Books Received.
Papers relating to the Transit of Venus in 1874. Prepared under the Direction of the Commissioners authorized by Congress. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing-office.
Reports on Observations of Encke's Comet during its Return in 1871. By Asaph Hall and Wm. Harkness. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing-Office.
Harry Delaware; or, An American in Germany. By Mathilde Estvan. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons.
California for Health, Pleasure and Residence. By Charles Nordhoff. New York: Harper & Brothers.
The Lives of General U.S. Grant and Henry Wilson. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers.
The Romance of American History. By M. Schele de Vere. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons.
Book of Ballads, Tales and Stories. By Benjamin G. Herre. Lancaster, Pa.: Wylie & Griest.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.