Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Literary Bulletin. Epiphany, Lent, Whitsun, Trinity, and Easter, and the little book is so tasteful that it forms a most suitable gift for any of the days it celebrates. Mrs. Elizabeth Akers has collected her finest lyrics and ballads into a volume entitled "The Silver Bridge and other Poems." Mr. C. P. Cranch gives us a very attractive new book of verse, "Ariel and Caliban," and a new edition of his masterly translation of the Eneid of Virgil. "An Old Garden" is the title of a quaintly-bound volume of thoughtful, sympathetic, lyr ical poems by Mrs. Margaret Deland. Professor Child, of Harvard, has just reissued his excellent book of selected "Poems of Religious Sorrow, Comfort, Counsel, and Aspiration." Biography. Several noteworthy additions to the valuable literature of biography have recently been made. Rev. O. B. Frothingham has written the life of Rev. 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The Life and Works of Agassiz in six uniform volumes form a notable collection, which can hardly fail to win many readers. The Riverside Tennyson in six tasteful volumes, and the new issue of the Riverside Shakespeare in six volumes, somewhat thinner and at lower cost than before, are worthy of special attention. The new and complete edition of Jones Very's Poems, with three Essays of positive value, and a Memoir by Dr. James Freeman Clarke and an Introduction by Dr. Bartol, will appeal to lovers of the ideal in life and in literature. The Cabinet Edition of Poets presents in a new and more attractive form the volumes which have hitherto been known as the Diamond Edition. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Literary Bulletin. The Atlantic Monthly for 1887 will have two noteworthy serial stories which ought to have a host of readers. Mrs. Oliphant, the most distinguished novelist of women now living, and one of the best of any country or time, will, in association with Mr. Aldrich, whom it is superfluous to praise, contribute a story entitled "The Second Son." And Mr. F. Marion Crawford, author of "A Roman Singer" and many other remarkably popular novels, will furnish a story of Constantinople under the title "Paul Patoff." Dr. Holmes we cannot promise exactly, but we may fairly say in confidence that the readers of the ATLANTIC for 1887 will probably be charmed and stimulated, and instructed and entertained, by him not unfrequently. Mr. Hamerton will continue his comparison of French and English, both of whom he understands so well and describes so fairly and so delightfully. And Mr. John Fiske will furnish several papers on American history, somewhat like those which during the present year have been so notable a feature of the magazine. His fullness of knowledge and the clearness and felicity of his style enable him to make history "more interesting than a novel," infinitely more interesting than most novels. Space will not permit to mention the other attractions which will make the ATLANTIC for 1887 peculiarly desirable, and justify the Boston Academy in saying of the magazine, "This is still the leading purely literary magazine of America. One may confidently expect to find in each number the very best fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. Editorially, it is ever frank and fresh in statement, and ever conservative in judgment." From Hoppin's Auton House. Finally. Mr. Lowell's "Democracy and other Addresses" includes, in addition to his famous English addresses, the elaborate and memorable discourse given From Hawthorne's Wonder-Book, Holiday Edition. by him on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Harvard College. 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