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MUSTANG. MRS. W. J. HAYS.--PRINCE LAZYBONES, ETC. G. C. EGGLESTON.--STRANGE STORIES FROM HISTORY. GEORGE B. PERRY.--UNCLE PETER'S TRUST. SOPHIE SWETT.--CAPTAIN POLLY. W. L. ALDEN.--A NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE.--THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY BROWN.--THE CRUISE OF THE CANOE CLUB.--THE CRUISE OF THE "GHOST."--THE MORAL PIRATES. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. _Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, Canada, or Mexico, on receipt of the price._ By THOMAS W. KNOX. THE "BOY TRAVELLERS" SERIES. ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS-- IN THE FAR EAST. Five Volumes: In Japan and China--In Siam and Java--In Ceylon and India--In Egypt and Palestine--In Central Africa. IN SOUTH AMERICA. IN MEXICO. IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. ON THE CONGO. IN AUSTRALASIA. IN NORTHERN EUROPE. IN CENTRAL EUROPE. COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED. SQUARE 8VO, CLOTH, ORNAMENTAL, $3 00 PER VOLUME. VOLUMES SOLD SEPARATELY. HUNTING ADVENTURES ON LAND AND SEA. Two Volumes. Copiously Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $2 50 each. Each volume complete in itself. _The volumes sold separately_. THE YOUNG NIMRODS IN NORTH AMERICA. THE YOUNG NIMRODS AROUND THE WORLD. Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. _Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, Canada, or Mexico, on receipt of the price_. By MARY E. WILKINS. A NEW ENGLAND NUN, And Other Stories. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 25. Always there is a freedom from commonplace, and a power to hold the interest to the close, which is owing, not to a trivial ingenuity, but to the spell which her personages cast over the reader's mind as soon as they come within his ken.... The humor, which is a marked feature of Miss Wilkins's stories, is of a pungent sort.--_Atlantic Monthly_. What can we say that will express our sense of the beauty of "A New England Nun, and Other Stories"? So true in their insight into human nature, so brief and salient in construction, so deep in feeling, so choice in expression, these stories rank even with the works of Mrs. Stowe and Miss Jewett--_Critic_, N. Y. The unerring skill, the faultless delicacy, and the almost touching fidelity with which these little stories are told cannot be too highly commended.--_Epoch_, N
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