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| to be issued by the Macmillan Company. This
brief history, based pom careful research, and
abounding in citations from original authori.
ties, is designed for students book of refer
ence, but will interest the reading public, by
broad treatment and popular literary style.
Craik's English Prose, published by the Mac
milan Company, is completed with the issue
of volume V. The series now contains: Vol
ume /, The Fourteenth TO the Sixteenth Gen.
tury; volume H. The Sixteenth Century to
the Restoration; volume III, The Seventeenth
Century; volume ", The Eighteenth Gen.
tury; volume V, The Nineteenth Century.
Each volume contains selections from the
prose literature of the period named, with
critical introductions by various writer's and
general introductions to each period.
The Macmillan Company of New York is
publishing a new edition of Thackeray's
works. The first volume that reaches our re-
view desk is Henry Esmond. To this an intro
duction is contributed by Joseph Jacobs, VINO
has undertaken the work of editing the series.
The edition is a beautiful one, geographically
and pictorially, and serves to sustain the repu-
tation of Messrs. Macmillan as publishers of
high class literature, done up in the most at
tractive style. The price per volume is 81,
and the work as completed will be for sale by
William Doxey.
Scribner's for 1897 will be strong in Ameri-
can enterprises. Both the serials are by Ameri-
can writers-Richard Harding Davis and w.
D. Howells. The series on "The Conduct of
Great Businesses" will describe American
achievements of the first importance. G. d.
Gibson, the artist whose reputation was made
by his American girl in Life, will adapt his
pen and pencil to a description of London.
Undergrad uate life at American colleges will be
described in another series and the conditions
and problems confronting American women
be discussed by Mrs. Helen Watterson Moody
under the title, "The Unquiet Sex"
Two historical novels, one relating to the
period of Cromwell, the other to the Arab
conquest of Egypt, are announced by Messrs.
Blackwood. miriam Cromwell Royalist,"
is the title of the fist of these volumes, and
the writer is Miss Dora McChesney. The other
one is called "Armenoso of Egypt" and the
author is Dean Butcher of Cairo. The dean is
chaplain at Cairo ana is popular figure with
English visitors who go there. He is well
versed in Egyptoiogy. ana now he makes one
OF the most interesting threads of it the basis
OF a romance.
The handsomely illustrated editions of De-
Amicis' "Holland" and Spain, )" published by
Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, will this
year be followed by the same authors "Con-
stant;nople," in two small octave volumes. In
this wcIk De Amicis' wonderful descriptive
powers appear at their best. Its publicati on
is opportune, in view of the interest taken in
Turkish and Armenian affairs The book con-
taihs an excellent desH<Iption of Constanti-
nople and its famous localities, and gives one
| a picture of the life and types 70 be seen there.
! The volumes will be illustrated with fifty
| phi hotogravures reproduced from views taken
| by a leading Turkish photographer.
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LITERARY NOTES.

The Macmillan Company announces the
forthcoming issue of "a First Book in Writing
English" which is worthy of special note. The
author, Edwin Herbert Lewis, Phi. D., is a
writer OF experience, teacher on the faculty
of the University OF Chicago, and also in Lewis
Institute, private secondary school. The
manual anticipates demand which every far
seeing student of education knows that the
colleges must soon make for a much higher
degree of facility in the writing of good
English as a qualification for entrance.
"The National Movement in the Reign of
Henry III, and its elimination in the Barons'
War;" by Oliver H. Richardson, professor of
history in Drury College, is the title OF book
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Sultan's service, this woman, Mrs. Bragwin,
thinks it worth while to fascinate the youth.
Although she does not love the handsome boy
she loves love, and the fresh ardor OF this
lover pleases her. While fred with admirs-
ton for this fair and willy woman the hot
headed youth hears her criticized adversely by
an army officer. He boldly insults the officer
and forces him to fight duel. The descrlp-
ton of this duel and the boys headstrong
cou rage is one of the best passages in the
book. There is an amusing account OF q
pompous character called Hawtry Bey, who
endeavors tn impress his grandeur upon the
recognition of the new secretary. Crane mar
rowly escapes several attempts to assassinate
him and one magnificent final effort to over
power him with the voluptuousness OF her
beauty. Bnt all the snares set for him fail,
and the story ends with his happy marriage to
O lovely English girl
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RELIGIOUS.

THE REV JOHN HENRY - By Percival R.
Benson y. s. Barnes & Co., New York. For
sale by A. N. ROD ertson, Post street. City.
There is a great deal of religious discussion
In this little book, with the barest thread of a
story to fasten it together. The Rev. John
Henry is brought up by his Puritan parents very
strictly in the orthodox faith. but after an ex-
perience as pastor of a wealthy congrega-
ton in q large city his faith is shaken. He
explains to friend what void that loss has
made in his life. He says he has been forced
to confess that his faith is but sham, mass
OF legends and fables Which profess to have
miraculous power to cleanse the heart and
thereby supplya mask for sin. He passes
through his skeptic mood back to Christ
again. He says: ''The current of Jesus life
was altruistic in its nature, and it must induce
in all lives near it currents of altruism, By
the Intervention OF faith the life of Jesus is
brought near to the life of him who believes.
Faith is q crea tive power"
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A PRIZE STORY.
UNDER THREE FLAGs-By B. L. Taylor and
A. L. Theits Rand, McNally dE Co., Chicago
and New York.

UNDER THREE FLAGS-By B. l. Taylor and
A. I. Theits. Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago
and New y ork.
Stories of mystery seem to be now very much
in vogue, and among the prizes offered this
class usually has the biggest incentive held
out for their production. ''Under Three
Flags is the winner of the third prize IN the
Chicago Records 1880, 600 to Authors com
petition. The desire to guess the solution of
the mystery keeps the readers attention alert
to every detail, and adds greatly to the interest
No one in perusing this book should permit
a reckless curiosity to spoil the pleasure of
speculating on how, and by whom, the crime
in it was perpetrated, with the reprehens ible
tof turning prematurely to the las chapters
1t would be very much the same thing as
eating green fruit from the great impatience
TO let it ripen. For such reason it would not
be proper here to give any brief outline of the
story. To get the benefit of the mystery the
reader must pass slowly through his wonder
ment of how the puzzling affair can ever be
fully explained.
That the scene of the story is to large ex-
tent laid in Cuba will add to its attractiveness
at this particular time, when the Queen of the
Antilles is place of so much interest.
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MARRIED A LUKE.

THE AMERICAN DUCHESS-By the Princess
de Bourg. New York: G. w. Dillingham; Com
pany. For sale by the San Francisco News Com
pany, Post street
Fiction in this case differs from fact very
much in that the heroine of the story, Kitty
Fauntleroy marries the English Duke from a
sense of duty-she could not bear to break his
heart, and the Duke did not want her because
OF her money, but was in love with her in fine
romantic style. The novel is very ordinary
one, but is to some extent redeemed by the
sweetness of Kitty's character. She is not in
love with the Duke and makes q very unhappy
bride, and her unhappiness is deeply shared
by young American who is in love with her.
The story ends rather abruptly for those who
take any kindly interestin Kitty's life for she
only gets to be a Duchess on the last page. A
note in forms the reader that sequel will
shortly be published under the title of 'An
International Marriage"
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This made the Bishop very mad and
he dismissed my father from that living.
But as some friends of my father wrote
soon after, they guessed he could stand it
very well, for Mr.. Gladstone gave him a
very much better living in Essex.
"And strange to say in less than month
from that time the song was put in the
Episcopal hymn book. My father still
acts as clergyman at Lew Trenchard in
Devonshire. That is where his place is.
"He has never been in America. He is
too poor sailor. The only long sea trip
he ever took was to Iceland, but it was so
hard on him that he has felt very 10th to
trust himself to the waves again."
The first book the elder Barring Gould
wrote was called Iceland" He next
wrote 1.-THE Book of Werewolves" "Past
Medieval Preachers" followed, and then
he wrote 1.-THE Origin and Development
of Religious Belief" Lives of the
Saints" and "Some Modern Difficulties
led down to "Mehalah," the book which
achieved such phenomenal success, and
the copyright of which, according to the
son, was sold for song.
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CHARMS OF RURAL LIFE.

BOOK OF COUNTRY CLOUDS AND SUM-
SHlNE-By Clifton johnson. Lee & Shepard
Boston. Price So 50. For safe by the Whitaker
& Ray Company, Market street, City.
This book has many Illustrations of scenes
photographed by the author in his travels
through New England. The clouds and sun
shine are those of life rather than those of the
sky. The aim OF the author has been TO tell of
farm and village life and character. He has
.ried to make US understand what are the
charms of country life, and has drawn its
shadows without exaggeration. He thinks
that a New England village, not too far re-
moved from railroad, is the pleasantest place
to live in the world But the finer pleasures
of rural living he explains cannot be had by
merely moving to the country. "You must
yourself be simple, must love home of hum
Bile comforts. Pride or style or artifciality
will never get at the heart of the life, and will
miss much OF the country sweetness"
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GOOD READING FOR BOYS

uARpER,s ROUND ia BILE FOR 1896. Bound
volume Harper 81 Bros. New York. Price
So so.
In this volume there are 1876 pages OF fine
reading for young people. There are large
number OF illustrations, and it contains three
complete books for boys. One of these is a
fl ne his torical story of the 5oyhood of George
Washingt on, by Mollie Elliot Seawel. There
is a story specially for girls called "The Mid
die Daugh hter," by Margaret E. Sangster. There
are scores OF short tories, and about $50 pages
OH athletic games. Mrs. Lew Wallace con-
tributes "The Tower OF Many Stories," which
teaches interesting history about the famous
Tower of London. "The Ameri can Nights
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FOR GOOD GUESSERS.

THE COLUMBIAN PRIZE CHARADEs-By
Herbert ingalls,. Lee & Shepard. publishers,
Boston. Price 81. For sale by the Whitaker &
Ray company, Market street, San Francisco.
A whole book full of charades for people to
sharpen their wits in efforts to guess is here
furnished on nice paper aud in neat binding.
The best guesser by sending in the solutions
promptly to the publishers will win prize OF
$40. 1t is said that this is sort of intel
lectual exercise OF which Tennyson and Ma
caulay were fond, and that is certain evidence
that it is proper pastime for fine brains, and
probable evidence that it helps TO brighten
brains There is both entertainment and in
struction in the rhyme puzzles, and those
who try but fail to get the prize VIII probably
have succeeded in making their minds more
alert and ready to grasp some other OF life
chances.
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"Richard Gable Is the Only Book He En-
joyed WritingSays 1t is His Best
The Novel That Won Him Fame Brought Him Only Fifty Pounds
How His Knack of Hymn-Writng Cost Him
Living" a Cleric

(. D. Barring Gould, son of the popular
English author, S. Baring-Gould of Dev-
onshire, is full of "reminiscences of his
famous father, all of which are interesting
and some amusing. He says his father.
who was minister, had a rough time in
Literature before he made it go. The
manuscript of the book that won him
fame, and which had an enormous sale,
he had to hawk about from publisher to
publisher, all refusing TO take it. Said
Mr.. Baring-Gould:
FINALLY he sold the copyright for ESQ,
or $3.50. This was for "Mehalah." the
book by which he achieved his success.
1t had tremendous circulation, running
through several editions. Since then he
has refused to sell the copyright of any
OF his books.
But the book that my father thinks is
the best, and the only one he says he en-
ioyed writing, is Richard Cable" He
enjoys the religious and antiquarian, and
not novel writing. His novels pay exceed
ingly well. He generally writes history
for his own pleasure, and novel for the
pleasure of his purse.
''The work 1 enjoy most of all he has
written is The Tragedy of the Cesars
Before writing it he studied chronology
cally the great men around whom the
story cllngs. He went to Rome and stud
led the busts and read the history of the
men. Studying them thus he has brought
out how they were likely to act, and in
many cases has represented the characters
in light contrary to Gibbon.
For instance, he took Tiberius, a man
supposed to be almost infamous, but he
has shown him TO be really an excellent
man, only little too weak for the circum-
stances which surrounded him. In the
same way he has taken up others of the
Caesars.
my father is now writing a Life of ST..
Paul., and also Life of Christ. This is
quite departure from novel writing. He
will visit Palestine in the spring and get
the local color. He will only need to stay
a few weeks at most.
HE is now living at our place in Devon
shire. 1t is an old place that we have had
in our family for about 500 years.
He writes hymns, TOO, as well as his
tories and novels. He wrote the hymn,
.0nward, Christian Soldiers and in con-
nection with that will tell you story.
AT the time he was curate of a small
church. He had intended to use it as a
PROFESSIONAL hymn, but the'Bishop would
not allow il.
1.-The Bishop was low church and my
father was high church, and the Bishop
opposed the sign of the cross that was TO
be used. My father told him that it was
pretty late to change the hymn now, or
to write a new one, but if he insisted on it
he would do the best he could. Welt, the
Bishop said there was no use talking
about it. He couldn't have the hymn in
troduced as originally intended. 1t was
contrary to his idea of what the church
would stand.
1.-The first verse of the hymn reads, as
you no doubt remember:
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successful bachelor novelist who, after having
ere ated a number of heroines from the finest
fancies of his brain and fallen in love with
them, filings his pen down in disgust one day
when the thought comes to him of how futile
it is to be making these glorious women, for
other fellows to marry. Then being weary he
sleeps and dreams. The vision of a sweet
little woman enters and declares she is his
ideal "And shall I never meet you as a
reality?" asks the novelist. "1f were real 1
would not be myself" says the lady, and
when the novelist sought to kiss her on the
mouth the ideal woman was gone.
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RELIGIOUS FICTION.

THE NEW MINISTER-By Paul Kenneth A.
s. Barnes & Co.. New York. Price so cents.
For sale by a. NJ. Robertson Post street, City.
The subject OF the trials and reflections of q
young minister is here treated in such way
as TO make quite interesting story. Young
Clayton the new minister, is called direct
from college to take charge of large and i'm
portant church, and his difficulties in filling
his arduous position are told in a way to
deepen the sympathies of congregations for
earnest young men in such severe tests. The
characters with whom the new minister life
is thrown in contact are described as by one
who has comprehensiVely studied human
nature.
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IN QUEST OF EXPERIENCES.

ToMALYN's oUEsT-By G. B. Burgin Harper
sG Brothers. New York. Price 81 25 For sale
by A. NJ. Robertson, Post street, City.
Tomalyn Crane is young man who goes to
Constantin ople in search Of experiences and
finds them. on the steamer with him is beau
tiful woman who is q secret agent of the Rus
sian Government and he falls in love with her.
AS Crane is going out to become the secretary
of Tompkins Pasha, an English officer in the
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DUDES AND CUPID.

HER MASH LETTERS-Publshed by g. w.
Dillingham; Company, New York. For sale by
the san Francisco News Company, Post street.
This purports TO be collection of letters re-
ceived by an actress from admirers of many
kinds, but mostly fools. Each epistle is ac-
companied by an illustration intended to
satirize the sender. One of these pictures an
actress in seant skirts standing before the
footlghts with toy man tied to string,
which she holds in her hand and pulls to
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DER LEHRER.

''Der Lehrer" is the title of book pub
lished in German and intended for beginners
who desire to learn the language. 1t is con.
versational, leading up from simple phrases
to those that will enable the student to un-
derstand what is said and to be able to make
himself understood. The method is on the
principle of a mother teaching a child her
native tongue. Published by G. A. Mosher,
Syracuse, N. Y. On sale by Professor W. 1.
Colby, Oakland, Call
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Entertainments" by Mrs. Emma ]. Gray, is a
series of twelve articles on the subject of get
ting up amusements for young people. Each
article tells OF some recreation suitable for one
month in the year. There is information
about how to perform magic, and one of the
most interesting features is "Out of the Cen
ter of Africa" By Cyrus C. Adams, telling OF
recent explorations on the Dark Continent.
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Captain Mahan's new work, upon which he
has been engaged for several years, 1.-The Life
of Nelson" is now in the printers hands, anu
will be published in the spring by Little,
Brown & Co., Boston. 1t will be in two vol
umes, uniform with the distinguished authors
works on the Influence of Sea Power Upon
History" and will be illustrated with about
twenty photogravure portraits.
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make the puppet dance to suit her. Distorted
cupids are scattered profusely through the
pages, and these sym bolize well the condition
of the minds and hearts of the silly senders OF
the mash letters if We grant them genuine.
The book is dedicated 'sto stagestruck girl"
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spirited in order that she might do justice to
her subject. The book is aided with numerous
quotations, culled with much taste, and is
very far from having the solemn dullness
usually expected in religious writings
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Young men and women who wish college
education will be interested in a series OF
illustrated articles or american Universities
and Colleges" now running in Frank Leslies
Popular Monthly. A paper on Yale was given
in the November number, and one on Cornell
appears in that for December.
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FOUR YOUNG ExPLoRERS-By oliver Optic.
Lee & Shepard, Boston Price 81 20. For sale
by the Whitaker & Ray Company, Market street,
City,
This is quite a thick volume from the pen
of that sprolific and instructive writer for
young people. 1t is the third book of the
third series of the "All-Over- the World Lii
brary." 1t tells of sightseeing in the tropics
and of hunting alligators and gorillas in
Borneo; of steamboating through a great
forest: of visiting an earthquake city; about
the Philippine Islands and the big and curious
cities of China. 1t will teach much OF
geography and natural history to young read
ers, besides being very entertaining.
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JUVENILE BOOKS.

THE MERRY FIVE-By Penn Shirley Lee &
shepard, Boston. Price rs cents. For sale by
the Whitaker &. Ray Company, Market street,
City.
The merry five are children who are having
a general good time on the Pacific Coast.
They go to beaches and learn to swim. They
visit mines and bee ranches. They learn 10
enjoy camp-life and are bent on getting fun
and new experiences. The story is wholesome
and the author is good at telling droll Incl
dents.
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Onward, Christian soldiers,
Marching on to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.

"But my father changed the last line,
Going on before, to Left behind the
door so that when the choir walked for
ward they got no farther than the door
with the cross, and chanted as they came
forward in procession:
Onward, Christian soldiers,
Marching on to war,
With the cross Of Jesus
Left behind the door.
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WHAT THE ABLEST CRITICS SAY.
Dictionary library condensed into four
-R Chas. Il. Parkhurs. March Q, 1896
in itself library for the busy Of affairs the mechanic
making beginning "-scientifc American, August 1885,
superior professional
Noah Davis March L. 1885,
undoubtedly exceedingly useful and trustworthy
one"-Sunday School Times May II, 1895
utility unabridged dictionary and all the
encyclopedia without
ness"-Ram's Horn November 16, 1895.
dictionary and encyclopaedia
blended appreciated only by comparing The En-
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WHAT THE ENcycL cLopEDIc DICTIONARY IS.

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the history derivation, spelling
word
AUTHORITY wherever the English
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hundred
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Information
of
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