This work, historical and descriptive, gives a complete résumé of the History of Art, with accounts of the various schools, sketches, and anecdotes of all the great artists, with portraits and reproductions of their works. The author is well known as a charming writer and an acknowledged authority on art criticism and history.
PERSIA AND THE PERSIANS. By Hon. S. G. W. Benjamin, late U. S. Minister to the Court of Persia. 1 vol. 8vo. With portrait and many illustrations. Beautifully bound. $5.00. Half calf, $9.00.
The author is, perhaps, the best living authority on Persia, and this book embodies the results of his observation and experience during the years of his residence as United States Minister, combining novel and entertaining adventures and descriptions, with political and other observations of great value. His rare skill as a landscape painter has availed to give many choice pictures of the great Asiatic realm, with its stores of poetry and legend, its strange customs, and its romantic scenery and architecture.
CONFESSIONS AND CRITICISMS. By Julian Hawthorne. 1 vol. 12mo. With portrait. $1.25.
A series of very delightful essays and papers, with reminiscences and other memorable papers, prepared by one of the most skilful and interesting of American authors, and calculated to attract and keep the attention of all readers. It includes a great variety of valuable miscellany, and several papers that have already become classic among people of cultivation and acumen.
THE HOUSE AT HIGH BRIDGE. By Edgar Fawcett. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.
The announcement of an entirely new novel from the pen of the writer of "Adventures of a Widow," etc., is sufficient to pique the curiosity of many readers, who find in this author the best traits of modern literature. "The House at High Bridge" is an entirely new work, not having been published serially.
NORA PERRY'S NEW SONGS AND BALLADS. 12mo. Gilt top and rough edges. $1.50.
A new volume of poems by Nora Perry is now ready, and its publication will be welcomed with great interest by the thousands of admirers of this brilliant and piquant writer.
AFTER THE BALL, HER LOVER'S FRIEND, AND OTHER POEMS. By Nora Perry. New edition. Two volumes in one. $1.75.