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Contents. Chaucer, G. Griseld. Spenser, E. Una.-Shakespeare, W: Falstaff. Milton, J: The lady in Comus.-Addison, J. Sir Roger de Coverley. --Fielding, H: Sophia Western.-Sterne, L. The Shandies. Sheridan, R. S. The rivals. - Goldsmith, O. The vicar of Wakefield.-Cowper, W: John Gilpin.-Burns, R. Tam O'Shanter. Colman, G:, jr. The heir-at-law. Scott, Sir W. Jeanie Deans.- Coleridge, S: T. The ancient mariner. Campbell, T: Gertrude of Wyoming. Byron, Lord. Haidée.-Lytton, Lord. Nydia.-Thackeray, W: M. Colonel Newcome.-Dickens, C: Pecksniff. -Tennyson, A. Dora.

Hunt, James H: Leigh, ed. A book for a corner, or Selections in prose and verse from authors the best suited to that mode of enjoyment, with comments on each and a general introd. 2 ser. in 1. N. Y. 1852. D. 829.2:16

Contents, see Catalogue of the Boston athenæum, v. 2, p. 1474.

Same. 2d ser. N. Y. 1852. D. 829.2:16 v2 Jerrold, W: Blanchard, ed. The best of all good company. 1st series: C: Dickens, Walter Scott, W. M. Thackeray, Douglas Jerrold. Ill. Boston. 1875. O. 829.2:67

Ashton, J: Chap-books of the 18th century, with fac-similes, notes and introd. Lond. 1882. D. 829.2:50 Small books on great subjects; v. 1-3. [Anon.] Phila. 1847. S. 829.2:48

Contents. V. 1. Cornwallis, C. F. Philosophical inquiries and philosophical experience by a pariah.Barlow, J: The connection between physiology and intellectual philosophy. - Barlow, J: On man's power over himself to prevent or control insanity.Cornwallis, C. F. An introduction to practical organic chemistry. 2. Cornwallis, C. F. A brief view of greek philosophy up to the age of Pericles.Cornwallis, C. F. A brief view of greek philosophy from the age of Socrates to the coming of Christ.Cornwallis, C. F. Christian doctrine and practice in the 2d century. Cornwallis, C. F., (Thomas Brown redivivus). An exposition of vulgar and common errors adapted to 1845. 3. An introduction to vegetable physiology with references to De Candolle, Lindley, etc.- On the principles of criminal law. Cornwallis, C. F. Christian sects in the 19th century. Cornwallis, C. F. The general principles of grammar.

Aikin, J, and Anna Lætitia Barbauld. Even

ings at home, or The juvenile budget opened. Rev. ed. from the 15th Lond. ed. II. N. Y. 1855. D. x829.2:65 Chambers, W: and Robert, eds. Miscellany of instructive and entertaining tracts. New and rev. ed. Edinb. 1869-72. 20 v. D.

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Contents. V. 1. Life of G: Stephenson.-Maurice and Genevieve. — Picciola, or The prison flower.Abyssinia and Theodore. Cases of circumstantial evidence. The last earl of Derwentwater. - Home plants, water animals, and the aquarium. - Anecdotes of dogs.-The heroine of Siberia.-Poems of the domestic affections.

2. Lord Dundonald.- Journal of a poor vicar.Blanche Raymond.-Romance of geology.-Larochejaquelein and the war in La Vendée.-Anecdotes of the horse.-Story of Peter Williamson.-Curiosities of vegetation.-Children of the wilds.-Select poems on love for flowers.

3. Life of Nelson. - The goldmakers' village. Story of the indian mutiny.-Story of Silvio Pellico. -William Tell and Switzerland.- The herring and

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5. Louis Napoleon, emperor of the french.-Love is power. Anecdotes of spiders. - Adventures of Robert Drury.-Account of the borders.-The plague in London. Mutiny of the Bounty.-Select poetry of Scott.

6. Captain Cook.-Earthquakes and volcanos.-A tale of Norfolk island.-The two beggar boys.-The widow's son.- Anecdotes of the deaf, dumb, and blind.-Story of R: Falconer.-Byron's narrative of the loss of the Wager.-History of the mormons.The scottish adventurers.-Walter Ruysdael.-Poems on kindness to animals.

7. Joan of Arc, maid of Orleans.-Annals of the poor.-Gold and gold-diggers.--Traditionary tales of Tweeddale. There is no hurry! - Abby's year in Lowell.-Anecdotes of elephants.-The russian campaign. The ancient mariner, and other poems.

8. Life of Washington.--Hinduism. Intelligent negroes.-Visit to Shetland.-Story of Lavalette.Religious impostors. - Wonders and curiosities of architecture.-Time enough.-Chevy chase.

9. William, prince of Orange.-Anecdotes of the cat and the rat.-The sun.-Story of Colbert.-Happy families of animals.-The story of Valentine Duval. -The moors in Spain.-The man with the iron mask. -Visit to Vesuvius and Pompeii.-The hermit of Warkworth, etc.

10. Life of sir Walter Scott.-Wonders and curiosities of civil engineering.-Life assurance.-Passion and principle.-The ancient cave-men of Devonshire. -Life of a sailor boy.-Madame Roland.-The norman conquest.-Selections from Shakspeare.

11. Life of Peter the great.-The stranger's visit to Edinburgh.- Wonders of the microscope.-The story of De la Tude.-Mrs. Macelarty.-The persecutions in Scotland.-The christmas holiday.-Be just before you are generous.-The heir of Linne, and other ballads.

12. Life of Columbus.-Stories of aims and ends. -A lord provost's holiday. Story of a french prisoner of war in England.-H: Arnaud and the waldenses.-Heroism in humble life.- Prince Le Boo.Sir Stamford Raffles and the Malayan Archipelago.Poems by G: Crabbe.

13. Life of Henry IV of France.-Anecdotes of serpents. Story of Alexander Andrayne. - Helen Gray.-France; its revolutions and misfortunes.The Montyon prizes.-Three ways of living. The childe of Elle, and other ballads.

14. Life of Howard.- Names of persons. The mag.c flute.-Why the sea is salt.-Account of the gipsies. Elizabeth Stuart and the palatinate. The Camisards.-Women's trials in humble life.- Selections from french and german poetry.

15. Life of W: Hutton. - The deserters. Pearls and pearl fisheries. Moral tales from the french.Gustavus Adolphus and the thirty years' war. The sister of Rembrandt.-Eminent astronomers.-Poems on birds.

16. Life of W: Penn.-Do you think I'd inform?The schoolmaster's dream. The crusades. - Anecdotes of shoemakers. — Monuments of unrecorded ages. Speculative manias.-Valerie Duclos. - Selections from Byron.

17. Life of James Watt. The little captive king. The pilgrim fathers. History of the Bastille. Anecdotes of the early painters. - Life of Alexander Selkirk. The wooden spoon.-The Tintoretto. - History of Will and Jean.

18. Sir W: Jones, etc. - Excursion to the Oregon. -The friendly arrest, a tale. The british conquest of India. The old witchcrafts.-Conquest of Mexico. -The stranger's visit to London.-Poems on insects. 19. Life of Oberlin. - Scenes from peasant life in Norway.-Quintin Matsys.-Life and travels of Burckhardt. Leon Gondy; a legend of Ghent. - Rob Roy and the clan McGregor.-Toussaint L'Ouverture and Hayti.-Jim Cronin.- Songs of home and fatherland. 20. Count Rumford. -The guerilla. History of the jews in England. - Arnold and André. — African discovery. The hope of Leascombe. — Spectral illu

Chambers, W, ed. Miscellany of useful and entertaining knowledge; v. 1-4, 6-8, 10. Bost. n. d. 8 v. S. 829.2:5

Contents. V. 1. The life of Louis Philippe, king of the french.-A tale of Norfolk Island. - Story of Colbert.-Happy family of animals. The employer and employed.-Time enough; a tale by mrs. S. C. Hall.My native bay. Manual for infant management. Picciola, or The prison flower. Life in the bush. William Tell and Switzerland. The two beggar boys. The widow's son, by Mrs. Stone.-Select poems of the domestic affections. Life of Grace Darling, etc. Volney Beckner.-James Maxwell.-Story of Maurice and Genevieve.-Religious impostors.-Anecdotes of dogs.-La Rochejaquelein and the war in La Vendée. -Journal of a poor vicar.-Blanche Raymond; a parisian story.-The romance of geology.-History of the slave trade. - Story of Walter Ruysdale, the watchmaker.-Chevy Chase.-Beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green.

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2. Life of Lord Nelson. The temperance movement.-Story of P: Williamson. Joan of Arc, maid of Orleans. - Annals of the poor. Slavery in America. A visit to Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum.-Story of Baptiste Lulli, the boy musician.Select poems of kindness to animals. -William Wallace and Robert Bruce.-Cases of circumstantial evidence. Story of R. Falconer. - Byron's narrative of the loss of the Wager.-The goldmaker's village.-The last earl of Derwentwater.-The heroine of Siberia.-. Domestic flour culture.--Insurrections in Lyons.-The hermit of Warkworth, and other ballads.

3. Life of capt. JamesCook.-Anecdotes of the horse. William of Orange and the Netherlands. -Passion and principle; a tale from the french.-Life insurance, a familiar dialogue.-Excursion to the Oregon.-Mrs. Macelarty; scenes from the "Cottagers of Glenburnie."-The little captive king.- Children of the wilds. -Select poems on love for flowers. Life of Flora McDonald.-Cleanliness, bathing, ventilation.-Anecdotes of the deaf, dumb and blind. Sir Stamford Raffles and the Spice Islands. The sister of Rembrandt; a flemish story.-Anecdotes of the cat. - It's only a drop; an irish tale by mrs. S. C. Hall. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the republic of Hayti.-Curiosities of vegetation.-The ancient mariner, and other poems by Coleridge.

4. Life of Washington. Anecdotes of elephants. The story of Lavalette. Intelligent negroes. A visit to Madeira and Teneriffe. The life of a sailor boy.-Hindoo superstitions.-The story of Valentine Duval. The history of Will and Jean; a ballad. Life of W: Hutton. Spectral illusions. Prince Le Boo.-The Tintoretto.-History of Poland. The scottish adventurers. A visit to Shetland. Story of baron Trenck. The heir of Linne, and other ballads.

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6. Life of Christopher Columbus. Narrative of the russian campaign. Love is power. The story of Alexander Andrayne. Anecdotes of spiders.-The village mayor by Zschokke.-The story of Fritz Körner. - The bird catcher and his canary.— An account of the borders.-Select poetical pieces of W: Cowper. - Life of Peter the great. The story of De la Tude. - The moors of Spain. -The Montyon prizes. Curiosities of art, 1: Architecture. The persecutions in Scotland. -The three ways of living. The child of Elle, and other ballads.

7. Life of J: Howard, the philanthropist. - Curiosities of art, 2: Mechanics, Manufactures. - The Camisards. Anecdotes of shoemakers. — - Story of a french prisoner of war in England. -Rob Roy and the clan MacGregor.-There is no hurry; a tale of life assurance, by mrs. S. C. Hall. - Abby's year in Lowell; a tale of self-denial. Selections from american poets.-Gustavus Adolphus and the thirty years' war. -The stranger's visit to Edinburgh. Narrative of the mutiny of the Bounty. - The Ettrick shepherd. History of the plague in London. Schools of industry. Quintin Matsys, the blacksmith of Antwerp. -Selections from Shakspeare.

8. Life of W: Penn.-"Do you think I'd inform ?" by mrs. S. C. Hall. -The schoolmaster's dream, by mrs. S. C. Hall.-Treasures of the earth, 1: Minerals.-The man with the iron mask.-The norman conquest. Life and travels of Burckhardt.-The christmas holiday. Be just before you are generous. Selections from french and german poetry.-Life of James Watt. - Pictures of war. - Stories of aims and ends. Account of the gipsies. - Life of Alexander Selkirk. Account of the Highlands. African discovery.-Select poems on insects.

10. Life of count Rumford. The crusades. Women's trials in humble life.-Overland journey to India. Moral tales, from the french.-History of the Bastille.-Pearls and pearl fisheries.-Selections from Byron.- Eminent astronomers. - Hints to workmen. The guerilla; a story of the peninsular war. — Speculative manias.- Four months in Cape Colony. - A selection of english and scotch proverbs. Wonders of the telescope. -Jim Cronin; an irish tale, by mrs. Hoare. Songs of home and fatherland. Dickens, C: J: Huffam, ed. Household words; [reprinted]. Leipz. 1851-56. 36 v. in 18. S. 829.2:62

Timbs, J: Things not generally known, familiarly explained; a book for old and young. Lond. 1880. 12 v. S. 829.2:64 Contents. 1st series. Marvels of the heavens.-The earth, its surface and interior. -The sea.- The atmosphere.-Sight and sound. - Geographical discovery.-Life and death.-Animal kingdom. Trees and plants. Natural magic. - Domestic manners. - The calendar. Laws and customs.- Church and state.Parliament.-Nationalities.- Dignities.-Science, the

arts and manufactures.-Money.-Art-terms.-Language and books.

2d series. Old english manners, ceremonies and customs. Olden meals and house-wifery. Punch and Judy, old plays, pageants and music. - English laws, legal customs, privileges and dignities.-Money, weights and measures. — Olden herbs and fruit. Phenomena and life. Funeral customs and ceremonies. -Home proverbs, sayings and phrases. Weather-wisdom. -Pictures and the care of them. - Inventions and discoveries.

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[3d series]. Curiosities of science; v. 1. Introd. Physical phenomena. Sound and light. Astronomy. - Geology and paleontology. Meteorological phenomena. Physical geography of the sea. - Phenomena of heat. Magnetism and electricity. - The electric telegraph.-Miscellanea.

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[4th series]. Curiosities of science; v. 2. Alchemy and chemistry. Modern chemistry. Chemistry of metals. Poisons. Hippocrates. Physiological chemistry. - Chemistry of food. laboratory. Chemical manufactures. - General science.-A chapter on chloroform.-App. [5th series]. Curiosities of history. The sacred story. Greece and Rome, Babylon and Carthage, etc. Legendary and fabulous. - Voyages, travels and adventures. Modern history. - British history. The seven wonders of the world. Historic sayings and origins. — Ensigns, laws and government. Historic doubts. Miscellanea. [6th series]. Popular errors explained. Errors respecting the economy of man. Erroneous views of natural phenomena. Errors in the progress_of society. Errors in science, art and invention. -Erroneous and traditional history.-Errors in natural history. Fabulous animals. Superstition and credulity. Erroneous laws and customs. - Errors in domestic history.-Miscellanea.

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[9th series]. A garland for the year. Something for everybody. Pall Mall; the game and the street.-Whitebait. - Personal recollections of Brambletye. Domestic arts and customs. Glories of a garden. Early gardeners and writers on gardening. -Lord Bacon, J: Evelyn and sir W: Temple. A day at Hatfield.-London gardens.-Pope at Twickenham. -Celebrated gardens.-Curiosities of bees. - Prompt remedies and small services.

[10th series]. Knowledge for the time. Historico-political information. - Progress of civilization. Dignities and distinctions. Changes in laws. Measure and value. - Progress of science.-Life and health.-Religious thought.

[11th series.] Mysteries of life, death and futurity. Life and time. - Nature of the soul. - Spiriual life. Mental operations.-Belief and scepticism.

What is superstition? - Premature interment. Phenomena of death. Sin and punishment. -The crucifixion of our Lord. The end of the world foretold. Man after death. -The intermediate state. The christian resurrection. The future states. The recognition of each other by the blessed. -Adversaria. The pilgrim's progress.-App.- Literary history of madmen.

[12th series]. Predictions realized. Days and numbers.-Prophesying almanacs. - Omens.-Historical predictions. -Predictions of the french revolution. The Bonaparte family. Discoveries and inventions anticipated. Scriptural prophecies.-Miscellaneous.

Gifts of genius; a miscellany of prose and poetry by american authors. N. Y. [1859]. D. 829.1:17 Stauffer, F. H. The queer, the quaint, the quizzical; a cabinet for the curious. N. Y. 1883. O. 829.1:55

Harper's christmas, 1882. N. Y. 1882. F.

829.1: R50 Note. A remarkable specimen of modern woodengraving, with descriptive letter-press. American nights' entertainments; consisting of numerous stories, tales, adventures, biographies and papers in natural history, geography, astronomy, etc. by Julian Hawthorne and others. III. N. Y. n. d. O. x 829.1:64

Worthington's annual; a series of interesting stories, biographies, papers on natural history for the young. Ill. N. Y. [1883, 1884]. 2 v. O. x 829.1 : 62 Appleton's summer book, for the seaside, the forest, the camp, the train, the steamboat, the arbor and the watering-place. N. Y. 1880. O. 829.1+1

Contents. Bunce, O. B. Our summer pleasureplaces.-Wonders of the shore.-Trout-fishing.-Birdshooting on the coast of New Jersey.-Air-painting. Cooper, G: The hunter's return. A miniature marine aquarium.- How to make an herbarium.Phillips, B. About fishing.-Jones, C. H. A trip up the Hudson.-Englishman, An. The Thousand Isles. -Ingersoll, E. The birds of the brookside.- Rideing, W. H. Vacations in Colorado. -Stedman, E. C. The strawberry-pickers. How to preserve autumn leaves. Ferris, G: T. New Haven sketches. — F., E. T. Witch-hazel. - Mountain-climbing. - Bunce, O. B. Summer pictures. Montgommery, G: E. The skies.-Bowker, R. R. Camping out.-Rückert, F: Alone by the sea.-McKay, J. T. Blake's Ferry. -Street, A. B. The pine-root fence.-Rideing, W. H. Holidays off the beaten path.- Robinson, N. How I dined on the Boulevard des Italiens.-Craddock, C: E. Taking the blue ribbon at the county fair.-Jones, C. H. A western adventure.-Life on a California ranch.-Lady, A. Dogs I have known and loved. Fifth avenue on an august night.-New York at the seaside.

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Contents. V. 1. Tickell, T: Preface.-Poems on several occasions.-Rosamond; an opera.-Poems on several occasions. 2. Cato; a tragedy.-To sir Godfrey Kneller. Poemata. -The drummer, or The haunted house; a comedy.-The trial and conviction of count Tariff. The whig-examiner. 3. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals.-The present state of the war.-Of the christian religion. Albert, Francis C: A: Albert Emmanuel von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, prince consort of England. Prince Albert's golden precepts,

or The opinions and maxims of his royal highness the prince consort, selected from his addresses, etc., some now for the first time coll. and carefully arr., with an index. New ed. [Bayard ser.] Lond. 1873. T. 829.2:1 Allen, C: Grant. Colin Clout's calendar; the record of a summer, april-october. N. Y 1883. D. 829.2:56 Bacon, Francis, baron Verulam and viscount St. Albans. The Promus of formularies and elegancies, being private notes circa 1594, hitherto unpub.; ill. and elucidated by passages from Shakespeare by mrs. H: Pott, with a pref. by E. A. Abbott. Bost. 1883. 0. 829.2+44 Barham, R: Harris, (Thomas Ingoldsby). The Ingoldsby legends, or Mirth and marvels by T: Ingoldsby; with a memoir of the author. l. Phila. 1860. 2 v. D.

829.2:63 Beecher, H: Ward. Eyes and ears. Bost. 1862.

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829.1:2 - Star papers, or Experiences of art and nature. N. Y. 1858. D. 829.1:3 Blackwell, Robert. Original acrostics on all the states and presidents of the U. S., and various other subjects, religious, political and personal. Ill. Nashville, Tenn. 1861. 0. 829.1: R4 Blanchard, Laman. Sketches from life; ed. with a memoir of the author by sir E: Bulwer-Lytton. N. Y. 1846. 2 v. in 1. D. 829.2:2

Contents. V. 1. Memoir.-A quarrel with some old acquaintances. Suggestion for the celebration of Shakespeare's birthday. Anonymous. Quotations. -£. s. d. The last book.-Public dinners.-Content or not content. Some account of the inconsolable society. The blunders of the remarkably skilful.---Eccentricities of affectation.- Speech-making after dinner. 2. Keeping secrets. - Advice gratis. - Etcetera. April fool's day all the year round.--How to make a long day.-"Faults on both sides."-On considering oneself horsewhipped. - Confessions of a keyhole. Just going out. My christmas dinner.The flower-stealers.

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Contents. V. 1. Biographical notice. - Introd. Miscellaneous works: The influence of women on the progress of knowledge; Mill on Liberty; Letter respecting Pooley's case. Posthumous works: The reign of Elizabeth; Fragments. 2. Common place books. 3. Same, continued.-16th century.- Manners in the 17th century. - Notes for english history. Indexes to v. 2, 3.

Burritt, Elihu. Thoughts and things at home and abroad; with a memoir by Mary Howitt. Bost. 1856. D. 829.1:5

Child, Lydia Maria, born Francis. The freedmen's book. Bost. 1865. D. 829.1:6

- Looking toward sunset; from sources old and new, original and selected. Bost. 1865. D. 829.1:7 Clark, Lewis Gaylord. Knick-knacks from an editor's table. T. p. w. [N. Y. 1852]. D. 829.1:8 Colton, C: Caleb. Lacon, or Many things in few words, addressed to those who think. Rev. ed., with a life of the author. N. Y.

Colton, Walter. The sea and the sailor, Notes on France and Italy, and other literary remains; with a memoir by H: T. Cheever. N. Y. 1854. D. 829.1: 54 Contents. The sea and the sailor.-A tale of the sea; a poem.-Notes on France and Italy.-Rodieker's youth; a poem.-Aphorisms, maxims and laconics.An unfinished satire.-Selections from editorials.In the pulpit.-Memoir.

Cooper, Anthony Ashley, 3d earl of Shaftesbury. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. 4th ed. 1727. 3 v. D.

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Contents. V. 1. A letter concerning enthusiasm.— Sensus communis; an essay on the freedom of wit and humour.-Soliloquy, or Advice to an author. 2. An inquiry into virtue and merit.-The moralists; a philosophical rhapsody. 3. Miscellaneous reflections.-A notion of the tablature, or Judgment of Hercules.

Cornish, T. H. The volume of the affections, or Bridal offering. Lond. 1836. D.

829.2:53 Croly, Jennie, born Cunningham, (Jennie June). Jennie Juniana; talks on woman's topics. Bost. 1864. D. 829.1:10 Cross, Marian, born Evans, formerly mrs. G: H: Lewes, (George Eliot)." Wit and wisdom of George Eliot. Bost. 1878. T. 829.2:7 Character readings from George Eliot; selected and arr. by Nathan Sheppard. N. Y. 1883. Q. 829.2+45 Disraeli, B:, earl of Beaconsfield. Wit and wisdom of B: Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield; coll. from his writings and speeches [by H: G: Calcraft]. N. Y. 1881. D. 829.2:42 Dodge, Mary Abigail, (Gail Hamilton). A battle of the books, recorded by an unknown writer for the use of authors and publishers; to the first for doctrine, to the second for reproof, to both for correction and instruction in righteousness. Cambridge. 1870. D. 829.1:12 Country living and country thinking. Bost. 1863. S. 829.1:13

Contents. Moving. The bank. - My garden. Men and women. My birds.-Tommy.-Boston and home again.-Brown-bread cakes.-A complaint of friends. -Dog-days.- Summer gone. Winter.- My flowerbed.-Lights among the shadows of our civil war. 829.1:14 Gala-days. Bost. 1863. S.

Contents. Gala-days.-A call to my countrywomen. -A spasm of sense.-Camilla's concert.-Cheri.-Side glances at Harvard class-day. — Success in life. Happiest days.

Summer rest. Bost. 1866. D.

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Contents. Orchard talk.-A prose Henriade.-Larva lessons.-Fancy farming.-A council about a council. Gilfillan's Sabbath. -The kingdom coming. King James the first.-Well done. Twelve miles from a lemon. N. Y. 1874. D. 829.1:16

Contents. Twelve miles from a lemon. - Lemondrops.-Hemlock poison.-The wonders and wisdom of carpentry.-Science pure and practical.-American inventions.-The pleasures of poverty.-To Tudiz by railroad.-The higher laws of railroads.-Holidays. -Conference wrong side out.-Country character.Autumn voices. On social formula and social freedom. The fashions. - Sleep and sickness. Dinners.

Forbes, Archibald. Glimpses through the_cannon-smoke; a series of sketches. Bost. 1881. D. 829.2:8

Contents. Matrimony among the bomb-shells.-An evening party among the navvies.-The parade of the commissionaires. Christmas night in very common lodgings. How I "saved France". - The Inverness character fair. - Miss Priest's bridecake. The Cawnpore of today.-Christmas presents by post. -On the line of march.-George Martell's bundobust. Reverencing the golden feet.-Christmas day on a

Forbes, Archibald.-Continued. "growler".-The Lucknow of today.-Railway Lizz.— A hill story.

Soldiering and scribbling; a series of sketches. 829.2:9 Leipz. 1872. S. Contents. A penny a day.-At the christmas cattlemarket. Soldiers' wives. In a military prison.German war prayers.-Flogged. A sunday afternoon at Guy's.-Butcher Jack's story.-Bummarees. -A deserter's story.-Lions and lion taming.-Cat'smeat.-Army crimes and punishment.-The story of the Megara. A march on Brighton.-Furs.-Christmas in a cavalry regiment.-Christmas in the foreposts, 1870.- Workhouse and christmas depravity, 1871.-Christmas among the beggars. Souvenirs of some continents. N. Y. 1885. S. 829.2:66

Contents. Skobeleff. - How I became a war correspondent.-The emperor and his marshal.-Social Australia.-Macgahan, the american war correspondent.- Where was Villiers?- Wolseley, a character sketch. The american gentleman with the moist eye. - Interviewed by an emperor.-Some society aspects of America.-Doughton scrip.-A poet waif. -Christmastide in Khyber Pass.

Garfield, James Abram.

· Same. Lond. 1885. D. 829.2:66 Foster, J: John Foster; his life and thoughts by W. W. Everts. N. Y. 1883. O. 829.2:58 Garfield's words; suggestive passages from [his] public and private writings, comp. by W: Ralston Balch. Bost. 1881. T. 829.1:48 Gestrin, C: E: H. Vacation labors, by C. E. H. G. Montpelier, Vt. 1879. D. 829.1:65 Contents. Glimpses of the old world and the new: 1, The immigrant; 2, Old country education and free country education. — Kan't be kured. — A swedish country minister and his house 100 years ago. Greenwood, James, (The amateur casual). In strange company; the experiences of a roving correspondent. 2d ed., with much add. matter. Portr. Lond. 1883. D.

829.2:49 Hare, Julius C: and A: W: Guesses at truth by two brothers. From the 5th Lond. ed. Bost. 1861. D. 829.2:10 Hawes, W: Post, (J. Cypress, jr.). Sporting scenes and sundry sketches; the miscel laneous writings of J. Cypress, jr., ed. by Frank Forrester. N. Y. 1842. 2 v. D. 829.1:11

Helps, Sir Arthur. Brevia; short essays and aphorisms, by the author of "Friends in council", [with index]. Bost. 1871. D. 829.2:11

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Contents. V. 1. Address to the reader.-Introd.Worry.-War.-A love story.-Criticism.-Biography. -Proverbs. -On the arts of self-advancement. 2. Ellesmere's plan for a new essay.-On the miseries of human life.-Life not so miserable after all.-On pleasantness.-Conversation on pleasantness.-Lovers' quarrels. Rowing down the river Moselle.-On government. - Despotism. The farm-yard.Chiefly showing the need for tolerance. Social pressure. Bost. 1875. D. 829.2:14

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829.1:18 Contents. A tour on the prairies.- Abbotsford.— Newstead abbey.

- Spanish papers, and other miscellanies, hitherto unpub. or uncoll.; arr. and ed. by Pierre M. Irving. N. Y. 1866. 2 v. D. 829.1:19 Contents. V. 1. The legend of Don Roderick.Legend of the subjugation of Spain. - Legend of count Julian and his family. - Abderahman, the founder of the dynasty of the Ommiades in Spain.Chronicle of Fernan Gonzalez, count of Castile. Chronicle of Fernando the saint.-Spanish romance. 2. Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, gent.-Biographical sketches: Capt. James Lawrence; Lieut. Burrows; Commodore Perry; Capt. D: Porter; T: Campbell; Washington Allston; Conversations with Talma; Margaret Miller Davidson.-Reviews and miscellanies: Robert Treat Paine; Edwin C. Holland; Wheaton's History of the northmen; Conquest of Granada; Letter to the ed. of "The knickerbocker"; Sleepy Hollow; National nomenclature; Desultory thoughts on criticism; Communipaw; Conspiracy of the Cocked Hats; Letter from Granada; The Catskill mountains. - The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. (Stratford ed.) N. Y. n. d. D. 829.1: 20 Contents. The author's account of himself.-The voyage. Roscoe.-The wife. - Rip Van Winkle.English writers on America.-Rural life in England. -The broken heart. The art of book-making.-A royal poet. The country church.-The widow and her son.-A sunday in London -The Boar's Head tavern, Eastcheap. The mutability of literature. Rural funerals. -The inn kitchen. The spectre bridegroom.-Westminster abbey.-Christmas.-The stage coach.-Christmas eve.-Christmas day. The christmas dinner,-London antiques.-Little Britain. -Stratford-on-Avon. - Traits of indian character.Philip of Pokanoket.-John Bull.-The pride of the village.-The angler.-The legend of Sleepy Hollow. -L'envoy.-App.

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Jackson, Helen Maria, born Fiske, formerly mrs. Hunt, (H. H.) Bits of talk, in verse and prose, for young folks by H. H. Bost. 1879. 1. x 829.1: 49 Contents. The parable of St. Christopher.-A christmas-tree for cats. The legend of St. Nicholas.-My ant's cow. St. Martin's cloak. Runna Rig. palace of Gondoforus.-The ant's monday dinner.The nest.-The festival of San Eustachio in Rome.Colorado snow-birds.-The water-works of Heilbrun. -Morning-glory.-Children's preaching in the church of Ara Coeli in Rome.-"The penny ye meant to gie".-A parable.-My broken-winged bird.--Cheery A short catechism. The expression of people. rooms. By stage to Boston.-Good temper.-Lizzy of La Bourget.- Kicking against pricks.- My first voyage round the world.-"A good time".

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and memoirs. Bost. 1869. T. 829.2:17 Contents. Studies. The tragedy of Correggio.— German actresses.-Goethe's Tasso, Iphigenia, and Clavigo. Music and musicians.-On the female character.-Goethe and Ekermann.-Goethe's last love.Goethe's table-talk.-Goethe's ideas on the position of woman.-Lord Byron.-Schiller.-Historical skepticism. The supernatural.-Ghost stories.-Detached thoughts. Hoffmann.- Rückert.- Grillparzer's Sappho and Medea. - Sternberg's novels. Don Carlos. Tales. The false one.-Halloran the peddler.-The indian mother.- Much coin, much care. Memoirs illustrative of art. The house of Titian.-Washington Allston.-Adelaide Kemble. Same. Bost. 1875. T. Keddie, Henrietta, (Sarah Tytler). Papers for thoughtful girls; with sketches of some girls' lives. Ill. 6th ed. Lond. 1865. S. 829.2:43 Ker, J: Bellenden. An essay on the archæology of our popular phrazes and nursery rhymes. New ed. Lond. 1837. 2 v. S. 829:2 King, W: Political and literary anecdotes of his own times. Bost. 1819. D. 829.2:19 Landor, Walter Savage. Selections from [his] writings; ed. by G: Stillman Hillard. Bost. 1856. D. 829.2: 20 Lippincott, Sarah Jane, born Clarke, (Grace Greenwood). Records of five years. Bost. 1867. D. 829.1:21

Contents. In peace. The baby in the bath-tub.-The baby in the prison. Our little daughter's cab. Words spoken in prison. Pictures of town and country. In war. The northern uprising. A few plain words, addressed to certain english friends.Lights of the war cloud. -A taste of camp life.-Bon voyage.

Macaulay, T: Babington, baron Macaulay. Selections from [his] writings; ed. with occasional notes by G: O: Trevelyan. N. Y. 1877. O. 829.2:21

Contents. Historical scenes. The battle of Sedgemore, and the fate of Monmouth.-Landing of the Prince of Orange.-The siege of Londonderry.-Kil liecrankie.-The battle of the Boyne.-The battle of La Hogue. The battle of Landen.-The black hole of Calcutta, and the battle of Plassey.-The impeachment of Warren Hastings. Historical portraits. Charles II.- William ot Orange.- Judge Jeffreys. The junto.- Sir W: Temple.-Lord Chatham's eloquence.-S: Johnson.- Frederic the great.-Horace Walpole. Historical sketches. The church of Rome. The puritans.-Unpopularity of the puritans after the restoration.-The jesuits.-The revolution. -Death of queen Mary.-Fire at Whitehall, and visit of Peter the great to England.-Montague's unpopularity. The advantages of the alternations of party government.-Death of William III.-Lord Chatham as a war minister. Literary criticism. Milton's poetry. The Pilgrim's progress. The controversy about the epistles of Phalaris.-Addison's poem of the campaign. The Spectator. Horace Walpole's writings.- Lord Byron.- The historian.- Lord Macaulay's feelings with regard to great authors. Miscellaneous. Manners of the 17th century.-Traveling in the 17th century.-The country gentleman of the 17th century.-The towns of England in the reign of Charles II.-Civilization and its effect on the mass of the people.-The highlands of Scotland.- State of the currency in the 17th century.-Jeremy Collier and the english stage.-The court life of miss Burney.The duty of the state with regard to education. Poetry. The battle of Moncontour. The armada.Ivry. Epitaph on a jacobite.-Virginia. Mackay, C: The gouty philosopher, or The friends, acquaintances, opinions, whims and eccentricities of John Wagstaffe, esq.. of Wilbye Grange, J. P. and ex M. P. 2d ed. Lond. 1864. D. 829.2:22 Mackenzie, H: Miscellaneous works. 3d ed. N. Y. 1847. D. 829.2:23 Contents. Memoir, by sir W. Scott.-Man of feeling.-Papers from the Lounger.-Man of the world.

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