In the present issue the book contains several fresh chapters, an entirely new series of colored maps, many new illustrations, and carefully selected lists of books for further reading at the end of each chapter, together with suggested topics for special study. The new text brings the narration of events down to the Peace of Portsmouth and the elections to the first Russian Parliament, and aims to include all the latest important results of discovery and scholarly research in the different historical fields and periods.--_Preface._ NICOLAY, HELEN. (p. 204) The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln. Century. 1.50 This biography, condensed from Nicolay and Hay's Short Life of Lincoln, in part rewritten, is the best of the many prepared for young readers. VAN BERGEN, ROBERT. The Story of Russia. American Book. .65 The compiler knows of no altogether satisfactory history of this country for young people. The present volume, prepared for school use, is very informing and will serve. It ends with the humiliation of a great people, and the Treaty of Peace made at Portsmouth in 1905. There are maps and illustrations. WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Rules of Conduct, Diary of Adventure, Letters, and Farewell Addresses. Houghton. .25 Comprises the best of what Washington has left to us in written form. DRAMA Then to the well-trod stage anon, If _Jonsons_ learned Sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespear fancies childe, Warble his native Wood-notes wilde. MILTON SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Julius Cæsar. Edited by W.J. Rolfe. American Book. .56 The Tragedie of Julius Cæsar was first published in the (p. 205) Folio of 1623.... The date at which the drama was written has been variously fixed by the critics.... Halliwell has shown that it was written "in or before the year 1601." ... The only source from which Shakespeare appears to have derived his materials was Sir Thomas North's version of Plutarch's Lives.... Shakespeare has in this play and elsewhere shown the same penetration into political character and the springs of public events as into those of every-day life.--_Introduction._ The merit I see in Mr. Rolfe's school editions of Shakspere's Plays over those most widely used in England is that Mr. Rolfe edits the plays as works of a poet, and not only as productions in Tudor English. F.J. FURNIVALL. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Macbeth. Edited by W.J. Rolfe. American Book. .56