BITS OF TRAVEL. Square 18mo. Cloth, red edges. Price, $1.25.
The volume has few of the characteristics of an ordinary book of travel. It is entertaining and readable, from cover to cover; and when the untravelled reader has finished it, he will find that he knows a great deal more about life in Europe—having seen it through intelligent and sympathetic eyes—than he ever got before from a dozen more pretentious volumes.—Hartford Courant.
BITS OF TRAVEL AT HOME. Square 18mo. Cloth, red edges. Price, $1.50.
The descriptions of American scenery in this volume indicate the imagination of a poet, the eye of an acute observer of Nature, the hand of an artist, and the heart of a woman.
H. H.'s choice of words is of itself a study of color. Her picturesque diction rivals the skill of the painter, and presents the woods and waters of the Great West with a splendor of illustration that can scarcely be surpassed by the brightest glow of the canvas. Her intuitions of character are no less keen than her perceptions of Nature.—N. Y. Tribune.
GLIMPSES OF THREE COASTS: California and Oregon; Scotland and England; Norway, Denmark, and Germany. 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50.
Helen Hunt Jackson has left another monumental memorial of her literary life in the volume entitled "Glimpses of Three Coasts," which is just published and includes some fourteen papers relating to life in California and Oregon, in Scotland and England, and on the North Shore of Europe in Germany, Denmark, and Norway. The sketches are marked by that peculiar charm that characterizes Mrs. Jackson's interpretations of Nature and life. She had the divining gift of the poet; she had the power of philosophic reflection; and these, with her keen observation and swift sympathies and ardent temperament, make her the ideal interpreter of a country's life and resources.—Traveller, Boston.
BITS OF TALK ABOUT HOME MATTERS. Square 18mo. Cloth, red edges. Price, $1.00.
"Bits of Talk" is a book that ought to have a place of honor in every household; for it teaches, not only the true dignity of parentage, but of childhood. As we read it, we laugh and cry with the author, and acknowledge that, since the child is father of the man, in being the champion of childhood, she is the champion of the whole coming race. Great is the rod, but H. H. is not its prophet!—Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, in Newburyport Herald.
POEMS: Complete, comprising "Verses by H. H." and "Sonnets and Lyrics." Square 18mo. Red edges, price, $1.50; white cloth, gilt, $1.75.