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1. Uncle Tom's Cabin. By Harriet Beecher Stowe, cloth, price, $1.00.
_American Commonwealths_. _Edited by Horace E. Scudder_.
A series of volumes narrating the history of such States of the Union as have exerted a positive influence in the shaping of the national government, or have a striking political, social, or economical history. With Maps and indexes. Each volume, uniform, 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.
2. Virginia. By John Esten Cooke. 3. Oregon. By Rev. William Barrows. 4. Maryland. By William Hand Browne. 5. Kentucky. By Prof. N.S. Shaler. 6. Kansas. By Prof. Leverett W. Spring. 7. Michigan. By Hon. T.M. Cooley.
_American Men of Letters_. _Edited by Charles Dudley Warner_.
A series of biographies of distinguished American authors, having all the special interest of biography, and the larger interest and value of illustrating the different phases of American literature, and the social, political, and moral influences which have moulded these authors and the generation to which they belonged.
The volumes contain Portraits of their subjects. Each volume, uniform. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.
8. Washington Irving. By C.D. Warner. 9. Noah Webster. By Horace E. Scudder. 10. Henry D. Thoreau. By F.B. Sanborn. 11. George Ripley. By O.B. Frothingham. 12. J.F. Cooper. By Prof. T.R. Lounsbury. 13. Margaret F. Ossoli. By T.W. Higginson. 14. Ralph W. Emerson. By O.W. Holmes. 15. Edgar A. Poe. By Geo. E. Woodberry. 16. Nathaniel P. Willis. By Henry A. Beers.
_American Statesmen_. _Edited by John T. Morse, Jr._
The object of this series of lives of American Statesmen is to furnish volumes which shall embody the compact result of extensive study of the many influences which have combined to shape the political history of our country.