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OF Mrs. Brassey's "Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam," just ready, in an illustrated American edition from Henry Holt & Co., the London Spectator says: "It is altogether unlike all other books of travel. Mrs. Brassey writes delightfully of men and cities, and has a faculty for seeing and acquainting herself with the conditions of human life everywhere, unsurpassed within our knowledge of travellers." Indeed the history of this leisurely and luxurious cruise of the Brassey family and a few friends, in their own yacht, is given in such easy and familiar style as to make the reader feel almost of the party. It is almost as good, indeed, as going one's self. on HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & Co. will publish im. mediately the late Dr. Clarke's book 37 PARK ROW, N. Y. 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