Fiction

AMERICAN ABELARD AND HELOISE, AN. By Mary Ives Todd. 337 pp. 12mo. The Grafton Press.

A novel with a purpose, intended to show weakness, and lack of personal development in many of the conventions and limitations of modern life. Abelard, a popular clergyman of advanced views, is one of the central characters of the book. Heloise writes for the magazines. The book is written with evident study of modern conditions as they are in California in the small parish.

BARBARA. By John H. Whitson, author of "The Rainbow Chasers," etc. With a fron

tispiece by Chase Emerson. 314 pp. 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

New popular priced edition of a novel issued two years ago.

COURTSHIP OF A CAREFUL MAN, THE. By E. S. Martin, author of "The Luxury of Children," etc. Illustrated. 185 pp. 12mo. Harper & Brothers.

Mr. Martin, whose vers de societe and literary criticism, "Droch" in "Life" made him known, publishes in this volume six of his stories, all with a little touch of humor, and a very wide knowledge of the world. They are: "The Courtship of a Careful Man;" "A Party at Madeira's;" "The Making of a Match;" “Ă Disguised Providence;" "Josephine;" "Found: A Situation." All have appeared in "Harper's."

GIRL OF VIRGINIA, A. By Lucy Meacham
Thurston, author of "Mistress Brent," etc.
With a frontispiece by Ch. Grunwald.
12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

pp.

306

A reprint in cheaper form of a novel which appeared in 1902.

By Norval Richard

HEART OF HOPE, THE. son. Illustrated by Walter H. Everett. 12mo. Dodd, Mead & Co.

A novel of the civil war, whose chief scene is laid in the region of Vicksburg, written with strong Southern sympathies, opening with the advance of Grant and closing with Pemberton's surrender.

HEROINE OF THE STRAIT, THE. By Mary Catherine Crowley, author of "A Daughter of New France," etc. With a frontispiece by Ch. Grunwald. 373 pp. 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

A reprint in popular-priced form.

JULIA. By Katharine Tynan, author of "That Sweet Enemy,' etc. Illustrated. 322 pp. 12mo. A. C. McClurg & Co.

An Irish love story. As is somewhat common in this style of story, there are so many characters as to be somewhat confusing. There is much interference by the nuns and priests in the course of a slander, but the "ugly duckling" is to be "Lady O'Kavanaugh" after much vicissitude, and all ends well.

LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR, THE. By C. N. and A. M. Williamson. New illustrated edition. 12mo. Henry Holt & Co.

LOVE THRIVES IN WAR. By Mary Catherine Crowley, author of "A Daughter of New France," etc. With a frontispiece_by_Clyde O. Deland. 340 pp. 12mo. Little, Brown

& Co.

New popular priced edition. First published in 1903.

MANDARIN'S FAN, THE. By Fergus Hume, author of "The Mystery of the Hansom Cab," etc. Illustrated. G. W. Dillingham & Co. Another of Mr. Hume's mysteries. A Chinese Mandarin loses a jade fan. A connection between the Chinaman and an impecunious young Englishman is established and the latter sets out to discover the whereabouts of the trinket, in order to obtain the reward offered. The usual episodes of intrigue occurthe fan is found and all ends happily. The day when we looked for real novelty from Fergus Hume is past.

PRINCE OF LOVERS, A. By Sir William Magnay, author of "The Red Chancellor," etc. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo. 326 pp. 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.

An historical novel laid at one of the smaller Courts of Germany, in the Eighteenth Century, with a touch of the survival of Baronial independence in the Schloss.

ROYAL KNIGHT, A. By Isabella Macfarlane. 270 pp. 12mo. G. W. Dillingham & Co. The scene is laid in Nuremburg, opening with the blare of trumpets and the roll of drums. It is the story of a poor girl, wooed by the son of "The Burggraf," and therefore of "high degree." He wooes ardently, but cannot offer marriage. The story is interesting and is told with vivid familiarity of the region. REUBEN LARKMEAD. By Edward W. Townsend. Illustrated by Wallace Morgan. 205 pp. 12mo. G. W. Dillingham & Co.

The author of the "Chimmie Fadden" series, in this volume carries a rural yokel through various phases of New York life with his usual

An imitation of Mr. Lorimer's work, which gives the letters from the wife of a self-made man to her son. The work has very little of the shrewd, worldly wisdom of its model, and has a number of funny incidents in the life of a woman who has more money than manner. SILVER BELLS. By Andrew Haggard, author

of "Hannibal's Daughter," etc. With a frontispiece by Charles Livingston Bull. 367 pp. 12mo. L. C. Page & Co.

A novel laid in the Northwest, in the service of the Hudson Bay Company, introducing as its heroine an Indian maiden, an historical personage, who fell in love with an English

man.

History

BLOCK HOUSE BY BULL'S FERRY, THE. By
Charles H. Winfield. Including the "Cow
Chace," by Major Andre. Illustrated.
pp. 8vo. William Abbatt, New York.

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A limited issue of an account of a British Block House, built during the revolution, on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson, directly opposite Eightieth Street in New York, by Charles H. Winfield (1829-1898), a careful student of the revolutionary history of New York, first published in a magazine 25 years ago. It is now republished with notes, Andre's "Cowchace," the fac-simile of a page of his manuscript, the dispatches of the day, a map, all constituting a most careful and interesting study of the means taken by the British forces while on Manhattan Island to provide themselves with fire-wood.

EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS. 1748-1846. Edited

by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Illustrated. 8vo. In 31 vols. Vols. 1, 2 and 3. The Arthur H. Clark Co.

The first series of early American travels, published under the editorship of Reuben Gold Thwaites, which contains 31 volumes and ended in 1748, a period which it was felt closed early exploration and begun the settlement of the West. A second series, of which we have here three volumes, giving early Western travel, 1748-1846, covers the exploration during the century indicated. These three volumes contain: "The Journals of Conrad Weiser;" "The Western Indians, 1748;" "George Croghan's in Ohio;" C. F. Post's and Thomas Morris' wife in the same region; "John Law's Journal,' published in 1791, in the Canadian Northwest, and the "Botanical Travels of Andre Michaux and His Son, Francis A. Michaux." and the trip of a clergyman, Thomas Massey Harris, in the Northwest Territory, all at the close of the Eighteenth Century.

JOHNNY REB AND BILLY YANK. By Alexander Hunter. Illustrated. 716 pp. 8vo. The Neale Publishing Co.

An account of the Civil War, written by a private in the ranks, who served first in the North Carolina Brigade, Pickett's division, and later in the Virginia regiment known as "The Black Horse Cavalry." The comment of the author upon operations is of no special value, but his close, personal narrative of the conditions under which men served in the Confederate ranks is full of fresh material of the greatest interest. It constitutes very nearly the first account of the war written from this standpoint and in this way.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, THE. 1493-1898. Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands, and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts showing the political, economical. commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the Nineteenth Century. Translated from the originals. Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with introduction and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Illustrated. 8vo. In 55 vols. Vols. 2, 6, 12 and 20. The Arthur H. Clark Co.

These are volumes II, XII and XX of the issue of 55 volumes which is intended to give the history of the Philippine Islands, from original Spanish documents, covering the period from 1583 to 1588. Like all the volumes, each is a mine of information, republishing reports in manuscript and print, heretofore inaccessible.

UNDER THE CARE OF THE JAPANESE WAROFFICE. By Ethel McCaul. Illustrated. 250 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Cassell & Co.

An inspection of the Japanese Red Cross Service, by the English nurses, presented in the form of a diary, recounting day by day provision made for the land and sea service, with an appendix on the care of the wounded. A careful index adds to the work as a book of reference.

Mr. Wheeler has been known for many years as conspicuous in civil service reform, as well as in other movements for the civic advance. He has, after labors extending for twenty years in his professional work, brought together this review of the principles upon which Daniel Websters argued his great cases, arranging them with reference to current needs, in the belief, as he says in his preface, "that in these days of industrial warfare, it is especially necessary to refer to the principles of our constitution and to cultivate respect for the rights of others as sedulously as we insist upon our

own." The close is an elaborate apologetic for the position of Webster on slavery. As Mr. Wheeler points out, Daniel Webster's great service was in securing in the Supreme Court from Marshall and others a reversal of the narrow and mistaken opinions which had been reached in lower tribunals.

MY MAMIE ROSE. By Owen Kildare. Illustrated. New Edition. 303 pp. 12mo. The Baker & Taylor Co.

PRISON LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. By John J. Craven. With portrait of author. 320 pp. 12mo. G. W. Dillingham & Co. Reissued from the edition of 1866 with additions and revisions.

Political and Social Science MODERN CIVIC ART. By Charles Mulford Robinson. Second edition. With illustrations. 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

A reprint of a work which first appeared in May, 1903, in regard to Civic Art, now issued in a more sumptuous shape, with photographs of the scenes touched upon. Since its issue, the book, which began only with the intention of providing a manual, has become of constant use in widespread efforts to improve the appearance of American cities and villages. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. By Gabrielle E. Jackson, author of "The Three Graces," etc. 216 pp. 12mo. Harper & Brothers.

This book is dedicated to "my daughter." and opens with this sentence: 'Mother and daughter-two of the sweetest and holiest of names. What possibilities do they not possess! Countless generations-the very world itself is swayed by them, for daily the hand which rocks the cradle rules the world." From this starting point the work goes on through a series of talks to daughters from the standpoint of the mother. At the age of seven it advises, "Let us have no mystery that sets children on fire with curiosity."

REFORM. By Colonel Ralph de Clairmont. With frontispiece. 266 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger.

A study of American affairs, touching on almost every phase of life, the law, army, etc., written from the standpoint of a Swiss soldier who figured in the struggle against Maximillian, served long in Mexico, and who now lives in San Francisco.

Medical

OUTLINES FOR THE HOME CARE OF CHILDREN WHO ARE BACKWARD AND MENTALLY DEFICIENT. Prepared by Margaret Bancroft, Haddonfield, N. J. 14 pp. Paper. 12mo. A practical treatise by the principal of the Bancroft-Cox Training School for the Care of Mentally Defective Children. Miss Bancroft offers counsel and suggestion for the treatment of such children in the home, and her experience has been of a nature and duration to make all that she says on the subject reliable and helpful. The work has been done

sympathetically and with optimism and should find welcome in many homes.

Verse

FIRST WARDENS AND OTHER POEMS, THE. By William J. Neidig. 99 pp. 16mo. The Macmillan Co.

By a woman on her husband's wandering. The "First Wardens" deals with a religiouslegend. Of other poems, some touch upon California, and all show acquaintance with

verse.

HAREM AND OTHER POEMS, THE. By Aloysius Coll. 112 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. A collection of poems which, with but one or two exceptions, have already appeared in "The Smart Set," "Munsey's," "Lippincott's," and, indeed, in almost every one of the best-known magazines, and those who cared for them in that form will be glad to renew acquaintance in these compact, agreeably-bound, wide-margined pages.

LITTLE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. Rendered into English verse by James Rhoades. 304 pp. 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

The legends of St. Francis are here rewritten in blank verse of the English variety, in which the syllables are carefully counted and all rhythm treated as of no particular consequence.

PAGEANT OF LIFE, A. By Gamaliel Bradford, Jr. 76 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger.

Poems by the son of a well-known writer in political science, recalling the method and feeling of Matthew Arnold. Suggestive, as are many of the longer sonnets, most of the poems lack sustained elevation.

PIPES AND TIMBRELS. By W. J. Henderson. 94 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger.

The author, well-known as a dramatic critic, has written much graceful verse on various occasions, opening this volume with "Tantalus," written with the appetite, but without the achievement of Swinburne.

POEMS. By Egbert Willard Fowler. 108 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger.

Mr. Fowler, never remarkable in the dramatic profession, abandoned this calling some three years before his death, and devoted himself to literary work. The poems were originally in three groups, but the editor has collected them in a single small volume. The poems are human and full of a vital, tempermental enthusiasm, wrought for the most part in brief cadences, with here and there a singletrenchant word.

Nature Studies

COUNTRY DAY BY DAY, THE. By E. Kay Robinson, author of "To-day with Nature," etc. Illustrated with photographs. 371 pp. 12mo.. William Heinemann, London.

A study from January to December of the progress of the year at Warham, South Eng

land. An entry occurs for each day, and on each an account is given of what is seen in a walk in the region by a keen observer, who writes with no special scientific knowledge, but a wide familiarity with the economies of bird life and of plant distribution.

Travel and Description FLORENCE. Painted by Colonel R. C. Goff. Indexed. Described by Mrs. Goff. 253 pp. 8vo. A. & C. Black, London.

An addition to the series of quarto illustrative books issued during the last two years on various countries and cities, all of the same general character. The letter press gives a running account of Florence of the usual tourist description, laying much stress on the outer appearance and prospects of the city. Illustrations reproduced by three-color processes and originally studies in water-color (gouache), are illustrative of the picturesque possibilities of The work the city and the region about it.

comes closer to a Christmas gift than a serious work on travel. It is the fifteenth of this series.

OTHER SIDE OF THE LANTERN, THE. By Sir Frederick Treves, author of "The Tale of a Field Hospital." Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. 419 pp. Indexed. 8vo. Cassell & Co.

A reissue of a book of travel around the world, by the distinguished physician who operated on King Edward, to whom, by permission, this account of his trip is dedicated. It is illustrated by processed photographs of the journey, and has a closing chapter on America, dealing, however, only with the Pacific coast. For the rest the volume is devoted to India and China.

THROUGH ISLE AND EMPIRE. By the Vicomte Robert D'Humieres. Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. With a prefatory letter by Rudyard Kipling. 300 pp. 12mo. Doubleday, Page & Co.

A work on the British Empire, beginning with an account of England and closing with a discussion of India, North and South, written by a French publicist and traveler, keen in observation, who has received unstinted praise from Rudyard Kipling, in a letter used as a preface.

Two ARGONAUTS IN SPAIN. By Jerome Hart. New edition. Illustrated. 251 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Longmans, Green & Co.

A reissue of a light, rapid account of a trip in Spain, told with much knowledge of local conditions, illustrated by photographs, presenting many things of value to travelers in the same track. The book is light and ephemeral, but there are many more pretentious books neither so interesting nor useful. VENICE DESCRIBED BY GREAT WRITERS. Edited and translated by Esther Singleton. Illustrated. 372 pp. 8vo. Dodd, Mead & Co.

A selection of extracts upon Venice, impressions, essays and criticisms from many sources. The introductory history is from Grant Allen; Gautier, Ruskin and Villari figure, as might be expected, more frequently than any other authors. The extracts are arranged in brief chapters upon sundry features of Venice, illustrated by processed photographs.

Essays

ESSAYS IN PURITANISM. By Andrew Macphail. 339 PP. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

These essays are on Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman and John Wesley. They were written to be read before a company of artists, says the preface, "who had the traditional antipathy of their class against the spirit of puritanism." The essays are intended to show that Jonathan Edwards displayed the spirit of puritanism in the pulpit; that Margaret Fuller was blind, striving for the artistic sense; Whitman a revolt against certain poetic conventions.

RELIGION AND ART, AND OTHER ESSAYS. By the Right Rev. John Franklin Spalding. 235 16mo. A. C. McClurg & Co.

pp.

This volume is the tenth of collected addresses published by Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, Ill. This Roman Catholic prelate here, as in his previous works, deals with art, education and social questions from a broad, liberal, elevated standpoint, suffused with profound faith in Christianity as offering the one solution for the problems, the doubts and the difficulties of the day. In one of the sermons-a funeral sermon upon a doctor-the aspects of their calling are discussed.

SCHOOL OF LIFE, THE. By Henry Van Dyke. 37 pp. 16mo. Charles Scribner's Sons. As a view of life long since held by the Greeks and the Hebrews, the author regards colleges and universities simply as preparatory institutions to fit men and women to go on with their education. "Not what they teach." he says, "but how do they prepare us to learn" -"that is the question." He regards social environment, human contact in all forms, as playing a large part in the school of life.

Religion

APPARITIONS AND SHRINES OF HEAVEN'S BRIGHT QUEEN, THE. From the earliest ages to the present time. By William J. Walsh. With introduction by Monsignor Bernard O'Reilly, D. D. In 4 vols. 8vo. T. J. Carey Co., New York.

A work in which everything available concerning the Virgin Mary has been collected. There are four handsome volumes, and the publishers announce that an illustrated pamphlet, containing extracts and specimen pages, will be mailed upon request. The books contain many illustrations, most of them from the old masters.

BLUE BOOK OF MISSIONS FOR 1905, THE. Compiled by Henry Otis Dwight. 234 pp. 16m0. Funk & Wagnalls Co.

A manual on missions, opening with a brief sketch of mission conditions the world over, succeeded by a list of Protestant mission societies in this country, England and Protestant lands in Europe. The missions of the Roman and Greek Church are omitted. Tables give the statistics of the missions noted. The book is the second of its series, enlarged, improved, and is certain to become a work in constant demand.

CHURCH AND THE GOOD SAMARITAN, THE. By

Rev. F. N. Westcott, author of "Catholic

Principles," etc. 218 pp. 12mo. Thomas

Whittaker.

Addresses originally delivered before congregations consisting altogether of men, in St. James' Church, Skaneatales, N. Y. The parable of the Good Samaritan is taken as the central theme of this discussion of the relations of the church to men, because it was accepted in the teaching of the fathers as a symbol of the relations between suffering humanity and the church. An opening address deals with the lawyer's question.

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CHURCH'S LESSONS FOR THE CHRISTIAN YEAR, THE. By the Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer. vols. 12mo. Thomas Whittaker. Sermons preached in St. Mark's, Philadelphia, 1903, all based upon some passage in the Morning Lessons, for the Sundays and Chief Holidays of the year. Two sermons are provided for each of these days, one from the Old Testament and the other from the New Testament.

CHIEF VIRTUES OF MAN, THE. By the Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer. 109 pp. 16mo. Thomas Whittaker.

A reproduction from the stenographic notes of addresses on the "Seven Words From the Cross," delivered at St. Mark's, Philadelphia, on Good Friday, 1903, by the Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer, D. D.

DIARY OF A CHURCH-GOER, THE. 227 pp. 12mo. The Macmillan Co.

Studies of religious truth, written from the standpoint of one who follows the service through the year, writing upon such subjects and doctrines as are suggested by the prayer book. A plea is made throughout for greater freedom as the one basis of a true and sincere religious devotion.

FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND OTHER SERMONS,
THE. By George Adam Smith.
266 PP.
A. C. Armstrong & Co.

12mo.

In these sermons preached from the pulpit of Queen's Cross Free Church, Aberdeen, Dr. Smith, the most liberal of Scotch-Presbyterians, takes up the questions of the Atonement, Inspiration, Conversion and uniting with the Church.

GOOD FRIDAY. By Arthur J. Gammack. 67 pp. 16mo. Longmans, Green & Co.

Passion Week discourses on the last words of Christ, as representations of the "mind which was in Him."

MINISTER AS PROPHET, THE. By Charles Edward Jefferson. 187 pp. 16mo. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.

A series of five essays, embracing the dimensions of the work, the three men involved in the making of sermons, the growing of sermons, form and manner, the place of dogma in preaching. It takes three men to preach a sermon, the author avers-the physical man, the mental man and the spiritual man. Again he says, "A genuine sermon is an organization, a living thing, with all its parts organically connected."

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OUR PEOPLE OF FOREIGN SPEECH. uel McLanahan. 105 pp. 12mo. Fleming H. Revell Co.

A handbook distinguishing and describing those immigrants whose native tongue is other than English, with special reference to religious work among them. Each group of newcomers has its origin described; the number in this country is summarized from the last census, the distribution indicated, and a short account follows of their general condition.

"UNTO YOU, YOUNG, MEN." By William Macdonald Sinclair. 259 pp. 12mo. Grant Richards, London.

A reprint of addresses to University students in Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh, dealing with the Creed, the Church and Communion, first published in 1900.

YOUNG PEOPLE'S IMITATION OF CHRIST, THE.
Based upon the work of Thomas a'Kempis.
By Edward S. Ellis.
373 pp. 18mo. The
Griffith and Rowland Press.

"I have asked myself," says the author, "whether this precious volume could, without sacrifice of its luminous and almost divine effulgence, be so simplified in its language as to bring it within the easy understanding of the young, those who need some sustenance in the springtime of conversion, when their dimmer feelings and sympathies are really sweet." With this view, taking Pusey's translation as a basis, the diction has been altered, some additions made and some phrases not easily understood eliminated.