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whole field which the author essays to
cover The book should prove exceed
ingly useful

whole field which the author essays to
cover. The book should prove exceed
lingly useful.
NEWS AND NOTES
Some additional announcements of d.
Appleton & Co. include Marriage Gus
toms Of All Countries" by the Rev.
H. N. Hutchinson; English Litera-
,ture," by Edmund Gosse; "Sweethearts
and Friends" by Maxwell Gray; a new
edition in colors of Mr.. + M. Chapman s
Bird Life" with seventy-five fac
smile colored plates; a new edition of
|"City Government in the United States"
by Alfred r.. Conkling, with chapter on
the Greater New York charter. and a
new uniform edition Of Mr.. Gilbert
Parker's novels, 1.-The Trespasser." "The
Translation Of a Savage" 1.-The Trail of
the Sword" and Mrs. Falchion."
Still another noteworthy publication
is book by David Macgregor Means,
which is announced as dealing frankly
and directly with questions which are
now uppermost in the public mind. In
a fair and candid manner he discusses
the present relations of labor and cap
ital the efficacy of legislation in deal
ference with the natural laws of trade,
the advisability OF restricting the &C
cumulation Of wealth. the rights and
Wrongs of corporations and kindred
topics. His arguments deserve the at
ltention of those sincerely benevolent
persons who have been led to give sup
port to socialistic remedies because Of
their sympathy with the poor Many
a 4 -.
that these remedies tend to aggravate
the evils which they are advertised to
cure. The Hon. David A. Wells has
written an introduction for the book,
which is to be published by D. Appleton
& Co.
A volume from the hand of the Hon.
| Mrs. Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford Is an
| nounced by the Macmillan company.
1.-THE Making of Abbotsford and Incl
dents in Scottish History is it's title.
Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott is a great
| granddaughter of Sir Walter and has
| inherited his love for the later medieval
history of his native land.
From the same publishers we learn
that Mr. Hamilton w. Mabie and Mr..
George Wharton Edwards intend to
| make us their debtors for still another
delightful volume Of old verse. Some
time ago the same editor and artist CO.
| laborated in very beautifully illus
trated and well-chosen selection of "Old
English Ballads" To those whose imag-
nation will carry them back to the days
of the virginals and the spinet. and, in
| addition, who have caught the priceless
| outlook over the range of Elizabethan
| and Jacobean literature. this new book
Of "Old English Love Songs" Is a more
! than welcome arrival.
| Still other volumes are Clerical We
| racity, "The Ethics of Religious Con-
| formity.' 1.-The Morality of Strife" by
| the author of "Guesses at the Riddle of
! Existence" and practical Ethics" by
Prof. Henry Sedgwick Of Cambridge
university, England.
Besides the above we are soon to
have 1.-THE Social Mind and Education"
| by George e. Vincent, instructor in
sociology at the University of Chicago.
This volume presents education as the
increasingly purposeful effort of soci-
ETY. to conserve, criticise, reOrganize and
perpetuate the collective tradition. Ger
tain current pedagogical theories, such
as the culture epochs and the correla-
| tlOH OI SIuuIcS, are discussed IN the llSnt
of this sociological concept.
Mr.. John Muir, whose name is a syno-
nym for the accurate and sympathetic
observation Of nature, has prepared for
the Atlantic Monthly characteristic
series of papers upon the Parks and
tons" These number thirty in all. with
eminent" He opens the series in the
January number with an account of
1.-THE Wild Parks and Forest Reserva-
lions. These number thirty in all, with
| out reckoning the Alaskan tundras,
which he calls Natures Own Reser-
vations." Mr.. Muir divides the reserva-
tions into six groups, and his eloquent
descriptions, given in popular and en-
tertaining language, yet scientifically
accurate in all his references to the va
rious fora and fauna, will open up to his
readers the hitherto UNEMPLOYED and un-
suspected beauties and wonders of these
noble forests and wildernesses, and will
appeal powerfully to all lovers and stu
dents Of the beauties Of nature.
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Mrs. ]. Torrey Conner has published a
dainty souvenir booklet entitled I'm the
Footsteps of the Franciscans." 1t con-
tains ten finely executed Illustrations Of
the old missions with descriptive ex-