JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. By SAMUEL T. PICKARD. With seven etched Portraits and Views. 2 vols. crown 8vo, gilt top, $4.00; half calf, $6.50; half calf, gilt top, $7.00. Large-Paper Edition, uniform with the Large-Paper Edition of Whittier's Works. 2 vols. 8vo, $8.00, net. This is the authorized biography of Mr. Whittier, arranged for while he was yet living. Mr. Pickard was closely connected with him, enjoyed his full confidence, and was intrusted with all available material for his Life. He has produced a work which the lovers of Whittier will welcome with sincere gratitude. He tells the story of Whittier as the shy Quaker boy; as feeling the impulse, and steadily increasing in the power, to express himself in verse; as becoming a clarion voice in the great struggle for Freedom, then a pure and uplifting voice in uttering the highest human aspirations, commanding the heartiest respect, and winning the sincerest affection of the nation. Mr. Whittier's letters include not only those to famous men, like Channing, Garrison, Sumner, Dr. Holmes, Lowell, Bayard Taylor, and scores of others, but those to friends less distinguished, yet no less successful in calling forth the frank and friendly sentiments which caused his letters to be highly prized. Whittier's Complete Poetical Works. New Cambridge Edition. From entirely new plates, printed from large type, on opaque paper, and attractively bound. With a Biographical Sketch, Notes, Index to Titles and First Lines, a Portrait, and an Engraving of Whittier's Amesbury home. Uniform with the Cambridge Longfellow. Crown Svo, gilt top, $2.00; half calf, gilt top, $3.50; tree calf or full levant, $5.50. 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Liberal Edu 114 The Atlantic Monthly Advertiser. “The Charm of Fapan has taken hold of his Spirit.” Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan By Lafcadio Hearn Author of "Stray Leaves from Strange Literature," etc. With a suggestive cover design. 2 vols. 8vo, $4.00. SECOND EDITION One will find in these volumes descriptions of travel, wonderful accounts of famous temples and neighborhoods, charming stories of personal experience, and not a few pictures which, by their marvelous accuracy and sympathetic touch, recall the natural wonders of the sea-girt Islands of the Sun; but beyond and above those things which the skilled traveler and literary artist transfers to his pages, Mr. Hearn has succeeded in photographing, as it were, the Japanese soul. There seems to be something in his own physical and intellectual make-up that renders him sensitive on all sides to what is peculiar in the Japanese character. - New York Evening Post. Dwelling among the people, learning their language, making himself in many ways like them, Mr. Hearn has been able to seize and record a host of impressions to which the average traveler and tourist are utter strangers. . . . His volumes form a rich storehouse of delight to the reader, and material for the scholar. Some of the sacred places have been seen through foreign eyes for the first time by Mr. Hearn. He presents us a wonderful picture of the Japanese soul. What Mr. Percival Lowell has attempted on one side by means of speculation, comparison, and reasoning, Mr. Hearn gives us from exceedingly close observation, long and patient and sympathetic waiting, and profound comparison, all issuing in a literary performance of the higehst merit. . . . Altogether this brace of volumes forms a unique addition to our knowledge of the mind of the people of Japan. — Literary World, Boston. All that a book of travel can possibly be, that Lafcadio Hearn's "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan" is. 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