ekrt<"rirs, which carry n story In them- Belves an.l give an inkling to. the thread cf th'- ta'f. His books are "roomy' book.-; there is plenty <>f marginal sjiac, the ii lu«-tiations are not crowded, the set-ir.g of his books through the pr<-ss. The late-si book appearing under the authorsh'p of this most capable writer upon subjects of the animal kingdom is "The Biography of a Grizzly." Illustrated and de-cf.ratpd by the author and published t>y the Century Company, price $1 "A. The chapters were first printed in the Century Magazine, late 1 last winter, and have now bc-en gathered together in its present ai trai tive form. About all of Mr. S^tcn-Thompson's work there is the coo! fresh air of the woods, the high* st admliutlon for and sympathy with animal life, combined with the rare- and nappy faculty of making his tales of the gre-atest human interest. In the prc-ser.t bock he takes as his hero the grizzly cub Wahb, and. as the title sug gestf, follows him through all the vigor of his fie Toe bear life to his iinal eioom In Death Ouhh. "that fearful little valley where everything was dead, where the very air was deadly." Sefjr.-Thompson has the ability of making his animal char acters rsost Intensely human. 1 1 <> is su'"h a dose student >>f tho woods and its life that not a solitary detail is ever negle'Ctcd. It Is this tvldinoe of Study and the 6 tra'.frht forward manner f.f t«l!i:ig that Haraj'K !i:s work as real and e-arr'>s the reader's confidence. You know that th!s man ha? lived among and loved his char afte-xs. and his very enthusiasm fcrms haif the <-h;:iT.i In reading him. "Tho CiPSTZpby cf -a Grizzly" Is divided Into three part:--— "TheCubhood of Wabb." "The D;)ys ot H;:s Strength" and "The V.',->:,;r.K." Wa!;b's cttbbood Cloth; 75c.) F^ornarjce of Bagdad. A very interesting rr.mance of tho time of Harun Al Kaschul, in v.hich the Khalif plays an Imp'oriaiit part, iia.-^ been written by Kate A. Beaton and entitled J*Geber." Mrs. iienton has made the philosopher and scientist lieber the central :iguic »:• a story of the tragic tvents which marked the closing years of the reign of Harun. It seems sui prising that in this day of the vofiue of the historical novel there should have been overlooked f^r so long the wealth t>t material for a fascinating romance lurnlshtd by that naosj pictur esque and romantic of times— the guiucti age or' the Khalifate. •"GeLer" gives an excellent picture of the lite ana manners of the Hosle&a and contains a st^ry sufficiently t-ng-iging u> make- one loth to ;>ut aside un.- ooolc until it ;a uri-shed. ('"Getier," !)V Kate A. L>t:uoii. Frederick A. t, t uK.cs Co., New \eiiK; 41 m.} Cverheara by t^z B.oKworrrj. The Century Company announces for publication on April 2s a new novel by L»r. >vtulam Harry, atunoi of "i'lie Two Htaiiuaida.'" '.ilus romance is aaiii to be wholly different trom Father .Barry's prt vious work In characters, scene and i»iot. It Is named lor ltd nero, ' .vrUen .Uu^i ter." Kand, MeNairy & Co.. Chicago and New York, announce the pub.i«.u.iion atwui Aprii £0 of a new novel entitled "Bisnop Pendle," by Fergus Hume, author of •"lbe Mystery of a Hansom Cab," etc. Mr. Hume is widely known as a master ot stirring! ingenious plot that nrst ruis ltatls ar.il then surprises the reader, and of vigorous, picturesque Knglish. The London Globe records an extraor dinary Instance of absence of mind con cerning a popular book. A certain per son, needing a copy of Mr. Whiteings "No. 5 John Street," is said to have taken a cab to John street, AdelpbJ, to have rung the- bell at No. 5 and astonished the maul servant by asking for one whiting. This sounds like fiction, but it is declared to be a fact. When Columbus discovered America It occurred to others to go and do likewise. Now that Captain Joshua i-loeum has sailed alone around the world, and told much labor and expense— the best text of the play extant. In this volume Mr. Stead has gone a step further and thrown the play Into a narrative— novelized the drama. The result la one of the most vivid imaginative narratives of the last week of Christ's career that has ever been written. The book is published by Davis & Co.. Chicaso. In "Bird Lore" (the Macml'.lan Com pany) for April a new camera is described which, like a gun. may be firea the mo ment it ia sighted, an ingenious device enabling one to focus, after the slide has been drawn from the plate holder. The same magazine also contains bird calen dars for the spring month*, a paper on methds of bird study at CTellealey, an ac count of the manner in wMch egrets* plumes are obtained in Venezuela, a re nrrt from the Postmaster General in re rard to tho improper use of the maila by feather dealers and numerous illustra tions. ft "The Farmstead; the Making of the Rural Home and the Layout of tho Farm." is the title of a new volume in the Rural Science series, which will be published immediately by the Macmlllan Company. - The author. I. P. Roberts, director of the College of Agriculture. Cornell Lnl versity, explains how the gains from farming may be applied to tho making of comfortable and attractive homes. 11* does not hold out the bOJM that the farm is a theater on which to Lccumulato wealth; but rather that it Is a place upon v.hich one may secure a competence and live a happy life. In the great majority of cases, the f:irrner fails to f.nd happi ness because he do*"? not know how to • live. Professor Roberts discusses tho location cf the hou«e, the layout of the grounds, the details of construction of houses ar.d farm buildings, the planning •>f the- barns, the .< cheme of Bctda and fences, the f urnisliins anJ sanitation of the home. As far £s any book can this work will take the place cf an architect for rural buildir.s-f.-r Professor Robert 3 was himself ome a builder. It is a oook if advice for every one who lives on tho t:irm or who contemplates country life, ar.d is profusely Illustrated ar.d printed in large type. Professor Roberts' pre vious book i:i this name series was on "The Fertility of the Land." The contemplate. l purchase by the Brooklyn Art Institute of the Tissot paint ings gives special interest to the presenta tion of M. Tissbt'4 character and methods cf work in Cleveland Sloffett's Lt-nten lec turts. Mr. Moffett yper.t some weeks with Tls .«ot last summer at his home in Frince, and gained a better insight into this com pltx artlxt'fl nature than most of the Frenchman's admirers have obta-r.efi. T!ssot has been called a realist, and no doubt he pushes Ills paintings to almost photographic accuracy, but he is more than a rtaiist. h* is something very dif ferent from b realist, a seer of visions ar.d a cirearr.er ol dreams. Mr. MofTett reates several conversations in Which Tissot. With gravest conviction. acknowledges his indebtedness to a certain Sister Kathirine for tlata in various Kcnea of Christ's Hf^- For example, ct the time of the crucifixion it ts known that Mary stood somewhere betwem the crosa arid "the garden of Joseph of Arlmathea. Tradition says there were three terrace 1 * on the 1 ttle hill of Calvary. Dili she stand on the tirst of these, or on the second, or on the third? In the absence of all his torical knowledge on this point. Tissot ap peals confidently to Sister KaTherine. "Tell me. my sister," he said one day. "if Mary stood on tho third terrace, the one nearest to the garden?" "Oh no " said Sister Katherin**. cj'ilta confidently; "the Blessed Mother stood on the second terrace. Many, many times I have seen her there and watched with her to the end." All this quite simply from this holy f-u -tilC pood old snyins that "f:r.e applied to books, r.ever th,i3t on their way back from the usual lovers' walk of the "town— where the willows weep vt\d hearts ?to;i beating underneath cool, white marble names.". Cemetery is what it is usually called Again, "Slio is dressed in a billowy mass cf blue gra-.zinrss." This, it will be seen, neither ttirs the soul nor aids the dress maker. | The narrative Is not striking, the lines n;e net clever. And yet your theater man can tell you why the play has made a hit. lie will talk about settings and contrasts and climaxes and business. But we are discussing 'the;' book. (Life Publishing Company. 25 cents.) Mur>xipal Government. Bird S. Coler. Comptroller of the city of Xew York, has compiled a series of papers dealing with some of the salient features of iho administration of that city under its now chartor. Most of the chapters In the book were prepared orig inally .is articles for reviews or a3 lec tures. Consequently the work does not tive anything like a satisfactory account of the subject. Municipal administration is at the present time one of the most in teresting of political topics to the Ameri can peopie. and the experiment in thHt form of government which has been un dertaken in Greater New York is the most important venture which has yet jeen made in this country in solving the prob- ment for federation with our colonies, most of which are committed to protec tion." It is therefore as a contribution to an existing controversy rather than as a review of the controversies of tho past that the work has been written. Those who look to It for a comprehensive account of the great agitation in Kngland which resulted in the overthrow of the corn laws will be disappointed. It deals with that agitation, it is true, but the standpoint of the writer is that of a par- 1 tisan, and his purpose has clearly been that of refuting the arguments of the free fair traders who are now increasing in number in Great Britain rather than of composing a book which would be accept ed by all parties as a correct history of one of the most notable events of the Vic torian age. A slncle pasfage from one of the early speeches of Cobden will serve to show why free trade ha 3 been adopted by the British and why the corn laws were re pealed. Addressing the Commons, he said: "I am neither a Whig nor a Tory. I am a free trader. Under the corn laws the family of a. nobleman pays to the bread tax about one halfpenny on every 300 pounds of income, while the tax takes from the income of the family of a labor ing man about 20 per cent." Of course, a monstrous tax of that kind upon a neces sary of life could not be maintained In a free country, and it was repealed. Pro tection in the United States does not en tail a bread tax nor impose such unjust burdens upon tho laboring man. It Is, on the contrary; a benefit to him, since it builds, up industries which provide him witli work and wages. The wide difference which exists be tween the conditions of the United States and of Great Hritaln affords ample expla nation why a fiscal system. injurious m the one country can be advantageous to the other. Professor Armltage-Smith, however, is an intense partisan on the subject and undertakes to maintain thai free • trade is right everywhere, that all the nations of Europe and America are wrong and that Great Britain alone ha 3 the true light. Ho has made an Interest ing work and those who wish to go over again the old controversy that raged around the tariff issue in this cpuntry during the Cleveland administration will find the work worth reading. ("Tho Free York, is devoted to the history of official Washington. It contains excellent pic tures, in half tone, of the United States Senators now serving, the respected mem bers of the Supreme Court, a group photo graph of Mrs. McKinley surrounded by the "Ladles of the Cabinet," and specially posed pictures of the President and his Cabinet. In addition are given valuable and authentic biographical sketches and data of importance. The publishers have taken up a new and Interesting field, and from the superior results thus far at tained merit the success which will un doubtedly be theirs. Concerning Mexico. "Guide to Mexico" is the title of a bandy little text of some 12T pages from the pen of Christobal Hidalgo,. Besides a map and excellent photogravures illustra ting the character and life of the country, the book contains detailed information up on every point likely to be of valua to an Amorlcan contemplating a visit to Mex-co cither for business or pleasure. It com prises statistics, the agricultural re sources of the country, descriptions of its cities and railroads, possibilities of em ployment in different branches of labor, and points of interest for the sightseer— altogether a quite valuable and handy lit tle volume. (The Whitaker & Ray Com pany, San Francisco, $1.) •'Autobiography of a Cu^cK ' '.'The Autobiography of a Quack" is a psychological study of a man who is more rogue than quack in the common accepta tion of the term; for we do not usually symbolize by "quack" downright villainy, and Dr. Mitchell has taken for his subject the description of the character of one who is- the embodiment of degeneracy and whose life opposes the theory that envi ronment is able to overcome the evil en dowments of nature. Dr. Sandcraft. the quack, engages in practice of all kinds of nefarious work, sometimes led on by love of pain, and again Induced to gratify some passing, impulse.. His methods are all dishonest, and as they are employed by a clever man, who is mentally ami physically the opposite of weak, the sym pathies of the reader are not engaged in his behalf. Indeed, It la with a feel ing ot distrust, us well as of pleasure. Book AEVIEWS that on<> rises from a perusal of Dr. Mitchell's book— distaste on account of the unvaried rascality of the leading char ter and pleasure given by the skill of the author In clothing with interest the ex* plolts of even a precious rogue. In the same volume is the imaginary rnsc of Richard Dedloe, nr army surgeon, who loses his limbs in the war of the re bellion. V The case excited a grbat deal of atten tion and sympathy when the article ap peared in the Century, and a number of subscriptions were sent to the "Stump Hospital." It was then that Dr. Mltcheil confessed that ho had written up the case, not having Intended it to fall into the hands of the publishers, which it did through h friend. The descriptions of Dedloe's sensations aro painfully vivid. not only where he lose 3 his limbs, one by one, but after he has be come a "stump." The story Is not pleasant reading to one who. Is affected by horrible pictures, sticr* as could alone oomo from the pen of one who, like Dr. Mitchell, has been a lifetime in Katherins such data, but it la certainly fascinatingly weird. (The Century Com pany, New York: $1 25.) Guide to Paris." Laird & Lpe of Chicago have just issued an eighth edition of their Guide to Paris, which is to all purposes an entirely new book, to be known henceforth as "Lee's Standard Guide to Paris." This work was successful from the start, but in its present form it is undoubtedly the best guide of the size ever published on either side of the Atlantic. Its main new feature is a Eeries of twelve city routes, with dia grams, covering every possible point of interest in the great city, and giving crisp, accurate descriptions of all monu ments, public buildings, churches, the aters, museums, bridges, parks, etc. These routes have taken the experienced Paris ian author months of close study, as his ambition was to give the tourist a chance to see everything and miss nothing, while covering the ground in a minimum of time. A second novel feature introduced in the" book i 3 v short vocabulary of words and sentences in German and Italian that will prove most valuable to tourists visit ing Switzerland, Germany, Austria or Italy after or before their trip to Paris. THE SUNDAY CALL. th? wo.M how he did It, another hardy sailor has proclaimed his Intention of doing, or trying to do. the same thing. It would not be surprising if. before long, "ocean greyhounds" would have to steam at half-speed to avoid running down would-be Slocums, trying to circle the globe alone. Stanley Waterloo's new novel. "The Seekers," has called forth a striking tribute from Dr. Dowlc. This eminent preacher, who claims to have performed miraculous cures and holds crowds en thralled by his emphasis if not by his elo quence, says that "the hottest place in hell Is reserved for Stanley Waterloo." Mr. Waterloo has therefore abandoned his project of going to the war In t^e Transvaal; and is remaining in Chicago by way of fitting himself for so rloble a vocation. Frank K. Young. wllely known by his articles on the strategy of the Beer war. is the author of a series of books on chess playing, known as the' "Minor," "Major" 'and "Grand" tactics of chess. Mr. Young believes that the mathematics of chess and of war are identical, and that chess play and warfare differ only in matters of relatively minor detail. This idea he will bring out more clearly In a fourth volume. "Chess Strategy's Illus trated," which Little, Brown &. Co. pub lish next falL A timely novel, taking its plot and char acters from the "Oberammergau Passion Play"— ln fact containing almost the full text of the famous drama— will appear the latter part of April. It is called "The Crucifixion" and is written by the bril liant Kngllsh Journalist, AVUllam T. Stead. Great popularity la predicted for the book on account of the decennial per formance of the play occurring this sum mer. It was written In a most unusual manner. In ISOO Mr. Stead realized a long standing wish to see the "Oberammer gau Passion Play." He attended several performances of the drama and grew so enthusiastic over it that he secured— at woman, now worn with ago. ret trusting as ev-er In the absolute reality of these Christ pictures that have ccme to her all her life. EooKs Received. "The Redemption of David Corson," by Charles Frederic Goss. The Bowen-Mer ri!l Co.. Indianapolis. "Robert Tourny." by >William Sage. Houghton. MiiHin & Co., Boston and New York; $1 CO. "Chalmette." by Clinton Ross. J. B. LJp pincott Co.. Philadelphia. Paper: DO cents. "The Immortal Garland." by Anna Robeson Brown. D. Appleton