VAGO. MODELING IN CLAY.

Instructions in the Art of Modeling in Clay. By A. L. VAGO. With an Appendix on Modeling in Foliage, etc., for Pottery and Architectural Decoration. By Benn Pitman, of Cincinnati School of Design. Illustrated. Square 12mo. Cloth. 1 00

Modeling can not be learned by book in struction, but such information as can be acquired without a master-for instance, regarding the tools and materials to be used, and the mechanical part of the work-is given fully and lucidly in these pages.-Art Amateur.

The book gives excellent and practical ideas as to material and tools, and how an amateur should commence. The work does not pretend to instill genius, but it gives the beginner a fair start at his work, and shows him in a concise form what it would take

him a long time to find out for himself in the slow school of experience. Modeling in clay may even be regarded as a pastime. It is a natural art. To many it is much easier to model or carve than to draw.Carpenter and Builder.

It contains a great deal of encouraging information that will be of especial service to young modelers. Apprentices in the modeling rooms of our native potteries should have this book with them as an incentive to correctness in this work.-Crockery and Glass Journal.

VAN BUREN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S PEN AND VOICE. Containing, in a convenient volume, all his Letters, Civil, Political, and Military, his Public Addresses, Messages, Inaugurals, and Proclamations. Compiled by G. M. VAN BUREN.

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1 50 It has heretofore been very difficult to find addresses, letters, etc., of President Lincoln, scattered as they are through so many different works. This will therefore be a very convenient volume for reference, containing, as it does forty-eight addresses on various occasions; his two inaugural addresses; ninety-nine letters to his generals; sixteen letters to governors of states; fifteen letters to members of his cabinet; forty letters to civilians; eleven messages to Congress; twelve proclamations; twelve military orders; five thanksgiving proclamations, and a number of miscellaneous papers. Many of them now published for the first time.

To librarians, it will be an invaluable labor-saver reference book. To military and naval officers, worthy of careful study. To lawyers, a source of inspiration. To politicians, a mine of political wisdom. To the general public, a work of the liveliest interest. Every American should have a copy.

All that the great war president declared have, without note or comment, the writfor himself in his public utterances, whether by message, letter, or speech, is here given in complete quotation. For reference purposes, and as an epitome of Lincoln, the public man, this arrangement will be of great value; while there is a greater value to be had by those who desire to study the man himself through the medium of his own speech, or to see the development of his character or views, as he passed through the mighty scenes of which he was the chief personage. There is hardly a paragraph that does not breathe patriotism, devotion to duty, and a determination to save the Union.-Magazine of Western History.

It is strange that a volume like this has not been issued before, in which we could

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ings of the man who is continually growing
in the estimation of all true Americans. It
is well that those things should stand by
themselves and show us, as they can not
otherwise do in so direct a light, the inex-
haustible fund of practical wisdom, of apt.
command, of remonstrance, of decisive crit-
icism when necessary, possessed by this
plain, homely, awkward person.
ge in this volume the clear white light of
Lincoln's mind as it was affected by the
stirring events of the war. Much has been
written about the man, but here we have
the man himself from day to day govern-
ing, advising, presiding over the nation in
its time of need. Every citizen ought to
possess the volume.-Public Opinion.

VAN HORNE. THE HISTORY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. Its Organization, Campaigns, and Battles. Written at the Request of Major-General George H. Thomas, chiefly from his Private Military Jour nal, and Official and other Documents furnished by him. BY THOMAS B. VAN HORNE, U. S. A. Library edition. 2 vols. and Atlas. 8vo. Illustrated with twenty-two Campaign and Battle Maps, compiled by Edward Ruger, late Superintendent Topographical Engineer Office, Headquarters Department of the Cumberland. Cloth, $6.00; Sheep, library style,

VENABLE. FOOTPRINTS OF THE A Centennial Sketch. By W. H. by Farney, Burroughs, and others. The contents of this little volume embrace an historical sketch of the settlement of the Ohio Valley, descriptions of early modes of travel by road and river, with particulars as to backwoods life, customs, houses, furniture, etc., and selections of pioneer poetry.

PIONEERS IN THE OHIO Valley. VENABLE, LL.D. With 25 illustrations 12mo. 1 00

VENABLE. THE TEACHER'S DREAM, and other Songs of School Days. By W. H. VENABLE. Beautifully illustrated by Farny. Small 4to. Cloth.

VENABLE. THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERARY CULTURE IN THE OHIO VALLEY. Historical and Biographical sketches-Early Travelers and Analists; the Pioneer Press; Early Periodicals; the First Libraries; Pioneer Schools; and numerous sketches of Literary Men and Women. By W. H. VENABLE, LL.D. 8vo. Cloth. Net.

A veritable feast. Such an amazing amount of information, and so attractively presented. Accurate, perspicuous, elegant. The months and months of labor it has cost, and how perfect the achievement. I know of no other man who could have accomplished the work in such a masterly manner. The multitudes of names it mentions will interest thousands of readers. The intelligent and copious index is a strikingly valuable feature of the book.-A. P. Russell, author of "Library Notes," "A Club of One."

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be of value to the student of western history. J. Fletcher Williams, Librarian of the Minnesota Historical Society.

It presents valuable information on a fruitful theme, one that always awakens profound interest among intelligent people.

. . . Dr. Venable describes several of the earlier poets and story writers, presents a concise view of political orators and oratory, of teachers, schools, and colleges, of travelers and analists, of beginnings of newspapers in Ohio, of early periodical literature, and other allied subjects too numerous to mention. It is a wide field on which he has roamed, and few authors have gathered a bountiful harvest with more conspicuous success. The book is as entertaining and readable as it is instructive, and as a repository of reference data it will be highly prized by an appreciative public.Magazine of American History.

VENABLE. MELODIES OF THE HEART, Songs of Freedom, and

VOORHEES. SPEECHES: Forensic, Political, Occasional, and Literary. With a short Biographical Sketch and Portrait. By Hon. DANIEL W. VOORHEES, of Indiana. 8vo. Cloth.

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CONTENTS: 1. Defense of John E. Cook. 2. The American Citizen. 3. Liberty of the Citizen. 4. The Conscript Act. 5. The State of the Union. 6. The Thirteenth Amendment. 7. Defense of Mary Harris. 8. Reconstruction. 9 and 11. Reconstruction of Georgia. 10. The National Debt. 12. Enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment. 13. Defense of Harry C. Black. 14. Plunder of Eleven States by the Republican Party. 15. American Relations with Spain and Cuba. 16. Reply to Senator Morton. 17. Financial Condition of the Country. 18. Tribute to Judge Law. 19. Influence of the Physical Sciences on the Progress of Civilization. 20. Tribute to Professor Morse. 21. Louisiana Affairs. 22. Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment. 23. Protection of American Citizens Abroad. 24. Tribute to Judge Huntington.

WAR HISTORY. SKETCHES OF WAR HISTORY, 1861-1865. Papers Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Illustrated with Maps and Drawings. 2 vols. 8vo. Net. 4.00

CONTENTS VOL. I: 1. Marching across Carolina, by Gen. M. F. Force. 2. Brig. Gen. W. H. Lytle, by Capt. A. C. Kemper. 3. The Night after the Battle, by Capt. A. C. Kemper. 4. Ante Bellum, by Maj. W. H. Bell. 5. Campaign of Selma, by Maj. L. M. Hosea. 6. Reminiscence of Washington and Early's Attack in 1864, by Lieut. E. S. Dudley. 7. Ohio's Preparations for the War, by Gen. J. H. Bates. 8. The Battle of Winchester, by Lieut. M. S. Hawkins. 9. Love of Country and Foot-prints of Time, by Jas. E. Murdoch. 10. Military Small Arms, by Capt. S. B. Smith. 11. The Military and the Mob, by Gen. M. D Leggett. 12. Through the Wilderness to Richmond, by Lieut. A. B. Isham. 13. In the Beginning, by Col. G. W. Finch. 14. Bugle Blasts, by Capt. W. E. Crane. 15. From the Wilderness to Spottsylvania, by Col. R. S. Robertson. 16. The Vicksburg Campaign, by Gen. M. F. Force. 17. The Growth of an Idea (Signal Service), by Gen. W. B. Hazen. 18. Our Military Future, by Capt. C. A. G. Adae. 19. Cumberland Gap, by Surg. B. F. Stevenson. 20. Eleventh Army Corps at Chancellorsville, by Capt. O. Rice. 21. An Hour with Victory, by Lieut. J. S. Ostrander. 22. Chickamauga, by Capt. J. R. Carnahan. 5 Maps.

CONTENTS VOL. II: 1. From Grafton to Mc Dowell, by Capt. E. R. Monfort. 2. Gettysburg, by Capt. G. A. Thayer. 3. Kentucky Neutrality in 1861, by Surg. B. F. Stevenson. 4. The Medical Department, by Surg. J. R. Weist. 5. Red River Expedition, by E. C. Williams. 6. The Retreat from Pulaski to Nashville, by Capt. L. T. Schofield. 7. A Confederate Spy, by Maj. L. II. Bond. 8. Our Kirby Smith, by Gen. J. W. Fuller. 9. Loyalists of Tennessee, by Adj. W. Rule. 10. Care of Prisoners North and South, by Lieut. A. B. Isham. 11. Carrying the News of Lee's Surrender, by Lieut. A. J. Ricks. 12. Surrender of Johnston's Army, by Gen. J. D. Cox. 13. Recollections of a Peculiar Service, by Lieut. G. C. Ashmun. 14. Charleston in the Rebellion, by Gen. A. C. Voris. 15. Scenes in Libby Prison, by Maj. J. W. Chamberlain. 16. Canby's Campaign in New Mexico, by Col. L. An derson. 17. The Corps of Telegraphers, by Col. W. G. Fuller. 18. Abraham Lincoln, by Hon. James Speed. 6 Maps and Drawings.

CONTENTS VOL. 3: 1. Battle of Sailor's Creek, by Gen. J. Warren Keifer. 2. Stoneman's Last Campaign and the Pursuit of Jefferson Davis, by Capt. F. H. Mason. 3. Battle of Franklin, by Lieut. Thos. Speed. 4. Battle of Cedar Creek. by Col. M. M. Granger. 5., Cruise of the "Black Terror," by E. Cort Williams. 6. The Tullahoma Campaign, by Gen. D. S. Stanley. 7. The Skirmish Line in the Atlanta Campaign by Maj. W. II. Chamberlin. 8. Reminiscences of the Battle of Shiloh, by Col D. Putnam, Jr. 9. Battle of Atlanta, by Col. G. D. Munson 10. Battle of Bentonville, by Gen. W. P. Carlin 11. On the Right at Antietam, by Gen. R. R. Dawes. 12. Defense of Decatur Ala., by Gen. C. C. Doolittle. 13. Secret Union Organization in Kentucky in 1861, by Col. R. M. Kelly. 14. The Last Ditch, by Maj. L. M. Hosea. 15 Our Volunteer Engineers, by Gen. A. Hickenlooper. 16. A Brush with Pillow, by Col. R. M. Kelly. 17. Inter-state Diplomacy at the beginning of the War, by Hon. A. F. Perry. 18. With the Sixth Wisconsin at Gettysburg, by Gen. R. R. Dawes. 19. Block-houses for Railroad Defense, by Col. Wm E. Merrill. 20. A Regiment in Search of a Battle, by Gen. John Beatty.

These handsome volumes are made up of original contributions to the history of the civil war, by officers who served in the campaigns of which they speak, and who are narrating facts of which they were eye-witnesses. Almost without exception the papers are temperate and serious efforts to throw new light upon the campaigns in which the writers served, and they speak

well for the usefulness of the Loyal Legion as an historical society of no mean importance. When it is remembered that these are records of actual experience, and not compilations from the records, it will be seen that, as material for systematic history in the future, they are invaluable, while they are also attractive and even fascinating reading in themselves.-The Nation.

WALKER. HISTORY OF ATHENS COUNTY, OHIO. And incidentally of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta. With Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, Narratives of Pioneer Adventures, etc. Illustrated with an Original Map, showing the lands purchased by the Ohio Company, the Donation Tract, and Athens County, Past and Present. With fine steel portraits of Hon. Thomas Ewing, Sr., Bishop Ames, Judge Ephraim Cutler and Isaac Barker, and Generel John Brown. By CHARLES M. WALKER. 8vo. $600. Large paper. 2 vols. Imp. 8vo. Cloth. Popular Edition. 8vo. White paper. Cloth.

We have never found a more complete local history, nor one in which the author has more successfully labored to present the annals, the statistics, and the local biographies of a community, with fidelity and elaborate minuteness; and as a specimen of really elegant typography, it is worthy of all praise.-Historical Magazine.

The publication of the Ohio Valley Historical Series, of wich this elegant work forms the second volume, is an enterprise for which men of letters are under deep obligations to the good sense and good taste of the publishers. The present volume, though modest in its pretensions, claiming little more than a local interest, is far more

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valuable in its contents than its title or its unpretending preface might lead one to suppose. It embraces a history of the great Ohio Land Company and the first settlement of the State at Marietta, with biographical sketches of the pioneers of that part of Ohio, and a map which possesses considerable historical interest. Quite apart from its intrinsic value, the work also deserves to be prized as a dainty specimen of handiwork, rarely surpassed by the best New York and Boston book-sellers, to say nothing of those of the West. The type is sumptuous, the paper heavy, the binding neat and strong, and the general typographical arrangement extremely tasteful.-New York Tribune.

HYGIENE AND EDUCATION OF INFANTS; or, How to Take Care of Babies. By the Société Française D'Hygiène, Paris. Translated by GEORGE E. WALTON, M. D. 24mo. Paper.

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This little volume contains full instructions for rearing infants from birth. It gives the most explicit directions as to nourishment, both by the breast and bottle, weaning, teething, bathing, clothing, exercise, etc. It is the work of the learned French Society of Hygiene, and contains the best fruits of ten prize essays, collaborated by a special committee of the Society.

WEBB AND JOHNSTON. AN IMPROVED TALLY-BOOK. For the use of Lumber Dealers. With the Walnut Log Scale. By FRANK WEBB and M. C. JOHNSTON. Long 18mo.

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Each book contains 100 tallies. Its use insures accuracy, requires no counting of tallies or multiplying, and prevents the possibility of making mistakes in counting the boards measured and in multiplying in the old

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The best thing we have seen in the way of plying, and insures undoubted accuracy.a tally-book. It saves much time in multi- Lumberman's Gazette.

WHITTAKER. PHYSIOLOGY. Preliminary Course Lectures. By JAMES T. WHITTAKER, M. D. 12mo. Cloth.

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Dr. Whittaker is the professor of physiology and clinical medicine in the Medical College of Ohio, etc. The volume includes twelve lectures for first course students, on the influence of physiology upon practice; the conversation of force; the origin of life, and the evolution of its forms; and on protaplasm, bone, muscle, nerve and blood.