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able Street" (Ford), showed her rare skill as 

 a story-teller, with glimpses of her more com- 

 manding power over her readers' sensibilities. 

 It is a remarkable instance of what genius can 

 make out of what would seem scanty materials 

 for a tale. Mr. Henry James, Jr., whose short 

 stories have been much and justly admired, has 

 essayed a longer flight. His novel "Roderick 

 Hudson " (Osgood), fulfills in a good degree the 

 promise that was discerned in his minor fic- 

 tions. He has also collected a volume of sto- 

 ries entitled '< A Passionate Pilgrim, and other 

 Tales." In "A Norseman's Pilgrimage," by 

 H. H. Boyesen (Sheldon), the author tries his 

 hand at the delineation of American character. 

 His American girls are partly drawn from ob- 

 servation ; partly, it may be suspected, from 

 the conventional lay-figures in contemporary 

 literature. Still, there are so much freshness 

 and reality in the book as to produce a pleas- 

 ing effect, and give promise of still better 

 things. Mr. J. W. De Forest, in " Playing the 

 Mischief" (Harpers), has made fiction the me- 

 dium of satire upon the abuses of public life. 

 " Tales of the Argonauts," by Bret Harte (Os- 

 good), takes the reader back to the scenes and 

 characters of the first California emigration, in 

 the delineation of which Mr. Harte first gained 

 the public attention. " Castle Nowhere ; Lake 

 Country Sketches," by Constance Fenimore 

 Woolson (Osgood), may be said to have broken 

 fresh ground for the purposes of fiction, and 

 with encouraging success. Dr. Holland's " Sev- 

 enoaks " (Scribner) better deserves its immense 

 popularity than either of the author's previous 

 works. The same may be said of the Rev. E. 

 P. Roe's " From Jest to Earnest " (Dodd). The 

 author has the ear of a large public, for whom 

 we might wish a more exacting taste, making 

 success more difficult to the author, and com- 

 pelling him to a higher style of work. " Mrs. 

 Limber's Raffle ; or, a Church Fair and its Vic- 

 tims " (D. Appleton & Co.), is a brochure rath- 

 er than a novel, but it is an exceedingly happy 

 one in idea and execution. The following are 

 of various and some of very considerable merit : 



Victor La Tourette. A Novel. By a Broad 

 Churchman. (Roberts.) 



Hearts and Hands. A Novel. By Christian Eeid. 

 (D. Appleton & Co.) 



The Eainbow Creed. A Story of the Times. 

 (Gill, Boston.) 



Mr. Vauhan's Heir. A Novel. By Frank Lee 

 Benedict. (Harpers.) 



Oakridge. An Ola-Time Story. By J. Emerson 

 Smith. (Osgood.) 



Jettatrice ; or, The Veil withdrawn. By Madame 

 A. Craven. Translated by Frances A. Shaw. (Estes 

 & Lauriat, Boston.) 



Love Anoat. A Story of the American Navy. By 

 F. H. Sheppard, U. S. N. (Sheldon.) 



A Question of Honor. By Christian Eeid. (D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co.) 



St. Simon's Niece. By Frank Lee Benedict. 

 (Harpers.) 



The Abbe" Tigrane, Candidate for the Papal Chair. 

 By Ferdinand Fabre. Translated from the French 

 by the Eev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon. (Ford.) 



The Years that are Told. By Rose Porter. (Ean- 

 dolph.) 



Buffets. By Charles H. Doe. (Osgood.) 



Mae Madden. A Story. By Mary Murdock Ma- 

 Bon. With an Introductory Poem, by Joaquin Mil- 

 ler. (Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago.) 



Starting Out. A Story of the Ohio Hills.- By 

 Alexander Clark. (Lippincott.) 



The Clandestine Marriage. By Eliza A. Dupuy 

 (Peterson, Philadelphia.) 



Annette ; or, The Chronicle of Bellevue. A Nov- 

 el. By Charlotte Walsingham. (Claxton, Phila- 

 delphia.) 



The Fair Puritan. An Historical Eomance of New- 

 England in the Days of W itchcraft. By Henry Wil- 

 liam Herbert. (Lippincott.) 



Alice Brand. A Eomance of the Capital. By A. 

 G. Eiddle. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Geier-Wally. A Tale of the Tyrol. By Wil- 

 hslmina yon Hillern. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Brigadier Frederick. By MM. Erckmann-Cha- 

 trian. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Perfect Love casteth out Fear. By Katharine 

 Sedgwick Washburn. (Lee & Shepard.) 



Eichard Ireton. A Legend of the Early Settle- 

 ment of New England. By Martha Eemick. (Loring 

 Boston.) 



Caring for No Man. A Novel. By Linn Boyd 

 Porter. (Gill, Boston.) 



The Calderwood Secret. By Virgina W. Johnson. 

 (Harpers.) 



Hoosier Mosaics. By Maurice Thompson. (Hale.) 



Danger; or, Wounded in the House of a Friend. 

 A Temperance Novel. By T. S. Arthur. (J. M. 

 Stoddart & Co., Philadelphia.) 



Irene of Armorica. A Tale of the Time of Clovis. 

 By J. C. Bateman. (Sadlier.) 



Afraja ; or, Life and Love in Norway. Translated 

 from the German, by Edward Joy Morris. (Coates, 

 Philadelphia.) 



Claude Melnotte as a Detective, and other Stories. 

 By Allen Pinkerton. (Keen, Cooke & Co., Chicago.) 



Bertha's Engagement. A New Society Novel. By- 

 Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. (Peterson.) 



The Old Chest ; or, The Journal of a Family of the 

 French People, from the Merovingian Times to our 

 Own Days. Translated from the French by Anna 

 T. Sadlier. (Sadlier.) 



Infelice. A Novel. By Augusta Evans Wilson. 

 (Carleton.) 



Betty's Bright Idea. Also, Deacon Pitkin's Farm, 

 and, The First Christmas in New England. By 

 Harriet Beecher Stowe. (Ford.) 



On the Heights. By Berthold Auerbach. Trans- 

 lated by Simon Adler Stern. (Holt.) 



The Woman of Honor. Translated from the 

 French of Louis Enault, by Mrs. Eebecca L. Tutt. 

 (Peterson.) 



ESSAYS AND CEITICISM. Mr. Emerson will 

 always be " caviare to the general," but to his 

 own public which has for some years been 

 growing in extent, both at home and abroad 

 the issue of one of his volumes is an event. As 

 usual, the title, "Letters and Social Aims" 

 (Osgood), is not very descriptive of the con- 

 tents. But the essays are in his best vein. 

 "Nature and Culture," by Harvey Rice (Lee 

 & Shepard), is a volume made up of papers 

 hardly worth republication. The following 

 deserve notice : 



Winter Sunshine. By John Burroughs. 

 Essays JSsthetical. By George H. Calvert. (Lee 

 & Shepard.) 



A Sheaf of Papers. By T. G. A. (Roberts.) 

 Pictures of Life in Camp and Field. By B 



F. Taylor. (Griggs, Chicago.) 



Library Notes. By A. P. Eussell. 

 Houghton.) 



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