HARPER'S LIBRARY OF SELECT NOVELS. "Harper's Select Library of Fiction rarely includes a work which has not a decided charm, either from the clearness of the story, the significance of the theme, or the charm of the execution; so that on setting out upon a journey, or providing for the recreation of a solitary evening, one is wise and safe in procuring the later numbers of this attractive series."-Boston Transcript. 41. The Jilt..... 42. Tales from the German.. 43. Arthur Arundel. By H. Smith. 44. Agincourt. By James... 45. The Regent's Daughter. 46. The Maid of Honor... 47. Safia. By De Beauvoir.. 48. Look to the End. By Mrs. Ellis.. 52. Zoe. By Miss Jewsbury.. 53. Wyoming... 54. De Rohan. By Sue.... 55. Self. By the Author of “Cecil". 56. The Smuggler. By James..... 57. The Breach of Promise.... 58. Parsonage of Mora. By Miss Bremer.. 59. A Chance Medley. By T. C. Grattan. 60. The White Slave.. 50 101. Russell. By James... 50 50 102. A Simple Story. By Mrs. Inchbald. 50 59 50 105. Margaret Graham. By James.. 25 25 50 50 112. Self-Control. By Mary Brunton...... 100 វ ន ន ន ន ន ន ន ន ន ន ន ន ន គ 75 50 75 50 25 75 25 59 75 50 50 50 ... 150. Singleton Fontenoy, R.N. By Hannay. By Mrs. Marsh.. 154. The Commissioner. By James...... 155. The Wife's Sister. By Mrs. Hubback 156. The Gold Worshipers.... 157. The Daughter of Night, By Fullom...................... 158. Stuart of Dunleath. By Hon. Caroline Norton, 159. Arthur Conway. By Captain E. H. Milman 160. The Fate. By James.. 161. The Lady and the Priest. By Mrs. Maberly... 162. Aims and Obstacles. By James... 163. The Tutor's Ward..... 164. Florence Sackville. By Mrs. Burbury... 165. Ravenscliffe. By Mrs. Marsh.. 166. Maurice Tiernay. By Lever 50 218. Notice to Quit. By Wills. 50 219. A Strange Story.. 50 220. Brown, Jones, and Robinson. By Trollope..... 50 221. Abel Drake's Wife. By John Saunders.... 50 222. Olive Blake's Good Work. By J. C. Jeaffreson. 50 223. The Professor's Lady. 1 00 224. Mistress and Maid. By Miss Mulock.. 50 225. Aurora Floyd. By M. E. Braddon... 50 226. Barrington. By Lever 50 227. Sylvia's Lovers. By Mrs. Gaskell 50 232. A Point of Honor.. 50 233. Live it Down. Ry Jeaffreson 75 234. Martin Pole. By Saunders...... 50 235. Mary Lyndsay. By Lady Ponsonby.. 1 00 236. Eleanor's Victory. By M. E, Braddon.. 75 237. Rachel Ray. By Trollope... 50 1.00 50 75 75 25 50 75 75 75 170. The Daltons. By Lever...... 171. Ivar; or, The Skjuts-Boy. By Miss Carlen... 172. Pequinillo. By James.... 173. Anna Hammer. By Temme. 174. A Life of Vicissitudes. By James. 175. Henry Esmond. By Thackeray. 176, 177. My Novel. By Bulwer..... 179. Katie Stewart... 179. Castle Avon. By Mra. Marsh 180. Agnes Sorel. By James 151. Agatha's Husband. By the Author of "Olive" 182. Villette. By Currer Bell... 183. Lover's Stratagem. By Miss Carlen...... 184. Clouded Happiness, By Countess D'Orsay.... 185. Charles Auchester. A Memorial 186. Lady Lee's Widowhood... 188. Sir Jasper Carew. By Lever 189. Quiet Heart.. 190. Aubrey. By Mrs. Marah 191. Ticonderoga. By James. 192. Hard Times. By Dickens. 50 238. John Marchmont's Legacy. By M. E. Braddon 75 239. Annis Warleigh's Fortunes. By Holme Lee... 1 50 240. The Wife's Evidence. By Wills. 50 250. My Brother's Wife. By Amelia B. Edwards... 75 251. Uncle Silas. By J. S. Le Fanu...... 50 252. Lovel the Widower. By Thackeray.. 50 253. Miss Mackenzie. By Anthony Trollope.. 75 254. On Guard. By Annie Thomas...... 50 255. Theo Leigh. By Annie Thomas 50 75 25 50 50 50 ន ន ន ន ន ន 50 25 59 25 50 50 274. Felix Holt, the Radical. By George Eliot.... 275. Bound to the Wheel. By John Saunders............ 276. All in the Dark. By J. S. Le Fanu.. 277. Kissing the Rod. By Edmund Yates..... 278. The Race for Wealth. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell.. 279. Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg. By Mrs. Linton... 280. The Beauclercs, Father and Son. By C. Clarke 281. Sir Brook Fossbrooke. By Charles Lever.... 282. Madonna Mary. By Mrs. Oliphant.. 283. Cradock Nowell. By R. D. Blackmore..... 284. Bernthal. From the German of L. Mühlbach. 285. Rachel's Secret....... 286 The Claverings. By Anthony Trollope..... 287. The Village on the Cliff. By Miss Thackeray. 288. Played Out. By Annie Thomas............... 289. Black Sheep. By Edmund Yates........................ 290. Sowing the Wind. By E. Lynn Linton....... 291. Nora and Archibald Lee 292. Raymond's Heroine.. 293. Mr. Wynyard's Ward. By Holme Lee 294. Alec Forbes. By George Macdonald 295. No Man's Friend. By F. W. Robinson.. 296. Called to Account. By Annie Thomas, 297. Caste........ 298. The Curate's Discipline. By Mrs. Eiloart..... 299. Circe. By Babington White...... 300. The Tenants of Malory. By J. S. Le Fanu... 301. Carlyon's Year... 302. The Waterdale Neighbors......... 303. Mabel's Progress.. 304. Guild Court. By Geo. Mac Donald. 50 322. Kathleen. By the Author of "Raymond's Heroine". 323. That Boy of Norcott's. By Charles Lever............ 50 324. In Silk Attire. By W. Black....... 50 325. Hetty. By Henry Kingsley 75 326. False Colors. By Annie Thomas.. 75 327. Meta's Faith. By the Author of "St. Olave's," 50 328. Found Dead. By the Author of "Carlyon's Year 75 75 329. Wrecked in Port. By Edmund Yates... 50 332. Kitty. By M. Betham Edwards... 50 336. So Runs the World Away. By Mrs. A. C. Steele. 25 337. Baffled. By Julia Goddard....... 75 338. Beneath the Wheels..... 50 339. Stern Necessity. By F. W. Robinson.... 50 340. Gwendoline's Harvest. By the Author of "Carlyon's Year"....... 50 4888 25 50 50 50 50 50 50 349. The Vivian Romance. By Mortimer Collins.. 50 350. In Duty Bound. Illustrated...... 25 351. The Warden and Barchester Towers. By A. Trollope.... 50 75 50 50 50 75 50 50 By 25 352. From Thistles-Grapes? By Mrs. Eiloart.... 50 353. A Siren. By T. A. Trollope.. ......... 313. Poor Humanity. By F. W. Robinson........ ..$ 50 314. Brakespeare. By Geo. Lawrence.................... 50 360. A Life's Assize. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell. 361. Anteros. 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In the Bazar, $1 00 a line; Cuts and Display, $1 25 a line. - American & Foreign Literature. Vol. IV. FOREIGN LITERATURE. London Letter. ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS. ASTRONOMICAL WORKS. CONTENTS. JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE PHI LOSOPHY. EDITORIAL. The Bible Commentary. Educational Publications. Dr. Lord's Works. The Sun. The Heavens. Prof. Porter's Human Intellect. EDUCATIONAL. Guyot's Geographies. Perce's Globes. Cooley's Philosophy, &c. FROUDE'S HISTORY. CURTIUS HISTORY OF GREECE, AND MAX MULLER'S CHIPS, VOL. III. THE BIBLE COMMENTARY. FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, January 27, 1871. Ir is an ancient and laudable custom alike applicable to Literature as to Trade-to "take stock" of the results of the past twelve months, at the commencement of another year. A remarkable uniformity is shown, by this means, to exist between the operations of 1869 and 1870 in the statistics of English Publication-the total number of new books of all kinds recorded in the best Trade organ, The Publishers' Circular, being, for 1869, 5,136 titles, and for the late year, 5,251. When the difference of the ruling events of the two periods is considered, the similarity is curious, and shows emphatically how steadily the undercurrent of ordinary life flows on, unaffected by the convulsions of neighboring nations and countries, as long as their influence is not tangibly felt. Of the above-mentioned number about twothirds are actually new books; the remainder being composed of Reprints, American Importations, &c. Theology, as usual, in all its branches, critical, practical, and devotional, is the most numerously represented class; Educational Books coming next, succeeded by Juvenile Works in nearly equal numbers. When one remembers that all the real poets of the day may be calculated on one's fingers, it seems surprising to learn that 212 original works of poetry were issued in England last year. The fact certainly testifies to the existence of a greater degree of ambition than of self-knowledge among the authors. A slight falling off in the number of separate works of fiction is visible, though novels now reach the public in so many different shapes, and have taken so firm a hold of the periodical press and magazines, that the diminution may be more apparent than real. The death of Dean Alford is the principal personal event of the present month. Though very few of his books have been reprinted in America, there was scarcely any English divine better known across the Atlantic, the many-sidedness of the author bringing him constantly before readers in some shape or other. Commencing his literary career by the publication of some volumes of poetry, Dean Alford combined in a remarkable degree the possession of highly cultivated Belle-Lettres tastes with the love of labor that enabled him to grapple fearlessly with the profoundest critical work. His last publication, the elegant volume, The Riviera, shows in many of its illustrations his skill as an artist, and only a few days before his death, the business arrangements were concluded with his publishers for the production of an elaborate work on the Criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures. This of course remains unaccomplished, but the Greek New Testament will for many years be the scholar's vade-mecum of the study, though the wonderful industry constantly at work shown in bringing up each succeeding new impression of the volumes to the latest critical standard, must now be wanting, or can only be supplied by another hand. Dr. Alford's personal labors in the work of the ministry were as energetically pursued as his literary undertakings. A life of sixty years seems hardly sufficient for his career; certainly no one of the present generation could have done more to fit him for the rest he was suddenly called to partake of. Though the interest felt in Charles Dickens and all that related to his personality was abruptly interfered with by "The War," there is a vitality about authors that generally survives the achievements of conquerors, and your readers may like to know the present condition, in a business point of view, of his most enduring monumenthis writings. By the direction given in Dickens' will, all his estate was to be realized, and in ac |