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The article presents information about various books along with their publication. Macmillan & Co. have nearly ready "In Cairo," by William Morton Fullerton, illustrated by Percy Anderson. Victor Tissot's "Unknown Switzerland" has got so far on the road to being a classic that it has reached if not passed its twelfth edition. Joseph Poole's "Practical Telephone Handbook and Guide to the Telephonic Exchange" may be said to give the essentials of telephony as now practiced. It contains a large number of illustrations and is brought down to a very recent date as regards forms of apparatus.

The article presents information regarding books to be published. "Facts About Bookworms, Their History in Literature and Work in Libraries," is the title of a work, both literary and scientific, by J.F. O'Conor, and will be published in the press of Francis P. Harper. D. Appleton & Co. will shortly publish "The Broom of the War God," by H.N. Brailsford. Doubleday & McClure Co. are nearly ready to publish "The Science of Political Economy," Henry George's posthumous work. Peter Paul Book Co. has announced the publication of "Daydreams of a Doctor," by C. Barlow.

This article presents information about various novels. The book "An Earthly Paragon," by Eva Wilder McGlasson, presents a story of Casey County, Kentucky. The dismalness of the Knob country and the benighted manners and customs of Chamouni, Kentucky, are depicted in the book with rare skill. In all the range of Russian literature, there is no work of fiction which so perfectly depicts the life and spirit in the old Tzardom of Muscovy as the book "Prince Serebryani," by Count Alexis Tolstoi, and translated by Jeremiah Curtin.

The article presents information books and publishing. B. Westermann & Co, will have ready in September the third volume of the translation of the book "Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages." The fourth and concluding volume, with a full text, will be issued the following year. Ginn & Co have announced for publication "Analytics of English Prose and Poetry," by L.A. Sherman of the University of Nebraska. An elementary text-book and a higher "Treatise," on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by Edward A. Browser of Rutgers College, are in the press of D.C. Health & Co.

The tiara of Saitapharnes and the gorgeous necklace purchased together with it--for the large sum of 200,000 francs--have become a favorite topic of conversation. The tiara of Saitapharnes first belonged to a dealer at Otchakoff, a place between Odessa and Kherson. The author states that he believes the tiara went to Lemberg and was offered there for sale before it was carried to Vienna, where it still was at the beginning of the current year. There is not one argument in his article that will bear being tested, and several assertions in it are serious blunders, which will have been duly exposed by the time this article appears.

On July 13, the U.S. Senator John O. Pastore, as chairman of a subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, was scheduled to hold hearings on the agreements under which nuclear-weapons information and material would be transferred to seven countries: West Germany, Greece, Turkey, Netherlands, France, Canada and Great Britain. It should be pointed out that the agreements go into effect within sixty days unless both the Senate and the House vote specifically to reject them within that period.