MONOGRAPHS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE.

No.  II.  THE HARTFORD CAPITOL.  R.M.  Upjohn, Architect.

No.  III.  AMES MEMORIAL BUILDINGS, NORTH EASTON.  H.H.  Richardson, Architect.

Gelatine Plates (from nature), 13 x 16.  Each in portfolio. $5.00.

The remarkable success of the first Monograph shows the demand existing for artistic work of this high grade; and an equal sale may be predicted for the portfolio that illustrates the beautiful marble Gothic building of the Connecticut State Capitol.  This possesses perhaps even a higher interest than the Harvard Law School, because it is a great public building, and not an appendage of an institution.

The American Architect says:  “The execution of the work is all that could be asked.  It would be hard to offer a more encouraging example of the kind of work to be expected in this series.”

JOHN BODEWIN’S TESTIMONY. By MARY HALLOCK FOOTE, Author of “The Led Horse Claim,” &c. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

“Mrs. Foote’s first novel raised her to a level on which she is only to be compared with our best women novelists.  To make this comparison briefly, Miss Woolson observes keenly, Mrs. Burnett writes charmingly, and Mrs. Foote feels intensely.”—­The Critic.

NEXT DOOR. By CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM, Author of “Dearly Bought,” “A Sane Lunatic,” &c. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

One of the brightest, prettiest, and most charming tales yet offered to the public.  The scene is in Boston, the time the present, the plot exciting, the characters lifelike, while the style is graceful and skilful.

POETS AND PROBLEMS. By GEORGE WILLIS COOKE, Author of “Emerson; His Life, Writings and Philosophy.” 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.

Mr. Cooke brings to his work the most inexhaustible and painstaking patience, the most thorough devotion to the labor he has undertaken, and the deepest mental sympathy with his subjects.  His present work embraces Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning.

THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES. 16mo.  Per vol., 50 cents.

There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of “Ye Olden Time,” and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks.  The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be history, the volumes will contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive.  The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—­“Curiosities of the Old Lottery,” “Days of the Spinning Wheel,” “Some Strange and Curious Punishments,” “Quaint and Curious Advertisements,” “Literary Curiosities,” “New-England Sunday,” etc.

THE IMPERIAL ISLAND—­ENGLAND’S CHRONICLE IN STONE. By JAMES F. HUNNEWELL. 1 vol. 8vo.  Richly illustrated. $3.50.