short, find his prejudices shocked at every turn of the argument, and all his prepossessions whistled down the wind,—­still, there is so much in this extraordinary volume to stimulate reflection, and excite to inquiry, and provoke to earnest investigation, perhaps (to this or that reader) on a track hitherto untrodden, and across the virgin soil of untilled fields, fresh woods and pastures new—­that we may fairly defy the most hostile spirit, the most mistrustful and least sympathetic, to read it through without being glad of having done so, or, having begun it, or even glanced at almost any one of its 854 pages, to pass it away unread.—­New Monthly (London) Magazine.

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Legends and Lyrics.  By Anne Adelaide Proctor, (Daughter of the Poet, Barry Cornwall.) One very neat volume, 12mo.  Second edition. 75 cents.

This is the charming volume of fresh and tender poems, by the daughter of one of England’s most honored and popular poets, which has lately been received with so hearty a welcome in England and America.  Choice portions of it, copied by the press with lively praises, have found their way to the firesides.

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The Household Book of Poetry.  Collected and Edited by Charles A. Dana. 1 vol. 8vo. 793 pages.  Third edition.  In half morocco.  Gilt top. $3.50.

As the New-York correspondent of The Boston Transcript enthusiastically writes, ’The elegiac composition, the exquisite sonnet, the genuine pastoral, the war-song and rural hymn, whose cadences are as remembered music, and the couplets whose chime rings out from the depths of the heart; whatever the old English dramatists, the ode writers of the reign of Anne and Charles, the purest disciples of heroic verse, the Lakists, the Byronic school—­Wordsworth and Dryden, Mrs. Hemans and Scott, Shakespeare and Hartley Coleridge have made precious to soul and sense, are herein brought together; and more than this—­the many isolated single notes, whose lingering harmony embalms their author’s name, with the numerous fugitive “brilliants,” heretofore of unknown parentage, cut from newspapers for the last half century—­the deep, soulfull utterances of heroes and mourners, lovers and exiles, devotees of nature and worshippers of art—­are here elegantly garnered and chronicled.’

“It is just such a volume as a man may give to a woman, albeit that woman is his mother, his sister, or his wife, and is richly worth the place it claims on a lower shelf within arm’s length, in the most select library.”—­Chicago Journal.

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The Handy-Book on Property Law, in a series of Letters.  By Lord St. Leonards, (Sir Edward Sugden.) 1 vol., 16mo., Cloth, 75 cents.

“This excellent little work gives the plainest inspections in all matters connected with selling, buying, mortgaging, leasing, settling and devising estates; and informs us of our relations to our properties, our wives, our children, and our liabilities as trustees, executors, &c., &c.”—­Tribune.

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