AMERICA, OUR NATIONAL HYMN, AND OTHER PATRIOTIC POEMS. By Rev. S.F.  Smith, D.D.  For fifty years this peerless hymn has held its place in the hearts of the American people as their most cherished patriotic song.  This superb volume, in which it is enshrined with all the beauty and elegance possible in the art of the bookmaker, fitly commemorates its semi-centennial.  In addition to the hymn “America,” the volume contains twelve new patriotic poems by its author, none of which have hitherto been given to the public save on the great occasions when they have been read to delighted multitudes.  Among the titles of these poems are “The Pilgrims,” “The Flag In Nature,” “The Flag an Emblem,” “Washington,” “Centennial Hymn,” “Lexington 1776-1876,” “Decoration Day,” “The Sleep of the Brave,” “Our Young Patriots,” “Abraham Lincoln,” “The Boys,” “My Native Land.”  Extra cloth, full gilt, $3.00.  Morocco binding, $6.00.

WILD FLOWERS AND WHERE THEY GROW.  The pages of this book will be attractive to all lovers of nature.  The author, Amanda B. Harris, possesses the secret of interpreting nature in a thoroughly natural way.  Mothers will take delight in reading the volume to or with their little ones, in whose lives they will see repeated the unalloyed happiness which came to them in the midst of their own childhood ramblings in fields and meadows.  The illustrations are admirable in design and execution. 8vo, extra cloth, beveled edges, $3.00.  Turkey Morocco, Antique, gilt edges, $6.00.

OUT OF DARKNESS.  Few among American women of to-day bid fair to attain such enviable distinction as that promised to Miss Mary A. Lathbury.  She has not only won high reputation as a writer of hymns and songs, full of poetical fervor and exalted spiritual sentiment, but has also gained high success as an artist in connection with book illustrations.  This elegant volume gives evidence of the author’s unusual gifts.  Its eight poems, interpretations of the inner life, are illustrated by the author with eight masterly full-page drawings, and twenty exquisite vignettes, printed on heavy plate paper.  Quarto, elegant floral covers, $3.00.  Cloth, gilt edges, $3.00.

A ROMANCE IN SONG.  HEINE’S LYRICAL INTERLUDE.  With the appreciation shown by American readers for all that is best in literature, it must be confessed that due attention has yet to be given to the remarkable works of the poet Heine.  Mr. Franklin Johnson has conferred a boon upon the public, and will do much to remedy this seeming neglect, by the pleasing and altogether excellent, scholarly translation of this choice literary gem.  A chapter of autobiography, the most romantic in the life of the poet, in itself full of interest, it is made additionally attractive by chaste and appropriate illustrations furnished by artists of highest note.  Uniform with “Ideal Poems,” 8vo, $3.00.