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1t ia an admirable enterprise that the
New Amsterdam Book Company has taken
up in reprinting in its pretty "Common-
wealth Library the accounts Of important
voyages which are out Of print or difficult
to find in any form. The edition of Lewis
and Clarks journey is now followed by
Voyages from Montreal Through the
Continent Of North America to the Frozen
and Pacific Oceans in 1889 and 1893" by
Alexander Mackenzie. II is the simple
narrative of the man who first made his
way down the river that now bears his
name to the Arctic Ocean. and who later
was the first 10 cross the Rocky Mo untans
to the Pacific. II is a delightful record
OF real pioneer work. more Interesting by
far than nine-tenths Of modern fiction.
With the az proach Of Christmas and cold
weather we have come to look regularly for
a book Of children's stories from Mr.. An
drew Lang and another from Messrs Dent
This year Mr.. Lang. having exhausted the
scale Of color for fairy books. edits THE
Book of Romance (Lngnans, Green 4
Co... The stories are chiefly of King Arthur
and the Table Round, with other British
myths, and are told pleasantly by Mrs An
drew Lang for the most part The pict-
ures, some Of the IN colored. by II. j. Ford
are very good and appropriate, and the
book will he an excellent gift to give boy
or girl. Messrs. Dent continue The An
mails OF Fairy Land, with The Reign of
King Oberon" (Macmillans). edited bv
Walter Jerrold and illustrated by Charles
Robinson, The volume is almost too dainty
t, he put into childrens hands. unless they
are very well-behaved children. The tales
are from all quarters and include a great
many old favorites..
Mr.. John Fulleylove, an English water
color painter, in the course of tour in
Palestine, made large number OF interest
ing water colors and other sketches which
were exhibited in London last spring These
are reproduced in color and in black and
white in "The Holy Land" adam and
Charles Black; Macmilans), and are ac-
companied with a readable description Of
the country by Mr. John Kclman, who, we
take it, was the artists companion on the
tour. II makes very handsome and in
structive volume.
Mr. Ashton Rollins Willard has visited
Land Of the Latins" u.ongrnans .&ireen
L Coz the different sights he has seen
from the Pope in the Va, lean 20 the King
In the Quirinal The chapters read like
good newspaper articles, and are perhaps
Of too ephemeral interest to warrant their
publication as a book, but the picture.
are good and quite new. We are sorry
to notice that King Victor Emmanuel III.
is already growing bald. and that Queen
Margherita, charming as she is, must now
be called we'll preserved, The new Queen
is a very pretty woman.
Tho Congress Of Americanis,s now sit
ting in New York gives added in,eres, to
the first volume of Historic Highways
Of America, published by the Arthur II.
Clark Company, Cleveland II is called
paths of the Mound Building Indians
and Great Game Animals, and is by Archer
Butler Hubert. The author shows the
location Of all the Indian mounds and Of
the buffalo paths. which were used AZ trade
routes. in the great States Of the Middle
West. IL is very useful and modest little
monograph, and helped out by illustrative
maps.
An exhaustive compendium Of all that
can be ascertancd about minerals in
the widest sense Is contained IN The
Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Tech
nology and Trade in the United States
and Other Countries to the End of 1901
Vol. x" edited by Joseph Sruthers. Phi.
d. (Thc Engineering and Mining Journal)
For the United States it provides Stats
tics that are believed to be- more accurate
than those Of official reports and the pres
ent condition of production for each min
eral is shown in alphabetical order. For
foreign countries satisfactory summaries
are offered. There are besides tables Of
quotations in the stock market for the lead
ing mining shares and securities. An
invaluable book for any one interested
in any mineral industry.
Tine American Jewish Year Book"
edited by Cyrus Adler, appears in It's fourth
year. which is the year 5000. or from Oct 2,
1902, to Sept 81, 1903 CThe Jewish Publi-
cation Society of America Besides the
usual statistical matter and the accounts
of doings throughout the world OF special
interest to Jews, IL contains interesting
monographs on "The Jews Of MARYLAND"
and The Jews Of the United States" and
a biography of Commodore Uriah p, Levy
Of the United States Navy
We have also received.
THE Territorial Growth Of the United
States William A. Mowry (Siver,
Burdette & Coz
The Government Of Maine. Handbooks
OF American Governments" William
Macdonald, LII, y. (Macmians)
Essays Of Richard Steele" Golden
Treasury Series. Edited by L. f. Steele,
NJ. 4 (Macmllans)
American Municipal Progress Charles
Zueblin. (Macmllans.)
Around the Capital With Uncle Hank