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from Myth to History, by John Preston True, 

 presented a series of historical stories; Edward 

 Brooks told The Story of the ^Eneid for boys 

 and girls; Charles J. Bellamy celebrated the Re- 

 turn of the Fairies; and The Island Impossible, 

 by Harriet Morgan, was illustrated by Katharine 

 Pyle. Wheat and Huckleberries contained the 

 adventures of Dr. Northmore's daughters, re- 

 corded by Charlotte M. Vaile, and Felix J. O'Neil 

 described More Fun than Huckleberries. A Bonnie 

 Boy was a story of happy days by Mrs. Julia 

 MacNair Wright; Lily Foster Wesselhoeft was 

 heard from in Madam Mary of the Zoo; A. G. 

 Plympton illustrated her own account of A Flow- 

 er of the Wilderness; and Lucy Randolph Flem- 

 ing found a heroine in Alice Withrow. The Stories 

 Polly Pepper told to the Five Little Peppers in 

 the Little Brown House, according to Mrs. Har- 

 riet Mulford Lothrop (Margaret Sidney), were 

 illustrated by Jessie McDermott and Ethelred B. 

 Barry; Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk wrote for girls 

 of Dorothy and her Friends; and another writer 

 for older people, Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, was 

 heard from in The Little Fig Tree Stories, illus- 

 trated by herself. Amanda Minnie Douglas 

 wrote A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia and The 

 Heir of Sherburne; Wee Lucy's Secret was re- 

 vealed by Rebecca Sophia Clarke (Sophie May) ; 

 The House with Sixty Closets, by Frank S. 

 Child, was a Christmas story for young folks; 

 Laura Elizabeth Richards wrote Quicksilver Sue 

 and Peggy; and Mrs. Mary H. Henry (Howe Ben- 

 ning) Jean's Opportunity and At Opening Doors. 

 Will Allen Dromgoole wrote but one story, 

 Harum-scarum Joe; from Sarah Orne Jewett 

 came Betty Leicester's Christmas; from Mrs. Eve- 

 lyn Raymond, A Daughter of the West and My 

 Lady Barefoot; and from Mrs. Mary Virginia 

 Hawes Terhune (Marion Harland), When Grand- 

 mamma was Young, the story of a Virginia child- 

 hood. Mrs. S. K. Reeves wrote Gladys Lindsay; 

 Floy Campbell, Camp Arcady; Eleanor Hooper 

 Coryell, Out of the Past; Mrs. Herbert Bland 

 (E/Nesbit), The Story of the Treasure Seekers; 

 Mrs. Carrie L. Marshall, Two Wyoming Girls and 

 their Homestead Claims; and Mrs. Isabella M. 

 Alden (Pansy), A Modern Sacrifice: The Story 

 of Kissie Gordon's Experiment. The Ferry Maid 

 of the Chattahoochee, by Annie M. Barnes; Mar- 

 garet Thorpe's Trial, by Mrs. Lucy Cecil White 

 Lillie; Barbara's Heritage, by Deristhe L. Hoyt; 

 The Triangle, by Lena Tomlinson ; We Four Girls, 

 by Mary Greenleaf Darling; Beck's Fortune, by 

 Adele E. Thompson ; The Story of Betty, by Caro- 

 lyn Wells; The Court of Boyville, by William 

 Allen White; and A Young Savage, by Lyda 

 Farrington Krause (Barbara Yechton), found in- 

 terested readers, and from the last author we 

 had A Cycle of Stories also. Martha F. Finley 

 (Martha Farquharson) carried on the Elsie books 

 with Elsie in the South; Mrs. Caroline Leslie 

 Field described Nannie's Happy Childhood; The 

 Two Legacies came from Georgina Lowell Put- 

 nam ; The Golden Talisman from H. Phelps Whit- 

 marsh; and Told under the Cherry Trees from 

 Grace Le Baron (Mrs. Grace Le Baron Upham). 

 Dickey Downy purported to be the autobiography 

 of a bird, by Virginia Sharpe Patterson; Friends 

 and Helpers was the title of a compilation by 

 Sarah J. Eddy; Ethelred Breeze Barry contrib- 

 uted Little Tong's Mission to the Young of Heart 

 Series; Mrs. S. O'H. Dickson published The 

 Grangers, and Other Stories and Guessing at 

 Heroes; and Orville Elder, Pickey: A Romance. 

 Little Folks at Brookside, by Mrs. D. P. Sanford, 

 contained easy reading for the young. Anna 

 Burnham Bryant prepared the Sunday Hour 



Series in six volumes, and from Josephine Pol- 

 lard came several volumes of a religious charac- 

 ter, The Boyhood of Jesus, God made the World, 

 The Good Samaritan, Ruth: A Bible Heroine, 

 and The Story of Jesus told in Pictures. The 

 Century Company issued the St. Nicholas Christ- 

 mas Book; Outside of Things: A Sky Book, con- 

 tained verses for children by Alice Ward Bailey 

 and pictures by Annita Lyman Paine; the verses 

 by L. Frank Baum on Father Goose were illus- 

 trated by W. W. Denslow; Katharine Pyle wrote 

 and illustrated Prose and Verse for Children in 

 the Eclectic School Readings Series; Songs of the 

 Shining Way was a book of child verse by Sarah 

 Noble Ives; Arthur M. Lewis contributed "The 

 Rag Tags" and their Adventures; L. D. Bradley, 

 Our Indians and Wonderful Willie, for very little 

 folks; Gallant Little Patriots, by Maud and 

 Mabel Humphrey, contained colored plates after 

 paintings in water color; from Florence K. and 

 Bertha Upton we had The Golliwogg in War; Of 

 Such is the Kingdom was a book of stories and 

 rhymes by Clara Vawter; and The Listening 

 Child, a selection from the stores of English verse 

 made for the youngest readers and hearers by 

 Mrs. Lucy W. Thacher, had an introductory note 

 by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boys and 

 Girls of the Philippines and Around the World 

 were described by Stella W. Carroll and Harriet 

 L. Jerome. On Wood Cove Island, by Elbridge 

 Streeter Brooks, described a summer with Long- 

 fellow on the New England coast, and from the 

 same indefatigable writer we had a volume of 

 Historic Americans. 



Medicine and Surgery. There was a de- 

 crease in the number of new books and new edi- 

 tions of books falling under this department. 

 George M. Gould, M. D., edited the American 

 Yearbook of Medicine and Surgery; Charles War- 

 renne Allen, M. D., and Jacob Sobel, M. D., col- 

 laborated upon a Handbook of Medical Progress; 

 Vols. VI and VII appeared of A System of Medi- 

 cine by Many Writers, edited by Thomas Clifford 

 Allbutt, M. D., covering Diseases of the Circula- 

 tory and Nervous Systems and Diseases of the 

 Nervous System (continued) ; George E. Mals- 

 bary, M. D., prepared a manual of the Practice 

 of Medicine for students and practitioners; A 

 Text-book of the Practice of Medicine, by James 

 M. Anders, M. D., went through a third revised 

 edition; and a second edition was also sent out 

 of An Epitome of the History of Medicine, by 

 Roswell Park, M. D. A Pocket Text-book of 

 Materia Medica, Therapeutics, etc., was the work 

 of William Schleif, M. D., and Warren Coleman, 

 M. D., compiled A Syllabus of Materia Medica. 

 Practical Materia Medica for Nurses came from 

 Emily A. M. Stoney. A Systematic Treatise on 

 Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Pharmacog- 

 nosy, by Finley Ellingwood, M. D., was an impor- 

 tant contribution, and from Arthur R. Cushny, 

 M. D., we had a volume of Pharmacology and 

 Therapeutics. Frederick J. Smith, M. D., offered 

 an Introduction to the Outlines of the Princi- 

 ples of Differential Diagnosis, with clinical mem- 

 oranda, and Keynotes and Characteristics, by 

 H. C. Allen, M. D., were accompanied with com- 

 parisons of some of the leading remedies of the 

 materia medica. A Text-book of Anatomy, by 

 American authors, was edited by Frederick H. 

 Gerrish, M. D. ; E. Franklin Smith, M. D., was the 

 author of a Text-book of Anatomy, Physiology, 

 and Hygiene; De Burgh Birch, M. D., of A Class- 

 book of (Elementary) Practical Physiology; and 

 a sixth edition of the Essentials of Anatomy, by 

 Charles B. Nancrede, M. D., revised by Frederick 

 J. Brockway, M. D., appeared in the Saunders's 



