"Outside and inside it is a thing of beauty. The text is in large, clear type, the paper is of the finest, the margins broad, and the illustrations printed with artistic care. The volume contains brief sketches of fifty prominent American artists, with examples from their works. Some idea of the time and labor expended in bringing out the work may be gathered from the fact that to bring it before the public in its present form cost the publishers over $12,000."--_Boston Evening Transcript_. "This book is a notable one, and among the many fine art books it will rank as one of the choicest, and one of the most elegant, considered as an ornament or parlor decoration. The engravings are in the highest style known to art. Mr. Sheldon has accompanied the illustrations with a series of very entertaining biographical sketches. As far as possible, he has made the artists their own interpreters, giving their own commentaries upon art and upon their purposes in its practice instead of his own."--_Boston Post_. "'American Painters' consists of biographical sketches of fifty leading American artists, with eighty-three examples of their works, engraved on wood with consummate skill, delicacy of touch, and appreciation of distinctive manner. It is a gallery of contemporary American art."--_Philadelphia Press_. "This work is one of surpassing interest, and of marvelous typographical and illustrative beauty."--_Philadelphia Item_. "The whole undertaking is a noble one, illustrative of the best period of American art, and as such deserves the attention and support of the public."--_Chicago Tribune_. * * * * * D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 549 & 551 Broadway, New York. HEALTH PRIMERS. EDITED BY J. LANGDON DOWN, M. D., F. R. C. P. HENRY POWER, M. B., F. R. C. S. J. MORTIMER-GRANVILLE, M. D. JOHN TWEEDY, F. R. C. S. Though it is of the greatest importance that books upon health should be in the highest degree trustworthy, it is notorious that most of the cheap and popular kind are mere crude compilations of incompetent persons, and are often misleading and injurious. Impressed by these considerations, several eminent medical and scientific men of London have combined to prepare a series of Health Primers of a character that shall be entitled to the fullest confidence. They are to be brief, simple, and elementary in statement, filled with substantial and useful information suitable for the guidance of grown-up people. Each primer will be written by a gentleman specially competent to treat his subject, while the critical supervision of the books is in the hands of a committee who will act as editors.