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PAYING ENGLISH AUTHORS.- It is often said that American publishers reprint English books without paying a cent to their authors. This, however, is not always so. We happen to know, for example, that T. B. Peterson & Brothers, uniting with Harper & Brothers, have paid Mr. Dickens a thousand pounds each for the advanced sheets of "The Mutual Friend," " Great Expectations," " A Tale of Two Cities," and " Little Dorrit ;" or four thousand pounds for the four. Moreover, when "The Mutual Friend" was paid for, gold was over two hundred ; so that that one novel cost the American publishers nearly twelve thousand dollars in greenbacks. Harper & Brothers used the novel in one of their serials. T. B. Peterson & Brothers reprinted it in book form . These are really the only firms in America that have any equitable right to be considered the author's publishers .
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A Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens. 1 vol., 8 vo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.- Another volume of the popular " Author's Edition of Dickens." The illustrations are very numerous, and very good also. We consider this fiction the most dramatic that Dickens has yet written, or is, indeed, likely to write. As a vivid picture of the stormy times of the first French Revolution, the novel surpasses Theirs, and is equaled only by Carlyle. It has, therefore, a merit above that ofordinary romances. Price, in cloth, $1.25 ; in paper covers, $1.00. The Rector's Wife. By the author of the " Queen of the County." 1 vol., 12 mo. Philada : T. B. Peterson & Brothers.The "Queen of the County" was one of the pleasantest novels of its kind we ever read. The present story, by the same author, is nearly, if not quite, as good ; and very much better than " Lords and Ladies," another tale from the same pen. We believe this edition is reprinted from advanced sheets Price, in cloth, $2.00. David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens. 1 vol., 16 mo. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.- The third of the series of "The Diamond Edition of Dickens." The illustrations continue to be the drawback to the success of this enterprise : they give American faces and figures, not English ones-a very serious defect. The type, as we said before, is also objectionable; no eyes, but very young ones, ought to read it. Price, in cloth, $1.50.
HOW TO GET MEASURED FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.-If you want a shoe to fit you comfortably, next time you are measured for a pair stand upon a piece of paper, and got the shoemaker to trace with pencil the outline of each foot ; each foot, we say, because two feet are never alike in size and shape, though they belong to the same person. They are more than right and left-they are unlike. Do not suppose that you can be measured for a pair by the most careful measurement of one. Insist on having the outlines as well as the girth and length of each foot taken ; and then, ifthe maker is an honest man, he will send home a pair of Back-Bone; Photographed from The New Scalpel." boots which, with their turned-in . toes, will look unpro- ward York :ByR.EdII. Dixon, M. D. 1 vol., 12 "mo. M. mising when off; but when once on, will prove not only Dewitt.-A series of racy essays, originally written for a the most becoming, but the most comfortable you ever medical journal, but not restricted to medical themes; on wore. the contrary, all conceivable subjects are discussed, from to theology, from quacks to fashionable dresses. NIGHT-CAPS should be dispensed with altogether. By tobacco Price, in cloth, $1.50. shutting out the air and keeping the head at a feverish The Toilers of the Sea. By Victor Hugo. 1 vol., 8 vo. temperature, they relax the skin and induce a tendency for the hair to fall off, which is greatly aggravated if the New York: Harper & Brothers.- A new edition of one of body be in an abnormal condition, either from specific the most remarkable novels which has been published in disease or general neglect of the skin. In the place of this generation. The book is exceedingly well printed, night-caps, ladies, to keep their hair properly confined on thick paper, and is particularly valuable on account of during sleep, should wear a net with meshes sufficiently two engravings from original pictures by Gustave Dore. Price, in cloth, $2.00. large to admit the finger.
Joan of Arc. Translated from the French by Sarah M. Grimke. 1 vol., 12 mo. Boston: Adams & Co.-A very excellent biography of this celebrated woman. The volume is embellished with a photograph, taken from the portrait in the Louvre, and with a map of Northern France, the scene of her heroic exploits. Price, in cloth, $1.00. Christie's Faith. Bythe author of " Carry's Confession." 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: Harper & Brothers.- A story of English life, by a popular writer; not a first-class fiction, REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS . such as "The Toilers of the Sea," but still a very readable Sybil's Second Love. By Julia Kavanagh. 1 vol., 12 mo. novel. Price, in cloth, $1.75. New York: D. Appleton & Co.-A really good love-story, Black Sheep. By Edmund Yates. 1 vol., 8 vo. New York · fit for idle reading at Newport, or Saratoga, is positively Harper & Brothers. - Whatever Mr. Yates writes is well a luxury in summer-time. We can recommend this as a written, and this novel pleases us even better than his treasure of its kind. " Nathalie," an earlier fiction by the former ones. It is a cheap edition, in paper covers, price same author, was almost as fascinating, in its day, as "Jane fifty cents. at novel, best Eyre;" and " Sybil's Second Love" is the How to Make Money, and How to Keep It. By T. A. Davies. least the most pleasing, which Miss Kavanagh has written since. The character of Sybil is most naturally and graphi- { 1 vol., 12 mo. New York : G. W. Carleton.- A sensible treacally drawn. The reader falls in love with her at once. tise, adapted to the wants and understandings ofall classes, Mrs. Mush, Miss Glyn, Blanche, Dermot, and others of and really a very valuable guide to business success. Price, the actors in the story, also stand out well from the can- in cloth, $1.50. vas. The book is neatly printed, but the proof-reader has The Rich Husband. By the author of" George Geith." 1 not done his duty, for it is full of typographical errors. vol., 12 mo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.- We bePrice, in cloth, $2.00. lieve this novel is reprinted from advanced sheets. It is a The Old Patroon. By James A. Maitland. 1 vol., 12 mo. story of English life. Price, in cloth, $2.00. The Lion in the Path. By John Saunders. 1 vol., 8 vo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.-A novel by a well known writer, the author of " Sartaroe," " The Watchman," New York: Hilton & Co.- A very readable novel, a cheap edition. Price, in paper, seventy-five cents. etc., etc. Price, in cloth, $2.00.
" THE FLOWERS IN THE WOOD" is, we think, an unusually elegant illustration. It is a scene, too, that, at this period of the year, may be observed at almost any picnic. It is hard to tell which is the prettier, the wild flowers that grow in the wood, or the more cultivated ones that are gathering them.
