“The new installment of a work which has already become a classic will be read with increased interest by Americans because of the importance of the period it covers and the stirring events it describes.  In advance of a careful review we present to-day some extracts from the advance sheets sent us by Messrs. Porter & Coates, which will give our readers a foretaste of chapters which bring back to memory so many half-forgotten and not a few hitherto unvalued details of a time which Americans of this generation at least cannot read of without a fresh thrill of excitement.”

HALF-HOURS WITH THE BEST AUTHORS.  With short Biographical and Critical Notes.  By CHARLES KNIGHT.

New Household Edition.  With six portraits on steel. 3 vols., thick 12mo.  Cloth, extra, black and gold, per set, $4.50; half imt.  Russia, marbled edges, $6.00; half calf, gilt, marbled edges, $12.00.

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The excellent idea of the editor of these choice volumes has been most admirably carried out, as will be seen by the list of authors upon all subjects.  Selecting some choice passages of the best standard authors, each of sufficient length to occupy half an hour in its perusal, there is here food for thought for every day in the year:  so that if the purchaser will devote but one-half hour each day to its appropriate selection he will read through these six volumes in one year, and in such a leisurely manner that the noblest thoughts of many of the greatest minds will be firmly in his mind forever.  For every Sunday there is a suitable selection from some of the most eminent writers in sacred literature.  We venture to say if the editor’s idea is carried out the reader will possess more and better knowledge of the English classics at the end of the year than he would by five years of desultory reading.

     They can be commenced at any day in the year.  The variety of
     reading is so great that no one will ever tire of these volumes.  It
     is a library in itself.

THE POETRY OF OTHER LANDS.  A Collection of Translations into English
Verse of the Poetry of Other Languages, Ancient and Modern.  Compiled by
N. CLEMMONS HUNT.  Containing translations from the Greek, Latin,
Persian, Arabian, Japanese, Turkish, Servian, Russian, Bohemian, Polish,
Dutch, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese languages. 12mo. 
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