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ton. pioneer narratives, etc The number

Is decided credit 10 the Pacific slope.
German fer Americans" is neat. com
pact and well orranged work by DR. Jacob
Mayer. 1t is published by Ig. Kobler
Philadelphia. 1t is intended as practics,
guide for selfinstruction and for COLLEGE,
and schools. We have very little conf.
dence IN books for self.instruction in the
languages, but the latter part of the sub,
title OF DR.. Mavers volume saves il from
criticism on that score. We Judge that the
author is an accomplished linguist and has
oeen practical Instructor, if he is not one
now While not qualified to Judge fully.
We know enough OF such text books % dis.
cover much high merit in this one. There
are some peculiarly new methods in the
WORK, as, Tor instance, the pronunciation.
the gender, the idiomatic expression. the
classlncatlon OF nouns and verbs, etc. are
SO set forth and so treated and arranged
that much of the difficulty of the study of
the language is removed and the teacher i
greatly aided by the helps" the author has
given him in the text.
The July Wide Awake" ID. Lotbron {,
Co, Boston, has many strong features One
is Miss Stewards - Fourth of July at Robert
College" another, Mrs Burton Harrison's
" The Republican Court" MademoiseIle
Papa Is touching tale from the French
translated by Miss Virginia ChampIin'
There Is thrilling story, The Child
Knight of Bouttiers, by Madame Cramer
bernhard. How Patty Earned Her Sal"
by Walter Colby, is another good story.
CUCKOO by Mrs Frances a Humphrey,
gives her acquaintance Of this haunting
English bird. Five Little Peppers Fur.
pears. Mrs General Fremont writes Of her
" Sierra Neiehb1rs IN early California
days. Mrs. Clara Do,y Bates has contri-
button, The best thing in amusing verse for
children which has appeared for some
time, he Monkey and the Camel -
There are many other buglt things in
verse and picture.
From Longmans, Green & Co. New York
and London, We have the initial number of,
= The New Review" June edited by
Archibald Cove. Il is published monthly
at 10 cents number, or 81 75'a year. It's
contents are: General BOulaneer." by
Alfred N2quet, Of the French Senate, writ
ten by authority of Boulanger; and Rou-
langer's Impeachment by Camille Pelle-
tan, CT the French Chamber; q dramatic
sketch, After the Play" by Henry James
- Homes of the People, by Earl Compton.
NJ. P; " National Muscle" by Lord Charles
Berestord, NJ, P: " The Religion of Self
Respect by Mrs. Lynn Linton. The
Inlolist Policy for Ireland by T. W.
Russell, NJ. p; Month in Russia" by
Lady Randolph Churchill. This new can
dldate for favor starts we'll. Its papers are
strong, and its list of contributors for its
first year is very promising for literary bat
ties Of VigOr and brilliancy.
The Forum for July New York is g
number of much interest. Bishop Potter,
NJ Ngrky .,F.
poets OF " The Scholar in American Life"
Edward e. Hale writes of "a Market for
Books " Copyright, he holds, is essentially
the same as patent-rigbt, and should be
governed by the same liberal principles;
have its principal center here. Senator
Justin 5, Morrill, writes of the "Repubi-
can Party Prospects W. S. Lilly of The
Ethics OF journalism; Prof Romanes of
Anti Darwinisn Falacies -: HOuore Beau
grand of The Attitude Of the French Ca
nadians ; DR.. Flint of Late Theories
Concerning Fever -; r. J. Hinton of So
clailsm ! Prof. McGill of The Worlds
supply Of Fuel -; Jennie June of Domes-
tic Service" and Rev. II. P. Collier OF The
Better Side of ADglo.Msnia"
The Atlantic Monthly" for july. 1889
{ Houghton, Mililn & Co, Boston,, has
these papers: "Assum Igitur," Harriet
Waters Preston; Going to Shrewsbury"
Sarah Orne Jewett; The Problem of Dis.
cipline IN Higher Education" n. s. Shaler;
The Old Masters in New York, - William
Howe Downes; The Tragic Muse" Serial,
Henry James; The Speakers Power"
Henry Loomis Nelson; John Evelvn's
Youth, Mary Davis Steele; Books That
Have Hindered Me" Agnes Repplier;
The Begum's Daughter (serial). Edwin
Lassetter Bymner; "A Mountain-side Ram
bic" Bradford Torrey; "Trotting Races.
ii. g. Merwin, and the usual departments
"St, Nicholas" for July CThe Century
Company, New York, J is a capital number.
The article Louis, the Resolute," is alone
worth IN suggestiveness to boys thrice the
cost Of year 5 subscription. 1t is a splen-
did story Of an example of resoluteness, de-
failing how lad won place in the navy
as the gift of President Lincoln and under
a special Act Of Congress passed in recugni-
ton OF his determined purpose to serve his
country as midshipman. Scarcely second
to 1t IN charming interest is the story of
.'L@,ita and the Redcoats" Mrs. Dodge
has every reason to be proud of this July
number OF her magazine, which, for the use
of young readers, has no superior.
From the author, through Sergeant Bar
wick, of the Signal Service post in Sacra-
mento, we nave a neat Quarto, entitled
g First Monthly Report of the Oregon State
Weather Bureau, in cooperation with the
United States Signal Service, for the month
of April, 1889, by B. S. Payne, United
States Signal Service Assistant Director"
The Oregon Weather Bureau exists under
legislative Act, and is intended to aid and
extend the work of the Federal Signal
Corps in Oregon. The work contains
valuable tables, reports of observations, and
several special papers by scientific contrib
utors or meteorological phenomena of the
region.
"Cassells Family Magazine" for July
(Gassell d Co, New York and London) has
q new serial: Engaged to be Married s"
Going to the South Pole by Z. J. Webb.
"Noblesse Oblige, bright story; song
The Two Gates; paper on The Work
ing of the Telephone" The Family Doc
tor" The fashion correspondent and
timely hints on arranging flowers, and the
"Gatherer" on the scientific progress of
the world.
'Godey's Lady Book" PHILADELPHIA for
July, hes arrived as fresh as spring sunshine,
full of novelties, and throughout the literary
pages contain several cd stories, and a
charade of equal merit, while poems, fash
ion gossip and wOrk-designs make up a
great variety of good things. The book in
creases in merit each month, and is of value
to very large class of readers.
General Viscount Wolsely, Adiutant-
General of the English army, gives vivid
and picturesque description of a young SOL
dier's life in the trenches before Sebastopol,
during the Crimean war, in an article full
of interesting "reminiscences, published in
The Youths Companion" for June Goth.
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LADIES are greatly benefited by the use
Angostura Bitters, the South American