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CLASSIFIED SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS.
For complete titles see Alphabetical List" under the italicized words.
WORKS OF REFERENCE.- Bible Dictionary;- Deutsch-
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American S. S. A.-Hubbell's Legal Dictionary.-Ros-
ser, Bijou Gazetteer.-Smith, Synonyms.
THEOLOGY, RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY. (Roman Catholic
Authors or Works are marked thus †).-† Bagshawe,
Catchism Illust. by H. S.-Bailey, Jurisdiction of Angli-
can Episcopate.-Barrett, Episcopalianism.-Barthe,
Litany of the Holy Virgin.-Bhagvat Geeta. -Bible,
Barnum and Smith's B. Dictionary; Four Gospels in
One; Lange's Gospel of John; Pusey's Minor Proph-
ets; Inglis, Thoughts on John.-Birchmore, Prophecy
interpreted (Daniel and John) ;-Blunt, Christian Doc-
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Clarke, Orthodox Congregationalism. - Clarke, Ten
Great Religions.-Dagg, Manual of Theology.-Doughty,
Manual of New Church Doctrine.-Dunn, Study of the
Bible.-Farrar, Witness of Hist. to Christ.-t Fifty
Cath. Tracts.-Frothingham, Beliefs of the Unbelievers;
Faith and Morals.-Gilbert, Love of Jesus.-Green,
Bible Sketches.-Guesses at Truth.-Hermes, Pyman-
der.-Hopeful Words for the Sick.-Liddon, Purchas
Judgment.-Moody, Science of Evil.-Morris, Science
and the Bible.-Mühlenberg, Woman and her Accusers.
-Neale, Sermons on the Psalms. -Scanland, Heights
and Depths.-Simmons, War in Heaven.-Smith, Im-
pending Conflict.-Spencer, Principles of Psychology.-
Stanley, Athanasian Creed.-Starr, Patron Saints.-
Stevens, Parables of N. T.-Taylor, Voice of the Church,
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Synonyms of N. T.-Tyler, Development of Culture.-
Weiss, American Religion.-West, State of the Dead.-
Woolsey, Religion of the Present and Future.-Yonge,
Pioneers and Founders.

Book.-Graham, Little Teacher of Phonography.-
Holmes, Drawing Book.-Livius, Hist. of Rome.-Lo
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Gold.-Mason, Pestalozzian Music Teacher.-Mason,
Playing upon the Piano-Forte.-Proctor, Light Science.
-Racine, Athalie.-Schaff, Catechism for S. S.-Schle-
gel, French Grammar; German Grammar.- Smith,
Synonyms.-Sophocles.- Wiebe, Kinder-Garten Cul-
ture. Wood, Resistance of Materials.-Xenophon, by
Grant.-Youmans, First Book of Botany.
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, ETC.-Abbott, Italy.-Army of the
Cumberland.-Baird, Hist. of Rye.-Begg, Hist. of the
Red River Troubles.-Behind the Bars.-Carlyle, French
Revolution.-Christie, Life of A. A. Cooper.-Davis,
Hist. of Wallingford.-Finley, Pioneer Record.-Frank-
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Geo. H. Thomas.-Life of Nath. Greene.-Helps, Life of
Hernando Cortez.-Hughes, Alfred the Great.-Johnson,
Alfred Barnes.-Journal of a Young Lady of Va.-Rev.
Geo. Funkin.-Leach, Edw. Wright.-Livius, Hist. of
Rome.-McBride, Pioneer Biography.-McWatters,
Knots Untied.-Masson, Life of Milton.-O'Driscoll,
Memoir of Daniel Maclease.-Ohio Valley Hist. Mis-
cellanies.-Relation of Cabeça de Vaca.-Sketches of
Men of Progress.-Stockbridge, The Model Pastor (Ba-
ron Stow). Stuart, Engineers of Am.-Taulerus.-
Sam Harvey Taylor.-Tyler, Development of Culture.
-Xenophon, by Grant.-Yonge, Pioneers and Founders.
-Memoir of Chas. M. Young.

EDUCATION-TEXT-BOOKS.-Baxter, Technics for Voice.
-Berry, Parsing Book.- Ellsworth, Exercise Drill

GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, STATISTICS, ETC.-Andersen, A
Poet's Bazar;-Appleton's H. B. of Amer. Travel.-
Cooper, Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce.-Dana, A
Month's Tour through the Alps.-Griswold, Kansas.-
Hartwig, Polar and Tropical_Worlds.-Huyshe, Red
River Expedition.-Macleod, Peeps at the Far East.-
Morford's Short-Trip Guide to Europe.-New York

Illust.-Rosser, Bijou Gazetteer.-Travels of a Doctor.Zell's Descriptive Hand-Atlas.

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MECHANICS, ENGINEERING, COMMERCE, ETC.-Brockett, Commercial Traveler's Guide.-Campbell, Shipper's Guide.-Colburn, Locomotive Engineering.-Duplais, Distillation of Liquors.-Dussauce, Manufacture of Vinegar-Gillespie, Road Making.-Harris, Gas Superintendent's Pocket Companion.-Hunt's Merchants' Magaz. Year B.-Larrabee's Cipher and Telegraph Code.Stuart, Engineers of Am.-Young Mechanic.

RURAL AND DOMESTIC-SPORTS (See also MEDICINE). Armatage, Horse-Owner.-Barnard, Gardening for Money.-Downing, Selected Fruits.-Proctor, Light Science.-Sporting Sketches.

LITERARY AND ART MISCELLANY.-Emerick, Celebrated Musical Works. - Forsyth, Novels and Novelists. Guesses at Truth.-Hislop, Proverbs of Scotland.Household B. of Irish Eloquence.-Long, Art.-Porter, Books and Reading.-Ruskin, Fors Clavigera.Viardot, European Art.

POETRY AND THE DRAMA (See also HUMOR).—Browning, True Mary.-De Witt's Acting Plays.-Fuller, Angel in the Cloud.-Hanaford, Froin Shore to Shore.Hay, Little Breeches.-Kiehl, Golden Grains.-McDonald, Chamber Dramas.-Palgrave, Lyrical Poems. -Racine, Athalie.-White (Kirke), Poems. HUMOR AND SATIRE.-Bigelow, Bench and Bar.-Dime Books-Fall of England.-Fiddle-dum-dee Papers.-Fight at Dame Europa's School.-John's Fagg, Fight.German Conquest of England.-Harte, Condensed Novels-Harte, Facs. of Heathen Chinee.-Harte, Pliocene Skull-Hay, Little Breeches.-Kutschke, Napolium Lieder.-Leland, Hans Breitmann in Europe.-Loving

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The Eye in Health and Disease (Alex. Moore, Boston) is by B. Joy Jeffries, M.D., whose reputation as an ophthalmist is widely extended. In these pages, by text and illustration, the anatomy and physiology of the human eye is clearly explained to non-professional readers, and the nature and proper treatment of its several diseases are set forth in a way likely to be of service to all.

A Month's Tour Through the Alps of Switzerland, by Prof. Jas. S. Dana (Chatfield), is perhaps as excellent and definite a guide for making the most of a short vacation as has ever been published.

The new volume by the author of "Stepping Heavenward" will be entitled Aunt Jane's Hero, and in character will be somewhat similar to that book.

BRET HARTE'S burlesque poem, the Pliocene Skull, has been cleverly illustrated and published in a small 4° by E. M. Schaeffer, M.D., Washington, price 75 c.

Ballad of Lord Bateman.-Newell, Orpheus C. Kerr Papers.-Rosenberg, My Story, by A. Photo.-Streit in Frau Europa's Schule.-Times (The) and the Men. MISCELLANEOUS. — Andrews, Universology.—Chambers' Miscellany.-Hughan, Masonic Sketches.-Manual of the Lodge of Perfection.-Peabody, Manners.—Reavis, Thoughts for Young Men.-Skerman, Hollow Globe. FICTION.-Arthur O'Leary, Lever.-Basil, Collins. Blockade of Phalsburg, Erckmann.-Castles in the Air, Gray.-Charlotte Ackermann, Müller.-Claude Gueux, Hugo.-Conscript, Erckmann.-Dime Books. -Dion and the Sibyls, Keon.-Doctor's Wife, Braddon.- Don Giovaní.- Dot it Down, Begg.- Ernes tine, Sand.-Her Lord and Master, Marryat.-Ina, Valerio.-Knots Untied, McWatters.-Lady Audley's Secret Braddon.-Lilian's Fate, Egan.-London Apprentice, Egan.-Lost Love, Owen.-Madame Therese, Erckmann.-Marble Fawn, Hawthorne.-Marquis and Merchant, Collins.-Millbank, Holmes.-Mound Bene dict, McCorry.-Ralph the Heir, Trollope.-Reginald Archer, Seemuller.-Rough and Smooth, Campbell.Scott.-Shoemaker's Village, Holbeach.-Simon, Sand. -Spring Comedies, Barker.-Strife, Wallace.-Terrible Temptation, Reade.-Tom Pippin's Wedding.-Two Guardians, Yonge.-Vivia, Wilford.-Waterloo, Erck

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JUVENILE AND S. S. BOOKS.-Apron Strings, Fell.Belle Lovel.-Bet and Bounce, Dunning.-Bible Sketches, Green.-Blanche Gilroy, Hosmer.-Blue Shawl Series. -Books for Girls.-Chamber Dramas for Children, MacDonald.-Children of the Great King.-Clarie's Little Charge.-Cottage on the Shore.-Daisy Seymour.Daisy Ward's Work, McClain.-Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Pouton.-Eastern Manners, Tweedie.--Edith Somers, Gurley.-Ella's Battles, Fudge.-Evenings with the Children, Ramsey.-Faith, Duncan.-Faith Harrowby, Dondney.-False Friendship, Gardiner.Foundling, Gardiner.-Frank among the Rancheros: and, at Don Carlos Ranchero, Castlemon.-Grace Courtney, Benning.-Grace and Polly, Dunning-Happy Hours.-Illustrated Cath. S. S. Lib.-In the World, Darling.-Jessie Wilson, Gardiner.-Jordan and the Dead Sea.-Light, by Jac. Abbott, Science.-Little Cloister Ruin, Redenbacher.-Little Sunshine's Holiday, Books for Girls.-Little Men, Alcott.-Margaret and Bessy. -Marion's Little Sister.-Mary's New Friends, Dunning.-Mother's Ship.-National Nursery Rhymes.-Nelly's Dark Days.-Old and New Home.-Old World Seen with Young Eyes.-Olive Loring's Mission, Lawrence.-Patron Saints, Starr.-Pioneers and Founders, Yonge-Rescued Girl.-Rocky Mountain Series, Castlemon.-Rough and Smooth, Campbell.-Science for the Young.-Six Boys.-Sowing the Good Seed.Spring Comedies, Barker.-Story of Four Lives, Dunning.-Sunday Echoes, Brock.-Torch Bearers.-Truo Boys.-Willie and Carrie, Stone.-Wonders of the Plant World.-Young Mechanic.

HAY'S charming Little Breeches has found another successful illustrator in J. F. Engel. The illustrations have been published in a neat pamphlet by J. S. Redfield. Price 25 c.

New Dame Europa Books. Francis B. Felt & Co. will publish immediately- How John nearly Quarrelled with the Headboy of Dame Europa's School, profusely illust. by Thos. Nast; and the Am. News Co. have just issued-How dem Frenchmen tek dat Berlin vuntz: A Heesdorikel Rumens, by Johann Schlemeel, pamphlet, 25 c.

LEE & SHEPARD have under way a volume of the Rev. Petroleum V. Nasby's Letters, a complete collection from the first one to the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. It will be illustrated by Nast.

SEVER, FRANCIS & Co. have pubiished, in a neat style, the address on Manners, delivered last summer by Andrew P. Peabody, before the students of several seminaries for young ladies.

NOTES ON BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Hay's Pike County Ballads and other Pieces (Osgood). Although a new aspirant for the laurel crown, the writer of such poetry as we have quoted need cherish no doubts as to the certainty of his calling and of his election. It is of no perishable stuff that these offerings of his genius have been composed, and they bear the stamp on their front of a permanent fame. They are not the idle singings of a festive hour, but the fruit of a creative fancy, delicate and athletic at once, of a mature experience, rare in so youthful a writer, and of a genuine gift of expression no less vigorous than sweet, which distinguish the true bard from the mere maker of verses. If it is the possession of victorious qualities that insures the survival of the fittest in the grand struggle for existence, in the poetic as well as the physical world, the author of this volume need not be curious about his place among the poets of the age.-Tribune.

The Model Pastor (Lee & Shepard) is a memoir of the life and correspondence of Rev. Baron Stow, D.D., late Pastor of the Rowe-street Baptist Church, Boston, by John C. Stockton. The editor of this handsomely gotten up volume has had a large mass of material, including Dr. Stow's diary, placed in his hands, from which to make selections. Scrupulous care, he says, has been taken to bring out, in full relief, "the man whose life we have tried to portray, letting him speak to us in a journal and correspondence, and through the activities of a long, laborious, and successful professional life.

Boston Lectures, 1871: Christianity and Skepticism (Congreg. Pub. Soc.) is the title of a volume of lectures upon questions coming within the range of Biblical criticism, delivered at Boston last winter. They are by such eminent men as Phelps, Mead, Tyler, Fisher, Talcott, Thayer, Hopkins, Lord, Thompson, Cheever, and Bacon. (See subjects in advertisement). The recognized ability of these lectures, says the Boston Advertiser, their eminence as expounders of Christian doctrine, and the nature of the themes treated by them make this volume valuable, not only to intelligent Christians of all denominations, but to all students of religious history and religious opinions.

A Hand-book of English Literature, by F. H. Underwood (Lee & Shepard). Mr. Underwood has done great service to all youthful students, in the carefully culled selections he has put together from British authors. The historical introduction is written with marked ability, and the biographical sketches are well condensed and interesting. The "Hand-book" is a pleasant introduction to the broad field of English literature, through whose influence we hope the student may be led to gather his own treasures.

Bench and Bar, by L. J. Bigelow (Harper), is a new and enlarged edition of the most complete collection of anecdotes of legal wit and humor ever made, containing abundant entertainment for the leisure hours, not only of lawyers, but of all who are able to appreciate a good story well told. The present edition has about one hundred

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and sixty pages of additional anecdotes, and a number of portraits of distinguished legal gentlemen.

The Happiness of Heaven, by a father of the Society of Jesus (Murphy & Co.), is an eloquent description of the condition of the blessed in heaven, in which the promises of Scripture are explained and set forth by means of familiar illustra tions and references to the writings of the fathers of the Church. There is nothing in the work calculated to offend the prejudices of non-Catholics, and it may be read with interest and profit by Christians of all shades of belief.

Wake Robin, by John Burroughs (Hurd & Houghton), is one of the most charming books of the season. Those going to the country for the summer months can take with them no more enjoy. able volume, for it treats of birds and scenery and fits one to better appreciate and enjoy the beauties of nature. The title, Wake Robin, which he has White Trillium, which blooms in all our woods, name of the given his volume, is the common and marks the arrival of all the birds. The volume is elegantly gotten up.

Curiosities of the Law Reporters, by F. F. Heard (Lee & Shepard), is one of those attractive books which may be opened at any page with a certainty of finding something worth reading. It may chance to be an amusing play upon words, a sly witticism, an instructive criticism, sound legal advice, or quaint illustrations of judicial acumen. The book contains the cream of law experience, skilfully skimmed, and the food abounds in nourishment for all partakers.-Boston Transcript.

Illustrated Library of Wonders (Scribner). The latest addition to this popular series is the volume on "European Art," by Louis Viardot, the author also of the similar work on "Italian Art," a few volumes back in the library. This new volume complements the latter, treating of the Spanish, German, Flemish, Dutch, and French schools. Notwithstanding the narrow limits to which the author was restricted, he gives a very excellent history of the rise and progress of the schools and of the condition and causes of their develop. ment, in bird's eye view, notes as to more than two hundred painters, and critically discriminative descriptions of the chief works of the most noted. The two volumes form a most admirable introduction to the study of Continental art, and commend themselves especially to those who desire to learn something about the history of art as displayed in its results, and who lack time or inclination for extended reading. Eleven notably fine reproduc tions on wood of celebrated representative works, and a full index of names, add greatly to the value of the book.

The Young Mechanic.-The Messrs. Putnam deserve the thanks of all the boys-hip, hip, hurrah! and a tiger--for issuing an American edition of that capital book, originally published in England, "The Young Mechanic." The book is all that can be desired-one of the few for which

we can't say too much. It tells all about tools, including the lathe, their cost, care, and use, and beginning with directions for making simple wooden boxes graduates its reader a well-trained worker in wood, metal, and ivory. Copious illustrations explain the text. The book is edited with an American preface and is issued in a very nice shape, and our best hope for it is that it will meet with the success that it deserves.-Mail.

The Proverbs of Scotland, by Alexander Hislop, is the largest and best collection of Scottish Proverbs in existence. Every reader of Hislop's collection will find in it wise sayings and interesting anecdotes which he had not previously seen or heard, so that the volume possesses the charm of novelty combined with humor and satire, and all the other elements that make up the choicest fruits of the intellectual life of the people of Scotland. The volume might be styled a Collection of the Gems of Scottish Wisdom. It deserves a place in every Scottish Household beside the works of Burns and Scott. The American publisher, Mr. L. D. Robertson, is a Scotsman who is very widely known and esteemed, and whose name alone is a guarantee that the work has been carefully got up. It is well printed and handsomely bound. Scottish Am. Journal.

Tanner on Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. Of this invaluable work a third ed., revised and enlarged by Alfred Meadows, has just been issued by Lindsay & Blakiston. The general plan of the work has been entirely changed; while additions have been made throughout the book and several new chapters introduced. The whole, carefully revised, may, says the editor, be considered fairly to` represent the present state of our knowledge of this department of medicine.

A Handbook of the Administrations of the United States, by Edward G. Tileston (Lee & Shepard), contains a synopsis of the leading political events in the history of the United States, from the organization of the Federal Government to the present time, arranged under the heads of the successive administrations, with a list of the members of the cabinet, the speakers of the House, and other public officials. The volume also comprises a brief record of contemporaneous English history, extracts from the census of 1870 in advance of the official publication, and other facts of interest and value.

The Fall of England, or the Battle of Dorking, is one of the most vivid and remarkable of all recent satires toward teaching by fiction the scope and direction of current politics. It is the story told in the year 1925 by an old man to his grandchildren, of the battle in which Prussia made conquest of England fifty years before, and exposes, as it there plainly appears, the causes and circumstances of England's humiliation. The philosophy is wholly incidental and unobtrusive, but the intensity and realism of the descriptive parts is one of the great triumphs of literary art. remember no description of a battle, and doubt if there be another, outside the works of Erckann-Chatrian, more excellent in its fidelity and simplicity. As a narrative, it is superior to

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"Dame Europa's School." statesmen and social philosophers to ponder.— Boston Advertiser.

Hans Breitmann in Europe, by Charles G. Leland (Peterson), contains twenty new Poems by Hans Breitmann, describing his travels and experiences all over Europe, in Paris, in La Sorbonne, in Forty-Eight, in Belgium, in Spa, in Ostende, in Gent, in Holland, at the Hague, in Leyden, in Amsterdam, in Germany, in Cologne, in Munich, in Frankfort-on-the-Main, in Italy, in Rome, where Breitmann interviews the Pope, at

La Scala Santa, as well as Hans Breitmann at a Picnic, and Breitmann as a Trumpeter, with a full and complete Glossary.

The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman (Carleton), the famous old English ballad, which Lester Wallack sings so pathetically in the play of "Rosedale," derives its chief value from the gro tesque illustrations and notes which are in the immortal Cruikshank's best manner.

Common Sense in the Household, by Marion Harland (Scribner), is the actual product of fifteen years' experience in household life, during which time the writer has steadily pursued the work of composing it, gleaning and sifting in every quarter, levying contributions upon every materfamilias within the circle of her friends, and drawing largely upon the practical knowledge that she has gained in the discharge of her duties as mistress of a family. Each receipt in the volume has been brought to the test of the ancient adage that "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." The work is indeed what the Mail calls it, a "Model Kitchen Companion."

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782, ed, by Emily V. Mason, printed and published for the benefit of the Lee Memorial Association of Richmond, by John Murphy & Co.-The picture of life and manners presented by the Journal is extremely interesting, and well worthy of being preserved. The publication of it, for the object with which it is connected, is most appropriate. There is a gush and freshness, and perfect naturalness throughout, which is delightful. Independent of the intrinsic merit of the little volume is its typographical execution, which is in the very highest style of the art.--Baltimore Gazette.

Till the Doctor Comes, and How to Help Him, by G. H. Hope (Putnam). Very, very seldom does one find so much sound good sense, valuable advice, and information, which if thoroughly understood might be a means of saving many a life, A wonderful amount of as in this little volume. it is condensed into a very small space. Every word has its meaning; none are superfluous. The original work is an English book; this has been reprinted in this country, carefully revised by an eminent New York physician, and should find a place in every library.-Bookworm.

have been entirely re-written, and some very imWe have to add that portions of the above book portant additions made providing for cases peculiar to America.

Lear's New Book of Nonsense (Osgood).—The Pall Mall Gazette says: "The alphabets are

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