THESE stories are unique in recent literature for their intensity, their fascination, their thorough knowledge of the human heart, and the marvelous powers of description which they display. The gems of poetry scattered through their beautiful and subtile fabric, constitute one of their most interesting and attractive characteristics, and warrant the verdict, universally pronounced as the stories have from time to time appeared in Scribner's Monthly, that SAXE HOLM is one of the most versatile and accomplished of American writers of fiction. A New and Thrilling Story by Jules Verne. From the Earth to the Moon Direct In 97 Hours, 20 Minutes; AND A TRIP AROUND IT. By JULES VERNE, author of "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth," etc. EIGHTY FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. This is one of the most stirring and exciting of Jules Verne's famous and popular stories. Three adventurers take passage for the moon in a hollow, conical shell, weighing 20,000 lbs., and projected from a cannon 900 feet long by the explosion of 400,000 lbs. of gun-cotton. The tremendous results of this explosion; the rush through space of the shell and its passengers; the extent to which they were able to conquer the laws of gravitation, and the results of their extraordinary exploit, make up as thrilling a series of adventures as the fancy of this very imaginative French author is capable of painting. Numerous facts in philosophy, astronomy, and other sciences, are woven into the story, which is spiced with not a little good-humored satire upon American peculiarities, for the scene of the narrative is laid in the United States. JUST PUBLISHED. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. FROM THE FRENCH OF JULES VERNE. With Fifty-three full-page Illustrations. One vol. 12mo. Price, $2.00. A POWERFUL NOVEL. The Burgomaster's Family; OR, WEAL AND WOE IN A LITTLE By CHRISTINE MULLER. WORLD. TRANSLATED FROM THE DUTCH BY SIR JOHN SHAW LEFEVRE, K.C.B., F.R.S. TRAGEDY, pathos, and humor are combined to a singular degree in this remarkable story. The principal Dutch literary periodicals praise the flowing narrative, the simplicity, clearness, and grace of the style, the reality and rationality of her heroes and heroines, and the faithful delineation of Dutch character and Dutch family life. They commend the liveliness of the descriptions, the variety of incident, the ingenuity with which the several plots and episodes have been combined and developed, the judicious mixture of light and shade in the different characters, the knowledge displayed of the human heart, and the good moral tone and the unobtrusive religious feeling pervading the whole work, which appropriately concludes with the sentiment that "God makes his creatures happy, but in his own way and not in theirs." A Charming Story by Mrs. Dodge, Editor of “St. Nicholas." Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates." A STORY OF LIFE IN HOLLAND. BY MRS. MARY MAPES DODGE. One vol. 12mo, with numerous Illustrations. Frice, $1.50. "Hans Brinker' is a charming domestic story, which is addressed, indeed, to young people, but which may be read with pleasure and profit by their elders. * * ** The book is fresh and flavorous in tone, and speaks to the fancy of children. * * There is no formal moral, obtruding itself in set phrase. The lessons inculcated, elevated in tone, are in the action of the story and the feelings and aspirations of the actors."-Atlantic Monthly. "A pleasant story, wrought out in all its details with the minuteness of a Dutch painting, of life in Holland in the olden time."-Harper's Monthly. "Though a story for and about boys, Hans Brinker' presents as true a picture of Holland life as though its characters had been exclusively men and women; and dealing, as it does, with the sentiments of duty and generosity common to men as well as children, it has an interest for us all. It is by no means an ordinary book. It contains passages of genuine humor and of the truest pathos, and evinces descriptive power of a high order."-New York Independent. "The authoress has shown, in her former works for the young, a very rare ability to meet their wants; but she has produced nothing better than this charming tale-alive with incident and action, adorned rather than freighted with useful facts, and moral without moralization."-Nation. DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONES. Translated from the French. With fifty-three Illustrations. One vol. 12mo. Price, $2.00. The peculiarities of all varieties of precious stones; interesting and curious facts in the history of those, the great value of which has rendered them famous; the mode of cutting diamonds, etc., etc., are all discussed and described, in this handsome volume, in a popular and entertaining manner. No other similar treatise gives so much thoroughly reliable information in so compact a form. Will be Published early in December. NEW STORY FOR YOUTHS. "My Kalulu," Prince, King, AND Slave. A STORY FROM CENTRAL AFRICA. By HENRY M. STANLEY, Author of "How I found Livingstone." With Illustrations by J. B. Zwecker. "This book has been written for boys-not those little darlings who are yet bothering over the alphabet, and have to be taken to bed at sundown, and who when they awake put civilized and respectable families into confusion with their cries; nor those little dunces who look at all books with awe, and who begin to scratch their heads as soon as one is mentioned; nor yet those boys who cannot read, though they are tall and strong; but for those clever, bright-eyed, intelligent boys, of all classes, who have begun to be interested in romantic literature, with whom educated fathers may talk without fear of misapprehension. * ** These boys are the guests for whom I have provided a true Afric feast. ** My Kalulu' is a romance based upon knowledge acquired during my journey in search of Dr. Livingstone. "For those boys, and young, middle-aged, and old men, who found my first book rather bulky, I beg to offer something fresher, lighter-a romance. * * As a traveller I dared not venture upon improbabilities. Everything * written herein is possible; nay, much of the book contains facts which I have witnessed myself, or which have come to my knowledge. "I had in view, when I wrote this book, the idea that I might be able to describe more vividly in this than in any other way the evils of the e slavtrade in Africa-how it begins, how it is conducted, and how it sometimes ends." A VERY YOUNG COUPLE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “MRS. JERNINGHAM'S JOURNAL.” One vol. 12mo, with an Illustration, uniform with "Mrs. Jerningham's Journal." Cloth, price $1.50. This is the first story written by the author of Mrs. Jerningham's Journal since that delightful novelette in verse took the public by surprise. A Very Young Couple, although in prose, is quite as captivating as its predecessor. The marriage, of course, is purely for love, and the vicissitudes through which the "Very Young Couple" pass-their pecuniary perplexities, their little tiffs, their more serious entanglements, and the way they escaped from them-are rehearsed in a lively, sparkling style, and with a naturalness which appeals directly to the sympathies of all who have passed through similar experiences. Also Just Published. DR. HOLLAND'S LATEST AND BEST PROSE WORK. Arthur Bonnicastle. WITH TWELVE BY DR. J. G. HOLLAND, Author of "Bitter Sweet," "Kathrina," "Titcomb's Letters," etc. FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARY A. HALLOCK. One vol. 12mo, $1.75. ARTHUR BONNICASTLE is the most mature and finished prose work of its popular author. Autobiographic in form, it is partly so in material likewise; and while of thrilling interest as a story, it presents the ripe results of a life of earnest action and thought. The great lesson of the book is self-respect and self-reliance-the evil influence of dependence being exemplified in different characters and circumstances, by the youth of Arthur and the life of Peter Mullens. For character-drawing, purpose, pathos, style and savor of the soil, ARTHUR BONNICASTLE is remarkable among the novels of the time. "Mr. Bagehot's book is of immediate interest and value to our own country, and we should be glad to believe that it is likely to be widely read here."-N. Y. TIMES. THE Wall Street of London. LOMBARD STREET: A DESCRIPTION OF THE MONEY MARKET. MR. BY WALTER BAGEHOT, Author of "The English Constitution." One vol. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. R. BAGEHOT'S wonderful ability to make complex subjects easily understood is admirably illustrated in this remarkable volume. While the work will enable the reader to gain a clear idea of the Wall Street of London, it also gives him an insight into the English banking system, a thorough comprehension of which should be possessed by every intelligent citizen of our own country, in order to enable him to understand our own financial strength and weakness. A NEW AND IMPORTANT WORK BY DR. MARK HOPKINS. An Outline Study of Man; OR, THE BODY AND MIND IN ONE SYSTEM. WITH ILLUSTRATIVE DIAGRAMS. By MARK HOPKINS, D.D., LL.D., Late President of Williams College, author of "Evidences of Christianity," "Lectures on Moral Science," "The Law of Love," etc. One vol. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. IN THE LIBRARY OF CHOICE FICTION. The Story of Wandering Willie. By the author of "Effie's Friends" and "John Hatherton." One vol. 8vo, with an Illustration. Paper, 50 cts. II. KINGS. The Speaker's Commentary. THIRD VOLUME. I. AND II. CHRONICLES, EZRA, NEHEMIAH, AND ESTHER. BY REV. GEO. RAWLINSON, M.A., Author of "Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient East," etc. Ueberweg's Philosophy. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. FROM THALES TO THE PRESENT TIME. By Dr. FRIEDRICH UEBERWEG, Late Professor of Philosophy in the University of Königsburg. Translated from the Fourth German Edition, by GEORGE S. MORRIS, A. M., Professor of Modern Languages in the University of Michigan. VOL. II.-With an Essay on English Philosophy, by Dr. NOAH PORTER, President of Yale College; and on Italian Philosophy, by Professor V. BOTTA. 1 A SUMMARY OF Umerican & Foreign Literature. Vol. VII. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 15, 1873. FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, November 20, 1873. THOUGH a short and sharp monetary crisis has undoubtedly prevailed here, it has had little observable effect on the production of books. In an old country like England, the number of families whose income is derived from invested property all over the world, and whose means are, therefore, little subject to fluctuation, is immense; and, on the other hand, people who live on active capital are much more inclined to spend money when it is bringing in nine or ten per cent, instead of two or three. There has scarcely been a handsomer book published this year than the History of the Ceramic Art, from the French of M. Albert Jacquemart. It is translated and edited by Mrs. Bury Palliser, the well-known author on all matters of artistic virtu, and is the most comprehensive work on the subject ever published. From the days of Horace Walpole, whose exquisite taste led him to appreciate the beauties of the Ceramic Art, the collecting fine specimens of china and porcelain has always been an elegant luxury in England, and, indeed, in every country in Europe. Now it is pushed to such an extent that the prices given for choice examples of Majolica, Old Sevres, Chelsea, or Dresden China seem absolutely fabulous. One hundred to two hundred and fifty guineas for a single cup and saucer, or two thousand five hundred guineas for a pair of vases standing some twenty inches high, are considered by no means extravagant rates; while inferior articles have gone up in the same proportion, and the customers are so numerous that the amount so expended throws book and even picture col No. 3 lecting quite into the background. When a pursuit reaches such proportions, it is fitting those who follow it should be furnished with a trustworthy manual. This desideratum is amply supplied in M. Jacquemart's work. It is rightly entitled, A Descriptive and Analytical Study of the Pottery of all Times and of all Nations. Commencing with the earliest known examples of the art found in Egypt, its progress is traced geographically and historically first through the Eastern World, China, Japan, etc. Then comes a review of the totally different productions of Grecian taste, generally known as Etruscan Vases, the famous Roman Sarnian Ware, and the manufactures of classic times in Europe. The decadence and total extinction of the art in the Dark Ages is followed by the history of its brilliant revival in Italy, as exemplified in the famous Marian Ware, painted by the most eminent artists of the day. Thence the task of the historian leads him into every country in modern Europe, as almost all have fostered an art whose productions are all imprinted to the eye of the connoisseur with a distinctive nationality. The illustrations comprise beautiful etchings on steel by Jacquemart (a branch of art where the French reign supreme), some hundred wood-cuts, and one thousand marks and monograms serving for the identification of specimens; a larger and more useful collection than has ever been assembled before in one work. Both as an elegant drawing-book as well as a practical guide to an interesting study, The History of Ceramic Art has no rival this year. Another class of collectors will find choice amusement and instruction in An Introduction to the Study and Collection of Ancient Prints, by W. H. Willshire, M.D., large 8vo. Dr. Will shire is a scientific man who finds a relaxation from severer studies in the pursuit of art. He has rendered good service to like amateurs by the production of a volume that fills a vacant place in English art literature. The line is not drawn rigidly at any particular time, but by "ancient |