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THE WIND OF DESTINY.

By ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY, author of "But Yet a Woman." 1 vol. 16mo, $1.25. The scenes of this novel are partly in Europe, partly in America. It is even stronger and more interesting than Professor Hardy's earlier novel, which had so remarkable popularity; and is in the same pure, bracing atmosphere which made that so wholesome and tonic.

ST. GREGORY'S GUEST, AND RECENT POEMS.

By JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 16mo, parchment, $1.00.

Mr. Whittier has here collected the poems he has written since the publication of "The Bay of Seven Islands" in 1883.

SIGNS AND SEASONS.

By JOHN BURROUGHS, author of "Wake Robin," "Fresh Fields," etc. 16mo, gilt top, $1.50. CONTENTS: A Sharp Lookout; A Spray of Pine; Hard Fare; Tragedies of the Nests; A Snow Storm; A Taste of Maine Birch; Winter Neighbors; A Salt Breeze; Spring Relish; A River View; Bird Enemies; Phases of Farm Life; Roof-Tree.

A delightful book of out-door and domestic life.

CALIFORNIA.

From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. A Study of American Character. Vol. VII. in series of American Commonwealths. By JOSIAH ROYCE, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Harvard College. With a fine Map. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.

Dr. Royce is a native Californian, is acquainted with the State as a citizen, and by very careful research he has collected in a single volume the curious and remarkably instructive facts which the unique history of California offers.

THE AUTHORSHIP OF SHAKESPEARE.

By NATHANIEL HOLMES. New Edition, greatly enlarged. 2 vols. 12mo, gilt top, $4.00. Judge Holmes is a firm believer in the theory that Lord Bacon wrote the plays which bear Shakespeare's name. His work on the subject is unquestionably the fullest and most worthy of attention of all the books ever written to prove this thesis.

HAMLET'S NOTE-BOOK.

By W. D. O'CONNOR. Crown 8vo, $1.00.

An important contribution to the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. It comprises a thorough-going and brilliant defense of Mrs. Pott's "Promus" against the attacks of Richard Grant White. Incidentally it has an entirely new and striking theory of the authorship and purpose of the Sonnets, and closes with a powerful parallel between the lives of Bacon and Shakespeare.

GENTLEMEN'S MAGAZINE LIBRARY.

Vol. V. ARCHEOLOGY, GEOLOGICAL AND HISTORIC. 8vo, cloth, $2.50; Roxburgh, printed on hand-made paper, $3.50 net; Large-paper edition, Roxburgh (50 copies for America), printed on hand-made paper, $6.00 net.

This volume deals with prehistoric and early historic archæology, and records all the numerous barrow openings and other excavations which were reported to the Gentleman's Magazine.

VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS.

Selections for Schools and Private Reading. Compiled by ABRAHAM FIRTH, lately Secretary of the American Humane Association. New Edition, enlarged. 16mo, $1.00.

ONE SUMMER.

By BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD, author of "One Year Abroad," "Aulnay Tower," etc. New Popular Edition. With forty-three Illustrations by AUGUSTUS HOPPIN. 1 vol. 12mo, $1.25 (previous price $2.50).

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