's "Book of Romance." Longmans, Green & Company. upplement is furnished to "The Century Cook Book" handsome illustrated volume by Mary Roland called k's Picture Book. It is arranged so that housekeepers eadily make up a menu, often a difficult task, or may find new dishes to vary the monotony of the daily fare. rst of the fourteen chapters is a dissertation on the ing and giving of luncheons, and the remainder coneceipts for all the different dishes that can possibly be for every kind of luncheon. It is elaborately illusby photographs, each showing some tempting dish ly garnished and ready to be served. Instead of givrious menus, there are printed at the beginning of hapter lists of the various dishes that are adapted to ticular luncheon course there described. Each chapter is the receipt for each one of these dishes. (The y Company, New York. Price, $1.40 net.) Girls from Dickens, by Kate D. Sweetser, illustra y George A. Williams. This volume contains delightracter sketches of the ten most celebrated girls in s' works. The aim has been to bring these sketches eir full beauty and pathos to the notice of the boys ls of this country. The book is a companion volume author's other work on the "Boys of Dickens," The es have the underlying motive of introducing the charfrom Dickens' works to those who have not found es contained in them. The characters introduced are rchioness, Agnes Wickfield, Florence Dombey, Jennie Morlena Kenwigs, Tilly Slowboy, the Infant Phenomittle Nell, Sissy Jupe, and Charley. The book has rge, full-page drawings. (J. F. Taylor & Company, ork. Ornamental cloth cover, $2.00 net.) easury of Humorous Poetry has been compiled by e Lawrence Knowles that will find an honored place a library. Most of the authors belong to the ninecentury. The old-fashioned poems which the taste of - Jen has outgrown are omitted. The writers in and Sill. In a word, there has been no attempt to discrim nate between humorous poetry in any exact or narrow sens and society verse, epigram, or satire. The selections var from broadly comic to merely felicitous and lively. Ther are several pages of small half-tone portraits of authors The book is bound in white cloth, with handsome gilt cove design, and boxed. (Dana Estes & Company. Price, $2.40. One of the most attractive books of the season is Lov Songs of Scotland, jewels of the tender passion selected from the writings of Burns, Tannahill, Scott, Ramsay, Lad Nairne, Macneill, Jamieson, Hogg, Douglas, Allen, an others, by Robert W. Douglas. The volume is intended t form a companion volume to "Love Songs of France." Th scope of the present work is necessarily very limited an many meritorious pieces are omitted for lack of space There is no literature in the world that is so rich in poem of the tender passion as that of Scotland, and the compile was confronted by an embarrassment of riches and wa obliged to omit many good songs. However, the larger por tion of those that are undoubted favorites and have stoo the test of time will be found here. The book is beautifull printed, bound in white, and is illustrated with many photo gravures. (New Amsterdam Book Company, New York.) No one can read the history of that extraordinary man Booker T. Washington, without being filled with wonder The rise from slavery to the position of leader of his rac and the executive head of a great institution, is somethin to be proud of. No less remarkable is the literary ability h has shown. Many of his friends think the best literary wor he has done is the Sunday evening talks to the students o Tuskegee institute. The subjects are practical ones of lif and of morals. He throws into them his whole moral natur and many of these addresses rise to eloquence. A volum called Character Building contains a selection of these ad dresses made by himself, which together present the chie elements of character building. (Doubleday, Page & Com pany, New York. Price, $1.50, net.) J. B. Lippincott Company. of after-dinner speeches, lected by Thomas B. Reed, as, is the work that all thoughtt to possess. These fifteen st known authors, professors, ay. The work is in ten large best of paper and with the llustrated. In all there are y photogravure portraits and Eyle of art. The purpose of nd publish, in enduring form, ive oratory of modern times, hich is not possessed both of e and true popular interest. istinguished speakers of this we dont Row at the object is to make a male sulty for other fellows in distress, but he does; you feel a good Coquo and the King's Children, by Cornelia Baker, illus- It is a question whether a book, written to-day, as good as "Robinson Crusoe" would become as popular. An imitation was made in the " Swiss Family Robinson,' but it was not equal to De Foe's production. In Not on the Chart, by Charles L. Marsh, we have a volume descriptive of the incidents where three were cast away on an island in the Pacific. It is quite differently written from the first book mentioned; the incidents are described in strong and figurative language, whereas De Foe sought to use the simplest and plainest words. But Mr. Marsh lives in a time that seems to demand and revel in just the kind of language he employs. And the book nowhere lacks for interest. These three are brave, self-contained people, and they contrive to meet life on this new island with courage. They have the education the times gives so freely and are not overcome by the disaster; besides a romance of much interest is developed. (F. A. Stokes Company. Price, $1.50.) J. F. Taylor & Company. Ave selected their own best e speakers include President -id, Hon. William Jennings Cenry M. Stanley, Dr. Newell Sir Henry Irving, Secretary President of Yale Arthur T. , and others of equal note. persons who have contributed mental work. Those named both for the home circle and - Company, Philadelphia.) at liking for anything J. M. Fro Fr Whis intro ner b We are glad to have perused Outdoorland, by Robert 1 Chambers, for it is such a book on nature study as we wo have children take in their hands. It is charmingly ill trated in colors by Birch and covers six matters-the Butt fly, a Fish, a Frog, a Snake, a Bird, and a Spider. T children are the other characters, and in the hands of M Chambers a very interesting series of incidents follow. course the book is for children, but we confess that we came highly interested to see how things "turned out." hope an opponent of nature study will get this book for 1 children and watch them while they read it. We are certa that this new interest has come to stay, and are, therefor glad to see this book. It will be an aid to a teacher and a is needed, for this study is entirely unlike arithmetic a spelling. It will be an equal aid to parents. (Harper Brothers.) From "Captain Macklin." Charles Scribner's Sons. Charles Frederick Holder has constructed an excitin romance concerning the Adventures of Torqua, the scene o which is some islands in the Pacific, near San Diego, Califor nia. These islands are, San Clemente, Santa Catalina, Sant Barbara, Santa Cruz, and others. The heroes are two Span ish boys who, banished from their native land, escape fror a Jesuit mission, and, guided by Torqua, live a wild, free out-door life among the Indians. They have hair-breadt escapes and thrilling adventures, including an undergroun battle. Everything in the story is intensely real, includin the descriptions of places-and for a good reason-for th author is personally familiar with them. The book abound in instruction as well as adventure and has some strikin illustrations. (Little, Brown & Company, Boston. Pric $1.20, net.) Jackanapes and the Brownies, by Juliana Horatia Ewing are two stories contained in number 151 of the Riversid Literature Series. An Introduction and Notes are furnishe by Henry W. Boynton, M. A. Mrs. Ewing was the daugh ter of an English alarman ET. Musical and Other." Millet. e was the rare sort of pernt as in real life. No wonthese stories, that are now g the classics. (Houghton, Price, $0.15.) RUE HISTORY IN REVOLUTION TORQUA AS A HERDER. From "The Adventures of Torqua. "Little, Brown & Co. One of the Red Shirts is a story of Garibaldi's times, those eventful years that ended in uniting Italy. There is no portion of modern history more attractive than the efforts to bring together the disjointed members of this once powerful kingdom. In this effort Garibaldi was an indispensable agent. All the great cities of Italy honor his memory by naming a street after him. This volume portrays the work of this hero, a man of the people, who wore no gold embroidered coat, but kept on his plain red flannel shirt thru all the trying campaigns. Books of this kind are to be encouraged, as they give an insight into present day history; they will enable boys to understand the means by which Italy was enabled to become one of the nations of Europe. (George W. Jacobs & Company, Philadelphia.) 66 as K of Rich Southe ing and young pride of savors her son favor's tt Company. interest in the American Inrace as the Philippine Malay, = least the ideal one. A Red Everett Billings, portrays an out captivate the school boy ns, the frontispiece being esan account of the adventures ssor of geology and some boys, ring. It can hardly be supald be able to lay the volume e will speculate over the idenmany days thereafter. (The Akron, Ohio. Price, $1.25.) Sullivan's lively comic opera t popular on the stage. The n the keenest satire and the time. Mr. Gilbert's libretti From "T up the law York he is a chance t feels in re some chap New York The Just English li wickedness ersham, liv her thru an he dese BUSINESS WAS SO BRISK, THAT IT WAS AS MUCH AS HE COULD DO TO GET OUT HIS STUFF AND MEASURE WHAT THEY WANTED. From "Swedish Fairy Tales." Among one sees the name of F. Hopkinson Smith on the e of a book he may be sure it is a good one. Is that he has written the writer cannot recall one The one he has just published, The story below the average. tunes of Oliver Horn, is far above it. e to the Old South in the period just before the openThe Civil war, but most of the incidents occur in New We visit often the ty or a New England village. de of that vague, but delightful neighborhood known where stood the venerable mansion nedy Square, rd Horn. He is a fine representative of the old-time n chivalry, whom Mr. Smith has pictured with a lovThe story of course centers around His mother's careful hand. Oliver, who wishes to be an artist. birth rebels against his engaging in anything that Chance n the least degree of manual labor, and so she makes s road to fortune and fame a difficult one. him, however. A timely mortgage forces him to give Frederick A. Stokes Company. retreat. It being discovered money out of the fact by blackmail. that the husband is a forger, the Wollastons beat a hasty When Lady Haversham becomes a mother and The reader feels sorry Marjory dies, as die she must for the sake of the story, better days come to Hugh and Muriel. for Marjory; she knew she was in the way and so she took (John Lane, London and New her life in her own hands. York. Price, $1.50.) To-day and To-morrow." Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. In New aw and seek an opportunity in the North. e is freed from that old and foolish prejudice and has e to develop, and well does he improve it. The reader reading the book that Mr. Smith has written into it hapters out of his own life. (Charles Scribner's Sons, ork. Price, $1.50.) Just and the Unjust, by Richard Bagot, is a story of n life, and people are introduced in it about whose He met ness there is no question. Hugh Lester, earl of Havn, lives ten years with Marjory Hungerford. an accident, a fall on a mountainside in Italy. Then Musial the daughter of Colonel and |