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the auspices of W. and R. Chambers, Edinburgh, and J. B. Lip- 

 pincott Company, Philadelphia, entirely revised and rewritten, com- 

 plete in ten volumes, to be issued at intervals ; " The Chemical 

 Analysis of Iron," by Andrew Alexander Blair (illustrated); "The 

 Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley," 

 edited, prefaced, and annotated by Richard Heme Shepperd, each 

 volume complete in itself, in sets of five volumes ; " Diseases of the 

 Skin," a manual for practitioners and students, by W. Allan Jamie- 

 son, M.D. (illustrated with woodcuts and colored plates); " Em- 

 broidery and Lace," by Ernest Lefebvre, translated from the French 

 (with about 150 illustrations); " Francis Bacon, his Life and Phi- 

 losophy," by John Nichol ; " Girls' Own In-door Book," edited by 

 Charles Peters (over 150 illustrations); "Half-Hours with the Best 

 Foreign Authors," translations selected and arranged by Charles 

 Morris, four volumes ; " Hand-Book of Games." new edition, com- 

 prising whist, draughts, billiards, etc., edited by Henry G. Bohn ; 

 " Highways and Horses," by Athol Maudsley (with numerous illus- 

 trations) ; " Inebriety : its Causes, its Results, its Remedy," by 

 Franklin D. Clum, M.D.; " Insects Injurious to Fruits," by William 

 Saunders ; in the International Statesmen Series, edited by Lloyd 

 C. Sanders, " Lord Beaconsfield " (by T. E. Kebbel), " Viscount 

 Palmerston " (by Lloyd C. Sanders), " Prince Metternich " (by Col. 

 G. B. Malleson, C.S.I.), " O'Connell " (by J. A. Hamilton, fellow of 

 Magdalen College. Oxford), " Lord Bolingbroke " (by Arthur Has- 

 sall), and "Peel" (by F. C. Montague); " Intracranial Tumors," by 

 Byron Bramwell, M.D. (116 illustrations); "Jesus in Modern Life," 

 by Algernon Sydney Logan ; " Laconisms, the Wisdom of Many in 

 the Words of One," by J. M. P. Otts, D.D.; " Large Fortunes ; or, 

 Christianity and the Labor Problem," by Charles Richardson ; 

 " Life of Lamartine," by Lady Margaret Domville (with portrait); 

 "The Life of the Right Hon. W. E. Forster," by T. Wemyss 

 Reid, two volumes (with portraits and other illustrations); " Me- 

 moirs of Count Grammont," by Anthony Hamilton, edited with 

 notes by Sir Walter Scott (with portrait af author, and 33 etchings 

 by L. Boisson, on India paper); " Modern Science and Modern 

 Thought," by S. Laing (fifth edition); " Paradoxes of a Philistine," 

 by William S. Walsh ; " Patriotic Reader," by Henry B. Carring- 

 ton ; "A Popular History of Music, Musical Instruments, Ballet, and 

 Opera, from St. Ambrose to Mozart," by James E. Matthew (150 

 illustrations); " Spinoza," by John Caird, principal of Glasgow Uni- 

 versity (with portrait); " Tenure and Toil ; or. Rights and Wrongs 

 of Property and Labor," by John Gibbons ; " Therapeutics : its 

 Principles and Practice," by H. C. Wood, M.D. (new seventh edi- 

 tion); "A Treatise on Mine-Surveying, for the Use of Managers of 

 Mines and Collieries," by Bennett H. Brough (with numerous illus- 

 trations); " Two Centuries of Irish History, 1691-1870," with in- 

 troduction by James Bryce, M.P.; " United Stales Dispensatory," 

 new sixteenth edition, by H. C. Wood, M.D., Joseph P. Reming- 

 ton, and Samuel P. Sadtler; " Untrodden Paths in Roumania," by 

 Mrs. Walker (with 78 illustrations); " Walks in Palestine," the 

 letterpress by H. A. Harper (illustrated by 24 photogravures from 

 photographs taken by C. V. Shadbolt, Esq.); "With the Camel 

 Corps up the Nile," by Count Gleichen, nephew of Queen Victoria 

 (with numerous illustrations); "Worcester's New Academic Dic- 

 tionary," entirely new edition, the etymology of words a distinctive 

 new feature, reset from new type, and printed from new plates ; 

 "Worcester's New Comprehensive Dictionary," entirely new edi- 

 tion, containing over 48,000 words in common use, with an appen- 

 dix of 1 5,000 proper names, new illustrations, reset from new type, 

 and printed from entirely new plates ; and " The Writer's Hand- 

 book, a Guide to the Art of Composition,'' forming a new volume 

 of the Reader's Reference Library. 



— Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. will shortly publish a volume of the 

 late Asa Gray's reviews of botanical literature during the past fifty 

 years, selected and edited by Professor C. S. Sargent. 



— F. W. Christern, New York, will be the American agent of 

 Santa-Anna Nery's elaborate work on Brazilian folk-lore, recently 

 published in Paris. The book has a preface written by Prince Ro- 

 land Bonaparte. 



— The Ckauiauqiian for February contains, among other things, 

 " Gossip about Greece," by J, P. Mahaffy of Dublin University ; 

 " Socrates," by Thomas D. Seymour of Yale University ; "Greek 



Art," by Clarence Cook ; " Music among Animals," by the Rev. J. 

 G. Wood ; " Taxation," by Professor Richard T. Ely of Johns Hop- 

 kins University ; " Hospitals," by Susan Hayes Ward ; " The 

 Power-Loom," by Charles Carleton Coffin ; " A Summer Meeting- 

 in Oxford," by Herbert B. Adams ; " The City of the Sultan," by- 

 Eugene L. Didier ; " The Modern Migration of Nations," by Hjal- 

 mar Hjorth Boyesen ; " Petroleum in Russia," by P. de Tchihat- 

 chef ; " The Carlisle Indian School," by Frances E. Willard ; " Rob- 

 ert Elsmere : An Open Letter from the Rev. Lyman Abbott ; "" 

 " The Sons of Eminent Men in Office," by Mrs. Carl Barus. 



— A prospectus of a monthly magazine to be called Poet-Lore^ 

 and to be devoted solely to the illustration of Shakspeare and 

 Browning, and to the comparative study of poetic literature, has- 

 just been issued. It is signed by Charlotte Porter, late editor of 

 Shakespeariana (from August, 1886, to December, r888), and 

 Helen A. Clarke, whose address is 223 S. 38th Street, Philadelphia^ 

 Dr. W. J. Rolfe will contribute to its study department a series of 

 questions and helps for thestudy of Shakspeare's plays, beginning in 

 the February number with " Love's Labor's Lost," and continuing- 

 with later plays. The " Explanatory Index to Allusions in Brown- 

 ing's Pauline," given in the January number, will be continued- 

 through the later poems. Dr. Horace Howard Furness' lectures- 

 on Shakspeare, delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, will ap- 

 pear in extracts made by Dr. p'urness for this publication. W. H.- 

 Wyman's " Bacon-Shakspeare Bibliography " will be continued 

 from the December number of Shakespeariana. " Browning's- 

 Poetic Form," a seminary (Johns Hopkins) lecture, by Professor A. 

 H. Smyth ; " Shakespeare's Verses in Chester's Love's Martyr," by 

 Professor William T. Harris of the Concord School of Philosophy r- 

 " French "and English Literature of Elizabeth's Day," by Professor 

 M. W. Easton ; and other contributions by Professor Hiram Corson 

 of the Cornell University, Dr. H. L. Wayland, Michel N. Damiralis- 

 of Athens, Talcott Williams, and others, — are promised. 



— D. C. Heath & Co. will put on the market shortly a series of 

 games and charts for home and school use, based on the most ap- 

 proved principles of kindergarten training, prepared by Mme. War- 

 wedel, the distinguished kindergartner of San Francisco, formerly 

 of Washington. They have also nearly ready Scott's " Lay of the- 

 Last Minstrel," edited and annotated by T. E. Wetherell. 



— G. P. Putnam's Sons will publish at once "The Pocket Gaz- 

 etteer of the World," a dictionary of general geography, edited by 

 J. G. Bartholomew, uniform with the " Pocket Atlas ; " " The- 

 Nursery Lesson-Book," a guide for mothers in teaching young chil- 

 dren, with illustrations in outline and a selection of songs set to- 

 music, by Philip G. Hubert, jun. ; " Principles of Procedure in De- 

 liberative Bodies," by George Glover Crocker ; and three volumes- 

 of poetry, — "The Rose of Flame, and other Poems," by A. R. 

 Aldrich ; " Idyls of the Golden Shore," by H. Maxwell ; " Mastor,. 

 a Drama," by John Ruse Larus. 



— Charles C. Soule has just published a volume entitled " The- 

 Australian Ballot System, as embodied in the Legislation of Aus- 

 tralia, Europe, and the United States," — a compilation of the bal- 

 lot acts of South Australia, Queensland, Great Britain, Belgium,. 

 Kentucky, New York, and Massachusetts, with portions of the- 

 same of Tasmania, New Zealand, West Australia, Victoria, New 

 South Wales, Dominion of Canada, Ontaria, Quebec, Luxemborg, 

 Italy, and other countries, with an historical introduction and cuts- 

 and diagrams. 



— A prize of fifty dollars is offered by The Acadetny for the best 

 essay on " English in Secondary Schools." The increased prom- 

 inence of English in school programmes, and the lack of any gen- 

 erally accepted plan or system of work, have prompted the editor of 

 The Academy to offer this special inducement to those who have- 

 devoted thought to the teaching of English, and who have definite 

 ideas of the method of such teaching. The essays may be upon the 

 teaching of English literature, methods of grammatical study, com- 

 position work or rhetoric, etc., but no weight will be attached to- 

 arguments in favor of teaching English. Contestants must confine 

 themselves simply to practical exposition of results sought, and of 

 the means of attaining these results in the schoolroom. While 



