LAUREL-CROWNED TALES.
Abdallah; or, The Four-Leaved Shamrock. By Edouard Laboulaye. Translated by Mary L. Booth.
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. By Samuel Johnson.
Raphael; or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty. From the French of Alphonse de Lamartine.
The Vicar of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith.
The Epicurean. By Thomas Moore.
Picciola. By X. B. Saintine.
An Iceland Fisherman. By Pierre Loti.
Other volumes in preparation.
Handsomely printed from new plates, on fine laid paper, 12mo, cloth, with gilt tops, price per volume, $1.00.
In half calf or half morocco, $2.50.
In planning this series, the publishers have aimed at a form which should combine an unpretentious elegance suited to the fastidious book-lover with an inexpensiveness that must appeal to the most moderate buyer.
It is the intent to admit to the series only such tales as have for years or for generations commended themselves not only to the fastidious and the critical, but also to the great multitude of the refined reading public,--tales, in short, which combine purity and classical beauty of style with perennial popularity.
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THE BOOK-LOVER. A Guide to the Best Reading. By James Baldwin, Ph.D. Sixth edition, 16mo, cloth, gilt top, 201 pages. Price, $1.00.
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Of this book, on the best in English Literature, which has already been declared of the highest value by the testimony of the best critics in this country, an edition of one thousand copies has just been ordered for London, the home of English Literature,--a compliment of which its scholarly western author may justly be proud.
We know of no work of the kind which gives so much useful information in so small a space.--Evening Telegram, New York.
Sound in theory and in a practical point of view. The courses of reading laid down are made of good books, and in general, of the best.--Independent, New York.
Mr. Baldwin has written in this monograph a delightful eulogium of books and their manifold influence, and has gained therein two classes of readers,--the scholarly class, to which he belongs, and the receptive class, which he has benefited.--Evening Mail and Express, New York.
If a man needs that the love of books be cultivated within him, such a gem of a book as Dr. Baldwin's ought to do the work. Perfect and inviting in all that a book ought outwardly to be, its contents are such as to instruct the mind at the same time that they answer the taste, and the reader who goes carefully through its two hundred pages ought not only to love books in general better than he ever did before, but to love them more wisely, more intelligently, more discriminatingly, and with more profit to his own soul.--Literary World, Boston.
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WE TWO ALONE IN EUROPE. By Mary L. Ninde. Illustrated from Original Designs.
12mo, 348 pages, price, $1.50.
The foreign travels which gave rise to this volume were of a novel and perhaps unprecedented kind. Two young American girls started for "the grand tour" with the father of one of them, and he being compelled to return home from London they were courageous enough to continue their journeyings alone. They spent two years in travel,--going as far north as the North Cape and south to the Nile, and including in their itinerary St. Petersburg and Moscow. Miss Ninde's narrative is written in a fresh and sprightly but unsensational style, which, with the unusual experiences portrayed, renders the work quite unlike the ordinary books of travel.
It is a narrative told so naturally and so vividly that the two gentle travellers do not seem to be "alone," but to have taken at least the reader along with them.... It is filled with so many interesting glimpses of sights and scenes in many lands as to render it thoroughly entertaining.--The Congregationalist, Boston.
As the work of a bright American girl, the book is sure to command wide attention. The volume is handsomely bound and copiously illustrated with views drawn, if we mistake not, by the author's own fair hands, so well do they accord with the vivacious spirit of her narrative.--Times, Troy, New York.
In these days when letters and books about travels in Europe have become generally monotonous, to say the least, it is absolutely refreshing to get hold of a bright, original book like "We Two alone in Europe."... The book is especially interesting for its fresh, bright observations on manners, customs, and objects of interest as viewed through these young girls' eyes, and the charming spice of adventure running through it.--Home Journal, Boston.
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THE HUMBLER POETS. A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse. 1870 to 1885. By Slason Thompson. Crown 8vo, 459 pages, cloth, gilt top. Price, $2.00.
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The publishers have done well in issuing this volume in a style of literary and artistic excellence, such as is given to the works of the poets of name and fame, because the contents richly entitle it to such distinction.--Home Journal, Boston.
The high poetic character of these poems, as a whole, is surprising. As a unit, the collection makes an impression which even a genius of the highest order would not be adequate to produce.... Measured by poetic richness, variety, and merit of the selections contained, the collection is a rarely good one flavored with the freshness and aroma of the present time.--Independent, New York.
Mr. Thompson winnowed out the chaff from the heap, and has given us the golden grain in this volume. Many old newspaper favorites will be recognized in this collection,--many of those song-waifs which have been drifting up and down the newspaper world for years, and which nobody owns but everybody loves. We are glad for ourselves that some one has been kind and tender-hearted enough to take in these fugitive children of the Muses and give them a safe and permanent home. The selection has been made with rare taste and discrimination, and the result is a delightful volume.--Observer, New York.
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LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, By the Hon. Isaac N. Arnold. With Steel Portrait. 8vo, cloth, 471 pages. Price, $1.50.
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It is decidedly the best and most complete Life of Lincoln that has yet appeared.--Contemporary Review, London.
Mr. Arnold succeeded to a singular extent in assuming the broad view and judicious voice of posterity and exhibiting the greatest figure of our time in its true perspective.--The Tribune, New York.
It is the only Life of Lincoln thus far published that is likely to live,--the only one that has any serious pretensions to depict him with adequate veracity, completeness, and dignity.--The Sun, New York.
The author knew Mr. Lincoln long and intimately, and no one was better fitted for the task of preparing his biography. He has written with tenderness and fidelity, with keen discrimination, and with graphic powers of description and analysis.--The Interior, Chicago.
Mr. Arnold's "Life of President Lincoln" is excellent in almost every respect.... The author has painted a graphic and life-like portrait of the remarkable man who was called to decide on the destinies of his country at the crisis of its fate.--The Times, London.
The book is particularly rich in incidents connected with the early career of Mr. Lincoln; and it is without exception the most satisfactory record of his life that has yet been written. Readers will also find that in its entirety it is a work of absorbing and enduring interest that will enchain the attention more effectually than any novel.--Magazine of American History, New York.
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THE AZTECS. Their History, Manners, and Customs. From the French of Lucien Biart. Authorized translation by J. L. Garner.
Illustrated, 8vo, 340 pages, price, $2.00.
The author has travelled through the country of whose former glories his book is a recital, and his studies and discoveries leaven the book throughout. The volume is absorbingly interesting, and is as attractive in style as it is in material.--Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston.
Nowhere has this subject been more fully and intelligently treated than in this volume, now placed within reach of American readers. The mythology of the Aztecs receives special attention, and all that is known of their lives, their hopes, their fears, and aspirations finds record here.--The Tribune, Chicago.
The man who can rise from the study of Lucien Biart's invaluable work, "The Aztecs," without feelings of amazement and admiration for the history and the government, and for the arts cultivated by these Romans of the New World is not to be envied.--The Advance, Chicago.
The twilight origin of the present race is graphically presented: those strange people whose traces have almost vanished from off the face of the earth again live before us. Their taxes and tributes, their marriage ceremonies, their burial customs, laws, medicines, food, poetry, and dances are described.... The book is a very interesting one, and is brought out with copious illustrations.--The Traveller, Boston.
M. Biart is the most competent authority living on the subject of the Aztecs. He spent many years in Mexico, studied his subject carefully through all means of information, and wrote his book from the view-point of a scientist. His style is very attractive, and it has been very successfully translated. The general reader, as well as all scholars, will be much taken with the work.--Chronicle Telegraph, Pittsburg.
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