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 way Club,'i by Margaret Sidney, is charm 1 ing book of travel, in which the author de- | parts from the conventional track and has
 had two objects, instead of one, in view. She | both entertains and teaches. The ''club'' is
 made up of the Ridgeway family, Aunt Pen | elope and two young friends. On account of | sickness Mr. Ridgeway has to go to southern California, and plan is formed to study the
 route passed over, each one keeping notes on everything of an informing nature. The club holds it's meeting every day after the start is made, and every day it's members have something new to tell and to learn. The record of the journey is delightful, and to the young reader will be almost as inter
 esting as the real journey itself. The book
 is profusely illustrated, many of the illustra-
 tio1s being made expressly for it. It is
 bound in two styles, one in cloth covers and
 the other in boards with handsome chromo
 designs on the front and back. It is hand
 some Christmas book for young people. D..
 Lothrop & Co.,, publishers, Boston. For sale
 in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 sCha1les Darwin," by Grant Allen, is 8
 little volume presenting the life and work of
 Darwin, viewed monument in 8 great
 revolution, in due relation to those who went
 before and to those who come after him. He
 is shown as receiving the torch from both
 Lamarck and Malthus and passing it on to
 the wide school of evolutionary thinkers,
 whom his work aroused to vigorous activity
 in many lines of thought. The book is
 mainly a study of the interaction of organ
 ism and environment and of necessity allu-
 sion is made to men of science. On the
 whole it is good representation of the great
 force which Darwin has exerted in the school
 of evolutionary thinkers and in the world in
 general. D. Appleton & Co.,, publishers.
 For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 s'Hunted Down, Mystery Solved" by
 Max Hillary, is 8 story overfowing with wit
 ty and humorous sayings. After taking it
 up the reader will not lay it down until
 the last page is reached unless it be to
 take good laugh; and this he will do oft
 en in the course of the book. It abounds
 in fresh surprises and the interest grows
 more and more tense. Startling incidents
 follow each other in quick succession and
 mystery after mystery is cleared up. The
 great clima1-''the mystery of mysteries" -is only solved in the last chapter. A.
 N. Marquis, publishers, Chicago For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 1.-The Dyeing of Textile Fabrics" by J. J. Hummel, F. c. S., is a manual which provides the teacher and student of dyeing with an useful text book giving exact scien- tife and practical information. It also e1- plains the scientific principles involved in the operations of the art of dyeing. Ger tain details are furnished relating to the mode of applying the various coloring matters and mordants as starting points for future work. The subject matter has been carefully prepared and will prevent any confusion rising in the mind of the reader to which fibre is being referred to in any given connection. Comparison can be readily made of the treatment to which each fibre, cotton, wool or silk is submit ted when applying any given coleuring mat ter. The information is as far as possible brought down to the latest date. It is furnished with ninety-seven diagrams iETn fn tils City by Judd the bookseller.
 "A Year of Blessings and a Blessed Year, is little book with passage of for every day in the year, with upon each days topic selected from the best authors, compiled by Rose Porter, author of Summer Driftwood," s'Winter Fire" etc. The scripture texts are well arranged and admirably adapted. The quotations on the whole could not have been better selected. The little vol ume will be found to be helpful and in structive in scripture reading Anson D. k. & Co.,, publishers. For sale in this city by c. R. Coan.
 ''Along Alaska's Great River" Is popular account of the travels of the Alaska explor- ing expedition of 1883 along the great Yu- kon river from it's source to it's mouth in the British northwest territory and in the terri tory of Alaska, by Frederick Schwatka, Laureate of the Paris Geographical society and of the Imperial Geographical society of Russia and commander of the expedition. In April of '83 the expedition was organized with seven members at Vancouver's Bar racks, Washington Territory, and left Port land, Oregon, in May, ascending the inland passage to Alaska as far the Chilkat eoun- try. From there Indians packed the effects of the party across the glacier clad pass of the Alaskan coast range of mountains, to the head waters of the Yukon. Here . raft was made and on this raft the party feated over hundred miles, the longest raft jour- ney ever made in the interest of geographi- cal science. The entire river, over two thou sand miles in length, was traversed, the par ty returning home by way of Behring's Sea and touching at the Aleutian Islands. Cas- sell & Co.,, publishers, New York. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 'sMy Religion" by Count Leo Tolstoi, has recently been translated from the French and published in a neat edition. The Count Tolstoi is acknowledged by competent critics to be man of extraordinary genius. He has produced a masterpiece of literature, which will continue to rank with the great artistic productions of this age. Count Tols- toi is Russian by birth and his ''War Sketches" Childhood and Youth" ''The Cossacks" and 'War and Peace" have won for him popularity and fame. In this book he gives us conclusions based upon the direct and literal interpretations of the teachings of Jesus as expressed in the Sermon en the Mount. The interpretation, though not new in theory, has never before been carried out with so much zeal, determination and sin cerity Nowhere is logic, granting the pre- misses, so unanswerable in this beautiful confession of faith. He depicts the thoughts and fears of the searcher after the better life. earnestly inquiries for the truth; inspires the reader by his confidence in the natural goodness as opposed to the natural depravity of the man. His argument is convincing that the doctrine of Jesus is simple, practi- | cable and conducive to the highest happi- l ness, and his arraignment of the church for l it's indifference to the welfare of humanity is | pitiless His prophecy of the golden age | when men shall dwell together in the bonds | ,f love is sublime. The reader is thrilled | with divine emotion, which opens the way | for the acceptance of the truth unfolded as ;he veritable secret of life, We may smile 1t the simplicity and artlessness of the Rus sian evangelist in his determination to find | he simple elements of Christ's doctrine, but | we cannot but admire faith so sincere, so | intense, so elevating and so noble. The