the Delegates of the Clarendon Press who hold the copyright in England, and the reprinting is without their consent. Regard for the property of others is presumably not a virtue in the eyes of persons interested in the history of religious thought, and ethical considerations may be expected to deter many who would otherwise wish to buy the excellently printed new edition.

The fifth volume in Bury's edition of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall' contains chapters XLV to LI inclusive, and a map of western Asia. The proof for the notes on chapters L and LI, Mohammed and his successors, has been read by Stanley Lane Poole; his name is a sufficient guarantee for the accuracy of the work. An excellent idea of Bury's editorial task can be obtained from chapter XLVIII, the history of the Byzantine Empire from 610 to 1204. the only chapter which Gibbon left without notes. To this the present editor supplies seventy-two annotations. Besides the valuable account of the sources, the following sections in the appendix are especially useful: periods of the later empire; Graeco-Roman law; the land question; interest, credit, and commerce; rise of the papal power in the eighth century; chronology of the Saracen conquest of Syria and Egypt. This edition is a "vade mecum" which no scholar can afford to neglect. (New York: The Macmillan Company.)

'Open Mints and Free Banking' by William Brougn contains a well-reasoned argument in favor of the application of the laissez-faire policy to monetary matters. He finds the reconciliation between the demands of extreme partisans of gold on the one hand and of silver on the other, in the introduction of free coinage for both metals coupled with the complete abandonment of a fixed legal ratio between them. This he believes will secure for the country a tolerably stable standard of value over long periods. The introduction of free banking, which he also advocates, will at the same time give our currency elasticity for short periods. Gold and silver are to be coined in exchange for bullion just as gold is now coined by our mints. All debts contracted prior to the enactment of the free coinage law are to be paid in gold. All debts contracted subsequently are payable in either metal unless otherwise specified in the contract. He does not anticipate that this will bring silver to a parity with gold at our present coinage ratio, but believes that no serious inconvenience would result from having a silver dollar worth only one-half or two-thirds a gold dollar. Different sections of the country and different branches of trade will choose the most convenient metal as their medium of exchange for local transactions. Silver will come into general use in the South and West while gold and paper will be most widely used in the East. The very simplicity of this proposal, which resembles closely Stokes's "joint metallism", is calculated to arouse the suspicion of the practical man. Will the advantages of such an arrangement outweigh the inconvenience of having the ratio between gold and silver coin constantly fluctuating? Will it not result in the introduction of a gold clause in all debt contracts rather than in the more extensive use of silver? These and other questions which suggest themselves seem hardly to have received adequate consideration from the author. (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.)

When a publication has entered on its thirty-fifth annual issue and has a world reputation, it has long passed beyond need of praise and become one of those institutions which we accept as an integral part of

life. "The Statesman's Year-Book' is of this na ture. Its latest issue for 1898 puts recent statistics and present day history at our disposal and wins an especial interest by new tables of the modern movement of trade and new maps of regions that, like Africa, require annual revision. The object of this publication is to inform the man of affairs, but we venture a suggestion for the benefit of the schools. In many places teachers are teaching antiquated statistics and antiquated political geography, in ac cordance with antiquated text-books. The purchase of a volume now and again of the 'Statesman's YearBook' would not only furnish authentic information but in its presentation of the economic and political world as it now is, it would afford genuine intellectual stimulus to teacher and pupil. (New York: The Macmillan Company.)

The Funk and Wagnalls Company in publishing their students' edition of the 'Standard Dictionary have done a service second only to that afforded by their monumental work. The abridgement is itself considerable in form and content-915 double column pages, including 62,000 words and phrases, and ap pendixes covering the same field of proper names, foreign phrases, etc., as its original. It follows the same popular plan of definition, and the same scientific system of phonetic transcription. The problem of an abridgement is, of course, a problem of excision, and we do not always agree with Mr. Fernald's judgment in his excisions. Yet on the whole, by virtue of copiousness of vocabulary and illustration and conciseness of definition, the Student's Standard Dictionary' has easily won the first place as a handy dictionary for school and desk use.

Among the useful school books received we note a very excellent Brief Italian Grammar' by the wellknown Professor Hjalmar Edgren, of Nebraska University. (New York: William R. Jenkins.)-Hachette and Company have issued in revised and enlarged form the First French Book' of Henri Bué, which every teacher of French favorably knows.-The same firm issues a manual of French and English 'Commercial Correspondence' by A. E. Ragon, indispensa ble to instructors of French who wish to teach the practical forms of business correspondence.-Ginn and Company publish a little volume by Charity Dye, "The Story-Teller's Art', which should be a genuine help to teachers of elementary literature and composition. Dealing with the primary literary interest of pupils the story-it aims by question and discussion to awaken interest also in the construction of plot, the development of character, the purpose of the novel, so that the reading of novels may have intellectual result and induce some measure of literary power in narrative composition.-The First Lessons in Linear Perspective' by Frederic R. Honey (Charles Scribner's Sons) succeeds in making easy the beginnings of perspective drawing.

The Northern Pacific Railway has just issued Wonderland, '98' by Olin D. Wheeler, a guide to the places of interest on its line, not without attraction to the general reader from its letter-press, its cover by Leyendecker, and its numerous illus trations. (St. Paul: Charles S. Lee, Northern Pacific Railway.)

Music Notes.*

Mr. Paur is to leave the Boston Symphony orchestra and Mr. Gericke to return to it after long absence. Bostonians, while appreciative of Mr. Paur, believe that the orchestra owes more to Mr. Gericke than to any other of its leaders. He was a severe drill-master who always knew what he wanted, and in the end got it. Mr. Walter Damrosch announces his withdrawal from various musical enterprises in order to devote himself to composition. Mr. George W. Chadwick, the composer, has been called to the head of the New England Conservatory. Mr. Chadwick is the conductor of the Springfield Festival Chorus which has just given a very good performance of Horatio Parker's St. Christopher'.

A notable concert was given at the Academy last month by Ysaye, Marteau, Gerhardy, and Lachaume. The programme included the Bach D Minor Concerto for two violins and Beethoven's lovely Serenade for violin, viola, and 'cello. For perfection of style we have heard nothing in years like the playing of these three great artists in the Serenade. And where will you find anything more refreshing and exquisite than that cycle of pieces? Without effort and with a childlike serenity, the Adagio and the Andante pour forth their lovely strains, and the March and Minuet dance gaily about. Great music is this, which we all ought to know. The opus number is 8 and it may be had in score for 25 cents (Payne Edition) or arranged for violin and piano.

It is an interesting sign of the growth of musical appreciation that the orchestras are receiving more and more attention from the public and the newspapers. Their success is a better test of our real love for music than the opera is and they do more to elevate public taste than any other agency we have. Horatio Parker's 'St. Christopher', a Dramatic Oratorio, had its first performance April 15 in Carnegie Hall, New York, by the Oratorio Society under Walter Damrosch's direction. The performance was uneven and showed insufficient preparation. The work is very interesting, particularly in the ecclesiastical portions, and reflects great credit on American music. Mr. Surette's dramatic ballad, "The Eve of St. Agnes', is to be performed this month in Pittsburgh, Pa., Long Island City, and High Bridge, N. J. Mr. Krehbiel contributes an article to the May 'Century' on 'The Beethoven Museum at Bonn'. He calls attention to the great value of Thayer's work in stripping off a mass of accumulated tradition and misinformation about the great composer and in creating this memorial of him. Alexander Thayer was from Boston, and practically his whole life was spent in the endeavor to put Beethoven before us as he was. He lived in Germany many years, poor and an invalid, but with this one purpose in his heart, which was almost fulfilled when death overtook him. Whenever one comes in contact with Beethoven, either through his music, or through the accounts of his life, one feels a sense of awe, as if in the presence of a being removed from common things, who drank deep of the bitter cup of life. How great he was, few of us realize even now: a Titan grimly battling with fate, too brave to falter, too noble to complain.

*The editor of this column will be glad to be of any service to students in the centres of the American Society for University Extension, or to other readers of The Citizen who may desire assistance in their reading or study of music. Address communications to the Editor, marked Music Notes.

With the Magazines.

Secretary Olney's address, the chief article of the last 'Atlantic', would have been striking and trenchant at any time, but the present crisis sharpens its edge. Mr. Olney deplores the international isolation of the United States, and makes the point that the views of Washington on this subject prove on examination to have a much narrower scope than the generally accepted opinions acknowledge. Washington's reason for his position was valid when our country was young and weak, but now that it has grown strong and prosperous an isolation that is nothing but a shirking of the responsibilities of high place and great power is simply ignominious. This number contains a notable quartette of poems, of which Henry Newbolt's 'Gillespie' will ring longest in the memory. The Reverend Lyman Abbott in the 'North American Review' deals with Mr. Olney's subject. We are, he says, beyond the question of avoiding entangling alliances. We are already entangled with all the nations of the globe by commerce, by race affiliations, and by popular and political sympathies. The ques tion that remains is whether we shall choose our fellowship intelligently, or drift. His vision is of Great Britain and America working together for the world's civilization. Miss Clara Barton's modest and moderate account of the Red Cross campaign in Cuba should be read with interest and the fact noted that both from the authorities and from the people she always received considerate and courteous treatment. Horatio S. Ruben, who is in a position to know, insists that the insurgents in Cuba have a real, if peripatetic government of President and Vice-President who, together with a government council, are vested with legislative rights. Mme. Blanc's charming autobiographical notes are collected in this number by Theodore Stanton. The 'Forum' contributes its quota to the all-absorbing topic in the shape of exSecretary Herbert's opinion concerning the lessons of the fifty million dollars' appropriation, and Brigadier General Lieber's stern declaration of the necessity of the absolute independence of the military system within its own province. Dr. John G. Bourinot states clearly that Canada has no wish to exchange her hardearned position in the United Empire for annexation to the United States, though willing to settle in a just and generous spirit all questions that may lead to controversy. The literary feature of the number is Wildenbruch's first paper on the evolution of the German drama.

"The Destroyers' which appears in 'McClure's', while not the most inspiring of Kipling's poems of action, is in just the nick of time to furnish suggestive phrases that could come from no other source: "The stripped hulls slinking through the gloom", and "the syren's whimpering shriek", are only equalled by "the doombolt in the darkness freed", and "the blindfold game of war".

Paul Lawrence Dunbar's first essay in novelwriting, which is the leading feature of 'Lippincott's', has many signs of promise: a certain unlovely aspect of religious life in provincial towns is portrayed with an accuracy which indicates personal experience. 'Scribner's' is largely made up of continued articles both light and serious; an exception is Miss Goodloe's lively account of undergraduate life at Wellesley, that college whose buildings, seen across the lake, can but suggest the 'Princess'. The Frost bicycle pictures are very enjoyable, showing as they do the delights of life in the open. Professor W. T. Hewitt's article on medieval university life in 'Harper's' leads the reader to wonder whether any ready-made university of modern times can ever at

tain the ripe perfection of those old foundations with their past of scrambling, heedless student life in which love of learning was all in all. The cover of the May 'Century' is adorned with a somewhat lurid representation of the enchanted mesa, that mysterious eyrie in New Mexico, which rises "more than four hundred feet from the centre of the valley like an isle of rock from a sea of sand." F. W. Hodge describes the ascent of this rock table and Fernand Lungren notes the life that was once on the mesa, with illustrations from his own drawings. Thomas Bailey Aldrich contributes a quaint little sketch which is withal a bit gruesome. It is not pleasant to think of the head of Henry Gray, Duke of Suffolk, as on exhibition at the trifling sum of two and six, but Mr. Aldrich makes this fact a thread on which to string a charming account of a London ramble.

The general excellence of the 'Gentleman's Magazine' is hardly appreciated in this country. The two last numbers have contained an admirable study of Shakspere's 'Tempest' as a record of contemporary theories and discoveries by J. W. Hales. There is a succession of entertaining articles on matters antiquarian, as for example in the May number some specimens of quaint advertising, for instance "A Man of Feeling recommends to the Humane and Charitable a Debtor now in Newgate", or a boarding school insists that "this is not a school for pride, folly, and extravagance, but for useful attainments." One might suggest that the short stories assume a more cheerful tone, for they are increasingly doleful, the present issue opening with a heartbreaking little sketch by Quinton Gordon, and containing a fragment from Mérimée, which may be an epitome of Corsica but which makes one rejoice that one's lot is cast elsewhere. In the 'Pall Mall Magazine' Charles Short's series on the capitals of Greater Britain is begun. When it ends we shall know more of those that join in Kipling's 'Song of the Cities'. This time it is Melbourne, its place "got between greed of gold and dread of drouth." There is always entertainment to be had for the reading in 'From a Cornish Window' in which A. T. Quiller-Couch discusses men and things in clever, desultory fashion.

The 'Contemporary' opens with the present collision between the old world and the new. The statement of the casus belli is clear and exact and the position of the anonymous writer is that now is the golden opportunity for an Anglo-Saxon entente which in its next stage would be an alliance for mutual defence M. Yves against the Continental military powers. of the French government Guyot's indictment for its conduct of the Dreyfus case is the more striking as coming from a man who bitterly laments

the fatal blunder of his own nation. Professor Seth in 'The Opinions of Friedrich Nietzsche' attempts to correlate that philosopher's ideas and to show their relation to the philosophy of Schopenhauer. Nietzsche started from the latter's principles but virtually discarded them all to combat pessimism, to hold up the ideal of freedom, not of the mass or of equality, but of the individual, to despise humility and the "morality of the herd" and to glorify power.

Joseph Prag writes of the actual success of Jewish colonies in Palestine, a subject which is also treated in 'Blackwood's' by Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Conder. Is Palestine destined to be a neutral country, a land consecrated by its past? Will Israel be set again in his border? There seems promise of it, and the enterprise, fostered by such a man as Baron Edmond de Rothschild seems to be managed with foresight and skill which promise well for the future. Arthur Symonds's study of Aubrey Beardsley in the 'Fortnightly', is a carefully balanced judgment of that strange career characterized by "the fatal speed of those who die young". There is truth in the crit

icism that although at times he attained pure beauty it is a diabolic beauty; the consciousness of sin is always there, but it is sin first transfigured by beauty, and then disclosed by beauty. Dr. Maurice de Fleury's article on a cure for indolence is almost startling owing to the novelty of its point of view. There is some satisfaction however in having one's old-fashioned laziness dignified as cerebral irregu larity! A pleasant description of Havana and the Havanese by Richard Davey and two articles from the American point of view by Fred J. Mathieson and G. H. D. Gossip, the latter an eloquent apologia, are articles bearing on the uppermost topic of dis cussion. To the same topic the 'Nineteenth Century' contributes a disquisition on neutrality in general and that of Great Britain in particular by John Macdonell, and a statement, with diagrams, of the world's armaments by H. W. Wilson. The personal recollections and anecdotes of E. Meissonier by the late Charles Yriarte will gratify the interest in gossip that lives in most of us.

The 'Quarterly' opens with a contrast between Pusey and Wildman called forth by Liddon's life of the former and that of the latter by Wilfred Ward. Liddon's work is characterized as the materials of a biography rather than the work itself, Ward's as recognizing the laws of literature and coming closer to their fulfillment. The influence of both these men on the religious thought of the day is carefully considered. The reviewer of "The Unpublished Letters of Napoleon' takes the ground that in his letters and papers a great man cannot fail to reveal himself; but what a revelation it is! Napoleon seems to have adhered literally to Machiavelli's maxims for the treatment of a conquered province. To one of his generals he writes "make a severe example, maintain an attitude of severity which will make you feared,

Shoot sixty people or so and take suitable measures." We are glad of the full information in this number about that "island bee of dulcet note", Bacchylides, whose simple belief in the sanctity of duty and the blessedness of contentment blow freshly across the centuries. A clear, comprehensive summary of the Dreyfus affair is rendered all the more valuable by fac-similes of the famous bordereau, and specimens of the handwriting of both Esterhazy and Dreyfus.

There is in the 'Edinburgh Review' a most discrim inating study of American novels. Its point is "to indicate how American writers use the art of fiction to Our novelists are portray American character. touched cleverly and with full knowledge. Mr. Howells is described as coping successfully with the problem of naturalism in its severest form, and saved by his "pervasive yet evasive humor", and Miss Wilkins's books as pervaded by an atmosphere of soap and water, yet ranking withal beside Mrs.

Gaskell's.

Notes and Announcements.

SUMMER SCHOOLS.

Doubtless many of our readers in forming plans for the summer are thinking not only of recreation but of self-improvement. The withdrawal of the summer session of the American Society for University Extension in the University of Pennsylvania will perhaps lead many of its students afield. To these a brief statement of the location and scope of some of the numerous Summer Schools may be of interest. Those whose faces turn to the north will find in Cornell University six weeks' opportunity for advanced work in many departments, with library and other privileges. Address, A. F. Weber, Ithaca, N. Y. The courses of the Harvard Summer School, whose duration is the same as the preceding, are numerous, furnishing instruction suitable both for advanced students as well as providing for those whose attainments are less. Laboratory and field work and a very attractive course in physical culture are special features. Aadress Professor N. S. Shaler, Cambridge, Mass. Those whose interest lies in the domain of science will turn to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where in addition to the work that might be expected there will be classes in French and German. Address, H. W. Tyler, Boston, Mass. Students who desire special preparation for entrance to college can find it at cool Seal Harbor, where ten weeks are devoted to careful tutoring. Address, Joseph Allen, 122 East Twenty-eighth street, New York City. Nearer home is the course offered at the State Normal School at Stroudsburg. During a three

weeks' session work is carried on with reference to the needs of teachers who wish to keep pace with the advance of their profession. This school has the advantage of a situation in the picturesque region of the Delaware Water Gap. Address, George P. Bible, East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa. At Collegeville the ordinary pleasures of a summer resort may be varied by attendance on the Ursinus Summer School which offers thorough instruction in college preparatory subjects with library and laboratory facilities. Address, Rev. Henry T. Spangler, Collegeville, Pa. The West Virginia University, situated in a beautiful country on the Monongahela river, holds session during a "summer quarter", hardly to be classed as a Summer School, for it is an integral part of the University year and all departments of the University will be open. Address President Jerome H. Raymond, Morgantown, W. Va. The Chautauqua work is too well known to need detailed notice. The usual courses are offered for the summer of 1898. Address W. A. Duncan, Chautauqua, N. Y. Farther afield there are the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Chicago with their full courses and wide opportunities. Address in each case the University.

SECOND CONFERENCE OF THE NEW JERSEY CENTRES OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.

The second annual conference of the New Jersey centres of the American Society for University Extension was held at the Friends' Academy, Moorestown, on May 7. After Mr. John S. Bioren had presented the minutes of the previous conference, held at Riverton September 23, 1897, Dr. N. Newlin Stokes, president of the local centre and chairman of the conference, introduced Mr. Charles A. Brinley, president of the American Society. Mr. Brinley spoke upon 'The Basis of Faith in the University Extension Idea,' dwelling on the advantages resulting to any community from the gathering together of its people in response to motives similar to those actuating the formation of an extension centre. He commented

upon the value and the limitations of popular education as it exists in the United States and on the sense of responsibility that should be felt by all who have enjoyed the advantages of higher study, and closed with a plea for the more general diffusion of knowledge.

The secretary then read the story of the growth, struggles, and successes of the Atlantic City centre, by Mrs. M. E. Shreve, its secretary. Mrs. Bernard Hilliard, of Salem, followed with an interesting paper upon the value of connected courses of study, showing that upon such a system depends one of the most vital aims of university extension. The Rev. R. Bowden Shepherd, president of the Riverton centre, considering the question from another point of view, spoke of the relatively small portion of the audience willing to undertake serious study, and the numerous opportunities existing in America for students to pursue special and advanced work, which made necessary some modification of the English extension methods before they can be applied here. In closing Mr. Shepherd incidentally cited a recent vote of members of the Riverton centre, as indicating that history and literature are the pre-eminently popular subjects of extension lectures. Considerable discussion followed from various speakers, including Mr. Brinley, Mr. Bioren, Mrs. Crane of Salem, Miss Venable of Marlton, Miss Gummere of Burlington, Miss Reeve of Camden.

Mr. John Nolen, secretary of the general society, addressed the conference on methods of advertising a course, illustrating his remarks with numerous exhibits of successful means. He referred to the book of circulars kept in the central office and held at the disposal of any local centre. "The person", he said, "who is delegated to prepare the circular of a centre should keep in mind that the chief function of university extension is to set the people studying or reading more seriously in connection with the lectures. Therefore, the circulars should have some reference to the essential books recommended by the lecturer, and to local library facilities." But all advertising, he concluded, was futile unless aided by the personal efforts of a small but energetic nucleus around which the work in every centre must develop.

Miss Mary R. Wilson, secretary of the Moorestown centre, gave the final address, upon the proper composition and various duties of a Local Executive Committee and its relation to the local secretary.

The remarks of the various speakers were well received by the convention, which included some seventy delegates and friends of the Extension movement, and considerable enthusiasm was manifested. This second convention of the centres in the state of New Jersey was gracefully concluded by a collation served by the members of the Moorestown centre.

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION IN GREAT BRITAIN.

It is only necessary to look over the schedules of lectures in the University Extension Journal' to be assured that in England the movement is living up to its past of educational work and showing signs which promise well for the future. The report of the Oxford delegates for 1896-97, the latest received, is a very encouraging document. It records a year of success and progress all along the line, in ordinary work, in Summer Meeting work, and at the Extension College at Reading. There have been more courses, more lectures, and, best of all, there has been a clearly marked tendency to arrange systematic courses of instruction throughout the winter from September to March. There were delivered 146 courses, comprising 1,086 lectures, an increase of 82 lectures over the preceding year. The statistics of the Oxford meeting last summer show

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a noticeable advance, especially in respect of the students remaining for the whole period. About 900 students were present. These meetings are creasingly regarded as opportunities for serious work, not merely for intellectual recreation of a more or less desultory nature.

The London Society for the Extension of University Teaching reported a very successful year's work for the session 1896-97. The number of courses delivered marked a considerable advance on that of any previous session. This was due, in some measure, to the great increase in the number of summer term courses, the natural result of the movement for greater continuity of study, which has been such an important feature in the work of this Society during the past five years. Summer term courses of

lectures are only given in centres where the work is in sequence and continuous throughout the session; and, as in many cases the students at one centre attend the summer term lectures at another, in order to complete the session's work, a very large proportion of the lectures given from term to term are In practically in definite sequence. over 70 per cent. of cases the courses given during the session of '96-97 were thus in sequence.

A comparison of the sessions of (i) 1895-6 and (ii) 1896-97 is afforded by the following details: number of courses (i) 148, (ii) 160; entries of students (i) 13,238, (ii) 14,150; certificates awarded (i) 1,906, (ii) 1,807.

Work among artisans has been vigorously undertaken by the Technical Education Board of the London County Council, and courses have been given at Bethnal Green, Poplar, Queen's Park, St. Pancras, Shoreditch (two courses), Walworth (two courses), and Wandsworth. These courses were attended by about 3,500 people, almost exclusively of the artisan class. The average attendance at each lecture was 387. In two of the districts regular extension centres were formed as the result of the lectures.

The Summer Meeting of the English Societies (Oxford, Cambridge, London) will this year be held in London and will have for its central idea the city itself, its history, literature, geography and arts. Life in London at various periods will be dealt with Several in association with representative men. lectures will be devoted to the poets who have lived in and sung of the metropolis. Lectures will be given by Sir John Evans, Sir Walter Besant, Sir Frederick Bridge, Sir Joshua Fitch, Mrs. J. R. Green, Miss Jane Harrison, Mrs. R. C. Phillimore, Professor Sully, Professor Sylvanus Thompson, Professor W. Ramsay, Professor Miall, Professor Skeat, Professor Hales, Mr. Earl Barnes, Mr. F. E. Beddard, Mr. Churton Collins, Mr. Findlay, Mr. Percival Gaskell, Mr. Gollancz, Mr. Frederic Harrison, the Rev. W. J. Loftie, Mr. Mackinder, Mr. Arnold Mitchell, Mr. Marriott, Mr. Owen Seaman, and Mr. Graham Wallas.

The Lord President of the Council and the Duchess of Devonshire will entertain members attending the meeting at a garden party at Devonshire House; the Bishop of London and Mrs. Creighton at a garden party at Fulham Palace; and the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress at a reception at the Mansion House. There will also be a conference; and a conversazione at University College, by kind permission of the Council. Sir John Lubbock, President of the Society, and the Council will receive the members of the meeting on the opening evening.

The movement of self-help among English students as regards books for students' use has taken definite shape, and there is now at work the University Extension Book Association whose object is to facilitate the exchange of books between centres, and to assist in the formation of local libraries for the use of students.

AUSTRIA.

The report of Extension Lectures delivered in connection with the University of Vienna notes that in 1896-97 sixty courses have been given (an increase of two). The Education Department makes an annual grant towards the work of about $3,000. Private subscriptions and fees swell the income to about $7,000. There were 7,465 auditors, of whom 1,907 were artisans. The lectures were delivered in the University, in the secondary schools, and in public halls of Vienna.

AUSTRALIA.

The report of university extension work done by the University of Melbourne during 1897 chronicles a distinct advance on the work of former years. The number of active local centres doubled within the

year and 19 courses of lectures were delivered, as against 11 in 1896; and the students enrolled increased from 1,156 to 2,039. The experiment of establishing in the city special centres for the study of subjects which could not command a sufficiently large audience at any one suburb met with great success. One special feature of the year's work was the extra meetings held at the Melbourne Public Library by Mr. Alex. Sutherland and the Rev. John Reid at which they met the members of the centres and displayed to them the books and mementoes in the library connected with their subjects. At the close of last year the usual "Extension Day" was celebrated at the University, and was attended by a large number of students. A similar celebration will be held at the close of this year, the Board recogniz ing the importance of thus keeping before the exten sion students the connection of the movement with the University.

The American Society for University Extension announces their engagement of Mr. G. C. Henderson, of Balliol College, Oxford. Mr. Henderson is said to be the best man Balliol has had for years; he is a splendid speaker, with two years' experience on the Oxford Extension staff. He will be available for lec turing in America during the winter term beginning January 3rd. His subjects are "The Puritan Revolu tion', 'The Crusades', 'Democracies, Past and Present', six lectures to each subject.

It is meet that thou, as a man born of woman, should have two minds about life: one, that to-mor row's sun shall be thy last, and another, that thou shalt live in wealth full fifty years: be righteous, therefore, and make merry: in all thy getting this is best.-Bacchylides.