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_North and South Carolina_, _and Georgia_. With numerous engravings. 18mo. 38 cents. _Lambert Lilly's History of the Western States_. With numerous engravings. 18mo. 38 cents. _Lambert Lilly's Story of the American Revolution._ With numerous engravings. 18mo. 38 cents. _Little Stories for Little Folks_. Translated from the German. With twelve fine steel engravings. 16mo. 60 cents. _Mary Howitt's Birds and Flowers, and other_ _Country Things_. With engravings. 12mo. 50 cents. _Mother's Lessons, for Little Girls and Boys_. By a Lady of Boston. With eight beautiful steel engravings. 16mo. 50 cents. _Olympic Games. A Gift for the Holidays_. By the Author of "Poetry for Home and School," &c. 16mo. 50 cents. _Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights_. With eight colored engravings, 16mo. 50 cents; uncolored engravings, 40 cents. _Lights and Shadows of Domestic Life, and other Stories_. By the authors of "Rose and her Lamb." TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS HAVE PUBLISHED _Greenwood Leaves_. A Collection of Stories and Letters, by Grace Greenwood. Second edition. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.25; gilt $1.75. We suppose most of our readers are familiar with the name of Grace Greenwood. For some half dozen of years she has been one of the most acceptable contributors to our American monthlies, and she possesses such liveliness and vivacity that it does one good to read her productions. There is an ease and _grace_ about her, too, that makes us feel acquainted with her, although we have never seen her. The volume before us is filled with tales, sketches, letters, and poems. We predict that every lady's library will contain this volume.--BOSTON ATLAS. The name of Grace Greenwood has now become a household word in the popular literature of our country and our day. Of the intellectual woman we are not called to say much, as her writings speak for themselves, and they have spoken widely. They are eminently characteristic; they are strictly national; they are likewise decisively individual. All true individuality is honestly social; and also, in Miss Clarke's writings, nothing is sectional, and nothing sectarian. There is much in them that is subjective, much that is drawn from personal experience, but nothing that is merely vain or selfish. A genuine human being, she is at the same time a genuine American girl. And the spirit of her count
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