LITERATURE AND COLLECTED WORKS. BALLOU, MARTIN M. Genius in sunshine and shadow. Ticknor. 12 $1.50.

"Genius in sunshine and shadow' is a book after the style of A. P. Russell's 'Library notes' and Characteristics.' It is a pleasant volume of bits and odds and ends of gossip and information about authors, musicians and painters, such as we all delight in, for curiosity about the great ones of the earth is not to be denied.. It is not a book to sit down with and read from beginning to end, but one to take up for a halfhour on a rainy day, or a dull evening, or while waiting for dinner; one to be comfortable over-turn down the page and gladly pick up again at the first opportunity."-Chicago Tribune.

GRISWOLD, W. M., comp. A directory of authors, in

cluding writers for the literary magazines. 2d ed. Bangor, Me. Office of the Monthly Index. 8° pap., 50 c.

Contains many corrections and additions; also a list of recently dead authors.

MASON, E. T., ed. Humorous masterpieces from American literature. Putnam. 3 v. 16° $3.75; $4.50. Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

MAURICE, Rev. F. D. The friendship of books, and other lectures, ed., with a preface. by T. Hughes. Macmillan. 16° $1.50.

MORRILL, JUSTIN S., comp. Self-consciousness of noted persons; compiled in leisure hours. Ticknor. 8 $1.50.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

[PEPYS, S. Diary, 1660-1661. Cassell. 24° (Cassell's national lib.) pap., 10 c.]

[SHAKESPEARE, W. The merchant of Venice; [also,] The adventures of Giannetto, and other illustrative pieces. Cassell. 24° (Cassell's national lib.) pap., 10 c.]

"A delightful little handbook is The merchant of Venice,' as issued by the Cassells, with a historical introduction of fifteen pages by Professor Morley, and 'The adventures of Giannetto,' the story of the 'Jew who wanted for his debt law a pound of the flesh of a Christian,' 'The three cakes,' and the poem of Gernutus, the Jew of Venice,' all of which Shakespeare is supposed to have made use in composing his famous play. By the bye, we presume that were such a play written in the present age it would be called a comedy drama.' Shakespeare's processes show what legitimacy means in the use of preexisting material. This is a very different thing from plagiarism, especially when the material so used is wrought into forms which differ almost as much from the original as the product of the loom does from that which goes into it."-N. Y. Evening Telegram. THOMAS, EDITH M. The round year. Houghton, M. 12 $1.25.

"Miss Edith M. Thomas-of whose accomplishments both as naturalist and writer we have already spoken-is known as the author of a slender volume of delicate verse, and of a succession of papers on nature which have appeared from time to time in the Atlantic Monthly and-we believe-in other periodicals. They have earned much praise for this pleasing writer, and appearing, as they now do appear, in a permanent form, will probably reach a wider circle of readers. All the seasons find a place in Miss Thomas's book, as the title implies. Α spring opening' is vocal with the bluebird, whichThoreau said-carries the sky on its back, and the songsparrow and other singers join the chorus; 'The rain and the fine weather' leaves you in doubt which to prefer; Autumn and the muse,' 'Where it listeth,' Ember days' (not the ember days of the church, but those of land and sky)—indeed, most of what lies between the covers of The round year' are the imaginings of a clear intellect and a fine spirit, set forth in fitting words."-Boston Advertiser.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. ELY, R. T. The labor movement in America. Crowell. 12° $1.50.

Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

MACY, JESSE. Our government: how it grew, what it does, and how it does it. Ginn. 12° 88 c.

Aims to give a clear view of all our governmental institutions, and their relations to one another. It is chiefly peculiar in its way of doing this. The historical method is followed, and the growth of our institutions is briefly traced from "old Schleswick in Denmark"-where our ancestors lived in free towns and villages-through England, where wars and violence resulted in kings and lords, and where the old free institutions of town and shire gave birth to a free Parliament to America, where the same institutions, transplanted and preserved, were finally united into free commowealths, and the commonwealths into a national Republic. In treating of "Our government," attention is first called to local matters that can be explained and understood most readily. "Constitutions" come last, and are then fully explained. Summaries and suggestions, with helpful questions, are given to assist in the thorough mastery of the subject. SHOSUKE, SATO. History of the land question in the United States. Balt., Md., N. Murray, Agt. Johns Hopkins Univ. 8° (Johns Hopkins Univ. studies) pap., $1.

This work was undertaken in pursuance of special instructions from the Japanese Government to the author to investigate certain questions of agrarian and economic interest in the United States. Shosuke Sato was special commissioner of the colonial department of Japan, and Fellow by courtesy, 1884-6, Johns Hopkins University.

TAYLOR, SEDLEY. Profit-sharing between capital and labor: six essays. Fitzgerald. 8° (Humboldt's lib.)

pap., 15 c.

C-Books for the Voung.

ALCOTT, LOUISA M. Jo's boys, and how they turned out; a sequel to "Little men." Roberts. 16° $1.50. Noticed elsewhere in this issue.

BOLTON, SARAH K. Stories from life. Crowell. 12° $1.25.

Over thirty short stories for young people, based on incidents in real life. By the author of Girls who became famous," etc.

BURNETT, Mrs. FRANCES HODGSON.
Fauntleroy. Scribner. 12° $2.

cumstances.

Little Lord

The little boy who is the hero of this pretty story is born in America of an American mother, his father being an Englishman and the youngest son of an earl. Captain Erroll, Cedric's father, dies when he is a mere baby, and his mother is left alone in very straitened cirCedric, however, is charmingly brought up, and grows a brave, beautiful, aristocratic-looking boy, with an unfaltering belief in all things American. Through the accidental death of his father's two brothers he becomes Lord Fauntleroy, and is sent for from England by his old grandfather, the earl, who acknowledges him as his heir. The boy is delightfully described; his quaint, odd sayings have been the special attraction of St. Nicholas during the year.

CHURCH, A. J. Two thousand years ago; or, the adventures of a Roman boy; il. by Adrian Marie. Dodd, M. 12° $1.50.

"Lucius is the Roman lad who commenced his career some seventy-nine years before the birth of Christ, and Prof. Green gives all those stirring incidents which might have befallen a youth in those times. Lucius, through no less a person than Cicero, had an appointment to serve the Quæstor Tiberius Manlius in Sicily, and as Spartacus, the Gladiator, with his forces, are in the way, Lucius is taken under the protection of

the Prætor Marcus Varro. In a skirmish with Spartacus, Lucius is taken captive, but is released in company with a beautiful Greek maiden, Philareté. In Sicily, where Verres is Governor, Lucius accepts a command under Cleomenes, and, Cleomenes deserting his ship, Lucius is taken by the pirates. Many incidents of ancient times are presented, and the manners and customs of the day faithfully presented. We have had a good many translations of late from the German, where antiquity is dressed up in the guise of romance, and these stories are exceedingly tiresome. Perhaps their particular flavoring may be lost by transmutation. Such fault may not be found in Two thousand years ago,' for Prof. Green treats his subject quite as well as does Ebers, and for young people the romance under notice will be found particularly interesting."N. Y. Times.

CONKLIN, Mrs. Nathl., [Jennie M. Drinkwater.] That Quisset House. Carter. 12° $1.50.

Marion Hosmer was a thoroughly selfish woman when she was bereft of husband and fortune; having no resources within herself, she turned to her girlhood's friend, whom time had developed into the unselfish mother of a large family, whose varied characteristics had the power of teaching the widow self-forgetfulness, and she was wont to declare her better days began in "That Quisset House," the queer, rambling old home of the Wilders. In the character of Marion Hosmer Mrs. Conklin illustrates extreme selfishness.

ELLIS, E. S. Footprints in the forest. Porter & C. 16° (Log Cabin ser.) cl., $1.25.

Readers of "Campfire and wigwam" will recall that at the end of that volume Otto Relstaub was still in the hands of the Sauk Indians, who had made him and Jack Carleton prisoners. Jack had been separated from Otto, carried off in an opposite direction, and succeeded finally in making his escape. This volume is dedicated to an account of Jack's and the Indian Deerfoot's adventures in search of the German boy, whom they only succeeded in finding after many hardships and dangers.

EWING, Mrs. JULIANA HORATIA. A flat-iron for a farthing; or, some passages in the life of an only son. Roberts. 16° SI.

66 6

'A flat-iron for a farthing' is one of those perfect little tales which Mrs. Ewing touches with sympathetic tenderness and pathos, moving but not distressing. The author does not stoop to her audience, but lifts them up. Never were children's books written with less sign of effort, and here we look for the secret that makes them favorites with older readers. This story dwells upon the very young days of the boy whose life is its topic at somewhat greater length than is customary, and, although there are the appropriate episodes of romance and sentiment, it is the life of the child that is emphasized. The story is a gem of simple language and refined and elevated feeling."N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

FARMER, LYDIA HOYT. The boys' book of famous rulers. Crowell. 12° $1.50.

Lydia Hoyt Farmer is a clever manufacturer of this sort of popular reading. The rulers whose lives she narrates are fifteen in number, beginning with Agamemnon, whom we have to suppose an historic personage, and ending with the first Napoleon, and embracing the great names of Cyrus, Alexander, and Cæsar, among the ancients; Charlemagne, Alfred, Richard Coeur de Lion, and Bruce, among mediæval sovereigns; and half a dozen modern rulers, the most prominent of whom are Louis XIV. and the Peter and Frederick who have been called Great. The illustrations, of which there are eighty, are mostly good, the earlier ones having, as they should have, a distinctly archaic character."-Mail and Express.

FOSDICK, C. A., ["Harry Castlemon," pseud.] Joe Wayring at home; or, the adventures of a fly-rod.

Porter & C. 16° (Forest and stream ser.) cl., $1.25.

A fly-rod begins relating his story; it tells how Joe Wayring first bought it, and obtained such rare sport through it as to call it "Old durability." It then drops the first person, and continues in an impersonal way Joe's life and adventures, the latter being mostly fishing exploits in New England lakes and rivers. FRITH, H. Under Bayard's banner: a story of the days of chivalry; il. by E. Blair Leighton. Cassell. 12° $2.

"A well-written historical romance of the old school, in which the Chevalier Bayard is the central figure. The plot is constructed with marked skill, and its interest is sustained with great spirit to the end. The manners and customs of the age of chivalry are reproduced with admirable cleverness, and the characters are drawn with impressive force. The book is entertaining from cover to cover, and though many of its incidents are somewhat over-dramatic in quality, the main thread of the story and its details have historical foundation. There are numerous excellent illustrations by E. Blair Leighton. The volume is handsomely printed, and is published by Messrs. Cassell & Co"-Boston Saturday Eve. Gazette. NEWTON, R., D.D. Bible warnings: sermons to children. Carter. 12 $1.25.

Fifteen sermons for children. Dr. Newton explains that trains are warned of danger by bells, flags, and signals, and he takes fifteen Bible texts, which he calls the bells and signals given to warn against covetousness, intemperance, lying, sin, anger, pride, disobedience, selfishness, sloth, etc., so that dangers may be recognized and young lives be brought through them safely. The special talent at pointed, fascinating illustration for which this Philadelphia preacher is celebrated is once more brought into play. ROBBINS, Mrs. S. S. Jack, who persevered. Carter. 16 (The Gillettes ser.) 75 c.

Juvenile readers who have disposed of some of the earlier members of the Gillette family will be equally pleased with the latter books in which Bert and Jack are the principal subjects. Bert becomes possessed with the idea of being an inventor and is on the high road to success when his story closes; Jack attains his desire by enterprise in another direction and sells popcorn on the cars; we leave him just as he has gained his coveted scholarship.

THOMPSON, MAURICE, ed. The boys' book of sports and outdoor life. Century Co. 8 $2.50.

"It opens with a story of some length, entitled 'Marvin and his boy hunters,' which, besides being a story, is more or less a manual prepared with the purpose of teaching boys of proper age how to carefully and successfully use the shotgun. It is bright and entertaining, like all that Mr. Thompson writes, and is an admirable prologue to the rest of the book, which is devoted to fishing, archery, boats and boating, camps and campers, swimming and walking, winter sports and other outdoor delights. This latter portion is written by various hands, whom we suppose to be experts, among them Mr. W. L. Alden, formerly of this city, and now, we think, of Rome. The illustrations, which are profuse, are in the best style of American wood-engraving."-Mail and Express. TROWBRIDGE, J. T. The little master. Lee & S. 16° $1.25.

"A spirited account of the trials that beset a brave young fellow who taught a district school forms the story of The little master.' Moral suasion and self-control, backed by a firm sense of justice and no end of pluck, were the weapons with which a lad of very slender build contended against the obstacles that self-interest, vanity, shiftlessness, and obstinacy set in his way. It is a lively and exciting story, and the situations have all the appearance of fact."-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

LITERARY MISCELLANY. GEORGE MACDONALD uses thin French paper, and his handwriting is very fine.

JOAQUIN MILLER spells uncertainly, and leaves punctuation for the proof-reader.

STRANGE as it may seem, no memorial of any sort exists in Westminster Abbey to Sir Walter Scott.

ROBERT BROWNING has been elected Foreign Secretary to the British Royal Academy, in the place of the late Lord Houghton.

OLD POETS. Thus the sibylline leaves flutter by ; and there is more and more to read, and less and less time in which to do it all. The few hours spent from time to time in listening to the greater poets, when a number of them are gathered together in close communion, as in this book of Professor Child's, makes one wish that it might be such, and such only, that one is to read; for they, after all, have said about everything worth saying, and the others are but mocking-birds.

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PAPYRI FOUND IN EGYPT.-" The papyri found at Fayum, in Egypt, have been carefully arranged at Vienna, and a short report published. They include," says the Boston Advertiser, "a manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew and part of that of Mark, thought to be the earliest in existence; a manuscript of Plato's 'Gorgias,' also regarded as the earliest; fragments of Hesiod, of the Argonautica, and of the Odyssey; and documents belonging to the Alexandrian and Arab periods."

THOMAS N. PAGE, the author of "Marse Chan" and "Meh Lady," is a lawyer, and resides at Richmond, Va. "He is thirty-three years old, and," says the Wilmington Home Weekly, " is a great-grandson of General Thomas Nelson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, for whom he was named. He proposes to issue his short stories in a volume as soon as two or three as yet unprinted shall have been published. He has completed a story of post-bellum Virginia life, much more pretentious, as well as much longer, than any of these, which he is unable now to finish, owing to illness. On account of sickness he will very soon sail for Europe."

MISS ALCOTT's Method of WRITING.-"Miss Louisa May Alcott never had a study; any cosy corner answers to write in. She is not particular as to pens and paper, and an old atlas on her knee is all the desk she cares for. She has the power," says the New York World, "to carry a dozen plots in her head at a time, elaborating them whenever she is in the mood. Sometimes she keeps a plot by her in this way for years before it is put on paper. At times she lies awake at night and plans whole chapters, word for word, and when daylight comes she has only to write them off as if she were copying. In her hardest working days she used to write fourteen hours in the twenty-four, sitting steadily at her work, and scarcely tasting food until the task was done. Very few of her stories have been written at Concord. She goes to Boston, hires a quiet room, shuts herself up, and waits for an east wind of inspiration which never fails.' In a month or so the book is done. She never copies, and seldom corrects."

"THE NOVEL is the literary form," says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, "which the nineteenth century may truly claim to have perfected. Yet at the present time even the novel seems to be suffering from the over-scientific spirit. In the struggle after perfection of style, more essential attributes are lost. Our leading novelists seem to forget that the overshadowing purpose of a novel should be the unfolding of the plot, and that the novel was never intended to expound schemes of philosophy and wire-drawn theories con

cerning the organic structure of the social fabric. Every perfect novel teaches many a moral, as does human life, of which the novel is but the mirror. There are few things more tedious than what the Germans call the Tendez-Novelle. It is better that Philosophy and Fiction should dwell apart. In all the provinces of imaginative literature we stand in dire need of the buoyant naturalness which is characteristic of earlier writers. The longing for this quality is not to be satisfied by the anatomical accuracy and overwrought attention to detail which chiefly mark the most applauded efforts of contemporary genius.

JOAQUIN MILLER'S OPTIMISM.-Mr. Joaquin Miller has just appeared as the head of a department in the California magazine, the Golden Era. He says therein: "These two things I shall try in an unobtrusive way to teach: The love of the beautiful world about us and the love of man. For all things are beautiful, and all men are good. The fault is so often in ourselves if we do not see the beauty and the good that it is best to accept both and believe both; best for all." Mr. Miller concludes his meditations with this bit of verse:

Aye, the world is a better world to-day!
And a great good mother this earth of ours;
Her white to-morrows are a white stairway
To lead us up to the star-lit flowers-
The spiral to-morrows that one by one

We climb and we climb in the face of the sun.

Aye, the world is a braver world to-day!
For many a hero will bear with wrong-
Will laugh at wrong, will turn away;

Will whistle it down the wind with a song-
Will slay the wrong with his splendid scorn;
The bravest hero that ever was born!"

A BAKED BIBLE.-There is a Bible in Lucas County, Ohio, which was preserved, according to an exchange, by being baked in a loaf of bread. It now belongs to a Mr. Schebolt, who is a native of Bohemia, in Austria. This baked Bible was formerly the property of his grandmother, who was a faithful Protestant Christian. During one of the seasons when the Roman Catholics were persecuting the Protestants in that country, a law was passed that every Bible in the hands of the people should be given up to the priests, that it might be burnt. Then those who loved their Bibles had to contrive different plans in order to try and save the precious book. When the priests came round to search the house, it happened to be baking day. Mrs. Schebolt-the grandmother of the present owner of this Bible-had a large family. She had just prepared a great batch of dough, when she heard that the priests were coming; she took her precious Bible, wrapped it carefully up, and put it in the centre of a huge mass of dough, which was to fill her largest bread tin, and stowed it away in the oven and baked it. The priests 'came and searched the house carefully through, but they did not find the Bible. When the search was over, and the danger passed, the Bible was taken out of the loaf, and found uninjured.

WHY AMERICAN NOVELS SHOULD BE CHEERFUL.— "We invite our novelists, therefore," says W. D. Howells in Harper's Monthly, "to concern themselves with the more smiling aspects of life, which are the more American, and to seek the universal in the individual rather than the social interests. It is worth while, even at the risk of being called commonplace, to be true to our well-to-do actualities; the very passions themselves seem to be softened and modified by conditions which cannot be said to wrong any one, to cramp endeavor, or to cross lawful desire. Sin and suffering and shame there must always be in the world we suppose, but we believe that in this new world of ours it is mainly from one to another one, and oftener still from one to one's self. We have death, too, in America, and a great deal of disagreeable and painful disease, which the multiplicity of our patent medicines does not seem to cure; but this is tragedy that

comes in the very nature of things, and is not peculiarly American, as the large, cheerful average of health and success and happy life is. It will not do to boast, but it is well to be true to the facts, and to see that, apart from these purely mortal troubles, the race here enjoys conditions in which most of the ills that have darkened its annals may be averted by honest work ⚫ and unselfish behavior."

A LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.-Only his private secretaries, John George Nicolay and John Hay, have had the opportunity and the authority to tell the complete story of Lincoln's life (to begin in the November Century), and particularly of that part of it which pertains to the Presidency. When Lincoln died these two returned to the White House, where they were still living, though already appointed to Paris. They gathered together the President's papers, and handed them to Robert Lincoln and David Davis, who sacredly guarded them till the return of the secretaries from Europe. They were then redelivered to the latter, for the purposes of this history, and have never been in any other hands. They have served as an important part-by no means the whole-of the data preserved by the biographers for the purpose of presenting to the world the record of their illustrious chief, in all its truth and fulness. This history includes not merely the personal career of Lincoln, but a graphic account of the events which led to the Civil War, and a history of that war from the point of view of the White House-the point of view, in fact, of the commander-in-chief of the armies and navies of the United States."The reading of this minute and illuminating history was for us," say the editors of the Century, as we believe it will be for the world, the unveiling of the statue of Lincoln !"

THE books of General Wallace have had a remarkable success, and particularly Ben Hur," which is now in its one hundred and thirty-second thousand. This extraordinary ronfance was published in 1880, and not the least remarkable fact in connection with it is that the idea of writing it was suggested by a conversation the author had with the noted infidel, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. It is related that the two chanced to meet on a train, and settled down for a long talk. The drift of the conversation turned on matters religious, and Ingersoll made use of all his plausible arguments and sophistries for which he is so well known, with the idea of trying to win over his companion to his views. Up to that time General Wallace had not accepted the Christian religion in any more than a general way, nor had he investigated its history or tried to ground himself in its faith. His conversation with Ingersoll set him to very seriously considering the matter, and he ultimately became firmly convinced of its truth. The result was " Ben Hur." At first this religious romance was looked upon askance by the reading public, but its true worth and importance soon came to be recognized, with the result that the book has been accepted as one of the most unique and popular contributions to the religion and letters of the age. The religious public have found it both an instructive and thrilling romance, and it has won the commendation of clergy and laity alike.

DOSTOIEVSKY was born at Moscow, in a charity hospital, in 1821, and to the day of his death he struggled with poverty, injustice, and disease. His first book, "Poor People," which won him reputation and the hope of better things, was followed within a few years by his arrest for socialism. He was not really concerned in socialism, except through his friendship for some of the socialists, but he was imprisoned with them, and after eight months of solitude in the casemate of a fortress-solitude unrelieved by the sight of a friendly human face, or a book or a pen he was led out to receive his sentence. All the prisoners had been condemned to death; the

muskets were loaded in their presence, and levelled at their breasts; then the muzzles were struck up, and the Czar's commutation of their sentences was read. They were sent to Siberia, where Dostoievsky spent six years at hard labor. There he made his studies among the prisoners for his book, The Humiliated and the Wronged," which is now translated as "The Crime and Punishment," and published by T. Y. Crowell & Co. At the end of this time he returned to St. Petersburg, famous, beloved, adored, to continue his struggle with poverty and disease. struggle was long, for he died only five years ago, when his body was followed to the grave by such a mighty concourse of all manner of people as never assembled at the funeral of any author before.-W. D. Howells in the September Harper's.

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JOHN ESTEN COOKE.-"The late John Esten Cooke, the Virginia novelist, was a poet in his younger years, like his elder brother, Philip Pendleton Cooke, whose lyric of Florence Vane' will live," says R. H. Stoddard in the New York Mail and Express, “when more important poems are forgotten. He figured

in the last edition of Griswold's Poets of America' the last, that is, which was edited by Griswold during his lifetime, and which bears the date of 1855. Griswold gave Mr. Cooke two pages, the greatest portion of which is filled with stanzas in the measure of 'In Memoriam,' and which read like the imaginative musings of a gentleman of twenty-five. Born in in 1830, well educated in boyhood and youth, and brought up, later, to the profession of law, in which his father distinguished himself, the blood of some of the best old Virginian families ran in the veins of John Esten Cooke. He was a Virginian to his heart's core-before the war, when he wrote the only good novels of the colonial period that we have ever had; during the war, when he served on the staff of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, whose life he afterwards wrote; and since the war, when, as before and ever, he was the kind, the courtly, the chivalrous Southern gentleman. 'None knew him but to love him, Nor named him but to praise.'

If he had lived until Nov. 3d he would have been fifty-six."

JOSEPH ROUX, an obscure priest of a parish of simple peasants in a French village, has published a book of "Meditations" (Crowell. $1.25) which has caused quite a sensation, says the Lutheran Observer, in literary circles of Paris. The book is full of brilliant and profound criticisms and epigrams. Blackwood's Magazine has translated some, among which are the following:

Shakespeare: greater than history, as great as poetry, he alone would suffice for the literature of a nation.

A Fortnight in Heaven.

An Unconventional Romance. By HAROLD Brydges. 12mo, $1.25

"A notable style, flashing forth on every page of his fantastic story brilliants on brilliants of the keenest sarcasm, the sanest wisdom, the most bewitching humor. Here are jewels strung on golden cords and waving under the sunlight of a Grecian wind. To be sure there is more head than heart in the book. It is alive with suggestion and rich with illustration, and is one of those rare volumes that will be perused at a single sitting."-Boston Advertiser.

Klaus Bewer's Wife.

From the German of Paul Lindau, by CLARA S. FLEISHMAN, 16mo. Leisure Hour Series, $1.00; Leisure Season Series, 5 cents.

The Romance of the Moon.

Pen-and-ink drawings, illustrating a quaint tale of the origin of the dew. By J. A. MITCHELL (the editor of Life). illuminated cover, $1.00.

The Life of a Prig.

By ONE. 16mo, $1.00.

12mo,

"It would be difficult to give an idea of the artistic finish and really exquisite quality of The Life of a Prig,' the vehicle of some of the acutest and wittiest satire of recent years." -N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

"The satire is effective in its handling of certain prevalent folles, especially the new fashion of coquetting with the ancient creeds of the East. One of the smartest little books of the

season."-V. V. Tribune. No summary can give an adequate idea of this naughty satire."-The Nation.

Of the new volume by this clever writer the New York Tribune says: "Few writers reflect more faithfully the prevailing currents of thought than Mr. Mallock. But he is much more than a telephonic diaphragm, which possessed of a singularly attractive style and a power of delicate caricature which produces effects hardly distinguishable from the travestied original, he brings also to the treatment of troublesome topics a keen insight and a healthy optimism which almost persuades his readers to accept as real solutions the half-truths so forcefully and plausibly presented. No one can point refined satire with higher art, and as few modern writers use purer English, his books are sure to charm and delight even when they do not convince. The love story woven into the book is told with so much tenderness and delicacy as to deserve hearty praise and admiration."

The Romances of Chivalry.

The Legends and Traditions of "Sir Isumbras," " Sir Degori," "Sir Bevis of Hampton," "The Squyr of Lowe Degre,' "Valentine and Orson,' Guy of Warwick," etc., etc. By JOHN ASHTON, author of "The Dawn of the Nineteenth Century, etc., etc. With fifty illustrations in facsimile. Limited letter-press edition. 8vo, gilt tops, $5.00.

Chivalric Days and Youthful Deeds. By E. S. BROOKS, author of "Historic Boys," etc. 8vo, fully illustrated, uniform with "Historic Boys," $2.00. CONTENTS.-Cinderella's Ancestor--The Favored of BaalThe Gage of a Princess-The Tell-Tale Foot-The Boys of Blackfriars-The Cloister of the Seven Gates -The Field of the Cloth of Gold, etc.

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