daughter is growing up, and the outcome is that she and Philip are in love; and so there is another marriage of one of Mrs. Newton's suitors where she is not the bride. However, Colonel Newton is not dead, but after years in prison comes home to his wife, and everybody is happy. [Westminster: The Roxburghe Press. Sixpence.] Not All the King's Horses. Such is the jaunty title of an unhappy little story by Katherine Elwes Thomas. Worldli ness, worldliness, worldliness is the theme of it, and out of such material runs the plot-thread of early love and broken faith, with the later consequences of studied policy and heartlessness. A readable little book, if not a great one. [Cassell Publishing Co.] Jane. The "Social Incident" related by Marie Corelli in this novel, or rather novelette, relates to the fortunes of Jane Belmont, a country gentle woman of fifty, who, having unexpectedly succeeded to a large inheritance, goes to London and experiments on the "swagger set." The end of the experiment is disastrous. Miss Belmont, being persuaded into allowing her house to be used for a ball to receive royalty, is so angered and shocked at certain insolent incivilities offered to herself by her guests, that she dismisses them en masse, and retires to the country to lead a life more in accordance with her character and tastes. It is rather an amusing little tale, and happily free from the moral obliquities which too often stain and disfigure Miss Corelli's books. [J. B. Lippincott Co. 75c.] Sonny. to the last degree. The book is written with considerable cleverness. [The Merriam Co. $1.00.] Tomalyn's Quest. are "An Ode to Liberty," "An Ode to Washington," a poem to Poland on the expulsion of the Poles from Silesia, and another celebrating the entrance of the Italian troops into Rome. A handful of epigrams are as good as anything in the book. [G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.] Poems by Robert Loveman. Of the rondelai and virelai and highly confected order are these poems, all short, many of them but a single quatrain. They are not the poems which touch or teach, still less those which live in the memory, but some of them have a grace of their own, as in "The Truant." [J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.00.] The Skeleton's Message. This exciting novel, by G. B. Burgin, rather in the style of The Sowers, relates the experiences of a young English lad who is private secretary to an English officer, who in his turn is constructing fortifications in Turkey. Russian spies, murderers, and plots of all kinds keep up the reader's interest from beginning to end, and there is not a dull page in the book, though there are several ridiculous ones. Had some ruthless friend with a sense of humor and a pair of scissors gone over Tomalyn's Quest with the author it could have been made an excellent novel of the sensational order. The Russian spy would not have said, "I must hunt out the Borgia receipt for fruit," although he might have poisoned the fruit, and several incidents connected with the removal of the hero-appropriate for the writer of just such gentle, ine's "facial blemishes," to quote from the writers of minor poems today who have ready advertisement column, would have been modified or omitted. However, these faults, like the heroine's ugliness, are but skin-deep, and we advise those in search of a good novel of adventure to try Tomalyn's Quest. [Harper & Brothers. $1.25.] RECENT POETRY. A Winter Swallow. If Miss Edith Thomas's song was as effortless as it is musical it would leave little to be desired. But often in reading her poems there is the sense of elaboration, of art which overrather than the simple phrase; and this is a tops feeling, of a straining after the confected pity, for few American women have her gift and her touch. Recalling the best she has done, the bits which linger on forever in the memory like Southern of course, and almost equally, of course, humorous and pathetic is Miss Ruth McEnery Stuart's presentation of the growth and career of an only son in a middle-aged household. The record begins with the birth of the astonishing infant, and ends with his marriage, and is kept by the rough, adoring father, who and from first to last never could see a flaw in his child. It may have been this very love and trust which carried "Sonny" through the crudities and mistakes of boyhood and vindicated so thoroughly his parent's faith in his powers and virtues. [The Century Co. $1.00.] White Sand. M. C. Balfour has written a rather powerful but exceedingly disagreeable novel. In its cleverness of construction and in its leading characters, it suggests the silly but popular Dodo. The heroine, Sylvia, is utterly selfish and frivolous, a flirt without heart or principle. She marries a noble man with high and pure ideals of woman hood, but basely deserts him for a rival whom she finds more amusing. Her husband follows her to Paris, and succeeds in inducing her to leave this entertaining lover, and promises her if she will leave him to amuse her through life by allowing her to spend as much money as she pleases and go wherever she desires. The contrast between the patient, generous, self-sacrificing husband and the utterly selfish and heartless wife, is very strong, and many of the situations in the novel are powerful and dramatic. It presents however a view of English society which, if true, is degrading and disgusting. The moral tone of most of the characters and the atmos phere in which they move is sensuous and worldly The river flows, so softly flows, Send thou a messenger to me, Such is the rather melancholy title of a rather melancholy book of verses by Lydia Landon Elliott, a liquid, alliterative name, marvelously sentimental verses as these. There are many command of meter and rhythm, and many others whose thought rings fresh and true, even when it is inharmoniously expressed; but this writer can lay little claim to anything more than an appreciation of the poetic and striking in nature and life. She is woefully deficient in humor or she could not allow such an anti-climax as the closing lines to her first poem or the opening stanzas of "The East Wind Blows," which begins The east wind blows, the west wind blows, The leaves twirl round, low sinks the rose; In my heart a place all covered with snows Is icy cold, as tho' 'twere froze. Worst of all are the first four lines of "At My Father's Grave," from which we forbear to quote out of respect to the thought embodied in the lines. [The Inland Pub. Co.] Green Arras. The author of this exquisitely printed little volume has evidently drunk deep of the inspiration of Tennyson and Rossetti. He alternately reminds us of both, but notably of Rossetti, and the illustrations of the poems are of the kind with which Rossetti has made us familiar one longs to fill her soul with some over-mastering feeling which should force her to say strange, obscure, writhing shapes, with unlovely simply and directly the beautiful thought in her faces, yet infused with an odd, unexplainable mind. One of the simplest poems in the new charm. Of the poems, many have great grace volume-its simplicity being its main charm-and are full of delicate though passionate feelis "Vos non Vobis." [Charles Scribner's Sons.ing, while in a few, constraining himself after $1.50.] the pattern of his master, the author is unpleasantly physical. [Way & Williams. $1.25.] Blue and Gold. HISTORY. Mr. William S. Lord, the author of this small volume of verses, is of the school if not comthe verses, like his, are addressed to children panionship of the late Eugene Field. Many of Outline History of Germany. Just the little under nursery names- “Nautical Ned,”“Stum- book that a good many persons are looking for, ble Toe," etc. They have the same general to tell them in small space and with a rapid quality and pretty gift of jingle. For the more movement the leading facts of the origin, develmature effusions, some are graceful, all pleas-opment, and organization of the present German feeling, all compare favorably with the average 350 pages, told by Mrs. H. C. Hawtrey, an ing, none show peculiar power or capacity of Empire. The whole story is here in about poetry of the day. [A. C. McClurg & Co. English writer, who has previously performed $1.00.] The Strike and Other Poems. George Benson Hewetson is the author of a thin volume of poems, all revelatory of earnest, lofty feeling, not always poetically expressed. The first and longest poem gives its name to the book. It is a tribute of sympathy to the poor and oppressed and an outburst of indig. nation with the oppressors. Among the others the same service for Italy. Everything, of course, is in the most condensed and compact form, but the ethnological foundations are well uncovered and carefully surveyed, and a feature of value is the series of tables at the end, giving the names, descent, and other particulars of reigning families. There is a full index, and there are good historical maps, but we miss a table of contents. [Longmans, Green & Co.] Compendium of Church History. Zenos of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Chicago is the author of this little manual, which is an excellent one. The standpoint is denominational, it is true, but the vision of the author is not cramped, and he seems to us to have handled his large and heavy subject with ease and dexterity, and with fairness to all concerned. The book is scarcely a quarter the size of Professor Fisher's, which in intent and plan it somewhat resembles, has an index, marginal notes, and a full table of contents, and is in all respects well made. [Presbyterian Board. $1.00.] tian faith, and offer a solution of the problem of evil which is at least striking. [Eaton & Mains. $1.20.] THE PERIODICALS. Professor convincing statement of the case for the in- Handbook of Greek and Roman History. By George Castegnier. A little annotated index to prominent proper names in the field indicated, useful for reference in the hands of young students. [American Book Co. 50c.] The Story of the Romans. A Roman history in a few less than three hundred pages, divided into 102 chapters, obviously very short, and written down to the level of young readers in the legible hand of H. A. Guerber, with many and uncommonly good pictures. [American Book Co. 6oc.] Cameos from English History. The eighth series in the same line from the accomplished hand of Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, who still prefers to be known as the author of The Heir of Redclyffe. These more than four hundred 39 "cameos pages of fine type contain forty-five or chapters, and a copious index, and the volume, though only 16mo, with its more than five hundred words to a page, actually contains far more matter than many much more pretentious volumes. The stream of English history is here followed for nearly a century, from the Pentland Rising in 1662 to the end of the House of Stuart in the person, plots, and misfortunes of Prince Charles Edward in George II's time. Miss Yonge's plentiful use of anecdote and incident gives much life and picturesqueness to her narrative. [The Macmillan Co. $1.25.] The Southern Baptist Pulpit. A book of 365 pages containing thirty-three sermons, by as many representative Baptist preachers belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention, which claims to be the largest deliberative body in the world. Some of the sermons are accompanied with woodcut portraits of the authors and brief biographical notes. [American Baptist Pub. Society. $2.00.] Sermons for the Church Year. (Seventh The Cosmopolis, as we have before apSeries.) New Starts in Life. (Eighth Series.) an English monthly By the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D. We prised our readers, is have in these two volumes additions to the made up in three languages, English, French, gradually growing library of the sermons of and German. The nearly three hundred pages one of the greatest of modern preachers, and of its January number are about equally diit is as a preacher that Phillips Brooks will vided between the three. This polyglot charbe longest and most tenderly remembered. acter certainly gives this magazine a unique Forty-two discourses in all are here added to place among the monthlies, and it fills it well. the more than one hundred that have gone Among the articles in German is one on the before. One of the marked features of these theater in Berlin; among the French are arsermons is the way in which, with the mere ticles on Ibsen in France, and on Shakespeare citation of the text and the announcement of in France under the old régime; and in the the theme, a new light seems to flash upon English department, amongst much other matthe mind. [E. P. Dutton & Co. Each, $1.75.] ter of interest, we find a second chapter of Max Müller's literary recollections, the subject To The Prophets of the Christian Faith We of which installment is largely Froude. eleven clergyman have contributed, chief among them Dr. Lyman Abbott, Dr. Marcus Dods, should think that Cosmopolis would secure many readers in this country because of the and Dean Farrar. Considering expectations Opportunity it affords to persons who wish to naturally aroused, it is a disappointing book. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the East. Into this primer of two hundred pages Robert E. Anderson may be said to have compressed the Lauda Sion. Five lectures are here bound substance of such works as Rawlinson's on the up together in the unity which characterized Oriental monarchies - Egypt, Chaldea, Baby- their delivery before the Church Club of New lonia, the Hittites, Phœnicians, and Hebrews, York last year; their subjects the great Liturthe Arabs, and the Persians. There are maps,gical Hymns of the Church, namely, the Psalone or two illustrations, as of the Moabite Stone, ter, Hymns of the Eucharist, Hymns of the and an index. [D. Appleton & Co. 50c.] Daily Offices, Hymns of the Ordinal, and the Te Deum, and their respective authors the Rev. Dr. John C. Peters, the Bishops of Vermont, Indiana, and New York, and the Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington. [E. & J. B. Young & Co. 50c]. RELIGIOUS READING. St. Paul. His Life and Times. Not a large work, but a scholarly one; not well printed, The Religion of Manhood. By John Owen but well written; not for superficial readers, Coit. A thin book in two senses, somewhat but for students who wish to go below the sur- in the line of the thoughts of the Emperor face, and who are competent to weigh the state- Marcus Aurelius; original thoughts interspersed ments of the Book of the Acts of the Apostles with bits of selected verse; about half the and of the Epistles over against the criticism book entirely selections. The general tone of such destructionists as Pfleiderer and Renan. rather pensive, and the prevailing note a disThe author, Professor Iverach, of Aberbeen, is like of the Christian religion. [G. P. Put at home in his field, abreast with the foremost nam's Sons.] lines of German scholarship, open-minded, critical, warm-hearted, reverent, and thorough. [Fleming H. Revell Co. 75c.] Inspiration Considered as a Trend. is herein a clear, candid, and cogent The Creed and the Prayer. The fourteen chapters of the Rev. Dr. J. W. Johnston's book were discourses to the Brooklyn congregation of which he is pastor. They are vigorous, fervid, not abound in illustrations, manifest a robust Chris There cultivate their knowledge of French and Ger man to do so in a very fresh and entertaining way. The magazine is finely printed, and is published in London by Fisher Unwin, at half a crown monthly. The February number preserves well the distinct character of the review, with some twenty articles divided between English, French and German, of which "Italian Literature of the Day," "Jokai as a Novelist," "Le Movement des Idées en France," and "Pierre Loti," the latter one of the six German articles are notable. Review of Reviews. Besides the political articles, which in this monthly are always fresh and timely, we find in the February number two well illustrated papers on the late Gen. Francis A. Walker, with many portraits; a similarly well illustrated sketch of Rudyard Kipling, who must on the whole be considered the foremost literary figure of the present hour; and a symposium on Robert Browning, the two contributors to which are Dean Farrar and the Rev. Herbert Stead. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Among the minor articles in the February number is one of major interest, descriptive of a new vehicle of locomotion now running on the island of Zealand, Denmark, both on sea and land. This singular cross between a tram-car and a steamlaunch, this land bird which is also a water-fowl, is nothing but an ordinary boat, fitted with steam power and supplied with a screw at the stern and two pair of wheels on the bottom. The machinery is so ingeniously contrived and adapted to its twofold function that, having plowed the waves, the boat-car can run up on the land and along on the rails, the same engine supplying the power both for the screw in the water and for the wheels on the ground. Verily wonders will never cease, and the spectacle of this nondescript plunging off the rails into the sea or running from the sea up onto the rails, indifferently, loaded with living freight and seeming as much at home in one element as on the other, would be a spectacle for gods and men. cient at points, one of which is contemporary ume and the second in two, are the latest issues in the elegant reprint of Daudet's stories, respectively by Henry Frith and Laura Ensor. By restricting the type to a small area, and allowing margins of the broadest, the text of Sappho is expanded to a volume of the size of one of the two of Jack, so that it may appear uniform therewith; in Jack, the margins yield much more space to the printed page. In both, the abundant illustrations are a marvel of the artist's genius and the engraver's skill, and are in every way a continual delight to the eye, as are paper, print, and binding; making of the The Magazine of Art. We find in the Feb- books of this set one of the choicest of additions ruary number a very interesting article on the to the choice books of a library. [The Macart work of Mr. Bartram Hiles, a young Eng-millan Co. Each volume, $1.00.] A Guide to Systematic Readings in the Encyclolishman, born in Bristol, who, when he was eight Here is Carlyle's Sartor Resartus again, this pædia Britannica. This small tender to a great years old lost both of his arms through an acci- time in working dress for student's and school- work, prepared by Mr. James Baldwin, is indent by what the English call a tram-car. Be- room use, with seventy pages of critical introduc- tended to serve those users of the latter who fore this accident he had manifested a taste for tion, the lines of the text numbered for easy do not know exactly how to make their way drawing which the loss of his arms in no way reference, and more than one hundred pages of through its vast spaces, and who need directions extinguished. With heroic fortitude he set about notes, also indexes. All of which serves to make to its hidden passages and secret storehouses of learning to hold his pencils and brushes in his this a capital edition for its purpose. [Ginn & information. This it does by an ingenious topmouth, and after surmounting technical diffi- Co. $1.40.] ical analysis which maps out the whole contents culties before which many would have retired Bulwer's drama of Richelieu is presented in a of the many volumes, and puts the reader in in despair, he achieved success in so high a volume of great elegance, the main features of possession of clews to the labyrinth which will degree as to actually win prizes for freehand which are the paper and the illustrations, the lead him where he wants to go and into the presdrawing, and he still continues to earn his own latter by F. C. Gordon, including not only wood-ence of exactly what he wants to find. [The livelihood with his maimed body with every cuts inside and outside of the text, but a number Werner Co.] prospect of brilliant success. The story of his of process plates of the choicest quality. The achievements, in spite of almost disheartening execution of these is a matter for study, and infirmity, is a lesson of inspiration to many they illuminate the text of the play in a most others who work despondently under disadvan-artistic and effective way. [Dodd, Mead & Co. tages far less serious. McClure's. Thirty life portraits of Washing. ton engraved on wood are the foremost attraction of the February number, a collection which possesses great interest and demands the attention of all students of his life and illustrators of his history. There is also in the same number an illustrated account of the making of an Oxford Bible, which all the owners of one of those remarkable editions will be interested to read. New England Magazine. The February number has an illustrated sketch of the late William Hamilton Gibson, the illustrations being several portraits and views of his homes. The writer, Mr. John Coleman Adams, classes him with Thoreau and John Burroughs. NEW EDITIONS. The seventh volume of the new and beautiful edition of Mr. J. M. Barrie's Novels, Tales, and Sketches," which is the general title of the set, contains Part II of Sentimental Tommy, and is followed by an eighth volume, the contents of which are My Lady Nicotine and Margaret Ogilvy, the latter of which has just been the subject of notice in our columns. In his Introduction Mr. Barrie playfully says: Readers unknown to me frequently write to ask whether I have really given up smoking, and, whether or not, will I kindly let them know where the Arcadia Mixture is to be got? But I seldom answer either question. After keeping it locked in my breast for years, however, let me here divulge a dark secret. When I began to write this book I was no smoker. $2.00.] MISCELLANY. NEWS AND NOTES. - Mr. James Otis of Portland, Maine, might be called, as far as his work is concerned, a veteran in his own particular field. He is a popular writer for boys, and his sucLee's Home and Business Instructor. A small cess is well earned, for he has been a hard book, which will slip into the pocket, giving in literary worker for nearly twenty-six years, concise form and popular terms directions for having written, in addition to many serial acquiring good penmanship, writing proper stories, thirty-eight volumes, "none of which" letters of all kinds, keeping accounts, transact- the author modestly states, "have been dead ing banking business, threading the mazes of failures." Just at present Mr. Otis is in possocial life, making after-dinner speeches (!) etc; session of an overflow of orders, never having a sort of practical every-day manual of how to had so many requests for work at the begindo the fifty and one things that almost everybody ning of a year as he now has. He is fond of has to do in dealing with the modern world. out-door life, going into the Maine woods each season, "with the horses and dogs," as [Chicago: Laird & Lee.] he says, and living in tents during the summer; and he is wise enough rarely to let that outing be encroached upon in any way by his literary work. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. of Boston will bring out very soon a juvenile by Mr. Otis, entitled The Wreck of the Circus, of which he has already read the proofs. His series of Stories of American History, begun three years ago, and of which Estes & Lauriat have already published five volumes, have proven good sellers. The sixth volume will be issued this year, and it will deal with incidents of the Siege of Boston. Mr. A. L. Burt of New York has in hand for the coming season another book entitled Three Boys of '76, and the same publisher contemplates bringing out a second volume by Mr. Otis within the year. This indefatigable author is now at work upon a juvenile, based on incidents of the Revolution, which he is writing for the Penn Publishing Co. of Philadelphia. The story will have to do with Benedict Arnold at the Siege of Quebec. American Orations. Professor Woodburn of Indiana University has re-edited with historical and textual notes this collection of nine great American speeches, originally edited with introductions by the late Professor Johnston of what is now Princeton University. The orators are Rufus King, William Pinkney, Wendell Phillips, John Quincy Adams, Calhoun, Webster, Clay, and Sumner; Phillips being represented by his two speeches on the "Murder of Lovejoy" and on "the Philosophy of the Abolition Movement." The volume is a second in its series, and is devoted exclusively to the controversy over slavery. The notes are copious, and full of historical and political information. [G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.] A Manual of Common School Law, by C. W. Bardeen, though rather thin than thick, has a surprising amount of condensed information between its covers, designed primarily for use in the State of New York, but with numerous references to the law in many other States. [Syracuse, N. Y. Published by the author.] And then he goes on to confess that by the time his hero had clearly demonstrated the folly New American Supplement to the Encyclopædia of smoking, he was a convert to the practice. Britannica. Vol. I. The Encyclopædia Britan[Charles Scribner's Sons.] nica, while in important respects the foremost Sappho and Jack, the first-named in one vol-work of its class now before the public, is defi - Mr. James Jeffrey Roche, the editor of The Pilot and the author of Songs and Satires and Ballards of Blue Water, will soon publish through Messrs. Stone & Kimball his latest work, Her Majesty the King: A Romance of the Harem. The manuscript is now in the hands of the artist, Oliver Herford, for illustration. -Miss Helen Marr Hurd of Athens, Maine, who has already published two volumes of poems, has a new book of verse ready for the press. She has, also, two novels awaiting publication, while two unfinished serial stories are under her pen. -The Youth's Companion celebrates Washngton's Birthday all alone by itself by issuing a "Special Washington's Birthday Number," the features of which are a gay cover, with a portrait of the Father of his Country without, and an article by Postmaster General Wilson within, on "Early Days of the American Post Office." In those "early days," that is, in the year 1790, the first full year of Washington's administration, there were seventy-five post offices in the United States. Now there are more than seventy thousand. ered in the East, a leaf of which was brought to England last year by Mrs. Lewis of Cambridge. The edition now to be issued will have the Hebrew original and the accompanying English, Greek, Syriac, and old Latin versions. - Ouida's new novel, The Massarenes, follows the fortunes of an emigrant to America who accumulates a fortune, returns with it to England, and tries to buy his way with it into good society. -Ibsen and Björnson are now at swords' points in Copenhagen, if indeed blood has not been already drawn. Björnson regards Ibsen's drama of John Gabriel Borkman as a covert attack upon himself, a charge which Ibsen flatly denies. But relations are strained between the two authors, and the English public is looking on with interest to see what will happen. - Nansen's new book, Farthest North, is ready in London from the press of Archibald Constable & Co., with numerous illustrations, in and out of the text, sixteen of which are colored plates. It is in two volumes. -Mr. Crockett's new novel, Lads' Love, will -T. Y. Crowell & Co. announce a second be ready the middle of next month, illustrated. edition of The Bible as Literature. -The J. B. Lippincott Co. announce the last novel by the Duchess, under the title of Lovice. -The New Amsterdam Book Co., New York, announce Moltke's Letters to His Wife, in two volumes; Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist, by Willlam Crawford Williamson; How We Made Rhodesia, by Major Leonard; The Highland Brigade in the Crimea, by LieutenantColonel Sterling; The Court of England Under George IV; several volumes under the head of occult and theosophical literature; and others in fiction, poetry, and belles lettres. -The Macmillan Co. send us an announcement of books to be published the coming spring and summer which contains some sixty or seventy titles, among the most important of which are James Lane Allen's The Choir Invisible; A Text Book of American Literature for High School Use, by Katharine Lee Bates; a volume of Occasional Papers, by the late Dean Church of St. Paul's; Prof. Albert S. Cook's Biblical Quotations in Old English Prose; a new story by Mr. Crawford, entitled A Rose of Yesterday; a new and choice edition of Pepys's Diary; a critical study of Shakespeare by Dr. Georg Brandes; new editions of Heine, Hood, Wordsworth, and Charles Kinglsey; and of Zola's Lourdes, in two volumes. - Leach, Shewell & Sanborn have ready a Greek and Roman Mythology, by Profs. Karl P. Harrington and Herbert C. Tolman, Vanderbilt University. It is designed as a handbook for teachers as well as a text-book for secondary schools and colleges; and an Introduction to American Literature, by Prof. F. V. N. Painter of Roanoke College, embellished with portraits of sixteen of the greatest American authors. 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This is positively the greatest bargain ever offered in a strictly high-class standard publication. It can never be duplicated under any circumstances whatsoever. For those persons who are trying to "get along" with older and inferior reference works, this is a really wonderful opportunity. WHAT THE ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY IS. It contains over 250,000 defined words-nearly twice as many as the largest unabridged "-giving the history, derivation, spelling, pronunciation and varied meanings of each legitimate English word. It is now accepted as AN UNQUESTIONED AUTHORITY wherever the English language is spoken. It is one of the best of all Encyclopædias, because PRACTICALLY USEFUL, as well as the latest and most scholarly, containing 50,000 encyclopædic subjects; the Britannica has about 27,000. JUST THINK OF IT! The whole range of human knowledge condensed for your INSTANT USE by such world famous scientists as Huxley, Proctor, and a hundred other educators of hardly less renown! 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In sending your first payment please designate the style of binding you desire, and indicate how you wish the volumes sent, as the charges for delivery must be paid by the purchaser. Remittances received after this special lot is exhausted will be immediately returned. The limited stock at our disposal cannot last long. To protect ourselves against book dealers, etc., we must decline to send more than 2 sets to any one party, and in every case we must require the full name and address of each person receiving a set. We have only two styles of binding in this lot-cloth and half Russia-about an equal quantity of each. Order at once, to make sure. The absolute confidence of the syndicate that the work will be thoroughly appreciated, highly valued, and cheerfully paid for is clearly shown by sending such a valuable set of books, the subscription price of which is from $42 to $70, on an advance payment of only $1. We refer to any newspaper in New York or Boston. 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