Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes, Lowell, and Emerson, are represented in this collection by poems with which every American boy and girl should be familiar. The volume, which has biographical sketches and notes by Mr. Scudder, was prepared in the interests of young people, to encourage in them a taste for the best literature. Evangeline, Snow-Bound, Sella, Grandmother's Story, The Vision of Sir Launfal, and The Adirondacks, are included in the contents. RELIGION AND ETHICS Hearing thy Master, or likewise the Preacher, wriggle not thyself, as seeming unable to contain thyself within thy skin.--_Youth's Behaviour. 1643._ HALE, E.E. How to Do It. Little. 1.00 Brimful of well-balanced advice on making life helpful and pleasant to those around us and to ourselves by the avoidance of common errors and the encouraging of agreeable virtues. The familiar friendly (p. 216) style renders this book, which could so easily be made dull, really delightful to young people. How to Talk, How to Go into Society, How to Travel, Life in Vacation, and Habits of Reading, are some of the chapter headings. SCIENCE, OUT-OF-DOOR BOOKS, AND STORIES OF ANIMALS To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime of wisdom. MILTON. ADAMS, J.H. Harper's Electricity Book for Boys. Harper. 1.75 A large part of this volume is somewhat beyond the grasp of the average boy of fourteen, and parents should look it over carefully before letting their children carry out the instructions, though we are told that "there need be no concern whatever as to possible danger if the book is read with reasonable intelligence. Mr. Adams has taken pains to place danger-signals wherever special precautions are advisable, and, as a father of boys who are constantly working with electricity in his laboratory, he may be relied upon as a safe and sure counsellor and guide." Directions are given for making, among other things, push-buttons, switches, annunciators, dynamos, simple telephones, and line and wireless telegraphs. There is a chapter on electroplating. At the (p. 217) end of the volume is an article explaining electric light, heat, power, and traction, by J.B. Baker, technical editor, United States Geological Survey; also a dictionary of electrical terms. Many working diagrams are included. BAILEY, F.M. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Houghton. 3.50