.... The poem opens about
the commencement of August, and concludes with the defeat of
Flodden, 9th September, 1513.--_Original Preface._

Marmion was first published in 1818. This edition has many notes by
Mr. Rolfe.

SCUDDER, H.E. (Editor).
American Poems.
Houghton. 1.00

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 tel