"Notwithstanding the volume abounds with sporting accounts, the natural history of Ceylon is well and carefully described, and the curiosities of the famed island are not neglected. It is a valuable addition to the works on the East Indies."—Phila. Lutheran Observer.
Hints for Six Months in Europe. Being the Programme of a Tour through parts of France, Italy, Austria, Saxony, Prussia, the Tyrol, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, England and Scotland, in the Summer of 1868. By John H. B. Latrobe. 12mo. Toned paper. Extra cloth, $1.50.
"It has many of the best advantages of a regular guide-book, with the additional excellence of being reliable as to facts and trustworthy as to the opinions it utters."—New York Christian Advocate.
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Lippincott's Treasuries of Literary Gems. Miniature 4to. Choicely printed on the finest toned paper and beautifully bound in extra cloth, gilt and gilt edges. 75 cts. each; as follows:
I. A Treasury of Table Talk. II. Epigrams and Literary Follies. III. A Treasury of Poetic Gems. IV. The Table Talk of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. V. Gleanings from the Comedies of Shakspeare. VI. Beauties of the British Dramatists. The six volumes in neat box, $4.50.
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Mizpah. Friends at Prayer. Containing a Prayer or Meditation for each day in the Year. By Lafayette C. Loomis. 12mo. Beautifully printed on superfine tinted paper within red lines. Fine cloth, $2. Extra cloth, gilt edges. $2.50.
This work proposes Morning and Evening Scripture Readings, and an Evening Meditation. The Morning Readings embrace the Psalms twice, and the evening, the New Testament entire, during the year. The Meditations are not expositions of the text, but rather devotional reflections—generally upon the Evening Reading—and intended to follow the Scripture and precede prayer.