Important New Books. 



Scottish Humor. 



DAVID KENNEDY, THE SCOTTISH SINGER: Reminiscences 

 of his Life and Work by Marjoky Kennedy. With portrait and ilhistra- 

 tions. 8vo. Cloth. 479 pp. ^2.00. 

 A highly interesting narrative of this humorous and pathetic singer, who will 

 be remembered the world over, not only by Scotchmen, but by all those who, at 

 any time, have formed a part of his delighted audiences, and who recall the in- 

 imitable manner in which he rendered all that is best in Scottish poetry and song. 

 Genuine fun and drollery, keen observation of men and manners, notes of travel 

 in many cities, the vicissitudes of an artistic career, are all depicted here with 

 force and style. 



New and Charming Work on Japan. 

 NINE YEARS IN NIPON : SKETCHES OF JAPANESE LIFE 



AND M AN N ERS. By Henry Faulds, L. F. P. S., Suygeon o/Tslkiji 

 Hospital, Tokio ; Ulember of the Royal A sialic Society. With lithographed 

 frontispiece, and initial letters and illustrations on wood by Japanese 

 artists, i vol. 304 pp. 8vo. Cloth. With appropriate and original cover 

 designs. $2.00. 

 The best inexpensive book on Japan that has yet appeared ; valuable as the 

 record of the observations and experiences of one who, by virtue of his profes- 

 sion and his long residence, was admitted into the inner life of that conserva- 

 tive people, the Japanese. Teeming with accurate information and eloquent 

 description, especially of the social life of the people, of which the ordinary 

 traveller sees practically nothing, it is a valuable addition to the literature of 

 geographical, ethnological, and social science. 



THE TERRACE OF MON DESIR. A Novel of Russian Life. By 

 Sophie Radford dk Meissner. i2mo. Cloth limp, elegant. $1.25. 3rd 

 edition. 



This novel is written by the A nierican wife of a Russian diploviai, who, by 

 virtue of her position, is well qualified to describe the scefies and characters 

 •which she has chosen to preseiit ; she writes with the clear, unbiassed view of 

 her native country, and shows, perhaps for the first time, an unprejudiced pict- 

 ure of Russian society. 



Her literary style has been pronounced easy and floiving, -with a certain opu- 

 letice in its swift panorama of bright scenes and high personages, and readers 

 who recall the charming story of Switzerland which appeared in a late mem'^- 

 of " Scribner" will tieed no further recommendation to the perusal of this 

 work. 



In these days when so much interest and sympathy is evoked by the narration 

 of the miseries of the nwujik this novel comes very a propos, as it presents 

 a picture of the social and domestic life of that other branch of the Russians, the 

 aristocratic, governing class ; who, notwithstanding their adherence to French 

 models, still have that indefinite touch of their Oriental ancestry which gives 

 them their romance and passioU; and renders them as emphatically Russian as 

 the most humble peasant. 



Cupples and Hurd, " BookL'iiers, BOSTON. 



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