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LORD HOUGHTON'S MONOGRAPHS. Personal and Social. 12mo. With portraits of Walter Savage Landor, Charles Buller, Harriet, Lady Ashburton, and Suleiman Pasha. $2.00.

"An extremely agreeable volume.... He writes so as to adorn everything which he touches."--_London Atheneum_.

"He has something new to tell of every one of his subjects. His book is a choice olio of fine fruits."--_London Saturday Review_.

"A volume as valuable as it is captivating."--_Boston Post_.

"Lord Houghton has enjoyed an intimacy with all the subjects of these sketches, and writes from his own personal knowledge of the facts he relates."--_Boston Globe_.

PROF. HADLEY'S ESSAYS. Essays, Philological and Critical. Selected from the papers of James Hadley, LL.D. 8vo. cloth, $4.00.

"In extent and accuracy of knowledge, in retentiveness and readiness of memory, in penetration and justness of judgment, I have never met his equal. Whatever others may have done, he was, in the opinion of all who knew him most fully, America's best and soundest philologist."--_From the Preface of Prof. W. D. Whitney._

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. By James Fitzjames Stephen, Q.C. Post 8vo. $2.00.

"One of the most valuable contributions to political philosophy which have been published in recent times."--_London Saturday Review_.

"One of the most thorough overhaulings of the moral, religious, and political bases of society which they have recently received.... Everybody who wants to see all the recent attempts to set things right analyzed by a master-hand, and in English which stirs the blood, will have a great treat in reading him."--_Nation_.

HERO CARTHEW. A New Novel. By Louisa Parr. Author of "Dorothy Fox," etc. 16mo. Leisure Hour Series. $1.25.

"A very charming novel By far the healthiest little love story that has lately appeared."--_Boston Globe_.

"It is a fresh and pretty little story, full of interest, character, and grace."--_Boston Gazette_.

UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE. A Novel. By Thomas Hardy. Leisure Hour Series. $1.25.

"The best prose idyl we have seen for a long time past."--_Saturday Review_.

"We know of no rustic dialogues to be compared to these but in the earlier and best pages of George Eliot."--_London Standard_.

SCINTILLATIONS FROM HEINE. Leisure Hour Series. $1.25.

"They are classified after a very admirable method, and there is a bright thought or a sparkling joke in almost every line."-- Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

COUNT KOSTIA. A Novel. By Victor Cherbuliez. Leisure Hour Series. $1.25.

"A great and deep work ... drawn with a vivid power of imagination which is a revelation to the cooler Anglo-Saxon reader."--_N. Y. Evening Mail_.

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