"One of the most interesting stories we have ever read. It is a love tale, but most unlike the trashy stuff published as such, and worthy the reading of intellectual people."--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette._ Skirmishing. By the Author of "Who Breaks--Pays," etc. 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25. "Every page tells; there is no book-making about it--no attempt to fill chapters with appropriate affections. Each sentence is written carefully, and the result is that we have a real work of art, such as the weary critic has seldom the pleasure of meeting with."--_The London Reader._ The Annals of Rural Bengal. By W. W. HUNTER, B.A., M.R.A.S. First American, from the second English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. $4. "Written with "the insight of Colonel Tod and the research of Mr. Duff, in prose almost as good as that of Mr. Froude." * * * If Mr. Hunter does not ultimately compel recognition from the world as an historian of the very first class, of the class to which not a score of Englishmen have ever belonged, we entirely mistake our trade. * * * He has executed with admirable industry and rare power of expression a task, which, so far as we know, has never yet been attempted--he has given life and reality and interest to the internal history of an Indian province under British rule, to a history, that is, without battles or sieges or martial deeds of any sort. * * We have given but a faint sketch of the mass of matter in this volume, the rare merit of which will sometimes only be perceptible to Anglo-Indians unaccustomed to see their dry annals made as interesting as a novel. We most cordially counsel Mr. Hunter, of whom, it is needful to repeat, the writer never heard before, to continue the career he has chalked out for himself."--_Spectator._ "Mr. Hunter has given us a book that not only possesses sterling historical value, but is thoroughly readable. * * The picture of the great famine of 1769, which did so much toward ruining the native Bengal aristocracy, is worthy of Thucydides; and the two chapters about the Indian Aborigines, especially about the Santals, who astonished us so much in 1855, form a pleasing monograph from which the reader may learn more about the origin of Caste and the relations of the Aryan and Turanian languages, and the connection between Buddhism and Hinduism, than from a score of the old-fashioned 'authorities.'"--_Imperial Review._ "Mr. Hunter's style is charming; though not faultless, it is clear, direct, thoughtful, and often eloquent; and his matter is so full of varied interest, that, despite a few pages of somewhat technical discussion on a question of language, his book as a whole is fascinating to the general reader."--_N.Y. Evening Post._ The Ideal in Art.