Ticknor and Company Book Catalog (1887)

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Ticknor and Company's
New Books

Published During the Autumn
and Winter of
1886—1887.

The Prices named below are subject to Revision on Publication.

FORCED ACQUAINTANCES. By Edith Robinson. 12mo. $1.50.

A famous American author writes that this is "a very amusing and well-told story, original and infinitely amusing. The differences in character and temperament, the thousand and one little situations that are derived from these differences, are very cleverly delineated. The elaboration of the narrative, which winds along through the household duties and the neighbors' peculiarities, is something after the style of Miss Austen."

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GIORDANO BRUNO. A new volume of the English and Foreign Philosophical Library. 408 pages. 8vo. With portrait. $4.50.

FAMILIAR SHORT SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN. By S. Arthur Bent, A. M. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo. Vellum cloth. $2.00.

Indispensable to students, writers, and libraries. It gives a collection of short, sententious sayings of all times, such as are constantly referred to, but are not to be found in other books of reference. A short sketch of each speaker, and the circumstances attending each remark, is also given. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and corrected throughout, with new indexes and tables of authors, and the addition of over fifty pages, bringing the work down to the latest time, and quoting eighty authors not before included, and containing over three hundred new sayings from Agassiz, Choate, President Cleveland, Emerson, Evarts, Carlyle, Gladstone, Wellington, Parnell, etc.

THE COURSE OF EMPIRE. Being Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World. Arranged by Centuries, with variorum illustrations, by C. G. Wheeler. With 25 maps. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.

A very valuable historical work, which should be kept in every library for reference and for the vigor of its delineations of the great historic epochs.

FAMILIAR ALLUSIONS. A Handbook of Miscellaneous Information, including the names of Celebrated Statues, Paintings, Palaces, Country Seats, Ruins, Churches, Ships, Streets, Clubs, Natural Curiosities, and the like. By William A. Wheeler and Charles G. Wheeler. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.

EVENTS AND EPOCHS IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY. By James Freeman Clarke, D.D. Illustrated. 12mo. $2.00.

The Catacombs, as Cemeteries and as Martyrs' Retreats; The Buddhist Monks of Central Asia; The Christian Monks; Augustine, Anselm, Bernard; Jeanne d'Arc's Visions, Victories, and Death; Savonarola and the Renaissance; Luther; Loyola; The Mystics—Neo-Platonists, German Pietists, Fénelon, Swedenborg, Emerson; George Fox; The Huguenots, Waldenses, Albigenses; John Wesley; The Moravians and Methodists.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS. By the author of "The Story of Margaret Kent." 12mo. $1.50.

An eminent Boston critic writes: "This should be the novel of the season. The lively fancy of the author touches lightly and wittily upon several of the popular interests of the day, such as Shakespeare societies, the Browning craze, mind cure, etc., and from titlepage to finis there is not a dull paragraph....