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FLORIDA FOR TOURISTS, INVALIDS, AND SETTLERS: Con- 

 taining Practical Information regarding Climate, Soil, and Productions ; Cities, 

 Towns, and People ; Scenery and Kesorts ; the Culture of the Orange and other 

 Tropical Fruits; Farming and Gardening; Sports; Routes of Travel, etc., etc. 

 By Geobge M. Barbour. With Map and numerous Illustrations. l'2mo, 

 cloth. Price, $1.50. 



This Is the most comprehensive and authentic book on Florida that has been pub- 

 lished. The following Testimonial is proof of its value and trustworthiness : 



" It is known to the undersigned that the author^ Mr. George M. Barbour, has 

 traveled almost the whole of Florida, under circumstances pecuharly advantageous for 

 enabling hiui to acquaint himself with the varied resources of the State, and with the 

 attractions which it offers to the three classes to whom his work is addressed— Tourists. 

 Invalids, and Settlers. Our knowledge of his 'abilities as a writer on Florida subjects, 

 and of the opportunities he has enjoyed in preparing his book, are such that we can 

 coumiend it as at once trustworthy and comprehensive — jrreatly superior in these re- 

 spects to anyihing hitherto published descriptive of the entfre State and its soil and 

 productions. 



■• W. D. Blosiiam, Governor of Florida ; George F. Drew, ex-Governor of Flor- 

 ida; Seth French, ex-Commissioner of Immigration; Samuel Fairbanks, Assistant 

 Commissioner of Immigration." 



IN THE BRUSH ; Or, Old-Tiine Social, Political, and Religious Life 

 in the Soiithff'eat. By Kev. Hamilton W. Pierson, D. D., ex-President 

 of Cumberland College, Kentucky. With Illustrations by W. L. Shepparu. 

 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.50. . 



" Many years ago Dr. Pierson was active in the Southwest in the cause of education 

 and Bible-distribution, and he has here, under the title of ' In the Brush ; or, Old-Time 

 Social, Political, and Religious Life in the Southwest,' preserved some of the most 

 salient and memorable of his experiences. The book smacks of the soil, and of a 

 state of things most unique and interesting, yet now rapidly fading from memoi-y and 

 reminiscence. ... Its vivid, lively, and withal most truthful descriptions of a state of 

 society now passed away for ever, "will be read with interest."— iVew York Erangelist. 



THE BLOODY CHASM. A Novel. By J. W. De Forest, author of ■' The 

 Wetherel Affair," "Overland." etc. 16mo, cloth. Price, $1.00. 



" At last, it seems, we have the 'American novel, with letters royal to attest its 

 birthright. The author has well chosen his time, just when ' the war of secession was 

 ended.' The persons he brings forward are real people, our own people ; we know 

 them. They are never overdrawn, but most Intensely ali^e they are with the passions 

 and prejudices of those times. The heroine is a South Carolinian— Mr. De Forest 

 does not exaggerate in his pictures of her bravery in facing poverty, her audacity of 

 speech, .ind the bitterness of her sectional hatred. He always keeps on the tip of his 

 pencil, tbough, a certain leaven of honey that makes us love her and cry ' Bravo 1 to 

 her inconsistencies. There are other characters in the book, notably that of Aunt 

 Chloe, the delineation of which has never been surpassed. . . . 



'• The story seems well adapted to dramatization, it is so full of incident, so alive 

 with striking situations, varied characters, pithy and vivacious dialogue." 



The scene opens In Charleston soon after the war, and the story turns, as the title 

 impUes, upon the sectional passions pertaining to the struggle, which were then at 

 tlieir height. 



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