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illed with the comprehension of the highest earthly bliss, till only tears can relieve our hearts--such a world is not utterly cheerless. Come! Let us return to life, to our child, to our friends. What does my old friend Catullus say?" "Beloved, let us live and love!" END. WORTHINGTON COMPANY'S CATALOGUE of Standard Books that every one ought to have; they are all handsome and attractive, and will be a valuable addition to any one's library. * * * * * NEW EDITION, NEW PLATES. ALICE ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.--12mo. $1.25. Above are the most charming fairy tales of the 19th Century. Exquisitely amusing, deliciously illustrated. Nursery classics translated into most of the languages of Europe. AYTOUN.--Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. By Wm. E. Aytoun, late Prof. of Literature and Belles-Lettres in Univ. of Edinburgh, and Editor of _Blackwood's Magazine_. 16mo, extra cloth, $1.00. BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES.--_Festus_: A Poem. (New Aldine Edition.) 16mo, vellum cloth, $1.00; do., do., three-quarter calf, extra, $2.50; do., do., flexible, or tree-calf, $3.50. This great dramatic poem exhibits a soul gifted, tried, buffeted, beguiled, stricken, purified, redeemed, pardoned, and triumphant. It is interspersed with delightful songs. Has been praised by Bulwer, Thackeray and Tennyson as a remarkable poem of great beauty. The present edition is very handsome, the type is large and elegant, the paper is excellent, and the steel engravings are of exceeding grace. BON GAULTIER'S BOOK OF BALLADS. By W. E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin. A new edition, including "Firmilian." Cloth, $1.00. In all his poems Prof. Aytoun has put forth a sustained power and beauty of expression which have placed him in the foremost rank of the poets of his time. "His Lays" have all the historic truth and force of Macaulay, expressing noble thought by a delineation of generous and lofty natures stated with fluency, vigour and movement. His ballad themes are selected from striking incidents and from stirring scenes of Scottish history, and he has thrown over them the light of an imagination at once picturesque and powerful. BURTON (Dr. J. Hill).--The Book Hunter, with Memoir and Index. New Edition, With Portrait and Engraving of Interior of Library. Crown 8vo, Roxburgh styl
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