Accomplished, witty, pure, Madame de Sévigné's noble character is reflected in her writings, which will always hold a foremost place in the estimation of those who can appreciate high moral and intellectual qualities. LAUREL-CROWNED TALES. ABDALLAH; OR, THE FOUR-LEAVED SHAMROCK. BY EDOUARD LABOULAYE. Translated by MARY L. BOOTH. RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. By SAMUEL JOHNSON. RAPHAEL; OR, PAGES OF THE BOOK OF LIFE AT TWENTY. From the French of ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. By OLIVER GOLDSMITH. THE EPICUREAN. By THOMAS MOORE. PICCIOLA. By X. B. SAINTINE. _Other volumes in preparation._ Handsomely printed from new plates, on fine laid paper, 12mo, cloth, with gilt tops, price per volume, $1.00. In half calf or half morocco, $2.75. In planning this series, the publishers have aimed at a form which should combine an unpretentious elegance suited to the fastidious book-lover with an inexpensiveness that must appeal to the most moderate buyer. It is the intent to admit to the series only such tales as have for years or for generations commended themselves not only to the fastidious and the critical, but also to the great multitude of the refined reading public,--tales, in short, which combine purity and classical beauty of style with perennial popularity. MONK AND KNIGHT. An Historical Study in Fiction. BY THE REV. DR. F. W. GUNSAULUS. Two Vols. 12mo, 707 pages. Price, $2.50. This work is one that challenges attention for its ambitious character and its high aim. It is an historical novel,--or, rather, as the author prefers to call it, "An Historical Study in Fiction." It is the result of long and careful study of the period of which it treats, and hence is the product of genuine sympathies and a freshly-fired imagination. The field is Europe, and the period is the beginning of the sixteenth century,--a time when the fading glow of the later Renaissance is giving place to the brighter glories of the dawning Reformation. The book deals, in a broad sense, with the grand theme of the progress of intellectual liberty. Many of its characters are well-known historical personages,--such as Erasmus, Sir Thomas More, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII. of England, Francis I. of France, the disturbing monk Martin Luther, and the magnificent Pope Leo X.; other characters are of course fictitious, introduced to give proper play to the author's fancy and to form a suitable framework for the story.