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catalogues of the new series have been pub- 

 lished by the Bureau of Ethnology. The 

 first of them is the Bibliography of the 

 Eskimo language, which is spoken by a 

 people covering a very extensive range of 

 territory and widely scattered, and is repre- 

 sented in many dialects. The earliest date 

 recorded in the bibliography is 1*729, and it 

 is brought down to include titles that came 

 in while the work was in process of type- 

 setting. Next in order is the Bibliography 

 of the Siouan Languages, in preparing which 

 the compiler enjoyed the advantage of the 

 fact that many of those who have fash- 

 ioned the literature of the language are still 

 living, and he has had personal intercourse 

 or correspondence with a number of them 

 for several years. The publications of the 

 Siouan group cover, perhaps, a wider range 

 than those of any other linguistic group of 

 North America. Nearly every dialect is rep- 

 resented in print or manuscript, either by 

 dictionaries or extensive vocabularies, and 

 pretentious grammars have been prepared 

 of at least five of the languages. The third 

 bibliography is of the Iroquoian Languages 

 to which group, perhaps, belongs the honor 

 of being the first of American languages to 

 be placed upon record. The languages most 

 largely represented are the Mohawk and 

 Cherokee. Of manuscripts, mention is made 

 of a greater number in Mohawk than in any 

 of the other languages. Grammars have 

 been printed of the Cherokee, Huron, and 

 Mohawk ; dictionaries in Huron, Mohawk, 

 and Onondaga, and, in manuscript, of Seneca 

 and Tuscarora. The Muskhogean Languages, 

 to which the fourth bibliographical paper is 

 devoted, are represented by 521 entries, of 

 which 467 relate to printed books and arti- 

 cles and 54 to manuscripts. 



Les Trois Moitsquelaires The Three 

 Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas is pub- 

 lished by Ginn & Co., in an edition prepared 

 for the use of schools, by Prof. F. C. Suni- 

 chrast, of Harvard College. This is one of 

 the best works of the lively novelist, and 

 belongs to a series to which Mr. George 

 Saintsbury has ascribed remarkable and 

 almost unique merits. But all of Dumas's 

 works are liable to objection because of 

 their containing passages unfit to be put into 

 the hands of pupils. The present edition 

 is an attempt to offer a condensation of the 



book, in which, while leaving the main feat- 

 ures of the story and the brilliant and de- 

 lightful passages untouched, all that is ob- 

 jectionable is excluded, and the volume is 

 brought within such limits of length that it 

 may be conveniently used as a text-book. 

 The notes include explanations of difficult 

 passages and allusions, and notices of his- 

 torical persons and places mentioned in the 

 story. Price, 80 cents. 



The Young Folks' Library, edited by 

 Larhn Bunion, LL. D. (Silver, Burdett & 

 Co.), is a series of supplementary readers, 

 designed to give, besides practice in reading, 

 useful information in special fines of school 

 study, and selections from the best litera- 

 ture. The World and its People is a section 

 of this library devoted to geography. Book 

 I, First Lessons, starts with the building of 

 a doll's house with blocks, and proceeds to 

 the drawing of a plan of a school-room and 

 play-ground, a village, and a city, after 

 which the meaning and use of a map and of 

 the points of the compass are fully explained. 

 Spelling lists follow each lesson, and the 

 volume is illustrated. Book II, Glimpses of 

 the World, aims to present such ideas of per- 

 sons and places as will interest children and 

 fit them for the study of geography proper. 

 The maps inserted usually represent portions 

 of the United States, and at the same time 

 illustrate general geographical features of 

 the world. The frontispiece is liable to give 

 children a wrong idea of the size of the 

 earth ; it represents the globe floating in 

 space, with a swallow the size of Greenland 

 flying over it about a thousand miles above 

 the atmosphere. Many poetical pieces are 

 introduced into each book. Other volumes 

 are to follow. 



Prof. Alexander M, Bell has embodied 

 his widely known system of sound notation 

 in a Popular Manual of Vocal Physiology 

 and Visible Speech (E. S. Werner, New York, 

 50 cents), designed as a text-book for teach- 

 ing these subjects in schools and colleges. 

 It gives a complete view of the actions of 

 the vocal organs and the resulting elements 

 of speech. The symbols used to represent 

 the various motions and positions of the 

 organs constitute visible speech. The mas- 

 tery of spoken languages, the exact acquire- 

 ment of native or foreign pronunciations, 

 the correction of defects of utterance, and 



