The Book Buyer. THE BOOK BUYER will be published Monthly, and will be forwarded for One Year to all who may send their names and addresses to the Publishers, with Twenty-five Cents. Librarians who may send us their names shall re ssive it free. Any of the works named in the BOOK BUYER will be sent post-paid to any address upon receipt of the price. The prices of the respective works may be luned from our advertising columns. Catalogues of the publications of SCRIBNER, SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO., NEW YORK, JUNE 1, 1875. BREAKFAST, LUNCHEON, AND TEA. THE world is beginning to find out that literary clearness does not necessarily imply deficiency in the homlier arts and sciences. Now-a-days poets are paper designers and brokers; they even occasionally may be found in that exces sively common-place occupation of editing. We find Clarence Cook, the art critic, occupying himself with writing specific directions for the purchase of floor-mats, and the making of "beds and tables, stools and candlesticks." Marion Harland, the successful novelist, within a few years gives the world two books on household matters, which at once take the highest rank in the practical literature to which they belong. 46 Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea," does not go over the same ground as "Common Sense in the Household." It is entirely new, and just as sensible; and it will prove as indispensable in every well-regulated household as the first of what now promises to be a most valuable series. RELIGION AND SCIENCE. THE little book by Prof. Shields, of Princeton, entitled Religion and Science in their Relation to Philosophy, is an interesting contribution to the literature of the most important discussion of the day. Prof. Shields does not indeed make any attempt to settle the great question in dispute. His aim in the present instance is merely to direct the attention of the disputants to, and win their respect for, the true umpire. This umpire he believes to be Philosophy. As a means of illustration, he carries out the argument begun by Prof. Tyndall, between a dis ciple of Lucretius on the one side, and Bishop "Whom a wise king and nature chose is brought forward as the judge between them. The Professor's arguments are clearly and forcibly stated, and without any bitterness or anger. The essay is suggestive in many ways, and its readers will look eagerly for the full and systematic work which it presages. WHO OWNS THE ADIRONDACK? WE Sometimes are inclined to think that the Jans has descendants. We do not mean actual proprietor f the soil, but literary and sporting claimants. Every once in a while we meet with some man who either discovered that interesting region, or made it his own by some sort of literary pre-emption. There is a young man in New York who has written poems and letters about the Adirondacks such an extent that most of his fellow townsmen believe he is the true and only Adirondacker. Then there is Emerson, who also writes poetry about it; and be fore Emerson was W. J. Stillman, who claims not only to have told Emerson about it, but to have actually taken him there bodily. We have only to mention the Rev. Murray and Miss Kate Field to suggest books and lectures without number. But meantime, and all the time, at least ever since 1849, or earlier, Mr. J. T. Headley has been in the field as the original man of the woods. In the new edition of "The Adironack" Mr. Headley has brought the information down to date, although there is less need in such a work than there would be in a "Guide to Paris." The woods do not change like the cities; the changes at least are longer in making. But very properly the new edition has a useful map, a table of elevations, and other matter which the legions of Adirondack campers will be glad to find. TO "OLD AND NEW” FRIENDS. In the "Topics for the Time," Dr. Holland discourses pleasantly, as follows, touching the absorption of Old and New, by Scribner's Monthly: "When a man has watched during a month for the coming of a friend, and at last a stranger has presented himself at the door, with the statement that he has come in that friend's place, and on his behalf, the welcome is not apt to be very cordial. But if the stranger bears the news of the friend's death, and brings his last messages, with mementos and legacies, the door is thrown open, and he receives a hospitable welcome. "Well, "OLD AND NEW" is dead, and SCRIBNER comes to you in its place. We do not expect you to find in the new magazine just what you have lost, but you will find the best that our friendship to you and to it has to give. "OLD AND NEW" was a good magazine. It was as pure as snow. It was strong in its discussion of vital questions, brave in its utterances, piquant in its stories, fresh in its verse, healthy and benevolent in its purposes, wise in its counsels, and elevating in its influences. It had a flavor of its own, derived mainly from its editor, and precisely this flavor we bring to you as its legacy. Mr. Hale, whose vitalities have made it what it has been, will be a contributor to SCRIBNER. We have already engaged him for a serial novel for the Centennial-not strictly historical, perhaps, but a story of our olden time-which will be read next year with special zest. You will meet in these pages with others of your old friends, and will find yourselves at home. You will at least be in communication with the wisest, brightest, and best minds now tributary to our periodical literature, and have a magazine in your hands that has no aims beneath perfection."-Dr. J. G. Holland, Scribner's for July. SCRIBNER FOR JUNE. IF you should lay SCRIBNER for June on the table before me (says some one writing from New York), after looking over the pictures and browsing through Clarence Cook's Furniture Article and the "Old Letters," and getting even with the serials, I should settle down to the reading of James T. McKay's "Birdsall of Mapleton." I can tell you, confidentially, that I would not be disappointed. That McKay has a wonderful way of making people and events seem real. As in reading the best fictionists, like George Eliot and Tourgéneff, you cannot help putting yourself in the place of this or that character; and every now and then you are startled by an awakened memory. McKay is uneven in his stories; but at his best he shows an insight into the deepest things of the heart and a dramatic power which are altogether his own. Albert Rhode's description of "The Latin Quarter" gives, I should say, a pretty good idea of a certain phase of Parisian Bohemianism. Col. Waring's paper on Dutch Farming appeals forcibly to the agricultural districts; and gives these districts-particularly the dairy farms-some practical suggestions of value. Mr. A. B. Johnson, secretary of the late Mr. Sumner, tells some characteristic anecdotes about the Senator. As for Mr. Cook's house hold paper, with its tasteful and pretty illustrations-this is one of the most amusing and interesting papers in the number. The suggestions as to furnishing, etc., are given very modestly, and in a manner which sets the reader to thinking for himself; and the way that the author overhauls some of his engravers will be found exceedingly entertaining, especially, I should suppose, to the engravers themselves. There is a generous installment of "Sevenoaks,' and a very small instalment of "The Mysterious Island," which the editors seem to be boiling down to the very last point. This story has been stopped by the English Magazine that was publishing it; but in its condensed condition in SCRIBNER it seems to interest the young people at least. Mr. Munger's article on "Maxims' presents views on the subject which will be new to many readers. The most striking poetic feature of the number is "The Power of Prayer," a darkey dialect poem by Sidney and Clifford Lanier. ST. NICHOLAS FOR JUNE OPENS with one of the most charming frontispieces that has yet appeared in the Magazine, illustrating a fanciful poem by Rachel Pomeroy, about a little giant-girl, who is certainly unlike any other of her race with whom we are acquainted. Stories of adventure have by this time come to be a fixed fact with the boys who read ST. NICHOLAS, and they will fully appreciate the interesting account of the manner in which a "First Trout" was caught, the article telling them just "How to Camp out at the Beach,' and a certain crisis in the story of "The Young Surveyor.' As for the girls, they will testify that there is no lack of enjoyment for them when they have read the chapters of "Eight Cousins,' The Story for the Bird-defenders," "Christinchen's Answer," and "Among the Lilies." Mrs. Diaz's "Bad Luck of Bubby Cryaway," the story of a "Ragamffin Party,' "Mrs. Headache," and the beautifully illustrated poem of "The Little Girl who Wouldn't say Please," are all of them very serious in one sense and very funny in another; while children of a studious turn will find something exactly to their mind in the "Life of a Clothes-Moth," and the description of "The Druids and their Temples. The poem of "The Fays"-beautiful in itself -is illustrated most exquisitely by Jessie Curtis, who has no superior in the dainty and graceful execution of drawings of this delicate order. The illustrations generally are admirably drawn and engraved; and the various departments are, as usual, full of information, anecdote, and humor. HONE (WILLIAM.) ANCIENT MYSTEries Described, especially the English Miracle Plays founded on the Apocryphal New Testament Story, etc. Including the Festival of Fools and Asses; The English Boy Bishop; The Descent into Hell, etc. With engravings on copper and wood. 8vo, new cloth. London....... THE APOCRYPHAL NEW TESTAment. Being all the Gospels and Epistles and other Pieces now Extant, attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles, and their Companions, and not included in the New Testament. Translated from the Original Tongues. Edited by William Hone. 8vo, cloth, London........ ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE HOLY Gospels. Embellished with upwards of 200 beautiful wood engravings, after the best Masters; every page surrounded by highly ornamental borders; the whole executed in the highest style of art, under the direction of Branston, Bolton, and Williams. Imperial 4to. (Pub. at £1 11s. 6d.) Extra cloth, top edges gilt. 1865... ed. $1.50 1 50 4 50 15 00 JACKSON'S HISTORY OF WOOD EN- "This volume is one of the most interesting and valuable of modern times."-Art Union. JEAFFRESON, JOHN CORDY.) BRIDES and Bridals. 2 vols. 8vo, new cloth. London. Pub. at £1 10s..... JOHNSON'S LIVES OF ENGLISH HIGHwaymen, Pirates, and Robbers. With addit.ons by WHITEHEAD. 12mo. 16 plates. (Pub. at 9s.) Extra cloth. 1842.. $2.50 This smail, closely-printed volume contains the substance of the old folio edition, which sells for upwards of seven guineas. LANDSEER'S (SIR EDWIN) ETCHINGS of Carnivorous Animals, comprising 38 sub- 6. 00 LENNOX (LORD WILLIAM PITT.) MY Recollections from 1806 to 1873. 2 vols., 8vo. New cloth. London, 1874. (Pub. at 30s.) 3 59 L'ESTRANGE (REV. A. G.) FROM THE Tames to the Tamar. 8vo. new cloth, With illustrations. London. (Pub. at 15s.) 3 00 LUARD (LIEUT.-COL. JOHN.) A HIStory of the Dress of the British Soldier, from the earliest period to the present time. Illustrated with 50 drawings. Royal 8vo. cloth. London. (Pub. at 308.).............. MARTIN (C. and L.) CIVIL COSTUME OF England, from the Conquest to the present period; drawn from Tapestries, Illuminated MSS., Monumental Effigies, etc. Royal 4to, 64 plates beautifully colored or illuminated; extra cloth, with the arms of Prince Albert, gilt on the sides. 1842.. 275 20 00 *This beautiful and authentic volume of Costumes is by the sons of the celebrated painter, John Martin. MAXWELL'S LIFE OF THE DUKE OF Wellington. 3 vols., 8vo, embellished with numerous highly finished line engravings, by eminent artists, consisting of battle-pieces, portraits, military plans, and maps; besides a great number of fine wood engravings. (Pub. at £3 7s.) Extra cloth. 1862.. 12 00 "Mr. Maxwell's Life of the Duke of Wellington has no rival. It is free from flattery and bombast, succinct and masterly. 5 00 The types and mechanical execution are admirable: the plans of battles and sieges numerous, ample, and useful; the portraits many and faithful; the battle-pictures animated and brilliant; and the vignettes of costumes and manners worthy of Horace Vernet himself."-Times. MICHAEL ANGELO'S LIFE BY JOHN S. * Contents.-Vol. I.-1. Antiquity of Matrimonial Customs. 2. Marriage by Capture. 3. Marriage by Purchase. 4. Espousals; Celebration of Marriage; Publication of Banns; the Wedding Ring; the Ring Finger; the Gimmal Ring. 5. Costumes of Brides; Bridesmaids and Groomsmen; Bridal Music; Wedding Sermons; Discipline of Wives; Laws and Novels. 6. Old Proverbs about Marriage and Women. Vol. II.-1. Characteristics of W mankind in the Old Times. 2. The Spinsters of Past Times. 3. Medical Women and White Slaves. 4. Clerical Marriage. 5. Taxes on Celibacy. 6. Curious Marriages. 7. Clandestine and otherwise Irregular Marriages; Fleet Marriages; The Fleet Clergy; Gretna-Green Matches; The Royal Marriage Act. 8. Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister. 9. Honeymoon Trips and Cards. 10. Jeux d'Esprit against Wives. 11. Dissolution of Partnership. 12. Farewell. JOHNSON'S (DR. SAM.) ENGLISH DIC tionary. Printed verbatim from the Author's last and most complete edition. With all the Examples in full; to which are prefixed a History of the Language and an English Grammar. In one large volume. Imperial 8vo, beautifully printed. (Pub. at £2 28.) Extra cloth. 1866...... 5 00 Harford. With Translations of many of his Poems and Letters; also Memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael, and Vittori Colonna. Second Edition, to which is added a Chronological List of Michael Angelo's Werks, and a General Index. 2 vols. 8vo, with 21 engravings on steel. (Pub. at £1 5s.) Cloth. 1858.......... 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(Pub. at £3 3s.) Small 4to., extra cloth. 1814..... 6 00 An indispensable book to Artists and Architects. MULLER'S ANCIENT ART AND ITS REmains; or, a Manual of the Archæology of Art. By C. O. Muller, author of "History and Antiquities of the Doric Race." Thick 8vo. (Pub. at 18s.) Extra cloth. 1852...... MURPHY'S ARABIAN ANTIQUITIES OF Spain, representing in 100 very highly finished line engravings by Le Keux, Finden, Landseer, G. Cooke, etc., the most remarkable Remains of the Architecture, Sculpture, Paintings, and Mosaics of the Spanish Arabs, now existing in the Peninsula, including the magnificent Palace of Alhambra; the celebrated Mosque and Bridge at Cordova; the Royal Villa of Generaliffe, and the Casa de Carbon; accompanied by letter-press descriptions. In 1 vol., atlas folio, brilliant impressions of the plates. (Pub. at £42.) Half bound morocco extra, gilt edges. 1813............. 450 60 00 the pencil and the pen, have the effect of enchantment. A delicacy, brilliancy, singularity, and even dazzling richness, are the characteristics of most of them. How much one of these interiors eclipses the mongrel intermixture of gothic and semi-gothic of all ages, which we have lately been accustomed to witness! As the expenses of the publication were enormous (upwards of ten thousand pounds), the price of the volume is necessarily large in proportion; yet, where is the man of virtù, with pistoles in his purse, who will not hasten to secure such a treasure? If the day be dull, or the night be long, let these Antiquities of the Arabs in Spain' be a constant, as they will be, a cheering, com-. panion."-Dibdin's Bibliomania. **"An interesting and essentially popular résumé of all that has been written on the subject. M. Figuier has collected together the evidences which modern researches have accumulated, and has done this with a considerable amount of care. He endeavors to separate the inquiry respecting Primitive Man from the Mosaic account of Man's creation, and does not admit that the authority of Holy Writ is in any way questioned by these labors which aim at seeking the real epoch of Man's first appearance upon earth. Whether Man is derived from any other Animal species, particularly the Ape, occupies much space in this work, and the author's conclusion is against the Darwinian theory. He considers that Intelligence and Speech are really the attributes which constitute Man, and not merely his physical properties. Here (adds the Reviewer) is an interesting book with 263 illustrations, of which 30 are full-page engravings, confessedly somewhat fanciful in their combinations, but which will be found on examination to be justified by that soundest evidence, the actual discovery of the objects of which they represent the use."-See Athenæum, August 13, 1870. "The most splendid work of any period connected with that interesting kingdom, Spain, is Murphy's magnificent folio devoted to its Moorish Antiquities a work beyond all price, if the brilliancy and beauty of the plates be considered. Too much cannot be said in commendation of this extraordinary and most exquisite publication, which contains 100 engravings by Le Keux, Fittler, and Landseer, illustrative of the most remarkable remains of Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Mosaics, and Ornaments of the Arabians in the Peninsula. The interiors described, both by These books, sent, post-paid, on receipt of the price, by Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, 743 and 745 Broadway, N. Y. PLANCHE (J.) THE CONQUEROR AND HIS COMPANIONS. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth. London, 1874. (Pub. at 25s)... PLUTARCH'S LIVES, BY THE LANGhornes. New edition, in large type, and embellished with medallion portraits. Complete in 2 vols. 8vo. (Pub. at £1 18.) Extra cloth. 1866 PUGIN'S TRUE PRINCIPLES of POINTED or Christian Architecture. With 87 illustrations, of which 9 are large etchings and 78 are woodcuts and vignettes; and Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture (forming a Supplement to the "True Principles.") With ten large etchings. Bound together in 1 volume. With nearly 20 large and 100 small plates. (Pub. at £1 15s.) Extra cloth. 1853................... $3.50 4:00 5 00 PUGIN'S SPECIMENS OF GOTHIC ARCHItecture, from Ancient Edifices in England. 114 outline plates, by Le Keux, and others. With historical and descriptive letter-press, and a Glossary of Architectural Terms, by E. J. Willson, Architect. 2 vols. 4to. New edition, cloth. (Pub. at £6 6s.) 1870....... 12 00 PUGIN'S GOTHIC ORNAMENTS AND 13 50 Ornament Timber Gables, bound together in 1 vol., royal. (Pub. at £5 5s.) Half bound, red morocco extra, top edges gilt, back and sides tooled with gothic ornaments. 1856... 18 00 PUGIN'S FLORIATED ORNAMENTS. 31 plates in gold and colors, royal 4to. (Pub. at £33s.) Elegantly half bound, morocco, top edges gilt, tooled on back and sides with gothic ornaments. 1849.... PUGIN'S EXAMPLES OF GOTHIC ARCHItecture, selected from Ancient Edifices in England, consisting of Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Parts at large, calculated to exemplify the various styles, practical construction, etc. With historical and descriptive Jetter-press. By E. J. WILLSON, architect. Illustrated by 225 engravings by LE KEUX. 3 vols. 4to. (Pub. at £12 128.) Cloth. 1850... 37 50 ROYAL VICTORIA GALLERY; a Series of 33 BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS, from Pictures in her Majesty's Collection at Buckingham Palace, comprising famous Pictures by REMBRANDT, the OSTADES, TENIERS, GERARD Dow, BOTH, CUYP, REYNOLDS. TITIAN, RUBENS, VANDYCK, PAUL POTTER, STOTHARD, A. VAN DE VELDE, WOUVERMANS, HOBBEMA, BERGHEM, KAREL DU JARDIN, etc., engraved by GREATBACH, S. W. REYNOLDS, PRESBURY, BURNET, and other first-rate artists. Published under the superintendence of JOHN LINNELL, ESQ., with letter-press descriptions. Royal 4to. (Pub. at £4 4s.) Half bound, uncut, Roxburghe style. 1850...... SEYMOUR'S (ALFRED) HUMOROUS Sketches. Comprising 86 exceedingly clever and amusing Caricature Etchings on steel. With letter-press by ALFRED CROWQUILL [i. e., Alfred Henry Forrester]. New Edition. With a Biographical Notice of Seymour, and descriptive list of the plates, by Henry G. Bohn. Royal 8vo, extra cloth, gilt edges. 1872.... ..... 6 00 5 00 One of the most universally amusing volumes ever produced; full of wit and point, without indelicacy. Alfred Seymour (the Modern Hogarth) is well known to the lovers of genuine humor by his happy illustrations in the early numbers of "THE PICKWICK PAPERS.' SHAKESPEARE. THE LANSDOWNE Edition. Complete in 1 vol., with Glossary, 6 00 SOUTH'S (DR. ROBERT) SERMONS: of which are annexed an Analytical Tableau, Contents, a Biographical Memoir, and an elaborate General Index of Subjects. 2 vols., royal 8vo. (Pub. at £1 4s.) Extra cloth. 1870. $5 00 "The Sermons of this wittiest of English Divines will always rank among the standard produc tions of the English Church. They are adapted to all readers and to all days."-Retrospective Review. "South is conspicuous for sound, practical, good sense; for a deep insight into human character, liveliness of imagination, exuberant invention, and unbounded wit. In perspicuity, copiousness, and force of expression, he is almost unrivaled among English writers. The sincerity of his principles is shown in the purity of his life, and the vigor of his understanding is stamped on all he wrote."-Penny Cyclopædia. TAYLOR OF NORWICH (WILLIAM.) ENGLISH SYNONYMS. DISCRIMINATED. With a Copious Index. 12mo, new cloth, Lond. 1871. 1 00 TAYLOR'S (JEREMY) COMPLETE WORKS, with an Essay, Biographical and Critical. 3 large vols., imperial 8vo, portrait. (Pub. at 1867................ £3 158.) Extra cloth. ... 15 00 **Bishop Taylor has the eloquence of the orator, the fancy of the poet, the acuteness of the schoolman, the profoundness of the philosopher, and the piety of the saint."-Dr Samuel Parr. "We will venture to assert that there is in any one of the volumes of Jeremy Taylor more fancy and orig inal imagery, more brilliant conceptions and glowing expressions, more new figures and new applications of old figures; more, in short, of the body and soul of poetry, than in all the odes and epics that have since been produced in Europe."-Edinburgh Review. THORNBURY (WALTER.) CRISS-CROSS JOURNEYS. 2 vols., small 8vo, new cloth. London. (Pub. at 21s.).. 250 "The chapters on America describe the country at a most eventual crisis on the eve of the outbreak of the Great Civil War that led to the final destruction of slavery, and may prove interesting as sketching a state of society that can never again arise in the New World." -Preface. TURNER'S (J. M. W.) LIBER FLUVIO rum; or, River Scenery of France. 62 highly TURNER'S (J. M. W.) AND GIRTIN'S 25.00 19.00 12 00 *** These plates being most beautifully engraved on steel by the very best artists, present as fine an example of the great English Painter's works as it is possible to have. TYTLER AND WATSON. THE SONGSTRESSES These books sent, post-paid, on the receipt of the price, by Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, 743 and 745 Broadway, N. Y. |