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800. LITERATURE.
Poetry.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886 $1.25
Refined fancy, graceful imagination, and true poetic feeling crop out on every page.
Il.Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893 $1.50
None of our New England poets can rival Mr. Aldrich in delicate fancy and airy rhyme.
N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894 $1.25
Irish stories and legends in rhyme, which depict with quiet force, the hard fate of the poor in Ireland.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1894 $1.25
A collection of poems which have borne the test of time and whose right to a place in the domain of art has been conceded.
N. Y., Cassell Pub. Co., 1894 $1
A collection of short poems in easy metres and upon popular subjects, of patriotic, humorous, pathetic or descriptive nature.
Browne, F. F. (Ed.) Bugle echoes.
N. Y., White, Stokes & Allen $2
A collection of poems of the civil war, northern and southern.
Il.N. Y., Appleton, 1894 $3
A very complete edition. The poems follow each other in the order in which they were written.
Cin., J. Church & Co., 1886 $1
Readings with musical accompaniments for public entertainments, church socials, schools and the family circle.
Bost., Arena Pub. Co., 1896 $1.25
A patriotic narrative poem by the author of the famous "Sherman's march to the sea."
N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1885 $2 and $2.50
Verses reproducing some of the effects of city scenes and character upon the imagination and intellect of two people from the country.
Il.N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1890 $2 and $2.50
A number of Will Carleton's poems which had not previously been collected in book form, and others which are now published for the first time.
Il.N. Y., n. d. $2 and $2.50
Il.N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1881 $2 and $2.50
Mr. Carleton has insight to common life and sympathy with it; a feeling for its weakness and heroism.
Il.N. Y., Harper & Bros.,, n. d. $2 and $2.50
Author expresses the truth that all circumstances of life, however trivial, possess those alternations of the good and bad upon which walk the lives and deaths of this strange world.
N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1895 $1.25
An excellent collection of poems from the pen of a most popular poet.
Cary, A., and P. Poetical works.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1882 $2
These poems evince a genuine imagination and a creative energy that challenge peculiar praise.
N. Y., Cassell Pub. Co., 1889 $1
The other verses are as tender and graceful as "The Children."
Bost., Roberts Bros., 1895 $1.50
"Here will be found flashes of wholly original and profound insight into nature and life; words and phrases exhibiting an extraordinary vividness of description and imaginative power."—T. W. Higginson.
N. Y., Century Co., 1894 $1.25
"Morals set to music," best expresses the contents of this delightful little volume.
N. Y., Doubleday & McClure, 1898 $1.25
They have the true swing and rush, and deal with war and adventure and the life out of doors.
N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co., 1896 $1.25
This volume has made numerous conquests among our men of letters. These poems should be as popular as those of James Whitcomb Riley.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons 2 vols. $2.50
The aim has been to make the collection fairly representative in character, including those pieces relating to our several wars, which best reflect the spirit of the times that produced them.
Il.N. Y., Crowell & Co., n. d. $1.25
A fine collection of poems from the best American and English authors.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1896 $1.25
A collection of verses both mirthful and pathetic.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1894 $1
Forty-two poems for children.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, n. d. $1.50
There is no sweeter, purer, wholesomer, happier poetry for children in the English language today than that which bears the literary sterling silver hall-mark of Eugene Field.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1894 $1.25
More than fifty short poems in which are to be found stories of exquisite fancy.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1896 $1.25
A number of short poems—homely, sentimental and gay.
Il.Bost., Lee & Shepard, 1894 $1.50
Humorous poems with an earnest, hearty ring.
Bost., Lee & Shepard, 1899 $1.25
A collection of spirited songs, which has been approved from time to time in the leading periodicals of the day.
Il.Chic., Stone & Kimball, 1893 $1.25
"These poems delight me. They have a note of their own. The wind sighs through them, wild birds cry in their music. They make me see and feel the very life of the prairie."—Louise Chandler Moulton.
N. Y., Century Co., 1894 $1.50
A complete and revised collection of Mr. Gilder's poems, with fourteen poems not hitherto printed in book form.
N. Y., Century Co., 1897 $1
A volume of verses of martial reminiscence, of comradeship, of national reunion, and of the praise of heroes.
N. Y., E. P. Dutton, 1881 $1.75
The poetical works of Frances Havergal steadily grow in favor.
N. Y., E. P. Dutton, 1885 $1.50
A volume including all of the poems from the pen of this prolific writer.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893 $1.25
The popular "Pike county ballads," headed by the famous "Jim Bludso" and "Little breeches," with other poems, form a very popular and attractive volume.
Il.Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894 $1.50
Eighty-four hymns by sixty-four different authors.
Il.N. Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., n. d. $1.50
A rearranged and complete volume, showing as near as possible the order in which these poems appeared.
Bost., 1896 $2
A collection of the very best of this style of literature.
N. Y., Crowell, 1879 $1.25
It is the object of this volume to place within the reach of the masses for whom they were intended, the works of this great poet of the people.
N. Y., Randolph & Co., 1865 $1.50
A collection of the choicest and noblest specimens of American national poetry.
Hymns of the ages. (Third series.)
Bost., Osgood & Co., 1877, $1.50. (Now pub. by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 3 vols., each $1.50.)
Collection of sacred hymns, including old Latin, German, English and translations from all ages.
Bost., Roberts Bros., 1893 $1.50
Her poems have no equal among the writings of any American woman, and four or five are excelled by very few American poets of the male sex.
Bost., Osgood & Co., 1881 $2. (Now pub. by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; same price.)
Great pains have been taken to bring together in a convenient and attractive volume as many as possible of the lesser poems in our language.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881 $2
Being a selection chiefly from the longer English poems.
Kendrick, A. C. Our poetical favorites. (3d series.)
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881 $2
Many of the best poems here collected are from authors who have presented no volume to the public.
Bost., Page & Co., 1898 $1.25
The purpose of this compilation is solely that of preserving in attractive and permanent form some of the best lyrics of America.
N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co., 1896 $2
The purpose of this collection is to put before children and young people poems which are good in themselves and especially fitted to live.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894 $1
This contains her hymns and lyrics on sacred subjects.
Author:Lucy Larcom Poems.
Il.Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884 $1.25
The religious sentiment of New England never had a more winning and graceful interpreter.—John G. Whittier.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1895 $1
In this attractive volume Miss Larned has brought together a number of poems breathing of the spirit of the country and seashore.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1891 $1.50
Several hundred selections from American and English poets, especially compiled for the use of the "King's daughters."
N. Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Riverside ed.) $2
The roots of his nature, saturated with mercy, good will and beauty, choke out from his song the lower and coarser qualities of our human life.
Silver, Burdett & Co., 1896 net 75c
The poems are largely by the best English and American authors, and will bear frequent reading.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $1.25
Precious examples of Mr. Lowell's verse, embodying some of its very best characteristics.
Il.N. Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890 $1.50
How enviable is the record of a poet who is our most brilliant and learned critic, and who has given us our best native idyl, our best and most complete work in dialectic verse and the noblest heroic ode that America has produced.
N. Y., Holt & Co., 1898 $2
The book contains so much that is admirably in tune with the spirit of childhood. It is a delightful compilation.
Mackay, C. A thousand and one gems of poetry. (Selected.)
N. Y., Routledge, 1889 $1.50
Compiler designed to present one great panoramic review of the masterpieces of English and American poetry.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1882 $1.50
These are not merely verses on patriotic themes; but fifty-six poems representing forty native writers. A rich collection showing praise-worthy discrimination.
Chic., McClurg & Co., 1892 $1
Vastness of scene and power together; little wonder that the poem should have impressed the world.—David Masson.
N. Y., Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1893 $2.50
Reprinted from the early editions with explanatory notes, etc.
N. Y., Macmillan & Co., 1892 $1
This selection is planned for children between ten and sixteen years of age.
N. Y., Crowell & Co., 1897 $1.50
Humorous and pathetic poems of New England life.
Osgood, 1873 (Diamond ed.) $1, $2.25 and $3
"The present edition contains the whole of her legends and lyrics and originates in the great favor with which they were received by the public."—Charles Dickens.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890 $1.25
The lovers of poetry will welcome this tasteful book.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894 75c
Selected from the best known songs of England and America.
Bost., Roberts Bros., 1895 $1
Her rhymes are truly vocal, as if sung to children at rock-a-by time or rattled gaily off in play hours.
Ind., Bowen-Merrill Co., 1894 $1.25
Contains the latest and best poetical pieces, sonnets and dialect poems of the author.
Ind., Bowen-Merrill Co., 1894 $1.25
Hoosier harvest airs and child rhymes make up this new volume of the well known western poet.
Ind., Bowen-Merrill Co., 1892 $1.25
A fantastic drama in verse.
Ind., Bowen-Merrill Co., 1894 $1.25
I own a great deal of enthusiasm for this later product of Indiana soil, this delineator of lowly humanity who sings with so much pathos, humor and grace.—O. W. Holmes.
Ind., Bowen-Merrill Co., 1891 $1.25
A collection of earlier dialect poems. It contains a large number of poems that the public has long since marked as favorites.
N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co., 1894 $1.75
Choice selections from the Hoosier poet's various volumes of verse.
Ind., Bowen-Merrill Co., 1892 $1.25
Il.N. Y., Century Co., 1893 $1.50
Sixty short poems, including many old favorites.
Ind., Bowen-Merrill Co., 1894 $1.25
One hundred and two dialect and serious poems, not for children only, but of childhood days.
Il.N. Y., Macmillan, 1895 $2.25
Ranked only second to Mrs. Browning as a poetess.
N. Y., Kenedy, 1895 $2 and $2.50
Father Ryan had the essential gifts of the true poet; his expression is simple and vigorous.
Il.N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1895 $1.25
Exquisite little melodies. The sympathetic simplicity of her subjects has endeared this author to all classes of readers.
Bost., Copeland & Day, 1896 $1
A book of rhyme for all boys young and old.
N. Y., Macmillan, 1893 $1.75
No poet has ever invested the field of battle or the lists of mortal combat with a clearer air of reality. He sang of love as no other poet ever sang.
Shakespeare
Shakespeare's complete works.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat 12 vols. $9
Student's handy edition.
N. Y., Harper & Bros. 40 vols., per vol. 56c
Excellent for students.
Bost., 1890 10 vols. $12
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1894 $1.50
A collection of representative American poems; with analytical and critical studies of the writers.
Atlanta-Constitution Pub. Co., 1897 75c
From the beginning of the book to the end the reader will not find an artificial note. Sincerity and simplicity prevail throughout, and the melody that is native to the verses is their finest setting.
N. Y., Appleton, 1894 $1.50
Here is one with the dew of morning in his hair, who looks on life and the promise thereof and finds the prospect joyous.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $2.50
A book of rare value and attractiveness. Mr. Stedman has devoted to this work the same conscientious care which he bestowed on his original volumes.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $1.50
Tennyson, Lord A. (Poet Laureate.) Poetical works.
N. Y., Macmillan, 1894 $1.75
Tennyson never forgets that the poet's work was to convince the world of love and beauty; that he was born to do that work and to do it worthily.
Il.Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $1.50
All the poems are gay and fresh and calculated to interest and delight young readers.
Chic., McClurg, 1892 $2
A collection of newspaper and periodical verse.
N. Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $1.50
Distinctively the poet of New England. His pages are the mirror of her outward nature and the strong utterances of her inward life.
N. Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., $1.50
The editor has gathered up the best of the old ballads and short time approved poems.
800. LITERATURE.
Prose.
Il.Phila., Lippincott, 1892 $2
The outcome of two years rambling and the thoughts that came to the rambler.
Bost., Lee & Shepard, 1876 $1
Composed of fresh selections in poetry and prose for reading clubs, school declamation, home and public entertainments.
Bost., Lee & Shepard, 1880 $1
A good selection of poetry and prose suitable for home and public entertainments.
N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1897 $1.25
The author ranges over a vast field and gives us her ideas on many subjects.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1888 $3
Selections from the letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894 $1.50
Mr. Bliss here offers another interesting book from his fruitful studies of the colonial era. It depicts phases of the religious life and ecclesiastical customs of that era with much force.
Dodge, M. A. (Gail Hamilton, pseud.) Country living and country thinking.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat, 1863 $1.50
Written in a witty and aggressive style.
Dodge, M. A. (Gail Hamilton, pseud.) Gala days.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat, 1865 $1.50
Miss Dodge commanded a terse, vigorous, direct style.
Dodge, M. A. (Gail Hamilton, pseud.) A new atmosphere.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat, 1865 $1.50
Dodge, M. A. (Gail Hamilton, pseud.) Skirmishes and sketches.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat, 1887 $1.50
The style is simple and lucid. The book may be read with profit.
Dodge, M. A. (Gail Hamilton, pseud.) Summer rest.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat, 1877 $1.50
The author brings to these books the same trenchant sharpness, the same vigor and point, the same pungency of phrase that characterize her other works.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $1.25
The author is recognized, in England as well as America, as a thoughtful and charming essayist on out-door topics.
N. Y., Macmillan, 1897 80c
Beyond all living men Mr. Carlyle has colored the thought of his time. He is above all things original.
N. Y., Century Co. 2 vols. ea. $2.75
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1895 net, $2
Papers on the old town of Fairfield, Conn.
N. Y., Crowell & Co., 1895 $1
Reminiscences of Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson, Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs. Stowe and others.
Chic., McClurg & Co., 1895 75c
This collection includes only such selections as seem to appeal directly to the fancy and feelings of youth.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1893 $1.25
A piquant contribution to Puritan sociology
Bost., Houghton. Mifflin & Co.,, 1894 ea. $1.75
A beautiful presentation of noble thought.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893 $1.75
This volume includes essays on character, Plutarch, etc., and biographical sketches of Dr. Ripley, Mr. Hoar, Henry Thoreau and others.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894 $1. 75
Author's style is clear and brilliant and shows honest and independent thought.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893 $1.75
In none of these essays was any change from the original form made, except in the "Fortune of the republic," which was necessary.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894 $1.75
Emerson felt that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating new activity to the torpid spirit.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894 $1.75
N. Y., Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1890 $1
The clever conversations take place between four typical characters who meet Saturday night in a quiet corner of their club; opposite views being presented of various subjects.
Gill, W. F. (Ed.) Laurel leaves.
Chic., Belford, Clarke & Co., 1891 $4
An exceptional collection of stories, poems and essays.
N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1897 and 1898 2 vols. ea. $3.50
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1893 $1.25
Brief discussions on popular subjects.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1891 $1.25
Presents in a fresh and attractive way old and familiar subjects.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., n. d. $1.25 and $1.50
Rich in the ripe culture of the older world, the autocrat still has a brightness of mood, a nimbleness of wit and quickness of idea which belong to the new and more hopeful world.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $1.50
Is on the same plan as the "Autocrat of the breakfast table." Many topics, social, literary, etc., are brightly and keenly discussed.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $1.50
One of that admirable series of table talks in which the witty, versatile and every way admirable Dr. Holmes has embalmed the best part of himself.
N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1896 $1.50
This volume includes: The country printer; police reports; I talk of dreams, etc.
N. Y., Routledge & Sons, 1890 60c
A collection of ideal republics, commencing with Plutarch's Lycurgus, and ending with Campanella's City of the sun.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, n. d. $1
The papers in this book, with two exceptions, were written in England. They are unusually entertaining.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1893 $1.75
Rich in folklore treasures, and the majority of the tales have never appeared before.
Il.N. Y., Appleton, 1895 $2.50
Describes the evolution of the country' schools from the year 1800 to the present day.
Il.N.Y., Appleton, 1896 $2.50
A description of the life of a New England farm boy. It is a companion volume to "The country school of New England."
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1884 $1.25
Illustrating American political history.
Chic., McClurg & Co., 1892 $1.50
Mrs. Kirkland has thought it best not to go deeply into detail, as "experience teaches us that young people remember more when only a little is given."
Phila., Lippincott, 1881 $1.50
It is pleasant to read Mr. Kingsley's essays, because, while he is very much in earnest, he has evidently thought long and quietly over the subjects which he discusses, and he writes with composure as one who neither fears the truth nor fears for it.
Phila., Peterson & Bros., n. d. $2
A collection of standard selections for home or school use.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1892 $1.25
The author is well known in the fields of history and politics as one of those few Americans in public life who have a high standing as students and writers.
Lond., Macmillan, 1893 2s. 6d
A number of essays through which runs the constant reassertion of the privileges and blessings we enjoy in this life.
N. Y., Macmillan, 1895 $1.25
A series of papers on the great question of how to live.
Macaulay, Carlyle and others. Representative essays.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1885 $1.25
Productions of the great modern writers of English prose and the best specimens of effective literary expression and finished literary style.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1893 $1.25
Well chosen and representative.
1893 $1.25
The chief object of this volume is to amuse; but it also helps to illustrate some phases of American literature.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1892 $1
Thirteen American authors are represented by characteristic and noted productions.
Chic., Griggs & Co., 1888 $1.50
These papers are rich in information and anecdote, and possess the special literary qualities of Mr. Mathews' other works.
Chic., Griggs & Co., 1896 $2
Nearly one-half of the book is devoted to short sketches of the foremost English and American orators; contains a multitude of hints and much inspiration for public speakers.
(Paul Siegvolk, pseud.) Ruminations.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1894 $1.50
There is hardly an important topic connected with modern social and individual life upon which the quiet pen of the author does not have something to say.
Chic., Griggs & Co., 1892 $2
This book has fourteen chapters which treat in a general though positive manner of literature, oratory, etc.
N. Y., Crowell & Co., 1892 $1 and $1.25
This book is sent out in the hope that it may be helpful to some, first in showing glimpses of better things and then in leading towards them.
Mitchell, D. G. (Ik Marvel, pseud.) Dream life.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1892 75c
"Dream Life" passes successively in review the dreams of fond boyhood, the delicious hopes of sparkling-blooded youth and manhood's dreams of sober trustfulness.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1892 75c
A book filled with earnest and tender feeling, and beautiful reflections.
Il.N. Y., Webster & Co., 1892 60c. and 75c
A delineation of country scenery and country manners, as they exist in a small village in the south of England.
Phila., Lippincott, 1892 $1.50
From this older wine of thought we have drawn to the extent that space permitted.
1892 $1.50
Extracts from the best authors, intended for the general reader. A biographical sketch precedes the writings of each author.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1900 $1.50
The object of writing these stories was to follow Shakespeare into his dealings with history which no other similar work has done.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1897 $1.50
Contents: American ideals; true Americanism; manly virtues and practical politics; college graduates and public life, etc.
Bost., J. Knight, 1892 $1.50
Three lectures on books and their uses, the education and influence of women, and the mystery of life and its arts.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893 $2
This volume will act at once as a mental stimulus and the means of beneficial nourishment.
N. Y., Funk & Wagnall, 1886 $1.50
Il.Bost., Lee & Shepard, 1889. (New ed.) 50c
A collection of essays in semi-poetical prose by this celebrated Scotch author.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1895 $1
Author's recollection of his childhood and youth.
N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1887 $1
Miscellaneous essays.
Chic., McClurg & Co., 1889 $1
Biographical and other essays read before the Chicago literary club.
Bost., W. Small, 1885 $1.25
A most entertaining and readable book.
Werner, A. (Translator.) The humor of Holland. (Humor series.)
Il.N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1894 $1.25
A volume of irresistible humor, quaint and pretty fancy, strong and subtile satire. The illustrations are particularly excellent.
Bost., Ticknor & Co., 1888 $1.50
A number of the late Mr. Whipple's hitherto uncollected essays.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894 $1.50
The essays in this volume were written at various periods during the past twenty-five years. As the title indicates, they refer to conditions of success in various departments of life.
N. Y., Stokes & Co., 1897 $1.25
The nine authors represented in this volume have never appeared together in one entertainment prior to the one now offered by this volume.