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■'A Key to Mr. Charles Smith's " Cotiic Sections,"' by Charles 

 'Smith, M.A. ; ' Macmillan's Geographical Series,' edited by Archi- 

 bald Geikie, F.R.S. ; ' Maps and Map-Making.' by Alfred Hughes, 

 M.A. ; ' An Elementary General Geography.' by Hugh Robert 

 -Mill, D.Sc. ; and ' A Geography of Europe,' by James Sime. M.A. 



G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



' American Literature, 1607-1885,' Part II. (completing the work) 

 "American Poetry and Fiction,' by Charles F. Richardson ; a second 

 impression of Part I. ' The Development of American Thought.' 

 'Popular Tales from the Norse,' by Sir George Webbe Dasent, 

 D.C.L., etc., with an introductory essay on the origin and diffusion 

 of popular tales (third edition). 'The Best Books: A Reader's 

 ■Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books in all Depart- 

 ments of Literature down to 1887,' rewritten and much enlarged, 

 •compiled by William Swan Sonnenschein. ' A History of Greece,' 

 by Evelyn Abbott, M.A.,"LL.D., fellow of Balliol College, Oxford 

 (to be complete in three parts). ' Omitted Chapters of History 

 ■disclosed in the Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph,' by Mon- 

 cure D. Conway. ' Governor Chamberlain's Administration in 

 South Carolina,' a chapter of reconstruction in the Southern States, 

 by Walter Allen. ' American Orations,' edited by Alexander John- 

 ston. ' The Life and Letters of Dr. S. Wells Williams,' author of 

 ' The Middle Kingdom,' and many years missionary in China, by 

 Frederick Wells Williams. ' Some Chapters on Judaism and the 

 Science of Religion,' by Rabbi Louis Grossman. ' Emanuel Swe- 

 ■denborg,' an essay, by John Bigelovv. ' Proverbs and Phrases of 

 All Ages,' by Robert Christy. ' A Sketch of the Germanic Consti- 

 tution, from the Early Times to the Dissolution of the Empire,' by 

 :Samuel Epes Turner. In the Series of the Great Cities of the Re- 

 public, II. ' The Story of Boston,' by Arthur Gilman. In the Story 

 -of the Nations Series, XIX. ' The Story of Turkey,' by Stanley 

 Lane- Poole, assisted by E. J. W. Gibb and Arthur Gilman ; XX. ' The 

 -Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia, including a Study of the Zend- 

 .avesta or Religion of Zoroaster, from the Fall of Nineveh to the 

 Persian War,' a continuation of ' The Siory of Assyria,' by Z. A. 

 Ragozin ; XXI. 'The Story of Mediseval France, from the Reign 

 of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century,' by 

 ■Gustave Masson ; ' The Story of Holland,' by James E. Thorold 

 Rogers ; ' The Story of Mexico,' by Susan Hale ; ' The Story of 

 Phoenicia,' by Prof. George Rawlinson. ' The Economic Inter- 

 pretation of History,' being the substance of lectures delivered in 

 Worcester College Hall, Oxford University (1887-88), by James E. 

 Thorold Rogers. ' An Introduction to English Economic History 

 and Theory,' by W. J.Ashley. 'Industrial Liberty, an Analysis 

 ■of the Existing Conditions in the United States, with Special Ref- 

 erence to the Relations to the Public of Railways and Trusts,' by 

 John Bonham. ' The Centennial of a Revolution,' an address by A 

 Revolutionist. 'In Castle and Cabin, Talks in Ireland in 1887,' by 

 George Pellew. ' Business,' by James Piatt, F.S.S. (authorized 

 American edition, reprinted from the seventy-fifth English edition). 

 In the Questions of the Day Series, XLIV. ' The Present Condition 

 ■of Economic Science, and the Demand for a Radical Change in its 

 Methods and Aims,' by Edward C. Lunt ; XLVII. 'The Tariff 

 History of the United States, 1789-1888,' by Prof. F. W. Taussig ; 

 JXLVIII. 'The President's Message,' with annotations of facts and 

 figures, by R. R. Bowker; XLIX. ' Essays on Practical Politics,' 

 'by Theodore Roosevelt ; L. ' Friendly Letters to American Farmers 

 -and Others,' by J. S.Moore. ' Suggestive Therapeutics, a Study of 

 the Nature and Use of Hypnotism,' by Prof. H. Bernheim, trans- 

 lated by Dr. Christian A. Herter. ' The Insane in Foreign Countries, 

 Notes of an Examination of European Methods of Caring for the 

 Insane,' by the Hon. William P. Letchworth. In the German 

 ■Classics for Ainerican Students, ' Selections from the Prose Works 

 •of Lessing,' edited by Horatio S. White. 



Roberts Brothers. 



'Harvard Vespers' — addresses to Harvard students by the 

 ■preachers to the university — contains addresses by Francis G. 

 'Peabody, Phillips Brooks, Edward Everett Hale, Alexander Mc- 

 Kenzie, George A. Gordon, and Andrew P. Peabody. ' The Book 

 •of Christmas,' descriptive of the customs, ceremonies, traditions, 

 rsuperstitions, fun, feeling, and festivities of the Christmas season. 



by Thomas K. Hervey, with all the original illustrations by R. Sey- 

 mour. 'Franklin in France,' Part II. 'The Treaty of Peace and 

 Franklin's Life till his Return,' from original documents, by Ed- 

 ward Everett Hale and Edward E. Hale, jun. ' The Study of Pol- 

 itics,' by Prof. W. P. Atkinson. ' New England Legends and Folk- 

 lore, in Prose and Poetry,' with 100 effective character illustrations, 

 from designs by Merrill and others (a new and cheaper edition). 

 'London of To-day, 1888,' by Charles E. Pascoe (fourth year of 

 publication). ' The United States of Yesterday and of To-morrow,' 

 by William Barrows, D.D. ' History of the People of Israel till 

 the Time of King David,' by Ernest Renan, author of 'Life of Je- 

 sus.' 



George Routledge & Sons. 



•My Trip round the World,' by W. S. Caine, M.P. ' A Thou- 

 sand Miles up the Nile,' by Miss Amelia B. Edwards (new edition). 

 'The Chess-Player's Manual,' by G. H. D. Gossip, with an Ameri- 

 can appendix by S. Lipschiitz. ' The Handy Reference Atlas of 

 the World,' by John Bartholomew, with 100 maps and plans, full 

 geographical statistics, and a complete index. The sixty-three vol- 

 umes forming Morley's Universal Library will be re-issued in twenty- 

 one monthly volumes, grouped and arranged in historical order. 

 The first of the series will be ' The Iliad of Homer, The Plays of 

 ^schylus. The Plays of Sophocles ; ' ' The Plays of Euripides ; ' 

 ' The Acharnians, The Knights and the Birds of Aristophanes, 

 Treatise on Government by Aristotle, The ^neid of Virgil ; ' 

 ' Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit (the Hitopadesa). Medie- 

 val Tales, The Chronicle of the Cid ; ' ' The Imitation of Christ by 

 Thomas a Kempis, Life of Cardinal Wolsey by Cavendish, Ideal 

 Commonwealths.' The first volume of the Carisbrooke Library — 

 a development of Morley's Universal Library (completed with its 

 sixty-third volume), upon the saine plan and under the same editor- 

 ship as that series — will appear in October, 1888; subsequent 

 ones, every other month. ' Schiller's Complete Works,' translated 

 by Lord Lytton, Samuel T. Coleridge, and others ; edited by Prof. 

 Henry Morley. ' The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria : includ- 

 ing Sketches of Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Earl of Derby, 

 Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, Lord Beaconsfield, Mr. Glad- 

 stone, and the Marquis of Salisbury,' by George B. Smith. ' Lem- 

 prifere's Classical Dictionary: containing a Copious Account of all 

 the Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors, with the Value 

 of Coins, Weights, and Measures used among the Greeks and Ro- 

 mans, and a Chronological Table ' (new edition). ' About Robins : 

 Songs, Facts, and Legends,' by Lady Lindsay. ' Warrior Kings 

 from Charlemagne to Frederick the Great,' by Lady Lamb (new 

 edition). ' Harry Treverton : a tale of Australian Life,' edited by 

 Lady Broome. ' The Hunting of the " Hydra ; " or. The Phantom 

 Prahu,' a tale of adventure in Southern Africa, by Henry Frith. 



Ticknor & Co. 



'The Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Mo- 

 scheles,' translated and edited by Felix Moscheles ; ' Four Years 

 with the Army of the Potomac,' by Regis De Trobriand, brevet 

 major-general, U. S. Vols., translated by George K. Dauchy, with 

 maps, and a steel portrait of General De Trobriand ; ' The Other 

 Side of War, with the Army of the Potomac, Letters from Head- 

 quarters of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Vir- 

 ginia Campaign of 1862.' by Catharine Prescott Wormeley ; 'A 

 Short History of the Secession War,' by Rossiter Johnson, author 

 of 'The History of the War of 1812-15,' etc., with maps and 

 plans ; ' Pen and Powder,' by Franc B. Wilkie of the Chicago 

 Times : 'Western China,' a Journey to the Great Buddhist Centre 

 of Mount Omei,' by the Rev. Virgil C. Hart, B.D., fellow of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society, with map and 12 full-page illustrations; 

 'Safe Building,' by Louis de Coppet Berg, Vol. I., illustrated: 

 ' Ancient and Modern Light-Houses,' by Major D. P. Heap, fully 

 illustrated. 



Miscellaneous. 



' The Life of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe,' by Mr. Stanley 

 Lane-Poole, will shortly be published by Longmans, Green, & Co. 

 (New York). It will give an inside view of that eternal Eastern 

 question for which every English diplomatist must find an answer, 

 as to the riddle of the Sphinx. Much of the matter m these vol- 

 umes is autobiographical, and there are boyish recollections of 



