ce without any
need of aid or comfort from living man except as a purveyor and
burglar-alarm. Every one likes to know the price of things, and it is
pleasing to understand exactly what may be done with five hundred
dollars. "The cottage," as described by Miss Phelps, "contained five
rooms and a kitchen. The body of this imposing building stood twenty
feet square upon the ground. The kitchen measured nine feet by eight,
and there was a wood-shed three feet wide, in which Puella managed to
pile the wood and various domestic mysteries into which Corona felt no
desire to penetrate. There were a parlor, a dining-room, a guest-room,
and two rooms left for 'the family.' There were two closets, a coal-bin,
and a loft. The house stood on what, for want of a scientific term,
Corona called piers.... Corona's house had no plaster, no papering, no
carpets. Her parlor, which opened directly upon the water, was painted
gray; the walls were of the paler color in a gull's wing; the ceiling
had the tint of dulled pearls; the floor was rock-gray (a border of
black ran around this floor); the beams and rafters, left visible by the
absence of plastering, were touched with what is known to artists as
neutral tint," etc. A very pleasant little cottage in itself, the
description may be of practical utility to many who would like some
_pied-a-terre_ by mountain or shore, and who are not quite certain what
a moderate outlay can do.

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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 Stille, M.D., LL.D. Philadelphia:
Lea Brothers & Co.

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