Part 9

"The best work that Miss Julia Constance Fletcher, who writes under the name of George Fleming, has done yet is her new novel, 'Vestigia.' The scene is Leghorn, with one important action in Rome. The hero is a fine young fellow, urged by his friends, circumstances and his own sense of honor into a political complication, where he becomes the instrument of conspirators. Most of the characters are of the lower class of Italians, artisans and sailors--simple, honest, loyal people of keen intelligence and noble natures. The heroine is very lovely, with great moral strength that comes from her absolute purity and unwavering faith in those whom she loves and in God. The simple, laborious life of the people, with a touch of patrician splendor introduced now and then for artistic effect, is an attractive picture. The whole story is sweet, tender and noble."--_Boston Advertiser._

A NEWPORT AQUARELLE. A novel. One vol. 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

"'A Newport Aquarelle' will be found the breeziest, the brightest, and the cleverest of summer novels.... Charmingly true to nature and admirable as a bit of highly-finished art, it cannot fail of achieving a wide reading among people of taste and cultivation."--_Boston Saturday Gazette._

"Is it a man's or a woman's book? is the first question, and it must be said that it is not easy to find an answer."

"The most brilliant novelette of the season."

"An anonymous novel, the like of which we have not had for a long while."--_Exchange._

MARGARET FULLER. Famous Women Series. By JULIA WARD HOWE. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

"Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's biography of Margaret Fuller, in the Famous Women series of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, is a work which has been looked for with curiosity. It will not disappoint expectation. Mrs. Howe is of late years too infrequent in authorship. She has a subject here on which she writes _con amore_. For her material she is of course largely indebted to the remarkable volumes published by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Freeman Clarke and William Ellery Channing many years ago; but Mrs. Howe gives the narrative in her own manner. She has made a brilliant and an interesting book. Her study of Margaret Fuller's character is thoroughly sympathetic; her relation of her life is done in a graphic and at times a fascinating manner. It is the case of one woman of strong individuality depicting the points which made another one of the most marked characters of her day. It is always agreeable to follow Mrs. Howe in this; for while we see marks of her own mind constantly, there is no inartistic protrusion of her personality. The book is always readable, and the relation of the death-scene is thrillingly impressive."--_Saturday Evening Gazette._

THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, author of "Travels with a Donkey," "An Inland Voyage," "Treasure Island," etc. With a frontispiece. 16mo. Price, $1.00

"The Silverado Squatters is the title of an exceedingly pleasant little book by Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, whose 'Travels with a Donkey' and 'An Inland Boat Voyage' had given him an enviable reputation as a charming and picturesque descriptive writer. Mr. Stevenson is an invalid, and in search of health he went to Mount Saint Helena, in California, and high up in its sides took possession of a miner's cabin fast falling to ruin, one of the few remnants of the abandoned mining village of Silverado. There with his wife and a single servant considerable time was spent.

The interest of the book centred in the graphic style and keen observation of the author. He has the power of describing places and characters with such vividness that you seem to have made personal acquaintance with both.... Mr. Stevenson's racy narrative brings many phases of life upon the western coast before one with striking power and captivating grace."--_N.Y. World._

THE STORY OF MY HEART: My Autobiography. By RICHARD JEFFERIES. 16mo. Cloth. Price, .75

"The book is a contribution to the ideal in life. It is composed of day dreams--dreams which haunt an earnest mind as night follows day--a strong plea to hold communion with nature," says the _London Academy_.

"Mr. Jefferies has won his way to the hearts of a large circle of readers by his charming description of 'The Gamekeeper at Home.' He now draws upon the rich stores of his imagination for the material that will present a unique form of autobiography. He tells 'The Story of My Heart.' He lays open the history of that most important organ of the human frame, wherein the emotions of the soul are supposed to lie. The revelations are made with an exuberance of fancy, a richness of diction and a vivid power of description that calls forth wonder and admiration at the skillful handling of the theme."--_Boston Journal._

LEAD KINDLY LIGHT. By JOHN HENRY NEWMAN. With six full-page illustrative designs by Wm. St. John Harper, and six full-page symbolical designs by George R. Halm, the whole engraved by George T. Andrew. The illustrative designs printed in black ink, the symbolical designs printed in brown ink. The concluding page contains the whole hymn with its familiar musical setting as universally sung. Post 8vo. Beautifully bound in cloth, bevelled boards, gilt and gilt edge. Price, $1.50 Illuminated covers with fringed borders. Price, 1.75 Tree calf and flexible morocco covers, gilt edge, 4.00 Royal 8vo. Beautifully bound in cloth. Price, 3.00 Antique morocco and tree calf. Price, 8.00

"John Henry Newman's beautiful and spiritual hymn, one of the finest expressions of trusting faith which the hymnology of the language affords, 'Lead, Kindly Light,' has brought comfort and strength to so many hearts, that a fine and beautiful edition of it is sure of being most cordially welcomed. George R. Halm and William St. John Harper are the artists to whom has been entrusted the setting of the poem, and they have succeeded admirably. Mr. Halm has provided for each stanza a setting in symbolical and scroll work, while Mr. Harper has added to each a full-page figure-piece illustrating the spirit and meaning of the poet. The poem is beautifully printed, and the cuts are carefully and spiritedly engraved, making of the work a most beautiful and appropriate volume for Christmas use."--_Boston Courier._

"This beautiful hymn is entirely free from dogmatic and stereotyped phraseology and the literalism which defaces so many popular hymns. It is a beautiful poem which came from the heart of a deep experience, and repeats the accent of the universal aspirations of humanity. It is with real satisfaction that one takes up the exquisite little volume just published by Roberts Brothers (Boston), in which George R. Halm and William St. John Harper have combined their skill and gifts as illustrators and George T. Andrews his fine faculty of engraving. The frontispiece, 'Lead Thou me on,' is the best contribution which Mr. Harper makes to the joint work; the other illustrations from his hand are suggestive. Mr. Halm's illustrations, which are printed in light brown or sepia, are notably fine. The symbolism which the artist employs suggest interpretations without forcing them upon the eye, and is pervaded by a delicate imaginative insight and beauty which delight one the more the longer they are looked at; indeed, we doubt if anything has been done of late in the way of illustration quite so original and beautiful. Mr. Andrews' skill as an engraver is illustrated again in this dainty little volume, in which he has interpreted very clearly and satisfactorily the thought of the artists."--_Christian Union._

A ROUND DOZEN OF STORIES. By SUSAN COOLIDGE, author of "What Katy Did," "The New-Year's Bargain," "A Guernsey Lily," etc. Illustrated. Square 16mo. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $1.50

WIND VOICES. A collection of PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON'S later poems and sonnets. The author, who, it will be remembered, is entirely blind, ranks, according to the London _Examiner_, "alongside of Swinburne, Morris and Rossetti." 16mo. Price, $1.50

"There are a number of poems in the volume which call for especial mention, yet they must be left to the discovery of the reader, it being sufficient to say that this volume is sure to advance Mr. Marston's reputation as a genuine, sweet and imaginative singer."--_Boston Courier._

DIANE CORYVAL. Diane Coryval, the pretty name of the heroine, gives the title to a new "No Name" novel, a very absorbingly interesting story of French domestic life. 16mo. Price, $1.00

"The incidents, although a few are uncommon and provocative of questioning, have the naturalness of those of actual experience. They lead to exciting situations and a dramatic denouement. The action in Paris is among artists, and is introductory. It is when the action has shifted to a country town on the coast that it develops its greatest effects and interest. Sea-coast scenery and farm life are described with a communion into their spirit and an intimacy such as only a true lover of the country can ever have. The occupants of the farm, two of whom are leading characters, have the same fondness and fidelity given to their delineation. This portion of the literary work, although quietly and unobtrusively, is exceedingly well done, and is pleasing. Diane is the principal character, and is given the real qualities of womanhood; her acts are made consistent with them, and to tend to their nobler development. She illustrates the undying devotion of true love. This last 'No Name' has higher and more even merit than any of its series. Its ground and plot are well chosen, while its composition and treatment are artistic. It will be widely read and heartily enjoyed."--_Boston Globe._

TREASURE ISLAND. A Story of Pirates and the Spanish Main. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. With illustrations by F.T. Merrill. 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25

"At a time when the books of Mayne Reid, Ballantyne and Kingston are taking their places on the shelves to which well-thumbed volumes are relegated, it will be with especial delight that boy readers welcome a new writer in the literature of adventure. In 'Treasure Island,' Robert Louis Stevenson takes a new departure, and writes one of the jolliest, most readable, wide-awake tales of sea life that have set the blood tingling in the veins of the boys of at least the present generation. It is decidedly of the exciting order of stories, yet not of the unhealthily sensational. It details the stirring adventures of an English crew in their search for the immense treasure secreted by a pirate captain, and it certainly has not a dull page in it. Yet the author has contrived to keep the sympathy on the side of virtue and honesty, and throw upon the pirates that odium and detestation which their nefarious courses deserve; and the book is one heartily to be commended to any sturdy, wholesome lad who is fond of the smell of the brine and the tang of sailor speech in his reading."--_Boston Courier._

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. By THOMAS GRAY. With thirty illustrations by Harry Fenn. Engraved by George T. Andrew. One vol. Post 8vo. Beautifully bound in cloth, bevelled boards, gilt and gilt edge. Price, $1.50 Illuminated covers, with fringed borders. Price, 1.75 Flexible morocco and tree calf covers, gilt edge. Price, 4.00 Royal 8vo. Beautifully bound in cloth, bevelled boards, gilt and gilt edge. Price, 3.00 Antique morocco and tree calf. Price, 8.00

Mr. Fenn visited Stoke Pogis, the locality of the poem, and many of the illustrations are from sketches taken by him on the spot, and all of them were made expressly for this edition.

An interesting feature of the Harry Fenn edition is the reproduction of three stanzas printed with the earlier editions, but subsequently dropped by the author.

"The 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' by Thomas Gray, which has long held the proud distinction of being 'the most finished poem in the English tongue,' is just issued by Roberts Brothers, Boston, in an exquisitely illustrated volume, which must hold a very high place among the handsome gift books of the season. The illustrations were all drawn by Harry Fenn, especially for this edition, many of them from sketches made by the artist at Stoke Pogis, the scene of the poem. The frontispiece, an exquisite sketch of vines and flowers clustering over and about an old gravestone, presents a 'rejected verse,' reprinted from the earlier editions--a verse for the rejection of which one scarcely sees any sufficient reason, finding it as full of tenderly pathetic music as any part of the poem--and in an appendix the same verse reappears, with two others, together with some note of the places they were originally intended to fill and the author's reasons for their omission. The illustrations are all designed with as truly poetic a spirit as the poem itself breathes, and all are presented in the very highest style of the engraver's art. To say that a book is a 'picture book' is usually to imply something rather derogatory to its character for value in other respects. But not so in this case. Here the most delicate and appreciative art is used to interpret to the eye the exquisite poetry of the text. However warmly one may have supposed himself to admire the poem, he can hardly rise from thoughtfully looking over this edition of the 'Elegy' without some consciously new and fresh appreciation of the beauty of the lines, so strikingly and fitly has their lofty and tender thought been interpreted to the eye. In all, too, that pertains to the work of the book-maker--in paper, typography, binding, etc.--the little volume is in thorough keeping with the art of the poet and the illustrator."--_Chicago Times._

THE BOY KNIGHT, Who Won his Spurs Fighting with King Richard of England. A Tale of the Crusades. By G.A. HENTY, author of "The Young Buglers," "The Cornet of Horse," etc. Square 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50

THE NO NAME NOVELS.

"No one of the numerous series of novels, with which the country has been deluged of late, contains as many good volumes of fiction as the 'No Name,'" says _Scribner's Monthly_.

FIRST SERIES.--Mercy Philbrick's Choice; Afterglow; Deirdrè; Hetty's Strange History; Is That All? Will Denbigh, Nobleman; Kismet; The Wolf at the Door; The Great Match; Marmorne; Mirage; A Modern Mephistopheles; Gemini; A Masque of Poets. 14 vols. Black and gold.

SECOND SERIES.--Signor Monaldini's Niece; The Colonel's Opera Cloak; His Majesty, Myself; Mrs. Beauchamp Brown; Salvage; Don John; The Tsar's Window; Manuela Parédes; Baby Rue; My Wife and My Wife's Sister; Her Picture; Aschenbroedel. 12 vols. Green and gold.

THIRD SERIES.--The publishers, flattered with the reception given to the First and Second Series of "No Name Novels," among which may be named several already famous in the annals of fiction, will continue the issue with a Third Series, which will retain the original features of the First and Second Series, but in a new style of binding. Already published: Her Crime; Little Sister; Barrington's Fate; A Daughter of the Philistines; Princess Amélie. Price per vol., $1.00

_New Editions of Popular Poets._

JEAN INGELOW'S POETICAL WORKS. With portrait. The only complete edition, and the only edition published with her sanction. Household edition, with red-line border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $1.25

"I greatly wish that Messrs. ROBERTS BROTHERS might have the exclusive right to publish my books in America. I consider that enlightened nations, as well as individuals, ought to recognize the right of authors, both to power over and to property in their works."--JEAN INGELOW.

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI'S POETICAL WORKS. With portrait. Household edition, with red-line border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $2.00

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI'S POETICAL WORKS. With portrait. Household edition, with red-line border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $2.00

JOAQUIN MILLER'S POETICAL WORKS. With portrait. Household edition, with red-line border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $2.00

EDWIN ARNOLD'S POETICAL WORKS. (Including "The Light of Asia.") Household edition, with red-line border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $2.00

JOHN KEATS' POETICAL WORKS. Lord Houghton's edition, with a Memoir. With portrait. Household edition, with red-line border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $2.00

GEORGE SAND. Famous Women Series. By BERTHA THOMAS. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

"The volume before us, which is published in the series of brief biographies of famous women, of which we have upon previous occasions taken favorable notice, will give its readers a clear and generally adequate idea of George Sand's character and genius, and will serve to correct many misconceptions in regard to the nature of her writings which ignorance and prejudice have spread abroad. At the same time Miss Thomas has sought rather to portray the character of the famous French woman to whom she pays tribute than to criticise or expound the long line of novels which her fertile imagination produced. Her book is rather biographical than literary in its purpose and inspiration, and though the Sand romances are reviewed, and their distinctive characteristics appreciatively and intelligently described, the volume depends for its value and interest upon its narrative and portraiture. It is pleasantly, gracefully and cleverly written, and will worthily sustain the already high reputation of the series to which it belongs."--_North American, Phila._

"The best of the biography is that we gain from it good, definite notions of the early home, the convent, the marriage with M. Dudevant and how it came about, the short family life, and the circumstances of the early residence in Paris. Each change down to the last scenes of George Sand's life is characterized. So also are the books, which are classified and briefly described. So is that wonderful mental life, so flaming, so easily working itself into words and deeds, so much less removed in subtlety from our common life of common people than was the mental life of almost any other great genius. Owing to the sound and practical treatment which the subject receives at Miss Thomas' hands, the book is plain, readable, adapted to the widest circle of readers, doing in no respect injustice to the mighty soul whose course Miss Thomas can trace and describe, but not as one could who had taken the same flights, or others as high, if not the same. The Famous Women series is a notable one."--_Boston Courier._

TEN TIMES ONE IS TEN. The Possible Reformation. By E.E. HALE. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

"Notwithstanding the assertion of the title-page, the Rev. E.E. Hale is the author of the story under notice, and it is marked by all the well-known characteristics of his peculiar style. It is an account of a remarkable movement which had for its object the amelioration of human existence by carrying out those principles of a truism which Auguste Comte is credited with having formulated, but which were first embodied in the teachings of Christianity, and which find in the golden rule their tersest and highest expression. Mr. Hale is an interesting writer and a very sympathetic one. He possesses in unusual measure the merit of naturalness. He is a true realist, but instead of placing before his readers the sins, crimes and weaknesses of men, he presents only those things which are honest and of good report. The impression made by such books as his is wholly good. They tend to make their readers better and happier and more useful in their social and civil relations, and we hope that 'Ten Times One is Ten' will have a wide circulation."--_North American, Phila._

"Roberts Brothers have issued a new edition of 'Ten Times One is Ten,' by Edward Everett Hale, one of the cleverest of our writers. It is a racy little book, inculcating wholesome morals in an effective and almost captivating way. It is worth a score of the average Sunday-school books, and has a habit of getting itself read by whoever takes it up."--_New York Star._

A LITTLE PILGRIM. Reprinted from Macmillan's Magazine. 16mo. Cloth. Red edges. Price, $.75

"An exquisitely written little sketch is found in that remarkable production, 'The Little Pilgrim,' which is just now attracting much attention both in Europe and America. It is highly imaginative in its scope, representing one of the world-worn and weary pilgrims of our earthly sphere as entering upon the delights of heaven after death. The picture of heaven is drawn with the rarest delicacy and refinement, and is in agreeable contrast in this respect to the material sketch of this future home furnished in Miss Stuart Phelps's well-remembered 'Gates Ajar.' The book will be a balm to the heart of many readers who are in accord with the faith of its author; and to others its reading will afford rare pleasure from the exceeding beauty and affecting simplicity of its almost perfect literary style."--_Saturday Evening Gazette._

"The life beyond the grave, when the short life in this world is ended, is to many a source of dread--to all a mystery. 'A Little Pilgrim' has apparently solved it, and, indeed, it seems on reading this little book as if there were a great probability about it. A soft, gentle tone pervades its every sentence, and one cannot read it without feeling refreshed and strengthened."--_The Alta California._