in teaching methods for the prevention of disease. The chapter headings are: Soil and Climate, Clothing and Protection of the Body, Bathing and Personal Hygiene, Physical Exercise, Schools and Their Influence on Health, Occupation, Lighting, Buildings and Streets, Heating, Ventilation, Foods, Food Preparation and Adaptation, Diet, Water and Water Supplies, Disposal of Fluid Waste, Sewers, House Drainage, Plumbing, Disposal of the Dead, Bacteria and Disease, Infectious Diseases, Disinfection. A full index greatly enhances

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON NERVOUS EXHAUSTION (NEURASTHENIA). By George M. Beard. A. M., M. D. Edited, with notes and additions, by A. D. Rockwell, A. M., M. D. Third edition, enlarged, 262 pp. Cloth, $2.75. New York: E. B. Treat. 1894.

Literary workers so frequently become victims of neurasthenia, that for them this treatise by the late Dr. Beard and Dr. Rockwell has a special value, particularly as Dr. Rockwell says that it is admitted by all whose experience entitles their opinion to weight that the disease is in most instances entirely curable, and in some cases self-curable. All that modern medical science knows of nervous exhaustion is included in this work, the third edition of which has been enlarged and brought up to date in all respects.

W. H. H.

THE PEARL OF INDIA. Maturin M. Ballou. 335 pp. Cloth, $1.50. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. 1894.

It is always entertaining to travel with Mr. Ballou. His latest volume describes the attractions and beauties of Ceylon, "gem of the Orient," which is now traversed so generally by railways and excellent government roads, Mr. Ballou says, that there is very little hardship to be encountered in visiting its remotest districts. Everything about Ceylon that any one could wish to know is included in the book. To travellers it will be a helpful guide in journeying about the island, and those who must do their travelling by the fireside will find it most delightful reading.

W. H. H.

THE CHASE OF SAINT-CASTIN, AND OTHER TALES. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood 266 pp. Cloth, $1.25. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. 1894.

This collection of short stories by Mrs. Catherwood possesses more than ordinary interest. Among Western writers Mrs. Catherwood deservedly holds a leading place, and each new volume strengthens her position among the more prominent American writers of to-day. The stories in the book are full of dramatic interest, and they are sure to entertain the reader.

W. H. H.

A FLORIDA SKETCH-BOOK. By Bradford Torrey. 242 pp. Cloth, $1 25. Boston: Houghton, Milin, & Co. 1894. Mr. Torrey's sketches of outdoor life are always so delightful that a new volume of them is certain of a warm welcome by a host of

readers. The pictures of Florida in this new "sketch-book" are true to nature and full of suggestive thought. The chapter headings are: In the Flat-woods, Beside the Marsh, On the Beach at Daytonia, Along the Hillsborough, A Morning at the Old Sugar Mill, On the Upper St. John's, On the St. Augustine Road, Ornithology on a Cotton Plantation, A Florida Shrine, and Walks about Tallahassee.

W. H. H.

TRILBY. By George Du Maurier. 464 pp. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.75. New York: Harper & Bros. 1894.

The attention of readers of THE WRITER is called to the article entitled "A Criticism of 'Trilby,'" published in the October number of the magazine. In addition to what was said there it is necessary to say now only that the book has been issued in an illustrated volume by Harper & Bros., and that the publishers are having hard work to print copies enough to supply the public demand. Those who have read the story as it appeared serially in Harper's Magazine will be interested to observe how ingeniously the part published in the February number has been changed, to appease the outraged feelings of Mr. Whistler, who was caricatured in it by the author.

W. H. H.

LOURDES. By Emile Zola. 486 pp. Cloth, $1.25. Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely. 1894.

If for no other reason, general interest in M. Zola's latest novel is sure to be excited by the fact that it has been put on the index expurgatorius of the Roman Catholic church. The story attracted much attention as it was published recently in several of the newspapers of America. Now it is issued complete in a single portly volume, well-printed and bound, as the introductory volume of Neely's International Library. In its new form it is sure to have a widespread circulation. W. H. H. THE JEROME BANNERS, Comprising The Rest Banner, The Joy Banner, The Every-Day Banner, and What Will the Violets Be? By Irene E. Jerome. 50 cents each. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 1894.

Among the attractive art novelties of the Christmas season these dainty banners are sure to take a prominent place. Each leaflet or banner consists of four parts, beautifully decorated in colors and gold, attached by ribbons of appropriate shades, combined with extracts from popular authors, and enclosed in decorated envelopes. Each banner when hung is about twenty-one inches long by seven and one-half inches wide. Miss Jerome's designs are tasteful and artistic, and the banners will find favor with all lovers of the beautiful.

W. H. H. BECAUSE I LOVE You. Edited by Anna E Mack 228 pp. Cloth, $150. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 1894.

This dainty volume of love poems contains many gems of poetry, and there is hardly a

poem in the book which the general reader will not find attractive. More than 130 authors are represented, most of them by their best work. Miss Mack has shown good taste and fine discrimination in her labor of selection, and her compilation is bound to be a popular one. The book is admirably adapted for a Christmas gift.

W. H. H. A HILLTOP SUMMER. By Alyn Yates Keith. Illustrated. 110 pp. Cloth, $1.25. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 1894. The sketches in "A Hilltop Summer" were originally published in the New York Evening Post, and are now put into book form at the request of many readers. They depict in a charming way the life of a New England country town, witnessed during a pleasant summer sojourn. The volume is beautified by many illustrations.

W. H. H.

SIRS, ONLY SEVENTEEN." By Virginia F. Townsend. 323 pp. Cloth, $1.50. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 1894.

Miss Townsend's books are always entertaining, and this latest story is no exception to the rule. The scene is laid chiefly in Boston and vicinity, and among the chief characters are Dorothy Draycutt and her brother Tom, a Harvard student. The plot of the story is well planned, and the reader's interest is maintained until the end.

W. H. H. MOLLIE MILLER. By Effie W. Merriman. Illustrated. 285 pp. Cloth, $1.25. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 1894. "Mollie Miller " is a sequel to Mrs. Merriman's story, "The Little Millers," and takes Mollie, Ned, and Max, and their adopted child, Johnnie, through the pleasures and vicissitudes of youth. The story is wholesome and interesting - the best that Mrs. Merriman has written up to the present time.

W. H. H.

ASIATIC BREEZES. By Oliver Optic. Illustrated. 361 pp. Cloth, $1.25. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 1894.

"Asiatic Breezes," Oliver Optic's latest story, is the fourth and concluding volume of the second series of the "All-Over-theWorld Library." The book takes its heroes though the Mediterranean sea and the Suez canal, and incidentally a great deal of information is given about the great canal and the different countries that are visited. The story is full of exciting incidents, and there is no live boy who would not read it with the keenest interest.

W. H. H.

DUCK CREEK BALLADS. By John Henton Carter (Commodore Rollingpin ). 204 pp. Cloth. New York: H. C. Nixon. 1894.

WHITER THAN SNOW. By the author of "Juror No. 12." 227 pp. Paper, 25 cents. New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company. 1894.

THE MAN FROM THE WEST. By a Wall-street Man. 246 pp. Paper, 50 cents. New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company. 1894.

THE BIRTH OF A SOUL. By Mrs. A. Phillips. 336 pp. Paper, 50 cents. Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Co. 1894. ESSAYS ON QUESTIONS OF THE DAY. By Goldwin Smith. 384 pp. Cloth, $1.25. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1894.

A PATCH OF PANSIES. By J. Edmund V. Cooke. 89 pp. Cloth, $1.00. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1894.

THE FLUTE-PLAYER, AND OTHER POEMS. By Francis Howard Williams. 128 pp. Cloth, $1.00. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1894.

LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS.

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THE HAWTHORNES IN LENOX. Told in letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and others. Edited by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. November.

MY FIRST BOOK. Rudyard Kipling. (18 c.) for November.

Century (38 c.) for

McClure's Magazine

A. CONAN DOYLE INTERVIEWED BY ROBERT BARR. Mc. Clure's Magazine ( 18 c. ) for November.

DR. A. CONAN DOYLE AND HIS WORK. Gilson Willets. Current Literature ( 28 c. ) for November.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. John W. Chadwick. Forum (28 c.) for November.

THE HALF-TONE PROCESS. William Shaw. American Journal of Photography (28 c.) for October.

A PLAYWRIGHT'S NOVITIATE. Miriam Coles Harris. Atlantic Monthly (38 c.) for October.

JACK'S LITERARY EFFORT. Story. Tudor Jenks. St. Nicholas (28 c.) for October.

THE PREJUDICE AGAINST FOREIGN PHRASES. Lucy C. Bull. North American Review ( 53 c. ) for October.

THE HEROIC COUPLET. St. Loe Strachey. Reprinted from National Review in Eclectic ( 48 c. ) for October.

BOOKBINDING: ITS PROCESSES and IDEAL. T. J. CobdenSanderson. Reprinted from Fortnightly Review in Eclectic (48 c.) for October.

THE WORK OF MR. PATER. Lionel Johnson. Reprinted from Fortnightly Review in Eclectic (48 c. ) for October.

THE ART OF THE NOVELIST. Amelia B. Edwards. Reprinted from Contemporary Review in Eclectic (48 c.) for October.

HALF-TONE PHOTO-ENGRAVING EXPLAINED. Photographic Times (18 c.) for August 24.

BOOK CLUBS AND HOME LIBRARIES. Eleanor V. Hutton. Harper's Bazar ( 13 c. ) for October 6.

DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. With portrait. Harper's Bazar (13 c.) for October 20.

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY. With portrait. Harper's Bazar (13 c.) for October 20.

A VISIT TO DR. HOLMES. M. V. W. Harper's Bazar (13 c.) for October 27.

PROFESSOR DAVID SWING. With portrait. Harper's Weekly (13 c.) for October 13.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. With portraits. A. E. Watrous. Harper's Weekly ( 13 c.) for October 20.

THE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. George Grantham Bain. Harper's Weekly ( 13 c.) for October 27. RECOLLECTIONS OF HORACE GREELEY. Justin McCarthy. Youth's Companion (8c.) for September 27.

THE LENGTH OF EDITORIALS. William B. Chisholm. Jour. nalist (13 c.) for October 20.

THE BOSTON JOURNAL. Historical Sketch. Fourth Estate (13 c.) for October 4.

THE HISTORICAL NOVEL.-II. George Saintsbury. Reprinted from Macmillan's Magazine in Littell's Living Age (21 c.) for October 6.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Christian Register for October 11.

PROFESSOR DAVID SWING. With portrait. Chicago Interior for October 11.

INTERVIEWS WITH A. CONAN Doyle. New York Herald and New York Sun for October 3.

A. CONAN DOYLE AT HOME. Indianapolis News for October 6, Louisville Courier-Journal, St. Louis Republic, and New York Sun for October 7.

WRITERS OF LOUISIANA. Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle for September 30; Minneapolis Tribune for October 7.

THE ART OF THE SHORT STORY. Dial (13 c.) for October 1. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THREE-VOLUME NOVEL. Walter Besant. Dial (13 c.) for October 1.

A REPORTER'S LIFE. Waverley Keeling. Golden Rule for October 4.

THE ELEMENts of Poetic TEACHING. Richard Hovey. Independent (13 c.) for September 27. II. Independent (13 c.) for October 4.

CURIOUS OLD NEWSPAPERS. Boston Home Journal for October 6.

NEWSPAPER COLLECTIONS. Boston Transcript for October 6. PROFESSOR VINCENZO BOTTA. New York Tribune, New York Herald for October 6.

FRANK L. STANTON. Reprinted from Philadelphia Times in Indianapolis Journal for October 7.

ABBOTSFORD TO-DAY. New York Herald for October 7. THE NEWSPAPER COLLECTION OF THE LENOX LIBRARY. New York Times for October 7.

INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS J. MCKEE, THE NEW YORK BOOK COLLECTOR. Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle for October 7.

MISS SARAH BARNWELL ELLIOTT. Elizabeth M. Gilmer. New Orleans Picayune for October 7.

LITERARY LONDON. Theo. F. Wolfe, M. D. I. New York Home Journal for October 10. II. New York Home Journal for October 17. III. New York Home Journal for October 24.

STANLEY WARD. New York Commercial Advertiser for October 11.

REV. S. BARING-GOULD. With portrait. Churchman for October 13.

SARAH ORNE JEWETT. Outlook for October 13. JOAQUIN MILLER AT HOME. San Francisco Call for October 14.

AMERICAN WRITERS ABROAD. New York Herald, Wheeling Register for October 14.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE.-III. Baltimore News for October 14. IV. Baltimore News for October 21.

OCTAVE THANET. With portrait. St. Paul Pioneer Press for October 14.

THE POETS OF THE BODLEY HEAD. With portraits of W. B. Yeats, Norman Gale, Arthur Symons, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Le Gallienne, and Francis Thompson. Katharine Tynan Hinkson. Outlook for October 20.

JAMES A. FROUDE. New York Tribune for October 21.

NEWS AND NOTES.

Dr. A. Conan Doyle arrived in New York October 2.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will spend the winter in the Riviera. Mrs. Burnett was obliged to spend a large part of the summer at Washington, owing to the serious illness of her son, who is now recovered.

Miss Agnes Repplier has left London, and when last heard from was in Vienna, en route for Constantinople, Greece, and Egypt.

Mrs. Amelia E. Barr is in Europe, where she will spend the winter.

T. B. Aldrich left Boston October 4 for a trip around the world. At last accounts he was at Yokohama, Japan.

Barrett Wendell is spending the winter in Italy.

General Lew Wallace is lecturing in Oregon and California.

Acting upon a suggestion made by Frederic Harrison, the British Royal Historical Society has decided to commemorate this month the centenary of the death of Edward Gibbon, author of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

Miss Harriet Monroe got a verdict for $5,000 in her suit against the New York World for damages because of the publication of her copyrighted "Ode" without permission.

Mark Twain will spend the winter with his family in Paris.

E. Irenæus Stevenson, of the literary department of Harper & Brothers, and of the Independent, has returned to his desk, after a midsummer and early autumn in Zermatt, the Jura, and Paris.

Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin is soon to be married to George Riggs, a young business man of New York. They were together last summer on a coaching party in Wales. This marriage will not interfere with Mrs. Wiggin's literary career.

Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr has just returned from a long Western trip.

Herr Björnstjerne Björnson, who is at present staying in Tyrol with his family, intends to spend the winter in Rome. There he hopes to finish 66 a great social drama" upon which he has been for some time at work.

Gilbert Parker has gone to Marblethorpe in Lincolnshire, where he is hard at work on a new novel to be published next spring.

Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton is in Paris for a short stay before returning to America, early in November.

F. Marion Crawford will shortly build a fine summer residence on the property he has recently acquired near Hanover, N. H., his wife's birthplace. In spite of foreign birth and residence, Mr. Crawford regards himself as an American citizen, and will hereafter spend his summers here.

Mrs. A. L. Wistar, whose translations of the stories of E. Marlitt and other German writers have brought her so much fame, is having a cottage built at Northeast Harbor, Me.

The Midland Monthly (Des Moines) offers prizes of $20 for the best descriptive paper, with photographs or drawings, $20 for the best story of any length, $10 for the best short story or sketch, and $5 each for the two best short poems submitted before December 30, 1894. The offer is open only to subscribers for the magazine.

With the October number Home and Country (New York) appeared in a new dress and with a new cover. The price has been reduced to $1.50 a year.

The subscription price of the Southern Maga zine (Louisville) has been reduced to $1.50 a year.

Everywhere, a new monthly magazine, has been started in Brooklyn, with Will Carleton, the poet, as its editor. The first number has sixteen pages of good reading, including several short stories and some of Mr. Carleton's poems.

Margherita Arlina Hamm has succeeded Allan Forman as editor and publisher of the (Journalist) New York. Mr. Forman has gone on a foreign journey, to last a year or

more.

The best newspaper obituaries of Dr. Holmes were those published in the Boston Herald, the Boston Post, the Boston Transcript, and the New York Tribune of October 8.

A. J. Jaccaci has been appointed art editor of Scribner's Magazine.

The plant of the Hosterman Publishing Company, of Springfield, O., publishers of Womankind, was destroyed by fire October 19.

Mrs. James T. Fields, No. 148 Charles street, Boston, desires that those having in their possession letters of interest from the late Mrs. Celia Thaxter will lend them to her for use in a memorial volume, or send her copies for the same purpose. Only a few letters can be used in this collection, which is to be a small one, but Mrs. Fields wants to see as many letters as possible, that she may choose those that are best for the purpose.

George H. Richmond & Co., New York, have in press a series of satirical essays and humorous sketches relating to modern fiction under the title of "The Literary Shop," from the pen of James L. Ford.

Bret Harte has published more than thirty volumes and writes at the rate of two a year. He passed his fifty-fifth birthday last August.

David Christie Murray says he thinks nothing of writing a three-volume novel in five weeks, and Mr. Henty, the author of so many entertaining books for boys, produces his stories at the rate of 6,500 words a day.

Emile Zola, according to his biographer, writes four printed pages in the Charpentier edition of his novels every day. This is his task; he never writes less and he never writes more, stopping at the end of the fourth page even if he is in the midst of a sentence.

Julian Ralph, whose long association with the New York Sun has made him one of the best known newspaper men in the country, contributes to Scribner's for November a timely article on "A Newspaper Office on Election Night." The illustrations represent faithfully the scenes and people described.

A 66 Real Conversation" between Conan Doyle and Robert Barr, giving glimpses of Dr. Doyle's home life and his methods of work, and reporting his opinions on the state of the novelist's art in England and America at the present time, appears in McClure's Magazine for November. Several portraits of Dr. Doyle and Mr. Barr and views of interiors in Dr. Doyle's home, a photograph of Mrs. Conan Doyle, and a portrait of Sherlock Holmes accompany the article.

The Forum Publishing Company has issued (as the October number of the Forum Quarterly) a volume of the autobiographical papers that ran through a dozen numbers of the Forum several years ago, by President Timothy Dwight, W. E. H. Lecky, Professor B. L. Gildersleeve, Frederic Harrison, Dr. Edward Eggleston, Archdeacon F. W. Farrar, Edward Everett Hale, Professor John Tyndall, Professor A. P. Peabody, Professor Edward A. Freeman, Professor Simon Newcomb, and Georg Ebers.