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"Box of" is cleverly indicative of the technique of by Alfred P. Putnam. (Roberts Brothers.) new method." Any one that should be These "songs," or rather hymns and sacred in want of Colgate's soap would naturally turn to "Colgate," not to "box;" and though in the writers. Each selection is accompanied by a poems, are taken altogether from American new method" the alphabetical or any old- biographical sketch of the writer. Mr. Putnam fashioned system is discarded, nobody could has not limited himself in his selection to merepossibly miss" Colgate." We envy the Nation ly sacred writers, but has transferred a poem for the ingenious inventor of the " new mewherever found, if expressive of religious feelthod." What blessing he might bestow uponing or liberal faith, whether in the pages of a the book trade, by suggesting as admirable a method for a Finding List of books as that which makes his index so unfailing a Finding List of Colgate's soaps, Chickering's pianos, and Paillard's music-boxes! We congratulate the Nation on its success in this new field of enterprise; on its graciously descending from its lofty pedestal to our common standard of trade journalism. And may we record, as another act of self-abnegation, its gratifying withdrawal from the retail book trade, implied in the well-considered omission of those conspicuous lines so frequently met with in its advertising columns, namely, "Orders for books will be filled by the Nation, etc."? How much more becoming to the paragon of literary taste is the substitution of a line which now as motto so fitly graces the cover of "Christmas Gifts" (who does not fully comprehend its meaning after a perusal of the "method?"), "I am weary; yea, my memory is tired."-SHAKESPEARE. 16mo, pp. 36, paper, gratis to subscribers to the Nation, at $5 for fifty weeks, postpaid, or $5.20 for fifty-two weeks. Clergymen, $4. Terms of "indexing," unknown. BOOKKEEPING SIMPLIFIED, by D. B. Waggener. (D. B. Waggener & Co.) A simple and practical explanation of the system of double bookkeeping. It is clearly and briefly written, and brings the whole system to every one's comprehension. 16mo, cloth, $1; boards, 75 c. DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL, by the Rev. William M. Taylor. (Harper & Brothers.) The life of the Psalmist, and the lessons to be drawn from it, is here made the subject of twenty-three sermons. Dr. Taylor seems to have entered into his task with great enthusiasm, as his work of fers a most exhaustive treatise of this portion of sacred history. He presents a far-off time with great vividness and reality, and clears up in a scholarly manner the obscurities which must ever puzzle the ordinary Biblical reader. 12mo, cloth, $2. magazine or annual, or from some of the poputhe finest we have seen. Large 12mo, cloth, $3. lar poets of the day. The collection is one of ISMAILIA, by Sir Samuel W. Baker. (Harper & Brothers.) The history of this expedition, organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, for the suppression of the slave-trade in Central Africa, is narrated by Sir Samuel W. Baker, who be sides the appendage of "Pasha" has some dozen other titles, both civil and military, after his name. Besides being the historian of the expedition he was also the leader of it, his exploits adding new lustre to an honorable name. passed has already been made the subject of The country through which the expedition two works by Sir Samuel Baker; hence the present volume merely traces out the path of the expedition, its various obstacles, and its results. The work is a most interesting one, the wild mode of warfare it describes being something entirely new, while it is written up with a most graphic pen. The volume is an exceedingly handsome one, and contains a number of tinted maps, portraits, and upwards of fifty fullpage illustrations by Zwecker and Durand. Svo, cloth, $5. THREE ESSAYS ON RELIGION, by John Stuart Mill. (Henry Holt & Co.) These three essays were written at different periods of Mill's life, and do not present a continuous line of thought. 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