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and the -kill with which tho babies' blunders 

 scno to bring tho older people out of ditti- 

 riili'u-s make* tho plot of thu story a genuine 

 triumph of art. "The Land of tho Sky; or, 

 A'hi-ntitri-* in Mountain Uy-ways," by Chris- 

 tian IJdil ( D. Appleton & Co.), pleasantly rain- 

 -,'lcs description of a romantic region, advent- 

 ures of a party journeying through the moun- 

 tainous sections of North Carolina, and a clev- 

 erly-managed fiction. 



Michcline. By Madame Eugdno Bersier. Trans- 



lated l>y Mrs. Ca'roy Brook. (Dutton.) 



By A. M. ~ 

 Sweet Bells Jangled. 



Drifted Asunder. By A. M. Douglas. (Gill.) 



A Dramatic Love-Tale. 

 (American News Company.) 

 By W. M. Baker. (Ilur- 



By Clara Oukey Hall. 



Carter Quartcrman. 

 pen.) 



First Families of tho Sierras. By Joaquin Miller. 



The One Fair Woman. By the same. (Carlton.) 



Tho Water-Waff. A Story of tha Revolution, 

 founded on Incidents connected with tho Battle of 

 Trenton. By Elizabeth S. Bladeu. (Claxtou, Phil- 

 adelphia.) 



Maud Mansfield. Bv Mrs. Francis Hamilton 

 Hood. (J. W. Burke &* Co., Macon, Ga.) 



Shadowed Perils. By M. A. Avery. (Authors' 

 Publishing Company.) 



A Family Secret. By Fanny Andrews. (Lippin- 

 cott.) 



Ac 1 1 sah. A New England Life-Study. By Rev. 

 Peter Pennot. (Lee & Shepard.) 



Free, yet forging their Own Chains. By C. M. 

 Cornwall. 



Leah Mordecai. By Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott. 

 (Baker, Pratt & Co.) 



Chiushingura. A Japanese Romance. Trans- 

 lated by Frederick V. Dickens. With Notes, and an 

 Appendix containing a Metrical Version of The 

 Ballad of Tagasako, and Thirty Full-page Illustra- 

 tions, by Japanese Artists. (Putnams.) 



The Fortunes of Miss Follen. By Mrs. Goodwin- 

 Talcott. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Theophilus and Others. By Mary Mapes Dodge. 

 (Scribner.) 



New England Life. A Century of Gossip ; or, 

 Tlie Real and tho Seeming. By Willard G. Nash. 

 (Keen, Cooke & Co., Chicago.) 



Women's Secrets; or, How to be Beautiful. By 

 Lou Capsadell. (Authors' Publishing Company.) 



Life's Promise to Pay. By Miss Clara Conway. 

 (Lippincott.) 



Gentlefolks and Others. By Julia Duhring. (Lip- 

 pincott.) 



Heavy Yokes. A Romance of Southern Life. By 

 Miss J. R. Haderman. (Gill, Boston.) 



Patriot and Tory: One Hundred Years ajfo. A 

 Tale of tho Revolution. By Julia McNuir Wright. 

 (Jones Brothers, Cincinnati.) 



Peter and Polly ; or, Home-Life in New England 

 a Hundred Years ago. By Marian Douglas. (Os- 

 good.) 



Nobody Cares. By Crona Temple. (Lothrop.) 



Fire and Flame. From tho German of Levin 

 Schucking. Translated by Eva M. Johnson. (D. 

 Apploton & Co.) 



At the Councillor's ; or, A Nameless History. 

 From the German of E. Marlitt, by Mrs. A. L. Wia- 

 ter. (Lippincott.) 



'Twixt Hammer and Anvil. Ry Frank Lee Bene- 

 dict. (Carleton.) 



Elsie's Motherhood. A Sequel to Elsie's Woman- 

 hood. By Martha (Farquharson) Finley. (Dodd, 

 Mead & Co.) 



My Little Love. By " Marion Harland." (Carle- 

 ton.) 



The Homo at Greylock. By Mrs. E. Prentiss. 

 (Randolph.) 



Lady Ernestine ; or, The Abnent Lord of Roche- 

 forte. Hy Mrs. Catharine A. Warfltld. (Pcloraoti, 

 Philadelphia.) 



Living Too Fast; or, Tho Confeuionn of a Bunk 

 Officer. By " Oliver Optic." ( Leo te 8hei>mrd., 



Klbow-Room. A Novel without a I lot. By 

 Max Adeler. (Stoddart, Philadelphia.; 



Tales from Two Hemispheres. By Iljalmar Hj-.rth 

 Boyesen. (Osgood.) 



The Barton Experiment. By the Author of 

 " Helen's Babies." (Putnams.) 



His Young Wife. By Julie P. Smith. (Carle- 

 ton.) 



Viking Tales of the North. Translated from the 

 Icelandic by R. B. Anderson and Jon Bjarnaaen. 

 Also Tegners Frithiofs Saga, translated by George 

 Stephens. (Griggs, Chicago.) 



t rithiofs Saga. A Norse Romance. By Esuius 

 TegneV. Translated from the Swedish by Thomas 

 E. A. Ilolcomb and Martha A. Lyon Ilolcomb. 

 (Griggs, Chicago.) 



The Centennial Frog, and Other Stories. (Clax- 

 ton, Philadelphia.) 



Is That All? [No-Name Series.] (Roberts.) 



Courtship in 1720 and 1860. A Romance. By 

 Hawley Smart. [Star Series.] (Lippincott.) 



JUVENILE BOOKS. The improvement in the 

 quality of books for the young, which we have 

 had the satisfaction of noticing heretofore, is 

 continued. Perhaps there was not during the 

 past year so large a number of the best class of 

 juvenile publications as appeared in the year 

 preceding, but the standard was very well 

 maintained. Of the old favorites, Miss Alcott 

 lends her pen to tho temperance reform in her 

 story of "Silver Pitchers," which, with other 

 stories (Roberts), makes a volume of very 

 pleasant reading. Three of her stories 

 " Kitty's Class-Day," " Aunt Kipp," " Psyche'* 

 Art" (Loring), form a small collection. "Su- 

 san Coolidge " provides choice reading " For 

 Summer Afternoons " (Roberts). Of books 

 from Centennial suggestion we have " The 

 Boys of '76 : a History of the Battles of the 

 Revolution," by Charles Carlton Coffin (Har- 

 pers) Mr. Coffin was a popular correspond- 

 ent during the civil war ; " Young Folks' 

 Centennial Rhymes," by Will Carlton (Har- 

 pers), who has an excellent knack at rhyming, 

 with humorous, touching, and stirring effect ; 

 and " The Story of Our Country," by Mrs. L. 

 B. Monroe (Lockwood, Brooks & Co., Bos- 

 ton). A book with a truly descriptive title is 

 "All the Way Round; or, What a Boy Saw 

 and Heard on His Way Round the World : a 

 Book for Young People, and Older Ones with 

 Young Hearts " (D. Appleton & Co.). Bayard 

 Taylor's "Boys of Other Countries" purveys 

 in his attractive way for his young readers 

 from the ample store of his foreign recollec- 

 tions. " Captain Sam ; or, Tho Boy-Scout of 

 1814," by George Gary Eggleston (Putnams). 

 cannot fail to please the boys of 1876-'77. 

 " Bits of Talk in Verso and Prose for Youner 

 Folks," by II. II. (Roberts), is so good that all 

 who read it will wish there was more of it. 

 " Once upon a Time: Stories for Children of 

 the Anci6nt Gods and Heroes," by Mary E. 

 Cragie (Putnams), makes excellent use of ma- 

 terials gathered from the clastic mythology. 



