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Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Literary Bulletin

so excellently and admirably, we may say that her art books are more worthy of it than any and all her other books, charming and scholarly as they are."

These have been edited with equal intelligence and thoroughness by Miss Estelle M. Hurll, correcting Mrs. Jameson where very rarely she needed correction, supplementing with the knowledge gained since she wrote, and prefixing a valuable memoir of Mrs. Jameson. The volumes are better equipped than they have ever been with illustrations of the topics and pictures discussed by Mrs. Jameson, each volume of the five having nearly one hundred designs selected from the works of great masters. The books are printed from large type, on paper of fine quality, and the binding is simple but artistic. If the treatment of these volumes falls in any respect short of the ideal style of such works, it can be said with perfect truth that it is in all points the best yet devoted to these interesting and permanently valuable books.

An Ideal Traveler.

In a most delightful review of Rev. Francis Tiffany's charming book of travel, This Goodly Frame, the Earth, Rev. S. M. Crothers, in the Christian Register, says, among scores of other just and felicitous remarks: "While the body is traversing space, the mind is making still longer excursions into past time, and visiting the scenes we dream of. Here is the kind of a traveler who will have time to call at Colchis and make kindly inquiries about the golden fleece.

"What a pleasure awaits the reader, on some winter evening, when he comes to the chapters on Agra and Delhi! He is not merely taken to the British India of the present, but he catches an entrancing glimpse of the India of the Moguls, vast, mysterious, luxurious. He is transported to the times when

'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree.'

There is exquisite art in the contrast between the light touch of the chapters on Japan and the sombre reflections which come in the presence of the deserts and the temples of Egypt. But the reflections are never too long drawn out, and the reader is not asked to take them too seriously. . . . The author's deepest impressions are evidently not of 'scenes, incidents, and persons' so much as of the principles, ideals, and persistent forces which have moulded the countries through which he has passed. We are made to see, not Chinamen, Hindus, and Egyptians, but China, India, and Egypt. Above all, the author loves to place before us the religion of each land as the best expression of its interior life."

The Boston Advertiser remarks: "Mr. Tiffany's mind is delicately sensitive to impressions, and his style of recording them is wonderfully pure, lucid, and graphic.'

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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

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ILLUSTRATED HOLIDAY BOOKS. Mrs. Jameson's Art Books. Sacred and Legendary Art, 2 vols., Legends of the Monastic Orders, Legends of the Madonna, Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters. With many illustrations, Portrait, and Biographical Sketch by Miss ESTELLE M. HURLL. vols. 8vo, each, $3.00; the set...... John Burroughs's Works. New Riverside Edition. In nine beautiful volumes. Printed on cream-tinted, laid paper, and bound in a simple, elegant style. With several portraits of Mr. Burroughs and engraved titlepages. Limited to 1000 sets. Per set, net. Half calf, gilt top, net... Standish of Standish. By JANE G. AUSTIN. With 20 full-page illustrations by F. T. MERRILL. Carefully printed and bound. 2 vols. 12mo..... .......5.00 The Song of Hiawatha. By H. W. LONGFEllow. With 22 full-page illustrations by FREDEric RemINGTON. Crown 8vo, attractively bound.... The Courtship of Miles Standish. By H. W. LONGFELLOW. Popular Holiday Edition. With illustrations by BOUGHTON, MERRILL, etc., facsimiles, and Notes on Colonial Plymouth. Crown 8vo......1.50 The Madonna of the Tubs. By ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. New Popular Edition, uniform with "The Birds' Christmas Carol." With illustrations. Square .....0.75

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The Cabells and their Kin. An Historical, Bio-
graphical, and Genealogical volume on Dr. William
Cabell, the Founder of the Family in Virginia, and
his Descendants and their Kinsfolk. By ALEXANDER
BROWN. With numerous portraits. Large 8vo, net..7.50
The History of the Plimoth Plantation. Written by
WILLIAM BRADFORD, One of the Founders and
Second Governor of that Colony. Reproduced in
fac-simile, by photography of the Original Manu-
script. With an Introduction by JOHN A. Doyle,
Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. Quarto, net.25.00
Gustavus Adolphus. A History of the Art of War
from its revival after the Middle Ages to the end of
the Spanish Succession War. By THEODORE AY-
RAULT DODGE. With 234 charts, maps, plans of bat-
tles, etc. 8vo, gilt top...

Reconstruction during the Civil War in the United
States of America. By EBEN GREENOUGH SCOTT.
Large crown 8vo..........

Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1862. New and en-
larged Edition. By JOHN C. ROPES, General PAL-
FREY, General WHITTIER, and others. Edited by
THEODORE F. DWIGHT. 8vo....

The Virginia Campaign of 1862 under General
Pope. New Edition. Edited by THEODORE F.
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Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. Cambridge Edition. With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a fine new portrait and a vi gnette view of "Asolo." Crown 8vo, $3.00; half calf, gilt top, $5.00: tree calf or full levant....... Complete Poetic Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cambridge Edition. With a portrait and a vignette view of the "Gambrel-roofed House; " also a Biographical Sketch and Notes. Crown 8vo, $2.00; half calf, gilt top, $3.50; tree calf or full levant........ A Victorian Anthology. Containing Representative Poems by the authors discussed in "Victorian Poets." Selected and edited by E. C. STEDMAN. With brief biographies of the authors, a fine portrait of Queen Victoria and a vignette of the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Large crown 8vo, $2.50; full gilt, $3.00; half calf, $4.50; full levant or tree calf.6.c Large-paper Edition, limited to 250 copies, 2 vols 8vo, net

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Angelo. A Poem. By STUART STERNE.
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Ballads of Blue Water, and Other Poems. By JAMES
JEFFREY ROCHE. 16mo....

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The Tower, with Legends and Lyrics.
EMMA HUNTINGTON NASON. 16mo.....
Poems. By ELIZABETH STODDARD. 12mo............. 1.5

ESSAYS AND RELIGION.

Frail Children of the Air. Excursions into the World of Butterflies. By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. Ilustrated. Crown Svo, in decorative binding..... 1-50 Anima Poeta. Passages from the Note-Books of SAMUEL TAYLOR COLEridge. 8vo.....

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Over the Teacups. By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Birthday Edition. 2 vols. 16mo....

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In the Young World. Poems for Young People. By
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The Nimble Dollar, with Other Stories. By CHARLES MINER THOMPSON. With a frontispiece illustration.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

By PERCIVAL LOWELL With illustrations.

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This Goodly Frame, the Earth. Stray Impressions of Scenes, Incidents, and Persons in a Journey touching Japan, China, India, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. By FRANCIS TIFFANY. Crown Svo......1.50 Froebel's Gifts. Vol. I. of The Republic of Childhood. By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN and NORA ARCHI BALD SMITH. 16m0

Architects of Fate; or, Steps to Success and Power.
By ORISON SWETT MARDEN. With twenty-four por
traits. 12mo.....

The Principles of Equity and Equity Pleading. Ev
ELIAS MERWIN, late Professor in the Law School of
Boston University. Edited by HENRY C. MERWIN.
8vo, law sheep, net..

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Mr. Burroughs has probably interpreted nature to a greater number of his contemporaries than any other writer of his time. - The Outlook.

He is of the same breed as Gilbert White, of Selborne, as Audubon, as Thoreau, and he combines their exactitude of observation, their scientific sympathy, with more careful study of style than they chose to give in jotting down their impressions. The Saturday Review (London.)

A NEW RIVERSIDE EDITION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN BURROUGHS.

Printed from new plates, on cream-tinted and laid paper, and bound in a simple but artistic style. In nine volumes, 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $13.50, net; also in cloth, deckle edge, paper label, $13.50, net; half calf, gilt top, $27.00, net. (Sold only in Sets.)

This beautiful edition of Mr. Burroughs' Works includes:
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Vol. I. WAKE ROBIN.

Frontispiece: Portrait of Mr. Burroughs at the age
Vignette: An Adirondack Lake.

Vol. II. WINTER SUNSHINE.
Frontispiece: A Winter Scene.
Vignette: A Winter Scene.

of 20.

Vol. III. BIRDS AND POETS.

Frontispiece: An April River.

Vignette: Mr. Burroughs' Study in the Woods.

Vol. IV. LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY.

Frontispiece: The Haymakers.
Vignette: A Country Road.

Vol. V. PEPACTON.

Frontispiece: A New England Orchard.
Vignette: A View on the Pepacton River.

Vol. VI. FRESH FIELDS.

Frontispiece: An English Country Scene.
Vignette: Portrait of Mr. Burroughs at the age of 53.

Vol. VII. SIGNS AND SEASONS.

Frontispiece: A Pine Grove.

Vignette: A Scene from Farm Life.

Vol. VIII. INDOOR STUDIES.

Frontispiece: A View on the Concord River.
Vignette: Mr. Burroughs' Study in the Woods.

Vol. IX. RIVERBY.

Frontispiece: The latest Portrait of Mr. Burroughs,
Vignette: Riverby on the Hudson.

The above Illustrations are all drawn and etched expressly for this edition by SIDNEY L. SMITH, CHARLES H. WOODBURY, and W. H. W. BICKNELL.

Any of the above volumes may be had singly in the regular 16mo edition, without illustrations. Price per vol., cloth, gilt top, $1.25; half calf, in sets only, $20.25.

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