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China.

Travels and Investigations in the “Middle Kingdom”—­A Study of its Civilization and Possibilities. Together with an Account of the Boxer War, the Relief of the Legations, and the Re-establishment of Peace.  By JAMES HARRISON WILSON, A.M., LL.D., late Major-General United States Volunteers, and Brevet Major-General United States Army.  Third edition, revised throughout, enlarged, and reset. 12mo.  Cloth, $1.75.

General Wilson’s second visit to China and his recent active service in that country have afforded exceptional chances for a knowledge of present conditions and the possibilities of the future.  In the light of the information thus obtained at first hand in the country itself, General Wilson is enabled to write with a peculiar authoritativeness in this edition, which brings his study of China down to the present day.  In addition to the new chapters which have been added explaining the origin and development of the Boxer insurrection, the relief of the legations, and the outlook for the future, the author has revised his book throughout, and has added much valuable matter in the course of his narrative.  This book, which is therefore in many respects new, puts the reader in possession of a broad and comprehensive knowledge of Chinese affairs, and this includes the latest phases of the subject.  The practical and discriminating character of the author’s study of China will be appreciated more than ever at this time when practical questions relating to Chinese administration, commerce, and other matters of the first importance, are engaging so much attention.  This new edition is indispensable for any one who wishes a compact, authoritative presentation of the China of to-day.

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The Sun.

By C.A.  YOUNG, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Astronomy in Princeton University.  New and revised edition, with numerous Illustrations. 12mo.  Cloth, $2.00.

“‘The Sun’ is a book of facts and achievements, and not a discussion of theories, and it will be read and appreciated by all scientific students, and not by them alone.  Being written in untechnical language, it is equally adapted to a large class of educated readers not engaged in scientific pursuits.”—­Journal of Education, Boston.

The Story of the Sun.

By Sir ROBERT S. BALL, F.R.S., author of “An Atlas of Astronomy,” “The Cause of an Ice Age,” etc. 8vo.  Cloth, $5.00.

“Sir Robert Ball has the happy gift of making abstruse problems intelligible to the ‘wayfaring man’ by the aid of simple language and a few diagrams.  Science moves so fast that there was room for a volume which should enlighten the general leader on the present state of knowledge about solar phenomena, and that place the present treatise admirably fills.”—­London Chronicle.

An Atlas of Astronomy.