y and
familiar style as to make the reader feel almost one of the party.

"It is altogether unlike all other books of travel.... We can but
faintly indicate what the reader may look for in this unrivaled book.
Mrs. Brassey writes delightfully of men and cities, and has a faculty
for seeing and acquainting herself with the conditions of human life
everywhere, unsurpassed within our knowledge of travelers."--_London
Spectator_.

"Mrs. Brassey's delightful cruise in the 'Sunbeam' is the very romance
of adventurous yachting; it is the voyages of the rough old
circumnavigators, translated into the picturesquely luxurious....
Wherever they went--whether at the Government house in the colonies, at
the residences of the English consuls, or of rich and hospitable
foreigners--they seem to have been invariably entertained with equal
cordiality. They saw wild horses lassoed and broken by the Guachos;
they climbed the glowing craters of volcanoes; they made pilgrimages
to the most commanding points of view; they went botanizing and
butterfly-hunting in tropical forests: they got up picnic parties in
the cocoanut groves of the South Seas; they went shopping everywhere;
they even did a passing stroke of trade with naked Patagonians, who put
off in conoes in the Straits of Magellan.... She tells you just what
you care to hear, changing the subject before it has begun to bore
you. She has quick, artistic perceptions, with a subdued sense of
humor."--_London Times_.

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THE AMATEUR SERIES.

LEWES (G. H.) ON ACTORS AND THE ART OF ACTING. 12mo, $1.50.

"It is valuable, first, as the record of the impressions produced upon
a mind of singular sensibility by many actors of renown, and lastly,
indeed chiefly, because it formulates and reiterates sound opinions
upon the little-understood principles of the art of acting."--_Nation_.

"Appeals to the great public who are interested in the advancement of
the drama, and the still greater public of theatre-goers who are
interested in the drama merely as a source of amusement."--_N. Y.
Evening Post_.

"The book is one which no one interested in the drama and its modern
exponents can afford to leave unread."--_Boston Transcript_.

THORNBURY'S LIFE OF J. M. W. TURNER 12mo. With eight colored
illustrations. $2.75.

"The author has told fully and fearlessly, the story of Turner's Life
an far as he could learn it, and has