ork Galuable and Popular Works, TO BE PUBLISHED BY SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO. IN THE SPRING OF 1874. WILL BE READY IN FEBRUARY. ON SELF-CULTURE, INTELLECTUAL, PHYSICAL AND MORAL. A VADE MECUM FOR YOUNG MEN AND STUDENTS. By JOHN STUART BLACKIE, Author of Four Phases of Morals, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, &c. One Vol. 16mo, Cloth...... .$1.25 Prof. Blackie's work upon the Four Phases of Morals showed that while he was a thorough student and a profound scholar he had preserved his own independence as a thinker, and that he possessed great vigor and freshness as a writer. Practical advice to the young students from such high authority will be eagerly received and carefully studied, and this volume which is precisely what it claims to be,-a vade mecum,-is sure to be widely useful. A NEW VOLUME OF LANGE'S COMMENTARY. Edited by Rev. Dr. PHILIP SCHAFF, ON MISSIONS. A Lecture delivered in Westminster Abbey, on Dec. 3, 1873. By F. 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PSALMS--Very Rev. G. H. S. JOHNSON, M. A., author of Sermons Preached in Well's Cathedral. The EDITOR. Rev. C. I. ELLIOTT, M. A. PROVERBS--Rev. E. H. PLUMPTRE, M. A., author of Christ and Christendom (Boyle Lectures), Sermons on Theology and Life, &c., &c. ECCLESIASTES--Rev. W. T. BULLOCK, M. A., Secretary to the S. P. G. SONG OF SOLOMON--Rev. T. KINGSBURY, M. A., Trinity Coll., Cambridge. ALSO JUST PUBLISHED. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL EDITION EXODUS, Edited by CANON COOK. OF 1 Vol. 8vo,.... 1 50 Will be published early in April, in season for the lessons in May and June, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Edited by Rev. SAML. CLARK, M. A. and Rev. T. E. ESPIN, D.D. 1 Vol. 8vo, over 500 pages,....... S1 75 A NEW EDITION OF LECTURES OF THE LATE PROF. AGASSIZ On the Structure of Animal Life. Six Lectures delivered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in January and February, 1863, by Louis Agassiz, Professor of Zoology and Geology in the Lawrence Scientific School (a new and Cheaper Edition). One vol. 8vo, forty-six illustrations, Cloth.... ..$1 50 These Lectures although delivered in 1863, were not given to the public until 1865 when they had the benefit of the author's careful revision. The demand for all the formal utterances of the lamented Naturalist abundantly justifies the reproduction of these lectures in this new and cheaper edition. Will be Ready in March or April AN IMPORTANT WORK BY PROF, CHRISTLIEB, Modern Doubt and Christian Belief. Considered in a course of Apologetic Lectures addressed to earnest seekers after Truth, by THEODORe Christlier, Ph. D. and D.D., Professor of Theology and University Preacher at Bonn. Translated from the German under the superintendence of the author and published by special arrangement with him. ONE VOL. 8vo, CLOTH, PRICE Dr. Christlieb's masterly exposition of the fallacies of Modern Infidelity, during the session of the Evangelical Alliance, marked him at once as one of the ablest of the foreign delegates. This more elaborate discussion of the same general subject is throughout fresh, forcible, eloquent, comprehensive, and entirely up with the latest phases of the discussion. THE FOURTH VOLUME OF Curtius's History of Greece. HISTORY OF GREECE. BY PROF. DR. ERNST CURTIUS. TRANSLATED BY ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, M. A.. FELLOW OF ST. PETER'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Vol. IV.-Comprising Books VI. and VII. THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE HISTORY OF IRELAND BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Author of the "History of England," "Short Stories on Great Subjects," &c., &c. PUBLISHED DURING THE WINTER OF 1873-4. STANLEY'S 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. Price, $2.00. CRITICAL NOTICES FROM THE AMERICAN PRESS. "A fresh, breezy, stirring story for youths, interesting in itself, and full of information regarding life in the interior of the continent in which its scenes are laid."-From the New York Times. "The book may be read by older boys with profit and instruction. For apart from the vividly dramatic scenes depicted, Mr. Stanley has collected together a vast amount of useful information concerning a people about whom the general public are pretty much in the dark."-From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. "If the young reader is fond of strange adventures, he will find enough in this volume to delight him all winter, and he will be hard to please who is not charmed with its graphic pages.-From the Boston Journal. "The discoverer of Livingstone has turned his African travels to good account in the composition of a high colored romance for juvenile reading. He exhibits equal powers of observation and of fancy, and has skilfully blended fiction and fact in an exciting sensational narrative. 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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 16, 1874. No. 5. within the reach of those who habitually lay out a small sum in books. The edition specified is The Works of William Hogarth, with his Life, by Himself, and Anecdotal Descriptions of his Pictures, Engravings, Drawings, &c., by John Ireland and John Nichols. It is comprised in three handsome crown octavo volumes, and is actually more complete than the imposing folio, containing more than 150(not copies but) reductions of the original plates, by one of the processes now coming so widely into use for purposes of book embellishment. So much of the social, personal, and political history of the times of George II. and III. is immortalized by the pencil of Hogarth, that the ample comments and explanations of the editors form a most amusing miscellany, or chronicle of high-ways and LONDON, January 27, 1874. THE books issued during the current installment of the regular publishing season are in number about the usual average, and in character quite miscellaneous, but they scarcely afford any work of unusual attraction, or any book certain from its writer or subject to meet with a success positive and immediate. It is gratifying to Americans to know that if this character can be claimed for any one, it is unques-by-ways of our forefathers, independently of tionably that of their countryman, J. L. Motley, whose Life and Death of John Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, will undoubtedly maintain and extend the fame already justly his due as among the first (if not the very first) of living historians in the English language. The form of the book in London is the expensive English one, two volumes, octavo, price twenty-eight shillings, sterling; but though it does not find as many individual purchasers as in America, the number of readers, through the machinery of the various circulating libraries, book clubs, etc., is full as large as in the writer's native country. The other late publications are so miscellaneous as not to call for any lengthened remark. England has long been famous for its humorists, and while the works of the literary men of this class have been widely diffused in cheap editions of all sizes, the productions of its graphic humorists have been within the reach only of a comparatively small circle, from their expensive shape and high cost. It is, therefore, a subject of congratulation that the progress of science has brought about the publication of a Hogarth, if not literally "for the million," yet the engravings they are mainly intended to illustrate. After Charles Lamb, it is unnecessary to say a word about Hogarth. Lamb himself was the gentleman he speaks of, who, on being asked what book in his library he most valued (after Shakespeare of course), replied, "Hogarth." This name brings to mind that a curious volume of "Lambiana," embracing the correspondence of his sister, Mary Lamb, fac-simile of the titles of the rare first editions of his writings, drawings of his various places of residence, unpublished or uncollected letters, papers, &c., will soon appear, as the copyright difficulties which have hitherto retarded it are just settled. The editor is Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt. The other typical English humorist is one whose name is less known than that of Hogarth to the present generation, though it was a "word of fear" to all who, about the time of the French Revolution, were liable to feel the lash of his bitter and unsparing scourge. The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist, with a History of his Life and Times, Edited by Thomas Wright, is the title of a handsome quarto volume, and many will owe to it their first acquaintance with a man of extraordinary powers, |