for manual-training schools; Francis C. Moore told "How to Build a Home: The House Practical"; the first of five parts which will contain "The Universal Carpenter and Joiner and Wood Worker's Assistant," compiled and edited by Frederick T. Hodgson was issued; "One Hundred and Fifteen Experiments on the Carrying Capacity of Large Riveted Metal Conduits up to Six Feet per Second of Velocity of Flow were recorded by Clemens Herschel; and Freeman C. Coffin offered "The Graphical Solution of Hydraulic Problems treating of the Flow of Water through Pipes, in Channels and Sewers, over Weirs, etc." The principles and practice of "Sanitary House Drainage' came from T. E. Coleman, and "Sewer Flushing Diagrams" from S. H. Adams. "Water and Public Health," by James H. Fuertes, examined the relative purity of waters from different sources; D. B. Dixon compiled "The Mechanical Arts simplified," a work of reference; Thomas B. Stillman wrote on "Engineering Chemistry"; and Guilford L. Spencer was. the author of "A Handbook for Chemists of BeetSugar Houses and Seed-Culture Farms." Three volumes of "Principles and Practice of Agricultural Chemical Analysis," by Harvey W. Wiley, were devoted respectively to "Soils," "Fertilizers," and "Agricultural Products"; a seventh revised and enlarged edition was issued of Francis Humphreys Storer's "Agriculture in Some of its Relations with Chemistry"; Isaac Phillips Roberts wrote on "The Fertility of the Land"; and Liberty Hyde Bailey on "The Principles of Fruit Growing" for the "Rural Science Series"; and the latter author also contributed "The Forcing Book," a manual of the cultivation of vegetables in glass houses to the "Garden Craft Series." The twentieth edition of "The American Fruit Culturist," by John J. Thomas, was revised and enlarged by William H. S. Wood, and illustrated with nearly 800 accurate figures; "Tobacco Leaf: Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture" was a practical handbook by J. B. Killebrew and Herbert Myrick; and John B. Smith sent out an "Economic Entomology." Mrs. Lizzie Page Hillhouse told of "House Plants and how to Succeed with them"; William Tricker gave directions for "The Water Garden"; and N. Jönsson Rose illustrated his own work on "Lawns and Gardens." Herbert Myrick edited "Turkeys and how to Grow them." Harry Snyder investigated "The Chemistry of Dairying," while "Testing Milk and its Products" was a manual for dairy students, creamery and cheese-factory operators, and dairy farmers, by Edward H. Farrington and Frederic W. Woll. George Perkins Merrill published "Rocks, Rock Gathering, and Soils," and a second edition was sent out of his "Stones for Building and Decoration." "The Chemistry of Pottery" was a useful contribution by K. Langenbeck. "The Story of the Cowboy," by E. Hough, continued the Story of the West Series," and was illustrated by W. L. Wells and C. M. Russell; and "The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life" came from N. E. Jones, M. D. Z. W. Pease told of the rescue of the Irish Fenian prisoners by means of "The Catalpa Expedition," and "An American Transport in the Crimean War," by John Codman, had an introduction by John C. Ropes. William Starling gave a brief account of "The Floods of the Mississippi River," their causes and effects, and also of the levee system and other means proposed and tried for the control of the river, with a particular account of the great flood of 1897; "Notes on the Nicaragua Canal" were made by Henry L. Sheldon; and "Fighting a Fire," the spirited description of the technique of the fire department, by Charles T. Hill, was illustrated from drawings made by the author. "A Century of Lotteries in

Rhode Island, 1744-1844," with 41 facsimile illustrations of tickets and sundry documents, by John H. Stiness, formed No. 3 of the second series of Historical Tracts" of that State. "Crucifixion," by John H. Osborne, gave an historical account of that method of punishment by the Romans, with special reference to that of Christ. Books of practical use include: Punctuation," by F. Horace Teall; Why we Punctuate; or, Reason vs. Rule in the Use of Marks." by an anonymous journalist; “Modern Bookkeeping: Single and Double Entry," by James L. Montgomery; "The Self-Proving Accounting System," by A. O. Kittredge and J. F. Brown; and "An Elementary Treatise on the Metric System of Weights and Measures," by James Hamlin Smith. Vol. II of "Cotton Spinning," by William Scott Taggart, was issued; C. F. Seymour Rothwell was an authority on "The Printing of Textile Fabrics"; and "Bleaching and Calico Printing" were handled by George D. Duerr and William Turnbull. Polarizing Photochronograph was an account of experiments at the United States Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., in developing this instrument, by Albert Cushing Crehore and George Owen Squier; and W. I. Lincoln Adams edited "Sunlight and Shadow," a book for photographers, amateur and professional. Incompatibilities in Prescriptions" were exposed by E. A. Ruddiman, and A. Emil Hiss was the author of the "Standard Manual of Soda and Other Beverages." a treatise especially adapted to the requirements of druggists and confectioners, For housekeepers there was a course of lectures

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"Household Economics," given before the School of Economics of the University of Wisconsin, by Mrs. Helen Campbell; "Instruction in Cooking," with selected receipts, by Mrs. John W. Cringan; and a special edition of "The Century Cook Book and Home Physician," by Jennie N. Hensey and N. T. Oliver, M. D. "The Cook Book of ‘Oscar' of the Waldorf" was an expensive volume. "Beauty and Hygiene" were the subject of an anonymous volume; Dorothy Quigley explained “The Way to keep Young," and told "What Dress makes of us"; and Jessica Ortner gave hints on “Practical Millinery." The Army Mule and Other War Sketches," by Henry A. Castle, contained also James Whitcomb Riley's stories of the humorist Bill Nye, as reported in an interview by Russell M. Seeds;

A. Hopkins compiled and edited "Magic Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions." Lulu Hurst, the Georgia wonder, now Mrs. Paul Atkinson, wrote her Autobiography," and for the first time explained and demonstrated the great secret of her marvelous powers. Vol. II appeared of "The Commercial Yearbook," edited by Walter A. Dodsworth; "Commercial Precedents selected from the columns of replies and decisions of the New York "Journal of Commerce," with selected decisions from other sources, were the work of Charles Putzel and H. A. Bähr; and "Fowler's Publicity" was an encyclopædia of advertising and printing and all that pertains to the public-seeing side of business, by Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. The "Handbook of the New Library of Congress' was compiled by Herbert Small, and contained essays on the architecture, sculpture, and painting, by Charles Coffin, and on the function of a national library, by Ainsworth R. Spofford. Works of reference published during the year included Part V of the "American Catalogue, 1890-'95," completing that work, originally founded by Frederick Leypoldt, and compiled under the editorial direction of R. R. Bowker; The Annual Literary Index, 1896," by William I. Fletcher and R. R. Bowker; the third supplement to "Poole's Index to Periodical Literature," compiled by William I. Fletcher and Franklin O. Poole, covering from Jan. 1, 1892, to Dec. 31, 1896; American Book Prices Current for 1897," compiled by Luther S. Livingston, a record of books, manuscripts, and autographs sold at auction in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, and other cities in a limited edition; the "New American Supplement to the Latest Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,”” in 5 volumes, edited by Day Otis Kellogg; and Vol. XX of “Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia, 1895."

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Nugget," compiled by Max Maury; "Klondike, the Land of Gold," by Charles F. Stansbury; "Klondike and all about it," and the "Official Guide to the Klondyke Country and the Gold Fields of Alaska," both last anonymous. In conclusion we have "Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast," by Edmund H. Garrett, with many little picturings, authentic or fanciful, and "Walks and Rides in the Country round about Boston," by Edwin Munroe Bacon, covering thirty-six cities and towns, parks, and public reservations within a radius of twelve miles from the Statehouse.

The table on p. 465 gives the figures of book production during 1897, as compared with that of 1896, from the columns of the " Publishers' Weekly." LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1897. In this year 7,926 books were published in England, an increase of 1,353 over the 6,573 recorded in 1896; and of this number 6,244 were new books and 1,682 new editions.

Theological works showed a marked increase in numbers, as did educational works, works of his tory and biography, poetry and the drama, as well as yearbooks and volumes of belles-lettres, but the greatest increase by far was in the department of fiction, 300 more new novels having been published than in 1896, so that on an average 38 a week were sent from the press, while 200 more new editions were also published than saw the light the preceding year. In our own country 657 volumes represented the total output of works of fiction, including new editions, by American authors. These figures in both countries cover juvenile books. In the department of biography, in particular, notable additions were made to the lasting literature of Great Britain.

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Biography. The jubilee year gave rise to numerous biographies of the Queen, who both in her regal office and in her womanhood occupies the most commanding position at the close of the century. Among them may be noted "Sixty Years a Queen," by Sir Herbert Maxwell, illustrated; "The Personal Life of Queen Victoria," by Mrs. Sarah A. Tooley, and "The Private Life of the Queen," by one of her Majesty's servants," C. Arthur Pearson; "Queen Victoria: Her Sixty Years' Reign and Diamond Jubilee," by Charles Morris; "Queen Victoria," by R. R. Holmes, illustrated, and a new edition of "The Life of Queen Victoria," by Mrs. M. G. Fawcett. Perhaps the most important book published in England during the year, certainly the most eagerly expected and warmly welcomed, was "Alfred Tennyson: A Memoir," by his son, Lord Hallam Tennyson, in two volumes, with photogravure portraits, facsimiles of portions of poems, and illustrations by Mrs. Allingham, Richard Doyle, Biscombe Gardner, etc. Written by the desire of the poet, and with the fullest sympathetic insight, it is à filial tribute of an unusual order. To literary biography belong also "The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning," edited, with biographical additions, by Frederick G. Kenyon, in two volumes, full of the subtlest charm, and "The Life of Ernest Renan," by Madame James Darmesteter, which received the highest encomiums. Yet another of the books which make the year a red-letter one was the posthumous "Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and his Sons, their Magazine and Friends," of which only the first two volumes were completed, by Mrs. Margaret O. W. Oliphant. "The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton was the title given to the story of her life told in part by herself and in part by W. H. Wilkins, in connection with which must be mentioned "The True Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton," by his niece, Georgiana M. Stisted, with the authority and approval of the Burton family. "William Morris:

His Art, his Writings, and his Public Life," by Aylmer Vallance, contained 40 half-tone reproductions of designs by Morris, and from Temple Scott we had "A Bibliography of the Works of William Morris." William Carew Hazlitt gave new particulars and new material concerning "The Lambs: Their Lives, their Friends, and their Correspondence," and Stephen Wheeler edited "Letters and Unpublished Writings of Walter Savage Landor." "The Brontës in Fact and Fiction" contained further information on that remarkable family, vouchsafed by Angus Mackay, while from Sir William Wilson Hunter we had "The Thackerays in India, and Some Calcutta Graves," which derives its interest chiefly from the "culminating genius" of the family, the distinguished novelist. "Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham, 1854-1870" were edited by George Birkbeck Hill, who also arranged and edited "Johnsonian Miscellanies," in two volumes. An event of the deepest interest to scholars was the final issue of "The Unpublished Works of Edward Gibbon," printed verbatim from manuscripts in the possession of the Earl of Sheffield, who contributed a preface to the three volumes, which contained respectively "The Six Autobiographies" (from which the well-known autobiography of Gibbon was largely compiled), edited by John Murray, and "Gibbon's Private Letters to his Father, his Stepmother, Lord Sheffield, and Others, from 1735 to 1794," edited with notes, etc., by Rowland E. Prothero. "Recollections of Aubrey de Vere," going back some sixty years, were filled with delightful details of the literary life and men of the period, while the personality of the author was revealed by suggestion only; "Notes from a Diary, 1851-1872," of Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, in two volumes, was another of the attractive autobiographies published during the year, full of anecdote, as was "A Passing World," by Bessie Rayner Parkes (Mme. Belloc), a granddaughter of Dr. Priestley and the author of Vignettes" and "In a Walled Garden." "Men I have known," by Dean Frederick W. Farrar, brought before us the great men of the Victorian era, who are again encountered in W. Robertson Nicoll's life of "James Macdonell, Journalist." "Four Generations of a Literary Family: The Hazlitts in England, Ireland, and America, 1725-1896" came to us from a member of the family, W. Carew Hazlitt; David Christie Murray described “My Contemporaries in Fiction"; Emily Soldene published "My Theatrical and Musical Recollections": and Alice Mangold Diehl, "Musical Memories" of illustrious names in the musical world. Wheel of Life" was the title of "a few memories and recollections" of Clement Scott, and “Literary Statesman, and Other Essays on Men seen from a Distance" came from Norman Hapgood. Two volumes contain "The Story of Gladstone's Life," by Justin McCarthy, and Vols. II and III also appeared of "The Political Life of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone," illustrated from Punch," completing the work which comprises more than 150 cartoons and 400 sketches in the text. "The Yoke of Empire: Sketches of the Queen's Prime Ministers' was by Reginald Baliol Brett; Charles E. Lyne contributed a Life of Sir Henry Parkes, G. Č. M. G., Australian Statesman"; and "Cecil Rhodes: A Biography and Appreciation," by "an Imperialist,” contained personal reminiscences by Dr. Jameson. “Rulers of India and the Chiefs of Rajputana" was by Brigade-Surgeon Lieut.-Col. Hendley, and Dr. George Smith selected "Twelve Indian Statesmen" as subjects for his pen. The "Life of Lord Cromer" was written by H. D. Traill; Robert Eadon Leader edited the "Life and Letters of John Arthur Roebuck," with chapters of autobiography, and “Lord

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Cochrane's Trial before Lord Ellenborough, in 1814," was reviewed by J. B. Atlay. The "Standard Series" received important additions: "HannibalSoldier, Statesman, Patriot," by William O'Connor Morris; "Robert the Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence," by Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell; and "The Cid Campeador and the Waning of the Crescent in the West," by H. Butler Clarke, appeared in the "Heroes of the Nations." In the series of Foreign Statesmen we had "Joseph II," by J. Franck Bright; William the Silent," by Frederic Harrison : "Charles the Great," by Thomas Hodgkin; and "Philip II of Spain," by Martin_A. S. Hume, who also contributed "Sir Walter Raleigh: The British Dominion of the West," to the "Builders of Greater Britain Series"; and in the "Series of Famous Scots" Kirkaldy of Grange" was by Lewis A. Barbe; Fletcher of Saltoun." by G. W. T. Omond; "Thomas Chalmers," by W. Garden Blaikie; Richard Cameron," by John Herkless; "Sir Walter Scott," by G. E. B. Saintsbury; "The Blackwood Group: John Wilson, John Galt, D. M. Moir, Miss Ferrier, Michael Scott, Thomas Hamilton," by George Douglas; "Tobias Smollett," by Oliphant Smeaton; and "James Boswell," by W. K. Leask. Thomas and Matthew Arnold" were added by Sir Joshua Girling Fitch to the "Great Educators Series." "Sir Walter Raleigh" was the subject of the "Stanhope Essay" by John Buchan, and Machiavelli" of the Romanes Lecture delivered in the Sheldon Theater, June 2, 1897, by John Morley. From Edith Sichel we had "The Household of the Lafayettes." David Hay Fleming wrote yet another life of "Mary, Queen of Scots"; "Falklands," by the author of "The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby," was superbly illustrated; "Cromwell's Place in History was defined in six lectures delivered in the University of Oxford by Samuel Rawson Gardiner; "Waylen's House of Cromwell" was edited anew by J. G. Cromwell; Dorothea Townshend contributed the "Life and Letters of Mr. Endymion Porter," the well-known Caroline courtier; and Lady Newdegate-Newdigate transcribed and edited "Gossip from a Muniment Room: Being Passages in the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton," in the days of Queen Elizabeth. Letters of Sir Thomas Copley," edited by R. Copley Cristic, with an introduction and notes, belong to the same period. "Pickle the Spy; or, The Incognito of Prince Charles," by Andrew Lang, was a curious and interesting historical study. St. Clair Baddely made a study of the times of "Robert the Wise and his Heirs," carrying on the work begun in his earlier sketch of Joanna I, Queen of Naples. To military biography belong Wellington: His Comrades and Contemporaries," by Major Arthur Griffiths; The Crimean Diary and Letters of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Ash Windham," edited by Major Hugh Pearse: "Letters from the Black Sea during the Crimean War, 1854-55," of Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath; "Old Memories" (of the Mutiny), of Gen. Sir Hugh Gough; and An Old Soldier's Memories," by S. H. Jones-Parry, of service in Burmah, in the Crimea, and during the mutiny in India. "Richard Baird Smith: The Leader of the Delhi Heroes in 1857" found an enthusiastic admirer in Col. H. M. Vibart, and "Richard Henry Vivian, First Baron Vivian: A Memoir," by Hon. Claud Vivian, gave a portrait of a brave cavalry officer in the first half of the century. "Forty-one Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief" was the record of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Candahar, and Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life" were edited by his widow from the letters of Major W. T. Johnson of the native Irregular Cavalry. "Roddy Owen: A Mem

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oir" came from that officer's sister (Mrs. Bovill) and G. R. Askwith, while "Under the Red Crescent" was the title of adventures of an English surgeon with the Turkish army at Plevna and Erzeroum, related by Charles S. Ryan, in association with his friend John Sands. The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles, Founder of Singapore and the Zoo was written by Demetrius C. Boulger; "The Life of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, K. C. B.," by Rear-Admiral C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald; and "The Life of Sir John Hawley Glover, R. N.," by Lady Glover. "The Journal of Sir George Rooke" was edited by Oscar Browning. "Pictures from the Life of Nelson" were drawn by the able pen of W. Clark Russell, and a new edition, condensed and revised, and with much new material, was issued of Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson," by John Cordy Jeaffreson. "Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism," by John Leary, filled two volumes. "The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., Master of Balliol College, Oxford," by Dr. Evelyn Abbott and Prof. Lewis Campbell, was pronounced “a revelation of one of the most fascinating and probably one of the most potent personalities of the century," and from L. V. Lester we had "A Memoir of Hugo Daniel Harper, D. D., Late Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and for Many Years Head Master of Sherborne School, Dorset.' "Arnold of Rugby," by J. J. Findlay, had an introduction by the Bishop of Hereford. "A Memoir of Anne Jemima Clough was written by her niece Blanche Athena Clough, Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and from W. H. Woodward we had Vittorino da Feltre, and Other Humanist Educators." "The Life and Times of Thomas Wakley, Founder and First Editor of the Lancet," by S. Squire Spriggs, was full of interest to the medical profession, as was "Vita Medica: Chapters of Medical Life and Work," by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, F. R. S. A new series of "Masters of Medicine," edited by Ernest Hart, was inaugurated with "John Hunter: Man of Science and Surgeon (17281793)," by Stephen Paget, who also wrote "Ambroise Paré and his Times, 1510-1590." "The Founders of Geology" were the theme of Sir Archibald Geikie in a series of lectures delivered before John Hopkins University, Baltimore, inaugurating the George Huntington Williams memorial lectureship, and "Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley," by Edward Clodd, had an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement. "Philosophical Lectures and Remains of Richard Lewis Nettleship" were edited with a biographical sketch by A. C. Bradley and G. R. Benson in two volumes, and an "Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll, LL. D., F. R. S.,” was accompanied with a memoir of his life and work by James Campbell Irons. "A Memoir of William Pengelly, F. Ř. S., Geologist," contained a selection from his correspondence edited by his daughter, Hester Pengelly, with a summary of his scientific work by Prof. Bonney. "The Work of Charles Keene," the famous artist of "Punch," had an introduction by Joseph Pennell and a bibliography by W. H. Chesson, and also contained some of Keene's unpublished drawings. "Verdi: Man and Musician " came from Frederick J. Crowest. "Records and Reminiscences of Goodwood and the Dukes of Richmond were by John Kent, the author of "The Racing Life of Lord George Bentinck," and a unique volume was entitled "Lives of Twelve Bad Women," illustrations and reviews of feminine turpitude set forth by impartial hands, and edited by Arthur Vincent. In religious biography appeared Vol. IV, concluding the "Life of E. B. Pusey, D. D.," by Canon H. P. Liddon, edited by Rev. J. O. Johnston, Rev. R. J. Wilson, and