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rectory of active tariff-reform organizations in the United States, 

 and has already published one instalment of the list. 



— Travellers on the Nile will be glad to learn that the second 

 volume of Baedeker's " Guide-Book to Egypt " is at last about to 

 appear. It will be devoted, says The Publishers' Weekly, to a de- 

 scription of upper Egypt, and has been compiled by the well-known 

 Egyptologist, Professor Eisenlohr. 



— Charles L. Webster & Co. publish this week Mark Twain's 

 new book, " A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court," which 

 satirizes the shams, the laws, and customs of to-day under pretence 

 of dealing with the England of the sixth century. It is fully illus- 

 trated by Daniel Beard. 



— The Bancroft-Whitney Company, San Francisco, Cal., have 

 just issued the first two volumes of Lawson's " Rights, Remedies, 

 and Practice." The work, which is to be complete in seven vol- 

 umes, issued at the rate of one a month, does not deal in theories, 

 but is written for the every-day use of the profession. 



— Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. announce " The Bible and Modern 

 Discoveries," by Rev. Henry A. Harper, connected with the Pales- 

 tine Exploration Fund. He has written other books of much in- 

 terest on Palestine, but the peculiar feature of this book is that it 

 connects the remarkable discoveries made in the Holy Land with 

 the Bible narrative. 



— B. F. Stevens, according to the London Athenaum, has just 

 produced the first volume of his magnificent collection of facsimiles 

 of documents in European archives relating to the United States. 

 The second volume will be ready this month, and two more will 

 be in the hands of the subscribers early next year. The total num- 

 ber of copies printed is limited to two hundred. 



— The J. G. Cupples Publishing Co. have in press a work by 

 Nathaniel Pitt Langford, of St. Paul, entitled " Vigilante Days and 

 Ways ; or. The Pioneers of the Rockies, being Sidelights on the 

 Makers and Making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and 



Wyoming." It will be published in two volumes, and will be il- 

 lustrated. 



— The first number of College and School, a monthly magazine- 

 for teachers, students, and parents, has made its appearance ; Utica,, 

 N.Y., being the place of publication. It is bright and attractive in 

 appearance, presents a good table of contents, and we trust will be- 

 a success, although its field of work is pretty well coveerd already. 



— A book entitled "Thought and Thrift," written by Joshua 

 Hill, a farmer in Kentucky, is announced as in the press of Rais- 

 beck & Co., No. 19 West 6th Street, Cincinnati. It will be a dis- 

 cussion of political and economic questions from the point of view 

 of a practical agriculturist, which it is said will be of great value- 

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— In The Writer (Boston) for December, following a personal 

 sketch of Mrs. George Archibald, are articles entitled " Duplicating, 

 Manuscripts," " The Opening Sentence," " The Husbands of Liter- 

 ary Women," " ' Don'ts ' for Young Writers," " Needless Words, 



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 new department is entitled " The Use and Misuse of Words." In. 

 it every-day questions of language are discussed briefly. The de- 

 partment " Helpful Hints and Suggestions " this month is devoted! 

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 suggested. 



— The Chautauquan for January contains the following articles l 

 " The Railroads and the State," by Franklin H, Giddings ; " A 

 Miniature Glacier," by Professor N. S. Shaler ; " Too Much Theo- 

 rizing," by John Habberton ; " A Striking Feature of the Age," by 

 Professor A. S. Hardy; "Great Britain's Ministry," by J. Ranken. 

 Towse ; "James Anthony Froude," by Professor W. M. Basker- 

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