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the growth of the various continental states and England's rela- 

 tions with them ; so that the book will serve to a certain extent 

 as an atlas of European history. The plans of battles include 

 most of the important ones from Senlac to Sebastopol; but the 

 only one relating to colonial and American affairs is that of the 

 siege of Quebec. Great pains have been taken to secure accuracy, 

 a few errata being corrected in an introductory note ; and the 

 present writer at least is not competent to detect any others. With- 

 out maps in some form history is unintelligible, and it is a great 

 convenience to have a collection specially prepared ; and even those 

 who have given considerable study to the history of Edgland will 

 fiad this atlas both interesting and useful. With its neat work- 

 manship and excellent paper the book is well worth the dollar and 

 a half that it costs. 



— The New York History Company, 133 Nassau Street, New 

 York, will publish at once the first volume of " The Memorial 

 History of the City of New York," edited by General James Grant 

 Wilson. 



— Swan, Sonnensohein, & Co. will publish shortly in their Social 

 Science Series an analysis of the first volume of Karl Marx's 

 '• Capital," by Dr. Aveling, similar to his analysis of the writings 

 of Charles Darwin. 



— An international exhibition of the book trade and its allied 

 branches, says The Publishers^ Weekly, will be held at the Palace 

 of Industry at Antwerp, July to August, 1893. Application may 

 be made to the Netherlands Society for the Promotion of the Book- 

 trade, Amsterdam. 



— Damrell & Upham, Boston, have almost ready a work by 

 Professor Horsford concluding his researches into the coming of 

 the Northmen, "The Landfall of Leif Erikson on Cape Cod in the 

 Year 1000, ami the Site of His Houses on the Bank of Charles 

 River in Cambridge.'" An appendix wUl contain the Saga of Erik 

 the Red and other documents pertaining to Vineland. 



— G. P. Putnam's Sons will publish immediately an authorized 

 edition of Charles Morley's study of dog lite, entitled "Teufel, 

 the Terrier : His Life and Adventures," and of the companion 

 volume on 'Peter, a Cat o' One Tail." The former is illustrated 

 with designs by Yates Carrington and the latter by Louis Wain 

 •(Peter's proprietor). 



— Estes & Lauriat have just issued, simultaneously with Chap- 

 man & Hall, a delightful contribution to Dickensiana entitlei " A 

 Week's Tramp in Dickens- Land." It is the record of a pilgrimage 

 made by two enthusiastic Dickensians during the summer of 

 t888. Estes & Lauriat also issue an illustrated volume, by Mad- 

 ame de Bovet, translated and condensed by Arthur Walter, en- 

 titled "Three Months' Tour in Ireland." 



— The Britannia Company of Colchester, England, makers of 

 engineers' tools in a large way, are issuing a series of illustrated 

 manuals giving practical information to users of tools. Their first 

 manual, on "Turning Lathes," edited by James Lukin, is intended 

 for technical schools and apprentice.-. It gives just such direc- 

 tions as to turning, screw- cutting, and metal-spinning which a 

 learner would seek at the hands of an expert. In the second 

 manual Screws and Screw-cutting are treated, with theaddition of 

 a chapter on the milling machine. The Whitworth, American, 

 and Swiss systems of screws are described and compared, machine 

 and baud methods of manufacture are detailed, and the rules for 

 calculating the dimensions of screw-cutting wheels are presented 

 with full tables for application in practice. 



— Harper & Brothers will publish immediately Professor T. R. 

 Lounsbury's "Studies in Chaucer." which is not, as might be 

 imagined, an edition of the works of the poet, but embraces a 

 discussion of almost every problem connected with his life and 

 ■writings, including chapters on the Learning of Chaucer, the 

 Chaucer Legend, the Text of Chaucer, Chaucer's Relation to Re- 

 ligion, Chaucer in Literary History, and other subjects connected 

 with the study of his works and the time in which he lived. The 

 work is comprised in three volumes, and is supplemented by a 

 full index. Tbey will publish at the same time an important work 

 on ' ' English Words," by Professor Charles F. Johnson of the chair 



of English literature. Trinity College, Hartford, which embraces 

 an elementary study of derivation, including a discussion of the 

 literary value of words, and, besides its value as a text-book, will 

 be of interest to all who care to acquire correctness of diction; 

 also " Glimpses of Nature," a collection of popular essays by Dr. 

 Andrew Wilson of Edinburgh. 



— P. Blaki.ston, Son, & Co., Philadelphia, have just ready the 

 new London edition of the late Dr. Carpenter's work, " The Mi- 

 croscope and Its Revelations," edited by Professor Dallinger. The 

 London Athenceum says: "Special attention has been given to all 

 that appertains to the practical construction and use of the in- 

 strument, but the interests of amateurs have not been neglected. 

 The earlier chapters of the book have been entirely rewritten, and 

 the work throughout has been brought up to date. It is no secret 

 that Dr. Dallinger has spent a vast amount of labor on this new 

 edition. Mr. A. W. Bennett and Professor Jeffrey Bell have re- 

 lieved him as much as possil)le of the work of revising the chap- 

 ters on botany and zoology." 



— The Popular Science Monthly is rapidly coming to the front 

 as an illustrated magazine. Until recently it published only a 

 few simple drawings, where they were specially needed to supple- 

 ment the text, but the January number is to have no less than 

 sixty illustrations. The kinship which Darwinism recognizes be- 

 tween mau and the brutes is strongly confirmed by the facts con- 

 tained in an article on "Tail-like Formations in Men." The 

 researches of several German physiologists are here presented, and 

 pictures of a number of these strange formations are given. 

 ' ' Theology and Political Economy " is the subject of Dr. Andrew 

 D. White's next chapter in his Warfare of Science series. Paying 

 for the use of money is the matter in which the Church has most 

 seriously obstructed commerce, and a full history of the conflict 

 over interest is given in this article. An illustrated sketch of 

 certain •Remarkable Bowlders," by Mr. David A. Wells, is to 

 appear. Mr. Carroll D. Wright will have a study of " Our Popu- 

 lation and its Distribution,'" showing the movement of the centre 

 of population westward, and how the people are distributed with 

 respect to topographical features of the country, rainfall, humid- 

 ity, etc. All interested in the teaching of young children will be 

 glad to read Mrs. Mary Ailing Aber's account of " An Experiment 

 in Education." It is a sample of the sporadic efforts to introduce 

 little children to real knowledge, which promises valuable results 

 in the near future. 



— The sixth, and last, volume of "The Century Dictionary" 

 is now ready, and contains 1,046 pages, beginning with the word 

 strub. Its successful completion, substantially within the time 

 originally announced by the publishers, is a notable event. The 

 preface issued with the first part is dated May 1, 1889, the sup- 

 plementary note to the preface issued with the last part, Oct. 1, 

 1891. Between these dates has been published, in twenty-four 

 parts, which have followed each other with almost mechanical 

 regularity, a dictionary of 7,046 lirge quarto pages, containing, 

 from the printer's point of view, two-thirds as much matter as 

 the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," and including about 500,000 

 definitions of over 215,000 words, 50,000 defined phrases, 300,000 

 illustrative quotations, and 8,000 cuts. The sixth volume contains 

 its full share of important and interesting articles. The defini- 

 tions of sun and sun spot (both by Professor C. A. Young; with 

 their engravings illustrate well its encyclopedic richness, as do 

 also such articles as those under transit, temple, swallow, sub-, 

 substance, trot (with its reproduction of instantaneous photo- 

 graphs by Muybridge), trust, etc. Tlie volume also exhibits the 

 usual large number of admirable cuts, such as those under «a6ar(f, 

 testudo. tiger, toboggan, tomb, tube (pneumatic), tunnel, typeset- 

 ting-machine, Venus, victory, Vides-frelda, Vidua. Viduince. It 

 closes with a list of over 3.000 authors and authorities cited in 

 the course of the work, and with what is, perhaps, the most in- 

 teresting single thing it contains, a reprint of the li-it of amended 

 spelUngs recommended by the English Philological Society and 

 the American Philological Association, headed by an introduction 

 which leaves no doubt where the editors of the dictionary stand 

 as regards spelling-reform. While this list, which fass as yet 

 almost no actual usage to support it, and was indcsed iatooded 



