Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks. By CLARENCE COOK. With over 100 illustrations from original drawings. 1 vol., small 4to, cloth, extra. Price reduced to $4 00.
“Mr. Cook writes with an easy finish, and much daintiness of touch, and his pages have a very fresh and pleasant flavor. The publishers have so manufactured the work that it might be called ‘The Book Beautiful.’ But the charm in it lies deeper than in paper surface and letter-press and graver’s lines; and wherever it goes it will educate, inspire and refine.”—_The Literary World._
By CONSTANCE CARY HARRISON. One vol., 8vo, richly bound in illuminated cloth, with numerous illustrations and five colored plates from designs by Samuel Colman, Rosina Emmet, George Gibson, and others. Price, $2 00.
Mrs. Harrison’s book combines with a discussion of the principles of design and decoration, practical chapters on embroidery, painting on silk and china, etc., most helpful hints as to the domestic manufacture of many objects of use and beauty in house-furnishing, and also suggestions for the arrangement and decoration of rooms in the details of screens, portieres, the mantelpiece, etc.
Being Travels through Egypt, Arabia, and Persia, to Bagdad. By WILLIAM PERRY FOGG. With an introduction by BAYARD TAYLOR. A new edition, with nearly 100 illustrations. 1 vol., 8vo, $2 00.
“There are no long, dry discussions of scientific or antiquarian problems, but a lively and engaging picture of lands and people, which we in this country know little of, is presented by a man of quick, intelligent observation, with a genial but not obtrusive fund of humor, who evidently thoroughly enjoyed every hour of his journeyings.”—_Chicago Times._
A Critical History of Operations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the Commencement to the Close of the War, 1861-65, by WILLIAM SWINTON. A new and revised edition, with additions. With steel plate portraits and maps. 1 vol., 8vo, $3 00.
“The reputation of Mr. Swinton’s ‘Army of the Potomac’ is so well established, that we need do no more than to say here, once for all, that it is a work well-nigh indispensable to the student of the war. * * For all that large class who have grown up since the war was over, this new edition will be invaluable. The book is, and always will be, a standard work.”—_The Nation._