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Uniform with “PROBLEMATIC CHARACTERS,” “THROUGH NIGHT
TO LIGHT,” and “THE HOHENSTEINS.” 12mo,

cloth, pp. 691. Price $2.00.

In announcing THE FOURTH EDITION of Professor Raphael Pum-
pelly's Narrative of his Tour Across America and Asia, the publishers invite
attention to the almost unprecedented favor with which the work has been
received by that portion of the press whose verdict is considered final.

“One of the most interesting books of travel we have ever careful reading of it will give more real acquaintance with
read.

We have great admiration of the book, both the physical geography and the ethnology of the
and feel great respect for the author for his intelligence, northern temperate regions of both hemispheres than per-
humanity, manliness, and philosophic spirit, which are con- haps any other book in existence.”-N. Y. Evening Post.
spicuous throughout his writings." -Nation.

“We cannot now recall any recent traveller whose diction
"Fresh throughout-fresh in material and fresh in style. is quite as perfect in style, and whose faculty of description
Sensible and racy, full of important facts, and enlivened

so admirably supplements his faculty of seeing. He sees only
by entertaining adventures. It is rarely the fortune of a

what we would like to see, and while he does not weary one
young man to have so good a tale to tell, and rarer still for a with tedious descriptions of things which strike only his own
young man to tell his tale so well." -N. A. Review.

attention, he does not fill his landscape with the huge historic
objects of the guide-books.

Whatever else there is
“Mr. Pumpelly's narrative is interesting and instructive about his book, there is no baldness. It is warm, glowing,
throughout

He makes no attempt at eloquence human, and luminous through and through." -Overland
or fine writing, but his book is often eloquent, and is charac | Monthly.
terized by that best kind of fine writing which consists in pre-

“One of the most fascinating and intelligent books of
senting concrete details picturesquely and forcibly, with

travels that has ever fallen into my hands,

and the
entire simplicity of statement."- Allantic Momthly.

next book of travels you buy, let it be this.”—Irenæus (Rev.
" It is crowded with entertainment and instruction. A Dr. Prime) in New York Observer.

ACROSS AMERICA AND ASIA.

Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World, and of Residence in Arizona, Japan, and China.
By RAPHAEL PUMPELLY, Professor in Harvard University, and some time Mining Engineer
in the employ of the Chinese and Japanese Governments. Royal 8vo, with maps,

wood-cuts, and lithographic fac-similes of Japanese color-printing. Price $5.
THE FIRST EDITION WAS PUBLISHED NOV., 1869; THE SECOND, DEC., 1869;

THE THIRD, JAN., 1870; THE FOURTH, APR., 1870.
LEYPOLDT & HOLT, 25 Bond St., New York.

NEW BOOKS

SOON TO BE PUBLISHED BY

SHELDON & COMPANY,

498 & 500 Broadway, N. Y.

Advance Orders from the Trade solicited.

CHARLES READE'S GREAT STORY,
PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE.

THE AUTHOR'S EDITIONS,
Printed from advanced sheets, for which Sheldon & Co. pay Mr.

Reade a very large sum.

1.
THE OCTAVO ILLUSTRATED EDITION,

IN THE LARGEST TYPE OF ANY EDITION OF THIS GREAT STORY,
Will be published with 16 full-paged illustrations, printed on tinted paper. Bound in cloth.
Price.....

Same edition, with all the illustrations, bound with paper covers. Price..

.$1.50

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II.
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Fields, Osgood & Co. will be supplied by us with this edition.

III.
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$1.25

Sanctum Sanctorum;

Or, LEAVES FROM AN EDITOR'S TABLE.
I vol. izmo, bound in cloth...

$1.50

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$

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SHELDON & CO., NEW YORK,

A TOURIST'S GUIDE

TO THE

YO-SEMITE VALLEY,

AND ALL THE

SCENES OF WONDER AND CURIOSITY

CALIFORNIA.

THE BIG TREE GROVES—THE NATURAL CAVES AND BRIDGES—THE QUICK-
SILVER MINES OF NEW ALMADEN AMD HENRIQUITA-MOUNT
SHASTA–THE FARALLONE ISLANDS, WITH THEIR
SEA LIONS AND BIRDS—THE GEYSER

SPRINGS-LAKE TAHOE,

AND

OTHER PLACES OF INTEREST.

Illustrated with over One Hundred Engravings

ALSO,

GIVING OUTLINE MAP OF ROUTES TO YO-SEMITE AND BIG TREE GROVESTABLES OF DISTANCES--RATES OF FARE-HOTEL CHARGES,

AND OTHER DESIRABLE INFORMATION

FOR THE TRAVELLER.

By J. M. HUTCHINGS (of Yo-Semite).

An elegant 4to volume, tinted paper, extra cloth, bevelled edges. Price,

A. ROMAN & CO.,

& CO., PUBLISHERS, 417 & 419 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.

417& 419 Montgomery St, A. ROMAN & CO.'S

San Francisco, Cal.

BULLETIN

LITERARY

A Monthly Record of Current Literature.

OOTOBER, 1870.

* All Articles mentioned in the Bulletin, supplied at the shortest notice. U

OONTENTS. LIST OF New PUBLICATIONS.

3 ILLUSTRATED HOLIDAY BOOKS.... WAR MAPS......

8 NOTES ON BOOKS AND AUTHORS.. AMERICAN EDITIONS OF DICKENS' WORKS. 9 CURRENT LITERATURE

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, has just come over from London, entitled ing at?” “Well,” said the boy, “I'm laughing “Reminiscences of America ; by two English because you are awfully sold : I ain't the boy ?"men " (Scribner), which describes the manner in EDITOR'S DRAWER, in Harper's Magazine for which the twain rippled through the country, September. what they saw in the country, and what they heard in the streets. As instances of the “hyper- RENTICEANA.—About the only person that bole” of the country they record the following: we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by be. In describing the large trees of the Yosemite ing lionized was a Jew named Daniel. Valley, one said that “it took two men and a An English writer says in his advice to young boy to see the top of them.” One being asked married women, “that their mother Eve married by a friend if he saw a certain mosquito on the a gardener.” It might be added that the garweather-vane of the State House (!) at St. Louis, dener, in consequence of the match, lost his answered, “Yes, I see it winking.”. A third, situation, in describing the prices of carriages in Niagara, Whatever Midas touched was turned into gold, asserted that the shack fares are so high that in these days, touch a man with gold and he'll the Falls are insignificant by comparison." turn into anything.–Prenticoana; or, Wit and Another story is related, with the appearance of Humor in Passages (Claxton, R. & H.). truth, of a boy who was watching his schoolfellows as they snowballed an old gentleman's There is a good story told of the night editor windows. The old gentleman rushed out of his of an Irish newspaper, who, being left without house, determined, if possible, to inflict some se. assistance in a busy time, found himself unable vere corporal punishment on the offender, saying, to cope with all the intelligence that flowed in when he caught the boy, "Now, you rascal, roll upon him, so that towards four o'clock in the thrash you within an inch of your life !" Ac. morning he wound up his night's work by pencordingly he began to beat him, when the boy ning the following extraordinary notice : "Owing immediately commenced laughing, and continued to a most unusual pressure of matter, we are until the old gentleman stopped beating him, | compelled to leave several of our columns blank."

FIELDS, OSGOOD & CO.'S

NEW BOOKS,

FOR SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1870.

3 vols.

LONGFELLOW'S DANTE. Popular Edition,

THE DIVINA COMMEDIA OF DANTE. Translated by HENRY WADSWORTH LONG-

FELLOW. With copious Notes and Illustrative Extracts from various authors. Popular Edition.

Uniform with the Cambridge Edition of LONGFELLOW's Works, and the Farringford TENNYSON.

12mo. $7.50.

LONDON LYRICS. By FREDERICK LOCKER. I vol. 16mo. $1.50.

LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS ARNOLD OF RUGBY. By

ARTHUR P. STANLEY, Dean of Westminister. With fine Portrait. Popular Edition. Two

volumes in one. $2.00

THE GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF BRAZIL. By CH. FRED.

Harrt, Professor of Geology in Cornell University. With 100 Illustrations and Maps, and a

Full Index. I vol. 8vo. $5.00.

I 2mo.

THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT: Being Recollections of

Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok. By Anna HARRIETTE LEONOWENS. With Illus-
trations, from Photographs presented to the Author by the King of Siam.

I vol.

THE ATLANTIC ALMANAC FOR 1871. Containing, in addition to the usual Calendar and

Astronomical matter, a fine variety of choice and interesting reading. Profusely Illustrated.

50 cents,

PUSSY WILLOW. By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. A charming book for Boys and Girls.

Copiously Illustrated. I vol. Small 4to. Uniform with “Queer Little People.” $1.50.

GOETHE'S FAUST. Translated into English Verse by BAYARD TAYLOR. Uniform with LONG-

FELLOW's Dante and BRYANT's Homer. Part I. One volume. Imperial octavo. $5.00

[Part II., completing the Work, will be issued in the Spring of 1871.)

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Red-

Line Edition. Uniform with the Red-Line Tennyson, Whittier, Longfellow, Scott, &c. Care-

fully printed, with a red-line border to each page. With Illustrations. A choice Gift-Book.