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fifty choruses has been arranged for higf
schools and academies by Mr. William c
Hoff under the title THE Corona Song Book
(Ginn q Coz. 1t contains much classical
music and nothing that is trivial.
The venerable Or. George P. Fisher
emeritus professor of ecclesiastical history
In Yale University, publishes remarkably
interesting document on American church
history in AN Unpublished Essay of Ed
wards on the Trinity Charles Scribner' 8
Sons). The essay is preceded by careful
study by Dr. Fisher, fully as long as the
treatise on Jonathan Edwards and his
theology. The publication comes as a
sort of memorial Of the 2O0th anniversary
OF Jonathan Edwards's birth,
An account of the murder of number
Of historical persons. beginning with Philip
OF Macedon and ending with Alexander Of
Servia, is given in very superficial man
ner by Mr.. Francis johnson in Famous
Assassinations" CA. C. McClurg 4 Coz.
The interest Is that attaching to any
story of crime rather than to history or
romance, and we cannot understand Thv
the principle that excluded the death Of
President Garfield should not have applied
to President Mckinley, too.
We are always sure Of delicate English
from Col. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and that
we have in 1Ponkapog Papers" Houghton n,
Mifflin d Coz, though they are of the slight
est possible texture. 1t looks as though
the poet were gathering up the sweepings
from his workshop, There are brief notes
from notebook, suggestions for cpl
grams rather than the epigrams them
hria
hardly essays and there is a short paper
on Robert Herrick not oversympathetic.
book on Wood Carving: Design and
Workmanship by George Jack. written
from the standpoint of artistic appreca-
ton rather more than from that of pract-
cal instruction, is the --latest addition to
the Artistic Crafts Series" published by
the Appletons 1t is an interesting and
suggestive little handbook, all the same.
Wholly practical, on the other hand. is
Home Mechanics for Amateurs. by George
NJ. Hopkins, a volume of the Scientific
American SERIES" published by Mum 4
Co. 1t gives instruction about wood
work. metal work, 'engines and boilers,
telescopes and microscopes. electricity and
a great many other matters that will help
the home mechanic, specially if he is an
inquisitive boy.
To the useful "Story Of the Churches"
series published by the Baker and Taylor
Company has been added @The Methodists,"
by John Alfred Faulkner, d. d. II is a
brief historical account of the Methodist
Church, and therefore of less practical use
than the volumes which tell at length about
the present condition of tie denomi-
nations.
An unusually perfunctory and careless
piece of work is offered to the public under
the title sold Quebec" by Sir Gilbert Parker
and Mr. Claude G. Bryan (Macmillans).
The subject is surely inspiring enough and
picturesque enough to have stirred less
professedly patriotic Canadian than Sir
Gilbert The pictures are fairly good.
but the text, whether as history or as Eng
lish, is slpshod.
An anthology of critical opinions that
comes near being an anthology of English
criticism has been prepared by Prof George
Saintsbury under the title Loci Crtici'
The classics from Aristotle to Boethius
are fairly represented There are few
examples from medieval Italians and
some later Spanish. French and German
authors but the body of the book is taken
from Fir g'ish authors from EliZabeth's time
down to Matthe W Arnold. The object of the
book is to assist in the study Of rhetoric, but
it il interesting in itself,
Holbeins THE Dance of Death" with
an introduction by Mr.. Austin Dobson
and his we'll known chant royal, is published
in charming pocket edition by the Scott
Thaw Company The parchment paper
used brings out the wood cuts spendidly,
and the book is as close to a facsimile as
need he.
The Eticles on our Go 'ernment contri-
bu,ed to The Youths Companion by various
eminent hancs have ueen gathered into a
volume, "rhe Ship of State by Those at the
Helm" (iinn 4 Coz. The title describes
the book President Roosevelt writes on
the Presidency. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
on the life of a Senator, the late Thomas
b. Reed on the life of a Congressman, Mr..
Justice Brewer on the Supreme Court, and
so on. Among other contributors are former
members of the Cabinet such as John d.
Long. William l., Wilson, William Il. Day and
heads of departments like Gen. William Cary
Sanger and Gen. NJ. j. Ludington.
Books RccelNe ed.
The Life OF Voltaire." two volumes. S, G. Tai.
ensyfe. &c. p. Putnam's Sonsl
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