"There are chapters on life in the Academy at Andover, on Harvard
Sixty Years Ago, on Commencement Day in 1821, the year of the
author's graduation, and on visits to and talks with John Adams,
with reminiscences of Lafayette, Judge Story, John Randolph,
Jackson and other eminent persons, and sketches of old Washington
and old Boston society. The kindly pen of the author is never
dipped in gall--he remembers the pleasing aspects of character, and
his stories and anecdotes are told in the best of humor and leave
no sting. The book is of a kind which we are not likely to have
again, for the men of Mr. Quincy's generation, those at least who
had his social opportunities, are nearly all gone. These pictures
of old social and political conditions are especially suggestive as
reminding us that a single life, only lately closed, linked us with
days, events and men that were a part of our early history and
appear remote because of the multitude of changes that have
transformed society in the interval."--_Boston Journal._
WHIST, OR BUMBLEPUPPY? By Pembridge.
From the Second London Edition. 16mo. Cloth. Price, .50
DEFINITION OF BUMBLEPUPPY--Bumblepuppy is persisting to play whist,
either in utter ignorance of all its known principles, or in
defiance of them, or both.
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drollery may blind some readers to the value of its advice; no man
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interest, and few will fail to read it with advantage. Upon the
ordinary rules of whist, Pembridge supplies much sensible and
thoroughly amusing comment. The best player in the world may gain
from his observations, and a mediocre player can scarcely find a
better counsellor. There is scarcely an opinion expressed with
which we do not coincide."--_London Sunday Times._
RECOLLECTIONS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. By T. Hall Caine. With
Portrait. One vol. 8vo. Cloth, gilt. Price, $3.00
"Mr. Caine's 'Recollections of Rossetti' throws light upon many
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PHYLLIS BROWNE. A Story. By Flora L. Shaw. Author of "Castle Blair" and
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