Mr. E. H. Sothern's acting version of "Hamlet" has been published in an inexpensive and exceptionally attractive volume by Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co. It gives the text as used by Mr. Sothern during the past season, including several passages which he sometimes omitted, by reason of the great length of the play, and is illustrated by means of a series of photographic reproductions of the most striking scenes. The illustrations also include several character portraits, both of Mr. Sothern as Hamlet, and of Miss Harned as Ophelia.

Daniel O'Connell was a California journalist who had a wide circle of friends and admirers. Among other things, he was a prolific writer of verse, which fact is attested by the volume of his "Songs from Bohemia," now edited by Miss Ina D. Coolbrith, and published at San Francisco by Mr. A. M. Robertson. The book is provided with a portrait, and with a biographical sketch by Mr. W. G. Harrison, who indulges in much flowery rhetoric, but fails to inform us of the dates of the poet's birth and death.

Miss Mary F. Hyde's "Two-Book Course in English," published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co., consists of "Lessons in the Use of English" and a "Practical English Grammar, with Exercises in Composition." Miss Hyde is an experienced teacher of her subject, and is the author of other text-books that have been widely used in the elementary schools.

The "Series of School Readings " published by the Messrs. Scribner now numbers thirteen volumes, the majority of which have been compiled under the editorship of Miss Mary E. Burt. The thirteenth of the series, now just published, is a condensation by Miss Burt, of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer's two books about her famous husband. It is called "The Boy General." The book should make capital reading for young people

both in and out of school.

If one may judge by the number of books about gardening that have been produced during the past five years, there is a new and more intelligent interest in this gentle art than has heretofore characterized us as a people. The latest book of the class now referred to is "A Handy Book of Horticulture " (Dutton), by Mr. F. C. Hayes. This is a book for gardeners of modest resources, and, although English in its origin, will not be without its uses, even under our own harsher climatic conditions. The author is a clergyman, which reminds us of the fact that gardening, in England, is a clerical avocation far more frequently than with us.

NOTES.

"A New Gradatim," edited by Mr. M. C. Smart, is a recent publication of Messrs. Benj. H. Sanborn & Co. "The Child: His Nature and Nurture," by Mr. W. B. Drummond, is a new "Temple Primer" published by the Messrs. Macmillan.

A critical study of the work of Mr. Swinburne by Mr. Theodore Wratislaw will be issued immediately by the A. Wessels Company.

A neat pocket reprint of "Adam Bede" is published by Mr. John Lane in a form similar to his edition of the works of George Borrow, now in course of publication.

The publishers of "Life" offer three prizes of $200, $100, and $50, respectively, for the best short stories, of 1000 to 2500 words in length, received by them before August 1.

George Borrow's "Wild Wales" is now published by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons in their new library edition of the works of this perennially fresh and fascinating writer.

The American Book Co. publish "Easy Steps in Latin," by Miss Mary Hamer, and "Introductory Lessons in English Literature," by Mr. I. C. McNeill and Mr. S. A. Lynch.

A beautiful reprint of Stevenson's little essay, "Es Triplex," is issued by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, as a companion volume to the "Christmas Sermon " of a few months ago.

"The Animal Story-Book Reader," published by Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co., is edited by Mr. Andrew Lang, which should in itself be a sufficient advertisement for the book.

"Elements of the Theory and Practice of Cookery," by Miss Mary E. Williams and Miss Katharine R. Fisher, is a text-book for use in schools, and is published by the Macmillan Co.

"L'Art d'Intéresser en Classe," by Mr. Victor F. Bernard, is a book of French anecdotes published by Mr. W. R. Jenkins. The volume also contains LaBiche's "La Lettre Chargée."

Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. announce that they have opened their entire list of nearly four thousand titles to purchasers on a subscription basis and with an equitable arrangement for easy payments.

General James Harrison Wilson's "China" is republished in a third edition by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. It contains much new matter, including an account of the stirring events of the past year.

"Thomas DeQuincey's Relation to German Literature and Philosophy," by Mr. William A. Dunn, is a doctoral dissertation offered to the University of Strassburg, and is published in that city by Herr J. H. E. Heitz.

"The Prose Writers of Canada," by Mr. S. E. Dawson, is a pamphlet publication issued by Mr. E. M. Renouf, Montreal. It contains an address prepared for the Montreal Meeting of the American Library Association.

An announcement has just been made by a committee of American anthropologists, of which Mr. F. W. Hodge, managing editor of the "American Anthropologist," is secretary, of the proposed publication of an illustrated volume containing some thirty folk-tales which were recorded and translated by the late Frank

Hamilton Cushing during his long and intimate association with the Zuni Indian tribe of New Mexico. The price of the work will be $3.50. Information and subscription blanks will be supplied by the secretary, Washington, D. C.

Professor Ashley H. Thorndike has published at Worcester, Mass., an interesting monograph entitled "The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere." It was originally a doctoral dissertation, and is now enlarged to a treatise of nearly two hundred pages.

An addition to the host of recent text-books in English is the "Modern Composition and Rhetoric" of Messrs. Lewis Worthington Smith and James E. Thomas. It is published by Messrs. Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., and appears to be a sensible and practical treatise upon its subject.

A second edition, revised and enlarged, of Mr. W. D. McCrackan's "The Rise of the Swiss Republic" has just been published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. It is now nearly ten years since this work first appeared, and its place among the standard histories has become well established during this period.

"The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple" are far better worth reading than most of the modern love letters, real or fictitious, that have enjoyed such a vogue of late years. A new edition of this work, edited by Mr. Edward Abbott Parry, is now published by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.

Dr. William Jay Youmans, for many years editor of the "Popular Science Monthly," died April 10 at his home in Mount Vernon, N. Y., at the age of 63. Dr. Youmans was well-known as a scientific worker, and was an extensive contributor to Appletons' Cyclopædia and editor of many important scientific works.

"Under Bobs and Kruger" is the title of a book by Mr. Frederick W. Unger, late correspondent for the London "Daily Express," which Messrs. Henry T. Coates & Co. will issue this Spring. Mr. Unger's book is perhaps unique as representing the work of an English newspaper correspondent with the Boer army.

Hitherto, Longfellow's "Hiawatha" has been the only American work included in the "Temple Classics" (Macmillan). We now have a two-volume edition of Emerson's Essays, first and second series, and "Nature," edited by Mr. Walter Jerrold. The photogravure frontispieces present a portrait of Emerson and a view of his Concord home.

Messrs. Cooke & Fry issue in attractive form a volume entitled "The Tarrytown Church Records," by the Rev. Dr. David Cole and Mr. Morris P. Ferris, president Yonkers (N. Y.) Historical Association. The book is based on the records of the "old Dutch church of Sleepy Hollow," now the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, and is of much local historical and genealogical interest.

Messrs. Congdon & Britnell, of Toronto, announce their purchase of the library of the late Robert Jenkins of that city, comprising in all about 1200 volumes, engravings included. Mr. Jenkins was, for a number of years, an enthusiastic collector of Americana and Canadiana, and the library is rich in early and scarce works relating to the North American Continent. A catalogue will be mailed to those interested.

We have seldom seen a more attractive auction catalogue than that prepared for the William Harris Arnold collection of books and letters, which Messrs. Bangs &

Co. will sell in New York on the 7th and 8th of next month. About three hundred books (mostly first editions of English authors) and seventy autograph letters, including some notable treasures, are comprised in the collection. The catalogue is a large octavo volume, beautifully printed at the Marion Press. Many interesting letters of Keats, Wordsworth, Bryant, Lowell, and others are reprinted in full. The illustrations include a reduced facsimile of the trial page for the projected Kelmscott Shakespeare, and a facsimile of the complete holograph MS. of Keats's poem "To Charles Cowden Clarke."

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

[The following list, containing 120 titles, includes books received by THE DIAL since the issue of March 1.]

BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES. The Story of My Life. By Augustus J. C. Hare. Vols. III. and IV., completing the work. Illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, uncut. Dodd, Mead & Co. $7.50. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. By Booker T. Washington. With portrait, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 330. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50 net.

My Autobiography: A Fragment. By the Rt. Hon. Prof. F. Max Müller, K.M. With photogravure portraits, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 327. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2. Stage Reminiscences of Mrs. Gilbert. Edited by Charlotte M. Martin. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 248. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50 net.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the Growth and Division of the British Empire, 1708-1778. By Walford Davis Green, M.P. Illus., 12mo, pp. 391. Heroes of the Nations." G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.

A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. With a Sketch of Empress Josephine. By Ida M. Tarbell. lllus., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 485. McClure, Phillips & Co. $2.50. Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist. By Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston (written in 1836); edited by Rev. Arthur Wentworth Eaton, B.A. Illus., 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 224. M. F. Mansfield & Co. $1.50. Louis Agassiz. By Alice Bache Gould. With portrait, 24mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 154. "Beacon Biographies." Small, Maynard & Co. 75 cts. Father Hecker. By Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr. With portrait, 24mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 155. Beacon Biographies." Small, Maynard & Co. 75 cts.

HISTORY.

The Thirteen Colonies. By Helen Ainslie Smith. In 2 vols., illus., 12mo. Story of the Nations." G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3.

A History of the Four Georges and of William IV. By Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy. Vols. III. and IV., completing the work. 12mo. Harper & Brothers. Per vol., $1.25.

The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania: A Study of the So-Called Pennsylvania Dutch. By Oscar Kuhns. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 268. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.

The Rise of the Swiss Republic: A History. By W. D. McCracken, M.A. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Large 8vo, pp. 423. Henry Holt & Co. $2.

Oriental Chronology. By Major-General W. A. Baker. 8vo, pp. 57. St. Leonards-on-Sea, England: Daniels & Co. Paper.

GENERAL LITERATURE. The Love Letters of Victor Hugo, 1820-1822. With comment by Paul Meurice; trans. by Elizabeth W. Latimer. With photogravure portraits, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 247. Harper & Brothers. $3.

Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature. By Edward Dowden, LL.D. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 341. Henry Holt & Co. $2. net.

Masters of French Literature. By George McLean Harper. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 316. Scribner's Sons. $1.25 net.

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Life Study in Criticism. By
H. Bellyse Baildon. With portraits, 12mo, uncut, pp. 244.
A. Wessels Co. $1.75.

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William
Temple, 1652-54. Edited by Edward Abbott Parry. With
portrait, 12mo, pp. 349. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.
The Literary Year-Book and Bookman's Directory, 1901.
Edited by Herbert Morrah. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 421.
New York: Francis P. Harper. $1.25.

The World's Orators. Edited by Guy Carleton Lee, Ph.D.
Vols. IX. and X., Orators of America, Parts II. and III.,
completing the work. With photogravure portraits, large
8vo, gilt tops, uncut. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Per vol.,
$3.50. (Sold only in sets by subscription.)
Another Englishwoman's Love-Letters. By Barry Pain.
16mo, uncut, pp. 186. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.

An Englishman's Love-Letters. 24mo, gilt edges, pp. 71. M. F. Mansfield & Co. $1.

translated, and annotated by Richard James Cross. With portrait, 18mo, red edges, pp. 225. Henry Holt & Co. $2. Adam Bede. By George Eliot. 24mo, gilt top, pp. 768. John Lane. 50 cts.

Temple Classics. Edited by Israel Gollancz. New volumes: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, by Jeremy Taylor; Essays, and Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2 vols. Each with photogravure frontispiece, 24mo, gilt top, uncut. Macmillan Co. Per vol., 50 cts.

POETRY AND VERSE.

Odes. By Laurence Binyon. 12mo, uncut, pp. 74. M. F. Mansfield & Co. $1.25 net.

An Iseult Idyll, and Other Poems. By G. Constant Lounsbery. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 79. John Lane. $1.25 net. The Scarlet Huntsman. By Walter Cayley Belt. Large 8vo. La Grande Journal.

FICTION.

The Wizard's Knot. By William Barry. 12mo, pp. 406. Century Co. $1.50.

Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch. By H. Rider Haggard. Illus., 12mo, pp. 496. Longmans, Green, & Co. $1.50. The Octopus: A Story of California. By Frank Norris. 12mo, pp. 652. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50. The Silver Skull: A Romance. By S. R. Crockett. Illus., 12mo, pp. 315. F. A. Stokes Co. $1.50.

Her Mountain Lover. By Hamlin Garland. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 396. Century Co. $1.50. Crucial Instances. By Edith Wharton. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 242. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. The Love-Letters of the King; or, The Life Romantic. By Richard Le Gallienne. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 281. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.

A Soldier of Virginia: A Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's Defeat. By Burton Egbert Stevenson. Illus., 12mo, pp. 325. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.

Pro Patria. By Max Pemberton. Illus., 12mo, pp. 292. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.

A Carolina Cavalier: A Romance of the American Revolution. By George Cary Eggleston. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 448. Lothrop Publishing Co. $1.50. Betsy Ross: A Romance of the Flag. By Chauncey C. Hotchkiss. 12mo, pp. 367. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50. God's Puppets: A Story of Old New York. By Imogen Clark. 12mo, pp. 381. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. Garcilaso. By J. Breckenridge Ellis. 12mo, pp. 394. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.

Martin Brook. By Morgan Bates. 12mo, pp. 365. Harper & Brothers. $1.50.

The Inlander. By Harrison Robertson. 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 320. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
Prince Rupert, the Buccaneer. By Cutcliffe. Hyne.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 287. F. A. Stokes Co. $1.50.

Truth Dexter. By Sidney McCall. 12mo, pp. 375. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.

The Crimson Weed. By Christopher St. John. 12mo, pp. 335. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.

The Making of Christopher Ferringham. By Beulah Marie Dix. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 453. Macmillan Co. $1.50. The Fanatics. By Paul Laurence Dunbar. 12mo, pp. 312. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.

In His Own Image. By Frederick Baron Corvo. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 421. John Lane. $1.50.

A Maryland Manor: A Novel of Plantation Aristocracy and its Fall. By Frederic Emory. With frontispiece, 12mo, gilt top, pp. 449. F. A. Stokes Co. $1.50. Without a Warrant. By Hildegard Brooks. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 292. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles. By Godfrey Sweven. 12mo, pp. 420. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.

Your Uncle Lew, a Natural-Born American. By Charles Reginald Sherlock. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 305. F. A. Stokes Co. $1.50.

Dwellers in the Hills. By Melville Davisson Post. 12mo, pp. 278. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.

A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle. By Cutcliffe Hyne. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 317. G. W. Dillingham Co.

The Way of Belinda. By Frances Weston Carruth. 12mo, pp. 310. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.

A Gentleman in Waiting: A Story of New York Society. By Cornelius V. V. Sewell. 12mo, pp. 291. New York: The Grafton Press. $1.50.

Three Fair Philanthropists. By Alice M. Muzzy. 12mo, pp. 398. Abbey Press. $1.50.

In Oudemon: Reminiscences of an Unknown People by an Occasional Traveler. Edited by Henry S. Drayton. 12mo, pp. 378. New York: The Grafton Press. $1.50. Springtime and Harvest: A Romance. By Upton B. Sinclair, Jr. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 281. New York: The Sinclair Press. $1.50.

The Vengeance of the Mob: A Tale of the Florida Pines. By Sam. A. Hamilton. 12mo, pp. 206. Abbey Press. $1. The Railroad: Stories from McClure's. With frontispiece, 18mo, uncut, pp. 182. McClure, Phillips & Co. 50 cts.

TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION. Through Siberia. By J. Stadling; edited by F. H. H. Guillemard, M.A. Illus., 4to, uncut, pp. 317. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6.

East London. By Walter Besant; illus. by Phil May, Joseph Pennell, and L. Raven-Hill. Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 364. Century Co. $3.50.

Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border. By Archibald John Little, F.R.G.S. Illus., large 8vo, uncut, pp. 272. F. A. Stokes Co. $3.50. China: Travels and Investigations in the "Middle Kingdom"

A Study of its Civilization and Possibilities. By James Harrison Wilson, A.M. Third edition, revised throughout, enlarged, and reset. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 429. D. Appleton & Co. $1.75.

Under Tops'ls and Tents. By Cyrus Townsend Brady. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 272. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.

Dog-Watches at Sea. By Stanton H. King. Illus., 12mo, pp. 299. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.

A Sack of Shakings. By Frank T. Bullen, F.R.G.S. 12mo, uncut, pp. 389. McClure, Phillips & Co. $1.50. The N'th Foot in War. By M. B. Stewart. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 175. Abbey Press. $1.

THEOLOGY AND RELIGION. History, Prophecy, and the Monuments; or, Israel and the Nations. By James Frederick McCurdy, Ph.D. Vol. III., completing the work. Large 8vo, uncut, pp. 470. Macmillan Co. $3. net.

The Philosophy of Religion in England and America. By Alfred Caldecott, D.D. Large 8vo, uncut, pp. 434. Macmillan Co. $2.50 net.

The Passion: A Historical Essay. By R. P. M. J. Ollivier, O.P.; trans. from the French by E. Leahy. 8vo, pp. 439. Marlier & Co., Ltd. $1.50.

About the Bible: A Collection of Extracts from Writings of Eminent Biblical Scholars and Scientists. Compiled by Charles L. Hammond. Illus., 12mo, pp. 136. New York: Cooke & Fry. $1.25.

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PUBLISH IMMEDIATELY RECOLLECTIONS OF A GEORGIA LOYALIST By Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston. Edited by Rev. Arthur WENTWORTH EATON, B.A. A most valuable and interesting contribution to " Revolutionary Americana." With Reproductions of Colonial Portraits. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, $1.50. NEWFOUNDLAND, THE TENTH ISLAND Its People, its Politics, and its Peculiarlies. By Beckles Willson. With an Introduction by Sir WILLIAM WHITEWAY, K.C.M.G., Premier of the Colony, and an Appendix by Lord CHARLES BERESFORD. Globe 8vo, buckram, with Map, $1.50 net.