Greene’s American Revolution. 
—_—_ 
HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE AMERI- 
CAN REVOLUTION. By Grorce Wasn- 
INGTON GREENE, Author of “ Historical Studies,” 
“Biographical Studies,” etc. New Edition. 1 vol. 
12mo. $1.50. 
CONTENTS. — The Causes of the Revolution ; Its Phases ; 
Congress and the State Governments ; Finances ; Diplomacy ; 
Army ; Campaigns; Foreign Element; Martyrs; Litera- 
ture ; with an Appendix containing a Chronological Outline, 
Statistical Tables, and an Address to General Greene. 
“The first thing that strikes us in the ‘ Historical View of 
_the American Revolution’ is the admirable method of the 
discussion. It resembles a modern and masterly French 
work in the lucidity of its arrangement and the chaste pre- 
cision of its style. It deals strictly with facts, and is utterly 
free from those rhetorical exaggerations and generalized 
speculations which mar the unity of so much of American 
writing on national subjects. Each salient topic of the Rev- 
olution is treated by itself ; all the essential facts are narrated, 
and the result is that we have a fresh impression, a distinct 
idea, and a more comprehensive and correct view of a sub- 
ject whose very familiarity is apt to confuse our perception.” 
— The Nation. 
_“His method and manner of treating the great subject 
give it new significance and a more comprehensive interest. 
He concentrates and crystallizes the story, arrays the facts 
in their true relations, surveys the whole field and selects 
what is essential and permanent. We obtain the most vivid 
glimpses into the life of the American Revolution as we read. 
We realize the character of the leaders, the spirit of the 
times ; we grasp afresh the principles of that holy war, and 
feel renewed the emphasis of those convictions which in- 
spired and supported our fathers.” — Boston T'ranscript. 
*,* For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on 
receipt of price, by the Publishers, 
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., Boston, 
And 63 Bleecker St., New York. 
NEW BOOKS. 
Illustrated. 
Dickens’s Christmas Carol. 
Morocco, $ 9.00. 
$5.00 ; 
Tennyson’s Locksley Hall. Illustrated. $3.00; 
Morocco, $ 5.50. 
Palmer’s Poetry of Compliment and Court- 
Illustrated. $4.00; Morocco, $ 6.50. 
Cloth, $1.50; 
ship. 
Whittier’s Among the Hills. 
Morocco, $ 4.50 
Browning’s The Ring and the Book. 
$ 2.00. 
$ 2.00. 
Heavysege’s Saul. 
Longfellow’s New England Tragedies. 
Cloth, $1.50 ; Half Calf, $3.00 ; Morocco, $ 4.50. 
n’ $ 1.50. 
Lucy Larcom’s Poems. 
Miss Phelps’s The Gates Ajar. $1.50. 
Lowell’s Under the Willows. Cloth, $2.00; 
Half Calf, $ 3.75 ; Morocco, $ 5.00. 
Hawthorne’s American Note-Books. 
Cloth, $ 4,00 ; Half Calf, $7.50. 
Hayes’s Cast Away in the Cold. $1.50. 
Mrs. Diaz's King’s Lily and Rosebud. $1.50. 
Linton’s Flower and Star. $1.50. 
Anna Dickinson’s What Answer? $1.50. 
Hale’s If, Yes, and Perhaps. $1.50. 
Gladden’s Plain Thoughts. $1.50. 
*4* For sale by the Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt 
of price, by the Publishers, 
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., Boston and New York. 
2 vols. 
— 
Wheeler's Dictionary of Fiction. 
A DICTIONARY of the NOTED NAMES 
OF FICTION. By Witiram A. WHEELER. 
lvol. 12mo. $2.50. 
This Dictionary has been welcomed by critics as a 
work of very great value and interest both to scholars 
and general readers. It explains many of the allu- 
sions so frequently occurring in modern literature, — 
the names of the Greek, Roman, Norse, and Hindu 
Mythologies ; noted Fictitious Persons and Places, so 
interwoven with the best.recent literature of England 
and America, and those of most general interest 
in the literature of other modern nations ; Nicknames 
of eminent characters in political and literary history, 
and those applied to parties and sects. 
“Tt is a work su? generis ; all the flowers from the field of 
romance mingled together.” — H. W. LonareLLow. 
‘*Tn treatment of the names, the necessary information is 
supplied in a way which fully unites the great requisites of 
accuracy, perspicuity, and compactness.”? — Pror. JAMES 
Hap.ey, Yale College. 
“T regard it as one of the most valuable works of reference 
in our language.” —S. Austin ALLIBONE, Author of “ A 
Dictionary of Authors,” 
“ As a book for miscellaneous reading, it is full of pleasant 
surprises ; as a book of reference, it is difficult to conceive 
how any lover of literature can do without it.’?— Boston 
Transcript. 
*,* For sale by the Booksellers. 
receipt of price, by the Publishers, 
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., Boston, 
And 63 Bleecker Street, New York. 
A Remarkable Book, 
THE GATES AJAR. By E. Stuart PHELps. 
Siath Edition. $1.50. 
Sent, post-paid, on 
This powerful and original story has excited gen- 
eral interest, both by the novel views presented con- 
cerning the future life, and by the fascinating style 
in which the story is told. 
“The Gates Ajar is the title of a small but significant vol- 
ume. Ona slender thread of incident, — the story of a great 
sorrow and of its gradual consolation, told in the form of a 
journal, — a theory of life in heaven is set forth, and the com- 
mon notions entertained of it by Christians are severely 
criticised. . . . . The whole volume is full of life. It is a 
work of genius.”” — Examiner and Chronicle (New York). 
‘©Of all the books which we ever read, calculated to shed 
light upon the utter darkness of sudden sorrow, and to bring 
peace to the bereaved and solitary, we give —in many im- 
portant respects — the preference to The Gates Ajar.”— Con- 
gregationalist (Boston). 
“Such an appeal to what is deepest, tenderest, and holiest 
in the human heart has beet rarely made. Only a woman 
who has known sorrow and been sanctified by it could have 
conceived such a book as this ; only a woman of the rarest 
mental gifts, and of eminent symmetry and wholeness of 
being could have wrought out the conception as it is embodied 
in this volume.”? — Morning Star. 
*™* For sale by all Booksellers. 
receipt of price, by the Publishers, 
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., Boston. 
Sent, post-paid, on 
