THE EARLY CORRESPONDENCE OF HANS VON BÜLOW. Edited by his Widow. Selected and translated by Constance Bache. With Portraits. 8vo. Cloth, $4.50.
"The book is valuable in furnishing an excellent insight into the musical history of the period, and to the astonishing standard which the musician had to attain before even recognition was assured by the extremely critical music-loving class of that time."—San Francisco Argonaut.
"As a mere story the book is extremely interesting, while as a psychological as well as a musical study the early life of Hans von Bülow, as mirrored forth in these letters, is of no small import."—New York Mail and Express.
"This volume introduces the Von Bülow not known to the present generation. The letters are free, spontaneous, and unstudied, exhibiting the musician struggling to make what he knew to be in him recognized by the public."—London Daily Chronicle.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, as seen in his Works and Correspondence. By John Charles Tarver. With Portrait. 8vo. Buckram, $4.00.
"It is surprising that this extremely interesting correspondence has not been Englished before."—London Athenæum.
"This handsome volume is welcome.... It merits a cordial reception if for no other reason than to make a large section of the English public more intimately acquainted with the foremost champion of art for art's sake.... The letters are admirably translated, and in the main the book is written with skill and verve."—London Academy.
THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1789-1894. By John Fiske, Carl Schurz, William E. Russell, Daniel C. Gilman, William Walter Phelps, Robert C. Winthrop, George Bancroft, John Hay, and Others. Edited by Gen. James Grant Wilson. With 23 Steel Portraits, facsimile Letters, and other Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, $3.50.
"A book which every one should read over and over again.... We have carefully run through it, and laid it down with the feeling that some such book ought to find its way into every household."—New York Herald.
"A monumental volume, which no American who cares for the memory of the public men of his country can afford to be without."—New York Mail and Express.