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nock, he determined to strike the latter before out at all from the mass of kindred writing, it is Haggard, H. R. King Solomon's Mines: A Novel. Har- per's Franklin Square Library. 20 cents. the two. principal Federal armies could unite. solely in consequence of unusual inaccuracy, Hamerton, P. G. Imagination in Landscape Painting. Illustrated, Boston: Roberts Brothers, $0,50, Foiled at first by Pope's retreat from the Rapi- padding to the point of bursting, and a style Hanotaux, G, Etudes lilstoriques sur le xvie et xvlle dan and then by a storm, when about to cross whose dulness would be insupportable were it not sl^cleen France, Boston: Schoenhof, Barper's Yovng People. 1886. the Rappahannock at the White Sulphur Springs, for the relief it affords, after the author's occa Harte, B. The Story of a Mine. • Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 50 cents. he conceived the bold plan which Jackson car sional disheartening attempts at wit. There Hood, T, Fair Ines. Illustrated. Boston; Estes & Lau rlat, $1,60, ried out, of seizing Manassas m Pope's rear. Lee shoufd be some means of persuading ordinary Hugo. Victor, Les MlsSrables, George Routledge & thus effected his object, which was not, as is too tourists in Mexico, over the ordinary routes, that Sons, $3,00, Irving, H, English Actors, their Gharacierlstlcs and often supposed, a mere raid on Pope's supplies the world will willingly allow them to preserve their Methods, Oxford; Clarendon Press; New York: Macmlllan & Co, 25 cents. and lines of communication. Had this been all, their notes of travel unpublished. A good way Irving, w. Old Christmas; From the Sketch Book. Illus the advantage would hardly have compensated would be to have placed in the hands of every trated by R. Caldecott. Macmlllan & Go, $6.00, Knoflach.A, German Simplified: An Explanation of the for the risk. The purpose of the movement was traveller, as he crosses the river at El Paso or Principles of the German Language, A, Kuoflach, Knox, T. W, The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire, much wider. After forcing Pope from the Rap Laredo, Anderson's bibliography of recent works Illustrated. Harper & Brothers. pahannock, and disconcerting and distressing on Mexico, or Bancroft's list, ninety pages long, Kraszewskv. J. I. Le Julf, traduit du polonals par Alex andre HolynskI, Boston: Schoenhof, him by the destruction of his supplies, it was the of authorities on Mexican history. This ought Lathbury, Mary A. From Meadow to Mistletoe. Worth- ington Co. object of the Confederate leader to give him bat to deter all but writers conscious of genius from Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss. A. D. F. Ran attempts to tell the old tales over again. Even dolph & Co $1.60, tle. The skill and nerve with which Jackson Macquoid, Katharine S, Sir James Appleby, Bart.: A managed Pope until Lee came up, will constitute in Mexico, however, comparatively virgin soil Novel. Harper's Franklin Square Library. 20 cents. Malot, Hector. Zyte. B, Westermann & Co, one of the strong grounds on which his military remains. The wilds of Sonora have been little Molioy, J. F. Famous Plays, with a Discourse by way of Prologue on the Playhouses of the Restoration. Scrib reputation will rest. This feat of Jackson's must explored and less written about; interior Yuca ner & Welford. rank with his bold push between McDowell and tan has seen few successors of Stephens; Guerre Our Little Ones and the Nursery. Illustrated. Boston: Estes & Laurlat. $1.75. Fremont at Strasburg, and with his final achieve- ro, Tabasco, and Chiapas are States practically Pooler. C. T. Manual of the School Laws of the State of New York, 2d ed, E. 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The Chaplain's Craze: Being the Mystery of Van Der Smissen, W. H, Hautf's Das Kalte Herz, Bos scription have appeared in English since 1880, it Flndon Friars, Harper & Brothers, ton : D, G, Heath & Co, Frieze, H, S. Giovanni DuprS, With two Dialogues on Vermont, E. de V. A Comnilatlon of Coats of Arms, will be conceded that a new work of the same Art from the Italian of Augusto Contl, Scribner & - Crests, and Mottoes of Prominent American Families Welford. Settled In this Country before 1800. Brentano class can have reason for being only by virtue of GInn-Coady, Combined Number and Language Lessons, Brothers. opening fresh fields, or of greatly improved Boston: GInn & Co. 55 cents, Vicar of Wakefield. George Routledge & Sons. $6.00. Qower, Lord B. Last Days of Marie Antoinette : An His Wall, Annie. Sordello's Story, Retold In Prose. Boston: handling of familiar matter. Dr. McCarty's torical Sketch. Boston: Roberts Brothers, Ji.OO, Houghton, Mlfllla & Co. 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