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New Mexico and Arizona, by the editor ; Classification in seven Linguistic Stocks 

 of Western Indian Dialects contained in forty vocabularies, by Albert S. Gatschet. 

 By this extended statement of the contents of this work, it will be seen that it is 

 the most comprehensive and complete report on archaeology yet made, and a 

 most useful and desirable compendium. The engravings and cuts are exquisitely 

 well done. 



Spain and the Spaniards. By Edmundo De Amicis; octavo, pp. 438; G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons, New York, 1881. $2.00. For sale by M. H. Dickinson. 



This work, translated from the Itahan by Wilhelmina W. Cady. comprises a 

 series of sketches, handsomely illustrated, of the most celebrated cities of Spain,^ 

 such as Barcelona, Saragossa, Burgos, ValladoHd, Madrid, Aramjuez, Toledo.. 

 Cardova, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, Granada and Valencia. These are all described 

 with a sort of enthusiasm and power which recalls our school-boy idea of the 

 Italian character and causes us to rebuild the " castles in Spain," which long ago 

 vanished with other illusions of youth. Everything is seen by Amicis with eyes 

 of admiration, and it is difficult to decide what pleases him most, the setioritas 

 with their '^ great eyes full of sweetness," the cathredral of Burgos with its mas- 

 terpieces of sculpture and painting, ValladoUd, the Rich, with its famous picture 

 gallery in the college of Santa Croce audits traditions of Christopher Columbus; 

 the Prado, the Recoletos and other promenades of Madrid, its splendid theatres 

 and cafes, armory and rjiuseums, its unsurpassable Royal palace, its bull fights, 

 which he visited every Sunday, and to a glowing description of which he devotes- 

 thirty-one pages; its cock fights, which he did not enjoy; Toledo, perched upon 

 its steep and rocky heights, and approached by the famous bridge of Alcantara,, 

 with its labyrinthine streets so narrow that the hubs of the wheels almost touch the 

 walls of the houses, its ancient bas-reliefs, arabesques, Moorish windows and stat- 

 uettes ; Cordova, the ancient pearl of the East, the city of the thirty suburbs and 

 three thousand mosques; Seville, the queen of Andalusia, the Spanish Athens, 

 the city of poets and lore; or of famous Granada to whose magnificent prome- 

 nade, the Alameda and ancient Arabian castle, the Alhambra, he devotes his 

 most earnest and graphic descriptions. The whole book is bewitchingly interest- 

 ing, both from the fascination of the subjects themselves, and also from the fine 

 colors with which this Italian word-painter depicts them. 



The Story of a Scandinavian Summer. By Katharine E. Tyler; 8mo., pp. 

 394; Putnam's Sons, New York, 1881. For sale by M. H. Dickinson, $1.75. 



Since Bayard Taylor recorded his observations and impressions of the Norse 

 lands in 1857, in his book "Northern Travel," no American author has written 

 anything on the subject until Miss Tyler gave her notes on Norway to the public 

 under the above rather captivating title, and it must be admitted that there is con- 



