WHAT A CAREFUL TOILET

IS TO A MAN

of dignity; what a sweet, rich voice

is to a friend's welcome; what the laughter of children is to an Indian summer day; what the freshness of the morning dew is to a flower garden-such is good varnishing to

rich furniture.

Mexican and South American

POEMS

(SPANISH AND ENGLISH.)

Translated by Ernest S. Green and Miss H. Von Lowenfels, late teacher of Spanish, French and German in Urban Academy, San Francisco.

Contains fifty of the gems of Spanish-American poetry, from ten of the representative poets of Mexico and South America, with the English translation facing the original text.

The poems are most artistically as well as accurately translated. Toledo Blade.

A useful supplementary auxiliary to the student of Spanish. -Golden Era.

All lovers of Spanish poetry and all students of Spanish will find the book delightful and useful.-New Orleans Picayune.

Translating poetry in rhyme and measure is no easy task, but it has been accomplished by the translators of the volume before us with credit to themselves and jnstice to the poems translated.-Daily San Diegan.

To one unfamiliar with Spanish, this volume is a revelation of the poetic wealth of the literature of these Spanish-American countries, while to one who reads Spanish it will be a welcome addition to the school readers and manuals of literature.-San Francisco Chronicle.

Handsomely bound in rich brown cloth, lettered in gold on side and back; 398 pp.; 12 mo. Price, by mail or express, prepaid, $2.00. Address, DODGE & BURBECK, Publishers, SAN DIEGO, Cal.

OF

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DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETRY, ETC.

ABBEY.

POEMS OF HENRY ABBEY. One volume, 16mo cloth; v and 256 pages. Sent postpaid for $1.25. Address HENRY ABBEY, Kingston, N. Y., or apply to any bookseller to whom this may be shown.

I have greatly enjoyed some of Mr. Abbey's poems, and several have struck me greatly. "Karagwe" is particularly beautiful, while the tone of all is elevated and bracing.-Roden Noel.

CRONKHITE.

REYMOND,

A Drama of the American Revolution.

BY HENRY M. CRONKHITE.

12mo, cloth, pp. 101, $1.00.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, Publishers, New York and London.

SPALDING.

Poetical Works of Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding, D. D.

AMERICA, AND OTHER POEMS. BY HENRY HAMILTON.

THE POET'S BY HENRY HAMILTON.

16mo, cloth, pp. 210, $1.00. PRAISE.

16mo, cloth, pp. 165, $1.00. "Bishop Spalding has written two books, which have excited much attention from the critics of both Europe and America. 'Poetry is, as Aristotle says, the most philosophic of all writing. It is thought transfused with the glow of emotion, and consequently thought made beautiful, attractive, contagious.' This, said by Bishop Spalding, in Education and the Higher Life,' is true of the poetry in his books, 'America' and 'The Poet's Praise.' Perhaps Wordsworth has influenced Henry Hamilton's' poems more than any other poet. It is hard to trace any other influence, for he is so individual, so sincere, so philosophical, at once brilliant and glowing; and it cannot be said that religion has cramped his art, for it has broadened and perfected it,-made it as serene and pure among earthly things as the lady in Milton's 'Comus.'"-Maurice Francis Egan in The Magazine of Poetry. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, Publishers,

VOCABULARY OF ENGLISH RHYMES.

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