Welsh's Development of English Literature and Language, in two volumes of 1100 pages. Professor Welsh has aimed in this work to give the best specimens of each epoch in English literature, and so woven them together as to form a history of English literature and language, as shown by the writings of the authors themselves. Various professors and scholars have examined Prof. Welsh's work, and highly commend it. OLD LOVE LETTERS.-Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, have published an elegant little volume containing a collection of old love letters, written by eminent persons renowned in English literature and history; it is edited by Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson, who has made the selection of the letters. Curiously enough, the title is the same as a comedy by Mr. Bronson Howard, to whom the editor apologizes for the use of his title. The binding of this little volume is appropriate to the contents, and bears upon it Eros as a seal to the outline of a closed letter.

THE BYSTANDER.-Prof. Goldwin Smith has revived the "Bystander as a quarterly review, the first number of which appeared in Toronto (Messrs. Hunter, Rose & Co.), January this year. This first number of the new series teems with items of interest relating to Canada, the " Great North West," the United States, England and Europe, besides articles on current thought and opinion.

THE TWO SISTER REPUBLICS.-Mr. Charles Gayarre has published a work on Aubert Dubayet, who was born in New Orleans in 1759, and whose life was interwoven with the history of the republics of France and the United States. Although this work is strictly historical, Mr. Gayarre has put it into the form of a romance. Etienne Bernard Alexandre Viel, born Louisiana, 1736, and Joseph La Raual, who was a priest and afterwards a member of the National Convention, figure in the narrative. The work is published by Messrs. J. R. Osgood and Co., of Boston, Mass.

BIBLIOTHECA QUAKERISTICA.-Mr. Joseph Smith, who has already made two valuable contributions to the literature of bibliography, viz. A Catalogue of Friends' Books," and "Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana," has commenced publishing in parts a "Bibliotheca Quakeristica," a bibliography of miscellaneous literature relating to the Friends (Quakers). This is a catalogue of works chiefly written by persons not members of the Society of Friends, and also those of authors in some way connected with the Society. Mr. Smith has been elected an honorary member of the Friends' Historical Association of Philadelphia, in recognition of his labours in Quaker bibliography.

BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA.-Messrs. Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, have issued a Bibliotheca Americana for 1883; it contains 266 pages, besides a partial index of viii. pages and a 42-paged catalogue of their own publications, amongst which are many valuable works on American history and biography, and is noticeable for the richness of its references to Bibliography, British America, Genealogy, Indians, New England, and Slavery and the Negro.

THE VIOLIN.-A valuable addition to the historical literature of musical instruments has been made by the late Mr. Carl Engel, who did not live to see the last revision of it. The Violin family are all represented in this volume, the Roka, the Urheen, the Rokin, the Sarinda, the Thro, the Crwth, the Crowd, the Rotte, the Chorotta, the Rebec, the Geige, the Fiddle, the Vielle, and the Viol. The volume is entitled Researches into the Early History of the Violin Family," and is published by Messrs. Novello, Ewer & Co.

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POEMS OF THE HOUSEHOLD. Under this title Mrs. Margaret E. Stanger has issued a collection of her pieces (Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co., Boston). Many will recognize amongst them old friends that they have met in various periodicals; but we think not a few of them deserve preserving in the form we now see them, which does credit to the taste of the publishers.

PUCK.-It was at one time thought that a comic journal could not be successfully conducted in America, but Messrs. Keppler and Schwarzmann, of New York, seem to have satisfactorily solved the problem, as "Puck" is now in its thirteenth volume. It is a weekly comic paper, illustrated by coloured cartoons on current topics and events. In the number before us, April 4th, Communism is represented as a caterpillar feeding on a grape vine, which represents the orderly state of society. Some of the cartoons, however, are connected with the politics of the United States, and would not be understood in Europe, where those politics are very little studied.

BIBLE LITERATURE.-Home Life in the Bible. This is the title of a profusely illustrated book by Harriet Lee Palmer, edited by John Williamson Palmer, published by

Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co., of Boston. Miss Palmer has carefully explored the Old and New Testaments for everything relating to domestic and home life, and has produced a book suitable for Sunday reading. The work is divided into sixteen chapters, comprising habitations and homes, furniture and utensils, marriage, widowhood and divorce, children, their training, etc., the higher education, employ ments and servants, larder, kitchen and table, dress and ornaments, the toilet and the bath, domestic and public worship, music sacred and secular, alms and hospitalities, seedtime and harvest, flocks and herds, sickness and death and burial and mourning.

BIBLE NARRATIVE AND JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN HISTORY is the title of a three-volume illustrated book by the same publishers, which is literally what its title states it is,-ts Bible reproduced in an abridged form, without the divisions into verses, as in the Bible. The work is intended for th young, and of course is without the passages which work not be considered edifying to the youthful mind.

THE GOSPEL IN THE STARS.-The Rev. Joseph A. Ses D.D., has published a volume of Seventeen Lectures, n which he connects the Gospel Narrative with the constel3tions and primeval astronomy; he argues that the arrang ment of the constellations comes from a divine or prophets source, and combats the theories of the sceptics, who tra the origin of the Christian religion to the stars. The wat is published by Messrs. E. Claxton & Co., of Philadelphia.

THE FORMULARY.-This is the title of a publication pub lished by Mr. B. Fenner, Westfield, New York, of formulary celebrity. It contains all the new recipes useful to pharma ceutical chemists and perfumers. April of this year is No. 1 a new series, which is to be a monthly journal of practical a pharmacy devoted to the every-day wants and uses f American druggists. It contains 160 pages and is 2 dols. per annum. If the same number of pages are given every m it will, at this price, be the cheapest periodical of the kal ever published.

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HELPS FOR READERS.-Mr. F. Leypoldt, of New York added to his useful helps to readers by issuing "Book the Young," a guide for Parents and Children, comply C. M. Hewins, Librarian of Hartford Library Associ This is a catalogue of the best books for the young a chapters on "How to teach the Right Use of Bo English and American History for Children," and Symposium on Books for Children."- -"Libraries and Readers," by W. E. Foster, the Librarian of the Pr dence Public Library, is another little volume which contains useful advice to the users of libraries, instructing them how to regulate their reading so that it may not wild and aimless." Libraries and Schools" contains papers selected by S. S. Green, Librarian of the Free Pub Library, Worcester, Mass. These papers are by himsel Charles Francis Adams, junior, Robert C. Metcalf, and W. E. Foster, most of them culled from larger publis tions and thus brought together in an accessible form st adapted to the wants of the student reader. These wet little manuals are worthy companions to the "Books all Time," and "Reading Diary of Modern Fiction," already published by Mr. Leypoldt, who is an indefatigable catere for the wants of the lovers of books.

BOOKS AND HOW TO USE THEM. The bibliophile never tired of books about books, and he will gladly welcom an addition to his stock of that literature in the little volu of Mr. John C. Van Dyke, published by Messrs. Fors Howard and Hulbert, New York, entitled Books and H to Use them, Practical Hints for Readers and Students." Mr. Van Dyke strikes out a new path for himself, and does follow any beaten track in this little book; he even couns the occasional reading of badly written, erroneous, and i digested books for practice in analyzing error. The chapter are headed "Books and Wisdom," How to Read," "Whe and where to Read," "What to Read." Bibliography The Public Library, and How to Use it," with an Appen of Bibliographical Reference Books.

NANTUCKET SCRAPS.-Under this title Mrs. Jane G. Austi has published with Messrs. Jas. R. Osgood & Co., a volume of sketches of the site of the supposed Scandinavian settle ment in America before the discovery by Columbus and celebrated in poesy by Longfellow's "Skeleton in Armour. The Scraps," seventeen in number, twelve being dedicated to Nantucket in season, and five to it out of season.

THE CRITIC.-Last January this excellent literary journal commenced publishing as a Weekly. Starting in January, 1881, as a Fortnightly Review of Literature, Fine Arts, Science, etc., it has steadily worked its way into the fore

most rank by its honest and fearless criticism, and can now claim to be the best and most interesting literary journal in the United States.

THEODORE L. DE VINNE, the author of "The Invention of Printing," "The Growth of Woodcut Printing," etc., who has long been the proprietor of the printing firm of Francis Hart & Co., of New York, justly renowned as high class printers, the Century and St. Nicholas being the productions of their press, will hereafter give his name to the firm, which will be known as Theo. L. De Vinne & Co.

GLACIATION.-Prof. W. J. McGee, of Farley, Iowa, who is at present engaged on the United States Geological Survey, Division of the Great Basin, Salt Lake City, has made glaciation and subjects connected with it a special study. Therefore at the present time, when modifications of the "Ice-cap" theory are attracting so much attention, some of his papers which have lately appeared are specially interesting. In the "Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science," vol. 29, Prof. W. J. McGee has contributed a paper on "Maximum Synchronous Glaciation," and a supplementary note to the same appeared in volume 22 of the " American Journal of Science," entitled "Local Subsidence Produced by an lee-sheet." In the same volume of the same journal Proessor McGee gives a "Contribution to Croll's Theory of Secular Climatic Changes," and in volume 24 a paper on he Loss and Associated Deposits of Des Moines," the joint production of W. J. McGee and R. Elsworth Call, which was read before the Iowa Academy of Sciences, May 13th, 1882.

SILOS AND ENSILAGE.-Number 48, Special Report, issued ander the direction of the Hon. Geo. B. Loring, the U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture, by D. M. Nesbit, gives all he practical information on the subject of ensilage and making silos. Mr. Nesbit has eliminated all theoretical natter from the report, and where the testimony was uniorm throughout on a particular point, it has not been epeated. The evidence obtained having been collected oth in Canada and all parts of the United States from armers who had built silos and used ensilage, it will be seful in England, where there seems more inclination to heorize on the matter than put it to practical test.

REPORT OF THE (U.S.) COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.Jeneral John Eaton, the Commissioner of Education, has ssued his Eleventh Report for 1880. He finds the means allowed to his office entirely inadequate for collecting and distributing the information now called for. Seven circulars of information and six bulletins have been published during the year, one of them on Medical Colleges in the United States, a subject on which there is often a craving for enlightenment. The number of American correspondents of the office now number 8,231, more than four times the number that there were at the beginning of the present decade. The total school population in the States for 1880 was 15.351,875; the number enrolled in public schools, 9,680,403, Iverage daily attendance, 5,744,188, four States not reportng. The school population of the Territories was 184,405, Idaho and Wyoming not reporting; enrolment in public schools 101,118; average daily attendance 61,154, two territories not reporting. The percentages of enrolment and Average daily attendance was highest in Massachusetts, and lowest in Louisiana.

THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION.-Circulars of Information, No. 4 for 1882, which we have just received, is on "Industrial Art in Schools." by Mr. Charles G. Leland, who has been lately engaged in introducing the practice of ornamental art in schools, and this pamphlet embodies the result of his experience. No. 5 of the same series is on "Maternal Schools in France," which are intended for children under the age of six years. No. 6 is on “Technical Instruction in France." being the Report of Messrs. Samuelson, Roscoe, Magnus, Slagg, Smith and Woodall, who were appointed by the British Government to enquire into the subject.

ASTRONOMICAL Papers of the BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. -It is intended to issue from time to time certain important astronomical papers prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac; the first volume of this series edited by Prof. Simon Newcomb, Ph.D., LL.D., has been published, and contains papers on Solar Eclipses; a Transformation of Hansen's Lunar Theory compared with Delaunay; Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light; Catalogue of 1098 Standard Clock and Zodiacal Stars; on Gauss' method of computing secular perturbations, and discussion of observed Transits of Mercury. These papers are printed in 4to. size on heavy paper and fully illus

UNITED STATES SURVEYS WEST OF THE 100TH MERIDIAN.-Volume III. of the Report upon the United States Geographical Surveys west of the 100th Meridian in charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler under the direction of Brig. -Gen. H. G. Wright, forms a supplement and relates to geological examinations in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico during 1878 and 1879 by Prof John J. Stevenson, Ph.D. This volume is divided into four parts,-Introduction, Systematic Geology, Descriptive Geology, and Economic Geology. There is also an appendix by Dr. C. A. White, on the Carboniferous invertebrate fossils of New Mexico.

U. S. COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES REPORT, 1879.Professor S. F. Baird has issued his Seventh Report on the Fish and Fisheries of the United States. The volume contains two articles on that moot question the propagation of the eel, which has never been satisfactorily solved from the time the Greek poets ascribed their paternity to Jupiter, to the present time. The two articles we speak of are from the German of Hermes and Jacoby, and the theory advanced by them is, that eels go to the sea to bring the organs of generation to perfection and to propagate, and that the effort of procreation so exhausts them that they die

at sea.

REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.-The Hon. John Jay Knox has issued his Nineteenth Annual Report for 1881. It shows that eighty-six national banks were organized during the year, the largest number organized in any year since 1872, These banks have notes in circulation amounting to 5,233,580 dols., and an authorized capital of 9,651,050 dols. National banks are now in operation in every state of the Union except Mississippi and every territory except Arizona, the total number up October, 1881, being 2,132, the largest number that have ever been in operation at the same time.

THE PROGRESS OF THE U. S.-"Our Country's Wealth and Influence is the title of a volume edited by L. P. Brockett, A.M., M.D., and published by Mr. L. Stebbins, of Hartford, Conn. This work, which appears to be well and carefully done, shows the progress of American manufactures, and is illustrated by 400 engravings; it is one of those huge volumes of self-glorification the Americans are so fond of producing. The title says, "Demonstrating that we have achieved a position of equality with the foremost nations of the civilized world in one hundred years of independent national existence." Quite true! But one important little item seems always left out in these calculations, and that is, that the countries of the old world are the nurseries of American producers. The United States import their wealthproducers ready-made, without being at the trouble and expense of rearing them. Many of these wealth-producers take accumulated capital over with them, all adding to the prosperity of their adopted country, and to the same extent impoverishing the countries from which they emigrate.

ADMIRAL DAHLGREN.-Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, have published a memoir of John A. Dahlgren, RearAdmiral of the United States Navy, by his widow, Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren. Curiously enough, the two scientific officers of the United States Navy, Ericsson and Dahlgren, were both of Swedish origin, and indeed both originally bore the same patronymic of Eric-sson or Ersson the Dahlgrens having had Royal licence to adopt that surname from Dahlen, where the family belonged, and grén signifying a branch or bough. Admiral Dahlgren did good service for the United States, though he had not the good fortune to have been concerned in such brilliant operations as those of Farragut and Porter, yet he contributed as much as those officers to the preservation of the Union by the efficient manner in which he maintained the blockade of the Southern Atlantic ports when the enemies of the Union were on the look-out for any pretence to get an International declaration of its being non-effective.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES.-Under this general title it is intended to issue from time to time a series of studies in historical and political science. Parts 1 to 6 have already appeared. The first is an Introduction to American Institutional History by E. A. Freeman, D.C.L., LL.D. The historian of the Norman Conquest" in 1881 paid a visit to his son, who had become a Virginia planter, and whilst in America he had an opportunity of examining into State Institutions there, and of tracing their connexion with those of Anglo-Norman times. Following in the same vein as Mr. Freeman's paper comes the second of the series, "The Germanic Origin of New England Towns" by Herbert B. Adams, Ph.D., with Notes on Co-operation in New York" by the same gentleman, who is the Editor of the

"Local Government in Illinois" by Albert Shaw, A.B., and "Local Government in Pennsylvania" by E. R. L. Gould, A.B. The more recent issues are, iv. "Saxon Tithing-Men in America," a paper read before the American Antiquarian Society, Oct. 21, 1881, by the editor; v. "Local Government in Michigan and the North-west," read before the American Social Science Association, Sept. 7, 1882. by E. W. Bemis; and vi. "Parish Institutions of Maryland, with Illustrations from Parish Records," by E. Ingle. The future historian will find in these "Studies" of the Johns Hopkins University material ready to his hand, which it would be considerable trouble to search out and digest for himself; therefore we look upon them as a very useful collection of historical monographs.

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.-The Bulletins of the American Geographical Society, No. 3, 1882, and No. 1, 1883, are just issued. Articles on the River Beni, by Dr. G. R. Heath, on the Frontiers of the United States, by Gen. G. L. Viele, are in the first-mentioned number; the latter named contains a map of the various cessions to the States since 1785. No. 1, 1883, contains an article on the Dutch in South Africa, by Col. Alfred Aylward, which mentions that the Transvaal produces a little gold, though from recent discoveries it seems probable that it will turn out to be the richest gold-field in the world. Mr. T. H. Lambert also contributes an article on the Origin of the Name of America from the National History of the Peruvians.

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AS A SOLDIER SAW IT.— Although rather late in the day, "Bullet and Shell, or the War as the Soldier saw it," published by Messrs. Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, New York, claims a place among the many works that have been published on the great contest between North and South. It is by Mr. Geo. F. Williams, one of the actors in the great drama. The following quotation will give an idea of the style of the author:- 66 Lincoln, Seward, Stanton.-The contrast presented by these three distinguished men, as I talked, was a striking one. Lincoln's homely but expressive features seemed to lighten up as he listened to my description of some exciting scene. He appeared to see the awful vortex of death and flame, as the Nineteenth Corps moved on into it to relieve the pressure on the Sixth. His lips parted, and he straightened his tall form, when I spoke of the rapidity of the artillery fire, and the flash of the bright sabres of the cavalry drawn in the sunshine. He was, for the moment, on the ground itself; and his mind ran ahead of my words, and saw with his own eyes the entire scene of operations. Seward was fully as much interested and carried away as his chief, though he manifested it in a totally different way. His shaggy eyebrows fell lower as he leaned forward gazing at my diagrams, and he gave

an audible sigh of relief or satisfaction when I came to a turning-point in the tide of battle. Stanton stood up almost behind me; and he would ask a brief question now and then, which showed how well he grasped the situation. His voice was, however, calmed and collected, and his soft eyes glistened through his spectacles as he stroked his luxuriant black beard."

SAN JUAN DE NICARAGUA.-Don Manual M. de Peralta has published a brochure in Madrid and Paris on the rights d the Republics of Costa Rica and Nicaragua in connection with the river San Juan de Nicaragua, which was once pro posed as the route for an inter-oceanic canal. M. de Peralta's pamphlet enters very fully into the history of th matter, and of all the documents and treaties connected with it.

SYDNEY (N.S.W.) FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.-How they spread the means of education in this Colony! The Truste of the Sydney Free Public Library have announced ther intention of circulating boxes of books amongst the country" villages. Each box will contain about sixty volam selected from the most sterling works relating to biograp history, travels, science, art, etc. Such books only will included as are of the highest merit in each class, and as beyond the ability of small local libraries to purchase. E box will be followed by another in regular rotation, so t every "up country" station may in a course of time (long short-fixed by itself) have had access to the best book all subjects, equally as if its inhabitants resided in the capita How many "sleepy hollows" and "villages of falling waten are there in this the "old country," who would delight to favoured with such means of using up their spare hours. are almost tempted to pack up our traps and emigrate by the next Orient Line Steamer.

THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE.-Under this title Messrs. P & Scott, St. Paul's Churchyard, publish a very useful te guide for emigrants, giving distances and fares to var parts of British America, with such information as to com passages, fares, and steamers required by all emigrat together with tables of the difference between Greenwith mean time and the principal places throughout the w etc. This little guide is divided into four parts-Cand, Australia, New Zealand, and Cape Colony.

BOOKS RECEIVED.-American Antiquarian, Jan. 18Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Se of British Guiana, Vol I. Part 2, Dec. 1882.-Grant (Robert The Lambs, a Tragedy, J. R. Osgood and Co.-Bullet the Archæological Institute of America, January. 1883.-D Harlez on M. Luquiens' Criticism, reply to a Le delivered to the American Oriental Society, Oct. 26, 1862– Macfi's Patent Bills of 1883. Fortieth Annual Report of the Managers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utta

COOLEY.-Mr. W. Desborough Cooley, the writer on African geography, died on the 1st of March last. Though not a traveller himself, Mr. Cooley took great interest in African exploration, and though some of his theories on that subject have been proved erroneous, he was the first to treat in a scientific manner questions which have since been solved by actual experience.

Dozy. The University of Leyde and Oriental scholarship in general have sustained a severe loss thorough the death of Professor R. P. A. Dozy, who has succumbed to a pulmonary disease. He was born at Leyde in 1820, and was therefore 63 years at the time of his death. His researches into the History of the Arabs in N. W. Africa and in Spain during the Middle Ages will always entitle him to a foremost place among the historians of the second half of the 19th century. We add a list of Professor Dozy's works.

Recherches sur l'histoire politique et littéraire de l'Espagne pendant le moyen-âge. Vol. I. 8vo. Leyde, 1849. Notices sur quelques manuscrits arabes. 8vo. Leyde, 1851. Recherches sur l'histoire politique et littéraire de l'Espagne pendant le moyen-âge. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Leyde, 1860.

Le Cid d'après de nouveaux documents. 8vo. Leyde, 1860. Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, jusqu'à la conquête de l'Andalousie par les Almarovides (711-1110). 4 vols. 8vo. Leyde, 1861.

Die Israëliten zu Mekka. 8vo. Leyde, 1864.

Oratio de causis cur Mohammedanorum cultura et humanitas prae ea quae christianorum est imminuta et corrupta sit. 8vo. Leyde, 1869.

Lettre à Mr. Fleischer contenant des remarques critiques et explicatives sur le texte d'Al-Makkari. 8vo. Leyde, 1871.

Le calendrier de Cordoue de l'année 961. Texte arabe # ancienne traduction latine. Svo. Leyde, 1873. Supplément au dictionnaires arabes. 8 parts. 4to. Lepin 1877-81.

Essai sur l'histoire de l'Islamisme. Traduit par V. Chauria 8vo. Leyde, 1849.

Dozy et Engelmann, Glossaire des mots espagnols portugais dérivés de l'Arabe. Second edition. Sa Leyde, 1879.

Abdol-Wahid al Marrekoshi. The history of the Almohala Edited from a MS. in the Library of Leyde, by R. P. A Dozy. 8vo. Leyde, 1847.

Al-Makkari. Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature Arabes d'Espagne, publiés par R. Dozy, G. Dugat, L Krehl, et W. Wright. 2 vols. 4to. Leyde, 1855-61 Edrisi, Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne. Ter arabe publié pour la première fois des MSS. de Paris d'Oxford, avec une traduction, des notes et un glossa par R. Dozy et M. J. de Goeje. 8vo. Leyde, 1866. Ibn-Adhari, Histoire de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne, intitule Al-Bayano 'l-Mogrib. Publié avec des notes et glossaire par R. P. A. Dozy. 2 vols. 8vo. Leyd 1848-51.

Ibn-Badroun. Commentaire historique sur le poème d'IbnAbdoun, publie avec des notes, un glossaire et un index de noms propres par R. P. A. Dozy. 8vo. Leyde, 1848. GREENE.-Prof. George Washington Greene, of Cornell University, died Feb. 2, in his 72nd year, at East Greenwich, R.I., at his residence, Windmill Cottage. He was the grandson of Major-Gen. Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary times. whose life he wrote. He was the author of several schoolbooks and important historical volumes.

Edition, greatly Enlarged. 12mo, cloth. Boston. 15s.

Adams (H. B.)-Saxon Tithing-men in America. Read before the American Antiquarian Society, Oct. 21, 1881. 8vo. paper, pp. iv. and 23. Baltimore. Is. 6d. Adams (J. G., D.D.) — Fifty Notable Years; Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism during the Last Half Century; with Biographical Sketches. 12mo. cloth, pp. iv. and 336. With Portraits. Boston. 10s. Besides the biographical sketches, we have an account of the rise nd progress of the Universalist Church in America; its place in the eformatory work of the last fifty years; its present status; its ducational resources and aspects; its definite organized work; its issionary spirit and intent, with an outlook into the future. Amerikanischer Turner-Kalender für das Jahr 1883. Fourth Year. 12mo. paper. Milwaukee (Wis.). 1s. 6d.

Ames (J. J.), Spofford (A. R.), and Baird (S. F.) -Report regarding the Publication and Distribution of Public Documents; submitted, in Compliance with a Resolution of the House of Representatives adopted Aug. 8, 1882. 8vo. paper, pp. ii. and 66. Washington (D.C.). This report dwells specially upon the great number of documents rinted by authority of Congress and the lack of system and economy 1 their distribution. It has been found, after repeated inquiries, that ot more than one in eight of the principal libraries of the country supplied by Congress with the documents published for general istribution. Besides the report and the proposed Bill and resoluons providing for the printing and distribution of public documents, ntains "Tabulated statement of the documents of the 46th Congress ad of the 47th Congress, first session," and "Acts and resolutions of ongress, permanent or continuous, in their operation governing the rinting and distribution of public documents."

Angier (Mrs. A. L.)-Poems. 16mo. cloth, pp. viii. and 245. Boston. 7s. 6d.

"Mrs. Angier's poems are full of earnest Christian faith and moral purpose. . . . Some of them are very charming."-Boston Advertiser.

Archibald (F. A., D.D.)-Methodism and Litera

ture: a Series of Articles from several Writers on the Literary Enterprise and Achievements of the Methodist Episcopal Church; with a Catalogue of Select Books for the Home, Church, and Sunday-School. 12mo. cloth, pp. 427. Cincinnati. 7s. 6d.

Armsby (H. P.) and Jenkins (E. H.) The

Farmer's Annual Hand-Book for 1883. Revised and Enlarged. 16mo. cloth, pp. 222. New York. 2s. 6d. Bailey (G. S., D.D.)-The Word and Works of God. 12mo. cloth, pp. 255. Philadelphia. 5s. An argument for the divine authority of the Bible. Baldwin (J.)-An Introduction to the Study of English Literature and Literary Criticism; Designed for the Use of Schools, Seminaries. Colleges, and Universities. In 2 Vols. Vol. II. Prose. 12mo, cloth, pp. xii. and 570. Philadelphia. 12s. 6d.

Designed as a guide and also as a practical introduction to the study of the best and most notable works in the English language. In the "Index of authors" will be found a brief biography with a list of works under each name.

Bancroft (G.)-History of the United States from the Discovery of the Continent to the Establishment of the Constitution in 1789. New Edition, partly rewritten and thoroughly revised. In 6 vols. Vol. I. 8vo. cloth. New York. 12s. 6d.

Bar (L.) International Law: Private and Criminal; Translated, with Notes. By G. R. Gillespie. 8vo. cloth, pp. xxxii. and 766. Boston. £1 16s. Bartholow (R., M.D.)-Treatise on the Practice of Medicine; for the Use of Students and Practitioners. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo. cloth, pp. 918.

Bates (Katherine L.)-The Wedding-Day Book, with the Congratulations of the Poets. Square 16mo. cloth, pp. v. 429. Illustrated. Boston. 10s.

Arranged with verses and corresponding blanks for autographs under each date of the year.

Beard (G. M., M.D.)-Herbert Spencer on American Nervousness: a Scientific Coincidence. 8vo. cloth, pp. 17. New York. 2s. 6d.

Bibliotheca Americana, 1883. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America. 8vo. paper, pp. viii. and 308. Cincinnati. 2s. 6d. Contains nearly 7000 works on America, including history, travels, biography, genealogy, bibliography, rebellion, Confederate publica tions. Indians and archæology, Central America, South America, West Indies, and the various States of the United States.

Bishop (W. H.)-The House of a MerchantPrince a Novel of New York. 12mo. cloth, pp. iv. and 420. Boston. 7s. 6d.

Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly.

Bjornson (B.)-Magnhild: From the Norse by 12mo. cloth,

Rasmus B. Anderson. pp. 223. Boston. 5s.

Author's Edition.

Completes the present series of Björnson's works.

Blake (Mary E.)-On the Wing: Rambling Notes of a Trip to the Pacific. 16mo. cloth, pp. viii. and 235. Boston. 5s.

A fresh and entertaining volume of travel and adventure, across the Continent, and through Colorado and California, recorded in a series of graphic and brilliantly written sketches.

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