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being illustrated by hands taken from actual
play. II IL interesting 20 note that this treatise
IS dedicated to Mr.. Henry l. Barley. who first
introduced bridge in America" The work is
published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Professor William Cranston Lawton publishes
through Charles Scribner's Sons a companion
volume to his Introduction 10 Classical Greek
Literature" The new work is "1utroduc-
tion 10 Classical Latin Literature"
new collection " short stories by Henryk
Slenkiewicz. the well known Polish writer. will
be issued this spring by Little. Brown & Co. II
viii include sienkiewicz's latest work. the
Hindu legend Life and Death" which the
author read In public in Warsaw not long ago
Mr. J. r. Atlay has edited for the oxford
University Press a NTH edition OF the late Mr..
". +. Halls Treatise on International Law"
bringing the work up TO date. Among the new
themes are the Venezuela boundary dispute.
the Hague conference. with its various conven-
lions. incidents in the Spanish-American War
and in the Boer War. and events in Japan and
China.
Doubleday. Page & Co. are experimenting
their Nature Library with a series called
The Little Nature Library" This comprises
volumes. illustrated with colored plates. treat
ing OF such subjects as How to Attract the
Birds" Among the Water Fowl" Nature and
the Camera" Nature ographes" The
Nature-study Idea" etc.
Under the title Famous Legends CThe Cen
fury Company. Emeline G. Crommen has
adapted for children number Of the well known
stories! and traditions Of old England. France.
Spain. Portugal. Germany. Norway. Sweden.
Italy Switzerland and other countries. Robin
Hood King Arthur. Roland Sigurd. Frthiof.
Winiam Tell. King Robert OF Sicily and the Pied
Piper are among those finding place in this In
terestiilg little volume 81 the romance. chivalry
and splendor Of the long ago. The stories
told I'm a way that win make them appeal to
their youthful readers.
new edition Of Charles C. d Robertss
Around the Camp Fire" has been issued by
Thomas Y. Crowen & Co
reprint Of Crevecpurs Letters from an
American Farmer is one of the items On Fox.
Dufneld 4 Co.'S spring list. The reprint Is
taken from the original London edition Of 1872
The author was a native of Normandy, who
settled I'm Pennsylvania en- 1854. married an
American woman and established himself
snug little farm The reprint includes preface
by Professor w. p. Trent. OF Columbia Unver-
Sitys a biographical Introduction ny Ludwig
Lewisohn, and appendix containing some
hitherto unpublished letters from the author TO
Benjamin Franklin.
Under the title of Bred in the Bone" Charles
Scribner's Sons will issue volume Of stories by
Mr. Thomas Nelson Page.
The Manual of Forensic Quotations" pub
lished by J. F. Taylor & Co. contains many ex-
tracts of varying merit from speeches of par
liamentarians and legal advocates. Taken as
whole, 1t meets fairly we'll the presumed demand
for which IL came into beng-"the need of a
work wherein might be found the gist of great
thoughts uttered by leading members of the
bar in famous and important criminal and civil
trials" The authorities quoted include many of
the lesser known we'll the pre-eminent fig
ures in American and English Jurisprudence
Leo Mead and F. Newell Gilbert are the COM
pliers OF the manual. which is prefaced by a
brief introduction from the pen of former At
torney General John w. Griggs who laments
the evanescent nature of legal speeches and
draws attention 10 the fact that in addresses to
a jury eloquence appears in its least artificial
form
In The Universe Vast Electric Organism
Mr. George Woodward Warder seeks TO bring
forward further proof in support of his theory
that the universe is a vast electric machine or
organism. creating its own eOsmic force. light
ing and heating itself from its own latent cleo
trio fires. and bound together by invisible cleo