LIBRARIES LIBRARIES Supplying public, private, college, school, club and society THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO. WHOLESALE BOOK DEALERS. 5 and 7 EAST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. FINE PICTURES AT MODERATE PRICES High-Class Engravings and Etchings, both old and modern. The best Engravings of the best Pictures. The best Portraits of Eminent Persons. The original Engravings of Albert Durer, and the original etchings of such masters as Rembrandt, Claude, Meryon, Seymour Haden, Whistler. Correspondence is invited. New correspondents can have a selection of unframed pictures sent on approval, on receipt of references or introduction. FREDERICK KEPPEL & CO. PARIS, CHICAGO, and 20 EAST SIXTEENTH ST., NEW YORK THE BROWNE AND NICHOLS SCHOOL FOR BOYS, 20 Garden St., Cambridge, Mass. Eight years' continuous course: three years, grammar; five years, high school. Preparation for College or Scientific School by any of the various methods. Classes limited to fifteen. Boys not younger than nine received in the grammar grade; French begun at once; Latin, in the second year; Algebra or Constructional Geometry, in the third, or earlier. Organization departmental, so that in nearly all subjects each pupil has continuous work throughout the course with the same instructor. Pupils in advanced sections can thus enter college one year earlier than the rest, or do their Freshman year's work in the elective courses of their last year in school. The School Building is new, designed to secure The most approved ventilation and abundance of light, and fully equipped with the latest appliances in Laboratories, Conservatory, and Gymnasium, The situation of the School enables it to offer special facilities for the education of the younger sons of Families temporarily residing in Cambridge during the college course of the older sons. The School has the advantage of the free public lectures given nearly every night at Harvard College, and of the various Museums near by, whose valuable collections are used to supplement school work in Science, History, and Literature. A home for seven boys is provided at No. 22 Garden St., in one of the most healthful and attractive parts of Cambridge. Catalogues, giving terms, course of study, etc. on application. WHEATON SEMINARY ..FOR.. Young Women. Regular and Elective Courses, Literary, Scientific, Classical, College Preparatory. Advanced courses for high school graduates and others not wishing full college course. Excellent advantages in Art and Music. Fine Library, Laboratory, Gymnasium, Bowling Alley; Outdoor sports, careful physical training. Beautifully and healthfully situated, 28 miles from Boston, with extensive grounds, perfect sanitary arrangements, best home influences. Sixty-fifth year begins September 13, 1899. For prospectus and views, address the President, Rev. SAMUEL V. COLE, A.M., D.D., NORTON, MASS. PRATT INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. HIGH SCHOOL-A four years' course for both sexes, combining drawing and manual work with the usual studies of a high school or academy. Entrance examinations September 14 and 15; applicants for classes beginning the second half year, February 8 and 9. DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS-Normal art course; regular art course, including general freehand drawing, cast, life and portrait drawing, oil and water-color painting, composition, anatomy, sketching, history of art; also courses in architecture, applied design, clay modeling and wood carving. DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC ART- Normal domestic art course; general course; sewing; dressmaking; millinery; drawing; art needlework; physical culture. DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE- Normal domestic science course; general course; household science; household economy; emergencies; home nursing and 'hygiene; public hygiene; food economics; marketing lectures; cookery, preserving and pickling; waitresses' course; laundry work. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-Normal manual training course; drawIng and machine design; applied electricity; mechanical drawing; arithmetic; algebra; geometry; physics; chemistry; steam and the steam engine; strength of materials; mechanism; carpentry; machine work; plumbing; house, sign and fresco painting. DEPARTMENT OF KINDERGARTENS course; special courses. Normal kindergarten course; mothers' course; nurses' DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES-New Library Building; free library, reading and reference rooms. Classes in library training, including library economy; cataloguing; literature and languages; business. street. For further information or for application blanks apply at the general office of the institute, Ryerson FREDERIC B. PRATT, Secretary. HANDBOOK of the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS This issue of what may be called the official manual of the Library is especially welcome at this time, as giving in compact and attractive form all the essential data as to the Library itself and its magnificent new home. The Library Journal. Every visitor to Washington should study the Library building thoroughly, and in this study the Handbook will be of great service. Washington Times. Fully illustrated, paper covers, postpaid, 30 cents. HANDBOOK of the BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Sent by the Library authorities to the learned institutions upon its exchange list as an accurate presentation of what the building is and what it contains. We cannot express too strongly our appreciation of the manner in which it has been executed. Certainly, you have contrived to bring together in most attractive form whatever of interest the building possesses. McKim, Mead & White, Architects. Fully illustrated, paper covers, postpaid, 25 cents. Curtis & Cameron: Boston Pierce Building, opposite Public Library 134 ABBEY'S HOLY GRAIL New issue Abbey's Holy Grail, by photogravure process, on plate paper, about 8 x 10 inches, size of each picture averaging 4 x 5 inches. Exceedingly well done, and approved by Mr. Abbey himself. Full set 15 panels in portfolio, brown cloth, title stamped in gold, $5.00. Portfolio itself supplied only with the complete series. But each subject is also sold separately, at fifty cents. We also have two books on the subject. One is a quarto volume, containing full page reproductions of all 15 panels and 11 of the very interesting drawings and studies of details. Gilt top, deckle edge, cloth: $5.00 net; by mail, $5.20. Text by Ferris Greenslet, Ph.D., in whose paraphrase of the legends the episodes of the Grail story chosen by Mr. Abbey for his paintings are used as the framework of a consecutive narrative. The other book is an octavo, without illustrations, -a most interesting and valuable book on the subject, by the distinguished art critic, Sylvester Baxter, who gives a thorough descriptive analysis. Crimson cloth, gilt top, $1.50 postpaid. Any of above sent on approval. Curtis & Cameron: Boston Pierce Building, opposite Public Library 136 |