“Petrarch is widely known as a poet of the Italian language whose love for Laura is immortalized in a long series of sonnets. It was an admirable idea for Prof. Robinson to translate for us a selection from the letters of Petrarch, and to intersperse their thoughtful and scholarly, fresh and interesting, notes and comments.”—_N. Y. Times._ Literary Hearthstones Studies of the Home Life of Certain Writers and Thinkers. By MARION HARLAND, author of “Some Colonial Homesteads and Their Stories,” “Where Ghosts Walk,” etc. Put up in sets of two volumes each, in boxes. Fully illustrated. 16ᵒ. The first issues will be: =Charlotte Brontë.= =William Cowper.= =Hannah More.= =John Knox.= In this series, Marion Harland presents, not dry biographies, but, as indicated in the sub-title, studies of the home-life of certain writers and thinkers. The volumes will be found as interesting as stories, and, indeed, they have been prepared in the same method as would be pursued in writing a story, that is to say, with a due sense of proportion. G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON