In  A  Wanderer^s  Legend,  Maxwell  Somerville,  Professor  of  Glyptology
in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  brings  the  Wandering  Jew  before  the
ecclesiastical  conclave  at  Nuremburg,  in  1529,  and  has  him  entertain  and
instruct  that  reverend  body  during  many  days  with  a  relation  of  his


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travels.  It  contains  a  large  and  scrappy  assortment  of  information.
Drexel  Biddle,  Philadelphia.
Marg-aret  Doyle  Jackson's  Daughter  of  the  Pit  is  an  interesting  study  of
life  in  a  manufacturing  and  coal-mining  town  of  Bngland.  Its  sombreness
is  relieved  by  the  arrival  of  the  Fairy  Prince,  disguised  as  the  young
American  inventor  of  a  coal-cutting  machine.  In  due  course  he  wins  and
rewards  his  Cinderella — ^a  collier's  daughter  who  is  serving  as  "pupil-
teacher  "  under  a  harsh  mistress.    Houghton,  Mifflin  A  Co.,  Boston.    91.50.
•  The  Story  of  Siena  falls  nothing  short  of  the  high  standard  already
established  for  the  *'  Series  of  M^iaeval  Towns."  Eklmund  G-.  Gardner
has  well  carried  out  his  intention  to  make  of  the  book  not  only  a  history,
but  a  guide-book  to  *'  that  most  fascinating  of  Tuscan  cities  and  its  neigh-
borhood." The  illustrations  are  notably  good  and  well  selected.  J.  M.
Dent  &  Co.,  I/ondon  ;  the  Macmillan  Co.,  New  York.    $3  net.
The  characters  in  Arnold  Bennett's  Anna  of  the  Five  Towns  are  well
drawn,  and  worth  getting  acquainted  with,  and  the  story  is  wholesome  in
spite  of  its  bankruptcy  and  two  suicides.  The  scene  is  a  pottery-manufac-
turing neighborhood  in  lOngland,  and  the  centre  of  the  stage  is  generally
held  by  the  daughter  of  a  wealthy  miser,  who  is  prominent  in  the  affairs  of
the  Wesleyan  church.     McClure,  Phillips  A  Co.,  New  York.    $1.50.
