husband; and she has gone to Rome with his consent in order to be independent, and to acquire fame as an artist and experience as a woman. The count understands her thoroughly, and seeks to win her love by giving her full rein, confident that she will remain good and pure, and will in time return to him satisfied with her taste of life. She has some adventures. She falls in love with a

sculptor, and hangs on the brink of the precipice of social ruin, but she is warned in season, and is saved through the unseen instrumentality of her husband, who goes to Rome for that purpose. The idea is original, and the story is well told by both authors. [Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 12mo, $1.25.]

A collection of F. Hopkinson Smith's magazine sketches is published under the title of A Day at Laguerre's, and Other Days. Most of the subjects, odd and interesting characters and quaintly picturesque scenes, were found in his wanderings as a painter in Constantinople, Cordova, Venice, Bulgaria and Mexico; while several, the title sketch and one or two others, are bits of experience near home. They are charmingly written, and reflect with extraordinary fidelity, and yet, with an artist's love of color, the character and temperament of very different types and the atmosphere of widely different scenes. The sketching is bold, free, and suggestive, leaving much to the imagination, yet perfectly clear in its important lines. As a piece of bookmaking the little volume is a

delight to the eye, unconventional in the extreme in its typographical appearance, yet artistic throughout, having a rare and agreeable individuality as well as beauty. [Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 12mo, $1.25.]

An old device is employed in Love-Letters of a Worldly Woman of narrating the proginterested parties and their intimate friends. ress of love affairs in the correspondence of the This book is English in scene, and the author has treated three love stories in this manner, the volume taking its name from the story which is worked out with the most elaboration. The brightest and crispest of the three is the last, "On the Wane: A Sentimental Correspondence," which ends, as do the others, with a separation instead of with a conventional marriage. The characters in each of the tales has considerable individuality, and there are bright thoughts here and there that give freshness and piquancy to the correspondence. 'Dear," writes the heroine of "A Modern Correspondence," "your letters have grown too critical, too intellectually admiring. You said in one of them last week that you reverenced me for my goodness. I do not want reverence; it goes to passion's funeral." The tragic undercurrent of the title story gives it a serious interest as a study of character which the others possess in a comparatively slight degree. The revelation of the woman's heart is frank and true. [Harpers, 12m0, $1.25.]

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T is the unexpected which always happens in Mr. Stevenson's stories and in Mr. Stevenson's style. His readers are not led along a well-worn highway, the direction and end of which are discernible from the start; they are guided into new regions, and they are constantly refreshed and rewarded by unexpected vistas and experiences. The two prime qualities of the born man of letters are individuality and style, and Mr. Stevenson possesses both qualities in uncommon measure. He sees things from new points of view, and he records what he sees with astonishing freshness and charm. His latest volume. Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays, has a piquancy of flavor, a personal note, a felicity and distinction of style which confirm the impression of literary force and originality produced by his earlier work. The title essay,the " Chapter on Dreams"

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and "The Lantern Bearers" have the double interest of rare freshness of fancy and picturesqueness of phrase, and of autobiographic disclosure. In reading these discursive memories and comments one finds himself not only intent upon the rapid recovery of old days and once familiar scenes, but stimulated into imaginative activity for himself to such a degree that the mysterious elements in his own life become more distinct and potential. story of Mr. Stevenson's Brownies has, for those who still hold the creative moods in reverence, an almost thrilling interest. It is unfortunate that Mr. Stevenson cannot lend his Brownies to some of his fellow-novelists. The story of the journey "Across the Plains" and the impressions of "The Old Pacific Capital” are full of keen, incisive comment, of sharp observation and of inimitable bits of descriptive writing. Readers of Scribner's Magazine who are deep in that guileful romance, The Wrecker," will find a timely interest in the

thor's amusing account of his war experiences, and his struggles with the German language under the Meisterschaft system. The second volume in the series is a collection of Selected Poems by Walt Whitman. The editor, Arthur Stedman, states in the preface that the principle which has governed him in the choice of the poems has been in part "a concession to the spirit which banished Leaves of Grass' from Massachusetts." The collection serves very well to illustrate Whitman's vigor and individuality of thought and to bring to the front the poems which are nearest in accord with the taste of the time. If his work is to live, it will live, one may think, mainly through the poems which are here given. [Webster, 12mo, each 75 cents.]

A generation has come upon the stage since the Sepoy Mutiny set India in a blaze in 1857 and 1858. The story of the uprising has been told many times, but there was one dramatic episode which has waited until now for a historian capable of painting it in its true colors-the defence of the Residency of Lucknow during nearly three terrible months until help arrived for the invested Englishmen and their families. The commander of the garrison of 1800 fighting men, which was opposed to about 15,000 of the enemy, was Brigadier Inglis; and in The Siege of Lucknow Lady Inglis has told by extracts from her diary the thrilling story of the bravery, fortitude, vigilance, and patient endurance of hardships, privations and fatigues displayed by the garrison in defending the Soo women and children in their charge. Every day has its record of alarms, of casualties, of sickness and death, of hope alternating with fear, of the explosion of mines, of unsuccessful sorties, of heart-breaking scenes when death invaded one family after another. It is the story of one of the bravest and most gallant struggles in the annals of English history, and, being written at the time by one who was an eye-witness of what she describes, reproduces the tragic pictures with the utmost vividness. [Scribners, Importers, 8vo, $4.00.]

charming chapter on the woods of Fontainebleau; a rare retreat not only for poets and painters, but also for gentlemen who, like the mysterious Englishman in Mr. Stevenson's latest story, have a story to bury or to tell. No recent book has more freshness or charm than this volume of essays and memories. [Scribners, 12mo, $1.25.]

Two volumes have appeared in the Fiction, Fact and Fancy Series, which will include not only fiction and poetry, but essays, monographs, and biographical sketches. The first volume consists of Merry Tales, by Mark Twain, seven sketches and stories, including the au

About thirty of Colonel Higginson's delightful little essays on social topics, originally contributed, if we are not mistaken, to Harper's Bazar, have been gathered and are published under the title of Concerning All of Us in the same dainty form that Mr. Curtis's, Mr. Howells's and Mr. Warner's essays appeared in. Colonel Higginson brings to the discussion of social questions the experience and knowledge of a cultivated man of the world, as extensive an aquaintance with books as with the ambitions, follies and weaknesses of men and women, a rich fund of apt illustration, a genial broad-mindedness and an element of warm human sympathy and kindliness that take all sting out of his words. His little essays are unlike anything else that is being written, and although they appear to be very easy to imitate, yet the fact that they are unique shows that they represent an art that is far from common. Some very solid qualities, both moral and intellectual, lie behind these easy, graceful comments on men, women, and manners; and this fact is what gives them their interest and their value. A very good portrait of the author is a frontispiece. [ [Harpers, 16m0, $1.00.]

Of the four new volumes just added to the

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Social Science Series, perhaps the most important is Illegitimacy and the Influence of Seasons upon Conduct (8vo, $1.00), by Albert Leffingwell. The author brings together the official statistics relating to illegitimate births in the various counties of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, and shows that the relative number of these births is apparently governed by fixed laws. Moreover, the figures show that illegitimacy is most prevalent where one would least expect to find it-among the thrifty, well-to-do people of southeastern Scotland, some localities having an unusually high percentage, which has been maintained for years. The study is extremely curious and important, and is fortified with tabulated statistics which lead to several important conclusions from which there appears to be no escape. So the discussion of the other branch of the subject proves that certain classes of crime are more common in the late spring and early summer than at any other season of the

year.

In The State and Pensions in Old Age (8vo, $1.00), in the same series, J. A. Spender presents a careful study, from the English point of view, of the life of the poor in old age and of the wage-earning capacity of old age, with an examination of the attempts which have been made in England and on the Continent to solve the problem of State relief for old age.-H. M. Hyndman, in Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century (8vo, $1.00), gives an historical survey of the causes and results of the nine industrial crises that have occurred in this century, and tries to learn from this study what means can be taken to prevent their recurrence.-Finally, there also appears in the Social Science Series a translation of a book describing the condition of The Working Class in England in 1844 (8vo, $1.25), by Frederick Engels, who has written a preface explaining the changes that have taken place in the last fifty years since the book was published in German. [Scribners, Importers.]

The fundamental truths of Christian belief have had a great many expositions lately. Efforts are made to restate the facts of Christian consciousness, and the facts of natural and revealed religion in new and original modes, and in the light of some dominant principle. This is the intention of Rev. Emory Miller, D.D., in a volume which he calls The Evolution of Love. In the exercise of God's creative power and the evolution of Divine love, he discovers God's nature and perceives His being, and in the conditions under which Divine love acts he finds his system of Christian truth. There is no wide departure from the generally accepted system of Christian doc

trine in his book, but there is novelty and fresh light in the manner of its statement. [McClurg, 12mo, $1.25.]

The central thought that runs through and serves to bind together the studies entitled American Architecture, by Montgomery Schuyler, is that "the real, radical defect of modern architecture in general, if not of American architecture in particular, is the estrangement between architecture and building". resting on the wholly mistaken notion that architecture is one thing and building is another. Mr. Schuyler discusses, with a good deal of vigor and with a somewhat slashing style of criticism, Queen Anne architecture in city buildings; the various Vanderbilt houses; the Brooklyn Bridge, which he pronounces a noble piece of engineering, but a failure as a piece of monumental architecture; the problem of an American cathedral as illustrated by Richardson's designs for Albany and by the plans for St. John the Divine in this city; and finally architecture in St. Paul, Min

neapolis, and Chicago as compared with that in the East. Mr. Schuyler has the courage of his convictions, and is well equipped by study and by taste to discuss this interesting subject. Architects in particular will find his book entertaining; but the principles which he applies alike to the consideration of the Vanderbilt houses in Fifth Avenue, the commercial buildings in Chicago, and the dwelling-houses in St. Paul are such as any layman can easily understand; and few will fail to enjoy the breezy vigor of the author's manner of treatment. He fairly revels in portraying the incongruities and absurdities of the so-called Queen Anne style of architecture as it appears in New York. The book is fully illustrated, and is handsomely bound in leather. [Harpers, Svo, $2.50.]

In order to set forth more fully the views expressed in his recent inaugural address, and to strengthen his position, Dr. Briggs has issued a volume, The Bible, the Church, and the Reason, the Three Great Fountains of Divine Authority, in which he treats the subject in

fuller detail and with more reference to the authorities than was possible within the limits of a single discourse. His chief contention is that, along with the Bible, the Church and the Reason lead to the assurance and conviction of saving truth, with concurrent though not with co-ordinate authority, and each has a place that the others do not fill. This position he fortifies by numerous references to established authorities in all periods of the history of the Christian Church. Likewise with regard to the inerrancy of Scripture, and the principles of its interpretation, as determined by the best modern scholarship of the Christian world, he explains their significance and at the same time maintains the value of the "Higher Criticism," which, as he shows by an array of names in the chief schools of learning in Europe and this country, is the method employed by a large proportion of the highest authorities at the present day. The other subjects touched upon are Biblical History" and "The Messianic Ideal." In an appendix of nearly a hundred pages various side-lights are thrown upon the main questions, and much testimony is adduced. There has not been a more important and far-reaching theological controversy in the memory of living men than the one which now centres around the great questions of which Dr. Briggs is one of the ablest exponents, and his book has, therefore, a most exceptional interest. [Scribners, cr. 8vo, $1.75.]

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clearing the ground and preparing the way for the great period of poetic and dramatic literature that gives pre-eminence in the annals of English letters to the reign of Elizabeth. The influence of Italy, Spain and France upon English poetry in the reign of Henry VIII.; the growth of masques and interludes, and the development from these plays of the modern drama; the effect upon the manners, morals and temper of the age of the Reformation; the condition of letters on the accession of Elizabeth; the poems, the plays and tales that found favor in the early years of her reign; the Reformation in Scotland; the first London theatres, and the arrival upon the stage of young Sidney and Raleigh-these are the large literary movements of the period that are brought into review as a background for the multitude of figures that are portrayed as sharing in the intellectual and moral restlessness of the time. The next volume will treat of Spenser and his time. [Cassell, 12m0, $1.50.]

For many years Mrs. Alice Morse Earle. whose Sabbath in Puritan New England" shows with what earnestness and thoroughness she makes her researches, has been an ardent and persistent china-hunter in the old New England farmhouses and in the colonial man

sions of the Middle and Southern States. She had many amusing adventures and odd experiences in her searches; for the china hunter, if he would win his prize, must exercise a rare tact in dealing with human nature in these outof-the-way corners. At times she was victori