the lines of Christian truth and duty are sure to radiate. The style is attractive. [Scribners, Svo, $2.50 net.]

The vast system of Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy nears its completion; a part of the supporting structure still remains unfinished, but in order that the infirmities and the brevity of life might not prevent the completion of the crowning part of the whole, for which all the rest is merely preliminary, he published a number of years ago his "Data of Ethics," and a short time since the section on "Justice." The large volume just issued is the first volume of The Principles of Ethics, and comprises the Data of Ethics, the Inductions of Ethics and the Ethics of Individual Life. It is the object of Mr. Spencer's ethical system to establish a scientific basis for right conduct and to do this before the system of morality resting upon divine command and the individual conscience has lost all its power for good; before this regulative system has passed away forever. It is the secularization of morals that Mr. Spencer has in view, and morality in his philosophy rests in acts only; choice and desire are ignored. The comprehensive interrelation of parts which

distinguishes all Mr. Spencer's writings is equally manifest in this volume. He employs a wide induction, and passes in review the habits and customs of mankind civilized and savage. The inference from this survey is of course in favor of right conduct and self-control. The volume to follow will treat of "The Ethics of Social Life." [Appletons, 12mo, $2.00.]

A GROUP OF JUVENILE BOOKS.

Several new juvenile books of more than ordinary interest are at hand. One of these is called The Clocks of Rondaine, and Other Stories, by Frank R. Stockton. There are in all seven stories in the volume, in each of which some quaint conceit is elaborated with all the art and humor of which the author is the master-" The Clocks of Rondaine," narrating the experience of the girl who tried to make all the clocks in the town keep time with her own; "The Curious History of a Message," a tale in which the telephone plays a leading part; "A Fortunate Opening," a characteristic account of the adventures of a man and his wife on an abandoned steamer; "The Christmas Truants," the idea and the workmanship of

which are equal to the best that the author has done; "The Tricycle of the Future," exploiting the application of horse power to the tricycle, with its grotesque and disastrous results; "The Accommodating Circumstance," and a fairy story, "The Great Show in Kobol Land." The book has twentyfour illustrations by Blashfield, Rogers, Beard and others.

[Scribners, sq. 8vo, $1.50.]

Robert Leighton, the author of "The Pilots of Pomona," has written another historical romance for boys-The Thirsty Sword, a story

of the Norse invasion of Scotland from 1262 to 1265. The scene is laid in that period of Scottish history which ended with the famous battle of Largs; and it tells how Roderic MacAlpin, the sea-rover, came to the Isle of Bute; how he slew his brother Earl Hamish in Rothesay Castle; how Alpin, the earl's eldest son, challenged his uncle to ordeal by battle, and was likewise slain; how young Kenric now became king of Bute, and vowed vengeance against the slayer of his brother and father;

and finally, it tells how this vow was kept when Kenric and the murderous sea-rover met at midnight on Garroch Head, and ended their feud in one last great fight. The story is spiritedly illustrated. [Scribners, cr. 8vo, $1.50.]

Three new stories by G. A. Henty will make glad the hearts of the boys who enjoy adventure. In the first of these, Condemned as a Nihilist, the narrative is given of an English lad who got into trouble in St. Petersburg, and who was exiled to Siberia, whence he escaped, with many adventures and after several years of wanderings, by way of the northerly running rivers and the Arctic Ocean. In Greek Waters is a story of the Grecian War of Independence

in 1821, a war which enlisted the sympathies for the oppressed Greeks of many Englishmen. The hero of the tale, Horace Beveridge, sets sail on a privateer, which his father has fitted out for Greek waters, where they have many stirring adventures both with Greeks and Turks, the description of which will delight boys who love the sea and the dangers of a seafaring life. The third book is Beric the Briton, and it gives a vivid picture of England under Roman rule, and of life in Rome itself, where the hero, Beric, a boy-chief of a British tribe, is carried a captive, and where he witnesses and takes part even in the gladiatorial shows under Nero. Each of these books has an historical as well as an adventurous interest, and all of them are fully illustrated. [Scribners, cr. 8vo, each $1.50.]

POEMS, OLD AND NEW.

A complete edition of Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr's Poems is published in one volume with a portrait. [Scribners, 12mo, $2.50.]

Two new volumes in the Cameo Edition appear this fall, Dr. J. G. Holland's two famous poems, Bitter Sweet and Kathrina. Each has an etched frontispiece, one by Otto Bacher and one by A. M. Turner; and the paper, presswork, and binding are of the same high artistic quality as gave immediate popularity to the earlier volumes in the series," Reveries of a Bachelor," "Dream Life," "Old Creole Days" and "In Ole Virginia." In this new and attractive form Dr. Holland's two most celebrated poems will delight all old and make many new friends. [Scribners, 16mo, gilt tops, each, $1.25, half calf, $2.75; half levant, $3.50.1

The sentiment associated in the mind of every true sportsman with every form of shooting and fishing finds natural expression in Mr. Ernest McGaffey's volume, entitled Poems of Rod and Gun. His verses are the perfectly unaffected crystallization into simple metrical form of the emotions born of rising before daybreak and returning after dark in the pursuit of fin, fur and feather, one may say. They show a great deal of cleverness in poetic expression, and some of them have a lyric quality that is sure to make them favorites with the sportsman who has an ear as well as love of

From "Beric the Briton."

sport. But what distinguishes them mainly is their true sportsmanlike spirit, which divines or discovers the real poetry concealed from all but true sportsmen in the phenomena of hunting and angling, of exercise with "gun and rod, "a quick appreciation of the nature of the various game he follows, a sure sympathy for it in spite, or perhaps in virtue of, his designs upon it, and, of course, a thorough knowledge of its haunts and habits. The book is a unique and genuine

Copyright, 1892, by Charles Scribner's Sons.