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BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS.
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.