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[Vol. XIII. No. 324 



— Harper & Brothers have just ready " Further Reminiscences," 

 a second volume of "My Autobiography and Reminiscences," by 

 W. P. Frith, the distinguished Royal academician. The interest 

 of the new volume upholds the reputation gained by the first. One 

 chapter contains letters and recollections of Charles Dickens ; an- 

 other recalls Sir Edwin Landseer ; still another, devoted to Mrs. 

 Maxwell, whom novel-readefs perhaps know better as Miss M. E. 

 Braddon, tells, among other things, about the plan she proposed to 

 Mr. Frith for a pictorial dramatic series on the lines of Hogarth, 

 and how the artist shrank from the painfulness of the " terrible 

 tragedy " which she outlined. Du Maurier and John Tenniel, the 

 famous Punch artists, figure in a chapter on " Book Illustrators ; " 

 and a host of other familiar names appear elsewhere, such as 

 Robert Browning, John Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, Mrs. Lynn Lin- 

 ton, F. Anstey, and Anthony TroUope. They have also just ready 

 the third edition, revised and enlarged, of C. K. Adams's " Manual 

 of Historical Literature ; " " The Mouse-Trap and Other Farces," 

 by W. D. Howells, including among the other farces, " The Gar- 

 roters," " Five O'clock Tea," and " A Likely Story," all of which, 

 as well as " The Mouse-Trap," C. S. Reinhart has illustrated. 

 Another book just ready is " The Tramp at Home " (illustrated), 

 by Lee Meriwether, special agent of the Bureau of Labor Statistics 

 at Washington, and author of " A Tramp Trip." The book con- 

 tains an account of the incidents, amusing and otherwise, which 

 befell him in the course of his study into the condition of the 

 American working classes. Adventure, novel experience, and 

 humorous episode are combined with original and striking testi- 

 mony bearing upon social problems in the United States. 



— We take the following items from The Publishers' Weekly : 

 M. Taine's health has sufficiently improved to permit him to re- 

 sume his literary work, and it is said that a series of three articles 

 by him, on " The Reconstruction of France in 1800," will appear 



at once in the Revue des Deux Mondes. F. Marion Crawford is 

 writing a book on Sir John Hawkwood for the English Men of 

 Action Series. Mr. Walter Besant will prepare the volume on 

 Capt. Cook ; Mr. Clark Russell, that on Dampier ; and Mr. Archi- 

 bald Forbes, that on Havelock. Andrew D. Mellick, jun., Plain- 

 field, N.J., has in preparation a work to be entitled " The Story of 

 an Old Farm, or, Life in New Jersey in the i8th Century," a 

 semi-social, semi-historical study. The author intends to describe 

 quite fully early German immigration to the American colonies, 

 to vindicate the Hessian troops, and to do justice to the New 

 Jersey Loyalists. 



— Mr. Thomas S. Tovvnsend of New York City has been at work 

 since the beginning of the civil war, collecting, sifting, and classi- 

 fying material, some of which he has now formed into a volume to 

 be called " The Honors of the Empire State in the War of the Re- 

 bellion," and to which he calls attention. It will be issued through 

 the Putnams as a subscription-book as soon as sufficient orders 

 have been received to pay the cost of a first edition. Such orders 

 should be sent to Mr. Samuel O. Fields, Library of Columbia Col- 

 lege. On Decoration Day some years back, Mr. Townsend de- 

 livered an address before the Long Island Historical Society, which 

 contained the germ he has brought to fruit in this volume. 



— T. Y. Crowell & Co. will publish at once Bourrienne's 

 " Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte," edited by Col. R. W. Phipps 

 of the Royal Artillery. The edition is in four volumes, and is a 

 reproduction of the latest English edition, containing all the notes, 

 portraits, medallions, maps, etc., with the addition of several fac- 

 simile autographs and a full index. They will publish shortly " A 

 Popular History of the French Revolution," by Mrs. Lydia Hoyt 

 Farmer, which is based on the latest French and English authori- 

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