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Colonial History of Romance.

THE COLONIAL CAVALIER. By Maud Wilder Goodwin. Illustrated by Harry Edwards. 12mo. Cloth, extra. $2.00.

THREE HEROINES OF NEW ENGLAND ROMANCE: PRISCILLA. By Harriet Prescott Spofford AGNES SURRIAGE. By Alice Brown. MARTHA HILTON. By Louise Imogen Guiney. Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. 12mo. Cloth, extra. $2.00.

The New Novel by the Author of "With
Fire and Sword."

CHILDREN OF THE SOIL. Translated from the

Polish of Sienkiewicz by Jeremiah Curtin. 8vo. Cloth. $2.00.

A Romance of Lake Garda.

A MADONNA OF THE ALPS. Translated from the

German of B. Schulze Smidt by Nathan Haskell
Dole. 16mo. Cloth, extra. $1.25.

THE NOVELS OF

CHARLES LEVER.

THE HEAD OF A HUNDRED. A Romance of the

A new uniform Library Edition, issued entirely ir "'"

Colony of Virginia. By Maud Wilder Goodwin, subscription, with 250 etched plates by Phiz, Cruik

16mo.

Cloth, extra. $1.25.

The Choice Works of George Sand.

Comprising THE MASTER MOSAIC WORKERS, FADETTE, THE DEVIL'S POOL, and FRANÇOIS THE WAIF. Complete and faithful translations. Beautifully printed editions, with etched frontispieces. 4 vols. 16mo. Boards, gilt.

Illustrated Christmas Catalogue mailed on application.

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LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, 254 Washington Street, Boston.

THE NOVELS OF

CAPTAIN MARRYAT.

shank, and other artists, nearly four hundred illustr», tions in the text, and an Introduction by Andrew Lang ||

This publication gives for the first time a compact, finely illustrated, and beautifully printed edition of le Crown Novels of CHARLES LEVER, one of the most fam novelists of modern times, including all his mikte.

on the Contine

romances, novels of adventure, of life
of diplomatic life, and of Irish life and characar.
The new type used is large and clear, and the bo
are bound in vellum cloth, gilt top, on linen peper, a
the details of manufacture, ensuring a portat se

beautiful set of books.

The edition is limited to 1,250 numbered sets of fe volumes, medium 8vo. Price to subscribers, $2.50 per

volume.

With 150 full-page Etchings.

Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. take pleasure in announcing that they have in active preparation an entirely new, complete, and uniform Library Edition || MARRYAT, most carefully produced in conjunction with of the famous Sea Stories of CAPTAIN FREDERICK Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co., London, and issued for the first time in clear and beautiful type and choice illustrated. Mr. Reginald Brimley Johnson, the edit r of Messrs. Dent & Co.'s edition of Jane Austen': Novels, will contribute a full, critical, and biograph. ical Introduction to the series, and a bibliographiol note to each story.

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The volumes will be demy 8vo in size, printed on Dickinson hand-made paper, and bound in buckram cloth, gilt top, with a special design in gold upon 1/2 ▼ back. Each volume will contain 6 full-page etching). The set will comprise 24 vols., and the price will $3.50 per volume, two volumes to be issued every month. The edition will be limited to 750 sets, issued I for the complete set. by subscription, and subscriptions will be taken onỹ •

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The publishers reserve the right to advance the price at any time for any sets remaining uns ze bscribed.

Prospectuses of LEVER and MARRYAT mailed « application.

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LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, 254 Washington Street, Boston.

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HARPERS MAGAZINE

For 1896

Will contain some NOTABLE Features:

BRISEIS

A New Novel by WILLIAM BLACK

Illustrated by W. T. SMEDLEY, will begin in the
December (1895) Number.

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PAPERS ON GEORGE WASHINGTON

By Professor WOODROW WILSON

With Illustrations by HOWARD PYLE
Will be a striking feature of American History.

ON SNOW-SHOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS. Twenty-six hundred miles into the unexplored British Northwest after big game. Several Papers, by CASPAR W. WHITNEY. Fully Illustrated.

Novelettes by MARK TWAIN and LANGDON ELWIN MITCHELL.

Short Stories by OCTAVE THANET, Miss WILKINS, RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, JULIAN
RALPH, BRANDER MATTHEWS, OWEN WISTER, and others.

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GEORGE W. SMALLEY'S Personal Recollections, and Oddities and Celebrities of the British
Parliament, by THOMAS POWER O'CONNOR, M. P.

Mr. HOWELLS'S Literary Reminiscences; three articles by LAURENCE HUTTON on Literary
Landmarks of Italy; a paper on Menzel, the great German painter, by Dr. CHARLES
WALDSTEIN; very interesting papers on recent medical science by
Dr. ANDREW WILSON of Edinburgh, etc.

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HARPER'S WEEKLY

is an illustrated weekly for the whole country.

The volume for 1896 will make illustrative record of

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Two Great Serials. Illustrated.
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