Book Reviews

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New Orleans as I Found It

by H. Didimus, published by Harper & Brothers and Carey & Hart.

And a queer place it was. This is a lively and piquant...

OUR CYCLING TOUR in England

by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, is a pleasant account of a trip made by the author and his...

Persia Revisited

Is so recent as to include two chapters on the assassination of the Shah, Nasr-ed-Din, and on the present situation in Persia. The author, General...

PLEASURE CYCLING

By Henry Clyde. Boston : Little, Brown & Co. $1.00. Opening this little volume at page 148, we read half-way down the page :...

Punchiana

Messrs. Ferritt & Co. have for sale Messrs. Carey & Hart's last Punch book. It is entitled "Punchiana," and surpasses all its predecessors of the...

Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation and Mental Excitement on Health

Dr. Brigham, Superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N. Y., has sent forth, through the press of Messrs. Lea & Blanchard, a third edition...

SKETCHES AWHEEL IN MODERN IBERIA

By Fanny B. Workman and William H. Workman. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.00. We have had several recent volumes of travel in Spain,...

Society in America

The views we expressed of this admirable work in our hasty notice in the last, number of this paper, are confirmed by an attentive perusal...

THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE AND KITCHEN DIRECTORY

Young housekeepers who with to find a cook book which shall aid them in obtaining a practical knowledge of cookery, will find this volume just...

THE COLONIAL TAVERN

By Edward Field. Providence, R. I.: Preston & Rounds. "Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?" Not if you live in the nineteenth...

The Great Salt Lake Trail

. By Colonel Henry Inman and Colonel William F. Cody i" Buffalo Bill.") New York: The Macmillan Co. $3.50. Colonel Inman's previous work on The...

The Greater Northwest

THE GREATER NORTHWEST.* Of the three handsome volumes just issued by Mr. Francis P. Harper, en-titled New Light on the Early History of the Greater...

The Manhattener in New Orleans

By A. Oakey Hall. A volume of sketches written in New Orleans in the years 1846 and 1847. They were originally published in the New...

The Ship's Company

The Messrs. Harper and Brothers publish The Ship's Company, by J. D. Jerrold Kelley, U. S. N. It is an excellent account of the life...

The Story of a Feather

Messrs. Carey & Hart have published "The Story of a Feather," an amusing nouvellette from Punch, with embellishments.

The Two Roads

By James Knorr. This is a neat volume, embracing one hundred and sixty-three articles, original and selected, on the all important subject of temperance. Many...

THE VALLEY FARM

Edited by Charles J. Peterson, author of " Cruising in the Last War," &c. A work sound in morals and abounding in natural incident.

The Wheels of Chance

By H. G. Wells, 1896. It has been a matter of critical agreement for some years that Mr. Wells is one of the young men...

Twenty Years in the Philippines

Translated from the French of Paul P. de la Gironiere, Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor. Revised and extended by the author...

WALDEN

By Henry D. Thoreau, author of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." This ought to be a very profound and excellent book,...

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