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Harper's Monthly for September is issued.
1t is an excellent number. Pierce has it for
sale.
''Mose SINNERS Bridal Tour" is publish
ed by the New England Company, in pamph-
let form. 1t is written to make fools laugh,
and probably will. Pierce has it.
ID. Appleton & Co. add to their Library of
Choice Novels two new volumes. 'Almost
Faithless" is story of the present day, writ
ten by the author of ga Book for Governess-
es.' The other volume is entitled 'James
Gordon's wife" The tone of both works is
healthy. They are also interesting. Clapp
and North have them.
Harper & Brothers publish in pamphlet
form ga Terrible Temptation Charles
Reade's latest and worst A far better book
is published by the same firm, Of which the
title is, ''For Lack of Gold" The author is
Charles Gibbon. These are for sale by Clapp
North.
The Harper Brothers publish Latin Gram
mar for beginners, by Professor w. II. Wadd-
ell. 1t is a companion to his Greek Gram
mar. 1t is a book which contains no unnec-
essary matter, nothing but essential and ele-
mentary principles and paradigms, which are
to be thoroughly memorized by the pupil.
The book is to be committed to memory from
cover to cover. Clapp & North have it.
The Westminster Review for, July is re-
printed by the Leonard Scott Company. The
contents are: Religious Life and Tendencies
in Scotland; The Poetry of Democracy
Walt Whitman; The Genesis of the Free
Will Doctrine; Abeilard The Republicans
of the Commonwealth; Army Organization;
Early English Literature The Government
and the Liberal Party; The Function of
Physical Pain! Anesthetics; On the Method
of Political Economy.
The Harper Brothers publish 1.-The Domes-
tic Life of Thomas Jefferson" of which the
author is Sarah N. Randolph, the great grand
daughter Of the distinguished statesman. In
lie faithful picture of Jefferson as he was in
private life. "reminiscences of him written
by his daughter and grandchildren have been
collected, and from his correspondence all his
family letters have been culled and reproduc-
ed as witnesses of his faithful and pure char
acter in private. 1t is in briefer form than
any other volumes yet published upon the
same subject, and contains many letters not
found in the correspondence already publish
ed. No man in his time was more cruelty
slandered than jefferson, partly from ignor-
ance of what he was but more for partizan
hate. In these pages the simplicity and hon.
esty of his character are revealed, and some
amends made for the injustice he suffered liv-
ing. Clapp & North have it for sale.
The Harpers have issued in large and
handsome volume the "History of Frederick
the Second, called Frederick the Great" by
John S. C. Abbott. When we have said that
Abbot is the author of this work it is under
stood at once that it is written in vigorous
style and pleases like romance, but is some
what more indebted TO Imagination than solid
fact for much of what it contains. The differ
ence between this and Carlyle's history of
Frederick is quite striking, but there is no
uoupt tdt tic 'isHter vein OF ADnOtt VII!
draw a larger audience than the crooked
and prolix but magnificent style of the Scotch
man. Clapp & North have it for SALE
A new work by the Harpers is ''The Stu
dents Elements Of Geology" by Sir Charles
Lyell. For beginner in the science Of geol-
ogy this is probably the best work published.
1t is kind of abridgement of his former
work, the elements of Geology" with an
addition of the recent facts which have been
discovered, bearing upon the subject. 1t has
more than GOO illustrations and is as full ofmat-
ter as a nut is of meat. Clapp & North have
it.