HOW SUCCESS IS WON.  By Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton.  With Portraits.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price $1.00.  This handsome volume is made up of biographies of twelve men who have achieved distinguished successes in the various directions in which they turned their respective energies.  Mrs. Bolton not only rehearses the main incidents of their lives, but shows that in every case the success and honors attained were the result of industry, economy and high moral principle.  Among those selected to illustrate how success may be won under different circumstances are Peter Cooper, John B. Gough, John G. Whittier, Henry M. Stanley and Alexander H. Stephens.  The several sketches are bright and pointed, and the portraits which illustrate them add to their value.

The Rochester (N.Y.) Herald speaks of this extremely interesting book as “a singular collection of names, wide apart in many respects, but they represent men whom it is interesting to read about.”

ANNA MARIA’S HOUSEKEEPING.  By Mrs. S.D.  Power.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price $1.00.  If we were asked to recommend any one single book to a young housekeeper which should serve as a domestic guide, counsellor and friend, we should unhesitatingly name Anna Maria’s Housekeeping.  So far as our knowledge extends, there is no other book which so exactly and thoroughly fulfils the needs implied in those titles.  It is no mere collection of receipts, but a complete and common-sense treatise on the whole science of housekeeping, tersely and clearly written, with a flavor of experience about it that makes one accept it as authoritative.  It is a staff upon which the young housekeeper may confidently lean, and by the aid of which she may overcome obstacles which without it would seem insurmountable.  Mrs. Power does not believe in a house keeping itself.  It requires continual care and oversight, and a clear knowledge of what is to be done.  She believes, too, that a house can be well kept as easily as badly kept, and that a bright, clean, well-ordered home has a deal to do with molding the temper and even character of its members.  “It is no small thing,” she says, “to stand at the head of affairs, and be the motive power on which depend the welfare and credit, the health, temper and spirit of the whole family.  When in midlife you come to find how essential the comfort of a well-kept home is to the bodily strength and good conditions, to a sound mind and spirit, and useful days, you will reverence the good housekeeper as I do, above poet or artist, beauty or genius.”  In the opening chapter of the book the author instructs Anna Maria in the art of “How to Make Home-work Easier.”  In the succeeding chapters she takes up the various kinds of work there is to be done about the house, and describes the easiest methods of doing it.  “No attitudinizing,” she remarks, “no fine lady affectations over the griddles and saucepans; instead, cultivate the fine character which acts up to the need of the hour