description may be of practical utility to many who would like some _pied-à-terre_ by mountain or shore, and who are not quite certain what a moderate outlay can do. * * * * * Books Received. The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Household Edition. With illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Due South; or, Cuba Past and Present. By Maturin M. Ballou. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. City Ballads. By Will Carleton. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers. A Social Experiment. By A.E.P. Searing. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Lawn-Tennis. By Lieutenant S.C.F. Peale, B.S.C. Edited by Richard D. Sears. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. The America's Cup. By Captain Roland F. Coffin. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Our Sea-Coast Defences. By Eugene Griffin, New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Cholera. By Alfred Stillé, M.D., LL.D. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. End of Project Gutenberg's Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885, by Various