FROM THE BOOKS OF LAURENCE HUTTON. With Portrait. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00.
"Some American Book Plates," "Grangerism and the Grangerites," "The Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots," "Portrait Inscriptions," and "Poetical Inscriptions and Dedications" are the topics chosen by Mr. Hutton, and the reader gets pleasure even as he gets culture from a perusal of his studies in these fields.—Hartford Courant.
CONCERNING ALL OF US. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. With Portrait. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00.
Colonel Higginson has the advantage of a sound and simple philosophy of life to show off his fine literary culture. The one makes him worth reading—strong, open-minded, and wholesome; the other gives him graces of form, style, and literary attraction in great variety. It is hard to decide whether the charm or the usefulness of the present collection of essays preponderates.—Independent, N. Y.
FROM THE EASY CHAIR. By George William Curtis. With Portrait. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00.
The essays have lost nothing of their actuality; their freshness of humor; their contagion of cheerful philosophy; their breathing, historical interest; their wit, that fits like a cap on Wisdom's head; their tenderness of humanity.—Philadelphia Ledger.
AS WE WERE SAYING. By Charles Dudley Warner. With Portrait, and Illustrated by H. W. McVickar and Others. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00.
Mr. Warner possesses the faculty of putting his thoughts into excellent English, while the simplicity of his style, the absence of all straining after effect, and the apparently spontaneous character of his wit, sufficiently account for the high reputation he enjoys among the American humorists.—Episcopal Recorder, Philadelphia.
CRITICISM AND FICTION. By William Dean Howells. With Portrait. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00.
Many a good thing and many a true thing is here clothed in the diction of a master, and giving forth the bouquet of a style as delicately vigorous, so to say, as any in English literature.—Independent, N. Y.