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Their Wedding Journey.

By W. D HOWELLS. Holiday Edition. Fully illustrated by Clifford Carleton, and bound in very attractive style. Crown 8vo, $3.00. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by EDWARD FITZGERALD. With a Biography of Omar Khayyám, a biographical sketch of Mr. Fitzgerald, and 56 superb illustrations by Elihu Vedder. Popular Edition. Crown 8vo, $5.00.

The Last Leaf.

By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Popular Holiday Edition. With a touching prefatory letter by Dr. Holmes, and many illustrations by Hopkins Smith and Geo. Wharton Edwards. Crown 8vo, $1.50. The Story of a Bad Boy.

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Little Mr. Thimblefinger, and His Queer Country.

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Childhood in Literature and Art.

A book of high critical character, studying the meaning of the appearance and disappearance of childhood as a subject for story, poetry and art, in Greece, Rome, Judea, in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times. By HORACE E. SCUDDER, author of "Men and Letters." etc. Crown 8vo. $1.25.

Riverby.

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BIOGRAPHY.

Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier.

By SAMUEL T. PICKARD. With portraits and views. 2 vols., crown 8 vo, gilt top, $4.00.

A work which all lovers of Whittier will welcome with peculiar gratitude.

The Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Written by herself. With a portrait. 2 vols., crown 8 vo, $4.00.

Miss Cobbe is one of the most famous of living English women, and the story of her life is a book of extraordinary interest.

Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau.

Edited with an introduction and notes, by FRANK B. SANBORN Uniform with Riverside Edition of Thoreau's Works. With a full index. Crown 8vo, gilt top, $1.50. Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary.

A book of great interest about one of the noblest of American women, by REV. DANIEL D. ADDISON. With a portrait. 16mo, $1.25.

George William Curtis.

An appreciative and admirable account of this knightly man and great citizen, by EDWARD CARY, in American Men of Letters Series. With a portrait. 16mo, $1.25.

POETRY.

Unguarded Gates, and Other
Poems.

By T. B. ALDRICH. Crown 8vo, gilt top, $1.25

A beautiful book containing the poems written by Mr. Aldrich in the last six years. Whittier's Poetical Works.

Complete in a new Cambridge Edition With a biographical sketch, notes, index to titles and first lines, a portrait, and an engraving of Whittier's Amesbury home. Uniform with the Cambridge Longfellow. Crown 8vo, gi t top, $2.00; half calf, gilt top, $3.50.

Whittier's Poetical Works.

New Handy-volume Edition. In four beautiful volumes, large type, opaque paper, tasteful binding,. With four portraits, and a view of Whittier's Oak Knoll home. Uniform with the Handy-volume Longfellow. 4 vols., 16mo, $500; half calf extra, gilt top, $9.75.

The fall semester opened under the most favorable conditions for as fine an eleven as Michigan has ever had. Manager Charles Baird was particularly fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Macauley, tackle on Princeton's champion eleven of last year, as coach, and Mr. Keene Fitzpatrick, of Detroit M. A. A., as trainer. The work of both these enthusiasts can be seen in the practice of the team from day to day. At a mass meeting held last month great enthusiasm was shown by the students, and several hundred dollars was raised for the team. Thus, for the first time in the history of Michigan football, the manager was enabled to secure the necessary equipment for a first-class eleven. Lack of money has been the cry hitherto. Fortunately, this year sees the association with ample treasure in her strong box.

We must note one drawback, however, in that practice did not begin until the 1st of October, while hitherto a number of men have appeared by Sept. 15. This has caused a loss of valuable time, through no fault of the management, however, and its effects have been visible in the work of the team at times.

The material this season was exceptionally fine, especially the new, while of last year's eleven, Baird, Ferbert, Henninger, Smith, Senter, Villa, Dyer and Dygert, returned to college.

Orchard Lake played the first game of the season at the Field, Oct. 6. The Cadets, though light, had the advantage of longer training, and played a quick, snappy game. snappy game. Score, 12-12.

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The following games showed marked improvement, both in the work of the team and in the condition of the men. Scores: Michigan 26, Albion 10; Michigan 46, Adrian 0; Michigan 48, Olivet 0.

Oct. 20th a second game was played with the Cadets, who were defeated 40-6. The intervening two weeks' practice produced a brilliant effect in the work of Michigan. Team work was fair and play was faster. Here Michigan's traditional hard luck appeared for the first time in the injury of Capt. Baird, quarter back, and Villa, left tackle. The former has been unable to play for three weeks, but fortunately at present both are working with the team.

The first important game was played at Cleveland, Oct. 27, with the Case

Scientific School. Michigan won by a score of 18 to 8, but her work was ragged and unsatisfactory, owing doubtless to the absence of Capt. Baird.

But one week remained before the first Cornell game and the men were worked hard. "Billy" Malley, captain of the eleven in '91, was down during that time and rendered valuable service, particularly to the line men.

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Nov. 3d, at Ithaca, Cornell defeated the team 22-0. This was a pleasant surprise, notwithstanding the general feeling that Michigan would score. augured well for the Detroit game. Cornell has a light, active team, unable to touch Michigan's line, but making her gains between ends and tackles. On the other hand, Michigan gained wholly through the line by quick openings and bucking. Scarcely a yard was made around the ends. Her interference was wretched, the backs being slow and not running hard.

With three days' practice, the men left for Kansas City, where they defeated University of Kansas 22-12 on Nov. 10. This was a disappointment, for a larger score and shut-out was expected. The first half was a walk-over

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for Michigan, the score being 16-6. Kansas made a touch-down on a fluke. In the second, honors were even touch-down and goal for each. Kansas earned hers by hitting the line, especially at centre. The three centre men, whom no team up to this time could touch, were opened up time and again for good gains. The long trip from Ann Arbor to Kansas City undoubtedly had a depressing effect on the men, causing them to play a somewhat listless game.

Taking the work of the eleven to date, we can say: The tackling is good. The interference is poor. The line is strong, ends and center especially so. The backs are very good individually, but do not work together; are slow in starting, and do not run hard. Team work is poor. Of last year's men, Ferbert and Henninger alone are putting up their old game.

The last three games have disclosed the weak points, and the next two weeks will be used in strengthening them and in perfecting team play. Thus when Michigan meets Cornell in Detroit on the 24th no one doubts but that there will be a hard fought game, with Michigan doing herself proud.

The Graduate Club is an association of students in the Graduate School of the University. Its active membership consists of students regularly enrolled in the school, while all members of the faculty are considered honorary members. The reason of its being may be seen from the motives of those who initiated the society last year. It was felt by those interested in graduate work that there was need of some organization, or some central interest, which should bear an active relationship to the individual members of the Graduate School, and to the work and interests of the school at large. The Graduate School had nothing to correspond to the

class organizations of undergraduates or to the clubs which exist in the various departments of work for conference and for review of their special literature. The common intellectual bond among the students of this school was not explicitly recognized, there was little acquaintanceship among them, and little or no esprit de corps. The Graduate School stands distinctively for research work, investigation; its students aim to add something to the store of human knowledge. Each is a specialist, and as he dips deeply into his own subject there is too great a tendency to become isolated from his fellows. But for two reasons it was felt that in the Graduate