A WONDERFUL WORK OF ART.

Mrs. Browning's Love Sonnets.

SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Illustrated by Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen. 1 vol. Oblong folio (pages 13 × 16 inches), beautifully bound, gilt top. $15.00; full tree-calf, $30.00.

This magnificent work has been a labor of love for years with the artist, who is the prince of decorators, and has lavished upon it all the resources of his imagination and skill. The result is a magnificent monument to the poems that are enshrined therein, and a series of designs, the equals of which as a mere treasury of decoration and invention, apart from their significance in illustrating the immortal verse of Mrs. Browning, have never been issued in America. Each sonnet is prefaced by a richly ornamental half-title, on a full page, and is surrounded by a handsome border, emblematic in its design and composition. Mr. Ipsen has for many years been recognized as the foremost leader of art-decoration for books, both inside and outside, and has set more fashions for imitation than any other artist. This book is his crowning work, and will afford an inexhaustible treasury of decoration for students of art, and a life-study for all lovers of beauty and symmetry. Mrs. Browning's sonnets are among the noblest productions of ancient or modern literature; and their literary excellence and incomparable beauty of diction insure for them certain immortality.

RECOLLECTIONS OF EMINENT MEN, and Other Papers. By Edwin Percy Whipple. 1 vol. Crown 8vo. With new steel portrait of the author, and preceded by the Memorial Address delivered by the Rev. Dr. C. A. Bartol. $1.50; in half-calf, $3.00.

A new book by Mr. Whipple is a literary event; and so many years have elapsed since his last publication, that the interest will be more intense in the present volume, which contains some of his most charming and characteristic papers, including monographs on Sumner, Motley, Agassiz, Choate, and George Eliot.

STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. By Clara Erskine Clement. 1 vol. 8vo. Profusely illustrated. In cloth, $4.00; in half parchment cloth, $4.50.

This work, historical and descriptive, gives a complete résumé of the History of Art, with accounts of the various schools, sketches, and anecdotes of all the great artists, with portraits and reproductions of their works. The author is well known as a charming writer and an acknowledged authority on art criticism and history.

PERSIA AND THE PERSIANS. By Hon. S. G. W. Benjamin, late U. S. Minister to the Court of Persia. 1 vol. 8vo. With portrait and many illustrations. Beautifully bound. $5.00. Half calf, $9.00.

The author is, perhaps, the best living authority on Persia, and this book embodies the results of his observation and experience during the years of his residence as United States Minister, combining novel and entertaining adventures and descriptions, with political and other observations of great value. His rare skill as a landscape painter has availed to give many choice pictures of the great Asiatic realm, with its stores of poetry and legend, its strange customs, and its romantic scenery and architecture.

CONFESSIONS AND CRITICISMS. By Julian Hawthorne. 1 vol. 12mo. With portrait. $1.25.

A series of very delightful essays and papers, with reminiscences and other memorable papers, prepared by one of the most skilful and interesting of American authors, and calculated to attract and keep the attention of all readers. It includes a great variety of valuable miscellany, and several papers that have already become classic among people of cultivation and acumen.

THE HOUSE AT HIGH BRIDGE. By Edgar Fawcett. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

The announcement of an entirely new novel from the pen of the writer of "Adventures of a Widow," etc., is sufficient to pique the curiosity of many readers, who find in this author the best traits of modern literature. "The House at High Bridge" is an entirely new work, not having been published serially.

NORA PERRY'S NEW SONGS AND BALLADS. 12mo. Gilt top and rough edges. $1.50.

A new volume of poems by Nora Perry is now ready, and its publication will be welcomed with great interest by the thousands of admirers of this brilliant and piquant writer.

AFTER THE BALL, HER LOVER'S FRIEND, AND OTHER POEMS. By Nora Perry. New edition. Two volumes in one. $1.75.

A re-issue of the entire collected poetical works of Nora Perry, previous to the publication of "New Songs and Ballads." They were formerly published in two volumes, but are now made into one.

RANKELL'S REMAINS. A Novel. By Barrett Wendell, author of "The Duchess Emilia." 1 vol. 12mo. $1.00.

"Powerfully and wonderfully done as a piece of characterization.... The book has deserved its success because more than any other of its kind it is comprehensible, forcible, and readable."—Commercial Bulletin.

"The telling is remarkably well done. It is full of power and the intensity of underlying tragedy," says Nora Perry, in The Independent.

"A bitter, caustic, stinging satire, a book of power."—Chicago Times.

A MURAMASA BLADE. A Story of Feudalism in Old Japan. By Louis Wertheimber. 1 vol. 8vo. Beautifully illustrated by Japanese artists. $3.00; in red Japanese brocade, $5.00.

Mr. Wertheimber, of a scholarly Austrian family, went to Japan about the year 1870, and spent many years there, in the service of the Japanese Government. He was an extensive traveller among the inland districts and villages; and contributed many articles and series to the Japan Mail, and other publications. The present book is a romance of the sword, full of charming local color, true to life as it is in Japan, and full of deep and enchaining interest. Its mechanical make-up is sumptuous in every respect.

AGNES SURRIAGE. A Novel. By Edwin Lassetter Bynner, author of "Damen's Ghost," "Penelope's Suitors," etc. $1.50.

Founded upon a romantic episode in early Massachusetts history, introducing by name prominent people of the day, with descriptions of their characters and appearance, weaving in historical events, such as the Louisburg Expedition, Church Squabbles, and the Spinning Craze, and giving a realistic picture of life under the royal governors,—a book which, apart from the thrilling interest of the story, is of permanent value as a painstaking study of an historical epoch.

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF NOTED PERSONS. By Hon. Justin S. Morrill. $1.50.

The well-known and erudite Senator from Vermont has, in this work, condensed the fruits of years of curious research in a strange and unfamiliar field. The result is a rarely entertaining volume of great value to all scholars and public men, and interesting to all readers. A small edition was privately printed some time since, and met with such praise and appreciation that Senator Morrill has since carefully revised and materially augmented it for publication.

THE MINISTER'S CHARGE. By W. D. Howells, author of "The Rise of Silas Lapham," "Indian Summer," etc. $1.50.

"In this great novel of the people Henry James finds that Mr. Howells touches high-water mark; and sees an important and valuable work in this minute and subtle registering of the heavy-witted countryman's slow development under city conditions. However that may be, Howells's pure, inimitable fun is enough to carry any story he may write. Like all true fun, this has a most searching pathos all the time just at hand; and never is the real dignity of character of this actual Yankee forgotten or trifled with."—Boston Transcript.

COUNT XAVIER. By Henry Gréville. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.00.

This is the latest and one of the best of the novels of the author of "Dosia," the most popular and famous of Parisian novelists.

LIBER AMORIS. By Henry Bernard Carpenter. 1 vol. 16mo. Gilt top and rough edges. $1.75.

A brilliant and picturesque romance in verse, dealing with the period of the Minnesingers, in the Rheinland, Padua, and Auvergne. Mr. Carpenter has long been known as one of our most spirited and vigorous poets.

MARY MAGDALENE, AND OTHER POEMS. By Mrs. Richard Greenough. With photograph of Greenough's statue of the Magdalen on the side of the cover. 50 cents.

The
Memorial History of Boston,

In Four Volumes. Quarto.

With more than 500 Illustrations by famous artists and engravers, all made for this work.

Edited by JUSTIN WINSOR, Librarian of Harvard University.

Among the contributors are:—

Volume I. treats of the Geology, Fauna, and Flora; the Voyages and Maps of the Northmen, Italians, Captain John Smith, and the Plymouth Settlers; the Massachusetts Company, Puritanism, and the Aborigines; the Literature, Life, and Chief Families of the Colonial Period.

Vol. II. treats of the Royal Governors; French and Indian Wars; Witches and Pirates; The Religion, Literature, Customs, and Chief Families of the Provincial Period.

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Vol. IV. treats of the Social Life, Topography, and Landmarks, Industries, Commerce, Railroads, and Financial History of this Century in Boston; with Monographic Chapters on Boston's Libraries, Women, Science, Art, Music, Philosophy, Architecture, Charities, etc.

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