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summer. It is intended to malie the book a specimen of the work 

 of the National Printing-Office. 



— '• The Last Journal " of the late Lady Brassey will be pub- 

 lished here at once by Longmans, Green, & Co. It contains an ac- 

 count of the trip of the " Sunbeam " to India, Borneo, and Australia. 

 The publishers, at Lord Brassey 's request, have sought to mak^ 

 this one of the most sumptuous volumes of late years. It is elabo- 

 rately illustrated from drawings by Mr. R. T. Prichett and from 

 photographs. The woodcuts have been done by the best English 

 engravers ; and variety and novelty have been gained by the inser- 

 tion of some forty monotints executed in lithography. 



— Sir Charles Dilke has been travelling in India, and will pre- 

 sent the results of his observations in the March and April num- 

 bers of the Fortnightly Review. The articles will be of a military 

 character, dealing with the strategical defences of the empire. 

 This review is now issued from New York by the Leonard Scott 

 Publication Company. 



— "The Harvard Index for 1888-89 " (Vol. XV.) is now ready. 

 This is a complete university directory of officers and students, with 

 complete athletic, base-ball, foot-ball, and boating records, and 

 lists of officers and members of the college societies, the class sec- 

 retaries, the officers of the Harvard clubs, the holders of academic 

 honors, etc., and is published by the Harvard Index Company, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



— The Edinburgh Review for January contains an article on 

 Krakatoa, in which the German and English reports on the great 

 eruption are reviewed. 



— We learn from the Publishers' Weekly that a meeting of the 

 executive committee of the Jewish Publication Society of America 

 was held on the 21st of January, in the vestry-room of the Temple 

 Emanuel, Fifth Avenue and Forty-fourth Street, New York. The 

 following members were present : the Rev. Drs. Gottheil and 

 Kohut of New York ; the Rev. Drs. Jastrow and Krauskopf of 

 Philadelphia ; Judge Rosendale of Albany ; Jacob H. Schiff, Pro- 

 fessor Henry M. Leipziger, Benjamin F. Peixotto, of New York ; 

 Professor Charles Gross, Harvard College ; Professor Cyrus Adler 

 of Baltimore ; Myer Sulzberger, Morris Newburger, S. A. Stern, S. 

 Friedman, Ephraim Lederer, and Miss Mary M. Cohen, of Phila- 

 delphia. President Newburger presided, and submitted a roll of 

 nearly one thousand members already subscribed in the States of 

 New York and Pennsylvania. Committees were appointed on 

 membership in the principal cities of the Union. Popular works 

 on Jewish history and literature will soon be published. Member- 

 ship costs $3 a year; patrons, $20; life membership, $100. 

 Messrs. Schiff of New York, and Guggenheim of Philadelphia, con- 

 tributed $5,000 each toward a " Michael Heilprin " fund, the in- 

 terest only to be used. This fund, started by Jacob H. Schiff, is to 

 be augmented to $50,000. 



— • Under the heading " Another Learned Shoemaker," the Pub- 

 lishers' Weekly tells of Mr. John Mackintosh, author of " The His- 

 tory of Civilization in Scotland," who will write the volume " Scot- 

 land " in the Story of the Nations Series, who is in many respects 

 a remarkable man. He was sent to work on a farm in his native 

 county of Banff at ten years of age, and was subsequently ap- 

 prenticed to shoemaking, at which trade he worked in various 

 parts of Scotland for fourteen years. In 1869 he opened a small 

 stationary shop in Aberdeen, " and there, on the shop counter," he 

 once wrote, " amid all the noise and bustle of a stirring thorough- 

 fare, the three volumes of my history were written and the proof- 

 sheets corrected and revised, all being done while customers were 

 coming in and out and constantly interrupting me." 



— Albert S. Gatschet has published the second volume of his valu- 

 able book, "A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians,"the first volume 

 of which appeared three years ago in Brinton's Library of Aborigi- 

 rlal American Literature. The present volume is a reprint from the 

 " Transactions of the Academy of St. Louis." It contains the care- 

 fully revised text of the speech of Chekilli, chief of the upper and 

 lower Creek, delivered in 1737 at Savannah, before Governor James 

 Oglethorpe, in the presence of several other chiefs. This speech 

 was originally written on buffalo-skin, and sent, together with an 



English translation, to England, where it was deposited in the 

 Georgia office at Westminster. All attempts to find the original or 

 the translation have been in vain. Fortunately, however, a German 

 translation of this valuable document is extant. It was made by P. 

 G. F. Von Beck, the commissionary of the Salzburg protestants, who, 

 after having been expelled from their home, had immigrated to 

 America. It has been reprinted in the well-known work of Samuel 

 LTrlsperger, " Ausfuhrliche Nachricht von den Saltzburginten Emi- 

 granten, die sich in Amerika niedergelassen haben." Dr. D. G. 

 Brinton translated this speech back into English, and this transla- 

 tion served for the reconstruction of the original speech. Judge G. 

 W. Stidham of Eufaula, Indian Territory, a Hitchiti Indian, under- 

 took this arduous task in both the Creek and Hitchiti dialects. 

 These two translations are contained in the present volume. The 

 texts are followed by a short commentary and a very full dictionary 

 of both dialects. A sketch of the Creek grammar was published 

 in the first volume of this work. While these two chapters 

 make the work indispensable for the linguist, the student of folk-lore 

 will be greatly interested in the discussion of the track of the Kasihta 

 migration. The present volume is accompanied by two valuable 

 ethnological maps showing the location of Indian tribes at the time 

 of the discovery. The work may be obtained from the author, P.O. 

 box 591, Washington, D.C. 



— Shakespeariana will begin in an early number a teachers' 

 supplement, designed as an exchange among teachers for sugges- 

 tions, opinions, and experiences in imparting instruction in English 

 literature by means of the works of Shakspeare as a text-book. 



— The Fortnightly Review for February contains a paper by 

 Mrs. Lynn Linton on "Characteristics of English Women." It is 

 the first of a series which begins historically. Mrs. Linton's papers 

 on " Women in Greece and Rome " were a marked feature of the 

 Fortnightly last year. 



— Blackwood's Magazine for February opens with an article, 

 accompanied with two maps, on " Major Barttelot's Camp on the 

 Aruvimi," which will be found of interest in connection with recent 

 events in Africa. Other notable papers are a review of the life 

 of Titus Oates and the famous "Popish plot," a sketch of Minacoy, 

 a sympathetic notice of Laurence Oliphant by Mrs. Oliphant, and a 

 remarkable story of the Vigilance Committee at San Francisco, en- 

 titled " A Philanthropist." Additional chapters of the new novel 

 " Lady Baby " are given, and the miscellaneous articles are of more 

 than usual interest. 



— S. A. Moran, principal of the Stenographic Institute, Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has in preparation a " Type- Writer 

 Dictionary," the object of which is to show the proper spelling and 

 division into syllables of the more commonly misspelled and mis- 

 divided, words. 



— The Moses King Corporation, Boston, has in active prepara- 

 tion " King's Handbook of the United States." It is to contain 520 

 pages of text, maps, and more thaji 1,200 small original illustra- 

 tions. There will be 50 full-page maps, one of each State and 

 Territory, and a double page of the United States, printed in three 

 colors. This book attempts to answer clearly and fully the de- 

 mands for a general description and a popular history of the United 

 States. The text is being prepared by M. F. Sweetzer, the Boston 

 litterateur, and author of many guide-books, etc. 



— The " Teachers' Manuals Series," published by E. L. Kellogg 

 & Co. of New York and Chicago, has three new numbers : No. II, 

 " Argument for Manual Training," by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler ; 

 No. 12, " Temperament in Education," by Dr. Jerome Allen ; and No. 

 13, "School Hygiene," by President G. G. Groff of Bucknell Uni- 

 versity, Lewisburg, Penn. 



— The School Journal ai New York is publishing a number of 

 valuable monthly four-page supplements, by Hughes, Quick, Allen, 

 Butler, Groff, etc. 



— In The Phrenological Joiirnaland Science of Health tor Feb- 

 ruary, three women are sketched, and portraits of them given : viz., 

 Mary A. Ward, author of " Robert Elsmere ; " Margaret Deland, 

 author of " John Ward, Preacher ; " and the almost as well known 

 Henrietta H. Skelton, author, and prominent advocate of temper- 



