US IN SUNSHINE AND IN SHADOW.# By M. M. BALLOU, author of
"Edge-tools of Speech." 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

Mr. Ballou has for many years been known as one of the most
industrious, accurate, and entertaining of American scholars. The
present volume (his latest work) is a peculiarly interesting one,
full of anecdotes and _memorabilia_, which set forth the intimate
inner lives of the world's heroes and notables. They have been
gathered from the most recondite sources, and skilfully massed in
attractive array, forming a great collection, that is at once
valuable and interesting.

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A WONDERFUL WORK OF ART.

Mrs. Browning's Love Sonnets.

#SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE.# By ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.
Illustrated by LUDVIG SANDOE IPSEN. 1 vol. Oblong folio (pages 13x16
inches), beautifully bound, gilt top. $15.00; full tree-calf,
$30.00.

This magnificent work has been a labor of love for years with the
artist, who is the prince of decorators, and has lavished upon it all
the resources of his imagination and skill. The result is a
magnificent monument to the poems that are enshrined therein, and a
series of designs, the equals of which as a mere treasury of
decoration and invention, apart from their significance in
illustrating the immortal verse of Mrs. Browning, have never been
issued in America. Each sonnet is prefaced by a richly ornamental
half-title, on a full page, and is surrounded by a handsome border,
emblematic in its design and composition. Mr. Ipsen has for many
years been recognized as the foremost leader of art-decoration for
books, both inside and outside, and has set more fashions for
imitation than any other artist. This book is his crowning work, and
will afford an inexhaustible treasury of decoration for students of
art, and a life-study for all lovers of beauty and symmetry. Mrs.
Browning's sonnets are among the noblest productions of ancient or
modern literature; and their literary excellence and incomparable
beauty of diction insure for them certain immortality.

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#RECOLLECTIONS OF EMINENT MEN, and Other Papers.# By EDWIN PERCY
WHIPPLE. 1 vol. Crown 8vo. With new steel portrait of the author, and
preceded by the Memorial Address delivered by the Rev. Dr. C. A.
BARTOL. $1.50; in half-calf, $3.00.

A new book by Mr. Whipple is a literary event; and so many years have
elapsed since his last publication, that the