ing is already over, and
we are introduced immediately to the results.
It is an artistic touch also that the boy
injured is not hurt because he is a fellow of
delicate nerves, but because of his very
strength, and the power with which he resisted
until overcome by numbers, and subjected to
treatment which left him insane. His insanity
takes the form of harmless delusion, and the
absurdity of his ways and talk enables the
author to lighten the sombreness without
weakening the moral, in a way that ought to win
all boys to his side."--_The Critic._

=THE TOBY TRAFFORD SERIES. 3 volumes.=

=The Fortunes of Toby Trafford.= By J. T. TROWBRIDGE. Illustrated.
$1.25.

"If to make children's stories as true to
nature as the stories which the masters of
fiction write for children of a larger growth
be an uncommon achievement, and one that is
worthy of wide recognition, that recognition
should be given to Mr. J. T. TROWBRIDGE for his
many achievements in this difficult walk of
literary art. Mr. TROWBRIDGE has a good
perception of character, which he draws with
skill; he has abundance of invention, which he
never abuses; and he has, what so many American
writers have not, an easy, graceful style,
which can be humorous, or pathetic, or
poetic."--_R. H. Stoddard in New York Mail._

=Father Brighthopes:= AN OLD CLERGYMAN'S VACATION. By J. T. TROWBRIDGE.
Illustrated. $1.25.

This book was published in the early fifties by
Phillips, Sampson & Co., of which firm Mr. Lee
(of Lee and Shepard) was then a member. It was
very favorably received, and was followed by
other stories,--a long series of them,--still
lengthening, and which, it is hoped, may be
prolonged indefinitely. Recently a new edition
has appeared, and for a preface the author has
related with touching simplicity the account of
his first experience in authorship.

It is well known that Mr. TROWBRIDGE is
primarily a poet. Some beautiful poems of his
were printed in the early numbers of the
_Atlantic Monthly_ (in company with poems by
LONGFELLOW, EMERSON, LOWELL, and HOLMES), and
were well received. "At Sea" is a gem that has