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Foreign Treaties of the United States in Conflict with. 

 State Laws relative to the Transmission of Eeal Es- 

 tate to Aliens, etc. By William Beach Lawrence. 



The Kailroad Laws of the State of New York. 

 "With Notes of Judicial Decisions. To which are 

 added a Table of Kailroad Charters and Local En- 

 actments, and an Appendix of Forms. By E. Bach 

 McMaster. 



A Compendium of Commercial Law, analytically 

 and topically arranged, with Copious Citations o'f 

 Legal Authorities, for the Use of Business Colleges 

 and Universities, Students of Law, and Members of 

 the Bar. By Calvin Townsend. 



JUVENILES. In books for the young, the 

 press continues to be prolific ; and, while there 

 is something to discourage one in the amount 

 of indifferent fiction that is fabricated for 

 them, a comparative view shows a gradual 

 raising of the standard. This is due, no doubt, 

 to the amount of wholesome though some- 

 times sweeping criticism that has been of late 

 directed upon this class of books. Fiction is 

 less exclusively relied on as a means of inter- 

 esting the young people. To make books for 

 them that shall be at once useful and readable, 

 is an undertaking the difficulty of which gives 

 brilliancy to success. Such a success is " How 

 to Do it," by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, 

 a book of good advice, and therefore likely 

 enough beforehand to find few readers dis- 

 posed to give any attention to it. But it is 

 almost as interesting as a good story ; and, as 

 it tells how to do a number of things youth 

 are apt to think very difficult, the immediate 

 gratification of their curiosity is the smallest 

 part of the good they get from its sensible 

 and pleasant counsels. Mr. Jacob Abbott has 

 commenced a series of books for the young, 

 popularizing science. He has issued volumes 

 on " Heat," " Light," and " Water and Land." 

 Volumes of 'the same kind are " Curiosities of 

 Heat," by Rev. Lyman B. Tefft ; " Wonders of 

 Insect Life," by Prof. J. E. Willett ; " Won- 

 ders of the Plant World; or, Curiosities of 

 Vegetable Life, and Notices of Remarkable 

 Plants, Trees, and Flowers." " Nature's Won- 

 ders," by the Rev. Richard Newton, D. D., is 

 a series of sermons by a preacher to children, 

 of more than ordinary adaptation to that diffi- 

 cult specialty. Those never-failing favorites 

 with their juniors, J. T. Trowbridge, by his 

 tale of "Jack Hazard and his Fortunes," and 

 Mrs. A. M. Diaz, by her entertaining sketches 

 of "William Henry and his Friends," have 

 laid them under added obligations. Miss 

 Louisa M. Alcott has given them "Little 

 Men," a worthy companion to her very popu- 

 lar "Little Women," and also "Morning Glo- 

 ries and Other Stories." The author of " The 

 Wide, Wide World " appears in " Opportuni- 

 ties," a sequel to "What she could," and 

 'The House in Town," a sequel to "Oppor- 

 tunities;" and the author of "Ellen Mont- 

 gomery's Book-Shelf" furnishes another shelf 

 with a series entitled " Stories of Vinegar 

 Hill." A very pleasant and healthful book is 

 " The Judge's Pets," by E. Johnson (E. B. 

 Bensell). "Four, and what they did," by 



Mrs. H. C. Weeks, a series of very life-like 

 and humorous sketches, is deservedly a great 

 favorite with the boys and girls. "The New- 

 Year's Bargain," by Susan Coolidge, is a quaint 

 conceit very successfully embodied, suggesting 

 in humorous masquerade things worth think- 

 ing of. "Alice Fenton; or, Alone in the 

 World," and "Ruth Allerton, the Missionary's 

 Daughter," are of the excellent class of moral 

 tales that do not moralize. " Mother Goose's 

 Melodies, for Children, with Notes, Music," 

 etc., presents the old nursery favorites older 

 by ages than the Mother Goose from whom 

 American editions name them in luxurious 

 fashion. From the mass that remain to be 

 enumerated, we add the following titles : 



The August Stories. By Jacob Abbott. 



Aunt Jane's Hero. By E. Prentiss. 



Little Jakey. By Mrs. S. H. De Croyft. 



The Greek Maid at the Court of the Emperor 

 Nero. From the German, by L. C. Theiss. 



The Theban Legion : a Story of the Times of Dio- 

 cletian. By the Eev. W. M. Blackburn, D. D. 



Gustavus Adolphus. By Mrs. C. A. Lacroix. 



The' Heroine of the White Nile ; or, what a 

 Woman did and dared. A Sketch of the Eemark- 

 able Travels and Experiences of Miss Alexandrina 

 Tinne. By Prof. William Wells. 



English History, condensed and simplified for 

 Children. By Mrs. Anna M. Hyde. 



The Old World seen with Young Eyes. 



The Trapper's Niece. A Sketch of Western Life. 



Bread- Winners. By a Lady of Boston. 



Tattered Tom ; or, The History of a Street Arab. 

 By Horatio Alger, Jr. 



Up the Baltic ; or, Young Americans in Norway, 

 Sweden, and Denmark. By Oliver Optic (William 

 T. Adams). 



Fire in the Woods (B. 0. W. C. Stories). By 

 James De Mille. 



The Young Dodge Club. By James De Mille. 



Cinderella ; or, The Little Glass Slipper. Colored 

 Pictures by Alfred Fredericks. 



The Child Captives. A True Tale of Life among 

 the Indians of the West. By Mrs. Margaret Hosmer. 



One Year ; or, A Story of Three Homea. By Fran- 

 cis May Peard. 



The Hermit of Holcombe. By Mary Dwinell 

 Chellis. 



The Young Deliverers of Pleasant Love. By 

 Elijah Kellogg. 



The Spark of Genius; or, the College-Life of 

 James Trafton. By Elijah Kellogg. 



The Silver Eifle : A 'Tale of the Saranac Lakes. 

 By Clara F. Guernsey. 



Oliver's Prisoner. P/7 Clara F. Guernsey. 



A Journey round my Eoom. From the French of 

 Xavier de Maistre. 



The Fables of Pilpav. Eevised edition. Illus- 

 trated. 



The Sunny Path. By Caroline E. K. Davis. 



Lyle McDonald ; or, A Winter in the Woods of 

 Maine. By Mrs. S. F. Keene. 



The Ked-Shanty Boys ; or, Pictures of New Eng- 

 land School-Life Thirty Years ago. By Park Lud- 

 low. A. M. 



Six Little Princesses, and what they turned into. 

 By the author of " Susy's Six Birthdays." 



The Dick and Daisy Series. By Miss A. F. Sam- 

 uels. 4 vols. 



Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. By Louisa M. Alcott. 



The Wonderful Story of Gentle Hand, and Other 

 Stories. By T. S.. Arthur. 



Bivouac and Battle ; or, The Struggles of a Soldier. 

 By " Oliver Optic." 



The Country of the Dwarfs. By Paul du Chaillu. 



