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._
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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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