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NEW AND LATE BOOKS.

500 EMPLOYMENTS ADAPTED TO WOMEN.

Throwing open to womankind productive fields of labor everywhere and afford. ing full opportunity to select employments best adapted to their tastes-all the result of over three years' constant care and investigation, By Miss VIRGINLA PENNY. Cloth. 81 75.

EVERYBODY'S LAWYER AND BOOK OF FORMS.

The simplicity of its instructions, the comprehensiveness of its subject, and accuracy of its details, together with its perfect arrangement, conciseness, attrac tiveness and cheapness make it the most desirable of all legal hand-books. By PRANK CROSBY, Esq. Thoroughly revised to date by 8. J. Vandersloot, Esq. 606 pp. Law Style. $200.

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

Intended to guard

against diseases in the family; to furnish the proper treatment for the sick; to inpart knowledge in regard to medicines, herbs, and plants; to show how to preserve a sound body and mind, and written in plain language, free from medical terms. By Prof. HENRY "AYLOR, M. D. Profusely Illustrated. Cloth. $1 75,

THE AMERICAN PRACTICAL COOKERY BOOK.

A faithful and highly useful guide, whose directions all can safely follow, making housekeeping easy, pleasant, and economical in all its departments, and based upon the personal test, throughout, of an intelligent practical housekeeper. Illus trated with Fifty Engravings. Cloth. $1 75.

MODERN COOKERY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. D

signed to interest and benefit housekeepers everywhere by its plain and simple Instructions in regard to the judicious preparation of food, and altogether a works superior merit. By Miss ELIZA ACTON. Carefully revised by Mrs. BARAT BALL With many Illustrations and a copious Index. Cloth. $175

THIRTY YEARS IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS. The

graphic narrative of Sir John Franklin, the most celebrated of Arctic Travellers In which ar John tells his own story-unsurpassed for intense and all-abscrbing text-sketching his three expeditions, and that part of the fourth shrouded in mystery to the world. Cloth. $1 75.

EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES DURING

FOUR YEARS' WANDERINGS IN THE WILDS OF SOUTHWESTERN AFRICA. Importan and exciting experiences, full of wild adventure and instructive faots, which seem to possess a mysterious charm for every mind, and in which the spirit o intelligent and adventurous curiosity is everywhere prominent. By CHARLES JOHN ANDERSON, With Illustrations. Cloth. $1 75.

LIVINGSTONE'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN

SOUTH AFRICA. Given in the pleasing language of Dr. Livingstone, and rich in the personal adventures and hair-breadth escapes of that most indefatigable discoverer and interesting Christian gentleman-making a work of special value. By DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL. D., D. C. S. Profusely Illustrated. Cloth, $175.

TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND

CENTRAL AFRICA.

Recounting an expedition undertaken under the auspices a H. B. M.'s Government, exhibiting the most remarkable courage, perseverance, presence of mind, and contempt of danger and death, and immensely important as a work of information. By HENRY BARTH, Ph. D., D. C. L., etc. With Illustrations. Clcth. $1 75.

ELLIS' THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. Written in Madagascar, while on a visit to the queen and people, in which is carefully described the singularly beautiful country and the manners and customs of its people, and from which an unusual amount of information is obtainable. By Rev. WILLIAM ELLIS, F. H. S. Profusely Illustrated. Cloth. $175.

ORIENTAL AND WESTERN SIBERIA. A Stir

ring narrative of seven years' explorations in Siberia, Mongolia, the Yirghes Steppes, Chin se Tartary, and part of Central Asia, revealing extraordinary facts, showing much of hunger, thirst, and perilous adventure, and forming a work o rare attractiveness for every reader. By THOMAS WILLIAM ATKINSON, Wil numerous Illustrations. Cloth. $175.

HUNTING SCENES IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA

Thrilling adventures of daring hunters-Cummings, Harris, and others-ar the Lions, Elephants, Giraffes, Buffaloes, and other animals-than which fev any works, are more exciting. With numerous Illustrations. Cloth. $175

NEW AND LATE BOOKS.

HUNTING ADVENTURES IN THE NORTHERN

WILDS. A tramp in the Chateaugay Woods, over hills, lakes and forest streams, at a time when millions of acres lay in a perfect wilderness, affording incidents, descriptions, and adventures of extraordinary interest. By S. H. HAMWORD With Illustrations Cloth. $175.

WILD NORTHERN SCENES; OR, SPORTING AD

VEXTURES WITH THE RIFLE AND THE ROD. Affording remarkably interesting exper riences in a section where the howl of the Wolf, the scream of the Panther, and the hoarse bellow of the Moose could be heard-presenting a racy book. By 4. H. HAMMOND. With Illustrations. Cloth. $1 75.

PERILS AND PLEASURES OF A HUNTER'S Life;

OR, THE ROMANCE OF HUNTING. Replete with thrilling incidents and hair-breadt escapes, and fascinating in the extreme, while depicting the romance of hunting. By PEREGRINE HERNE. With Illustrations. Cloth. $1 75.

HUNTING SPORTS IN THE WEST. An amount

of novelty and variety, of bold enterprise and noble hardihood, of heroic daring and fierce encounters, which seem to be mach more entertaining by the quiet fireside than they would be to the one going through them in the forest or field. By CECIL B. HARTLEY. With numerous Illustrations. Cloth. $175.

FANNY HUNTER'S WESTERN ADVENTURES. Vividly portraying the stirring scenes enacted in Kansas and Missouri during a sojourn of several years on the Western Border, and fully representing social and domestic affairs in frontier life-containing curious pictures of character. With Illustrations. Cloth. $1 75.

WONDERFUL ADVENTURES, BY LAND AND SEA,

OF THE SEVEN QUEER TRAVELLERS WHO MET AT AN INN. Revelations of a singular and unusually entertaining character, in which the most terrible circumstanser and mysterious occurrences are faithfully and forcibly placed before the reser By JOBLAH BABEES. Goth. 81 75.

NICARAGUA; PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Setting forth its history, the manners and customs of its inhabitants, its mines its minerals, and other productions, and throwing light upon a subject of very great importance to the masses of our people. By PETER F STOUT, Eng., late U. S. Vice-Consul. Cloth. 81 75.

FEMALE LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS; OR,

MARIA WARD'S DISCLOSURES. Romantic Incidents, bordering or the marvelous, which show the evils, horrors, and abominations of the Mormon system-thể degradation of its females, and the consequent vices of its society. By MARIA WARD, the Wife of a Mormon Elder. With Illustrations. 40,000 copies sold. Cloth. $175.

MALE LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS. Detailing

sights and scenes among the Mormons, with important remarks on their moral and social economy; being a true transcript of events, viewing Mormonism from a man's standpoint, and forming a companion to the preceding volume. By AUSTIN N. WARD. Edited by MARIA WARD. With Illustrations. Cloth. $1 75.

PIONEER LIFE IN THE WEST. Describing the

adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Clark, the Whetzels, the Johnsons, and others, in their fierce encounters with the Indians, and making up a work of the most entertaining and instructive character for those who delight in history and adventure. With numerous Illustrations. Cloth. $1 75.

THRILLING STORIES OF THE GREAT REBEL

LION. Fearful adventures of soldiers, scouts, spies, and refugees; daring exploits of smugglers, guerillas, desperadoes, and others; tales of loyal and disloyal women; stories f the negro, and incidents of fun and merriment in camp and old. By Lieut CHARLES S GREENE, late of the U. S. Army. With Illustrations Oil Cloth $1.75.

HISTORY OF THE WAR IN INDIA. FURNISHING

the complete history of British India, together with interesting and thrilling details which have scarcely a parallel in the world's history, to which s added a memoir of General Sir HENRY HAVELOCK. By HENRY FREDERICK MALOLM. Illustrates with numerous Engravings. Cloth. 81 75.

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