LITKKATli;!-:. A M Kl! K A N. IN 1896. 



" Press Working of Metals"; and William Met calf 

 of "Steel." John Newman's book on "Metallic 

 Struetun-.- 11 ami Fouling and their Pre- 



vention." 'was of special value, and "A Practical 

 Treatise mi Compressed Air and Pneumatic Ma- 

 chinery" came from K. A. Uix and A. I-".. Chodzko. 

 A third revised edition of " The Steam Engine con- 

 sidered as a Thermodynamic Machine." by .1. H. 

 rill, appeared, and George -I. Hell prepared 

 "A Practical Treatise on Segmental and Elliptical 

 Oblique or Skew Arches." .1. II. Knight offered 

 "Notes on Motor Carriages"; Hie-hard Anderson 

 treated of " Lightning Conductors : Their History. 

 Nature, and Mode of Application"; and "Shop 

 Kinks and Machine-Shop Chat." by Robert Grim- 

 shaw, consisted of 500 practical paragraphs in fa- 

 miliar language, showing special ways of doing 

 work better, more cheaply, and more rapidly than 

 usual. "A Synopsis of Current Electrical Litera- 

 ture " was compiled from technical journals and 

 magazines during 1895 by Max Osterberg. Henry 

 I published 22 lectures and essays entitled 

 " Studies in the Thought World " ; Arthur E. \Vaite 

 der-eribed ''Devil Worship in France"; Thomas S. 

 Blair asked of " Human Progress : What can Man do 

 to Further it? " and Otto A. de La Camp made '-A 

 Spiritual Tour of the World in Search of the Line 

 of Life's Evolution." " Ye Thoroughbred," by 

 " Novus Homo," propounded a new theory ; and 

 " My Soundspeed Discovery expanding into a Con- 

 structive Medley of Wit and Song " was declared 

 by George Winslow Pierce to be a four years' after- 

 inflorescence of "The Life Romance of an Algebra- 

 ist." "The Scot in America" was the theme of 

 Peter Ross. H. L. Russell furnished " Outlines of 

 Dairy Bacteriology," and Richard Baxter, " Baxter's 

 Practical Receipt Book for Bakers." Hamblen 

 Sears gave an outline of "Governments of the 

 World To-day," for the use of newspaper readers ; 

 James Baldwin offered "A Guide to Systematic 

 Readings in the Encyclopaedia Britannica " : and 

 Vol. I appeared of "Alden's Living Topics." "The 

 Annual Literary Index, IM'.V was the work of 

 William I. Fletcher and R. R. Bowker: Luther S. 

 Livingston compiled " American Book Prices Cur- 

 rent"; "The American Catalogue. 1890-1895," ap- 

 peared, as did the " English Catalogue of Books 

 for 1805"; "United States Government Publica- 

 tions, July 1, 1890-Jtme 30, 1895," was compiled 

 under the editorial direction of R. R. Bowker by J. 

 H. Hickcox; and ' Applet ons' Annual Cyclopedia 

 and Register of Important Events of the Year 

 1895" was issued, as usual. 



Voyages and Travels. Several delightful vol- 

 umes recorded the pleasures of travel enjoyed by 

 Americans in 1896. " By Oak and Thorn "' was a 

 record of English days by Alice Brown; William 

 H. Rideing told of "At Ilawarden with Mr. Glad- 

 stone, and Other Transatlantic Experiences." while 

 Mrs. Anna Bowman Dodd was at home "On the 

 Broads." her narrative being illustrated by Joseph 

 Pennell. E. Boyd Smith illustrated his 'own de- 

 scriptions of French life in what he terms " My Vil- 

 lage "; "On the Trail of Don Quixote" was a rec- 

 ord of rambles in the ancient province of La Man- 

 cha by Augustus F. Jaccaci : Mrs. Louise Chandler 

 Moulton described " Lazy Tours in Spain and 

 Elsewhere"; and H. C. Chatfield Taylor also vis- 

 ited " The Land of the Castanet." Thomas Sedg- 

 wick Steele made " A Voyage to Vikingland," and 

 M rs. Sarah S. T. Baker gave brief " Fireside 

 Sketches from Swedish Life." Laurence Button 

 traced the " Literary Landmarks of Venice." 

 " Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central Ameri- 

 ca," by Richard Harding Davis, brings us back to 

 our own continent ; and again we have "Venezue- 

 la" described as a land where it is always summer 



by William E. Curtis. "Through Jungle ami 

 ert." a iv.-ord of travels in eastern Africa, by Wil- 

 liam Astor Chanlcr. contained numerous illustra- 

 tions and photographs taken by the author : i 

 J. Loom is di-M-ribed "An Eclipse Party in Africa 

 chasing Summer across the Equator in 'the I". 

 Peii.-acoia in a manner to delight the general 

 reader as well as to instruct the scientist, the hand- 

 some volume being illustrated with nearlv 100 pho- 

 tographs: -The Edge of the Orient," by Robert 

 Houard Russell, brought before us cities and 

 pies out of the beaten track: and Albert Pavson 

 ferhune, a son of Marion Harland. saw "Syria 

 from the Saddle." "Alone in China." by Julian 

 Ralph, told of travel under the guise of" fiction; 

 " Kokoro" was the title of hints and echoes of Jap- 

 anese inner life by Lafcadio Hearn : and the same 

 country is the theme of "Dragons and Cherry 

 Blossoms," by Mrs. Robert C. Morris, and Kather- 

 ine Schuyler Baxter's " In Bamboo Lands." " The 

 Island of Cuba," by Andrew S. Rowan and Mara- 

 thon Mont rose Ramsey, gave a descriptive and his- 

 torical account of the Great Antilla, and Ellen 

 Blackmar Maxwell told of " Three Old Maids in 

 Hawaii." Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, in eight papers 

 upon " The Madeira Islands." conveyed much use- 

 ful and interesting information. " Thlinkets of 

 Northern Alaska" were described by Francis 

 Knapp and Rheta Louise Childe : "The Last 

 Cruise of the 'Miranda'" was a record of arctic 

 adventure by Henry Collins Walsh and others; 

 Vol. I of " Mazama : A Record of Mountaineering 

 in the Pacific Northwest," was published by The 

 Mazamas. a society of Portland, Ore.; Jonathan 

 Carver : His Travels in the Northwest in 1766- 

 was published in a limited edition by John Goadby 

 Gregory ; and John McDougall. in '" Saddle. Sled, 

 and Snowshoe." described pioneering on the Sas- 

 katchewan in the sixties. " On Snowshoes to the Bar- 

 ren Grounds." by Caspar W. Whitney, told of . 

 miles traversed after musk oxen and wood bison ; 

 "Camping in the Canadian Rockies." by Walter 

 Dwight Wile-ox, contained 25 full-page photograv- 

 ures and many text illustrations from photographs 

 by the author ; and tales of adventure told "Around 

 the Camp Fire" during a canoeing trip to New 

 Brunswick were repeated by Charles C. Douglas 

 Roberts. " Fort Reno : or. Picturesque Cheyenne 

 and Arapahoe Army Life before the Opening of 

 Oklahoma " was described by Mrs. I). B. Dyer; and 

 in the series of " American Summer Resorts " we had 

 "The North Shore of Massachusetts." by Robert 

 Grant: "Bar Harbor." by F. Marion Crawford; 

 "Newport." by W. C. Brownell: and "Lenox." by 

 George A. Hibbard. A third edition of "Califor- 

 nia of the South." by Drs. Walter Lindley and J. 

 P. Widney. was rewritten and brought "down to 

 date ; and a second revised and enlarged edition 

 was also sent out of " The White Mountains." by 

 Rev. Julius H. Ward. "Appletons" European 

 Guide-Book" was issued in two handsome volumes. 

 Juvenile books of travel were respectively " The 

 Land of the Kangaroo." by Thomas W. Knox. in 

 the " Travel and Adventure Series" : " Four Young 

 Explorers: or Sightseeing in the Tropic?." by \V. 

 T. Adams (Oliver Optic), in the " A 11-over-t he- 

 World Library " ; " The Long Walls : An American 

 Boy's Adventure in Greece." by Klbridge S. Brooks 

 and John Alden : and " Witch Winnie in Holland," 

 by Mrs. Elizabeth Williams Champney. Charles 

 Morris compiled four volumes of "Half Hours of 

 Travel at Home and Abroad," the first being given 

 to America and the others respectively to Europe, 

 Asia, and Africa and Australia : Robert Meredith 

 described a trip " Around the World on Sixty Dol- 

 lars." and Edgar Magness told "Tramp Tales of 

 Europe." 



