postage, 10 cents.] (For young readers.) Attractive to beginners and useful to advanced students because of careful personal observations recorded. Admirable colored plates by L. A. Fuertes, and black and white illustrations. — New York state library. Torrey, Bradford. Everyday birds; elementary studies. 1901. [Illustrated in color. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00. Short talks on the kinglet, chickadee, tanager, song sparrow, hummingbird, night hawk, chimney- swift, etc. Twelve colored plates after Audubon. Without confusing technical details. Clear and precise. — Critic. 599 Mammals Burroughs, John. Squirrels and other fur-bearers. 1900. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Habits of chipmunk, woodchuck, hare, muskrat, skunk, fox, weasel, mink, raccoon, porcupine, opossum, wild mice. Fifteen colored illustrations after Audubon. — New York state library. [When such an enthusiastic observer of animal life as John Burroughs tells of squirrels, chip- munks, woodchucks, rabbits, weasels, opossums, mice, and many other interesting four-footed friends, it is no wonder that our children have more intelligent love for them than the former genera- tion. — The Standard (Chicago).] i8 USEFUL ARTS Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann). Four-handed folk; by Olive Thorne Miller. 1896. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Describes characteristics and manners of certain monkeys, lemurs, mar- mosets, chimpanzees and ocelots of the writer’s acquaintance. — New York state library. 600 USEFUL ARTS 603 Dictionaries. Cyclopedias Knight, E. H. Knight’s new mechanical dictionary. 1884. [Illustrated. Royal 8vo.] Subs. $9.00. (Reference book.) References to technical journals 1876-80. Illustrated. — Title. [It is difficult to realize how colossal is the task involved in the preparation of a work of this de- scription. Thousands of patents, American and foreign, have been digested, industrial processes of every nature have been examined, and the latest improvements therein noted. Engineering works, scientific discoveries, and tools of every craft have been studied; and finally, all this immense collection, gathered from the whole field of applied science, has been subjected to careful revision and condensation, and by means of ingeniously contrived systems of indexing, rendered invaluable for purposes of reference and research. Add to this the labors of artist and engraver, and there is little food for marvel that the work has cost $100,000; that it treats of 20,000 subjects; contains 7200 engravings; and that its three volumes include 2800 pages. It is more an encyclopaedia than a dictionary; it is, in fact, a mechanical and scientific library, carried up to the latest dates. A just estimate of the comprehensive nature of the work, and its importance to inventors, engineers, and artisans of every class, and in all libraries, can only be gained by careful examination of the volumes themselves. — Scientific American .] 610 MEDICINE Holmes, 0. W. Medical essays, 1842-82. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. 613 Personal hygiene Billings, J. S. Physiological aspects of the liquor problem; investigations made by and under direction of sub-committee of the Committee of fifty to inves- tigate the liquor problem. 2 v. 1903. [8vo.] $4.50, net. [Postage, 36 cents.] Holds that use of alcohol impairs mental work, lessens physical power, does not protect against cold and fatigue, and diminishes resistance to infectious diseases; condemns and exposes fallacy of some misdirected efforts to promote temperance. — New York state library. [The series of which this book is the fourth volume has now been completed by the publication, in 1905, of The liquor problem: A summary of investigations conducted by the committee of fifty. Of this latest volume the Brooklyn Daily Eagle says: “The information which may be gathered from a perusal of this book is reliable, and some of it is wonderful.”] 622 MINING ENGINEERING Greene, Homer. Coal and the coal mines. 1889. (Riverside library for young people.) [Illustrated. i6mo.] $0.75. (Readable. For young readers.) FINE ARTS 19 640 DOMESTIC ECONOMY 641 Cookery. Gastronomy Whitney, Mrs. A. D. (Train). Just how; a key to the cook-books. 1878. [i6mo.] $1.00. A “little grammar of cuisine,” giving details that most cook-books assume as known: list of utensils, timetables, order and methods of mixing, measures, etc. Contains tested recipes in suffi- cient variety for most tables, with explicit directions for preparation. — New York state library. 700 FINE ARTS 703 Dictionaries. Cyclopedias Waters, Mrs. Clara (Erskine) Clement. Handbook of legendary and mythological art. 1881. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $3.00. 1, Symbols of art; 2, Christian legends and stories which have been illustrated in art; 3, Legends of place; 4, Ancient myths which have been illustrated in art; 5, Catalogue of pictures of legendary and mythologic subjects. 720 ARCHITECTURE Van Brunt, Henry. Greek lines and other architectural essays. 1893. [Illustrated. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Work of a practising architect. Differs from most critical writers in finding far more that is good in modern architectural work than they. — Sturgis & Krehbiel, Annotated bibliography oj fine art. History of architecture Cummings, C. A. History of architecture in Italy to the renaissance. 2 v. 1901. [Illus- trated. 8vo, gilt top.] $7.50, net. [Postage, 45 cents.] (Scholarly; by a recognized authority. Readable.) List of authorities consulted, v. 1, pref. p. 9-1 1. Nearly 500 illustrations. 740 DRAWING. DECORATION. DESIGN 742 Perspective Longfellow, W. P. P. Applied perspective, for architects and painters. 1901. [Illustrated. 4to.] $2.50, net. [Postage, 22 cents.] 750 PAINTING 755 Religious. Ecclesiastic Hurll, E. M. Life of Our Lord in art; with some account of the artistic treatment of the life of St. John the Baptist. 1898. [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. Authorities consulted, pref. p. 19-22. Published as v. 6 of Mrs. J ameson’s Writings on art. 20 FINE ARTS [This book is intended to be a brief descriptive history of art illustrating the incidents in the historic life of Christ. This intention is admirably carried out; and the systematic plan of treat- ment, the admirable choice of pictures, and the concise method pursued, combine to make a work of very great interest. All the more famous of the old masters are represented, and most of the new. The full-page illustrations are particularly fine. — Church Union (New York).] Jameson, Mrs. A. B. (Murphy). Legends of the Madonna; edited with additional notes by E. M. Hurll. 1896. (Writings on art of A. Jameson.) [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. Authorities, pref. p. 19-23. Abundantly illustrated with designs from ancient and modern art. — Title. [No tasteful or artistic reader will take up the book without being held to it as by very fascination; and whether he contemplates the subject from the standpoint of history, religion, or art, he will find it equally attractive. There can be no more charming page in the history of the human mind than that written by Mrs. Jameson, wherein is recorded the daring effort of genius and faith to gather up all choice conceptions of love, beauty, tenderness, and pity, and incarnate them in the form of woman, — of woman idealized on earth as the comforter of mankind, and glorified in heaven as the partner of Deity. — Philadelphia Inquirer.] Legends of the monastic orders; edited with additional notes by E. M. Hurll. 1901. (Writings on art of A. fameson.) [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. Authorities, pref. p. 22-26. Interpretation of works of art in churches and galleries. — Sargent, Reading for the young. Sacred and legendary art; edited with additional notes by E. M. Hurll. 2 v. 1896. (Writings on art of A. Jameson.) [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. Authorities referred to, pref. p. 22-26. Abundantly illustrated with designs from ancient and modern art. — Title. Excellent for reference in recognizing a sacred personage by his attributes as given in a picture, and as to the proper way of representing each personage. No better book readily accessible. — Sturgis & Krehbiel, Annotated bibliography of fine art. [The work before us relates to some of the strangest passages in the history of Christianity. The parts that belong to angels and archangels and saints in that history are matters of the gravest moment. ... It is with reference to their connection with art that Mrs. Jameson speaks in this noble work. — Boston Transcript. Mrs. Jameson has done for religious art, among her countrymen and ours, what Coleridge and Carlyle did for German literature, — she has brought it home, and made it familiar to all. — Com- monwealth (Boston).] 759 Various schools of painting Fromentin, Eugene. Old masters of Belgium and Holland; translated by M. C. Robbins. 1882. [Illustrated. Sq. 8vo.] $3.00. Admirable book, full of soundest criticism. — Sturgis & Krehbiel, Annotated bibliography of fine art. 770 PHOTOGRAPHY Black, Alexander. Photography indoors and out. 6th ed. 1898. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. LITERATURE 21 (Scholarly; by a recognized authority. Popular treatment.) Books for reference, p. 238-239. Also in Riverside library for young people, at 75 cents. Excellent manual, giving primary principles and practical directions for amateurs. — New York state library. 790 AMUSEMENTS 792 Theatre. Pantomime. Opera Clapp, H. A. Reminiscences of a dramatic critic. 1902. [Illustrated. Large crown 8 vo, gilt top.] $1.75, net. [Postage, 13 cents.] (Readable.) Opinions of a qualified observer on prominent actors of the last 30 years. — New York state library. 793 Indoor amusements Bellamy, William. Century of charades. 1894. [i8mo.] $1.00. For answers, see H. H. Ballard’s Open sesame. One hundred bright and entertaining charades, not for acting. Incomparably the best collection extant. — Leypoldt & Iles, List of books for girls and women and their clubs. Hale, L. P. Fagots for the fireside. New ed. 1894. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.25. More than 150 entertaining games for evenings at home and social parties, ranging from ingenious games of words and proverbs to games of pure sport. — Literary world. 797 Boating and ball Camp, W. C., and Deland, L. F. Football. 1896. [With diagrams, notes, and instructions. Crown 8vo.] $2.00. One of the most thorough and comprehensive books ever written on the subject. — D. A. Sar- gent. 800 LITERATURE 804 ESSAYS Bates, Arlo. Talks on the study of literature. 1897. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. In essay style, full of well-sorted talk, criticism, anecdotes and advice. — Nation. 808 Rhetoric. Treatises. Collections Bates, Arlo. Talks on writing English. 2 v. 1896-1901. V. 1 [crown 8vo], $1.50; v. 2 [crown 8vo], $1.30, net. [Postage, 12 cents.] (Readable.) Sensible and helpful. — Buffalo public library. [Not only are these “Talks” of the greatest value in the study of English speaking and writing, but they have value as exceedingly interesting essays in themselves, clear in expression, full of enthusiasm, and frequently sparkling with wit. — Advertiser (Boston). The book is one of the few that the literary student cannot afford to be without. — Boston Budget .] 22 LITERATURE Longfellow, H. W., editor. Poets and poetry of Europe; with introductions and biographical notices. Revised ed. 1896. [Royal 8vo, full gilt.] $5.00. Grouped by language and arranged chronologically. [This volume is one of the choicest and most varied collections of European poetry, comprising selections from more than four hundred authors, translated from the Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.] Perry, Bliss. Study of prose fiction. 1903. [Crown 8vo.] $1.25, net. [Postpaid.] Bibliography, p. 364-371. Deals with novelist’s materials and his use of them, plot, background, realism, romanticism, the short story, etc. Suggestions for study in appendix. — New York state library. [It is a series of essays on the novel and short story in which there is much virile writing, a mass of valuable information, and, best of all, little that is merely clever or written for the sake of impressing the reader with the author’s superior position and his massive authority, which are seen quite readily enough by the discerning. — Examiner (New York).] Stedman, E. C. Nature and elements of poetry. 1892. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. He furnishes not petty measures, but great principles. It will do much, attentively studied, to deepen one’s sense of that connection between poetry and life which is the finest result of liter- ary criticism. — H. E. Scudder. 809 History of literature Botta, Mrs. A. C. (Lynch). Handbook of universal literature. Revised ed. 1902. [Crown 8vo.] $2.00, net. [Postpaid.] Birdseye view of world literatures,: indicates most important works, and the distinguishing characteristics of many authors. 810 AMERICAN LITERATURE < Higginson, T. W., and Boynton, H. W. Reader’s history of American literature. 1903. [Illustrated. Crown 8vo.] $1.25, net. [Postpaid.] Based on Lowell institute lectures, 1903. Lists for study and reading, p. 311-316. Concentrates attention on leading figures, ignoring minor names and details. Brief, but com- plete and consecutive. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). 81 1 American poetry Aldrich, T. B. Poems. 1890. (Household edition.) [Illustrated. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. His predilection is for the picturesque; for romance combined with simplicity, purity and tender- ness of feeling, touched by fancy and occasional lights of humor. — Library of world's best literature. [I have been reading some of the poems this evening, and find them rich, sweet, and imaginative in such a degree that I am sorry not to have fresher sympathies in order to taste all the delight that every reader ought to draw from them. I was conscious, here and there, of a delicacy that I hardly dared to breathe upon. — Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the list of lyrical writers of America, the first name is easily that of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Among the lyrists of the nineteenth century, there is no question about his place. Indeed, he LITERATURE 2 3 belongs more to the world at large than to any particular spot in a hemisphere, and though he has sung sweetly of certain phases and incidents in American life and movement, by far the greater part of his work is cosmopolitan. — George Stewart.] Brown, A. F. Pocketful of posies; illustrated by F. Y. Cory. 1902. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.50, net. [Postage, 9 cents.] (For young readers.) Poetic, humorous and fantastic. — New York state library. Cary, Alice and Phoebe. Poetical works. 1882. (Household edition.) [With portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. [There is something inexpressibly winning in the thought, feeling, and tone of the verse. Like those of her sister, Phoebe Cary’s poems are marked by a melody which seems to be instinctive. They sing themselves without effort. — Boston Transcript.'] Crandall, C. H., editor. Representative sonnets by American poets, with an essay on the sonnet, its nature and history, including many notable sonnets of other litera- tures. 1890. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Emerson, R. W. * Poems. 1904. (Centenary edition.) [With portrait. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.75. In his Complete works in class 814; v. 9. [One can cultivate a habit of serene contemplation in no way better than by frequent reading of Emerson’s Poems. They are written from the same height as the Hymns of Orpheus, the Vedas, or the Zoroastrian Oracles, and are altogether unmatched in modern times. — W. T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education.] 4 Harte, Bret. Poetical works. 1902. (Household edition.) [With portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. They bear the test of rereading. — New York Tribune. Hay, John. Poems. 1899. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: Pike county ballads; Wanderlieder; New and old; Translations. [Pike County Ballads captured the public at once. Their originality of spirit, their freedom of manner, their eloquent suggestiveness of a rudely picturesque state of semi-civilization, their \ 'vid portrayals of a unique character, and their felicity of humorous expression are commanding merits, and these virtues promptly accomplished and have sufficed to maintain the conquest of the public mind. . . . The soul of these poems is profoundly and entirely sympathetic with man, and they are full of strength, cheerfulness, and hope. — New York Tribune.] Holbrook, Florence. Hiawatha Primer. 1898. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $0.75. (For young readers.) Holmes, 0. W. Complete poetical works. 1895. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. The Riverside edition of the Poetical works in 3 v. is uniform with the Prose works (class 817), and is desirable, but the single volume will do at first. — Editor jor selection. 24 LITERATURE [As a poet he stands among the first in the country. He has written some of the most harmonious, some of the most witty, some of the most stirring, some of the most tender verses of the time. There is an inexpressible melody to his lyrics. — San Francisco Bulletin. Of Dr. Holmes’s poetry it is needless to say anything in praise. For nearly half a century he has delighted his countrymen by his genius, and has long been recognized as in the first rank of Americans whom the Muse has honored with her favor. — Boston Advertiser .] Larcom, Lucy. Poetical works. 1884. (Household edition.) [With portrait and illus- trations. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Biographic sketch, pref. p. 3-6. Longfellow, H. W. Complete poetical works. 1893. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. The complete Poetical works , Riverside edition, 6 v. $9, is most desirable also. — Editor for selection. [This poet is the traveler of the wide realm of thought, the world of imagination. He has touched at all the sunny Mediterranean and Adriatic ports; all the French and Spanish coasts are known to him; he brings wealth from the frozen Scandinavian lands as rare as the ivory set in the beryl of the immemorial icebergs. — W. D. Howells, in North American Review. Without comparing him with others, it is enough if we declare our conviction that he has com- posed poems which will live as long as the language ih which they are written. — J ames Russell Lowell.] Lowell, J. R. Complete poetical works. 1893. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. The Poems, Riverside edition, 4 v. $6, is very desirable also. — Editor for selection. [The attempt to discover and define the quality of Lowell’s poetic genius is like an effort to capture that son of the daughter of Eblis, in the Eastern tale, who could transform himself at will into a lion, an eagle, a waterfall, or a bird of song. His expression varies as his mood; and there is no poet from whose measures you can less safely predict what manner of poems they will be. We hesitate to distinguish him as most of a humorist, lyrist, idylist, or philosopher, in his changeful verse. — New York Evening Post. The moving power of Mr. Lowell’s poetry, which we take to be its delicate apprehension of the spiritual essence in common things, is, in some of his poems, embodied in the fine organization of a purely poetic diction; in others, in the strong broad language of popular feeling and humor; and we enjoy each the more for the pleasure of the other. — London Spectator .] Moody, W. V. Poems. 1901. [i2mo.] $1.25. Peabody, J. P. The singing leaves: a book of songs and spells. 1903. [Small i8mo.] $1.00, net. [Postage, 5 cents.] Sherman, F. D. Little-folk lyrics. 1897. [Illustrated. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Sill, E. R. Poems. 1887. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Stedman, E. C. Poetical works. 1901. (Household edition.) [With portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. LITERATURE 2 5 [An extensive mastery of poetical ideas and language and great skill in versification are guided by a refined taste which is seldom found wanting. Mr. Stedman has made his mark as a careful and judicious critic of modern poetry, and when he comes to write poetry himself, his critical faculty stands him in good stead by enabling him to make the best of his materials. — Saturday Review (London).] Poets of America. 1885. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.25. Contents: Early and recent conditions; Growth of the American schools; Bryant; Whittier; Emerson; Longfellow; Poe; Holmes; Lowell; Whitman; Bayard Taylor; The outlook. He has honesty, versatile sympathy, exact knowledge, and withal is a poet. Its critical delinea- tions are clearcut, its matter is solid, its style strong, incisive, suggestive. — H. N. Powers, in Dial. [No such thorough and conscientious study of the tendencies and qualities of our poetry has been attempted before, nor has any volume of purely literary criticism been written in this country upon so broad and noble a plan and with such ample power. . . . Mr. Stedman’s work stands quite alone; it has- had no predecessor, and it leaves room for no rival. — New York Tribune.] Stedman, E. C, editor. American anthology, 1787-1900; selections illustrating the editor’s critical review of American poetry in the 19th century. 1900. [With frontispiece. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. Grouped chronologically. Attempts to represent best work, not to select the imperishable. Fol- lowed by compact biographic notices, alphabetically arranged, of poets represented. Indexes of first lines, titles, and poets. — New York state library. Story, W. W. Poems. 2 v. 1886. [i6mo, gilt top.] $2.50. Contents: v. i, Parchments and portraits: v. 2, Monologs and lyrics. Taylor, Bayard. • Poetical works of Bayard Taylor. 1903. (Household edition.) [With portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. [We claim a high place for Mr. Taylor among the poets of his native land. In his peculiar walk of song he is without a rival. The most striking thing about his poetry is its magnificence of dic- tion, — a certain wild, grand, stormy haste of expression, which somehow conforms itself to the rigid rules of rhetoric. His measures, which for the most part are happily chosen, surpass those of any other American poet in sonorousness; the sweep of his rhythm is superb. — The World.] Thaxter, C. O. Poems. 1902. [i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Thomas, E. M. In sunshine land; illustrated by Katherine Pyle. 1895. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) In the young world. 1896. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Lyrics and sonnets. 1887. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. _ [The pretty book in which Miss Thomas has collected her latest poems seems just suited for pieces which, with hardly an exception, are distinguished for grace, daintiness, and conscientious art. She is a member of that large American choir which is never weary of singing of the woods and the waters, the birds and the flowers, the winds and the seasons; but her voice has a clear ring above the music of the rest of the band. ... In her pictures of external nature there is something poetically fanciful or spiritually suggestive. — New York Tribune.] 26 LITERATURE Whittier, J. G. Complete poetical works. 1895. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. His Poetical works, Riverside edition, 4 v. $6, is also desirable. — Editor for selection. Preeminently the singer of the anti-slavery crusade, the most representative of New England poets, and the poet of religious sympathy and hope and trust. — John W. Chadwick. [They who love their country will thank him for the verses, sometimes pathetic, sometimes stir- ring, which helped to redeem that country from a great sin and shame; they who rejoice in natural beauty will thank him that he has delightfully opened their eyes to the varied charms of the rough New England landscape, by highway, river, mountain, and seashore; they who love God will thank him from their hearts for the tenderness and simple trust with which he has sung of the infinite goodness. — Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University.] 812 American drama Howells, W. D. The sleeping-car, and other farces. 1892. [i2mo.] $1.00. Contents: The parlor-car; The sleeping-car; The register; The elevator. 813 American fiction Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Marjorie Daw, and other people. 1901. [With frontispiece, i2mo.] $1.50. Contents: Marjorie Daw; A Ri vermouth romance; Quite so; A young desperado; Miss Mehet- abel’s son; A struggle for life; Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski; Pere Antoine’s date-palm. Artful stories, wit characterising not only the style, but the manipulation of plot. Every tale is logically worked out, complete in itself, and usually ends in a surprise. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. p\s a writer of brief and thoroughly entertaining stories, sparkling with natural humor, and always delightfully poetic in the descriptive passages, he is not surpassed by any other of our authors. — Bayard Taylor, in New York Tribune. We cannot say that Mr. Aldrich stands at the head of his class, although he would stand there if there were a class, but he stands alone; no other story-writer is in the least like him. — Boston Advertiser .] Prudence Palfrey. 1902. [With frontispiece. i2mo.] $1.50. A nearly impossible plot, worked out with wit and plausibility. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [They have an exquisite treat before them who have not yet read Prudence Palfrey. It is Mr. Aldrich decidedly at his best, — the plot well elaborated and sufficiently exciting, and the story unfolded with delicacy, wit, dramatic suggestiveness, and in English altogether perfect and sweet. — Christian Union (New York). While in the undercurrent of thoughtfulness it displays, and inartistic finish and in. poetical grace, it resembles the best work of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, it has a descriptive delicacy which is wholly the author’s own. — Revue des Deux Mondes .] The Queen of Sheba. 1877. [i2mo.] $1.50. Novelette connected with Marjorie Daw by character of Flemming. Compact of humor and sensation. Scenes, a New Hampshire village and Switzerland. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. A sea turn, and other matters. 1902. [i2mo.] $1.25. Contents: A sea turn; His Grace the Duke; Shaw’s folly; An untold story; The case of Thomas Phipps; The white feather. LITERATURE 27 The Stillwater tragedy. 1880. [i2mo.] $1.50. Various aspects of life in a manufacturing village, the passions and calamities of a strike, realisti- cally depicted. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [The story is in a somewhat more serious vein than is usual with Mr. Aldrich, but it is lighted up with a delicate humor, and the descriptions and characterizations are excellent. Mr. Aldrich has done nothing finer in its way than the opening chapter, in which the effects of daybreak in a New England village are described, and the tragedy itself is introduced. — Boston Journal. Mr. Aldrich’s skill is shown at its best in this story. — New York Times.] \ Story of a bad boy. 47th ed. 1897. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Other good editions are illustrated edition $2, and Riverside school library edition 70 cents, net. — Editor for selection. Story of a mischievous but truly good, natural New England boy. Puritanism is characterized. — New York state library. [A most admirable story of school -boy days, full of boyish freaks and life, from the Fourth of July celebration to the great snowfight at the Fort on Slatter’s Hill. It is located for the most part in the historic town of Portsmouth, N. H., which, disguised as “ Rivermouth,” also appears in other of the author’s works. — New York Tribune. The best story of a boy ever written in America, and one of the genuinely witty and readable books. — Hartford Courant. One of the most thoroughly delightful of Mr. Aldrich’s books. — New York Evening Post.] Two bites at a cherry, with other tales. 1894. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Contents: Two bites at a cherry; “For bravery on the field of battle;” The chevalier de Resse- guier; Goliath; My cousin the colonel; A Christmas fantasy, with a moral; Her dying words. Austin, Mrs. Jane (Goodwin). Betty Alden: the first-born daughter of the Pilgrims. 1891. [i6mo.] $1.25. Sequel to Standish of Standish. David Alden’s daughter, and other stories of colonial times. 1892. [i6mo.] $1.25. 1 2 stories, each representing some noteworthy character or epoch of colonial times. — Leypoldt & Iles, List of books for girls and women and their clubs. Dr. Le Baron and his daughters; a story of the Old Colony. 1901. [i6mo.] $1.25. The doctor is son of the Nameless nobleman. Deals with later phases of social life, embodying many traditions and legends. A nameless nobleman. 1881. [i6mo.] $1.25. Standish of Standish, a story of the Pilgrims. 1889. [i6mo.] $1.25. Tale of the pilgrims of Plymouth colony in 17th century. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [The beautiful directness and purity of its style, the splendid picture-events in which great men form part and are not made small, the pathos with which that old colony life is invested, ail unite to demand from the judging class of readers such praise as few novels of the year deserve. — The Nation (New York).] Barnum, Mrs F. C. (Baylor). N Juan and Juanita. 1888. [Illustrated. Sq. 8vo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Mexico and Texas form background of story, which sketches the Indian graphically. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. 28 LITERATURE Bellamy, Edward. Looking backward, 2000-1887; with introduction by Sylvester Baxter. Memorial edition. 1898. [With portrait. i2mo.] $1.00. [All who are studying the problems of the age, all who believe in progress, all who are free to receive new light upon the capacities and possibilities of the race, will find in Mr. Bellamy’s exceed- ingly clever book satisfaction and inspiration. — New York Tribune. A glowing prophecy and a gospel of peace. — Nation (New York). One cannot deny the charms of the author’s art. — W. D. Howells.] Brown, A. F. The lonesomest doll. 1901. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $0.85, net. [Post- age, 10 cents.] (For young readers.) The rescue of a doll confined in the treasure house because too splendid for her little mother to play with. — New York state library. Brown, Alice. King’s End. 1901. [i2mo.] $1.50. Originally published in LippincoW s magazine under title April showers. Quiet story of life in a New England mountain village, full of insight into rustic character. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Meadow-grass. 1899. [i2mo.] $1.50. Contents: Number five; Farmer Eli’s vacation; After all; Told in the poorhouse; Heman’s ma; Heartsease; Mis’ Wadleigh’s guest; A righteous bargain; Joint owners in Spain; At Sud- leigh fair; Bankrupt; Nancy Boyd’s last sermon; Strollers in Tiverton. Short tales of New England village life, characterized -by a joyous, outdoor spirit and a keen delight in the open air. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Tiverton tales. 1899. [i2mo.] $1.50. Contents: Dooryards; A March wind; The mortuary chest; Horn-o’-the-moon; A stolen festi- val; A last assembling; The way of peace; The experience of Hannah Prime; Honey and myrrh; A second marriage; The flatiron lot; The end of all living. Stories and character sketches of New England country folk. — New York state library. Brown, H. D. Little Miss Phoebe Gay. 1895. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Story of daily adventures of a little New England girl io years old. — New York state library. Burnham, Mrs. C[lara] Lfouise]. Dr. Latimer; a story of Casco Bay. 1893. [i6mo.] $1.25. Next door. 1886. [i6mo.] $1.25. Delineation of life 50 years ago in a sequestered New England farmstead. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [As refreshing as a morning rain in a dry season. — Nation (New York).] The wise woman. 1895. [i6mo.] $1.25. Bynner, E. L. Agnes Surriage. 1886. [i6mo.] $1.25. Love romance of colonial times, based on story of Sir Charles Henry Frankland. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. LITERATURE 29 [Agnes Surriage ranks among the first — it has been called the very first — of our stories founded on history. — Rev. E. E. Hale.] Carryl, C. E. Davy and the goblin; or, What followed reading Alice’s adventures in Wonderland; illustrated by E. B. Bensell. 1885. [Illustrated. 8vo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Fantastic adventures of a little boy who would n’t believe in fairies and goblins. — New York state library. Chesnutt, C. W. The conjure woman. 1899. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: The goophered grapevine; Po’ Sandy; Mars Jeems’s nightmare; The conjurer’s revenge; Sis’ Becky’s pickaninny; The gray wolf’s ha’nt; Hot-foot Hannibal. Sketches of southern negro life. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Chopin, Mrs. Kate (O’Flaherty). Bayou folk. 1894. [i6mo.] $1.25. Stories and characterizations of descendants of Acadian exiles in Louisiana. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Coffin, C. C. Daughters of the revolution and their times, 1769-1776. 1895. $1.50. (For young readers.) Story of outbreak of the revolution. Describes state of public feeling, ^ Boston massacre, tea party, battle of Lexington, etc. — New York state library. Cooke, Mrs. Rose (Terry). Happy Dodd; or, “ She hath done what she could.” 1878. [i6mo.] $1.25. [It is assuredly a work of earnest feeling and belief, and will do good to many readers. Mrs. Cooke is a master in depicting certain types of character, as well as in her use of the New England up- country lingo. — George Parsons Lathrop.] Somebody’s neighbors. 1881. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: Eben Jackson; Miss Lucinda; Dely’s cow; Squire Paine’s conversion; Miss Beulah’s bonnet; Cal Culver and the devil; Amandar; Polly Mariner, tailoress; Uncle Josh; Poll Jen- ning’s hair; Freedom Wheeler’s controversy with Providence; Mrs. Flint’s married experience. Stories of New England country life. — New York state library. The sphinx’s children, and other people’s. 1886. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: The sphinx’s children; The deacon’s week; A black silk; Jericho Jim; Lost on a railway; Doctor Parker’s Patty; Doom and Dan; Some account of Thomas Tucker; The forger’s bride; Too late; My Thanksgiving; How she found out; Ann Potter’s lesson; Aceldama Sparks; Sallathiel Bump’s stocking; Sally Parson’s duty; A hard lesson; ’Liab’s first Christmas. Steadfast: the story of a saint and a sinner. 1889. [i6mo.] $1.25. Life and trials of a young minister in Connecticut valley in early 18th century. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Craddock, C. E., pseud. In the Tennessee mountains. 10th ed. 1885. [i6mo.] $1.25. Eight studies of dwellers in the Great Smoky mountains; reproducing dialect, and depicting scenery and aspects of mountain weather. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. I 30 LITERATURE [There are eight stories in this volume, and they are all good and full of flavor and originality. The author has caught the characteristics of the strange race of mountaineers whose ways he de- scribes almost as keenly as Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has caught the idiosyncrasies of the southern negro. — New York Tribune .] Prophet of the Great Smoky mountains. 1885. [i6mo.] $1.25. Story of Tennessee mountains. [The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains is a stirring piece of workmanship that will live long in the hearts and memories of the West and South. It contains so many touching bits of pathos, so many poetic descriptions, and has such a firm grasp of the dialect of the Tennessee mountains, that the reader cannot fail to be entertained by the narrative. . . . Too much cannot be said in praise of Miss Murfree’s descriptive work. — St. Louis Republican .] Where the battle was fought. 1884. [i6mo.] $1.25. [When she who signs Charles Egbert Craddock gives us a book, it is sure to have certain traits of mastery beyond that of any other woman now writing. Her power of realizing the rough, native types with which she deals is known to all readers, as well as that subtlety by which she discerns the core of sweetness and goodness that is in them. They have so much in common, however, that every one may not recognize the skill with which she differentiates the types into characters, with the same mixture of motives which we find in the world. — W. D. Howells.] Young mountaineers; illustrated by Malcolm Fraser. 1898. [i6mo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Contents: The mystery of Old Daddy’s window; ’Way down in Poor Valley; A mountain storm; Borrowing a hammer; Conscripts’ Hollow; A warning; Among the cliffs; In the “chinking; ” On a higher level; Christmas day on Old Windy mountain. Stories of boy life and adventure in the Tennessee mountains. — New York state library. Cummins, M. S. The lamplighter. New ed. 1902. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Deland, Mrs. Margaret. Mr. Tommy Dove, and other stories. 1893. [i6mo.] $1.00. Contents: Mr. Tommy Dove; The face on the wall; Elizabeth; At whose door? A fourth- class appointment. Sidney. 1890. [i6mo.] $1.25. Deming, Philander. Adirondack stories. 1902. [i8mo.] $0.75. Contents: Lost; Lida Ann; John’s trial; Joe Baldwin; Willie; Benjamin Jacques; Ike’s wife; An Adirondack neighborhood. Quiet, realistic stories picturing life in the wild Adirondack region of northern New York. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Foote, Mrs. Mary (Hallock). Coeur d’Alene. 1894. [i6mo.] $1.25. Rocky mountain love story describing the Coeur d’Alene mine riots of 1892. — New York state library. John Bodewin’s testimony. 1886. [i6mo.] $1.25. Story of mining interests and civil engineering in western Arkansas. — New Y ork state library. The Led-Horse claim. 1883. [i6mo.] $1.25. A California Romeo and Juliet , with a happy ending. Feud between two mining superintendents; the wild and perilous life of the region gives a specific character to the story. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. LITERATURE 3 1 [We respect Mrs. Foote and her art, because she has not tortured us with imaginary and subtle difficulties in the case, but has told an entirely probable story as nature would have told it. — Atlantic Monthly.] Hale, L. P. Peterkin papers. 1891. [Illustrated. Sq. 8vo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Twenty-two absurdly funny stories of the unsuccessful efforts of the Peterkin family to become wise. — Hardy, G. E., Five hundred books for the young. [The very name of this collection of absurdly laughable sketches will raise a smile on the face of the most lugubrious reader. Miss Hale’s humor is irresistible. Her accounts of the doings and experiences of the Peterkins remind one of the stories of the inhabitant of ancient Gotham, who tried to drown eels, and to catch birds by surrounding their nests. — Boston Transcript .] Hardy, A. S. But yet a woman. 1883. [i6mo.] $1.25. Study of the inner springs of human nature in the light of high ideals of conduct; scene, an old French town. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Passe Rose. 1890. [i6mo.] $1.25. Poetical romance of the Franks and Saxons of Charlemagne’s times. Passe Rose is a lovely Provencal waif. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [It were an easy task for any one to copy names and dates and descriptions, but to call back the old heroes and heroines of that most romantic time and make them live again, — this is the loving task of a master hand. Mr. Hardy has studied carefully the manners and customs of the eighth century; but others might do that and yet handle them as a pigmy would struggle with the armor of a giant. It is in his power and pleasure to wield lightly and gracefully every instrument he touches. — Literary World (Boston).] The wind of destiny. 1886. [i6mo.] $1.25. Story of subtle psychologic quality, its scenery and characters partly French and partly American. — Library of the world’s best literature. Harris, J. C. Balaam and his master, and other sketches and stories. 1891. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: Balaam and his master; A conscript’s Christmas; Ananias; Where’s Duncan? Mom Bi; The old Bascom place. The melancholy and pathetic side of the negro character predominates in these stories, which, however, present a great variety of types. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Little Mr. Thimblefinger and his queer country; what the children saw and heard there; illustrated by Oliver Herford. 1894. [Sq. 8vo.] $2.00. (For young readers.) Fantastic tale interweaving negro animal stories and other Georgia folk- lore with modern inventions. — New York state library. Mr. Rabbit at home; sequel to Little Mr. Thimblefinger and his queer country; illustrated by Oliver Herford. 1895. [Sq. 8vo.] $2.00. (For young readers.) Animal stories told to children. Harte, Bret. Colonel Starbottle’s client, and some other people. 1892. [i6mo.] $1.25. 3 2 LITERATURE Contents: Col. Starbottle’s client; The postmistress of Laurel Run; A night at “Hays;” John- son’s “old woman;” The new assistant at Pine Clearing school; In a pioneer restaurant; A trea- sure of the galleon; Out of a pioneer’s trunk; The ghosts of Stukeley castle. Eight stories of the south and west and one of England. — New York state library. [No one is likely to dispute Bret Harte’s title to California, which he preempted from a literary point of view at an early period. — Philadelphia Ledger .] Condensed novels. 2 v. 1809-1902. [i6mo.] $1.25. Short parodies on the writings of Cooper, Charlotte Bronte, Marryat, Dickens, Reade, Dumas, Michelet, Victor Hugo and others. — New York state library. Gabriel Conroy; Bohemian papers; Stories of and for the young. 2 v. 1896. (Riverside edition.) [i2mo.] $1.50 each. Scene, California during the forties and fifties. Vivid pictures of life at a mining camp. — Library of world's best literature. Luck of Roaring Camp, and other tales, with Condensed novels, Spanish and American legends, and earlier papers; introduction by the author. 1902. (Riverside edition.) [i2mo.] $1.50. A new genre of short story. The “Luck” is a babe whose coming among the miners in the Californian settlement makes their lives better and more humane. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [His Californian tales, beyond their interest as works of fiction, have a truth, which, if not exactly literal, is better than much that passes for historical truth, and whereby they will one day be valu- able material for history. They give us a picture — everywhere so striking and consistent, that even without confirmation, which, however, is not wanting, it must be accepted as faithful — of a strange, transitory phase of civilization which already belongs to the past. . . . Mr. Bret Harte is a story-teller and a poet of true genius. — Saturday Review (London).] Mrs. Skaggs’s husbands, and other sketches. 1900. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: Mrs. Skaggs’s husbands; How Santa Claus came to Simpson’s Bar; Princess Bob and her friends; The Iliad of Sandy Bar; Mr. Thompson’s prodigal; Romance of Madrono Hol- low; Poet of Sierra Flat; The Christmas gift that came to Rupert; Urban sketches; Legends and tales. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Dr. Grimshawe’s secret; edited with preface and notes by Julian Haw- thorne. 1889. (Riverside edition.) [Illustrated. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. The Dolliver romance, Fanshawe, and Septimius Felton, with an appen- dix containing The ancestral footstep. 1884. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Posthumous and unfinished romances, mostly dealing with psychologic and ethical themes. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [The Dolliver Romance , unhappily, is only a beautiful fragment; but it contains, even in its incompleteness, a promise of the artistic perfection to which its author would doubtless have brought it, had he lived. — Buffalo Courier. As one reads it ( Fanshawe ) now by the light thrown back upon it from the fame of the author fifty years after he wrote it, the little book gains an interest and value that very few of its contem- porary volumes of American origin can claim. — Springfield Republican. Septimius Felton is full of Hawthorne’s best and most characteristic writing. — London Athe- nceum.] House of the seven gables, The snow-image, and other Twice-told tales. 1883. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. LITERATURE 33 Chiefly imaginative portraiture of the last generations of a decaying family, a series of quaint, fanciful, and grotesque figures, rich in eccentricity and the subtler essences of character. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [In point of style they ( The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-told Tales) are, like all his writings, masterpieces of pure and felicitous expression, and, in an age when the language is disfigured by so many affectations, they deserve to be read for this merit alone by all the lovers of “English undefiled.” — Providence Press.) ''/The marble faun; or, The romance of Monte Beni. 1888. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Scene laid in Rome. The development of a soul through the knowledge of good and evil. Art and nature in Italy, the architecture, paintings, and sculpture (especially American sculpture) of Rome, and Catholic ceremonial are the subject of exhaustive passages of description. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Published in England under title Transformation. [Never before has Italy inspired a romance writer with a work so composite in its elements, so perfect in their organic harmony. — London Spectator. Singularly eloquent volumes, teeming with the most fanciful creations of one of the most fanciful and creative of imaginations. — London Leader .] J Mosses from an old manse. 1883. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Unlike any other stories ever written anywhere else by anybody else. Strangely interesting, novel, varied, and ingenious, full of fancy, and often with a hidden allegory. — Brander Mat- thews. [In ease, grace, delicate sharpness of satire, in a felicity of touch which often surpasses the felicity of Addison, in a subtlety of insight which often reaches farther than the insight of Steele, the humor of Hawthorne presents traits so fine as to be almost too excellent for popularity, as to every one who has attempted their criticism they are too refined for statement. — E. P. Whipple.] The scarlet letter and The Blithedale romance. 1898. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Scarlet letter: A strong story of the workings of conscience embodied in a romance of puritan Boston. Blithedale romance: Largely idealized reminiscences of the “Transcendental picnic,” the com- munistic settlement at Brook Farm. In the main, a light and joyous tale. Margaret Fuller said to be the original of Zenobia, and Hawthorne of Coverdale. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [The Scarlet Letter is, we hardly need say, the first production from his pen which bore his name to the great body of his countrymen, and stamped him as indubitably the greatest of all American writers of prose. Since it first saw the light many reputations have been won and lost, but the reputation of Hawthorne has remained like a fixed star in the firmament of letters. — New York Mail and Express. The masterpiece of the greatest of American novelists. — Chicago Tribune .] Tales, sketches, and other papers; with a biographical sketch by G. P. Lathrop. 1883. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Includes tales of early period, Biographical stories and sketches, Lathrop ’s sketch of Hawthorne. v/ Twice-told tales. $2.00. 1883. (Riverside edition.) Life of Franklin Pierce, and [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] Imaginative renderings of traditions from pre-Revolutionary times, several involving supernatural incident. The ethical purport is more or less transparent throughout. Then there are compact pictures of New England life, and contemplative sketches, full of his calm, earnest philosophy. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. 34 LITERATURE [Everything about it has the freshness of morning and of May. These flowers and green leaves of poetry have not the dust of the highway upon them. They have been gathered fresh from the secret places of a peaceful and gentle heart. . . . The book, though in prose, is, nevertheless, written bv a poet. He looks upon all things in the spirit of love, and with lively sympathies; for, to him, external form is but the representation of an internal being, all things having a life, an end and aim. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.] Higginson, T. W. Studies in romance. 1900. [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. Contents: Malbone: an Oldport romance; The monarch of dreams; Oldport days. Holmes, O. W. Elsie Venner. 1892. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Depicts a human nature developing itself in conflict with characteristics impressed on it during the prenatal period. — Preface. [It is distinguished alike by originality of conception and brilliancy of execution, and is, in fact, the most striking and fascinating book that we have met with for some time. The leading idea of the story is, as far as we know, entirely new. — London Spectator .] Guardian angel. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Psychologic study of inherited aptitudes and tendencies, particularly of a girl in whose blood a taint of Indian savagery is at war with her higher nature. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [This tale forms a natural sequence to Elsie Venner , but comes more nearly within the range of natural experience, and deals with the successive development of inherited bodily aspects and habitudes. — Author's Preface. It is full of wit and wisdom and interest, and, indeed, of all those good qualities which most novels are without. — London Illustrated Times.] A mortal antipathy. 1892. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. [A Mortal Antipathy, if not very impressive as a novel from too lingering a plot, is crowded to the edges with character and incident, with satire and suggestion. — Springfield Republican.] Howard, B. W. Aunt Serena. 1881. [i6mo.] $1.25. Guenn; a wave on the Breton coast. 1884. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.50. Pathetic picture of the hopeless love of a Breton peasant maiden for a painter. — C. F. Richard- son, American literature. One summer. 1900. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. Love story brightly told. Scene, a New England village. — New York state library. Howe, E. W. Story of a country town. 1889. [i6mo.] $1.25. [It is a story of genuine power, and as an effort to portray a phase of American life which necessa- rily must soon pass away forever, it ought to receive a generous recognition from all who care for real books, and not for books which are fainter echoes of other books. — Christian Union (New York).] Howells, W. D. A chance acquaintance. 1901. [i2mo.] $1.50. A highly educated gentleman from Boston attaches himself to a party of tourists from the West LITERATURE 35 and wins the heart of a romantic and unsophisticated girl. Their mutual attraction and incom- patibility are subtly exhibited. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. A foregone conclusion. 1902. [i2mo.] $1.50. An international novel, the canals and palaces of Venice being the scene of the love drama. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Indian summer. 1885. [i2mo.] $1.50. A love drama, of which the persons are Americans in Florence; worked out entirely by means of conversation. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Lady of the Aroostook. 1879. [i2mo.] $1.50. A young New England girl’s voyage in a sailing vessel from Boston to Trieste and its outcome. — New York state library. The minister’s charge; or, The apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker. 1887. [i2mo.] $1.50. A modern instance. 26th ed. 1881. [i2mo.] $1.50. Called his representative novel; faithful, though wholly external, delineation of the whole life of a village in Maine. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [There has been no more rigidly artistic writing done in America since Hawthorne’s time. — The Critic (New York). Since Uncle Tom's Cabin there has appeared no American work of fiction of greater power to affect public sentiment. — Century Magazine .] Y Rise of Silas Lapham. 1885. [i2mo.] $1.50. History of an ignorant and coarse-grained, but manly character, who is first brought into humor- ous contrast with the refined society of the city, and then is shown making head against commercial disasters, which chasten without weakening his character. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [The high-water mark of Mr. Howells’s great and unique photographic genius. A marvelously minute and realistic picture of life in Boston, — a miniature of high artistic value, delicately faithful. — Pall Mall Gazette .] # Their wedding journey, with an additional chapter on Niagara revisited. 1899. [i2mo.] $1.50. Experiences, impressions, and talk of a pair of Bostonians on their honeymoon. Few incidents, much moralizing and humor, and a good deal of word painting of New York, Niagara, etc. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [With just enough of story and dialogue to give it the interest of a novel, it is also one of the most charming books of travel that we have ever seen. — Christian Register (Boston).] James, Henry. The American. 1877. [i2mo.] $2.00. A self-made American goes to Europe to enjoy his “pile,” and becomes engaged to a French widow of noble family. The pride and meanness of the old nobility are sharply contrasted with the American’s pluck and good nature. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Portrait of a lady. 18th ed. 1897. [i2mo.] $2.00. Story of an Albany girl’s life in Europe; elaborate character study. — New York state library. [A very clever book, and a book of very great interest. . . . We do not know a living English novelist who could have written it. — Pall Mall Gazette .] Roderick Hudson. Revised ed. 1882. [i2mo.] $2.00. Roderick is a resume in little of the strength and weakness of genius, an example of the artistic temperament. He is a young American sculptor taken to Italy by one of Mr. James’s rich virtuosi. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. 3 6 LITERATURE Jewett, S. O. Betty Leicester; a story for girls. 1890. [i8mo, gilt top.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Young girl’s summer in a New England country town after a life of travel abroad. — New York state library. Betty Leicester’s Christmas. 1899. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Sequel to Betty Leicester. A 15-year-old New England girl, living with her father in London, spends a delightful Christ- mas at Danesly Castle. First published in St. Nicholas. — New York state library. A country doctor. 1884. [i6mo.] $1.25. Simple story of quiet and beautiful life in rural New England. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [It is a rare gift to be able to use the materials which lie close at hand, — at everybody’s hand. To do this requires tact and skill, as well as an observing eye and nicety of discrimination, and moreover, such breadth of sympathies, such a “fellow feeling” for one’s kind, that the events of the most common matter-of-fact life seem worth the telling; and all this Miss Jewett has. She is not only one of the sweetest and most charming of writers, but her pages have all along suggestions helpful towards a kindlier and higher way of living. — Literary World (Boston).] Country of the pointed firs. 1896. [i6mo.] $1.25. Studies of life and character in a Maine seacoast village. — New York state library. Deephaven. 1900. [i8mo.] $1.25. Two young girls’ summer in an old New England seaport. [We could not express too strongly the sense of conscientious fidelity which the art of the book gives, while over the whole is cast a light of the sweetest and gentlest humor, and of a sympathy as tender as it is intelligent. — W. D. Howells, in Atlantic Monthly .] Old friends and new. 1879. [i8mo.] $1.25. Contents: A lost lover; A sorrowful guest; A late supper; Mr. Bruce; Miss Sydney’s flowers; Lady Ferry; A bit of shore life. The queen’s twin, and other stories. 1899. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: The queen’s twin; A Dunnet shepherdess; Where’s Nora ? Bold words at the bridge; Martha’s lady; The coon dog; Aunt Cynthy Dallett; The night before Thanksgiving. Stories of rural life among the homely farmer and fisher folk of New England, with two bright, lively Irish sketches. — New York state library. Johnston, Mary. Audrey. 1902. [Illustrated in color. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Virginia romance; historical setting; early 18th century. — New York state library. Prisoners of hope; a tale of colonial Virginia. 1898. [With frontis- piece. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Published in England under title The old dominion. To have and to hold. 1900. [Illustrated. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Published in England under title By order of the company. Virginia romance of reign of James I. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Lee, Mrs. M. C. (Jenkins). In the cheering-up business. 1891. [i6mo.] $1.25. A Quaker girl of Nantucket. 1889. [i6mo.] $1.25. LITERATURE 37 London, Jack. Son of the wolf; tales of the far North. 1900. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Contents: The white silence; The son of the wolf; The men of Forty-Mile; In a far country; To the man on trail; the priestly prerogative; The wisdom of the trail; The wife of a king; An Odyssey of the North. Grim, powerful stories of white men in Alaska. — New York state library. Longfellow, H. W. Hyperion, a romance. Revised ed. 1869. [i6mo.] $0.50. The musings, love-making, and dreams of a young poet, a pilgrim in Germany and Switzerland. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [In tender and profound feeling and in brilliancy of imagery, the work will bear comparison with the best productions of romantic fiction which English literature can boast. — C. C. Felton.] Kavanagh, and other pieces. 1896. [i6mo.] $1.50. Contents: Kavanagh; Driftwood; Ancient French romances; Frithiof’s saga; Twice-told tales; The great metropolis; Anglo-Saxon literature; Paris in the 17th century; Table-talk. Lynde, Francis. The helpers. 1901. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Scenes, Denver and mining regions. — New York state library. Parker, Sir Gilbert. The battle of the strong; a romance of two kingdoms. 1888. [Illus- trated. i2mo.] $1.50. Opens with battle of Jersey and is continued into the great war between England and France at close of 18th century. Scene chiefly Jersey, sometimes Brittany. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Phelps, E. S. Doctor Zay. 1882. [i6mo.] $1.25. Story of a woman physician in an obscure New England village. — Leypoldt & Iles, List of books for girls and women and their clubs. Fourteen to one. 1891. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: Fourteen to one; The bell of St. Basil’s; Shut in; Jack, the fisherman; The madonna of the tubs; A brave deed; The sacrifice of Antigone; Sweet home; Too late; The Reverend Malachi Matthew; His relict; Mary Elizabeth; Annie Laurie; The law and the gospel. Gates ajar. 1896. [i6mo.] $1.50. Imaginative glimpses into the celestial paradise, where she imagines the interests and occupations of terrestrial existence will be carried on. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. A singular life. 1895. [i6mo.] $1.25. Scudder, H. E. Bodleys telling stories. [Illustrated. Sq. 8vo.] 1878. $1.50. (For young readers.) About historic men and events. — Sargent, Reading for the young. Doings of the Bodley family in town and country. 1903. [Illustrated. Sq. 8vo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Stories, poems and anecdotes woven into a story. — Carnegie Library (Pittsburg). 38 LITERATURE Several more Bodley books exist which may be added in libraries where these prove successful. — Editor for selection. Smith, F. H. Caleb West, master diver. 1900. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.50. Characters and action center about the building of a lighthouse on the Connecticut coast. — New York state library. Colonel Carter of Cartersville, illustrated by E. W. Kemble and the author. 1892. [i6mo.] $1.25. Describes, with humorous and loving touch, an unreconstructed Virginia gentleman and the friends he endeared himself to. — Nation. Tom Grogan. 1900. [Illustrated. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Tom Grogan is an Irish woman and a contractor. Her troubles with her workmen and her method of averting a strike described from capitalist’s point of view. — Massachusetts literary club. Smith, N. A. Three little Marys. 1902. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $0.85, net. [Post- age, 8 cents.] (For young readers.) Scotch Mairi, English Molly and Irish Maureen Bawn are the heroines of three pretty stories. — New York state library. Stowe, Mrs. H. E. (Beecher). Little Pussy Willow; also, The minister’s watermelons. 1899. [Illus- trated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Happy, useful life of a country girl who received from a fairy the gift of seeing the bright side of everything. — Sargent, Reading for the young. My wife and I; or, Harry Henderson’s history. 1899. (Riverside edition.) [Illustrated. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Followed by We and our neighbors. Oldtown folks. 1897. [Illustrated. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Portrays a Massachusetts town a century or more ago. — New York state library. [Full to repletion of delicate sketches of very original characters, and clever bits of dialogue, and vivid descriptions of natural scenery. — The Spectator (London).] Uncle Tom’s cabin; with introduction by the author. 1896. [Illus- trated. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Bibliographic account of Uncle Tom’s cabin, pref. p. 63-82. A story of plantation life before the civil war. One of the most famous of “timely” books. It was not half true, it was written with passion and prejudice and it accomplished what all the cool, judicial statements in the world would have failed in. — Leypoldt & Iles, List of books for girls and women and their clubs. We and our neighbors; or, The records of an unfashionable street. 1901. [Illustrated. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Sequel to My wife and I. Thanet, Octave, pseud. Knitters in the sun. 1887. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: The ogre of Ha Ha Bay; The bishop’s vagabond; Mrs. Finley’s Elizabethan chair; LITERATURE 39 Father Quinnailon’s convert; A communist’s wife; Schopenhauer on Lake Pepin; “Ma’ Bowlin’;” Half a curse; Whitson Harp, regulator. Short stories exhibiting people ©f strongly marked character in the stress of moral conflict. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Otto the knight, and other trans-Mississippi stories. 1891. [i6mo.] $1.25. Contents: Otto the knight; The conjured kitten; The first mayor; Sist’ Chaney’s black silk; The loaf of peace; The day of the cyclone; Trusty, no. 49; The plumb idiot; The governor’s prerogative; The mortgage on Jeffy. Tomlinson, E. T. Boys of old Monmouth; a story of Washington’s campaign in New Jersey in 1778. 1898. [Illustrated. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) The series of “ Revolutionary stories,” of which this is the earliest, includes four more books: (2) Jersey boy in the revolution; (3) In the hands of the redcoats; (4) Under colonial colors; (5) A lieutenant under Washington. Wallace, Lewis. The fair god; or, The last of the ’Tzins. 1901. [i2mo.] $1.50. An archeologic reconstruction of Mexican life at time of conquest. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. White, E. O. Ednah and her brothers. 1900. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Everyday doings of four children who flit between city and country with their artist parents. — New York state library. [Charming little sketches of a family of children who have as a most delightful background a father who is a sculptor and a mother who paints. The story of Ednah and the boys presents scenes that are decidedly novel and interesting. — Commercial Advertiser (New York).] A little girl of long ago. 1896. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Story of child life in the Boston of colonial times. — Evanston free public library. When Molly was six. 1894. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Twelve realistic studies of red letter days in a child’s life, one for each month. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg) . Winterborough. 1892. [i6mo.] $1.25. Whitney, Mrs. A. D. (Train). Faith Gartney’s girlhood. 1893. [i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) New England story, tracing the life and growth from girlhood to woman- hood of Faith Gartney and containing something of the thought and life that lie between 14 and 20. The Gayworthys; a story of threads and thrums. 1893. [i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Girl’s story of New England village people a generation or more ago. Full of shrewd observations and kindly humor. — New York state library. Hitherto; a story of yesterdays. 1897. [i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Home life in a New England country place some fifty years ago. — E. A. Baker. Descriptive guide to the best fiction. 40 LITERATURE The other girls. 1901. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Fourth volume of “Real folks series.” Follows Real folks. * Real folks. 1899. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Third volume of “Real folks series.” Follows We girls. Two orphan sisters, adopted one by a city aunt, the other by an aunt in the country, and how they fared. — New York state library. A summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s life. 1894. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Story of a young girl’s season in the White Mountains. — Evanston free public library. Followed by We girls; Real folks; Other girls. We girls; a home story. 1898. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Second volume of “Real folks series.” Follows Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite' s life. Pleasant story of home and social life of three New England girls with cultivated tastes and limited income. — New York state library. Wiggin, Mrs. K. D. The Birds’ Christmas Carol. 1889. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $0.50. (For young readers.) A story of mixed pathos and fun; the pathos in the life of an invalid girl; the fun in the amusing performances of a large family of small poor children whom she befriends. — Editor for selection. [I pity him who can read the story without tears or lay it down without feeling the better for having read it. But I do not say it is one of the best Christmas stories ever written. No, I say it is the very best, and it would put any other season of the year severely to its trumps to show one as good. — John Paul, in New York Times.] A cathedral courtship, and Penelope’s English experiences. 1893. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.00. Humorous, appreciative narrative of travel in England. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). Penelope’s Irish experiences. 1901. [i6mo.] $1.25. Sequel to Penelope' s progress. Travel in Ireland bound by thread of love story. Penelope’s progress. 1898. [i6mo.] $1.25. Sequel to Penelope's English experiences. Edinburgh and its neighborhood as seen by the three heroines of Penelope's English experiences. — New York state library. Polly Oliver’s problem; a story for girls. 1893. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Lively story of a bright girl’s solution of the question of self-support. — New York state library. Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm. 1903. [i2mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) An original, attractive child is adopted out of a large, poor, happy go lucky household by two maiden aunts. The child’s natural capers and the elder aunt’s dismays and disapproval are told to a pleasant ending. — Editor for selection. LITERATURE 4i Story of Patsy. 1889. [Illustrated, Sq. i2mo.] $0.60. Sketch from life, droll and humorous, sympathetic with the weak and unfortunate; the hero is a cripple. Far from unpleasant as a picture of slum life. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. A summer in a canon; a California story. 1889. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) The holiday of a party of bright young people of both sexes camping out in southern California. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Timothy’s quest; illustrated by Oliver Herford. 1895. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. [This book is an almost perfect idyll. — London Punch] 814 American essays Aldrich,, T. B. Ponkapog papers. 1903. [i2mo.] $1.00, net. [Postage, 7 cents.] Contents: Leaves from a note book. Asides: Tom Folio; Fleabody and other queer name^; A note on “L’Aiglon;” Plot and character; The cruelty of science; Leigh Hunt and Barry Corn- wall; Decoration Day; Writers and talkers; On early rising; Un pobte manque; The male costume of the period; On a certain affectation; Wishmakers’ Town; Historical novels; Poor Yorick; The autograph hunter. — Robert Herrick. Burroughs, John. Birds and poets, with other papers. 1891. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: Birds and poets; Touches of nature; A bird medley; April; Spring poems; Our rural divinity; Before genius; Before beauty; Emerson; The flight of the eagle. Fresh fields. 1891. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: Nature in England; English woods, a contrast; In Carlyle’s country; A hunt for the nightingale; English and American song birds; Impressions of some English birds; In Words- worth’s country; A glance at British wild flowers; British fertility; A Sunday in Cheyne Row; At sea. In-door studies. 1889. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Literary criticism, including papers on Thoreau, Gilbert White, Matthew Arnold, Emerson, Carlyle, true realism, etc. — New York state library. Literary values and other papers. 1902. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.10, net. [Postage, 10 cents.] Magazine essays discussing style, criticism, art in literature, Gilbert White, Thoreau, Emerson, nature in literature, the secret of happiness, etc. — New York state library. Locusts and wild honey. 1891. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: The pastoral bees; Sharp eyes; Strawberries; Is it going to rain? Speckled trout; Buds and birds; A bed of boughs; Birds’ -nesting; The halcyon in Canada. [The minuteness of his observation, the keenness of his perception, give him a real originality, and his sketches have a delightful oddity, vivacity, and freshness. — The Nation (New York). Mr. Burroughs is the best literary naturalist now at work in America. — Saturday Review .] Pepacton. 1891. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: Pepacton; A summer voyage; Spring; An idyl of the honeybee; Nature and the poets; Notes by the way; Footpaths; A bunch of herbs; Winter pictures. 42 LITERATURE [Mr. Burroughs brings to his work a genuine and passionate love of nature, and a genial and appreciative temperament. — The Spectator (London). Riverby. 1895. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Eighteen essays on wild flowers, birds, Kentucky blue grass, Mammoth cave, the southern Catskills, sportsmen, the chipmunk, etc. — New York state library. Signs and seasons. 1891. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: A sharp lookout ; A spray of pine; Hard fare; The tragedies of the nests 7 A snowstorm; A taste of Maine birch; Winter neighbors; A salt breeze; A spring relish; A river view; Bird enemies; Phases of farm life; Roof -tree. Wake-robin. 1893. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: The return of the birds; In the hemlocks; Adirondac; Birds’ -nests; Spring at the capital; Birch browsings; The bluebird; The invitation. • Winter sunshine. 1891. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: Winter sunshine; Exhilarations of the road; The snow-walkers; Tlje fox; A March chronicle; Autumn tides; The apple; An October abroad. [There are three books which no true lover of nature can afford to leave unread, — Wake-Robin, Winter Sunshine, and Birds and Poets. They are full of that delicious out-of-door feeling which one finds so seldom in printed volumes and which no art can simulate. To read them is like wandering in the woods and fields. The wind blows through them, the birds sing, the sun shines, and the water runs. — Boston Transcript .] Crothers, S. M. The gentle reader. 1903. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25, net. [Postage, 12 cents.] Contents: The gentle reader; The enjoyment of poetry; The mission of humor; Cases of con- science concerning witchcrafts; The honorable points of ignorance; That history should be read- able; Evolution of the gentleman; The hinterland of science; The gentle reader’s friends among the clergy; Quixotism; Intimate knowledge and delight. Most reprinted from Atlantic monthly, v. 81-92, May, 1898-Oct., 1903. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). Emerson, R. W. Complete works. 12 v. 1883-93. [With portraits, biographical sketch, notes, and index. Crown 8vo.] $1.75 each. Contents: v. 1, Nature, addresses and lectures. V. 2, Essays: 1st series. V. 3, Essays; 2d series. V. 4, Representative men. V. 5, English traits. V. 6, The conduct of life. V. 7, Society and soli- tude. V. 8, Letters and social aims. V. 9, Poems. V. 10, Lectures and biographical studies. V. 11, Miscellaneous. V. 12, Natural history of intellect and other papers, with a general index. [There is no man living to whom, as a writer, so many of us feel and thankfully acknowledge so great an indebtedness for ennobling impulses. We look upon him as one of the few men of genius whom our age has produced. — James Russell Lowell. Emerson remains among the most persuasive and inspiring of those who by word and example rebuke our despondency, purify our sight, awaken us from the deadening slumbers of convention and conformity, exorcise the pestering imps of vanity, and lift men up from low thoughts and sullen moods of helplessness and impiety. — John Morley.] Fiske, John. Century of science, and other essays. 1899. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Contents: Century of science; Doctrine of evolution: its scope and purport; E. L. Youmans; Part played by infancy in the evolution of man; Origins of liberal thought in America; Sir Harry LITERATURE 43 Vane; The arbitration treaty; Francis Parkman; E. A. Freeman; Cambridge as village and city; A harvest of Irish folk-lore; Guessing at half and multiplying by two; Forty years of Bacon-Shake- speare folly; Some cranks and their crotchets. Excursions of an evolutionist. 1883. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Contents: Europe before the arrival of man; Arrival of man in Europe; Our Aryan forefathers; What we learn from old Aryan words; Was there a primeval mother-tongue? Sociology and hero- worship; Heroes of industry; Causes of persecution; Origins of protestantism; The true lesson of protestantism; Evolution and religion; The meaning of infancy; A universe of mind-stuff; In memoriam: Charles Darwin. [Among our thoughtful essayists there are none more brilliant than Mr. John Fiske. His pure style suits his clear thought. He does not write unless he has something to say; and when he does write, he shows not only that he has thoroughly acquainted himself with the subject, but that he has to a rare degree the art of so massing his matter as to bring out the true value of the leading points in artistic relief. — The Nation (New York).] Higginson, T. W. Outdoor studies; Poems. 1900. (Riverside edition.) [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. Studies in history and letters. 1900. (Riverside edition.) [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. Holmes, O. W. Pages from an old volume of life; essays, 1857-1881. 4th ed. 1884. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Lodge, H. C. Historical and political essays. 1892. [i2mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: W. H. Seward; James Madison; Gouverneur Morris; Why patronage in office is un- American; Distribution of ability in the United States; Parliamentary obstruction in the United States; Parliamentary minorities; Party allegiance. Lowell, J. R. Writings in prose. 7 v. 1899. (Riverside edition.) [With por- traits. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50 each. Contents: v. 1-4, Literary essays. V. 5, Political essays. V. 6, Literary and political essays. V. 7, Latest literary essays and addresses. [To the reader of Lowell’s prose we may say what Coleridge once said to a reader of the prose of Milton: “ He must be always on duty ; he is surrounded with sense.” It will not do to skip. There is everywhere a profusion of riches of the brain; there is constant astonishment from unexpected analogies, wide-sweeping philosophical conclusions, learned allusions, and intuitions flashing to the bottoms of things. — Independent (New York).] v Repplier, Agnes. Essays in miniature. 1895. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Bright, brief essays on literary subjects. — New York state library. Points of view. 1891. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: A plea for humor; English love-songs; Books that have hindered me; Literary shib- boleths; Fiction in the pulpit; Pleasure: a heresy; Esoteric economy; Scanderbeg; English railway fiction. A plea for cheerfulness in literature and simplicity in criticism. — New York state library. 44 LITERATURE Varia. 1897. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: The eternal feminine; The deathless diary; Guides, a protest; Little pharisees in fic- tion; The f<>tc de Gayant; Cakes and ale; Old wine and new; The royal road of fiction; From the reader’ s standpoint. Sill, E. R. Prose of E. R. Sill; with an introduction comprising some familiar let- ters. 1900. [i6mo.] $1.25. Originally appeared in Contributors’ club of Atlantic monthly. Cover a wide range of topics, are full of quaint and original conceptions and sparkle with witty sayings. — New York state library. [This collection of Sill’s prose writings will be very welcome to a goodly number of readers; and the number would be very large indeed if it were to include all who are capable of deriving from these pages an exquisitely refined pleasure and profit. — Advertiser (Boston).] Torrey, Bradford. Birds in the bush. 8th ed. 1895. [i6mo.] $1.25. Chiefly studies of birds in rambles in various parts of New England. They are among the best literature about birds. — Leypoldt & Iles, List of books for girls and women and their clubs. [Mr. Torrey’s writings have a charm in their happily worded sentences that never dull the delicate edge of his humor, and that bring us the fragrance of the northern woods without loss of any of its freshness. He is not merely a philosopher and a sayer of happy things. He observes nature keenly as well as sympathetically, and with a spirit of scientific caution that stamps his work w*ith a value which the writings of many a more prominent ornithologist will never possess. — The Auk (New York).] Whipple, E. P. Character and characteristic men. 1894. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Contents: Character; Eccentric character; Intellectual character; Heroic character; The Amer- ican mind; The English mind; Thackeray; Hawthorne; Edward Everett; Thomas Starr King; Agassiz; Washington and the principles of the revolution. Wilson, Woodrow. Mere literature, and other essays. 1896. [i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Contents: Mere literature; The author himself; On an author’s choice of company; A literary politician (Walter Bagehot); The interpreter of English liberty (Edmund Burke); The truth of the matter; A calendar of great Americans; The course of American history. Opening essay a spirited plea for the study and appreciation of literature as literary art. — Gayley & Scott, Introduction to methods and materials of literary criticism. 817 American satire and humor Holmes, O. W. Autocrat of the breakfast-table. 1892. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Full of alert wisdom, droll humor, and shrewd observation of life. The scraps of poetry are among his finest verse. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. [From Dr. Holmes there comes a fascination that is always fresh and buoyant. How the pages run over with sunshine, and the treasures of a unique personality! — New York Tribune .] Over the teacups. 1896. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. The peculiar note of these talks is the confidence with which the author speaks of his past to the army of friends whom his kind wit and wise heart have gained. — Literary world. LITERATURE 45 Poet at the breakfast-table. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Professor at the breakfast-table; with The story of Iris. 1898. (River- side edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Warner, C. D. Backlog studies. 1900. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. [It is Mr. Warner in his most various guise — quaint, dry, pretendedlv serious at times; then genial and hearty; anon, dashed with a bit of pathos; now argumentative and philosophical, and at their best when they are wholly fanciful. It is a book not exactly like any other, for it is essay, reminiscence, history, criticism, humor, and poetry mixed, and mixed by a practiced hand. — Brook- lyn Daily Eagle.] Being a boy. 1897. [Illustrated. i6mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Reminiscences and reflections on actual boyhood lovingly remembered. [The book is full of the dry unexpected humor of which Mr. Warner is a master, and is equally delightful to boys of all ages from six to say sixty or seventy years. — New York Evening Post.] My summer in a garden. 1898. [Illustrated. Sq. i6mo.] $1.50. An attempt to tell the truth about one of the most fascinating occupations in the world. — C. D. Warner. [His book is just such an out-of-the-way intermingling of quiet humor and strange conceit as Charles Lamb might have perpetrated, had he plied spade and hoe in his little patch of garden at Edmonton, and then jotted down, for the delight and instruction of his readers, the odd fancies and deep thoughts which his pleasant labor had suggested. — Notes and Queries (London).] 818 American miscellany Thoreau, H. D. Autumn. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Extracts from the daily journal of Thoreau, who “had watched nature like a detective who is to go on the stand.” — J. R. Lowell. Early spring in Massachusetts. 1896. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Excursions. 1895. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Miscellanies; with a biographical sketch by R. W. Emerson, and a gen- eral index to the writings. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Summer. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. - Walden; or, Life in the woods. 1897. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Describes his attempt to solve the problem of simple living by building and occupying a small house in the woods. Keen observations on animals, plants and birds. — Leypoldt & Iles, List of books for girls and women and their clubs. Contains the sum and essence of his ideal and ethical philosophy; written in his most powerful and incisive style. — H. S. Salt. Winter. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. [His descriptions of nature are glowing with vitality. He loved every tree and shrub. His LITERATURE 46 pictures are true to life, and inspired with passion. Though clothed in the language of prose, they are alive with the deepest spirit of poetry. Their enchantment never palls upon the sense; they charm the reader into love of the scene, if not of the writer, and fill his memory with sweet and pleasant images of the beauty and mystery of Nature. — The Independent (New York).] 820 English literature Johnson, Rossiter, editor. Little classics. 18 v. 1900. [i6mo.] $1.00 each. Contents: v. i, Exile. V. 2, Intellect. V. 3, Tragedy. V. 4, Life. V. 5, Laughter. V. 6, Love. V. 7, Romance. V. 8, Mystery. V. 9, Comedy. V. 10, Childhood. V. 11, Heroism. V. 12, Fortune. V. 13, Poems, narrative. V. 14, Poems, lyrical. V. 15, Minor poems. V. 16, Nature. V. 17, Humanity. V. 18, Authors; biographical sketches of the authors represented in the series, with a general index. Scudder, V. D. Social ideals in English letters. 1898. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.75. Study of literature as affected by and as influencing social philosophy and conditions from Lang- land to present day writers. — New York state library. 821 English poetry Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth (Barrett). Complete poetical works. 1899. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Has biographic sketch by Harriet Waters Preston, notes, double indexes, and portraits. An inspired singer, if there ever was one — all fire and air her song and soul alike devoted to liberty, aspiration and ethereal love. — E. C. Stedman. Burns, Robert. Complete poetical works. 1897. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Includes W. E. Henley’s essay, Robert Burns , life , genius, achievement. [His songs are already part of the mother-tongue, not of Scotland only, but of Britain, and of the millions that in all ends of the earth speak a British language. In hut and hall, as the heart unfolds itself in many-colored joy and woe of existence, the name, the voice, of that joy and that woe, is the name and voice which Burns has given them. . . . Everywhere, indeed, in his sunny moods, a full, buoyant flood of mirth rolls through the mind of Burns; he rises to the high, and stoops to the low, and is brother and playmate to all Nature. ... It is reverence, it is love towards all Nature, that inspires him, that opens his eyes to its beauty, and makes heart and voice eloquent in its praise. — Thomas Carlyle.] Child, F. J,, editor. English and Scottish popular ballads; edited by H. C. Sargent and G. L. Kittredge. 1904. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. One selected version of nearly every ballad in Prof. Child’s edition in 5 volumes, with general introduction, and brief introduction to each ballad. — Editor for selection. Keats, John. Complete poetical works and letters. 1899. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. LITERATURE 47 Milton, John. Complete poetical works. 1900. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Life of Milton, by W. V. Moody, pref. p. 9-34. Pope, Alexander. Complete poetical works. 1902. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. [In his own province Pope still stands unapproachably alone. If to be the greatest satirist of individual men, rather than of human nature; if to be the highest expression which the life of the court and the ball-room has ever found in verse; if to have added more phrases to our language than any other but Shakespeare; if to have charmed four generations, make a man a great poet, — then he is one. Measured by any high standard of imagination he will be found wanting; tried by any test of wit he is unrivaled. — J ames Russell Lowell.] Procter, A. A. Complete poetical works, with an introduction by Charles Dickens. 1903. (Cabinet edition.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Repplier, Agnes, editor. Book of famous verse. 1892. [i6mo.] $0.75. (For young readers.) Well chosen for children, and embracing martial strains, tales of brave deeds and romance, somber ballads and joyous lyrics; mainly 19th century verse. — New York state library. Scott, Sir Walter. Complete poetical works. 1900. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Biographic sketch, pref. p. 11-23. Edition revised by W. J. Rolfe, $3.50, is also good. It is convenient to have also editions of The lady of the lake, The lay of the last minstrel, and Marmion, e. g. the Students’ series, editor, W. J. Rolfe, 75 cents each. — Editor for selection. Scudder, V. D. Life of the spirit in the modern English poets. 1901. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.75. Study of poetry as influenced by and interpreting modern democratic, scientific and religious ideals. — New York state library. Shairp, J. C. Aspects of poetry. 1891. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.50. With respect to the poetry of nature, no more suggestive a critic. — E. C. Stedman. Shelley, P. B. Complete poetical works. 1901. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Edited by G. E. Woodberry. [If any one now living has a right to undertake the care of an edition that is worthy of the poet, Mr. Woodberry may claim that right; for he adds to the research and accuracy of editors like Rossetti and Forman and Dowden the delicate sympathy and insight of a mind which belongs to Shelley’s own spiritual family. ... It is fair to say that no other edition can be matched with Mr. Woodberry’s. — New York Evening Post.] 4 8 LITERATURE Stedman, E. C., editor. Victorian anthology, 1837-1895. 1895. [Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. A truthful exhibit of the course of song during 60 years, as shown by the poets of Great Britain in the best of their shorter productions. Designed to supplement his Victorian poets by choice and typical examples of the work discussed. — Preface. Victorian poets; revised and extended to the fiftieth year of the period under review. 1903. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.25. • Interpretative in a very real sense of the period it surveys, and likely for that reason to possess permanent importance. — H. W. Mabie, in Bookman. [Mr. Stedman deserves the thanks of English scholars. He is faithful, studious, and discerning; of a sane and reasonable temper, and in the main a judicial one; his judgment is disciplined and exercised, and his decisions, even when we cannot agree with them, are based on intelligent grounds. — Saturday Review (London).] Whittier, J. G., editor. Child-life; a collection of poems. 1872. [Illustrated. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (For young readers.) Poems for and about children. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). [Probably no better collection of poetry adapted to the reading of children was ever published than that entitled Child-Life , edited by the poet Whittier. . . . For enjoyment and instruction, it is worth whole libraries of common children’s books; indeed, this and its companion, Child-Life in Prose , would constitute a library for any family of children, the value of which they would never cease to acknowledge. Parents who are forming little libraries for their households will do well to begin with these two volumes, even if their means forbid buying any others at present. — Boston Advertiser .] Songs of three centuries. 1890. (Household edition.) [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Gathers up the best of the old ballads and short, time-approved poems; draws largely from con- temporary writers and the waifs and estrays of unknown authors. Includes careful selection of hymns. — Preface. Browning, Robert. Complete poetic and dramatic works. 1895. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. Contains biographic sketch, bibliographic head-notes, and appendix with notes and Browning’s suppressed essay on Shelley. Cooke, G. W. Guide-book to the poetic and dramatic works of Robert Browning. 1891. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. The best things said of Browning, pref. p. 9-14. Alphabetic arrangement of titles, characters, allusions, and well-known quotations, with fairly full information. Now incorporated in introduction and notes of 1899 Riverside edition. — New York state library. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron. Poetic and dramatic works. 1898. (Cambridge edition of the poets.) [With portrait. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Biographic sketch, by W. J. Rolfe, pref. p. n-17. LITERATURE 49 [In whatsoever light we examine the characteristics of the laureate’s genius, the complete and even balance of his poetry is from first to last conspicuous. ... In Tennyson we have the strong repose of art, whereof — as of the perfection of Nature — the world is slow to tire. ... An artist so per- fect in a widely extended range that nothing of his work can be spared; certainly to be regarded in time to come as, all in all, the fullest representative of the refined, speculative, complex Victorian age. — E. C. Stedman. He has given more and keener delight to the reading world than any other author during his life- time. Hundreds of Tennyson’s lines and phrases have become fixed in the popular memory, and there is scarcely one that is not suggestive of beauty, or consoling, or heartening. — Bayard Taylor.] 822 English drama Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. 1894. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.00. (For young readers.) Designed for nursery and schoolroom, these tales have taken their place as an English classic. They have never been superseded, nor are they ever likely to be. — Alfred Ainger. 823 English fiction Brown, John. Rab and his friends and other dogs and men. 1900. [i6mo.] $1.00. Also in class 824 in his Spare hours , v. 1. A tenderly beautiful Scotch story of a rare woman and a noble dog. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). 824 English essays Brown, John. Spare hours. 3 v. 1883. [i6mo.] $3.00. Contents: ser. 1, Rab and his friends, and other papers. Ser. 2, John Leech, Marjorie Fleming, and other papers. Ser. 3, Locke and Sydenham, and other papers. [Few volumes of miscellaneous essays have won more hearty friends and drawn out a wider per- sonal feeling from their readers than Dr. John Brown’s Spare Hours. The simplicity, sincerity, warmth of feeling, keen observation of life, and genial humor which characterize these essays have given them a very great charm, and are likely to keep them long in the memory and hearts of a large circle of readers. — Christian Union (New York).] De Quincey, Thomas. Beauties selected from his writings. 1900. [i6mo.] $1.50. The best passages of De Quincey have never been surpassed for sustained splendor of language, exquisite balance and modulation and rhythmic charm. — W. J. Dawson. [A great master of English composition; a critic of uncommon delicacy; an honest and unflinch- ing investigator of received opinions; a philosophic inquirer second only to his first and sole hero (Coleridge), — De Quincey has left no successor to his rank. The exquisite finish of style, with the scholastic vigor of his logic, forms a combination which centuries may never reproduce, but which every generation should study as one of the marvels of English literature. — Quarterly Review (London).] 830 GERMAN LITERATURE 832 German drama Goethe, J. W. von. Faust, a tragedy; translated in the original metres by Bayard Taylor. 2 v. 1898. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. 5 ° LITERATURE [Mr. Bayard Taylor has rendered the whole poem in English wonderfully close and wonderfully free from strain and harshness. Line for line and metre for metre, he followed Goethe’s way, flinching before no difficulties, and seldom otherwise than victorious, — a labor so great that no man could have hoped for success who had not in himself enough of the poetic spirit to undertake it as a labor of love. Bayard Taylor’s Faust is altogether, to our mind, one of the most remarkable feats of translation achieved in any modern language. — Saturday Review (London). It is not only a success, in the common sense of the word; not only a faithful rendering of the sense of the original in pleasing English verse, but it is a transfer of the spirit and the form of that wonderful book into our own tongue to an extent which would have been thought impossible had it not been made. — New York Evening Post.] 839 MINOR TEUTONIC LITERATURE Fiction Andersen, H. C. The improvisatore; translated by Mary Howitt. Author’s edition. [i2mo.] $1.00. A kind of disguised autobiography. Pictures of old Italy before the revolution are full of strong imaginative life and poetic color. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. 840 FRENCH LITERATURE Vincent, L. H. The French academy. 1901. (Brief studies in French society.) [i8mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Contents: The golden age; Richelieu and the Academy; Chapelain, the observer of ancient customs; Vaugelas and the Dictionary; A group of academicians. Hotel de Rambouillet and the Precieuses. 1900. (Brief studies in French society.) [i8mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Contents: Hotel de Rambouillet, its mistress and its guests; D’Urfe, Malherbe and Balzac; Voi- ture and Montausier; Mademoiselle de Scudery and her ‘ Saturdays ; ’ The Precieuses. [A resume of the chief facts of the story of those splendid decades when the famous salon of Catherine de Vivonne, Marquise de Rambouillet, was in its full glory. — Christian Advocate (New York).] 843 French fiction Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Adventures of Telemachus; translated by Dr. Ha wkes worth, with a life of Fenelon by Lamartine, an essay by Villemain, critical and bib- liographical notices, etc., edited by O. W. Wight. 1887. [i2mo.] $2.25. Romance based on the Odyssey , relating the adventures of the son of Ulysses in his quest for his father; written as a lesson in virtue, piety, and political wisdom, but taken as a satire on the court of Louis XIV; a masterpiece of classic French prose. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. Saint-Pierre, J. H. B. de. Paul and Virginia; illustrated by Augustus Hoppin. (Riverside clas- sics.) 1898. [i6mo.] $1.00. An idyl of primitive natures. Scene the Isle de France (i. e. Mauritius). Utopian sentimentalism is the inspiration, and inhabitants of Happy Valley are models of human perfection. — E. A. Baker, Descriptive guide to the best fiction. LITERATURE 5i Saintine, J. X. B. Picciola; translated from a new edition revised by the author; illus- trated by Leopold Flameng. 1872. (Riverside classics.) [i6mo.] $1.00. Touching episode of a prisoner’s life, whose only joy was a small flower in his prison yard. — Cornu & Beer, List of French fiction. 850 ITALIAN LITERATURE 851 Italian poetry Kuhns, L. O. Great poets of Italy. 1903. [Illustrated. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00, net. [Postage, 13 cents.] (Readable.) Contents: Origins of Italian literature; Dante, his life and minor works; The Divine comedy; Petrarch and Boccaccio; The renaissance; Ariosto; Tasso; The period of de- cadence and the revival; The nineteenth century. [Poets are so treated that the work forms a tolerably consecutive history of Italian poetry. Copi- ous extracts given in translations almost invariably good. Excellent portraits. — Nation.] Dante, Alighieri. Divine comedy; translated by H. W. Longfellow. 1895. [8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. The 3 v. edition of this translation, [crown 8vo] $4.50, desirable. — Editor for selection. [His translation is the most faithful version of Dante that has ever been made. He has proved that an almost literal rendering is not incompatible with an exquisite poetic charm; . . . the notes are full of pleasant learning, set forth with that grace and beauty of style which are characteristic of Mr. Longfellow’s prose; and the long extracts which he gives from Carlyle, Macaulay, Ruskin, and other eminent writers make his comment a thesaurus of the best judgments that exist in Eng- lish concerning the poet and his poems. — Charles Eliot Norton, in North American Review.] Divine comedy; translated by C. E. Norton. Revised ed. 3 v. 1902. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.50. Contents: v. 1, Hell. V. 2, Purgatory. V. 3, Paradise. The ideal translator. Now Dante lives in English, and it may well turn out that this translation shall stand as the chief literary product in America during the past 20 years. — Atlantic monthly. [It is so clear a rendering that it adds immensely to the interest and the understanding with which one generally reads this poem in translation. — New York Evangelist. Professor Norton’s prose translation of the Divine Comedy fitly crowns the study of a lifetime. ... It bears the stamp of Professor Norton’s rare culture, and by virtue of its style becomes an American classic no less than a modern rendering of one of the masters of literature. — H. W. Mabie, in the Forum.] New life; translated by C. E. Norton. 3d ed. 1895. [i2mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contents: The new life; Essays: On the New life, The Convito and the Vita nuova, On the structure of the Vita nuova; Notes. DANTE : CRITICISM, etc. Dinsmore, C. A., editor. Aids to the study of Dante. 1903. [Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50, net. [Postage, 16 cents.] Bibliography, p. 429-430. Contributions by various scholars on the following topics: The times of Dante, Sources of our 52 LITERATURE knowledge of Dante, Dante’s personal appearance, The Vita nuova, Minor works, The Divina commedia, Interpretations. Well-considered selection of such documentary and critical matter as the beginner will find most useful. — Dial. 860 SPANISH LITERATURE Ticknor, George. History of Spanish literature. 6th American ed. revised. 3 v. 1891. [8vo.] $10.00. [Still the exhaustive and authoritative work on the subject. — W. C. Lawton, in Dial.] 870 LATIN LITERATURE 871 Latin poetry in general Tyrrel, R. Y. Latin poetry. 1895. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. Percy Turnbull lectures in Johns Hopkins university. 1893. 880 GREEK LITERATURE Masterpieces of Greek literature: Homer, Tyrtseus, Archilochus; Cal- listratus; Alcaeus, Sappho, Anacreon, Pindar, iEschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Theocritus, Lucian; With biographical sketches and notes; supervising editor, J. H. Wright. 1902. [Crown 8vo.] $1.00, net. [Postpaid.] Selection, biographic and other notes by Miss C. H. Seymour. — Introduction. Selection well made; notes clearly written and sufficient for general reader, to whom it is heartily commended. Scholarly and suggestive introduction by Prof. J. H. Wright. — Nation. 881 Greek poetry in general Appleton, W. H., editor. Greek poets in English verse, by various translators. 1893. [i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Contents: Homer; Homeric hymns; Hesiod; Early lyric and elegiac; Pindar; ^Eschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Aristophanes; Theocritus; Bion ; Moschus; Apollonius Rhodius: Musaeus, The anthology; Proclus. A survey of Greek poetry in the best forms it has taken in the work of English-writing poets. Jebb, Sir R. C. Growth and influence of classical Greek poetry; lectures 1892. 1893. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. (Readable.) No other general survey in English presents so clearly the value of Greek poetry in the history of literature. Popular in demanding no previous knowledge of the subject; but scholarly inasmuch as no sentence is written at random, without due warrant in the researches of a lifetime. — Nation. 882 Greek dramatic poetry Euripides. Three dramas; by W. C. Lawton. 1889. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. HISTORY 53 Contents: On the origin and spirit of Attic tragedy; The Alkestis; The Medea; The Hip- poly tos; Epilogue. Translation, interspersed with critical commentaries. Sophocles. Antigone; translated with introduction and notes by G. H. Palmer. 1899. [i2mo.] $0.75. Not only spirit, but letter of original most wonderfully preserved. Introductory sketch of story and observations on character and province of Greek chorus. — Critic. 883 Greek epic poetry Homerus. The Iliad; translated into English blank verse by W. C. Bryant. 1898. (Roslyn edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. Smooth, dignified, rather slow blank verse. Despite some little embroidery of Homer’s plainest passages, this rendering is a very faithful one. — W. C. Lawton. The Odyssey, books 1-12; text and English version in rhythmic prose by G. H. Palmer. 1895. [8vo.] $2.50, net. [Postpaid.] The real merits of this translation are its transparent diction, its directness, its combination of fidelity with idiom, of dignity with ease and its eminent readableness. — Nation. The Odyssey; translated into English blank verse by W. C. Bryant. 1899. (Roslyn edition). [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. 890 LITERATURE OF MINOR LANGUAGES 891 Minor Indo-European PERSIAN. Omar Khayydm. Rubaiyat; in English verse, by Edward Fitzgerald. 1902. [i6mo.] $1.50. Text of 4th edition followed by that of the first; with notes and a biographic preface. — Title. 892 Semitic literature Arabian nights. Stories from the Arabian nights. 1897. (Riverside school library.) [Illustrated. i6mo.] $0.60, net. [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) Contains many of the more famous stories. — Editor for selection. 900 HISTORY 902 Compends. Outlines Ploetz, Karl. Epitome of ancient, mediaeval, and modern history; translated with additions by W. H. Tillinghast. 9th ed. 1884. [Crown 8vo.] $3.00. 54 HISTORY (Reference book.) Perhaps the most valuable of all the small reference books. 1889. — C. K. Adams, Manual oj American literature. [A new edition of this work, issued in 1905, now brings it down to the present day.] 910 Geography and travel Dana, R. H. Two years before the mast. New ed. 1895. (Riverside literature series.) [Crown 8vo.] $0.60, net. [Postpaid.] Remarkably vivid and practical record. Leads all others as the book best descriptive of the life of the American sailor, and has, deservedly, become a sea classic. — E. S. Brooks. 913 ANTIQUITIES 913.37 Rome, Italy Lanciani, R. A. Ancient Rome in the light of recent discoveries. 1888. [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $6.00. Comprehensive description of results of modern archeologic researches in Rome. Of great interest and value. Gives a vivid picture of life in ancient Rome. — Science. Ruins and excavations of ancient Rome. 1897. [Illustrated. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. Covers the whole field, and includes the most recent results of Roman topographic investigation. Enormous mass of material arranged and presented with simplicity and skill — J. R. Wheeler, in Science. 913.38 Greece Tsountas, Chrestos, and Manatt, J. I. The Mycenaean age; with introduction by Dr. Dorpfeld. 1897. [Illustrated. Large 8vo, gilt top.] $6.00. Study of the monuments and culture of pre-Homeric Greece. Of interest to general reader and archeologist. — New York state library. 914 TRAVELS IN EUROPE Aldrich, T. B. From Ponkapog to Pesth. 1883. [i2mo.] $1.50. European travel sketches, touching foreign funerals, beggars, Pope Pius IX, Naples, Tangier, etc. [The airy, fairy charm of these slight sketches is quite indescribable. . . . He has the art to paint a picture in a phrase, a word, and to make with his poetic vision the desert of the commonplace traveler to blossom as the rose. — New York Tribune.'] James, Henry. Portraits of places. 1883. [i2mo.] $1.50. Treats of three countries, England, France, and Italy. Mr. James is a quiet, rational, and shrewd observer, whose delicate appreciation notices many things that would escape most people. — P. G. Hamerton, in Academy. HISTORY 55 Transatlantic sketches. 1903. [i2mo.] $2.00. Contents: Chester; Lichfield and Warwick; North Devon; Wells and Salisbury; Swiss notes; From Chamb£ry to Milan; From Venice to Strasburg; The Parisian stage; A Roman holiday; Roman rides; Roman neighborhoods; The after-season in Rome; From a Roman note-book; A chain of cities; The St. Gothard; Siena; Autumn in Florence; Florentine notes; Tuscan cities; Ravenna; The Splugen; Homburg reformed; Darmstadt; In Holland; In Belgium. He is the last man we should consult for statistics, but his sketches give the very marrow of sensitive impression. — Nation. Longfellow, H. W. Outre-mer, a pilgrimage beyond the sea. 4th ed. 1850. [i6mo.] $1.50. Contents: France; Spain; Italy. Filled both with the learning of the great scholar of many literatures and with the romance of the poet. Satchel guide for the vacation tourist in Europe, by W. J. Rolfe. Latest ed. 1904. [With maps and plans. i8mo, roan, flexible.] $1.50, net. [Postpaid.] Revised annually. A compact itinerary of the British Isles, Belgium and Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria and Italy. — Title. [1906 edition now ready.] Warner, C. D. A roundabout journey. 1883. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Round the western coast of the Mediterranean, visiting France, Sicily, Malta, Morocco, Spain; also an account of Wagner’s opera at Bayreuth. — Sargent, Reading for the young. Saunterings. 1900. [i8mo.] $1.00. Record of travel in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Bavaria, and Italy. — Title. 9 14. i Scotland Hunnewell, J. F. Lands of Scott. 1899. [With map and portrait. i2mo.] $2.50. 914.2 England Brown, Alice. By oak and thorn; a record of English days. 1896. [i6mo, gilt top.j $1.25. Travel notes in Warwickshire, the lands of Arthur, the Bronte country, the haunts of the Doones, latter-day Cranford, etc. — New York state library. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Our old home, and English note-books. 2 v. 1891. (Riverside edi- tion.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00 each. English travel sketches, written during his residence as American consul at Liverpool, 1853-57. — New York state library. [The readers of current English literature have had a delightful surprise in the publication of these Note-books of Hawthorne, in finding them rich in revelations of the character of the man, and in passages of pleasant description, beyond any of his former writings. There is a freshness and unstudied simplicity in his daily memoranda that can only be found in writings not intended by the author for publication. — New York Evening Post.} 56 HISTORY Holmes, O. W. Our hundred days in Europe. 1891. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. [No one can read this book without feeling that here was a traveler who knew how to make the very best of his tour. It is not his round of splendid entertainments in London that he seems most to have enjoyed, or that gives most pleasure to the reader in his descriptions. It is rather the things he did which any one else could do as well as he, the places he sought out, the memories he called up, the ideas he received, the associations he lived in during those parts of his journeying which had nothing to do with the distinguished attentions paid him by his transatlantic admirers. — The Examiner (New York).] Hoppin, J. M. Old England: its scenery, art, and people. 1867. [With map. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.75. [We know of no book which we could so confidently recommend as a companion to one making an English tour as this. — Boston Transcript.'] Scudder, H. E. The English Bodley family. 1883. [Illustrated. Sq. 8vo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) White, R. G. England without and within. 1881. [i2mo.] $2.00. Informal, matter of course, untouristlike chronicles. — Dial. 914.4 France James, Henry. A little tour in France; illustrated by Joseph Pennell. 1900. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. One could hardly have a more charming picture-book of France. He knows the French, their history, their mind, and their customs considerably better than most travelers do. — Spectator. 914.5 Italy Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Passages from the French and Italian note-books. 1899. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. [In these full, frank, and beautiful diaries we have a better picture of Hawthorne than any other hand than his own could draw. We learn to appreciate the exquisite refinement of his nature, and love him for the tenderness and beauty of his character far more than we ever did before. — New York Tribune .] Howells, W. D. Italian journeys. New ed. 1901. [i2mo.] $1.50. Edition illustrated by Joseph Pennell, [crown 8vo, gilt top] $3.00. Shows same fine perception, exquisite humor, freshness of feeling, refinement and delicacy of treatment as Venetian life. — Harper's magazine. Tuscan cities, illustrated from drawings and etchings by Joseph Pennell and others. 1886. [i2mo.] $3.50. Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Pistoja, Prato, Fiesole. HISTORY 57 Norton, C. E. Notes of travel and study in Italy. 1887. [i6mo.] $1.25. Of unique value because of its delicate appreciation of the value of fine art. Contains account of the building of Orvieto cathedral in the 14th century. — Sturgis & Krehbiel, Annotated biblio- graphy oj fine art. [Much of the old charm of Venetian Life is certainly here. The daring disregard of convention- ality, the happy discovery of aspects of life unnoticed by previous travelers, the artistic and novel use of illustrative side lights, the quick insight into the characteristics of places, the unforced flow of del- icate humor, the fascination of a style distinguished more by natural grace than by laborious polish, and the genial understanding between the author and the reader — all these qualities reappear in the new record of travel, and if they seem less striking than they did of old, we must remember that Mr. Howells himself is no longer a fresh sensation, but a familiar favorite. — New York Tribune.'] Williams, E. R. Hill towns of Italy. 1903. [Illustrated. Large crown 8 vo.] $3.00, we/. [Postage, 21 cents.] (Readable.) An introduction to rather inaccessible, rarely visited, but most interesting places. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). ROME. Story, W. W. Roba di Roma. 8th ed. 2 v. 1887. [i6mo, gilt top.] $2.50. [There is an indescribable fascination for the scholarly reader in this glimpse which the poet sculptor-litterateur vouchsafes of his thought and feeling in the Eternal City, and it has become, like the Marble Faun , a hand-book for the cultivated traveler. — The Churchman (New York).] VENICE. Howells, W. D. Venetian life. 19th ed. 1895. [i2mo.] $1.50. A true, vivid, and almost a complete picture of Venetian life. — Pall Mall gazette. [We know of no single word which will so fitly characterize Mr. Howells’s volume about Venice, as “delightful.” — North American Review .] Smith, F. H. Gondola days. 1897. [Illustrated. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Text from Venice of to-day. Illustrated by the author. 914.6 Spain Harris, Mrs. Miriam (Coles). A corner of Spain. 1898. [i6mo.] $1.25. (Readable.) Describes life in Malaga, the Seville fairs and bull fights. — New York state library. Hay, John. Castilian days. Revised ed. 1899. [i6mo.] $1.25. (Readable.) Studies of Spanish manners, character and politics, written in 1871; sets admirablv before us the men and tendencies which have gone to the making of Spain and the Spaniard to-day. Lucid, forcible style; pleasant humor. — Saturday review. 914.7 Russia Hapgood, F. Russian rambles. 1895. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Certain surface aspects of Russian life pleasantly and truthfully treated. — Dial. 58 HISTORY 914.9 Minor countries of Europe 914.92 NETHERLANDS Griffis, W. E. The American in Holland; sentimental rambles and illustrations. Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Traces the abundant historical associations of interest to Americans 915 ASIA 9 1 5. 1 China KOREA. Lowell, Percival. Choson, the land of the morning calm; a sketch of Korea. 1886. [Il- lustrated. 4to, gilt top.] $5.00. Characteristics of China, Japan, and Korea, with philosophic views and personal recollec- tions. [A great deal more than a mere narrative of residence in Korea. It goes to the bottom of the whole question of the main characteristics of the three far-Eastern nations, China, Japan, and Korea, mixing philosophical views, new information, personal recollections, and witty remarks in such fashion as to conciliate the tastes of all classes of readers. . . . Fortunately for the subject, it has been taken in hand by one who had the verve of youth allied with the curiosity of the scientist. These serve as torches that light up with a picturesque beauty the cavernous recesses of the Hermit Kingdom. — The Japan Gazette (Yokohama).] 915.2 Japan Bacon, A. M. Japanese girls and women. Revised ed. 1902. [i6mo.] $1.25. Edition illustrated by Keishu Takenouchi, [crown 8vo, gilt top] $4.00. Education, marriage, and divorce, motherhood, court life, women in the palace and hut, and as laborers and servants in country and city. Clear, full and trustworthy. — Literary world. [This modest volume gives in a short compass the best account that has yet been published of Japanese family life, — a sanctum into which all travelers would fain pry, but of which even most old residents know surprisingly little. — Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain, in Things Jap- anese, .] A Japanese interior. 1893. [i6mo.] $1.25. (Readable.) Daily experiences of an open-minded American girl who taught in the school for peeresses in Tokio; trustworthy. — New York state library. Hearn, Lafcadio. Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan. 2 v. 1894. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. (Readable.) Descriptions of travel, wonderful accounts of famous temples and neighborhoods, charming stories of personal experience; succeeds in photographing, as it were, the Japanese soul. • Nation. Kokoro; hints and echoes of Japanese inner life. 1896. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Sympathetic and artistic portrayal of emotional life as seen in J apanese patricftism*, religiousness, romantic love, etc. — New York state library. . 1899. [With map . — New York state library. HISTORY 59 915.6 Turkey in Asia Warner, C. D. In the Levant. 1876. [Crown 8vo.] $2.00. Continues the narrative of My winter on the Nile , describing the coast of Turkey from Palestine to Greece. — Buffalo public library. [It is not often that of a volume of recent Eastern travel it can be honestly said that it is more than hard to find a single dull page in the whole four hundred; but even more may be said for Mr. Warner’s well-seasoned, graphic record of his adventures. From first to last he has the same unflagging spirit, the same sparkle of humor and power of observation. — London Standard .] 916 AFRICA 916.2 Egypt Bacon, Mrs. Lee. Our houseboat on the Nile. 1901. [Illustrated. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.75, net. [Postage, 15 cents.] Leisurely pilgrimage in a dahabiyeh from first to second cataract. Illustrations from Mr. Bacon’s water colors. — New York state library. Warner, C. D. My winter on the Nile. 1899. [Crown 8vo.] $2.00. (Popular treatment. Readable.) [Whether one has been in the East, or is going to the East, or does not expect ever to go, these books are of all travel books the best, because most truthful and companionable guides, having in them the very atmosphere and sunlight of the Orient. — Wm. C. Prime, LL.D.] 917 AMERICA Warner, C. D. Baddeck, and that sort of thing. 1874. [i8mo.] $1.00. An excursion to Cape Breton. — Sargent, Reading for the young. 917.2 Mexico Smith, F. H. White umbrella in Mexico; illustrated by the author. 1889. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.50. The grace of these artistic travels lies in freedom from fixed plan and grasping of instantaneous impressions. — Critic. [Rambling through Mexico with his white umbrella and his sketching materials, recognized everywhere as a privileged being, and admitted everywhere with that mediaeval reverence for art which survives only in what are called semi-civilized lands, the strolling tourist evidently received the pleasantest impressions, and has reflected them faithfully both with pen and pencil in these sprightly pages. — New York Tribune.] 917.3 United States Earle, Mrs. Alice (Morse). Colonial dames and good wives. 1895. [iamo.] $1.50. 6 o HISTORY Miinsterberg, Hugo. American traits from the point of view of a German. 1901. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.60, net. [Postage, 14 cents.] (Readable.) Informal essays comparing German and American ideals, education, scholarship, women, and democracy; by a Harvard professor. Frank and stimulating in criticism. — New York state library. [Not in the learned style of the university lecture, but in the lively, brilliant, graphic and sometimes even colloquial style of a very bright traveler, recounting his impressions in the company of bright men and women who dwell where he has traveled. — Boston Advertiser. Written throughout in a thorough spirit of fair-mindedness. — Boston Transcript .] 917.4 Northeastern or North Atlantic. New England Bolles, Frank. At the north of Bearcamp water. 1893. [i6mo.] $1.25. Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December. — Title. Land of the lingering snow. 1891. [i6mo.] $1.25. Short essays describing country tramps near Boston, or in eastern Massachusetts. Gives much information concerning homes and habits of birds. — J. R. Lowell. 917.41 Maine Thoreau, H. D. Maine woods. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. His power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses. He saw as with a microscope, heard as with an ear trumpet. — R. W. Emerson. 917.42 New Hampshire Aldrich, T. B. An old town by the sea (Portsmouth, N. H.). 1893. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Thaxter, Mrs. Celia (Laighton). Among the Isles of Shoals. 1901. [Illustrated. i8mo.] $1.25. Describes the islands in all their aspects, and the quaint manners and speech prevailing there.- Written from lifelong acquaintance. — New York state library. [The book is not exactly a guide-book. It is something more and better, — a description of the islands, and of life upon them, by one who has gathered her knowledge out of the store of a rich experience. It is a book no one who visits the islands can do without. — Boston Advertiser.] Torrey, Bradford. Footing it in Franconia. 1901. [i6mo.] $1.10, net. [Postage, 10 cents.] 917.44 Massachusetts Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Passages from the American note- books. 1895. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Hawthorne’s diary, 1835-53. [The revelations of the interior life of the author which everywhere abound in these volumes give them the charm of an autobiography. They not only disclose his methods of working in the com- position of fiction, but throw a broad light around his personal traits and habits of thought. But HISTORY 61 every disclosure in these volumes tends to enhance the high and admirable reputation of Mr. Haw- thorne. They have the same inimitable felicity of expression which gives such fascination to every production of his pen. — New York Tribune .] Thoreau, H. D. Cape Cod. 1893. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. The work of a keen lover and student of nature and observer of men. Fine contribution to historical materials for analysis of American character. — H. T. Tuckerman. A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers. 1894. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. If any would steal away from the region of wintry skies into regions of perpetual summer, let him take the proffered hand of Thoreau, and by the side of a slender New England river walk with the sages and poets of all ages. — New York independent. 917.47 New York Warner, C. D. In the wilderness. 1878. [i8mo.] $1.00. Essays descriptive of summer life in Adirondacks. — G. E. Hardy, 500 books for the young. 917.5 Southeastern or South Atlantic Warner, C. D. On horseback; a tour in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, with notes of travel in Mexico and California. 1888. [i6mo.] $1.25. 917.56 North Carolina Torrey, Bradford. A world of green hills ; observations of nature and human nature in the Blue Ridge. 1898. [i6mo.] $1.25. 9 1 7.59 Florida Torrey, Bradford. Florida sketch-book. 1894. [i6mo.] $1.25. 917*6 South Central States 917.68 Tennessee Torrey, Bradford. Spring notes from Tennessee. 1896. [i6mo.] $1.25. Bird studies made on Tennessee battlefields. — New York state library. 917.8 Western or Mountain States 917.87 Wyoming Muir, John. Our national parks. 1901. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.75, net. [Post- age, 17 cents.] Sketches first published in the Atlantic monthly. — Preface. Written by a genuine lover of nature who knows more about the forests and streams, the moun- tains and glaciers, the flowers and animals, of the Pacific slope than any other living person. — Nation. 62 gi7-9 Pacific States HISTORY Austin, Mrs. Mary (Hunter). The land of little rain. 1903. [Illustrated. 8vo.] $2.00, net. [Post- age, 24 cents.] Describes with unusual fidelity the marvels of the desert, the strange birds and beasts and flowers, the Indian, the greaser and the gold-hunter. Well illustrated. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). 918 South America 918.1 Brazil Agassiz, Louis, and Mrs. E. Cabot (Cary). Journey in Brazil. 1895. [Illustrated, and with map. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. A fascinating account of nature and man, in South Brazil and on the Amazon in 1864 and 1866. — H. R. Mill. [A most charming and instructive volume. It will be an indispensable companion for every traveler in Brazil; and its intrinsic merits assure for it general favor and circulation. — Pall Mall Gazette.\ 920 BIOGRAPHY Collective Higginson, T. W. Contemporaries. 1900. [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. Contents: R. W. Emerson; A. B. Alcott; Theodore Parker; John G. Whittier; Walt Whitman; Sidney Lanier; An evening with Mrs. Hawthorne; Lydia Maria Child; Helen Jackson (“H. H.”); John Holmes, Thaddeus William Harris; A visit to John Brown’s household in 1859; William L. Garrison; Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner; Dr. Howe’s antislavery career; U. S. Grant; The eccentricities of reformers; The road to England. Parton, James. Captains of industry. 2 v. 1884-94. [i6mo.] $1.25 each. [All the narratives teach the same lesson, — that patience and perseverance, with good habits, may accomplish anything aimed at. The father who puts this book into the hands of his boy may sow T the seed for a more important harvest than he dreams of. — Boston Transcript .] Thayer, W. R. Throne-makers. 1899. [i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Studies of four “throne-makers” — Bismarck, Napoleon III, Kossuth, Garibaldi — and of Carlyle, Tintoret, Bruno and Bryant. — New York state library. Individual Stillman, W. J. Autobiography of .a journalist. 2 v. 1901. [With portraits. 8vo, gilt top.] $6.00. His personal friendships with Emerson, Lowell, Agassiz, Rossetti, and others, and wide acquaint- ance with art, archeology, and European affairs of last half century lend high interest. Appeared in abridged form in Atlantic monthly, v. 85, 1900. HISTORY 63 920.7 Biography of women Individual Winslow, A. G. Diary; edited by Alice Morse Earle. 1894. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Journal of a little Boston schoolgirl, supplemented by editor’s notes. Entertaining picture of domestic life in Boston a century ago. — New York state library. 922 Religion Individual BEECHER. * Abbott, Lyman. Henry Ward Beecher. 1903. [With portraits. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.75, net . [Postage, 13 cents.] Bibliography, pref. p. 17-38. Portrays the great preacher from long acquaintance, as a man, as pastor, as reformer, and as patriot. — New York state library. BROOKS. Lawrence, William, bp. Phillips Brooks; a study. 1903. [i6mo, gilt top.] $0.50, net. [Post- age, 5 cents.] Address delivered at Trinity church on the tenth anniversary of Bishop Brooks’s death. BUSHNELL. Munger, T. T. Horace Bushnell, preacher and theologian. 1899. [With portraits. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Published writings, pref. p. 11-14. Less a biography than a critical, though sympathetic, examination of his theologic position and teachings. — Literary world. CHANNING. Chadwick, J. W. William Ellery Channing. 1903. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.75, net. [Postage, 13 cents.] CLARKE. Clarke, J. F. Autobiography, diary, and correspondence, edited by E. E. Hale. 1891. [Crown 8vo.] $1.50. Autobiography brings story down to 1840, after which the diary and letters carry it on. Dr. Hale has supplied missing links and written a chapter on the character of the man. — New York stale library. EDWARDS. Allen, A. V. G. Jonathan Edwards. 1889. (American religious leaders.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. HISTORY 64 Bibliography, p. 39i"393- Brings out the distinctive features of his career as a parish minister, a revival preacher and a philosophic theologian. — New York observer. FOX. Hodgkin, Thomas. George Fox. 1896. (English religious leaders.) [i2mo.] $1.00. MANNING. Hutton, A. W. Cardinal Manning. 1892. [i2mo.] $1.00. PARKER. Chadwick, J. W. Theodore Parker, preacher and . reformer. 1900. [With portraits. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Bibliography, pref. p. 11-20. Well-proportioned outline in which the scholar, teacher, minister, heretic, theologian, and anti- slavery leader lives before us. — New York state library. [A new generation needs to know Parker in the truthful relation in which he is presented in this volume. It is a brilliant contribution to American biography. Mr. Chadwick has perfectly assimi- lated his material, and enriched it with his abundant culture, his sparkling wit, graceful allusion, and poetic charm. — Rev. S. J. Barrows, in The Christian Register .] 923 Sociology Chief rulers Ropes, J. C. The first Napoleon; a sketch, political and military. 3d ed. 1886. [With portrait and maps. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Lowell institute lecture, March, 1885. Concise and forcible. — New York state library. United States Individual ADAMS, JOHN and ABIGAIL. Familiar letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams, during the revolution, with memoir of Mrs. Adams. 1876. [With portrait. i2mo.] $2.00. Takes its place by the side of the most valuable documents of our revolutionary history. — Nation. Morse, J. T., Jr. John Adams. 1900. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Graphic portraiture, and excellent study of our politics in days of Adams, of fortunes of federal party and attitude of its two hostile forces, represented by Adams and Hamilton. — Hartford courant. HISTORY 65 ADAMS, J. Q. Morse, J. T., Jr. John Quincy Adams. 1882. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Trustworthy in details; chief merit in its comprehension of essential character of Adams and its sympathetic interpretation of the man and his work. — Literature of American history. JACKSON. Sumner, W. G. Andrew Jackson as a public man. 1882. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Books referred to, p. 387-392. Able, critical treatment of political and financial history, 1824-40. — Literature of American history. JEFFERSON. Merwin, H. C. Thomas Jefferson. 1901. (Riverside biographical series.) [With portrait. Small i6mo.] $0.65, net. [Postage, 6 cents.] Morse, J. T., Jr. Thomas Jefferson. 1883. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Based on Randall’s Life and Jefferson’s Works. Over two thirds of book devoted to Jefferson’s official career after 1790, his relations to Washington, Hamilton, Randolph, Burr, to the Louisiana purchase, and to the embargo, receiving particular attention. — Literature of American history. LINCOLN. Morse, J. T., Jr. Abraham Lincoln. 2 v. 1893. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $2.50. Best brief life of Lincoln. Condensed but clear. Very careful of facts, and inviting confidence. — Literature of American history. Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln. 1891. [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Originally published in Atlantic monthly as a review of Abraham Lincoln, a history , by Nicolay and Hay. Perhaps best sketch of character and achievements of the great president. — New York state library. [In outline and detail the finest study of Lincoln in the same space. — Christian Register (Boston).] MADISON, MRS. DOROTHY (PAYNE). Memoirs and letters of Dolly Madison, edited by her grandniece. 1886. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Sprightly and entertaining, giving valuable accounts of important historical events. Short nar- rative statements by editor connect letters and explain allusions. — Literature of American history. [A delicious glimpse of American life in its highest public circles during the early days of the Republic ; and a better figure to illustrate it in its purity, beauty, and simple dignity could hardly be imagined than Mrs. Madison. — The Independent (New York).] 66 HISTORY MADISON, JAMES. Gay, S. H. James Madison. 1884. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Study of the statesman and of the political movements in which he took part; critical and gener- ous. — Nation. From federalist standpoint; specially full on origin of federal convention. — Literature of Ameri- can history. [By joining a personal interest with the political and historical interest of the subject, the narration is made all the more attractive. — Boston T ranscript.] VAN BUREN. Shepard, E. M. Martin Van Buren. Revised ed. 1900. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] Si. 25. Places him on high plane of statesmanship, as real successor of Jefferson and his associates. Gives a new interpretation to both national and New York state politics of 1820-50. Chapter on crisis of 1837, of permanent general interest. — Literature of American history. WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Lodge, H. C. George Washington. 2 v. 1889. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25 each. (Popular treatment.) Written from abundant knowledge, embodies excellent judgment and temper, and a strong desire to be accurate. — Literature of American history. Scudder, H. E. George Washington. 1889. (Riverside school library.) [With por- trait and illustrations. i6mo.] $0.60, net. [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) One of best of lives of Washington for young readers, and among the best of one-volume lives of Washington for readers of any age. — Literature of American history. [Mr. Lodge has written an admirable biography, and one which cannot but confirm the American people in the prevailing estimate concerning the Father of his Country; but its deepest and most important significance appears to us to consist in its testimony to the exaltation and the uniqueness of a character whose like comes seldom to the world, and only in periods of great stress and crisis. — New York Tribune. The series to which belongs Mr. Lodge’s biography of the foremost man of all this Western World has had no addition made to its list more interesting than the present volumes; it has had none that was more certain of wide reading, and it has had not more than two or three — one of these being Mr. Carl Schurz’s Henry Clay — which were so notable as a literary achievement. — New York Times.] Statesmen , etc. Individual Kropotkin, P. A., prince. Memoirs of a revolutionist. 1899. [With portraits. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Readable.) Published in Atlantic monthly, Sept. 1898-Sept. 1899, under title The autobiography of a revolutionist. Graphic details of Russian conditions and of an eventful life. — New York state library. X VANE. HISTORY 67 Hosmer, J. K. Life of young Sir Henry Vane; with a consideration of the English com- monwealth as a forecast of America. 1888. [With portrait and plans. 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. Thorough and critical. Author sympathizes strongly with Vane’s political and religious views, but is not unduly partial; uses original as well as secondary sources. — Literature of American history. United States Individual ADAMS, C. F. Adams, C. F., Jr. \ Charles Francis Adams, by his son. 1900. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Tells little of personal traits. Narration of services while minister to England; sheds a valuable light on relations between England and America during civil war. — New York state library. ADAMS, SAMUEL. Hosmer, J. K. Samuel Adams. 1899. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Interesting and appreciative, setting forth fairly the man, his work and his times. — Nation. Furnishes substantially a compact history of occasions and manner of opening a revolutionary war. — G. E. Ellis. [Its high literary quality, its purity of style, its clearness of statement, and above all, its impartial- ity, make for it at once a place among the best works of the kind in American literature. — Boston Transcript .] BENTON. Roosevelt, Theodore. Thomas Hart Benton. 1903. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Author understands Benton and sympathizes with him; points out his merits and demerits as a statesman. Written mostly from secondary sources. — Literature of American history. BURR. Parton, James. Life and times of Aaron Burr; enlarged ed. with numerous appendices, containing new and interesting information. 2 v. 1892. [With por- trait and illustrations. 8vo, gilt top.] $5.00. (Popular treatment.) Adds something of real value to our knowledge of Burr, and shows clearly that he had been unjustly judged in many particulars. — Literature of American history. [One of the most fascinating biographies of a bad man ever written. Its pages are all brilliant, captivating, exciting, and often intensely interesting. In addition to its biographical interest it abounds in sketches of the political and social condition of America in Burr’s time. — New York Observer.] 68 HISTORY CALHOUN. Holst, H. E. von. John C. Calhoun. 1882. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Shows full recognition of significance of movements of popular feeling which so frequently upset the balance of politicians. Personality of Clay constantly brought to the front. — Literature of American history. DOUGLAS. Brown, W. G. Stephen Arnold Douglas. 1902. (Riverside biographical series.) [With portrait. Small i6mo.] $0.65, net. [Postpaid.] Discriminating sketch of Lincoln’s rival, faithfully presenting his part in compromises of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska legislation, disruption of democratic party in i860, and creation of a war party of northern democrats after secession. — P. P. Wells, Yale university library. FRANKLIN. Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography and sketch of Franklin’s life from the point where the autobiography ends; drawn chiefly from his letters; with notes and a chronological historical table. 1896. (Riverside literature series.) $0.40, net. [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) Morse, J. T., Jr. Benjamin Franklin. 1889. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Ranks high among minor biographies of Franklin. — Literature of American history. [Mr. Morse writes of Franklin, the statesman and diplomat, with a freshness, fullness, and accu- racy that leave little to be desired. His admirable style and literary skill, his thorough knowledge of history and keenness as a critic of politicians and politics, would in any case make his estimate of Franklin valuable. And, in this case, it is especially valuable, because he has been able to base it upon the very latest and freshest materials. — Boston Advertiser .] GALLATIN. Stevens, J. A. Albert Gallatin. 1883. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. A political history, 1790-1816. Chapter 6, devoted to Gallatin’s administration of the treasury, a useful monograph on financial history of the period. — Literature of American history. [Frank, simple, and straightforward. — New York Tribune .] HAMILTON. Lodge, H. C. Alexander Hamilton. 1882. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Brings into strong relief the salient features of Hamilton’s character and work. Few books so well adapted to kindle an intelligent interest in American history. — Literature of American history. HISTORY 69 HENRY. Tyler, M. C. Patrick Henry. 1887. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. (Readable.) May be fairly said to reconstruct the life of Patrick Henry, and to vindicate his memory from the unappreciative and injurious estimate which has been placed on it. — Nation. HOUSTON. Williams, A. M. Sam Houston and the war of independence in Texas. 1893. [With portrait and maps. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Bibliography, p. 397-400. Based on study of Texan archives, extensive knowledge of existing works on the subject, and personal acquaintance with Texans who knew Houston. — Literature of American history. HUTCHINSON. Hosmer, J. K. Life of Thomas Hutchinson. 1896. [With portrait. 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. Contains extracts from Hutchinson’s unpublished correspondence. Value of book enhanced by author’s frank recognition of the large element of truth and justice at basis of loyalist argument. — Literature of American history. MONROE. Gilman, D. C. James Monroe in his relations to the public service during half a century, 1776 to 1826. 1883. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Short, simple account of the most important events in Monroe’s life. Thorough bibliography of Monroe and the Monroe doctrine, p. 553-280, materially adds to value. — Literature of American history. MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR. Roosevelt, Theodore. Gouverneur Morris. 1899. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Outline sketch, vivid enough to make the man comprehensible and to offer a lively view of his habits, tendencies, deeds and thoughts. Some new material and many anecdotes. — New York tribune. STANTON. Gorham, G. C. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton. 2 v. 1899. [With por- traits and map. 8vo, gilt top.] $6.00. SUMNER. Storey, Moorfield. Charles Sumner. 1900. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, .gilt top.] $1.25. Summary of public career and influence. — New York state library. 7o HISTORY [A very able piece of work, intensely interesting also for its glimpses of the political history of the times, above all the great anti-slavery agitation with which Sumner’s name, from the moment of his entering public life, was inextricably interwoven. — Springfield Republican .] WEBSTER. Lodge, H. C. Daniel Webster. 1892. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Appreciative study by a well-informed scholar. Points out faults as well as merits. — Literature of American history. [It will be read by students of history; it will be invaluable as a work of reference; it will be an authority as regards matters of fact and criticism; it hits the key-note of Webster’s durable and ever-growing fame; it is adequate, calm, impartial; it is admirable. — Philadelphia Press.] Lawyers , Judges CHASE. Hart, A. B. Salmon Portland Chase. 1899. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. In three historic episodes; the western political anti-slavery movement, the financial measures of the civil war, and the process of judicial reconstruction. — W. D. Foulke, in American histor- ical review. DANA. Adams, C. F., Jr. Richard Henry Dana. 2 v. 1890. [With portraits. i6mo, gilt top.] $4.00. [This work belongs in the first rank of American biographies; it is as remarkable for variety of material as for its interest and value. — Boston Literary World.] JAY. Pellew, George. John Jay. 1890. (American statesmen.) [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Abounds in excerpts from Jay’s correspondence, and gives unusually clear picture of revolu- tionary period and 2 succeeding decades. — Literature of American history. [A pleasant picture of one of the purest, most single-minded, sincerest, and most sagacious and Christian statesmen the annals of the Republic can show. ... It elevates yet higher the character of a man whom all American patriots must delight*to honor. — New York Tribune.] MARSHALL. Thayer, J. B. John Marshall. 1901. (Riverside biographical series.) [With por- trait. Small i6mo.] $0.65, net. [Postage, 6 cents.] Brief, giving clear picture of Marshall’s personal traits and criticisms of his constitutional doc- trines. — P. P. Wells, Yale University library. [Judge Marshall deserves the reverential homage which attaches to him. The simplest possible narration of the incidents of the life and the official trusts and services of his subject serves for fame and unfading honor. We have this in the book now in our hands. It is written in a spirit of admiring love and with a calm dignity of tone and style. . . . The portraiture of the private life, the domestic character, the purity, the simplicity of habit, and the even childlike graces of this wise, HISTORY 7i great, and good man, is most felicitously drawn in these pages. The reader closes the book with a deep sense of obligation to its author. — Rev. Dr. George E. Ellis, President of the Massachusetts Historical Society .] Military and Naval Individual JOAN OF ARC. Lowell, F. C. Joan of Arc. 1896. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Distinctly the best thing in the English language on the life and career of the Maid of Orleans. — H. Morse Stephens. Based on latest French authorities. — New York state library. United States Individual PERRY, M. C. Griffis, W. E. Matthew Calbraith Perry. 1887. [With portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Philanthropists COOPER. Raymond, R. W. Peter Cooper. 1901. (Riverside biographical series.) [With portrait. Small i6mo.] $0.65, net. [Postage, 6 cents.] Outlines of a life of singular simplicity and earnestness of purpose to enlarge opportunities of workmen. — New York state library. GARRISON. Garrison, W. P. and F. J. William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; by his children. 4 v. 1894. [With portraits. 8vo, gilt top.] $8.00, net. [Postpaid.] Possibly too expensive for many libraries, but as the authoritative life, must be mentioned. — Editor for selection. Full biography, written with the reverential admiration of children rather than from the point of view of a dispassionate and critical historian; also virtually a history of the anti-slavery struggle. — English historical review. [Apart from the intrinsic interest of the narrative, the work is one of great literary art. The biographers give copious references to every phase of the great conflict which their father incarnated. The two sets of notes, at the foot and at the sides of the page, form indexes to the files of the Liber- ator, and to the literature of the day, with its favorable and unfavorable references to Garrison. . . . The index to the four volumes is a model of wbat an index ought to be. It comprises seventy-six pages, in several kinds of type, and is in itself full of biographical and other useful information which will save the opening of many reference books. The completed work is at once a biography, an autobiography, a history, and an encyclopaedia of the anti-slavery movement, written with astonishing grasp of the whole range of facts in the case, and in a spirit of candor that is as rare as it is desirable. — The Critic (New York).] 72 HISTORY Business men HARRIS. Griffis, W. E. Townsend Harris, first American envoy in Japan. 1895. [With por- trait. Crown 8 vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Explorers , Travelers Individual CHAMPLAIN. Sedgwick, H. D. Samuel de Champlain. 1902. (Riverside biographical series.) [With portrait. Small i6mo.] $0.65, net. [Postage, 6 cents.] (For young readers. Readable.) Champlain’s life and surroundings in France dwelt on at unusual length and nobility of his character well presented. — P. P. Wells, Yale University library. 925 Science Individual AGASSIZ. Agassiz, Mrs. E. C. (Cary). Louis Agassiz; his life and correspondence. 1893. [With portraits and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. Early life in Switzerland, friendships with Cuvier, Humboldt, and other distinguished scientists; scientific work, particularly in geology and ichthyology, and work at Harvard, including founding of Agassiz museum. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). [In a letter to his father, dated Munich, 1829, Agassiz wrote: “I wish it may be said of Louis Agassiz that he was the first naturalist of his time, a good citizen and a good son, beloved of those who knew him.” Here is the self -proposed standard of a life which, closing forty -four years later, might have been summed up in these very words. Of this fruitful, wholly unselfish career Mrs. Agassiz has given us a vivid picture. So far as possible, she allows her story to tell itself in selec- tions from Agassiz’s letters, which at once bring the reader into actual contact with the fervid and genuine personality of the man. The story of an intellectual life marked by such rare coherency and unity of aim will surely serve as a stimulus and an encouragement to others. — Christian Union (New York). No one can read the book without being stimulated, elevated, purified. — Prof. Joseph LeConte.] NEWCOMB. Newcomb, Simon. Reminiscences of an astronomer. 1903. [With portrait. 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50, net. [Postage, 17 cents.] Contributes much that is valuable to history of astronomic progress during his lifetime. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). 926 Useful arts Individual EADS. How, Louis. James B. Eads. 1900. (Riverside biographical series.) [With por- trait. Small i6mo.] $0.65, net. [Postage, 6 cents.] HISTORY 73 927 Fine arts Artists Collective Jameson, Mrs. A. B. (Murphy). Memoirs of the early Italian painters; revised by E. M. Hurll. 1899. [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. From Cimabue to Paul Veronese. — Sargent, Reading jor the young. Shedd, Mrs. J. A. (Clark). Famous painters and paintings; 4th ed. revised, illustrated with designs after works by Raphael, Coreggip, Titian, and other masters. 1900. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Popular treatment.) Catalogue of important paintings and their location, p. 309-334. Discussion of the merits and peculiarities of these men and the circumstances of their times. — Sturgis & Krehbiel, Annotated bibliography oj -fine art. Famous sculptors and sculpture. Revised ed. 1896. [Illus- trated. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Companion volume to Painters and paintings. — Sturgis & Krehbiel, Annotated bibliography oj fine art. Waters, Mrs. Clara (Erskine) Clement. Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. 1901. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $3.00. Waters, Mrs. Clara (Erskine) Clement, and Hutton, Laurence. Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. 3d ed. 1885. [i2mo.] $3.00. More than 2000 brief biographies, followed by critical quotations. Aims to present artists of prominence, rather than to include all those of the .century. — A. B. Kroeger, Guide to the study oj rejerence books. [We have tested its accuracy and completeness in many ways, and are prepared to say that it is the most valuable book of its kind, in the English language at least. In England it is already as much a standard work as it has become in the United States. It should be owned by every art club, if not every art student, in the country. — Art Amateur (New York).] Individual ELIOT. Eliot, C. W. Charles Eliot, landscape architect, a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practiced it happily, and through it wrought much good. 1902. [With portraits and illustra- tions. 8vo, gilt top.] $3.50, net. [Postage, 29 cents.] STORY. James, Henry. William Wetmore Story and his friends, from letters, diaries, and recol- lections. 2 v. 1903. [With portraits. Crown 8vo.] $6.00, net. [Post- age, 18 cents.] 74 HISTORY Of much literary interest not only from the subject, but its handling. Includes letters of Browning, Lowell, Story, and Charles Sumner, and glimpses of many other authors and notable people. — New York state library. 928 Literature Collective Adams, O. F. Dictionary of American authors. 4th ed. 1901. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $3.50. (Readable.) Greatly enlarged edition of his Handbook oj American authors. Gives 6000 names, with dates, titles of books, and exceedingly compact biographic and critical notes. — New York state library. [Mr. Adams’s book fills a long-felt want. — Nation (New York).] Fields, J. T. Yesterdays with authors; illustrated with photogravure portraits and autograph letters. 1900. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. The Boston publisher’s personal reminiscences of Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, Miss Mitford, and Barry Cornwall. — New York state library. [It offers a rare charm to the lovers of literary anecdote, and in many considerable portions possesses an interest no less enticing than the naive recitals of Boswell or the pleasant recollections of Crabb Robinson. — New York Tribune.'] Individual BROWNING. Orr, Mrs. Alexandra (Leighton). Life and letters of Robert Browning. 1900. [With portrait. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Authorized by the poet’s family. — Critic. [A biography of the very first importance, and withal a work that for readableness and the admir- able discretion shown in the choice and arrangement of material has hardly a rival among contem- porary memoirs. — Boston Beacon.] BRYANT. Bigelow, John. William Cullen Bryant. 1890. (American men of letters.) [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. [There were many aspects in which Mr. Bryant presented himself as a subject for biography. He was a chief in the department of American journalism. He was a controlling power in American politics. He was also a man of letters in the pure and simple sense of the term. One might have known him well in either of these relations and yet had no thought of the others. Mr. Bigelow has, it seems to us, done justice to all. — The Churchman (New York).] BUNYAN. Brown, John. John Bunyan; his life, times, and work; illustrated by Whymper. 3d ed. 1888. [8vo.] $2.50. Chronologic list of Bunyan’s works, p. 483-488. Carlyle, Thomas, and Emerson, R. W. Correspondence, 1834-1872. 2 v. 1884. [With portraits. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. HISTORY 75 A nearly complete record of their friendship. Its special charm lies in its being human rather than literary. — G. E. Woodberry, in Atlantic monthly. COOPER. Lounsbury, T. R. James Fenimore Cooper. 1883. (American men of letters.) [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Partial bibliography of Cooper’s writings, p. 290-299. Admirable study of Cooper’s work in light of his life and character. — New York state library. [We have here a model biography. The book is charmingly written, with a felicity and vigor of diction that are notable, and with a humor sparkling, racy, and never obtrusive. — New York Tribune. Prof. Lounsbury’s book is an admirable specimen of literary biography. . . . We can recall no recent addition to American biography in any department which is superior to it. — New York Evening Post.] CORNEILLE. Vincent, L. H. Corneille. 1901. (Brief studies in French society.) [i8mo, gilt top.] $1.00. Bibliographic note, p. 193-198 CURTIS. Cary, Edward. George William Curtis. 1894. (American men of letters.) [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Straightforward and satisfactory biography by one who knew Curtis well. — Literature of Ameri- can history. EDGEWORTH. Edgeworth, Maria. Life and letters, edited by A. J. C. Hare. 2 v. 1895. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. Valuable for their light on an honest, generous, high-minded character, and as a record of her times and of many prominent persons. — New York sun. EMERSON. Cabot, J. E. Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2 v. 1887. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $3.5°. Chronologic list of lectures and addresses, p. 710-803. Authorized biography. — Nation. [Interesting as this memoir proves itself in its details of Emerson’s life and habits and daily sur- roundings, its chief attraction lies in the light which it throws upon Emerson’s writings, his aims, and his way of thought. — New York Evening Post.] Emerson, R. W., and Grimm, Hermann. Correspondence; edited by F. W. Holls. 1903. [i6mo, parchment paper, gilt top.] $1.00, net. [Postage, 5 cents.] Reprinted, with the exception of the original German letters, from Atlantic monthly, April, 1903. 76 HISTORY Holmes, O. W. Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Lothrop Motley; two memoirs. 1898. (Riverside edition.) [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. [The selection of extracts has been made with care and judgment. Partly from these, partly from Dr. Holmes’s commentary, the earnest reader will be sure to see, in its full beauty, the truth, purity, and courage of Emerson’s life, and the high dignity of his mind. — Boston Advertiser .] FIELDS. Fields, Mrs. Annie (Adams), editor. James T. Fields; biographical notes and personal sketches, with unpub- lished fragments and tributes from men and women of letters. 1881. [8 vo, gilt top.] $2.00. HAWTHORNE. Hawthorne, Julian. Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife. 2 v. 1885. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. The standard life, by his son; called by Richardson the best biography written in America. — W. Dawson Johnston, Library of Congress. Lathrop, Mrs. Rose (Hawthorne). Memoirs of Hawthorne. 1897. [With portrait. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. Largely composed of original letters of Hawthorne and his wife. — Providence -public library monthly bulletin. Woodberry, G. E. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1902. (American men of letters.) [With por- trait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.10, net. [Postage, 10 cents.] Most valuable as an appreciative criticism of his writings. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). HIGGINSON. Higginson, T. W. Cheerful yesterdays. 1900. [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. Originally contributed to Atlantic monthly. Contents: A Cambridge boyhood; A child of the college; The period of the newness; The rearing of a reformer; Fugitive slave epoch; Birth of a literature; Kansas and John Brown; Civil war; Literary London 20 years ago; Literary Paris 20 years ago; On the outskirts of public life; Epilogue. Personal reminiscences; history in its social setting. — Nation. Reprinted from Atlantic monthly , with slight additions. HOLMES. Morse, J. T., Jr. Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes. 2 v. 1897. [With por- traits and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. Such letters as no one else could have written, full of wit, humor, and intimate revelations. — Bookman. HISTORY 77 IRVING. Boynton, H. W. Washington Irving. 1901. (Riverside biographical series.) [With portrait. Small i6mo.] $0.65, net. [Postage, 6 cents.] Warner, C. D. Washington Irving. 1881. (American men of letters.) [With por- trait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Contains discriminating characterization of his works. — Boston journal. [Mr. Warner has written with sympathy, minute knowledge of his subject, fine literary taste, and that easy, fascinating style which always puts him on such good terms with his readers. — New York Tribune .] LARCOM. Addison, D. D. Lucy Larcom: life, letters, and diary. 1894. [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Larcom, Lucy. A New England girlhood, outlined from memory. 1889. (Riverside library for young people. [i6mo.] $0.75. New England poet’s recollections of her childhood in a sea-coast village and her young woman- hood in a Lowell factory. Interesting contribution to New England social history. — New York state library. LONGFELLOW. Higginson, T. W. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1902. (American men of letters.) [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.10, net. [Postage, 10 cents.] Bibliography, p. 303-316. Rich in personal recollections and knowledge of Longfellow’s Cambridge environment. — New York state library. Longfellow, Samuel, editor. Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with extracts from his journals and correspondence. 3 v. 1891. [With portraits and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $6.00. Bibliography, 3: p. 427-441- [Indeed, the life of the poet, and it will take its place side by side with the standard Boswells of literature. What Boswell did for Johnson, this painstaking clergyman has done for his famous brother. Back of every line one is charmed to note the touch of a hand made tender by mellow memories. — Philadelphia Press.] LOWELL. Hale, E. E. James Russell Lowell and his friends. 1899. [With portraits and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $3.00. Genial personal reminiscences, admirably supplementing more formal biography. Valuable picture of literary conditions in New England from Lowell’s youth. Illustrated. — New York state library. 78 HISTORY Scudder, H. E. James Russell Lowell. 2 v. 1901. [With portraits and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $3.50, net. [Postage, 30 cents.] Writings of Lowell, 2: p. 421-445. Authorized biography, complementing Lowell’s Letters. — New York state library. MARTINEAU. Martineau, Harriet. Autobiography; edited by M. W. Chapman. 2 v. 1877. [Crown 8vo. gilt top.] $4.00. V. 2 includes (p. 131-596) Memorials of Harriet Martineau, by M. W. Chapman. Among the innumerable pictures of London literary society Miss Martineau’s series of portraits will stand unrivaled. — T. W. Higginson. [Her work is so far the best of its kind that no other autobiographer deserves to be named as even second to her. — New York Evening Post .] MOTLEY. Holmes, O. W. John Lothrop Motley. 1898. [i6mo.] $1.50. OSSOLI. Higginson, T. W. Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 1884. (American men of letters.) [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Bibliographic appendix, p. 315-318. [Here at last we have a biography of one of the noblest and the most intellectual of American women, which does full justice to its subject. The author has had ample material for his work, — all the material now available, perhaps, — and has shown the skill of a master in his use of it. . . . It is a fresh view of the subject. — Boston Advertiser .] POE. Woodberry, G. E. Edgar Allan Poe. 1885. (American men of letters.) [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. [Mr. Woodberry has contrived with vast labor to construct what must hereafter be called the authoritative biography of Poe, a biography which corrects all others, supplements all others, and supersedes all others. — The Critic (New York).] RUSKIN. Collingwood, W. G. Life of John Ruskin. 2d ed. 1900. [With portrait. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00, net. [Postage, 15 cents.] Bibliography, p. 409-421. Life and work of John Ruskin , 2 v. 1893, rewritten on somewhat different lines. Adds new bio- graphic detail and letters hitherto unpublished. — Publishers ’ weekly. SCOTT. Lockhart, J. G. Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott; edited by S. M. Francis. 5 v. 1902. (Cambridge edition.) [With frontispieces. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $10.00. HISTORY 79 Biographic sketch of Lockhart, i: pref. p. 13-36. The most important biography of the reign of Queen Victoria. — Shorter. [Executed with so much skill, and in so admirable a manner, that, next to Boswell’s Life of John- son, it will probably always be considered as the most interesting work of biography in the English language. — Alison, History of Europe. One of the most delightful books in the language. — George S. Hillard.] Scott, Sir Walter, hart. Familiar letters; edited by David Douglas. 2 v. 1894. [With por- trait. 8vo, gilt top.] $6.00. STERLING. Sterling, John, and Emerson, R. W. Correspondence; with a sketch of Sterling’s life by E. W. Emerson. 1897. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.00. STOWE. Fields, Mrs. Annie (Adams), editor. Life and letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1897. [With portrait. i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. Account of her early life as she told it to her son; facts of her later history mainly from very frank and detailed letters to her friends. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). THAXTER. Thaxter, Mrs. Celia (Laighton). Letters; edited by her friends A. F. and R. L. 1895. [With portraits. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Written from 1856-94. Pleasant picture of a quiet, sea-island life, full of generous activities and individual flavors. — New York state library. THOREAU. Thoreau, H. D. Familiar letters; edited with introduction and notes by F. B. Sanborn. 1896. (Riverside edition.) [With portrait. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50. TICKNOR. Ticknor, George. Life, letters and journals. 12th ed. 2 v. 1876. [With portraits. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. Full of anecdotes and narratives of conversation, of descriptions of remarkable men and women, and of unusual personal experience. — Nation. [The broad, general impression left by the Life, Letters, and Journals of George T icknor is admira- tion blended with surprise at the number, variety, and select character of his friends and corre- spondents as well as the wide range of his attainments. ... It was his fortunate lot to have known the notabilities of three generations in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain; to have lived intimately or conversed familiarly with Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, Rogers, Sydney Smith, Hallam, Malthus, Mackintosh, Jeffrey, Lewis, and Macaulay; with Benjamin Constant and Madame de Stael, Chateaubriand and Madame Recamier; with Guizot, Thiers, Tocqueville, and Lamartine; with Goethe, the Schlegels, Tieck, Blumenbach, Savigny, William and Alexander von Humboldt, Niebuhr, and Voss; with Manzoni, Pellico, and Niccolini; with Pozzo di Borgo, Ancillon, Mettemich, Antonelli, and Cavour. — Quarterly Review (London).] 8o HISTORY TROWBRIDGE. Trowbridge, J. T. My own story, with recollections of noted persons. 1903. [With por- traits and illustrations. Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50, net. [Post- age, 18 cents.] Reminiscences of long literary career and of acquaintance with many distinguished people, mainly New Englanders. Written in his 76th year. — New York state library. WARD. Ward, Mrs. E. S. (Phelps). Chapters from a life. 1896. [With portraits and illustrations. i2mo, gilt top.] $1.50. Record of life at Andover, Boston, and Gloucester, strongly colored by author’s personality. Many notes on interesting people. — New York state library. WHITMAN. Burroughs, John. Whitman; a study. 1896. [i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Enthusiastic appreciation. — New York state library. WHITTIER. Carpenter, G. R. John Greenleaf Whittier. 1903. (American men of letters.) [With portrait. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.10, net. [Postage, 10 cents.] List of Whittier’s writings, p. 304-307. Contributes some new material and emphasizes political and reformatory aspects of his life more than literary. — New York state library. Pickard, S. T. Life and letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. 2 v. 1894. [With por- traits and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. Bibliography, p. 786-790. The standard biography. — W. Dawson Johnston, Library of Congress. 940 EUROPE Gray, G. Z. The children’s crusade. 1898. [With illustration. i2mo.] $1.50. Chronicles, etc. consulted and quoted, pref. p. 13-15. Well-studied, valuable account. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). 942 England Dickens, Charles. Child’s history of England; illustrated from photographs by Clifton Johnson. 1898. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.50. (For young readers.) From Roman conquest, B. c. 50, to accession of William and Mary, a. d. 1688, with chapter on succeeding reigns. — New York state library. HISTORY 81 Lamed, J. N. History of England for the use of schools and academies, with topical analyses, research questions and bibliographical notes by H. P. Lewis. 1900. [With maps and illustrations. Crown 8vo, half leather.] $1.25, net. [Postpaid.] [We must give Mr. Larned’s History of England warm praise, and not the least because it explains the true historical connection between England and the United States. — Nation (New York).] Tappan, E. M. England’s story ; a history for grammar and high schools. 1901. [With maps and illustrations. 12 mo.] $0.85, net. [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) Clear and concise, with well-chosen maps and illustrations. — American Unitarian association. 943 Germany and Austria 943.1 Prussia and northern Germany Tuttle, Herbert. History of Prussia. 4 V. 1884-96. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $8.25. Contents: v. i, To accession of Frederic the Great, 1134-1740. V. 2-4, Under Frederic the Great, 1740-1757. Biographic sketch of Herbert Tuttle, by H. B. Adams, v. 4, pref. p. 11-43; bibliography of writings of H. Tuttle, v. 4, pref. p. 45-46. Work uncompleted at author’s death. With extraordinary skill and sure, critical eye, Prof. Tuttle sifts the fearful mass of material and shapes it in a clear and luminous manner. — Deutsche revue. 944 France Lowell, E. J. Eve of the French revolution. 1900. [Crowm 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. A penetrating and comprehensive view of the ante-revolutionary situation. — Literary world. [We find his book to be as thorough as it is readable. ... A better exposition of the proximate causes of the Revolution, and a more trustworthy account of the political and social institutions of the age that precede it, need not be desired. — Examiner (New York).] Perkins, J. B. France under Louis XV. 2 v. 1897. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) 1723-1774. France under the regency, with a review of the administration of Louis XIV; defends king and duke of Orleans. — New York state library. [He is to be praised for having produced a work on a period of French history comparatively obscure to English readers, of the highest degree of readableness, and bearing every mark of thor- ough investigation and candid temper. His characterizations of Louis XV, of Fouquet, of Colbert the great Minister of Finance, of Cardinal Dubois and the Regent are admirable delineations. — The Literary World (Boston).] 945 Italy Thayer, W. R. Dawn of Italian independence; Italy from the congress of Vienna, 1814, to the fall of Venice, 1849. 2 v. 1893. [With maps. Crown 8vo.] $4.00. 82 HISTORY [To trace at once the inward growth of the sentiment of Italian nationality, and the outward fortunes of the movement for unity and independence, through the dark period from the Congress of Vienna to the capture of Venice by Radetsky, — that is the aim which Mr. Thayer steadily fol- lows through the two volumes of his history. ... He has brought to his task great industry and patience, no small degree of political insight, and an exceptionally wide knowledge of Italian history and literature. — The Spectator (London).] 948 Norway, Sweden and Denmark Sweden Voltaire, F. M. A. de. History of Charles XII; edited by O. W. Wight. 1887. [i2mo.] $2.25. Contains a life of Voltaire by Lord Brougham and critical notices of Lord Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle. — Title. One of the most delightful of Voltaire’s books. — John Morley. 949.2 Netherlands Griffis, W. E. Brave little Holland and what she taught us. 1894. [Illustrated. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. (For young readers.) Chief aim is to show influence on colonial, revolutionary, and constitu- tional founders of American order and liberty. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). Young people’s history of Holland. 1903. [Illustrated. i2mo.] $1.50, net. [Postage, 14 cents.] (For young readers.) From prehistoric times to marriage of Queen Wilhelmina; nearly half given to history before 16th century. — New York state library. 970 NORTH AMERICA 973 United States and Territories Adams, C. F., Jr. Lee at Appomattox, and other papers. 1902. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.50, net. [Postage, 15 cents.] (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) Contents: Lee at Appomattox; The treaty of Washing- ton: before and after; The British “change of heart;” An undeveloped function; A plea for mili- tary history. Fiske, John. History of the United States for schools; with topical analysis, sugges- tive questions, and directions for teachers, by F. A. Hill. 1899. [With illustrations and maps. Crown 8vo.] $1.00, net. [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) From earliest times to 1894. Excellent outline for schools, with brief suggestions for collateral reading and questions. — New York state library. Lamed, J. N. History of the United States for secondary schools. 1903. [Crown 8vo, half leather.] $1.40, net. [Postpaid.] List of works referred to, pref. p. 13-30. Semple, E. C. American history and its geographic conditions. 1903. [With maps and charts. 8vo.] $3.00, net. [Postage, 20 cents.] HISTORY 83 Bibliography, p. 463-466. Study of the dominant influences of geographic conditions on successive events of American his- tory and on the great factors of progress, railroads, immigration, distribution of cities, etc. 1 1 maps. — New York state library. Tappan, E. M. Our country’s story. 1902. [Illustrated. Sq. i2mo.] $0.65, net. [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) Elementary. Style has unusual life and appeal to child’s interest. Well illustrated. — New York state library. Winsor, Justin, editor. Narrative and critical history fusely illustrated. Royal 8vo.] of America. 8 v. 1884-89. Subscription, $44.00, net. [Pro- (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) Critical essays by different writers covering American history in detail to adoption of constitution and briefly to about 1850. Most valuable parts are critical essays on sources and Mr. Winsor’s notes. Rich in fac-similes of maps, historical illustra- tions and portraits. — Literature of American history. [We were scarcely prepared for the wonderful completeness of the knowledge displayed in these pages. . . . The maps are of immense value and interest. In common with the rest of the illus- trations, they are exquisitely reproduced. — Saturday Review (London). In scope and method the greatest contribution that has been made to the literature of our history. — The Nation (New York).] 973.1 Discovery Fiske, John. Discovery of America, with some account of ancient America and the Spanish conquest. 2 v. 1899. [With maps and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. (Readable.) Characterized by thorough scholarship, well-balanced judgment, and literary charm. Distinctive feature is application of theory of evolution to explain features of primitive culture in America. — Literature of American history. [In this book he is at his best. He often philosophizes, and he does so effectively; he subjects historical theories to a rigid scrutiny, and his remarks are as acute as his conclusions are acceptable; and he exhibits an unselfish appreciation of his forerunners. — London Athenceum. Its erudition is remarkable, its scope great, its style admirably lucid, vigorous, and on occasion picturesque. It is a most important resume of the whole subject. It is well furnished with maps, fac-similes, etc. Founded upon original documents throughout, its trustworthiness is not to be doubted. It is, in short, a sterling piece of work from beginning to end. — New York Tribune .] Winsor, Justin. Cartier to Frontenac. 1894. [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) Geographic discovery in interior of North America in its historical relations, 1534-1700. — Title. 973.2 Colonial Fiske, John. New France and New England. 1902. [With maps and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.65, net. [Postage, 16 cents.] (Readable.) Fills gap in his American history series from discovery to 1789. Treats Canadian development, Salem witchcraft, Norridgewock and Louisburg, the French and Indian war. — New York state library. Old Virginia and her neighbours. 2 v. 1897. [With maps and illus- trations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. HISTORY 84 (Readable.) Virginia, Maryland, Carolina and Georgia from first settlements to 1753. Come between his Discovery of America and Beginnings of New England. — New York state library. 973*3 Revolution and conjederation Fiske, John. American revolution. 2 v. 1899. [With maps and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. (Readable.) The best history that we possess of the war, looked at both from a political and a military point of view. — J. A. Doyle, in English historical review. Critical period of American history, 1783-1789. 1899. [With maps and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Readable.) State of country at close of revolution, development of states and westward expan- sion, imperfect working and gradual breakdown of articles of confederation, and formation and adoption of constitution. — Literature of American history. Compact, straightforward and trustworthy study of the seven years of constitution making. — Critic. War of independence, with maps, index, and a biographical sketch. 1894. (Riverside library for young people.) [With maps. i6mo.] $0.75. (For young readers). Collateral reading, p. 195-196. More a study of causes and effects than an account of battles. Good supplement to school text- books. — Carnegie library (Pittsburg). [The War of Independence, addressed to a youthful audience, has all the charm of Mr. Fiske’s historical work that is addressed to older or more experienced minds. In his preface the author says, “When I was a boy I should have been glad to get hold of a brief account of the War of Inde- pendence that would have suggested answers to some of the questions that used to vex me.” . . . All these puzzles are satisfactorily solved in this little book. — Hartford Courant .] 973*7 War o j secession Dodge, T. A. Bird’s-eye view of our civil war. Revised ed. 1897. (Student’s edi- tion.) [With maps and charts. Crown 8vo.] $1.00, net. [Postpaid.] Tone elevated and fair, conception of military operations comprehensive and criticisms on them judicious. — Nation. New maps from government surveys and charts. — Preface. [The book is written in a spirit of impartiality and of just discrimination concerning the merits and defects of the generals who led the armies of the North and South. — Army and Navy Journal. A clearer, more vivid view, a more accurate outline, than any other available record. — Saturday Review (London).] Fiske, John. Mississippi valley in the civil war. 1900. [With maps. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Readable.) Outline of military events which brought about overthrow of Southern confederacy by turning its left flank. — Author. [His account of the Western campaigns, taken as a whole, is one of the clearest and most satis- factory that has been written, irrespective of any possible points of controversy, and it has the great advantage of a simple, dignified, and interesting style, that makes the work worth reading as litera- ture. — Philadelphia T imes.] Higginson, T. W. Army life in a black regiment; new ed. with notes and supplementary chapter. 1900. [i2mo, gilt top.] $2.00. Without extravagance or exaggeration. — Atlantic monthly. HISTORY 85 Kieffer, H. M. Recollections of a drummer-boy. 6th ed. 1889. [Illustrated. Sq. 8vo.] $1.50. (For young readers.) Does not deal at all with strategy, and in description of battles presents mostly the scenes at the rear. — Nation. [A true story of the experiences of a young man in the Civil War. It is stirring and realistic, and holds the attention throughout. The illustrations of scenes in camp and battlefield are numerous. Many of the incidents related are laughable as well as thrilling. It is a book to be enjoyed by every one, and especially by boys, who will be spellbound from beginning to end. — New York School Journal.] Livermore, T. L. Numbers and losses in the civil war in America, 1861-65. 2d ed. 1901. [8vo.] $1.00, net. [Postpaid.] Presents subject in clear and simple language, and in a soldierly and most impartial manner. Of intrinsic value. — American historical review. Wise, J. S. End of an era. 1899. [Large crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Readable.) Personal memories to end of civil war (his 19th year) of a son of Gov. Wise of Virginia. Valuable for sidelights on social and political life. — New York state library. 974 Northeastern or North Atlantic . New England Fiske, John. The beginnings of New England; or, The puritan theocracy in its rela- tions to civil and religious liberty. 1900. [With maps and illustrations. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. (Readable.) Substance of lectures given at Washington University, St. Louis, 1887. Avoids historic details, and undertakes to group ideas and characterize phases of civilization. — Political science quarterly. [Mr. Fiske lays hold of the history with a broad, philosophical grasp, . . . and the result is a brief volume written in a fascinating style, which contains the substance of the history and is worth reading once, twice, or as many times as are required to master it. — The Independent (New York).] Palfrey, J. G. Compendious history of New England from the discovery by Europeans to the first general congress of the Anglo-American colonies. 4 v. 1884. [Crown 8vo, in box.] $6.00. Abridgment of larger work by omission of notes and references, and chapters on progress of events in England during 1 7th century, and by cutting down some parts of text. — Literature of American history. Weeden, W. B. Economic and social history of New England, 1620-1789. 2 v. 1890. [Crown 8 vo, gilt top.] $4.50. (Scholarly; by a recognized authority. Readable.) Best book yet written from which to obtain an idea of the life in colonial and provincial New England. — Literature of American history. [The work is full of suggestive and vital information about New England, . . . literally a store- house of historical data of the utmost value to one who would learn how the New England colonists first subdued the earth, and thus in securing their own fortunes built up the framework on which mighty States were to grow. — New York Times.] HISTORY 86 974-3 Vermont Robinson, R. E. Vermont, a study of independence. 1892. (American common- wealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Reliable and well written; from settlement till admission into the union. — Literature oj American history. 974.4 Massachusetts Adams, C. F., Jr. Massachusetts; its historians and its history. 1893. [Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $1.00. Brief discussion of place of Massachusetts in history of civilization. The feature specially empha- sized is religious tolerance. A very suggestive book. — Literature oj American history. Three episodes of Massachusetts history; the settlement of Boston Bay; the Antinomian controversy; a study of church and town government. 2 v. 1892. [With maps. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. Shortcomings as well as creditable things stated. No more trustworthy delineation of the life of a New England town has ever been known. — Literature oj American history. [Mr. Adams, within his thousand pages, has brought together an extended mass of facts in local history. They are carefully grouped and coordinated, and the author supplies us with such inde- pendence in judgment, combined with a spirit of critical and historical analysis, that the work, instead of being a chronicle, is an extended historical essay. — New York Times. Both in conception and execution this is a most excellent piece of work. — The English Historical Review.] Arber, Edward, editor. Story of the pilgrim fathers, 1606-1623 A. D., as told by themselves, their friends, and their enemies. 1897. [i2mo.] $2.00. (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) Extracts from original documents interspersed with valuable comment. Treats of the ecclesiastic conflict in England and Holland and of New England colonization. — New York state library. Griffis, W. E. The pilgrims in their three homes; England, Holland, America. 1898. [With illustrations. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. (Popular treatment.) A vigorous, rhetorical account of the pilgrim fathers. Polemic rather than historical. — Literature oj American history. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Grandfather’s chair and Biographical stories; with a biographical sketch, notes and illustrations. (Riverside school library.) [Crown 8vo.] $0.70, net . [Postpaid.] (For young readers.) 974.6 Connecticut Johnston, Alexander. Connecticut, with supplementary chapter by Clive Day. New edition. 1903. (American commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. HISTORY 87 Bibliography, p. 415-418. Well-written history, making enthusiastic claims for Connecticut in the development of the national idea. — New York state library. [Professor Johnston’s monograph on Connecticut is compact, and yet comprehensive; pictur- esque, and yet true to facts; w’ell written, and yet not ambitious; appreciative, and yet not foolishly laudatory; interesting, and yet not overloaded with color. — New York Times.] 974.7 New York Roberts, E. H. New York; with supplementary chapter dealing with the period from 1885 to 1900. 2 v. 1904. (American commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $2.50. Well-balanced general history. — Literature of American history. 975 Southeastern or South Atlantic 975.2 Maryland Browne, W. H. Maryland, the history of a palatinate. Revised ed. 1904. (Amer- ican commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Well-written and reliable outline. — Literature of American history. [With great care and labor he has sought out and studied original documents. By the aid of these he is able to give his work a value and interest that would have been impossible had he fol- lowed slavishly the commonly accepted authorities on his subject. His investigation in regard to toleration in Maryland is particularly noticeable. — New York Evening Post.] 975*5 Virginia Cooke, J. E. Virginia; a history of the people; new ed. with supplementary chapter by W. G. Brown. 1903. (American commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Admirable, solidly constructed and dramatically told. — Literary world. Chief value lies in its successful appeal to the popular mind through its attractive literary style. — Literature of American history. 976 South Central or Gulf States 976.4 Texas Garrison, G. P. Texas; a study of civilizations. 1903. (American commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.10, net. [Postage, 10 cents.] (Readable.) Author had access to state archives, and has made good use of the rich materials. Throws sidelights on course of the commonwealth in its relation to expansion of our territory to the Rio Grande and the Pacific. — Dial. 976.8 Tennessee Phelan, James. History of Tennessee. 1888. [With map. Crown 8vo, gilt top.] $2.00. 88 HISTORY List of authorities, p. 446-461. The making of the state in all its phases told in vigorous English. The best history of a southern state. Stops with outbreak of civil war. — Literature of American history. [The history of no State in the Union is more romantically interesting than that of Tennessee. The processes by which a wilderness was transformed into gardens, the various stages of develop- ment from primitive rudeness to civilization and refinement, from disorganization to organization, from the absence of all law to a time when a people nearly two millions strong dwell together in peace and good order, are unfolded in the volume before us with consummate skill and good taste. — Magazine of American History .] 976.9 Kentucky Shaler, N. S. Kentucky. 1885. (American commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Author qualified by long personal knowledge of men and events. Presents a vivid picture of the events of civil war and of the period of “ reconstruction.” — Literature of American history. [The author, himself a son of Kentucky and a soldier on the Union side in the levies she fur- nished, then trained later in the school of accurate scientific research, has all the qualities of local knowledge and pride, and of broad, impartial reasoning on effects and causes, to fit him for the work he has undertaken. ... A singular fairness of mind, bom of the scientific spirit, character- izes the way in which the writer tells the story of his native State. — Boston Herald .] 977 North Central or Lake States Hosmer, J. K. Short history of the Mississippi valley. 1901. [i2mo.] $1.20, net. [Postage, 12 cents.] (Readable.) To end of 19th century. — New York state library. Winsor, Justin. The Mississippi basin; the struggle in America between England and France, 1697-1763. 1895. [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. (Scholarly ; by a recognized authority.) Full cartographic illustrations from contemporary sources. — Title. Closes with final triumph of England over France in North America in 1763. — Literature of American history. Westward movement; the colonies and the republic west of the Alle- ghanies, 1763-1798. 1897. [Illustrated. 8vo, gilt top.] $4.00. (Scholarly; by a recognized authority.) Full cartographic illustrations from contemporary sources. — Title. Concludes story begun in Cartier to Frontenac and continued in The Mississippi basin. — New York state library. 977.1 Ohio King, Rufus. Ohio, first fruits of the ordinance of 1787; with supplementary chapter by T. C. Smith. Newed. 1903. (American commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. [Mr. King’s work is one of the most satisfactory numbers in that excellent series of American Commonwealths to which it belongs. The State has a history of more than ordinary importance and interest. In this volume its story is told in a clear and effective manner. — Boston T rans- cript .] HISTORY 89 977.2 Indiana Dunn, J. P. Indiana, a redemption from slavery. 1888. (American common- i wealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Best accessible account of struggle to break down prohibition of slavery in ordinance of 1787. — Literature of American history. [The work is a history of Indiana’s civil growth, and as such it will be found of absorbing interest, not only to us of Indiana, but to all citizens of the original Northwest territory. — New Record (Indianapolis).] 977.4 Michigan Cooley, T. M. Michigan; a history of governments. 4th ed. 1889. (American commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. In every way worthy of the subject and of the series. — Literature of American history. [Other States cover only special lines, as it were, of political history; Michigan seems to have covered the whole, and hence furnishes an admirable field for a history of governments. More fortunate still, she has in J udge Cooley a man of great and acknowledged ability, learning, and au- thority upon all such themes. . . . From its distinguished author, but even more from its pro- foundly valuable subject-matter, this is a work to repay abundantly the diligent study of all our citizens. — Literary World (Boston).] , 978 Western or Mountain States 978.1 Kansas Spring, L. W. Kansas. 1885. (American commonwealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Bibliography, p. 323-327. Of considerable literary charm and the most readable history of Kansas. Mostly devoted to period before civil war. Its point of view is that of Gov. Charles Robinson. — Literature of Ameri- can history. [Professor Spring has been diligent in research to a degree that merits special praise, and his diligence has been inspired and controlled by method, so that it has borne rich fruits. — The Examiner (New York). It is an excellent presentation of the important aspects and vital principles of the Kansas strug- gle. — Hartford Courant.] 979 Pacific States 979.4 California Royce, Josiah. California, a study of American character. 1886. (American common- wealths.) [With map. i6mo, gilt top.] $1.25. Formative years, 1846-56; scientific, sober and vivid. — Literary world. [The study is one of sociological changes, never before known because the sociological conditions have never before existed in history. The problem is new and most fascinating. Every facet of it has a distinct light. Professor Royce has turned it round and round, has received its various lights, and has cast upon it some of his own. . . . 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