A P P L E T O N S ' SPRING BULLETIN 



of municipal government all over the world. It was an act without exact 

 precedent in any age or country, and while the success of consolidation was 

 never doubted by its advocates, in almost all matters of detail the great munici- 

 palitv has not yet passed beyond the stage of experiment. The plan of 

 government was not perfect. Many errors have been discovered, and some 

 corrected. Much remains to be done, and for some years to come prog- 

 ress may be slow ; but valuable lessons have been learned, and there is reason 

 to believe that the mistakes of the past will not be repeated. A statement of 

 conditions that exist and reports of progress made in the larger affairs of the 

 greatest city of the New World may not be devoid of interest to students of 

 municipal government." 



The latest volume in the successful Literatures of the World Series, edited 

 by Mr. Edmund Gosse, is Russian Literature, by K. Waliszewski. 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 abun- 

 dantly demonstrated in his literary criticisms and historical work that his selec- 

 tion as the historian of Russian literature in the admirably edited Literatures of 

 the World Series is a pre-eminently fitting one. In this volume he has dealt 

 with a theme comparatively little known and full of interest. From the biliiii, 

 or oral literature of Old Russia, and the Ostromir Codex, the earliest specimen 

 of written Russian literature, down to the poets and novelists of the later nine- 

 teenth century, there are presented a series of peculiar and fascinating literary 

 epochs 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, cus- 

 toms, and life in general. 



The multiplication of literary books upon fish and fishing, to say nothing of 

 semi-scientific works upon the classification and habits of fish, and books upon 

 tackle and flies, has nevertheless left a place vacant for a practical handbook 

 which should describe the habits and environment ot the tresh-water game fish 

 commonly met with in this country, and explain in a simple and easily compre- 

 hensible way the methods of their capture. Mr. Eugene McCarthy, in his 

 Familiar Fish and how to Catch Them, has produced an immediately useful and 

 practical book which will be appreciated bv fishermen, old and young, and by 

 those who are interested in the simplest phases of outdoor Nature study. Mr. 

 McCarthy's lifelong experience as a fisherman in this country and in Canada gives 

 his book the practical value inherent in the work of the man who has himself 

 tested and applied everything of which he writes. In American scientific nomen- 

 clature Mr. McCarthy's name is associated with that of the ouananiche of the 



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