MRS. WHITNEY'S NOVELS AND STORIES. These have just been brought out in a new and revised edition, in neat and attractive binding, and at a reduced price. The set comprises : Odd, or Even? Bonnyborough. Boys at Chequasset. Mother Goose for Grown Folks. Enlarged Edition. Homespun Yarns. Short Stories. Ascutney Street. A Golden Gossip. Price, $1.25 each volume. The set, seventeen volumes, 16mo, in a box, $21.25. Very few stories by American writers enjoy so wide a popularity as do Mrs. Whitney's, and it may safely be said that no stories are more wholesome and more admirable in tone and spirit than hers. MRS. WHITNEY'S OTHER BOOKS. White Memories. Poems on WHITTIER, BISHOP BROOKS, and LUCY LARCOM. With Portraits. Very tastefully bound. Square 8vo, gilt top, $1.00. Daffodils. Poems. Illustrated. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25. Pansies. Poems. New Edition. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25. Holy-Tides. Seven Songs for the Church's Seasons. 16mo, illuminated paper, 75 cents. Bird-Talk. Poems. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00. Just How: A Key to the Cook-Books. 16mo, $1.00. For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 4 PARK STREET, BOSTON; 11 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK KNABF ON PIANOS 1422 Pennsylvania Ave, N. Oliver Ditson Company, 4 MAY 27 1896. MONTHLY DEVOTED TO Literature, Science, Art, and Politics VOLUME LXXVII. - NUMBER 464 JUNE, 1896 THE OLD THINGS. VII.-IX. THE BIRD OF THE MUSICAL WING" LETTERS OF D. G. ROSSETTI. II. 1855 LORD HOWE'S COMMISSION TO PACIFY THE COLO- THE PRICE OF A COW ORESTES BROWNSON THE OUBLIETTE. THE OPERA BEFORE THE COURT OF REASON THE FLIGHT OF THE ARROW THE WHIRLIGIG OF FORTUNE THE POLITICIAN AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION DR. HOLMES-SIC SEDEBAT . Page . . Henry James 721 Olive Thorne Miller 737 Ednah Proctor Clarke 743 George Birkbeck Hill 744 Mary Argyle Taylor 754 Paul Leicester Ford 758 Elizabeth W. Bellamy 763 George Parsons Lathrop 770 Mary Hartwell Catherwood 781 William F. Biddle 786 R. H. Stoddard 796 T. R. Sullivan 797 L. H. Jones 810 Francis A. Walker 822 830 Morse's Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes. RECENT STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY Bruce's Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. - Schouler's History of the United States under the Constitution. - McMaster's A History of the People of the United States. - Rhodes's History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850.-Scott's Reconstruction during the Civil War in the United States of America. THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENJOYMENT OF ART Berenson's The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. COMMENT ON NEW BOOKS THE CONTRIBUTORS' CLUB An Hour with Pasteur. -A Child's Tragedy. - Jonas and Matilda. - - A Singular Horseback Journey. BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge LONDON: GAY AND BIRD, 22 BEDFORD STREET, W. C. 837 844 SINGLE NUMBERS, 35 CENTS YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION, $4.00 Entered at the Post Office in Boston as second-class matter |