ONE VOL., FOLIO, bound in half morocco, gilt edges, by Alfred Matthews, 40.00 ONE VOL., FOLIO, superbly bound in full morocco extra, by Alfred Matthews, 50.00 _William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, New York._ * * * * * =THE BRIDE OF THE NILE=, A ROMANCE, BY =Georg Ebers=, from the German by CLARA BELL. _Authorized edition_, in two volumes. Price, paper covers, $1.00, cloth binding, $1.75 per set. "This romance has much value, apart from its interest as a narrative. The learned author, who has made the Land of the Nile an object of special study and research, throws a clear, steady light on one of those complicated periods of history when nationality seems submerged in the conflicting interests of sects and factions. The history of Egypt towards the middle of the seventh century, A. D., forms a sort of historical whirlpool. The tide of Moslem invasion and the counter-current of patriotism were temporarily swayed by the intermingling currents of sectarianism, ecclesiasticism and individual self-interest. "All the leading characters are typical of these contending forces, and also display an unreasoning impulsiveness in both love and hatred, characteristic of a tropical clime. "The Egyptian heathen, the Egyptian Christian, the Greek Christian, the Moslem and Ethiopian show the feelings peculiar to their political conditions by word and act, thus making their relationship to one another very distinct, and though not an historical study, at least a study of the probabilities of that epoch. It is also a reliable picture of the manners, customs and civilization of a period less generally known than those remote, and consequently more attractive periods of the building of the pyramids, and of the Pharoahs. "The portrayal of individual character and arrangement of incidents are necessarily secondary to the higher aims of this entertaining and instructive romance. It is only towards the end of the second volume that the significance of the title becomes apparent. The 'Bride' was a Greek Christian doomed by the superstitious authorities to be drowned in the Nile as a sacrifice to appease the anger of the creative powers, supposed to be withholding the usual overflow of its waters. She escaped her watery fate, and her rival, an unprincipled heiress, became a voluntary sacrifice through vanity and despair. This author has already won much renown by previous romances founded on interesting epochs of Egyptian history."--_Daily Alta, California._ _William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, New York._ * * * * * =THE MARTYR OF GOLGOTHA=, by =Enrique Perez Escrich=, from the Spanish by Adèle Josephine Godoy, in two volumes. Price, paper covers, $1.00. Cloth binding, $1.75.