Reverent and sympathetic studies, pietistic in spirit, of the possibilities of the future life for the infant early taken. Its closing chapters forget that they are "Neither married nor given in marriage."

WITNESS TO THE INFLUENCE OF CHRIST, THE. By William Boyd Carpenter. William Belden Noble Lectures for 1904. 180 pp. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

The Bishop of Ripon, William Boyd Carpenter, in these lectures delivered at Harvard; excludes all evidence as to miracle and inspiration and deals only with the historical fact of the influence of Christ and the spiritual fact of his religious experience. It opens with a plea for the acceptance of the broad facts of the influence of Christ as related in history, as a sufficient ground for a careful consideration of His claim to act as example and moral leader. The personality of Christ, His work in ethics; in revealing the law of the soul: His authority and the verification of His mission in His experiences, are the general topics under which the personal influence of Christ is discussed. Throughout there is a non-dogmatic and noncontentious attitude.

Science

EVOLUTION OF MAN, THE. By Wilhelm Bolsche. Translated by Ernest Untermann. Illustrated. 160 pp. 16mo. Charles H. Kerr & Co.

A summary of the doctrine of evolution as applied to the descent of man, translated from a German authority, but lacking the application of more recent theories and the limitations of the Darwinian hypothesis, created by the knowledge of other causes than those of the struggle for existence.

MAN: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY. By W. E. Rotzell. Second edition. 182 pp. Indexed. 12mo. John Joseph McVey, Philadelphia.

A second edition of a summary of the development of the human race, the remains of primitive man, the various branches into which man is now divided, with closing words on writing and language, first published in 1900 and prepared by the lecturer on botany and geology at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. It is evidently written in order to prepare a useful manual for students needing general information on this subject.

NEW KNOWLDEGE, THE. By Robert Kennedy Duncan. Illustrated. 257 pp. Indexed. 8vo. A. S. Barnes & Co.

A rapid summary, endeavoring to give the accepted view in regard to the constitution of matter as made known by the periodic law in chemistry and radio activity. The book closes with chapters upon the evolution of the atom and the conception of the universe evolved by the new theory. Little attention is paid to past history and every effort made to state clearly the present view. The author is Professor of Chemistry in Washington and Jefferson College.

Educational

ESCHYLUS. THE PROMETHEUS. With introduction and notes by Joseph Edward Harry. With frontispiece. 343 pp. Indexed. 12mo. American Book Company.

Prepared by the Professor of Greek in the University of Pennsylvania, this text of the Eschylean play is nearly one-half an introduction dealing with the poet, the work and its myths. The text is accompanied by notes upon the same page, dealing particularly with geographical matters. An appen.dix gives readings and an index of Greek words, and an English index of subjects closes the volume.

DAS AMULETT. By Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. With introduction and notes by C. C. Glascock. 165 PP. 12mo. American Book Com

pany.

This brief historical novelle is laid in the days of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, August, 1572. Its author, a leading German writer, born in Zurich, has for twenty years produced short historical stories and is also known as a poet. This edition is accompanied by a glossary and a preface giving a critical review of Meyer's work.

In

ESSENTIALS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. By Albert Bushnell Hart. Illustrated. 584 PP. dexed. 12mo. American Book Company. The colonial period has a comparatively brief discussion in this summary of American history. Written simply, it is a narrative and continuous account, rather than analytic. Its reierences include not only more important works, but lists and maps and fiction upon each subject. The author, Professor of History in Harvard University, has followed in it his usual view which treats the narrative of American affairs rather with reference to the facts developed than with any general view of its destiny and development. The works of reference cited are carefully kept within the means of an ordinary high school, a brief list being given, costing about $25, for use on the teacher's desk and a general bibliography, with a certain number of important works indicate that the purpose of the work is to form a compact and useful manual which can be made the basis of exposition by the teacher and reading by the pupil at the high school period, or later. ESSENTIALS IN ENGLISH HISTORY. By Albert Perry Walker in consultation with Albert Bushnell Hart. Illustrated. 550 pp. Indexed. 12mo. American Book Company.

One of four books written upon the same plan dealing first, by Arthur Mayer Wolfson, with Ancient History; by S. B. Hardy, with Mediaeval and Modern; by Albert Perry Walker, with English, and Albert Bushnell Hart, with American History. This volume on English History, the third of the series, is written by the Master of the Boston English High School. In the briefest possible space the lesson is brought down to the origin of English institutions after the Teuton conquest. From this point a fuller treatment is employed. The

book differs from most school histories in an unusually careful discussion of the bases of English society in early land ownership, and the relations between the large and small landholder, and the landholder of all classes; as well as the worker upon the land. A number of royal pedigrees and maps appear and attention is devoted to the literary and social history of the period. Each chapter has topics for themes and research, and a full series of references, not merely to the works cited, but to the pages on which, in each case, a fuller description of the particular period can be found.

ESSENTIALS OF LATIN. By Henry Carr Pearson. 314 PP. Indexed. 12mo. American Book Company.

Extracts beginning with sentences and going on to paragraphs, selected from Caesar's "Gallic Wars," which is used as the basis of the acquirement of the essentials of Latin. The work contains paradigms and a vocabulary, with a synthetic application of these sentences and extracts, each accompanied by exercises in Latin composition, by a vocabulary, questions and review exercises. The work is an application of what is already known as the Meistershaft system, to the work of Latin translation. FAIRY READER, THE. Adapted from Grimm and Andersen by James Baldwin. Illustrated. 190 pp. 12mo. American Book Company. Several of the lighter of Grimm's stories have been rewritten in words of one syllable for use as a reader by a child, prepared by one already known in this field.

FIRST VIEW OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, A. By William Vaughn Moody and Henry Morss Lovett. Illustrated. 375 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Charles Scribner's Sons.

A sketch of English literature, based upon the author's larger work, "The History of English Literature." A brief summary of each author is preceded by an account of the period, and succeeded by questions and a reading guide. The work is intended for high school use and the criticism upon each author is necessarily of the briefest order. One of its authors, Mr. Moody, is one of the coming poets of to-day and has just left a chair at Chicago University to devote himself to letters. The work is marked by criticism both compact and just.

GRAMMAIRE FRANCAISE. Par J. H. Worman et A. de Rougemont. Revised by Louis W. Arnold. 197 pp. Indexed. 12mo. American Book Company.

A revision of a grammar first issued in 1883. This edition treats more fully personal pronouns, conjunctives, disjunctives, relatives and interrogations. The work during the last twenty years has been in constant use in elementary French study, commending itself by its simplicity.

HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. For evening schools. By William

This school history, written with a passionate devotion to the Irish cause, reviews the legends of the heathen period before entering on the Christian conversion of Ireland under Patrick and the share of the island in preserving learning for North Europe. Three-quarters of the volume is devoted to the history of Ireland since the entrance of the Normans, while the last seventy years occupies the closing fourth of the book. Illustrations are nuHistorical maps accompany the text. The book is written throughout with a strong bias, not at present usual in text books.

merous.

LATIN COMPOSITION. Part I. Based on Caesar. By Benjamin L. D'Ooge. 131 PP. 12mo. American Book Company.

LATIN COMPOSITION. Parts II and III. Based on Cicero. By Benjamin L. D'Ooge.

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pp. 12mo. American Book Company. These volumes, "Part I" and "Parts II and III," are written from the standpoint of one who is accustomed in his teaching to use Latin prose composition as a vehicle for a fuller acquaintance with the meaning of Latin work studied and a literary discipline, rather than for the purpose of acquiring mastery of the language itself. Accordingly, in both parts, sentences in the one case from Caesar's Gallic Wars, and in the other from Cicero's orations, are used as key phrases, in order to illustrate an ordered system of Latin syntax. Each sentence is treated as the basis of a series of English variants provided with notes, a vocabulary, and an analysis of the original Latin sentence. No effort is made towards original composition.

MANUAL OF ELOCUTION AND EXPRESSION, A. By the Rev. Albert Francis Tenney. 298 pp. 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

The instructor in elocution at the General Theological Seminary, New York, and Berkley Divinity School, at Middletown, Conn., has prepared this manual primarily for use in his own classes, but it is intended also to be of general value. After a discussion of the creation of the voice and an analysis of breath, pressure and tone production, the subject of enunciation, pronunciation, method, emphasis, rhythm and gesture are discussed with the usual attempt to indicate verbally what can scarcely be conveyed except by the ear.

OUR FIRST CENTURY. By George Cary Eggleston, author of "Dorothy South," etc. Illustrated. 262 PP. Indexed. 12mo. A. S. Barnes & Co.

An attempt to tell the story of the Seventeenth Century in short chapters, for children, with much simplicity and much graphic detail in regard to home and personal life. Mr. Eggleston's pleasant manner is one that young readers will appreciate.

PRACTICAL NEW STANDARD SPELLER. By Albert B. Chambers. Edited by E. T. Roe. Illustrated. 240 pp. 12mo. Laird & Lee.

This speller is intended for the use of primary, intermediate and grammar grades. Its special peculiarity lies in the free use of dictation exercises, of poems, interspersed, and arrangement of words in the hope of aiding the

memory.

SELECTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAW OF THE ROMANS. With a commentary by James J. Robinson. 291 pp. Indexed. 12mo. American Book Company.

These selections from the Roman law are preceded by an introduction which describes the general character of the works which embody our knowledge of this system of jurisprudence. Various chapters in the code, like marriage, adoption, property, agency, etc., are given with notes explaining legal terms.

SIMPLE GRAMMAIRE FRANCAISE. Par Paul Bercy et Georges Castegnier. I2mo. William R. Jenkins.

A grammar of French in French with a translation in English of the more difficult words run in the line. Its purpose is to secure drill in simple French while mastering the work of learning French grammar.

STAPLE OF NEWS, THE. By Ben Jonson. Edited, with introduction and notes by De Winter. Yale Studies in English. Paper. 8vo. Henry Holt & Co.

A careful study of the text, history and character, with a glossary of the last work by Ben Jonson, just before a stroke of paralysis deprived him of his powers.

Reference

the day of the week to be found for each day in any year of the Christian era, by the application of the uncial letters.

MINIATURE DICTIONARY OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES. By Brown and Martin. With additions by J. Duhamel. E. P. Dutton & Co.

MINIATURE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGES. By Brown and Martin. With additions by J. Duhamel. E. P. Dutton & Co.

This edition of these dictionaries is printed on thin, opaque paper and on a page so small that the book can be slipped into a waistcoat pocket. The definitions are in general confined to a single line, sometimes misleading, as where "arpant" is translated as "acre."

TRAVELER'S HANDBOOK. For transatlantic tourists. By Josephine Tozier, author of "Among English Inns." 211 pp. 16mo. Funk & Wagnalls Company.

HALF HOURS WITH THE LOWER ANIMALS. By Charles Frederick Holder, author of "Elements of Zoology," etc. Illustrated. 232 pp. Indexed. 12mo. American Book Company. A popular account, beginning with the protozoans and sponges and taking up the radiates, worms, mollusks, crustaceans and insects. The work is fully illustrated. There is much description and little analysis. The author, a naturalist at Pasadena, California, writes for the purpose of affording a reader for use in nature work. The biographer of Darwin, he has written many short works on natural history study. HUNTING WITHOUT A GUN AND OTHER PAPERS. By Rowland E. Robinson. Illustrated. 381 pp. 12mo. Forest and Stream Publishing

LAIRD AND LEE'S PERPETUAL DATE BOOK. 32mo. Laird & Lee.

A memorandum book intended to furnish a place in which dates can be kept through successive years. An ingenious device enables

Most of these papers originally appeared in "Forest and Stream." The author (born 1833; died 1900). was a draftsman, an observer of nature and through many years in Vermont and in Canada followed closely the life of the woods. The title sums the basis of observation which consists of patient watchfulness through many years in field and forest of their animal life.

Verse

CHARM OF YOUTH, THE. By Alexander Jessup. 95 pp. 12mo. Herbert B. Turner & Co.

Poems of personal experiences with paraphrases from the Greek Anthology and other

signs of a wider acquaintance with letters than is usually the case in a first volume of verse. FLYING LESSON, THE. Selections from Petrarch. By Agnes Tobin. With frontispiece designed by Walter H. Pritchard. 8vo. William Heinemann, London.

Verses on love's loss, translated from Petrarch, being: Ten sonnets, two Canzoni; A Ballata; A Double Sestina. The work is gracefully printed in parchment cover, with ribbon tie after the Italian fashion in Petrarch's period.

Selections

EPIGRAMS AND APHORISMS. By Oscar Wilde. Svo. John W. Luce Company.

Brief extracts from Oscar Wilde's works, full of suggestion and an easy cynicism. It is undoubtedly true, as the preface remarks, that Wilde is better known than his works, and that the best of his works were his briefer utter

ances.

LIFE ILLUMINED. By Ella Dann Moore. 442 pp. Indexed. 12mo. The Neale Publishing Company.

Extracts on leading topics from a wide range of authors forming a commonplace book with a list of authors quoted, but without an index.

Essays

ESSAYS ON FREE THINKING AND PLAIN SPEAKING. By Leslie Stephen. With introductory essays on Leslie Stephen and His Work by James Bryce and Herbert Paul. With frontispiece. 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

A reprint, with an essay by James Bryce and Herbert Paul on Leslie Stephen's work, of a volume of critical essays which first appeared in 1873. The present issue has its chief value for the frank acknowledgment which it contains of Stephen's position as the most weighty of recent English critics.

GREY BRETHREN, THE. By Michael Fairless, author of "The Roadmender,' etc. 147 pp. 16mo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

Essays on the life of friends, German Christmas Eve, other phases of German life, and four fairy stories. Two or three short poems are inserted. The entire volume has a touch of personal feeling, with no special power of personal expression.

times mar the original works. The lesser characters are omitted and nothing is leit but the bare outline of the story.

CHILD VIVIEN AND OTHER TALES, THE. By Charlotte J. Cipriani. Illustrated. 8vo. Rand. McNally & Co.

A translation rewritten and arranged for youthful readers of the story of "The faithful greyhound" and other episodes from French epics of the Thirteenth Century. A preface recalls the importance of the French epic in the growth of modern letters and the probability that some of its poems like "Enfances Vivien" were originally written for children.

FAIRY TALES THAT EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW. Edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Illustrated by B. Osterag. 370 pp. 12mo. Doubleday, Page & Co.

A selection of fairy stories covering the entire range of folk-lore, Teuton, Arab, Celtic and modern Scandanavian, told simply, edited with care, and prefaced by the editor.

Miscellaneous

MAN LIMITLESS. By Lloyd B. Wilson, author of "Paths to Power," etc. 224 pp. 12mo. R. F. Fenno & Co.

A work of the "new thought" urging autosuggestion and concluding from various utterances of Shakespeare's, that he had "spirit guides."

MOTORS AND MOTORING. By Henry J. Spooner. 99 pp. indexed. 16mo. Dodd, Mead & Co. The gasoline engine system is the one chiefly dealt with in this manual, which the author says is written to assist beginners to acquire useful information, forming an introduction to the mechanics of motoring, explaining them in non-technical language, looking especially to the needs of those without access to large works or an acquaintance with mechanical engineering.

NAPOLEON MYTH, THE. By Henry Ridgely Evans. Containing a reprint of “The Grand Erratum," by Jean Baptiste Peres. and an introduction by Dr. Paul Carus. Illustrated.

65 pp. 8vo. The Open Court Publishing Company.

Succeeding Whately by eight years, Jean Baptiste Peres used the Irish Archbishop's argument against the existence of Napoleon in a work called "The Grand Erratum." It is now published by Dr. Carus, the editor of "The Open Court," with numerous illustrations from prints of incidents in Napoleon's life.

TYPICAL TUBERCULOSIS. By John Aulde. 23 pp. Paper. 8vo.

A brief medical summary of typical cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, with temperature charts. The author claims to be able to cure tuberculosis.