Last Recruit of Clare's, The. Being Passages from the Memoirs of Anthony Dillon Chevalier of St. Louis, and late Colonel of Clare's Regiment in the Service of France. By S. R. Keightley, author of "The Cavaliers," etc. Illustrated. 299 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.23.

This is a collection of five short stories, complete in themselves, but included under one title-that of the first story-in this volume. They purport to be the memoirs of a Colonel Anthony Dillon, and are written in the first person, in the style of a soldier of fortune looking back on his past experiences.

From the Publisher's Notice.

Little Mrs. Murray. By F. C. Philips, author of "As In a Looking Glass," etc. Model Series. 223 pp. 12mo, paper, 20 cents; by mail, 25 cents. This novel, which tells the adventures of an English widow of twenty-six, up to her second marriage, which takes place after she has become "Luta Octavia," appeared in 1888, and was published after Mr. Philips had won notoriety by other

The stories are really only sketches, and, as is almost invariably so with Maupassant's work, deal with the reverse side of life. Philadelphia Bulletin.

Mademoiselle Blanche. A novel. By John D. Barry. 330 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.21.

As a study of character, the work has much merit; as a story, pure and simple, it is rather disappointing. We expect so much as we read the first two chapters, and yet in the end we obtain so little. The hero, Jules le Baron, is a young Frenchman, who falls in love-or rather who fancies himself in love-with Mlle. Blanche, a skilled acrobat. The truth is that he is dazzled by her daring gymnastic feats and longs to possess such a marvel of womanly agility. They are married, and after a time her health fails and she is unable to do her most dangerous feat, the one which has brought her renown. Then the scales fall from his eyes and he sees clearly that he has never truly loved her. Blanche is pained at his growing indifference, and, hoping to win him back to her, she resolves to resume her daring performance. But at the last moment-just as she is about to make the perilous leap-her courage fails and she is killed in sight of the horror-stricken audience. A pathetic story it is, and one written with much care. But, I repeat, it is too long. There are only two strong characters in the book, Blanche and her husband. All the minor characters, however, and especially Blanche's mother and sisters, are portrayed with considerable skill, while one of the pleasantest sketches in the book is that of the old servant, Madeleine. N. Y. Herald.

McLeod of the Camerons. By M. Hamilton. Appletons' Town and Country Library. 355 pp. 12mo, 75 cents; by mail, 86 cents.

We have read many novels of life at Malta, but none so vivid and accurate in local color as "McLeod of the Camerons." From the moment when the

heroine-pretty Mrs. Stoddart, on her way to join her husband at Valetta-steps on board the good ship Australia we find ourselves amidst scenes that are described with a quite surprising degree of fidelity to real life. This may not be the highest quality in a novel, but it is one for which the reader has every reason to be grateful; and when it is accompanied, as it is in this case, by a well-told and powerful story, and acute analysis of character, it offers a standard of perfection to which the majority of writers of fiction cannot attain. "McLeod of the Camerons" is a sad story, with at least one chapter of real tragedy. The doom which hangs over the head of the unhappy hero casts a shadow over the whole book, and renders the somewhat conventional ending of the tale a little disappointing. But apart from this yielding on the part of the author to the natural craving of readers for a happy ending, there is nothing but praise to be given to the work which has been thrown into the book. London Speaker.

Minion of the Moon, A. By T. W. Speight, author of The Mysteries of Heron Dyke etc. Illustrated. 231 pp. 12m0, 90 cents; by mail, $1.03. See review.

Miss Ayr of Virginia and Other Stories. By Julia Magruder, author of "The Violet," etc. 395 pp.

12mo, $1.00; by mail, $1.12.

This new volume from Miss Magruder's pen contains a series of eight detached sketches, differing considerably in literary value. There will undoubtedly be a contrariety of opinions among her readers as to this value. The sketches now under notice are introduced by "Miss Ayr of Virginia" and "A New Thing Under the Sun.' Perhaps to Miss Magruder's friends of her own latitude these two will receive the preference, because there is in them a sectionalism to which they will be responsive. To the more impartial critic both stories are without the element of probability, according to all our preconceived ideas of young southern womanhood. The other tales possess for the general reader far greater charm, and the two which we have read with the most pleasure are "His Heart's Desire," a very pathetic and sorrowful story, and "The Masked Singer," as romantic as any devotee of romance in love matters could desire. As a whole, we think the verdict must be that the book is hardly up to the level of Miss Magruder's previous literary efforts. N. Y. Home Journal.

No Place for Repentance. By Ellen F. Pinsent, author of "Jenny's Case," etc. 156 pp. 12mo, 57 cents; by mail, 64 cents.

Miss Ellen F. Pinsent's "No Place for Repentance tells of a sleepy Lincolnshire village, called Cowsthorpe, to which a curate comes-one Mr. Harold Campion. He is a secret devotee of the brandy bottle, though he is assiduous in saving others from drink. Loving a beautiful girl, Beatrice Foster, he tries to crush the demon which holds him in bondage, but all in vain. The relations between this girl and Campion are prettily written and conceived. Slight as the tale is, it has the merit of directness and concentration. London Academy.

Old Comrades. By Agnes Giberne, author of "LifeTangles," etc. Illustrated. 218 pp. 12mo, 75 cents; by mail, 86 cents.

"Old Comrades," by Agnes Giberne, are a pair of old friends, who are reconciled after a long-standing quarrel by the intervention of the daughter of one of them, who, leaving school for her father's quarters in London, becomes his ministering spirit and better angel. London Times.

On the Face of the Waters. A Tale of the Mutiny. By Flora Annie Steel, author of "Miss Stuart's Legacy," etc. 475 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.23. See review.

On the Red Staircase. By M. Imlay Taylor. With a frontispiece. 352 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.00.

The gallant gentleman who figures as the hero in Mr. M. Imlay Taylor's romance "On the Red Staircase," is one of those fine, full-blooded warriors so popular in recent fiction. A type resuscitated in deference to the demands of readers who have begun to grow weary alike of Norwegian neurotics and the self-analyzing Sunday-school young men, so dear to our domestic realists. Philippe de Brousson, a gentleman of France, happens to be in Moscow during the struggle between the rival factions of the Naryshkins and the Miloslavskys, that broke out upon the accession of the infant Czar Peter afterwards the Great. Meeting, by chance, a damsel in distress, and learning that she is in the power of a wicked uncle who would force her to marry against her will, he naturally constitutes himself her knight errant, and proceeds to involve himself in apparently hopeless complications. He scales castle walls, is cast into captivity and regains his freedom, and has countless hairbreadth escapes, from the assassin's dagger and the poisoned bowl; but even when the author has shut him up in the house of his enemy, with one exit blocked by roaring flames, and the other by a howling mob thirsting for his blood, the reader has a feeling of comfortable conviction that so gallant a knight is bound to escape somehow; and that eventually the villain, Vladimir Sergheievitch Ramodanofsky, will be brought to naught, and the fair Zenaïde Feodorovna Ramodanofsky delivered from the unwelcome attentions of the dissolute Viatscheslav Naryshkin. N. Y. Sun.

Phroso. A Romance. By Anthony Hope, author of

"The Heart of Princess Osra," etc. Profusely illustrated by Henry B. Wechsler. 306 pp. 12mo, $1.35; by mail, $1.48.

See review.

Urban Dialogues. By Louis Evan Shipman. Illustrated. 115 pp. 16m0, 90 cents; by mail, 97 cents. Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough, in the County of Devon. In the reign of her most glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth. Rendered into modern English by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. New edition. 591 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.25.

This edition has a number of graphic full-page outline illustrations.

When Hearts Are True. A novel. By Fannie E. Ostrander. With a frontispiece. 251 pp. 12mo, 35 cents; by mail, 47 cents.

This very youthful novel, while the scene is laid in Colorado and elsewhere in this country, has no local color and is a series of improbable incidents. Yale Man, A. A novel. By Robert Lee Tyler, author

of "None But the Brave," etc. Criterion Series. 303 pp. 12mo, paper, 20 cents; by mail, 25 cents. A novel of modern American life opening at an international yacht race and passing out to mines in the West. The treatment is hackneyed.

FRENCH BOOKS.

Napoleon. Extracts from Henri Martin, Victor Duruy, Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, Thiers, Chateaubriand, Edgar Quinet, Madame de Rémusat. With a narrative by the editor. Edited by Alcée Fortier, D. Lt. 136 pp, with notes. 12mo, 55 cents, postpaid.

A slender volume of suggestive selections, making a continuous record of aspects of this life and character. "Napoleon is allowed to speak in his own behalf, (Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène), then selections are given from writers favorable to him, such as Duruy, Victor Hugo and Thiers, and from writers rather hostile to him, but admiring his genius, such as Henri Martin, Chateaubriand, Edgar Quinet and Madame de Rémusat." These extracts are linked by a brief narrative and followed by historical notes.

BOOKS ANNOUNCED.

FREDERICK WARNE AND COMPANY:

The Sign of the Wooden Shoon. By Marshall Mather.
Tracked by a Tattoo. By Fergus Hume.

The Carbuncle Clue. A Mystery. By Fergus Hume.
Under Many Flags; or, Stories of the Scottish Adventurers.
With page illustrations. By Davenport Adams.

The Fur Traders of the West; or, Adventures Among the
Redskins. By E. R. Suffling.

Lost in African Jungles. By Fred. Whishaw. With illustra

tions.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY:

Le Roi des Montagues. By Edmond About. Edited with in-
troduction and notes by Arthur R. Ropes, M. A.
An English Garner. Ingatherings from our History and
Literature. By Edward Arber, F. S. A. Vol. VIII, which
completes the series.

Transcaucasia and Ararat. Notes of a Vacation Tour. By
James Bryce, M. P.

The Yoke of an Empire. Sketches of the Queen's Prime Min-
isters By Reginald B. Brett.

The Influence of the Scottish Church in Christendom. By
Henry Cowan, D. D.

The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich. By
Thomas of Moumouth. Now first edited from the Unique
MS., with an Introduction, Translation, and Notes, by
Augustus Jessopp, and Montague Rhodes James.

A Haunt of Ancient Peace. A story by Emma Marshall.
Problems and Questions in Physics. By Charles P. Mat-
thews, M. E.

A Dictionary of Birds. By Alfred Newton.

A Treatise on Ore Deposits. By J. Arthur Phillips. Second edition, rewritten and greatly enlarged by Henry Louis. The Evolution of Our Native Fruits. By L. H. Bailey.

T. Y. CROWELL AND COMPANY:

Camilla. Translated from the Swedish and Danish of Richer,
Von Koch. Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett.
White Rocks. Translated from the French of Edouad Rord
with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith.

Hans of Iceland. By Victor Hugo. Translated by Hunting-
ton Smith.

Bug Jargal, Condemned Man, and Claude Gueux. By Victor
Hugo. Translated by Arabella Ward.

Prophecy; or, Speaking for God. By the Rev. E. S. Stack-
pole, D. D.

Social Meanings of Religious Experiences. By the Rev.
George D. Herron, D. D.

What is Christian Socialism? By Pastor Naumann. Trans-
lated by the Rev. Carl Kelsey.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY:

In the Tree Tops. By Olive Thorne Miller.

The Spirit of an Illinois Town, and The Little Renault. By
Mary Hartwell Catherwood

The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, as Told by Themselves,
Their Friends and Their Enemies. By Prof. Edward

Arber.

Nature's Diary.

Memories of Hawthorne. By Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.

Frederick Warne and Company have nearly ready a volume of stories by Marshall Mather, entitled "The Sign of the Wooden Shoon," which are in the same vein as those by Ian MacLaren and Barrie, and like "Lancashire Idylls "introduce the reader to a comparatively unknown type of character. Publishers' Weekly.