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p. H. Wicksteed. The object of the dictionary is to give a state 

 ment of the position of political eoonomy at the present time, 

 together with such references to history, law, and commerce, as 

 may be of use. Articles on the main subjects usually dealt with 

 in the works of economic writers will be found in it. Short no- 

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 economic literature, are also included. A list of works of leading 

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— Maomillan & Co. have in press ''A Dictionary of Classical 

 Mythology, Religion, Literature, Art, and Antiquities," revised 

 and edited from the German of Dr. Seyflfert by H. Nettleship 

 and J. E. Sandys. The work will contain nearly five hundred 

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— In Lippincott's Magazine for December, 1890, " The Bermuda 

 Islands" form the subject of an article by H. C. Walsh. These 

 islands lie only about seven hundred miles from our eastern coast, 

 and are rapidly growing in popularity as a winter resort, owing 

 to the beauty of their scenery, their temperate climate, and the 

 entire change of life which they afford. In "Types in Fiction," 

 W. W. Crane takes up the cudgel against those authors "who 

 select some particular locality or district, and take its inhabitauls 

 as specimens of a type." He objects to authors devoting their 

 energies to portraying people not as individuals, but as samples of 

 a certain type. 



— C. W. Bardeen of Syracuse sends us "A Brief History of the 

 Empire State," written by Welland Hendrick. It is a small 

 quarto of two hundred pages, with many illustrations, and 

 gives a very readable account of the history of New Yoi'k and its 

 people from the time of Henry Hudson to the present day. The 

 author makes no pretence of original research, but has made good 



use of his authorities, and presents a considerable amount of 

 matter in a small space. The style is simple yet manly, and dis- 

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 the State, treating those of the Union only so far as to show the 

 part that New York has played in them. We should think that 

 the book would be useful both in the schools and in the families 

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— In the Atlantic for December Mr. Birge Harrison gives an 

 account of the new rival of the French salon, the National Society 

 of Fine Arts, in a paper entitled " The New Departure in Parisian 

 Art ; " Mr. A. T. Mahan, in "The United States Looking Outward," 

 shows the isolation of the country, not only in respect to position, 

 but in regard to trade, and prophesies a change in public opinion, 

 which will free us from our indifference to foreign nations, and 

 open our eyes to the necessity of the defence of our own coasts, 

 and a more active policy of trade with other countries ; and there 

 is an essay in the Contributors' Club, on " English and American 

 Spelling," from one who, if his name were known, would be rec- 

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— No. 47 of the Riverside Literature Series is a small collection 

 of fables and folk- stories, by Horace E. Scudder. They are 

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