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-SKETCHES OF SOME COMMON BIRDS, by P. M. Silloway, (The Editor Publishing Co., Cincinnati, O.; 331 pp.), possesses the charm which comes of enthusiastic interest in his subject by the author. He is a good observer, and a clear and interesting narrator and gives his own studies of the life and habits of between fifty and sixty of our common birds. One may learn more of the ways of some of these birds from the pages of Mr. Silloway than from any other popular book we are acquainted with, and therefore we cordially commend the volume to the favor of our readers.

LITERARY ITEMS.

-We note with interest the announcement by D. C. Heath & Co., of the addition to their Pedagogical Library of Roger Ascham's quaint and interesting book The Schoolmaster, and of D'Arcy W. Thompson's book of fine ideals, Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster. They also promise a student's edition of De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

-Ginn & Co. will soon issue an edition of Fonque's charming romance Undine, for school use. They also promise a French book of much interest La Guerre de l'Independence, from the large history of A. Moireau.

-Our liquor laws as seen by the commitee of fifty, is discussed in the December Popular Science Monthly, and the article is deserving of the widest possible reading; Prof. Serviss' treatment of the old question whether the universe has other habitable worlds is along new lines; Prof. Ripley's Racial Geography of the British isles is the most interesting of an important series.

-The Atlantic has secured a new novel by Gilbert Parker, "The Battle of the Strong;' which will begin in January. With Hopinson Smith's "Caleb West" and Mrs. Wiggins' "Penelope's Progress," the magazine will not be behind in this kind of literature.

-The November Magazine Number of The Outlook, in addition to several profusely and finely illustrated articles, has as a notable feature the address lately delivered by President Eliot, of Harvard University, before the Brooklyn Institute on "The Function of Education." President Eliot has kindly revised the entire address for The Outlook, and it is now printed in full. Those who heard it agree that this is one of the most important addresses dealing with its general subject which have ever been delivered in this country. ($3.00 a year. The Outlook Company, 13 Astor Place, New York.)

-We welcome to our table the new monthly of the New York Education Company called New York Education, which offers a vigorous and inspiring table of contents in the numbers which have as yet come to hand. Such magazines for teachers enlarge their ideals and thus tend to improve their work.

The Century Magazine, with its November number, enters upon its twenty-seventh year. During its long existence, by reason of its many notable successes, it has won an assured and commanding position. During the coming year The Century will maintain its exceptional position as a magazine of entertainment and as a leader in art and thought.

Its pictoral features will be notable, and it will command the services of the foremost artists, illustrators and engravers of this country and of Europe.

Nothing like a complete announcement of its literary features can be attempted now. Dr. Weir Mitchell, whose novel of the American Revolution, "Hugh Wynne,'' is the great success of the year, has written a new story for the present volume. It bears the piquant title: "The Adventures of François: Foundling, Adventurer, Juggler and Fencing-Master during the French Revolution." The tale is full of romance and adventure. Mrs. Burton Harrison contributes a new novel of New York life, called "Good Americans," in which contemporaneous social types and tendencies are brightly mirrored and described.

There will be a group of clever stories about horses and people who like horses, under the general title of "Gallops." "A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention in Mexico' will be given in a series of graphic and highly picturesque papers by Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson. Further contributions to the interesting series of "Heroes of Peace" will be made by Jacob A. Riis, Gustav Kobbé, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and others.

For the benefit of readers of The Century an unusual combination offer is made for this year. There has been issued "The Century Gallery of One Hundred Portraits," made up of the finest engravings that have appeared in the magazine, and representing a total expenditure of nearly $30,000. These are printed on heavy plate-paper, with wide margins, like proofs. The retail price of the gallery is $7.50, but this year it will be sold only in connection with a subscription to The Century, the price of the two together being $6.50.

-RUDYARD KIPLING's first "Just-So," story, which appears in the Christmas number of St. Nicholas is illustrated by Oliver Herford. It is the first of a series of fantastic stories about animals.

-The November School Review is a special classical number, and contains Cæsar as a text book, The preparatory course in Latin, Report of the Ann Arbor classical conference, with outlook notes and book reviews. It is making a strong reputation since its removal to Chicago.

-The Child Study Monthly (A. W. Mumford, publisher, 45 Auditorium building, Chicago), keeps up its interest well. In the November number Mr. Mickins concludes bis review of the practical results of child study. Miss Sharp treats suggestively of mothers' meetings and Mr. St. John of children's interests.

-Education for November contains a very instructive paper on the function of students'c lubs in technical education, and a valuable discussion of the question, how can a teacher become master of his business. But it also has a good deal else that will repay reading.

-The Living Age began Nov. 6th, the publication of a serial translated from the Revuedes Deux Mondes "With all her heart,' which the French reviews speak of as "an epoch-making story." The Living Age has put on new life of late and while keeping up its reputation for representing the best in foreign periodical literature has also begun to represent the American. It is a weekly, and cheap, considering the amount given in a year, at the present reduced price of $6.00. New subscribers for 1898 get the eight numbers of '97, containing the new serial free, Living Age Pub. Co., Boston, Mass.

-Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, the author of "The Prisoner of Zenda," proves, on the closer acquaintance which his visit to this country is now yielding, no less attractive as a man than as a writer. His public readings from his own works seem to give his large audiences the highest satisfaction; and in the busy course of friendly dining through which he has been put since he landed he has shown himself the kindliest and most unassuming of guests of honor. Mr. Hawkins is now thirty-four years old. He began life as a lawyer, and in 1892 he made a vigorous but unsuccessful canvass for a liberal seat in parliament. While waiting for clients he began to write stories. He made his way but slowly at first; he had been writing four or five years before he achieved a pronounced success in "The Prisoner of Zenda." "The Dolly Dialogues" followed and confirmed his popularity. It is an interesting fact that while he is visiting in this country an American magazine will begin publication of a sequel to the story which was his great success. McClure's Magazine for December will contain the opening chapters of "Rupert of Hentzau," a new Zenda novel which continues the history of the love and adventures of Rudolf Rassendyll and Princess Flavia. were extremely engaging people as they presented themselves in "The Prisoner of Zenda;" but those who have had the privilege of reading the new story say that they are still more engaging in it, and that the series of adventures through which it carries them is one to keep readers sitting up all night. The story has been illustrated for McClure's by the author's personal friend, Charles Dana Gibson.

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