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A HOMERIC DICTIONARY, from the German of Dr. G. Autenrieth, translated, with additions and corrections, by Robert P. Keep, Ph.D. (Harper.) Students of Homer will be thankful to Professor Keep for placing Dr. Autenrieth's Dictionary within their reach. He says the idea of translating it was suggested through the test of actual use, having read first the Odyssey, and then the Iliad with it in his hand. He further adds that, Autenrieth's aim has been not only to convey, in the compactest form consistent with clearness, the results of Homeric study and criticism up to the present time, but also to communicate such collateral information as may serve to render the study of Homer interesting and attractive. Passages of doubtful or difficult interpretation are translated, and the derivation of words receive from the author, who has made the science of comparative philology a special study, particular attention." A novel feature of the work is the introduction into the text of nearly one hundred and fifty small wood-cuts, mainly representations of veritable antiques.

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INDEX TO THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. umes I. XXXVIII., 1857-1876. (H. O. Houghton & Co.) This excellent Index gives in compact form the titles and authors of all articles published in the Atlantic Monthly, from the appearance of its first number in 1857 to the completion of the thirty-eighth volume with the number of December, 1876. The writers of editorial articles and reviews

are also disclosed for the first time, while the contributions of some seventeen volumes, hitherto unsigned are now first seen over the authors' names. The Index is divided into two parts-namely, Index of Articles, including "General Articles" and Editorial Departments," and Index of Authors. 8vo, cloth, $2.50; paper, $2.

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1813, by Leon Hyneman. (R. Worthington.) The title of this work sufficiently indicates its character. Besides a history of the "Ancient York and London Grand Lodges," it includes an analysis of Anderson's Constitutions of 1723 and 1738, authorized by the Grand Lodge of England. 12mo, cloth, $1.

LECTURES AND SERMONS, by the Rev. W. Morley Punshon, LL.D. (R. Worthington.) Daniel in Babylon," "Macaulay," "John Bunyan," "Wesley and his Times," Florence and the Florentines," "The Huguenots," Kindness to the Poor," "The Salvation of Israel," "The Lord's Supper," and "The Transfiguration of Christ," are the titles of the lectures and sermons comprised within this volume. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

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NOT A DAY WITHOUT A LINE, by Mrs. G. H. Taylor. (R. S. Davis & Co.) A collection of original and selected lines in poetry and prose for every-day reading and contemplation. 12mo, cloth.

Wood. (T. B. Peterson & Brothers.) Besides RUPERT HALL, a Love-Story, by Mrs. Henry "Rupert Hall" this pamphlet contains two other short stories, The Broken Heart" and "The Self-Convicted," by the same author. 8vo, paper, 25 cents.

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number of society verses by an (F. B. Patterson.) A unknown author. Though but trifles and as the titlefantasy," they are very bright and clever, and page sets forth, "begot of nothing but vain well worth reading. Very tastefully gotten up. Sq. 12mo, cloth, red edges, $1.

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less understood but equally simple principles of the credit system, foreign exchange, banking, balance of trade, specie basis, and finally to resumption, reducing the whole to a logical system which, carefully followed, shows the real simplicity of the subject. Mr. R. R. Bowker introduces the book and author by calling attention to the apathy of the educated Americans to political matters, and pointing out that the hope and progress of the country must of necessity lie with their awakening to a greater interest in the government, and to a keener sensibility to its honest administration, civil-service reform in every sense. 16mo, cloth, $1.25.

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE, by Henri Van Laun. (Putnam's Sons.) This is one of the important books of the season, and one for all students to read, who desire to trace the history of French literature from its first feeble beginnings to its supremacy in the days of the Renaissance. The work is divided into three books. Book I. is devoted to the origin of the French nation, and treats of the Celts and Iberians and the remains of Celtic and Iberian

poetry, and the influence of Greece and Rome and Christianity upon the first intellectual development of the French nation. Book II. is entitled Feudal Society," and treats of the origin of the literature of the troubadours and its decline; the monastic chroniclers, the union of the church and the drama, the miracle plays, etc. Book III. is devoted to the literature of the Renaissance, the cause of the Renaissance being first investigated, and what a renaissance really is, being stated; a review follows of the works of the great satirists and moralists, and a closing chapter is given on the Reformation, and Calvin and his friends. The work is very handsomely and substantially gotten up. 8vo, cloth, $2.50.

HAROLD A DRAMA, by Alfred Tennyson. (Osgood.) This new poem of Tennyson's is the author's edition from advance sheets, and is published simultaneously here and in England. It is a historical drama, conceived in the same spirit as his "Queen Mary," and relates to the period of the Norman conquest in England. It opens with the death of Edward the Confessor, whose last hours are filled with a dread of coming evil by a comet that he sees through the palace windows, and which presages war and trouble to his superstitious mind. The drama closes with the battle of Hastings and the sacrifice of Harold's life and crown, the Saxon line giving place to the Norman. Tennyson reproduces the life and spirit of this memorable epoch with rare fidelity, and recreates with his vivifying touch the numerous historical personages of the time. A tender love story runs through the work, softening the details of war and battles and political intrigue. 16mo, cloth, $1.

JOSHUA HAGGARD'S DAUGHTER, by Miss M. E. Braddon. (Harper.) Miss Braddon goes back fifty years for the time of her story, and selects as her scene a little English village, in which the principal personage of her story, a Methodist minister, who is also a proprietor of a grocery-store, lives and acts out the tragedy of his life. Though his daughter, from the title, would seem to be the chief actor in this novel, Joshua Haggard himself supplies the most material for the story's action. His simple

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SHADOWS ON THE SNOW, by B. L. Farjeon. (Harper.) A Christmas story, very much in Dickens' style, of Christmas pastimes, and love and crime, and events which seem almost tragedies, but which turn out well and bring about general happiness and forgiveness. 8vo, paper, 35 cents.

FROM DREAMS TO WAKING, by E. Lynn Linton. (Harper.) Mrs. E. Lynn Linton shows none of the power in this little story displayed in her last novel of The Atonement of Leam Dundas." This is an every-day story of flirtation and almost broken hearts, winding up with reconciliations and marriages. 8vo, paper, 25 cents.

AZALEA, by Cecil Clayton. (Harper.) The young heroine of this story is an Italian by birth, with a Hebrew grandfather. She comes to England on the death of her parents and resides with her uncle, a man of birth and position. There her education begins and her character is formed. She occupies the central and beauty being very vividly brought before position in the story throughout, her nobility

the reader. She has a cousin, whom she loves and who loves her, who goes out to India to seek his fortune; this brings in some very

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MOTHER GOOSE'S NURSERY RHYMES. (McLoughlin Bros.) We have had "Mother Goose's Rhymes" in so many shapes that it would seem almost impossible to improve on former editions, and yet the above is one of the most attractive issues of those ever-popular verses we have yet seen. The text throughout is full of the most charming old and new pictures, the illustrations altogether numbering about three hundred and fifty. Not only the familiar nursery rhymes are embraced in this volume, but also other stories in verse and amusing jingles, such as very little children like. The volume is a substantial one of 320 pages, well printed, and attractively bound in cloth, richly stamped. Sq. 12mo, $1.50.

CENTENNIAL HISTORICAL DISCOURSES. (Presbyterian Board of Pub.) Four discourses delivered in Philadelphia, in June, 1876, by appointment of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, relating chiefly to the history of the church from the period of its first founding in the United States. Also containing the Moderator's sermon before the General Assembly of 1876. 12mo, cloth, $1.

K. K. K. SKETCHES, by James Melville Beard. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.) These sketches give a history, so far as it could be ascertained, of the Ku-Klux-Klan movement in the South, of the causes which led to it, and its results, socially and politically considered. Mr. Beard, the author, is a well-known Southern lawyer and journalist, and has had in both these capacities unusual opportunities for obtaining reliable information. A strong and taking vein of humor runs through the sketches. 12mo, cloth.

A HOMERIC DICTIONARY, from the German of Dr. G. Autenrieth, translated, with additions and corrections, by Robert P. Keep, Ph.D. (Harper.) Students of Homer will be thankful to Professor Keep for placing Dr. Autenrieth's Dictionary within their reach. He says the idea of translating it was suggested through the test of actual use, having read first the Odyssey, and then the Iliad with it in his hand. He further adds that, "Autenrieth's aim has been not only to convey, in the compactest form consistent with clearness, the results of Homeric study and criticism up to the present time, but also to communicate such collateral information as may serve to render the study of Homer interesting and attractive. Passages of doubtful or difficult interpretation are translated, and the derivation of words receive from the author, who has made the science of comparative philology a special study, particular attention." A novel feature of the work is the introduction into the text of nearly one hundred and fifty small wood-cuts, mainly representations of veritable antiques.

12mo, cloth, $1.50.

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INDEX TO THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. umes I. XXXVIII., 1857-1876. (H. O. Houghton & Co.) This excellent Index gives in compact form the titles and authors of all articles published in the Atlantic Monthly, from the appearance of its first number in 1857 to the completion of the thirty-eighth volume with the number of December, 1876. The writers of editorial articles and reviews are also disclosed for the first time, while the contributions of some seventeen volumes, hitherto unsigned are now first seen over the authors' names. The Index is divided into two parts-namely, Index of Articles, including General Articles" and "Editorial Departments," and Index of Authors. 8vo, cloth, $2.50; paper, $2.

FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND FROM 1567 TO