The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-27


glossary, by X. NJ. Warren. 1t will be an at
tempt to supply the need of pleasant, handy
and inexpensive edition for those general read
ers who use books more for pleasure than for
business.
Among the noted writer's who either by
original or selected matter are brought to-
gether in the July number of Current LII
erature are Hamilton Wright Mabie, Richard
Burton, Moses Colt Tyler, John Hay, Henry
Van Dyke, NJ. w: Hazeltine, W: Robertson
Nicoll, Lillian and Arthur T. QuiHer-Couch
d. T. MacDougal, Ernest Ingersoll, Baron
Pierre de Coubertin, Thomas Davidson, Will
liam Winter, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, William
McAndrew, Arthur Morrison, w. ]. Hampton
Norman Gale Albert BigelOw Paine, Robert
Clarkson Tongue, John B. Tabb, Clinton Scol-
lard, Arthur ShadweN Martin, Gilbert Parker
and George w. Gable, editor Of the magazine
The advance notice of the July number Of
Godey's Magazine SAYS: 1.-The general con-
tents Of this issue taken as a whole make
what its editors believe to be the best num-
Der of Godey's ever published. Almost every
kind OF topic appears, the illustrations are
peculiarly fine and varied and the poems
are strong, striking and original in concep-
ton.
''How the House Does Business" is the til
tie of an interesting article in the June num-
Der Of the North American Review from the
pen of the Hon. T. B. Reed, speaker of the
house Of representatives. 1t is full and
carefully prepared description Of how national
whereby the country's needs and necessities
are provided for.
A handsome portrait of Pythagoras, repro
duced from an ancient cameo, forms the from
tisptece of the June number of The Open
Court. The main article is on 1.-The Life of
Pythagoras." by Prof Moritz Cantor, of
Heidelberg, Germany the great mathematical
historian, who has constructed an extremely
lifelike and attractive picture of the great
Grecian thinker.
The Macmillan company have in prepara-
ton Dictionary of Architecture to be
published in three large octave volumes,
under the direction of Russell Sturgis author
OF European Architecture: An Historical
Study" The work will include special ar
ticles by many of the leading architects,
Sculptors, engineers, mural painters and 9th
er men having practical knowledge of the
arts about which they write. Biography Is
part of the scheme, and one may expect to
find definitions Of terms, history and criti-
cism of styles, together with some account
of building as an art, materials and their
employment, construction (practical and scien-
tihc), modern appliances to meet novel re-
qu1rements, modern and ancient practice in
the application of painting and sculpture to
buildings, landscape gardening in connection
with architecture, etc. The volumes will
be abundantly illustrated
Dodd, Mead & Co. have in press ''The New
England Primer" edited by Paul Leicester
Ford The photography Of the compendium,
which for upwards of a century was, to al
most every man born in New England the
first book in religion. and to thousands has
stood in the same Office in Literature, has
never before been satisfactorily worked out.
Mr. Ford gives transcripts of title pages, col
lations and descriptions of all known edi-
tions, with reproductions in fac smile of a
large number of. title pages, illustrations and
specimen pages Of the text. In addition he
has prepared most interesting account of
the origin and history Of the Primer"
''The History of Currency by w. A.
Shaw. the third edition Of which was re-
Gently published by G. P. Putnams Sons,
has been translated into French by M. Raj
falovich. and is to be issued in Paris by
Gufllauman.
The favorable reception which this work
has met with at the hands of students Of
political economy in Europe and America has
led to it's translation into Japanese by Prof
]. Shinobu, principal of the Kurume Com
mercial college in Fuknoka-Ken (Aiu-Shiu).