Ticknor and Company's New Books

Published During the Autumn and Winter of 1886—1887.

The Prices named below are subject to Revision on Publication.

FORCED ACQUAINTANCES. By Edith Robinson. 12mo. $1.50.

A famous American author writes that this is "a very amusing and well-told story, original and infinitely amusing. The differences in character and temperament, the thousand and one little situations that are derived from these differences, are very cleverly delineated. The elaboration of the narrative, which winds along through the household duties and the neighbors' peculiarities, is something after the style of Miss Austen."

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GIORDANO BRUNO. A new volume of the English and Foreign Philosophical Library. 408 pages. 8vo. With portrait. $4.50.

FAMILIAR SHORT SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN. By S. Arthur Bent, A. M. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo. Vellum cloth. $2.00.

Indispensable to students, writers, and libraries. It gives a collection of short, sententious sayings of all times, such as are constantly referred to, but are not to be found in other books of reference. A short sketch of each speaker, and the circumstances attending each remark, is also given. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and corrected throughout, with new indexes and tables of authors, and the addition of over fifty pages, bringing the work down to the latest time, and quoting eighty authors not before included, and containing over three hundred new sayings from Agassiz, Choate, President Cleveland, Emerson, Evarts, Carlyle, Gladstone, Wellington, Parnell, etc.

THE COURSE OF EMPIRE. Being Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World. Arranged by Centuries, with variorum illustrations, by C. G. Wheeler. With 25 maps. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.

A very valuable historical work, which should be kept in every library for reference and for the vigor of its delineations of the great historic epochs.

FAMILIAR ALLUSIONS. A Handbook of Miscellaneous Information, including the names of Celebrated Statues, Paintings, Palaces, Country Seats, Ruins, Churches, Ships, Streets, Clubs, Natural Curiosities, and the like. By William A. Wheeler and Charles G. Wheeler. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.

EVENTS AND EPOCHS IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY. By James Freeman Clarke, D.D. Illustrated. 12mo. $2.00.

The Catacombs, as Cemeteries and as Martyrs' Retreats; The Buddhist Monks of Central Asia; The Christian Monks; Augustine, Anselm, Bernard; Jeanne d'Arc's Visions, Victories, and Death; Savonarola and the Renaissance; Luther; Loyola; The Mystics—Neo-Platonists, German Pietists, Fénelon, Swedenborg, Emerson; George Fox; The Huguenots, Waldenses, Albigenses; John Wesley; The Moravians and Methodists.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS. By the author of "The Story of Margaret Kent." 12mo. $1.50.

An eminent Boston critic writes: "This should be the novel of the season. The lively fancy of the author touches lightly and wittily upon several of the popular interests of the day, such as Shakespeare societies, the Browning craze, mind cure, etc., and from titlepage to finis there is not a dull paragraph. So brilliant and entertaining a story as 'Sons and Daughters' is not often met with, and it should have, as it deserves, the widest reading."

The remarkable popularity and great sales which made "Margaret Kent" one of the foremost books of the last year (or of the last decade) seem likely to be repeated in this new novel by the same author. It sparkles with the real life and deep feeling, and has the same admirable social setting, that have made "Margaret Kent" a name to conjure by wherever the best of literature is known.

HAPPY DODD. By Rose Terry Cooke, author of "The Deacon's Week," etc. 12mo. $1.50.

"Happy Dodd" is a beautiful and tender novel of New-England life especially adapted for home reading, and breathing out a strengthening spirit of Christian love and heroism.

SCOTT'S THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by W. J. Rolfe, A. M. 1 vol. 12mo. Beautifully illustrated. 75 cents.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE SNOB. By Thomas Sergeant Perry. 16mo. $1.00.

A keen and brilliant social study, by one of the most spirited writers of Boston.

GOETHE'S FAUST: A Commentary. By Denton J. Snider. 2 vols. 12mo. $3.50.

A learned and valuable treatise on the greatest of German poems, giving its history, critical standards, and outline, and careful analyses and explanations of all the scenes and situations, as seen from a philosophical point of view.

SCOTT'S THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. An entirely new edition of this famous and popular poem, from new plates, with nearly one hundred new illustrations by leading American artists. Elegantly and appropriately bound, with full gilt edges. In box. Cloth, $6.00; padded calf, tree-calf, or antique morocco, $10.00. A few copies in crushed Levant, with silk linings, $25.00.

"The Lay of the Last Minstrel" is larger than its predecessors, the Holiday volumes published under Mr. Anthony's supervision, and its broad and handsome pages offer very favorable opportunities for the display of the illustrations, which are masterpieces of modern engraving.

The immediate and permanent success of "The Lady of the Lake," "Marmion," etc., has encouraged the publishers to bring out this not less popular and famous poem. It is produced in the same style, and with the same careful and elaborate style of illustration, regardless of cost, while Mr. Anthony's skilful supervision is sufficient guarantee that the work is elegant and tasteful as well as correct.

THE PETERKIN PAPERS. By Lucretia P. Hale. New Holiday edition, revised and enlarged, uniform with "Davy and the Goblin." Square 4to. Illustrated with a great number of new pictures. $1.50.

The continued popularity of these inimitable stories has compelled the issue of this new and enlarged edition, with new illustrations and type. "The Lady from Philadelphia," "Agamemnon," "Solomon John," and other characters of these stories have become household words in thousands of American families; and the publication of a worthy and comely edition of so delightful a classic will be hailed with joy by many old friends and new.

MURAL PAINTING. By Frederic Crowninshield. 1 vol. Square 8vo. With numerous diagrams and full-page illustrations. $3.00.

This series of papers has excited great interest and attention in "The American Architect;" and in its present enlarged and amended form, with many new illustrations, is still more valuable.

THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN OF GENERAL POPE IN 1862. Being Volume II. of Papers read before the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. With Maps and Plans. 1 vol. 8vo. $3.00.

A careful and dispassionate account of the great retreat from the Rapidan to the Potomac, with the stories of its terrible battles, prepared by prominent military officers, and dealing with the Second Bull-Run campaign, the Fitz-John Porter affair, and other interesting matters.

SONGS AND SATIRES. A volume of poems. By James Jeffrey Roche. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.00.

The range and versatility of these poems add to their other attractions, and make the volume a very popular one. Mr. Roche's vers de société, printed in "Life," and other publications, are of singular delicacy and originality, and the best of them are incorporated in this volume, together with many heretofore unpublished poems.

GENIUS IN SUNSHINE AND IN SHADOW. By M. M. Ballou, author of "Edge-tools of Speech." 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

Mr. Ballou has for many years been known as one of the most industrious, accurate, and entertaining of American scholars. The present volume (his latest work) is a peculiarly interesting one, full of anecdotes and memorabilia, which set forth the intimate inner lives of the world's heroes and notables. They have been gathered from the most recondite sources, and skilfully massed in attractive array, forming a great collection, that is at once valuable and interesting.

A WONDERFUL WORK OF ART.

Mrs. Browning's Love Sonnets.

SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Illustrated by Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen. 1 vol. Oblong folio (pages 13 × 16 inches), beautifully bound, gilt top. $15.00; full tree-calf, $30.00.

This magnificent work has been a labor of love for years with the artist, who is the prince of decorators, and has lavished upon it all the resources of his imagination and skill. The result is a magnificent monument to the poems that are enshrined therein, and a series of designs, the equals of which as a mere treasury of decoration and invention, apart from their significance in illustrating the immortal verse of Mrs. Browning, have never been issued in America. Each sonnet is prefaced by a richly ornamental half-title, on a full page, and is surrounded by a handsome border, emblematic in its design and composition. Mr. Ipsen has for many years been recognized as the foremost leader of art-decoration for books, both inside and outside, and has set more fashions for imitation than any other artist. This book is his crowning work, and will afford an inexhaustible treasury of decoration for students of art, and a life-study for all lovers of beauty and symmetry. Mrs. Browning's sonnets are among the noblest productions of ancient or modern literature; and their literary excellence and incomparable beauty of diction insure for them certain immortality.

RECOLLECTIONS OF EMINENT MEN, and Other Papers. By Edwin Percy Whipple. 1 vol. Crown 8vo. With new steel portrait of the author, and preceded by the Memorial Address delivered by the Rev. Dr. C. A. Bartol. $1.50; in half-calf, $3.00.

A new book by Mr. Whipple is a literary event; and so many years have elapsed since his last publication, that the interest will be more intense in the present volume, which contains some of his most charming and characteristic papers, including monographs on Sumner, Motley, Agassiz, Choate, and George Eliot.

STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. By Clara Erskine Clement. 1 vol. 8vo. Profusely illustrated. In cloth, $4.00; in half parchment cloth, $4.50.

This work, historical and descriptive, gives a complete résumé of the History of Art, with accounts of the various schools, sketches, and anecdotes of all the great artists, with portraits and reproductions of their works. The author is well known as a charming writer and an acknowledged authority on art criticism and history.

PERSIA AND THE PERSIANS. By Hon. S. G. W. Benjamin, late U. S. Minister to the Court of Persia. 1 vol. 8vo. With portrait and many illustrations. Beautifully bound. $5.00. Half calf, $9.00.

The author is, perhaps, the best living authority on Persia, and this book embodies the results of his observation and experience during the years of his residence as United States Minister, combining novel and entertaining adventures and descriptions, with political and other observations of great value. His rare skill as a landscape painter has availed to give many choice pictures of the great Asiatic realm, with its stores of poetry and legend, its strange customs, and its romantic scenery and architecture.

CONFESSIONS AND CRITICISMS. By Julian Hawthorne. 1 vol. 12mo. With portrait. $1.25.

A series of very delightful essays and papers, with reminiscences and other memorable papers, prepared by one of the most skilful and interesting of American authors, and calculated to attract and keep the attention of all readers. It includes a great variety of valuable miscellany, and several papers that have already become classic among people of cultivation and acumen.

THE HOUSE AT HIGH BRIDGE. By Edgar Fawcett. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

The announcement of an entirely new novel from the pen of the writer of "Adventures of a Widow," etc., is sufficient to pique the curiosity of many readers, who find in this author the best traits of modern literature. "The House at High Bridge" is an entirely new work, not having been published serially.

NORA PERRY'S NEW SONGS AND BALLADS. 12mo. Gilt top and rough edges. $1.50.

A new volume of poems by Nora Perry is now ready, and its publication will be welcomed with great interest by the thousands of admirers of this brilliant and piquant writer.

AFTER THE BALL, HER LOVER'S FRIEND, AND OTHER POEMS. By Nora Perry. New edition. Two volumes in one. $1.75.

A re-issue of the entire collected poetical works of Nora Perry, previous to the publication of "New Songs and Ballads." They were formerly published in two volumes, but are now made into one.

RANKELL'S REMAINS. A Novel. By Barrett Wendell, author of "The Duchess Emilia." 1 vol. 12mo. $1.00.

"Powerfully and wonderfully done as a piece of characterization.... The book has deserved its success because more than any other of its kind it is comprehensible, forcible, and readable."—Commercial Bulletin.

"The telling is remarkably well done. It is full of power and the intensity of underlying tragedy," says Nora Perry, in The Independent.

"A bitter, caustic, stinging satire, a book of power."—Chicago Times.

A MURAMASA BLADE. A Story of Feudalism in Old Japan. By Louis Wertheimber. 1 vol. 8vo. Beautifully illustrated by Japanese artists. $3.00; in red Japanese brocade, $5.00.

Mr. Wertheimber, of a scholarly Austrian family, went to Japan about the year 1870, and spent many years there, in the service of the Japanese Government. He was an extensive traveller among the inland districts and villages; and contributed many articles and series to the Japan Mail, and other publications. The present book is a romance of the sword, full of charming local color, true to life as it is in Japan, and full of deep and enchaining interest. Its mechanical make-up is sumptuous in every respect.

AGNES SURRIAGE. A Novel. By Edwin Lassetter Bynner, author of "Damen's Ghost," "Penelope's Suitors," etc. $1.50.

Founded upon a romantic episode in early Massachusetts history, introducing by name prominent people of the day, with descriptions of their characters and appearance, weaving in historical events, such as the Louisburg Expedition, Church Squabbles, and the Spinning Craze, and giving a realistic picture of life under the royal governors,—a book which, apart from the thrilling interest of the story, is of permanent value as a painstaking study of an historical epoch.

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF NOTED PERSONS. By Hon. Justin S. Morrill. $1.50.

The well-known and erudite Senator from Vermont has, in this work, condensed the fruits of years of curious research in a strange and unfamiliar field. The result is a rarely entertaining volume of great value to all scholars and public men, and interesting to all readers. A small edition was privately printed some time since, and met with such praise and appreciation that Senator Morrill has since carefully revised and materially augmented it for publication.

THE MINISTER'S CHARGE. By W. D. Howells, author of "The Rise of Silas Lapham," "Indian Summer," etc. $1.50.

"In this great novel of the people Henry James finds that Mr. Howells touches high-water mark; and sees an important and valuable work in this minute and subtle registering of the heavy-witted countryman's slow development under city conditions. However that may be, Howells's pure, inimitable fun is enough to carry any story he may write. Like all true fun, this has a most searching pathos all the time just at hand; and never is the real dignity of character of this actual Yankee forgotten or trifled with."—Boston Transcript.

COUNT XAVIER. By Henry Gréville. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.00.

This is the latest and one of the best of the novels of the author of "Dosia," the most popular and famous of Parisian novelists.

LIBER AMORIS. By Henry Bernard Carpenter. 1 vol. 16mo. Gilt top and rough edges. $1.75.

A brilliant and picturesque romance in verse, dealing with the period of the Minnesingers, in the Rheinland, Padua, and Auvergne. Mr. Carpenter has long been known as one of our most spirited and vigorous poets.

MARY MAGDALENE, AND OTHER POEMS. By Mrs. Richard Greenough. With photograph of Greenough's statue of the Magdalen on the side of the cover. 50 cents.