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thank you for when I have read what will interest me more than 

 any thing else I can imagine in the way of biography." 



— The English lady who writes under the pen name of ' E. Nes- 

 bit ' has just made a collection of her later lyrics, which Longmans, 

 Green, & Co. are about to publish. The book is called ' Leaves of 

 Life.' The verse ranges from neatly turned and sharply pointed 

 vers de societc to serious poems of a high aspiration, frequently 

 dramatic. Perhaps the most obvious cliaracteristic of these poems 

 is the sympathy the author reveals in them for modern moods of 

 thought, and especially for the ambitions and revolts of the lowly. 



— The late Lord Stanhope's ' Notes of Conversations with the 

 Duke of Wellington,' just published in England by John Murray, 

 will be issued in America by Longmans, Green, & Co. Lord Mahon 

 was very intimate with the victor of Waterloo for the last twelve 

 years of the Iron Duke's life, and he set down from day to day 

 Wellington's table-talk, which is always interesting and often im- 

 portant. Wellington was as frank and as direct as Grant, and, like 

 the great American commander, the Englishman was prompt to 

 praise his chief adversary. Besides giving us Wellington's opinions 

 of Napolean, of Talleyrand, of his own army, and of the compari- 

 son of himself to Marlborough, Lord Stanhope's book abounds in 

 quotable anecdotes. 



— An extra number of the Riverside Literature Series (published 

 monthly by Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston, at fifteen cents a 

 number) has just been issued, entitled ' Scenes and Dialogues from 

 the Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe,' by Emily Weaver. The 

 number contains selections from ' Uncle Tom's Cabin,' ' The Min- 

 ister's Wooing,' and ' Old Town Folks.' The dialogues are well 

 adapted for private theatricals, and are also especially suited to take 

 the place of readings or recitations in school e.xercises. The same 

 firm now have ready a new edition of Andrews and Stoddard's 

 ' Latin Grammar,' revised by Professor Henry Preble of Harvard 

 University. 



— The Publishers Weekly states that on the 29th of August 

 next year the Jom-nal des Dibats will have been a hundred years 

 in existence. Unlike other newspapers, its daily impressions are 

 not numbered, so the reader looks in vain on the front sheet for 

 evidence of its age. " Though founded in August, 1789, the Debais," 

 so says the London AthencBJim, " did not attain a leading place 

 among French newspapers till some time after it had become the 

 property of the brothers Bertin, who bought it in 1799." It has had 

 an eventful career, and, as Lamartine wrote, its history during 

 sixty years forms a part of the history of France. It is still re- 

 garded as a sort of stepping-stone or ante-chamber to the French 

 academy on account of the large number of its eminent contribu- 

 tors who have become academicians. An historical account of the 

 paper will be issued in celebration of its centenary. 



— Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. will publish next February, F. Hop- 

 kinson Smith's new book of travel, ' A White Umbrella in Mexico,' 

 with illustrations by the author. One of the chapters is given in 

 the December Century, and another will appear in the January 

 Atlantic. 



— Mr. George Hannah, librarian of the Long Island Historical 

 Society, addressed the Grolier Club, 64 Madison Ave., on the evening 

 of Dec. 10, on ' Early Printed Books relating to America.' On Dec. 

 14 the Grolier Club opened an exhibition of the printed matter of 

 which Mr. Hannah spoke, which will continue ten days. It was re- 

 ported that work on the new club-house was progressing rapidly. 



— The town of Dedham, Mass., has just issued a second volume 

 of records, under the title of ' The Record of Baptisms, Marriages, 

 and Deaths, and Admission to the Church, and Dismissals there- 

 from, transcribed from the Church Records in the Town of Ded- 

 ham, Mass., 1638-1845 ; also all the Epitaphs in the Ancient Burial- 

 Place in Dedham, together with the other Inscriptions before 1845 

 in the Three Parish Cemeteries,' edited by Don Gleason Hill, 

 president of the Dedham Historical Society, and town clerk. Sup- 

 plied by G. W. Humphrey, Dedham, Mass. 



— George Forbes Kelly, 31 E. 17th Street, New York, has just 

 issued the first series of ' The American Art Portfolio.' This is 



practically the cream of the first two volumes of The Art Review, 

 now out of print. 



— Gen. Benjamin Harrison, the President-elect of the United 

 States, makes this pleasant allusion to Gen. W. T. Sherman, in a 

 recent letter recommending the new Ticknor illustrated edition of 

 ' Marching through Georgia : ' " I was delighted to see how per- 

 fectly the artists have succeeded in illustrating the text of a song 

 that no soldier, except it be the great captain who led the march, 

 ever tires of hearing, and he, I think, only because his modesty is 

 as great as his leadership was dashing and successful. The por- 

 trait of General Sherman is very spirited and lifelike." 



— Gen. Regis de Trobriand, the gallant veteran of a hundred 

 battles in defence of the Union, now lives in New Orleans, on the 

 retired list of the United States Army. He is much pleased with 

 Lieutenant Dauchy's translation of his ' Four Years in the Army of 

 the Potomac ' (just published by Ticknor & Co., Boston), and 

 writes to the publishers, " My work enters a new career, all rejuve- 

 nated to bring back in vivid colors memories of great things ac- 

 complished by our generation, and not to be forgotten by those 

 who come after us. The translation is excellent, and I can but be 

 grateful to Mr. Dauchy, who undertook the labor and carried it 

 through so successfully, and to you who took so good care to pre- 

 sent it to the public in such an elegant form. 



— The Technology Architectural Review, issued from the Arch- 

 itectural Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 eight times a year, promises to give American students of architec- 

 ture " some of the broad training in design that must form part of 

 the only foundation upon which any successful architectural career 

 can be built." 



— ' John Ward, Preacher,' the brilliant novel by Margaret De- 

 land, is in its fifteenth thousand. The avidity with which the pub- 

 lic seized upon this book was almost equal to that with which it 

 has devoured ' Robert Elsmere.' 



— William O. Judge, New York, has just issued Mme. H. P. 

 Blavatsky's new book, ' The Secret Doctrine,' the purpose of which 

 is to " lay before the thinking world so much of the ' hidden 

 wisdom ' " — that is, of a divine degree of knowledge possible to 

 human beings under certain conditions — " as it is thought expedi- 

 ent to make known at present to men in general." 



— John Wiley & Sons have in preparation 'A Technical Dic- 

 tionary, which will define, as an Authority, All the Terms of Art 

 and Industry,' by Park Benjamin ; ' The Guide to Piece Dyeing,' 

 by F. W. Reisig, a practical dyer and chemist, and giving speci- 

 mens of his own color-work and 100 recipes for the same ; ' Steam- 

 Engine Design for the Use of Mechanical Engineers, Students, and 

 Draughtsmen,' by Prof. J. M. Witham, late assistant engineer 

 U. S. Navy ; and a ' Treatise on Linear Differential Equations,' by 

 Prof. T. Craig of the Johns flopkins University. 



— The 'Johns Hopkins University Studies for 1889' will be de- 

 voted to (i) ' Arnold Toynbee,' by F. C. Montague, fellow of Oriel 

 College, with an account of the work of Toynbee Hall in East Lon- 

 don by Philip Lyttelton Gell, chairman of the council ; also an ac- 

 count of the Neighborhood Guild in New York, by Charles B. 

 Stover, A.B. ; (2-3) ' The Establishment of Municipal Government 

 in San Francisco,' by Bernard Moses, professor of history and pol- 

 itics in the University of California ; (4) ' The City Government of 

 New Orleans,' by Judge William W. Howe ; (5) ' The City Govern- 

 ment of Chicago, with a Bibliography on Municipal Government 

 in the United States.' by F. H. Hodder, instructor in history in 

 Cornell University ; (6) ' A New England Village Community, a 

 Study of Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford,' by Charles M. An- 

 drews ; (7) ' The Study of History in France and Germany,' by 

 Prof. Paul Fredericq of the University of Ghent, translated by 

 Henrietta Leonard ; (8) ' Federal Government in Canada,' by James 

 G. Bourinot, clerk of the Canadian House of Commons ; (9) ' Local 

 Government in Wisconsin,' by David E. Spencer; (lo-ii) 'The 

 Gilmer Letters, an Account of the English Professors obtained by 

 Gilmer and Jefferson for the University of Virginia,' by William P. 

 Trent, professor of history and English in the University of the 

 South; (12) 'Higher Education of the People, a Series of Social 



