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from both sides of the Russian frontier, by Poultney 

 Bigelow, was illustrated by Frederic Remington; 

 Mrs. Woods Baker drew " Pictures of Swedish Life" 

 after a long residence with Svea and her children ; 

 W. D. McCrackeu visited "Teutonic Switzerland" 

 and "Romance Switzerland"; "In Sunny France," 

 by Henry Tuckley, depicted present-day life in the 

 French Republic ; " Naples, the City of Parthenope, 

 and its Environs," by Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement 

 (now Mrs. Waters), is a companion volume to her 

 " Queen of the Adriatic " of last year, handsomely 

 illustrated, with 20 full-page plates in photogravure ; 

 and a new edition was made of W. D. Howells's 

 "Tuscan Cities." "Old European Jewries" were 

 visited by David Philipson, D. D. " In Cairo and 

 Jerusalem " was the title of an Easter notebook by 

 Mary Thorn Carpenter; Thomas W. Knox told of 

 "The Boy Travelers in the Levant," and Oliver 

 Optic (William T. Adams) carried young adventur- 

 ers to Africa " Up and Down the Nile." Other of his 

 students on the wing caught " Asiatic Breezes." _ The 

 journey of two American students " Across Asia on 

 a Bicycle, from Constantinople to Peking," was de- 

 scribed by Thomas Gaskett Allen, Jr., and William 

 L. Sachtleben, and illustrated from photographs taken 

 on the route. A second revised and illustrated edi- 

 tion of " Chinese Characteristics," by Rev. Arthur II. 

 Smith, made us better acquainted with that conserva- 

 tive people; Lafcadio Hearn filled 2 volumes with 

 "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan"; and Mrs. Mae St. 

 John Bramhall sketched with pen and pencil " The 

 Wee Ones of Japan." "The Pearl of India" is the 

 island of Ceylon, according to Maturin M. Ballou. 

 "Fifty Years" in Amoy," by Rev. Philip W. Pitcher, 

 gives a history of the Amoy mission. " Reminiscences 

 of a Journey 'to Indianapolis in the Year 1836," by C. 

 P. Ferguson, were published by the Indiana Historical 

 Society. J. M. Eddy compiled and arranged infor- 

 mation with regard to all that may be found " In the 

 Redwood's Realm"; and a volume of photogravures 

 of " Bethlehem, Pa.," was published, with an historic 

 sketch of the place. Appletons' Handbooks of Sum- 

 mer and Winter Resorts were issued, as usual ; also a 

 new revised edition of " Appletons' Dictionary of 

 New York and its Vicinity " for 1894. Parts I to IX 

 also appeared of the 20 that will complete the " Potter- 

 Bradley Atlas of the World." 



Unclassified. II ildegarde Hawthorne made her debut 

 in the literary world with " The Fairest of the Fair," 

 referring, of course, to the great World's Columbian 

 Exposition, now but a memory and a dream, recalled, 

 however, by this dainty little volume and other pub- 

 lications, such as " The Book of the Fair," by Hubert 

 Howe Bancroft, Parts II to XIV of which were issued 

 during the year ; and " Zigzag Journeys in the White 

 City," by Hezekiah Butterworth. Or" practical value 

 are "A Record of the Transportation Exhibits Build- 

 ing," by James Dredge ; and the official volume of 

 "Addresses delivered before the World's Railway Con- 

 gress " held in connection with the Exposition, June 

 19-23, 1893. C. C. McCain edited a " Compendium of 

 Transportation Theories " by eminent experts ; H. V. 

 Poor's " Manual of the Railroads of the United States 

 for 1894 " carried that publication through its twenty- 

 seventh year ; " White's Reference Book of Railroad 

 Securities " was compiled from official sources ; F. H. 

 Brown recorded "A Few Hours' Talk with a Railroad 

 Man " ; and Killingworth Hedges wrote upon the con- 

 struction and equipment of "American Electric Street 

 Railways." "Popular Engineering," by F. Dye; 

 " Engineering Construction in Iron, Steel, and Tim- 

 ber,'' by W. H. Warren; "The Gas Engineer's Lab- 

 oratory Handbook," by John Hornby ; "A Pocketbook 

 of Marine Engineering Rules and Tables," by A. E. 

 Seaton and H. M. Rounthwaite ; " Steamships and 

 their Machinery," by J. W. C. Haldane ; " Practical 

 Advice for Marine Engineers," by Charles W. Rob- 

 erts ; " The Steam Engine and Other Heat Engines," 

 by J. A. Ewing; " The Steam Engine User," "edited 

 by R. Scott Burn ; " The Animal as a Machine and 

 a Prime Motor," by R. II. Thur.ston ; "The Construc- 



tion of the Modern Locomotive," by George Hughes; 

 " Locomotive Mechanism and Engineering," by H. 

 C. Regan ; " Water, or Hydraulic Afotors," by Philip 

 R. Bjorling ; " Theory and Construction of a Ra- 

 tional Heat Motor," by Rudolph Dresel : " A Text- 

 Book on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines," by Bryan Don- 

 kin, Jr. ; " Uses 'of Compressed Air," by Addison < '. 

 Rand ; " The Repair and Maintenance of Machinery." 

 by Thomas W. Barber; and a second, illustrated edi- 

 tion of "How to run Engines and Boilers," by K. 1'. 

 Watson, may be classed together. Vol. I was issued 

 of "The Mineral Industry" (covering its stai 

 technology, and trade) in the United States and other 

 countries from the earliest times to the end of 1892. 

 edited by Richard P. Rothwell ; "Annals of Horticul- 

 ture in North America, for 1893," were by L. H. 

 Bailey ; L. R. Taft was an authority on " Greenhouse 

 Construction " ; "About Mushrooms " was a guide to 

 the " Study of Esculent and Poisonous Fungi," by 

 Julius A. Palmer, Jr. ; " Fungi arid Fungicides," by 

 Clarence M. Weed, was a manual concerning the 

 fungous diseases of the cultivated plants and the 

 means of preventing their ravages : Frank W. Sempers 

 wrote on " Injurious Insects and the Use of Insecti- 

 cides " ; " The Amateur Aquarist " told how to equip 

 and maintain a self-sustaining aquarium ; Oliver 

 Davie explained " Methods in the Art of Taxidermy," 

 illustrated with 90 full-page engravings. Frederick P. 

 Spalding prepared an excellent " Text-Book on Roads 

 and Pavements"; while Roy Stone wrote on "New 

 Roads and Road Laws in the United States " ; and 

 Isaac B. Potter edited " Country Roads." Alfred 

 Revill covered the whole subject of "American Plumb- 

 ing," and a selection was made of practical letters and 

 articles upon "Kitchen Boiler Connections" from the 

 " Metal Worker." " Stresses in Girder and Roof 

 Trusses for Both Dead and Live Loads," by F. R. 

 Johnson; "Practical Stair Building and Handrailing 

 by the Square Section and Falling Line System," 

 by W. H. Wood ; " Theory and Practice in the De- 

 signing of Modern Framed Structures," by J. B. 

 Johnston, C. W. Bryan, and F. E. Turneaure ; a 

 " Practical Treatise on Foundations," by W. M. .Pat- 

 ton ; " The Practical Designing of Structural Iron 

 Work," by Henry Adams ; Part III of a " Text-Book 

 on Roofs" and Bridges," by Henry S. Jacoby and 

 Mansfield Merriman, devoted to "Bridge Design''; 

 " Presswork," by William J. Kelly ; the "Art of Cop- 

 per Smithing," by John Fuller, Sr. ; " The Encyclo- 

 paedia of Founding," by Simpson Bolland ; " Halter's 

 Progress of the Marbling Art" ; and " Practical Hints 

 on the Construction and Working of Regenerator Fur- 

 naces," by Maurice Graham, were valuable works 

 each of their kind, and here may not inaptly be in- 

 serted a "Directory of Architects" in the United 

 States. J. C. L. Fish wrote on the "Lettering of 

 Working Drawings." " The Army Officer's Exam- 

 iner" emanated from William H. Powell; the first 

 series of " Military Types of the United States Militia 

 and National Guard,"" past and present, were pre- 

 sented by Augustus Tholey in a series of colored 

 plates from pictures painted expressly for the work, 

 which will be complete in 3 parts; " Modern Guns 

 and Smokeless Powder" were treated by A. Rigg and 

 J. Gavire ; and a new revised edition was issued of 

 "Modern American Pistols and Revolvers," by A. < '. 

 Gould (Ralph Greenwood). "Cavalry Lite in 

 Tent and Field " was described by Mrs. Orsemus 

 Brown Boyd. W. H. Bailey offered "Elementary 

 Naval Tactics, " and Howard Patterson " The Navi- 

 gator's Pocketbook." To facilitate the detection ot 

 forged documents, Persifor Frazer contributed a 

 "Manual of the Study of Documents," and William 

 E. Hagan "A Treatise of Disputed Handwriting^ 

 while " Cheiro's Language of the Hand " claimed to 

 be acomplete practical work on the sciences of dp 

 rognomy and chiromancy. Bulletins 61 and 62 of 

 the Bureau of South American Republics (State I>e- 

 partment) were, respectively^ upon " Uruguay " and 

 " Haiti." W. M. Beauchamp made a study of " Indian 

 Names in New York." " The Political Club, Dan- 



