June 28, 1889.] 



SCIENCE. 



509. 



— Miss May Kendall, the young English poetess whose semi- 

 humorous, semi-pathetic fantasies, originally contributed to Long- 

 mans' Magazine and Punch, were recently gathered into a volume 

 called " Dreams to Sell," has now written her first novel, " Such is 

 Life." It will be published shortly by Longmans, Green, & Co., 

 both in London and New York. 



— Messrs. Macmillan & Co. are publishing a series of " English 

 Classics," consisting of selections from the leading writers in prose 

 and verse, and supplied with numerous and quite elaborate notes. 

 They are edited by various teachers in the colleges of India, and 

 are more particularly intended for Indian students. We some 

 time ago noticed one of the volumes of the series, — the two open- 

 ing books of " Paradise Lost ; " and we have now received another, 

 — "Essays written in the Intervals of Business," by Arthur Helps, 

 edited by Professors F. J. Rowe and W. T. Webb of Calcutta. 

 The essays are of the easy and somewhat commonplace kind which 

 their author was accustomed to write ; but they contain many apt 

 remarks, and to certain minds will doubtless be useful. They treat 

 of every-day matters, such as " Practical Wisdom," " Self-Disci- 

 pline," " Advice," " The Education of a Man of Business," etc., 

 and are written in a smooth and pleasant style. The editors' notes 

 are very full, consisting of analyses and explanations, and supplying 

 all the information that any reader of the essays can possibly re- 

 quire. 



— J. B. Lippincott Company announce the early publication of a 

 midsummer novel called " Three Days," by Samuel Williams 

 Cooper. The book will be beautifully gotten up, and fully illus- 

 trated by Hal Hurst and C. C. Cooper, jun., the well-known artists. 



— Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. have just ready, in the series of 

 American Statesmen, " George Washington,' by Henry Cabot, in 

 two volumes. Mr. Cabot has made a thorough study of the civil 

 career and influence of Washington, and his work cannot fail to 

 shed much light on the interior discussions and vexed questions 

 which filled the years preceding, during, and following the Revolu- 

 tion. They have also just ready Edward Bellamy's " Looking Back- 

 ward," translated into German by Rabbi Solomon Schindler ; the 



eighth part of the third series of W. H. Edwards's handsome work 

 on " The Butterflies of North America;" and two more volumes, 

 in their Library Edition of Thackeray's works, — " Memoirs of 

 Yellowplush " and " Burlesques, etc." 



— Cassell & Co. will publish next month, from their London 

 house, " The Year-Book of Commerce." This work, prepared 

 especially for business-men, will form an annual statistical volume 

 of reference, showing the movement of the foreign trade and gen- 

 eral economic position of the leading countries of the world. It 

 has been compiled under the authority of the London Chamber of 

 Commerce, and is edited by Mr. Kenric B. Murray. Among the 

 contributors will be Lord Brassey, Dr. R. Giffen, H. C. Burdett 

 (secretary to. the Stock Exchange), Mr. J. S. Jeans (secretary to the 

 Iron Trade Association), Major Craigie (secretary to the Central 

 Chamber of Agriculture), Mr. George Martineau, Mr. John Cor- 

 bett, Mr. E. D. Milliet (of Berne, Switzerland), Mr. Boverton Red- 

 wood, Signor Luigi Bodeo (Rome), Dr. Becher (Berlin), M. E. 

 Fournier de Flaux (Paris), etc. 



— Messrs. Ginn & Co. announce, in the College Series of Greek 

 Authors, Plato's " Protagoras, " the commentary of Sauppe, trans- 

 lated, with additions, by Principal Towle of Norfolk, Conn. The 

 " Protagoras " is perhaps the liveliest of the dialogues of Plato. In 

 few dialogues is the dramatic form so skilfully maintained without 

 being overborne by the philosophical development. By the chan- 

 ging scenes, the variety in the treatment of the theme, and the re- 

 peated participation of the bystanders, the representation of a scene 

 from real life is vivaciously sustained. Noticeable, too, is the num- 

 ber of vividly elaborated characters : Socrates ever genial, ready for 

 a contest, and toying with his opponents ; Protagoras, disdainful 

 toward the other sophists, condescending ^toward Socrates ; Prod- 

 icus, surcharged with synonymic wisdom ; Hippias, pretentious 

 and imposing ; the impetuous Alcibiades ; and the tranquil Critias. 

 Herr Geheim-Rath Sauppe is the Nestor of German philologists, 

 and his introduction and commentary have been accepted as - 

 models by scholars. In this edition, those additions have been 

 made which seemed desirable for the use of American classes. 



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