HAT'S in a name?" A good

W deal, one might respond, when

it is considered that "The Crossing" is still a best seller. Evidently the world at large has not yet discovered the real worth of what Mr. Churchill has thrust upon them this time. His name is to it, that seems to be enough; some day people will realize that popularity is but ephemeral and that an author's fourth book is not necessarily his best.

In "Miscellany" the summer spirit still prevails and nature books are in demand. Maeterlinck, too, seems to be holding his own, a most fortunate condition of things. At Wanamaker's, Philadelphia. FICTION:

"The Crossing," by Winston Churchill. "The Castaway," by Hallie Erminie Rives. "The Silent Places," by Stewart White.

Edward

"A Woman's Will," by Anne Warner. "The Lightning Conductor," by Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Williamson.

"The By-Ways of Braithe," by Frances Powell.

"The Life of the Bee," by Maurice Maeterlinck.

"As a Chinaman Saw Us."

"Field Book of American Wild Birds and Their Music," by F. Schuyler Matthews.

At Little, Brown and Company's, Boston, Mass. FICTION:

"The Crossing," by Winston Churchill. "The Seiners," by James Connolly. "Anna, the Adventuress," by E. Phillips Oppenheim.

"The Barrier," by Allen French.

"Cap'n Eri," by Joseph C. Lincoln.

"The Bright Face of Danger," by R. N. Stephens.

FICTION

ANDY. By Lucile Lovell, author of "The Walcott Twins," etc. Illustrated by Eva M. Nagel. 240 pp. 12m0. The Penn Publishing Co.

The little son of an ill-starred marriage is sent back to his grandfather's home in New England. His grandfather had disowned his mother. The story is a child's Juvenile, telling the success of the ingenuous boy in gaining the place denied to his mother. A New England modification of the Lord Fauntleroy motif. GIVERS, THE. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Illustrated. 296 pp. 12mo.

Eight short stories by Mrs. Wilkins-Freeman, which have appeared in "Harper's Magazine" during recent years.

I'M FROM MISSOURI. By Hugh McHugh. Illustrated by Gordon H. Grant. 107 pp. 18mo. G. W. Dillingham Company.

A continuation of the "John Henry" series, whose thread in the present instance is a canvas for Mayor of a Missouri town. An automobile figures. There are comic illustrations, much slang, and an evident capacity to present certain phases of American humor. Of the seven books by George B. Hobart, a note of the publisher says that 445,000 copies have been sold.

LANTERN MAN THE. By George W. Hamilton.

381 pp. 12mo. Broadway Publishing Co. A story of life in a Kentucky school, divided into two departments, one for young men and the other for young women, who were kept apart as far as possible, by elaborate rules. It is written with no special literary capacity, but full of a close study of Southern life, character, and contact between the sexes, not easily understood or appreciated by one not familiar with Southern conditions.

LITTLE VANITIES OF MRS. WHITTAKER, THE By John Strange Winter, author of "Little Joan," etc. 299 pp. 12mo. Funk & Wagnalls Co.

The vivacious author of many studies on the middle strata of English social life, has in this novel taken the new young woman anxious to elevate her sex and direct and aid it through the "Society for the Regeneration of Women," the "S. R. W." and portrayed her aspiration,

A boys' Juvenile, giving the life of a young Roman, in the time of Julius Caesar, during the campaign in Gaul.

MISTRESS MOPPET. By Annie M. Barnes, author of "The Little Lady of the Fort," etc. Illustrated by Margaret F. Winner. 197 pp. 12mo. The Penn Publishing Co.

A girls' Juvenile, whose opening is laid in Charleston in 1718. Its touch of adventure turns upon the piracy of the day by Master Bonnet and others.

ROSABEL. By Esther Miller, author of “A Prophet of the Real." 269 pp. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co.

An English woman of good birth, a rich widow, while on an excursion along the Thames with a man about to propose, meets at a wayside inn her daughter, by a brief marriage at seventeen with a groom, whose early death freed her. The daughter has been supported with her father's kin, but kept in ignorance. Her mother brings her home, and she wins the man whom her mother had expected to

marry.

EDUCATIONAL

COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND POSTAL INFORMATION. By Carl Lewis Altmaier. Illustrated. 204 pp. 12mo. Macmillan Co. Compiled by one of the staff of the Drexel Institute engaged in teaching commercial correspondence. This manual, one of a series on commercial education, edited by Professor C. A. Herrick, of Philadelphia, Director of the School of Commerce, Philadelphia Central High School, gives minute directions as to addresses, the structure, and limitation of the business letter. There are special chapters on telegrams, a summary of the law on implied contracts by mail and by telegram, a brief

"To present the essentials of rhetoric and English composition" is said by the author in his preface, to be the object in writing this book, which throughout is aided by practical experience with high school and college students. The illustrations are, for the most part, from students' work, and formal aspects of the subject throughout, are urged. Unity, selection, proportion and emphasis, paragraphing, correctness, usage, are all elements which the class-room requires. In the qualities which make literature as such small attention is paid. Lists of words often misspelled and misused closes the work.

FIRST BOOK OF CHEMISTRY. By Mary ShawBrewster. 144 PP. 12mo. American Book Co.

NOTES ON ROSTAND'S L'AIGLON.

By Frank C. Ewart. Illustrated. 44 pp. 12mo. Paper. Places and names occurring in the play, with an occasional unusual French word are minutely explained.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

12mo.

CITIZEN'S HANDBOOK, THE. By Rupert S. Holland and Robert D. Jenks. 233 pp. George W. Jacobs & Co.

Two of the younger members of the Philadelphia Bar have compiled this hand-book. which gives brief but accurate statements of various legal relations, in which the citizen stands to the State, to other citizens, and to corporations. Accurate on subjects like the structure of government, the qualifications of voters, passports. The brevity of many of the statements renders it difficult to express all the legal qualifications of a general principle on topics like agencies, contracts, etc.

MONEY. A STUDY OF THE THEORY OF THE MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE. By David Kimley, Ph. D. 415 PP. 12mo. Macmillan Co.

This issue of the Citizen's Library, by Professor Kimley, of the University of Illinois, discusses the general subject of money from the standpoint of evolution. Professor Kimley starts with the suggestion made by Aristotle that money originated as a convenience in barter and concludes instead that money grew by slow changes out of barter. Its character and coinage, currency, metallic money, its value, its effect on prices, bimetalism, and a convertible paper currency complete the work. Money occupies a middle position on most con

tested questions. Each chapter is preceded by references and a cursory bibliography closes the volume.

NATURE-BOOKS

WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. By Edward Step, author of "Shell Life," etc. Illustrated. 182 pp. 18mo. Frederick Warne & Co. English trees are discussed in this volume. illustrated by photographs, sometimes of the whole tree, and sometimes of its trunk or boll, to use the English expression. The arrangement is non-scientific. Beginning with the oak, some foreign trees are included, the Kew synonym is used, but neither the accounts of trees nor their portrayal is systematic, though much minor information is embraced in the volume and much light thrown on references to English trees in English letters.

By a German physician, who represents the reaction from current medical attention to bacterial forms as the chief source of disease. The theory advanced is, that the living organism while in active health, is in itself germicidal, unlike the artificial "culture surfaces." provided in the laboratory. Through the entire volume the maintenance of health, through light, air. nutritious food and rest, is urged as more likely to give safety than ascepsis, disinfection and the endeavor to exclude all bacteria. The author combats the view that tuberculosis is caused by Koch's bacillus, but urges that this appears after morbid conditions are established in tissue. The same conclusion is reached as to diphtheria. Statistical results are minimized by asserting that infectious diseases come and go under changes in the condition of the population, rather than from the presence of infection. The volume is occupied in explaining away evidence against this view and urging that on the other.