Popular Edition. 5 vols.  Cloth, plain, $5.00.

ENGLAND, PICTURESQUE AND DESCRIPTIVE.  By JOEL COOK, author of “A Holiday Tour in Europe,” etc.  With 487 finely engraved illustrations, descriptive of the most famous and attractive places, as well as of the historic scenes and rural life of England and Wales.  With Mr. Cook’s admirable descriptions of the places and the country, and the splendid illustrations, this is the most valuable and attractive book of the season, and the sale will doubtless be very large. 4to.  Cloth, extra, gilt side and edges, $7.50; half calf, gilt, marbled edges, $10.00; half morocco, full gilt edges, $10.00; full Turkey morocco, gilt edges, $15.00; tree calf, gilt edges, $18.00.

This work, which is prepared in elegant style, and profusely illustrated, is a comprehensive description of England and Wales, arranged in convenient form for the tourist, and at the same time providing an illustrated guide-book to a country which Americans always view with interest.  There are few satisfactory works about this land which is so generously gifted by Nature and so full of memorials of the past.  Such books as there are, either cover a few counties or are devoted to special localities, or are merely guide-books.  The present work is believed to be the first attempt to give in attractive form a description of the stately homes, renowned castles, ivy-clad ruins of abbeys, churches, and ancient fortresses, delicious scenery, rock-bound coasts, and celebrated places of England and Wales.  It is written by an author fully competent from travel and reading, and in position to properly describe his very interesting subject; and the artist’s pencil has been called into requisition to graphically illustrate its well-written pages.  There are 487 illustrations, prepared in the highest style of the engraver’s art, while the book itself is one of the most attractive ever presented to the American public.

Its method of construction is systematic, following the most convenient routes taken by tourists, and the letter-press includes enough of the history and legend of each of the places described to make the story highly interesting.  Its pages fairly overflow with picture and description, telling of everything attractive that is presented by England and Wales.  Executed in the highest style of the printer’s and engraver’s art, “England, Picturesque and Descriptive,” is one of the best American books of the year.

HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.  By the COMTE DE PARIS.  With Maps faithfully Engraved from the Originals, and Printed in Three Colors. 8vo.  Cloth, per volume, $3.50; red cloth, extra, Roxburgh style, uncut edges, $3.50; sheep, library style, $4.50; half Turkey morocco, $6.00.  Vols.  I, II, and III now ready.