RECEXT PUBLICATIONS. Tales from the Aegean. By Demetrios Bikelas. Translated by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke. 16//10., 25S pages. $1.00. This dainty little book is composed of several tales, based upon the life and customs of the inhab- itants of the Aegean. It opens up a new and attractive field of interest, made all the more fascinating by the strength and vividness of the sketches, and the reality and truth portrayed in the characters, which the translator has carefully preserved throughout. — Public Opinion. Jewish Tales. Translated from the French of Leopold von Sacher Masoch. By Harriet Lieber Cohen. i6mo. } 31 j pages. $1.00. The book is a gem in its way, for the stories, or legends, are wonderfully well told. We thought to read only one or two, but were led on, forgetful of the passage of time, until we had read nearly all. Our readers will have an equal pleasure. — Herald. New York. The Crucifixion of Phillip Strong. By Charles M. Sheldon. /2>no., 267 pages. $1.00. The story is one of intense vigor and pathos. It will secure a very wide reading and should make a deep impression upon every reader and produce lasting fruit. — The Congregationalism, Boston. Woman in Epigram. Flashes of Wit, Wis- dom, and Satire from the World's Literature. Compiled by Frederick W. Morton. /6mo. t 212 pages. $1.00. Be the reader an enthusiastic worshiper of the sex or a woman-hater of the most pronounced type he will here find some literary oracle who has aptly expressed his view. Epigrammatic, crisp and highly amusing, with occasional crumbs of real wisdom, the little book will doubtless find many friends. — Public Opinion, Washington.
