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story — or, to use the words of the author, he 

 has pieced together the accounts given him 

 by negro slaves in the Barbary states and 

 in western equatorial Africa. Some of the 

 incidents have been actually witnessed by 

 him during some one of his journeys. The 

 persons and places named are of real exist- 

 ence, as are also the languages quoted. The 

 story is illustrated by forty-seven full-page 

 pictures, from original drawings by the au- 

 thor — true delineations of African life and 

 scenery, most of which have been done in 

 Africa from actuality. No concoctor of fic- 

 tion could invent a more tragic story than 

 this one of a real life which is still happen- 

 ing every day. 



The eighth issue of the Annual Index to 

 Periodicals (W. M. Griswold, Bangor, Maine) 

 is brought down to July, 1889. It contains 

 the lists of titles of articles and authors, in 

 the notation peculiar to Mr. Griswold's in- 

 dexes, for twenty-five American and foreign 

 periodicals. 



Under the title of The Two Great Re- 

 treats of History, Ginn & Co. publish in a 

 single volume, where they can be read com- 

 paratively, Grote's account of the Retreat 

 of the Ten Thousand Greeks, taken from his 

 history of Greece entire, except for a few 

 verbal changes ; and an abridgment of Count 

 Segur's narrative of Napoleon's retreat from 

 Russia. The book is designed for school 

 use, and is furnished with maps, an intro- 

 duction;- to each section, and explanatory 

 notes % " P "3. M." 



The Popular History of California, by 

 Lucia 1 "orman, is published by the Bancroft 

 Comnany, San Francisco, in a revised and 

 enlarged second edition. The first edition, 

 published in 1873, was well received. The 

 " enlargements " bring the story down to the 

 present time. The history of this State pre- 

 sents a considerable variety of incident. It 

 includes periods of discovery and of coloni- 

 zation by the Spaniards ; of the prominence 

 of the missions ; of the Mexican War and the 

 conquest of the country by the United States ; 

 of the discovery of gold and the gold-hunt- 

 ing excitement; of filibustering and vigi- 

 lance committees; and of agricultural and 

 horticultural development, in which, rather 

 than in gold, California seems destined to 

 find the true source of its wealth. 



Three language-studies of different char- 



acter, each having its peculiar value, are pub- 

 lished by Ginn & Co. The Practical Latin 

 Composition of Mr. William C. Collar sets 

 forth a method of teaching which has been 

 satisfactorily tried by the author after 

 breaking with the traditional method, and 

 which rests on the principle that the exer- 

 cise should be based upon the very words of 

 some Latin author. These words furnish 

 him a living model, in which he must find all 

 his material — order, words, idioms, and con- 

 structions — and in which he must observe all 

 the points wherein the structure varies from 

 that of his own tongue. He is expected to 

 familiarize himself first with the Latin pas- 

 sage and the details and peculiarities of its 

 construction, and then to execute his exer- 

 cise, reproducing the words and construc- 

 tions, but with many changes of form, and 

 in altered combinations ; and to I'efer to 

 the original only for correction and veri- 

 fication. 



Next in the group is the Pages choisis 

 des Memoires du Due de Saint-Simon, in 

 preparing which Mr. A. iV. Van Daell has 

 been actuated by the belief that the study 

 of a foreign language ought to bring students 

 in contact with the master-minds of foreign 

 nations. Too few of such works are ac- 

 cessible to ordinary students. Among the 

 desirable ones is that of Saint-Simon, which 

 " is one of the landmarks of French litera- 

 ture. " The selection of such a book as this 

 for class use presupposes a certain degree 

 of maturity on the part of the student. 

 The editor has taken no other liberties with 

 the text than to omit, " as the occasion re- 

 quired," unsuitable expressions or sentences. 

 Notes — all in French — are furnished, ex- 

 plaining difficult expressions and making 

 various points more clear. 



The third of Ginn & Co.'s linguistic 

 publications is the translation of the Anglo- 

 Saxon poems, Elene, Judith, Athelstan, and 

 Byrhtnoth, by James M. Garnett. The trans- 

 lations were made in the course of class 

 work, are critical, and are based on carefully 

 revised editions. "Elene" relates to the 

 search for the true cross by the Empress 

 Helena ; " Judith " is a version of the Hebrew 

 legend ; and " Athelstan " and " Byrhtnoth " 

 relate to battles in Anglo-Saxon history. 



In Oceania; Linguistic and Anthropo- 

 logical (Melbourne and London), the Rev. D. 



