Editorials

Coal has gone up in price. Why? Because there is trouble in the mining-region.

The second edition of Christ My Refuge is published. It has been revised and re-arranged, and a piano accompaniment has been added.

This little book, by Sir H. Thompson, is republished, from The Nineteenth Century, by Cupples & Hurd.

From Cupples & Hurd comes this novel, in covers ornamented with flowers and leaves of terra-cotta, on a background of Nile green. It is written by Elisabeth Balch.

This is the subtitle of Bledisloe, an International Story, published by Cupples & Hurd, and written by Ada M. Trotter.

" And other stories of New England Life," is the second title of this handsome little volume, with a shore scene on the cover, printed by John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, and published by Little, Brown & Co. Only the initials C.

This is the pertinent title of a volume of poems by Hezekiah Butterworth, issued by the New England Publishing Co. The author prides himself on his Yankee birth and his good Puritan name, with its Bible ring.

A beautiful little volume is published by Crook, 30 Music Hall, Boston, with this name. The author is the Rev.

Of itself the New Year will make us no better than did the Old Year. The benefit of 1888 depends upon ourselves,—the thoughts which lead to deeds.

Having written of The Gates Ajar, and The Gates Beyond, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps now turns her attention to those between, —meaning, perhaps, those between this world and the next, — though there is some obscurity on this point. As a speculative fiction, her story has interest.