There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be history, the volumes will contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—"Curiosities of the Old Lottery," "Days of the Spinning Wheel," "Some Strange and Curious Punishments," "Quaint and Curious Advertisements," "Literary Curiosities," "New-England Sunday," etc.
THE IMPERIAL ISLAND—ENGLAND'S CHRONICLE IN STONE. By James F. Hunnewell. 1 vol. 8vo. Richly illustrated. $3.50.
This admirable and impressive work is a companion to the same author's well-known "Historical Monuments of France," and contains a vivid record of the life of Merrie England, as exemplified by her august castles and palaces, abbeys and cathedrals.
LIFE AND WORKS OF MRS. CLEMMER.
AN AMERICAN WOMAN'S LIFE AND WORK. A Memorial of Mary Clemmer, by Edmund Hudson, with Portrait.
POEMS OF LIFE AND NATURE.
HIS TWO WIVES.
MEN, WOMEN, AND THINGS. Revised and augmented.
The whole in four 12mo. volumes, tastefully bound, forming a beautiful, uniform set of the selected works, together with the memorial biography of this popular and lamented writer.
THE SAUNTERER. By Charles Goodrich Whiting. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.25.