In this magnificently illustrated volume the author describes in an easy, entertaining, intelligent manner the tour of the world. Starting from New York, he crosses the continent, sails from Vancouver for Japan, where he spends some time in studying noteworthy features of that delightful country, and then visits China, Singapore, Ceylon, and other places, reserving a considerable portion of his time for India and Egypt, where he does most extensive sight-seeing, and afterward traversing Italy and France and returning to New York by way of London and Liverpool. Mr. Thompson is an instructive and amusing _cicerone_. The illustrations, comprising full-page pictures, vignettes and other text cuts, head and tail pieces, and initials, number over two hundred, and present an itinerary of the journey around the world, including not only scenery, historic and remarkable buildings and street scenes, but also an abundance of studies from life, which show contrasting types of humanity the world over, ranging from our Western Indians to Maharajahs of the Orient, and from the beautiful women of Japan to Egyptian _fellahs_. “In the Track of the Sun” gives a bird’s-eye view of the world’s picturesque features. _POEMS OF NATURE._ Selections from the Works of WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Profusely illustrated by Paul de Longpré. 8vo, Cloth, gilt. These verses offer a full expression of the great poet’s love of Nature. The volume contains over forty poems, the list beginning with the classic “To a Waterfowl,” and closing with “Our Fellow-Worshippers.” The chronological arrangement enables the student of Bryant to follow the influences of ripening age and enlarged experience upon the poet’s attitude toward Nature. M. Longpré, an exact as well as a loving student of the fields and forests, has gathered a rich harvest of the American flora, and his thoroughly artistic and beautiful studies, comprising nearly one hundred subjects, have the value of truthful records as well as high aesthetic worth. _THE COUNTRY SCHOOL IN NEW ENGLAND._ By CLIFTON JOHNSON. With 60 Illustrations from Photographs and Drawings made by the Author. Square 8vo. Cloth, gilt edges, $2.50. This volume is so delightfully novel, quaint, picturesque, and so thoroughly informed with the fresh and unsophisticated spirit of childhood, that it inspires instant sympathy and appreciation. The author describes successive periods of the country school—the winter and summer terms, the scholars in their classes and at the blackboard, their punishments, their fishing and coasting, their duties and amusements on the farm—in short, the every-day life of the boys and girls of rural New England in the days of our fathers and our own. Every phase of his subject is aptly illustrated with pictures from life. _THE STORY OF WASHINGTON._ By ELIZABETH EGGLESTON SEELYE. Edited by Dr. Edward Eggleston. With over 100 Illustrations by Allegra Eggleston. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.