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The Amours of Phillippe : A History of Piiillippe's Love Affairs, By 

 Octave Feuillet, ti-anslated from the French, complete and unabridged, 

 by Mrs Maiy Neal Sherwood, is published this day hj T. B. Peterson & 

 Brothers, Philadelphia. 50 cents. 



It can be said of Octave Feuillet, as of very few contemporary French 

 novelists, that he writes for the world and not simply for Paris. He writes 

 of French life, but of life which Americans can understand, and not in that 

 ghastly melodrama which is so foreign to all our natural S3^mpathies, but 

 which is brought before us again and again in the work of all the Parisian 

 novelists of the day. This, his last romance, has just been completed in Le 

 Revue des Deux Mondes, in Paris, j^assed through three editions in three 

 days, and has been charmingly translated for Peterson's American edition, 

 and is as strong and as earnest as any of the stories that have made Octave 

 Feuillet's world-wide fame, being a series of keenly-drawn pictures of 

 French social life by a dramatist and novelist who finishes as well as 

 sketches his pictures, and who lives — not only exists — in the world that he 

 paints. 



Our Children's Songs ; illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York ; 1878. pp. 



208, octavo. For sale by Matt Foster & Co. 11.50. 



This is truly a Christmas book for children of all ages and sizes, being a 

 collection of all the juvenile poetry we have ever seen, and more too, from 

 Jack and Gill in Songs for the nursery, through Songs for childhood. Songs 

 for girlhood. Songs for boyhood to sacred songs for the nursery and hymns 

 for childhood, closing with Bishop Heber's "Brightest and Best of the Sons 

 of the Morning," and Joseph Addison's " Spacious Firmament on High;" the 

 whole handsomely illustrated with nearly 100 engravings. It is just such a 

 book as all children will be delighted with. 



The Signal Boys, or Captain Sam's Company, By Geo. Cary Eggleston. 



JSTew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons ; 1878. 12 mo.; pp.218. For sale by 



Matt Foster & Co. $1.50. 



Another genuinely good story for boys; one which will not only interest 

 them, but arouse their inventive faculties and stimulate them to deeds of 

 manliness. Just such a book as every parent can unhesitatingl}^ place 

 in the hands of his son, with the certainty of his being benefited by it. 



Doubleday's Children, By Dalton Cook. G. P. Putnam's Sons, JSIew 

 York; 1877. 430 pp.; 12 mo. For sale by Matt Foster & Co, $1.50. 

 A story for children of a larger growth. The scenes are laid in England, 



France and Australia, and the author dextrously interweaves prominent 



historical events with the lives of his characters, making an enteitaining 



and fascinating whole. 



