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History of the People of the United States. 



By Prof. John Bach McMaster. Vol. V. (1821-1S30). 8vo. Cloth, with Maps, $2.50. 



The fifth volume of Prof. J. B. McMaster's " History of the People of the United States^ deals with 

 the close of Monroe's term, the administrations of John Quincy Adams, and the stormy opening years 

 of Andrew Jackson. It describes the development of the democratic spirit, the manifestations of new 

 interest in social problems, and the various conditions and plans presented between 1821 and 1830. To 

 a large extent the intimate phases of the subjects which are treated have received scant attention hereto- 

 fore. A peculiar interest attaches to the various banking and financial experiments proposed and 

 adopted at that time, to the humanitarian and socialistic movements, the improvements in the conditions 

 of city life, to the author's full presentation of the literary activit)' of the country, and his treatment of 

 the relations of the East and West. Many of these subjects have necessitated years of first-hand inves- 

 tigations, and are now treated adequately for the first time. 



Bird Studies with a Camera. 



With Introductory Chapters on the Outfit and Methods of the Bird 

 Photographer. By Frank M. Chapman, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in 

 the American Museum of Natural History ; Author of " Handbook of Birds of Eastern 

 North America" and " Bird-Life." Illustrated with over 100 Photographs from Nature by 

 the Author. i2mo. Cloth. 

 Bird students and photographers will find that this book possesses for them a unique interest and 

 value. It contains fascinating accounts of the habits of some of our common birds and description of 

 the largest bird colonies existing in eastern North America ; while its author's phenomenal success in 

 photographing birds in Nature not only lends to the illustrations the charm of realism, but makes the 

 book a record of surprising achievements with the camera. Several of these illustrations have been de- 

 scribed by experts as " the most remarkable photographs of wild life we have ever seen." The book is 

 practical as well as descriptive, and in the opening chapters the questions of camera, lens, plates, blinds, 

 decoys, and other pertinent matters are fully discussed, making the work an admirable guide for the 

 camera hunter, who can not but be stimulated by its author's enthusiasm and con\-incing demonstration 

 of the methods he recommends. It is of course unnecessary to speak of the author's high standing as an 

 ornithologist, his " Handbook of Birds" and " Bird-Life" having taken a leading place among books 

 upon birds. 



A History of Russian Literature. 



By K. Waliszewski, author of " The Romance of an Empress." A new book in the 

 Literatures of the World Series, edited by Edmund Gosse. i2mo. Cloth, $1.50. 

 M. Waliszewski's brilliant work in his " Romance of an Empress" has gained for the author the 

 favor of American readers. Many of these readers, however, may be unaware of the extent of M. 

 Waliszewski's attainments, which have been so abundantly demonstrated in his literary criticisms and 

 historical work that his selection as the historian of Russian literature in the admirably edited Literatures 

 of the World Series is a pre-eminenty fitting one. In this volume he has dealt with a theme compara- 

 tively little known and full of interest. From the bilini, or oral literature of Old Russia, and the Ostro- 

 mir Codex, the earliest specimen of written Russian literature, down to the poets and novelists of the 

 later nineteenth century, there are presented a series of peculiar and fascinating literarj- epcchs which 

 can only be set forth by a writer like M. Waliszewski, who is familiar with the developments of Russian 

 history and imbued with the. spirit of a people frequently misinterpreted and misunderstood. His study 

 of Russian culture and Russian literary expression- forms a lucid, significant, and most important critical 

 history, which derives a peculiar interest from its elucidations of manners, customs, and life in general. 



^j The Principles of Taxation. 



By the late David A. Wells. i2mo. Cloth, $2.00. 

 The purpose of the distinguished economist in writing this book was to describe a science of taxation 

 as the subject presented itself to him. Believing that the relctions of private property to the Govern- 

 ment and the responsibility of the Government to citizens were susceptible of definite formulation. Dr. 

 WeUs endeavored in this most important volume to formulate these relations and to place the subject 

 of taxation upon a scientific basis. 



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