niversary of the American Peace Society, May 28, 1849;" and "The Duel Between France and Germany," a lecture in the Music Hall of Boston, October 26, 1870 were for the first time brought together in a single volume. Edwin D. Mead, editor of the New England Magazine, writes the introduction for this reissue of these famous orations, which have left it almost impossible for any successor who, like Sumner, shall declare "war against war" to use any arguments not his. 319 pp. I2mo.

Architecture, Industry and Wealth. Collected papers by William Morris. A new edition of papers and addresses which were first published in collected form in the golden type of the Kelmscott Press in July, 1902. They treat of "The History of Pattern Designing," "The Lesser Arts of Life," "Art, Wealth and Riches," "Art and Socialism,' "Textile Fabrics," "The Revival of Architecture," "The Influence of Building Material upon Architecture" and similar topics. 269 pp. 12mo.

Letters of Daniel Webster, The. From documents owned principally by the New Hampshire Historical Society. Edited by C. H. Van Tyne Ph. D. Papers principally selected from the great collection of over 3500 in the archives of the New Hampshire Historical Society form the chief part of this offering of hitherto unpublished Websteriana. Reserving the right to exclude merely ephemeral correspondence and that which shows the commonplace side of even a great man's life, Dr. Van Tyne has edited his material with great care. The letters to and from Webster have been classified according to subject-matter into sub-divisions relating to "Early Life," "The Local Politician," "The National Statesman," "Family Relations" and those with "Friends and Neighbors," "The Farmer." "Intellectual Interests," "Religious and Moral Character" and others. As much as the arrangement of the letters themselves, the very full topical

index and sensible alphabetical citation of the correspondents' names in the chapter index reflect credit on Mr. Tyne's editorial genius. With frontispiece. 752 pp. Indexed. 8vo.

Letters to Washington and Accompanying Papers. Edited by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton. The letters given in this volume relate to the numerous interests both public and private which Washington kept in hand, and they show the wide range of his sympathies and activities. They are from men of differing historical importance, but all, for the light they throw upon Washington and his times, are of positive value to students of history. Vol V. 1774, 1775. 288 pp. Indexed. 12mo.

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Bronte, George Eliot and Jane Austen. By Henry H. Bonnell. This comprises some very comprehensive studies in the works of the three great English authoresses. The consideration of Miss Bronte is divided under three heads, "Her Realism," "Her Attitude Towards Nature" and "Her Passion;" that of Mrs. Lewis, under "Her Religion and Philosophy." "Her Art" and "Her Sympathy," while Miss Austen is studied for "Her Place" and "Her Wonderful Charm." A contemplation of the work repays a perusal. 476 pp. 8vo.

History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By George Saintsbury. In three volumes. Vol. 2. 593 pp. Indexed. 8vo.

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Literary History of Persia, A. By Edward G. Browne, M. A. With frontispiece. 521 pp. Indexed. 8vo. See review, page 359.

Masterpieces of Greek Literature. By John Henry Wright, LL. D. From Homer, Anacreon, Alcaeus, Eschylus, Sophocles and all the great masters of Greek verse and drama have been chosen those portions which are considered best and greatest by critics of highest authority. The selections have been arranged chronologically and supplemented with biographical data and notes. With frontispiece. 456 pp. 12mo.

Sources of Plutarch's Life of Cicero, The. By Alfred Gudeman. This monograph opens with a brief discussion of the methodology of source investigations in general, and of Plutarch's Lives in particular. Then follows an enumeration of all the works dealing with Cicero which were accessible to a writer of Plutarch's time. The author thereupon proves that the accepted theory that the biographer directly consulted the writings of Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Tiro and other contemporaries rests on no foundation, and shows that the authorities followed by Plutarch were post-Augustan, and that he was most extensively indebted to Suetonius's Life of Cicero. 115 pp. 12mo.

Standard English Prose. Bacon to Stevenson. Selected and edited by Henry S. Pancoast. About one hundred selections, mostly complete in themselves, extending in period of time from Bacon to Stevenson, Walton, Sir Thomas Browne, Milton, Taylor, Cowley, Bunyan, Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Addison, Steele, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb. Landor, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Carlyle, Macaulay, Newman, Froude, Ruskin. Thackeray. Arnold, Pater and Stevenson, are included between. The arrangement is chronological. 675 pp. 12mo.

Motor Cars and the Application of Mechanical Power to Road Vehicles. By Rhys Jenkins. The application of mechanical power to the propulsion of road vehicles is becoming a subject of great importance. Its historical treatment takes up, roughly speaking, one-half of this book, and includes chapters based on a series of articles contributed to "The Antiquary" in 1896. The second half treats of motor vehicles of the present day. There is a determined effort not to be technical, since the work is addressed to the general reader, and the illustrations, especially historical ones, have been selected and reproduced with great care. 371 pp. Indexed. 8vo.

Twentieth Century Manual of Railway and Commercial Telegraphy. By Frederic L. Meyers. This is a practical work, the result of many years of observation and close study of telegraphy in all its phases. The work embraces all kinds of practical

L. Clark. This Harvard is not Harvard College, but the town of Harvard in Massachusetts, where in 1843 was established the Transcendentalist colony. Bronson Alcott and the nine other founders were actuated by high and noble motives, and in the present volume we learn something about them and their colony in general, but more about the Alcott family in particular, and in most particular about Louisa Alcott. Louisa Alcott often thought of the time spent in Harvard, as is shown by the use in her stories of names of people whom she had known there, and also by some of her letters. Illus

trated. 44 pp. 12mo.-The Outlook.

Boston Days. By Lilian Whiting. This book is not a compilation; it is quite original in idea and construction, but it is filled with quotations, where quotations help the story. Miss Whiting's aim in writing this volume, to quote her own words, "is simply to present some transcripts of the remarkable life in Boston during the nineteenth century, the latter years of which came within the personal observation and experience of the writer, and nearly all of which is, or has been until recently, within the memory of people yet living. Boston," she adds, "was planted in prayer and nurtured by spiritual uplifting." Illustrated. 485 pp. 12mo.-Chicago Tribune.

Budget of Anecdotes, A. Collected and arranged by George Seton Advocate. The first edition of Mr. Seton's compilation of the jeux d'esprit and "good stories" of England's best diners-out appeared in 1886. This is the third edition, and contains over three hundred new anecdotes. 304 pp. Indexed.

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Children's Diet in Home and School. By Mrs. John Hogan. A reference book for parents, teachers, nurses, women's clubs and physicians, on a subject to which more and more attention is continually being given.

It is an outgrowth of the interest and requests for further suggestions elicited by the author's work on "How to Feed Children, "issued in connection with a "Practical Lessons in Nursing" series. A collection of recipes and suggestions on school luncheons is to be found at the end. 176 pp. Indexed. 32mo.

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Cult of the Purple Rose, The. Shirley Everton Johnson. A brief chronicle of one of the intellectual fads of the "smart set" at Harvard in the early '90's. The various episodes, many of which actually occurred, are amusingly told in a spirit of mingled sarcasm and reminiscent enjoyment, and there is an entire reprint of the contents of "The Pink Mule," the one and only publication to which the success of the English "Yellow Book" stirred the worshippers of the Purple Rose. 170 pp. 12mo.

Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1903. By Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford and Addison Mizner. This book is full of mirth and changes many of the tiresome old proverbs from hackneyed sayings to rules of life fit for the twentieth century. Illustrated. 18mo.

Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions, The. By Arthur John Booth, M. A. A recountal of the methods pursued by the long succession of scholars who in the end succeeded in solving the perplexing problem of inscriptions which, only a century ago, were regarded in learned circles as a mere unmeaning conglomeration of decorative lines. The chief atttention is given to the inscriptions of the Achæmenian kings. With a plan. 459 pp. Indexed. 8vo.

Furniture of the Olden Time. By Frances Clary Morse. This book is written by a well-known collector of many years' experience, and has three hundred illustrations, many of which are full-page. These have been most carefully chosen, and in order to obtain them the author has visited, with an expert photographer, the chief public historical collections of this country and the houses of many collectors and inheritors of old furniture, whose treasures have never before been made public. Every tradition and fact connected with individual pieces has been noted and transcribed, and these incidents often add romance as well as historic interest to the presentation. The annals of local trade and importation have been searched to provide facts regarding the place of manufacture of unusual pieces. The early books of designs for furniture have been carefully studied and compared with

Mary Had a Little Lamb. The true story of the real Mary and the real lamb. As told by Fanny M. Dickerson and Mary herself. The history of the Mary (Mrs. Columbus Tyler), whose lamb inspired the lines which may or may not be so familiar and dear to the present as to the preceding generation, is told here in two versions one in simple language for children and one, "Mary's own story," related in the words of Mrs. Tyler herself. Of course the classic poem is reproduced, and numerous prettily drawn lambkins skip about in the margin, where they find abundant room. 95 pp. 12mo.

Our Noblest Friend the Horse. By Francis M. Ware. This book will be heart

ily welcomed by a large number of readers. The author is thoroughly en rapport with his subject and with inclination and information in accord he has produced a book that ranks with his "Some First-Hand Bits of Stable Lore." His motto is that saying of Leland Stanford "A horse should be treated like a gentleman," and acting upon it he has constructed his theory of the management of horses. Theory, however, has been fortified by practice, with the result that the book before us is valuable to every owner and interesting to every lover of horses. Our author considers his subject divided under six heads: "Horse Nature," "Horse Education," "Choosing and Using Horses," "The Proper Treatment of Horses," "Health and Comfort" and "The Stable." Illustrated. 368 pp. 12mo.-Baltimore Sun.

Perseus and Andromeda. The story retold. By Richard Le Gallienne. Mr. Le Gallienne has made a charmingly poetical version of this celebrated legend, telling it anew in a manner distinctively his own. A setting which gives fresh interest to a story that was old when the world was young. It is illustrated with reproductions from old prints. 54 pp. 12mo.

Rare Bits of Humor and Prose in Poetry. Compiled and arranged by J. R. Hartman A collection of anecdotes, mostly of the sorts to be gleaned from the repertoire of the vaudeville and minstrel-show performers and the pages of the "patentinside" newspaper. 149 pp. 18mo.

Religion as a Credible Doctrine. By W. H. Mallock. The object of this book is to present theistic religion generally as a system worthy of a reasonable acceptance. The argument is specially addressed to readers who desire to assent to a theistic doctrine. but find it difficult to do so in the face of what appear to be the verified facts of science. The attempt is made to justify a theistic doctrine while accepting the facts of science. But a scientific justification is not attempted, neither a philosophical justification, nor a theological. We have the theologians represented as fighting the devil of science with scientific fire and getting the worst of it; at making concessions which they cannot make without being landed in intellectual confusion. The ground cleared by defining religion as assent to "a living God, who is worthy of our religious emotion," to the freedom of man's will, and to the doctrine of a future life. 286 pp. 8vo.-N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

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Religious Life in America. By Ernest H. Abbott. In the year 1901 at the request of The Outlook, the writer undertook a journey through parts of the United States for the purpose of making, and recording in a series of articles, observations of religious life in America. This book is the record of that journey. 370 pp. 12mo. -Publishers' Weekly.

Ruling Quality, The. By Herbert Lockwood Willett. A study of faith as the means of victory in life. 62pp. 12mo.

Tale of a Tub, A. By Jonathan Swift, D. D. With explanatory notes by W. Wotton and others. This celebrated satire on "The Abuses of Religion," called by Saintsbury "one of the very greatest books of the world," appears in this edition in attractive typographical dressing, and has for frontispiece a fine engraving from the Bodleian Library portrait of the author. The "Apology," which Swift added in 1709 to the fifth edition of his tale, as well as the "History of Martin," which he omitted from it, are included, as are also Wotton's famous notes. 284 pp. 32mo.

"Virginibus Puerisque" and Other Papers. By Robert Louis Stevenson. Published first of all in magazines like the Cornhill, London, and MacMillan's between the years 1874 and 1878, and appearing in collected form in 1881 without attracting any special attention, the public appreciation for these essays has continually grown since the success of Stevenson's later efforts created a demand for the reprinting of his earlier ones. The author tells "My Dear William Ernest Henley" in the introductory letter that he began to write these papers on love, married life, "Truth of Intercourse," "Crabbed Age and Youth," "The English Admirals," "Child's Play," and other topics, for "a little volume of special pleadings which I might call 'Life at Twenty-five.' Though he laments that while writing it he passed twenty-five and irrevocably lost its view-point, the charm of Stevenson lingers, even where that of youth does not, in these little philosophies of life and love, especially love, which voice in unforgettable language the truths weightier sermons on human relations often fail to impress. 257 pp. 32m0.

Weather and Practical Methods of Forecasting It, The. By E. B. Dunn. "Farmer" Dunn, known throughout the country as New York's local forecaster, has embodied in this volume the results of many years' observations and experiments. He

avoids all mathematics and scientific and technical terms and presents the subject in the simplest and most popular form. Illustrated. 356 pp. Indexed. 12mo.-Publishers' Weekly.

M US I C

Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works. By Edward Baxter Perry. For the use of teachers, players, and music clubs. A portion of the material used has been published in various musical periodicals, and nearly all has been uttered by Mr. Perry from the lecture platform. The plan and purpose of the book are to demonstrate that musical interpretation depends not merely on insight into the form and harmonic structure of a given composition, but also on the fullest obtainable knowledge of the circumstances of its origin and the composer's environment and even on familiarity with any historical or literary matter which may have furnished its inspiration. A chapter apiece is devoted to the best known works of the greatest composers, and the concluding chapter reviews "Counterpoints between Poets and Musicians." 290 pp. 12mo.

From Grieg to Brahms. By Daniel Gregory Mason. In the series of essays that make up the present volume our author has thoughtfully worked out his theories on the causes of musical productivity and the influences that shape musical effort. Perhaps we can describe the contents of the volume by using with our own some of the phrases of the learned author. In the introductory essay, on the "Appreciation of Music," he has described some of the fundamental principles of the art and has sketched in their light the general movement of musical history. In doing this he has given the reader a perspective sense, a bird's-eye view of the great army of artists in which the supreme masters are but leaders of battalions and regiments. In the latter part of the introduction Mr. Mason applies the principles worked out to determining in a general way how the half dozen composers that he writes upon are related to modern music as a whole. He concludes that although they are practically contemporary they are by no means peers in the scope and significance of their work. Following the introduction our author devotes essays to Edward Grieg, Antonin Dvorak, Camille Saint-Saens, Cesar Frank, Peter Ilyetch Tschaikowsky and Johannes

Brahms. The next and last essay in the book is "The Meaning of Music." Just as the introductory essays tries to sketch the general musical environment, as determined by basic priciples and developed in history, in relation to which alone the individual discussed can be understood, so the last essay, or, as the writer calls it, the epilogue, suggests that still larger environment of human feeling and affinity, on which music, like everything else, depends for its vitality. Illustrated. 225 pp. 12mo.-Baltimore Sun.

Symphonies and Their Meaning. Second series. By Philip H. Goepp. The present book completes the whole survey of classic symphonies. The aim of the first volume was to find the mystery of symphonies

of the ideal type; to see what tonal meaning really means, and what it does not mean. Among the symphonies treated of in the present volume are Mozart's in E Flat, Beethoven's first, second, fourth, eighth and ninth, Schumann's first and fourth and various others that before were left untouched upon. The interpretations are full of lucidity and often pregnant with true poetic penetration. Second Series. 489 pp.

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Violin Music of Beethoven, The. By J. Matthews. A reprint of articles which have been published in The Strad for the past two or three years. This book forms Volume X in The Strad Library. The relative art value and importance of the various compositions is critically discussed, and some historical notes lighten the pages of some of their weight of technicality. Orchestral works are excluded from consideration, the compositions wherein members of the string family participate as solo instruments only being regarded as within the book's scope. With frontispiece. 101 pp.

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NATURAL HISTORY

Among Green Trees. By Julia Ellen Rogers. All the trees are too many for most readers. The author has here undertaken to describe the common and important trees that grow in the States north of Virginia and Akansas and east of the Rocky Mountains. By this limitation she leaves herself room to within one volume of convenient handling size state simply the essentials of free physiology, and otherwise present, with the aid of exceptionally fine