O'Connor, T. P. Charles Stewart Parnell: a memory. Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co. por. 12°, pap., 50 c. OXENDEN, Rev. Bp. The history of my life: an autobiography. Longmans, G. 8°, $1.75. SAINT-AMAND, IMBERT DE. Marie Antoinette and the downfall of royalty; tr. by Eliz. Gilbert Martin. Scribner. 12°. (Famous women of the French court.) $1.25. The events of the French revolution, beginning with the year 1792 and ending with the proclamation of the republic in September of the same year, are embraced in this volume. The deaths of the Emperor Leopold and Gustavus III. occurred during this time, Madame Roland appeared upon the scene, Marie Antoinette and the royal family spent their last days at the Tuileries, and the Princess de Lamballe was murdered. SMILES, S. Jasmin, barber, poet, philanthropist. Harper. por. 12°, $1.25. Jacques Jasmin was a noted Gascon poet, born at Agen, March 6, 1798, died 1864. He was born in poverty, his father being a tailor, and at sixteen was employed in a hairdresser's shop. His first volume of poems, published under the name of Papillotes (Curl papers"), was a literary triumph. His verses were mostly in dialect and of the people. He recited many of them in public for benevolent purposes. He published four successive volumes of Papillotes, his work being crowned by the Académie Française. In an appendix to this work are a number of translations of Jasmin's poems. SOREL, ALBert. Madame de Staël; tr. by Fanny Hale Gardiner. McClurg. 12°, (The great French writers.) $1. Talleyrand-Perigord, C. M. de (Prince.) Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand; ed., with a preface and notes, by the Duc de Broglie; tr. by Mrs. Angus Hall, with introd. by Whitelaw Reid. In 5 v. V. 4-5. Putnam. por. 8°, ea., $2.50. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Joseph Severn and His Correspondents. Sharp. Atlantic (Dec.). James Russell Lowell. James. Atlantic (Jan.). Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes. Century (Dec.). Charles Stewart Parnell. St. John. Chautauquan (Dec.). Cruise of the "Quaker City" (Recollections of Mark Twain). Chautauquan (Jan.). My Father's Letters. (Gen. Sherman.) Sherman. Cos mopolitan (Dec.). Sketch of Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleef. Pop. Sci. Mo. (Dec.). DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. ARNOLD, Sir EDWIN. Seas and lands; reprinted by permission of the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph [London] from letters published under the title By sea and land" in that journal. Longmans, G. 8°, $5. Sir Edwin Arnold and his daughter sailed from Liverpool for Quebec and Montreal, August 22, 1889. From Canada they went on to Washington, Philadelphia, thence to Boston and afterwards westward, stopping at Chicago and other cities and finally reaching San Francisco, from which port they sailed for Japan. The impressions of the author of "The Light of Asia" re The garding all he saw in America are described in the vivid language of which he is master. larger part of the volume is devoted to Japan. Of this country he discourses of the temples and shrines, the poetry and plays, the quaint women and children and their picturesque costumes, the daily life, the military, court and commerce, etc. has so thoroughly entered into the spirit of No Englishman with whom we are acquainted handles them as Walton advised his angler to Japanese life and manners as Sir Edwin, who handle his worms - as if he loved them. He tells us less than we could wish about their literature, of which not much is known in England, and that only through translations which must be false to their originals."—Mail and Express. BOLLES, FRANK. Land of the lingering snow: chronicles of a stroller in New England from January to June. Houghton, M. 12°, $1.25. EDWARDS, Miss AMELIA B. Pharaohs, Fellahs and explorers. Harper. 8°, $4. "The most intelligent and entertaining of all recent contributions to Egyptology, certain departments of which are handled with a clearness and fulness that make her volume delightful reading."-R. H. Stoddard in Mail and Express. MATHER, HELEN. One summer in Hawaii. Cassell. 8, $2. The Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands in the midPacific Ocean are among the most beautiful spots in the world, and are full of interest in many ways. The author describes the beautiful tropical foliage, the lovely moonlights, social Honolulu, a breakfast on board the U. S. flagship Charleston, the Hawaiian king and queen then reigning, the Iolani Palace, etc., etc. The islands are now one of our chief naval stations; added to this, the reported desire of Honolulu to be annexed to the United States makes the volume very timely. OCEAN steamships: a popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances, by F. E. Chadwick, J. D. J. Kelley, Ridgely Hunt and others. Scribner. il. 8°, $3. "A semi-scientific and practical description of the great steamship service between this country and Europe. The reader can learn the methods of construction, the several trades and arts brought into play, the launching of the ship when completed, and after that all about the machinery and the fitting for sea, and last of all the voyage and its pleasures and its risks-in fact, the birth, life and progress of a great steamer and of the lines and their commercial management. It is mercantile, mechanical, scientific and pleasure or business travel all under one title. A good book of reference with pleasing and instructive reading, answering every reasonable question that can be asked on the subject of our maritime intercourse with the other side of the sea."-Commercial Advertiser. Piozzi, Mrs. Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century from the journey of Mrs. Piozzi; with introd. by the Countess Evelyn Martenengo Cesaresco. Scribner. 12°, $2. "The glimpses were taken many years ago, but Italy is much the same to-day as when Mrs. Piozzi and her husband jogged over its ancient roads in their luxurious coach. Poor Mrs. Piozzi! She led an unhappy life with Thrale, and when he died she married the Italian music-master for love. What right had a woman of forty to love any one but her own children? said her friends, and Dr. Johnson turned his back upon her with the rest. It made no difference that she had brewed tea for him by the quart, that she stuffed him with the good things from her larder and nursed him when he was ill. He forgot all this and scorned her in his rough way because she wanted a little married happiness. What right had she to marry, or if at all, what right had she, the widow of a wealthy brewer, to marry a poor Italian who taught music for a living? She hesitated for a while and kept poor Piozzi in a state of mind, and then she married him, and to get rid of the worst of idle tongues the bride and groom made an Italian pilgrimage. This book is a condensed account of that journey, made from four volumes now among the 4 scarce books,' and well made. Mrs. Piozzi was a lively lady and observing withal, and she saw much to interest and amuse from her coach window and among her husband's fine friends who threw open their palace doors to welcome her in."--Recorder. WOLFF, H. W. The country of the Vosges. Longmans, G. map, 8°, $4. "Gives a minute and entertaining account of the European district which suggests the title. It includes Metz and the region roundabout, with its battles and sieges; Saarbrücken and Wörth, equally famous in martial history; Strassburg, quaintest of old Alsatian cities; the neighboring Goethe country,' associated with the poet's love-making and inconstancy; St. Odille with its legendary history; also noted for its influence on the great German: Rappoltsweiler and its merry 'brotherhood of pipers;' Colmar and Munster and Mulhausen, with their industrial wealth and their contributions to the solution of the capital and labor' problem; and many other places of scarcely inferior interest, which we have not space to enumerate. Vosgien song, legend and customs are fully and sympathetically dealt with; and the reader is simply amazed at the amount of curious and entertaining matter that can be found in a comparatively limited area by one who has really come to be at home there, and who knows how to tell what he has seen and heard."-The Critic. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. The Most Ancient Shrine in Japan. Hearn. Atlantic (Dec.). The Bowery.* Ralph. Century (Dec.). The Ocean from Real Life.* Beebe. Century (Dec.). several cases of well-known women who have proposed to the men they married. The other papers are on Maidens choosing; Proposals of marriage; The girl who refuses you; Some femininities; Engaged couples and engagements; About kisses; Falling in love, and Ingenious proposals. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Woes of the New York Working-Girl. (Fawcett.) Arena (Dec.). Association in Clubs with Its Bearings upon WorkingWomen. Arena (Dec.). Mohammedan Marriage and Life. Jannaris. Arena (Jan.). American Entertaining.* Sherwood. Cosmopolitan (Dec.). American Homes. Van Rensselaer. Forum (Jan.). House Furnishing. Baylor. Lippincott's (Dec.). Decline of Politeness. Barr. Lippincott's (Jan). Consolation for Ugly Girls. Doughty. Lippincott's (Jan.). Do Americans Love Money? Browne. No. Amer, Review (Dec.). EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. Is Modern Education a Failure? Harrison. Forum Need School Be a Blight to Child-Life? Forum (Dec.). ALARCÓN, PEDRO ANTONIO de. The three-cor- The three-cornered hat belonged to the Corregidor, or Mayor of Andalusia. It becomes one of the most important pieces of circumstantial evidence against the miller's wife, whose husband wrongfully suspects her of infidelity. The story is founded upon an old rhyme often recited at weddings and christenings in former days. A biographical sketch of the author, who has recently died, and an opinion concerning this story by Luis Alfonso are included in the volume. AUSTIN, JANE G. Betty Alden, the first-born daughter of the Pilgrims. Houghton, M. 12°, $1.25. "The Puritan maiden Priscilla' is so well known to the many thousands of readers of Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish' that a warm welcome will doubtless be accorded her Alligator Hunters of Louisiana.* Wilkinson. Century daughter, who is the title character of Betty (Jan.). Ten Days on the Mississippi.* W. G. Eggleston. Cosmopolitan (Dec.). In Camp with Stanley.* Jephson. Cosmopolitan (Jan.). Our Exposition at Chicago. Ralph. Harper's (Jan ). Afloat on the Nile.* Blashfield. Scribner's (Dec.). A Day with the Donkey-Boys. Blashfield. Scribner' (Jan.). Bokhara Revisited.* Lansdell. Scribner's (Jan.). DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. SHALL GIRLS PROPOSE? and other papers on love and marriage, by a speculative bachelor. Cassell. nar. 12°, 75 c. The bachelor thinks that the girls should feel at liberty to ask men to marry them, and cites It Alden,' by Mrs. Jane G. Austin. The book is more story than novel, for it deals in leisurely fashion with a great many of the early settlers of the colony on Massachusetts Bay, and the daughter of John Alden and Priscilla gets no more mention than two or three score other folk. The tale might as well have been called Miles Standish,' for the doughty warrior is quite as prominent as any of the characters. is a readable and pleasing tale, avoiding the stilted romanticism of one class of writers who have endeavored to portray the tender sentiment of those rough days, and avoiding also the blunder of those who imagine that the colonists thought only of worshipping the Lord. The men and women are every-day creatures, quite as busied with crops and household cares as any new settlers of the present day, and with the extra care of keeping the Indians at a safe distance, while the young people are as full of fun, love, mischief and jealousies as those of two or three centuries later. There are many excursions into the history of the period with which the author is familiar, having written several other stories. of those times. It is a sketchy, rambling sort of book-just the thing to arouse interest in the period and the people, without distracting interest through excitement."-N. Y. Herald. BARR, AMELIA E. A rose of a hundred leaves: a love-story. Dodd, M. 12°, $1.50. BARRIE. J. M. The little minister. United States Book Co. 12°, (Lovell's international ser., no. 181.) $1; pap., 50 c. The story is told by an old man who once Moved the little minister's mother. At the age of twenty-one Gavin Dishart became minister of the Auld Licht Church, on the east coast of Scotland. The time of the story is that of the Chartists, about 1838. The little minister worked in a community of weavers, and shared their miseries and hopes. Church troubles between the Established and Independent churches are worked into the plot, "In my opinion The little minister' is far and away the first novel of the season, and demonstrates that its author is a man not only of talent, but of genius."-London Academy. BAZÁN, EMILIA PARDO. The swan of Vilamorta; tr. by Mary J. Serrano. Cassell. 12°, (Cassell's blue lib.) $1.50. The swan of Vilamorta is a young poet living in a little town in the northeastern part of Spain. He is absorbed in his work and allows a schoolteacher, the mother of an unfortunate cripple, to support him and work for him until she ruins herself and neglects her child. The love of this middle-aged woman for the selfish, talented young poet is the pyschological study which is the motive of the story. BOURGET, PAUL. Pastels of men. Ist series; tr. by Katherine Prescott Wormeley. Roberts Bros. 16°, $1. Translated by Miss Wormeley the subtlety of Bourget's psychological speculations, his audacity in attacking the most baffling situations, and even his exquisite style seem to lose little by being transferred to another language. "A saint" is an old Italian abbé who has remained în charge of a deserted convent, and whose fondest dream is to restore it to its ancient prosperity. Monsieur Legrimandet is a broken-down literary hack who has beneath a brutal exterior an extremely tender heart. In 'Two little boys" the author shows his knowledge of childhood, and depicts the joys and heartaches of his heroes with fine realism. BROUGHTON, RHODA, and BISLAND, Elizabeth. A widower indeed. Appleton. 12°, (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 84.) pap., 50 c. The sacred precincts of Oxford see the unfolding of this story. The hero is what is called a "Bursar," one who keeps the college accounts and settles college complaints. He loses his lovely wife when under thirty, and is left a miserable, inconsolable widower with two children. His neglected home and children and his own sad aspect arouse the sympathy of a young American girl-full of slang and high spiritswhose attempts to console him end disastrously for the widower and herself. The ending is quite unexpected. CATHERWOOD, MARY HARTWELL. The Lady of novel. Harper. lib., new ser., no. DANILEVSKI, G. P. 12°, (Harper's Franklin sq. 714.) pap., 50 c. The Princess Tarakanova; a dark chapter of Russian history; from the Russian by Ida de Mouchanoff. Macmillan. por. il. 12°, $2. The author died last year at St. Petersburg. His historical novels have been much praised for their originality and truthfulness to nature and history. Princess Tarakanova is a mysterious adventuress of marvellous beauty who made pretensions to the Russian throne during the reign of Catherine II. By order of the Empress the Princess was kidnapped, conveyed to Russia, and drowned in her prison at St. Petersburg. Many foot notes make the story instructive. Told in the form of a diary. * DU MAURIER, G. Peter Ibbetson; with introd. by his cousin, Lady * *("Madge Plunkett "); ed. and il. by G. Du Maurier. Harper. 12°, $1.50. FALCONER, LANOE, [pseud. for Miss Mary Hawker.] Cecilia de Noel. Macmillan. 12°, $1. Mr. Lindsay, a guest of Weald Manor, tells in an incidental and impressive way the grewsome and unaccountable experiences of several fellowguests, among them "Cecilia de Noel," whose dramatic description and unusual action in conjunction with the ghost of the manor is the last and most interesting episode in the novel. sides the effect created by the supernatural element there is a wide character scope and humorous features. FARJEON, B. L. The shield of love. 16°, (Leisure hour ser.) $1; pap., 40 c. Be Holt. A doting father who has petted and spoiled his daughter dies without making provision for her, and, according to English law, the son inherits all the property. The mother and brother treat the girl like a true Cinderella. She has a contented spirit and bears her cross cheerfully, but opposes her tyrants firmly in cases of importance. At the age of twenty-eight she meets John Dixon, and he proves a shield of love to her during the many trials to which her brother subjects her before her faithful, courageous love is rewarded. FLETCHER, ROB. Howe. The Johnstown stage, and other stories. Appleton. 12°, (Appleton's town and country lib, no. 83.) 75 c.; pap., 50 c. Contents: The Johnstown stage; Corner lotsa tale of a boom; Gentleman Jack; Moses Cohen, the Jew; Cast away, a love story; Between the acts; Dick, a naval story; The old Spanish By the author of "A blind bargain." bedstead, a ghost story; The mystery of a studio. GASKELL, Mrs. ELIZ. C. CRANFORD; with a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie; il. by Hugh Thomson. Macmillan. 12°, $2. GREEN, Anna KATHARINE. The old stone house, and other stories. Putnam. 16°, 75 c.; pap., 40 C. Contents: The old stone house; A memorable night; The black cross; A mysterious case; Shall he wed her? HABBERTON, J. The Chautauquans; il. by Warren B. Davis. Robert Bonner's Sons. (The choice ser, no 51.) $1; pap., 50 c. "It is astonishing, if true, that the C. L. S. C.' has not before been made the subject of a story. There is certainly material enough in that organization to make a hundred romances. Mr. Habberton was just the man to write the first. He grasps the Chautauqua idea and he grasps its possibilities to the writer of fiction. This story gives one a very practical idea of what Chautauqua has done and is doing, and will impress the general reader much more effectually than will the ordinary pamphlets on the subject. One result of the Chautauqua movement is summed up in this paragraph: Another effect of the reading course was brought to the general attention of Postmaster Brown, who one day informed the minister that there had been quite a change in the usual winter demand for light literature, of which his store was the principal depot. He had sold as many novels as usual, but the quality demanded was higher, and he had been surprised by orders for a few books of solid nature. The demand for a better class of periodicals, he said, was larger than before in the town, and many high-class magazines were purchased by people who did not at the same time abandon such lighter literature as they always had been reading.' If Mr. Habberton's story is read by all the members of Chautauqua Circle it will have a larger circulation than his popular Helen's babies.'"-Recorder. HARRIS, Mrs. MIRIAM, [formerly Miss Coles.] An utter failure: a novel. Appleton. 12°, $1.25. HOWELLS, W. D. An imperative duty: a novel. Harper. 12°, $1. KIRK, Mrs. ELLEN OLNEY, ["Henry Hayes," pseud.] Ciphers. Houghton, M. 12°, $1.25. LEMON, IDA. A divided duty. Lippincott. 12°, (Lippincott's ser. of select novels, no. 128.) pap., 50 c. "Tells the life romance of a bright, capable, but strongly passionate woman, who, under a great misconception of the conduct of her affianced lover, schemes out a plan of retribution. It is not a success, however; the only result is to intensify her own wretchedness without the revenge she had intended. The tale is complex and will not admit of brief analysis, but it is worth reading. The authoress must be a woman of considerable power as a romancist, and especially as this romance is one of modern life and ties down the ideal to ordinary experience."Commercial Advertiser. LOUGHEAD, Mrs. FLORA HAINES. The abandoned claim. Houghton, M. 12°, $1.25. Suddenly deprived of a father's support and care, Ned Martin and Hope Austin are thrown upon their own resources. The eldest of the children is only fifteen, but they are all full of courage and enterprise. The scene is California, and the children's enterprise takes shape in entering a claim for some government land, an “abandoned claim," to which they remove and successfully cultivate. Their experience is rich in interest and information. LOUGHEAD, Mrs. FLORA HAINES. The man from Nowhere. C. A. Murdock & Co. 16°, (The gold dust ser., no. 1.) pap., 25 c. The first of a series of short stories by the same author, to be issued regularly every month in uniform style and averaging about the same length. Many of these stories have seen print before, and it is the friendly reception they have met in perishable form which has encouraged their publication as books. The present issue is the model of those which are to follow. It is a pathetic story of an inventor who, when just upon the brink of success, is injured in the head by the bursting of an engine and spends sixteen years in an insane asylum. MACDONALD, G. The flight of the shadow. Appleton. 12°, (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 85.) $1; pap., 50 c. MARSHALL, EMMA. Winifrede's journal of her life at Exeter and Norwich in the days of Bishop Hall. Macmillan. il. 12°, $1.25. The incidents in the life of Bishop Hall, The journal begins in 1637 and ends in 1686. " the Christian Seneca," are gathered from the biography by the Rev. George Lewis, of Balliol College, Oxford. The characters are for the most part imaginary, but those connected directly with author of Under Salisbury spire" gives a true the bishop's family are real personages. The historic picture of the troubled years she describes, and the journal is worded in a quaint, attractive style. MASOCH, LEOPOLD V. SACHER. The new Job ti. by Harriet Lieber Cohen. Cassell. 12°, (Cassell's sunshine ser., no. 89.) 75 c.; pap., 50 c. The author is a native of Poland who was born in 1836 and lived through the terrible rising of 1846, the cholera epidemic, the locust plague, the sad story of wrong and misery. The new Job is Russian oppression, which he describes in this a Polish peasant whose fortunes are traced from birth to a comparatively peaceful old age. He is an earnest patriot and suffers all things in the hope of aiding his compatriots to become free, self-respecting human beings. "It is a strong story and should introduce the author to a large American audience."-Recorder. MURFREE, Miss MARY N., ["Charles Egbert Craddock," pseud.] In the "Stranger people's' country: a novel. Harper. il. 12°, $1.50. "In the Stranger People's Country' is in point of execution as good a story as Miss Murfree has written since her first great success. It has, of course, for its scene the Tennessee mountain region, and it puts before us the same slowspeaking, deep-feeling mountaineers with whose types this writer has made us so familiar. But the temptation to that monotony of style and slowness of narrative, almost amounting to dreariness, into which she has sometimes fallen, is here resisted. The scenes are intensely dramatic, the characters well contrasted, and there are touches of fun as well as scenes of passion."— Sunday-School Times. NEMEC, BOZENA. The grandmother: a story of country life in Bohemia; from the Bohemian; with a biographical sketch of the author by Frances Gregor. McClurg. 12°, $1.25. The author of this tale, which has been a classic in Bohemia for many years, was born in 1820. She has always taken a deep interest in all things pertaining to her country. This story tells of an old peasant woman who comes to Vienna to live with her married daughter and her children. The old woman is deeply religious, frugal and real in all things. By her reminis cences and conversation she gives a most instructive account of the manners, customs, habits, history, hopes, aims and development of Bo hemia. O'CONNOR, W. DOUGLAS. Three tales. Houghton, M. 12°, $1.25. "William Douglas O'Connor during his lifetime was known more especially as the friend and admirer of Walt Whitman than for any literary gifts of his own, though he was not without them. The three tales that compose this volume show that he was a story-teller of originality if not of power. An interesting and fitting contribution to the collection is a preface by Walt Whitman written in his own rugged style to put on record,' he says, my respect and affection for as sane, beautiful, cute, tolerant, loving, candid and free and fair intentioned a nature as ever vivified our race.' Whitman met O'Connor in 1860 for the first time; he was then a young man of eight-and-twenty, and, says Walt, personally and intellectually the most attractive man I ever met.' My dear, dear friend,' he calls him, and stanch (probably my stanchest) literary believer and champion from the first and through out, without halt or demur, for twenty-five years.' How thoroughly Whitmanese are these quotations? Who but our own Walt would speak of a man as 'sane, beautiful, cute, tolerant'?"-The Recorder. PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART. [now Mrs. H. D. Ward.] Friends: a duet. Houghton, M. 12°, (Riverside pap. ser., no. 41.) pap., 50 c. PRAED, Mrs. CAMPBELL. The romance of a châlet a story. Lippincott. 12°, $1.25. "This is a very unpleasant, but strongly written story. The whole plot and semi-tragedy pivots upon and centres around the question in heredity, social and practical life, as to whether two people, knowing that in both their families there is a taint of insanity, have a right to marry. The hero and heroine, for these names belong to them of right, decide in the negative. Whether the reader approves or condemns the decision, he cannot fail to sympathize deeply with them in their conflict between feeling and duty. The scene is laid in a châlet in the heart of the Swiss Alps, and the descriptions of the various characters and nationalities these represent are piquant and life-like, but it can hardly be considered 'light reading.""—Public Opinion. PYLE, HOWARD. A modern Aladdin; or, the wonderful adventures of Olive Munier: an extravaganza in four acts. Harper. il. 12°, $1.25. RYAN, MARAH ELLIS. A pagan of the AlleghaTM nies. Rand, McN. 8°, hf. mor., $1.50; pap., 50 c. Marah Ellis Ryan gives this novel a peculiar dedication, and there is frequent straining after brilliant effects in conversation; but it is none the less a remarkable book, original and dramatic in conception and pure and noble in tone. An uncle sends his nephew to look up his property in the Alleghanies. There the young man meets the Pagan,' a mountaineer who is a radical in religion. Both men care for 'Krin Le Fevre, the unhappy girl-wife of a distiller. Seldom has the effect of unspoken love on three dissimilar characters been better portrayed. Of course the story ends unhappily, from the necessities of art, but the many minor characters are well treated."Boston Literary World. : SHORTHOUSE, J. H. Blanche Lady Falaise a tale. Macmillan. 12°, $1. SIENKEWICZ, H. The deluge: an historical nove of Poland, Sweden and Prussia: a sequel to "With fire and sword," from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Little, B. 2 v., por. 12°, $31 STOWE, Mrs. HARRIET Beecher. Uncle Tom's cabin; or, life among the lowly; il. by E. W. Kemble. [New holiday ed.] Houghton, M. 2 v., 12°, silk, $4; large-pap. ed., 2 v., 8°, cf., net, $10. An entirely new edition. Mr. Kemble, who illustrates it, has a special genius for depicting the southern negro of the old slave days, and has put some of his most careful and artistic work into the designs. There are sixteen full-page illustrations and over 120 text illustrations. The volumes are richly bound in Persian silk. SUDERMANN, HERMANN. Dame Care: from the German by Bertha Overbeck. Harper. por. 16°, (Odd number ser.) $1. "The story has from the outset a sombre cast, while it is not one that dips into the melodramatic in any form. Some critics might be inclined to consider that it was touched by what is vaguely called modern hopelessness.' But it is a masterful study of certain phases of modern German life, and contains character drawing that has marvellous force and vigor. Too much praise could not be given to the artistic simplicity of the author's method in illuminating character and actors. The story is of much originality as regards plot, but in the respect of this element it cannot be considered so strong as in those of character drawing and literary style.”—Brooklyn Times. TALES of to-day and other days; from the French of Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Karr, Théophile Gautier and others; tr. by E. P. Robins. Cassell. 12, (Cassell's sunshine ser., no. 90.) 75 c. pap.. 50 c. François Coppée, Paul Bourget, Guy de Maupassant, Jules Clarétie and Emile Zola have written the tales of to-day; Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Karr, Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée those of other days. The stories are chosen with a view of showing the difference of literary methods of the two epochs divided by the year 1830, which witnessed the emancipation of French literature from the bondage of the classicists. TAYLOR, HOBART CHATFIELD. With edge tools. McClurg. 12°, $1.25. The maiden effort in the domain of fiction of a Chicago writer. The scene is laid in Chicago and New York, among the fashionable people of the two cities, and is not at all complimentary to their manners or morals. WALFORD, L. B. A pinch of experience. United States Book Co. 16°, (Westminster ser.) hí. cl., 50 c. Rhoda was the only child of the Squire of Lupton, who in conjunction with his wife made every effort to spoil his daughter. When she expressed herself tired of her country surroundings, Mrs. Lupton immediately made preparations to send her to London. Rhoda's experiences in Cleaveland Square are novel and interesting. WILBRANDT, CONRAD. Mr. East's experiences in Mr. Bellamy's world: records of the years 2001 and 2002; from the German, by Mary J. Safford. Harper. 12°, (Harper's Franklin sq. lib., new ser., no. 713.) pap., 50 c. The hero of this book goes through a course of burial and resurrection somewhat similar to the experience of Julian West in Bellamy's Looking backward." Frederick East finishes reading Bellamy's book in 1890, and is buried He then has an and comes to life again in 2001. opportunity to witness the life depicted in Bellamy's world; he does not find its workings so rose-colored as that writer depicts them-bis book being, in fact, the other side of the ques tion. MAGAZINE FICTION. In the Meshes of a Terrible Spell. Helen Campbell Arena (Dec.). A Spoil of Office. Hamlin Garland. Arena (Jan.). |