book is increased by a series of short biographies of all the poets represented in the collec

tion.

W. H. H. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES, BARKACK ROOM BALLADS, AND OTHER VERSES. By Rudyard Kipling. 270 pp. Cloth, $1.25. New York: United States Book Company. 1890. Rudyard Kipling's "Barrack-room Ballads " are as original as his short stories, and that is saying a very great deal. The weird pathos of 66 Danny Dever," the dry sarcasm of "Tommy" and "the Sons of the Widow," and the life-like realism of "Screw-guns " show how many-sided is the genius of the young author, whose work is by far the most interesting literary product of the present time. He knows "Tommy Atkins" thoroughly, and he writes his life from the inside. His barrack-room ballads have a swing to them that makes them almost sing themselves. The "Departmental Ditties" and the other poems in the book are hardly less worthy of praise for their originality and their wholesome humor. The Lovells have put the poems out in handsome style.

W. H. H.

A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH AND OTHER VERSES. By Edward Sanford Martin. 91 pp. Cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1890.

Mr. Martin's attractively-printed little volume is "inscribed to the editor of the Sun, with the somewhat disquieting consciousness that he knows poetry when he sees it." Mr. Dana, like other readers, will find very little poetry in the book. It contains, however, some witty verses, the odd humor of which, shown alike in phrase and in sentiment, gives to them a peculiar charm, in spite of their somewhat pessimistic flavor. Of special interest to Harvard men is "Ad Sodales," which was read at a supper of the class of '77, Harvard College, June 27, 1882, and which commemorates incidentally a vivid inscription that still appears faintly in damp weather on the front of University Hall.

W. H. H.

MANNERS, GOOD AND BAD. 62 pp. Cloth, 75 cents. New York: F. A. Stokes Company. 1890.

People who need to depend for their good manners upon books will undoubtedly find this new digest of social laws as good as any other of equal size. Its suggestions are generally sensible, and the book is not overloaded with arbitrary rules about inconsequential matters. All the books of etiquette that have ever been printed, however, could not make a gentleman.

W. H. H.

AN ADIRONDACK CABIN. By Margaret Sidney. Illustrated. 432 pp. Boards, $1.75. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. 1890.

Although "An Adirondack Cabin" is a book intended for young people, it is made interesting to grown folks by the fine halftone reproductions of photographs of Adiron

dack scenery, with which the story is illustrated. It seems a pity that in direct contrast with these beautiful pictures should be printed such cheap and unsatisfactory pen drawings as are scattered through the text, and also that the book should be enclosed in such a gaudy cover. The story itself is, like all of "Margaret Sidney's" books, bright and healthful, and the incidents of a family summer outing in that wilderness, where the visitor may travel for hundreds of miles in an open boat over lakes and rivers, through unbroken forests, and yet take his three meals a day- or four, if he likes

at a good hotel, are graphically described. To those who have visited the Adirondacks the full-page pictures alone are "worth the price of the book."

W. H. H.

A LOYAL LITTLE RED-COAT. By Ruth Ogden. Illustrated. 217 pp. Cloth, $2.00. New York: F. A. Stokes Company. 1890.

Child-life in New York a hundred years ago is depicted in "A Loyal Little Red-coat," in which children into whose hands the book may fortunately come cannot fail to take keen delight. "Ruth Ogden" is one of the best of children's story-tellers, and in the new field which she has entered she has found new material, which makes her book one of special interest. The historical allusions in the story are based on fact, but it is by no means a dose of history in the guise of fiction. Without being " preachy in the least, it inculcates good moral lessons, and any boy or girl will be wiser and better for having read it.

W. H. H.

THE HISTORIC SCHOOLS OF PAINTING. By D. L. Hoyt. 202 pp. Cloth, $1.00. Boston: Ginn & Company. 1890. In "The Historic Schools of Painting," the author, who is an instructor in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, aims to give, in condensed form, some general knowledge of the principal historic schools of painting. Art, the study of a lifetime, cannot be boiled down into a little handbook; but the student who wishes merely to get a smattering of art knowledge, and the names of the most noted painters of the various schools, may find this book useful. Still, on the other hand, it is a question whether this fragmentary knowledge is worth having, and whether frank ignorance is not better than superficiality.

E. A. T.

LOVE POEMS OF THREE CENTURIES. 1590-1890. Compiled by Jessie F. O'Donnell. Vol. I., 348 pp. Vol. II., 364 pp. Cloth, $2.00. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1890.

The word "dainty" has been overworked in describing successive volumes of the Knickerbocker Nuggets Series, but what other word can be so aptly applied to them? These two new volumes certainly give an exquisite setting to the gems of poetry selected from the love poems of the last three hundred years. The

compiler has shown good taste in making her selections, and her collection contains many heart lyrics that will last through all time, and be read with new sympathy and appreciation by every new generation of lovers. No such satisfactory anthology of love poems has ever before been published.

THE ELEMENTS OF ASTRONOMY.

W. H. H.

By Charles A. Young, Ph. D., LL. D. 430 pp. $1.40. Boston: Ginn & Company. 1890.

Professor Young's "General Astronomy" is one of the best works on the subject ever published. This smaller volume presents the same information in a form adapted for high-school pupils, and is fully as valuable, considering its scope, as the larger work. The student of astronomy will find in it a safe and useful guide. The book contains a brief uranography covering the constellations visible in the United States.

W. H. H.

OPEN SESAME. Volume II. Edited by Blanche Wilder Bellamy and Maud Wilder Goodwin. 376 pp. Cloth, 90 cents. Boston: Ginn & Company. 1890.

The second volume of "Open Sesame" is not of equal interest with the first. It is a collection of poetry and prose to be committed to memory, and is designed especially to please boys and girls between the ages of ten and fourteen. It contains many gems of literature, but it also contains much that has no lasting value, and is certainly not worth memorizing.

BOOKS RECEIVED:

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BASIL AND ANNETTE. BY B. L. Farjeon. 440 pp. Paper, 50 cents. New York: United States Book Company. 1890. BLACK BEAUTY. By Anna Sewell. 231 pp. Paper, 25 cents. Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Company. 1890.

THE BURMAH TREASURE. By Stephen Paul Sheffield. 470 pp. Paper, 25 cents. Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Company. 1890.

THE GLADIATORS. By G. J. Whyte-Melville. 461 pp. Paper, 50 cents. Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Company. 1890...) THE ROMANCE OF A SPAHI. By Pierre Loti. 337 pp. Paper, 50 cents. Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Company. 1890.

NEW MUSIC RECEIVED:

From the White-Smith Music Publishing Company, 62 Stanhope street, Boston: Vocal - "Flowers for My Colleen," "Shamrocks and Kisses," "Norah Daly,' ," "The Knight Rode Gaily," Duncan B. Harrison; "The Flowers' Review," fourpart song, Franz Abt; "Sweet Katie Connor," Harry Dacre; "I Wait for Thee; or, In Old Madrid," trio, H. Trotère and Eben H. Bailey; "Shadows of the Past," George Howard. Instrumental - "Nocturne," A. Whistler; "Yours Always," waltz, A. Gwyllyn Crowe; "The Latest Fad," schottische, Frank H. Russell; "La Valse des Nymphes," Irving A. Blossom; "Hurdle Race Galop," C. A. White; "Spanish Fandango," introduced in "Paul Jones," Alfred J. Caldicott; "Bourrée," R. Planquette; "Happy Hearts Galop," John T. Clark; "Menuet," J. J. Paderewski; "Paul Jones Waltzes," B. M. Davison; "Marche des Troubadours," transcription, C. C. Stearns; "Paul Jones," quadrille, arranged by Charles Coote; "Sabot Dance," introduced in "Paul Jones," Alfred J. Caldicott.

LUCK IN LITERATURE. William Matthews, L.L. D. North American Review for December.

VICTOR HUGO: EN VOYAGE. Algernon Charles Swinburne. North American Review for December.

LITERARY BOSTON. With Portraits of W. D. Howells, Louise Chandler Moulton, T. W. Higginson, Louise Imogene Guiney, Arlo Bates, Edwin Lassetter Bynner, Oscar Fay Adams, Robert Grant, Edward Everett Hale, James Jeffrey Roche, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Dr. A. P. Peabody. Lilian Whiting. Cosmopolitan for December.

BENJAMIN P. SHILLABER. With Portrait. Harper's Weekly for December 3.

REPORT OF CONFERENCE OF LIBRARIANS AT FABYAN'S, SEPTEMBER 8-11, 1890. Library Journal (170 pp.) for December.

A TALK ABOUT READING. Charles Dudley Warner. St. Nicholas for January.

How I BECAME A JOURNALIST. M. De Blowitz. Harper's Magazine for January.

TYPOGRAPHICAL BLUNDERS. A. W. Cooley. Reprinted from Toledo Blade in Toronto Mail for December 23. BOOKBINDING AT THE GROLIER. New York Times for December 25.

A NOVELIST OF THE JURA. (T. Combe.) Monthly for January.

Atlantic

How A NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY IS MADE. Printers' Ink for December 24.

EMERSON AND HIS FRIENDS IN CONCORD. With Portrait. Frank B. Sanborn. New England Magazine for December. CARE IN NEWS AND MISCELLANY. Reprinted from National Journalist in Press and Printer for December 20. ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY. Sophie de Suzzara-Verdi. Analostan Magazine (Washington) for January.

LITERATURE AND THE EXPOSITION. Maurice Thompson. A merica for December 11.

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. New York Observer for December 1I.

TENNYSON AT HOME. Eugene L. Didier. No Name Magazine for December.

MARGARET SIDNEY. With Portrait. Mrs. John A. Logan. Home Magazine (Washington) for December.11

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. With Portrait." Jennie E. Keysor. Popular Educator ( Poston) for December.

THE COPYRIGHT BILL. Christian Union for December 11. MARY RUSSELL MITFORD. Reprinted from Temple Bar in Literary Digest for December 15.

FRANK A. BURRELI E. Allan Forman. Spirit (New York) for December.

THE EVOLUTION OF COPYRIGHT. Brander Matthews. Political Science Quarterly for December.

NEWSPAPER REPORTING AND REPORTERS. "F. P. C." Shorthand Review (Chicago) for December.

MUSIC, OR THE TONE PORTKY. John Vance Cheney. Cverland Monthly for January. I

FRIEND OLIVIA." Frederic M. Bird. Lippincott's Magazine for January.

CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK. With Fortrait. Househeeper's Weekly ( Philadelphia ) for December 6.

EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. Alfred R. Calhoun. Neusdealer and Stationer (Brooklyn) for December. I

STEINIAK. With Pertrait. Chicago Post for December 23. KIFLING VS. HARFER AND EROS. Rudyard Kipling's Letter to Londen Athen arm reprinted in America fer Decenler 4. CHICAGO WRITERS. With Fortraits of Joseph Kirkland and Eugene Field. America for December 11.

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A floating item says that the author of "Society as I Found It" received for writing it the sum of $5,000 outright, and a royalty of twenty cents a copy in addition. Another item says that $5,000 is the average sum a successful dramatist can command for a good play. sum is usually paid in instalments, $500 being paid the author when ordering the work, another $500 or $1,000 on its completion, and the balance in weekly royalties, until the purchase price agreed upon is paid in full, after which the author has no further claim on his creation.

The late General Terry was a brother of Rose Terry Cooke.

The next volume in the "Great Writers Series" will be a "Life of Thackeray," to be published this month. This biography was begun by Herman Merivale, who, however, found himself unable to finish it before leaving England, and it has been completed by Frank T. Marzials.

W. J. Henderson, the musical critic of the New York Times, has just finished a novel, which he hopes to publish first as a serial. He is also engaged upon a serial for the Youth's Companion, the action taking place on and around Lake Erie in the war of 1812. He is at the same time getting together his poems, which are now enough to make a book.

James H. Connelly, author of the theosophical romance, "Neila Sen," is a native of Pittsburg, who for many years has occupied a prominent position in New York journalism.

The newest Southern writer is Mrs. B. H. Shortridge, who writes under the pen-name of "Belle Hunt," and is attracting favorable notice.

Among the features of the Forum for 1891 will be "Results of the Census," a series of articles by General Francis A. Walker; results of the latest research and of the most recent achievements in all important lines of work, in science and in industry, by specialists: for examples, Dr. Austin Flint will write on "Dr. Koch's Discovery"; Dr. Richard Gatling on the "Development of Fire-arms"; Frank H. Cushing on "The Hemenway Expedition "; Gaston Tissandier, the French scientist, "Dirigeable Balloons "; Professor Emile de Laveleye on "The Partition of Africa"; and so on; political discussions by the leaders of opinions of both parties in the United States, and by foreign statesmen; "Shibboleths of the Time," a series of critical examinations of popular opinions, by W. S. Lilly, the British essayist; autobiographical essays, a series to which some of the most noted men of the time, American and British, have already contributed; discussions of social and religious problems in the United States; and literary articles, discussing the tendencies of literary work along all directions of activity, by the foremost critical writers.

The Week (Toronto) recently offered prizes of $50, $30, $20, and $10 for four short stories of a distinctively Canadian character. In response to this offer the editor received one hundred and eight manuscripts. The Week has a new editor, T. E. Moberly, who is a lawyer by profession, but has a decided preference for literature.

Rev. Francis Edward Marston, whose poems, "Songs of Life," have just been issued by the D. Lothrop Company, is a busy minister of Columbus, Ohio.

"Is Verse in Danger?" a literary essay on the outlook for poetry, by Edmund Gosse, is one of the features of the January Forum.

Six hundred copies of "The Divine Child,” by Mary Irwin, were sold on the day of publication.

Good Housekeeping (Springfield) is more attractive than ever in its new 'form. Beginning with the January number, it will be published monthly, instead of twice a month, as heretofore. Good Housekeeping has been a success from the beginning, and no woman who has ever been a subscriber will willingly keep house without it.

The twenty-fifth volume of the Magazine of American History, New York, is opened with a most attractive January number.

There is reported to be a steady sale for Margaret Fuller's writings.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's elder son, Lionel, a boy of fourteen, died in Paris Sunday, December 7. This boy was not the supposed original of "Little Lord Fauntleroy"; that was the younger son, Vivian, who is in America with his father, Dr. S. M. Burnett, of Washing

ton.

A correspondent of the American writes: "I am happy to say that the reports about Alphonse Daudet's failing health have been greatly exaggerated. He has never had a malady of the spinal column. Last summer he suffered from rheumatic pains in his legs, and was for a while unable to walk, but now these pains have disappeared. His mind has never been more brilliant than it is at present, and he has lost none of his exuberant gaiety."

Miss Lizette Woodworth Reese is a Balti more girl, whose first volume of verse, "A Branch of May," was full of promise, says the Epoch. She makes teaching her serious business in life, and rhymes by way of recreation. She has another volume now in press. Its title is "A Handful of Lavender," and doubtless it is full enough of fragrance to deserve the name. Miss Reese has a typical Southern face, with soft eyes, delicate features, and a tender, smiling mouth. She first saw New York society under the auspices of Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who is one of her most ardent admirers.

Maurice Thompson is one of those fortunate authors who can seek his own place to do work, and at present he is comfortably nestled in a flower-covered bower "way down in Mississippi." He gracefully writes of the spot: "As I write the fragrance of roses is in my nostrils, and the gulf waves are roaring sweetly. It is a place of joyance, where I come every winter to work with open doors, and with the salt breeze blowing through my room."

Charles G. D. Roberts, the Canadian poet, will publish a volume of his verse this winter.

John J. á Becket's story, "Don Gracias," in the January Cosmopolitan, is illustrated in a novel manner. The well-known actors, Sothern and Miss Harned, consented to pose for the situations of the novel, and the results have been reproduced in photogravure.

The January number of Current Literature appears in a new form, with twice as many pages as before, of the size and style of the standard magazines. The change is an undoubted improvement. With the February

number the form of Short Stories will be changed to that of Current Literature, so that the two publications - both issued by the Cur rent Literature Publishing Company, New York will be of uniform style. The success of these two periodicals has been thoroughly well deserved. They are edited with marked ability, and during the year they furnish a vast amount of good reading at a very low price.