IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS.
I.
By WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.
A PRIL HOPES. A Novel. By William Dean Howells.
12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
Mr. Howells never wrote a more bewitching book. It is useless to deny the rarity and worth of the skill that can report so perfectly and with such exquisite humor the manifold emotions of the modern maiden and her lover.—Philadelphia Press.
M ODERN ITALIAN POETS. Essays and Versions. By William Dean Howells.
Author of “April Hopes,” &c. With Portraits. 12mo, Half Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $2 00.
A portfolio of delightsome studies.... No acute and penetrating critic surpasses Mr. Howells in true insight, in polished irony, in effective and yet graceful treatment of his theme, in that light and indescribable touch that fixes your eye on the true heart and soul of the theme.—Critic, N. Y.