to pile the wood and various domestic mysteries into which Corona felt no desire to penetrate.  There were a parlor, a dining-room, a guest-room, and two rooms left for ‘the family.’  There were two closets, a coal-bin, and a loft.  The house stood on what, for want of a scientific term, Corona called piers....  Corona’s house had no plaster, no papering, no carpets.  Her parlor, which opened directly upon the water, was painted gray; the walls were of the paler color in a gull’s wing; the ceiling had the tint of dulled pearls; the floor was rock-gray (a border of black ran around this floor); the beams and rafters, left visible by the absence of plastering, were touched with what is known to artists as neutral tint,” etc.  A very pleasant little cottage in itself, the description may be of practical utility to many who would like some pied-a-terre by mountain or shore, and who are not quite certain what a moderate outlay can do.

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Books Received.

The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.  Household
Edition.  With illustrations.  Boston
and New York:  Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Due South; or, Cuba Past and Present.  By
Maturin M. Ballou.  Boston and New York: 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

City Ballads.  By Will Carleton.  Illustrated. 
New York:  Harper & Brothers.

A Social Experiment.  By A.E.P.  Searing. 
New York and London:  G.P.  Putnam’s
Sons.

Lawn-Tennis.  By Lieutenant S.C.F.  Peale,
B.S.C.  Edited by Richard D. Sears.  New
York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons.

The America’s Cup.  By Captain Roland F.
Coffin.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s
Sons.

Our Sea-Coast Defences.  By Eugene Griffin,
New York and London:  G.P.  Putnam’s
Sons.

Cholera.  By Alfred Stille, M.D., LL.D.  Philadelphia: 
Lea Brothers & Co.