her way into the hearts of three men, who share the attic quarters in which she and her mother are housed. It transpires in the course of the story that one of the three is in love with her aunt, whom he met in a trip to Germany, and the story ends with the meeting and reconciliation of these two.

Juvenile

TOR, A STREET BOY OF JERUSALEM. By Florence Morse Kingsley. With illustrations by F. H. Eckman. 190 pp. 12mo. Henry Altemus Co.

A street gamin in Jerusalem at about 30 A. D. hears of the Master, takes a blind man to be healed, watches the betrayal, and is present at the trial, crucifixion and the resurrection, with the final appearing at Galilee.

TUCKER DAN. By Charles Ross Jackson. Illustrations by Gordon H. Grant. 199 pp. 12mo. G. W. Dillingham Co.

Tucker Dan and his friend Mickey pass through a series of boyish adventures, and each chapter is full of surprises and smiles. "Uncle Binney" is the dearest old man who ever whaled a small boy. Boyish love plays a part, and the little volume is full of wholesome humor.

"VANISHING SWEDE," THE. By Mary Hamilton O'Connor. 209 pp. 12mo. Robert Grier Cooke.

A juvenile, giving an account of a hunt for a lost mine in Oregon.

Biography

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE. Edited by William MacDonald. With frontispiece. The Temple Autobiographies. 314 pp. I2mo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

The autobiography fills half this volume, and an account of Franklin's later life by William MacDonald rounds out his biography. A preface describes the circumstances under which the autobiography was written, and its strange fate in being issued, with many changes, by Franklin's grandson. The present publication follows John Bigelow's edition as published by him in 1868.

Illus

CAMBRIDGE SKETCHES. By Frank P. Stearns, author of "True Republicanism," etc. trated. 375 PP. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co. The author, known for careful work in one or two fields, particularly in a life of Bismarck, collects in this volume a series of sketches on Boston celebrities. Francis J. Child, H. W. Longfellow, J. R. Lowell, C. P. Crauch, T. G. Appleton, O. W. Holmes, Frank Bird and the Bird Club, Charles Sumner, Chevalier Howe, the War Governor Andrews, Elizur Wright, Dr. W. T. Morton. Besides these are essays

on Harvard at the close of the war, the colored regiments, a visit to Rome forty years ago and some words on Hawthorne.

LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK, THE. By Andrew Kippis. Caxton Thin Paper series. With frontispiece. 433 pp. Indexed. 16mo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

A reprint of the life of Cook, the great navigator, killed at the Hawaiian Islands, which appeared in 1788, immediately after his death, in a comely octavo. It is now printed in a small, flexible-covored pocket volume, with reproductions of the original maps on thin paper and in type not too small for easy reading. It is almost exclusively devoted to his two voyages around the world, summarizing his work from the standpoint of the eighteenth century, without notes or comment.

MEMOIRS OF A GREAT DETECTIVE. Incidents in the life of John Wilson Murray. By Victor H. Speer. 484 pp. 12mo. The Baker & Taylor Co.

John Wilson Murray, a Scotchman, born in Edinborough, June 25th, 1840, after an experience as a seaman and service during the Civil War on the Hartford and other vessels in the engagements of the Gulf, began his work as a detective in discovering the plot to capture the Michigan and rescue the prisoners on Sandusky Bay. This brought him into contact with Wood, Chief of the Secret Service of the Treasury Department, and he passed into work as a detective. The present volume is made up of extremely well-told narratives of the experiences of forty years as a detective. Nearly every one of them has in it the material for a "mystery."

12mo.

MY OWN STORY. By Caleb Powers. Illustrated from photographs. 490 pp. The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Caleb Powers, tried and convicted for complicity in the murder of William Goebel, has in this volume, evidently with some assistance, written an account of his life, his college days, his work in the law school, his political activity and the campaign which led up to his arrest and successive trials. Nearly half the book is occupied with affidavits, Powers' addresses to the jury, the instructions asked and given, and the correspondence in regard to the extradition of W. S. Taylor and Charles Finley.

OLIVER HAZARD PERRY AND THE WAR ON THE LAKES. By Olin L. Lyman, author of "The Trail of the Grand Seigneur." etc. 246 pp. 12mo. New Amsterdam Book Company. A study of Perry's career, beginning with his services in the war between Algerian pirates and ending with the battle of Lake Erie. Additional chapters review the courts martial which followed that victory, analyzing the evidence and reaching a conclusion in favor of Perry. A brief summary is given of his services up to his death in 1819.

REMINISCENCES OF A RADICAL PARSON. By W. Tuckwell. With photogravure portrait, 300 pp. 12mo. Cassell & Co., London.

In 1878, after some years in teaching, the author became Vicar of a Warwickshire college, living at Stockton. He was one of the first to begin, in an English rural parish, the organization of church activities. Coming before the public in this way, he threw himself into the Liberal agitation for a lower franchise and land reform, with a view to small holdings. His speeches on this subject from 1884 to 1894, when the legislation on county and parish government, small allotments and similar subjects had accomplished some of the reforms for which he struggled, came to be known throughout England. The present volume describes his personal efforts, includes in an appendix some of his speeches and gives a vivid view of an agitation which has been obscured by attention to Irish Home Rule.

History

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By Edward Channing. Volume I-1000-1660. 537 pp. Indexed. 8vo. The Macmillan Co.

The first volume of a history of the United States by a well-known teacher of American history in Harvard, whose text-books are widely used in secondary schools. His effort in the work is to treat the entire subject as the evolution in development of a nation. The first volume brings the story down to 1660. Instead of dwelling upon detail, a constant attempt is made to see the seventeenth century with reference to the period which is to follow.

PORT ARTHUR. By Richard Barry. Illustrated from photographs taken by the author. 344 pp. 12mo. Moffat, Yard & Co.

A graphic and picturesque account of the siege of Port Arthur, by an English correspondent, whose pages are principally occupied by the personal behavior of the Japanese soldier under conditions when most troops would have wholly refused to continue their assault. Minute personal incidents give a vivid picture both of the real conditions under which the siege was waged and of the headlong bravery with which its difficulties were faced.

In

SHORT HISTORY OF VENICE, A. By William Roscoe Thayer. Illustrated. 344 PP. dexed. 12mo. The Macmillan Co. Mr. Thayer has for twenty years been associated with Italian study. Besides many magazine articles, he has written on Italian independence, and has received one of its lesser decorations from the Italian crown. In this volume, which closes with a brief but comprehensive bibliography, he has endeavored to tell the story of Venice from the standpoint of a frank admiration of its success in securing great results through popular government, modified by aristocratic direction during its

period of expansion. The closing chapters discuss Venetian civilization, its art and the decline of the Republic. The volume is replete with efforts to correct the prevailing conception of Venetian Government, as the work of a small and secret body of nobles conducting an unbridled despotism.

SUFFRAGE FRANCHISE IN THE THIRTEEN ENGLISH COLONIES IN AMERICA, THE. By Albert Edward McKinley. Paper. 8vo. University of Pennsylvania Publications. Series in History.

After a brief discussion of the condition of Parliamentary suffrage during the time the colonies organized, each colony is taken up, beginning with Virginia, and the legislation and practice in regard to suffrage are carefully summarized. The article is based upon original research, and besides laws, cites many other publications.

UNITED STATES, THE. A history of three centuries. By William Estabrook Chancellor and Fletcher Willis Hewes. In ten parts. Part 2. Colonial Union, 1698-1774. Illustrated. 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

The second volume of the history of the United States which is planned to be completed in ten volumes. The present volume deals with the development of the several English colonies and the growth of the spirit of revolution. Special attention is given to internal development of agriculturals and manufacture. An effort is made to give original treatment to the appearance of the negro in American life. A list of authorities closes the book. It is fully indexed. There are a number of maps and diagrams, and an effort made to place in graphic shape the changes in population. Each chapter is succeeded by a small summary and condensed statement of facts.

of the work. The text used is that of the fourth edition, which appeared in 1880, an edition which, however, only contained verbal corrections from the first.

Religion

MORAL DISCIPLINE IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. By Hensley Henson. 267 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Longmans, Green & Co.

Contains a course of popular lectures delivered on Friday afternoons in Lent in Westminster Abbey, discussing the confessional historically "as the last phase of a successive continuous development connecting the earliest and the latest ages of the church, and perpetuating through all the mutations of history the original aspect of the Christian religion as before all else constituting a right government of the individual life." Canon Henson's conclusion is that the Protestant method substitutes a sporadic and irregular confession for the systematic conduct of the moral life through the church confessional.

STORY OF THE Welsh RevivAL, THE. As told by G. Campbell Morgan, W. T. Stead and others. With a sketch of Evan Roberts. Paper. 12mo. Fleming H. Revell Co.

An account of the recent revival in South Wales led by Evan Roberts. His work in rousing the revival is described by Arthur Goodrich; Dr. G. Campbell Morgan has a chapter on the lessons of revival. Mr. Stead describes Mr. Roberts, and the psychology of the revival, while a number of shorter chapters take up various phases.

Travel and Description

ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE. By John Scudder McLain. Illustrated with photographs. 322 pp. Indexed. 8vo. McClure, Phillips & Co. The author accompanied the special SubCommittee and Senate Committee on Territories, which visited Alaska in the summer of 1903. enjoying peculiar advantages for studying the possibilities of the country. He has gathered in this volume the articles which he contributed on the trip to his paper describing Alaska. They are published without revision, in their original form.

FAIR LAND TYROL, THE. By W. D. McCrackan. Illustrated. 319 pp. Indexed. 12mo. L. C. Page & Co.

The author, for a number of years our Minister to Switzerland, where he wrote a history of the early days of the Swiss Republic, has included in this volume a number of magazine articles, papers and essays on the Tyrol, illustrated by photographs full of historical interest on the subject. The volume gives more space to the events which have made each place he

mentions known or famous, than to the scenery or to the personal impression which it creates. HOMES OF THE FIRST FRANCISCANS. By Beryl

D. De Selincourt. Illustrated from photographs. 316 pp. Indexed. 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

Paul Sabatier, the biographer of St. Francis of Assisi, suggested this work, which endeavors to describe, in sympathetic detail, the environment of St. Francis and his companions. Assisi and its churches fills the first third of the volume. Convents in the district of Lake Thrasymene, Monte Casale, the Marches and Laverna complete the record of the places associated with the early days of the Franciscans. Each site is minutely described, illustrated with photographs, and its history and its associations traced with studious affection.

ITALIAN LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE. By Mary King Waddington. Illustrated. 315 pp. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

Mme. Waddington, the wife of a distinguished figure in French life. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to Rome, St. Petersburg and elsewhere, has in these letters, which have appeared in "Scribner's," given a most agreeable narrative of court life in Italy in the So's. Nearly all the letters cover a visit in the spring of 1880. An addition reviews the past in the spring of 1904.

ONLY LETTERS. By Francis I. Maule. 324 pp. 12mo. George W. Jacobs & Co.

Very witty, if somewhat extravagant, are these letters from a brother on the other side to one on this. The other side has not a spiritual significance, as one might suppose at a first glance; it refers prosaically to Europe. The year was the year of the Paris Exposition, 1900, and the traveler one unaccustomed. Therefore the view is a fresh one, and the writer does not hesitate to say what he thinks. A couple of hours' good fun is the reward of perusal.

Essays

CASUAL ESSAYS OF "THE SUN." 422 pp. 12mo. Robert Grier Cooke.

Editorials from the New York "Sun" appearing at various dates between 1885 and 1904.

Most of the selections are from the last five years, though one notable editorial of the earlier period, "Our Office Cat," is included.

GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, SANDRO BOTTICELLI, MATTHEW ARNOLD. By Lucie Lee Ewing. 64 pp. 8vo. The Grafton Press.

This carefully printed book, on large paper, a most careful and enticing format, contains three essays, illustrated by processed half-tones, on Watts, Botticelli and Matthew Arnold. The three follow the usual current of criticism, saying nothing that is particularly new, but expressing familiar opinions with an evident personal interest in each subject. The essay on Botticelli in particular is full of special study, and shows knowledge of recent literature.

MACBETH. By Esther Gideon Noble. 35 pp. 12mo. The Poet-Lore Co.

"The Great Message," which opens this essay, "conveyed by the tragedy Macbeth,' is a warning against superstition or a perversion of the imagination." The entire play is studied from this standpoint in an essay which has appeared in "Poet Lore."

SUPER FLUMINA. 225 pp. Indexed. I2mo. John Lane.

A study of angling by an English fisherman, devoted principally to work in still waters; pike, dace, perch and chub. There is an agreeable essay in reference to fishing, and all is written in the light and easy style which seems inseparable from angling literature.

Verse

ATHLETES' GARLAND, THE. Compiled by Wallace Rice. 236 pp. Indexed. 16mo. A. C. McClurg & Co.

A collection of poems upon athletics from many sources, including translations from the classics, though most of the selections are re

cent.

POEMS. By Edward Farquar. 218 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger.

Narratives written in verse, some upon historical subjects, some on sacred and some occasional. It is in its genre similar to the verse of the nineteenth century, rather than like that now published.

SELENE. By Amelia Rives. 89 pp. 12mo. Harper & Brothers.

The Princess Troubetzkoy writes a long poem in blank verse, the story based on the mythological tale of the love of Diana for Endymion, expanded by the author's imagination, until it is scarcely recognizable. Virgil has been followed closely, and the lines of real value are few.

SHOES THAT DANCED, THE. By Anna Hempstead Branch. 201 PP. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

A little play in verse in the Watteau period opens this volume, which contains verse of a wide range, full of feeling, though without high quality of expression.

Educational

CYR'S DRAMATIC FIRST READER. By Ellen M. Cyr. With illustrations by Edith Browning Brand. 104 pp. 12mo. Ginn & Co.

Brief dialogues intended to meet a child's interest in play by furnishing simple colloquies on child-life for children to learn and recite.

ELEMENTARY ENGLISH COMPOSITION. By Frederick Henry Sykes. Illustrated. 320 pp. 12mo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

The author, a professor in the teacher's college of Columbia University, endeavors in this volume to introduce the pupil gradually to the principles of good writing and exercise him in them so that as he gains more and more power over the material of his writing he may gain more and more skill in the manner of expressing it. For this purpose a series of graduated exercises is provided, beginning with brief narratives on familiar themes, such as fables, household tales, stories from the bible and classical myths, passing on to letters, stories from modern history, embellished incidents, description, character study, short stories, definitions, argument, persecution and verse. der each of these heads an example is first given, analyzed and made the basis of varied exercises. This is succeeded by themes of the same character. The work differs from most of its predecessors in a minute application of systematic and related examples.

Un

INTERNATIONAL FRENCH-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-FRENCH DICTIONARY. Prepared under the editorial direction of Paul Passy and George Hempl. 8vo. Hinds, Noble & Eldredge.

The first of a series of uniform bi-lingual dictionaries. It is intended that in this series the pronunciations of the words shall be indicated by a common system under a similar classification, and a uniform treatment in definition. This series is intended to include all leading languages; a dictionary from each into English and from English into each being proposed. The phonetic alphabet used is in the main that of the International Phonetic Association.

LA CHUTE. Par Victor Hugo. With introduction, notes and vocabulary. By W. E. Knapp. 125 pp. 12mo. American Book Co.

A little edition of an extract from Les Miserables, which tells the story of Jean Valjean.

SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND'S LITERATURE, A. By Eva March Tappan. Illustrated. 262 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. This short history of English literature is written by the head of the English department of the Worcester High School, and presents the subject from the standpoint of her expe riences. Nothing is taken for granted. Historical allusions are carefully explained; the life of the period described, and even the illustrations have their line of gloss. The list of works cited are all such as are to be found in almost every library.

Business

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, THE. By William Alexander. Appleton's Business series. 281 pp. 12mo. D. Appleton & Co.

A treatise on life insurance intended for beginners, whether their purpose is to enter on soliciting life insurance, on a share in the management of a life insurance company or on actuarial work. The first part takes up the basis on which life insurance rests; the second the development of the business, in launching a new insurance company, and the third its management, with a closing chapter on the present condition of life insurance. No reference is made to recent exposures. The practice selected and the laws cited are those of New York State.

THORNE'S TWENTIETH CENTURY BOOKKEEPING AND BUSINESS PRACTICE. By W. W. Thorne. 524 pp. 8vo. With frontispiece. The Bookkeeper Publishing Company.

A manual upon bookkeeping which incorporates in its special and double entry the many labor-saving inventions developed in this country during the last decade. Its author is secretary of the National Association of Accountants and Bookkeepers.

Sports

AMERICAN THoroughbred, THE. By Charles E. Trevathan. American Sportsman's Library. Illustrated. 467 pp. Indexed. The Macmillan Company.

In this addition to the "American Sportsnan's Library" the author accepts the grave doubt that surrounds the earliest importation of a thoroughbred Bulle Rock in 1718. After describing the studs and races, the serious work of description is taken up with races, at the revival of attention to this sport in the '30's of the last century. Through the 70,years which elapsed between the importation of Messenger, and the appearance of Eclipse, the author follows the familiar course of recent racing annals. An index, in which the name of every horse is noted, adds greatly to the value of a work based at many points upon original investigation.

MY AUTOMOBILE. 12mo. Dodd, Mead & Co.

A blankbook intended for use by automobilists to keep record of runs, a blank on every other page giving places for date, time of start, arrival, distance, maps, run, weather, roads, guests and remarks.