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on._) Illustrated with over 70 Portraits. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.75. Altogether this is a book of which literary America may be proud.--_Saturday Review_, London. LITERARY LANDMARKS OF EDINBURGH. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.00. Mr. Hutton has hunted up tradition, verified the facts, as only a passionate pilgrim could, and we are grateful to him for the planting of these literary landmarks.--_N. Y. Times._ CURIOSITIES OF THE AMERICAN STAGE. With Copious and Characteristic Illustrations. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $2.50. The work presents a mass of valuable information in a most attractive and readable form. In it an admirable literary quality, seldom found in such histories, is conspicuous on every page.--_Christian Union_, N. Y. FROM THE BOOKS OF LAURENCE HUTTON. With Portrait. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00. Mr. Hutton's touch is graceful, his acquaintance with the subject thorough, and he never imposes with unnecessary erudition.--_N. Y. Times._ EDWIN BOOTH. Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. _For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, Canada, or Mexico, on receipt of the price._ BY CONSTANCE F. WOOLSON. HORACE CHASE. 16mo, Cloth, $1.25. JUPITER LIGHTS. 16mo, Cloth, $1.25. EAST ANGELS. 16mo, Cloth, $1.25. ANNE. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, $1.25. FOR THE MAJOR. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00. CASTLE NOWHERE. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00. RODMAN THE KEEPER. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00. One of the most remarkable qualities of Miss Woolson's work was its intense picturesqueness. Few writers have shown equal beauty in expressing the poetry of landscape.--_Springfield Republican._ Characterization is Miss Woolson's forte. Her men and women are original, breathing, and finely contrasted creations.--_Chicago Tribune._ Delightful touches justify those who see many points of analogy between Miss Woolson and George Eliot.--_N. Y. Times._ Miss Woolson's power of describing natural scenery and strange, out-of-the-way phases of American life is undoubted. One cannot well help being fascinated by her stories.--_Churchman_, N. Y. Miss Woolson is one of the few novelists of the day who know how to make conversation, how to individualize the speakers, how to exclude rabid realism without falling into literary formality.--_N. Y. Tribune._ PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. _Any of the ab
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