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The illustrations are satisfactory.

MYERS, P.V.N.
General History.
Ginn. 1.50

One of the best world histories for young people.

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 Caesar.
Edited by W.J. Rolfe.
American Book. .56

The Tragedie of Julius Caesar 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 th