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Westward Ho! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight. By CHARLES KINGSLEY. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

"Westward Ho!" is one of the most vigorous, powerful, and fascinating of novels. It is strong and graphic in its portraiture, intense and dramatic in its diversified coloring. The nervous and effective style, the skillful blending of the manifold portraits into one comprehensive picture, are among the merits which have made this Kingsley's greatest work.-Frederic Mynon Cooper.

The Pilgrim's Progress. By JOHN BUNYAN, with a life of Bun yan by James Anthony Froude. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

No other book except the Bible has gone through so many editions and at tained to so wide a popularity in all languages as "The Pilgrim's Progress.

It narrates the struggles, the experiences, and the trials of a Christian in his passage from a life of sin to everlasting felicity: and it abounds with those little inimitable touches of natural feeling and description which have placed its author among the most picturesque of writers. . Bunyan may truly be called the prince of allegorists, and he is also the most perfect representative of the plain, vigorous, idiomatic, and sometimes picturesque and poetical language of the common people.-Taken from “ A Manual of English Literature," by T. B. Shaw.

Self-Help, with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. By SAMUEL SMILES. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

"Self-Help" is a book which helps and stimulates men to elevate and improve themselves. It teaches them that the humblest person who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country. Hundreds of its terse and happy phrases have become the common property of mankind, and it has been already translated into four or five of the European languages.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.

Jane Eyre. By CHARLOTTE BRONTÉ. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Few novels have gained such immediate popularity as was accorded to “Jane Eyre." This was doubtless due in part to the freshness and vigor of mind it evinced; but it was obtained not so much by these qualities as by the frequent dealings in moral paradox, and by the hardihood of its assaults upon the prejudices of proper people. Throughout the tale the author exhibits a perception of character and the power of delineating it, which is, considering her youth. remarkable.-Frederic Mynon Cooper.

The Moonstone. A Novel. By WILKIE COLLINS. Portrait 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Like the generality of his romances, the interest of "The Moonstone” depends chiefly upon the development of a plot whose systematic intricacies pique the curiosity until the last moment, and upon the concealment of a mystery which baffles and defies solution until it shall have contributed to no end of cross purposes and caused a prodigious amount of incertitude and wretchedness.Frederic Mynon Cooper.

For sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent post-paid on receipt of price, bu the puòlisher, 4. L. BURT, 66 Reade Street, New York.

The Descent of Man. By CHARLES DARWIN. Portrait. 12mo, illustrated, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. By CHARLES DICKENS. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Nicholas, the hero of the tale is a young man of impetuous temper, not always blameless in his actions, indeed, not always agreeable, yet upon the whole, so manly, so honest and so lovable, that we overlook his faults, and sympathize with him in his misfortunes, and rejoice with him in his successes.

Lucile. By OWEN MEREDITH (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

In the character of Lucile we have the author's highest and purest embodi nent of intellect and virtue. First subduing her own nature, she is content to spend all the treasures of her life and genius in offices of well-doing, and from the heart of a woman thoroughly true and good, and ever ready for self-sacrifice, she finally diffuses health and strength into the hearts of all around her.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By CHARLES DICKENS. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top $1.00.

The Pickwick Papers chronicle the travels and adventures of the immortal Mr. Pickwick and his fellow members of the Pickwick Club, and the varied pictures of life through which we follow the kind old bachelor, his three friends and his attached servant, the inimitable Sam Weller, are of absorbing interest.

First Principles. By HERBERT SPENCER. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The Personal History of David Copperfield. By CHARLES DICKENS. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

David Copperfield is a novel full of tenderness and purity of feeling, and in it Dickens presents to the full that comprehensiveness of sympathy which springs from a sense of brotherhood with all mankind.

The Old Curiosity Shop. By CHARLES DICKENS. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

"The Old Curiosity Shop" abounds with vivid descriptions of human life and character, and the reader's attention is held until the very end Of all of Dickens' works there is none which appeals more strongly to our heart than this story of childish abnegation and devotion.

Middlemarch:

A Study of Provincial Life. By GEORGE ELIOT. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00. "Middlemarch" is a study of Provincial life, and is unquestionably one of the strongest of English novels. It is a picture, vast, swarming, deep colored, crowded with episodes, with vivid images, with lurking master strokes, with brilliant passages of expression, and as such we may freely accept and enjoy it.

The Life of Christ. By FREDERIC W. FARRAR, D.D., F. R. S. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Great ability, ripe literary skill, graphic description and a fine spiritual insight are conspicuous in every chapter and taken altogether it is the most marked of all the many attempts in our own days to present to us the human life of the Savior of mankind."

For sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent post-paid on receipt of price, by the pud disher, A. L. BURT, 66 Reade St., New York.

An Egyptian Princess. By GEORGE EBERS. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Kenilworth. By SIR WALTER SCOTT. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. By WILLIAM MAKE' PEACE THACKERAY. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Mosses from an Old Manse. By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The Light of Asia, or The Great Renunciation. ARNOLD, M.A. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

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Les Miserables. A Novel. By VICTOR HUGO. Illustrated. Two vols., 12mo, cloth, gilt top, each $1.00.

The Count of Monte Cristo. By ALEXANDRE DUMAS. Illustrated. Two vols., 12mo, cloth, gilt top, each $1.00.

Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. By THOMAS CARLYLE. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam. By MRS. BRASSEY. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

Picciola, or the Prison Flower. By X. B. SAINTINE. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The Scarlet Letter. By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Portrait 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

East Lynne. Ry MRS. HENRY WOOD. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

The Woman in White. By WILKIE COLLINS. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.

For sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent post-paid on receipt of price, by the publisher, A. L. BURT, 66 Reade St., New York.

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