Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks. By
CLARENCE COOK. With over 100 illustrations from original
drawings. 1 vol., small 4to, cloth, extra. Price reduced
to $4 00.
“Mr. Cook writes with an easy finish, and much daintiness of touch, and
his pages have a very fresh and pleasant flavor. The publishers have
so manufactured the work that it might be called ‘The Book Beautiful.’
But the charm in it lies deeper than in paper surface and letter-press
and graver’s lines; and wherever it goes it will educate, inspire and
refine.”—_The Literary World._
=Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes.=
By CONSTANCE CARY HARRISON. One vol., 8vo, richly bound in
illuminated cloth, with numerous illustrations and five
colored plates from designs by Samuel Colman, Rosina
Emmet, George Gibson, and others. Price, $2 00.
Mrs. Harrison’s book combines with a discussion of the principles of
design and decoration, practical chapters on embroidery, painting on
silk and china, etc., most helpful hints as to the domestic manufacture
of many objects of use and beauty in house-furnishing, and also
suggestions for the arrangement and decoration of rooms in the details
of screens, portieres, the mantelpiece, etc.
=THE LAND OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.=
Being Travels through Egypt, Arabia, and Persia, to Bagdad.
By WILLIAM PERRY FOGG. With an introduction by BAYARD
TAYLOR. A new edition, with nearly 100 illustrations. 1
vol., 8vo, $2 00.
“There are no long, dry discussions of scientific or antiquarian
problems, but a lively and engaging picture of lands and people,
which we in this country know little of, is presented by a man of
quick, intelligent observation, with a genial but not obtrusive
fund of humor, who evidently thoroughly enjoyed every hour of his
journeyings.”—_Chicago Times._
=SWINTON’S ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.=
A Critical History of Operations in Virginia, Maryland and
Pennsylvania, from the Commencement to the Close of the
War, 1861-65, by WILLIAM SWINTON. A new and revised
edition, with additions. With steel plate portraits and
maps. 1 vol., 8vo, $3 00.
“The reputation of Mr. Swinton’s ‘Army of the Potomac’ is so well
established, that we need do no more than to say here, once for all,
that it is a work well-nigh indispensable to the student of the war. *
* For all that large class who have grown up since the war was over,
this new edition will be invaluable. The book is, and always will be, a
standard work.”—_The Nation._
=POEMS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM.=
Chosen by J. BRANDER MATTHEWS. 1 vol., 12mo, $1 50.
“An every way beautiful book, containing fifty-six of our best national
poems. * * Taken as a whole, we doubt whether the poetic literature of
England would yield a richer collection of purely patriotic poetry than
this.”—_The Mail and Express._
=EAST OF THE JORDAN.=
A Record of Travel and Observation in the Countries of
Moab, Gilead, and Bashan, during the years 1875-77. By
SELAH MERRILL, Archæologist of the American Palestine
Exploration Society. With illustrations and a map. 1
vol., 8vo, $4 00.
“Dr. Merrill stands in the front rank of American archæologists.
There is in America no better authority than he on all questions
connected with the ancient life of the East, and his contribution to
our knowledge of the Holy Land will take its place in the professional
library alongside of ‘Robinson’s Researches.’”—_The Christian Union._
=BOOKS AND READING.=
By NOAH PORTER, LL. D., President of Yale College. With
an appendix giving valuable directions for courses of
reading, prepared by JAMES M. HUBBARD, late of the
Boston Public Library. 1 vol., crown 8vo, $2.
“President Noah Porter’s ‘Books and Reading’ is by far the most
practical and satisfactory treatise on the subject that has been
published. It not only answers the questions ‘What books shall I read?’
and ‘How shall I read them?’ but it supplies a large and well-arranged
catalogue under appropriate heads, sufficient for a large family or a
small public library.”—_Boston Zion’s Herald._
=THE BOOK OF FORTY PUDDINGS.=
By SUSAN ANNA BROWN. 1 vol, with attractive and appropriate
binding, 50 cents.
“‘The Book of Forty Puddings’ tells of puddings, nothing more or less,
but they are the best of puddings for epicures. Very cunningly the
appetite is whetted before reading the papers, by covers tinted and
designed in perfect taste.”—_Boston Globe._