Publishers' Notes.

THE SCHOOLMASTER OF THE Republic.-This title has been fairly given to Noah Webster. In 1789, more than 100 years ago, and in the very infancy of American literature, he published an 8vo volume, “Dissertations on the English Language." In 1803 his Spelling Book was issued, and in 1806 his first Dictionary. By these two works, in successive editions, the school children of America have been largely trained for the last 80 years. Of the Spelling Book it is stated that more than sixty millions copies have been sold, and that the present annual sale exceeds that of several of the popular spelling books combined; and the modest 12mo dictionary of 1806, by the labors of Dr. Webster while he lived, supplemented by able editors since his death, has grown to be WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY, a massive quarto volume of more than 2100 pages just issued from the press. This new book should be in every public library, every school, and every family where English literature is received.

Iron-Smelting by Modern Methods is the subject of the February article in the American Industries Series now running in The Popular Science Monthly. Every man who wishes to understand the progress of the great industries that have made the wealth and prosperity of the United States should read this series.

Colonel Garrick Mallery contributes an article on Greeting by Gesture, in which he describes many curious salutations, such as stroking one another's heads and bodies, rubbing noses, kissing, etc., practiced in all parts of the world. The same number contains the conclusion of Dr. Andrew D. White's paper, From Babel to Comparative Philology; also that of Prof. Huxley's discussion of The Aryan Question and Prehistoric Man.

The Old Homstead, published at Savannah, Ga., will be issued hereafter by a syndicate capable of advancing its interests even more successfully than its projecters were. It is a southern literary and musical publication conscienti ously striving to foster and encourage southern talent and to give to the people a magazine that is essentially one for the home for the superiority of its literary, fashion, domestic, and musical character. Its staff of contributors is among the best in the South, and in every essential it is a magazine that the people of the South ought to encourage and support. The subscription price is but $1.00 a year, while many publications of less merit cost $3.50 and $4.00 per annum. Address The Old Homestead Publishing Co., Savannah, Ga.

The Scientific American, published by the great patent agency firm of Munn & Co., New York, is the most practically useful publication of its kind in the country. Indeed, it occupies a field distinctively its own. Not alone for the machinist, manufacturer, or scientist, but it is a journal for popular perusal and study. It is the standard authority on scientific and mechanical subjects. It is placed at a very low rate of subscription, $3 per annum, which places it within the reach of all. Subscriptions will be received at the office of this paper.

Supposed Tendencies to Socialism is the title of the article that will open the March Popular Science Monthly. It is by Prof. Wiliiam Graham, of Belfast, who

gives his reasons for expecting a progressive improvement in the state of society, but no sudden social transformation. Iron-Working with Machine-Tools will be the special topic of the article in the American Industries Series. This division of the series is to conclude with an account of the steel manufacture. In the tariff discussions of recent years, sisal has been one of the articles most frequently mentioned. How it is produced and what it looks like may be learned from the fully illustrated article on Cultivation of Sisal in the Bahamas, which Dr. John I. Northrop will contribute. One of several valuable articles announced is an explanation of Dr. Koch's Method of treating Consumption, by Dr. G. A. Heron, a London physician, and a friend of the discoverer. An explanation of the real nature of Voodoo, traces of which are found among the negroes in our Southern States, with a description of the strange and wild ceremonies connected with it, will also appear. The writer, Hon. Major A. B. Ellis, is an officer in the British army.

The second instalment of the "Talleyrand Memoirs," published in February Century, is devoted entirely to Talleyrand's narration of his personal relations with Napoleon Bonaparte. Talleyrand apologizes for taking office under the Directory, describes his first meeting with Bonaparte, tells how the First Consul snubbed an old acquaintance, and relates other anecdotes of Napoleon tending to emphasize the weaknesses and vanities of the Emporer. Talleyrand criticises Napoleon's Spanish policy, and gives a detailed account (from notes which he had taken of the conversation) of an interview that Napoleon had at Erfurt with Goethe and Wieland.

VICK'S FLORAL GUIDE FOR 1891.-No lover of a fine plant or garden can afford to be without a copy. It is an elegant book of over 100 pages 84 x 101⁄2 inches, beautiful colored illustrations of Sunrise Amaranthus, Hydrangea and Potatoes. Instructions for planting, cultivating, etc. Full list of everything that can be desired in the way of vegetable and flower seeds, plants, bulbs, etc. Also full particulars regarding the cash prizes of $1,000 and $200. The novelties have been tested and found worthy of cultivation. We hope it will be our good luck to see the Nellie Lewis Carnation and taste the Grand Rapids Lettuce. It costs nothing, because the 10 cents you send for it can be deducted from the first order forwarded. We advise our friends to secure a copy of James Vick, Seedsman, Rochester, N. Y.

D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, will at once add to their series of Modern Language Texts, Sandeau's Mlle. de La Seiglière with Introduction and English Notes by F. M. Warren, Ph. D., Associate in Modern Languages in the Johns Hopkins University. This edition, of a text-book now recommended in the requirements for the New England colleges, is prepared with the demands of rapid reading in mind. The Notes lay especial stress on the social and historical setting of the play, and, while furnishing abundant translations of the difficult passages, endeavor to keep before the student the literary excellences of this most popular comedy. In the Introduction the editor has gathered what is essential to the understanding of Sandeau's life and works, together with a comparison of the plot and treatment of subject in both novel and play.

EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY.-The histories written in America previous to the time of Beverly, had mostly been written either for the glory of God, or the glory

of the writer, as in the case of Captain John Smith, or for the glory of both in curious mixture, as in the case of Cotton Mather. It remained for some one to prepare the soil for the growth of American historical scholarship by beginning to write history without didactic or personal tendency, and in a truly scientific spirit. It may fairly be said that the wealth and leisure of the torpid and moneygetting age which has been described was a necessary prerequisite. The traditional view is that scholarship and poverty are twin sisters. In reality, however it may be of scholarship generally, the thorough pursuit of history requires so much laborious research, and therefore so much leisure on the part of some one, that for its successful conduct it has generally been necessary that, if not the individual, at any rate the age, should be rich. At all events, with the increase of wealth a hundred and fifty years ago, there did appear our first historical scholars, one in Virginia, one in Massachusetts. There was a curious parallelism not only in their purposes and methods, but also in the unfortunate immediate fate of their books.

The two scholars alluded to are the Rev. Thomas Prince, minister of the Old South Church in Boston, and the Rev. William Stith, president of William and Mary College, in Virginia.—From "The History of Historical Writing in America," by J. F. Jameson, Ph. D., in New England Magazine for February.

A MAGAZINE SOLD-"COLLEGE AND SCHOOL" BECOMES "THE LOUIS LOMBARD.”—Mr. F. G. Barry has sold his monthly magazine, College and School, to Louis Lombard, of Utica, N. Y. The next number will appear February 15th, entitled The Louis Lombard, with a guaranteed circulation of 5,000 copies, and a list of contributors comprising Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Allan Forman, Fannie Edgar Thomas, Clinton Scollard, W. H. Hayne, Rev. Charles F. Thwing, and many other well-known American and European writers. While the high literary character of College and School will be maintained, it will no longer be an exclusively educational journal. The motto on the new frontispiece, "Whatever interests mankind interests me,” explains its future policy.

A very successful tableau entertainment was recently given in New York, the subjects being taken from illustrations in the current magazines. The idea is a simple one, and if the subjects are well chosen it can be made very interesting. The Century Company has prepared a list of suitable pictures, with suggestions for any one who wishes to get up the entertainment. They will send it free on request.

A prominent feature of The Chautauquan for February is the article on "Practical Talks on Writing English," by Professor William Minto, of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Professor Minto is an able rhetorician and is known on both sides of the Atlantic for his graceful prose and sensible ideas concerning English composition. This first article treats of "The Starting-Point" and "The Body of the Composition and the Methods of Procedure," and will be followed by other papers on the same general subject.

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By Andrew D. White, LL. D., THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. Contents for February: New Chapters in the Warfare of Science. XI. From Babel to Comparative Philology. Part II. L. H. D. The Development of American Industries Since Columbus. III. Iron-Smelting by Modern Methods. By W. F. Durfee. Illustrated. Precision in Physical Training. By M. Georges Demeny. Greeting by Gesture. By Garrick Mallery. Progress in Agricultural Science. By Dr. Manly Miles. By Flora Bridges. Chinese Illustrated. The Aryan Question and Prehistoric Man. II. By Prof. T. H. Huxley. The Storage Coeducation in Swiss Universities. of Cold. By Charles Morris. Buddhism. By Warren G. Benton. Shetland Ponies. Illustrated. Sketch of Jean-Charles Houzeau. With Portrait. Correspondence: "What shall we do with the Dago?" Editor's Table: Religious Teaching in the Public Schools.-International Copyright. Literary Notices. Popular Miscellany.

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One of the best school magazines in the country is THE FOUNTAIN, the February number of which is literally crowded with good things. The teacher's department is always a specialty, and the music is prepared for the purpose of delighting the children as well as for the cultivation of their voices. The primary department of this number contains a good valentine story called "Mamma's Valentine"; also "The Fox and the Birds"; "The Prettiest Sight," and others; "Life in Japan "; "My Birds' Nests"; "Crosses of Great Britian and Ireland; " Dulse"; "Ibises ": "Home-made "From Denver to San Francisco"; "Spurgeon," and the serial entitled "Well Toys and Games"; Done," are among the good things.

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. The numbers of THE LIVING AGE for the 17th and 24th of January contain Alsace Lorraine in 1890; Prosper Merimee, by Walter Pater, and Rural Life in France in the Fourteenth Century; Give Back the Elgin Marbles; Life among the Druses in 1845 and 1882; Switzerland as a School of Politics; The Streets of London; The Journal of Sir Walter Scott; Henry "The Flight of the Shadow," by George Vaughan; Meteoritic Theories; Westminister Abbey; The Carol; Round about the Bahamas; Instalments of "My Tutorship"; "The Wisdom Tooth "; MacDonald; Poetry. For fifty-two numbers of sixty-four large pages each (or more than 3,300 pages a year) the subscription price ($8) is low; while for $10.50 the publishers offer to send any one of the American $4.00 monthlies or weeklies with THE LIVING AGE for a year, both postpaid. Littell & Co., Boston, are the publishers.

NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. Contents for February: The Old Masters of Boston, Samuel L. Gerry; Women's Work in Science, Sara A. Underwood; A Model New England Village, Edwin A. Start: They Turned Her Out in the Street, Fred De Vine; The History of Historical Writing in America, J. F. Jameson, Ph. D.; Disillusioned, Wilbur Larremore; William Morris, Allen Eastman Cross; Experience of a New England Clergyman During the Revolution, Mrs. Amelia Leavitt Hill; The Old Chair, Mary L. Cobb; William Morris, William Clarke; MISS Nisby's Widowhood, J. W. M.: My Two Friends, S. W. Foss; The Rindge Gifts to Cambridge, Ashton R Willard; Ghost, Poet, and Spinet, Alice Morse Earle; Colored Churches and Schools in the South, Lillie B. Chace Wyman; A Story of Old Charlestown, John Codman; The Family Feud, George Ethelbert Walsh; Impossible, H. P. Kimball; Editor's Table; The Omnibus.

THE CENTURY MAGAZINE. Contents for February: Portrait of Talleyrand (Frontispiece). The Georgia Cracker in the Cotton Mills, by Clare de Graffenried. A Dead World, by Edgar FawThe Mirror, from a Painting by D. M. Bunker. Penelope's cett. Emmy, by Mary E. Wilkins. Swains, by Mrs Burton Harrison. To George B. Butler, by Richard Henry Stoddard. Fremont in the Conquest of California, by Gen. John Bidwell. The Discovery of Gold in California, by John S. Balaam and His Hittell. Marshall's Own Account of the Gold Discovery, by Charles B. Gillespie. Confirming the Gold Discovery, by E. C. Kemble. The Faith Doctor (1), by Edward Eggleston Master, by Joel Chandler Harris. Theodore Rousseau and the French Landscape School, by Charles de Kay. A Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Sister Dolorosa (III-Conclusion), by James Lane Allen. In London Town, by Walter Learned. Colonel Carter of Cartersville (IV), by F. Hopkinson Smith. Northern Thibet and the Yellow River, by W. Woodville Rockhill. The Anglo-Saxon in the Southern Hemisphere (The Working Man in Australia), by George R. Parkin. The Memoirs of Talleyrand (by Talleyrand): Talleyrand's Relations with Napoleon Bonaparte-His Apology for Taking Office Under the Directory-First Meeting with General BonaparteBonaparte Turns Pale-His Apology for Supporting Bonaparte-How the First Consul Snubbed an Old Acquaintance-Bonaparte's Service to Talleyrand-The Beginning of Bonaparte's Ruin-Napoleon has an Epileptic Attack-Austerlitz and the Faubourg St. Germain-Talleyrand Thwarts Napoleon-Napoleon Charged with Heartlessness-The Queen of Prussia and Napoleon-Talleyrand Leaves Napoleon's Ministry-Talleyrand and the Emperor Alexander-Napoleon's Spanish PlotsTalleyrand's Stinging Retort-Napoleon and the Czar-Napoleon's Chief Flatterers-Napoleon, Goethe, and Wieland. Topics of the Time. Open Letters. Bric-a-Brac.

THE CHATAUQUAN. February Contents: Practical Talks on Writing English (Part I) by Professor William Minto, M. A. British India, by R. S. Dix. The Religious History of England (V) by Professor George P. Fisher. England After the Norman Conquest (Part II), by Sarah Orne Jewett The English Towns (II), by Augustus I. Jessopp, D. D. A Peasant Striker of the Fourteenth Century, by Charles M. Andrews. Sunday Readings, Selected by Bishop Vincent. The Constitution of Japan, by William Elliot Griffis. Studies in Astronomy (V), by Garret P. Serviss. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, by Lucy C. Bull. The National Academy of Sciences, by Marcus Benjaman, Ph. D. Rise and Fall of Boulanger, by T. F. De Gournay. Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, by Mrs. Mary Storrs Haynes. The Relation of the Family to Social Science, by John Habberton. France

in Tunis, by Edmond Plauchut. The Expenses of Candidates for Public Office, by Thomas B. Preston, New England Emigration, by Edward Everett Hale. Through Nature Up to God, by Mary Lowe Dickinson. Woman's Council Table: A Symposium-Domestic Service, by Julia Ward Howe, Emily Huntington Miller, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Olive Thorne Miller, Mary A. Livermore. Women's Colleges at Oxford, by Emily F. Wheeler. The Mystery of the Four B's, by Kate Sanborn. Should Women Take Part in School Affairs? by Abby Morten Diaz. Stories of the Childhood of Eminent Women, arranged by Harriet Carter. What Constitutes a Legal Marriage, by Lelia Robinson Sawtelle, LL. B. How to Entertain (Part I), by Helen A. Cornwell. The Russian Peasant Woman, by Nina Von Koribout Daschkewistch. The Tignon, by Grace King.

ST. NICHOLAS. Contents for February: Frontispiece, An Old-Time Valentine; An Old-Time Valentine. Verse, Helen Gray Cone; How the Mails are Carried, Max Bennett; A Family Drum Corps. Verse, Malcolm Douglas; The Fortunes of Toby Trafford, J. T. Trowbridge; Going to the Head. Verse, Mary E. Wilkins; The Golden Fleece, Andrew Lang; Picture-" A Cold Weather Predicament in 1791"; To Prince Oric. Verse, Louise Chandler Moulton; Elfie's Visit to Cloudland, Frances V. Austen; The Boy Settlers, Noah Brooks; Mehitable Lamb, Mary E. Wilkins; Picture"A Family Group"; The Artful Ant. Verse, Oliver Herford; Picture-" In the Park Playing Puss in the Corner Lady Jane, Mrs. C. V. Jamison; A Little Girl's Diary in the East, Lucy Morris Ellsworth; Jack-in-the-Pulpit; The Letter-box; The Riddle-Box.

SCRIBNER'S for February. Contents: David Livingstone, Frontispiece. Mount Washington in Winter, by Edward L. Wilson; The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi, by Edith Wharton; The Water DevilA Marine Tale, by Frank R. Stockton (conclusion); Japonica-Third Paper-Japanese People, by Sir Edwin Arnold (continued); About Africa, by J. Scott Keltie; Three Charades, by L. B. R. Briggs; The Story of an Old Beau, by John Seymour Wood; A Box of Autographs, by Richard Henry Stod dard, with reproductions of autographs in the author's collection; Neapolitan Art-Michetti, by A. F. Jacassy: The Snow's Dreamer, by Frank Dempster Sherman; Jerry-Part Third, Chapters VI, X (Begun in June, 1890-to be continued); The Point of View-Law and Privacy-Art and Patronage in France on Wills-The Government and the Citizen.

LIPPINCOTT'S for February. Contents: A Wave of Life, by Clyde Fitch; Thomas Buchanan Read, by R. H Stoddard; The Example of Portia, by Maurice Francis Egan; The Mountain-Mirage, by Joaquin Miller; "Has Been," by Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Men's Women, by Julien Gordon; A Love-Song, by Frank Dempster Sherman: An American Kew, by Julian Hawthorne; The Worst of It, by Edward Jay: West of the Sierras, by Charles Howard Shinn; A Poet's Apology, by Charles Washington Coleman; Julien Gordon, by Robert Timsol; A New Theory of the Universe, by Charles Morris; Copyright; With the Wits (illustrated by leading artists).

The February WIDE AWAKE opens with a ballad of heroism. When the brave crusader ancestor of the present British Minister at Washington, Sir Julian Pauncefote, was captured by the Saracens they demanded his wife's right hand in ransom, and the brave lady so saved her lord. Sir Julian Pauncefote supplied the author, Mary Bradley, with authentic facts. Mr. E. H. Garrett's pictures for the ballad are finely dramatic. Other poems are by Elizabeth W. Bellamy and Mary E. Wilkins. The interesting illustrated articles of the number include Lieutenant Frémont's timely account of "Life at Frontier Forts," and, as a sort of military pendant, a curious account of “A Fish Army." The short stories are unusually clever, from the ingenious plot of "Aunt Dolly's Two Robbers" to the laughter and tears of "A Hungry Boy." Mrs Burton Harrison's story, "Diamonds and Toads," is concluded. Kirk Munroe's railroading serial develops a startling situation, and the doings of Margaret Sidney's Peppers" are delightful as ever. Mr. Bridgman's funny pictorial skit," Through the Dark Continent," drops the curtain to the laughter of the audience. WIDE AWAKE is $2.40 a year. D. Lothrop Company, Boston, Mass.

THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. Contents for March: Supposed Tendencies to Socialism, by Wm. Graham, M. A. The Development of American Industries Since Columbus-IV: IronWorking with Machine Tools, by W. F. Durfee, illustrated. Hypocrisy as a Social Elevator, by John McElroy. Cultivation of Sisal in the Bahamas, by J. I. Northrop, illustrated Koch's Method of Treating Consumption, by Dr. G. A. Heron. The Tyranny of the State, by Samuel Williams Cooper. Greeting by Gesture, by Garrick Mallery, concluded. Non-Conductors of Heat, by Prof. John M. Ordway. On Vodu-Worship, by Hon. Major A. B. Ellis. The Relative Value of Cements, by Charles D. Jameson and Hubert Remley, illustrated. Adaptation to Climate, by M. Saint-Yves Ménard. Government Among the Lower Animals, by J. W. Slater. International Congress of Americanists-Paris Meeting. Sketch of Samuel Latham Mitchill, with portrait. Correspondence: A Defense of the Architects-New England Agriculture-Evolutionary Ethics. Editor's Table: A Profession for Women-Science and Civilization. Literary Notices. Popular Miscellany. Notes.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for March. Contents: The Sound of a Voice, or the Song of the Débardeur, by Frederic S. Cozzens. Some Familiar Letters by Horace Greeley-I, edited by Joel Benton. A Mysterious Case, by Anna Katharine Green. "The Refiner of Silver," "Fear Not," by Clara Jessup Moore. Round-Robin Talks-IV, by J. M. Stoddart. A Lost Art, by Anne H. Wharton. Creaton, by Charles Henry Lüders. Old-Age Echoes, by Walt Whitman. Some Personal and OldAge Memoranda, by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman: Poet and Philosopher and Man," by Horace L. Traubel. The Light-House and the Birds, by William H. Hayne. Three Famous Old Maids, by Agnes Repplier. A Michigan Man, by Elia W. Peattie. A Fanatic, by Henry Collins. French Invasion of Ireland," by Julian Hawthorne. Reading Bores, by Richard Malcolm Johnston. Agricultural Education, by James Knapp Reeve. Cosmopolitanism and Culture, by W. W. Crane. "Little Jarvis." "Treasures of Art." With the Wits, illustrated by leading artists.

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