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HARPER & BROTHERS'

ENTERTAINING AND INSTRUCTIVE GIFT-BOOKS,

ADAPTED TO ALL TASTES AND CIRCUMSTANCES.

HARPER & BROTHERS will send any of the following books by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the price.

HARPERS' NEW CATALOGUE, 332 pp., 8vo, a descriptive list of about 3000 volumes, will be sent by mail on receipt of Nine Cents in Postage Stamps.

Art in America.

A Critical and Historical Sketch. By S. G. W. BENJAMIN. Illustrated. 8vo, Illuminated Cloth. (Nearly Ready.)

What Mr. Darwin Saw,

In his Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle." Adapted for Youthful Readers. Maps and Illustrations. 8vo, Ornamental Cloth, $3 00.

Tyrol, and the Skirt of the Alps.

By GEORGE E. WARING, Jr., Author of “A Farmer's Vacation," &c. Illustrated. 8vo, Illuminated Cloth, $3 00.

The Boy Travellers in the Far East.

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Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China. By THOMAS W. KNOX, Author of "Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field," "Overland Through Asia,” “Underground," "John," &c. lustrated. 8vo, Illuminated Cloth. (Just Ready.)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

By SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Illustrated by GUSTAVE DORÉ. A magnificently illustrated and sumptuous volume. Folio, Cloth, Gilt Edges, and in a neat Box, $10 00.

The Ceramic Art.

A Compendium of the History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain. By JENNIE J. YOUNG. With 464 Illustrations. 8vo, Illuminated Cloth, $5 00.

Pottery and Porcelain of all Times and Nations.

With Tables of Factory and Artists' Marks, for the Use of Collectors. By WILLIAM C. PRIME, LL.D. 8vo, Cloth, Gilt Tops and Uncut Edges, in a Box, $7 00.

Contemporary Art in Europe.

By S. G. W. BENJAMIN. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Illuminated and Gilt, $3 50.

Art Education Applied to Industry.

By Colonel GEORGE WARD NICHOLS. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Illuminated and Gilt, $4 00.

Art Decoration Applied to Furniture.

By HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFford. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Illuminated and Gilt, $4 00.

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WHAT MR. DARWIN SAW IN HIS VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN THE

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The Dutch Republic.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History.

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By JOHN LоTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., D.C.L. With a Portrait of William of Orange. 3 volumes, 8vo, Cloth, with Paper Labels, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $6 00. Sold only in Sets.

The United Netherlands.

History of the United Netherlands: from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve-Years' Truce. With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., D.C.L. With Portraits. 4 vols., 8vo, Cloth, with Paper Labels, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $8 00. Sold only in Sets.

John of Barneveld.

Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the "Thirty-Years' War." By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., D.C.L. Illustrated. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, with Paper Labels, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $4 00. only in Sets.

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.

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By his Nephew, G. OTTO TREVELYAN, M.P. With Portrait on Steel. Complete in 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, Gilt Tops and Uncut Edges, $5 00; Sheep, $6 00; Half Morocco, $9 50; Tree Calf, $15 00. Popular Edition, 1 vol., 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.

Macaulay's History of England.

New Edition of Lord Macaulay's History of England, from New Electrotype Plates. with Paper Label, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, Five Volumes in a Box, $10 00 per set. in Sets.

8vo, Cloth, Sold only

Hume's History of England.

History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Abdication of James II., 1688. By DAVID HUME, New and Elegant Library Edition, from New Electrotype Plates. 6 vols., 8vo, Cloth, with Paper Labels, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $12 00. Sold only in Sets.

The Boys of '76.

A History of the Battles of the Revolution. By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3 00.

The Story of Liberty.

By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3 00.

The Catskill Fairies.

By VIRGINIA W. JOHNSON. Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks. 8vo, Illuminated Cloth, Gilt Edges, $3.00.

The Princess Idleways.

A Fairy Story. By Mrs. W. J. HAYS. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, 75 cents.

Our Children's Songs.

Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental Cover, $1 00.

Adventures of a Young Naturalist.

By LUCIEN BIART. Edited and Adapted by PARKER GILMORE. 117 Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $175.

An Involuntary Voyage.

A Book for Boys. By LUCIEN BIART. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth. (Nearly Ready.)

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THISTLE EDITION: 48 volumes, bound in Green Cloth, $1 00 per volume; in Half Morocco, Gilt Tops, $1 50 per volume; in Half Morocco, Extra, $2 25 per volume.

HOLYROOD EDITION: 48 volumes, bound in Brown Cloth, 75 cents per volume; in Half Morocco, Gilt Tops, $1 50 per volume; in Half Morocco, Extra, $2 25 per volume.

POPULAR EDITION: 24 volumes (two vols. in one), bound in Green Cloth, $125 per volume; in Half Morocco, $2 25 per volume; in Half Morocco, Extra, $300 per volume.

WITH TWO THOUSAND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.

Songs of Our Youth.

By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Set to Music. Square 4to, Cloth, Illuminated, $2.50.

Farm Ballads.

By WILL CARLETON. Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental Cloth, $2 00; Gilt Edges, $2 50.

Farm Legends.

By WILL CARLeton. Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental Cloth, $2 00; Gilt Edges, $2 50.

The Book of Gold and other Poems.

By J. T. TROWbridge.

Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental Cover, Gilt Edges, $2 50.

The Poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Selected and Edited by the Rev. ROBERT ARIS WILLMOTT. With English and American Additions by EVART A. DUYCKINCK. New and Enlarged Edition. 141 Illustrations. Cloth, Gilt Edges, $5 00; Half Calf, $5 50; Full Morocco, Gilt Edges, $9 00.

The Poets and Poetry of Scotland :

Elegant Small 4to,

From the Earliest to the Present Time. Comprising Characteristic Selections from the Works of the more Noteworthy Scottish Poets, with Biographical and Critical Notices. By JAMES GRANT WILSON. With Portraits on Steel. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $10 00; Cloth, Gilt Edges, $11 00; Half Calf, $14 50; Full Morocco, $18 00.

Goldsmith's Poetical Works.

Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3 00; Gilt Edges, $3 50; Turkey Morocco, Gilt Edges, $7 50.

Caricature and other Comic Art,

In All Times and Many Lands. By JAMES PARTON. With 203 Illustrations.
Tops and Uncut Edges, $5 00.

The Fairy Books:

FAIRY BOOK ILLUSTRATED. Containing Twelve
New Stories, expressly Translated for this Work.
Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, $1 50.

PUSS-CAT MEW, and other New Fairy Stories for my Children. By E. H. KNATOHBULL-HUGESSEN, M.P. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25.

FAIRY BOOK. The Best Popular Fairy Stories selected and rendered anew. By the Author of "John Halifax." Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25.

MACE'S FAIRY TALES. (Contes du Petit Château.)
By JEAN MACE, Editor of the Magasin d'Education
Translated by MARY L. BOOTH. Illustrated. 12mo,
Bevelled Edges, $1 75; Gilt Edges, $2 25.

Dogs and their Doings.

By Rev. F. O. MORRIS.

8vo, Cloth, Gilt

FAIRY TALES OF ALL NATIONS. BY ÉDOUard La-
BOULAYE, Member of the Institute of France. Trans-
lated by MARY L. BOOTH. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth,
Bevelled Edges, $2 00; Gilt Edges, $2 50.

THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE. By the Author of
"John Halifax, Gentleman." Illustrated. Square
16mo, Cloth, $1 00.

FOLKS AND FAIRIES. Stories for Little Children. By LUOY CRANDALL COMFORT. Illustrated. Square 4to, Cloth, $1 00.

THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE, as Told to my
Child. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman."
Illustrated. Square 16mo, Cloth, 90 cents.

Elegantly Illustrated. Square 4to, Ornamental Cloth, $1 75.

The Life and Habits of Wild Animals.

Illustrated from Designs by JOSEPH WOLF. Engraved by J. W. and Edward Whymper. With Descriptive Letter-press by Daniel Giraud Elliot, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 4to, Cloth, Gilt Edges, $4 00.

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