artist of the century." Admirers of his work to whom the thick volume of "Life and Letters", published by nis brother-inlaw, Marks. in 1895, seems too formidable, will find in these 195 16mo pages his lifestory pleasantly told and still more pleasantly illustrated by full-page reproductions of his drawings.

John Greenleaf Whittier. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. English Men of Letters. 195 pp. Indexed. 16m0. See review, page 347.

La Grande Mademoiselle, 1627-1652. By Aroede Barine. Authorized English version by Helen E. Meyer. This is not a complete biography or a study of the entire character of the historic Marie Louise d'Orleans, in her own right Duchess de Montpensier, and niece of Louis XIII of France. It takes leave of the "Tall Mademoiselle" at the age of 25, sentenced to temporary disgrace and retirement on her estates for her extraordinary share in the Second Fronde, when she personally took Orleans by escalade and turned the guns of the Bastille against the royalists. For the purpose, however, for which the author has used it-"a marvelous commentary on the profound transformation of the mind of France toward the close of the seventeenth century, whose reaction changed the being of France"-this youthful and public period of Mademoiselle's life contains all he needs, for its romantic after-events. when the mere Princess merged herself into the mere woman, illuminate no history save that of the feminine heart. Passages from her frank and egotistical "Memoirs" form not the least interesting portion of the text. Illustrated. 447 pp. 8vo.

Life and Letters of James Martineau, The. By James Drummond. A portion of this work has the advantage of being autobiographical, as the authors, who both occupy chairs in Manchester College, Oxford, have woven in a series of "biographical memoranda" contributed by Dr. Martineau in 1877 to a publication entitled "The National Portrait Gallery." Judicious yet liberal use of private and public correspondence and extracts from sermons, pamphlets and addresses make this "Life" as living as possible, as much a self-revelation as a study from the outside of the great perSonality with which it deals, whose lifehistory is a reflection of the history of nine'eenth century Unitarianism. Book I is rurely biographical, with only such expositions of Dr. Martineau's religious views as are necessary to throw light on his char

acter and career. Book II is a philosophical study of his theological system, which is followed through its development under and after the Hartleyan influence, the lectures in Manchester New College, the various controversial episodes, down to the paper of 1895-his last publication of importancewhich reviewed present Premier Arthur J. Balfour's "Foundations of Belief." Two vols. 8vo.

Life and Work of J. M. W. Turner, R. A. By Charles Alfred Swinburne. With frontispiece. 315 pp. 8vo.

See review, page 349.

Life of Ulrich Zwingli. By Samuel Simpson. Through the lack of adequate English biographies, Ulrich Zwingli was until a few years ago but a dim figure to readers of only English, and his place in the history of the Reformation is robbed of much of its importance. Realizing this, the author began to carefully gather materials for a brief, readable and authoritative biography in English. Since then, Professors Jackson, Vincent and Foster have published their life of Zwingli, but there is room in the field of literature for many biographies. This one, keeping steadily in view its aim as a popular work, is little burdened with footnotes or references, though sufficiently provided with bibliography and topical index. The usual mistake of wasting too much space on early life and formative influences is not here committed, the great reformer being early in the book plunged into that gigantic politico-religious conflict which gave him his claim on the interest of posterity. Illustrated. 297 pp. 12mo.

Memories of a Hundred Years. By Edward Everett Hale, author of "The Man Without a Country," etc. With frontispieces. Two vols. 318, 296 pp. Indexed.

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See review, page 348.

Memories of Paul Kruger, The. Told by himself. This book is a composite affair. Mr. Kruger. it is well known, is not a man of literary attainments nor of sufficient education to carry him through the labor of writing a book, while his advanced age might preclude his venturing to make the attempt even if he were qualified. However, we learn from the introduction that Mr. Kruger dictated his memoirs to H. C. Bredell, his private secretary, and Piet Grobler, former Under Secretary of State at Pretoria. Then the manuscript was edited by Rev. Dr. A. Schowalter. "The earlier chap

ters deal with Mr. Kruger's boyhood and youth, especially with his experiences as a hunter and soldier. They furnish also an admirable narrative of the great Trek, the foundation of the Transvaal State, and the difficulties, domestic and foreign, through which it passed. The reader who is not familiar with the details of South African history will find in them a summary of the information he requires in order to understand the origin of the late war. This is particularly true of the events which led up to the so-called war of independence which ended with the British disaster of Majuba Hill. Into the military events themselves Kruger does not enter. When he comes to the last great and fateful struggle with England he sets forth the case of the South African Republic with clearness and brevity, relying throughout upon documents and events about which there can be no question. There are also bits of inside history which are of exceptional interest. However, he prefers to base his defense upon facts which have been published to the world. This defense is most characteristic in its simplicity and forcefulness. Words are not minced-a spade is called a spade, a lie a lie-but the proprieties are never violated, the voice never raised, even in his fiercest assaults upon Rhodes, Chamberlain and Milner. A number of important documents are printed in appendices, and the volume is exhaustively indexed. With frontispiece. 410 pp. 8vo.-Philadelphia Press.

Raymond Lull. First missionary to the Moslems. By Samuel M. Zwemer, D. D., author of "Arabia." etc. Illustrated. 172 гр. 12mo.

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Roger Wolcott. By William Lawrence. Roger Wolcott, who died in 1900, at the age of fifty-three, after having been four times elected Lieutenant Governor and thrice Governor of Massachusetts, was a New Englander of a peculiarly attractive type. Mr. Wolcott seems most of the time to have been a pretty good party Republican, with a rather strong streak of independence, which, in 1884, led him into the Mugwump camp. His stay here was short, however, for we find him supporting Harrison against Cleveland eight years later, when young William E. Russell was elected Democratic Governor of Massachusetts, and Mr. Wolcott, running on the Republican ticket, became Lieutenant Governor. From that time to within a year of his death he was either Governor or Lieutenant Governor, both of which offices he filled with

great success. Mr. Lawrence's sketch is worthy of its subject, though the tone is perhaps rather too uniformly eulogistic, and certainly the fact of Mr. Wolcott's physical good looks is somewhat too strongly insisted upon. We may properly speak of a young man's beauty, or of an old man's beauty, but the world prefers some other term to indicate the goods looks of a man in his prime. Illustrated. 238 pp. 15m0.N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

Romance of My Childhood and Youth, The. By Mme. Edmond Adam (Juliette Lamber). The story of the first half of the life of one who fulfilled her announced intention. as related in Chapter XIII, of "going to Paris and becoming a woman unlike everyone else" of her time. Mme. Adam's career is partly explained by her childhood, as related with vivacity in these pages. A precocious little girl, early precipitated into an atmosphere of controversy-political as well as domestic-living in a family where even the country maiden aunts were intellectual and talked of Savonarola as they cut their clover, she had opportunities above those of the average daughter of the wealthy bourgeoisie. Historical as well as personal reminiscence enters into the narrative anecdotes of the Allies in Paris, of Prince Louis Napoleon's flight from prison, of the revolution of 1847. Madame Adamor rather Juliette Lambert-ends her story with her unhappy first marriage, that to M. Lamessine; but before that time her literary career has commenced. 399 pp. 12mo.

Samuel Richardson. By Austin Dobson. English Men of Letters, 204 pp. 12mo. Indexed.

See review, page 346.

Sir Isaac Pitman: His Life and Labors. Told and illustrated by Ben Pitman. Modern shorthand had its birth in 1587, through the medium of Dr. Timothy Bright. The two Pitmans-Isaac, the subject of this biography, and his brother, Ben, president of the Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati, the author-wrought out the idea into a great and popular system. Together with a biography of his brother, eulogistic, but very readable, Mr. Pitman gives a review of the history of shorthand writing, and an interesting chapter on the curious system of "visible speech" constructed by Alexander M. Bell, father of the inventor of the telephone. He devotes considerable space to advocating reform in spelling. 201 pp. 8vo.

Social Life in the Early Republic. By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. To preserve

for generations to come a picture of the social life of old Washington, "an already fast fading retrospect," while men and women are yet living who can describe Webster, Clay and Jackson as they appeared, or recall the quaint figures of Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and Mrs. Madison in old age, was the object of the author in adding this volume to that series of which "Through Colonial Doorways" is a type. Through chapters on "Homes and Hostelries," "County Families," "The Bladensburg

Races," "Classics and Cotillons," and "MidCentury Gayeties," through administrations of Jeffersonian simplicty and Madisonian splendor, she follows the belles and beaux of America's capital, in pages rife with anecdote. A very full topical index adds to the usefulness of the book, and a number of fine portraits to its artistic features. 346 pp. 12mo.

Animals at the Fair, The. By E. Warde Blaisdell. The kind of attractively designed and executed picture book that catches the eye of the young child. An appropriate book of nursery rhymes. Illustrated. 12mo. Oblong.

Baby's Baedeker. By Col. D. Streamer. A little volume of nonsense verses by the author of "Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes." It is artistically illustrated and printed and bound in boards, with a cover design in color. 56 pp. 16mo.

Book of Nature Myths, The. By Flor ence Holbrook. "The Story of the First Butterflies," "Why the Cat Always Falls Upon Her Feet," "Why the Parrot Repeats the Words of Men," "Why the Sea is Salt" and "The Children of the Moon" are among the subjects of these folk-tales-numbering more than fifty in all-from the lore of primitive races, told attractively in large print for little readers by the author of "The Hiawatha Primer," and principal of the Forestville School of Chicago. Illustrated. 315 pp. Indexed. 12mo.

Chubby: A Nuisance. By Mrs. H. H. Penrose. "Chubby" is a delightful creation, who, like many another hero of juvenile fiction, will probably give even greater pleasure to elder than to contemporary readers. With all respect to Mrs. Penrose's intimate knowledge of the model from whom he is drawn, we cannot but think that Chubby is abnormally clever for a baby of four. His pranks and adventures, though, as we say. rather above his years, or months, are nevertheless childlike and natural enough in themselves, and there is a note of gaiety running through his short history which successfully dominates the pathos of his circumstances. Chubby's relations with his grandmother and those who befriend him are entirely satisfactory, and the illustrations do much to enhance the charm of this study of child life. 203 pp. 12mo.-London Athenacum.

proportion of dog humor and contains numerous pictures interesting to children. Pictured by Cecil Aldin. Quarto.

For Prey and Spoils; or, The Boy Buccaneer. By Frederick A. Ober, author of "Tommy Forster's Adventures," etc. A story full of thrills for youth, of adventure and piracy in the Caribbean seas in the late seventeenth century, with Humphrey Gilbert for hero. Mr. Ober is an authority on Spanish America, and has repeatedly visited the haunts of the swashbuckling freebooters whom he now describes. He has written his book in the sinewy style which boys like, and sprayed its pages with buccaneering activities and hair-breadth escapes until the most exacting of juveniles cannot help but be satisfied. Illustrated. 372 pp. 12mo.

little people, who will be excited by the savage turkey gobbler who pecks Laddie's little plump leg, his adventure with a kite which nearly takes him into the air, and other things equally interesting. Illustrated. 241 pp. 12m0.-N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

Logan the Mingo. By Colonel H. R. Gordon. The famous Tah-gah-gute, son of the chief of the Cayugas, and later elected chief of the Mingoes, whom Pennsylvania whites named John Logan, in memory of Penn's secretary, so devoted a friend of the red men, is the moving spirit of this Indian tale, although its nominal hero is young Arthur Oakland. Washington also appears once or twice in the scene, which is laid at the period of the French and Indian wars. The climax of the story is the attack by the Nippinocks on Fort Dunwiddie, which opened that dreadful conflict. Arthur's adventures are made interesting without sensationalism. Illustrated. 337 pp. 12mo.

Miss Muffet's Christmas Party. By Samuel McChord Crothers. Miss Muffet's party was one after a little girl's own heart. All the favorites were there-Sinbad the Sailor and Mowgli, Uncle Remus, Hans Christian Andersen's troupe and Alice and her friends from Wonderland. The characters out of the books of childhood came from the ends of fairyland, in coaches, on horseback, or afoot, and there were many surprises when the strangers met. The author seems to have the key to all the mysteries and the secret of all the languages, and he takes his readers royally into his confidence. Illustrated. 106 pp. 12mo.

Mr. Sun and Mrs. Moon. By Richard Le Gallienne. Rhymes full of the spirit of fatherhood. The legend is offered to children that at one time "Mr. Sun and Mrs. Moon" were married, but a separation came about, and now they can never meet. Their story is followed from page to page by verse and picture. Illustrated. Quarto.

Outlook Story Book for Little People. Stories and verses by Tudor Jenks, Olive Thorne Miller, Mary J. Safford, Nora Archibald Smith, Priscilla Leonard and other well-known writers for children. Illustrated. 207 pp. Quarto.

Phenomenal Fauna, A. By Carolyn Wells. The joint effort of Carolyn Wells and Oliver Herford in this book reflects the cleverness of both. Miss Wells's metres sometimes limp from a false stress, and Mr.

Herford's pencil occasionally shows less droll, but they generally pull evenly together, as in the case of "The Fire-Dogs." The lady's natural history of "The Human Swallow" is more successful than the artist's conception, which is, however, paralleled with great effectiveness in "The Flying Buttress" and "Time-Flies"-two very convincing designs-and in "The Brickbat." Excellent, also, are Mr. Herford's "Round Robin," "Bookworm," "Jail Bird" and "Irish Bull" (to whose jokes John Bull is so impervious). Miss Wells sings merrily of "The Haycock" that never crows and

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Romance of the Nursery, A. By L. Allen Harker. This is a story of a healthy and natural family of English children, the nursery under the stern rule of a nurse who sees her duty in administering baths and clean clothes, which she does without regard to outside events. It is Janey who the story, a matter-of-fact little maiden, with the all-aroundness of a girl brought with many brothers. She has the sense of honor of a boy and stands sturdily by the resolve she makes when little Fiametta becomes a member of the family, that she will "be a gentleman to her." Illustrated. 33 pp. 12mo.-N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

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Stan Lynn. By George M. Fenn. The adventures of the son of an English trader settled in China, brought into constant conflict with the river pirates who attack and try to burn the "foreign devils'" warehouses on the hong (wharf). Stan Lynn honestly owns up to a distaste for fighting, but he does his share of it manfully, and the narrative of his deeds runs all the more interestingly for his being a human boy and not a young fire-eater. Illustrated. 400 pp.

Bird Calendar, 1903, The. A calendar with pictures of birds in colors exquisitely drawn by H. H. Bennett. There is a quotation for every day of the year, and each picture is tastefully mounted on gray paper.

London Types Calendar, 1903. By William Nicholson. The pictures are charged with human interest and every one tells its own story. Among the types depicted in this calendar are the Coster, Beefeater, Soldier, Flower Girl, Hawker, Drum Major, Policeman, Bluecoat Boy, etc. There are twelve colored lithograph prints in all.