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THOMAS CARLYLE'S COUNSELS TO A LITERARY ASPI- 

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Gives a side of the rugged old Scotchman which will be new to most readers. 

 It shows that he was not always gruff and bearish, and that he could at times 

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SOCIAL LIFE AND LITERATURE FIFTY YEARS AGO. 



i6mo, cloth, white paper labels, gilt top. $1.00. 

 By a well-known litterateur. It will take a high place among the literature 

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CIVILIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES. By Matthew 



Arnold. And Other Essays concerning America. i6mo, unique paper 



boards. 75 cents. Cloth, uncut, $1.25. The cloth binding matches the 



uniform edition 0/ his collected worhs. 



Comprises the critical essays, which created so much discussion, namely, 



" General Grant, an Estimate." "A Word about America," "A Word more 



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*jt* This collection gathers in the great critic's /(j^/ contribuiionF to itte.ature. 



LEGENDS OF THE RHINE. From the German of Pt^. Bernard. 

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 An admirable collection of the popular historical traditions of tne Rhine, told 

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A SELECTION FROM THE POEMS OF PUSHKIN 



Translated, with Critical Notes and a Bibliography. By Ivan Panin, 

 author of "Thoughts." Foolscap 8vo. Unique binding. ^2.00. 



The first published translation by the brilliant young Russian, Ivan Panin, 

 whose lectures in Boston on the literature of Russia, during the autumn of last 

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WIT, WISDOM, AND PATHOS, from the prose of Heinrich Heine, 



with a few pieces from tlie " Book of Songs " Selected and translated by 



J. Snodgrass. Second edition, thoroughly revised. Cr. Svo, 33S pp. 



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