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■" Charley's Wonderful Journeys,' a new book by C. F. Amery. It 



belongs to the ' Alice in Wonderland ' class of juveniles. Rev. 



James B. Converse, Morristown, Tenn., has in press ' The Bible 

 and Land,' which, in the opinion of some, will " utterly rout and anni- 

 hilate the most pernicious of Henry George's theories." " The 



Historical Society of Rhode Island," says IVIr. S. S. Rider, in his 

 Providence Book-Notes, " has issued a proposal for the publication 

 •of a map of the State, ' defining the territories of the Indian tribes, 

 and the Indian names of localities therein, wherever they can be 



•discovered.' " The J. B. Lippincott Company have published 



Amelie Rives's ' The Quick or the Dead ? ' in book-form. Miss 

 Rives has written a preface for this edition, in which she explains 

 her purpose in writing the book, and answers her critics in a tren- 

 chant but good-natured manner. D. Lothrop Company have 



published ' The Story of Louisiana,' by Maurice Thompson, the 

 third volume in The Story of the States Series ; ' Glimpses of Great 

 Fields,' by Rev. J. A. Hall, designed to refute the materialistic the- 

 ories of evolutionists ; ' The Lost Earl, with other Poems and Tales 

 in Verse,' twenty-one poems, narrative, satirical, imaginative, etc., 

 by J. T. Trowbridge ; ' The Story of the American Sailor,' from 

 •earliest times to the present, by Elbridge S. Brooks. — - D. Apple- 

 ton & Co. will publish early this month ' From Flag to Flag : a 

 Woman's Experiences and Adventures in the South during the 

 War, in Mexico, and in Cuba.' The author, Mrs. Eliza McHatton- 

 Ripley, was the wife of a planter in Louisiana. They will also 

 publish a book on Florida, by Prof. James Wood Davidson, bearing 

 the title 'Florida of To-Day : a Guide for Tourists and Settlers ; ' 

 a posthumous work by Dr. W. B. Carpenter, entitled ' Nature and 

 Man: Essays Scientific and Philosophical,' accompanied by a 

 memoir written by J. E. Carpenter ; an entirely new edition of 

 Darwin's ' Origin of Species," reprinted from the sixth and last 

 London edition, which contains the author's latest revisions ; and, 

 in Appletons' Town and Country Library, a novel by Helen Ken- 

 ■drick Johnson, entitled ' Raleigh Westgate ; or, Epimenides in 

 Maine ; ' and a translation of Ernest Daudet's powerful novel, 



"The Apostate.' Lee & Shepard have ready "The Julia 



Ward Howe Birthday-Book,' edited by her daughter, Laura E. 

 Richards ; ' Aryans, Semites, and Jews, Jehovah and the 

 Christ : a Record of Spiritual Advance from the Household or 

 Personal God of the Semite Abram, and from Jehovah, the 

 Tutelary or National God of the Israelites, to the Universal Father 

 ■revealed by Jesus the Christ, with the Contracts made between the 

 Household God and Abram, the Tutelary God Jehovah and the 

 Israelites, and between " Our Father in Heaven " and all Mankind, 

 ■also the Circumstances, Incidents, and Events attending the Prep- 

 aration and Promulgation of the Second Revelation,' by an anony- 

 mous writer ; ' Essays, Religious, Social, Political,' by David At- 

 wood Wasson, with a biographical sketch by O. B. Frothingham ; 

 ' The Apostle of Burma,' a missionary epic commemorative of the 

 ■centennial of the birth of Adoniram Judson, by William C. Rich- 

 ards ; ' Incidents of a Collector's Rambles in Australia, New Zea- 

 land, and New Guinea," by Sherman F. Denton, artist of the United 

 States Fish Commission, Washington, D.C., with illustrations by 

 the author ; and ' Free Trade,' a speech delivered before the Dem- 

 ocratic Club, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 9, 1848, with extract from 

 •' La Misere de la Philosophic,' by Karl Marx, translated into Eng- 

 lish by Florence Kelley Wischnewetsky, with preface by Frederick 



Engels. Henry Holt Sc Co. are about to issue Sir Henry Maine's 



posthumous work on international law, which was in manuscript 

 almost ready for the printers at the time of its author's death. The 

 sheets have been seen through the press by Frederic Harrison and 



Frederic Pollock, two of Sir Henry Maine's executors. Charles 



Scribner's Sons announce that the date of the publication of their 

 •edition of Paul du Chaillu"s ' Viking Age " has been postponed in 

 ■consequence of the time required to manufacture a work of such 



magnitude. The illustrations will number over 1, 200. The 



biography of John Stuart Mill by Mr. Courtney in the Great Writ- 

 •ers Series will be published this month, and will contain a letter 



from Mr. Gladstone on Mill's career in Parliament. Professor 



Sayce of Oxford has gone to Cairo for the purpose of copying the 

 •cuneiform tablets which have been collected there. " A curios- 

 ity in the way of a dictionary,"' says the Boston Traveller, " has 

 just been published by the Canadian Government. It is one of the 



Micmac language by Rev. S. T. Rand, D.D., of Hantsport, N.S. 

 The aboriginal languages of North America have long been rec- 

 ognized by European philologists to be among the most perfect 

 linguistic systems that are known ; and among the Algonquin lan- 

 guages none is more perfect than that of the Micmacs, once a 

 powerful body in that great ethnical division. Heretofore, how- 

 ever, there has been a great difficulty in studying these languages, 

 because of the lack of aids, such as grammars and dictionaries, 

 which are both supplied in Dr. Rand's work, so that the importance 

 of the work to scholars will be evident.'" • Worthington Com- 

 pany announce Ida Waugh"s great artistic effort in a juvenile book, 

 'Bonny Bairns," with 48 large quarto illustrations, every page in 

 colors. The text is by Miss Amy Blanchard. This book by Miss 

 Ida Waugh, author of ' Wee Babies," and other popular books for 

 children, will greatly excel in mterest any book hitherto made by 

 her. However beautiful her other books may have been, this will 

 be found to be of more general interest than any of her previous 



works. The December number (No. 39) of the Riverside 



Literature Series (published monthly at 15 cents a number by 

 Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston) contains four carefully anno- 

 tated papers by James Russell Lowell, — ' Books and Libraries," 

 'Emerson, the Lecturer,' 'Keats,' and 'Don Quixote.' 'Books 

 and Libraries " is an address delivered in 1885 at the opening of a 

 free public library. It is of especial value to book-lovers, and a 

 most valuable aid to those interested in collecting books for private 

 or public use. 'Emerson, the Lecturer," a delightful paper on the 

 sage of Concord, is of great interest to lovers of Emerson, and 

 forms a most helpful introduction to his works. The chapter on 

 Keats is a charming biographical and critical sketch of one poet by 

 another. ' Don Quixote," a paper read before a workingmen"s col- 

 lege at London, is a very entertaining essay on the worth and place 

 of imaginative works in literature. This number of the Riverside 

 Literature Series places within the reach of all a choice collection 

 of complete selections from the works of a master of English prose. 

 It is especially suitable for use in high schools and academies. 

 The .publishers of Worcester"s Dictionaries, the J. B. Lippin- 

 cott Company of Philadelphia, call special attention to the entirely 

 new edition of their ' Academic Dictionary.' The ' New Academic' 

 presents as a distinctive new feature the etymology of words. In 

 this respect no other work of its class approaches it in fulness and 

 completeness. In orthography great attention has been paid to 

 usage, analogy, and etymology in deciding all disputable points. In 

 pronunciation the book not only gives the preference of Dr. Wor- 

 cester, but exhibits at the same time that of all the leading lexi- 

 cographers. An interesting sketch entitled 'The New Africa' 



has been published by the Rev. Lansing Taylor. The pamphlet 

 embraces a series of articles which have appeared in the Methodist 

 Review. An interesting outline of the most recent exploration of 

 Africa is given, particular stress being laid upon Stanley's work. 

 The author gives a vivid picture of what he calls ' the three Kongos,' 

 the Kongo, Welle, and Kasai, and finally attempts to draw the 

 curtain from the unknown future of this vast and fertile region. 

 He sees it crossed by railroads and canals, inhabited by an indus- 

 trious Christian population, and taking an active part in shaping 

 the fates of the world. The author takes the most hopeful view in 

 regard to the rapidity of the progress of this region, and its apti- 

 tude for becoming a home for Europeans, and impresses the reader 

 with his enthusiasm. It is to be feared that the opening of Africa will 

 not be so rapid and easy a matter as the author wishes us to believe. 



The author of ' The Battle of the Swash,' which satirizes the 



American navy, is said to be James Barton, a nephew of the late 

 Commodore Vanderbilt, and well known years ago in Wall Street. 

 One of the rare books in American history is known as ' Lou- 

 don's Indian Wars." The full title reads as follows : " A Selection 

 of some of the most interesting Narratives of Outrages, Committed 

 by the Indians, in Their Wars with the White People. Also, An 

 Account of their Manners, Customs, Traditions, Religious Senti- 

 ments, Modes of Warfare, Military Tactics, Discipline and Encamp- 

 ments, Treatment of Prisoners, etc., which are better Explained, 

 and more Minutely Related, than has been heretofore done, by any 

 other Author on that subject. Many of the Articles have never 

 before appeared in print. The whole compiled from the best Au- 

 thorities, By Archibald Loudon."" It fills two small i2mo volumes 



