THE ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN NOVELS.
New Edition in Handsome Binding. Each one vol. 12mo, uniform. Extra Cloth, $1.25 per vol.
"These delightful works well deserve their great success.... Not only is the couleur locale admirably preserved, but the very spirit of those who took part in the events is preserved."—President Andrew D. White, LL.D.
FRIEND FRITZ. A Tale of the Banks of the Lauter. Including a Story of College Life.—"Maître Nablot."
"'Friend Fritz' is a charmingly sunny and refreshing story."—N.Y. Tribune.
THE CONSCRIPT. A Tale of the French War of 1813. With four full-page illustrations.
"It is hardly fiction—it is history in the guise of fiction, and that part of history which historians hardly write, concerning the disaster, the ruin, the sickness, the poverty, and the utter misery and suffering which war brings upon the people."—Cincinnati Daily Commercial.
WATERLOO. A Story of the Hundred Days. Being a Sequel to "The Conscript." With four full-page illustrations.
"Written in that charming style of simplicity which has made the Erckmann-Chatrian works popular in every language in which they have been published."—New York Daily Herald.
THE PLEBISCITE. The Miller's Story of the War. A vivid Narrative of Events in connection with the great Franco-Prussian War of 1871.
THE BLOCKADE OF PHALSBURG. An Episode of the Fall of the First French Empire. With four full-page illustrations and a portrait of the authors.
"Not only are they interesting historically, but intrinsically a pleasant, well-constructed plot, serving in each case to connect the great events which they so graphically treat, and the style being as vigorous and charming as it is pure and refreshing."—Philadelphia Daily Inquirer.
INVASION OF FRANCE IN 1814. With the Night March past Phalsburg. With a Memoir of the Authors. With four full-page illustrations.
"All their novels are noted for the same admirable qualities—simple and effective realism of plot, incident and language, and a disclosure of the horrid individual aspects of war. They are absolutely perfect of their kind."—N. Y. Evening Mail.
MADAME THERESE, or, the Volunteers of '92. With four full-page illustrations.
"It is a boy's story—that is, supposed to be written by a boy—and has all the freshness, the unconscious simplicity and naïveté which the imagined authorship should imply; while nothing more graphic, more clearly and vividly pictorial, has been brought before the public for many a day."—Boston Commonwealth.
A NEW EDITION.
Books and Reading.
BY NOAH PORTER, LL.D., President of Yale College.
With an appendix giving valuable directions for courses of reading, prepared by James M. Hubbard, late of the Boston Public Library.
1 vol., crown 8vo., $2.00.
It would be difficult to name any American better qualified than President Porter to give advice upon the important question of "What to Read and How to Read." His acquaintance with the whole range of English literature is most thorough and exact, and his judgments are eminently candid and mature. A safer guide, in short, in all literary matters, it would be impossible to find.
"The great value of the book lies not in prescribing courses of reading, but in a discussion of principles, which lie at the foundation of all valuable systematic reading."—The Christian Standard.
"Young people who wish to know what to read and how to read it, or how to pursue a particular course of reading, cannot do better than begin with this book, which is a practical guide to the whole domain of literature, and is full of wise suggestions for the improvement of the mind."—Philadelphia Bulletin.
"President Porter himself treats of all the leading departments of literature of course with abundant knowledge, and with what is of equal importance to him, with a very definite and serious purpose to be of service to inexperienced readers. There is no better or more interesting book of its kind now within their reach."—Boston Advertiser.
"President Noah Porter's 'Books and Reading' is far the most practical and satisfactory treatise on the subject that has been published. It not only answers the questions 'What books shall I read?' and 'How shall I read them?' but it supplies a large and well-arranged catalogue under appropriate heads, sufficient for a large family or a small public library."—Boston Zion's Herald.