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ume of 260 pages. A (food index of subjects 
closes it. The price is $1.85. 
around the world, on a wager, in eighty days 
The American reader will be amused at his ex¬ 
periences in this country. 
Tlie Sermons ol' Henry Ward Beecher.—New 
York: J, B. Ford & Co. 1873. 
Two largo and handsome volumes, compris¬ 
ing the sermons of this great preacher from 
September, 1871, to September, 1872. Those are 
from verbatim reports, as delivered in Plymouth 
Pulpit. Each volume contains twenty-six ser¬ 
in one. Or their well-known quality it is need¬ 
less to speak. 
OjTilln.-llv the Bnronoss Tautphoeus. Phila¬ 
delphia: T. It, Peterson A Bros. 
The author of t his well-written and thrilling 
love story is well known i n American readers 
by her works, among which "The Initials,** 
“ Quits ’’ and 14 At Odds " stand high. She is a 
cousin of Marin Edgeworth, who married a 
Bavarian nobleman. The book under notice 
NEW PUBLICATIONS 
Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers. 
—By Sirs. H. W- Beecher. New York: J. B. 
Ford & Co. 
A good, common-sense book, worthy a place 
in any house. Mrs. Beecher writes brief, pithy 
articles. In this volume she has 87 motherly 
talks with young housekeepers 
on all sorts of subjects, and in 
the second part of the hook she 
gives choice family receipts in s 
large numbers for yeast, bread, jfajg§gi 
biscuitfl, cake, soups, tlsh, heef, / ■ " 
pickles, puddings, etc. The — 
book has a thousand things 
women will he glad to know. 
It makes a. volume of 500 pages g 
and contains a very good por- v - - ■ 
trait of Mrs. MEF.cntin. 
BY k. nun ART, 
These harvest days the machine stands at 
the barn door, threshing out. the grain. The 
bronze 1-faced men hurriedly feed it, and dear 
away the straw and scoop the 
grain in piles, lions oonteut- 
edly pick about the door, while 
the sun shines through the 
barn, illumining (lie dust-la- 
Ijljg®. doned air, and drowsily goes 
\ I lie “ eld I i t, dal i or, d; t ter,” 
-d all the day. The cause of this 
busy scene is two horses, strain¬ 
ing every muscle, tolling up the 
^ /V/ machine, yet nover reaching 
D! weary human beings, 
• whether high or lowly, who are 
' toiling up (he steep ascent and 
: never Mini a. spot, to pause and 
■ rest, knowing l.liy pause would 
; _v = stop some needed work, yd. 
gaining nothing lint the grain 
- ye eat, I,oil onward bravely, 
mayhap your rest, will come in 
time; but, should It. not,the 
p jj eternal red. will lie most sweei . 
. A [i Maria Louise— or in home 
I MlHEl parlance, *' Lou” was the eh— 
| *" * * *,'JWhif cst chilli at, her homo. The 
jfarm was rich but, mismanaged, 
-JWz' ;ul< * BO unproductive. These 
WP ^ 4ijS$ good, mistaken people clung 
"bl ways, and wore also “ sav¬ 
ing"—that Is, nnisele and nerve 
and time and temper expended 
were of no account; wlierec \ 
‘ to banish an old iron tea kettle 
] weighing a dozen pounds, or to 
I purchase a. clothes wringer, an 
apple parer, a modern churn, 
or to employ a carpenter for a 
— day or ho to construct a few 
conveniences for the house, 
would bo considered a fearful 
lilght of extravagance. 
Lou was Industrious, expert, faithful; so she 
was heavy ladenod with care ami labor. At the 
time of which we write, she proposed to take 
sole care of the butter, in addition to other du- 
_ *~ - 1 U.L~~ ~ ties. In doing this she be- 
' , gan curb day earnestly and 
^ N hopefully ; but at night 
\ both courage and strength 
\ tvere exhausted. She took 
■ \ Lings as she found them. 
When half was grudgingly 
given or half performed, 
she learned to help herself. 
(Header, permit inelegant 
faithfulness.) When her 
milk pans ;u«d churn were 
emptied, .no carried the 
pailsful of milk up the 
stairs, across the yard, and 
lifted them over the board 
SbBB I ' '* l& ... 1" pour (lie milk ill 
j5r^ ^c s r S' the pig’s t rough. The 
weal her being -nil ry clse- 
----- - : =£ ^ where, she, day after day, 
— ~ - - _ - y pinned a shawl about her 
lartow.c k her butler. 
Present ly, the right wrist 
. 7 , became lame, Soon the 
1 mni grew still', arid t h e 
shoulders ached. Ah I 
'■ - -fi® rheumatism ? ** Well, what 
<>r it? Butter must he 
worked, and weather will 
wjjfc. 1 1be hot—so y/itnrhudy must 
Ov’ 1 ' stay in the cold cellar after 
WaL 1 * violent, exercise; why not 
IjJOk, * I,, 1 ..--''_ me?” So Lutr reasoned, 
-. U\ra| ii ga.-C and thus she grew into an 
aversion for what was in- 
J J. M evitable. 
^; She thought butter 
' iibimbl be a dollar a pound. 
^ One day sho essayed to sell 
Landscape Architecture. — By 
H. W. S. CLEVELAND. Chicago: 
Jansen, McClure & Company, 
lit State street. 
Tnrs handsome little volume 
of 150 pages, which sells for 
$1.50, is applied to the wants of 
the West, and Is from the pen 
of a practical landscape archi¬ 
tect. It contains, besides, an 
essay on forest planting on I lie 
great plains, a notion which 
was always a favorite one with 
Horace 0 n kelkv. Mr. Ci.evr- 
laxd treats the whole subject 
from a broad and progressive 
view, applying his ideas t.® 
cities, towns, parks, etc. lie 
has written a valuable work, 
which will prove an ornament 
to any man’s library. 
V Vagabond Heroine.— By Mrs. 
Annie Edwards. New York: 
Sheldon & Co. 1873, 
The reader of this lively story 
will at once become interested 
in the fortunes of Beruinda 
O’Shea, and will have some¬ 
thing of an admiration for her 
vagabond, full o. 
scene of the story chan 
Spain, and at all titnei 
American readers. 
]y printed one of 
and will amuse a reader for 
a whole evening. 
', even if she is a 
f odd tastes and fancies. The. 
:es from England to 
is fresh and piquant for 
The volume is a handsome- 
237 pages, _ 
l it auil Wisdom of tJeorge Eliot.—Boston: 
Roberts Brothers. 
Somebody has gone through the works of 
Work, Play and 1’rofil. 
— By Anna m. Hyde. 
Philadelphia: J. B. Eip- 
pincott & GO. 
Miss Hyde is already 
known to readers by he. 
works, such as 41 Six Hun¬ 
dred Dollars a. Year," and 
44 American Boys’ Life of 
Washing! n." In this good 
story forb ns and girls she 
has endeav >i'e<l to explain 
gardening f >r young folks. 
Everything which i n I crests 
children in i love of the 
beautiful, which g i v c 8 
them a desire to cultivate 
fruits and flowers, is wel¬ 
come. A bettis- book for 
young rurulists we seldom 
meet. It Is handsomely 
illustrated. 
Hap - Hazard. — By Kate 
Field. Boston: James 
R. Osgood & Co. 
Miss Field is a brilliant 
and dashing writer, but 
rather too frothy for sober 
people. She amuses and 
interests without instruct¬ 
ing. A woman with good 
emotions, she is a little too 
diffusive and flighty. Her 
book, which sells tor $1.50, 
is made up of newspaper 
articles which site has writ¬ 
ten from time to time. She 
writes of her lecturing in 
this country and of her 
trip to Europe. Miss 
•Yager’s letters in the Ru¬ 
ral are far more valuable. 
Work i A Story of Experi¬ 
ence.—By Miss Louisa m. 
Alcott. Boston: Roberts 
Brothers. 
Miss Alcott’s style is 
fresh, piquant and inter¬ 
esting. In this story she 
tells the trials and adven¬ 
tures of Christie, who 
went out. into the world to 
seek her fortune. She had 
many ups and downs, but 
came out right at last. The 
book was originally run 
through a religious paper. 
The work is illustrated. 
"W -tA.AjA.J_j.Nj JEi-E A ID 
this great novelist, culling all the wise and 
witty passages. Those who have read her 
“Adam Bede," " The Mill on the Floss," "Mid- 
dlemarch,” etc., will welcome this pretty vol- 
O F fc_, jz 3 kj-H- j-Z-A-fcAK. 
the prese at system of woman's dress is pointed 
out. Extravagant women should read this 
book and learn what it is to be really >1011 and 
sensibly dressed. 
The Tour ol the World i« Eighty Days.— By 
Jui.es Verne. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. 
A Frenchman tells, in a sprightly manner, 
how Phileas Fogg, an Englishman, went 
