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aided by his cultured and matured tasto. The 

 success of Mr. K. II. Stoddurd's "Bric-a-brac 

 - " of abridged personal memoirs lias led to 

 a second undertaking of the same sort, under 

 the name of the " Sans-Souci Series " (Scrib- 

 ner). A praiseworthy attempt to revive an in- 

 terest in the classic authors of Queen Anne's 

 time is Mr. J. Habberton's "Select British 

 Essayists" (Putnams). A more questionable 

 piece of ingenuity is the project of a series of 

 "Condensed Classics" (Holt), in which the 

 novels of Scott, Dickens, and other popular 

 writers, are to be abridged, to adapt them to 

 the prevalent habit of hasty reading. That 

 one who has any real appreciation of what is 

 admirable in a great work of imagination could 

 endure an abridgment of it seems to us im- 

 possible, and as for the people who read with- 

 out that appreciation, merely to enjoy the 

 excitement of a good story, it is of very little 

 consequence whether or not they read Scott. 



Mr. William D. Howells has broken ground in 

 a new (for him) species of literature, of which, 

 however, his novel, " Private Theatricals," sug- 

 gested the possibilitv, in his delightful farce, 

 " The Parlor Car " (Osgood). A work that 

 will have a warm welcome from "all whom it 

 may concern " and they are many is " Stu- 

 dent-Life at Harvard " (Lock wood, Brooks & 

 Co.). Without particular notice of others, we 

 subjoin the following titles: 



The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By " Mark 

 Twain." (American Publishing Company.) 



Reports of the Commissioners of the United States 

 to the International Exhibition held at Vienna in 

 1873. Edited by Robert H. Thurston, A. M. 4 

 vols. (Van Nostrand.) 



Centennial Temperance Volume. A Memorial of 

 the International Temperance Conference held in 



story or the General Cause ot Temperance 

 Century, etc., etc. (National Temperance Society.) 



Camp-Life in Florida. A Handbook for Sports- 

 men and Settlers. Compiled by Charles Hallock. 

 (Forest and Stream Publishing Company.) 



The Cambridge of 1776. Done by Divers Eminent 

 Hands. (Lockwood, Brooks & Co., Boston.) 



A Paying Investment. By Anna E. Dickinson. 

 (Osgooa.) 



The Problem of Health. How to solve it. By 

 Reuben Greene, M. D. (Russell, Boston.) 



Shakespeare aud the Bible. By James Rees. 

 (Claxton, Philadelphia.) 



Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative 

 Assemblies. By Major Henry M. Robert, Corps of 

 Engineers U. S. A. JGriggs, Chicago.) 



Temperance and Education ; or, The Relation of 

 the Social Drinking Customs to the Educational In- 

 terests of the Nation. By Mark Hopkins, D. D. 

 (National Temperance Society.) 



Bad Habits of Good Society. By G. A. Baker, Jr. 

 (Patterson.) 



Autobiography of a Crystal. By C. G. Dunn. 

 ( Lij>]>incott.) 



Linliient Orators of France. (Lippincott.) 



A Manual on the Culture of Small Fruits. By E. 

 P. Roe (author and publisher). 



S digestions for the Sick-Room. Compiled by an 

 American Woman. (Randolph.) 



Poetry for Home and School. Edited by Anna C. 

 Brackett and Ida M. Eliot. (Putnams.) 



Woman and the Law. By Russell H. Con well. 



8oe-Woed and what we Seed. My Vicstion tt 

 Long Bruncli and Saratoga. By "John Paul" 

 [Charles H. Wcbl.j. (Carle-ton.) 



Newspaper Poets; or, Waits and their Author*. 

 By Alphonso 11. Hopkins. (Rural Home Publishing 

 Company.) 



A Centennial Commissioner in Europe. By John 

 W. Forney. (Lim>ineott.) 



Dyspepsia and it Kindred Disease*. By Dr. W. 

 W. 1KB. (Belford, Montreal.} 



Peace Principles exemplified in the Early Hixtory 

 of Pennsylvania. By Samuel M. Janney. (Friendi* 

 Book Association.) 



The Pleasures of Angling. By George Dawson. 

 (Sheldon & Co.) 



The Pacific Tourist. By H. T. W;iliams (author 

 and publisher). 



Josh Billings. His Works complete. With One 

 Hundred Illustrations, by Thomas Nast and others. 

 A Biographical Introduction. (Carleton.) 



A Comic History of the United States. By Liv- 

 ingston Hopkins. 



Roadside Poems for Summer Travelers. Edited 

 by Lucy Larcom. (Osgood.) 



The Forest ard Stream llandbook for Riflemen. 

 Giving Forms for Organization of Rifle Associations, 

 etc. By Major George O. Starr. (J. B. Ford <fc 

 Co.) 



How to get Rich in California. A History of the 

 Progress and Present Condition of the Gold and Sil- 

 ver Mining, and other Industrial Interests of the 

 Great Pacific State, etc. (McMorris & Sons, Phila- 

 delphia.) 



Hail Columbia. Historical, Comical, and Centen- 

 nial. By Walter F. Brown. (W. F. Brown, Provi- 

 dence.) 



Our Behavior. A Manual of Etiquette and Dress 

 of the Best American Society. By Mrs. E. B. Duffey. 

 (Stoddart, Philadelphia.) 



Money of All Nations equalized, and Currency 

 Rates of Sterling Exchange. By D. William Dures. 

 (D. W. Diggs.) 



Guarding the Mails : or, Secret Service in the Post- 

 Office Department. By P. H. Woodward, Chief 

 Special Agent under Postmaster-General Jewell. 

 (Dustin, Gilman & Co., Hartford.) 



Gems of Prose and Poetry. The Fruits of Leisure 

 Hours, original and selected. From the Manuscripts 

 of James R. Aikcn. (Miller.) 



Oakum-Pickings. A Miscellaneous Collection of 

 Stories, Essays, and Paragraphs contributed from 

 Time to Time to the Telegraphic and General Press, 

 under the Norn deHumeoi "John Oakum." (W. 

 J. Johnson.) 



The Father's Story of Charlie Ross, the Kidnapped 

 Child. By Christian K. Ross. ( J. E. Potter & Co., 

 Philadelphia.) 



Hours of Amusement. By W. T. G. Weaver. 

 (Gushing, Houston, Texas.) 



A Century of Nursing. By A. H. Woolsey. (Put- 

 nams.) 



A New Library of Poetry and Song. Edited by 

 William Cullen Bryant. In parts. (Ford.) 



Humors of Ventriloquism. With Hints for Learn- 

 ing this A inns' ng Art. (J. Haney & Co.) 



Lights and Shades in San Francisco. By B. E. 

 Lloyd. (Bancroft & Co., San Francisco.) 



Home Ilannonies. By Mark M. Pomeroy. (Carle- 

 ton.) 



Lion-Jack ; or, How Menageries are Made. By P. 

 T. Barman. (Carleton.) 



Two Men of Sandy Bar. A Play. By " Bret 

 Harte." (Osgood.) 



Churchyard Literature. A Choice Collection of 

 American Epitaphs, with Remarks on Monumental 

 Inscriptions and the Obsequies of Various Nations 

 By John R. Kippax. (Griggs, Chicago.) 



A Manual oi Parliamentary Practice. Rules for 

 conducting Business in Deliberative Bodies. By P. 

 H. Mell, D. D., LL. D. (Sheldon.) 



