The immediate and permanent success of "The Lady of the Lake," "Marmion," etc., has encouraged the publishers to bring out this not less popular and famous poem. It is produced in the same style, and with the same careful and elaborate style of illustration, regardless of cost, while Mr. Anthony's skilful supervision is sufficient guarantee that the work is elegant and tasteful as well as correct.
THE PETERKIN PAPERS. By Lucretia P. Hale. New Holiday edition, revised and enlarged, uniform with "Davy and the Goblin." Square 4to. Illustrated with a great number of new pictures. $1.50.
The continued popularity of these inimitable stories has compelled the issue of this new and enlarged edition, with new illustrations and type. "The Lady from Philadelphia," "Agamemnon," "Solomon John," and other characters of these stories have become household words in thousands of American families; and the publication of a worthy and comely edition of so delightful a classic will be hailed with joy by many old friends and new.
MURAL PAINTING. By Frederic Crowninshield. 1 vol. Square 8vo. With numerous diagrams and full-page illustrations. $3.00.
This series of papers has excited great interest and attention in "The American Architect;" and in its present enlarged and amended form, with many new illustrations, is still more valuable.
THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN OF GENERAL POPE IN 1862. Being Volume II. of Papers read before the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. With Maps and Plans. 1 vol. 8vo. $3.00.
A careful and dispassionate account of the great retreat from the Rapidan to the Potomac, with the stories of its terrible battles, prepared by prominent military officers, and dealing with the Second Bull-Run campaign, the Fitz-John Porter affair, and other interesting matters.
SONGS AND SATIRES. A volume of poems. By James Jeffrey Roche. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.00.
The range and versatility of these poems add to their other attractions, and make the volume a very popular one. Mr. Roche's vers de société, printed in "Life," and other publications, are of singular delicacy and originality, and the best of them are incorporated in this volume, together with many heretofore unpublished poems.
GENIUS IN SUNSHINE AND IN SHADOW. By M. M. Ballou, author of "Edge-tools of Speech." 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.