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ture an essay in comparative eesthetics; Esther 

 Singleton edited and translated Great Pictures 

 as seen and described by Famous Writers; from 

 Deristhe L. Hoyt came a study of The World's 

 Painters and their Pictures; while Religio Pic- 

 toris was set forth sympathetically by Helen 

 Bigelow Merriman. Two valuable works on art 

 of distinctively American type were The Art Life 

 of William Morris Hunt, by Helen M. Knowles, 

 with illustrations from his works, and Life and 

 Character: Drawings by W. T. Smedley, 50 in 

 number, with accompanying text by A. V. S. 

 Anthony. Raphael was the title of a collection 

 of 15 pictures and a portrait of the painter, with 

 an introduction and interpretation, edited by 

 Estelle M. Hurll for the Riverside Art Series. 

 Anglo-American Pottery: Old English China with 

 American Views purported to be a manual for 

 collectors by Edwin A. Barber, in line with which 

 was Old New York on Staffordshire Pottery, by 

 R. F. Halsey. By the Way, a collection of short 

 essays on music and art in general, taken from 

 the programme books of the Boston Symphony 

 Orchestra, by William Foster Apthorp, filled two 

 volumes; Hugh A. Clarke traced the relation 

 between Music and the Comrade Arts; William J. 

 Henderson told How Music Developed, tracing in 

 critical and explanatory fashion the growth of 

 modern music, and also contributed a volume 

 upon The Orchestra and Orchestral Music to the 

 Music Lovers' Library. Esther Singleton pre- 

 pared A Guide to the Operas, giving a description 

 and interpretation of the words and music of 

 the most celebrated ; and Charles Annesley in The 

 Standard Opera Glass gave the detailed plots of 

 123 celebrated operas, with critical and biograph- 

 ical remarks, dates, etc., James Huneker contrib- 

 uting a prelude to the work. The last-named au- 

 thority published Mezzotints in Modern Music, 

 devoted to Brahms, Tschaikowsky, Chopin, Rich- 

 ard Strauss, Liszt, and Wagner. L. C. Elson 

 devoted a volume to The National Music of Amer- 

 ica and its Sources. Stars of the Opera, by Mabel 

 Wagner, contained a description of 12 operas and 

 a series of personal sketches, with interviews, of 

 leading prima donnas, and Louis C. Strang was 

 heard from on Famous Actors of the Day in 

 America and Famous Actresses of the Day in 

 America. The Madonna in Legend and History, 

 by Elizabeth C. Vincent, had an introduction by 

 Rev. Boyd Vincent, and was intended to give 

 a key to many pictures otherwise meaningless. 

 Joseph L. French treated of Christ in Art. Sump- 

 tuous gift books of the holiday season included 

 also Outdoor Pictures, by Thure de Thulstrup; 

 Nature Studies in Berkshire, by John Coleman 

 Adams, with illustrations in photogravure from 

 original protographs by Arthur Scott ; Plantation 

 Sketches: Drawings of Negro Life, by J. Camp- 

 bell Phillips; The Education of Mr. Pipp, by 

 Charles Dana Gibson; Picturesque Bits of New 

 York, by Alfred Stieglitz; Sketches of Lowly Life 

 in a Great City, by Michael Angelo Woolf, edited 

 by Joseph Henius; Funny Folks, by F. M. Ho- 

 warth; Treasures of the Metropolitan Museum 

 of Art, described by Arthur Hoeber; and The 

 American Art Annual, 1898, edited by Florence 

 N. Levy. Form and Color, by Charles Behrens, 

 containing new motives for wall and ceiling paint- 

 ing, with 30 colored plates, was begun with the 

 issue of Part I. Moments with Art consisted of 

 short selections in prose and verse for lovers of 

 art, compiled by J. E. P. D. Arizona, by Augustus 

 Thomas, was published with 12 half-tone repro- 

 ductions from the play, making an attractive 

 volume, and Peter Newell's Pictures and Rhymes 

 delighted the admirers of his humorous vein. 



General Science. The popularization of sci- 

 ence goes on apace, and a number of books in- 

 teresting to young people are published yearly, 

 in addition to a few works of standard value. 

 From John Fiske came A Century of Science, 

 and Other Essays, while D. Kerfoot Shute, M. D., 

 supplied A First Book in Organic Evolution. 

 Outlines of General Physics were supplied by 

 Prof. James Stacy Stevens, and A Text-book of 

 General Physics was written for the use of col- 

 leges and scientific schools by Charles S. Hastings 

 and Frederick E. Beach. Elements of Physics for 

 Use in High Schools came from Henry Crew, A 

 Text-book of Physics from W. Watson, and Vol. 

 II of A Text-book of Physics, by John H. Poyn- 

 ting and Joseph J. Thomson, was devoted to 

 Sound. Stars and Telescopes was a handbook of 

 popular astronomy, by Prof. David P. Todd, 

 founded on the ninth edition of Lynn's Celestial 

 Motions; Mary E. Byrd prepared A Laboratory 

 Manual in Astronomy; Richard Hinckley Allen 

 wrote at length of Star Names and their Mean- 

 ings; The Wilderness of Worlds, by George W. 

 Morehouse, gave a popular sketch of the evolu- 

 tion of matter from nebula to man and return; 

 and The Family of the Sun was the title given 

 by Edward S. Holden to a collection of conversa- 

 tions with a child. Minerals in Rock Sections, 

 by Lea Mcllvaine Luquer, set forth the practical 

 methods of identifying minerals in rock sections 

 with the microscope, especially arranged for stu- 

 dents in technical and scientific schools; The 

 Characters of Crystals, by Alfred J. Moses, was 

 intended as an introduction to crystallography; 

 and The Geology of Point Reyes Peninsula was 

 contributed to the Bulletins of the Department 

 of Geology, University of California, by F. M. 

 Anderson. The Foundations of Zoology, by Wil- 

 liam Keith Brooks, formed Vol. V of the Colum- 

 bia University Biological Series; John Stirling 

 Kingsley was the author of a Text-book of Ver- 

 tebrate Zoology; and Oliver Davie, the author 

 of Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, pub- 

 lished Reveries and Recollections of a Naturalist 

 in an edition limited to 200 copies. A Field Key 

 to the Land Birds was supplied by Edward 

 Knobel, 150 figures of the birds of the United 

 States being distributed on 9 colored plates and 

 arranged according to size. F. H. Yorke, M. D., 

 was heard from on Our Ducks; D. Lange in Our 

 Native Birds told how to protect them and at- 

 tract them to our homes; Mrs. Harriet Mann 

 Miller (Olive Thome) was an undoubted author- 

 ity in The First Book of Birds, which had 8 col- 

 ored and 12 plain plates, as well as 20 figures in 

 the text; while Reginald Heber Howe proved 

 himself at home On the Birds' Highway, illus- 

 trating his own work with the assistance of 

 Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Our Feathered Friends 

 was a little book for young people, and Charles 

 A. Keeler caught A First Glance at the Birds. 

 William Everett Cram wrote attractively of Lit- 

 tle Beasts of Field and Wood; William J. Long 

 published a first series of Ways of Wood Folk; 

 James Newton Baskett told The Story of the 

 Fishes in Appletons' Home Reading Books ; Belle 

 S. Cragin gave instructions how to collect, pre- 

 serve, and study Our Insect Friends and Foes; 

 Henry Meade Bland sent out Studies in Ento- 

 mology; and a second series of Stories of Insect 

 Life, devoted to summer and autumn, came from 

 Mary E. Murtfeldt and Clarence Moores Weed. 

 The last-named author also compiled and edited 

 The Insect World, another of Appletons' Home 

 Reading Books. Margaret Warner Morley con- 

 tributed two volumes, akin in theme, entitled re- 

 spectively The Honey Makers and The Bee Peo- 



