The Three Musketeers.

By ALEXANDRE DUMAS. An édition de luxe (limited to 750 copies), with 250 illustrations by Maurice Leloir. In 2 vols., royal 8vo, buckram, with specially designed cover, $12.00.

By arrangement with the French publishers, Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. have secured the American rights for the finest edition of Dumas' immortal romance which has been published. The illustrations are carefully printed from the original blocks, and this edition, therefore, has an unapproachable distinction in point of pictorial quality. The translation has been scrupulously revised, and every effort has been made to present a perfect edition of Dumas' masterpiece.

City Government in the United States. By ALFRED R. CONKLING. 12mo, cloth, $1.00.

The author has learned his subject by actual experience as an alderman of New York, a member of the Assembly, and a leader in municipal reform movements.

Popular Astronomy: A General

Description of the Heavens.

By CAMILLE FLAMMARION. Translated from the French by J. Ellard Gore, F.R.A.S. With 3 plates and 288 illustrations. 8vo, cloth, $4.50.

"M. Camille Flammarion is the most popular scientific writer in France. Of the present work, no fewer than one hundred thousand copies were sold in a few years. It was considered of such merit that the Montyon Prize of the French Academy was awarded to it; it has also been selected by the Minister of Education for use in the public libraries, a distinction which proves that it is well suited to the general reader. The subject is treated in a very popular style, and the work is at the same time interesting and reliable."-Extract from Translator's Preface.

Schools and Masters of Sculpture. By Miss A. G. RADCLIFFE, author of "Schools and Masters of Painting." With 35 full-page illustrations. 12mo, cloth, $3.00.

Those who know Miss Radcliffe's previous work will require no commendation of the grasp of subject and thoroughness of treatment shown in this. In addition to her popular but thorough survey of the history of sculpture in all countries, Miss Radcliffe sketches the various American collections of casts, and explains the opportunities for study which we have at hand.

Memoirs Illustrating the History of

Napoleon I.

From 1802 to 1815. By Baron CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS DE MENEVAL, Private Secretary to Napoleon. Edited by his Grandson, Baron Napoleon Joseph de Méneval. With portraits and autograph letters. In three volumes. 8vo, cloth, $2.00 per volume.

Woman's Share in Primitive Culture. By OTIS TUFTON MASON, A.M., Curator of the Department of Ethnology in the United States National Museum. With numerous illustrations. 12mo, cloth $1.75.

This is the first volume in the ANTHROPOLOGICAL SERIES, edited by Prof. Frederick Starr, of the University of Chicago. The series is undertaken in the hope that anknown to intelligent readers. While the books are intendthropology-the science of man-may become better ed to be of general interest, they will in every case be written by authorities who will not sacrifice scientific accuracy to popularity. In the present volume is traced the interesting period when with fire-making began the first division of labor-a division of labor based upon sex -the man going to the field or forest for game, while the woman at the fireside became the burden-bearer, basketmaker, weaver, potter, agriculturist, and domesticator of

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The God in the Car.

From "Cicero."

to anybody who is not familiar with Cicero's life, it furnishes just what is needed-an accurate account of Cicero's public services and some interesting information concerning his

family and his home life. There, also, will be found a presentation of the "concluding age " of the Roman Republic, set forth chiefly in extracts from Cicero's orations and his letters to Atticus. The letters to Atticus Mr. Strachan-Davidson has studied with care. He considers them of great importance, inasmuch as they are the record of Cicero's thoughts from day to day, disclosed in all the confidence of intimate friendship. The author

says:

Cicero was not a man of cool and cautious temperament, afraid to commit himself to opinions, accurately weighing and discounting probabilities beforehand or occupying by anticipation the province of the philosophical historian. From the letters of such a one we should have learned comparatively little. We have to deal with a man of lively mind, quick to receive impressions, rushing to conclusions, garrulous in expression, and sensitively responsive to the prevailing temper or drift of opinion. In writing to Atticus he never pauses to make his writing self-consistent or plausible. Reasons as plentiful as blackberries' crowd through his mind as he writes, and the reasons of to-day will often not fit in with the reasons of yesterday. There is no reticence, no economy of statement; every passing fancy, every ebullition of temper, every varying mood of exultation and depression, every momentary view of men and things finds itself accurately mirrored in these letters. The time lives before us again in the pages of Cicero, and, thanks to him, he and his contemporaries are for us not mere lay figures, but actual flesh and blood."

self to statements of fact, except in his concluding pages, his purpose being to make his readers determine for themselves what sort of man Cicero was. He has sought to make his work like a judge's charge to a jury-cold, hard, colorless, and unsympathetic- rather than like an advocate's impassioned plea for his client. He is a strong partisan in his Ciceronian opinions, as those know well who have had the pleasure of reading his articles in The Quarterly Review, in which he has controverted the views of certain of Cicero's detractors; but in the present volume he does his best to avoid partisanship and represses as much as possible his inclination to bring his readers into his own way of thinking.

Of course, Mr. Strachan-Davidson's book is valuable. To the young student, and, in fact,

Cicero, according to Mr. Strachan-Davidson, aspired to be a practical statesman in the best sense of the term. He had his theories and his principles, to which he was attached devotedly, but he was willing to "adapt those principles and theories to the necessities of the time, and to modify his action so as to secure the greatest possible amount of good under the given circumstances." He was at times in

finitely perplexed by the political situation with which he was confronted, quite bewildered when he attempted to reconcile the "requirements of a sage and patriotic opportunism and those of fidelity to himself." Says the author: "Who wouldn't have been perplexed? We must never forget that during the greater part of his political life he had no choice before him but a choice of evils. The critics who have blamed him most bitterly would find it hard to define how, believing as he believed, Cicero ought to have acted. For such a man to accept as sufficient the solution which Cæsar at tempted to force on the world would have been treason against the best lights of his soul and conscience. Can we wonder and shall we withhold our sympathy, if an honest man in so inextricable a situation was the prey of doubts and scruples-if he halted between two opinions and was sometimes at a loss to discover where the path of honor and duty lay? Cicero sought that path, and when at last it was made clear to him he pursued it, in spite of danger and suffering, to its goal on the beach of Caieta." (Putnam. $1.50.)-N. Y. Times.

Freeman's History of Sicily.

THAT Professor Freeman was a writer who kept far in advance of his printers will be deemed fortunate by those readers who had hoped with his guidance to explore the labyrinth of Sicilian history, and who now have the fourth volume of his great work within reach. More than this, Mr. Evans, Freeman's son-in-law and the editor of this volume, intimates that two more may be expected, one on the Roman Conquest of Sicily and another on the Norman. In our review of the previous volumes, we set forth the characteristics of Freeman's colossal work so amply that we have now little to add. We regret that he began his story with the flood, or earlier, instead of with the Norman conquest, because, while his immense activity in research and his inexhaustible fertility in conjecture have enabled him to insert a good many trifling details into the history of Greek Sicily, he has not, on the whole, thrown new light on the general current of that history. The evidence was all in ages before he was born, and any one could read it in the works of the ancient historians. But

Norman Sicily, and, indeed, the annals of the island under the rulers of Hohenstaufen, Anjou, and Aragon, have never been well written, and it was particularly desirable that a man whose information thereon surpassed that of any of his contemporaries should cover that field. We rejoice that Freeman's notes on Norman Sicily were left in such a condition that they can be published.

Concerning the present volume it may be said that Mr. Evans has done his work very carefully and reverently. Almost all the notes and several of the appendices are by him, and they show that he has the ability to make simple and brief statements, which his father-in-law had not. His specialty is numismatics, so that he has been able to throw illustrative sidelights from his study of Sicilian coins. (Macmillan. per vol. $5.25.)-N. Y. Tribune.

Zig-Zag Tales.

MR. WILSON'S neat little volume of "ZigZag Tales from the East to the West," with illustrations by C. J. Taylor, sparkles with wit and humor. It includes thirteen stories which from week to week have delighted the readers of Puck, and they lose nothing by being put into permanent shape. The one from which we have taken the illustration is specially funny. It is entitled "A Family Affair," and deals with the stratagem of a young man who, to gain the girl he loves, is forced to make believe he

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is an utter reprobate. The titles of the other stories are: "Bromley vs. Gilner," "An Overland Journey," "How a Good Man Went Wrong," "Skinner's Awakening," Smith's Biography," The Defection of Maria Hepworth," "An Old Clock," "The Sucess of James Ferguson, M.D.," 'A Pan-American Romance," "A Western Man," "An Amateur Lover," and "Father Cortland's Vacation." (Keppler & Schwarzmann. 67 c.)

The Story of South Africa.

MR. GEORGE M. THEAL, of the Cape Colonial Civil Service, the author of an elaborate "History of South Africa," has been invited to prepare a sketch of that region for the Story of the Nations Series. The parts of this sketch relating to the Cape Colony, to Natal, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic, Zululand, and Basutoland, are mainly taken from the larger work; but they are brought down nearly to the present date. Nearly, but not quite, for the account of the British Chartered Company's territory stops short of the outbreak of hostilities which has led to the occupation of Matabeleland. The early history of the nominal Portuguese annexation of the country south of the Zambesi, and the actual Dutch colonization of it, together with the southward pressure of the Kaffirs, interesting results of which were the Zulu and the Matabele military organizations, is indispensable to a thorough understanding of the present state of things in South Africa.

A preliminary word ought to be said concerning certain words in common use in South Africa, but whose exact significance does not seem understood elsewhere. The term Boer, for instance, means in Dutch a tiller of the ground, but in South Africa is applied to cattle breeders, as well as to agriculturists, and is frequently used in the plural form to signify the whole rural population of European blood speaking the Dutch language. By kraal is meant a cattle-fold. The word is a corruption of the Portuguese "curral." It is also used to signify a collection of either Hottentot or Bantn huts, as these are usually built in a circle, within which the cattle are kept at night. The Dutch word lager means an enclosure for protective purposes, such as a circular wall of stone, or a number of wagons lashed together. By burgher is meant a European male, no matter where resident, who is in possession of the franchise, and liable to all public duties. It corresponds to the civis Romanus of old. Heemraden are burghers appointed by the government to act as assessors in the district courts of justice. A landdrost is a stipendiary magistrate who administers justice and receives

the revenue of the district. Another Dutch word, volksraad, signifies the people's council, an elected legislative body. Three Bantu words are in common use, viz., induna, an officer of high rank under a Zulu chief; calabash, the hard rind of a gourd used for various purposes, such as water-pots, jars, dishes, basins, snuff-boxes, etc.; and tsetse, a fly whose sting destroys domestic cattle, but has no effect upon wild animals. Curiously enough, the tsetse disappears from a district when the game is exterminated or driven away. We add that the word assagai, meaning the javelin or dart, used by the Hottentot and Bantu in war and the chase, is a corruption of the Portuguese azagaya, which was derived from the Latin hasta. (Putnam. $1.50.)- The Sun.

Childhood in Literature and Art.

CILDHOOD IN LITERATURE AND ART," with some observations on literature for children, is a study by Horace E. Scudder, author of "The Bodley Books," "Men and Letters," etc. In reading this interesting study, we have been pursued with the idea of how finely the text would have lent itself to illustration. No doubt the author knew best and probably he would say his book was of too technical a character, not sufficiently ornamental to bespeak pictures along the way; but we should like to have seen baby-heads and figures of different types, appearing from time to time as the author discoursed of children in Greek, Roman, and Hebrew literature, in early Christianity, in mediæval art, and in English, French, German, and American literature. The book has an index, and in its entirety is novel and suggestive. We have estimates of the child-life of the works of Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Charles Lamb, in English literature. Of paintings Mr. Scudder says: 'No one can visit an English exhibition of paintings without being struck by the extraordinary number of subjects taken from childhood. It is in this field that Millais has won famous laurels, and when the great body of book illustrations is scanned, what designs have half the popularity of Doyle's fairies and Miss Greenaway's idyllic children? I sometimes wonder why this should be the case in England, when in America, the paradise of children, there is a conspicuous absence of these subjects from galleries." Mr. Scudder considers pretty thoroughly also the distinction between childhood in literature and a literature for children. He suggests a revival of the wise mother and the wise father in juvenile literature, and would give children not so much books written expressly for them as books evolved from child-like minds. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) Portland Transcript.