“Don’t” deals with manners at the table, in the drawing-room and In public, with the rules of taste in dress, with personal habits, with common mistakes in various situations in life, and with the ordinary errors of speech.
THE CORRESPONDENT. By James Wood Davidson, A. M. 12mo. Cloth, 60 cents.
The aim of this book is to give in convenient and immediately accessible form information often needed by the American correspondent in regard to forms of address, salutation, complimentary close, superscriptions, etc., and other matters connected with correspondence.
ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE; or, A Jest in Sober Earnest. Compiled from the celebrated “New Guide of Conversation in Portuguese and English,” Square 18mo. Parchment-paper. 30 cents.
ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE, showing curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them. Square 18mo. Parchment-paper. 30 cents.
CHINA. TRAVELS AND INVESTIGATIONS IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. A Study of Its Civilization and Possibilities. With A Glance at Japan. By James Harrison Wilson, late Major-General United States Volunteers, and Brevet Major-General United States Army. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
ROUNDABOUT TO MOSCOW. AN EPICUREAN JOURNEY. By John Bell Bouton, author of “Round the Block.” 12mo. Cloth, ornamented cover, Russian title-page, 421 pages, $1.50.
“This genial book gives the first truly American view of the land of Nihilists and Novelists. The author exposes and playfully ridicules the current English misrepresentations of Russia. His epicurean circuit for getting into and out of the empire includes nearly every country of Europe. He keeps on the track of all the comforts and luxuries required by American travelers. Tourists will find the volume a boon companion. But it is no less designed to please those who stay at home and travel only by book.”
BRAZIL: ITS CONDITION AND PROSPECTS. By C. C. Andrews, ex-Consul-General to Brazil; formerly U. S. Minister to Norway and Sweden. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
CONTENTS: Prefatory. Voyage to Brazil. Getting to Housekeeping. Rio and its People. Life and Manners. The Emperor of Brazil. Tijuca—Pedra Bonita. Situation, Resources, and Climate. American-Brazilian Relations. A Trip into the Interior. Visit to a Coffee-Plantation. Public Instruction. Local Administration. Parliamentary Government. Brazilian Literature. Agriculture and Stock-raising. The Amazon Valley. Beasts of Prey. Slavery and Emancipation. The Religious Orders. Public Lands and Immigration.