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> LIFE: NEW PUBLICATIONS, NEW PUBLICATIONS. HENRY HOLT &CO.| HAVE READY: Croffut’s A Midsummer Lark, By Wittiam A. Crorrut, 16mo, Series. $1.00. A very Humorous Account of an European Trip. The New Novels. Leisure Hour | Norris’s No New Thing, By W. E. Norris, author of MATRIMONY, 16mo, Leisure Hour Series. $1.00. In the Leisure Moment Series. No. 10. IN THe OLpen Time, By Author of Noblesse Oblige. + 28C. No. 9. MATRIMONY. By W, E. Not ec. . 8. Beyond RECALL. By Adeline Sergeant. 25c. CecIL DREEME. By Theodore Winthrop. 3oc. Her Dearest Foe. By Mrs. Alexander. 3oc. ELSEA HOUsEBOLOER YC} No, 1. Democracy, An American Novel... [GI All the Leisure Moment Series may in the Letsurr. Hour Series, printed on paper bound in English cloth, etc. Price, $1 ' PATENT BINDER FOR FILING - LIFE: Cheap, Strong and Durable. Will hold 26 numbers. Mailed to any part of the United States for 31.00. 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The scenery is real, the ple live and laugh, and work and play their little parts in the sunlight, but the genius of the author has cast over the land and people that truest of all lights, the idealizing light of i Charles Dudley Warner in the Hartford Ce G “The author is a strong writer, with all the vigor and freshness of one who comes boldly forward with his first book. * * ® His work has a crispness and spirit that are very attractive, © © © There is genuine life-blood pulsing through it.” —The Literary World. Cupid, M.D. By Avoustus M.Swirt, vol, 16mo. Cloth, $1. * A dainty little love story in a very sparkling and witty manner, The humor is exceedingly bright, the anima- tion of the recital unflagging. and the spirit of the whole delightfully fresh and attractive. In its lighter as- pects, the work reveals a decided onginality of style at ‘once natural and vivacious, while the serious episode of the plot shows marked powers of description and strength in charactenzation,”"—Bosion Saturday Evening Gazette. An Honorable Surrender. By Mary Apvams, 1 vol. 12mo, “The story belongs distinctly to the realistic school of modern fiction, The situations are those of every day. The characters are not in the least eccentric; the dialogue is never extravagant; the descriptive and analytical passages are neither obtrusive nor too prolix. The sum of all these negations is a charming book, full of a genuine human inter est." —Portland Weekly Advertiser. An American Four-in-Hand Britain. By Awnrew Carngcin. 1 vol. 8vo, with an artotype il- lustration, $2. This book gives a lively account of the author's famous rant, UERNDALE By J. S. or Date. 1 vol., ramo, $1.25. in of friends on a coach through England | drive with a party of fs ’ and Scotland. The trip was originally suggested by Mr. Black's novel. * The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton,” and extended from Beghins to Inverness, a distance of more than eight hundred miles, which was accomplished in about seven weeks. A NEW EDITION RE-ISSUED FOR 1883-84: The Index-Guide to Travel and Art-Study in Europe. By Laraverte C. Loomis, A.M. With Plans and Cata- logues of the Chief Art Galleries, Maps, Tables of Routes, and 160 illustrations. 6mo, 6oo pages, $3.50. “* The value of the Guide is incontestable. It would be | worth purchasing if only for the abundant maps of cities, | plans of galleries, and charts of railway and river routes, to say nothing of the art illustrations.”"—W, Y. Evening Post. In the Shadow of the Pyrenees. From Basque-Land to Carcasonne. By Marvin R, Vin- cent, D.D, 1 vol. 12mo, with etchings and maps, $2. “* The author has a light and graceful style, and he has jue region for the subject of his description, being the broken country lying beyond the Bay of Biscay, between Bayonne and the point where the Pyrenees slope down to the sea.""—New York Times. There books are for sate by all booksellers, or will be sent, pott-paid, upon receipt of price by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743 and 745 Broadway, New York. iment,” — | CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, SEASON OF 1883. The hotels of the Campobello Company, “THE OWEN” and * TYN-Y-COED," will be opened’ for the season in the latter part of June, and will be under the same manaze- ment an last years 3 R ince the closing of last season many improvements bave been made, that will greatly add to the already superlative comforts af this unique watering place. ‘The season of 1882 was a great success, and so many people were unable to get rooms that a new dormitory has been built near Tyn-y-coed, to which it will be a pleasuat annex, Te has been constructed under the supervision of Cum mings A Sears, contains sixty-four rooms and will be far nished in the same attractive way as the others, Extensive water views, abundant sunshine. and open fites on every hand, pure spring water and good drain.ge, are the featues here secured. Comfortable carriages, village carts, wagonettes, and well- equipped saddle horses will be supplied, The steamer Emmet has been secured, and will be used for ferry service only. Steam: launches, rowboats, canoes, and some of the famoxs *Quoddy sailboats will always be at’ the command of guests, MAN-OF-WAR NECK, Composing about eight hundred acres, has been plotted and divided into cottage lots of varivus sizes. These lots, as well as many others, are now offered. Nearly all of those offered last season have been sold. Applications for board may be made to T. A. BARKER, Office of the Campobelld Co., a 12 Sears Building. Applications for land and for any further information cou cerning the property may be made to ALEX. S. PORTER, General Manager Campobello'Co., 27 State Street, Boston, NEW HOTEL, Summer and Winter Resort. THE DUTCHER HOUSE AND COTTAGES, PAWLING, N.Y, Highlands, 62 miles from the city, on Harlem Railroad. Ruilt and furnished thoroughly first-class ; four-story brick; large rooms, with closets; steam heat, open grate, gas, electric bells: Soft mountain spring water on each Boon Ample fire hose and escapes. Elegant opera house fr amusements and dancing. Celebrated orchestra, park, lake, fishing, boating; 20 mosquitoes, no .” Send for circular. 8. W. CASS, Proprietor. F.W. DEVOE & CO. MANUFACTURERS OF Artists’ Materials, READY-MIXED Paints, Dry Cotors, Coors IN O1t, Coors 1x JAPAN, Pup Cotors, BRUSHES, FINE VARNISHES, &c. Cor, Fulton and William Sts., New York. Send one, two, three or five del- elars for a retail bony by’ expres, of the Test Candies In the word, up in handsome boxes, All strictly pure. Suitable fer presents, Try it once, Address, C.F.GUNTHER, Confectioner, 78 Mapison Sr., Cmicaco. IMPORTANT. When you visit or lave New York City, save Baars Expressage and Carnage Hire and stop at the Gi UNION HOTEL, opposite Grand Central Depot. Four Hundred and Fifty (450) elegant rooms, fitted upat goat of one million dollars reduced to $1 and upward pe day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant sui with the best. Horse cars, stages and elevated railroad all depots. 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