"Mary Garvin." Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. the Twins Captured a Hessian is a story of Long in 1776, by James Otis. The lads who are the main ters in this story were born near Flatbush on that ixth of May, 1766, when the news reached New York he stamp act had been repealed. Consequently they en years old when the events described occurred, and, eir size, were as great patriots as there were in the y. When the Hessians came marching across the y occupying the farms and driving the people toward York, the twins made a heroic capture of one of their s. The story is full of action and is a good picture of nes, as all are assured who know the ability of Mr. o give a historic setting to a tale. (Thomas Y. Cro- Company, New York. Price, $0.50, net.) also, and the author, Mr. James A. Braden brings nis cna acter, thru scenes that stir the pulse to read. There wer then Senacas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Cayugas, Onondagas, an Tuscaroras from New England to the Great Lakes, and it i among these the author pilots two boys for seven month and returns them safe to civilization again, as one is glad t see. (The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio. Price $1.00.) Doctor Robin is the bird hero that figures in Harriet A Cheever's little book and tells his story to the children. Th conception of a bird who understands the curative art, an applies healing herbs and cooling vegetable juices to th wounds of injured songsters, furnishes a very original an somewhat difficult motive, but the story is not only charm ingly told, but entirely convincing. It is also sympathetic true to nature, and adapted to the tastes of a child. Docto Robin is beautifully illustrated with thirteen full-page an text cuts by Ethelred B. Barry. (Dana Estes & Company Price, net, $0.40; by mail, $0.46.) "Mollie and the Unwiseman." H. T. Coates & Co. re are historical books for the boys in abundance, but intended more especially for the girls are not so nus. They will find one of great excellence and absorbterest in Tower or Throne, a romance of the girlhood zabeth. We have been so accustomed to the picture of reat English queen painted in somber hues that this ntation of her personality in her girlhood will be a revn. The story is told with unusual grace; it is vivid, nt, dramatic. It begins with the court life of Henry and Anne Boleyn, and ends with the death of Mary and From " Messages of the Masters." Thomas Y. Crowell & Co An abridgment of Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop," ha been made by Frederick Lawrence Knowles, under the titl of The Story of Little Nell. Except in case of necessar omissions, the author's language has been left practicall unchanged. The editor has made no effort to retain anythin more of the plot than relates to the history of Little Nel The book should be regarded as an introduction to the "Ol Curiosity Shop" rather than a substitute for it. It is full illustrated and makes a charming addition to the "Famou Children of Literature series. (Dana Estes & Compony Price, net $0.75; by mail, $0.84.) In The Caxton Club we have a narrative of the exper ence of three bright boys in journalism. They live in a Ohio town and have printing presses of their own. At firs they run separate papers, but after a while concentrate the efforts on one paper which they make so good that nearly a the people in the town take it. Then they join the N. A. I A. club; you should read the book to find out what that is Its organization and the part the Caxton club played in are well brought out in this story. The book is well mad and prettily bound, as are all the volumes of the Golde Hour series. (Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, New York Jack and Black, by Andrew Home, is one of a series of very interesting books for boys. It is a tale of school life and adventure with handsome illustrations. Mr. Home is unusually happy with his school stories, and the reason is that he has been there. He remembers what is in a boy's mind and all his imaginings and hopes, and writes freely and lovingly too. It is no task for him to spin this yarn, for he would like to be one among the boys he describes. This is the key to all successful writing; so Thackeray declares. We like to read good, healthful, boys' stories yet and hope we always shall, and consider this as a very happy example. (J. B. Lippincott Company. Price, $1.25.) Fairy Tales from the Swedish of G. Djurklo contain twenty-one stories; the illustrations are by Swedish and Norwegian artists. None but the Scandinavian imagination can put together common facts and make the combination so interesting that one does not stop to consider the probability at all. The Old Woman and the Fish" is a fair sample of this. The fish talks and talks so well that we want to hear what it says. Esop makes the frog and the lamb talk sensibly. This author, born in another civilization, pays no attention to sense; the fish promises three wishes if let go. And so it really happens and here is where the interest is aroused. The buckets now go home of themselves, etc., etc., just as she wishes-but troubles happen all the same. The book is decidedly well put together. (Frederick A. Stokes Company. Price, $1.40.) adcliffe." Little, Brown & Co. George C. Hazelton, Jr., deelity and breadth that makes it the space of 280 pages there is ation, gathered and condensed, be desired by a vast number of lustrated. From the selection ict in 1788 to the present time, e has been a concentration of ce given to this portion of the igh importance to the entire burned in 1814 and then was e present structure, which has until it is one of the finest in author limits himself largely to new capitol, its structure and cent library for these are not ected to Washington. The illusprinted and the whole volume is . (J. F. Taylor & Company From "New York Sketches." Charles Scribner's Sons. The Boy Land Boomer, by Captain Ralph Bonehill, relates the adventures of a lad who, with his father, joins a number of daring men in an attempt to occupy the rich farming lands of Oklahoma before the time when that section was thrown open to settlement under the homestead act. Oklahoma was formerly a part of Indian territory. It was much in dispute as early as 1884 and 1885 and boomers remained in the neighborhood for years trying to force an entrance to this rich district. Finally the land was thrown open to settlement on April 22, 1889, by a proclamation of the president. The mad rush to gain the best claims followed, and some of these scenes are described in this volume. The best known and most daring of the leaders figures in these pages under the name of Pawnee Brown. The story is valuable in presenting a truthful description of one of the most remarkable events in American history. (The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio. Price, $1.00.) The scene and time of the story of Barnaby Lee are New Amsterdam during the sway of Peter Stuyvesant. The hero -a runaway from the tyranny of a scoundrelly ship captain ttle better than a pirate-is rescued from his many troubles by the timely capture of the Dutch city when the English Sor notab The J ble sa Lit 66 Girl,' They by F Her The anothe edited This e to you ing stor such a before and her Bichette timent, to make Young C In an WALL, CANTON. COURT OF HONOR AT HEIDELBERG. From "A Lily of France." American Baptist Publication Society. rce the author exhibited in his previous book, "Masylark," play their stirring drama on this little stage. Cory was published originally as a serial in St. Nicholas, ere is much in it that appeals to older people, and so not merely a "juvenile, but one worth the reading ople of any age. The illustrations by Clyde O. nd are numerous and excellent. (The Century ComNew York. Price, $1.50.) "" 64 many admirers of Louisa M. Alcott's charming stories rls will hail with delight the new editions of "Little en,' Little Men, and "An Old-Fashioned Girl have just been gotten out by Little, Brown, & Co. books are perhaps the most widely read and thorloved by girls, old and young, of any that have been en in this country, and are always most acceptable y gifts. The present edition is well bound, with clear and dainty illustrations. (Little, Brown & Co. Price each.) gs of the Child World, by Jessie L. Gaynor, a writer ly fitted for this work, is the title of a book issued by ohn Church Co., New York. It is having a remarkale, as indeed is the following, also issued by them: tle Sacred Songs for Little Singers ;" "If I Were a and "If I Were a Boy" are two dainty baby songs. have also a series of four songs in sheet form, written rank L. Bristow, called " Cat, Dog,' Goat, 66 University Publishing Co., New York, have issued er number of their standard literature series, Macbeth, by Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Jr., of Union college. edition follows The Merchant of Venice and Julius r. These editions have a ready sale, being serviceable inger pupils as well as to those preparing for college nce examinations. A previous issue of this series, parrly attractive, was the series of stories from Hans An. Other publications from this house are Writing by a rational and systematic method of exercises and ised edition of A Course in Qualitative Chemical sis by Drs. Venable and Wheeler, of the University rth Carolina. young people will be glad that George Sand's charmory, The Rosy Cloud, has been placed before them in handsome, illustrated little volume as that we have e us. The heroine is a little French peasant girl. She er mother and her aunt and even the little lamb, tte, win our sympathies. The good plot, delicate sent, and breezy out-door atmosphere have long combined ke this tale a favorite. The volume belongs to the g of Heart series. (Dana Estes & Company, Boston. $0.50.) an ingenious series of descriptions and conversations e Kenyon Ulrich, in The Child and the Tree, tells of ses of trees and tree products so as to make them read corded them when once thei purpose is appreciated (Thomas Y. Crowell & Com pany. Price, $0.50.) The centenary of the birt of one of the greatest o French writers occurred i July of this year, and it ha been observed by the publ cation in English of a vol ume giving an account of Th Life and Writings of Alea andre Dumas. The autho of this memorial volume t the great Frenchman, Harr A. Spurr, has endeavored t tell the general reader wh Dumas was, what he did I which books he wrote an which he did not, and finall what his confreres and th great critics have said him. He makes especiall prominent the fact that great change has taken plac in the past thirty years i the literary estimation Dumas. Very little refer ence is made to Dumas' play because the general reade of the English-speaking pub lic has had no opportunity of seeing them or reading them and therefore is not likely to be interested in them. Th book is excellently illustrated. (Frederick A.Stokes Com pany, New York. Price, $2.00.) Several amusing stories of New England country folk cen tering around the person of a grizzled old mariner are include in a volume entitled Cap'n Titus. The author, Clay Emery by the skilful use of dialect and descriptions, has manage to impart a wonderful degree of lifelikeness to these tales They have the salty flavor of the seacoast town. Amon title of a most handsomely illustchell that gives (supposedly) one Khan-Ki, an admiral in the ons in color are by F. W. Read, Albert D. Blashfield, and drawis an attempt to realize the disnation. Khan-ki wanders thru which have been deserted and Nineveh and Babylon are to-day. ill take place, it is true, in a litow; surely we shall be as longver, it does one good to read his in a form so quaintly arranged. ingly housed as this is. (FredTew York CLARA F. LAUGHLIN. Author of "Stories of Authers' Loves. J. B. Lippincott Company. press. The girl characters are from fifteen to seventeen years of age, the boys are preparing for college, and all are instilled with the spirit of modern life in the best schools. (Little, Brown & Company, Boston. Price, $1.20.) THE LAST OF THE MEHRIKANS From "The Last American." Frederick A. Stokes Company. con mar in a ask sent thei scho Ger mov A see, W is er gym Ge been scho from once lege, of the Harv of $100 York, t parativ Dr. elected succeed Dr. Kin from 1 gon the rural district schools are bined. When the districts are he funds are to be lumped and cation facilities are to be provided s who live at a distance from the chool. has been adopted in Chicago is hoped will do away with all rsy over the teaching of GerThe language is not to be taught ol unless seventy-five pupils shall In that case two teachers will be he school who are to devote half e to teaching the language. In where there are not seventy-five students those who wish schools where it is taught. may day will be celebrated in TennesNovember 28. on college at Wheaton, Illinois, ng an industrial building besides a um and dormitory. e W. Nash, who has recently ected state superintendent of in South Dakota, was graduated nkton college in 1891. He at nt to teaching at Augustana colCanton, South Dakota. In 1893 . George W. Nash. ne principal of Yankton college The next year was spent in the University of Leipzig, and return Yankton college awarded degree of Master or Science. In became professor of mathematics onomy at Yankton, a position he e held. He has directed the work gogy at Yankton and is president Ollege and high school department Service rules are strictly applied. government in making a scientific inves- and elegant high school building for The result is that the country has an ex Chicago University Receipts. The University of Chicago Weekly pub lishes a list of the principal donations the university has received up to the presen time. It is as follows: John D. Rockefeller Professor C. Claxton, of the bureau of South. New school buildings are in process of Woodrow Wilson is the first layman in By a vote of 212 to eighty-three the House of Commons, after a forty-five days' discussion of the details of the education bill, passed it by the committee stage on November 20. Notice was given that several amendments will be made in the report stage of the measure. The trustees of the University of Southern Pennsylvania announce that Mr. Charles M. Schwab has contributed $25,000 for a new building for the university. Drs. E. W. and Clarence H. Clark have given $100,000 to the University of Pennsylvania to found a chair of Assyriology. This is a result of the explorations of Dr. H. V. Hilprecht for the last fourteen years. Dr. Hilprecht has already been named as the first incumbent of the new chair. The marriage of president and rector of Renssalaer Polytechnic institute, P. C. Chamberlain, was made the occasion of a striking spectacle in which half a hundred students of the institute participated. $10,176,000 1,026,000 380,000 300,000 300,000 250,000 360,000 240,000 165,000 145,000 137,000 60,000 50,000 50,000 102,000 660,000 200,000 210,000 At the close of the ceremony, when the The Associated Academic Principals of bride and groom entered their carriage the State of New York will hold its anthe seniors detached the horses and drew nual holiday conference at Syracuse on the carriage to its destination. The lower December 29, 30, 31. A change has been classmen fell in and marched behind the made in the general arrangement of the carriage to the house of the reception. program. There will be but one address at each session, but if opportunity is given optional topics will be discussed. At the congress for boys held in New York recently, it was stated that out of 7,000 boys between fourteen and twenty, in Pawtucket, R. I., only 600 are in school. The rest are wage earners, mostly in factories. 66 The conference will open with an address by Pres. Rush Rhees, of the UniThoroness Verversity of Rochester on sus Breadth." The other general papers will be "The High School in its Relation Some idea of the London school board to Commercial Education," by Supt. Emmay be obtained from the following fig- met Belknap, of Lockport; "The Differures of the total staff under its control: ent and Indifferent Degrees of PreparaThe number of teachers, including head tion for College that Appear in English, assistants and pupil teachers is 13,885; Specially in Composition, Spelling, and the head office staff numbers 559; gen- Plain Old-Fashioned Reading Aloud," by M. W. Stryker, of Hamilton college; ard university has received a gift WASHINGTON, D. C.-Governor Taft "Manual Training in Villages and Small 000 from James Stillman, of New has informed the war department that Cities," by Prin. Vinton S. Paessler, endow a professorship in com- he has appointed Elmer B. Bryan, for- Binghamton; "Professional Ethics; Re- anatomy. merly of Bloomington, Indiana, superin- lation of Principal to Superintendent, to tendent of education for the Philippines. Subordinates, Other Principals,' by Mr. Bryan has been for some time super- Supt. A. B. Blodgett, of Syracuse. The intendent of schools in Manila. His new officers of the association are: |