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illustrator of " Twilight Land," a story book for chil- 

 dren ; " Little Thimbletinger and his Queer Country," 

 with what the children saw and heard there under 

 the spell of Uncle Remus (Joel Chandler Harris) 

 was illustrated by Oliver Herford ; and Palmer Cox 

 carried " The Brownies around the World." Lily 

 Wesselhoeft told of "The Fairy Folk of Blue Hill." 

 William Drysdale explained " The Mystery of Abel 

 Forefinger" in the u Harper's Young People Series " ; 

 William Riley Ilalstead described " Life on a Back- 

 woods Farm " in Indiana fifty years ago ; John S. 

 Wood's " College Days" was rewritten and reprinted 

 from " Outing," and deals with life at Yale a score of 

 years back ; " Toinette's Philip," by Mrs. C. V. Jami- 

 son, varied in scene from New Orleans to New York ; 

 Mme. Jeanne Schultz, the author of " Colette," wrote 

 " Madeleine's Rescue " for girls and boys ; The " Two 

 Girls" pictured by Amy E. Blanchard grew up in 

 the South, while " Sarah Dakota," according to Mary 

 E. Q. Brush, was named for her native State. " The 

 Little Lady of the Horse," by Evelyn Raymond, is 

 another Western heroine, while more subdued in tone 

 are " The Dutchman's Daughter," by Eva Hansen 

 Lamb ; " Endeavor Chris," by Isabella T. Hopkins ; 

 " A Family Dilemma," by Lucy C. Lillie ; " Garret 

 Grain," by Mrs. Frank Lee ; and " Little Miss Faith," 

 by Grace Le Baron. " Jolly Good Times To-day," 

 by Mary P. Wells Smith, is illustrated by Jessie Mc- 

 Dermott ; " Three of us : Barney, Cossack. Rex," are 

 shown by Mrs. Izora C. Chandler to have been in- 

 teresting "dogs ; u Pax and Carlino," by Ernest Beck- 

 man ; " Ragweed," by Julia McNair Wright ; " Philip 

 Leicester," by Jessie E. Wright; " Jacky Lee" and 

 " St. Rockwell's Little Brother," by Mrs. Harriet A. 

 Cheever ; " A Troublesome Name," by Catharine S. 

 Holmes ; " Tony," by Laisdell Mitchell ; and " Tan- 

 Pile Tim, or a Yankee Waif among the 'Blue 

 Noses,' " by Rev. B. Freeman Ashley, deserve men- 

 tion, as do " The Wagner Story Book," a collection 

 of firelight tales of the great music dramas, by Wil- 

 liam H. Frost, and " Stories from Plato and Other 

 Classic Writers," by Mary E. Burt. Edith M. Thomas, 

 Miss E. S. Tucker, and Helen Gray Cone united to pro- 

 duce " A Treasury of Stories, Jingles, and Rhymes " 

 for little folks, and an "Index to St. Nicholas," 

 covering Vols. I to XXI, proved useful to many. 

 Two holiday editions of favorite books which must 

 not be omitted were those of " Timothy's Quest," by 

 Kate Douglas Wiggin, arid "The Story of a Bad 

 Boy," by 'Thomas Bailey Aldrich. _" The Century 

 Book for Young Americans," by Elbridge S. Brooks, 

 told how a party of boys and girls who know how to 

 use their eyes and ears found out all about the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States. 



Fine Arts. Several valuable works on art were writ- 

 ten. " Art in Theory," by Prof. George Lansing Ray- 

 mond, the author of u Poetry as a Representative Art " 

 and u The Genesis of Art," 'is intended as an introduc- 

 tion to the study of comparative aesthetics. William H. 

 Beard wrote upon " Action in Art," accompanying the 

 text with over 220 illustrations from original drawings. 

 William Ordway Partridge contributed 6 essays upon 

 " Art for America," and, descending from the general to 

 the particular, we are indebted to John C. Van Dyke 

 for " A Text-Book of the History of Painting " in the 

 series of " College Histories of Art." Miss A. G. Rad- 

 cliffe gave a popular history, free from technicalities, 

 of " Schools and Masters of Sculpture," uniform with 

 her " Schools and Masters of Painting." Bernhard 

 Berenson wrote on "The Venetian Painters of the 

 Renaissance," as well as an essay in constructive art 

 criticism entitled " Lorenzo Lotto." " Renaissance 

 and Modern Art," by William H. Goodyear, is one of 

 the " Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature " volumes, 

 and Frank Fowler's " Portrait and Figure Painting," 

 with 3 colored plates showing progressive stages in 

 oil painting, forms one of the " Art Amateur Hand- 

 books Series." Charles Godfrey Leland's " Elemen- 

 tary Metal Work " is a practical manual for amateurs 

 and for use in schools. Charles Dexter Allen's guide 

 to the study of " American Book Plates " contains a 



bibliography by Ellen Newell Hewins, and is illus- 

 trated with many reproductions of rare and interest- 

 ing specimens. Dramatic art was handled by James 

 Brander Matthews in " Studies of the Stage," and by 

 Alfred Ayres (Thomas Embley Osmun) in "Act- 

 ing and Actors, Elocution and Elocutionists," a book 

 about theater folk and theater art. Parts VII to XXV 

 of "Famous Composers and their Works." edited by 

 John Knowles Paine, appeared, and Adolph Carp6 

 was the author of a treatise on " The Pianist and the 

 Art of Music " for teachers and students. A second 

 series of " Tables for the Writing of Exercises in the 

 Study of Harmony," arranged in conformity with S. 

 Sechter's "Fundamental Harmonies," and adapted 

 for the New York College of Music, was devoted to 

 the " Harmonization of Melodies," and Mrs F. Roena 

 Medini explained " The What and How of Vocal Cul- 

 ture." Among gift books are especially to be noted 

 " The Art of the World," illustrated in the paintings, 

 statuary, and architecture of the World's Columbian 

 Exposition, edited by Ripley Hitchcock, in 30 parts ; 

 " Child Life in Art," by Estelle M. Kuril ; 6 repro- 

 ductions of " Madonnas," with original coloring, by 

 Mrs. Fanny I. Edgerton ; " Tales and Verses of Long 

 Ago," " Rhymes and Stories of Olden Times," and 

 " Children of Colonial Days," by Miss Elizabeth S. 

 Tucker, each with numerous full-page color plates 

 after paintings in water colors by E. Percy Moran ; 

 " Facsimiles of Water Colors," by the same artist ; " A 

 Collection of Eighty-four Drawings," by C. D. Gib- 

 son ; " American Landmarks," a collection of pictures 

 of our country's historic shrines, by Harry Fenn, F. 

 D. Chase, L. J. Bridgman, and others, with descrip- 

 tive text by George A. Cleaveland and Robert E. 

 Campbell ; " The Marie Burroughs's Art Portfolio of 

 Stage Celebrities"; "Yankee Doodle at the Fair," in 

 12 parts, 2 of which were issued during the year, 

 designed to perpetuate the architecture and novel 

 features of the World's Columbian Exposition, pro- 

 fusely illustrated, in colors and in black and white, 

 after paintings and photographs, with text by well- 

 known authors ; and the " Salon of 1894," 100 photo- 

 gravure illustrations of the choicest paintings and 

 statuary of the year's Paris salons. Handsome illus- 

 trations of standard works of literature included 

 Irving's " Sketchbook," in a 2-volurne Van Tassel edi- 

 tion, and his " Alhambra," Kingsley's "Hypatia," 

 Howells's " Their Wedding Journey," Scott's "Ken- 

 ilworth," and De Amicis's "Holland." 



General Science. But few works of importance fall 

 under this head, though more books are recorded for 

 1894 than for the previous year. "Sea and Land 

 Features of Coasts and Oceans, with Special Refer- 

 ence to the Life of Man," by Prof. N. S. Shaler, is to 

 be reckoned among the foremost. Sir John W. Daw- 

 son lectured before the Lowell Institute upon " The 

 Meeting Place of Geology and History," and also pub- 

 lished notes on the pleistocene geology of Canada en- 

 titled " The Canadian Ice Age." Ralph S. Tarr wrote 

 an " Economic Geology of the United States," with 

 briefer mention of the foreign mineral products ; and 

 Samuel F. Emmons edited a " Geological Guidebook 

 for an Excursion to the Rocky Mountains." An " Out- 

 line of the Geology and Physical Features of Mary- 

 land," by George U. Williams and William B. Clark, 

 was accompanied with a geological map. " Biologic- 

 al Lectures at the Marine Biological Laboratory of 

 Wood's Holl in the Summer Session of 1893," by vari- 

 ous authorities, were collected into a volume. Charles 

 Wright Dodge wrote an " Introduction to Elementary 

 Practical Biology," intended as a laboratory guide for 

 high-school and college students. Emanuel R. Boyer 

 tilled a similar want with " A Laboratory Manual in 

 Elementary Biology " ; and " Playfair : A Text-Book 

 of Invertebrate Morphology," was the work of Prof. 

 J. McMurrich. "From the Greeks to Darwin "_ was 

 an outline of the development of the evolution idea, 

 by Henry F. Osborn, in the " Columbia University 

 Biological Series"; another volume of which was 

 "Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates," 

 by Arthur Willey ; and William North Rice reviewed 



