C-Books for the Young.

ALGER, HORATIO, jr. Helping himself; or, Grant Thornton's ambition. Porter & C. 16° (Atlantic ser.) $1.25.

Grant Thornton, a country minister's fifteenyear old son, suddenly becomes aware that his father has run in debt for the necessaries of life. He leaves home, goes to New York City, finds employment with a Wall Street financier, and has a year of unbroken success, making many friends and helping others in many directions. This author always encourages boys to do their best.

BAKER, ELLA M. Put in his thumb and pulled out a plum; stories for a Christmas pie. Lothrop. 12° $1.25.

A little girl poor in pocket but rich in a fine generous nature is enabled one Christmas eve to do a service to a rich family; she injures herself in attempting to rescue a painting from a burning room, and she is nursed by them and petted back to health. She is bright and clever, suggesting many Christmas games, out of which grow a series of Christmas stories. They are six or seven in number, and adapted to very young children.

BOLTON, SARAH K. Lives of girls who became famous. Crowell. pors. 12° $1.50.

"The subjects of these interesting sketches are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lucretia Mott, Mary A. Livermore, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Maria Mitchell, Louisa M. Alcott, Mary Lyon, Harriet G. Hosmer, Madame de Staël, Rosa Bonheur, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, Florence Nightingale, Lady Brassey, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and Jean Ingelow. Each biography is accompanied by a portrait. Mrs. Bolton writes simply, directly, and with excellent sense. Her book is excellent for popular circulation. It is the companion volume of the 'Poor boys who became famous.' -Boston Beacon. CRAKE, Rev. A. D. The House of Walderne a tale of the cloister and the forest in the days of the barons' wars. Young. 16 SI.

To write the historical novel acceptably is no easy task, but in the House of Walderne' Mr. Crake has been more than usually successful. In this tale of the cloister and the forest he has dealt with the days of the barons' wars, and the great Simon de Montfort is one of his conspicuous figures. The book has two heroes, one representing the noblest side of the chivalry of the age, and the other the gentler profession of the Church. Every page bears testimony to careful historical research, and Mr. Crake may be congratulated on having produced a very interesting story."-London Academy.

CUNNINGHAM, J. A. Light on the mysteries of nature and the Bible; in the form of letters to our children. V. 1. Standard Pub. Co. 16 $1.

A series of letters to children, in which a father aims to explain, in simple language, the creation of the world. Succeeding volumes will carry the young people through the Old Testament.

EWING, JULIANA. HORATIA. Mary's meadow and letters from a little garden, il. by Gordon Browne. Young. 8° 30 c.

In 1883 Mrs. Ewing went to live at Villa Ponente, Taunton, where she reverted to a favorite pursuit of her girlhood-the practical cultivation of flowershence the origin of Mary's meadow." It was her last serial story, published in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1883-1884, and was followed by "Letter from a little garden," which Mrs. Ewing's death left unfinished. The chief charm of the book is the blending of humor and pathos when Mary tells how she, with her brothers and sisters, made their "Earthly paradise," a game in which each child assumed a character, and dressed to suit the

part. Chris creates much amusement by quaint sayings and his conception of the part Hose in hose." FOREIGN facts and fancies. Lothrop. 12 $1.25.

A series of articles written for young people, descriptive of foreign life. They are entitled: Child-life in Venice, by Annie Sawyer Downs; Footprints in the snow, by Charlotte S. Fursdon; Fourth of July in the Rue Petit Jean, by Mary Gay Humphreys; An international episode, by Culling Clive Eardley; The jackdaws of Kenilworth, by Rose G. Kingsley; Hermaunus Contractus, by Rev. S. W. Duffield, D.D.; A worthy nine, by Arthur Gilman; A dahabeeah-wreck on the Nile, by Julian B. Arnold; A school in the Faroe Islands, by David Ker; The Princess Beatrice, by Lucy C. Lillie; Our royal neighbors at Sandringham, by Mrs. Raymond Blathwayte; An Argentine independence day, by Arthur F. J. Crandall; The Alps and their avalanche, by C. E. Andrews. GERALDINE, [pseud.] Gracie and Uncle Alex; or, pleasures regulated by the laws of health: a hygienic story. Murray Hill Pub. Co. 16° pap., 10 C. Gives, in the form of a story, hygienic information for young people.

GRAVES, ALIDA W. My pearl. Carter. 12 $1.25.

Agnes Spencer was wont to speak of the Sabbath day as my pearl, because she thought it the most precious jewel in the seven days of the week; Agnes used this simile while talking with her cousin Henry, whose misspent Sundays she called lost pearls; the story throughout expounds the author's theory on the subject, and aims to teach how essential it is to observe the command, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."

JAK, [pseud.] The Riverside museum. Crowell. 12° $1.25.

"The author who writes under this pseudonym has already produced several excellent books for young people. The present volume is a sequel to 'Birchwood,' of which we spoke in commendatory terms some time ago. It combines happily the elements of instruction and entertainment, and it will be found particularly pleasing to boys who have an incipient taste for natural history. The boy characters in the story are fortunate enough to have given them the use of an old vacant house on condition that it should be used, not as a mere playhouse, but as, in some way, a means of improvement. In it they established a museum of natural objects and a library, and made of it a sort of young folks' club-house."-Christian Union.

KER, D. Into unknown seas; or, the cruise of two sailor-boys. Harper. 16° (Harper's young people ser.) $1.

"One of the invaluable Young people's series, of which we have often spoken with praise. The tale is exciting without falling into the error of excess and the demoralizing influences of the sensational. It is neatly printed and illustrated, and its good and wholesome style makes it admirable reading for those to whom it is addressed."-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

LAMB, C., and Mary. Contes tirés de Shakespeare; d'après l'Anglais de Charles et Mary Lamb, par T. T. Timayenis. Scribner. 16° hf. cl., net, $1. The charming "Tales from Shakespeare" of Charles and Mary Lamb are here presented in a French translation for the use of schools or French students. The translation is free and easily read, the translator, M. T. T. Timayenis, being the author of a number of popular books, and the director of the New York School of Languages. A sketch of the life of the dramatist, by Prof. Alfred M. Cotte, is prefixed. RAND, E. A. Up-the-ladder-club series: Round five, manhood; out of the breakers. N. Y., Phillips & Hunt, 1886. 336 p. D. cl., $1.25.

LITERARY MISCELLANY.

UNCHOSEN.

Still stings one bitter moment
When-in that mystic land

Where, waiting Fate's dread summons,
The unborn spirits stand-

Genius walked grand among us,

Her own to signify;

And while I thrilled with yearning,
Smiled on me, but passed by!

-From Berries of the Brier.”

THE POET-UPHOLSTERER.—“ Mr. William Morris, one of the most imaginative of poets, is also," says Queries, "one of the most practical of upholsterers. He does not only attend to his own weaving, studying textures and making new combinations; he also prepares his own dyes with a thoroughness that sends him through London streets one day with olive green hands and the next day with hands of pale blue. The designs for his beautiful paper-hangings, too, he draws upon the blocks himself. There is, indeed, not one part of those industries which he is not practically and thoroughly accomplished in."

THE BAY PSALM-BOOK." The late James Lenox, the founder of the great library in New York which bears his name, had for years wished to procure a perfect copy of the Bay Psalm-Book,' the first book printed in America. His agent in London, Mr. Henry Stevens, knew of only one copy, and that was in the Bodleian, at Oxford. One day, however," says the London Literary World, "Mr. Stevens, at a public sale in London, came upon a bundle of black-letter psalmbooks, in which was the invaluable volume he so much wanted. The lot was knocked down to him for nineteen shillings and as he instantly seized the volume he was asked what rarity he had got. 'Oh, nothing,' replied Stevens, but the first English book printed in America; and then he added: I am now fully rewarded for my long and silent hunt of seven years.' Some time afterwards he bought a complete library for £2000, chiefly to obtain a second copy of the same psalm-book. It was offered to the British Museum for £150 and declined, and was afterward sold in America for £250."

CURFEW SHALL NOT RING TO-NIGHT.-" There is perhaps not one person in a hundred but is familiar with the poem, Curfew Shall not Ring To-night,' and yet there is not one of the hundred," thinks the N. Y. Star, "who can tell the name of the author. The poem was written nineteen years ago by Rose Hartwick, a Michigan girl, but did not find its way into print for three years afterward. The author was not pleased with her own production, and withheld it from publication. It was her first effort, and was laid away until one day, in an extremity to fulfil an engagement to furnish the Detroit Commercial Adveriser with a certain amount of copy each week, and not having anything on hand when the demand was made for it, she took the manuscript down from its dusty shelf and sent it to the publisher with instructions to put it in the waste-basket if he didn't think it worth publishing. It was published, however, and in less than a week was copied into all the leading dailies in the country. Miss Hartwick has since married a Mr. Thorp, and now lives at Grand Rapids. On a recent visit to Chicago the Tribune said of her: 'She is bright and entertaining in manner, and by no means shows her five and thirty years. She has never written anything of note except her "Curfew," but derives quite an income from her children's stories, which she is writing with some success.'

WORDSWORTH AND HIS SISTER DOROTHY.-From the day she was reunited to her beloved brother, her one thought had been how best to foster and develop his genius. She herself had, as is admitted by men well able to judge, genius enough to raise her to a high place in literature, yet she quietly resigned all thought

of distinction for herself, and devoted her life to smoothing his path. She lived with him in a spiritual union as close as that of man and wife, and worked for him like a servant of the good old-fashioned sort. She tramped along dirty highways, scaled rough fell sides, and thought nothing of walking twenty miles at a stretch, and yet she found time to keep pace with him in his mental excursions too. As a writer in Blackwood says: "This union was so close, that in many instances it becomes difficult to discern which is the brother and which the sister. She was part not only of his life, but of his imagination. He saw by her, felt through her, at her touch the strings of the instrument began to thrill, the great melodies awoke. Her journals are Wordsworth in prose, just as his poems are Dorothy in verse." One of the prettiest bits in her journals is the description of a birch tree : As we went along we were stopped at once, at a distance of, perhaps, fifty yards from our favorite birch tree. It was yielding to a gest of wind, with all its tender twigs; the sun shone upon it, and it glanced in the wind like a flying sunshiny shower. It was a tree in shape, with stem and branches, but it was like a spirit of water." Lockhart says of these journals: "Few poets ever lived who could have written a description so simple and original, so vivid and picturesque. Her words are scenes and something more."-Athenæum.

BRET HARTE'S METHODS.-Of Bret Harte's methods of work The London World says that his desk is a model of neatness; he prefers note-paper to foolscap; he would rather write a page a second time than send it with an erasure or an interlineation; the works of his favorite poets are always within reach, and among them Longfellow usually occupies the most prominent place. He knows the literature of the day, and works of fiction are to be found in his room. is fond of a cigar, and smokes often when writing.

He

THE COLD BATH IN MODERN LITERATURE.-"There is perhaps no feature more distinctive of the novel of to-day," says Life, "as distinguished from that of the past, or that of even twenty years ago, than the general use of the cold morning bath as a leading incident. King Richard probably had not a single tub with him. when he went to Palestine, and even the beaux of the last century do not seem to have paid much attention to their sponge and towel; now, however, no respectable novel can do without it., Ouida's heroes emerge from it splashing like great Newfoundland dogs; in 'Guerndale' they take a unique and entertaining variety of morning bath in a muddy stream in New Mexico; and even Mr. Howells's minister, in his new story, is alleged to have taken a bath before his breakfast. Mr. Howells having used it, the artistic value of the morning bath is established beyond question; but there are certain considerations in connection with its introduction into literature which should not be lightly passed over. If his morning bath is to be mentioned, it is only fair to the hero to state that he also brushed his hair and put on a clean collar. Otherwise, by mentioning one portion of his morning toilet and passing over the rest without a word, the impression is inevitable that he did not scrub his fingers, or brush his shoes, or even tie his necktie, but just took his bath and then thought that he was good enough to come down and eat his breakfast with respectable people. It is a dangerous omission. What will future generations think of their refined ancestors? They will probably discredit the morning bath altogether, and think that it was introduced as a novel and peculiar event, which never occurred in real life, merely to excite the morbid interest of readers in the unnatural. The fact that Ouida's men do it of course adds to this danger. The literary advantages of the morning bath should not be despised. It is a refreshing subject to read about-in summer. It adds to our interest in the hero. It shows better than a description that he was aristocratic, had lofty instincts, a cultivated and sensi

tive disposition, and a high sense of honor.

But let

us not pander to the sensational at the expense of truth. Let us still retain the cold morning bath for our Romeos, but let us no longer slight his less exciting but equally natural shoe-strings and finger-nails.”

MAUD MULLER.-Mr. Whittier's own statement of the origin of his poem of "Maud Muller" is thus given in Queries: "He was driving with his sister through York, Maine, and stopped at a harvest field to inquire the way. A young girl raking hay near the stone-wall stopped to answer their inquiries. Whittier noticed as she talked that she bashfully raked the hay around and over her bare feet, and she was fresh and fair. The little incident left its impression, and he wrote out the poem that very evening. 'But if I had had any idea,' he said, 'that the plaguey little thing would have been so liked, I should have taken more pains with it.' To the inquiry as to the title, Maud Muller, he said it was suggested to him, and was not a selection. It came as the poem came. But he gives it the short German pronunciation, as Meuler, not the broad Yankee, Muller."

THE IMPROVIDENCE OF THACKERAY.-" Thackeray was an improvident wretch," says the Philadelphia News," and his expenses nearly always exceeded his income. His avowed purpose in coming to America the second time, in 1856, was, to use his own expression, 'to lay up a pot of money' for his two daughters, and yet it shows the impulsiveness and boyishness of the man that he returned to England in the midst of a prosperous engagement and with half his lecture dates unfulfilled. Before he had visited various cities in the West and in Pennsylvania, while in his room one night in his hotel in New York, he happened to pick up a newspaper, and there he saw announced that a certain steamer would sail for Liverpool next morning. A fit of home-sickness overcame him. Although he was about retiring and was partially divested of his apparel, he rang for his servant, packed his baggage that very night, and, without saying a word to one of his friends, sailed for home the next morning. Even Mr. Fields, who was certainly his closest American friend, had no intimation of his sudden departure until several days after, when the pilot who had directed the vessel on its way to the ocean handed him a card on which these words were written: Good-by, Fields; good-by, Mrs. Fields. God bless everybody, says W. M. T.' This abandonment of his engagements meant for him a large pecuniary loss, and yet he afterwards told Mr. Fields in London that if John Jacob Astor had offered him half his fortune to permit that particular steamer to sail without him, he would have declined the impossible favor' and gone abroad. He never had another chance to fill those broken engagements. A few years afterwards, on a Christmas morning, his mother found him dead in bed."

GUIDES FOR READERS." Let the public library be considered by its librarians as a hospital for crippled minds, quite as much as an aid to those persons who already understand and appreciate it. There need not be fewer catalogue cards with their sparse and grudging notes; but near the catalogues, and among the readers," says E. H. Woodruff in a recent address, "there ought to be active and helpful librarians whose sole duty should be to furnish oral notes and advice in extenso. Two of the main uses of the policeman are to direct the stranger and help the feeble. The great retail stores have their floor-walkers, who point you to the elevator or lace counter with insistent unction. Railroad corporations have discovered that index sign-boards and intricate time-tables are riddles to many persons even of more than ordinary intelligence, and have therefore supplemented those devices in large depots with an oral information man who succeeds in adjusting the passenger service of the road to the particular wants of individuals, and not merely to the presumptive wants of that abstrac

tion, the patron.' But where, in our American public libraries, is there a like officer, whose chief duties are to set right a perverted reader; to direct the lost reader through the crowd of 100,000 books to the friend he is seeking; to tell all the connections to be made, and all the delays to be endured on the Royal Road to Learning'?"

MARK TWAIN is the literary Midas of the United States. Everything he touches turns into gold. He is now worth a million, and his income varies, running high into the thousands of dollars yearly. He made $30,000 as his share of the profits of the "TwainCable readings last year, and "Huckleberry Finn" has brought in somewhere in the neighborhood of $75,000. He will make a great pile off the Grant Memoirs," and in order to get them for publication he made terms with the Grants which other publishers did not dare to make. Mark Twain is now fifty years old. When he wrote Innocents Abroad," less than twenty years ago, he was living in a second-class boarding-house, in a little back-room, which was heated with a sheet-iron stove. Now he has an excellent residence at Hartford, Conn., filled with treasures of furniture and pictures he has gathered in his tours of the world. In his home at Hartford, Mark Twain's workshop is in his billiard-room at the top of the house, and when he gets tired of pushing the pen, he rises and eases his muscles by doing some scientific strokes with the cue. He walks slowly, talks

lazily and drawlingly, and acts as though he did not care for life or anything in it. He looks sleepy, but he is the most wide-awake man I know. He understands making a bargain, and he is one of the best advertisers in the United States.-Queries.

A COMMON ERROR.-"I don't known of a more amusing book," says the observing Lounger of the N. Y. Critic," than could be made from the experiences of editors. It seems to me, from those I have heard them relate, that they come in contact with as strange a set of men and women as treads the earth. The professional author is not without his peculiarities; but the amateur, or would-be author, is akin to the amateurs of no other trade or profession. The idea that a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sufficient quantity of paper are the only essentials to successful authorship, seems to be widespread. No man, because his bank account was reduced, would walk into a plumber's shop and ask to be given a job; nor would he expect to practice at the bar without some preparation; but to be an author he thinks he has only to write." THE PORTRAIT OF LONGfellow.- "I am glad to hear," says a Boston Post writer, "that subscriptions are coming in liberally for the purchase of the portrait of Longfellow by Healy, to be presented to Harvard College and hung in the Memorial Hall. It represents the poet as he was in middle life when he had won his fame, and it has the brooding, reflective air characteristic of the author of the Psalm of Life.' The figure is a standing one, about three-fourths length; the single-buttoned coat is worn easily and naturally, and the dark clothes are in harmony with the low tones of the painting. Longfellow's hair and beard, when Healy painted him, had not taken on those silvery touches which gave him so patriarchal an appearance in later years; but he had lost the somewhat dandified appearance of his youth. Healy's picture is perhaps a trifle too sombre; it does not give the poet's cheerier looks, but it has a thoughtful expression which will wear better than a gay one. The painting was one of the cherished treasures which James R. Osgood left behind him for sale, it hung for some time in the St. Botolph Club parlor. Its price is $1500, and there is every promise that the full amount will soon be received by W. D. Howells, who receives subscriptions. No more appropriate portrait can be hung in Memorial Hall than that of the poet and professor whose name is a part of the honors and traditions of the university."

Vol. II.-Of Persons and Places. Large 12mo, 956 pp., with very full Index, $2.50.

The first volume treats in simple language, aided by pictorial illustrations, of things in nature, science, and the arts which are apt to awaken a child's curiosity, or to be referred to in his reading. The second volume, devoted to noted persons and places, both real and fabulous, supplements the first volume, and with it covers the usual range of cyclopædic knowledge.

The New York Evening Post says: "He [Mr. Champlin] has prepared a cyclopædia expressly for the use of children, restricting its titles to things about which children are likely to be curious, and presenting the information desired in as clear, simple, and plain a manner as possible, aiding the child's comprehension with illustrations, and avoiding everything which would tend to make the text abstruse.'

"A very original and deeply interesting novel, full of plot, incident, spirited talk and character, and never too improbable for belief. The character-drawing is admirable.

All are painted with skill and sympathy, and the book as a whole is really a remarkable one."-The Critic.

No. 3. Princess. By M. G. MCCLELLAND, author of "Oblivion."

"The author of 'Oblivion,' which has attained fame in two continents, has just written a new novel, a story entitled ' Princess. It is a tale of Southern life, the characters graphically drawn, and the interest sustained through every line. 'Princess is one of the most absorbingly interesting love stories that has appeared in years."-Boston Traveller.

No. 2. Hannibal of New York.

By

THOMAS WHARTON, author of "A Latter-Day
Saint."

"A new novel of New York and Newport life, by the author of that much-differed-about book, A Latter-Day Saint.' The plot turns on the intrigues of two Wall Street money-kings, is elaborate and interesting, and the style terse and abounding in wit."-Cleveland Flain Dealer.

"Lovers of good stories can spend an afternoon or evening very satisfactorily over this book.”—Syracuse Standard.

No. 1. Oblivion. By M. G. MCCLELLAND.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature. Edited by EDWARD T. MASON. Three volumes, printed uniform with "Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists." The editor covers with his selections American literature from the times of the first writings of Washington Irving to the present day (Sept. 15th). 3 volumes 16mo, cloth extra, gilt top, $4.50; cloth neat, $3.75.

CONTENTS. ALCOTT, Louisa M., Selections from "Transcendental Wild Oats" and " Hospital Sketches."-ALDEN, Wm. L., Selections from "Shooting Stars" and "The Comic Liar.) -ALDRICH, T. B., Selections from "A Rivermouth Romance." -BALDWIN, J. G., “Ovid Bolus," from "Flush Times in Alabama."-BEECHER, H. W., Selections from " Norwood," " Eyes and Ears," and the "Star Papers." BELLAMY, Elizabeth W., "Tilly Bones."-BROWNE, C. F. ("Artemus Ward"), Selections from The Tower of London and The British Museum. BUNNER, H. C., " Candor," from "Airs in Arcady." BUTLER, W. A., "Dobbs his Ferry."-CABLE, G. W., from "Doctor Sevier."-CAVAZZA, Elizabeth, Selections.-CLEMMENS, S. L. ("MARK TWAIN'), The Jumping Frog."-CONE, Helen G., "The Tender Heart," from Eberon and Puck."-COZZENS, F. S., Selections from "Sparrowgrass Papers." -CRANE, T. F.. "Aunt Maria and the Autophone."-CURTIS, G. W., Selections from Potiphar Papers."--DODGE, Mary M., Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question."-DODGE, Mary A. ("Gail Hamiston"), Selections from " Country Living and Country, etc."DUNNING, Charlotte, "At the Maison Dobbe."-HALE, E. E., Selections from " My Double, and how he Undid me."-HALE, L. P., Selections from "Peterkin Papers."-HARRIS, J. C., Selections from "Uncle Remus."--HARTE, Bret, "The Society upon the Stanislaus and "Melons."--HAWTHORNE, Julian, "Why Muggins was Kept."-HAWTHORNE, N., "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," Selections from "Our Old Home." HOLMES, O. W., Selections from "Autocrat and "Poet.' HOWE, W. W., Selections from "Pasha Papers."-HOWELLS, W.D., Selections from "Suburban Sketches."-- IRVING, W., Selections from Knickerbocker" and " Bracebridge Hall.". JOHNSON, R. M., "Various Languages of Mr. Billy Moon.' LANIGAN, G. T., Selections from Fables and Verses."- LELAND, C. G., Selections from "Breitmann Ballads."-LOWELL, J. R.. Selections from "Fireside Travels" and Biglow Papers."-LUDLOW, F. H., Selections from "A Brace of Boys and Little Briggs and I."-MCDOWELL, Katherine S.B., " Hieronymus Pop," from "Dialect Tales. -MATTHEWS, Brander, "A Modern Lord Chesterfield."-ODGEN, Eva L., " The Sea." PHELPS, Eliz. S., Selections from "An Old Maid's Paradise.' ., Selections from " Wensley."-ROCHE, J. J., "The "Life."-SAXE, J. G., Selections from his verses.SMITH, Seba, A Tough Yarn," from Way Down East. SPOFFORD, Mrs. H. P., " Aunt Pen's Funeral."-STOCKTON, F. R., A chapter from "Rudder Grange," and "A Piece of Red Calico."-STOWE, Mrs. H. B., Selections from "Oldtown Fireside Stories."-THORPE, T. B., "A Hoosier in Search of Justice."-TROWbridge, J. F., "Fred. Trover's Little Iron-Clad." -WARNER, C. D., Selections from "My Summer in a Garden." Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists. Comprising single specimen essays (each selection is unmutilated and entire) from Irving, Leigh Hunt, Lamb, De Quincey, Landor, Sydney Smith, Thackeray, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Helps, Kingsley, Curtis, Lowell, Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman, Gladstone, Newman, Leslie Stephen. Compiled by G. H. PUTNAM. 3 vols., 16mo, cloth, $3.75; extra cloth, gilt top, $4.50; flexible imitation seal binding and case, round corners, red edges, $10.00; large-paper edition, 8vo, with portraits, cloth extra, gilt tops, rough edges, $7.50. CONTENTS-WASHINGTON IRVING, "The Mutability of Literature."-LEIGH HUNT, "The World of Books."-CHARLES LAMB," Imperfect Sympathies."-THOMAS DE QUINCEY, Conversation."-WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, "Petition of the Thugs for Toleration," "The Benefits of Parliament."- SYDNEY SMITH," Fallacies of Anti-Reformers."-WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Nil Nisi Bonum."-RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Compensation." - MATTHEW ARNOLD, "Sweetness and Light. JOHN MORLEY, "On Popular Culture."-- ARTHUR HELPS, "On the Art of Living with Others."-CHARLES KINGSLEY, My Winter Garden."-GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, "Our Best Society."-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners."-THOMAS CARLYLE, On History.— THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, History.-JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, The Science of History."-EDWARD A. FREEMAN, "Race and Language.-WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, **Kin Beyond Sea."-JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, Private Judgment."LESLIE STEPHEN, An Apology for Plain Speaking." "Three charming little volumes, showing admirable judgment on the part of the editor."--Chicago Tribune.

"A most admirable collection, which presents not only specimens of the best English style, but the methods of thought and characteristic modes of expression of the several writers." Magazine of American History.

There is not an insignificant name nor an unimportant article; and one accepts gratefully and very gladly the entire menu, to be nibbled at leisurely, for all purposes of scholarly refreshment and edification.”—Churchman.

"Delightful volumes, whether their contents or their outward form alone be considered."--Critic.

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