IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS.

I.

By WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.

A PRIL HOPES. A Novel. By William Dean Howells.
12mo, Cloth, $1 50.

Mr. Howells never wrote a more bewitching book. It is useless to deny the rarity and worth of the skill that can report so perfectly and with such exquisite humor the manifold emotions of the modern maiden and her lover.—Philadelphia Press.

M ODERN ITALIAN POETS. Essays and Versions. By William Dean Howells.
Author of “April Hopes,” &c. With Portraits. 12mo, Half Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $2 00.

A portfolio of delightsome studies.... No acute and penetrating critic surpasses Mr. Howells in true insight, in polished irony, in effective and yet graceful treatment of his theme, in that light and indescribable touch that fixes your eye on the true heart and soul of the theme.—Critic, N. Y.

II.

CONCLUSION OF KINGLAKE’S CRIMEAN WAR.

K INGLAKE’S CRIMEAN WAR. The Invasion of the Crimea:
its Origin, and an account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. By Alexander William Kinglake. With Maps and Plans. Five Volumes now ready. 12mo, Cloth, $2 00 per vol.

Vol. V. From the Morrow of Inkerman to the Fall of Canrobert; just published.—Vol. VI. From the Rise of Pelissier to the Death of Lord Raglan—completing the work—nearly ready.

The charm of Mr. Kinglake’s style, the wonderful beauty of his pictures, the subtle irony of his reflections, have made him so long a favorite and companion, that it is with unfeigned regret we read the word “farewell” with which these volumes close.—Pall Mall Gazette, London.

III.

T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

W HAT I REMEMBER. By T. Adolphus Trollope.
With Portrait. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.

The most delightful pot-pourri that we could desire of the time just anterior to our own.... Mr. Trollope preserves for us delightful, racy stories of his youth and the youth of his century, and gives us glimpses of loved or worshipped faces banished before our time. Hence the success of these written remembrances.—Academy, London.

IV.

BY THE AUTHOR OF “SELF-HELP.”

L IFE AND LABOR; or, Characteristics of Men of Industry,
Culture, and Genius. By Samuel Smiles, LL.D., Author of “Self-Help,” &c. 12mo, Cloth, $1 00.

Commends itself to the entire confidence of readers. Dr. Smiles writes nothing that is not fresh, strong, and magnetically bracing. He is one of the most helpful authors of the Victorian era.... This is just the book for young men.—N. Y. Journal of Commerce.

V.

THOMAS W. HIGGINSON’S NEW BOOK.

W OMEN AND MEN. By Thomas W. Higginson,
Author of “A Larger History of the United States,” &c. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.

These essays are replete with common-sense ideas, expressed in well-chosen language, and reflect on every page the humor, wit, wisdom of the author.—N. Y. Sun.

VI.

Plain, sensible, sturdy advice.—Chicago News.

B IG WAGES, AND HOW TO EARN THEM. By A Foreman.
16mo, Cloth, 75 cents.

The views of an intelligent observer upon some of the foremost social topics of the day. The style is simple, the logic cogent, and the tone moderate and sensible.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

VII.

The standard authority upon the Inquisition.—Philadelphia Ledger.

H ISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
By Henry Charles Lea. To be completed in Three Volumes. 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $3 00 per volume. Vols. I. and II. now ready. Vol. III. nearly ready.

Characterized by the same astounding reach of historical scholarship as made Mr. Lea’s “Sacerdotal Celibacy” the wonder of European scholars. But it seems even to surpass his former works in judicial repose and in the mastery of materials.... Of Mr. Lea’s predecessors no one is so like him as Gibbon.—Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia.

VIII.

THE NAVIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF EUROPE.

M ODERN SHIPS OF WAR. By Sir Edward J. Reed, M.P.,
late Chief Constructor of the British Navy, and Edward Simpson, Rear-Admiral U.S.N., late President of the U.S. Naval Advisory Board. With Supplementary Chapters and Notes by J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Lieutenant U.S.N. Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $2 50.

This is the most valuable contribution yet made to the popular literature of modern navies.... The whole country is indebted to the authors and to the publishers for a book on men-of-war that both in matter and make-up is without an equal.—N. Y. Herald.

IX.

Full, from beginning to end, with good stories.—Saturday Review, London.

M Y AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
By W. P. Frith, R.A. Portrait. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.

The whole round of English autobiography does not comprise a work more full of character, more rich in anecdote, or more fruitful in entertainment for the general reader. A delightful volume.—London Daily News.

X.

NEGRO TROOPS IN THE REBELLION.

H ISTORY OF THE NEGRO TROOPS IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 1861-1865.
By G. W. Williams, LL.D. Portrait. 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 75.

Mr. Williams has written an excellent book. He was one of the gallant men whose patriotic deeds he commemorates, and he has made a careful study of all the best accessible records of their achievements. His people may well be proud of the showing.—N. Y. Tribune.

XI.

$500 A YEAR FOR A FAMILY.

F AMILY LIVING ON $500 A YEAR. A Daily Reference
Book for Young and Inexperienced Housewives. By Juliet Corson. 16mo, Cloth, Extra, $1 25.

Miss Corson has rendered a valuable service by this book, in which she shows conclusively how for five hundred