The Children of the Bible. By Fannie L. Armstrong. With an introduction by Frances E. Willard. New York: Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers. Price, $1. Outlines of Metaphysics. By Herman Lotze. Translated and edited by George T. Ladd. Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co. 1884. Appleton’s Chart Primer. By Rebecca D. Rickoff. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1885. The A B C Reader. By Sarah F. Buckalew and Margaret W. Wells. New York: A. Lovell & Co. The Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth. By Charles E. Lowry, A. M. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. 1884. Elements of Calculus. By James M. Taylor. Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co. 1884. Notes on Ingersoll. By the Rev. L. A. Lambert. Buffalo, N. Y.: Buffalo Catholic Publication Company. 1884. The Methodist Year Book for 1885. Edited by W. H. De Puy, D.D., LL. D. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. One Little Rebel. By Julia B. Smith. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. 1884 The Story of the Resurrection. By William H. Furness, D.D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1885. Square and Compass. By Oliver Optic. With illustrations. Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham. 1885. Friends in Feathers and Fur. For Young Folks. By James Johannot. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1885. SPECIAL NOTES. Among the many beautiful things which art and taste and money combined to furnish for the holidays nothing surpassed the Christmas cards of L. Prang & Co. In design, coloring and finish it is difficult to see how they could be improved. It will interest those of our readers who expect to visit the New Orleans Exposition to know that all Messrs. Prang & Co.’s former prize cards and the frames, with consecutive proofs of a reproduction, have been sent to the Massachusetts department at New Orleans by special invitation of the State Commission. The collection of prize designs recently exhibited in New York and Boston by Mr. L. Prang is now, by special invitation, shown in the Art Institute in Chicago, and, in response to a similar request made by the managers of the Museum of Fine Arts at St. Louis, this collection of paintings will be sent to that city later on. * * * * * The banquet of the C. L. S. C. Alumni, which was to have been in Boston in February, will be held at Lake View, Wednesday, July 22. The committee decided upon this change when it was found that Chancellor Vincent, Professors Hurlbut and Holmes, also Prof. Sherwin, could not be present in February. * * * * * Important to members of the Class of 1888. The first article on “How to make Home Beautiful,” which was published in _Alma Mater_ No. 2 last year, will be mailed to all members of the class of 1888, during the present year, 1884-5. We were unable to have this article reprinted in time to accompany _Alma Mater_ No. 3, which was sent last month to all members of the C. L. S. C.