fully light volume, with its soft paper and clear, large print. The author's work, however, hardly matches the publishers'. These are days of dramatic description from such writers as Dr. Smith and Miss Scidmore, and from the missionaries to China now on furlough in this country. Hence we have a right to expect peculiarly brilliant and colorful work from any one who essays to tell us about China in general and about Peking in particular. Nevertheless, this book possesses much merit in extending the information from first hand concerning China, and it is to be recommended to all serious students of affairs in that distressed country. Much of the book consists of the diary kept by the author in China in 1865 and 1866. Beryl. By Mrs. Aken Douglass. Scroll Publishing and Literary Syndicate, Chicago. 54x7% in. 296 pages. Bible School Pedagogy. By A. H. McKinney, Ph.D. Introduction by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, D.D. Eaton & Mains, New York. 5×74 in. 78 pages. 40c. Blank Leaf Between the Old and the New Testaments (The). By Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Unity Publishing Co., Chicago. 5×71⁄2 in. 112 pages. 20c. Chloris of the Island. By H. B. Marriott Watson. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 5x7 in. 283 pages. $1.50. A romance of the last century in England. The story opens with an elopement. The young woman is a ward in Chancery; the young man picks a quarrel at the Inn where they pause for refreshments on their way to the seacoast to take ship, and is killed. The rest of the story is taken up with the adventures of a friend of the murdered youth and his slayers-well-born desperadoes and smugglers and lords of an adjacent island. Their beautiful, untamed sister gives name to the story. It is full of sword-play movement, desperate adventure, and all the paraphernalia of oldschool romance. It is skillfully told, but the atmosphere is repellent. Christmas Sermon (A). By Robert Louis Stevenson. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 414x71⁄2 in. 23 pages. 50c. A short essay whose quaint and often pathetic humor does not conceal the earnest endeavor after what is beautiful and what is true, perhaps nowhere better expressed than where the author says: "There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy-if I may." Century Book of the American Colonies (The). By Elbridge S. Brooks. Introduction by Frederick J. De Peyster. (Issued under the auspices of the Society of Colonial Wars) Illustrated. The Century Co., New York. 7x64 in. 233 pages. $1.50. This profusely illustrated volume, the fourth in its series, carries Uncle Tom Dunlap and his party of young folk on a pilgrimage to the historic points of our colonial history from Maine to Louisiana. Its object of interesting our boys and girls in the eventful story of the beginnings of American history, and the struggles that cleared the way for the achievements of the Revolutionary and the later times, commends itself to every true American. Mr. Brooks's books need not from us the commendation already given them by our juvenile friends. Children of the Revolution. By Mabel Humphrey. Full-Page Color Plates after Paintings in Water Color by Maud Humphrey. The Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 9x11 in. 74 pages. $2. Choosing a Lifework. By Lewis Ransom Fiske, LL.D. Eaton & Mains, New York. 5x72 in. 227 pages. 90c. Christianity in the Nineteenth Century. (The Boston-Lowell Lectures, 1900.) By George C. Lorimer. American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia. 5x8 in. 652 pages. $2.25. Half of this volume exhibits the progress of Christianity during the century; the remainder deals with various subsidiary topics. With the record of progress goes also a running critique upon its phases, and a clear exhibition of various shortcomings and failures. The lecturer's style is marked by a sermonic tone, which frequently transports the reader from the Institute Hall to the Tremont Temple. While this will be found both a thoughtful and an interesting book, it does not give what some may look for under its title-a continuous view of the historical movement, with a clear presentation of its stages and turningpoints. Dr. Lorimer's address is popular and discursive, but rather lacking in discrimination of the more from the less relevant. Dr. Bushnell, for instance, is simply named as a distinguished theologian; his significance as a bridge-maker from mediæval to modern theology is unnoticed; while pages are devoted to considering why people break away from the church. Dr. Lorimer is a pronounced Protestant and evangelical, to the very limit permitted by the unsectarian foundation of spirit of Christianity and his antipathy to the his lectureship. His sympathy with the social dominant commercialism of the day are a fruit of this century's ethical renaissance of which his subject required a more clearly drawn account. Cobbler of Nîmes (The). By M. Imlay Taylor. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 4×71⁄2 in. 277 pages. $1.25. A love story with historic setting. It depicts the struggle of the Huguenots of Languedoc for the religious liberty denied them by Louis XIV. The hero and heroine are of noble birth. The former is a Huguenot confessed, whose family have been ruined and slain. The heroine and her grandmother, alone and unprotected, appear to conform to the estab lished order, but are heart and soul with the proscribed ones. The story has incessant play of action. The pictures are of fanatical cruelty. Nothing of the political machinery which worked in those days under the guise of religion is shown or even indicated, and this makes the human ferocity appear the more unaccountably revolting. The pictures are somewhat redeemed by the hunchback cobbler, whose trade affords him access everywhere, and who, though a Catholic, uses all his influence and finally gives his life for the persecuted ones. The priest, Père Ambroise, also aids in their escape. Through such examples of human nature rising above environ ment, we see how the persecuted on either side survived in days of yore. College Administration. By Charles F. Thwing, LL.D. The Century Co., New York. 52X84 in. 321 pages. $2. By his books and his fugitive papers in the journals President Thwing has gained attention for whatever he may have to say on educational subjects. The chapters of this volume, the first book published on the administration of the American college, deal with the fundamental questions which interest a very large constituency of college alumni, instructors, officers, and benefactors. The largest space is given to the "Financial Relations" of the college in an instructive discussion of facts, conditions, and methods. The" Administrative and Scholastic Problems of the Twentieth Century" are presented on the basis of a critical estimate of present deficiencies and maladjustments. The greatest of present needs is affirmed to be in better-trained doctors and lawyers. Of the latter it is declared, upon evidence furnished to the American Bar Association, that the profession of the law is not an instrument of justice in any such degree as is right to demand of it. Discussing the recently agitated question of academic freedom in teaching what may be obnoxious to special interests, President Thwing affirms that it is "more often a question of good breeding than it is of liberty." The chapter on The College President" is one of rare interest, in which the experienced will read much between the lines. These meager notes suffice to introduce to readers who take an active 66 (The Great interest in college work what is likely to be for some time the standard work on its subject. Commodore Paul Jones. By Cyrus Townsend Brady. With Portrait and Maps. Commanders Series.) D. Appleton & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 480 pages. $1.50. The appearance of this biography almost coincides with that of Mr. Buell's life of the founder of our navy. While Mr. Brady's has Peale's portrait of Paul Jones as a frontispiece, and some fair outline maps, it lacks even the painfully few illustrations which added to the interest of the other work. A distinguishing merit of both biographies is that Paul the Sailor, like Paul the Apostle, has been permitted to speak for himself. Mr. Brady has evidently especially made it a rule to accept Jones's own statements unless they were controverted by adequate evidence. We would call particular attention to the biographer's spirited disposal of the old charge that Jones was a pirate. Some other imperfect conceptions of the sailor's character are dispelled by Mr. Brady's book-as, indeed, is the case with Mr. Buell's admirable volumes; the name of John Paul Jones has certainly been too long the prey of fiction. Mr. Brady's biography, as a whole, is excellent, and is a worthy addition to a series which already includes such notable volumes as those by General Johnson on Washington and by General Greene on the Revolutionary General Greene. Cunning Murrell. By Arthur Morrison. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 288 pages. $1.50. If Mr. Morrison's name were not on the title page, one might easily have imagined that this tale of Essex witch-hunting, white magic, and smuggling was the work of Mr. Baring-Gould, for the subjects are precisely of the uncanny, semi-antiquarian kind in which the latter author delights. Many readers will be surprised to find that such things flourished in England as late as 1854. As a story this book is slight and will not greatly add to the reputation gained by Mr. Morrison's "Tales of Mean Streets" and "A Child of the Jago." Counsel upon the Reading of Books. By H. Morse Stephens, Agnes Repplier, Arthur T. Hadley, Brander Matthews, Bliss Perry, Hamilton Wright Mabie. Introduction by Henry van Dyke. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 306 pages. $1.50. A volume of essays on the reading of history, of memoirs and biographies, of sociology, of fiction, of poetry and of essay, by Professor Morse Stephens, Miss Agnes Repplier, President Hadley, Professor Brander Matthews, Mr. Bliss Perry, and Mr. Mabie, delivered as a series of lectures before the Society for the Extension of University Teaching in Philadelphia for the purpose of indicating to readers the best lines of reading in the different departments, and of presenting the best material for intelligent study. The chapters vary in importance, and there are differences in the point of view of the contributors to the volume, of which Dr. van Dyke takes pleasant advantage in his very interesting and entertaining preface. Miss Repplier touches her subject lightly, but with a sure knowledge and in the entertaining fashion which is her own. Professor Matthews knows fiction as a practitioner, as a student, and as a teacher; Mr. Perry is an accomplished literary scholar who has long been engaged in the study of poetry; Professor Stephens is a teacher of history who knows his subject at first hand and who has a trenchant style; while Dr. Hadley's clear knowledge and sanity in dealing with economic questions qualify him to put in brief compass suggestions to students in this wide and ever-widening field. Dollar or the Man (The)? Pictured by Homer Davenport. Selected and edited with an Introduc tion by Horace L. Traubel. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. 114×8 in. 126 pages. Ednah and Her Brothers. By Eliza Orne White. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x7% in. 143 pages. $1. A pleasantly written account of the children of an artist in their father's studio in the country and in New York. A wholesome, well written book. Elements of German (The). By H. C. Bierwirth, Ph.D. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 5×8 in. 277 pages. $1.25. Elizabeth and Her German Garden. New Edition, with Additions. The Macmillan Co., New York. 44X7 in. 179 pages. 50c. Experimental Chemistry. By Lyman C. Newell. Ph.D. Illustrated. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. 5x71⁄2 in. 410 pages. $1.10. Folks in Funnyville (The). Pictures and Verses by F. Opper. R. H. Russell, New York. 9x12 in. 38 pages. $1.50. Few illustrators and caricaturists of the present day have so great a popularity as that enjoyed by Mr. Opper. His many admirers will be glad to know of a volume which includes not only some of his best pictures, but also some of his cleverest rhymes. Fourth Generation (The). By Sir Walter Besant. (Second Edition.) Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 5x7 in. 357 pages. $1.50. Sir Walter undertakes here to deal with the ever-recurring and fundamental problem of heredity. The subject is one which has always had an interest for its author; but in this story, more than ever before, he undertakes to offer a partial solution to the question why and how far the innocent must suffer for the follies and sins of their forefathers. The answer indicated is that heredity entails consequences rather than punishments, and that, to quote the author's phrase, these consequences are those "which can only affect the body or the mind or the social position of the descendants. They may make ambition impossible; they may make action impossible; they may keep a man down among the rank and file; but they cannot do more.' In this story these influences of heredity are allowed by some of the characters to drag them down, while others use them as a means to rise. As a story" The Fourth Generation" has interest, but hardly the charm and power of Sir Walter's earlier novels. Fra Angelico. By Langton Douglas. Illustrated. The Macmillan Co., New York. 62×9 in. 206 pages. $5. This is an important book to the student of Fra Angelico's pictures, as it shows how much the painter's studies of nature and of antique art affected his work. Saint as he was, he did not. trust only to dreams and visions. The book will find notice in a later issue of The Outlook. Golden Book of Venice (The). By Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, The Century Co., New York. 5x7 in. 399 pages. $1.50. This is a historical romance of many admirable qualities, but defective in dramatic unity and development of plot. The movement of the story is serenely slow-an over-fastidious critic might even think it sluggish; but all readers will agree that Venice invites a placidly smooth treatment rather than staccato strokes. The author has a great wealth of information which she uses pleasantly from page to page, and the book may take its place with the other books which one wants to read before visiting Venice, or while there, in order to fit himself the better into the delicious atmosphere of the most magical city in the world. As may be expected, there are many Italian names in the book; we are surprised to find the constant repetition, however, of the French word Abbé, instead of the Italian word Abbate, in paragraphs where may be found the Italian Fra, Don, etc. There is an occasional misprint, as, for instance, San Annunziata for Sant' Annunziata. Goops, and How to Be Them. By Gelett Burgess. Illustrated. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 8x 10 in. 88 pages. $1.50. One of the entertaining nonsense books of last season was "The Lively City o' Ligg" its author now offers his public an illustrated quarto in which the "Goops," whose characteristic is that they are entirely made up of circles, are introduced to illustrate what he described as "A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants." The rhymes are clever, and the illustrations as irrational and eccentric as they ought to be. Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays (The). By Andrew Carnegie. The Century Co., New York. 52x84 in. 305 pages. Together with the already well-known essay under this title, the compiler of the present volume reprints ten others from the British and American journals in which they originally appeared. An introductory paper, How I Served my Apprenticeship," is also reprinted from the "Youth's Companion." The subjects of these essays concerning capital and labor, foreign relations and national policy, are still of present interest. Mr. Carnegie's views are already known to our readers, and we need not speak of them here. Granny's Wonderful By Frances Browne. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 5x734 in. 192 pages. $1.50. A book of charming fairy tales. The story of "The Christmas Cuckoo," who brings the golden leaves and the merry leaves to the two brothers, Scrub and Spare, is one of the most beautiful we have seen. The illustrations are good. Chair. Half-Hearted (The). By John Buchan. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x8 in. 367 pages. $1.50. There is careful, thoughtful work in this novel. Yet the reader is tempted to apply to the author the adjective applied in the book's title thoroughgoing literary art, gets us well acto the hero. Mr. Buchan, with deliberate and quainted with an interesting set of characters and a milieu of English life, and then drops them suddenly and finally, and whisks his halfhearted hero away to the Kashmir borderland, there to foil a Russian invasion through a secret pass and to die a splendid death. Both parts of the book are strong, each in itself, but the line of cleavage is too sharp. Mr. Buchan ability, but in construction his hand is uncerin this and his previous work shows marked tain and his methods are vague. Hard-Pan. By Geraldine Bonner. The Century Co., New York. 5x7 in. 279 pages. $1.50. Primarily a love story, it also gives some graphic and realistic pictures of San Francisco society of to-day-a materialistic, money-loving society to the core. The style is good, crisp, clear, easy; even the society slang is made to sparkle. As to the love story of John Gault and Viola Reed, it is wholly clean, and the young woman is somewhat idyllic in character. His Wisdom the Defender. By Simon New comb. Harper & Bros., New York. 5×71⁄2 in. 329 pages. $1.50. This is the first venture into novel-writing of a notable astronomer and mathematician, and is certainly a most unusual story; a "fairy tale of science" of startling and enthralling interest. The writer undertakes no less than to outline the mode of invention and subsequent workings of the air-ships of the future, or, as he calls them, "motes." He lets loose his imagination to play upon the possible attitudes and feelings of the various great military nations as they come to discover the possibility of destroying by science all their carefully constructed warlike defenses-unless they promise to preserve the world's peace and let each people govern themselves. We are called to witness the destruction of the military power of Germany. Its Emperor, still refusing to make treaty with the inevitable, is carried up in a "mote," and thus held captive, like Mohammed's coffin, 'twixt heaven and earth. The humor being maintained with scientific stateliness makes it the more delicious. These scenes are laid in the year 1941, and are brought to pass by a Harvard professor. Hugh Wynne. By S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. 5x71⁄2 in. 567 pages. $1.50. No novel of recent years has better deserved its popularity than Dr. Mitchell's delightful story of the Revolution. It is now issued in a single volume, bound in buff with a somewhat too elaborate cover design in colors, and with Mr. Howard Pyle's illustrations. Idiot at Home (The). By John Kendrick Bangs. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 4X7 in. 314 pages. $1.25. Admirers of Mr. Bangs will welcome this account of the "Idiot's" home talks, and his management of dinner parties and hired men. Illustrative Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons, 1901. By Rev. Thomas Benjamin Indian Giver (An). A Comedy. By W. D. Howells. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 32x6 in. 99 pages. 50c. Individual (The). By Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 351 pages. $1.50. The old, old question, uttered in the cry of the Hebrew psalmist, What is man?" is answered in these profoundly thoughtful pages from the point of view of an accomplished naturalist. In these the organic history of the individual man is so presented as to give him a vision of himself undreamed of in a less scientific age. As the most recent product of countless generations of life, he finds himself already possessed of an impersonal immortality, and a unique unit in a universe of individualities. It is well for our self-possession, as Dr. Shaler thinks, that the vision of man's long ascent in life to what he now is is shut off from us. But we are not thus shut off from a vision, however darkened by ignorance, of an ascent leading further on. In giving to the problem presented by death the largest share of his pages, Dr. Shaler leaves faith and metaphysics to speak for themselves, while he speaks simply as a naturalist from study of the facts of nature. These, he says, cannot be explained "except on the supposition that a mighty kinsman of man is at work behind it all." On one hand, the phenomena of death justify no well-trained observer in concluding that the mind does not survive. On the other hand, the phenomena of the transmission of life "raise the presumption that matter in forms far simpler than the nervous system can contain the germs of an individualized intelligence." And from the re searches of a "few true observers . . . we may fairly conjecture that we may be on the verge of something like a demonstration that the individual consciousness does survive the death of the body by which it was nurtured." In a valuable chapter Dr. Shaler discusses "The Relation of Society to Death," for the abatement of the excessive drain upon its resources caused by unnecessary deaths. In another "The Period of Old Age" is considered for the benefit accruing to society by a larger number of "the able-bodied and ableminded aged." We dismiss this profoundly ethical fruit of natural science with the comment that a true individualism is fundamental to a true socialism. In Nature's Realm. By Charles Conrad Abbott. Illustration by Oliver Kemp. Albert Brandt, New York. 5x9 in. 309 pages. $2.50. A new book by the author of "Upland and Meadow" is sure to be welcomed by the increasing number of readers who appreciate the studies of nature made now by a Burroughs, now by a Miall, now by a Fowler, and to-day by Charles Conrad Abbott. The charm of such books as these lies in their essential simplicity and naturalness, but the special value of Dr. Abbott's lies in the fact that he never becomes so absorbed in the study of component parts as to fail in an adequate comprehension of nature as a whole. In the Hands of the Redcoats. By Everett T. Tomlinson. Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 370 pages. $1.50. in the worth of the historical novel toward the In the development of the historical novel and better understanding of history, we have to consider not only the valuable contributions made by notable men, from Manzoni, Grossi, Balzac, Dumas, Scheffel, Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, to Foggazzaro, Meyer, Gras, Stanley Weyman, Weir Mitchell, Winston Churchill, and Paul Ford. We must not lose sight of the no less suggestive contributions made by purveyors of literature for young people's reading. In this class the books of Mr. Henty and Mr. Tomlinson take high rank, although for widely different reasons. Mr. Tomlinson's latest novel, "In the Hands of the Redcoats," is so cleverly constructed as to appeal with equal force both to young and to old. The scene is laid in New Jersey, and, as may be fancied, it is a story of Revolutionary times. It should add new luster to the author's well-earned fame. James Martineau: A Biography and Study. By A. W. Jackson, A.M. With Portraits. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5x8 in. 459 pages. $3. This is less a life of Dr. Martineau than a portrait; and less a portrait than a study of him as a preacher, teacher, and philosopher. In Dr. Martineau's case these words must be regarded as almost synonymous; according to his own explanation of the function of a preacher, he was primarily a teacher in the pulpit; and certainly in all his public teaching the practical and ethical issue of his teaching was never absent from his sub-con sciousness. Mr. Jackson is an undisguised pupil and admirer of Dr. Martineau, and confessedly makes this study of his great teacher an occasion for the exposition of his own philosophy. But that philosophy is so borrowed from Dr. Martineau and so imbued by his spirit that it is not easy to discriminate between the interpreter and the author whom he interprets. For one who desires to get the spirit of Dr. Martineau's teaching in brief compass, and has not time or opportunity to study directly the author's three great works, "A Study of Religions," "The Seat of Authority," and "Types of Ethical Theory," we know of no volume comparable to this. John Thisselton. By Marian Bower. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 402 pages. $1.50. A somewhat long-drawn study of the life and soul history of a youth brought up in seclusion and under a cloud, the cause of which he does not understand. His father dies, and a posthumous document reveals that his mother had been insane before his birth, had remained and died so. This completes his social isolation; he fears to marry. Finally, an early friend, now a high medical authority, and a rival between him and the woman he loves, rises above selfishness, and relieves the man by showing on scientific grounds that he has nothing to fear, and is making his own misery. A good deal of literary skill is displayed in the telling, and some interesting play of character is revealed. Yet the general effect is not conducive of mental cheer. Josey and the Chipmunk. By Sydney Reid. Illustrated. The Century Co., New York. 42×7% in. 301 pages. $1.50. A prettily made book with enticing covers and with a free play of fancy in the account which is given of the adventures of Josey in Animal Land, where she holds easy conversations with giants, fairies, monkeys, elephants, lions, bears, and birds. The story is somewhat fanciful. King's Deputy (The). By H. A. Hinkson. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 5×71⁄2 in. 332 pages. $1.25. This has a duel in every chapter, as befits a tale of the Viceroy's Court in the Dublin of the eighteenth century. Life of Frederick Froebel (The). By Denton J. Snider. Sigma Publishing Co., Chicago. 52x8 in. 470 pages. $1.25. Lobster Catchers: A Story of the Coast of Maine. By James Otis. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 52×8 in. 308 pages. $1.50. A boy who is brave and honorable becomes the skipper of a little steamer, the Sprite, in which to cruise along the coast of Maine and buy lobsters. While doing this he rescues a shipwrecked yacht, has other exciting adventures, and earns well-deserved rewards. Love and Mr. Lewisham. By H. G. Wells. The Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 434×71⁄2 in. 323 pages. $1.50. This is the story of a very young couple who meet by chance, fall in love, and are blown into marriage by the wind of circumstance. Most of the story takes place after marriage, and is simply a record of the mistakes, fallings out, and making up of an inexperienced pair, handicapped for want of money. It is well written, brightly portrayed, harmless in effect, and quite different from Mr. Wells's former work. The scene is London. Men of Marlowe's. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 289 pages. $1.25. Here is a series of short stories told with such cleverness of style, diction, and condensed force that one halts before condemning utterly because of unwholesome flavor. The stories are all told by a looker-on, and concern the life episodes of men, lodgers in a certain Inn of Courts in London. Most of the stories are tragic, and those that are not so have an undercurrent of mocking humor. The tone is that of the cynical man of the world to whom the play of human emotions is merely an intellectual study. Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (The). By Thomas Nelson Page. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 170 pages. $1.50. This is not only one of the most characteristic and charming of Mr. Page's studies of Virginia character, but it is a story which readily lends itself to illustration, and especially to the kind of decorative illustration which Mr. Howard C. Christy has given it in a series of drawings in color. Mr. Christy has succeeded in getting the atmosphere of Old Virginia domestic architecture; and wherever he can introduce this background he has been very successful. The printing is well done, and the book can hardly fail to find its place as one of the most attractive of the season. Papacy in the Nineteenth Century (The). By Friedrich Nippold. Translated by Laurence Henry Schwab. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 6x9 in. 372 pages. $2.50. Students of church history who are not familiar with German will welcome this excellent translation. We reserve it for notice in a later issue. Pathfinders of the Revolution (The). By William E. Griffis. Illustrated. W. A. Wilde Co., Boston. 5x74 in. 316 pages. $1.50. This story, dealing with the great march through the wilderness and lake regions of central New York by Major-General John Sullivan and his Continental soldiers in 1779, by which was broken up forever the power of the Iroquois Confederacy, is a valuable piece of historic fiction, dealing as it does with a war episode very little known. The author asks, "Why is the whole subject so slurred over or ignored by the average historian? ... In truth, he did his work so well that those who write history and love too well its merely dramatic side have been unfair to this able officer." The lasting services rendered by General Sullivan and his five thousand men in opening up the State of New York and breaking forever the power of King George's allies, and their return again for the work at Yorktown, are finely depicted in this story. The book is further enriched by a good deal of Iroquois folk-lore and legend. Poetry of the Psalms (The). By Henry van Dyke, D.D. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x7% in. 25 pages. 60c. A brief but attactive introduction to the study of the Psalms as poetry, and an exhibition of the artistic literary form in which the Hebrew spirit uttered itself, |