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THE BOOK-LOVER. A Guide to the Best Reading. By James Baldwin, Ph.D. Sixth edition, 16mo, cloth, gilt top, 201 pages. Price, $1.00. In half calf or half morocco, $2.75. Of this book, on the best in English Literature, which has already been declared of the highest value by the testimony of the best critics in this country, an edition of one thousand copies has just been ordered for London, the home of English Literature,--a compliment of which its scholarly western author may justly be proud. We know of no work of the kind which gives so much useful information in so small a space.--_Evening Telegram, New York._ Sound in theory and in a practical point of view. The courses of reading laid down are made of good books, and in general, of the best.--_Independent, New York._ Mr. Baldwin has written in this monograph a delightful eulogium of books and their manifold influence, and has gained therein two classes of readers,--the scholarly class, to which he belongs, and the receptive class, which he has benefited.--_Evening Mail and Express, New York._ If a man needs that the love of books be cultivated within him, such a gem of a book as Dr. Baldwin's ought to do the work. Perfect and inviting in all that a book ought outwardly to be, its contents are such as to instruct the mind at the same time that they answer the taste, and the reader who goes carefully through its two hundred pages ought not only to love books in general better than he ever did before, but to love them more wisely, more intelligently, more discriminatingly, and with more profit to his own soul.--_Literary World, Boston._ _Sold by all booksellers, or mailed, on receipt of price, by_ A.C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers, Cor. Wabash Ave. and Madison St., Chicago. WE TWO ALONE IN EUROPE. By Mary L. Ninde. Illustrated from Original Designs. 12mo, 348 pages, price, $1.50. The foreign travels which gave rise to this volume were of a novel and perhaps unprecedented kind. Two young American girls started for "the grand tour" with the father of one of them, and he being compelled to return home from London they were courageous enough to continue their journeyings alone. They spent two years in travel,--going as far north as the North Cape and south to the Nile, and inc
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