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! by Jessie McDermott, and from the wine au- 

 thor we ni'd " Little Saint Hilary, nud other Stories.' 1 

 iiristnuw" was tli.' tit!.- i.l' three pathetic 

 little talcs by Jacob liiin. It is iiiiiMissililo to more 

 than enumerate "TIio Moncaskct Mystery and how 

 Tm llardv solved it,'' \>\ Sidney narlow; 



ii. Ranchman and Ranger," l.v 11. W. French ; 

 "Marking tho Boundary," by K. Everett Millings; 

 - The Mate of tho Mary Ann," by Sophie Swett ; 

 "Tin: Musical Journey <>f Dorothy an<l Delia," by 

 Bradley Oilman; " Dccrhurst ; or. The Rift in the 

 Cloud," ly Julia Douglas; " I'aula Cruyton," by June 

 Kills Joy ; " K rankle Bradford's Bear," l>y Joanna 11. 

 Mat hews; "Elsie at Ion," by Martha F. Finley (Martha 

 Earquharson), the niuetcentli of tho " Elsie Book*"; 

 ".lack. Jr.," bv Sally Campbell ; " Kobert of the 

 Sunny Heart," By Imogen Clark; " Big Brother," l>y 

 Annie Fellows Johnston ; "Jack's Hymn," by Eliza- 

 beth Olmis; and " The Gontle Heritage," by Frances 

 E. Crompton. Elbridjre S. Brooks contributed II. 

 rpic Happenings told in Verse and Story " : two se- 

 ries of " Parables from Nature," by Mrs. Margaret 

 (iatty, were illustrated by Paul de LongpnS ; Helen 

 M. Ilurnside told of "A Day with the Sea Urchins," 

 and Edric Vredenburg edited " Told by the Sun- 

 beams and Me "and "All but One "in the Raphael 

 Tuck & Sons' prize series for children. 



Fine Arts. ironi Prof. John C. Van Dyke we have 

 " Art for Art's Sake," seven intereatiDa university 

 lectures on the technical beauties of painting, while 

 "Picture and Text" comes to us as a number of 

 sketchy essays, chiefly on artists and art subjects, 

 from Henry James. " The Genesis of Art Form," an 

 essay in comparative aesthetics, by George Lansing 

 Raymond, traced the identity of the sources, methods, 

 and effects of composition in the various arts, while 

 Edwin A. Barber made the first attempt at a system- 

 atic treatment of American ceramics in his historic 

 sketch of "The Pottery and Porcelain of the United 

 States," with 200 entirely new illustrations. " Art 

 and Handicraft in tho Woman's Building of the 

 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893," edited 

 by Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, had special articles by 

 Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and oth- 

 ers, while "Some Artists at the Fair" proved to be 

 Frank D. Millet, Will H. Low, W. Hamilton Gibson, 

 and F. Hopkinson Smith, the papers of each being 

 profusely illustrated. " The Columbus Gallery," by 

 Nestor Ponce de Leon, contains pictures of all the ex- 

 isting portraits, monuments, statues, medals, and 

 paintings of the great discoverer, with historical de- 

 scriptions, and from C. M. Kurtz we had " The Art 

 Gallery, Illustrated, of the World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition." Henry Van Brunt published " Greek Lines, 

 and Other Architectural Essays," written at intervals 

 during an active professional career of more than 

 thirty years. " A Catechism of Architecture " was a 

 simple and practical little work by John Gash. 

 ' Italian Gardens" were studied by Charles A. Platt, 

 the result being a sumptuous volume, and Mrs. 

 Schuyler Van Rensselaer entitled hints which she 

 vouchsafed on good taste in gardening " Art Out of 

 Doors." A reissue was also made in handy shape of 

 her "English Cathedrals," illustrated by Joseph 

 Pennell. A second series of " Shadows of the Stage " 

 was welcomed from William Winter, while "The 

 Realm of Music" was explored by L. C. Elson, and 

 " Musical Education and Musical Art," l>y Edith V. 

 Eastman. John Knowles Paine edited (J out of 80 

 contemplated parts of "Famous Composers and 

 their Works," Clara K. Rogers discussed " The Phi- 

 losophy of Singing," and D. A. Blackmail explained 

 " The Ptjroho Vowel Method of Voice Culture." 

 ' Everybody's Guide to Music" was written l>y Josi- 

 ah Booth. "Odd Business: High Art in Fun,"Frolic, 

 and Fancy with tho Pencil and Quill," by L. J. 

 Bridgman, contained many quaint conceits. Can- 

 dare Wheeler edited "Household Art" in the " Dis- 

 taff Series," and Mrs. Addie K. Heron prepared a man- 

 ual of home decoration under the name of " Daintv 

 Work for Pleasure and Profit" " A Guide to Old 



and New Lace in Italy exhibited at Chicago in 1892 " 

 we owe to th ml. di Uru/. 



'ion* for "Color Instruction " in the public 

 school* to Louis Pranir. Mary Dana Hioka, ao 



Clark. The (irolicr < 'lull published -Joo co],;. 



of a 'Catalogue of Original and Eurly Edition* of 

 i'-al and l'ro,<- World of English 

 Writers, from Langland to Wither," with 87 1 

 iles of title-pages and frontispieces. "The Christ- 

 Child in Art," t.\ Henry Van l)yke, was a study in 

 interpretation which, with its many illustration*, 

 came in opportunely at hc Christina* "-ea-.n. other 

 holiday volumes were " French Illustrators," with 15 

 plates in color on Japan pajier, and more than loo 

 sketches, j>ortraits, und drawings, the text of which 

 wasby Louis Morin, a distinguish, d I >. nch illustrator; 

 " The Masters and Masterpieces ol Engraving," by 

 Willis (). Chapin, with 60 engrmv in^ and hcliograv- 

 Riders of Many Lands," by Theodore Ayrault 

 Dodge, illustrated by Frederick RenriagtOO, and 

 " The Century Gallery," a collection of 64 of the best 

 BOOTBvlnpi that have apjK'ared in the " Century " and 

 "St. Nicholas.'' Hi nriette Konner : The Painter of 

 Cat Life and Cat Character," a portfolio of ph.- 

 ures, had an introduction by Thomas A. Junvir 

 Referendum for the Illustrations in the Garfield Edi- 

 tion of Gen. Lew Wallace's Novel 'Ben Hur" 1 wan 

 prepared by Paul Van Dyke, and among illustrated 

 editions of standard works, we have William Cullen 

 Bryant's " Poems of Nature," illustrated by Paul de 

 Longpre\ Charles Reade's " The Cloister and the 

 Hearth." with 550 drawings by William Martin 

 Johnson, " The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," 

 taken in hand by Howard Pyle, and " Knickerbock- 

 er's History of New York." in a Van Twiller edition, 

 the original designs for wnich were supplied bv Ed- 

 ward W. Kemble. "The Old Garden, and Other 

 Verses" of Mrs. Margaret Deland burst into radiant 

 bloom under the hand of Walter Crane. Two hun- 

 dred copies only were printed of " A Selection of Car- 

 toons from ' Puck ' " by Joseph Keppler, with text 

 and introduction by II. C. Bunner. C. S. Keinhart 

 illustrated " Meh Lady," by Thomas Nelson Page. 

 Three publishers issued Blacktnore's " Lorna Doone " 

 in holiday dress, and two Owen Meredith's (Lord 

 Lytton's) " Lucile." The tenth series of "The Good 

 Things of Life " was issued. 



General Science. As usual, but few works of value 

 in this department were puhli>hed. Among these 

 were "Camp Fires of a Naturalist," the story of four- 

 teen expeditions after North American mammals, from 

 the field notes of Prof. Lewis Lindsay Dyche, by 

 Clarence E. Edwords. Vol. I was concluded of H. 

 Nehrliugs " North American Birds" by the issue of 

 Parts VI, VII, and VIII, and Jacob H. Skadar edited 

 "The Birds of North America," with list colored 

 plates. Austin C. Apgar prepared a " Pocket Key of 

 the Birds of the Northern 1 nitcd States Ea.-t of the 

 Rocky Mountains." Samuel II. Seuddcr, in -The 

 Life of a Butterfly," described one of the most com- 

 mon species in America, and he also published a " Brief 

 Guide to the Commoner Butterflies of the Northern 

 United States and Canada." 1 Parts XIII and XIV of 

 the third series of "The Butterflies of North \ 

 ica," by William II. Edwards, appeared ; also the fifth 

 volume of C'mrles Sprague Sargent's description of 

 " The Silva of North America." Charles S. N'ewhall 

 gave attention to "The Shrubs of Northeastern 

 America," and Mrs. William Starr Dana told us How 

 to know the Wild Flowers." "Recreations in Bot- 

 any" were from the pen of Caroline A. Cn-cv. 

 new and enlarged edition was issued of Rev. Francis 

 Wolle's " J>es!nils of the United States and List of 

 American lYdtastrums." first published in 1884, and 

 William K. Brooks filled two volumes with a mono- 

 graph ujxm "The (Jciuis Sal pa." F. Leslie Ransoine 

 contributed "The Eruptive Kocks of Point Benita," 

 and Andrew C. La\v>n "The Geology of Canm-lo 

 Bay " and "The Post-Pliocene Diastrophism of tin- 

 Coast of Southern California" to the University of 

 California Bulletin of the Department of G 



