250 Literary Notices. 



In this cherished prejudice, they become content to sequestrate 

 themselves in houses that only afford shelter. The present work 

 is intended to correct this erroneous impression, and teach those 

 willing* to receive instruction, the way to build a cottage that will 

 rival in beauty the pretensions mansion, and at the same time 

 secure a greater degree of convenience at a comparatively trifling 

 outlay of money ; no more, in many instances, than the packing box 

 house requires. The book contains one hundred engravings, ex- 

 quisitely executed, and printed in an equally superior manner. 

 Messrs. Cleveland & Backus Bros., are the gentlemen to whom we 

 are indebted for the enterprise. It is written plainly; no technical 

 terms are used ; that cannot be understood by the most ill-informed 

 person. The book eschews all pretension to literary merit, and 

 has its say and comprehends its instructions in such terms as 

 will meet the unqualified approval of the class it addresses. 

 The price of the work is $2,00. 



Fruit Tree Catalogue. 



We have received from A. E. Whitney, Esq., of Franklin Grove, 

 111., his catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees. It is gotten up 

 with much taste, is finely illustrated, and affords accurate descrip- 

 tions of everything offered for sale. 



Holly Tree Ixn. /. B. Peterson, Philadelphia. 



A New Christmas Story, by Charles Dickens. It is quite need- 

 less to say anything in its praise. We have only to remark, that 

 it is intensely Dickensj', every line, to insure its perusal by every 

 individual who has sympathy for the truthful pictures of every 

 day life. Price, 12| cents. 



