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II and III, covering " Electricity and Magnet- 

 ism " and " Engineering and Mechanics " ; and 

 the first annual issue was made of " Bibliotheca 

 Polytechnica," edited by Fritz von Szczepanski. 

 Fine Arts. This department is deficient in 

 an unusual degree, works on art and illustrated 

 books being few and not of a high order. " Curi- 

 osities of the American Stage," by Lawrence 

 Button, U A Brief Histery of the English 

 Drama," by William E. Golden, and " Familiar 

 Chats with the Queens of the Stage," by Alan 

 Dale" (A. J. Cohen), belong to histrionic art; 

 while from Deristhe L. Hoyt we have " A Hand- 

 book of Historic Schools of Painting," and from 

 Christine Chaplin Brush " One Summer's Lessons 

 in Practical Perspective." "The Development 

 and Character of Gothic Architecture" were 



Mcllvaine, "LallaRookh," in the vignette edition; 

 Frederick Remington, "The Song of Hiawatha" ; 

 L. K. Harlow, "Whittier Gems," "Summer 

 Thoughts for Yule Tide," by S. Elgar Benet, 

 " The Winds of the Seasons " and " A Christmas 

 Morning," both last by Frank T. Robinson ; and 

 Irene E. Jerome, "From an Old Love Letter." 

 Mrs. Mary D. Brine's " Memories of Home " con- 

 sisted of poems and pictures of life and nature, 

 illustrated by several artists. Oscar Fay Adams 

 edited "The Poet's Year," and Elbridge S. 

 Brooks, " Out of Doors with Tennyson," the last 

 with an introduction, also. Novels issued- in 

 holiday illustrated editions were: "Our Old 

 Home," of Nathaniel Hawthorne ; " Romola," of 

 George Eliot; and "Jane Eyre," of Charlotte 

 Bronte; while single poejns were "Sheridan's 



treated by Prof. Charles H. Moore, of Harvard, Ride," of Thomas Buchanan Read, by several ar- 



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a revised and enlarged edition was made of 

 " Art Topics in the History of Sculpture, Paint- 

 ing, and Architecture," by C. S. Farrar. Twenty 

 out of sixty parts of "Art and Artists of our 

 Time," by Clarence Cook, were published, and 

 Frank G. Jackson was author of " Decorative De- 

 sign." " Modern Book-binding practically con- 

 sidered " was a lecture read before the Grolier 

 Club of New York, by William Matthews, of 

 which a limited edition of three hundred copies 

 was made ; while in music we had " A Hundred 

 Years of Music in America," edited by W. S. B. 

 Mathews ; the seventh volume of " The Musical 

 Year Book of the United States," compiled by 

 G. H. Wilson ; " The Voice, how to train it," by 

 E. B. Warman ; and " The Septonate," by Julius 

 Klauser. "The Scratch Club," of Prof. H. A. 

 Clarke, discussed music principally, and Mrs. 

 Anna R. Diehl was responsible for " A Practical 

 Delsarte Primer." " Some American Painters in 

 Water Colors," with text by Ripley Hitchcock, 

 stands at the head of illustrated works in color 

 printing, of which " XXIV Bits of Vers de So- 

 ciete," edited by F. A. Stokes, "The Golden 

 Flower, Chrysanthemum," compiled by F. Schuy- 

 ler Mathews, " Indigenous Flowers of the Ha- 

 waiin Islands," by Mrs. F. Sinclair, Jr., were fine 

 specimens. " Flower Folk " and " Friends from 

 my Garden," by Anna M. Pratt, were continua- 

 tions of the "Flowers from Hill and Dale 

 Series." In photogravure we have " A Mosaic," 

 from the Artists' Fund Society, of Philadelphia, 

 edited by Harrison S. Morris ; the " Goupil Gal- 

 lery of Great War Paintings"; "Niagara," by 

 Ernest Edwards; and "Gems of American Art." 

 "Recent European Art" was reproduced by 

 photo-etching; and handsome gift volumes were 

 " Summerland," by Margaret Macdonald Pull- 

 man; "Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine," by 



tists ; and " The Story of a Dory told in Verse," by 

 *Edward Everett Hale, and " Salted down pict- 

 uresquely," by F. Schuyler Mathews. The third 

 volume of the magnificent " Cyclopedia of Music 

 and Musicians," edited by J. D. Champlin, Jr., 

 and W. Apthorp, completed that work. 



Voyages and Travels. The leading book in 

 this department, and, indeed, the book that cre- 

 ated the widest sensation of the year, was, of 

 course, "In Darkest Africa," by Henry M. Stan- 

 ley, in two volumes, the composition of which 

 in fifty days is said to have been as great a feat 

 in writing as the crossing of Africa was in ex- 

 ploration. The work itself does not fall in dig- 

 nity below the natural grandeur it describes. 

 The adventures of the author have led to other 

 works on the Dark Continent, among which are 

 J. A. M. Jephson's "Emm Pasha and The Re- 

 bellion at the Equator " (also published in Eng- 

 land), the narrative of the lieutenant whom 

 Mr. Stanley sent in search of Emin, while he 

 returned to 'rescue the rear column. "Scout- 

 ing for Stanley in East Africa," by Thomas 

 Stevens, the first correspondent who met the 

 hero on his homeward march ; " The Ogowe 

 Band," a narrative of African travel, by Joseph 

 H. Reading ; " Great African Travelers from 

 Mungo Park (1795) to the Rescuing of Emin 

 Pasha by Henry M. Stanley, 1889," by Hugh 

 Craig ; and " Adventures in the Great Forest of 

 Equatorial Africa," an abridged edition of the 

 travels and explorations of Paul Du Chaillu. in a 

 volume of five hundred pages, fully illustrated. 

 " The Knockabout Club in North Africa " were 

 chronicled by F. A. Ober ; and from E. L. Wil- 

 son we have " In Scripture Lands," the new views 

 of sacred places being also illustrated by him. 

 " From Joppa to Mount Hermon " is the title of 

 a series of lectures by Rev. Robert A. Edwards 



W. Hamilton Gibson ; "Saul," the poem of Rob- to a Philadelphia congregation, and Rev. T. B. 



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ert Browning, with drawings by Frank 0. Small ; 

 and " Christmas in Song, Sketch, and Story," by 

 various authors and artists. Alfred Parsons il- 

 lustrated " A Selection from the Sonnets of Will- 

 iam Wordsworth " ; George Wharton Edwards 

 "Certain Sonnets from the Countess of Pem- 

 broke's' Arcadia' "; Austin Dobson's "Sun Dial," 

 and " Thus think and smoke Tobacco," the first 

 in a limited edition; H. Sandham, a "Night 

 Song " of C. Reinick : W. Goodrich Beal, " Long- 



Sheridan also" described "A Priest's Tour in the 

 Holy Land." " Social and Religious Life in the 

 Orient," was from the pen of K. II. Basma- 

 jian, and Mrs. A. W. Wilson sent "Letters 

 from 'the Orient to her Daughters at Home." 

 "Persia: Eastern Mission" was a narrative 

 of the founding and fortunes of that (Pres- 

 byterian) Persian mission, by Rev. James Bas- 

 sett, author of " Persia : Land of the Imams 



& * ^. *,,,. , , & and a missionary in Persia for many years. 



fellow Gems " and " Tennyson Gems " ; M. M. Tay- Japanese Boy," by Shiukichi Shigemi, while 



lor, " English Poems " (in etchings) ; C. Howard lating the story of the author's life, gives a reve 



Johnson, " The Princess, and other Poems "; T. lation of social life in southern Japan, anc 



