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valuable service of preparing a similar compilation for each num- 

 ber. 



— So strong a feeling has been manifested in this country against 

 the publication of a cheap pirated edition of Professor Bryce's no- 

 ble work on " The American Commonwealth," says the Nnw York 

 Tribune, that it is hardly possible that any publisher will undertake 

 it. The Bos/on Advertiser says, " Professor Bryce's materials 

 were gathered by the most patient, candid, and acute inquiry in this 

 country, and represent many years of labor on his part and that of 

 his American assistants. He has made admirable use of them in 

 the preparation of a work universally recognized as a monument to 

 our Commonwealth, and of the foremost importance to all students 

 of our institutions and people. For such a monograph the nation 

 cannot afford to show itself ungrateful. If a publisher attempts to 

 put an edition of this work on the market to defraud the author 

 and discredit the nation, his attempt should be pilloried as pecul- 

 iarly disgraceful, and the edition should be boycotted by honest 

 book-buyers." 



— E. HoUenshade, 136 Lake Street, Chicago, has published what 

 he calls a " gored map " of the northern and southern hemispheres, 

 which is a novelty well worthy the attention of educators and stu- 

 dents. It is designed to obviate the necessity of a globe in the 

 study of geography, and conveys an adequate conception of the 

 exact relations borne by one portion of the earth's surface to every 

 other. 



— Messrs. Longmans & Co. are about to publish in New York 

 two new books of fiction. One is "A Nine Men's Morrice, Stories 

 Collected and Recollected," by Mr. Walter Herries Pollock, the edi- 

 tor of the Saturday Review. Most of these striking stories have a 

 tinge of the supernatural. The other book is "A Dangerous Cat's- 

 paw," by D. Christie Murray, and his brother Mr. Henry Murray. 

 This is at once a story of ingenuity and mystery, with the robust 

 humanity common to Mr. Murray's other novels. 



— " Chancellor Chess, or The New Qame of Chess," by Ben. R- 

 Foster, A.M., chess editor of the St. Louis Globe Democrat for 

 more than ten years, is announced as in press. Seventy pages are 

 devoted to the new piece called" The Chancellor," containing a his- 

 tory of its origin, " with forty problems, and a number of games 

 illustrative of its beauties, powers, and possibilities." It is pub- 

 lished by the author, in St. Louis, Mo. 



— Charles Scribner's Sons published last week " The History of 

 the Roman Republic," abridged from the history of Professor 

 Mommsen, by C. Bryans and F. J. R. Henty, which presents the 

 salient points of the original in a form suitable for use in schools 

 and colleges and for the convenience of the general reader ; " The 

 English Restoration and Louis XIV., from the Peace of Westphalia 

 to the Peace of Nimwegen," by Osmund Airy, in the Epochs of 

 Modern History Series ; and " The Validity of Non-Episcopal Ordi- 

 nation," the Dudleian lecture, by Professor G. P. Fisher. 



— Scribner cS: Welford have just issued a new edition of Barry 

 E. O'Meara's " Napoleon at St. Helena," in two volumes, with 

 numerous illustrations in colors and black and white. A refutation 

 of Croker's diatribe which appeared in 1822, and a Napoleon calen- 

 dar, have been added by the editors. They have also just ready a 

 new edition of D'Anvers' " History of Art ; " a new edition, in the 

 Ideal Series, of " Sartor Resartus," with an etched portrait of Car- 

 lyle ; an edition de luxe of " Kensington, Picturesque and Histori- 

 cal," by W. J. Loftie, with upwards of 300 picturesque and delicate 

 illustrations by W. Luker, jun. ; and the first volume of Professor 

 Franz Delitzsch's " Commentary on the Book of Genesis," of which 

 this house (by special arrangement of the author) is publishing a 

 translation of the fifth edition, thoroughly revised, and in large part 

 rewritten. 



— According to T/ie Publishers' Weekly, the new departure of 

 the New York Ledger attracts much notice. Mrs. Burnett and Mr. 

 Stevenson are engaged to write for the Ledger, and in the current 

 number a learned paper by Dr. McCosh is found beside some very 

 lurid fiction. 



— The American states that Collier's Once a Week is a sort of 

 eagle among the dovecotes. It is said to offer " rates " to the most 



popular writers, such as the magazines, with all the pressure of 

 competition, decline to pay, and to threaten a consequent monopoly 

 of much of the high-priced talent. Its liberality confounds the older 

 journals. 



— Mr. Thomas Stevens, whose ride around the world on a 

 bicycle is known to all, is now on his way to find Stanley, sent 

 through the enterprise of the New York World. We reproduce 

 this week his portrait. Mr. Stevens's famous ride stands unequalled 

 in the history of travel, and his own story of it, in " Around the 



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World on a Bicycle " (published by Charles Scribner's Sons) is told 

 in a manner which charms the reader from the beginning. His 

 escapes from death were marvellous, and thrilling incidents were 

 daily occurrences ; and his narrative of them shows him to be 

 as good a writer as wheelman. The work contains over 200 illus- 

 trations. The work is divided into two volumes, — "From San 

 Francisco to Teheran," and " From Teheran to Yokohama." The 

 volumes are, however, sold singly. 



— From among the several hundred books published during 

 1888 by J. B. Lippincott Company, we note the following as likely 

 to be of special interest to our readers, aside from works of fiction : 

 " The Animal Life of Our Sea-Shore," by Angelo Heilprin (fully 

 illustrated); " Beethoven," a memoir, by Elliott Graeme, with an in- 

 troductory essay by Dr. Ferdinand Hiiler ; " Beranger's Songs and 

 Poems," selected by W. S. Walsh (with steel plate illustrations) ; 

 "Botany," for academiesand colleges, by Annie Chambers-Ketchum 

 (250 illustrations); "Boys' Own Book of In-door Games and Recre- 

 ations," edited by G. A. Hutchison (over 700 illustrations); "Cham- 

 bers's EncyclopEedia," Vols, I. and II., edited and published under 



