Books by Harvard Professors.

The first volume of Macmillan's French Classics, edited by Professor de Sumichrast, is announced by the publishers. It is "Nicomede, Tragedie par Pierre Corneille," with notes by J. A. Harrison of the University of Virginia.

The same house will shortly issue the third volume of its "American History Told by Contemporaries," which has been written by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart. It treats of the period of National Expansion, 1783 1845, embracing the consideration of the foundation and development of the Federal Constitution, the events following the War of 1812, and the early history of the slavery troubles.