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J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s Recent Publications.

CHARMING WORKS OF ROMANCE.

• HULDA.
  • A Novel. After the German of FANNY LEWALD. By Mrs. A. L. WISTER, Translator of "Only a Girl," etc. Fifth Edition. 12mo. Fine cloth. $1.75.
  • "One of the most healthful, fresh, delightful, and artistically-constructed novels that has appeared this season."—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
  • "A book thoroughly German in style and sentiment, and yet one which will command the universal sympathy of all classes of readers."—Boston Globe.
• THE SECOND WIFE.
  • A Novel. After the German of E. MARLITT, author of "The Old Mam'selle's Secret," etc. By Mrs. A. L. WISTER. Eighth Edition. 12mo. Fine cloth. $1.75.
  • "A book charmingly written and delightfully translated; absorbing and fascinating from beginning to end."
  • "The 'Second Wife' is at once an artistic literary labor and a charmingly interesting novel."—Baltimore Saturday Night.

NARRATIVE AND ADVENTURE.

• ROME AS IT IS.
  • Being Reminiscences of a Visit to the "City of the Cæsars." By Mrs. H. R. SCOTT, author of "Day Dawn in Africa," etc. With Illustrations. 12mo. Extra cloth. $1.50.
  • "Her style is vivid, natural, and appreciative; and her book, which is quite fully illustrated, will make a very agreeable traveling companion for persons who intend to visit Rome, and will be read with interest also by those who have no hope of doing so."—Boston Journal.
  • "This is a minute description of the Eternal City. It is exhaustive and spirited. Instead of the dry details of the guide-book order, we are treated to a vivid delineation of Rome, its relics, grand structures, and people."—Chicago Evening Journal.
• THE MAMBI-LAND;
  • Or, Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba. By JAMES J. O'KELLY. With Frontispiece. 12mo. Extra cloth. $1.75.
  • "This volume furnishes more exact and practical information about the people of Cuba at the present day than any book extant."—Boston Literary World.
  • "The narrative of his experience in Cuba is full of interest, a record which, for freshness of description and accuracy of detail, must long remain without a rival."—New York Tribune.
  • "The book is timely and entertaining, and will be read with the absorbing interest of a thrilling work of fiction, at the same time that the reader has the satisfaction of knowing that the persons who engage his attention or arouse his sympathy are real, and the events narrated are true."—Boston Journal.

BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

• MEMOIRS OF J. Q. ADAMS.
  • Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, comprising portions of his Diary from 1795 to 1848. Edited by Hon. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. 8vo. With Portrait. Vols. I. and II. now ready. Extra cloth. Each $5.00.
  • "Contains more matter of historical interest than the memoir of any other public man extant."—Baltimore American.
  • "For the student of American history it is a really valuable contribution. It gives us, moreover, a near and clear view of the very able, upright, and resolute man, and of a person whose political influence, if not wide, was strongly felt over a great period of his country's existence."—N. Y. Evening Post.
• PRESCOTT'S PERU.
  • History of the Conquest of Peru. With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas. By W. H. PRESCOTT. Entirely New Edition, with the Author's Latest Corrections and Additions. Edited by J. FOSTER KIRK. Forming the third work of the New Edition of Prescott's Works. Complete in two volumes. 12mo. Extra cloth, $2.25; sheep, $2.75; half calf, gilt, $4.50 per volume.
  • "Perfect in all that pertains to the making of a book."—New York Christian Union.

SCIENCE AND LITERATURE.

• THE UNIVERSE AND THE COMING TRANSITS.
  • Presenting Researches Into, and New Views Respecting, the Constitution of the Heavens; together with an Investigation of the Conditions of the Coming Transits of Venus, recently confirmed by a unanimous Vote of the Chief Astronomers of Great Britain. By RICHARD A. PROCTOR, B. A. (Cambridge), Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. Illustrated by 23 Charts (4 colored), including two specimens from the author's Chart of 324,000 Stars. 8vo. Fine cloth. $6.00.
  • "The work is profusely illustrated with elaborate diagrams, and is certainly the ablest and most comprehensive astronomical treatise that has appeared for many years."—Phila. Evening Telegraph.
• THE CONCORDANCE TO SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS.
  • An Index to Every Word Therein Contained. By Mrs. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS. 8vo. With the Poems appended. Extra cloth. $4.00.
  • "It will be as valuable to readers of Shakespeare as is Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke's Concordance to the Dramas. At the end of the volume the entire poems are also printed, which will add greatly to the value of the work. The patience, care, and industry necessary to the preparation of such a book are worthy of the highest praise; and the volume shows that Mrs. Furness is as devoted a Shakespearean as is her husband, whose variorum edition of the plays has won the admiration of scholars and critics wherever the volumes issued have been received."—Phila. Evening Bulletin.

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"—HE THREW HIMSELF DOWN UNDER A TREE AND LAY MOTIONLESS, HIS FACE BURIED IN HIS HANDS, TILL THE TIME SHOULD PASS."—Page 42.