of questioning, have the naturalness of those of actual
experience. They lead to exciting situations and a dramatic
denouement. The action in Paris is among artists, and
is introductory. It is when the action has shifted to a
country town on the coast that it develops its greatest
effects and interest. Sea-coast scenery and farm life
are described with a communion into their spirit and an
intimacy such as only a true lover of the country can ever
have. The occupants of the farm, two of whom are leading
characters, have the same fondness and fidelity given to
their delineation. This portion of the literary work,
although quietly and unobtrusively, is exceedingly well
done, and is pleasing. Diane is the principal character,
and is given the real qualities of womanhood; her acts are
made consistent with them, and to tend to their nobler
development. She illustrates the undying devotion of true
love. This last 'No Name' has higher and more even merit
than any of its series. Its ground and plot are well
chosen, while its composition and treatment are artistic.
It will be widely read and heartily enjoyed."--_Boston
Globe._
TREASURE ISLAND. A Story of Pirates and the Spanish
Main. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. With illustrations
by F.T. Merrill. 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25
"At a time when the books of Mayne Reid, Ballantyne and
Kingston are taking their places on the shelves to which
well-thumbed volumes are relegated, it will be with
especial delight that boy readers welcome a new writer in
the literature of adventure. In 'Treasure Island,' Robert
Louis Stevenson takes a new departure, and writes one of
the jolliest, most readable, wide-awake tales of sea life
that have set the blood tingling in the veins of the boys
of at least the present generation. It is decidedly of
the exciting order of stories, yet not of the unhealthily
sensational. It details the stirring adventures of an
English crew in their search for the immense treasure
secreted by a pirate captain, and it certainly has not
a dull page in it. Yet the author has contrived to keep
the sympathy on the side of virtue and honesty, and throw
upon the pirates that odium and detestation which their
nefarious courses deserve; and the book is one heartily to
be commended to any sturdy, wholesome lad who is fond of
the smell of the brine and the tang of sailor speech in his
reading."--_Boston Courier._
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.
By THOMAS GRAY. With thirty illustrations
by Harry Fenn. Engraved by George T. Andrew. One
vol. Post 8vo. Beautifully bound in cloth, bevelled
boards, gilt and gilt edge. Price, $1.50
Illuminated covers, with fringed borders. Price, 1.75
Flexible morocco and tree calf covers, gilt edge. Price, 4.00
Royal 8vo. Beautifully bound in cloth, bevelled boards,
gilt and gilt edge. Price, 3.00
Antique morocco and tree calf. Price, 8.00
Mr. Fenn visited Stoke Pogis, the locality of the poem, and
many of the illustrations are from sketches taken by him
on the spot, and all of them were made expressly for this
edition.
An interesting feature of the Harry Fenn edition is the
reproduction of three stanzas printed with the earlier
editions, but subsequently dropped by the author.
"The 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' by Thomas
Gray, which has long held the proud distinction of being
'the most finished poem in the English tongue,' is just
issued by Roberts Brothers, Boston, in an exquisitely
illustrated volume, which must hold a very high place among
the handsome gift books of the season. The illustrations
were all drawn by Harry Fenn, especially for this edition,
many of them from sketches made by the artist at Stoke
Pogis, the scene of the poem. The frontispiece, an
exquisite sketch of vines and flowers clustering over and
about an old gravestone, presents a 'rejected verse,'
reprinted from the earlier editions--a verse for the
rejection of which one scarcely sees any sufficient reason,
finding it as full of tenderly pathetic music as any part
of the poem--and in an appendix the same verse reappears,
with two others, together with some note of the places they
were originally intended to fill and the author's reasons
for their omission. The illustrations are all designed
with as truly poetic a spirit as the poem itself breathes,
and all are presented in the very highest style of the
engraver's art. To say that a book is a 'picture book'
is usually to imply something rather derogatory to its
character for value in other respects. But not so in this
case. Here the most delicate and appreciative art is used
to interpret to the eye the exquisite poetry of the text.
However warmly one may have supposed himself to admire
the poem, he can hardly rise from thoughtfully looking
over this edition of the 'Elegy' without some consciously
new and fresh appreciation of the beauty of the lines, so
strikingly and fitly has their lofty and tender thought
been interpreted to the eye. In all, too, that pertains to
the work of the book-maker--in paper, typography, binding,
etc.--the little volume is in thorough keeping with the art
of the poet and the illustrator."--_Chicago Times._
THE BOY KNIGHT, Who Won his Spurs Fighting
with King Richard of England. A Tale of the Crusades.
By G.A. HENTY, author of "The Young Buglers,"
"The Cornet of Horse," etc. Square 16mo. Cloth.
Price, $1.50
THE NO NAME NOVELS.
"No one of the numerous series of novels, with which the
country has been deluged of late, contains as many good
volumes of fiction as the 'No Name,'" says _Scribner's
Monthly_.
FIRST SERIES.--Mercy Philbrick's Choice; Afterglow; Deirdrè;
Hetty's Strange History; Is That All? Will Denbigh,
Nobleman; Kismet; The Wolf at the Door; The Great
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SECOND SERIES.--Signor Monaldini's Niece; The Colonel's
Opera Cloak; His Majesty, Myself; Mrs. Beauchamp
Brown; Salvage; Don John; The Tsar's Window; Manuela
Parédes; Baby Rue; My Wife and My Wife's Sister;
Her Picture; Aschenbroedel. 12 vols. Green and gold.
THIRD SERIES.--The publishers, flattered with the reception
given to the First and Second Series of "No Name Novels,"
among which may be named several already famous in the
annals of fiction, will continue the issue with a Third Series,
which will retain the original features of the First and Second
Series, but in a new style of binding. Already published:
Her Crime; Little Sister; Barrington's Fate; A Daughter
of the Philistines; Princess Amélie. Price per vol., $1.00
_New Editions of Popular Poets._
JEAN INGELOW'S POETICAL WORKS. With portrait.
The only complete edition, and the only edition
published with her sanction. Household edition, with red-line
border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $1.25
"I greatly wish that Messrs. ROBERTS BROTHERS
might have the exclusive right to publish my books in
America. I consider that enlightened nations, as well as
individuals, ought to recognize the right of authors, both
to power over and to property in their works."--JEAN
INGELOW.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI'S POETICAL WORKS.
With portrait. Household edition, with red-line border, gilt
edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $2.00
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI'S POETICAL WORKS.
With portrait. Household edition, with red-line border, gilt
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JOAQUIN MILLER'S POETICAL WORKS. With
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EDWIN ARNOLD'S POETICAL WORKS. (Including
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JOHN KEATS' POETICAL WORKS. Lord Houghton's
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Price, $2.00
GEORGE SAND. Famous Women Series. By BERTHA
THOMAS. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00
"The volume before us, which is published in the series
of brief biographies of famous women, of which we have
upon previous occasions taken favorable notice, will give
its readers a clear and generally adequate idea of George
Sand's character and genius, and will serve to correct many
misconceptions in regard to the nature of her writings
which ignorance and prejudice have spread abroad. At the
same time Miss Thomas has sought rather to portray the
character of the famous French woman to whom she pays
tribute than to criticise or expound the long line of
novels which her fertile imagination produced. Her book
is rather biographical than literary in its purpose and
inspiration, and though the Sand romances are reviewed,
and their distinctive characteristics appreciatively and
intelligently described, the volume depends for its value
and interest upon its narrative and portraiture. It is
pleasantly, gracefully and cleverly written, and will
worthily sustain the already high reputation of the series
to which it belongs."--_North American, Phila._
"The best of the biography is that we gain from it good,
definite notions of the early home, the convent, the
marriage with M. Dudevant and how it came about, the short
family life, and the circumstances of the early residence
in Paris. Each change down to the last scenes of George
Sand's life is characterized. So also are the books, which
are classified and briefly described. So is that wonderful
mental life, so flaming, so easily working itself into
words and deeds, so much less removed in subtlety from
our common life of common people than was the mental life
of almost any other great genius. Owing to the sound and
practical treatment which the subject receives at Miss
Thomas' hands, the book is plain, readable, adapted to the
widest circle of readers, doing in no respect injustice
to the mighty soul whose course Miss Thomas can trace and
describe, but not as one could who had taken the same
flights, or others as high, if not the same. The Famous
Women series is a notable one."--_Boston Courier._
TEN TIMES ONE IS TEN. The Possible Reformation.
By E.E. HALE. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00
"Notwithstanding the assertion of the title-page, the
Rev. E.E. Hale is the author of the story under notice,
and it is marked by all the well-known characteristics
of his peculiar style. It is an account of a remarkable
movement which had for its object the amelioration of human
existence by carrying out those principles of a truism
which Auguste Comte is credited with having formulated, but
which were first embodied in the teachings of Christianity,
and which find in the golden rule their tersest and highest
expression. Mr. Hale is an interesting writer and a very
sympathetic one. He possesses in unusual measure the merit
of naturalness. He is a true realist, but instead of
placing before his readers the sins, crimes and weaknesses
of men, he presents only those things which are honest and
of good report. The impression made by such books as his
is wholly good. They tend to make their readers better
and happier and more useful in their social and civil
relations, and we hope that 'Ten Times One is Ten' will
have a wide circulation."--_North American, Phila._
"Roberts Brothers have issued a new edition of 'Ten Times
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of our writers. It is a racy little book, inculcating
wholesome morals in an effective and almost captivating
way. It is worth a score of the average Sunday-school
books, and has a habit of getting itself read by whoever
takes it up."--_New York Star._
A LITTLE PILGRIM. Reprinted from Macmillan's
Magazine. 16mo. Cloth. Red edges. Price, $.75
"An exquisitely written little sketch is found in that
remarkable production, 'The Little Pilgrim,' which is just
now attracting much attention both in Europe and America.
It is highly imaginative in its scope, representing one of
the world-worn and weary pilgrims of our earthly sphere
as entering upon the delights of heaven after death. The
picture of heaven is drawn with the rarest delicacy and
refinement, and is in agreeable contrast in this respect
to the material sketch of this future home furnished in
Miss Stuart Phelps's well-remembered 'Gates Ajar.' The
book will be a balm to the heart of many readers who are
in accord with the faith of its author; and to others its
reading will afford rare pleasure from the exceeding beauty
and affecting simplicity of its almost perfect literary
style."--_Saturday Evening Gazette._
"The life beyond the grave, when the short life in this
world is ended, is to many a source of dread--to all a
mystery. 'A Little Pilgrim' has apparently solved it, and,
indeed, it seems on reading this little book as if there
were a great probability about it. A soft, gentle tone
pervades its every sentence, and one cannot read it without
feeling refreshed and strengthened."--_The Alta California._
THE GREAT EPICS OF MEDIÆVAL GERMANY.
An Outline of their Contents and History. By George
Theodore Dippold, Professor at Boston University and
Wellesley College. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50
Professor Francis J. Child, of Harvard College, says: "It
is an excellent account of the chief German heroic poems of
the Middle Ages, accompanied with spirited translations. It
is a book which gives both a brief and popular, and also an
accurate, account of this important section of literature,
and will be very welcome here and at other colleges."
"No student of modern literature, and above all no student
who aims to understand the literary development of Europe
in its fullest range, can leave this rich and ample world
of early song unexplored. To all such Professor Dippold's
book will have the value of a trustworthy guide.... It has
all the interest of a chapter in the growth of the human
mind into comprehension of the universe and of itself, and
it has the pervading charm of the vast realm of poetry
through which it moves."--_Christian Union._
MY HOUSEHOLD OF PETS. By Theophile Gautier.
Translated from the French by Susan Coolidge. With
illustrations by Frank Rogers. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25
"This little book will interest lovers of animals, and the
quaint style in which M. Gautier tells of the wisdom of his
household pets will please every one. The translator, too,
is happy in her work, for she has succeeded in rendering
the text into English without loss of the French tone,
which makes it fascinating. These household pets consisted
of white and black cats, dogs, chameleons, lizards,
magpies, and horses, each of which has a character and
story of its own. Illustrations and a pretty binding add to
the attractions of the volume."--_Worcester Spy._
"The ease and elegance of Theophile Gautier's diction is
wonderful, and the translator has preserved the charm of
the French author with far more than the average fidelity.
'My Household of Pets' is a book which can be read with
pleasure by young and old. It is a charming volume."--_St.
Louis Spectator._
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