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Personal History of Lord Bacon, From Unpublished Papers. By WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON, of the Inner Temple. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. pp. 424.
With Biographical Notices of Sovereigns, Statesmen, and Military Commanders; Description and Statistics of the Country; Causes of the War, etc. By Julia de Marguerittes. With an Introduction, by Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie. With Map and Portraits. Philadelphia. Geo. G. Evans. 12mo. pp. 359. $1.25. Here and Beyond; or, The New Man, the True Man. By Hugh Smith Carpenter. New York.
This author was son of the celebrated physician, Guy Patin, and distinguished for his knowledge of medals: his travels principally relate to antiquities. Relation d'un Voyage de Paris, en Espagne, en Portugal, et en Italie, 1769, 1770. Par M. Silhouette. Paris, 1770. 4 vols. 12mo.
Tales of My Landlord. 4 vols. 12mo. Third Edition. Blackwood, Edinburgh. John Murray, London. 1817.
But it matters not to me what Icelanders may call 'The Bondman, if they will honor me by reading it in the open-hearted spirit and with the free mind with which they are content to read of Grettir and of his fights with the Troll." From the Author's Preface. CAPT'N DAVY'S HONEYMOON. A Manx Yarn. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00. "A new departure by this author.
The nearest counterpart of this engrossing and very unusual narrative is perhaps to be found in the work that first made Rider Haggard famous, though the story owes literally nothing to anything that has gone before, so startlingly novel is its theme and so boldly convincing is its execution. A Romance of Early Michigan By ALBERT L. LAWRENCE Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50
He published the Miscellaneous Works of Charles Blount, Esq; to which he prefixed the Life of the Author, and an Account, and Vindication of his Death, in 12mo. 1695. In this volume are several of the publisher's own letters.
D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. pp. 503. $3.00. Ancient Mineralogy; or an Inquiry respecting Mineral Substances mentioned by the Ancients, with Occasional Remarks on the Uses to which they were applied. By N.F. Moore, LL.D. Second Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 18mo. pp. 250. 60 cts. The Vagabond. By Adam Badean. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 12mo. pp. 368. $1.00. Dictionary of Americanisms.
By M.E. WALLER Author of "A Daughter of the Rich," etc. With frontispiece by Chase Emerson. 12mo. 311 pages. $1.50 A strong tale of human loves and hopes set in a background of the granite mountain-tops of remote New England. Brooklyn Eagle. Hugh Armstrong, the hero, is one of the pronouncedly high class character delineations of a quarter century. Boston Courier.
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