The remarkable popularity and great sales which made "Margaret Kent" one of the foremost books of the last year (or of the last decade) seem likely to be repeated in this new novel by the same author. It sparkles with the real life and deep feeling, and has the same admirable social setting, that have made "Margaret Kent" a name to conjure by wherever the best of literature is known.
HAPPY DODD. By Rose Terry Cooke, author of "The Deacon's Week," etc. 12mo. $1.50.
"Happy Dodd" is a beautiful and tender novel of New-England life especially adapted for home reading, and breathing out a strengthening spirit of Christian love and heroism.
SCOTT'S THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by W. J. Rolfe, A. M. 1 vol. 12mo. Beautifully illustrated. 75 cents.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE SNOB. By Thomas Sergeant Perry. 16mo. $1.00.
A keen and brilliant social study, by one of the most spirited writers of Boston.
GOETHE'S FAUST: A Commentary. By Denton J. Snider. 2 vols. 12mo. $3.50.
A learned and valuable treatise on the greatest of German poems, giving its history, critical standards, and outline, and careful analyses and explanations of all the scenes and situations, as seen from a philosophical point of view.
SCOTT'S THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. An entirely new edition of this famous and popular poem, from new plates, with nearly one hundred new illustrations by leading American artists. Elegantly and appropriately bound, with full gilt edges. In box. Cloth, $6.00; padded calf, tree-calf, or antique morocco, $10.00. A few copies in crushed Levant, with silk linings, $25.00.
"The Lay of the Last Minstrel" is larger than its predecessors, the Holiday volumes published under Mr. Anthony's supervision, and its broad and handsome pages offer very favorable opportunities for the display of the illustrations, which are masterpieces of modern engraving.