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tion displayed throughout by the author.
The Illustrations are good. "To the Bitter
End" forms one of the volumes OF Harpers
Library of Select Novels.
For sale by Loring, Short and Harmon.
Harper Bros. also add to their series OF
novels, ''Godolphiu,.' by Bulwer. The TO
mances of this distinguished author are so
well known as to render notice Of any OF
them, superhuous.
"Godolphin" win be found at the book
store of Messrs. Loring, Short and Har-
mon.
Lakcville; or Substance and shadow,
BY Mary HenIy, author of"A suu,mer,.
Romance.
This is very bright, natural and pleasant
novel, written in the clear and graceful style
that won so much praise fol Miss Healy's
former book, "a Summers Romance -
Valerie, the heroine, is at once piquant ana
lovely; and the hero is very far removed from
the conventional novelsts' type. The inter.
est of the story is well maintained, TO the
happy denouement. "Lakeville, is wsT,
printed and illustrated; and forms one of the
volumes of Appleton's Library of American
Fiction. ~ oI bas
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Not Easily JeaIons. -.
This novel is one of the Lest of the season
lit is bright, charming and natural; and ths
plot, though by no means sensational or
complicated one, gives scope sor the develop-
ment OF the characters and action. The he
roes and heroines of this story ofthe English
society-lfe of the present day, are admirably
done; and the dialogue is easy and graceful
The author, at present anonymous, evidently
possesses sympathetic insight and poetic fan.
cy; and brllliance, vigor, sweetness and re-
nnement a4e characteristics of this delightful
novel, The mechanical execution Of the vol
ume also merits praise @
Published by ]. R. Osgood & Co. For sale
by Bailey and Noyes.
Lectures ON Light, Delivered I'm she rJ.ssaA
stascs i'm 1s53-5S. ny John Tyndan.
In this brochure of 1914 pages from the pub
fishing house of d. Appleton & Co.. Prof.
Tyndall presents US with the results of many
years of untiring scientific research. In six
lectures, written in nervous, sinewy, yet ele-
CANT English, which our writers on science
would do well to study, we are told all that
the world knows and much that 1t suspects
about light. The work begins with lecture
on the uses of experiment, goes on to give o
history and an analysis of the various theo-
ries of light which have been broached,
dwells at length upon polarization, and then
goes on to treat of the essential identity Of
heat and light as modes of motion of the solar
beam. The work concludes with a brill
liant chapter on solar chemistry. In an
appendix is given the ad irsss of
Prof Tyndall at the farewell banquet. The
work is bristling with audacious and some
times paradoxical statements. as, for exam
pie where he says that "a long list of indict-
ments might indeed be brought against the
human eye,-its opacity, its want of symme-
try, Its lack of achromatism, its absolute
blindness, in part. All these taken together
caused an eminent German Philosopher to
say that, if any optician sent him an instlu-
ment so full of defects, he would send 1t back
to him with the severest censure.n Such
heresy ought to start Paley's ghost from his
grave. f3 osre5l 81 "a HH
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