to-be reprobated class of people who live "from hand to mouth"-may snatch many happy hours from fate, proving them the not most unhappy people, after all. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

REBECCA; OR, A WOMAN'S SECRET, by Mrs. Caroline F. Corbin. (Jansen, McC. & Co.) Mrs. Corbin's work is more a means of giving to the world some pet ideas about the so-called inferiority of woman, and her relations with the other sex than a regularly constructed story, depending upon its plot and the variety of its characters for all its interest. Its plot is slight, simply dealing with the secret of the heroine, Rebecca, a woman who has been betrayed through a fictitious marriage, and afterward cast upon the world, robbed of her good name, and consequently of the means of supporting her infant child. She deserts her baby, and, under a new name, seeks employment in a little village outside of New York. Here she finds her child in good hands, and meets friends who love her and cherish her, and help her to regain her self-respect. Here also, through many long conversations between Rebecca and her friend Mrs. Darrell, the reader gets the author's views of the "relative positions of the sexes, the status and work of woman, and the nature and office of love." 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

SOUCI, a Novel, by Mrs. J. H. Twells. (Lippincott.) "Souci," a poor little Parisian beggar-girl, with a beautiful voice, and a wonderful pair of eyes, is so like one of "Ouida's" heroines of her later novels that one scarcely recognizes the author of The Mills of the Gods" in the present creation. Mrs. Twells also, like "Ouida," revels in descriptions of people, scenery, etc., possessing a wonderful vocabu. lary of words and phrases to draw upon for her pen-pictures. Souci takes the fancy of a rich young French nobleman, who separates her from the beloved companion of her wanderings, Tonio," and educates her for the stage. She grows up a fiery, half-savage little creature, with a noble voice, and grand dramatic instincts, but with a heart faithful to her first love, "Tonio." We get a glimpse of Garibaldi and his soldiers, sketches of Parisian and Italian society, evidently taken from life, and many intense, passionate scenes between Souci and her two lovers. The book is of the kind that obtains many readers. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

THE STORY OF CREATION, by S. M. Campbell, D.D. (Lockwood, B. & Co.) Almost all works treating upon this subject are written for the learned reader, hence meet with little popularity with a class of thinkers and inquirers who would be glad to have the story told, with the objections made to it by the scientists, in simple, plain language, that can be comprehended by the most uncultivated. We have such a book here. Dr. Campbell takes up Moses' narration of the creation word by word, and, in brief chapters and easy diction, tells precisely what it means, and how much of the story may pe reconciled with the discoveries of the geologists, without impugning its character as an inspired book. He makes more concessions to the advances science has made than orthodox writers usually do. Whether the reader agrees with him, however, or differs, he cannot but enjoy the book; it is unpretentious, clear in its reasonings, strongly marked with the au

thor's common-sense, and very easy to be understood. 12mo, cloth, $1.75.

BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN; or, Christ the Light of the World, by J. R. Macduff, D.D. (Carter.) This is a new life of Christ for the young. It is designed to take a place between "The Wonderful Life" and "Peep of Day," also sacred biographies for children, either quite far advanced or very young. This will occupy a middle position, and, as far as the author knows, an unappropriated niche." The story is told with studied simplicity, the principal aim being to present 'a pictorial life of the Saviour," which very youthful natures would understand, and also find vivid and attractive. Rev. J. R. Macduff is so well known as a writer for the young, that his new work may be safely recommended in the coming holiday-times as a most appropriate and acceptable gift. The volume is adorned with a number of full-page pictures, which the author and artist have aimed to make different in subject and treatment to the usual stereotyped Bible pictures. Mr. A. Rowan made the illustrations. 8vo, cloth, $3.50.

DAVID KENT'S AMBITION, by Joy Allison. (Congregational Pub. Soc.) A little book that boys will find it to their advantage to read, as it inculcates very excellent lessons of self-control and self-denial, and tells how a little boy was brought to trust God through a terrible trial sent him. David Kent is a minister's son, and one of a large family left without a mother's care. The eldest daughter tries to take her mother's place, and give to the children a mother's care and advice. A pretty domestic picture is woven out of these slight threads, that will interest both young and old. 12mo, cloth, $1. This house has also issued "Lottie," by Mrs. M. F. Butes, a book for girls, 16mo, cloth, $1, and The Little Pilgrim's Question-Book" on the International Lessons for 1878, for the youngest scholars, by Mrs. William Barrows, and, for older scholars, "The National Question-Book and Hand-Book on the Sunday-School Lessons for 1878," by Rev. John E. Todd and Rev. M. B. Riddle.

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DITA, by Lady Margaret Majendie. (Holt.) A sudden death, the theft of a marriage certificate, a wife deprived of her good name, and a little child of her father, are the opening incidents of this story. Cast off by her husband's relatives, a noble Scotch family of rigid virtue, Assunta, broken-hearted and in dire poverty, at last seeks refuge in the workhouse, where she dies, and from whence Perdita, or "Dita," her child, is taken by a rich but childless couple, who adopt it, and learn to love it as their own. Dita's subsequent history consists of her love affairs, the finding out of her real name and parentage, the confession of her father's brother of the stealing of her mother's papers, and her reinstatement in her father's home. Lady Majendie will be Giannetto," a remembered as the author of bright story of Italy. Italian characters figure again in this story, which also displays considerable freshness and originality. Hour Series." 16mo, cloth, $1.

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A YOUNG WIFE'S STORY, by Harriette Bowra. (Harper.) The young wife tells the story herself very simply and prettily. She is sought in marriage by a widower with two children. She is young and unsophisticated, and interprets

the esteem and interest he betrays for her to be love. She marries him, and goes home to a life without love, and to a depth of unhappiness which awakens the reader's constant sympathy. Her story has many sides to it, her troubles with her step-children, with her husband's uncle, a rich courtly old sceptic, upon whose bounty they are dependent, and her jealousy of her husband's first wife. Her force of character and good sense, however, surmount all these difficulties, and we leave her a happy wife, rich in the love she has nobly fought for and won. Though the author is quite unknown here, she is a welcome addition to the ranks of the novelists. 8vo, paper, 25

cents.

ONLY A CAT, by Mrs. H. B. Paull. (T. Whittaker.) Tom Blackman is the name of the distinguished subject of this memoir, who although only a cat," was a most intelligent, docile, loving member of society. His adventures were various, and often quite exciting. He lived in the very highest circles, and became the repository of many singular family secrets, all of which he relates here in the very choicest feline language. He died at an advanced age, respected and regretted by all who knew him. We think the little ones will find much to amuse them in this very nice story, much that is quite funny, and much that will instruct them about the ways of cats, and the high training and education of which they are capable if loved and kindly cared for. With numerous full-page illustrations, and attractively bound. A bright chromo on front cover. 4to, cloth, $1.50.

CREED AND DEED, a Series of Discourses, by Felix Adler. (Putnam.) Prof. Adler's Sunday lectures before the "Society for Ethical Culture" have been for over a year one of the attractive features of our city to cultured and thinking people. His preachings discard all creeds or doctrines, chiefly aiming to inculcate morality and high aspiration. The discourses contained in this volume are among the most notable given to the public-namely, "Religion," "Immortality," "The New Ideal," ""The Priest of the Ideal," "The Form of the New Ideal," "The Religious Conservatism of Women," "Our Consolations,' 99.66 Spinoza," "The Founder of Christianity." The Anniversary Discourse." They are marked by a most scholarly style and cultured diction. The volume is very handsomely gotten up and printed. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

THE KHEDIVE'S EGYPT, by Edwin De Leon. (Harper.) Mr. De Leon was for many years in Egypt in an official capacity, which gave him exceptional advantages for gaining a knowledge of its last three rulers, including the present Khedive-with all of whom he had most intimate private and public relations. He feels, therefore, that he has much to say about the Khedive's Egypt that is new and interesting, not only to the general reader, but to the thoughtful student of man and history as well. His work is not written in any partisan spirit, his sole desire being, as he says, to give a photographic picture of the changes wrought in the old House of Bondage" by Mehemet Ali and his successors, and its true social, political, and economical position to-day. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

IN THE MESHES, by Christine McKenzie. Lippincott.) "Waif," the heroine of this story,

seems especially marked out by providence or the author as a fitting subject upon whose unoffending head all the ills and woes of life may be poured. She has a hard time of it from the opening of the story, when her heart is almost broken by the news of her father's marriage, to the end, when we find her with her life and reason almost destroyed through the wicked machinations of her step-mother and step-sister. The scene of the story is America, the actors being chiefly Southern people. It has plenty of action and quite an intricate plot, and is quite acceptable in style. It will be received by novelreaders as a very interesting and exciting story. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

HOW WE RAISED OUR BABY. (Derby Bros.) If one judged this book from its outside appearance, it would find a place among the juveniles. It comes in a real holiday dress, with a pretty chromo on front cover and plenty of gold adornments. But it is not a book for the little ones-far from it, indeed-for the little ones get enough experience, in propriâ persona. to dispense with a written history of the haps and mishaps of the nursery. Mothers are reccommended to read the volume, and to learn much of practical value from the sad history of a young couple with their first baby. Mr. John Habberton, author of "Helen's Babies," furnishes a characteristic introduction. Sq. 16m0, cloth, $1; paper, 50 cents.

MATERIA MEDICA FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS, by John B. Biddle, M.D. (Lindsay & Blakiston.) This is the eighth edition of a wellknown work, the seventh edition having been exhausted in little more than a year. It being necessary, therefore, to publish a new edition, it has been carefully revised, much of it has been recast and even rewritten, and many new articles have been added. The author trusts that it will be found to have kept pace with the progress of pharmacological science, and to contain all important recent contributions to the various departments of pharmacology. The illustrations are the same as in previous editions. 8vo, cloth, $4.

LETTICE EDEN, by Emily Sarah Holt. (Carter.) A very pretty and instructive story for girls, of the last days of King Henry the Eighth, told in the quaint and pleasing phraseology of the time. Lettice Eden is a young orphan who is thrown upon the world, and who becomes waiting-gentlewoman" to a grand lady. The story of her life and love is very charmingly told by herself, and she also gives some very graphic sketches of historical events of her day. The chief aim of the book is to teach trust in

God and dependence upon his goodness and mercy. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

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THOREAU HIS LIFE AND AIMS, a study by H. A. Page. (Osgood.) Thoreau was a man so little known that any particulars of his life, any light thrown upon the singularities which dis tinguished him, will be welcome by his admirMr. Page does not pretend to offer a biography, he only takes up the threads of Thoreau's life, and gathers from them and from his writings a very charming "study," "an effort to gain a consistent view of the man's character rather than an exhaustive record of the facts of his life." Little Classic style. $1.

GLIMPSES OF THE COMING, by R. G. Greene. (Randolph.) This book relates to an interpretation of the Scriptures that is accepted by

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JOURNALISTIC NOTES.

REV. EDWARD ABBOTT is making the Literary World a model of enterprising literary journalIn the current number, he has obtained the co-operation of the most distinguished American poets and other writers in a unique tribute to Mr. Whittier, whose birthday comes on the 17th. There are poems in honor of the event by Henry W. Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Paul H. Hayne, J. G. Holland, George Parsons Lathrop, Hiram Rich, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke, Wm. S. Shurtleff, Celia Thaxter, and Charlotte F. Bates; and greetings in prose from Richard H. Dana, William Cullen Bryant, Geo. Bancroft, Charles W. Eliot, F. Parkman, H. B. Stowe, Thos. Wentworth Higginson, Oliver Johnson, and Robert Collyer. Charles B. Rice describes Mr. Whittier's homelife in a short paper. An authentic list of Mr. Whittier's writings closes this testimonial, for which the Literary World deserves, as the Tribune justly says, the grateful recognition of all who have at heart the interests of American literature.

THE Chicago Law Journal is the title of a new magazine to be published in Chicago, at intervals of four weeks, and as much oftener as may be found necessary. The Journal will contain reports of the opinions of the Appellate Courts of Illinois in full, advanced opinions of the Supreme Court, occasional and important opinions of the Criminal, Circuit, Superior, and the United States Courts throughout the State of Illinois; also leading cases of the Supreme Court of the United States. E. B. Meyers & Co. are the publishers.

HARPER'S MAGAZINE for January is a capital number, giving glimp es of many parts of the world. Mrs. J. W. Davis gives an excellent description of Prague; Van Cleef contributes a profusely illustrated paper on the celebrated "Hot Springs of Arkansas," the American Baden; Wm. H. Rideing has a chatty paper on "our" Broadway. J. W. De Forest, in a [brilliant paper, shows how the Turks fought the Russians just fifty years ago. Besides this, there are short stories, and poems, and other and heavier contributions, too numerous to mention.

THE initial issue of D. Lothrop & Co.'s quarterly Boston Book Bulletin, under the editorship of Mr. C. A. Nelson, who has had much experi

ence with books in the trade and as a writer and librarian, has just been issued. It contains original articles and reviews from the Rev. E. E. Hale, A. Bronson Alcott, J. T. Trowbridge, F. B. Perkins, Professor John Fiske, F. B. Sanborn, and others.

IN the forthcoming number of Scribner's monthly will appear a paper on "Pidgin English," by Mr. A. A. Hayes, Jr., one of whose clever parodies in this dialect has lately gone the rounds of the press.

The same issue will contain "A Glimpse of Youth," one of three short poems recently written by Dr. J. G. Holland, who, it but will devote his best hours to the writing of is said, will not write another novel at present, poems, with the intention to soon publish a volume.

ST. NICHOLAS for January will be a very storehouse of good things. Among the attractions will be George MacDonald's promised "Letter to Young Americans," contributions from the author of the "Schönberg-Cotta Family," Dr. J. G. Holland, David Kerr, and others. The Christmas Card in the Holiday edition is to be followed, in the coming number, by a New Year Card drawn by the same artist, Miss L. Greenway, of London.

AN interesting feature of APPLetons' JourNAL for January will be a fully illustrated article descriptive of the building of the Great Suspension-Bridge over the East River between New York and Brooklyn. The article will form the first of a series, under the general designation of "The American at Work," which will illustrate and describe recent enterprises and later developments of industry in this country.

MR. LOUIS J. JENNINGS, former editor of the New York Times, has accepted the editorial

charge and control of The Week, a new weekly journal about to be published in London, which, the New York World assures us, 'will avoid the slovenly and gossiping tendencies which have impaired the usefulness of too many of the weekly journals of Lon

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