Cloth, extra, black and gold, per set, $4.00; red cloth, paper label, gilt top, uncut edges, per set, $5.00; half calf, gilt, per set, $12.00.  The four volumes forming the complete works of Charlotte Bronte (Currer Bell).

The wondrous power of Currer Bell’s stories consists in their fiery insight into the human heart, their merciless dissection of passion, and their stern analysis of character and motive.  The style of these productions possesses incredible force, sometimes almost grim in its bare severity, then relapsing into passages of melting pathos—­always direct, natural, and effective in its unpretending strength.  They exhibit the identity which always belongs to works of genius by the same author, though without the slightest approach to monotony.  The characters portrayed by Currer Bell all have a strongly marked individuality.  Once brought before the imagination, they haunt the memory like a strange dream.  The sinewy, muscular strength of her writings guarantees their permanent duration, and thus far they have lost nothing of their intensity of interest since the period of their composition.

CAPTAIN JACK THE SCOUT; or, The Indian Wars about Old Fort Duquesne.  An Historical Novel, with copious notes.  By CHARLES MCKNIGHT.  Illustrated with eight engravings. 12mo.  Cloth, extra, black and gold, $1.50.

A work of such rare merit and thrilling interest as to have been republished both in England and Germany.  This genuine American historical work has been received with extraordinary popular favor, and has “won golden opinions from all sorts of people” for its freshness, its forest life, and its fidelity to truth.  In many instances it even corrects History and uses the drapery of fiction simply to enliven and illustrate the fact.

It is a universal favorite with both sexes, and with all ages and conditions, and is not only proving a marked and notable success in this country, but has been eagerly taken up abroad and republished in London, England, and issued in two volumes in the far-famed “Tauchnitz Edition” of Leipsic, Germany.

ORANGE BLOSSOMS, FRESH AND FADED. By T.S.  ARTHUR.  Illustrated. 12mo.  Cloth, extra, black and gold, $1.50.

“Orange Blossoms” contains a number of short stories of society.  Like all of Mr. Arthur’s works, it has a special moral purpose, and is especially addressed to the young who have just entered the marital experience, whom it pleasantly warns against those social and moral pitfalls into which they may almost innocently plunge.

THE BAR ROOMS AT BRANTLEY; or, The Great Hotel Speculation.  By T.S.  ARTHUR.  Illustrated. 12mo.  Cloth, extra, black and gold, $1.50.

     “One of the best temperance stories recently issued.”—­N.Y. 
     Commercial Advertiser.