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the hunter's camp ; sketches on life in the woods ; articles on guns, 

 gunning, and ammunition ; articles on game birds and animals ; 

 articles on game dogs ; on the mountains and in the meadows ; in 

 the woods and on the waters ; abroad in the fields and forests, and 

 stories about rural nature in general ; special articles by the leading 

 sportsmen writers. The Nature Publishing Company, No. lo 

 Warren Street, New York, will publish the paper. 



— Outing for November has for its leading article, " A Winter's 

 Sport in Florida," by O. A. Mygatt. Other principal articles are 

 ■" Whaling," by Herbert L. Aldrich ; " Our Four-footed Friends," 

 by " Borderer ; " and " The Orange Athletic Club." Other articles 

 are, " Lobsters and Lobster Pots ; " " Crankslinger Skaddle Rides 

 Back to his Youth," a cycling story by President Bates ; " Squirrel- 

 Hunting ; " and the hunting story, " Over Rag Wheel Mountain." 



— Charles Scribner's Sons published last week " The Viking 

 Age," by Paul B. Du Chaillu. This work is the product of many 

 years of incessant labor in the collection and arrangement of facts 

 ■which throw light upon the character of the progenitors of the Eng- 

 lish-speaking race. Recent researches have made it clear that 

 those Northmen who at the decadence of the Roman Empire over- 

 ran aad settled in Britain and the northern coast of Germany and 

 France, were not barbarians, as has long been erroneously sup- 

 posed, but a most highly civilized and accomplished people. Vast 



quantities of objects, including arms and armor, gold and silver 

 ornaments of the most skilful workmanship and refined beauty, 

 wood- carving, filigree work, agricultural and domestic implements, 

 magnificent carriages, etc., have been unearthed. The work is in 

 two octavo volumes, and contains 1,400 illustrations. 



— The Reform Club, New York, has just issued a tariff diction- 

 ary, explaining the specific and ad valorem duties as imposed on 

 every article under the present law, and as proposed by the Mills 

 and Senate bills. It has been prepared by the tariff-reform com- 

 mittee of the club. 



— G. P. Putnam's Sons have just ready Alfred Church's " To 

 the Lions," a story of the persecution of the Christians under the 

 •early Roman Empire ; and " The Story of Boston," by Arthur Gil- 

 man, in the series of Great Cities of the Republic. 



— Gebbie & Co., Philadelphia, have just issued "Froudacity: 

 West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude," explained by J. 

 L. Thomas, — a criticism of Mr. Froude's late book on the West 

 Indies, written by a native in defence of his colored companions in 

 the West Indies. 



— J. G. Cupples Company announce a little book entitled " The 

 Elixir of Life," being a compilation of what has been written con- 

 cerning Dr. Brown-Sequard's discovery. It also contains Dr. 

 Brown- Sequard's own account of his famous alleged remedy for 

 •debility and old age. Dr. Variot's experiments, and a sketch of Dr. 

 Brown-Sequard's life, and a portrait. 



— Longmans, Green, & Co. are about to issue an outline history 

 •of the development of modern music, showing the growth of opera, 

 oratoiio, and symphony, without digressing into mere biography of 

 <;omposers. It has been prepared by Mr. W. J. Henderson of the 

 New York Times, and it will be called " The Story of Music." 



— Sun and Shade, published by the Photo-Gravure Company, 

 New York, has just concluded the first volume of a most success- 

 ful year. Starling almost as an experiment, with a list of less than 

 •fifty subscribers, it has, by dint of its excellency, won for itself, as 

 its publishers claim, a circulation of four thousand copies monthly. 

 It is a novel undertaking, in that it is simply a picture periodical 

 ■without letterpress excepting a table of contents. In the next 

 -volume will be presented reproductions of leading pictures in the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art ; portraits of prominent leading men, 

 first among which will be one of Mr. W. H. Appleton, the senior 

 •of the firm of D. Appleton cS: Co., to be followed by one of Henry 

 "George ; and reproductions of the works of American artists, 

 -whether painters, sculptors, or architects. The reproductions, by 

 •whatever process, are all of the very best quality. The subscrip- 

 tion price is four dollars per year. 



— J. B. Lippincott Company have just ready a work entitled 

 •" Cycling," by R. P. Scott, which will be of interest to all who are 

 fond of the exhilarating and healthful sport afforded by the bicycle, 



tricycle, etc. The book contains a great deal of curious and useful 

 information for wheelmen, and is. illustrated by numerous engrav- 

 ings showing the development of the " wheel " itself. 



— Judge S. M. Green, well known as the author of a number of 

 legal works, embodied in an excellent treatise on crime, to appear 

 shortly from the press of J. B. Lippincott Company, the opinions 

 and settled convictions to which he has been led by a long experi- 

 ence as judge both in the circuit and supreme courts of Michigan. 

 While the volume will naturally be of much service to lawyers, it is 

 not specifically a legal book, but is a popular, and at the same 

 time exhaustive, discussion of the nature, causes, treatment, and 

 prevention of crime. The author looks on the criminal as diseased, 

 and enables us to sympathize with him while we hate his crime, 

 and, moreover, encourages us to bright hopes and strenuous effort 

 for his cure. 



— The Geological Survey of Pennsylvania has issued "A Dic- 

 tionary of the Fossils of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States 

 named in the Reports and Catalogues of the Survey," compiled by 

 J. P. Lesley, State geologist. There are given three thousand fig- 

 ures of all the forms of animal and vegetable life hitherto seen in 

 the geological formations of the State, both those collected by the 

 assistant geologists of Professor H. D. Rogers, fifty years ago, 

 and those collected since 1874. 



^ The " Bibliographical Catalogue of the Described Transfor- 

 mations of North American Lepidoptera," by Henry Edwards, 

 issued by the Smithsonian Institution as Bulletin No. 35 of the 

 National Museum, will supply a want that has long been felt by 

 many entomologists, and will be acceptable to the students of the 

 earlier stages of North American Lepidoptera. In its compilation, 

 the author has occupied a good portion of the spare time at his 

 command for three years past, and has carefully examined every 

 publication that has been accessible to him. 



— By permission of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Scien- 

 tific Publishing Company of this city publish the admirable paper 

 of Sir Frederick Abel on " Mining Accidents," and the instructive 

 discussion of it by the best-informed experts in Great Britain. 

 This book summarizes the most advanced modern practice in coal- 

 miriing and the prevention of accidents ; and it should be in the 

 hands of every one interested in mining, as it is unquestionably the 

 most valuable treatise on coal-mining in the language. In order 

 to still further increase its value, the laws governing coal-mining in 

 every State and Territory in the Union, and those of Great Britain 

 and of the chief German mining districts, have been added to it. 



— "A Preliminary Catalogue of the Shell-bearing Marine Mol- 

 lusks and Brachiopods of the South-Eastern Coast of the United 

 States," with illustrations of many of the species, by William 

 Healey Dall, A.M., honorary curator. Department of Mollusks, 

 United States National Museum, has just been issued by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. This work is intended to assist students 

 of the MoUusca in the United States by bringing together for their 

 use a large number of excellent figures of species belonging to or 

 illustrating the fauna of the southern and south-eastern coasts of 

 the United States, from Cape Hatteras south to the Straits of 

 Florida, and west to Mexico, with the adjacent waters. These 

 figures are explained and connected by a catalogue of the mollusks 

 known to inhabit that region, either from the presence of authen- 

 ticated specimens in the National Museum or on the authority of 

 reputable naturalists who have collected in the region, and whose 

 specimens have been seen or reliably identified. This catalogue, 

 arranged for convenience in tabular form, includes not only the 

 species which are illustrated on the plates, but all other species 

 common to the region, as far as known. 



— J. E. Munson, Tribune Building, New York, has reprinted his 

 important " Phonographic Phrase-Book," which has long been out 

 of print. 



— D. C. Heath & Co. will issue at once Hoffman's " Tales from 

 History." Every student of German should read something of an 

 historical nature, and the difficulty lies in finding something brief 

 enough for class use. These tales are short, and independent of 

 each other, and yet complete enough to insure sustained interest. 

 The notes are both historical and explanatory. This firm will also 



