"There is more to be learned from Edward Everett Hale's little book, 'Seven Spanish Cities and the Way to Them,' than from several more elaborate and pretentious works on the peninsula which have been issued this year. Mr. Hale had only seven weeks to spend in Spain, but he is so good an observer that he managed to see as much in this short vacation jaunt as many men would discover in seven years. It is needless to say that everything he saw is faithfully shared with the reader, as well as his bright comment on the people and the country. His style is his own, but it is a great pity that he cannot share this with many writers. It is one of the most attractive of styles—destitute of all pretense, straightforward, never slovenly, never involved; it is like the suggestive table-talk of a wise man—full of all manner of surprises, delightful in its absence of premeditation."—San Francisco Chronicle.
| SONGS UNSUNG. By Lewis Morris, author of "The Epic of Hades." 16mo. Price, | $1.50 |
"Some of the more important pieces make almost equal and very high demands alike on my sympathy and my admiration, and I hope you may long be enabled to cherish the enviable gift of finding utterance for truths so deep in forms of so much power and beauty."—Letter from Mr. Gladstone.
"Those readers of verse who need not only music for the ear, but clear and satisfying thought for the intellect, will find much in 'Songs Unsung' to interest and stimulate."—Christian Union.
| MARY LAMB. Famous Women Series. By Anne Gilchrist. One vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, | $1.00 |
"'Mary Lamb,' by Anne Gilchrist, published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, is decidedly the best of the four volumes yet issued in the 'Famous Women' Series. Mrs. Gilchrist has mastered her subject in spirit and in detail, and the result is a book that cannot fail of affording acute enjoyment to thousands of people.... There is a directness of sight and utterance and a firmness of touch not common in any recent biographical work.... There was a great deal in the lives of Mary and Charles Lamb that was quietly but finely heroic. And it is this in some shape or other that all the world loves to read about. Mrs. Gilchrist has not fastened herself to the working of an elaborate picture of Mary Lamb. There is no perceptible attempt at ambitious and weakish criticism, but a most felicitous selection and placing of these single lines of letters and conversations that are revelations of the soul and life of the persons under consideration. It is a reversion to charity and truth in literature and life, and as a piece of clean, sweet and clear work is deserving of the highest praise."—Philadelphia Times.
| VESTIGIA. By George Fleming. One vol. 16mo. Price, | $1.25 |
"Vestigia" is the title of the new novel by the author of "Kismet," "Mirage," and "The Head of Medusa." "George Fleming," the nom de plume of this well-known writer, has given us in "Vestigia" a work of real power. The title is a part of the Latin proverb, "Vestigia nulla retrorsum"—no steps backward—which is the motif of the story.
"The best work that Miss Julia Constance Fletcher, who writes under the name of George Fleming, has done yet is her new novel, 'Vestigia.' The scene is Leghorn, with one important action in Rome. The hero is a fine young fellow, urged by his friends, circumstances and his own sense of honor into a political complication, where he becomes the instrument of conspirators. Most of the characters are of the lower class of Italians, artisans and sailors—simple, honest, loyal people of keen intelligence and noble natures. The heroine is very lovely, with great moral strength that comes from her absolute purity and unwavering faith in those whom she loves and in God. The simple, laborious life of the people, with a touch of patrician splendor introduced now and then for artistic effect, is an attractive picture. The whole story is sweet, tender and noble."—Boston Advertiser.
| A NEWPORT AQUARELLE. A novel. One vol. 12mo. Cloth. Price, | $1.00 |