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Guide. By Ellen Hardin Walworth. (American 

 News Co.) 



Bibliotheca Americana. A Dictionary of Books 

 relating to America, from its Discovery to the Pres- 

 ent Time. By Joseph Sabin. In parts. (Sabin.) 



Personal Appearance and the Culture of Beauty, 

 with Hints as to Character. By T. S. Sozinskey. 

 Allen, Lane & Scott, Philadelphia.) 



Woman's Work among the Lowly. Memorial 

 Volume of the First Forty Years of the American 

 Female Guardian Society. By Mrs. R. J. Bennett. 

 (Published by the Society.) 



Railroad Revenue and its Collection. By Marshall 

 M. Kirkman. (Railroad Gazette Office.) 



The Tariff Policy of England and the United 

 States Contrasted. By Erastus B. Bigelow. (Little, 

 Brown & Co.)- 



Isis Unveiled. A Master Key to the Mysteries of 

 Ancient and Modern Science and Theology. By 

 H. P. Blayalsky. (Boutpn.) 



A Bibliography of Bibliography ; or, A Handy 

 Book about iiooks which relate to Books. Being an 

 Alphabetical Catalogue of the most Important Works 

 descriptive of the Literature of Great Britain and 

 Amenca, and more than a few relating to France and 

 Germany. (J. Sabin, author and publisher.) 



Shakespeare from an American Point of View. 

 By George Wilkes. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Wit and Wisdom of the Haytians. By John Bige- 

 low. (Scribner.) 



Condensed Classics : Last Days of Pompeii. By 

 Lord Lytton. Condensed by Rossiter Johnson. 

 (Holt.) 



Idols and Ideals, with an Essay on Christianity. 

 By M. D. Conway. (Holt.) 



REPUBLICATIOXS. The* contraction of busi- 

 ness shows itself to some extent in the dimin- 

 ished number of English works republished, 

 especially those of recent issue, while a larger 

 comparative circulation has been given to the 

 writings of classic and standard authors. Edi- 

 tions of Shakespeare, Milton, and other British 

 poets ; of the works of Miss Austen, Miss Edge- 

 worth, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Lytton, Mar- 

 ryat, Lever, and other novelists; and of such 

 popular authors as De Quincey, Lamb, Macau- 

 lay, Sydney Smith, and Carlyle, have sought, 

 and doubtless found, purchasers. Perhaps a 

 purer taste on the whole has been thus pro- 

 moted than would have been by the sale of an 

 equal number of new books taken in the aver- 

 age. 



The " Encyclopaedia Britannica," of which a 

 new issue is now in progress, several volumes 

 having appeared, besides the circulation of the 

 English edition to a considerable extent in this 

 country, is also reprinted. The appropriation 

 of the labors of foreign authors, and of the 

 benefit of foreign capital invested in so exten- 

 sive a work, is an illustration on a large scale 

 of the defects of our copyright laws. Smith 

 (Dr. William) and (Prof.) Wace's " Dictionary 

 of Christian Biography " (Little, Brown & Co.), 

 of which a volume has appeared, gives promise 

 of being a work marked by the same learned 

 and exact research that has characterized the 

 other dictionaries brought out under Dr. Smith's 

 supervision. 



Those valuable serials, the Science, Litera- 

 ture, and History Primers (D. Appleton & Co.) ; 

 the Popular and Advanced Science Series (Put- 



nams); the "Epochs of Ancient and Modern 

 History " (Scribner) ; a supplementary series of 

 "Ancient Classics for English Readers," and 

 the "Foreign Classics," edited by Miss Yongo 

 (Lippincott), have been circulated here as reg- 

 ularly as they have appeared in England, and 

 have done much to popularize valuable knowl- 

 edge. Appleton's series of Foreign Authors 

 (chiefly French) has added some striking works 

 of fiction to our native and English supply. 



In History and Biography, we have repub- 

 lished the third volume of Martin's "Life of 

 the Prince Consort " (D. Appleton & Co.) ; 

 Creasy's "History of the Ottoman Turks" 

 (Holt) ; "Historical Biographies," by M. Creigh- 

 ton (Dutton) ; the " Life of Count Cavour,'.' by 

 Charles de Mazarde, translated by George Mere- 

 dith (Putnams) ; " History of the City of Rome," 

 by Thomas H. Dyer (Worthington) ; " Life of 

 Charles Kingsley," skillfully abridged (Scrib- 

 ner); "Life of De Quincey," by H. A. Page 

 (Scribner) ; " Turning Points of General Church 

 History," by the Rev. Edward J. Cults (Pott, 

 Young & Co.); "Letters of Thomas Erskine, 

 of Linlathen," edited by Dr. Hanna (Putnams); 

 "Life of George Whitefield," by Rev. L.Tyer- 

 man (Randolph) ; " Life of Rowland Hill," 

 by Vernon J. Charlesworth (Tract Society) ; 

 Rev. William Arnot's " Autobiography and Me- 

 moir" (Carters) ; "Bryan Waller Procter, Barry 

 Cornwall, an Autobiographical Fragment," etc. 

 (Roberts) ; " Charlotte Bronte," by T. Wemyss 

 Reid (Scribner) ; " Bernardino Ochino of Sie- 

 na," by Karl Benroth, translated by Helen 

 Zimmern (Carters). 



In Philosophy and Science, we mention 

 " American Addresses," by T. H. Huxley (D. 

 Appleton & Co.) ; Principal Shairp " On the 

 Poetic Interpretation of Nature " (Hurd & 

 Houghton) ; Lange's " History of Material- 

 ism," translated by Ernest G. Thomas (Os- 

 good); Maudsley's "Physiology of Mind " (D. 

 Appleton & Co.) ; " Physical Basis of Mind," 

 by George H. Lewes (Osgood) ; Lecky's " His ; 

 tory of European Morals," a new edition (D. 

 Appleton & Cc.); " Freethinking and Plain 

 Speaking," by Leslie Stephen (Putnams) ; " In- 

 ventional Geometry, ' by William George Spen- 

 cer (D. Appleton & Co.) ; " Descriptive Soci- 

 ology," by Herbert Spencer (Appletons) ; Bas- 

 tiat's "Political E onomy," the English trans- 

 lation revised by D. A. Wells (Putnams) ; " A 

 Century of Invention," by Theodore Vogel 

 (Appletons) ; " Studies in the Philosophy of 

 Religion and History," by A. M. Fairbairn 

 (Lovell, Adams, Wesson & Co.); Prof. Tyn- 

 dall's " Lessons in Electricity " (Appletons) ; 

 " Science of Language," by Abel Hovelaque, 

 translated by A. H. Keane (Lippincott); "Ef- 

 fect of Self and Cross Fertilization in the Vege- 

 table Kingdom," and " Different Forms of 

 Flowers in Plants of the Same Species," by 0. 

 Darwin (Appletons) ; " Wonders of the Great 

 Deep," by P. A. Gosse (Lippincott); "Mes- 

 merism, Spiritualism, etc., Historically and Sci- 

 entifically Considered," by W. B. Carpenter 



