that word, as well as embellishments, many being views of localities or portraits, which with the very good maps and battle-plans add much to the value of the book. A number of the cuts are recognized as having appeared in Harper's Magazine. The volume is produced in pretty style, and it is to be hoped will come as a Christmas gift to very many boys to whom it cannot fail to be welcome and profitable.

Mr. Will Carleton (why not William we are at a loss to know) offers to American youth a small volume of Young Folks' Centennial Rhymes, which is hardly so desirable as Mr. Coffin's book. He has taken a number of Revolutionary incidents, more or less known, and dressed them up in verse, more or less felicitous. The book is illustrated, and prettily printed; but its binding in red, white and blue is more gaudy than tasteful.

The writer who calls himself "Harry Castlemon" is of the same class as "Oliver Optic" perhaps, but much superior in sentiment and moral tone. His books have a liveliness and dash that ought to be taking, and while they may have little instructive value they can be commended as otherwise unobjectionable. Snowed Up and Frank Nelson in the Forecastle are volumes of a series relating to the various adventures-some of which are quite astounding-of a half-dozen boys who are going around the world in charge of older relatives. They are open-air stories and healthy ones, and he is a slow boy who would not be interested. The pictures are spirited.

Roddy's Ideal is of the realistic school and is presumably a story for little girls, but there are probably not very many little girls who could understand the facetiousness upon which the author mostly relies for her effect. It has a "smartness" that one cannot help thinking is rather directed towards the author's young lady friends than towards the book's legitimate readers. How many children could see anything in this:

"I'm Congregationer," said she. "I don't have general dissemblers, and I think the members of the church ought to be democrats."

"What a very queer idea," said Ellen. "My church doesn't have anything to do with politics."

"Neither does mine. I don't quite understand it, but I know I heard them talk about the church government being democratic." This is sorry stuff, and the most of the book does not seem to be much better.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Noblesse Oblige. By the Author of M'lle Mori," Leisure Hour Series. 16mo. cloth, $1.25. Pp. 394. New York: Henry Holt & Co. [Porter &

Coates.

16mo., cloth. $1.50. Pp. 171. New [Porter & Coates.

Twenty Poems. By R. K. Weeks. York: Henry Holt & Co.

By Edward Barrett.

12mo., cloth.

$2. Pp.

The Carlyle Anthology. 396. New York: Henry Holt & Co. [Porter & Coates. The Theory of Sound in its Relation to Music. By Prof. Pietro Blaserna, of the Royal University of Rome. With numerous wood-cuts. International Scientific Series. 12mo., cloth. $1.50. Pp. xii. 187. New York: D. Appleton & Co. [Porter & Coates.

Hygeia, a City of Health, By Benjamin Ward Richardson, M. D., F. R. S. 16mo. paper. Pp. 47. London and New York: Macmillan & Co.

The Echo Club, and other Literary Diversions. By Bayard Taylor. 18mo., cloth. $1.25. Pp. 187. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. [Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.

A Study of Hawthorne. By George Parsons Lathrop. 18mo., cloth. $1.25. Pp. 350. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. [Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, Household Edition. cloth. $2.00. Pp. 416. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. [Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.

The Skeleton in Armor. By Henry W. Longfellow. 8vo. cloth. $5.00. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. Haffelfinger.

12m0.,

With illustrations. [Claxton, Remsen &

Roddy's Ideal. By Helen Kendrick Johnson. 12mo., cloth. $1.25. Pp. 293. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. [Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. Octavius Brooks Frothingham and the New Faith. 12mo., cloth. 75 cts. Pp. 50. New York: G, P. Putnam's Sons. [Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. Map of Turkey and Greece. Drawn by J. Schedler. Printed in colors. Price 75 cents. New York: E. Steiger.

Viking Tales of the North. The Sagas of Thorstein, Viking's Son, and Fridthjof the Bold. Translated from the Icelandic, by Rasmus B. Anderson, A. M., and Jón Bjarnason, also Tégnérs Fridthjof Saga, translated into English by George Stephens. 12mo., cloth, $2. Pp. 388. Chicago: S. Č. Griggs & Co. [Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.

Anecdote Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Richard Henry Stoddard, Sans Souci Series. 16mo., cloth, $1.50. Pp. 312. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. [J. K. Simon.

The Gold of Chickaree. By Susan and Anna Warner. 12mo., cloth, $1.75. Pp. 430. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. [Porter & Coates.

Snowed Up; or The Sportsman's Club in the Mountains. By Harry Castlemon. Illustrated. Frank Nelson Series. 16mo., cloth, $1.25. Pp. 301. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates.

Frank Nelson in the Forecastle; or The Sportman's Club Among the Whalers. By Harry Castlemon. Illustrated, Frank Nelson Series. 16mo., cloth. $1.25. Pp. 332. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates.

Rare Good Luck; a Fortune in Seven Strokes. By R. E. Francillon. 8 vo., paper. 50 cts. Pp. 116. New York: D. Appleton & Co. [Porter & Coates.

Young Folks' Centennial Rhymes. By Will Carleton. Illustrated. 12mo., cloth, $1.50. Pp. 123. New York: Harper & Bros. [J. B. Lippincott & Co. The Boys of '76. A History of the Battles of the Revolution. By Charles Carleton Coffin. Illustrated. Square 8vo., cloth, $3.00. Pp., 398. New York: Harper & Bros. [J. B. Lippincott & Co.

A Long Time Ago. By Meta Orred. 8vo., paper, 50 cts. Pp. 106. New York: Harper & Bros. [J. B. Lippincott & Co.

The Arundel Motto. By Mary Cecil Hay. 8vo., paper, 75 cents. Pp. 168. New York: Harper & Bros. [J. B. Lippincott & Co.

The Life of John Locke. By H. R. Fox Bourne.

2 vols. 8vo., cloth, $5.00.

Pp. 504 and 576. New York: Harper & Bros. [J. B. Lippincott & Co.