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Birds and Poets, with other Papers. By John Burroughs. 16mo, $1.50.

Contents: Birds and Poets; April; Touches of Nature; A Bird Medley; Spring Poems; Our Rural Divinity; Emerson; The Flight of the Eagle (Walt Whitman); Before Genius; Before Beauty.

Mr. Burroughs, as a careful observer of nature, and one of the most fascinating descriptive writers, is an author whose reputation will constantly increase; for what he does in not only an addition to our information, but to the good literature that we put on the shelf with Thoreau and White of Selborne.—Hartford Courant.

Country By-Ways. By Sarah Orne Jewett. 18mo, $1.25.

In free and flowing lines Miss Jewett has drawn exquisite pictures of river and road and woodland, that fascinate by their happiness of descriptive detail, and by the kinship to humanity which the author finds in the flowers and trees and fields. Her treatment of the individuality and life of nature is masterly, and the skill with which she projects her figures on the canvas of her imagination is effective and suggestive.—Boston Transcript.

Drift-Weed. Poems. By Celia Thaxter. Small 4to, full gilt, $1.50

None of the poets of to-day have made so deep and sympathetic a study of the shifting aspects of the sea as has Mrs. Thaxter, and none of them have interpreted its meanings and analogies with half her grace and subtlety.—Boston Journal.

Fresh Fields. By John Burroughs. 16mo. $1.50.

Contents: Nature in England; English Woods—A Contrast; In Carlyle's Country; A Hunt for the Nightingale; English and American Song Birds; Impressions of some English Birds; In Wordsworth's Country; A Glimpse of English Wildflowers; British Fertility; A Sunday in Cheyn Row; At Sea.

Locusts and Wild Honey. By John Burroughs. 16mo, $1.50.

Contents: The Pastoral Bees; Sharp Eyes; Is it going to rain? Speckled Trout; Birds and Birds; A Bed of Boughs; Birds'-Nesting; The Halcyon in Canada.

My Summer in a Garden. By Charles Dudley Warner. 16mo, $1.00.

You cannot open his book without lighting on something fresh and fragrant.—New York Tribune.

Nature. "Little Classics," Vol. XIV. 18mo, $1.00.

Contents: A Hunting Of the Deer, by Charles Dudley Warner; Dogs, by P. G. Hamerton; In the Hemlocks, by John Burroughs; A Winter Walk, by H. D. Thoreau; Birds and Bird Voices, by N. Hawthorne; The Fens, by C. Kingsley; Ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper; Ascent of Mount Tyndall, by Clarence King; The Firmament, by John Ruskin.

Nature, together with Love, Friendship, Domestic Life, Success, Greatness, and Immortality. By R. W. Emerson. 32mo, 75 cents; School Edition, 40 cents.

Pepacton. By John Burroughs. 16mo, $1.50.

Contents: Pepacton; A Summer Voyage; Springs; An Idyl of the Honey-Bee; Nature and the Poets; Notes by the Way; Foot-Paths; A Bunch of Herbs;. Winter Pictures; A Camp in Maine; A Spring Relish.

Poems. By R. W. Emerson. With Portrait. Riverside Edition. 12mo, gilt top, $1.75.

This volume contains nearly all the pieces included in the former editions of "Poems" and "May-Day," beside other poems not hitherto published. The collection includes a very large number of poems devoted to nature and natural scenery.

Poems. By Celia Thaxter. Small 4to, full gilt, $1.50.

They are unique in many respects. Our bleak and rocky New England sea-coast, all the wonders of atmospherical and sea-change, have, I think, never before been so musically or tenderly sung about.—John G. Whittier.

Poetic Interpretation of Nature. By Principal J. C. Shairp. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.

Full of learning and genuine appreciation of the poetry of Nature.—Portland Press.

Seaside Studies in Natural History. By Alexander Agassiz and Elizabeth C. Agassiz. Illustrated, 8vo, $3.00.

The scene of these "Studies" is Massachusetts Bay.

Summer. Selections from the journals of H. D. Thoreau. With a Map of Concord. 12mo, gilt top, $1.50.

He was the one great observer of external nature whom America has yet produced, a most subtle portrayer of his own personal thoughts and life, a tribune of the people, a man who joined the strongest powers of thought with an absolute love of liberty and a perfect fearlessness of mind.—The Independent (New York).

Wake-Robin. By John Burroughs. Revised and enlarged edition, illustrated. 16mo, $1.50.

Contents: The Return of the Birds; In the Hemlocks; Adirondac; Birds'-Nests; Spring at the Capital; Birch Browsings; The Bluebird; The Invitation.

Winter Sunshine. By John Burroughs. New Edition, revised and enlarged, with frontispiece illustration. 16mo, $1.50.

Contents: Winter Sunshine; Exhilarations of the Road; The Snow Walkers; The Fox; A March Chronicle; Autumn Tides; The Apple; An October Abroad.

The minuteness of his observation, the keenness Of his perception, give him a real originality, and his sketches have a delightful oddity, vivacity, and freshness.—The Nation (New York).

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The Gypsies.

By CHARLES G. LELAND.

Containing accounts of the Russian, Austrian, English, Welsh, and American Gypsies; together with Papers on the Gypsies in the East, Gypsy Names and Family Characteristics, the Origin of the Gypsies, a Gypsy Magic Spell, Shelta, the Tinker's Talk; beside Gypsy Stories in Romany, with Translations. In one volume, crown 8vo, red top, $2.00.

From the New York Tribune.

Mr. Leland thoroughly understands the love of the gypsy for the free and picturesque life out-of-doors; he feels it too; his pages glow with it; his fragments of description borrow from it an irresistible charm. He brings therefore to the writing of these fascinating chapters the rare qualifications of an exquisite sympathy with his subject and a poetic intuition of its inner character. But his enthusiasm is tempered by his shrewdness, and saved from extravagance by his keen sense of humor. It is impossible to read such a book without sharing the author's delight in the queer and not over reputable but highly romantic company to which it introduces us; and yet it is a great storehouse of serious and recondite information.

From The Independent (New York).

A volume beautiful for type and paper, fresh and full with the strange, mysterious history of the race of which it treats. It abounds in interesting studies of the language, in which the author is at home, and of the people. His sketches embrace experiences among gypsies of different nations,—Russian, Austrian, English, Welsh, and American,—and are original and immensely entertaining. The volume contains a number of excellent gypsy songs, well translated.

From The Churchman (New York).

The book is, on many accounts, both valuable and fascinating, and is undoubtedly the fullest and most reliable account of the gypsies ever written.

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