# The Dial/Volume 15/Number 172

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THE DIAL, No. 24 Adams Street, Chicago.
Contents.
* PAGE
* A NEWSPAPER SYMPOSIUM................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................79
* THE EDUCATION CONGRESSES................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................82
* COMMUNICATIONS................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................85
* Breach of Idiom. F. H.
* The Use and Abuse of Slang. Pitts Duffield.
* GEORGE EBERS'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. E. G. J.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................87
* MR. IRVING'S VIEWS ON THE MODERN DRAMA. Elwyn A. Barron................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................90
* RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................92
* Doyle's The Refugees.—Crawford's Pietro Ghisleri.—Emily Hoppin's From Out of the Past.—Miss Elliott's John Paget.—Miss MeClelland's Broadoaks.—Miss Bell's The Love Affairs of an Old Maid.—Mrs. Catherwood's Old Kaskaskia.—Bangs's Toppleton's Client.—Kipling's Many Inventions.—Matthews's The Story of a Story.—Mrs. Deland's Mr. Tommy Dove.—Sullivan's Day and Night Stories.
* BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................95
* A new text-book of Biology.—Interpretations of Tennyson's Idylls of the King.—Lurid pictures of modern city life.—A new edition of Juvenal's Satires.—The seventh part of the "Great English Dictionary."—French dominion in the Valley of the Mississippi.—Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution.—The Establishment of the Anglican Church in America.
* BRIEFER MENTION................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................97
* LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................97
* LIST OF NEW BOOKS................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................98