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i - LIFE - Henry Florte Co. HAVE READY Mitchell’s Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert. Twenty-four Pen and Ink Drawings, by Joun A. MiTCHELL, one uf the conductors of ‘* LiFe,” 4to, $3.50. “There are no dry-as-dust essays, no fine-spun disquisitions in ‘The Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert.’ From the first page to the last it is a revel of fairy fun and mis- chievous grace. The wisdom taught is that of love, and the young men and maidens created by Mr. 9. A. Mitchell's humorous, iuagination wander through the book under the ingenious, the saucy, the benignant tuition of the quaintest band of cupids whoever shipped from an artist's pencil. AU the characteristics of Mount Desert—the charms of the summer sea as viewed by twos, the vigils on the piazza, the bouncing and abundant buck-board—are suffused with that delicate wit of the pencil in which Thackeray was the great, if untrained, master, “Mr. Mitchell is the young Bostonian who several years ago left architecture for the painter's easel, and whose pictures have had success in Paris."—N. Y. Tribune. 4 WALKER'S (Francis A.) POLITICAL ECONOMY. By Francis A. Waker, President of the Massachusetts Institute of ‘Technology, late Superintendent of the Census. (Vol. V. of The American Science Series.) 8vo., $2.25. President Walker's economical works on '* The Wages Question” and on “Money,” not to speak of his great statistical Allas of the United Slates, have given hima prominent position on both sides of the Atlantic. In contributing the present work to the “Ameri- can Science Series," he brings to bear not only the powers shown in his former qoritings, but the experience of many years as teacherof political economy in the chair he oceupied at Yale before accepting the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute ef Technology. LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC POEMS, Selected from the works of ROBERT BROWNING. Edited by Epwarp T. Mason. Lg. 12mo, TEN BRINK’S “EARLY ENGLISH LIT- ERATURE (to Wiclif). Translated by Prof. H. M. Kennepy, 12mo., $2.25. In the Series of ~ LIVES OF AMERICAN WORTHIES. 16mo., $1.25 each. LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN. By Ropsert J. BURDETTE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. Cuartes Duptry WARNER. LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. By W. L. Avpen, Despite the humorous character of the books, the truth of history is adhered to. FOR SALE AT THE BOOKSTORES, By LIFE” A NEW ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY, Humorous, Satirical, Refined, ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. We find nothing amateurish about the newcomer; it seems to have been born grown up; it is workmanlike in every part. It is fresh, vigorous, gentlemanly, genial and satisfying. We commend it to at least fifty thousand readers in this town.—7he Sun. AN ABLE CORPS OF CONTRIBUTORS. W. L. ALDEN, W. H. Bisnop, J. Cuzever Goopwix, = ** Author of ‘* The Moral Pirates.” “The House of the Merchant u Prince." “« Evangeline.” Roevert GRANT, tt “Confessions of a Frivolous Girl.” A A. A. Hayes, “ ‘A Symposium on the Chinese | Question.” G. T. LANiGan, " “* Fables Out of the World.” G. P. LatHrop, “ “An Echo of Passion.” J. B. Matruews, “French Dramati H. G. Paine _ ‘Allon a Summer's Day.” ARTHUR PES aa ‘The Rhymester.” J. S., of Date, " “ Guerndale." F. D. SHerman, ae ** Her Portrait by Saroay,” J. T. Wieetwricnt, ** Rollo in Cambridge.” ARTISTS. VG, Attwoop, J. A. Mirenen.. cS Citas, KENDRICK. Gray PARKER, H.W. McVickar, And many others. SUBSCRIPTIONS, $§ PER YEAR, POSTAGE PREPAID, 10 CENTS A ‘ COPY. ADDRESS, OFFICE OF “LIFE,” 1155 BROADWAY, N. Y, CITY. A. G. Heminway. Truman Heminway, A. G. HEMINWAY & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS, 11 Wall Street, | New York. GRADY & McKEEVER, LaTR RENNER & COMPANY, i DEALERS IN FINE ARTS. Designers and Manufacturers of EVERY DESCRIVTION or PICTURE FRAMES, No. 719 SIxTH AVE., New York. comicbooks.com