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1t would have bcen impossible TO compile
the book in so short time withou, co6pera-
tion of many persons. Prof Baldwin ap-
pears only as editor Of the work. though
many articles are written ty him. His
contributors include many of the best
known American university professors
ani leading specialists in England, Ger
many. France and Italy. Every term is
followed by its equivalent in the language
Of those countries and in Greek and Latin
when needful Az the erd = this volume
ara lists of philosophical terms in the five
foreign Languages While some articles
are little moro than definitions, others are
substantial original disquisitions covering
fully the whole subject treated
The second volume Of the admirable
new edition OF -Chamberss Cyclopedia
Of English Literature ID. y. Lippincott
Company. edited by DR.. David Patrick,
is practically monograph on the literature
OF the eighteenth century. The century Is
expanded little at both ends. for II be-
gins with the Revolution and even street ches
back little into the Rest Grafton period,
and II includes at the other end Rogers
and Thomas Campbell and Miss Edgew orth.
The arrangement is logical. however. as
bOOSDH SHOWS IN u charming
Introductory essay. Mr. Dobson contrib
utes some of the more important articles,
Richardson, Fielding, Goldsmith. for in
stance; Mr.. George Saintsbury supplies
Others. A hundred authors unmentioned
in the former edition are enrolled in this,
and extracts are given from hundred
more who had been only briefly described
before, The extracts are copious. 1t is
I'll apiilt 20, hn Ia - 81 ;a
- maintained, how the nineteenth century
with America and Australia can be compre-
hended in the third volume that is to
complete the cycloppdia
-IAbberton's Historical Atlas" has stood
alone for 80 many years as a Textbook that
IT seemed a pity for the author to conceal
it, distinctive Characteristic by putting
stress on the explanatory letter press in
his later titles and hiding ii in the crowd
of universal histories That does not dis
gu So the book and its merits to those who
know ii already, A new edition, much i'm
proved especially in the maps, is offered
by Silver, Burdettc and Company under the
title -Labbertons Universal History
by Robert II. labberton, The author him
self had revised the greater part of the
book before he died, and the revision has
been completed and brought to date by
competent hands.
Entertainment rather than instruction is
provided by Mr.. John Alexander in The
Conquest of the Air" a. Vessels Company,
which purports to bc an account of what
has been done with balloons and other
aerial machines, and is recommended in a
preface by Sir Hiram =. Maxim. The
authors plan is good, but he perplexes his
readers by frequent and needless digressions
He has the British idea Of making a subject
popular. namely. TO slur over and omit, if
possible, essential facts. II is natural, per-
haps, that undue prominence il given TO
very recent events.
Two pretty and tasteful volumes of Eng
lish classics come to us from Henry b. Tur-
ner 4 Co, Boston. One is Robert Louis
Stevenson's "Nirgnibus Puerisque. and
Other Papers, the other A Tale Of a Tub"
by Jonathan Swift, with annotations. The
shape of the volumes II convenient. he type
I is large and clear and the paper good
4 new edition of Mr. W. \. Gilbert's PA
thence or Blunt hornes Bride" ia issued in at
tractive form by Doubleday, Page 4 Co.
II does not seem quite right that Sir Arthur
Sullivan'S name should not appear, but
this Is the words without the music. Mr.
Gilbert writes an amusing preface in which
h" tells how the play arose from The Rival
Curates" Of thu Bah Ballads We don't
rrcollect anything in Gilbertia1 topsy-
turvydom quite so amazing "a his con-
fession that no had built up the whole play
around the curates and their attendant
maidens before il dawned on him that tn
British public would be shocked at an at
tack on the Church. SO he turned to Mr.
DuMauriCrs aesthetics instead
John James Audubon is an American
worthy great enough To CO. into the Hall
Of Fame He is sill the best known of
American naturalists TO Europeans. II
wa, fitting, therefore, that his life should
appear in THE Beacon Biographies" and
equally fitting that Mr.. John Burroughs
should write it, II il a rather porfunctory
bit Of work, We fear. but Audubon's life was
romantic and Mr. Burroughs's style is
always good. and the little book Is worth
reading
The "Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema r. A."
by Helen Zimmern in Bells Miniature
Series Of Painters" (tieorge Bell 4 Son.
Macmillans,, Is the least satisfactory volume
of the set we have seen. Miss Zimmern's
laudatory illusions do not compensate
for tho Information she leaves out, and the
representations of the artists paintings
are poorly executed and mot well select, ed.
The Alma-Tadema fashion may he passing.
but he certainly deserves better treat
ment
An an biology, on the principle, it would
seem, OF havinga> many authors as possible
represented, has been prepared by Mr.
Frederic Lawrence Knowles. a Treasury
OF Humorous Pce'ry Dana Estes 4 Coz
Mr. Knowles docs pick out in many in
stances some of the best pieces by his au-
thors but his conception of humor is very
catholic; he IL ready TO accept the authors
intention at times and includes as humor-
ou' pieces by Emerson and Mrs Charlotte
Perkins Stetson Gilman
Another Good Anthony Hope Novel.
Mr., Anthony Hopes story -The In
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