illustrations, an "all-round tree book." Illustrated. 202 pp. Indexed. Quarto.

Freshwater Aquaria. By Rev. Gregory C. Bateman. A number of years ago Rev. Mr. Bateman, an English naturalist, wrote for the Bazaar a series of papers "such as I wished for when I was making my first blunders in aquarium matters." In 1890 they were published in book form, and now appear in the second edition in complete revised shape. The addition comprising descriptions and illustrations of those fish, suitable for tank life, which at the first time of writing were not generally imported into England. The illustrations are numerous and excellent, but both the plant and animal life discussed are of course governed by English locality. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 339 pp. Indexed. 12mo.

Handbook of Birds of the Western United States. By Florence Merriam Bailey. This book gives descriptions and biographical sketches of all our Western birds in a thoroughly scientific yet not unduly technical form, including all the United States species not treated by Chapman, besides those which are common to both sections of the country. The author is well known to ornithologists and amateurs, especially under her maiden name of Florence A. Merriam. She has been assisted in the preparation of the book by her husband, Vernon Bailey, of the United States Biological Survey, whose experience of about twenty years in the field as an ornithologist and mammalogist has taken him into all parts of the West. For the introduction Mr. Bailey contributes directions for the skinning of birds and the preparation of eggs. Dr. T. S. Palmer furnishes a paper on bird protection, and lists of the species found at various representative localities in the West are supplied by competent ornithologists. The introduction also treats the subjects of economics, migration, note-taking and so forth. Illustrated. 512 pp. Indexed. 12mo. -Philadelphia Press.

Nature and the Camera. By A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Mr. Dugmore was the leader and is an expert in the new movement of photographing live birds, animals, fish, flowers, etc. His pictures of natural life have brought him so many requests for information from beginners and fellowworkers that he has set down in this work a full and detailed account of his methods. From the choice of a camera to questions of lighting and to the problem of "snapping" of birds and animals in their native haunts-every step is explained so simply

as to be easily comprehended even by the beginner. Illustrated. 126 pp. 12mo.Publishers' Weekly.

Who's Who at the Zoo. By L. Beatrice Thompson. Illustrated. 166 pp. 12mo.

OUTDOOR STUDIES

English Pleasure Gardens. By Rose Standish Nichols. A contribution to that literature of the garden whose popularity shows no signs of waning. Numerous plans of the gardens of great estates usefully supplement the equally numerous illustrations, and the chapters treat in turn and in highly readable style of "Classic Pleasure Grounds," "Monastic Gardens," "The Mediæval Pleasaunce," "Tudor Gardens," "The Elizabethan Flower-Garden," "Gardens of the Stuarts," "French Fashions," "Italian Villa Gardens," "Eighteenth Century Extremes," and "Modern Gardens." An excellent bibliography is appended. Illustrated. 324 PD. Quarto.

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Open-Air Boy, The. By G. M. A. HewThe father of the open-air boy said to his son, "You are never to kill anything without doing something with it when you have killed it." That was a fairly vague order. Did the boy as a dutiful son save the skins or eat the rats he so delighted in killing? The boy devised all kinds of traps for the maiming and crippling of little birds. What a hungry chap the open-air boy must have been, since he eats sparrows, and finds them prime when stuffed with sage and onions. The chapters on the training of dogs, on fishing, the care of lines, the making of kites are excellent. There are many pursuits a boy may follow as presented in the volume concerning which no exceptions can be taken. Boys are not girls, and their recreations differ, but that is no reason why all young people should not be taught that God's creatures were not put on this earth for indiscriminate slaughter. Illustrated. 286 pp. Indexed. 12mo.-N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

PALAENTOLOGY

Animals Before Man in North America. Their Lives and Times. By Frederic A.

Lucas. This book, as the title indicates, deals mainly with extinct monsters of which restorations in many museums have afforded the general public with interesting suggestions. Dr. Lucas has approached his subject with a view to instruction as well as entertainment. He has his mind on the larger public rather than specialists. With many illustrations. 285 pp. Indexed.

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PENOLOGY

Old Bailey and Newgate, The. By Charles Gordon. This volume has to do with the methods of punishment of crimes, according to the English laws, rather of the past than of the present. Incarceration, the character of the jail, the cage, where those who were suspected of crime were held, or where they remained until their execution, are all dwelt on in "The Old Bailey and Newgate." The horrors of the prison are graphically described. Mr. Charles Gordon shows how much more humane are the ways of to-day regarding prisoners than they used to be, and the whole story of the famous prison is well told. The illustrations, many taken from the pictures of the past, add to the interest of the volume. 362 pp. Indexed. 12mo.-N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

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PERIODICALS

Ancestor, The.

Number III. October, 1902. Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise writes of "The Jervoises of Herriard and Britford;" Mr. J. Horace Round relates "The Tale of a Great Forgery;" M. W. H. B. Bird deIscribes the relations between "Doctor and Patients in 1621;" the Rev. James Wilson discusses "Some Extinct Cumberland Families;" Mr. Oswald Barron contributes an interesting article on "The Antiquary and the Novelist," and the Rev. D. Charles Cox discourses on "The Household Books of Sir Miles Stapleton, Bart." A large number of illustrations are included in the volume, which in its general production shows signs of great care. 244 pp. 8vo.-London Publishers' Circular.

Bard of the Dimbovitza, The. Roumanian folk songs collected from the peasants by Helene Vacaresco. Translated by Carmen Sylva and Alma Strattell. A new and enlarged edition of the collection of Roumanian folk songs translated by Roumania's poet-queen, Carmen Sylva, and first published some years ago. They were collected with great difficulty from the peasants and literally set down by Mlle. Vacaresco, the Queen's erstwhile ex-maid of honor and favorite. "The Gipsy Song," "The Song of the Blood," "The Well of Tears," "Barren," "Mad," "He That Took Nothing," "The Cradle Song," "The Grave," are the overflowing into deep narrow channels of the intense emotions of a primitive and repressed people. The artistic polish which they have received at the hands of their gifted though royal translator impart to them literary interest aside from their immense sociological value. 374 pp. 12mo.

tent-maker of Naishàpur the author substitutes a gospel of aspiration and achieve

ment. 12mo.

Joe's Place. By John Rosslyn. A narrative poem, telling of the struggles, the descent through drink, and the final redemption through love of a self-made man. Joe's father is supposed to relate the story in his own homely language. Illustrated. 186 pp.

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Later Lyrics. By John B. Tabb. Poems, brief enough to have attained publication in most of the leading magazines and good enough for anything or anyone. Few writers of the quatrain can better compress significance into small space and yet maintain perfect grace and clarity of expression than Father Tabb. Only a few are devotional, though spirituality, reaching out toward nature and man, as well as to God, is the note of all. 138 pp. 32m0.

Pickett's Charge. By Fred Emerson Brooks. Optimistic in spirit and frequently patriotic in vein, from "Pickett's Charge" at the very beginning to "The Blue and the Gray" at the very end, these are songs of the plain people and the simple life. Many appeal chiefly to the child or the child-lover, but the variety of subjects and treatment is great. 211 pp. Indexed. 12mo.

Pipes of Pan. From the Book of Myths. By Bliss Carman. This first of a projected series of five books of verse under the general title "Pipes of Pan," is named "From the Book of Myths." The poem next but one to the end of the collection, "The Tidings to Olaf." is the only break in the harmony of spirit in these ten joyous-melancholy songs, lauding the life whose chief delight is living: "The Over-Lord," the first and best poem in the book; "Daphne," "The Lost Dryad," "The Dead Faun,” “At Phaedra's Tomb," "Marsyas," "A Young Pan's Prayer" and "The Prayer in the Rose Garden." Mr. Carmen's Pan is not the unmannerly "half a beast" who frightened Syrinx, but a whimsical, feat-footed, half wistful piper of lays where the major and the minor strains, the sensuous and the spiritual, blend past any man's dividing. 88 pp. 12mo.

Poetical Works of John Keats, The. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. This is a new edition of a very good compilation of Keats's poetical works. Its present form is of a durable and desirable character. Illustrated by Will H. Low. 3 vols. 198, 420, 568 pp. Indexed. 12mo.

Swords and Plowshares. By Ernest Crosby. This work is filled with poems breathing a hatred of war and that love of nature which characterize Mr. Crosby's writings. He is an accepted disciple of the Russian reformer, and his themes are found in the follies and cruelties appertaining to the doctrine of expansion. Something of a Walt Whitman style of versification is found here and there, but the redeeming feature is the clearness of sentiment. There is none of the mystic yawping of the Whitmanese cult. 124 pp. 12mo.-Pittsburg Gazette.

Country Without Strikes, A. By Henry Demarest Lloyd. With an introduction by William P. Reeves. Mr. Reeves, who supplies the preface to this study of the workings of the compulsory labor arbitration court in New Zealand, first published in 1900, is the author of the law which established this court, and one-time Minister of Labor in New Zealand. Becoming operative in 1895, the measure received it first test the following year, when the difficulties of employers and laborers in the boot and shoe trade were brought before it, to remain unsettled for six years, during which time "both sides are still contending, but they continue at work and are prosperous." Mr. Lloyd writes with conviction and

Ascent of the Soul, The. By Emory Bradford. A series of essays on the nature and evolution of the spiritual life. Beginning with the soul as the culmination of the evolutionary process, the author endeavors to trace the successive stages of its progress toward its final goal. Among the more notable chapters are those on "The Nature and Genesis of the Soul," "The Ministry of the Austere," "Nurture and Culture," "The Inseparable Companion," "The Place of Jesus Christ," "Prayers for the Dead," and "The Goal of Humanity." 319 Pp. Indexed. 12mo.

Bible Geography for Schools. By Theodore E. Schmauk. A third-grade textbook in the Lutheran system of SundaySchool instruction, published first in 1899 by Dr. Schmauk, editor of The Lutheran. It designs to give earthly locality and reality to Bible history. For those who find the lessons in the book too long, there is an appendix in the form of a "Shorter Course in Bible Geography." 208 pp. Quarto.

Bible Lessons for Little Beginners. By Mrs. M. J. Cushman Haven. These lessons comprise the second year of the two-year course. They continue the same plan of development as that of Part I, the closing les

sons of which have been a preparation for the opening lessons of this volume. These lessons by an experienced kindergartner, who is also a religious teacher of great spirituality, are in every way adapted to meet the need of the younger children who should have teaching exactly adapted to their stage of development. As in Part I the lessons are fully written out and there are suggestions for music, blackboard sketches and pictures. Second part. 295 pp.

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Healing of Souls, The. By Louis Albert Banks. The sermons contained in this book were all preached in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church New York city, in a series of revival meetings held during the month of January, 1902. The sermons are printed practically as they were delivered. 302 pp. 12mo.-Preface.

King's Stewards, The. By Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D. D. Sincere and fraternal talks on the things which concern every man's soul, by the pastor of the First Methodist Church of Cleveland. The titles indicate the subject-matter: "The King's Standards," "The Folly of Blowing Out God's Torch," "Spunk and Spirituality," "Special Phases of Christianity Demanded by the New Century" are among them. With frontispiece. 315 pp. 12mo.

Quiver of Arrows, A. Selected and

treated in a candid if ingenious, manner. Of these subjects Prof. Coe says all that his work seems to call for, and in a way which induces sober and earnest thought. This is distinctly a book for the time, and will be appreciated alike by the man who hesitates at inspiration and the man who does not; and it will, we doubt not, win its way to a place among books that are read. The style is excellent, flowing, clear, and free from effort, giving the impression of something in reserve. 442 pp. Indexed. 12mo.-N. Y. Mail and Express.

With an introduction by Wayland Hoyt, D. D. Sermons of David J. Burrell, D. D., delivered in the Marble Collegiate Church of New York city. The discourses are divided into textual, expository, topical, doctrinal, biographical, ethical and anniversary serWith portrait. 380 pp. Indexed.

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Religion of a Mature Mind, The. George Albert Coe. Prof. Coe addresses himself manfully to the problem of God, but some readers may wish for a definition on which he does not venture, and may think that Jesus's idea of God, which to our author is "the best interpreter of life we have as yet discovered," leaves still something to be wished; for the Fatherhood of God is, to some, hard to adjust to human experience, and to human experience the appeal must in the end be made. The hope of immortality, we take it, must also have its spring and source in the human soul. Prayer is akin to those, and in its place is

Napoleon Anecdotes. By W. H. Ireland. These stories were principally selected from notes, written down immediately as heard, by a gentleman who resided in France for several years previous to the return of Louis XVIII. The narrators are said to have stood near in various high positions to the extraordinary personage whose sayings and doings, both actual and apocryphal, are destined to some day become to France what the Arthur legend is to Britain. With frontispiece. 136 pp. 32m0.

Old Plantation Days. By Martha S. Gielow. Mrs. Gielow, who is already the author of "Mammy's Reminiscences" and other sketches, and is well known as a public reader and raconteuse in Afro-American dialect, has gathered together for this book about a dozen prose sketches, storiettes and songs expressive of the personality and view-point of the rapidly vanishing "genuine plantation negro." The author has studied