MODERN INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. By C. H. Cockrane, author of "The Wonders of Modern Mechanism." Illustrated. 636 pp. Indexed. 8vo. J. B. Lippincott Co.

This work on modern industrial problems takes up the subject in all its various phases, from the "electrical marvels of the last decade," through all our minor and lesser inventions and industries, to the greater and more important "wireless telegraphy." The author discusses in successive chapters food, air, steel, cotton, wood and textile manufactures, petroleum, oil, etc.

POEMS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, THE. Illustrated from his own pictures and designs. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by W. M. Rossetti. 2 vols. 8vo. Little, Brown & Co.

In his preface Mr. William M. Rossetti, by whom these poems are edited, in two volumes, says: "This is the only instance in which an edition is illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's own works of design." An introduction gives the history of the famous poet. The quaintly printed pages are of a parchment quality, wide-margined, clearly printed and beautifully illustrated. Notes at the close of each of the volumes give dates and explanations of the various poems, and the use of expressions and idioms peculiar to Rossetti. SELECTED POEMS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Elizabeth Lee. With frontispiece. 172 pp. 16mo. Ginn & Co.

A new volume in the Standard English Classics, a series of classics carefully arranged for school use.

TRAGEDIE OF Julius CaesaR, THE. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. With frontispiece. 208 pp. 16mo. T. Y. Crowell & Co.

The "First Folio" edition appears slowly, yet each volume is welcome and each impresses us more deeply with the sense of its value as a reproduction of the famous "First Folio" of 1623.

AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM. Selected and edited with an introductory essay by William Morton Payne. The Wampum Library. 318 pp. 8vo. Longmans, Green & Co.

Two volumes in the Wampum Library, consisting of selections from the best American literary criticism and the best American verse of the more popular type. The editing has been done with great care, and the introductory essays are scholarly, interesting and illuminative. The books make valuable reference works, of convenient size and arrangement. EARLY ITALIAN POETS, THE. From Cuillo Dalcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300). In the original metres. Together with Dante's "Vita Nuova." Translated by D. G. Rossetti. With frontispiece. 338 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

All book-lovers know and find companionable the Caxton Thin Paper Series. The present addition will prove very welcome to the true lover of old poetry and translations that in themselves are classics.

SOV'RANE HERB AND THE SMOKER'S YEAR, THE. A calendar for 1905. With certain excerpts from the wits and historians of all ages; concerning the virtues of the necessitous weed. To which is added drawings depicting the types of the smokers of all nations, by Blanche McManus. 16mo. L. C. Page & Co.

A quaint reprint of a book first issued in 1903. The illustrations are particularly noticeable.

Boys and Girls

BROTHER BILLY. By Frances Margaret Fox, author of "Farmer Brown and the Birds." etc. Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry. Cosy Corner Series. 128 PP. 12mo.

A juvenile, with the usual childish troubles, joys and rather more than the usual adventure.

GRESELDA. By Marion E. Grey. With frontispiece. 120 pp. 16mo. Herbert B. Turner & Co.

The story of a little girl who visits her stern old aunt. She is an interesting child, and has some odd ideas quite her own.

MONKEY SHINES: LITTLE STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. By Bolton Hall, author of "The Game of Life." etc. Illustrated by Leon Foster Jones. 78 pp. 8vo. A. Wessels Co.

A juvenile, with an attractive letterpress and agreeable illustrations.

POEMS OF CHILDHOOD. By Eugene Field. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

A reprint of these familiar poems, in holiday attire, beautifully illustrated in colored reproductions. The book is a work of art, by virtue of Mr. Parrish's uniquely colored and characteristically conceived pictures.

Natural History

BIRDS BY LAND AND SEA. By John Maclair Boraston. Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. 277 pp. Indexed. 8vo. John Lane.

The record of the work of a year among bird life in Stretford and the surrounding district. Mr. Boraston has followed the novel method of observing the birds by months, and the book is therefore divided into chapters in

this way. The volume is abundantly illustrated and contains much interesting information.

DOG, THE. By G. E. Mitton, author of "The
Children's Book of London," etc. Animal
Biographies. Illustrated.
208 pp.
Adam and Charles Black.

A dog's autobiography, and a very interesting dog he is. The volume contains II full-page beautifully colored illustrations, by John Wiliamson.

Medical Books

CARE OF THE BABY, THE. A manual for mothers and nurses. By J. P. Crozer Griffith. Ilustrated. 421 pp. Indexed. 12mo. W. B. Saunders & Co.

The popularity of this helpful manual has necessitated a third edition. The revision work has been thorough and careful. A handbook of the kind, concise yet complete, and authoritative without being inconveniently technical, is a boon to mothers and to nurses, and makes the care of children in either health or disease far easier and in every way wiser.

DISEASES OF SOCIETY. By G. Frank Lydston, Illustrated. 614 pp. Indexed. 8vo. J. B. Lippincott Co.

Dr. Lydston who has had a wide experience in criminal anthropology, has written on "The Pathogeny of Vice and Crime," and various essays on criminology in all its various and appalling phases, cover in this volume a wide range of subjects in connection with the problem of vice and crime. It is an illuminating and important work to those interested in the subject, especially from a medical standpoint.

PRACTICAL POINTS IN NURSING FOR NURSES IN PRIVATE PRACTICE. By Emily A. M. Stoney. Illustrated. 438 pp. Indexed. 12mo. W. B.

Saunders & Co.

This is the third edition of a book that has become standard in its field. The author is now dead, but the work of revision has been expertly done. In way of preparation for the new printing the text has been thoroughly revised and the result is an up-to-date volume of practical methods for nursing the sick, with explicit directions for feeding, recipes for invalid foods, glossary of medical terms, etc.; the whole amply illustrated and eminently fitted for advantageous use.

Government Publications

PAPERS OF JAMES MONROE. Compiled under the direction of Worthington Chauncey Ford. Library of Congress. Illustrated. 8vo. These "papers" are listed in chronological order, and the volume has as a frontispiece a fac simile of the negotiations for the cession of Louisiana.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN LIBRARY HISTORY. Volume I. 1800-1864. By William Dawson Johnston. Illustrated. 8vo. Library of Congress.

The first of an important series. This volume contains a table of contents, list of plates and a chronological table. It constitutes a work of the utmost value.

TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 1899-1900. By J. W. Powell. Illustrated. 8vo. Government Printing Office.

TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 1900-1901. J. W. Powell, Director. In two parts. Part I. Illustrated. 8vo. Government Printing Office.

This work, in two volumes, comprises the twenty-first and twenty-second report of the Bureau. In the first part the subject of the operations of the Bureau during the fiscal year is discussed; the remainder consists of two memoirs, which illustrate the methods and results of the Bureau's work. Both volumes are abundantly illustrated, the first containing many pictures in both black and white and in color, the illustrations of the second volume being almost wholly in color.

Scientific Books

HOW TO KNOW THE STARRY HEAVENS. By Edward Irving. An invitation to the study of suns and worlds. Illustrated. 304 PP. Indexed. 12mo. Frederick A. Stokes Co.

A comprehensive and illuminating work on astronomy, giving problems in celestial measurements, arriving at conclusions by algebraic examples. Abundantly illustrated in black and white, and in color.

INDIA. By Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Haldrich. With maps and diagrams. The Regions of the World. 361 pp. Indexed. 8vo. D. Appleton & Co.

An admirably arranged work on India, plentifully illustrated by both colored maps and diagrams, dealing with the subject almost entirely from a geographical standpoint and written with a familiarity with the subject and an accuracy that will make it an important addition to the works of reference on this strange and little-known country.

TOWER OF PELEE, THE. NEW STUDIES OF THE GREAT VOLCANO OF MARTINIQUE. By Angelo Heilprin, author of "Mont Pelee and the Tragedy of Martinique," etc. Illustrated. 59 pp. Indexed. Quarto. J. B. Lippincott Co.

In rough outer garb, this interesting description has an agreeable letterpress, wide

margined pages, and has in addition to the frontispiece. "The Tower of Pelee." a series of 22 processed reproductions, closing the vol

ume.

Useful and Fine Arts

FACTS ABOUT VIOLINS AND VIOLIN-MAKING. By Hans Tiebgen. 31 pp. Paper. 12mo. In pamphlet form, telling about violins old and new, good and bad, and how to know the best.

JAPANESE ILLUSTRATION. A history of the arts of wood-cutting and color-printing in Japan. By Edward F. Strange. Illustrated. 142 pp. Indexed. 8vo. George Bell & Sons.

A reprint, in which some corrections have been found necessary to be made in the original. In the preface the author gives in rotation the additions which should be read in their order in the present volume. A complete list of illustrations is given. Some of the reproductions are very good, others not so clear, mostly in black and white, though now and then a colored print appears. A bridge over the Sumida River is especially notable in color and design. An appendix in the form of artists' names, with their Chinese characters, is a quaint addition to a work of some importance.

A school text-book in the form of a wellknown German comedy, designed for the use of second-year students. The notes are copious and the vocabulary complete.

HOW TO STUDY SHAKESPEARE. By William H. Fleming, author of "Shakespeare's Plots." etc. With an introduction by W. J. Rolfe. Series IV. 419 pp. 16mo. Doubleday, Page & Co.

Contains a scientific alphabet, with a key to pronunciation, and gives as examples "Richard II," "Cymbeline," "King Henry IV" and "The Taming of the Shrew."

IN THE DAYS OF SHAKESPEARE. By Tudor Jenks, author of "In the Days of Chaucer." etc. Lives of Great Writers. Illustrated. 268 pp. Indexed. 16mo. A. S. Barnes & Co.

An interesting study on the life of Shakespeare, showing how his earlier work for the stage began, his growth in power, the earlier tragedies, his success and the last years of his life in London.

MASTERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, THE. By Stephen Gwynn. 404 pp. Indexed. 12mo. The Macmillan Co.

A convenient handbook of English literature from Chaucer to the Victorian Era inclusive. The work has been done by a scholar and critic

RUBAIYAT OF A PERSIAN KITTEN, THE. By Oliver Herford. 12mo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

Artistically arranged, with quaint verse, and happy illustrations.

Calendars

CALENDAR OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE. Being excerpts from the Quatrains of the Poet of Naishapur, as translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Set to pictures by Blanche McManus. New edition. 8vo. L. C. Page & Co.

1905 CALENDAR. N. W. Ayer & Son, Philadelphia.

A calendar in which there is worked out a color scheme of gray and white, so harmonious as to be deserving of the phrase, “a symphony in gray." Large in size, with clear figures and business epigrams for each flap, this calendar is particularly suitable for use in offices,

etc.

Miscellaneous

AARON BURR MEMORIAL, THE. Prepared and edited by the Grand Camp of the Aaron Burr Legion in commemoration of the 147th anniversary of the birthday of Colonel Aaron Burr. Illustrated. Paper. 8vo. Mt. Vernon Book and Music Co., Boston.

In pamphlet form, containing the opening address at the Aaron Burr Memorial Meeting held at Newark. Gives list of the officers of the Legion, various statistics, poems, letters,

etc.

MUSINGS AND PASTELS. By Bert Finck, author of "Webs," etc. 59 pp. 12mo. John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky.

Pastel in the color of its cover, this little volume contains a series of essays on all sorts of things, impressions, creed, genius, hope, etc., a page or two of pithy "musings," clever and of a truth, a short emblemic "play" or two, a tale, born on the shore of Mackinac Isle, and a bit of "sea foam" at the close.

PARSIFAL. An English text for the score. By George Turner Phelps. Together with the German poem. 85 pp. 16mo.

A translation designed for "as complete a literary study of the play as is possible without the German original." For those who wish to look closely into Wagner's "Parsifal" this will prove a most convenient text-book.