Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-08-14
BOOK NOTICES,

" BeyOnd the MisSjSsiDpi.: A cOn1DEete
History Of the NetO States and Territories,
from the Great Ricer to the Great Ocean,
by Albert d. Richardson. This is most
entertaining and valuable book, and its
popularity is attested by the sale of over
100000 copies in Il single month. The
authors long and varied experience in
the little known and interesting regions
of the Far West, furnishes the valuable
material for its contents.
Mr. Richardson is widely known as one
of our most brilliant journalists and wri-
ters. No other author has travelled over
so much of our vast western domains, and
we know of no one who can so well de
scribe what he has seen. He is always
interesting, generally amusing and, bet
ter still, invariably TRUTHFUL.
The volume before Us is accompanied
by an accurate and minute map of the en-
tire region beyond the Mississippi, and is
elegantly printed and profuseIy illustra-
ted with over two hundred engravings
from original photographs and sketches
from the pencils of Bierstadt, Mast Hen
messy, barley, Fem, Stephens, Forbes
and other artists. Many of them are
set into the body of the text, after the
popular style of LOssing's Pictorial Field
Book of the Revolution.
This work, we understand, is sold only
by subscription, and is just such a one as
persons seeking to act rs agents should
add to their list. 1t is published 10y the
NATIONAL PUBLISHING Co., Philadel-
phia, Pa.
DemOreSrs M0nthLy.-The September
number of this favorite parlor periodical
is fully equal to any of those which have
preceded it. The illustrations are varied
and brilliant as ever, and there is tone
CT freshness and originality about the en-
tire contents which contrasts remarkably
with other parlor publications. We do
not wonder ladies prize it; to them it is
full of useful and interesting reading and
information, besides containing many val
liable specialites, in the way of patterns,
etc, which can be got from no other source.
Three dollars per annum, with a premi-
um. Address, w. Jennings Demorest,
Alb Broadway, New York.
"The PEN and Pencil. No Three is
before US, containing many beautiful illus
trations, among which we notice a full
page engraving entitled 4 Luxury, Lost
in the Snow; with poems, etc. This new
paper bids fair to become a favorite, and
one of the most remarkable features about
the enterprise, is that adopted by the en-
terprising publishers of distributing or
returning to their patrons, $50, 900 of the
proceeds, in prizes varying from 81 to
copy, price 10 cents, or by mail l3 cents,
will have an equal chance. Sold by all
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fishers, q 81 % Ann Street, n. \.
Good .NOries.-Messrs Ticknor and
Fields have issued the initial number OF
Good Stories,n under which title they
propose to publish, in cheap and attrac-
tive form, a valuable collection of short
stories, tales and sketches. The need OF
such a collection has been long felt; for
while numerous collections of poetry have
been made, no general repertory of good
stories exists. 1t is not intended to limit
this collection to English literature. Ii
will embrace, by competent translations,
the best and most characteristic short sto-
ries of all languages. While having i'll
view the idea of making this collection
valuable as a repertory of choice fiction
the publishers have in mind the great
need of the travelling public for class oi
reading that shall answer for amusement
in the railcar or on the steamboat. A large
volume or long story often becomes wear
isomc to the traveller on account of the
disadvantages to which he is subjected
while the type of many volumes renders
the reading Of them impossible to not &
few travellers. In Good Stories" all these
difficulties are overcome. Each number
is Il smallquarto, appropriately Illustrated
and easy to the hand the stories are
choice, and demand not too continuous at
tention; the type large and easily read, anC
the price, Fifty Cents per number, vii
place Good Storiesn within the reach o
all. The next number will appear thi:
month. Ticknor & Fields, Publishers
Boston.