unties or are devoted to special localities, or are merely
guide-books. The present work is believed to be the first attempt
to give in attractive form a description of the stately homes,
renowned castles, ivy-clad ruins of abbeys, churches, and ancient
fortresses, delicious scenery, rock-bound coasts, and celebrated
places of England and Wales. It is written by an author fully
competent from travel and reading, and in position to properly
describe his very interesting subject; and the artist's pencil has
been called into requisition to graphically illustrate its
well-written pages. There are 487 illustrations, prepared in the
highest style of the engraver's art, while the book itself is one
of the most attractive ever presented to the American public.

Its method of construction is systematic, following the most
convenient routes taken by tourists, and the letter-press includes
enough of the history and legend of each of the places described to
make the story highly interesting. Its pages fairly overflow with
picture and description, telling of everything attractive that is
presented by England and Wales. Executed in the highest style of
the printer's and engraver's art, "England, Picturesque and
Descriptive," is one of the best American books of the year.

HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. By the COMTE DE PARIS. With Maps
faithfully Engraved from the Originals, and Printed in Three Colors.
8vo. Cloth, per volume, $3.50; red cloth, extra, Roxburgh style, uncut
edges, $3.50; sheep, library style, $4.50; half Turkey morocco, $6.00.
Vols. I, II, and III now ready.

The third volume embraces, without abridgment, the fifth and sixth
volumes of the French edition, and covers one of the most
interesting as well as the most anxious periods of the war,
describing the operations of the Army of the Potomac in the East,
and the Army of the Cumberland and Tennessee in the West.

It contains full accounts of the battle of Chancellorsville, the
attack of the monitors on Fort Sumter, the sieges and fall of
Vicksburg and Port Hudson; the battles of Port Gibson and
Champion's Hill, and the fullest and most authentic account of the
battle of Gettysburg ever written.

"The head of the Orleans family has put pen to paper with excellent
result.... Our present impression is that it