⁂ In announcing a new impression of the WORKS OF BAYARD TAYLOR in a popular and cheaper form, the publishers do not think it needful to quote the opinions of the critics as to their interest and literary character. They would merely refer to what may be called the "business standing" of these works—which is indicated by the fact that though the earliest volume, "_Views Afoot_," was published twenty-four years ago, and most of the others are now fifteen years old, they are still called for, both separately and in sets, as among the _indispensables_ in American libraries and on the bookshelves of the family. Very few books, either of Travel or Fiction, thus retain their place and continue so long in demand, amidst all the active competition of modern book-publishing, and the inference is not unreasonable that these volumes of Adventure in almost every corner of the earth, possess some lasting interest and vitality which makes them worthy of a permanent place in our literature. Mr. Taylor's _Novels_ were welcomed even more largely than the Travels, and we need only quote the competent and impartial estimate of the best _English_ critics in regard to them, viz.: "We have now to welcome 'Hannah Thurston,' as an excellent addition to the list of such American tales as Hawthorne's, Longfellow's, and Mrs. Stowe's."—_London Review._ "If Bayard Taylor has not placed himself, as we are half inclined to suspect, in the front rank of novelists, he has produced a very remarkable book—a really original story admirably told, crowded with life-like characters, full of delicate and subtle sympathies, with ideas the most opposite to his own, and lighted up throughout with that playful humor which suggests always wisdom rather than mere fun."—_London Spectator._ "'The Story of Kennett' is _delightful and refreshing reading_, and a great rest after the crowded artistic effects and the conventional interests of even the better kinds of English novels."—_London Spectator._ N. B.—All our Agents for the KNICKERBOCKER EDITION of Irving's Works, will receive subscriptions for the "HOUSEHOLD EDITION" of Bayard Taylor's Complete Prose works, at the low price of $1.50 per volume. The Regular LIBRARY Edition of Bayard Taylor's Works may still be had. Price $2.25 per vol.; or in 13 vols. 12mo., $29; or in half-calf, $48. G. P. PUTNAM & SONS, _Y. M. C. A. BUILDING_, 4th Av. and 23d Street, N. Y. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _G. P. Putnam & Son._ -------------------------------------------------- CAVÉ. THE CAVÉ METHOD OF LEARNING TO DRAW FROM MEMORY. By Madame E. Cavé. From 4th Parisian edition. 12mo, cloth, $1.