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and Frank M. Gregory " The Photo-Gravure 

 Calendar," with Shakespearean designs. 



Voyages and Travels. Beginning with Eu- 

 rope, we have J. B. Bouton's " Roundabout 

 to Moscow ; an Epicurean Journey " ; Oliver 

 Wendell Holmes's "Our Hundred Days in Eu- 

 rope"; "Tuscan Cities," by William D. How- 

 ells ; H. Fry's " London in 1887 " ; Dr. Rod- 

 ney Glisan's "Two Years in Europe"; O. J. 

 Butler's " Court Life in Egypt " ; S. M. H. Da- 

 vis's " Norway Nights and Russian Days " ; 

 Anna B. Doddle "Cathedral Days; a Tour 

 through Southern England " ; J. M. Buckley's 

 " The Midnight Sun ; the Tsar and the Nihilist ; 

 Adventures and Observations in Norway, Swe- 

 den and Russia " ; Francis Wey's " Rome " ; and 

 F. Hopkinson Smith's " Well-worn Roads of 

 Spain, Holland, and Italy." Rupert Van Wert 

 also published " Young Folks' Travels in Eu- 

 rope"; William H. Rideingissued "Thackeray's 

 London " ; Houghton's " Satchel Guide for the 

 Vacation Tourist in Europe" was issued for 

 1887; Maturin M. Ballou wrote " Due North ; 

 Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia" ; Charles 

 E. Pascoe brought out " London of to-day " ; 

 Richard Lovett appeared in "Pictures from Hol- 

 land " ; and Alexander McKenzie published 

 " Some Things Abroad." Lee Meriwether wrote 

 " A Tramp Trip : how to see Europe on Fifty 

 Cents a Day." Of journeys in Asia, around the 

 world, and elsewhere, we have Percival Low- 

 ell's " Choson : the Land of the Morning 

 Calm " ; "A Girdle around the Earth," by D. 

 M. Richardson ; " Days and Nights in the 

 Tropics," by Felix L. Oswald ; De Lancy 

 Floyd Jones's " Letters from the Far East, 1885- 

 1886 " ; " Wild Tribes of the Soudan," by F. 

 L. James ; John L. Stoddard's " Red Letter 

 Days Abroad"; "Around the World on a 

 Bicycle," by Thomas Stevens; Ellen A. Smith's 

 " The Wonderful Cities of the World " ; James 

 Harrison Wilson's " China: Travels and In- 

 vestigations in the Middle Kingdom " ; E. Pay- 

 son Hammond's " Roger's Travels, or Scenes 

 and Incidents connected with the Journey of 

 Two Boys in Foreign Lands " ; J. B. Gorman's 

 "Around the World in '84" ; A. Feathermann's 

 "The Nigritians " and "The Melanesians " ; 

 " Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicvcle," by " Kron 

 Karl." Thomas M. Knox's " How to Travel " 

 and " Boy Travelers on the Congo." W. M. 

 Hoyt wrote "A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds 

 of Australia," and Prof. E. S. Morse " Japanese 

 Homes." From the Arctic regions we ha^e 

 Rev. F. E. J. Lloyd's "Two Years in the 

 Region of Icebergs " ; Frederick Schwatka's 

 "Children of the Cold"; and W. A. Steam's 

 " Labrador: its People, its Industries, and its 

 Natural History," new edition. William T. 

 Brigham brought out "Guatemala: the Land 

 of the Quetzal." Concerning the continents 

 and islands of the Western Hemisphere, there 

 were published " Ancient Cities of the New 

 World," by Desir6 Charnay ; Alice D. Le 

 Plongeon's "Here and There in Yucatan"; 

 Mrs. S. M. Lee's " Glimpses of Mexico and 



California"; and Thomas A. Janvier's "Mex- 

 ican Guide," in a new edition. " Capt. Glazier 

 and his Lake ; an Inquiry into the History and 

 Progress of Exploration at the Head-waters of 

 the Mississippi since the Discovery of Lake 

 Itasca," and "' From the Wabash to the Rio 

 Grande," are descriptive of those sections of the 

 country to which they refer. M. B. Hilliard's 

 " The New South : its Resources and Attrac- 

 tions," and " Explorations on the West Coast of 

 Florida," byAngelo Heilprin, include the princi- 

 pal works of description on the Southern States. 

 Descriptive of American cities and places, we 

 have " The Mormon Metropolis : an Illustrated 

 Guide " ; " Charming Bits of Boston Harbor" ; 

 " Dictionary of Philadelphia and its Vicinity " ; 

 "Album of Cincinnati"; "A Week in Chi- 

 cago ; containing Descriptions of all Points of 

 Interest " ; Edwin M. Bacon's " A Dictionary 

 of Boston," new edition, " Philadelphia and its 

 Environs, New Edition for 1887 " ; " Pleasant 

 Memories of Old Nantucket " ; Rev. E. G. Por- 

 ter's " Rambles in Old Boston, New England " ; 

 R. S. Rhodes'* " Stories and Sketches of Chi- 

 cago " ; " Appletons' Dictionary of New York 

 and Vicinity " for 1 887 ; and " Appletons' Atlas 

 of the United States, with Maps." Among 

 guide-books were published " Appletons' Eu- 

 ropean Guide-Book " ; " General Guide to the 

 United States and Canada"; "Hand-book of 

 Summer Resorts " ; and " Hand-book of Winter 

 Resorts." There were also published a " Guide 

 to Europe," by E. C. Stedman ; " Cassell's 

 Complete Pocket Guide to Europe " ; " Map 

 and Guide to Kansas City, Mo. " : M. F. Sweet- 

 ser's "New England Guide" ; " White Mount- 

 ain Guide"; "Guide to the Maritime Prov- 

 inces " ; and " Brentano's People's Year-Book 

 and Traveler's Companion for 1887." 



Educational, In this department we have, 

 first, the works designed for the use of teachers, 

 of which the following are the most important : 

 T. A. Stecker's "School Tactics for the Use of 

 Schools and Gymnastic Associations"; South- 

 wick's " Handy Helps, Educational " ; Arthur 

 Sedgwick's " Stimulus in School." " A Hand- 

 Book for School Trustees " was issued by H. 

 Browne!! ; Edwin R. Shaw came out with a 

 "National Question Book "and "School De- 

 vices " ; while there was translated from the 

 Italian by Mrs. William Gray "The Ruling 

 Principle of Method, as applied to Educa- 

 tion." " Mistakes in Teaching " is the title of a 

 work by James L. Hughes ; Louisa P. Jlopkins 

 was the author of " How shall my Child be 

 Taught? " ; and J. M. Greenwood appeared in 

 " Principles of Education practically applied," 

 while H. F. Fisk issued a " Teachers' improved 

 Class-book." On elocution and rhetoric there 

 were published, among others, Mrs. J. W. Shoe- 

 maker's " Elocutionist's Annual " ; John Mur- 

 ray's "Elocution for advanced Pupils"; J. 

 H. Brown's "Common School Educational Se- 

 lections"; John F. Genung's "Practical Ele- 

 ments of Rhetoric," and " The Study of Rhet- 

 oric in the College Course." C. C. Shoemaker 



