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The Soldier's Guide. A Complete Manual and Drill-Book for the Use of Volunteers and Militia. Revised, corrected, and adapted to the Discipline of the Soldier of the Present Day. By an Officer of the U.S. Army. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 16mo. paper, pp. 63. 25 cts.

The Artist's Married Life; being that of Albert Dürer. Translated from the German of Leopold Scheffer, by Mrs. J.R. Stoddart. Revised Edition, with Memoir. Boston and Cambridge. J. Munroe & Co. 16mo. pp. xxviii., 204. $1.00.

Young Benjamin Franklin; or, The Right Road through Life. A Boy's Book on a Boy's Own Subject. By Henry Mayhew, Author of "The Peasant-Boy Philosopher," etc. With Illustrations by John Gilbert. New York. Harper & Brothers. 16mo. pp. 561. $1.00.

The Stokesley Secret; or, How the Pig paid the Rent. By the Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe," etc. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 18mo. pp. 245. 50 cts.

Chinese and Indo-European Roots and Analogues. First Number. By Pliny Earle Chase, A.M. Philadelphia. Butler & Co. 8vo. paper, pp. 48. 50 cts.

The Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert. Christmas Stories. In Two Volumes. New York. J.G. Gregory. 16mo. pp. 300, 300. $1.50.

Hickory Hall; or, The Outcast. A Romance of the Blue Ridge. By Mrs. Emma D.E.N. Southworth. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 8vo. paper, pp. 136. 50 cts.

Alleghania: A Geographical and Statistical Memoir, exhibiting the Strength of the Union and the Weakness of Slavery in the Mountain Districts of the South. By James W. Taylor. St. Paul. J. Davenport. 8vo. paper, pp. 24. 10 cts.

A Treatise on Ordnance and Naval Gunnery. Compiled and arranged as a Text-Book for the U.S. Naval Academy. By Lieutenant Edward Simpson, U.S. Navy. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. New York. D. Van Nostrand. 8vo. pp. 493. $4.00.

The Constitutional History of England, since the Accession of George the Third. 1760-1860. By Thomas Erskine May, C.B. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Boston. Crosby & Nichols. 12mo. pp. 484. $1.25.

Dinah. New York. C. Scribner. 12mo. pp. 466. $1.25.

Tom Tiddler's Ground. Christmas and New-Year's Story for 1862. From "All the Year Round." By Charles Dickens. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 8vo. paper. pp. 64. 25 cts.

A Pedestrian Tour of Thirty-Seven Days in the Alps of Switzerland and Savoy. By Charles Henry Jones. Reading, Pa. J.L. Getz. 18mo. paper. pp. 118. 25 cts.

Practical Christianity. A Treatise specially designed for Young Men. By John S.C. Abbott. New York. Harper & Brothers. 16mo. pp. 302. 50 cts.

The Sutherlands. By the Author of "Rutledge." New York. G.W. Carleton. 12mo. pp. 474. $1.25.

Memoir of the Duchess of Orléans. By the Marquess de H. Together with Biographical Souvenirs and Original Letters. Collected by Professor G.H. de Schubert. Translated from, the French. Second Edition. New York. C. Scribner. 12mo. pp. 391. $1.00.

The Uprising of a Great People. The United States in 1861. To which is added, A Word of Peace on the Difference between England and the United States. From the French of Count Agénor de Gasparin. By Mary L. Booth. New American Edition, from the Author's Revised Edition. New York. C. Scribner. 12mo. pp. xiv., 298. 75 cts.

Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession. A Novel. By Benjamin Wood. New York. G.W. Carleton. 12mo. pp. 300. $1.00.

The National School for the Soldier. An Elementary Work on Military Tactics, in Question and Answer. Conforming to the Army-Regulations adopted and approved by the War Department of the United States. By Captain W.W. Van Ness. New York. G.W. Carleton. 24mo. pp. 75. 50 cts.

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus under the Constitution. By Horace Binney. Philadelphia. T.B. Pugh. 16mo. pp. 52. 25 cts.

The Army-Officer's Pocket-Companion; principally designed for Staff-Officers in the Field. Partly translated from the French of M. de Rouvre, Lieutenant-Colonel of the French Staff-Corps; with Additions from Standard American, English, and French Authorities. By William P. Craighill, First Lieutenant U.S. Corps of Engineers, Assistant Professor of Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. New York. D. Van Nostrand. 18mo. pp. 314. $1.50.

Saint Gildas; or, The Three Paths. By Julia Kavanagh, Author of "Nathalie," etc. Concord, N.H. E.C. Eastman. 16mo. pp. 219. 63 cts.

Infantry Tactics, for the Instruction, Exercise, and Manoeuvres of the Soldier, a Company, Line of Skirmishers, Battalion, Brigade, or Corps d'Armée. By Brigadier-General Silas Casey, U.S. Army. In Three Volumes. New York. D. Van Nostrand. 18mo. pp. 279, 272, 183. $2.50.

A Text-Book of the History of Doctrines. By Dr. K.R. Hagenbach, Professor of Theology in the University of Basle. The Edinburgh Translation of C.W. Buch, revised, with Large Additions from the Fourth German Edition, and other Sources. By Henry B. Smith, D.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary of the City of New York. Volume II. New York. Sheldon & Co. 8vo. pp. 558. $2.50.

The True Story of the Barons of the South; or, The Rationale of the American Conflict. By E.W. Reynolds, Author of "The Records of Bubbleton Parish," etc. Boston. Walker, Wise, & Co. 16mo. pp. xii., 240. 75 cts.

Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon. By Charles Lever. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 8vo. paper, pp. 324. 50 cts.

The Flower of the Prairie. By Gustave Aimard. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 8vo. paper, pp. 165. 50 cts.

Mistakes of Educated Men. By John S. Hart, LL.D. Philadelphia. J.C. Garrigues. 16mo. paper, pp. 77. 25 cts.

A Strange Story. A Novel. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Author of "The Caxtons." With Illustrations. New York. Harper & Brothers. 8vo. paper, pp. 195. 25 cts.

Teach Us to Pray; being Experimental, Doctrinal, and Practical Observations on the Lord's Prayer. By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D., F.R.S.E., Author of "The Great Tribulation," etc. New York. G.W. Carleton. 12mo. pp. 303. $1.00.

The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States. By John Codman Kurd, Counsellor-at-Law. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. Boston. Little, Brown, & Co. New York. D. Van Nostrand. 8vo. pp. xliv., 800. $3.50.

The Young Step-Mother; or, A Chronicle of Mistakes. By the Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe," "Heartsease," etc. In Two Volumes. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 16mo. pp. 294, 307. $1.50.

A Primary Geography, on the Basis of the Object Method of Instruction. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings and Pictorial Maps. By Fordyce A. Allen, Principal of the Chester-County Normal School, West Chester, Pa. Philadelphia. Lippincott & Co. 4to. pp. 56. 50 cts.

Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of Pennsylvania, for the Year ending June 3, 1861. Harrisburg. Printed for the State. 8vo. pp. 254.

The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Collected and Edited by James Spedding, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge; Robert Leslie Ellis, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Douglas Denon Heath, Barrister-at-Law, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Vol. III. Boston. Brown & Taggard. 12mo. pp. 502. $1.50.

The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry. By Isaac Taylor, Author of "Saturday Evening," etc., etc. With a Biographical Introduction by Wm. Adams, D.D., Pastor of the Madison-Square Presbyterian Church, N.Y. New York. G.W. Carleton. 8vo. pp. 386.

Ethical and Physiological Inquiries, chiefly Relative to Subjects of Popular Interest. By A.H. Dana. New York. C. Scribner. 12mo. pp. 308. $1.00.

The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. Edited by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana. Volume XIV. Reed-Spire. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. pp. 850, viii. $3.00.

Tracts for Priests and People. By Various Writers. Boston. Walker, Wise, & Co. 12mo. pp. 372. $1.00.

Method of Teachers' Institutes, and the Theory of Education. By Samuel P. Bates. A.M., Deputy-Superintendent of the Common Schools of Pennsylvania, and Author of "Institute Lectures." New York. Barnes & Burr. 8vo. pp. 75. 50 cts.