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MR. WILLIS'S
COMPLETE PROSE WORKS.
In 12 volumes 12mo., cloth, price per set, $15. Sold separately, at $1 25
each. In sets in 12 volumes, neat half calf, $24.
I. —Rural Letters, and other Records of Thoughts at
Leisure.Embracing: Letters from under a Bridge, Open-Air Musings in
the City, Invalid Rambles in Germany, Letters from Watering
Places, &c., &c.II. —Life Here and There;
Or, Sketches of Society and Adventures at Far-Apart Times
and Places.III. —Famous Persons and Places.
IV. —Fun Jottings;
Or, Laughs I have Taken a Pen To.
V. —People I Have Met;
Or, Pictures of Society and People of Mark. Drawn under a
Thin Veil of Fiction.VI. —Pencillings by the Way.
VII. —A Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean, on board of
an American Frigate.VIII. —The Rag Bag.
A Collection of Ephemera.
IX. —Hurrygraphs;
Or, Sketches from Fresh Impressions of Scenery, Celebrities
and Society.
MR. WILLIS'S LATEST WRITINGS.
X.—Out Doors at Idlewild;
Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson.
“A simple weaving into language of the every-day circumstances
of an invalid retirement in the Highlands of the Hudson, written in
letters to the Home Journal, and it was expected that they would
owe their interest to being plainly truthful, and to picturing exactly
the life that formed itself around the new-comer to one particular
portion of our country—its climate, its conveniences, its accessibilities,
and its moral and social atmosphere. As it is a neighborhood
to which the sick are often sent by the physicians of New York, for
the nearest mountain air, which is completely separated from the
seaboard, the author has thought it might add a utility to his book
to give his invalid experience with the rest. In this feature of it he
has aimed to serve his fellow-sufferers.”—Extract from Preface.XI.—A Health Trip to the Tropics.
“Mr. Willis has exceeded himself in his descriptions of his trip to
the delightful tropical regions—a most delicious repose steals over
you as you read. You cannot imagine that he is an invalid, and if
one yourself he soon makes you think you are one no longer. His
pictures of the Bermuda Islands are perfect, and there are mingled
through them the most valuable facts, lessons, and suggestions.”—
Albany Spectator.XII.—Paul Fane;
Or, Parts of a Life Else Untold.
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