"--_Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin._

"A more excellent volume cannot be found. We have found within the
covers of this handsome volume, and upon its fair pages, many of
the most exquisite poems which our language contains. It must
become a standard volume, and can never grow old or
obsolete."--_Episcopal Recorder._

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THOS. HOOD. With engravings on steel. 4 vols.,
12mo., tinted paper. Poetical Works; Up the Rhine; Miscellanies and
Hood's Own; Whimsicalities, Whims, and Oddities. Cloth, extra, black
and gold, $6.00; red cloth, paper label, gilt top, uncut edges, $6.00;
half calf, gilt, marbled edges, $14.00; half Russia, gilt top, $18.00.

Hood's verse, whether serious or comic--whether serene like a
cloudless autumn evening or sparkling with puns like a frosty
January midnight with stars--was ever pregnant with materials for
the thought. Like every author distinguished for true comic humor,
there was a deep vein of melancholy pathos running through his
mirth, and even when his sun shone brightly its light seemed often
reflected as if only over the rim of a cloud.

Well may we say, in the words of Tennyson, "Would he could have
stayed with us." for never could it be more truly recorded of any
one--in the words of Hamlet characterizing Yorick--that "he was a
fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." D. M. MOIR.

THE ILIAD OF HOMER RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE. By EDWARD, EARL
OF DERBY. From the latest London edition, with all the author's last
revisions and corrections, and with a Biographical Sketch of Lord
Derby, by R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, D.C.L. With twelve steel engravings
from Flaxman's celebrated designs. 2 vols., 12mo. Cloth, extra, bev.
boards, gilt top, $3.50; half calf, gilt, marbled edges, $7.00; half
Turkey morocco, gilt top, $7.00.

The same. Popular edition. Two vols. in one. 12mo. Cloth, extra, $1.50.

"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the
present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best
representation of Homer's Iliad in the English
language."--_London Times._

"The merits of Lord Derby's translation may be summed up in one
word, it is eminently attractive; it is instinct with life; it may
be read with fervent interest; it is immeasurably nearer than Pope
to the text of the original.... Lord Derby has given a versi