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A Thousand Miles Up The Nile. By Amelia B. Edwards.
Portrait. 12mo, illustrated, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
The Mill on the Floss. By George Eliot. Portrait. 12mo,
cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
This is a charming story of middle-class English life, for which George Eliot
is justly celebrated. . . . “The Mill on the Floss” commends itself strongly
to the reader by its fine analyses of motives, its vivid force in description and
its quality as a work of literary art.
The Adventures of Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens.
Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
It is in the English parochial work-house that we first meet Oliver, and his
sufferings while under the charge of that benign creature, Mr. Bumble, are
alone sufficient to secure for him our warmest sympathy. . . . There is
passion and feeling in every page of the book, and it can be read; not alone
once, but again and again, with renewed delight.
The Holy Roman Empire. By James Bryce, D. C. L. Portrait.
12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
“The Holy Roman Empire ” is a work of great learning, and is universally
conceded to show a high degree of historical power, though written at an
early age it immediately established the reputation of the distinguished author
as one of the most profound thinkers of the century, and has steadily grown
into the highest favor with scholars.
Daniel Deronda. By George Eliot. Portrait, 12mo, cloth,
gilt top, $1.00.
“ Daniel Deronda ” is a love story, but at the same time a treasure-house of
Information regarding the manners, customs, and traditions of the Hebrew
race. It belongs to the enduring literature of the age, durable, not for the
fashionableness of its pattern, but for the texture of its stuff.
Corinne; or, Italy. By Madame de Stael. Portrait. 12mo,
cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
“ Corinne,” the success of which was instant, and won for the author a really
European reputation, is a love story which emphasizes strength and nobility
of character and purity of life. The scene of the tale is laid principally in Italy
and interspersed throughout the narrative are vivid glimpses of Italian scenery,
life, manners, and its historical and literary remains.
The Divine Comedy; or, Vision of Hell, Purgatory and Para-
dise. By Dante Alighieri. Translated by the Rev. Henry
Francis Cary, M. A. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
The Divina Comedia is one of the grandest monuments of human genius,
with the epics of Homer and Milton it forms a supreme trinity of poems, which
have summed up the spirit of great eras of civilization and formed the educa-
tion of succeeding centuries.
Consuelo. By George Sand. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top,
$1.00.
In the character of Consuelo Madame Sand has pictured for us a woman as
chaste, as noble and as lovable as any in all fiction. . . . “ Consuelo ” is an
ideal romance of remarkable power and fascination and it will long live a
monument to its author’s genius.

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