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\\YllsSiiiiili: "Tli. Captain of tin Kitticwink.'" 

 lii.-ri 1>. Ward: " M i-- M illie's trying," by 

 I. i::iiiif..nl: "The Mill.- Sister." b\ 

 l'i\ mpton ; " .Millie UradfordV Fair," the fourth 

 ..f a series of sequels to tin- [Jessie Books," by 

 Joanna II. Maihe\\s; "Little Queenie,"a storv 

 of child life sixty \rars ago, by Mrs. Kniina Mar- 

 shall: " Dr. Dod'd's School," by James L. Ford ; 

 "Ir. Lincoln's Children." by "Kate W. Mutnil- 

 loii; "The Moon Prince, and Other Nabobs." 

 by K. K. Mnnkittrick; " Under the Water Oaka," 



,1-ian Hrewster; "The Little Twin I; 

 and " 1 >an : A Story for Boys," bv Mary D. Brine ; 

 -The Pony-Expressraan,"Dv J. P.Cowan: "The 

 Midnight Warning," by K. II. House; and "The 

 Btory of Juliette," oy Beatrice Washington, found 

 eau'erand delighted readers, as did "The Pansy." 

 edited by Isabella M. and G. R. Alden; "A Book 

 of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals," 

 by J. O. Francis; "On Wheels, and how I came 

 there." by W. B. Smith ; "Tom Paulding," by 

 .lames Brander Matthews, the story of a search 

 for buried treasure in the streets of New York ; 

 The Riverpark Rebellion," by Homer Green ; 

 "Through the Wilds: A Reco'rd of Sport and 

 Adventure in the Forests of New Hampshire 

 and Maine," by C. A. J. Farrar; "In his Own 

 Way," by Carlisle B. Holding ; " Jack Brereton's 

 Three Months' Service," by Maria Mclntosh Cox : 

 K'o\ 's Opportunity," by Annie L. Hannah ; and 

 - Mi-- Matilda Archambeau Van Dorn,"by Eliza- 

 beth Cummings. "Rubyand Ruthy," by Minnie 

 !:. I'aull, was illustrated by Jessie McDermott; 

 and Marietta Ambrosi described "Italian Child 

 Life; or, Marietta's Good Times." " Miss Ash- 

 ton's New Pupil " was a story of college life for 

 Smng girls, by Mrs. S. S. Robbins ; and from 

 arion J. Brunowe came "The Ghost at Our 

 School, and Other Stories," reprinted from "The 

 Ave Maria," and "The Sealed Packet." "A 

 Slumber Song," by Nina Lilian Morgan, prac- 

 tically completes the list ; " The Bunny Stories," 

 by John H. Jewett, "The Wild Pigs," by Gerald 

 Young, " The Beautiful Land of Nod,'* by Mrs. 

 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and " Maud Humphrey's 

 Book of Fairy Tales " being for little children. 



Fine Arts. "The Grammar of the Lotus: A 

 New History of Classic Ornament as a Develop- 

 ment of Sun Worship," by William II. Good- 

 year, Curator of the Department of Fine Arts in 

 the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, was 

 a volume of the first importance on the subject 

 of ancient art, which was, moreover, sumptu- 

 ously illustrated. James M. Hoppin wrote "The 

 Early Renaissance, and Other Essays on Art 

 Subjects," and Montgomery Schuyler made 

 studies of " American Architecture." Two parts 

 were published of " Architectural Rendering in 

 Pen and Ink,'' by D. A. Gregg, to be followed by 

 two more; and "The Colonial Architecture of 

 Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia" was 

 photographed and arranged under the direction 

 of Joseph Everett Chandler. "English Cathe- 

 drals," by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, illus- 

 trated by Joseph Pennell, which first saw the 

 light in 1887, was brought out anew in 1892, 

 and " American Etchings," by S. R. Koehler 

 and others, were also republished. An edition 

 de luxe was issued of "American Illustra- 

 tors," by F. Hopkinson Smith. "Imaginative 

 Sketches," by Henry P. Kirby, were made from 



pen drawings of cathedral*, chateaux, hotels, 

 etc. "Old Italian Ma-ters." engraved bv Tim- 

 othy Cole, with historical notes by W. J. Still- 

 man, and brief comments by the engraver, made 

 one of the handsomest gift books of the year, 

 oilier e\<|iiisite volumes being The Hours of 

 Raphael in Outline." by Mary K. Williams, and 

 "Recent International Art/' by Walter Row- 

 lands. "The Ma-ters of Wood Engraviir. 

 ceived royal treatment at the hands of W. J. 

 Linton; and "Sketches for Wrought-Iron Art 

 Work, chiefly in the Styles of th Sixteenth, 

 Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries," were 

 made by F. Moser. "Masterpieces by Kra An- 

 gelico" and "Parisian Photogravures." "In 

 Gold and Silver," four short stories by George 

 H. Ellwanger, illustrated by W. Hamilton Gib- 

 son and A. B. Wenzel, and " Poems .by Dobson, 

 Locker, and Praed," with facsimiles of water- 

 color paintings, were fine specimens in their 

 several lines. "China Collecting in America" 

 formed the theme of Mrs. Alice Morse Earle, 

 and Frederick Litchfield published an " Illus- 

 trated History of Furniture from the Earliest to 

 the Present Time," the edition being limited to 

 200 copies. The Grolier Club issued a "Cata- 

 logue of an Exhibition of Illuminated and 

 Printed Manuscripts, together with a Few 

 Early Printed Books with Illuminations," and 

 " Some Examples of Persian Manuscripts, with 

 Plates in Facsimile and an Introductory Es- 

 say." " Pagan and Christian Rome," by Prof. 

 Rodolfo Lanciani, formed a companion volume 

 to "Ancient Rome in the Light of Modern Dis- 

 coveries," by the same author, and was profusely 

 illustrated. " The Great Streets of the World/' 

 illustrated by A. B. Frost, W. Douglas Almond, 

 G. Jeanniot, and others, had the' text contributed 

 by Richard Harding Davis, Andrew Lang, and 

 other writers, American and English ; while 

 choice collections were "Shepp's Photographs 

 of the World," with " Direct Copies of Famous 

 Paintings and Statuary by the \V orld's Old and 

 Modern Masters," by James W. and Daniel B. 

 Shepp, and "Glimpses of the World: A Port- 

 folio of Photographs, with Descriptive Text," 

 prepared under the supervision of John L. Stod- 

 dard. Volume III, new series, of " Amateur 

 Work, Illustrated," was issued, and two dainty 

 books were " Sun Prints in Sky Tints." original 

 designs by Irene E. Jerome, with appropriate 

 selections, and "Gleams and Echoes," with wood 

 engravings from drawings by eminent artists, to 

 which we are indebted to A. R. G. In music 

 we have the ninth volume of "The Musical 

 Year- Book of the United States " for the season 

 of 1891-'92, by G. H. Wilson, and " Rhythmical 

 Gymnastics, Vocal and Physical." by Mary S. 

 Thomson, containing the latest theories as to 

 vocal development. Adolph Kielblock described 

 " The Stage" Fright." and told how to face an 

 audience. Florence A. Fowle Adams contrib- 

 uted -Gesture and Pantomimic Action," in line 

 with which was " Americanized Delsarte Cul- 

 ture." bv Emily M. Bishop. " Daisy Miller," by 

 Henrv James, was illustrated in an fdition de 

 luxe limited to 250 copies, and Charles Dudley 

 Warner's " In the Levant " was brought out in 

 a holiday edition; as were Curtis's Prue and 

 I" ; " Marse Chan." by Thomas Nelson Page ; 

 " Hyperion," by Longfellow : " Zenobia," oy 



