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grim Scrip, or, Wit and Wisdom of George Meredith,' with selections 

 from his poetry, a critical and biographical introduction, and a por- 

 trait ; ' Counter Currents,' a new story by the author of ' Justina ; ' 

 and a cheap edition of Shakespeare's complete works, from the 

 text of Rev. Alexander Dyce, in seven volumes with memoir, glos- 

 sary, and portrait. They have in preparation ' Jane Austen,' in the 

 Famous Women series : ' Ethical Religion,' by William Macintyre 

 Salter ; and ' Sunday-School Stories on the Golden Texts of the In- 

 ternational Lessons for 1889,' by Rev. E. E. Hale. Wide Awake 



for 1889 promises to make an unusually bright and interesting vol- 

 ume. Serials by H. H. Boyesen, J. T. Trowbridge, Susan Coolidge, 

 Sidney Luska, and other notable writers are promised, as well as 

 short stories and timely articles by John Strange Winter, author of 

 ' Bootle's Baby,' Andrew Lang, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Bur- 

 roughs, Gen. O. O. Howard, E. S. Brooks, and others. Mrs. 



Deland's ' John Ward, Preacher,' is in the twelfth thousand. 



Mrs. Burnett's ' Little Lord Fauntleroy ' has reached its sixtieth 



thousand. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. will publish on the 25th 



inst. 'The Thumb Bible,' by Bishop Jeremy Taylor. Rand, 



McNally & Co. will publish at once ' The Blackball Ghosts,' a story 

 by Sarah Tytler (Henrietta Keddie). The American News Com- 

 pany will publish this month a story entitled ' The Curse of Mar- 

 riage,' by Walter Hubbell. Charies W. Sever, of Cambridge, 



Mass., will publish on Dec. i, ' Hesper,' an American drama, by 



William R. Thayer, author of ' Confessions of Hermes.' The 



Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York, have just issued 

 ' Bird Portraits for the Young,' the text by Dr. W. Van Fleet and 



the photogravure plates by H. H. Darnell. Dr. M. L. Holbrook, 



25 Bond St., New York, will publish on the 20th inst. a work en- 

 titled ' Eating for Strength, or. Food and Work and their Relation 

 to Health and Strength.' The author is Dr. Holbrook himself, who 



in this book gives 500 recipes for wholesome foods and drink. 



Macmillian & Co. will publish shortly the second series of Matthew 

 Arnold's ' Essays in Criticism,' selected by himself just before his 

 death. The subjects are ' The Study of Poetry,' ' Milton,' ' Gray,' 

 'Keats,' 'Wordsworth,' 'Byron,' 'Shelley,' 'Tolstoi,' and ' Amiel.' 



Lord Coleridge contributes a prefatory note to the volume. 



Dodd, Mead & Co. announce ' Musical Instruments and Their 

 Homes,' with nearly 300 illustrations, to be published in very hand- 

 some form. The work will comprise a complete account of the;col- 

 lection of musical instruments now in the possession of Mrs. John 

 Crosby Brown of New York City. Mrs. Brown and William Adams 

 Brown have written the letter-press. The work will be of interest 



to students of music as well as to ethnologists. Charles Scrib- 



ner's Sons have in preparation a second, and probably final, collec- 

 tion of the poems of Mr. R. H. Stoddard. It will be entitled ' A 

 Book of Verse : Early and Late,' and will contain a reproduction of 

 the latest portrait of this versatile writer by Mr. George B. Butler. 



W. R. Jenkins has just ready, 'Le Second Livre des Enfants,' 



by Paul Bercy; ' Lameness of Horses and Diseases of their Loco- 

 motary Apparatus,' by Dr. A. Liautard ; and an American edition 

 of Strangeway's 'Veterinary Anatomy,' revised by I. Vaughan. He 

 will publish late this month or early in December ' A Veterinary 

 Diary for 1889,' with diary leaves for memoranda and a compen- 

 dium of doses ; also, a work on the ' Roaring of Horses,' by Dr. 

 George Fleming, who has given special attention and study to this 



particular disease. Cassell & Co. will publish at once George 



Manville Fenn's new work, ' Commodore Junk,' an adventure 

 story dealing with buccaneering life on the West Indian Main in 

 the days of George I. They will also publish at once Walter 

 Crane's new colored picture-book under the title of ' Flora's Feast : 

 a Masque of Flowers.' A prospectus has been issued for a' His- 

 tory of Book Printing in Vienna, from 1482 to 1882.' It is intended 

 as a souvenir of the great celebration held in the Austrian capital in 

 1882, on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the in- 

 troduction of printing into Vienna. The compilation will be by Dr. 

 Anton Mayer ; the printing by Friedrich Jasper ; Wilhelm Frick 

 will be the publisher. The work is to be in two volumes of royal 

 quarto, with illuminated initials, and illustrations in the highest 



style of modern art. Macmillan & Co. will publish before the 



close of this year ' The Recluse ' (hitherto unpublished) of Words- 

 worth. The poem will also be included in a one-volume edition of 

 Wordsworth's poems, which will contain all the copyright notes 



and prefaces. This edition, which will be uniform with the popu- 

 lar edition of Lord Tennyson's poems, will thus be the only com- 

 plete edition in the market. At about the same time Messrs. Mac- 

 millan will issue under the title, ' Wordsworthiana,' a volume of 

 papers selected by Professor Knight from those read before the 

 Wordsworth Society. Among the contributors are Matthew Ar- 

 nold, Lord Coleridge, Lord Houghton, Mr. Hutton, Mr. Aubrey de 

 Vere, Mr. Lowell, Canon Ainger, Mr. Shorthouse, and the editor. 



The American Jottr7ial of Archccology, Vol. iv.. No. 3, con- 

 tains 'The Relation of the Journal to American Archeology,' by 

 the editors ; ' Antiquities of Southern Phrygia and the Border Lands,' 

 by W. M. Ramsay ; ' The Ancient Coinage of China,' by W. S. 

 Anient, missionary to China; ' Gargara, Lamponia, and Pionia. 

 Towns of the Troad,' by Joseph Thacher Clarke ; ' The publica- 

 tions of the German Archaeological Institute,' by Charles Eliot Nor- 

 ton ; ' The American School of Classical Studies at Athens,' by the 

 editors ; ' Publication of Inedited Documents.' 



— An elaborate historical work — somewhat similar in scale to 

 that of Mr. H. H. Bancroft for the Pacific States of North America 



— says the London Academy, is announced from Australia. Mr. 

 G. B. Barton, of Sydney, has undertaken to write a history of New 

 South Wales from official records, in fifteen volumes, each volume 

 covering the term of a governor's administration. The first vol- 

 ume will include the letters written by Governor Phillip previous to 

 his departure from England and while on his voyage, and also his 

 despatches from Sydney which have not before been published. In 

 the appendix will be given, besides the Act of Parliament founding 

 the colony, the Governor's commission and instructions, and the 

 letters-patent constituting the courts of civil and criminal jurisdic- 

 tion, and many other unpublished records of literary and historical 

 interest. There will also be a bibliography of the colony down to 

 1808. Mr. Richard Heme Shepherd has in hand a revised edi- 

 tion of his ' Tennysoniana,' first published about ten years ago. 

 The new edition has been corrected and enlarged to date, and will 



contain a copious and exhaustive bibliography. Mr. Frederic 



G. Kitton has now ready for immediate publication the first part 

 of the work entitled ' Charles Dickens with Pen and Pencil,' upon 

 which he has been engaged for more than two years. The princi- 

 pal features of this work are, according to the Academy : (l) a de- 

 scription of all the portraits of Dickens, with unpublished memo- 

 randa concerning them ; (2) records of his personal characteristics, 

 with a collection of reminiscences contributed by surviving friends ; 

 (3) one hundred illustrations, including nearly fifty portraits, re- 

 produced by line-engraving, mezzotint, etching, photogravure, etc. 

 Queen Victoria has allowed Mr. Kitton to engrave for his collection 

 a pencil sketch of the novelist now in her possession. The draw- 

 ing, which was taken from the life by R. J. Lane, represents Charles 

 Dickens during the Pickwickian days. Her Majesty bought it 

 from Mrs. George Cattermole, widow of the artist who assisted in 

 illustrating ' Master Humphrey's Clock.' It will thus be published 

 for the first time, and will be of interest to all Dickens collectors. 

 The mode of publication will be twelve parts, printed on fine paper, 

 imperial quarto, each of which will contain three full-page plates. 

 The edition is a limited one ; and subscribers should address Mr. 

 F. T. Sabin, Garrick Street, W. C, London. 



— The much-delayed number of the American journal of Psy- 

 chology has iat length appeared, dated August, 1888. Its contents 

 differ from what the preceding numbers lead to anticipate ; and it 

 cannot be said that the change is for the better. While the main 

 articles have been in the line of the new departures in psychology, 

 the single contribution to this number is a minute historical study 

 of Heraclitus. The study itself, apart from its appearance in this 

 journal, shows unusual care and sound scholarship, and reflects 

 great credit upon Dr. G. W. Patrick, its author. The reviews and 

 notes continue to be abundant and interesting. They are classified 

 under the heads of, ' The Nervous System,' ' Experimental,' ' Hyp- 

 notism,' ' Abnormal,' Anthropological,' ' Miscellaneous.' The price 

 of the journal is advanced from three to five dollars per annum. 



— The November number (No. 38) of the Riverside Literature 

 Series (published monthly, at 15 cents a number, by Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Co., Boston) contains four of Longfellow's most popular 

 poems: ' The Building of the Ship,' ' The Masque of Pandora,' ' The 



