Chiefly based upon three papers originally written by the author for Harper's Magazine; some new material has been added (including several letters from Hawthorne and General Pierce) now first published. Commodore Bridge, who was a college classmate of Hawthorne, limits his narrative chiefly to matters connected with his college days, and to some incidents in his later career which, he thinks, have not yet been fully recounted by others. COLLINGWOOD, W. G. The life and work of John Ruskin. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v. por. il. 8°, $5. Large-pap. ed., limited to 250 copies, cl., net, $15.

FINCK, H. T. Wagner and his works: the

story of his life; with critical comments. Scribner. 2 v. pors. 8°, $4.

GOWER, Lord RONALD. Joan of Arc: a biography; with an appendix giving the French and English bibliography of the subject. Imported by Scribner. il. 8°, net, $7.50. MARBOT, MARCELLIN DE, (Baron.) Memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army; from the French, by Arthur J. Butler. 4th ed., slightly abridged. Longmans, Green & Co. por. 12°, $2.50. MORRIS, W. O'CONNOR. Napoleon, warrior and ruler, and the military suppremacy of revolutionary France. Putnam. map, il. 12°, (Heroes of the nations ser., no. 8.) $1.50; hf. leath., $1.75.

MORSE, J. T., jr. Abraham Lincoln. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. por. 12°, (American statesmen ser.) $2.50.

PIERCE, E. L. Memoir and letters of Charles
Sumner.
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$10. TUCKERMAN, BAYARD. Peter Stuyvesant, director-general for the West India Company in New Netherland. Dodd, Mead & Co. por. 12°, (Makers of America ser.) $1. UNDERWOOD, FRANCIS H. The poet and the man: recollections and appreciations of James Russell Lowell. Lee & Shepard. por. 12°, $1.

DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY,TRAVEL, ETC. BARKER, E. HARRISON. Wanderings by southern waters. Appleton. 8°, $4.50.

BENYOWSKY, MURITIUS A., (Count de.) The memoirs and travels of Mauritius Augustus, Count de Benyowsky, in Siberia, Kamchatka, Japan, the Liokin Islands and Formosa ; from the translation of his original manuscript, (1741-1771,) by W. Nicholson, 1790; ed. by Captain Pasfield Oliver. Macmillan. 12°, (Adventure ser.) $1.50.

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL.

STURGIS, RUSSELL, ROOT, J. W., PRICE, BRUCE, [and others.] Homes in city and country. Scribner. il. 8°, $2.

Contents: The city house in the East and South, by Russell Sturgis; The city house in the West, by J. W. Root; The suburban house, by Bruce Price; The country house, by Donald G. Mitchell [Ik Marvel," pseud.]; Small country places, by S. Parsons, Jr.; Building and loan associations, by W. A. Linn. These articles describe the characteristic features of the city, suburban and country houses, and offer suggestions as to the most desirable features of each class. Co-operative housebuilding is fully explained. The illustrations represent American architecture from Colonial times to the present.

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. DAUDET, ALPHONSE. Contes de Daudet, (including "La Belle Nivernaise; ") ed. with introd., notes and indices by A. Guyot Cameron. Holt. por. 12°, net, 80 c.

Eighteen selections from Daudet's most popular stories. The preface and introduction give an excellent estimate of Daudet. The annotator is professor of French in Yale University and his notes are very practical. A list of works of reference, an index of derivations, a grammatical and historical index, an index of proper names, an index of idioms and a chrono

logical bibliography of Daudet's writings (2 pages) are included.

DUHRING, JULIA. Mental life and culture: essays and sketches, educational and literary; ed. by her brother, L. A. Duhring, M.D. Lippincott. 12°. $1.25.

"The fine literary powers of the late Miss Julia Duhring of this city, have been widely acknowledged. Her books, Amor in society,' Philosophers and fools' and Gentlefolks and others,' impressed thoughtful readers, and the feeling thus excited is likely to be strengthened by a posthumous volume prepared by her tal life and culture,' and just published by J. brother, Dr. Louis A. Duhring, entitled MenB. Lippincott Company. This book consists of educational and literary essays and sketches, all indicating Miss Duhring's intellectuality and deep desire to be of use to the world. Some of the papers are incomplete, showing they were rather studies for essays than complete performances such as the author would have made of them if it had been so decreed. But all are noticeable for their originality and force. Miss Duhring was devoted to education, from moral

persuasion and fitness of an uncommon kind, and it is natural that her thoughts should have tended more in that direction than in any other. Earnest teachers will find this book very suggestive."-Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.

FICTION.

AHO, JUHANI, (pseud.) Squire Hellman, and other stories. Cassell. 12°, (The unknown lib., no. 25.) cl., 50 c.

BALZAC, HONORÉ DE. A great man of the provinces in Paris; tr. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Roberts. 12°, hf. mor., $1.50.

BARRETT, FRANK. Kitty's father. Tait. (Holyrood ser., no. 6.) $1; pap., 50 c. Two card-sharpers, coming at day-break into the English town of Chichester, enter the vicarage garden and while refreshing them

selves with the vicar's strawberries witness a

horrible scene; a man comes from the vicarage dragging the corpse of an old man which he hides in the well-and the sharpers suppose they see a murderer disposing of his victim. This incident is the basis of the story, two men being suspected of a murder, one of whom of course proving innocent. Kitty is an actress, the story of her career carrying the reader behind the scenes of a variety of provincial theatres. BARRIE, J. M. A Tillyloss scandal, [and other stories.] Lovell, Coryell & Co. 12°, (Belmore ser., no. 17.) pap., 50 c.

"Like a vitalizing breath of the Scotch heather comes Mr. J. M. Barrie's Tilly loss scandal.' A very real thing indeed is the artistic personality of Mr. Barrie, and although the Tillyloss scandal' is not a full-fledged book like "The little minister,' we incline to think the author has done nothing better. There is nothing very scandalous about the Scandal,' though perhaps coming as near to it as the simple Thrums folks (it is curious what a family relationship is kept up through all these books), of whom Mr. Barrie is so fond, are capable of. The point is that the hero runs away from home on hearing how nearly his wife once came to marrying another man, and because she on one occasion passed the husband off as the aforetime sweetheart. The husband is our

old friend Tammas Haggart, the weaver, who was once just like any ordinary man but who comparatively late in life became a humorist. This tale tells how the transformation was effected, but we are not going to spoil the prospective reader's pleasure by telling how it was done. We may state with propriety, however, that Tammas comes in a strange way in possession of a vast sum of money, no less than £50, and thereupon, with his indignation with his wife hot upon him, starts out to see the world. He is only gone five weeks, but the circumstances are sufficient to make him the hero of Thrums forever after. Sincerely may it be hoped that we have not heard the last of Tammas Haggart. 'A Tillyloss scandal' is delicious from first to last-a masterpiece."-Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.

BEHRENS, BERTHA, ["W. Heimburg," pseud.] Miss Mischief, (Mamsell Unnütz:) a novel; from the German, by Mary Stuart Smith: il. by Warren B. Davis. Bonner. 12°, (Choice ser., no. 82.) $1.50; pap., 50 c.

The story of a young girl brought from Italy

Two young girls-orphans-whose only home had been an English school in which "the Primitive Gospellers educated the daughters of their missionaries," were elected by the managers to be sent to South Africa to become the wives of two young missionaries already settled there. This is the "promised land," where the heroines' lives are spent; their experience of married life and of life in South Africa is full The author evidently of dramatic incidents. writes from observation, as scenes and characters are natural and life-like. Shandon bells.

BLACK, W.

New [uniform]

Social strug

rev. ed. Harper. 12°, 80 c. BOYESEN, HJALMAR HJORth. glers a novel. Scribner. 12°, $1.25. Peleg Bulkley made millions in real estate bought with thousands earned as merchant tailor in a large Western town. The ladies of his family yearned for social recognition, and Mr. Bulkley retired and came to New York City to realize their wishes. Life at a Long Island summer resort and the doings of society are graphically sketched. The hero was born of the "four hundred," but teaches his fiancée to estimate society at its true value. He is a believer in "Toynbee Hall" movements. BURNHAM, Mrs. CLARA LOUISE. Dr. Latimer: a story of Casco Bay. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12°, $1.25.

Dr. Latimer, a prematurely gray physician of forty, spends his life in encouraging and helping everybody. Three orphan sisters begin a kindergarten in a little flat on the outskirts of Boston, and Dr. Latimer proves their good genius. The scene changes to Mt. Casco Bay and the characters all develop during a beautiful summer among the White Mountains. Dr. Latimer's history is a surprise. An encouraging book for women bread-winners. CAREY, ROSA NOUCHETTE. Little Miss Muffet. Lippincott. il. 12°, $1.25.

Little Miss Muffet had been christened Effie Beresford, and was the only daughter in a happy-go-lucky English country family. She was adored by her brothers and the servants and animals, but was the despair of her conventional mother and her many unsuccessful governesses. She was very clever and incorrigibly idle. At seventeen she is sent to her aunt's to be educated with her model cousin, Virginia. She winds herself about many hearts and at the critical moment of her life displays heroic unselfishness.

CAUVAIN, H. A village priest; from the

French, by Albert D. Vandam. Warne. 12°, (Library of continental authors.) pap., 35 c. A translation of the original French story on which H. Beerbohm Tree's play of the same name is founded. The vicar of Bonnières is an interesting figure in a social drama in which Count de Tremallién's honor is involved and Jean de Torquenié is the supposed criminal. When the story opens twenty years have passed since the crime, and the son of a former actor in the dual crime is the means of revealing an intricate plot.

CLEMENS, S. L., [" Mark Twain," pseud.] The £1,000 000 bank-note, and other new stories. Webster. il. 12°, $1.50.

The Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds each. Two rich Englishmen-brothers-fell into a dispute as to what would become of an honest stranger turned adrift in London with no money but one of these million-pound bank-notes, and no way to account for his being in possession of it. They buy one of these notes, find the man-a young American-to experiment with, and to decide which theory is the true one. The first story relates his adventures. Of the other stories, many have never before appeared in book form. They are called: "A cure for the blues," "About ships from Noah's Ark to the vessels of to-day," "Playing courier," "The German Chicago," A majestic literary fossil," "Letter to Queen Victoria," "The enemy conquered" and "Mental telegraphy."

CRAWFORD, F. MARION. To leeward. [New cheaper ed.] Macmillan. 12°, (Macmillan's dollar novel ser.) $1.

CROCKETT, S. R. The Stickit minister and some common men. Macmillan. 12°, $1.75. "It is inevitable that one should compare Mr. S. R. Crockett's stories, A Stickit minister and some common men,' with Mr. Barrie's work. They are written about the same homely, 'canny' Scotch folks, and they strike, like Mr. Barrie's tales, both the humorous and the pathetic keys, gliding easily from one to the other. There is no slightest sign of imitation, however. Though dealing with a subject that Mr. Barrie has made peculiarly his, Mr. Crock ett produces his own effects in his own way. Each tale has its little character-sketch or original incident or odd happening transcribed from life; the fun is quiet and almost shy; the pathos is honest and unstrained. Most of the stories are about ministers, and they were originally printed in a religious paper. They deserve a very wide reading. We mistake great ly if the author be not heard from again."Christian Union.

DE LEON, T. C., and LEDYARD, ERWIN. John Holden, Unionist: a romance of the days of destruction and reconstruction. Price-McGill Co. il. 12, $1.50.

DOYLE, A. CONAN. The firm of Girdlestone : a romance of the unromantic. Lovell, Coryell & Co. 12°, (Belmore ser., no. 18.) pap.,

50 c.

"The firm of Girdlestone" dealt in ivory, gums, ebony, gold-dust and other African products. Its two members, father and son, were cold-hearted, hard-headed scoundrels, who over-insured their ships and indulged in other fraudulent practices. The elder Girdlestone becomes guardian of a young heiress whose

An old-fashioned story of love, crime, suspicion, detective-work, mystery and science that takes place in a London lodging-house. On the point of starting to be married the hero is attacked in his rooms. His bride awaits him in vain. His best man sticks to him through all the mystery that follows, but his true helper is the "witness to the deed." FORRESTER, Mrs. —, [pseud. for Mrs. Bridges.] Dearest. Tait. 12°, $1.25.

A story of family life in a well-appointed English country home. A worldly, selfish mother, a pair of pink-and-white twin daughters, the "ugly duckling" younger daughter and the stepson and brother who is head of the house, are the characters of importance upon whom "Dearest," the governess, exercises her fascinations to her own benefit and their perfect satisfaction.

FOTHERGILL, JESSIE. Oriole's daughter. Tait. 12°, $1.25.

Minna Hastings, a widow of twenty-eight in good circumstances, is studying art in Rome. Forced to change her boarding-house, she drifts into the "Casa Dietrich" where Signor Oriole, reduced in circumstances, is doing duty as waiter. The landlady's daughter Fulvia awakens her sympathies, and after she is unhappily married Mrs. Hastings becomes her guardian angel. The scene shifts to England. The Then Fulvia story covers about eight years. leaves her husband and ends her days in Sicily as Oriole's daughter.

FULLER, ANNA. A literary courtship: under the auspices of Pike's Peak. Putnam. 24°, $1.

One evening at the " Pow-wow," a New York club, several men discussing the question of why women writers had so often used men's names as pseudonyms, conclude, with the exception of john Brunt, a successful writer, that it is because a man obtains a hearing and recognition quicker than a woman. Brunt, to test his belief that if a book has merit it will make its way, whether a man or woman's name is on the title-page, issues his next novel under the nom de plume of "Lilian Leslie Lamb." Another "Lilian Leslie Lamb" living at Colorado Springs, opening a correspondence with her supposed namesake, an amusing series of incidents follow.

GERARD, E., [pseud. for Mrs. E. G. Laszowska.] The voice of a flower. Appleton. 12°, (Town and country lib., no. 116.) $1; pap., 50 c. "A romance of great beauty, but tragic in its ending. The principal characters are a German baron of fierce and stormy temperament and a young Italian girl who is the possessor of a wonderful carnation which, according to tradition, is of miraculous origin. The grandfather of the girl, a painter in humble circumstances, though descended from a lordly race, has strayed into Germany in search of a livelihood.

The girl has a lover, a sculptor in Rome, and the baron, maddened with jealousy at her refusal to accept his wooing, plans a terrible revenge. There are many scenes of intensely

dramatic interest in the tale, and those who are a little weary of the conventional fiction of the day will be pretty certain to find pleasure in its perusal."-The Beacon.

Grey, MaxweLL, [pseud. for M. G. Tuttiett.] The last sentence. Tait. 12°, $1.50. GRIMSHAW, ROB. Fifty years hence; or, what may be in 1943 a prophecy supposed to be based on scientific deductions by an improved graphical method. Practical Pub. Co. 16°, $1.

An ingenious sketch in story form of the probable conditions of life fifty years hence, if scientific inventions are developed at the same rate as they have been during the past fifty

years.

HARTE, FS. BRET. Sally Dows, and other stories. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12°, $1.25. "Bret Harte has given us more exciting tales, tales to rouse our sympathies more, and in which it was possible to take an interest in a larger group of characters. Here there is but one character of any interest at all. To the ex citing surroundings of this story we pay little heed. Our feelings are never overtaxed. Sally is the only thing in the book, and she is everything. Bret Harte never made quite so piquant a heroine. Her matter-of-factness, her mental abilities, her magnificent self-confidence, her barbarous tongue, are all miraculously distilled into a being so delicate and airy and sparkling as never was conceived by him before."-The Bookmaker.

HAWTHORNE, JULIAN, ed.

The confessions of a

convict; il. from life. Rufus C. Hartranft, il. 12°, $1; pap., 50 c.

In his preface Mr. Hawthorne states that this diary was really written by a convict while serving a term in Auburn Prison. His reminiscences embrace many entertaining stories of prison life and vivid pictures of the officials and his fellow-convicts, some of whom are easy of recognition under their pseudonyms. The notorious Jimmy Hope, the bank robber, was the bench companion of the writer in the workshop for two years, the picturesque adventures of his extraordinary career being embraced in the convict's narrative.

HOPPIN, EMILY HOWLAND. From out of the past the story of a meeting in Touraine. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12°, $1; pap., 50 c. A slender thread of plot holds together descriptions of pleasant wanderings in Touraine. The successful artist, Allan Doane, meets his old love Margaret Rivers, recently widowed, and her bewitching daughter Hester. They wander for days among the historic scenes of southern France. The romance is skilfully managed and the climax left in doubt to the very end. ISAACS, ABRAM S.

Stories from the rabbis.

stories have already appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Sunday-School Times and Harper's Bazar. LOTI, PIERRE, [pseud. for L. M. J. Viaud.] Jean Berny, sailor; tr. by E. P. Robins. Cassell Pub. Co. 12°, $1.

MCCARTHY, JUSTIN. The Dictator: a novel of politics and society. Harper. 12°, $1.25.

Mr. Justin McCarthy's The Dictator' brings into London drawing-rooms the deposed ruler of a South American country-a man of a noble type of character, sincere in his patriotism and in his intent to make for Gloria' (as the imaginary nation is called) a strong, honest and just government. His dealings with English statesmen, his winning the love of an English girl of a high type, his success in thwarting the murderous plots of his enemies, and his final return to power in Gloria,' make up a story which is interesting though in no sense great. Its plan gives Mr. McCarthy a chance to show his intimate knowledge of political and diplomatic life, and it is probable that some of the characters are composite portraits made up of traits of living celebrities." The Christian Union.

MUSICK, J. R. A century too soon: a story of Bacon's rebellion; il. by F. A. Carter. Funk & Wagnalls Co. il. 12°, (Columbian historical novels, no. 6.) $1.50.

OLIPHANT, Mrs. MARGARET O. W. The marriage of Elinor. Coryell & Co. 12°, (Belmore ser., no. 15.) pap., 50 c.

In spite of the disapproval of friends and rel atives Elinor Dennistoun marries the Honorable Philip Compton, a handsome, fascinating man, who even in his own "fast" set is called a "scamp." Before they are married Elinor saves him from the results of one of his crimes

by a falsehood, of which at the time she does their marriage, and they are separated, this not realize the meaning. After the failure of fa'sehood again plays a part in the lives of both.

OLIPHANT, Mrs. MARG. O. W. The sorceress. J. A. Taylor & Co. 12°, (The Broadway ser., no. 22.) pap., 50 c.

"Laura Lance, who gives the title to the novel, is a diabolical creature who sows wretchedness and misery between a girl and her lover, then makes love to the girl's brother-or allows him to make it to her-and breaks his heart, her victims. . . . The reader would certainly and finally endeavors to capture the father of never gather from what had gone before that the destroyer of the peace of the Kingsward family had really never at any time meant that family any real harm.'"-The Academy. PHELPS, ELIZ. STUART, [now Mrs. Herbert D. Ward.] Dona'd Marcy. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12°, $1.25.

A college story, full of life, energy, entertainment and other wholesome and engaging qualities. It ilustrates the aspirations and thoughtfulness of healthy youth as it matures and vivacity so characteristic of college life. It to manhood, and abounds in the kind of vitality need not be added that it is written with power, lends to it an unusual interest-Miss Phelps with humor and with a nobility of aim which wrote it.

SILVA, GORHAM. A heroic sinner and the pilgrim spinster: a romance. C. T. Dillingham & Co. 12, pap., 50 c.

The opening chapters tell the circumstances which made a widow of Mrs. Mercy Druce;

she and her elderly sister, "Mehitable Ann," remain on the farm left her by her husband for three years, and are then moved to join the Salvation Army. The life of the Salvationists is graphically portrayed, the incidents occurring during this period, from which the book gains its title.

STONE, MARY E. A riddle of luck. Lippincott Co. 12, $1.25.

"It is questionable whether many discouraged literary aspirants would be able to resist the temptation of such a bargain as was proposed to Richard Dartmouth, the hero of this novel· a bargain by which in exchange for the use of his bodily frame every alternate six months a ghost, desirous to reincorporate himself and taste the joys of flesh, undertakes to dictate to him novels and essays of so brilliant and irresistible a character that publishers at once cry for, compete for, pay for and publish them. Of course payment when it falls due is not altogether agreeable, but que voulez-vous? One must defray the cost of glory, and on the whole Mr. Richard Dartmouth comes out quits with his spiritual creditor and balances his account in a highly satisfactory manner."—Boston Literary World.

THOMAS, ANNIE, [Mrs. Pender Cudlip.] Utterly mistaken. Cassell. 12°, $1.

"It is not usual to find a title which suits a book so well as that which Annie Thomas has chosen in 'Utterly mistaken,' although probably intended to apply to but one character in the story, Ella Poynter, who, believing her stepmother to be in possession of a guilty secret which hastened her own father's death, pursues her with a malicious desire for revenge, and brings the disgrace intended for her victim upon her own head; yet before the reader has finished the book it seems quite evident that all the characters with the exception of one, and he the most worthless, are utterly mistaken in each other. The reader's sense of poetic justice will probably be often outraged during the course of the story, and particularly at its close, but poetic justice, as we all know, is not invariably meted out in this world, and it must be said for 'Utterly mistaken' that the people in it seem very real and their destinies on the whole what might have been expected."-The Beacon. WARDEN, FLORENCE, [pseud. for Florence Alice Price, now Mrs. G. E. James.] Grave Lady Jane. J. A. Taylor & Co. 16°, (Mayflower lib., no. II.) pap., 30 c.

The scene is Ilchester, England. The heroine, a woman thirty-two years old, is impelled, by an early disappointment in love, to assume a grave and austere appearance with the habits of a miser, and is induced, through motives of revenge, to bestow her fortune upon an ecclesiological ins itute. Her lawyer by his politic action brings about a surprising revolu

WHITE, W. HALE, ["Mark Rutherford," pseud.] Mark Rutherford's deliverance; ed. by his friend Reuben Shapcott. Cassell. 12°, $1. The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford "

left him after giving up his career as Indepen

dent minister. His deliverance" is worked out in a psychological study that is strangely up to date in its handling of the conditions of so

ciety, and completes this strong story of per

sonal suffering and religious struggles. Contains also "Notes on the Book of Job," "Principles " and "A mysterious picture."

WIGGIN, Mrs. KATE DOUGLAS. A cathedral courtship. [Also] Penelope's English experiences; il. by Clifford Carleton. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12°, $1.

ZANGWILL, I. Merely Mary Ann; il. by Mark Zangwill. Raphael Tuck & Sons. por. 12°, (Breezy library ser., no. 1.) pap., 50 c. Mary Ann, the servant in a South London lodging-house, awakens the passing interest of a gentleman lodger, who accordingly proffers her some attentions with a few trifling presents. As a result he captures the susceptible heart of the heroine, whose sudden accession to fortune puts the hero in an interesting dilemma, and ends a quaint love-story at once humorous and pathetic.

HISTORY.

Venice an historical BROWN, HORATIO F. sketch of the republic. Putnam. maps, plan, 8°, $4.50.

nam.

MORFILL, W. R. The story of Poland. Putpor. il. 12°, (Story of the nations ser., no. 36.) $1.50; hf. leath., $1.75. PELHAM, H. F. Outlines of Roman history. Putnam. 12°, $1.75.

A reprint with many additions and alterations of the article "Roman history," which appeared in the last edition of the " Encyclopædia Britannica." The aim has been to give such a sketch of the general course of Roman history as as might enable the reader first to follow the main lines of movement and grasp the characteristic features of the different periods. The largest space is devoted to the period which extends from the tribunate of the elder Graccus to the fall of Nero (133 B.C.-69 A.D.), as being the period which it is most neccessary for a student of Roman history to understand. A list of four pages is given of the principal modern authori ties on the subject.

LITERATURE, MISCELLANEOUS AND COLLECTED WORKS. BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA, 1893: catalogue of a valuable collection of books and pamphlets relating to America; with a descriptive list of Robert Clarke & Co.'s historical publications. Rob. Clarke & Co. 8°, net, $1; pap.,

50 c.

A priced catalogue, classified under subjects of books relating to America.

COWPER, W. The best letters of William Cowper; ed. with an introd. by Anna B. McMahan. McClurg. 16°, (Laurel-crowned letters ser.) $1.

The dates of these letters run from 1765 to 1794, and belong to the latter part of Cowper's