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Pictures of Swedish Life; or, Svea and

Her Children.

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The author, an American woman, has lived for many years in Sweden, and has had unusual advantages in the preparation of this volume. Her object has been to portray the land and life of its people of to-day, on the background of an historic setting. The material is well arranged and graphically presented. We know of no other volume in which the general reader can find so comprehensive a view of Sweden, or one more brightly and fully shown. The illustrations are of a kind that "illustrate."

The Story of Two Noble Lives. Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford. By AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE, author of "A Quiet Life," "Walks in Rome," etc. With 2 Portraits engraved on steel, 8 Portraits in photogravure, 14 Plates in photogravure from Lady Waterford's sketches, and 25 Wood-cuts from sketches by the author, etc. Three volumes. Crown 8vo. Cloth, $8.00 net. This widely-known author has found in the life and letters of these two noble women the materials for a work of unusual interest.

Charlotte Stuart married the Hon. Charles Canning, who, in 1855, was appointed Governor-General of India, and subsequently became the first Vice-Royal of the Empire. Her sister Louisa was the wife of the Marquis of Waterford. The two sisters not only bore a noble part in the social and political circles of the period, but were remarkable for the simplicity and religious devotedness of their daily lives. Lady Canning has fully told the story of the terrible Sepoy mutiny in her letters and journals. There are many pen-pictures of life on the Continent and in the East. In the life and letters of Lady Waterford there are records of her own, as well as of her husband's, philanthropic labors, and delightful glimpses of her home life. As a piece of biography, arranged by a skilled hand, the whole work is fresh and stimulating.

In Cairo and Jerusalem.

An Eastern Note-book. By MARY THORN CARPENTER, author of "A Girl's Winter in India." 12mo. Cloth, illustrated, $1.50.

Those who recall "A Girl's Winter in India" will welcome this new volume by the same author. In her wanderings in old Cairo and the regions roundabout, and thence to Joffa and Jerusalem, she saw with an observing woman's eye some things which many a traveler overlooks, and has given us a series of impressionist pictures every way pleasing and instructive.

Also a new edition of A Girl's Winter in India. 12mo, fully illustrated. Cloth ornamental, $1.50. The two volumes in a box, $2.50.

Gypsying Beyond the Sea.

From English Fields to Salerno Shores. By WIL-
LIAM BEMENT LENT. Two volumes. 16mo. With
18 full-page photogravure Illustrations. Daintily
bound in ornamental cloth, gilt sides, in a box,
$4.00 per set. Also in cloth, plain stamping, $3.00.
The author traveled in a leisurely way through England,
into Wales, Scotland, Germany, and Switzerland, and thence
passed on through Holland, France, and Russia, to roam
finally through Italy. In his record of these wanderings he
shows himself a careful and thoughtful observer, who studies
Nature and art and "things" more than people. He has a
sympathetic method in his sight, and a rare faculty of trans-
ferring to the reader a picture of what he saw and what he did.
The whole work is in sharp contrast to the common run of
modern books of travel. The illustrations add to the charm
of the book.

The Highway of Letters, and Its Echoes
of Famous Footsteps (Fleet
Street, London).

By THOMAS ARCHER. Small 8vo, cloth, profusely
illustrated, $2.00.

our own.

Mr. Archer has written of Fleet Street, and the celebrities who have been connected with that famous thoroughfare or its neighborhood, from Chaucer's time down to a date very near The narrative is a light, gossipy one, with a flavor of the antiquarian spirit and enlivened by many an anecdote. The rise of the English theatre, of printing, journalism, club life, the changes in dress and social custom, and many kindred matters Mr. Archer has told us about in the quiet way of one who is familiar with his topics and fond of them.

The Life of Daniel De Foe.

By THOMAS WRIGHT, author of "The Life of William Cowper." With 4 Portraits and 23 other Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, $3.75. An imported edition. The book is published in England at one guinea.

"With the personality of no eminent man of letters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is the public less familiar than that of Daniel De Foe. Biographers have been so occupied in gathering together facts concerning his writings, especially those of the obscurer kind, and trying to discover fresh writings, and have devoted so much space to the consideration of his position as a politician, that the man himself and his inner life have been almost lost sight of. Another feature of this work is my venturing to submit what I believe to be the true key to Robinson Crusoe.'"-Extract from Preface. "A noble biography."-Literary World, London.

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