. Review of reviews and world's work. nal Series we have TheRecitation, being a series of lectures prepared for youngteachers by Dr. Samuel Hamilton, superintendent ofschools, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Mr. John Edward Russells Elementary Logic(Macmillan) is a condensed restatement of the regulartext-book material on logic, with certain changes andomissions in method found desirable by Mr. Russellslong experience as a teacher. LITERATURE, ART, AND THE DRAMA. Francis Wilsons Jose[)li Jefferson () ismore a collection of reminiscences of a fellow-actorthan a biography. In fact, in
. Review of reviews and world's work. nal Series we have TheRecitation, being a series of lectures prepared for youngteachers by Dr. Samuel Hamilton, superintendent ofschools, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Mr. John Edward Russells Elementary Logic(Macmillan) is a condensed restatement of the regulartext-book material on logic, with certain changes andomissions in method found desirable by Mr. Russellslong experience as a teacher. LITERATURE, ART, AND THE DRAMA. Francis Wilsons Jose[)li Jefferson () ismore a collection of reminiscences of a fellow-actorthan a biography. In fact, in his preface Mr. Wilsondeclares tliat Jeffersons own autobiography and Wil-liam Winters biographical study have said the lastword in their respective fields. He (Wilson) has aimedmerely to set down the remembrances, mostljanec-dotal, which were mine over a number of years in con-nection with the subject of this sketch. The volumeis packed full of story, incident, and picturesque de-scription, and the text is garnished with a number of. PHOFESSOK .J. BUTLER UUlUvK. very interesting pictiires, many of them snap-shot pho-tographs of famous people, by equally famous people,in all sorts of unconventional attitudes and circum-stances. The spirit of the genial Jefferson pervadesthe entire volume, and it is really the loving tribute ofone actor to another who had been his mentor and idealthrough life. To me, says !\Ir. Wilson, Jeffersons namewas the synonym of all tliat was best, and highest inour profession. It is worth noting, he says, in conclu-sion, that the creator of Rip Van Winkle died onShakespearis birthday. Dr. Paul Cams, editor of the Open Court, has col- OTHER NEIV BOOKS. 767 lected, edited, and published a Portfolio of BuddhistArt. These are a series of half-tone reproductions ofrepresentative historical and modern Buddhist monu-ments and famous paintings of Buddhist are thirty-one plates, a number of paintingsrepresented being bj Eduard Biedermann. The liter
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