"Oddities and wonders,
Antiquities and blunders,
And omens dire;
Strange customs, cranks and freaks,
With philosophy in streaks"
are all to be found between the covers of this book. It certainly is the completest collection of odd and curious events ever made.
TAINE. H. A.--History of English Literature. Translated by H. Van Laun, with Introductory Essay and Notes by R. H. Stoddard. 4 handsome volumes. Cloth, white labels, $7.50.
It is the book on the subject, the more wonderful that, written by a French critic, it should be accepted by English-speaking people--everywhere--as the authority on the literature of their own language, universally prized for its clearness, terseness and comprehensiveness, and yet as interesting as a work of fiction.
THE APOCRYPHAL NEW TESTAMENT, Being all the Gospels, Epistles, and Other Pieces now extant attributed in the First Centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles and their Companions, and not included in the New Testament by its compilers. Translated from the original tongues, and now first collected into one volume. With numerous quaint illustrations, 1 vol., 8vo, cloth, red edges, $1.25.
As a literary curiosity this work has excited the greatest attention all over the Christian world. There is nothing in it contradictory of those truths which have been accepted as revealed, but every chapter and verse goes to confirm the undoubted writings of the apostles and evangelists.