Curtis's Lotus-Eating.
Lotus-Eating, A Summer Book. By GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, Author of “Nile Notes
of a Howadji,” “Trumps,” &c, &c, Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
“This delightful volume is a record of summer rambles,
touching gracefully on many of the most interesting
spots in American scenery, and giving a series
of lively pictures of the celebrated places of fashionable
resort. Humor, pathos, and sentiment are blended
in its pages; its reflections are always suggestive;
its narratives never pall upon the taste; its brilliant
word-painting is relieved by an under-current of genuine
felling; and its fresh and glowing descritpions
give a new charm to familiar objects.”
Prime's Under the Trees.
Under the Trees. By SAMUEL IRENÆUS PRIME, D.D. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $2 00.
It is alive with all gracious humanities, overflowing
with the broadest sympathies, attentive to the mystic
whisperings of Nature, and finding a secret evangel in
every blossom of the spring, in every autumnal leaf,
and in the song of earliest birds. Many of its idyllic
descriptions have a touch of the sweetness and pathos
of Cowper.* * *The volume also contains numerous
pleasant reminiscences of European travel, of which
few Americans have had a wider experience than the
author, and certainly none have accomplished the
wearisome round of sight-seeing with more buoyant
spirits or more intelligent observation. His impressions
are always fresh, and impart a perpetual interest
to the perusal of his pages.—N.Y. Tribune.
Prime's I go a-Fishing.
I go a-Fishing. By WILLIAM C. PRIME. Crown 8vo, cloth, $2 50.
An admirable piece of literary mosaic. It abounds
in fresh descriptions of nature as breezy and fragrant
as the spicy woodlands in which they had their birth.
The author has brought to its composition a rare familiarity
with the daintiest products of literature and
art, a passion for curious and out-of-the-way knowledge,
extensive and observeant travel in regions remote
from the beaten track, and a heartfelt love of
Nature in her hidden ways and sylvan retreats which
transmutes all rural sports into the delights of poetry.
—N.Y. Tribune.
It is a volume that will outlive the summer, and many
summers, and be as fresh and pleasant and suggestive
by the fire-side as by the brook-side.—Boston Journal.
Carleton's Farm Ballads.
Farm Ballads. By WILL CARLETON. Handsomely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Ornamental
Cloth, $2 00; Gilt Edges, $2 50.
Will Carleton's ballads deal with simple country
folk, in simple and homely style: but of their kind
they are genuine transcripts of nature, admirable genre
pictures from life. “Betsey and I are Out,” “Over
the Hills to the Poor-house,” “Out of the old House
Nancy,” and “gone with a handsomer Man,” are perhaps
the most striking of the series, both as regards
the selection and the treatment of the themes; but
all of them exhibit an originality of conception and
power of execution which entitle the author to claim
rank as a master in this field of poetic literature.—
Evening Post, N.Y.
Scott's Fishing in American Waters.
Fishing in American Waters. By GENIO C. SCOTT. A New Edition, containing Parts Six
and Seven, on Southern and Micellaneous Fishes. With over 200 Illustrations. Crown
8vo, Cloth, $3 50. (Nearly Ready.)
Contains a vast amount of information concerning
the sea and fresh-water fishes of our American waters,
the various methods of capturing them, the tackle to
be employed, etc. This book, like the author of it, is
eminently practical, and every angler ought to have
it.—Spirit of the Times.
Gail Hamilton's Twelve Miles from a Lemon.
Twelve Miles from a Lemon: Social and Domestic Sketches. By GAIL HAMILTON, Author
of “Woman's Worth and Worthlessness,” “Little Folk Life,” &c. 12mo, cloth, $1 50.
