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People's Duodecimo Edition. 18 vols. (Arrangement the same as above.) Cloth, per vol. $2.50; set, hf. cf. $60, $65, and $72.

Illustrated Duodecimo Edition. 32 vols. (Each work, as above specified, in 2 vols. cloth, per vol. $2.00; with the exception of Great Expectations; Lamplighter's Story: New Stories; and Message from the Sea, each in 1 vol. cloth, per vol. $2.50). Set, cloth, $64; hf. cf. $125.

New National Edition. 7 vols., ill. 8°. Cloth, $20; hf. cf. $35.

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. Bleak House. 2 V. Illustr. 12°, clo. $3;-Christmas Tales, 12°, cloth, $1.25 :-Hard Times, 12o, cloth, $1.25; -Same, 8o, pap. 50 c.;- History of England, 2 v. 16o, cloth, $2:- Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, 8°, pap. 25 c. ;Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, 8o, pap. 10 c... ..Harper. Child Pictures from Dickens, compiled by T. W. Higginson; illustrated by Eytinge, Jr. Small 4o, cloth, $1.50:Christmas Carol, 80, illustrated by Eytinge, Jr., cloth, $5 mor. $9.--Readings, as condensed and read in public by Dickens, 16°, with 8 illustrations by Eytinge, Jr., cloth, $1.50-Mugby Junction, 8°, pap. 10 c.;- No Thoroughfare, 8°, pap. 1oc.;-Edwin Drood, etc. pap. 50 c., clo. $1-A Child's Dream of a Star, illustr. by H. Billings (in press)..... Fields, Osgood & Co. Christmas Books. Cr. 8°, with illustr. by Darley & Phiz. Cloth, $4; mor. $7......... Hurd & Houghton. Dialogues from Dickens. Arranged by W. Eliot Fette. illustr. 16°, cloth, $1.50.- Same, second series, (in press).. Lee & Shepard.

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Dickens' Little Folks. (A series of Juveniles, selected from Dickens, in his own language.) Illustrated by Darley. 12 vols., cl., $10; or bound in 6 vols. $9. Clark & Maynard. Speeches, Letters, and Sayings, with Sala's Sketch of the Author, and Dean Stanley's Sermon, 8°, pap., 50 c. Harper.

Speeches on Literary and Social Occasions in England and America, 16°, (London) clo. $1.00........ .Scribner. Hannay's Life of Dickens, 12°, (London) clo., $3.00. Scribner.

Mackenzie's Life of Dickens, with Letters and uncollected Papers, in Prose and Verse, portr. and autogr., 12o, clo. $2.... .Peterson. Perkins' Life of Dickens, with Taine's Analysis, and portr., 12°, clo. $1.... ...Putnam.

Stanley's Funeral Sermon on Dickens, 8o, (London) pap. 25 c Macmillan. Taylor's Life of Dickens, with portraits and fac-simile, 8o, .......Harper. pap. 50 c.......

IN PRESS AND PREPARATION. Dickens' Life of Our Saviour (London) ;-A Child's Dream of a Star, illustrated by Billings (Fields, O. & Co.) ;-Life of Dickens, by John Forster:-Do. by Macready :Lecture on Life and Works of Dickens, by E. P. Whipple.

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF DICKENS' WORKS.

1836, Sketches by Boz (collected) -1836, Pickwick Papers ; -1837, Oliver Twist ;-1838, Nicholas Nickleby:-1840, The Old Curiosity Shop:-1840, Barnaby Rudge;-1842, American Notes for General Circulation;-1842, Martin Chuzzlewit ;-1846, Pictures from Italy:-1846, Dombey and Son;-1849, David Copperfield-1852, Bleak House-1854, Hard Times ;-1855, Little Dorritt ;--1859, A Tale of Two Cities;-1860, Great Expectations;-The Uncommercial Traveller ;-1864, Our Mutual Friend;1870, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished).Christmas Stories: 1843, A Christmas Carol:-1844, The Chimes-1845, The Cricket on The Hearth;-1846, The Battle of Life ;-1848, The Haunted Man.

The Illustrated Holiday Books for 1870. This list will appear again, with additions, in our next issue. Publishers are requested to give us early and full information in regard to their holiday enterprises.

D. APPLETON & Co.: Bryant's Song of the Sower, illustrated by Fenn, Hennessey, Homer, Hows, Nehlig, and others.

CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER: Pictorial Scenes from the Pilgrim's Progress, with drawings by Claud Reignier Conder, chromo-lithographed by Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son, of London;-The Travels of an American Owl, a Satire, by Virginia W. Johnson, with 12 silhouette illustrations by Augustus Hoppin.

E. P. DUTTON & Co.: George Herbert's Poems, illustrated by Birket Foster, Clayton, and Noel Humphreys;-Milton's Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, illustrated by eminent Artists;-The Pilgrim's Progress, with 12 colored illustrations.

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HURD & HOUGHTON: Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art, by Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement, of Boston;-Poems by Lucretia M. Davidson, illustrated by Darley.

A. K. LORING: Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney's Mother Goose for Grown People. New enlarged edition, with illustrations by Hoppin.

MACMILLAN & Co. Mores Ridiculi, illustrated, in colors, by J. E. Rogers, author of Ridicula Rediviva.

W. J. POOLEY: Meister Karl's Sketch Book, by Charles G. Leland, author of the "Breitmann Ballads," "with illustrations.

PORTER & COATES: Mother Goose in her New Dress, a series of chromo-lithographs.

ROBERTS BROS.: Goethe's Faust; and Falstaff and his Companions, illustrated (silhouette) by P. Konewka.

CHAS. SCRIBNER & Co. Songs of Home, with 36 illustrations, by Fenn, Hennessey, Griswold, etc., and 8 authographs, small 4o, uniform "Kathrina," etc., cloth, with "Songs of Life," $6.00;—and a new edition, with important additions and illustrations, of The Universe; or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little, by F. A. Pouchet, royal 8o, cloth, $12; half calf, $15.

"The Fairy Folk Series," in the press of Loring, will comprise three charming little volumes by three young ladies of high social position in New York-the authors of "The Fairy Egg," published last year by Fields, Osgood & Co.

NOTES ON BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

of the literature of to-day, leads him back to the classical period, exciting his curiosity by the way to peruse its earlier history at his leisure.

Ténot's Paris in December, 1851; or, the Coup d'Etat of Napoleon III., is a publication very opportune just at this time. The author has for years been a prominent journalist in Paris, editor of the Siècle there, and has had means of access to the very best sources of information. Although a republican, his efforts have been to avoid writing a partizan work, and with this end in view he confines himself to a simple recital of facts, leaving the reader to pass judgment on the prime movers in that conspiracy, and to decide what their motives may have been in the premises. He begins by relating briefly the events that transpired just previous to the coup d'état, and which placed the reins of government in Napoleon's hands, and then, step by step, each act in that drama of murder and fraud. He makes no statement that is not based on documentary evidence, and his narrative is an impressive one, by reason of its sim-gone over all the essays with care, and made inplicity and its undoubted truth. It is the fullest and most valuable account we possess of the rise of that dynasty upon the ruins of the people's hopes, which, unless the signs deceive us, is now toppling to its fall. The translation is made from the thirteenth French edition, to which many original notes have been added by S. W. Adams and A. H. Brandon. The work is published by Hurd & Houghton.

The Story of a Workingman's Life, as Related by Himself, by F. Mason, D.D. (Oakley Mason & Co.) "The Life of Francis Mason has been drawn through varied scenes and many lands; neither a cloistered student nor a thoughtless, frivolous rambler, his acquaintance with books has been supplemented by free collision with men. A native of England, an emigrant in early manhood to America, it was here that he became a convert, received his training for the ministry, and hence was sent by American Baptists to their missions in Burmah, to labor among the people of that empire. With a simplicity and directness that remind one of our own Benjamin Franklin, he has told the tale of his own eventful career, and in doing this he has afforded us some striking glimpses of what the United States were when he first reached our shores; whilst the main thread of his narrative bears us to philosophies, faiths, and races which were old and well settled far back as the days of Daniel, and before Greece had, under the conduct of Alexander, hurled herself upon India."

Hunt's Literature of the English Language, (Ivison, B. T. & Co.) is based upon an original and practical plan. Commencing with the present time it goes back to Chaucer, so representing each decade as to carry the pupil along easily, at the same time impressing the mind more forcibly with the changes in thought and style of the dif ferent periods, than could be arrived at by the old plan of instructing first in the abstruse and difficult literature of the early writers. The author begins by introducing the pupil to our most distinguished modern authors first, and while putting him in possession of the power and spirit

Collins' Ancient Classics for English Readers, (Lippincott). The aim of this series of bi-monthly volumes, will be to explain, sufficiently for general readers, who these great writers were, and what they wrote; to give, wherever possible, some connected outline of the story which they tell, or the facts which they record, checked by the results of modern investigations; to present some of their most striking passages in approved English translations, and to illustrate them generally from modern writers; to serve, in short, as a proper retrospect of the chief literature of Greece and Rome. Ready Homer, Herodotus, and Cæsar. Plutarch's Morals. Professor Goodwin has numerable corrections, preserving, as far as was possible, the language of the period; and the existence of an earlier version (1603-1657) rendered this an easier task than it otherwise would have been. But even were there more manifest patchwork than there is, this edition, it is pretty safe to say, would still be the one best worth having; for, whatever may be the pleasures of literary epicurism, nothing atones for a lack of correctness. Emerson, with whom Plutarch counts for much both as moralist and historian, or rather as essayist in morals and formative biography, is to prepare an introductory essay, and when that is ready, Messrs. Little & Brown will publish the work, which will be in five octavo volumes, and will emphatically be a book which "no gentleman's library should be without," and which will, we hope, find a place on the shelves of many fine libraries, public and private. It is only the owners of such that can encourage as it deserves the liberal enterprise of publishers who make such ventures.--Nation.

Mr.

The Princes of Art, translated from the French by Mrs. S. R. Urbino, is a collection of biographical sketches of the old masters in sculp ture, painting, and engraving, with some critical comments on their most famous works. The au

thor gives a brief introductory account of the orders of architecture, as they were perfected in Greece; of the art of sculpture and of painting, in all its varieties, with some historical notices of its ancient schools, from the first rude beginnings in Italy. The book is written in a lively and popular style, with much anecdote and gossip about the great men whose lives and works it describes, and contains information about art seldom met with in so convenient and inexpensive a shape. It is embellished with portraits of most of the old masters, and published by Lee & Shepard, of Boston.

Summer Drift-Wood for the Winter Fire, by Rose Porter, and Whits as Snow, by Edward Garrett, and Ruth Garrett, his sister (Randolph), are both, in form, stories; in fact, embodiments of certain types of Christian truth or Christian experience. The first purports to be the diary of a young lady who, going away for the season, gath

ers in the pages of her journal some drift-wood for D. APPLETON & Co. will issue, early in Fall, the winter evenings. The love-story, which is sad a beautiful edition of Bryant's "Song of the Sowin its ending, is subordinate to the religious teacher," with illustrations by Fenn, Hennessey, Hoing, which is cheerful and attractive. The second mer, Hows, Nehlig, and others. is a series of short and simple stories, full of charming tropes and figures, and quaint conceits and truths, compressed into happily turned sentences, which render it a delightful companion for a quiet Sunday afternoon.

Shakespeare.—Dr. Allibone devotes, in his Dictionary of Authors (Lippincott), no fewer than 49 of his pages to Shakespeare, containing a greater wealth of bibliographical information than can be found in any other single publication. Besides an alphabetical arrangement of all the plays, with

an account of the different forms in which each has

appeared, there is a full bibliographical catalogue of 166 collected editions, about fifty translations into foreign languages, and 954 works included under the general head of Shakespeariana, among which the curious student will find a complete guide to the Ireland forgeries, the Collier controversy, music for the plays, and the Shakespearian glees, madrigals, &c., which have been separately published. There is a copious selection from critcisms on the poet, and twelve columns are given up to an alphabetical index of editors, commentators, translators, &c.

FIELDS, OSGOOD & Co. have nearly ready a volume of society poetry, by Frederick Locker, of London. It is called "London Lyrics," and has some exquisite pieces that are worthy to become household words, and all the poems are graceful and pleasing.

LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, in issuing a revised Catalogue of their Medical Publications, call the attention of the Profession to the reduction they have made in the price of their Visiting List for 1871. They have also, in order to meet to some extent the demand for lower prices, reduced the price of Dr. Beale's books, of Trousseau's Clinical Medicine, the 3d volume of which has just been issued, and of many other books in their Catalogue, and also their rates for the importation of Foreign Books and Periodicals.

LEAVITT & ALLEN BROS., successors to Geo. A. Leavitt & Allen Bros., have sent us their new catalogue, embracing, in all styles of binding, nearly one thousand different volumes from the miniature to the royal 4to vol. Of Juvenile Books, they make nearly one hundred different sets of from 3 MRS. WHITNEY and MISS ALCOTT.-The to 6 vols. each, put up in very handsome cases, London Saturday Review pays the following wellwith lithographed label in colors. They will issue merited compliment to two American lady authors: early in September two new sets for Sabbath schools --Very few of even our best writers can compass a and general reading; one being by the author of the book for the young which shall be all that it ought to Nursery Bible Books, in words of one syllable, pubbe, avoiding on the one hand extravagant sensalished last year, which had a very extensive sale; tionality and a standard so high as to be outside the other by Mr. Frederick Field. Each set conhuman nature altogether; on the other, vapid silli- tains 3 vols., and will be bound in the new style, ness, which no grown girl can accept as fitting black and gold ornamented back and sides, at food for her mind at all, and which irritates, as all $1.00 per vol. They have adopted the new Engpretence and make-believe must. Some Americanlish style of medallion centres inlaid in cover. These books are perhaps the best of their kind for the medallions are printed in oil colors, bright, and present generation, leaving untouched our old fav- certainly very attractive. In the line of Poetry orites, which, however, have by this time acquired and Holiday Books they publish nearly 250 differa certain musty and rococo air, and are not quite ent sizes and styles of binding, including the cheap in harmony with the times. If we might single and popular World Editions, 16mo and Svo, and out one which seems to us perhaps the best of all, it would be Faith Gartney's Girlhood; but here we have another, An Old-Fashioned Girl, which runs the former favorite hard, though it has not the fun and humor to be found in Faith Gartney."

LEE & SHEPARD have in press for immediate publication a Manual of Bible Selections, arranged for consecutive reading, for responsive exercises, and with contents judiciously and systematically classified by topics. The volume is intended for use in schools and families, and to meet the demand for Scripture readings that shall not be conducted in the interests of any denomination. Rev. Dr. Prime, Prof. Peabody, George B. Emerson, Hon. Joseph White, Secretary of the Board of Education, President Hopkins, of Williams College, Rev. Mr. Livermore, of the Unitarian Association, and others eminent in educational matters, and of different denominations, have examined the book and warmly commend both its design and execution. Several schools have already arranged for its introduction.

over 100 different volumes suitable for Christmas Presents, such as their various Annuals and the Red Line Editions of Standard and Popular Poets. They have just issued two vols. of their new series of "Popular and Useful Books." "How to Cook, Carve and Eat, or Wholesome Food and How to to Cook it;" and "Out on the Deep; or, the Perils and Beauties of the Deep." Leavitt & Al

len Bros. are the only manufacturers of the old style of Writing Albums, which at one time were as popular as the Photograph Album. The demand is large and fast increasing.

Sketches of San Domingo, by De B. Randolph Keim. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.) The recent negotiations for the annexation of San Domingo to the United States have attracted public attention to that island, and an animated description of the country and its people like the one before us ought to find a multitude of appreciative readers. Mr. Keim was in San Domingo during the progress of the treaty negotiations, as correspondent of the New York Herald, and he enjoyed unusual facilities for becoming acquainted

with the leading men and the manner in which they managed the affairs of the island.

Peters (Leipzig) Edition of Classical and Modern Music, including the complete Sonatas of Beethoven, at $2.00; of Mozart and Schubert, at $1.40 each, imported and for sale by E. Reinking, 217 Sixth st., N. Y., is thus spoken of by the Gartenlaube, the most widely circulated German weekly: "In popular editions of any kind the utmost cheapness must be combined with the greatest correctness and legibility, and in all of these points Peters' Edition surpasses without doubt all rival editions. It embraces all Musical Classics, and appears in so elegant a form, that if it were not for its cheapness, nobody would think it to be an edition for the million. It is certain that the house Peters will greatly contribute in introducing the works of the great Music Masters into every household." The arrangements in "Peters' Edition" are made by Bülow, Czerny, David, Köhler, Liszt, Ulrich, and others of equal merit and knowledge.

Argyll's The Reign of Law has gone through five editions in England, and is only just republished in this country. (Lent & Co.; Routledge.) It is a powerful attack on the theories of the materialists, and deals with the same topics which have been discussed by Darwin, Lewes, Wallace, Huxley, and Carpenter, Mill, Compte, Guizot, and a host of others in our day.

Schedler's Large Topographical Map of the Seat of War, 22 x 28, printed in three colors, with plans of the fortresses of Paris, Metz, and Strasbourg, is one of the most comprehensive and accurate Maps in the American market. Published by E. Steiger, price $1.00.

Crumbs Swept Up, the long looked for volume of the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, will appear, quite à propos, about the time of the dedication of the big chapel in Brooklyn (Sept. 25th). It will be published in best style by Evans, Stoddart & Co., Phila.

Harper's Weekly for September contains a variety of effective war pictures and splendid bird's-eye views of the seat of war. The publishers announce that the present war will be thoroughly illustrated in the Weekly by the best artists.

Our Magazine is a new Monthly for family N. J. Price $1.00 per annum, 10 cents per copy. reading, published by Wm. R. Mattison, Newton,

Zell's Popular Encyclopedia, Part XL., comes down to the title "Monticulate." Some of the most prominent subjects treated in the number are

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Art Pictorial and Industrial, the new Art Journal published by Messrs. Low & Co., is an illustrated half-crown monthly, printed in large quarto. The first number contains six photographs of which is worth the sum charged for the whole. of engravings, paintings, and statuary, any one G. P. Putnam & Sons are the N. Y. agents.

Mommsen's History of Rome, Volume IV (Scribner), with a copious index of the whole work, prepared expressly for this edition, completes this History, uniform with Vols. I, II, and III, printed upon tinted laid paper, from the latest London edition, with all the author's and transla-issued by T. E. Zell, Phila., will contain interesttor's corrections and additions.

The Monitions of the Unseen, and other Poems, is the title of the new volume by Jean Ingelow, in press by Robert Bros. Her poems, Songs of Seven, have been published with music by Lee & Walker, Phila.

Coughs and Colds, or the Prevention, Cause, and Cure of various Affections of the Throat, with cases illustrating the remarkable efficacy of outdoor activity and horseback exercise in permanently arresting the progress of diseases of the chest, is the subject of a new work by W. W. Hall, M.D., author of " Health by Good Living," shortly to be issued by Hurd & Houghton, at $1.50.

This

Zell's Pictorial Casket, a new periodical, to be

ing matter in the shape of Novelettes, Tales, &c., and original articles on subjects of interest from history, biography, natural history, science, &c., and on the topics of the day. The first number will contain biographies of Bismarck and Louis Napoleon, with portraits; a description of the Chassepot rifle, Needle gun and Mitrailleur, each Franco-Prussian war, from the beginning to the with illustrative cuts; a condensed History of the

present time.

Putnam's Magazine will be consolidated with Scribner's Monthly on the completion of the present volume. The up-town subscription office of Scribner's Monthly will be at Geo P. Putnam and Sons', 23d st. and 4th ave.

The Woman's Advocate of Dayton, O., has been consolidated with the Woman's Journal, the organ of the American Woman Suffrage Association, now published at Boston and Chicago, and edited by Mrs. Livermore.

The Young Sportsman has been consolidated with Merry's Museum, the oldest (established by Peter Parley) and one of the most popular maga

Crittenden's Counting House Bookkeeping, Single and Double Entry (E. C. & J. Biddle, Phila)., has recently been carefully revised and enlarged by the addition of a Set of Books on Banking, by John Groesbeck (author of the "Crittenden Commercial Arithmetic and Business Manual "), and of other important matter. work is one of the most complete and most practicable treatises on Bookkeeping published. Misunderstood, by Florence Montgomery (Ran-zines for boys and girls. dolph), "is not a child's story. It is intended for those who are interested in children; for those who are willing to stoop to view life as it appears to a child, and to enter for half-an-hour into the manifold small interests, hopes, joys, and trials which make up its sum."

MRS. MARTHA J. LAMB, whose juvenile stories secured popularity, is about to publish, through Messrs. Gould & Lincoln of Boston, Aunt Mattie's Library, consisting of four illustrated vols., entitled Christmas, Sunday School, Fun and Profit, and Drifting Woodward.

NEW PRIZE VOLUMES.--The committee to award the second premium of $500 offered by Messrs. Lothrop & Co. have designated two manuscripts as possessing very eminent merit, while marked by such dissimilar qualities as to render a choice between them very difficult. One of them bears the title "Short Comings and Long Goings," the other that of "Lute Falconer." They therefore recommend that the offered premium be equally divided between the two authors, and that Messrs. L. & Co. add such a sum to the $250 as will compensate the writers liberally for their work. This has proved wholly satisfactory to all concerned, and the two books are being carried rapidly through the press. They will be issued during the month of September, with at least two others belonging to the second prize series. Others will follow speedily. The committee pronounce the books of the second prize series fully equal, if not superior, to those of the first, which had so wide a popularity. Manuscripts are already coming in in response to the offer of the unequalled premium of $1,000, and a peculiarly choice lot of books is expected. The committee of award in competition for the $1,000 prize consist of the following eminent gentlemen: Rev. Dr. Heman Lincoln, Rev. Dr. G. T. Day, D.D., and Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D.

Both Sides of the Street, by Mary Spring Walker, the $600 prize volume, and Moth and Rust, by a Lady of Ohio, the $300 prize story, just published by Henry Hoyt, Boston, were chosen from among over 300 competing manuscripts. (See New Prize Library, in Alphab. List.)

LEE & SHEPARD are about to publish the works of Marie Sophie Schwartz, the brilliant Swedish authoress, translated by Marie A. Browne and Seline Berg. The first two books, "Gold and Name" and "Birth and Education," translated by Miss Selina Borg and Miss Mary A. Browne, will be issued simultaneously within the month. Miss Schwartz is a charming, vigorous, and extremely popular writer, and cannot fail to delight and instruct.

HURD & HOUGHTON announce a uniform edition of the complete works of Frederick S. Cozzens, in 5 vols. 12, each $1.50, containing: 1. The Sparrowgrass Papers; 2. The Sayings of Dr. Bushwacker, with an autobiographic sketch; 3. Acadia, a Month with the Bluenoses; 4. The Débardeur, a new novel; 5. The History of New Plymouth.

HENRY L. HINTON, 680 Broadway, editor and publisher of Booth's Acting Plays, has published a fine portrait of Edwin Booth, on steel. Price, Artist's proofs, $2.00; India proofs, $1.00.

JOHN ELDERKIN, editor of the Booksellers' Guide, which has had great success under his charge, is preparing a volume for the press, bearing the title of "Sporting Sketches." It contains some new matter, and also many of Mr. ELDERKIN'S essays, which have already become popular through the press.

which has created a profound sensation throughout France and Italy. Father Hyacinthe says of it: "It is a terrible blow to the Ultramontanes, for it contains nothing but incontestable facts, and is not less conclusive in arguments than it is moderate and respectful in form. The author, an excellent Catholic, is personally known to me, etc." It will be edited by Rev. Leonard W. Bacon. The author was a member of the legation of French foreign affairs at Rome, and had full knowledge of all he has here revealed of the doings of this most secret Council.

EVANS, STODDART & CO., of Philadelphia, have originated a good idea in republishing in convenient form the Receipts from Godey's Lady's Book, which will be heartily welcomed by the many admirers of that Journal. The care exercised by the popular editoress (Miss S. A. Frost) will insure satisfaction.

The Great European Conflict-Franco-Prussian War-France and Prussia Compared, and A Review of the Balance of Europe, by Geo. W. Bible, is the title of a very interesting historical and statistical work on Europe, just issued by Bible Brothers. It compares France and Prussia, showing their condition, resources, etc., and reviews the balance of Europe, giving the present situation of all the European powers.

Gingersnaps, by Fanny Fern, author of "Folly as it Flies" (Carleton), consists of rich, spicy, offhand paragraphs, sparkling with unrestrained yet lofty humor and plainly told truisms, pointing out the faults into which many people, perhaps unconsciously, fall.

ROB. CLARKE & Co. have just published a complete Catalogue of American and British Law Publications, including Treatises, Text-Books, Reports, etc., with an index of subjects. No bookseller, lawyer, or librarian, should be without this admirable work of reference, which has only one defect, viz., the omission of the places of publication.

MACMILLAN & Co. have in preparation "Tales of Old Japan," translated, with copious explanatory introductions and comments, by Captain A. B. Milford, whose intimate knowledge of the literature and customs of the Japanese, gathered during his three years' residence as attache to the light thrown by these tales and by Captain MilBritish embassy at Jeddo, is well known.

The

ford's comments on the civilization and the customs of this very singular people cannot fail to command a wide and deep interest, while the stories themselves are as attractive and amusing as the "Arabian Nights." A most interesting feature of this book will be the illustrations some forty full-page blocks-as they have been drawn and engraved on wood for Mr. Milford in Japan, and by native artists. They are drawn and cut with great skill and humor.

Herbert SpencER has issued the twenty-fifth number of his system of philosophy. It is devoted to that portion which gives a special synthesis of instinct, memory, reason and the feel

CHARLES C. CHATFIELD & Co. announce as in press the "Doings of the Council," a translation from the French of a very important workings.

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