An admirable group of terse, strong, and practical discourses on the religion of the home, the office, the work-shop, and the field.  It tells how, amid the cares and annoyances of this workaday world, one may grow towards a noble and peaceful life.  It will be an invaluable companion, an indispensable “guide, philosopher, and friend.”  The eminent success of JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE in works of this high class is shown by the great popularity of his “Self-Culture,” which is now in its eleventh edition.

EDGE-TOOLS OF SPEECH. By MATURIN M. BALLOU, Author of “A Treasury of Thought,” “Due South,” &c., &c. 1 vol. 8vo. $3.50.

A great new work, in which are preserved the choicest expressions and opinions of the great thinkers and writers of all ages, from Confucius to Ruskin.  These pungent apothegms and brilliant memorabilia are all carefully classified by topics; so that the choicest work of many years of patient labor in the libraries of America and Europe is condensed into perfect form and made readily available.  It will be indispensable to all writers and speakers, and should be in every library.—­Traveller.

LIGHT ON THE HIDDEN WAY. With an Introduction by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.00.

A remarkable and thrilling romance of immortality, illustrating by an account of personal experiences the relations between the seen and the unseen.  All readers of the literature of the supernatural in books like “The Little Pilgrim,” &c., will be profoundly interested in this strange record of the nearness of the spiritual and material worlds.

TWO COLLEGE GIRLS. By HELEN DAWES BROWN. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

One of the most important of forthcoming books.  It is a capital study of girl-students from Boston, New York, and Chicago, exemplifying the most piquant characteristics of the respective phases of civilization and social criteria of the three cities.  It is suited alike to old and young, being rich in beautiful passages of tender pathos, strong, simple and vivid, and full of sustaining interest.  Nothing has been published since “Little Women” that will so strike the popular taste.

INDIAN SUMMER. By W.D.  HOWELLS, Author of “The Rise of Silas Lapham,” &c. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

“Mr. Howells’s new story is in his pleasantest vein, full of his quiet humor clothed in the neatest expressions.  It is international; the contrast of American and foreign ways runs through it, and Mr. Howells has added the contrast of the old and the new Americanism.  The hero is a Western journalist, a Mugwump, much given to banter of the American sort.”—­The Nation.

THE PRELATE. By ISAAC HENDERSON. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.

A story of the American colony and native society in Rome.  The situations in this powerful book are among the most intense and dramatic of anything that has been offered by an American author for years.