Social Life in Old Virginia.

By Thomas Nelson Page

Many of the lovable peculiarities and the individual social developments of antebellum Virginia have been dwelt upon by Mr. Page in his stories, but the present volume contains his only careful and detailed study of the conditions that obtained among these picturesque people before the ravages of war laid the country desolate. Assisted by old photographs and daguerreotypes the Misses Cowles have produced a series of pictures which, while charmingly imaginative and artistic, help the reader greatly in obtaining a correct idea of the life described. (12mo, $1.50.)

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English Lands, Letters, and Kings

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In the present volume Mr. Donald G. Mitchell, who as Ik Marvel" so touched the popular heart, continues his survey of the field of English Letters, which the Outlook has pronounced "The most attractive of the familiar introductions to the study of English literature." This last book takes the reader from "The Later Georges to Queen Victoria," the three former volumes having been devoted to the periods "From Celt to Tudor," "From Elizabeth to Anne," and "Queen Anne to the Georges." The volumes are each 12m0, $1.50, or the four in a box, $6.00. Of Mr. Mitchell's "American Lands and Letters," which covers our literature from "journalistic" Captain John Smith to William Cullen Bryant, the New York Tribune has said: "It is truly a delightful book. It deals with an interesting theme and deals with it in a manner only to be described as lovablethe manner of Ik Marvel." (With 100 illustrations, 8vo, $2.50.)

The History of Our Navy

Mr. John R. Spears is peculiarly fitted to tell the tale of our naval heroes, as his stories of the sea have shown, and he has made of the exploits of John Paul Jones, Nicholas Biddle, David Porter, Oliver H. Perry, Thomas Macdonough, David G. Farragut, and the rest of the "fighting captains" who have so worthily upheld the honor of the flag, a story of absorbing interest which every American should read with pride. The four hundred illustrations include many extremely rare and interesting old engravings, portraits, and documents relating to the early navy, From "The History of our Navy" (reduced) while in the later volumes the resources of photography and of the best artists have been called into play, giving the pictures an additional contemporary value. (In four volumes, 12mo, $8.00.)

The Workers

An Experiment in Reality: The East

Mr. Walter A. Wyckoff has here made a noteworthy contribution to our knowledge of the real condition of the American working man. Mr. Wyckoff was determined to get his knowledge at first hand, and he here describes how he earned his living as a day laborer, a hotel porter, a farm hand, and a lumberman. His pages have not only this interest for the student of social problems, but are full of literary charm and form a unique view of our laboring class. (With illustrations, 12mo, $1.25.)

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Audubon and His Journals

The granddaughter of our greatest ornithologist, Miss Maria R. Audubon, has brought to light in these interesting volumes much new material about the famous naturalist. They contain a careful biography prepared from his own writings and correcting and adding to the former accounts, the full text now for the first time published of his well-known Journals of trips to Europe, Labrador, and the Missouri River, 18261843, and the romantic "Episodes" of life and travel in the West. Dr. Elliott Coues has copiously annotated the Journals in the light of the latest ornithological science and the two octavo volumes are abundantly illustrated with portraits and other pictures of great interest. ($5.70.)

It is well known that a very large proportion of the really amusing things and the really clever, bright drawings find their way into Life, and this volume, a quarto, containing 100 drawings, represents a judicious culling of the best from this periodical. It is the second series, the first having already been published (each 4to, $1.50). The Art Interchange has said: There is a sparkle and delightful flippancy about the whole that is entertaining, at the same time showing a field for the employment of our artists' pencils that is distinctively American."

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Catherine Schuyler. By Mary Gay Humphreys

ABLE BODIED

Miss Humphreys' volume on the wife of Major-General Philip Schuyler carries with it many entertaining pictures of the days of the Knickerbockers and the Patroons, of life at Albany, in New York City, and in the Hudson River manor houses, and thus appropriately rounds out this series of Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times, for there have been already volumes on " Margaret Winthrop," wife of Governor John Winthrop, of Massachusetts, by Alice Morse Earle; "Eliza Pinckney," wife of the famous South Carolinian Chief Justice, by Harriett Horry Ravenel; "Dolly Madison," wife of President Madison, by Maud Wilder Goodwin; "Mercy Warren," sister of the patriot James Otis, by Alice Brown; and "Martha Washington," wife of our first President, by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. (Each, with photogravure frontispiece, 12mo, $1.25, or the six volumes in a box, $7.50.)

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An Illustrated Flora

This monumental work by Professor Nathaniel L. Britton and Hon. Addison Brown illustrates and describes every plant species found in the territory from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian, including the State of Nebraska, a range which covers over four thousand species. The first and second volumes, each with over 600 pages and about 1,500 cuts, are now ready, and Volume III. is in press. Prof. Conway Macmillan says in Science: "There is no work extant in the whole series of American botanical publications which deals with descriptions of the flowering plants that can for a moment be compared with it, either for a skillful and delightful presentation of the subject-matter, or for modern, scientific, and accurate mastery of the thousand-fold mass of detail of which such a work must necessarily consist." (Each volume, $3.00, special net, postage 36 cents extra.)

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The American Railway. By Various Authors

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This is a new and cheaper edition of this great work which the New York Herald has declared to be beyond all compare the greatest American compendium on railways." When one reflects what our railway systems have grown to be in a scant fifty years the importance of such a treatise may be imagined. (Large octavo, $3.00.)

Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands

Alaska has become this year the cynosure of all eyes. One could hardly choose a better guide through its icy wastes than Professor Henry W. Elliott of the Smithsonian Institution, who has furnished, according to the Critic, in this volume of The Library of Contemporary Travel and Adventure, "certainly the most readable general work on this land which is of, but not in, the United States of America." (With illustrations and maps, 8vo, $2.50.)

Men of Achievement

In this interesting and useful series of biographies of men who have made their way in the world, General A. W. Greely writes of the "Explorers and Travelers"; William O. Stoddard of "Men of Business"; Philip G. Hubert, Jr., of "Inventors," and Noah Brooks of Statesmen." (The four 12mo volumes contain over 250 illustrations, and in this new and cheaper edition are sold for $1.50 each.)

Mr. Meredith has here collected and arranged his most characteristic poems, and the volume possesses an added interest for the thousands of admirers of the great poet-novelist from the fact that it contains his own definitive selection. The book has a frontispiece portrait of the author, and is sold at $1.75. The Academy remarks that Stevenson "placed Mr. Meredith next to Shakespeare in all literature "-a dictum reinforced by Mr. I. Zangwill's assertion that "not since Shakespeare has England produced a man with so extraordinary a gift of poetic expression." In uniform style and price with this volume are the "Poems and Ballads" of Robert Louis Stevenson and the "Poems" of H. C. Bunner.

Mrs. Knollys and other Stories. By F. J. Stimson

It was as 'J. S. of Dale" that Mr. Stimson first made his reputation, and he has since the appearance of "Guerndale" steadily added to his laurels, the remarkable success of "King Noanett" being his most recent triumph. "Mrs. Knollys" has been perhaps as popular as any short story that has appeared since Hawthorne's day, and the other six stories in the present volume include some of his best work, two being entirely new. Although not all love stories, they form a series in a uniform key, deal- From "Soldiers of Fortune" (reing largely with situations of this nature, and represent the author's definitive re- duced) arrangement of his most characteristic work. (12mo, $1.50, uniform with "A Story Teller's Pack.")

A Story Teller's Pack. By Frank R. Stockton

Mr. Howells says: "In this latest book of his there is not one disappointment. Life cannot be without an object so long as there is the hope of something more from him." In uniform binding with theStory Teller's Pack" and at the same price (12mo, $1.50) are now published: The Bachelor's

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Christmas and other Stories, by Robert Grant, one of the most successful volumes of stories that has appeared in a long time; Comedies of Courtship, by Anthony Hope, without exception bright, racy, readable, and clean" (London Literary World); and Love in Old Cloathes and other Stories, by H. C. Bunner, of which a critic has said, that it sums up "the best and noblest of Mr. Bunner's genius."

Soldiers of Fortune. By Richard Harding Davis

(12m0, $1.50.) Mr. Davis's spirited tale of adventure, with its fine illustrations and cover by Charles Dana Gibson, is now in its fiftieth thousand. As the London Academy says: "Mr. Davis has the dramatic gift he carries you along with him. One need not wish for a better story of action than this." The Speaker also declares: "Mr. Harding Davis always writes well, but he has never done anything better than this." Uniform with the above, a new edition of two of Mr. Davis's other books has just been issued"Cinderella and other Stories," "Gallegher and other Stories."

The Tormentor.

By Benjamin Swift

(12m0, $1,50.) The author's "Nancy Noon," his first book, published last year, is now in its fifth edition. Of this new novel the Boston Herald says: "The Tormentor' has much of the brilliancy and mental activity of Nancy Noon,' and it is much maturer in its swift development

of criminology. . None but a man as sure of his methods as Balzac would have dared to venture upon so original a study."

American Nobility. By Pierre de Coulevain

(12mo, $1.50.) "It stands so far above the ordinary novel of the day, in respect to range of thought and method of treatment, that only an extended analysis could show its social and ethical as well as artistic importance. As a study f international conditions it is both acute and profound," says the Boston Beacon. Literary Love Letters.

A Romance in Transit.

By Robert Herrick

By Francis Lynde

These latest issues in the dainty "Ivory Series" (each 16mo, 75 cents) are From "Soldiers of Fortune" (reduced) well up to the high standard which has there been set. Of Mr. Herrick's volume the Detroit Free Press says, "Certainly these stories are admirable examples of literary compression," while the Chattanooga Times predicts for "A Romance in Transit" "an instant success."

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To the notable company of authors represented in this fascinating series, bound in green and gold and each with a frontispiece etching (each 16mo, $1.25), there have just been added four new volumes: J. M. Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," which, as the Philadelphia Times says, are pure delight," and the same author's "A Window in Thrums," especially interesting to re-read in the light of Margaret Ogilvy," for the author himself says of "Jess": "Anything in her that was rare and beautiful she had from my mother." Besides these there are two volumes by Henry van Dyke: "The Poetry of Tennyson" (with an new introduction and a thoughtful essay on In Memoriam"), concerning which Thomas Bailey Aldrich said: be desired," and his ever popular "Little Rivers," wherein "his river scenes rise before the eye as he draws them," according to the Saturday Review.

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Gloria Victis. By J. A. Mitchell

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Water-Fowl" (reduced)

"It leaves nothing to

(12mo, $1.25.) Mr. Mitchell, well known as the editor of Life, and as the author of the very popular "Amos Judd," "That First Affair," etc., here presents his most serious and important literary work so far. Certain phases of New York life have never been so sharply stated as in this charmingly novel and romantic tale, which has in it the vein of mysticism that distinguishes all Mr. Mitchell's stories.

Song-Birds and Water-Fowl.

By H. E. Parkhurst

The author of this attractive series of talks about land and water birds has already shown in "The Birds' Calendar" that one need not go far afield to pursue the study of our feathered friends. His easy descriptions are charmingly supplemented by the eighteen full-page pictures from the brush of Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, which are truly noteworthy for their lifelikeness and artistic handling, and seem to bear out the assertion that this artist has in him the makings of an Audubon. (12mo, $1.50 net.)

The Express Messenger.

By Cy Warman

This titular story, with "Other Stories of the Rail," make up Mr. Warman's latest volume (12mo, $1.25) which is in key with his "Tales of an Engineer, with Rhymes of the Rail," that aroused such wide interest. The New York Sun declares the present volume "an interesting and an unusual book," while the Philadelphia Press says: Mr. Warman has a field of his own, and he is master in it."

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Taken by Siege. By Jeannette

By Jeannette L. Gilder

Miss Gilder, the well-known editor of the Critic, has here written a captivating love story (12m0, $1.25). The Chicago Tribune says "It is a strong, unhackneyed, and delightful novel. It is to be hoped that Miss Gilder will try it again soon."

The Battle of Franklin. By Jacob D. Cox

(With maps, 8vo, $2.00.) General Cox, ex-Governor of Ohio, soldier and author, here adds to his reputation as a writer of military history. The Hartford Post says: "Students of the art of war will find in the book much that is of positive value, while every soldier who took part in the battle will peruse these lines with keen interest. The story is well told and clearly. It is a graphic account."

Rudder Grange and Pomona's Travels

These two volumes of Mr. Frank R. Stockton's are classics, and the illustrations by A. B. Frost are just the one touch that could be added. The portrayal of "Pomona" could be entrusted to no other hand, for, as the Boston Traveller says, "seldom have author and artist so delightfully supplemented each other as is the case with Mr. Frank Stockton and Mr. A. B. Frost." (New and cheaper edition, each, $1.50.)

A writer in the Boston Post has said of Mrs. Burnett: "She has a beauty of imagination and a spiritual insight into the meditations of childhood which are within the grasp of no other writer for children," and these five volumes would indeed be difficult to match in child literature. The new edition is from new plates, with all the original illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, is bound in a handsome new cover, and is sold at $1.25 per volume (12mo): "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "Two Little Pilgrims' Progress," Piccino and Other Child Stories," "Giovanni and the Other," 'Sara Crewe" and "Little Saint Elizabeth and other Stories" (in one volume).

Three New Volumes By G. A. Henty

LITTLE

LORD

AUNTLERDY

BURNETT

SCRIBNERS

FRANCES

It would be a bitter year for the boys if Mr. Henty were to fail them with a fresh assortment of his enthralling tales of adventure, for, as the London Academy has said, in this kind of story telling, "he stands in the very first rank." With Frederick the Great" is a tale of the Seven Years' War, and has twelve full-page illustrations by Wal. Paget; A March on London," details some stirring scenes of the times when Wat Tyler's motley crew took possession of that city, and the pictures are drawn by W. A. Margetson, while Mr. Paget has illustrated "With Moore at Corunna," in which the boy hero serves through the Peninsular War. (Each 12mo, $1.50.)

Will Shakespeare's Little Lad. By Imogen Clark

(12m0, $1.50, illustrated by R. B. Birch.) "The author has caught the true spirit of Shakespeare's time, and paints his home surroundings with a loving, tender grace," says the Boston Herald, while the Saturday Evening Gazette says: "It is written with so gentle and loving a hand that it has the charm of novelty added to its other charms."

An Old-Field School Girl. By Marion Harland

(Illustrated, 12mo, $1.25.) 'As pretty a story for girls as has been published in a long time," says the Buffalo Express, and the Chicago Tribune is even more appreciative: "Compared with the average books of its class 'An Old-Field School Girl' becomes a classic," while the Baltimore Sun declares: "It is a quaint piece of local color in a field Marion Harland knows well and describes with fine appreciation."

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Lords of the World. By A. J. Church

Or the Story of the Fall of Carthage and Corinth." (Illustrated, 12mo, $1.50.) A tale of the destruction of Carthage by the Romans, full of valuable historical details, and of an unflagging interest to younger readers, who manifest each year their appreciation of Mr. Church's fine work.

Lullaby Land. Songs of Childhood

Eugene Field's inimitable child poems are worthy of the delightful MVSIC from in which they here appear. The volume is uniform with the Stevenson "Child's Garden of Verses," is illustrated by Charles Robinson, and has a characteristic introduction by Kenneth Grahame. (12m0, $1.50.) Mr. Robinson's illustrations of children's volumes are always charming, but he has surpassed himself in this book.

The Stevenson Song Book

In this large and handsome quarto, twenty of the most lyrical poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses," have been set to music by such composers as Reginald de Koven, Arthur Foote, C. W. Chadwick, Dr. C. Villiers Stanford, etc. The volume is uniform with, and a fitting companion to, the popular " Field-deKoven Song Book."