Thurber's Macaulay.

Hon. W. T. Harris, Commissioner of Education, Washington, D.C.: Permit me to thank you for the copy of the new book containing select essays of Macaulay, together with notes and interesting appendix, and to congratulate you on the good taste and the fine literary sense with which the work is edited. The introduction, although short, contains some of the best things to aid the teacher of literature.

W. C. Collar, Head-Master of Latin School, Roxbury, Mass.: I thank you for sending me "Select Essays of Macaulay." I am glad to have been tempted to read over once more these most delightful essays, and the novel mode of editing has interested me very much. The introduction is excellent in matter and in manner, and the notes are of the right sort. I hope nobody hereafter will have the hardihood to edit books of English literature, for use as school text-books, in the way that we have been accustomed to. I shall introduce the book at once into my school for reading in my first class.

E. H. Russell, Principal of the State Normal School, Worcester, Mass.: The introduction is excellent, and strikes a high note in the matter of reading English classics in the schools; the notes, if anything, surpass the introduction in dignity, reserve, and pedagogical sense. The whole thing is a model of intelligence and skill in book-making.

Leigh R. Hunt, Principal of High School, Troy, N.Y. I agree with Mr. Thurber's views as set forth in the introduction. Possibly his sound philosophy will do as much good in its way as the essays that follow it.

The purpose of this selection is to interest young students in Addison as a moral teacher, a painter of character, a humorist, and as a writer of elegant English. Hence the editor has aimed to bring together such papers from the Spectator, the Tatler, the Guardian, and the Freeholder as will prove most readable to youth of high-school age, and at the same time give something like an adequate idea of the richness of Addison's vein. The De Coverley papers are of course all included. Papers describing eighteenth-century life and manners, especially such as best exhibit the writer in his mood of playful satire, have been drawn upon as peculiarly illustrating the Addisonian humor. The tales and allegories, as well as the graver moralizings, have due representation, and the beautiful hymns are all given.

By omission of the least essential parts of the selected papers it has been possible to print, in 226 pages, seventy choice specimens of the writings of Addison, including sufficient representatives of the work of his co-laborers, Steele and Budgell. Passages lacking in refinement of language according to modern standards have been carefully omitted.

Trusting to his own experience as a teacher, the editor has deemed it wise somewhat to shorten the essay of Macaulay. This he has effected by the omission of passages somewhat episodic or discursive in their character, in which the essayist displays his historical erudition, but in which he cannot profitably be followed by immature readers.

Allyn & Bacon, Boston and Chicago. II

Principles of Success

in Literature.

By George Henry Lewes.

Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Fred N. Scott.

12mo. Price, 50 cents.

The object of reprinting this admirable little treatise on literature is to make it available for classes in rhetoric and literary criticism. Scarcely any other work will be found so thoroughly sound in principles and at the same time so suggestive and inspiring.

The value of the present edition is greatly increased by the excellent introduction by Professor Scott, and by a full index, which adds much to its convenience.

DeQuincey's Essay on Style, Rhetoric, and Language.

Edited by F. N. Scott.

12mo. Price, 60 cents.

The introduction and notes are intended to reinforce, not to forestall, the researches of the student.

Spencer's Philosophy of Style

and

Wright's Essay on Style.

Edited by F. N. Scott.

12mo. Price, 45 cents.

This book is designed for the use of such pupils as have previously learned the substance of the rules which it contains. It does not aim to give all the principles of the language, but emphasizes those which are most frequently violated. It will be warmly welcomed by those teachers who are endeavoring in a practical way to teach their pupils the use of correct English. It contains, in brief form, rules for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and the more important principles of grammar and rhetoric. Abundant exercises for practice are given, and these are arranged on pages with wide margin, so that the work of correction can be done with the least expenditure of time and labor.

J. G. Crosswell, Principal of the Brearley School, New York City: I have examined Gay's Drill Book in English, and have ordered it at once. It is a very valuable addition to the apparatus of the teacher. L. C. Hull, Lawrenceville School, N.J.: It impresses me as an admirable little manual.

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From Milton to Tennyson.

Masterpieces of English Poetry, selected and edited for High Schools.

By L. DuPont Syle, M.A. (Yale), Instructor in English, University of California. 12mo, cloth, 480 pages, $1.00.

In this work the editor has endeavored to bring together within the compass of a moderate-sized volume as much narrative, descriptive, and lyric verse as a student may reasonably be required to read critically for entrance to college. From the the eighteen poets represented, only such masterpieces have been selected as are within the range of the understanding and sympathy of the high-school student. Each masterpiece is given complete, except, for pedagogical reasons, in the cases of Thomson, Cowper, Byron, and Browning.

The text of the selections will occupy about three hundred pages, and the notes about one hundred and sixty pages.

The following poets are represented: Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Johnson, Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Clough, Matthew Arnold, Browning, Tennyson.

Prof. Henry A. Beers, Yale University. - The notes are helpful and suggestive. What is more and what is unusual in text-book annotations they are interesting and make very good reading; not at all schoolmasterish, but really literary in their taste and discernment of nice points.