WORDS; THEIR USE AND ABUSE, By Prof. Wm. Mathews, Author of "Getting on in the World," "The Great Conversers," Etc.,.........$2.00.

"A book of rare interest."-Brooklyn Eagle.

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"The final chapter on 'Common Improprieties of Speech' should be printea in tract form. We should like to put a copy of this book into the hands of every man and woman who is using or intends to use, our good old Anglo-Saxon with voice or pen for any public service. It is a text book, full of information, and contains hints, rules, criticisms and illustrations, which authenticate their own value."Christian at Work, New York

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PRE-HISTORIC RACES OF THE UNITED STATES. By J. W. FOSTER, LL.D., Author of "The Physical Geography of the Mississippi Valley," etc. 415 pages, crown 8vo, with a large number of illustrations.

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A MANUAL OF GESTURE. - With embracing a complete system of Notation, with the Principles of Interpretation and Selections for Practice. By Prof. A. M. Bacon.

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"Prof. Bacon has given us a work that, in thoroughness and practical value, deserves to rank among the most remarkable books of the season. There has in fact, been no work on the subject yet offered to the public which approaches it for exhaustiveness and completeness of detail. It is of the utmost value,

not merely to students, but to lawyers, clergymen, teachers, and public speakers, and its importance as an assistant in the formation of a correct and appropriate style of action can hardly be over-estimated."-The Philadelphia Inquirer.

"Prof. Bacon's Manual seems expressly arranged for the help of those who study alone and have undertaken self-instruction in the art of persuasive delivery. The work in the hands of our ministry, well studied, would have the effect of emphasizing the living words of the Gospel all over the land, and making them two-edged with meaning."-The Chicago Pulpit.

ANDERSON'S NORSE MYTHOLOGY; or The Religion of Our Forefathers.-Containing all the Myths of the Eddas carefully systematized and interpreted, with an Introduction, Vocabulary and Index.-By R. B. ANDERSON, A. M., Professor of Scandinavian Languages, in the University of Wisconsin. Crown 8vo, cloth, $2 50; full gilt, $3 00; half calf, $500.

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be welcomed, not only as most creditable to American scholarship, but also as an indication of the literary enterprise which is surely growing up in our North-western States.”—The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review.

AMERICA NOT DISCOVERED BY COLUMBUS.—A Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen in the 10th century. By PROF. R. B. ANDERSON, of the University of Wisconsin, with an Appendix on the Historical, Literary and Scientific value of the Scandinavian Languages.

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title The book is full of surprising statements, and will be read with something like wonderment.”

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THE WORLD ON WHEELS, and Other Sketches.By BENJ. F. TAYLOR. Illustrated. I vol., 12mo. Price, $1.50.

"Full of humor and sharp as a Damascus blade."-Presbyterian, Phil a.

"The pen-pictures of B. F. Taylor are among the most brilliant and eccentric productions of the day. They are like the music of Gottschalk played by Gottschalk himself; or like sky-rockets that burst in the zenith, and fall in showers of fiery rain. They are word-wonders, reminding us of necromancy, with the dazzle and bewilderment of their rapid succession.”—Chicago Tribune.

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OLD-TIME PICTURES and SHEAVES of RHYME. BY BENJ. F. TAYLOR. Red line edition, small quarto, silk cloth, with eight fine full page illustrations.

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JOHN G. WHITTIER writes :-" It gives me pleasure to see the poems of B. F. Taylor issued by your house in a form worthy of their merit. Such pieces as the • Old Village Choir, The Skylark, The Vane on the Spire,' and ‘June,' deserve their good setting. * I do not know of anyone who so well reproduces the home scenes of long ago. There is a quiet humor that pleases me."

"Unless it be Whittier, we know of no American poet so sweet, tender and gentle in his lyrics as B. F. Taylor. No writer of to-day sings the praises of rural life and scenery as eloquently, and we do not wonder that many of his poems have become classic. The holiday volume of his happy verses, OLD Time Pictures and SHEAVES OF RHYME is a very eloquent and daintily bound volume, and comes from that growing and reliable publishing house of the West, S. C. Griggs & Company, of Chicago. Taking up this handsomely printed book, we have to linger on the delightful imagery and graceful diction of its pages, glowing as they are with pure and tender thoughts, and the earnest, indescribable music of sunny fields and rural joys. * No one can read it but will be the better for so doing."- The Albany Morning Express.