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The volume contains 210 illustrations, many of which are folding 

 inserts. A very full and well-arranged index fittingly completes 

 the work. 



AMONG THE PUBLISHERS. 



Roads and road-making are ably discussed by Capt. Francis 

 V. Greene in the supplement to Harper's Weekly for Aug. 10. 



— J. B. Lippincott Company will soon publish Mr. George W. 

 Childs's " Recollections," parts of which have appeared in Lippin- 

 cott' s Magazine. 



— Macmillan &: Co. will publish in September a revised edition 

 ■of Bryce's " American Commonwealth." It is said that ten thou- 

 sand copies of this work have been sold in the United States. 



— Wood's Medical and Surgical Mo7iographs for September 

 -will contain a practical work on the art of embalming, something 

 •unique in our medical literature. 



— A. Lovell & Co., 3 East 14th Street, New York, will publish 

 ■early in September a volume on the " Honors of the Empire State 

 in the War of the Rebellion," by Thomas S. Townsend, the com- 

 rpiler of the well-known " Library of National Records." 



— Thomas Whittaker will publish at once a new revised and en- 

 larged edition of King's " Classical and Foreign Quotations." The 

 first edition was exhausted three months after its appearance, and 

 ■the author has been engaged on the revision since that time. 



— A ladv in one of the New England towns recently returned a 

 •copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's story " The Wrong Box " to her 

 ■bookseller, for the reason that the cover was " defaced by a news- 

 paper scrap, which, although I have applied soap and water, I have 

 'been unable to remove." So much for an attempt at novelty in 

 book-making. 



— Henry Holt & Co. have in hand a second " History of the 

 'United States," the manuscript of which was left with them ready 

 lor the press by the late Professor Johnston of Princeton. Tt was 

 written on a plan somewhat similar to that of his already well- 

 tknown text-book, but suited to a shorter course, and perhaps to less 

 .mature minds. 



— The historical treatise on Columbus, for which a prize has 

 been offered by a Spanish commission, must be delivered to the' 

 -secretary of the Royal Academy of History, at Madrid, before the 



1st of January, 1892. Works written in Spanisli, Portuguese, 

 .English, German, French, or Italian, may enter the competition. 

 The two prizes amount respectively to $5,700 and $2,895 I each of 

 the two successful authors receiving, besides, five hundred copies 

 -of his work. 



— The New Haven Colony Historical Society will publish at 

 -once a compilation of the inscriptions in the old Milford graveyard 

 vprior to 1800. The transcription will be literal, the type being 

 ■varied to represent as nearly as possible the appearance of each 

 •stone. The work will fill seventy pages, and will be illustrated by 

 facsimiles of seventeen of the most interesting stones. Genealogi- 

 cal notes by Mr. Nathan G. Pond, the transcriber, will be in- 

 cluded. 



— The Worthington Company have secured for America an 

 ■edition of the supplementary new volumes of the Villon Society's 

 •renowned version of " The Book of the Thousand Nights and One 

 "Night." The Arabic text of two favorite stories in the collection 

 — " Aladdin ; or. The Wonderful Lamp," and " Zeyn Al Asnam 

 and the King of the Genii " — has at last been discovered in a manu- 

 script recently purchased by the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. 



— Scribner & Welford have just issued the sixth volume of the 

 Henry Irving Shakspeare, which was delayed by the illness of the 



■editor, Mr. Frank A. Marshall. This volume contains the plays of 

 -" Othello," " Antony and Cleopatra," " Coriolanus," and " King 

 Lear." A prefatory note explains that it was intended to print 

 ■" Hamlet " here instead of one of the four plays given, but that the 

 revision of the proofs had not been finished when Mr. Marshall's 

 health broke down. Two- new artists are represented here, the 

 .illustrations to " An.tony and Cleopatra " being by Mr. Maynard 

 J3rown, and those to " Coriolanus " by Mr. W. H. Margetson. The 



introductions have been written by Mr. Joseph Knight and Messrs. 

 Wilson Verity and Arthur Symons. 



— Mr. Lodge's volumes on Washington, recently published in 

 the series of American statesmen, have been warmly praised by 

 many critics, but perhaps the most valued approval is that from the 

 Nestor of American historians, Hon. George Bancroft, who writes 

 to the publishers as follows : " I like your new work on the unique 

 man of the last century exceedingly. It is written independently, 

 as well as with a full sense of the unique greatness of Washington. 

 You did your part nobly, and gained honor and a claim to gratitude 

 by publishing so valuable a volume. 



— The author of " Micah Clarke," the historical novel recently 

 published by Longmans, Green, & Co., is an English physician who 

 is only thirty years old, and who has been a writer of magazine 

 stories for ten years past. Dr. A. C. Doyle is a tall, athletic young 

 man, who not only attends to a good practice and writes novels, 

 but is a famous cricketer. He has, moreover, seen service on the 

 West African coast, and has roughed it in a whaler. He is a 

 nephew of Richard Doyle, the Ptmch artist, and illustrator of 

 " The Newcomes." 



— The Worthington Company, in addition to the announce- 

 ments already made, are preparing the following books for the fall . 

 First in importance is a new edition of " Taine's English Litera- 

 ture," with an introductory essay by Richard H. Stoddard, which 

 enables them to copyright the book. " The Memoirs of the Count 

 de Grammont " will be brought out as a holiday publication with 

 photogravures and portraits. There will also he editions de luxe of 

 Macaulay's " Lays of Ancient Rome" and Main's " Treasury of 

 English Sonnets." 



— D. C. Heath & Co. have just published " Modern Facts and 

 Ancient Fancies in Geography," a handbook for teachers, by 

 Jacques W. Redway. This book will treat the subject in the light 

 of modern science, and suggest some new methods of teaching 

 this much-abused subject. They have also just ready " Topics in 

 Geography," by W. F. Nichols. This is not a text-book, but a 

 specific course, a systematic enumeration of the items or classes of 

 items to be taught in each of the grades, with something of the 

 methods of presentation, all built upon the general plan of lan- 

 guage-work done in our schools. The " topics " have been pre- 

 pared for seven grades, beginning with the lowest. 



— Mr. C. H. Lee of Leesburg, Va., great-grandson of the emi- 

 nent statesman Richard Henry Lee, is, according to a correspondent 

 of the New York Evetiing Post, engaged in writing the memoirs of 

 his illustrious ancestor. Mr. R. H. Lee was the friend of Patrick 

 Henry, and in wArm concurrence with him in disdain of the acts 

 which led to the war of the Revolution. The Tory party had pro- 

 nounced him a " political demagogue," but those on the other side, 

 approving his resistance to oppression, hailed him as the " young 

 reformer." The " Life and Correspondence " of R. H. Lee was 

 published in 1829 by his grand-nephew, but the forthcoming work 

 by a direct descendant will probably be fuller and more complete. 



— A study of animal life and character is contributed by Olive 

 Thorne Miller to the September Popular Science Monthly in the 

 shape of a description of a pet lemur which the author possessed, 

 and which represents a group of animals closely allied to the mon- 

 keys. The tariff question is discussed from a novel point of ap- 

 proach by Mr. Huntington Smith in " The Ethical View of Protec- 

 tion." The author lays down his points with considerable skill ; 

 and his article, which it is fair to say is adverse to the principle of 

 protection, commends itself to the attention, if not to the accept- 

 ance, of readers of every shade of opinion. The number will con- 

 tain an essay on the "Origin of the Rights of Property," by Henry 

 J. Philpott. The author compares the views of a number of writ- 

 ers on the subject, points out wherein he thinks they are wrong, 

 and draws his own bold and independent conclusion that the rec- 

 ognition of private ownership was in the beginning a truce in the 

 war against its exercise by others. A paper by Professor Huxley 

 bearing directlv on the question involved in the recent discussion 

 between himself and the Rev. Dr. Wace, concerning the genuine- 

 ness of miracles, and entitled " The Value of Witness to the 

 Miraculous," will also appear. 



