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pennless to be received and supported from
sense of duty, Hester's temptation is to take
advantage of the opportunity which the law
allows her to free herself by divorce and mar
ry one who has won and is of worthy her love,
She resists the temptation, and her drunken
husband is opportunely killed by railroad col
lisioD, leaving her free for a future of happi-
ness. Clairvoyance and mesmerism are largely
influential in the development of the plot.la
SELECT POEMS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Edited
with notes, by William j. Rolfe. New York: Har-
per & Brothers. For sale by Loring, Short g
Harmon.
The Harpers here offer to readers a neatly
printed, neatly bound, and attractive edition of
1.-THE Traveller" "The Deserted Village" and
Retaliation" The volume is profusely en-
bellished with wood-cuts. Its chief merit how
ever, and great one it is, is the careful annota-
ton by Mr.. Rolfe, whose editions of "The Mer-
chant of Venice" and others of Shakespeare's
plays are familiar to the reading public. The
notes are fuller than in any other edition.
Many of them are original; the rest have been
drawn from every accessible source. They are
historical, exegetical, grammatical. To the
poems are 2reixed Macaulay's essay on Gold
Thackeray, George Colman, Campbell, Fors-
ter, and Irving.
THE TREAsURE.TRovE SERIES. Vol. II. Trav-
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by Hall l.. Davis. nna
The secoud volume of the entertaining and
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subtitle indicates the present volume is given
up to travesty. The contents embrace Bur-
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Punch" on Charles Reade, and entitled ga
Treble Temptation Thackeray's merciless
satire on Bulwer, "George De Barnwell;''
Macaulay's prophetic Account of Future
Epic;" "John Paul's'' amusing travesty on
St. Ems; Beresford's "Lessons in Biography
parody of Boswell's johnson; Bret Harte's
we'll known travesty of T. S. Arthur; ST 7.
Us" "Bo Fl of the Yellow Girde;" and Tom
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SELECT DIALOGUES OF PLATO. A New and Liter
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The select dialogues Of Plato, comprising
The Apology of Socrates. The Duty Of a Citi-
zen, The Immortality of the Soul, On Rhet9r-
ic, The Sophistsi On the Beautiful, On Sci
ence, On Holiness, and On Friendship, are
| given in the latest volume of Hsrpers' Classical
| Library. The version is that of Henry Cary OF
| Worcester College, Oxford, and is from the
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Plato in the original, is great and apparent
The volume is gotten up in the same style q,
| the others in tie series, and sold at the same
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| those who find it difficult to follow the rigid
| dialectics of Plato.
| LECTURES TO MY STUDENTS. By C. H. Spurgeon.
| New York: Sheldon & Co. For sale by Loring,
Short & Harmon.
These lectures were delivered to the students
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| Spurgeon. The lectures, while specially
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|
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| THE HANDY HOME Book OF MEDICAL RECIPES
AND FAMILY RECEIPTS. BY William NJ. Cornell,
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by Hall L. Davis.
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| equal proportions. The topics treated rival in
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Many of the recipes are valuable, all of them
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absolutely without any of system of arrange
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remedied by an excellent index.
Childrens Books.
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