ii. 141;

a reformer of Chaldean Magic, i. 191; when he lived, ii. 141; Baron Bunsen’s opinion, ii. 432

Zoroastrian religion, its affinity with Judaism and Christianity, ii. 486

Zoroastrianism, no schism, ii. 142

Zoroastrians, migrated from India, ii. 143

Zoro-Babel or prince of Babylon, ii. 441

Zuinglius, the first reformer, his cosmopolitan doctrine of the Holy Ghost, i. 132

706 BROADWAY, _New York, March, 1878_.

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INDEX.

PAGE Æsop’s Fables, illustrated, 19 Amberley, Religious Beliefs, 6 Anacalypsis, Higgins, 3 Antiquities of Long Island, 15 Archæology, Westropp’s Hand-Book, 25 Archie Armstrong’s Jests, 29 Avesta, Bleeck, 25

Behn’s Dram. Works, 15 Bible of Humanity, 3 Blake, Swinburne’s Essay, 23 Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 21 Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 3 Boccaccio, Decameron, illustrated, 19 Brome’s Dram. Works, 15 Burns’ Complete Works, 6

Catalogue, Wilson Colln. of Paintings, 19 Caxton’s Dictes and Sayinges, 5 Statutes of Henry VIII., 30 Centlivre’s Dram. Works, 15 Champney, Quiet Corner of England, 25 Chapman’s Dram. Works, 15 Chinese Classics, 23 Cokain’s Dram. Works, 18 Costume, Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, 17 Planché, 8 Historique, Racinet, 11 Crowne’s Dram. Works, 18 Cruikshank, Illustrations of Time, 24 Phrenological Illus., 24

Davenant’s Dram. Works, 18 Dekker’s Dram. Works, 15 Diary of Am. Revolution, 24 Dibdin’s Bibliomania, 29 Douglas’ Poetical Works, 29 Dramatic Works of Tourneur, 6 Dramatists, Early English, 15 of the Restoration, 18 Duyckinck’s Cyclopædia of Am. Literature, 27

Edwards’ Founders of Brit. Museum, 23 Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, 14 English Rogue, 22 Engravings, Willshire’s Guide, 31 Erasmus’ Apophthegms, 5 Etchings, Chapters on Painting, 12 Contemporary Art, 4 Examples of Modern, 11, 12 after Frans Hals, 32 “L’Art”, 33 from National Gallery, 12 The Portfolio, 34 Unger’s Works, 32 Wilson Catalogue, 19 Examples of Contemporary Art, 4

Fine Arts, Æsop’s Fables, illus., 19 Bible Plates, 5 Bell’s Anatomy of Expression, 20 Blake, Etchings, 4 Blake, Heaven and Hell, 21 Chapters on Painting, 12 Contemporary Art, 4 Costume, Racinet, 11 Cruikshank’s “Time”, 24 “Phrenological Illus., 24 Dürer’s Little Passion, 19 Etchings from National Gallery, 12 French Artists, &c., 12 Works of Hals, 32 Holbein, 23 Jeanne d’Arc, 17 Jésus-Christ, 17 Jones’ Alhambra, 30 Jones’ Gram. of Ornmt., 28 Keramic Art, Japan, 7 Lacroix, 4 Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, vol. 1, 17 “L’Art.”, 33 Lundy, 9 Mod. Etchings, 11, 12 Planché, Costume, 8 Polychromatic Ornament, 7 The Portfolio, 34 Quiet Corner of Eng., 25 Textile Fabrics, 31 Turner Gallery, 10 Wright’s Womankind, 26 Wilson’s Catalogue, 19 Willshire on Prints, 31 Works of Wm. Unger, 32 Freemasonry, Hyneman’s Register, 27 Mackenzie, Cyclo., 7 Paton, Symbols, 25 French Artists of Present Day, 12 Furman’s Long Island, 15

Gesta Romanorum, 28 Glapthorne’s Dram. Works, 15 Grammar of Ornament, Jones, 28 Racinet, 7 Greville Memoirs, 29

Halliwell’s Hist. of Stratford on Avon, 24 Hamerton’s Examples of Mod. Etchings, 12 Heywood’s Dram. Works, 15 Higgins’ Anacalypsis, 3 Holbein, by Woltman, 23

Inman’s Ancient Faith embodied in Ancient Names, 2 v., 14 Ancient Faiths & Modern, 13 Anc. Pagan Symbolism, 16 Ireland, Shak. Forgeries, 26 Isis Unveiled, 3

Jeanne d’Arc, Wallon, 17

Keramic Art of Japan, Fr., 7 King’s Gnostics, 25 Knight’s Ancient Art and Mythology, 13 Worship of Priapus, 28

Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, Costume, &c., 17 XVIII. Siècle., vol. 2. Sciences, 4 Lacy’s Dram. Works, 18 L’Art. Art Magazine, 33 Lee’s Life, &c., of De Foe, 26 Legge’s Chinese Classics, 23 Leland, Fu Sang, 16 Littré Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, 24 Lundy’s Monumental Christianity, 9

Mackay’s Lost Beauties of the English Language, 16 Markland’s Lady de Osorio, 23 Marmion’s Dram. Works, 18 Masonic Register, Hyneman’s, 27 Memoirs of Sanson Family, 25 Mexico, Geiger, 22 Michelet, Bible of Humanity, 3 Moore’s Epicurean, 9 Musical Instruments, &c., 5

Nares’ Glossary Early Eng., 29

Original Lists of Emigrants, &c., 21 Ornamental Textile Fabrics, 31 Owen Jones, Alhambra, 30

“Passio Christi.” See Dürer, 19 Paton’s Symbolism of Masonry, 25 Phallic Worship, Anacalypsis, 3 Isis Unveiled, 3 Knight, 28 Inman, 14, 16 Westropp and Wake, 14 “Portfolio,” an Artistic Periodical, 34 Prostitution. Dufour, Hist., 31

Rambosson, Harmonies du Son, 5 Religions. Amberley, 6 Avesta, 25 Ancient Art & Mythology, 13 Ancient Faiths & Modern, 14 Ancient Pagan Symbols, 16 Ancient Symbol Worship, 14 Chinese Classics, 23 Gnostics, etc., 25 Higgins, Anacalypsis, 3 Isis Unveiled, 3 Inman, Ancient Faiths, 13 Knight’s Priapus, 28 Lundy, Monum. Christ’y, 9 Michelet’s Bible of Humanity, 3 Rosicrucians, 27 Serpent and Siva Worship, 3 Taylor, Eleusinian Mysteries, 14 Wheeler’s India, 13 Yarker’s Mysteries, 27 Rump Songs, &c., 22

Serpent and Siva Worship, 3 Shakespeare, Facsimile of 1st fol., 18 Forgeries, Ireland, 26 School of, 4 Songs, &c. Museum Deliciarum, 20 Ballads, D’Urfey’s Pills, 20 and Ballads, The Rump, 22 Westminster Drolleries, 22 Story of the Stick, 21 Symbolism. Anacalypsis, 3 of Freemasonry, 25 Gnostics, &c., 25 Inman, 16 Inman’s Anc. Faiths, &c., 14 Knight’s Priapus, 28 Lundy, 9 Rosicrucians, 27 Serpent Worship, 3 Westropp, &c., 14 Yarker, 27

Turner Gallery, 10 Tourneur’s Plays 6

Unger, Frans Hals, 32 Works, 32

Veuillot. Jésus-Christ, 17 Violin and its Makers, Hart, 18

Walford’s County Families, 30 Westminster Drolleries, 22 Westropp, Handbook of Archæology, 25 Wheeler’s History of India, 13 Willshire on Prints, 31 Wilson’s Dram. Works, 18 Ornithology, 8 Wright’s Womankind, 26

Yarker, Scientific and Religious Mysteries, 27

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“Our sense of the beauties of this tale may be appreciated by the acknowledgment that for insight into human nature, for poetical thought, for grace, refinement, intellect, pathos, and sublimity, we prize the Epicurean even above any other of the author’s works. Indeed, although written in prose, this is a masterly poem, and will forever rank as one of the most exquisite productions in English literature.”--_Literary Gazette._

The Turner Gallery,

A SERIES OF SIXTY ENGRAVINGS, from the Works of J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. With Biographical Sketch and Descriptive Text by RALPH N. WORNUM, Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery, London. One volume, folio, INDIA PROOFS. Elegantly bound in half Levant morocco, extra, gilt edges, $50.00. Full Levant morocco, extra, very elegant, $75.00.

---- The same. Atlas folio. LARGE PAPER. _Artists’ Proofs._ Half morocco, extra, $110.00. Full Levant morocco, extra, $165.00

THE TURNER GALLERY is already so well known to lovers of art and to students of Turner, that, in announcing a reissue of a limited number of copies of this important National Work, little need be said by way of comment or introduction. The Original Engravings have, for the first time, been employed, instead of the electrotype plates hitherto used, thus _securing impressions of more genuineness and brilliancy than have yet been offered to the public_. Of the high-class character of the Engravings themselves, and of the skill and excellence with which they are executed, such well-known names as JEENS, ARMYTAGE, WILLMORE, E. GOODALL, BRANDARD, WALLIS, COUSENS, and MILLER, will be a sufficient guarantee.

_From the London Art Journal._

“A series of engravings from Turner’s finest pictures, and of a size and equality commensurate with their importance, has not till now been offered to the public.

“In selecting the subjects, the publisher has chosen judiciously. Many of his grandest productions are in this series of Engravings, and the ablest landscape engravers of the day have been employed on the plates, among which are some that, we feel assured, Turner himself would have been delighted to see. These _proof impressions_ constitute a volume of exceeding beauty, which deserves to find a place in the library of every man of taste. The number of copies printed is too limited for a wide circulation, but, on that account, the rarity of the publication makes it the more valuable.

“It is not too much to affirm, that a more beautiful and worthy tribute to the genius of the great painter does not exist, and is not likely to exist at any future time.”

The attention of Collectors and Connoisseurs is particularly invited to the above exceedingly choice volume; they should speedily avail themselves of the opportunity of securing a copy at the low price at which it is now offered.

_AN ENTIRELY NEW WORK ON COSTUME BY M. RACINET, AUTHOR OF “POLYCHROMATIC ORNAMENT,” ETC._

Le Costume Historique.

_Illustrated with 500 Plates_, 300 of which are in Colors, Gold and Silver, and 200 in Tinted Lithography (Camaïeu). Executed in the finest style of the art, by Messrs. DIDOT & CO., of Paris. Representing Authentic Examples of the Costumes and Ornaments of all Times, among all Nations. With numerous choice specimens of Furniture, Ornamental Metal Work, Glass, Tiles, Textile Fabrics, Arms and Armor, Useful Domestic Articles, Modes of Transport, etc. With explanatory Notices and Historical Dissertations (in French). By M. A. RACINET, author of “Polychromatic Ornament.” To be issued in 20 parts. Small 4to (7½ × 8½ inches), $4.50 each. Folio, large paper (11½ × 16 inches), in cloth portfolio, $9.00 each.

_NO ORDERS RECEIVED EXCEPT FOR THE COMPLETE WORK._

Each part will contain 25 plates, 15 in colors and 10 in tinted Lithography. Parts 1, 2, and 3 are now ready for delivery. Upon completion of the work, the price will be raised 25 per cent.

“The Messrs. Firmin Didot & Co., of Paris, a firm that disputes with the house of Hachette & Co. the honor of supplying France and the world with the most beautiful books at the cheapest rates compatible with the greatest excellence in editing and ‘making,’ have recently published the beginning of a work which, by making its appeal chiefly to the eye, is sure of a welcome in this picture-loving age of ours. This is the HISTORY OF COSTUME, by A. Racinet, well-known already to that portion of our public which is interested in the decorative art by his illustrated work on ornament. _L’Ornement Polychrome._--Racinet gives the word ‘costume’ almost as wide a sweep of meaning as Viollet-le-Duc gives to furniture in his now famous _Dictionnaire du Mobilier_. * * * * The field surveyed consists not only of costumes proper, but of arms, armor, drinking vessels, objects used in the service of the church, modes of transport, harness, head-gear and modes of dressing the hair, domestic interiors, and furniture in the ordinary acceptation of the term. Each plate is to be accompanied with an explanatory text, and there will be added an historical study, so that little will be wanting to make this one of the completest encyclopædias of the sort that has ever appeared. * * * * A charming taste has presided over the selection of the subject, and the abundant learning that has been brought to bear in the collection of illustrations, from so wide a field of human action, is made to seem like play, so lightly is it handled. * * * * No scientific arrangement is observed in the order in which the subjects are presented. We have ancient Egypt, Assyria, Rome, Greece, India, Europe in the middle ages, and from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Japan, Turkey, Syria, Russia, and Poland, mixed up for the present, as if the work were an illustrated report of a fancy ball; and, to most of us, the gay parade as it rolls along is none the less pleasant for this want of order.”--_Scribner’s Monthly._

“The name of Firmin Didot & Co., of Paris, is such a guarantee of mechanical execution in a book, that it is sufficient to state that _Le Costume Historique_ is fully on a par with any of the former publications of this distinguished house. In addition to its other features, this work has numerous illustrations, giving restorations of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian interiors. In fact the work is conceived on a large plan, and will be found most useful to the artist. With such a book as a reference, some of the glaring inconsistencies we still see from time to time on the stage, where periods as to costume, some hundreds of years apart, are terribly mixed up, might be prevented, and the unities saved. The publishers have had the excellent idea of reducing the size of the illustrations, so as to bring the price of this picture-cyclopædia of the costume of the world within the means of the most prudent book-buyer.”--_N. Y. Daily Times._

“A new work on costume, most expensive to the publishers and cheap to the subscribers. Parts I., II., and III., with twenty-five pictures in each, are ready. We have minutely examined them, and find them worthy of great praise, both for general excellences of execution and for the recondite and curious sources drawn upon--the latter characteristic making the collector master of a great many pictorial facts and illustrations whose original sources are hard even to see and impossible to become possessed of.”--_Nation._

“This work is unquestionably the best work on its subject ever offered to the public, and it will engage very general attention. In shapeliness and convenience, too, it leaves nothing to be desired, which cannot be said often of cyclopædias of costume. One can enjoy the colors and contents of these ‘parts’ while lounging in a veranda or rocking in a boudoir. It is not necessary to adjourn to a public library and to an immovable chair.”--_Evening Post._

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Examples of Modern Etching.

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Edited, with notes, by PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON, Editor of the “_Portfolio_.” Twenty Plates, by Balfourier, Bodmer, Bracquemond, Chattock, Flameng, Feyen-Perrin, Seymour Haden, Hamerton, Hesseltine, Laguillermie, Lalanne, Legros, Lucas, Palmer, Rajon, Veyrassat, etc. The text beautifully printed on heavy paper. Folio, tastefully bound in cloth, full gilt, $10.00.

Among the contents of this choice volume, may be mentioned “_The Laughing Portrait of Rembrandt_,” by Flameng; _Twickenham Church_, by Seymour Haden; _Aged Spaniard_, by Legros; _The Hare--A Misty Morning_, by Bracquemond; _The Thames at Richmond_, by Lalanne; _The Ferryboat_, by Veyrassat, etc.

∵ A set of proofs of the plates in the above volume alone are worth in the London market £10 10s. 0d., or seventy dollars currency.

Etchings from the National Gallery.

A series of eighteen choice plates by Flameng, Le Rat, Rajon, Wise, Waltner, Brunet-Debaines, Gaucherel, Richeton, etc., after the paintings by Masaccio, Bellini, Giorgione, Moroni, Mantegna, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Cuyp, Maes, Hobbema, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Turner, and Landseer, with Notes by RALPH N. WORNUM (Keeper of the National Gallery). The text handsomely printed on heavy paper. Folio, tastefully bound in cloth, full gilt, $10.00.

To admirers of Etchings, the present volume offers several of the most notable of recently executed plates, among others the _Portrait of Rembrandt_, by Waltner; _The Parish Clerk_, after Gainsborough, by the same etcher; _The Burial of Wilkie_, after Turner, by Brunet-Debaines; _Portrait of a Youth_, after Masaccio, by Léopold Flameng, etc.

French Artists of the Present Day.

A series of twelve fac-simile engravings, after pictures by Gérome, Rosa Bonheur, Corot, Pierre Billet, Legros, Ch. Jacque, Veyrassat, Hébert, Jules Breton, etc., with Biographical Notices by René Ménard. Folio, tastefully bound in cloth, gilt, $10.00.

Chapters on Painting.

By RENÉ MÉNARD (Editor of “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”). Translated under the superintendence of Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Illustrated with a series of forty superb etchings, by Flameng, Coutry, Masson, Le Rat, Jacquemart, Chauvel, etc., the text beautifully printed by Claye, of Paris. Royal 4to, paper, uncut, $25.00. Half polished levant mor., gilt top, $30.00.

Ancient Art and Mythology.

The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology. An Inquiry. By RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, author of “Worship of Priapus.” A new edition, with Introduction, Notes translated into English, and a new and complete Index. By ALEXANDER WILDER, M.D. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, handsomely printed, $3.00.

“Not only do these explanations afford a key to the religion and mythology of the ancients, but they also enable a more thorough understanding of the canons and principles of art. It is well known that the latter was closely allied to the other; so that the symbolism of which the religious emblems and furniture consisted likewise constituted the essentials of architectural style and decoration, textile embellishments, as well as the arts of sculpture, painting, and engraving. Mr. Knight has treated the subject with rare erudition and ingenuity, and with such success that the labor of those who come after him rather add to the results of his investigations than replace them in important particulars. The labors of Champollion, Bunsen, Layard, Bonomi, the Rawlinsons, and others, comprise his deductions so remarkably as to dissipate whatever of his assertions that appeared fanciful. Not only are the writings of Greek and Roman authors now more easy to comprehend, but additional light has been afforded to a correct understanding of the canon of the Holy Scripture.”--_Extract from Editor’s Preface._

A SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO “ANCIENT FAITHS.”

Ancient Faiths and Modern.

A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends, and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, before the Christian Era. Showing their Relations to Religious Customs as they now exist. By THOMAS INMAN, M.D., author of “Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names,” etc., etc. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, $5.00.

This work is most aptly expressed by the title, and the author, who is one of our most learned and accomplished modern writers, has done ample justice to his subject. He pries boldly into Bluebeard’s closet, little recking whether he shall find a ghost, skeleton, or a living being; and he tells us very bluntly and explicitly what he has witnessed. Several years since he gave to the learned world his treatise on _Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names_, in which were disclosed the ideas underlying the old-world religions, and the nature of hieroglyphical symbols employed in the East. The present volume complements that work, elaborates more perfectly the ideas there set forth, and traces their relations to the faiths, worship, and religious dogmas of modern time. We are astonished to find resemblances where it would be supposed that none would exist, betraying either a similar origin or analogous modes of thinking and reasoning among nations and peoples widely apart in race, country, and period of history. The author is bold and often strong in his expressions, from the intensity of his convictions, but this serves to deepen the interest in his subject. Those who have read his former works with advantage will greet this volume with a cordial welcome; and all who desire to understand the original religions of mankind, the ideas which lie back of the revelations of Holy Scripture, and particularly, those who are not easily shocked when they come in contact with sentiments with which they have not been familiar, will find this book full of entertainment as well as of instruction. Dr. Inman is working up a new mine of thought, and the lover of knowledge will give his labor a welcome which few of our modern authors receive.

Wheeler’s India.

History of India. By J. TALBOYS WHEELER, Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, in the Foreign Department, Secretary of the Record Commission, Author of the “Geography of Herodotus.”

The Ramayana and the Brahmanic Period. 8vo, cloth, pp. lxxxviii. and 680, with two maps. $6.00.

Hindu, Buddhist, Brahmanical Revival. 8vo, cloth, pp. 484, with two maps, cloth. $5.00.

Under Mussulman Rule. (Vol. IV.), 8vo, $4.50.

Dr. Inman’s Ancient Faiths.

Embodied in Ancient Names; or, an Attempt to trace the Religious Belief, Sacred Rites, and Holy Emblems of certain Nations, by an Interpretation of the Names given to Children by Priestly Authority, or assumed by Prophets, Kings, and Hierarchs. By THOMAS INMAN, M.D. Profusely illustrated with Engravings on Wood. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, $20.00.

“Dr. Inman’s present attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, has opened up to him many hitherto unexplored fields of research, or, at least, fields that have not been over-cultivated, and the result is a most curious and miscellaneous harvest of facts. The ideas on priapism developed in a former volume receive further extension in this. Dr. Inman, as will be seen, does not fear to touch subjects usually considered sacred in an independent manner, and some of the results at which he has arrived are such as will undoubtedly startle, if not shock, the orthodox. But this is what the author expects, and for this he has thoroughly prepared himself. In illustration of his peculiar views he has ransacked a vast variety of historical storehouses, and with great trouble and at a considerable cost, he places the conclusions at which he has arrived before the world. With the arguments employed, the majority of readers will, we expect, disagree; even when the facts adduced will remain undisputed, their application is frequently inconsequent. In showing the absurdity of a narrative or an event in which he disbelieves, the Doctor is powerful. No expense has been spared on the work, which is well and fully illustrated, and contains a good index.”--_Bookseller._

NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

Ancient Symbol Worship.

Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity. By HODDER M. WESTROPP and C. STANILAND WAKE. With an Introduction, additional Notes, and Appendix, by ALEXANDER WILDER, M.D. New Edition, with eleven full-page Illustrations. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, $3.00.

The favor with which this treatise has been received has induced the publisher to bring out a new edition. It makes a valuable addition to our knowledge, enabling us to acquire a more accurate perception of the ancient-world religions. We may now understand Phallism, not as a subject of ribaldry and leering pruriency, but as a matter of veneration and respect. The Biblical student, desirous to understand the nature and character of the idolatry of the Israelites during the Commonwealth and Monarchy, the missionary to heathen lands fitting for his work, and the classic scholar endeavoring to comprehend the ideas and principles which underlie Mythology, will find their curiosity gratified; and they will be enabled at the same time to perceive how not only many of our modern systems of religion, but our arts and architecture, are to be traced to the same archaic source. The books examined and quoted by the authors constitute a library by themselves, and their writers are among the ripest scholars of their time. Science is rending asunder the veil that conceals the adytum of every temple, and revealing to men the sanctities revered so confidingly during the world’s childhood. With these disclosures, there may be somewhat of the awe removed with which we have regarded the symbols, mysteries, and usages of that period; but the true mind will not be vulgarized by the spectacle.

The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries.

A Dissertation, by THOMAS TAYLOR, Translator of “Plato,” “Plotinus,” “Porphyry,” “Iamblichus,” “Proclus,” “Aristotle,” etc., etc. Third edition. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, Emendations, and Glossary, by ALEXANDER WILDER, M.D. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, $3.00.

In the Mysteries, the dramas acted at Eleusis and other sacred places, were embodied the deeper thoughts and religious sentiment of the archaic world. The men and women initiated into them were believed to be thenceforth under special care of God, for this life and the future. So holy and interior were the doctrines considered which had been learned in the Sanctuary from the two tablets of stone, that it was not lawful to utter them to another. What was seen and learned elsewhere might be admirable; but the exercises of Eleusis and Olympia had in them the something divine, and those who observed them were “the children of God,” and imaging Him in wisdom, intuitive discernment, and love.

The reader desirous of getting the kernel of the doctrines of Plato, Orpheus, Eumolpas, and their fellow-laborers, as well as of the Alexandrian Eclectics, will obtain invaluable aid from this treatise.

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Pearson’s Reprints of the Old Dramatists.

Being fac-simile reprints of the entire text of each author, without note or comment, with Life and Memoir. Handsomely printed on ribbed paper, made expressly for the purpose, and bound in antique boards, uncut edges, in exact imitation of the rare originals.

Comprising the following:

MRS. BEHN’S PLAYS, HISTORIES AND NOVELS. 6 vols. 12mo, “ “ “ “ “ “ 6 vols. 8vo, Large Paper.

MRS. CENTLIVRE’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 3 vols. 12mo, “ “ “ “ “ 8vo, Large Paper.

RICHARD BROME’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 3 vols. 12mo, “ “ “ “ “ 8vo, Large Paper.

GEORGE CHAPMAN’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 3 vols. 12mo, “ “ “ “ “ 8vo, Large Paper.

THOMAS DEKKER’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 4 vols. 12mo, “ “ “ “ “ 8vo, Large Paper.

THOMAS HEYWOOD’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 6 vols. 12mo, “ “ “ “ “ 8vo, Large Paper.

HENRY GLAPTHORNE’S PLAYS AND POEMS. 2 vols. 12mo, “ “ “ “ “ 8vo, Large Paper.

Together, 27 vols. 12mo, $54.00, or on large and thick paper, 27 vols. 8vo, $108.00.

The balance of the edition of these reprints having been recently “sold off” in London, I am now enabled to offer them at the above greatly reduced prices, for a brief period only. Several of the authors being already out of print, the time is not far distant when it will be impossible to procure complete sets, and collectors will do well to secure them while they have the opportunity.

Antiquities of Long Island.

By GABRIEL FURMAN. With a Bibliography by Henry Onderdonk, Jr. To which is added Notes, Geographical and Historical, relating to the town of Brooklyn, in Kings County, on Long Island. 1 vol. large 12mo, cloth, $3.00.

Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism.

By THOMAS INMAN, M.D., author of “Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names,” etc. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with an Essay on Baal Worship, on “the Assyrian Sacred Grove,” and other allied symbols. By JOHN NEWTON, M.R.C.S.E., etc. Profusely illustrated. 1 vol. cloth, $3.00.

This book contains in a nutshell the essence of Dr. Inman’s other publications, and for the reader of limited means is just what he requires. The subject of symbolism is as deep as human thought and as broad in its scope as humanity itself. The erudite thinker finds it not only worthy of his best energies, but capable of taxing them to the utmost. Many pens have been employed upon it, and it has never grown old. Dr. Inman’s views are somewhat peculiar; he has concentrated his attention to the ideas which he believes to underlie the symbolism of the most ancient periods, and can be traced through the autonomy of the Christian Church. He finds the relation which exists, and the antiquarian likewise, between Asshur and Jehovah, the Baal of Syria and the God whom Christians worship; and the mysteries of the Sacred Grove, of which the Old Testament says so much, are unfolded and made sensible to the common intellect. Scholars will welcome this volume, and the religious reader will peruse its pages with the profoundest interest. The symbols which characterize worship constitute a study which will never lose its interest, so long as learning and art have admirers.

The Lost Beauties of the English Language.

An Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen, and Public Speakers. By CHAS. MACKAY, LL.D. 1 vol. 12mo, cloth extra, $1.75.

Words change as well as men, sometimes from no longer meeting the new wants of the people, but oftener from the attraction of novelty which impels everybody to change. A dictionary of obsolete words, and terms becoming obsolete, is a valuable reminder of the treasures which we are parting with; not always wisely, for in them are comprised a wealth of expression, idiom, and even history, which the new words cannot acquire. Dr. Mackay has placed a host of such on record, with quotations to illustrate how they were read by the classical writers of the English language, not many centuries ago, and enables us to read those authors more understandingly. If he could induce us to recall some of them back to life, it would be a great boon to literature; but hard as it might have been for Cæsar to add a new word to his native Latin language, it would have been infinitely more difficult to resuscitate an obsolete one, however more expressive and desirable. Many of the terms embalmed in this treatise are not dead as yet: and others of them belong to that prolific department of our spoken language that does not get into dictionaries. But we all need to know them; and they really are more homogeneous to our people than their successors, the stilted foreign-born and alien English, that “the Best” is laboring to naturalize into our language. The old words, like old shoes and well-worn apparel, sit most comfortably.

Fu-Sang;

Or, the Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century. Containing a Translation of Professor Carl Neumann’s work on the subject, made under supervision of the Author; a letter by Colonel Barclay Kennon, late of the U. S. North Coast Pacific Survey, on the Possibility of an Easy Passage from China to California; and a Résumé of the Arguments of De Guigues, Klaproth, Gustave D’Eichthal, and Dr. Bretschneider on the Narrative of Hoei-Shin, with other Contributions and Comments, by CHARLES G. LELAND, 1 vol. 12mo, cloth, $1.75.

FRANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Lacroix.

(BIBLIOPHILE JACOB) XVIIIᵐᵉ SIÈCLE, INSTITUTIONS, USAGES, ET COSTUMES, France, 1700-1789. Illustrated with twenty-one large and beautifully executed chromo-lithographs, and upwards of three hundred and fifty engravings on wood after Watteau, Vanloo, Boucher, Lancret, Chardin, Bouchardin, Saint-Aubin, Eisen, Moreau, etc. 1 vol. thick Imperial 8vo, half red morocco, extra gilt leaves, $13.50.

----The same, full crimson Levant super-extra, $22.50.

The title of this new work, by the indefatigable Paul Lacroix, conveys but an indifferent idea of its contents. It is admirably gotten up, and is illustrated in a most profuse manner, equalling, if not excelling, the former works of the same author, giving us a living picture of the 18th century--the king, nobility, bourgeoisie, people, parliaments, clergy, army and navy, commerce, education, police, etc., Paris, its pleasures, promenades, fêtes, salons, cuisine, theatres, costumes, etc., etc.

A NEW WORK ON CHRISTIAN ART.

Jésus-Christ.

Attendu, vivant, continué, dans le monde, par LOUIS VEUILLOT, avec une étude sur l’Art Chrétien par E. CARTIER. 16 large and beautifully executed chromo-lithographs, and 200 engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, from the most celebrated monuments, from the period of the Catacombs to the present day. Thick Imp. 8vo, new half morocco extra, gilt leaves, $13.50.

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This elegant work is uniform in style and illustration with the works of Paul Lacroix, by the same house. The illustrations (which were prepared under the direction of M. Dumoulin), are of the most attractive character, and present a chronological view of Christian art. The exquisite series of chromos are from pictures by Giotto, Ghirlandajo, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael, Fra Bartolommeo-Angelico, Sacchi di Pavia, Flandrin, and a head of Christ from the Catacombs, Fac-similes, by Armand, Durand, from rare etchings by Marc Antonio, Dürer, etc., also a reduction from Prevost, plate of the wedding at Cana, after Paul Veronese, and nearly 200 charming engravings on wood.

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Jeanne D’Arc.

Par H. WALLON (Secrétaire de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Beautifully printed on heavy vellum paper, and illustrated with 14 CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, and one hundred and fifty fine engravings on wood after monuments of art, fac-similes, etc., etc. 1 large volume, thick royal 8vo, half red morocco, full gilt, gilt edges, $13.50. Full polished morocco extra, $22.50.

Contents: An account of the arms and military dresses of the period, accompanied by descriptive figures taken from the seals of the Archives; a map of feudal France, by M. Aug. Longnon, a new work of the highest importance to the history of the 15th century; a study of the worship shown to Joan of Arc in the French and Foreign literatures (it is known that during the lifetime of Joan, her wonderful mission was represented on the stage); fac-similes of letters of Joan, etc., etc.

Dramatists of the Restoration.

Beautifully printed on superior paper, to range with Pickering’s edition of Webster, Peele, Marlowe, etc. As the text of most of these authors has, in later editions, been either imperfectly or corruptly dealt with, the several Plays have been presented in an unmutilated form, and carefully collated with the earliest and best editions.

Biographical Notices and brief Notes accompany the works of each author. The series has been entrusted to the joint editorial care of JAMES MAIDMENT and W. H. LOGAN. It comprises the following authors:

SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 5 vols. JOHN CROWNE’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 4 vols. SIR ASTON COKAIN’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 1 vol. JOHN WILSON’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 1 vol. JOHN LACY’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 1 vol. SHAKERLEY MARMION’S DRAMATIC WORKS. 1 vol.

Together, 13 vols. post 8vo, white vellum cloth, $50.00. Large paper, 13 vols. 8vo, $75.00. Whatman’s drawing paper (only thirty copies printed), $110.00.

The First Edition of Shakespeare.

Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies. London. Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT. 1623. An exact reproduction of the extremely rare original, in reduced fac-simile by a photographic process, ensuring the strictest accuracy in every detail. Post 8vo, half mor., gilt top, $3.00.

“A complete fac-simile of the celebrated First Folio edition of 1623 for half-a-guinea is at once a miracle of cheapness and enterprise. Being in a reduced form, the type is necessarily rather diminutive, but it is as distinct as in a genuine copy of the original, and will be found to be as useful, and far more handy to the student.”--_Athenæum._

The Violin.

Its famous makers and their imitators. By GEORGE HART. In the above-mentioned work the author treats of the Origin, History, Development of this, the greatest of musical instruments, and gives interesting details concerning those ingenious makers who brought it to its present state of perfection.

It is illustrated by upwards of forty first-class Wood Engravings from Photographs, which represent the exact Outlines and Proportions of the masterpieces of ANTONIUS STRADIUARIUS, AMATI, BERGONZI, and others, including the celebrated violin by JOSEPH GUARNERIUS, on which PAGANINI achieved his marvellous success. 1 vol. post 8vo, cloth, $4.00.

The same. Large Paper. Demy 4to, cloth, $8.00.

A SUPERB SERIES OF ETCHINGS.

The Wilson Collection.

Collection de M. John W. Wilson. Exposée dans la Galerie du Cercle Artistique et Littéraire de Bruxelles, au profit des pauvres de cette Ville. Troisième édition. Handsomely printed on heavy paper, and illustrated with a series of 68 large and most exquisitely executed etchings, from the most remarkable pictures in this celebrated collection. FINE IMPRESSIONS. Thick royal 4to, paper, uncut, $25.00; or in half morocco, gilt tops, uncut, $30.00.

∵ Already out of print and scarce.

This charming catalogue was gotten up at the expense of the generous owner of the collection, and the money received from its sale donated to the fund for the relief of the poor of the city. The edition consisted of 1,000 copies. It was immediately exhausted.

The Catalogue is a model of its kind. The notices are in most instances accompanied with a fac-simile of the artist’s signature to the picture; a biographical sketch of the artist; notices of the engraved examples, if any; and critical notes on each picture.

The graphic department is, however, the great feature of this Catalogue, embracing, as it does, upwards of sixty examples of the best etchers of the present day, including Greux, Chauvel, Martial, Rajon, Gaucherel, Jacquemart, Hédouin, Lemaire, Duclos, Masson, Flameng, Lalanne, Gilbert, etc., etc.

Dürer’s “Little Passion.”

Passio Christi. A complete set of the Thirty-seven Woodcuts, by Albert Dürer. Reproduced in fac-simile. Edited by W. C. Prime. One volume, Royal 4to (13 × 10½ inches). Printed on heavy glazed paper, half vellum, $10.00. Morocco antique, $15.00.

The Little Passion of Albert Dürer, consisting of thirty-seven woodcuts, has long been regarded as one of the most remarkable collections of illustrations known to the world. Complete sets of the entire series are excessively rare. The editions which have been published in modern times in Europe are defective, lacking more or less of the Plates, and are of an inferior and unsatisfactory class of workmanship.

Æsop’s Fables.

With 56 illustrations, from designs by Henry L. Stephens. Royal 4to, cloth extra, gilt leaves, $10.00.

Mr. Stephens has no superior in the peculiar style of illustration which is most effective in bringing out the spirit of Æsop’s Fables, and in this volume he has given us fifty-six full page cartoons, brimming with droll humor, reciting the Fables over again, and enforcing their morals just as effectively as was done by the words of Æsop himself. The illustrations are among the finest specimens of art ever produced in this country, and the volume as a whole is most creditable to American artistic skill.

Boccaccio’s Decameron;

Or, Ten Days’ Entertainment. Now fully translated into English, with Introduction by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. Illustrated by STOTHARD’S Engravings on Steel, and the 12 unique plates from the rare Milan Edition. One volume, thick 12mo, cloth extra, $3.50, or handsomely bound in half polished Levant morocco, gilt top, $5.50.

The most complete translation, containing many passages not hitherto translated into English.

Bell’s Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression,

As connected with the Fine Arts. Profusely illustrated Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut, $4.50.

Tom D’Urfey’s “Pills to Purge Melancholy.”

Being a collection of Merry Ballads and Songs, old and new, fitted to all humors, having each its proper tune for voice and instrument. An exact and beautiful reprint of this very scarce work. Small paper, 6 vols., crown 8vo, bds., uncut, $15.00. Large paper, 6 vols. crown 4to. Only a few printed. Bds., uncut, $24.00.

“But what obtained Mr. D’Urfey his greatest reputation was a peculiarly happy knack he possessed in the writing of satires and irregular odes. Many of these were upon temporary occasions, and were of no little service to the party in whose cause he wrote; which, together with his natural vivacity and good humor, obtained him the favor of great numbers, of all ranks and conditions, monarchs themselves not excluded. He was strongly attached to the Tory interest, and in the latter part of Queen Anne’s reign had frequently the honor of diverting that princess with witty catches and songs of humor suited to the spirit of the times, written by himself, and which he sang in a lively and entertaining manner. And the author of the Guardian, who, in No. 67. has given a very humorous account of Mr. D’Urfey, with a view to recommend him to the public notice for a benefit play, tells us that he remembered King Charles II. leaning on Tom D’Urfey’s shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him.

“He appears to have been a diverting companion, and a cheerful, honest, good-natured man; so that he was the delight of the most polite companies in conversations, from the beginning of Charles II.’s to the latter part of King George I.’s reign; and many an honest gentleman got a reputation in his country by pretending to have been in company with Tom D’Urfey.”--_Chalmers._

UNIFORM WITH “TOM D’URFEY’S PILLS.”

Musarum Deliciæ;

Or, The Muses’ Recreation, 1656; Wit Restor’d, 1658; and Wit’s Recreation, 1640. The whole compared with the originals; with all the Wood Engravings, Plates, Memoirs, and Notes. A new edition, in 2 volumes, post 8vo, beautifully printed on antique laid paper, and bound in antique boards, $4.00.

A FEW LARGE PAPER COPIES have been prepared. 2 vols. 4to, $7.50.

∵ Of the Poets of the Restoration, there are none whose works are more rare than those of Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. The small volume entitled “Musarum Deliciæ; or, The Muses’ Recreation,” which contains the production of these two friends, was not accessible to Mr. Freeman when he compiled his “Kentish Poets,” and has since become so rare that it is only found in the cabinets of the curious. A reprint of the “Musarum Deliciæ,” together with several other kindred pieces of the period, appeared in 1817, forming two volumes of Facetiæ, edited by Mr. E. Dubois, author of “The Wreath,” etc. These volumes having in turn become exceedingly scarce, the Publishers venture to put forth the present new edition, in which, while nothing has been omitted, no pains have been spared to render it more complete and elegant than any that has yet appeared. The type, plates, and woodcuts of the originals have been accurately followed; the Notes of the editor of 1817 are considerably augmented, and indexes have been added, together with a portrait of Sir John Mennis, from a painting by Vandyke in Lord Clarendon’s Collection.

The Story of the Stick

In all Ages and all Lands. A Philosophical History and Lively Chronicle of the Stick as the Friend and Foe of Man. Its Uses and Abuses. As Sceptre and as Crook. As the Warrior’s Weapon, and the Wizard’s Wand. As Stay, as Stimulus, and as Scourge. Translated and adapted from the French of ANTONY RÉAL (Fernand Michel). 1 vol., 12mo, extra cloth, red edges, $1.50.

“Wrought for a Staff, wrought for a Rod.” SWINBURNE.--_Atalanta in Calydon._

The above work condenses in a lively narrative form a most astonishing mass of curious and recondite information in regard to the subject of which it treats. From the bludgeon of Cain to the truncheon of the Marshals of France, from the budding rod of Aaron to the blazing cane of M. de Balzac, the stick, in all its relations with man since first he meddled with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, is shown here to have played a far greater part in history than is commonly imagined. It has been the instrument of justice, it has been the tool also of luxury. It has ministered to man, its maker, pleasure as well as pain, and has served for his support as well as for his subjugation. The mysteries in which it has figured are some of them revealed and others of them hinted in these most entertaining and instructive pages, for between the days of the society of Assassins in the East and those of the society of the Aphrodites in the West, the Stick has been made the pivot of many secret associations, all of them interesting to the student of human morals, but not all of them wisely to be treated of before the general public. The late Mr. Buckle especially collected on this subject some most astounding particulars of social history, which he did not live to handle in his own inimitable way, but of which an adequate inkling is here afforded to the serious and intelligent reader.

OUR EMIGRANT ANCESTORS.

Original Lists of Persons of Quality.

Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving-men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. With their Ages, the Localities where they formerly Lived in the Mother Country, Names of the Ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. From MSS. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty’s Public Record Office, England. Edited by JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. A very handsome volume, crown 4to, 700 pages, elegantly bound in half Roxburghe morocco, gilt top, $10.00.

A few Large Paper copies have been printed, small folio, $17.50.

Blake’s (Wm.) Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

A reproduction and facsimile of this marvelous work, printed in colors, on paper made expressly for the work. 4to, hf. Roxburghe morocco, uncut, $10.00. 1790 (1868).

∵ _A very few copies remaining._

“The most curious and significant, while it is certainly the most daring in conception and gorgeous in illustration of all Blake’s works.”--_Gilchrist’s Life of Blake._

A NEW AND ATTRACTIVE BOOK ON MEXICO

A Peep at Mexico:

Narrative of a Journey Across the Republic, from the Pacific to the Gulf, in December, 1873, and January, 1874. By J. L. GEIGER, F.R.G.S. Demy 8vo, pp. 368, with 4 Maps and 45 original Photographs. Cloth, $8.50.

The English Rogue.

Described in the Life of MERITON LATROON, and other Extravagants, comprehending the most Eminent Cheats of both Sexes. By RICHARD HEAD and FRANCIS KIRKMAN. A fac-simile reprint of the rare Original Edition (1665-1672), with Frontispiece, Fac-similes of the 12 copper-plates, and Portraits of the authors. In Four Volumes, post 8vo, beautifully printed on antique laid paper, made expressly, and bound in antique boards, $6.00, or LARGE PAPER COPIES, 4 vols. 8vo, $10.00.

∵ This singularly entertaining work may be described as the first English novel, properly so-called. The same air of reality pervades it as that which gives such a charm to stories written by DeFoe half a century later. The interest never flags for a moment, from the first chapter to the last.

As a picture of the manners of the period, two hundred years ago, in England, among the various grades of society through which the hero passes in the course of his extraordinary adventures, and among gypsies, beggars, thieves, etc., the book is invaluable to students.

The Rump;

Or, An Exact Collection of the choicest POEMS and SONGS relating to the late Times, and continued by the most eminent Wits; from Anno 1639 to 1661. A Fac-simile Reprint of the rare Original edition (London, 1662), with Frontispiece and Engraved Title-page. In 2 vols. post 8vo, printed on antique laid paper, and bound in antique boards, $4.00; or Large Paper Copies, $6.00.

∵ A very rare and extraordinary collection of some two hundred Popular Ballads and Cavalier Songs, on all the principal incidents of the great Civil War, the Trial of Strafford, the Martyrdom of King Charles, the Commonwealth, Cromwell, Pym, the Roundheads, etc. It was from such materials that Lord Macaulay was enabled to produce his vivid pictures of England in the sixteenth century. To historical students and antiquaries, and to the general reader, these volumes will be found full of interest.

Westminster Drolleries.

Ebsworth’s (J. Woodfall) Westminster Drolleries, with an introduction on the Literature of the Drolleries, and Copious Notes, Illustrations, and Emendations of Text. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth, uncut, $8.00. Boston (Eng.), 1875.

∵ _Only a small_ Edition; privately printed.

Swinburne’s William Blake;

A Critical Essay. With Illustrations from Blake’s Designs in Fac-simile, some colored. 8vo, cloth, $3.00.

A valuable contribution to our knowledge of a most remarkable man, whose originality and genius are now beginning to be generally recognized.

Holbein and His Times.

By DR. ALFRED WOLTMANN, translated by F. A. BUNNETT. With portraits and nearly 60 fine engravings from the works of this wonderful artist. Royal 8vo, cloth extra, _gilt leaves_, $5.00.

Memoir of the Lady Ana De Osorio,

Countess of Chinchon, and Vice-Queen of Peru, A.D. 1629-39. With a Plea for the Correct Spelling of the Chinchona Genus. By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, C.B., Member of the Imperial Academy Naturæ Curiosorum, with the Cognomen of CHINCHON. Small 4to, with Illustrations, $7.50.

FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Lives of the Founders, Augmenters, and other Benefactors of the British Museum.

1570 to 1870. Based on new researches at the Rolls House; in the Department of MSS. of the British Museum; in the Privy Council Office, and in other Collections, Public and Private. By EDWARD EDWARDS. 1 vol. 8vo, large and beautiful type, cloth, $4.00. LARGE PAPER, ROYAL 8vo (only 60 copies printed), cloth, $10.00.

∵ _By a special arrangement with the English publishers, Messrs. Trübner & Co., the above is offered at the greatly reduced price mentioned._

Legge’s Chinese Classics.

Translated into English, with Preliminary Essays and Explanatory Notes. Vol. I., THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF CONFUCIUS. Vol. II., THE LIFE AND WORKS OF MENCIUS. Vol. III., THE SHE KING; OR, THE BOOK OF POETRY. Together 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, $10.00.

Diary of the American Revolution.

By FRANK MOORE, from Newspapers and Original Documents. Handsomely printed on heavy laid paper, and Illustrated with a fine series of steel-plate portraits, INDIA PROOFS. 2 vols. impl. 8vo, paper uncut, $8.00. New York, printed privately, 1865.

∴ Large Paper. Only a Limited Impression. Published at $20.00 per copy.

Littré’s French Dictionary.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française. Par E. LITTRÉ, de l’Institut (Académie Française et Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Four large vols. royal quarto, new half morocco, $40.00.

“No language that we have ever studied, or attempted to study, possesses a Dictionary so rich in the history of words as this great work which M. Littré has fortunately lived long enough to complete.”--_Saturday Review._

UNIFORM WITH THE LARGE FOLIO SHAKSPEARE EDITED BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

Halliwell’s New Place.

An Historical Account of the New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, the last residence of Shakspeare. Folio, cloth (uniform in size with the edition of Shakspeare’s Works edited by the Author), elegantly printed on super-fine paper, and illustrated by upwards of sixty woodcuts, comprising views, antiquities, fac-similes of deeds, etc. By JAMES O. HALLIWELL, F.R.S. $10.00.

This is a most important work for the Shakspearian student. The great researches of the author have enabled him to bring to light many facts hitherto unknown in reference to the “great bard.” All the documents possessing any real claim to importance are inserted at full length, and many of them are now printed for the first time. With respect to the illustrations, which have been executed by J. T. Blight, Esq., F. W. Fairholt, Esq., E. W. Ashbee, Esq., and J. H. Rimbault, Esq., no endeavors have been spared to attain the strictest accuracy.

_REISSUE OF CRUIKSHANK’S ETCHINGS._

Cruikshank’s Illustrations of Time.

A series of 35 Etchings. By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Oblong quarto, paper, carefully printed from the original plates. $2.00. 1874 ----The Same. COLORED. $3.00. 1874

Cruikshank’s Phrenological Illustrations;

or, An Artist’s View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim. By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. A series of _33 Etchings, illustrative of the various Organs of the Brain_. Oblong quarto, paper, $2.00. ----The Same. COLORED. $3.00.

∵ This reissue, of which only a limited impression has been made, is printed from the original coppers.

“Have we not before us, at this very moment, a print--one of the admirable ‘_Illustrations of Phrenology_’--which entire work was purchased by a joint-stock company of boys--each drawing lots afterwards for the separate prints, and taking his choice in rotation? The writer of this, too, had the honor of drawing the first lot, and seized immediately upon ‘Philoprogenitiveness’--a marvellous print, indeed--full of ingenuity and fine, jovial humor.”--WM. M. THACKERAY.

SEVEN GENERATIONS OF EXECUTIONERS.

Memoirs of the Sanson Family.

Compiled from Private Documents in the possession of the Family (1688 to 1847), by HENRI SANSON. Translated from the French, with an Introduction by CAMILLE BARRÈRE. Two vols. post 8vo, cloth, $5.50; or half calf, extra, $7.50.

“A faithful translation of this curious work, which will certainly repay perusal, not on the ground of its being full of horrors--for the original author seems to be rather ashamed of the technical aspect of his profession, and is commendably reticent as to its details--but because it contains a lucid account of the most notable _causes célèbres_ from the time of Louis XIV. to a period within the memory of persons still living.... The memoirs, if not particularly instructive, can scarcely fail to be extremely entertaining.”--_Daily Telegraph._

“A book of great though somewhat ghastly interest.... Something much above a mere chapter of horrors.”--_Graphic._

Avesta.

THE RELIGIOUS BOOKS OF THE PARSEES. From Professor SPIEGEL’S German Translation of the Original Manuscripts, by A. H. BLEECK. 3 vols. in 1, 8vo, cloth, $7.50.

English scholars who wish to become acquainted with the “Bible of the Parsees,” now for the first time published in English, should secure this copy. To thinkers the “Avesta” will be a most valuable work; they will now have an opportunity to compare its TRUTHS with those of the BIBLE, the KORAN, and the VEDAS.

Freemasonry.

PATON’S (CHARLES I.) FREEMASONRY, ITS SYMBOLISM, RELIGIOUS NATURE, AND LAW OF PERFECTION. Thick 8vo, new cloth, uncut, $3.50.

Hand-Book of Archæology.

Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman. By H. M. WESTROPP. Profusely Illustrated with Engravings on Wood. 8vo, new cloth, uncut, $3.00.

The Gnostics

AND THEIR REMAINS, ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL. By C. W. KING. Profusely Illustrated. 8vo, new cloth, gilt, $7.50.

∴ The only English work on the subject. _Out of print and scarce._

Champneys’ Quiet Corner of England.

Studies of Landscape and Architecture in Winchelsea, Rye, and Romney Marsh. With thirty-one Illustrations by ALFRED DAWSON. Imperial 8vo, cloth, gilt, gilt leaves, $5.00.

“Mr. Champneys is an architect who takes the liberty to think for himself--a man of much original genius and sincere culture, young, and with an enthusiastic contempt for conventionality, which I hope he may never outgrow.”--_New York Tribune, Letter from London Correspondent._

Ireland’s Shakspeare Forgeries.

The Confessions of William Henry Ireland, containing the Particulars of his Fabrication of the Shakspeare Manuscripts; together with Anecdotes and Opinions of many distinguished Persons in the Literary, Political, and Theatrical World. A new edition, with additional Fac-similes, and an Introduction by RICHARD GRANT WHITE. 1 volume, 12mo, vellum cloth, uncut edges, $2.00; or, on Large and Thick paper, 8vo, $3.50. Edition limited to 300 copies.

Enthusiasts are easily duped, and of all enthusiasts, excepting the religious, those who give themselves up to the worship of some great poet or artist are the easiest prey of the impostor. To them, a book, a letter, the least scrap or relic which is connected directly, or it would seem indirectly, with their idol, is an inestimable treasure, and they are uneasy until it is in their possession, or removed hopelessly beyond their reach. Of all these enthusiasts the “Shakspearians” are, and for a hundred years have been, at once the most numerous, and the most easily, because the most willingly, deceived. To their craving and their greed we owe the “Ireland Forgeries,” which were merely an impudent attempt to supply a demand--an attempt made by a clever, ignorant young scamp, who succeeded in deluding the whole body of them in England two generations ago. His “Confessions” are the simply told story of this stupendous imposture: and the book--long out of print and scarce--is one the most _naïf_ and amusing of its kind in the whole history of literature. His exhibition of the “gulls,” whom he made his victims, is equally delightful and instructive; and chiefly so, because of his simplicity and frankness. He conceals nothing, palliates nothing; tells the whole story of his ridiculous iniquity, and leaves a lasting lesson to the whole tribe of credulous collectors, Shakspearian and others.

“It has frequently afforded me a matter of astonishment to think how this literary fraud could have so long duped the world, and involved in its deceptious vortex such personages as Parr, Wharton, and Sheridan, not omitting Jemmy Boswell, of Johnsonian renown; nor can I ever refrain from smiling whensoever the volumes of Malone and Chalmers, together with the pamphlets of Boaden, Waldron, Wyatt, and Philalethes, otherwise, ---- Webb, Esq., chance to fall in my way.”--W. H. IRELAND’S “_Chalcographimania_.”

Womankind in Western Europe,

From the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century. _Illuminated Title_, 10 CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, and _numerous Woodcuts_. Small 4to, cloth, extra gilt, $4.50. 1869.

This work is something more than a drawing-room ornament. It is an elaborate and careful summary of all that one of our most learned antiquaries, after years of pleasant labor on a very pleasant subject, has been able to learn as to the condition of women from the earliest times.

DeFoe’s Life and Works,

Life and Newly-Discovered Writings of Daniel DeFoe. Comprising Several Hundred Important Essays, Pamphlets, and other Writings, now first brought to light, after many years’ diligent search. By WILLIAM LEE, Esq. With Facsimiles and Illustrations. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, $6.00. Or in tree calf, extra, $15.00.

Vol. I.--A NEW MEMOIR OF DEFOE. Vols. II. and III.--HITHERTO UNKNOWN WRITINGS.

A most valuable contribution to English history and English literature.

For many years it has been well known in literary circles that the gentleman to whom the public is indebted for this valuable addition to the knowledge of DeFoe’s Life and Works has been an indefatigable collector of everything relating to the subject, and that such collection had reference to a more full and correct Memoir than had yet been given to the world.

World’s Masonic Register:

Containing Name, Number, Location, and Time of Meeting of every Masonic Lodge in the World, etc., also every Chapter, Council, and Commandery in the United States and Canada, Date of Organization, etc., and Statistics of each Masonic Jurisdiction, etc. By Leon Hyneman. _Portrait_, thick 8vo, pp. 566, cloth, $2.00.

The Rosicrucians;

Their Rites and Mysteries. With chapters on the Ancient Fire and Serpent-Worshippers, and Explanations of the Mystic Symbols represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the primeval Philosophers. By HARGRAVE JENNINGS. Crown 8vo, 316 wood engravings, $3.

∴ A volume of startling facts and opinions upon this very mysterious subject.

Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity:

The Gnosis and Secret Schools of the Middle Ages, Modern Rosicrucianism, and Free and Accepted Masonry. By John Yarker. 12mo, new cloth, $2.00.

∴ “The sublime depths of the mysteries of antiquity have been sounded but by few minds in the lapse of ages, and those who have leisure to follow upon their tracks will meet with an ample reward.”

ONLY ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED.

Duyckinck’s Cyclopædia of American Literature.

Printed by Alvord, on a hand-press, and on tinted paper of extra weight and finish, prepared expressly for the work. For the convenience of persons desirous of illustrating the work, for which purpose it is admirably adapted, it has been issued in five parts, with separate rubricated titles, each of the two original volumes being divided into two parts, of about three hundred and fifty pages each, and the new Supplement forming the fifth. A finely engraved portrait printed on India paper is given with each part. The subjects of these portraits are Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, William Hickling Prescott, and, with the Supplement, a portrait of the late George L. Duyckinck, newly engraved in line, by Burt, after an original painting by Duggan. 5 vols. 4to, uncut, $25.00. Half morocco, gilt top, $50.00.

Only thirteen sets of this edition now remain.

Payne Knight’s Worship of Priapus.

A discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. By RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, Esq. A new edition. To which is added an essay on the worship of the generative powers during the middle ages of Western Europe. Illustrated with 138 engravings (many of which are full-page), from Ancient Gems, Coins, Medals, Bronzes, Sculpture, Egyptian Figures, Ornaments, Monuments, etc. Printed on heavy toned paper, at the Chiswick Press, 1 vol. 4to, half Roxburghe morocco, gilt top, $35.00.

“R. P. Knight, the writer of the first ‘Essay,’ was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the British Parliament, and one of the most learned antiquaries of his time. His museum of Phallic objects is now most carefully preserved in the London British Museum. The second ‘Essay,’ bringing our knowledge of the worship of Priapus down to the present time, so as to include the more recent discoveries throwing any light upon the matter, is said to be by one of the most distinguished English antiquaries--the author of numerous works which are held in high esteem. He was assisted it is understood, by two prominent Fellows of the Royal Society, one of whom has recently presented a wonderful collection of Phallic objects to the British Museum authorities.”

Gesta Romanorum.

Or, Entertaining Moral Stories. Invented by the Monks as a fireside recreation; and commonly applied to their Discourses from the Pulpit, whence the most celebrated of our Poets and others, from the earliest times, have extracted their Plots. Translated from the Latin, with Preliminary Observations and Copious Notes, by the Rev. CHARLES SWAN. New edition, with an Introduction by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. 2 vols. 8vo, vellum cloth, uncut, printed on large and heavy paper, $10.00. Full calf, extra, $17.50.

A limited edition only was printed, of which now only 14 copies remain.

“They” (the Monks) “might be disposed occasionally to recreate their minds with subjects of a light and amusing nature; and what could be more innocent or delightful than the stories of the GESTA ROMANORUM!”--_Douce’s Illustrations to Shakespeare._

Jones’ (Owen) Grammar of Ornament.

A Series of 112 exquisitely colored Plates, executed in Chromolithography, comprising 3000 examples of the Decoration of all Ages and Nations, with Descriptive Letterpress, illustrated with Woodcuts. Folio, cloth, extra, gilt edges. $30.00.

This new edition is a reproduction of the larger work on a smaller scale; a few of the plates which could not be reduced have been printed on a larger scale, and the same artistic matter has been extended from 100 to 112 plates.

Dibdin’s Bibliomania;

Or, Book-Madness: A Bibliographical Romance. With numerous Illustrations. A new Edition, with a Supplement, including a Key to the Assumed Characters in the Drama. 8vo, half-Roxburghe, $6.00; a few Large Paper copies, Imp. 8vo, half-Roxburghe, the edges altogether uncut, $12.00.

“I have not yet recovered from the delightful delirium into which your ‘Bibliomania’ has completely thrown me. Your book, to my taste, is one of the most extraordinary gratifications I have enjoyed for many years.”--ISAAC DISRAELI.

Greville’s Memoirs.

Journal of the Reign of King George IV. and King William IV. By the late Charles C. F. Greville, Esq. Edited by Henry Reeve. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, $7.50.

No equally important contribution to the political history of the last generation has been made by any previous writer. As a man of rank and fashion, Mr. Greville associated, on terms of equality, with all the statesmen of his time, and his long tenure of a permanent office immediately outside of the circle of politics compelled him to observe a neutrality which was probably congenial to his character and inclination.--_Saturday Review._

Archie Armstrong’s Banquet of Jests.

Reprinted from the original edition, together with ARCHIE’S DREAM (1641), handsomely printed in antique style, with red line borders. Square 12mo, new vellum cloth, uncut, $6.50.

The same, printed on Whatman’s paper (limited to 25 copies). Square 12mo, new cloth, $9.00.

∴ The edition (of all kinds) was limited to 252 copies. It is completely exhausted, and copies are now difficult to obtain.

“A more amusing budget of odd stories, clever witticisms, and laughter-moving tales, is not to be found in Jester’s Library.”

Nares’ Glossary.

Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require Illustration in the Works of English Authors, particularly Shakespeare and his contemporaries. NEW EDITION, with additions, etc., by J. O. Halliwell and Thomas Wright. 2 vols. 8vo, new cloth, $6.50.

Gavin Douglas’ Poetical Works.

With Memoir, Notes and Glossary, by J. Small, M.A., F.S.A. Illustrated by specimens of the Manuscripts, and the title-pages and woodcuts of the early editions in facsimile. Handsomely printed in 4 vols. post 8vo, cloth. $18.00. 1874.

----The same, LARGE PAPER. _Fifty copies only printed._ 4 handsome demy 8vo vols. cloth, $25.00. (Published @ £6.6.0.)

The distinguished poets, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, form a trio of whom Scotland has every reason to be proud; but, as the Works of the second of these have not hitherto been collected, an Edition of them has long been a _desideratum_ in Scottish Literature.

Walford’s County Families.

The County Families of the United Kingdom; or, Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing a Brief Notice of the Descent, Birth, Marriage, Education, and Appointments of each person; his Heir Apparent or Presumptive; as also a Record of the Offices which he has hitherto held, with his Town Address and Country Residence. By EDWARD WALFORD, M.A. 1 vol. thick imperial octavo. Cloth, gilt edges. 1,200 pages, $8.00.

Caxton’s Statutes of Henry VII., 1489.

Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by JOHN RAE, Esq., Fellow of the Royal Institution. The earliest known volume of Printed Statutes, and remarkable as being in English. It contains some very curious and primitive Legislation on Trade and Domestic Matters. In remarkable fac-simile, from the rare original. Small folio, half morocco, uncut, $7.50.

Owen Jones’ Alhambra.

Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Alhambra, with the elaborate details of this beautiful specimen of Moorish Architecture, minutely displayed in 100 beautifully engraved plates, 67 of which are highly finished in gold and colors, from Drawings taken on the spot by JULES GOURY and OWEN JONES, with a complete translation of the Arabic Inscriptions, and an Historical Notice of the Kings of Granada, by PASCUAL DE GAYANGOS. 2 vols. imperial folio (pub. at £24), elegantly half bound morocco, gilt edges, full gilt backs. $100.

The same work on Large Paper, 2 vols. atlas folio, 100 plates, 67 of them in gold and colors, the engraved plates on India paper (pub. at £36), half bound morocco, gilt edges. $125.

For practical purposes, to architects the small paper copies will suffice; but gentlemen desirous of adding a noble book in its finest appearance to their library, must have a Large Paper copy.

“In spite of earthquakes, mines and counter-mines--spite of Spanish convicts, French soldiers, Spanish bigotry, and Flemish barbarism of thieves and gipsys, contrabandists and brigands, paupers, charcoal-burners and snow-gatherers, the Alhambra still exists--one of the most recent of European ruins. It is the most perfect in repair and the richest in design; it has suffered less from man, or the elements, and has fallen more gently into decay. It was not molten like Nineveh in an hour, or buried in a day like Pompeii; it was not smitten down at a blow like Corinth, or sapped for centuries like Athens. Though it has been alternately a barrack, a prison, a tea garden, and an almshouse--though its harem has been a hen-house, its prisons pens for sheep; the Alhambra is still one of the most wonderful productions of Eastern splendor, lingering in Europe long after the Moslem waves have rolled back into Asia, like a golden cup dropped on the sand, or like the last tent of some dead Arab, still standing, when the rest of his tribe have long since taken up their spears, untethered their camels, and sought their new homes in the far desert.”

Prostitution.

DUFOUR (PIERRE). Histoire de la Prostitution chez tous les peuples du Monde, depuis l’antiquité la plus reculée jusqu’à nos jours. _Illustrated with numerous fine engravings on steel._ 6 vols. in 3, 8vo, hf. cf. gilt tops. _Scarce._ $18.00. 6 vols. 8vo, cloth, $13.50.

ORIGINAL and ONLY GENUINE EDITION.

In this learned work--the best that we have on the subject--many of the chapters are devoted to dissertations on matters of general interest to students of literature. We instance Chap. XXIV., containing a treatise on the Obscenity of the French language, the Jargon of Argot, its Origin, etc.; also in Chap. XXXII., a highly interesting bibliographical account of the Aretin plates by Marc Antonio, etc., etc.

The author was threatened with criminal prosecution, and pledged himself never to reproduce the work; it has now become scarce.

_NEW AND MAGNIFICENT WORK ON TEXTILE FABRICS._

Ornamental Textile Fabrics

Of all Ages and Nations. A practical Collection of Specimens. Illustrated with Fifty Plates in Gold, Silver, and Colors, Comprising upwards of 1,000 various styles of Ancient, Mediæval and Modern Ornamental Designs of Textile Fabrics, with Explanatory Description and a General Introduction. By M. DUMONT-AUBERVILLE. 1 vol. folio, cloth, gilt, extra. $25.00.

The Editor of this work, M. Dupont-Auberville, is known as one of the most distinguished archæologists of modern France, and Textile Art is the department of archæology to which he has devoted the best years of his life. His collection of specimens of textile fabrics embraces models taken from all ages and from all countries, and is admitted by all artists to be unique in every respect.

The works of ancient textile art, both in the East and the West, are done full justice to, but at the same time the framer of “Ornamental Textile Fabrics” has drawn more amply from the extensive stock of models belonging to more recent periods. From his immense collection of specimens taken from the Renaissance and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he has selected those subjects which are most worthy of the attention both of the amateur and the manufacturer. In this manner the work now submitted to the public is not a mere ornamental one, but at the same time it possesses a practical usefulness which must cause it to be valued by all who make a study of taste in manufacturing industry in general, and the art of weaving in particular.

_AN ENTIRELY NEW AND REVISED EDITION._

Old Print Collectors’ Guide:

An Introduction to the Study and Collection of Ancient Prints. Frontispiece, plates of monograms, and illustrations. By WM. H. WILLSHIRE. Handsomely printed. _2 large vols. demy_ 8vo, half morocco, gilt top, $11.00.

∴ This new edition entirely supersedes the previous one, having, in addition to much new matter, full lists of Monograms and marks of celebrated collectors and amateurs. A work indispensable to the Print Collector, being a concentration in one volume of all the varied information relative to the History of Engraving and of Ancient Prints.

CONTENTS.--I. Engraving in Ancient Times. II. Engraving in General, from the beginning of the 13th to the 15th Century. III. On the Various Processes or kinds of Engraving. IV. Advice on the Study and Collection of Prints. V. The Various Schools of Engraving. VI. The Northern Schools to the time of Dürer. VII. Northern Schools from Dürer to the 17th Century. VIII. The Southern Schools of Wood Engraving. IX. The Masters of “Chiaro oscuro.” X. Metal Engraving. Masters of 1446, etc. XI. Dutch and Flemish Schools. XII. French and English Schools. XIII. Chief Etchers of the Northern Schools. XIV. On Engraving in the “Dotted Manner.” XV. The Southern Schools of Engraving on Metal. Nielli. XVI. Italian Schools. XVII. School of Marc Antonio. XVIII. Chief Etchers of the Italian Schools. XIX. Mezzotinto Engravings and Engravers. XX. On the Examination and Purchase of Ancient Prints. XXI. On the Conservation and Arrangement of Prints. Appendix.--British Museum Collection, Douce Collection, Oxford, Polytypage, Cliché, Mezzotinto Engraving, High-priced Books, Varia Bibliography, Monograms, indexes, etc., etc.

The Works of William Unger.

=_A Series of Seventy-two Etchings after the Old Masters._= With Critical and Descriptive Notes by C. VOSMAER. Comprising the most celebrated paintings of the following artists: TINTORETTO, RUYSDAEL, REMBRANDT, GUIDO, POUSSIN, RUBENS, OSTADE, JAN STEEN, VAN DYCK, WOUVERMANS, PAUL POTTER, FRANS HALS, VERONESE, JORDAENS, VAN DER VELDE, BROUWER, etc., etc.

Ten parts folio, 16 × 22 inches, printed on heavy Dutch paper, $60.00. Or half morocco, extra gilt top, elegant and substantial, $80.00.

“No engraver who ever lived has so completely identified himself with painters he had to interpret as Professor Unger in the seventy-two plates which compose his ‘Works.’ He can adopt at will the most opposite styles, and work on each with ease, a fluency such as other men can only attain in one manner--their own--and after half a lifetime. Indeed, one would not be going far wrong to describe Professor Unger as an art critic of very uncommon insight, who explains the sentiment and execution of great painters with an etching needle instead of a pen.

“It has been said of engraving that it is an unintellectual occupation, because it is simply copyism; but such engraving as this is not unintellectual, for it proves a delicacy and keenness of understanding which are both rare among artists and critics. Unger has not the narrowness of the ordinary artist, for he can enter into the most opposite styles; nor has he the technical ignorance of the ordinary critic, for he can draw--I will not say like a great master, but like twenty different great masters.

“Mr. Vosmaer, the now well-known Dutch critic, who writes in English and French as well as in his own language, has much increased the interest in Unger’s etchings by accompanying them with a valuable biographic essay of his own, much superior to the ordinary ‘letter-press,’ which publishers in general appear to consider as a necessary companion to engraving.

“The seventy-two etchings before us are, on the whole, the most remarkable set of studies from old masters which has been issued by the enterprise of our modern publishers, and they can hardly fail to make fine work better appreciated both by artists and amateurs.

“A few words of praise are due to the spirited publisher, Mr. Sijthoff, of Leyden, for the manner in which these etchings of Unger have been published. They are printed on fine Dutch paper, and mounted (pasted by the upper edge only) on sufficiently good boards in such a manner as to enter into the most carefully arranged collections without further change. They are accompanied by a text printed with the greatest taste, on very fine Dutch paper. This series is printed in one class of proof only, and issued at a price that is most reasonable, and Mr. Sijthoff deserves our thanks for placing works of real art, thoroughly well got up, within the reach of cultivated people who have limited incomes.

“We recommend them strongly to all artists and lovers of art as a valuable means of art education and a source of enduring pleasure.”--HAMERTON in the _International Review_ for Jan., 1876.

Etchings after Frans Hals.

A Series of 20 beautifully executed Etchings. By WILLIAM UNGER. With an Essay on the Life and Works of the artist, by C. Vosmaer. Two parts, complete, royal folio. Impressions on India paper, $25.00. Selected proofs, before letters, on India paper, $40.00. Artist proofs on India paper, $60.00. Or elegantly bound in half Levant morocco, extra, gilt top, $15.00 additional to the above prices. Uniform with Unger’s works.

“They who know the Dutch painter Hals only through the few portraits by him which have reached this country have but a slight comparative acquaintance with his works. ‘A stranger to all academical lore, to all literary co-operation,’ writes Mr. Vosmaer, ‘Frans Hals appeared merely as a portrait-painter, like most of the modern artists of his youth ... true to life, but also excelling by naturalness and masterly handling. Subsequently he portrayed the joyous popular life of the streets and the tavern; at last those phases of national social life, which have at once their image and memorial in the pictures of the arquebusiers and the civic governors.’”--_London Art Journal_, Aug. 1873.

_THE NEW FRENCH ART JOURNAL._

L’Art.

Revue Hebdomadaire Illustrée. (M. Eugène Véron et Chas. Tardieu, rédacteurs.) Handsomely printed on heavy toned paper, and illustrated with several hundred engravings on wood from drawings and pictures by celebrated cotemporary artists, examples of antique and modern sculpture, objects of Art Industry in all branches, and a series of superbly executed etchings by the best living etchers, executed expressly for this work; being principally from the more noticeable pictures exhibited in the Salons of Europe, carefully printed on Holland paper. Forming four volumes a year. Royal folio (17½ × 12 in.) of about 500 pp. each, with nearly 200 woodcuts, facsimiles, etc., and upwards of twenty etchings in each volume. 4 vols., folio. Stitched, paper covers, uncut, $36.00. In cloth, gilt top, uncut edges, $45.00. Handsomely bound in half red morocco (Jansen style), gilt tops, uncut edges, $65.00.

ANOTHER EDITION, printed throughout on heavy _Holland paper_, in the most careful manner. The etchings in two states, _Artist proof_ on _Japan paper_, and ordinary print on Holland paper. The edition is _strictly limited to one hundred copies, numbered_. Forming 4 thick volumes, folio. Price, $125.00.

∵ N. B.--Payments to be made on delivery of each quarterly volume.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“Nowhere but in Paris could such a Review be produced every week as _L’Art_, so magnificent in every respect, paper, typography, illustrations, and above all, so many sided in its view of art, and so abundant and interesting in its information. It has now been brought to the fourth year of its life, with every sign of assured and increasing vigor, and we are glad to learn, from the report of the editor to the subscribers, that something more substantial than the _succès d’estime_ has rewarded the experiment of such a costly venture.... It is simply the cheapest and the best thing of its kind. M. Véron seems, at any rate, to have solved the problem of combining excellence with cheapness. We find, besides numerous little facsimiles of sketches, and autograph letters of eminent artists, musicians, and dramatists, no less than seventy fine etchings by such men as Flameng, Courtry, Desbrosses, Lançon, etc., and woodcuts of Claude’s and Turner’s pictures, with a series of very remarkable copies of the famous tapestries at Madrid, from the designs of Albrecht Dürer and Van Eyck, by Edmond Yon, Perrichon, and C. Maurand, as well as singularly fine examples of wood engraving. Supposing the reading matter of the Review were as ephemeral and trivial in its purpose as the cheapest of the cheap instead of being, as it is, rich and racy, with the native style of all French pens, thoughtful and often profoundly suggestive, and generally complete, in reference to detail, the two etchings by Flameng, from pictures by Frans Hals and Nicholas Maas, alone would be really most valuable and acceptable to the print-collector.... While _L’Art_ is conducted in this style the editor may feel quite secure that France will not lose that artistic supremacy she has long held.”--_London Times._

“It would be easy and pleasant to go on discoursing about the pictures in _L’Art_, a paper which is so full of good, sober, and just criticisms, trustworthy news about art, and designs not otherwise to be obtained by most people.”--_Saturday Review._

“The new volume of _L’Art_ sufficiently manifests the success of a very valuable and interesting publication.... There is no other journal in existence which so happily and skilfully combines the labors of artists and authors which does not subordinate art to letters, or letters to art, but permits them to go ‘hand in hand, not one before another.’... In brief, this grand folio volume of _L’Art_ abounds in matters of interest to all readers and students of æsthetic and cultivated taste.”--_The World_ (London).

“There is some monotony in praising each successive portion of a periodical as it appears with an absolutely equal cordiality; but the evenness of merit in _L’Art_ makes this uniformity of commendation a duty.”--_The Nation._

“America is so destitute of illustrated works which can at all compare with _L’Art_ that she cannot do better than study and enjoy this French publication. Certainly there is no other means by which so many valuable pictures can be obtained at so small a price.”--_The Christian Union._

“Sumptuous in paper and type, lavish in illustrations, and with critical and explanatory text of singular merit; the most famous of modern art journals.”--_N. Y. Times._

The Portfolio:

An Artistic Periodical, edited by PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON. Illustrated with Etchings, Autotypes, Woodcuts, Facsimiles, Engravings, Heliogravures, etc. _Published monthly._

Subscription reduced to TEN DOLLARS per annum.

∴ _Sent, Postage free, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the Subscription price._

“The chief intention of ‘The Portfolio’ is to supply to its subscribers, at a lower cost than would be possible without the certain sale of a regular periodical circulation, Works of Art of various kinds, but always such as are likely to interest a cultivated public; and to accompany them with literature by writers of proved ability, superior to mere letter-press, and more readable than pure criticism or cataloguing.” Among the artists who have furnished original etchings are Bracquemond, Lalanne, Rajon, Legros, and Leopold Flameng, who has given some noble specimens of his skill, especially in the reproduction of “The Laughing Portrait of Rembrandt,” in his particular province as a reviver of the works of that artist. The subjects in all cases are chosen for their worth and rarity, and in these respects the “Portfolio” fairly rivals its great contemporary, one of the noblest fine-art periodicals ever issued, the Parisian “Gazette des Beaux-Arts.” It has the same finish in execution in the minutest details of paper and print, and is in every way a _thoroughly artistic production_, far ahead in this way of anything of the class heretofore issued in England.

There are numerous single illustrations in the “Portfolio,” worth the price of the volume, suitable for framing.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“Of the PORTFOLIO altogether it is to be said, that not only is it _the first periodical in the English language devoted to fine-art, but that it leads all others by a very great distance_, whatever the second and third of such publications may be taken to be.

“We warmly commend it to the notice of all who would cultivate in themselves and their families an appreciation of the beautiful in nature and art. The illustrations are largely of sylvan scenery, and etchings from the finest paintings are given, with letter-press descriptions, and the best articles from the highest authorities, so that the monthly paper itself, an illustration of what is taught, becomes a complete magazine of the science of art. _We would regard the introduction of such a journal into the family as a good educator, while it will prove a source of exquisite pleasure to those who have already a taste for the beautiful._”--_N. Y. Observer._

“We look for the PORTFOLIO as for the only serial published, in which works of art of a certain kind and of peculiar merit are to be found. Etching is not as popular, perhaps, as it should be, but if anything is likely to bring its merits before the public, it is such examples as are to be had here. Their effect is striking, and in execution they are little short of perfect; at any rate they exhibit this kind of work in the highest degree of perfection to which it has attained.”--_N. Y. Daily Times._

“Mr. Hamerton’s PORTFOLIO is easily chief among English art periodicals, and has the advantage of being written by men who are not only familiar with the literature of art and the works of artists, but are artists by profession, and so know the feelings, aims, and technicalities of artists. The editor is probably better acquainted with continental artists and their work than most of the insular fellows, and his art theories and criticisms are proportionately more catholic and valuable. The PORTFOLIO, instead of being a magazine of current gossip about artists and their doings, is a work of permanent value, apart from its excellent illustrations, as a collection of able essays, critical, historical, technical, and personal, very free from narrowness and professional or national prejudice. It is the glory of the Portfolio that it is in a way cosmopolitan, free from the prejudices of nations and schools.”--_Atlantic Monthly._

“The Portfolio is very charming. An Art periodical far superior to anything which has hitherto appeared.”--_Guardian._

“From the first it has stood nearly alone as really ‘an artistic periodical.’ An hour spent over the Portfolio is one of refreshment, encouragement, and unalloyed delight.”--_Spectator._

“Of the Etchings the merits are unquestionable: indeed, the work is enriched with some of the finest examples. The literary part is generally worthy of praise for being scholarly, graceful, and interesting.”--_Athenæum._

“Dealing with artistic subjects generally, and always in a spirit of intelligence and refinement.”--_Graphic._

“To the portfolio is unanimously accorded the first place as an artistic periodical.”--_Cambridge Chronicle._

Back volumes for 1870, ’71, ’72, ’73, ’74, ’75, ’76, and ’77 may still be had on application. Any volume sold separately. Price, in _blue cloth_, _gilt leaves_, $14.00 each.

Transcriber’s Note:

Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Those in bold are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to precede the index. Printing errors, such reversed order, or partially printed letters, diacriticals, and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Except as noted below for Greek and Hebrew, misspelled words and irregular use of quotation marks were not changed. Footnote 608 has two anchors.

Τhree-column texts in the original were reformatted as blockquotes to improve display in handheld devices. The “pigpen” cipher is illustrated on lines 17308 through 17340.

In the index, punctuation was standardized and a few page number references were adjusted to match book pages. Some entries are not in alphabetical order; these were left as printed. Term indexed as “spirit-ancestor” does not appear in either Volume 1 or Volume 2.

Corrections to Greek:

TEXT: line 4162, from Επὶ ὸπτομαι to Επι οπτομαι line 9998, from καθολὶκὰ πνεὺματα to καθολικὰ πνεύματα line 12258, from παλινθρομοῡσι to παλινδρομοῦσι line 13192, from Ιαο to Ιαω line 14205, from Υαχινθε to Υακινθε line 15053, from αχοιμητω σροφαλιγγι to ακοιμητω στροφαλιγγι FOOTNOTES: FN [561] from γρωτογονος to πρωτογονος INDEX: line 33587, from ανθροπος to ανθροπως line 37599, from Λογος Αληθης to Λόγος Αληθής line 41224, from Λογος Αληθης to Λόγος Αληθής

Corrections to Hebrew:

TEXT: line 7560, from חכטות to חכמות line 8031, from בויצ to בויץ line 9250, from בתר to כתר line 9269, from תפא־ת to תפארת line 9277, from שבינה to שכינה line 9387, from שמ to שם line 9433, from עולמ to עולם line 9552, from חכמות־נסתדה to חכמות־נסתרה line 11531, from אין to עין line 11595, from עצחיומ to עצחיום line 11652, from אפּוַימ to אפּוַים line 13015, from וה to יה line 13227, from יח to יה line 20155, from קיך to קין line 20218, from תבל to הבל line 20226, from קיון to קינן line 20245, from אוד to ארד line 20248, from לםך to למך line 21151, from יבת to יכח FOOTNOTES: [878] from כחכות עור to כתנות עור [912] from הוי to חוי INDEX: line 34848, from יהוה אלהימ to יהוה אלהים