The book is charmingly written, and is embellished by a large number of illustrations very carefully selected and engraved. Among the homesteads presented are: Brandon, Westover, Shirley, Marshall House, Cliveden (Chew House), Morris House, Van Cortlandt Manor-House, Oak Hill (The Home of the Livingstons), Philipse Manor-House, Jumel House (Fort Washington), Smith House (Sharon, Conn.), Pierce Homestead, Parson Williams’s House, Varina (Pocahontas), Jamestown, Williamsburg.
Where Ghosts Walk
The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature. By Marion Harland, author of “Old Colonial Homesteads,” etc. With 33 illustrations. 8º, gilt top.
The Ayrshire Homes and Haunts of Burns
By HENRY C. SHELLEY. With 26 full-page illustrations from photographs by the author, and with portrait in photogravure. Second edition. 16º, gilt top.
$1.25
A book of interest to all lovers of Robert Burns and of Scotland. The value of this little work is enhanced by the views of the homes and scenes which are placed by the side of the verses with which Burns has made them immortal.
Little Journeys
TO THE HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN. Series for 1898. By ELBERT HUBBARD. Bound in one volume. With portraits. 16º, gilt top
$1.75