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ELEMENTARY PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. An outline of physiography. Jacques W. Redway. The successive steps in mastering the modern science of geography are to study the various peoples of the earth, and the countries they inhabit; the industries by which they live, and their geographic distribution; and finally the geographic laws which have determined the distribution of life. The present volume is concerned with the last stage in the study of the science. A vast number of basic facts are set forth showing the condition of the earth and how it has come to be as it is. The latest scientific discoveries are fully recognized, and the earth-history is fascinatingly set forth. Mountains, valleys, rivers, oceans, rocks, electricity, earthquakes, movments of the atmosphere, and many other forces are shown to play each its part in determining what animals and what races of men shall live in particular portions of the earth. The volume is fully illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Price, $1.25.

In the FOURTH READER of Child Life in Literature, by Etta Austin Blaisdell and Mary Frances Blaisdell, the authors have made selections for the purpose of giving children material from the best available literature to the end that through this material they may acquire a taste for reading genuinely good books. No material has been prepared expressly for this book; it is all from the best writers. Among the authors selected from are William Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Hawthorne, Lowell, George Macdonald, Allingham, Dickens, Keats, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Emerson, Longfellow, Coleridge, Kingsley, Ruskin, Hugo, Field, George Eliot, Whittier, Lewis Carroll and others. Children fed upon works from these writers will surely acquire a fondness for good literature that will determine their reading in their later life. New York: The Macmillan Company.

DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND HOUSEHOLD ARTS, edited by Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson, of the Philadelphia Normal School, is a manual for teachers for use in elementary schools. It consists of a preface by Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of chapters contributed by other well-known specialists. The book is arranged for study during the months of school, from September to July, the subject of the chapters being as follows: The house beautiful; the kitchen; starchy foods, and how to cook them; foods; principles of cooking; fish, oysters and salads; the dining room; bread, pastry and cake; the bedroom; the laundry; household pests; house cleaning; mending and sewing. The book is thoroughly practical, and while designed for teachers to use as a handbook and text-book it is admirably arranged for household use. The recipes are possible of use in kitchens of most modest equipment and meagre supply; the directions for care of the "things" of life as found in the home are explicit and sensible; and the philosophy of the whole is clear and pertinent. It is one of the best books of its kind. New York: Macmillan Company.

DER MEISTER VON PALMYRA, by Adolf Wilbrandt, edited by Theodore Henckels, and DER ASSISTENT, by Frida Schanz, edited by A. Beinhorn, are the latest additions to the series of Modern Texts issued by the American Book Company. Each of these books is enriched with a generous supply of notes on the text; each will be a welcome addition to the texts now read in schools and colleges. New York: American Book Company.

From D. C. Heath & Co. (Boston) we have received the following text-books, being additions to Heath's Modern Language Series: Keller's ROMEO UND JULIA AUF DEM DORFE; Elz's ER IST NICHT EIFERSÜCHTIG; Benedix's NEIN; Zschokke's DAS WIRTHAUS ZU CRANSAC; Dahn's EIN KAMPF UM ROM, and Scribe's LE VERRE D'EAU. Each of these volumes is carefully edited with introduction, copious notes and specially prepared vocabulary. These features, with their low price, serve to make the series one of the most popular in the schools.

Sallust's CATILINE, edited by Charles G. Herbermann, Ph.D., of the College of the City of New York, made its first appearance some ten years ago and has enjoyed an uninterrupted course of use in the best schools and academies. It now, in accordance with the conditions of the new course of study, has undergone a thorough revision, the changes being such as to make the book more readily usable by younger students, while it furnishes larger opportunities for the advanced student to do individual and research work. Boston: Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.

SIDE LIGHTS ON AMERICAN HISTORY, by Henry W. Elson, is second in the series, the initial volume being published a year ago. This volume begins where its predecessor left off, and covers the period of the Civil War and that which follows on to the present time. The author's plan has been to choose out the chief events, without attempting to give a complete history, and to turn a flash-light here and there on the part that may be taken as a sample of the whole. In this he has been particularly happy, having excellent judgment of historical values, clear historical perspective and the "historic mind." The chapter headings will furnish somewhat the scope of the work: the presidential election of 1860; secession; great leaders in Congress during the war; events leading up to the Civil War; battle of Gettysburg; causes of Northern success; reconstruction; impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson; Alabama claims; the Liberal Republican movement of 1872; the disputed presidential election of 1876; Garfield tragedy; a century of tariff legislation, and the Spanish War. Each chapter is boldly treated and is faithful to accepted facts. It is an excellent text-book for teachers, students of history, public speakers and writers. New York: The Macmillan Company.

THE PROGRESSIVE Course in READING, by George I. Aldrich, superintendent of schools in Brookline, and Alexander Forbes, will consist of five books, although books four and five will be put forth in two parts; three books are now published, the others are in press. In these readers the authors have endeavored to give to schools what the new education has come to demand, good literature in good form. The books will help children to acquire a love for reading that will be their possession for life, and the taste will be for what is best in literature. The first books are most carefully graded, contain excellently selected material and are superb in their choice illustrations. Every page seems to have been made only after the most deliberate consideration of the needs and acquirements of the pupil; we cannot imagine Superintendent Aldrich admitting into a book made under his supervision anything but the best and most adapted for the needs of the schools. We strongly commend this series to the attention of school officers and teachers. New York: Butler, Sheldon & Company.

LESSONS IN LANGUAGE, by J. N. Patrick, is a strong presentation of the means and methods to be used in the early grades in the study of language. The method employed is the natural one; the pupils are set to do with what they know and have to do; the exercises are carefully graded and progressive, and most of the work is thrown upon the pupils themselves to do. It is an excellent text-book with many strong features. By the same author is Lessons in Grammar, designed for use in schools and teachers' institutes. It is a strictly technical grammar book, the author not attempting to teach literature and grammar at the same time. The topical method is followed with fidelity and with success; the student is required to think grammatical facts and forms into original sentences. According to Mr. Patrick "the object sought in the study of grammar is facility in the use of language, not a memory crammed with definitions and rules." Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.

A GENERAL HISTORY OF EUROPE. (350-1900.) By Oliver J. Thatcher, Ph.D., and Ferdinand Schwill, Ph.D. This book is intended as a guide to the student. In connection with each chapter a carefully selected list of authorities is cited, and the pupil is encouraged in wide reading concerning the period treated. This is the peculiarity of the book and its justification, among the multitudes of text-books on European history already before the public. We believe that the method here pursued is the right one. It encourages an independent attitude of mind and cultivates the historic judgment. The authors of this General History are well-known scholars, and their work is of recognized value. Their book will be adopted in many schools and colleges. The maps and genealogical tables are full and accurate. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Price, $1.50.

The THIRD BOOK in the series of Graded Literature Readers, by Harry Pratt Judson, of the University of Chicago, and Ida C. Bender, of Buffalo, is now put forth, and is an admirable, well-arranged reader for the grade for which it is prepared. The selections are bright and fresh; they have been made with good taste and illustrated with rare skill. New York: Maynard, Merrill & Co.

CHILD LIFE IN MANY LANDS. By Etta Austin Blaisdell and Mary Frances Blaisdell. This is an attractive third reader, well calculated to broaden the child's horizon and quicken his interest in the life, history and literature of other lands. New York: The Macmillan Co. Price, 36 cents.

PERIODICALS.

The September Atlantic Monthly contains a suggestive paper by Charles Noel Flagg on Art Education for Men. The entire table of contents of this number is of interest to educated and thoughtful people.-W. D. Howells contributes a Personal Retrospect of James Russell Lowell to the current number of Scribner's Magazine. The Rev. Dr. D. Z. Sheffield, President of the North China College and Mission at Tung Chou, writes a timely paper for the September Century Magazine on The Influence of the Western World on China. Dr. Sheffield was in the United States when his college was burned by the Boxers in June.-McClure's Magazine is interesting and readable as usual. The opening article on the Training of Lions is strikingly illustrated by Charles R. Knight of the American Museum of Natural History.-The Arena is full of able discussions of current, political and social topics.-Prof. W. F. Willcox, one of the chief statisticians of the Census Office discusses American Census Methods in The Forum of this month. The Popular Science Monthly, which was established in 1872 by the Appletons, is now issued by McClure, Phillips & Co. Prof. James McKeen Cattell of Columbia University is the editor. The September Delineator has a timely article on The New Student by Carolyn Halsted.

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