Those who keep up with the current newspaper literature are somewhat acquainted with the wit and wisdom of Jennie June. This handsome volume is a collection of her writings, and consists of familiar "Talks" on a great variety of subjects, all more or less connected with women and the household, and includes chapters on "Matrimony," "Babies," "Courtship," "Girls," and various other subjects. The style of treatment is especially to be commended: it is witty, without vulgarity or coarseness; sensible, without being in the least prosy. It is penetrated, moreover, by a vein of womanly tenderness and earnestness, which shows deep feeling and strong conviction beneath the veil of good-natured satire. "Talks on Women's Topics" is a capital gift-book, just the one that a man would like to take to his wife in the country, or present to his daughter;--there is not a word that is objectionable, while there is much that will help to make better wives, daughters, and mothers. --> Sent by mail, post paid, on receipt of price. +LEE & SHEPARD+, Publishers, _149 Washington Street, Boston_. * * * * * _A Remarkable Book._ HERMAN: OR, YOUNG KNIGHTHOOD. We publish below the deliberate and carefully expressed opinions of critics, whose judgments are matured by years of research. "We know of no work of fiction so full as this of beauty and wisdom, so free from folly, so resplendent with intellectual life and moral purity."--_Atlantic Monthly for Feb._ "There is still a balm in Gilead, and some hope for novel writing in America." "The evidence of a genius of no common order." "In novel writing quite as much rests on the insight displayed in the development of character and the clever working up of special passages as upon the general effect. And here the author shines."--_Round Table._ "The strength of the work is its moral purity and elevation. The depth and earnestness of nature exhibited in the conception of Herman's character are worthy of the profoundest respect and admiration."--_Boston Advertiser._ "We recognize in this book one of the ablest of American novels."--_Evening Post, N. Y._ "Herman is a book on which a mind of exceedingly rich and varied ambitions has lavished itself without stint."--_Portland Press._ "This book is worthy of the encomiums that have been lavished upon it."--_Springfield Union._ "It is a gushing, outspoken narrative of individual experience."--_Commonwealth, Boston._ "This is one of the most notable books of the season."--_Boston Post._ "A book not likely to be laid aside among the crowd of ephemeral issues of the press."--_Presbyterian, Phila._ The above are samples of a large number of equally strong communications. 2 vols. 12mo. Price $3.50.