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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 ( (range and other 

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

 By GEORGE M. BABBOUR. With Map and numerous Illustrations, l^mo, 

 cloth. Price, $1.50. 



This is the most comprehensive and authentic book on Florida that lias 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 peculiarly advantairfoiis lor 

 enabling him to acquaint himself with the varied resources of the State, ami 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 a-, a writer on Florida subjects, 

 and of the opportunities he has enjoyed in preparini: his book, are siKh that we can 

 commend it as at once trustworthy and comprehensive greatly superior in these re- 

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\V. D. BLOXIIAM, Governor of Florida ; GEORGE F. DREW. ex-Governor of Flor- 

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 Commissioner of Immigration." 



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

 in the Southwest. By Eev. HAMILTON W. PrERSON, I). D., ex-President 

 of Cumberland College, Kentucky. NVi'h Illustrations by W. L. SUEPI-ABD. 

 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 Keligious Life in the Southwest, 1 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 intere-tin,'. yet now rapidly thilinir from memory and 

 reminiscence. ... Its vivid, lively, and withal most truthful descriptions ol'a si'aie of 

 society now passed away for ever, "will be read with interest." AY York Erninj 



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 scc.-sion 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 -Mi-. l)e Forest 

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

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

 pencil, though, 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 

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

 their height. 



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