otes in Europe. Post 8vo, Cloth,
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A delightful book of notes of European travel.... Mr. Child is an art
critic, and takes us into the picture-galleries, but we never get any
large and painful doses of art information from this skilful and
discriminating guide. There is not a page of his book that approaches to
dull reading.--_N.Y. Sun._

Mr. Child is a shrewd observer and writer of an engaging style. He
interests the reader with abundant information, and pleases him by his
lively manner in communicating it.--_Hartford Courant._

Mr. Child is a very agreeable travelling companion, and his choice of
places for a summer ramble is excellent.... The French chapters--on
Limoges, Reims, Aix-les-Bains, and especially the voyage on French
rivers--are abundant in novelty and odd bits of interest, as well as in
beauty of scene and sympathy.--_Nation_, N.Y.

A very pleasant volume of sketches by an accomplished traveller, who
knows how to see and how to describe, and who can give real information
without wearisome detail.--_Providence Journal._

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BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST.

By LEW WALLACE. New Edition, pp. 552. 16mo, Cloth, $1 50.

Anything so startling, new, and distinctive as the leading feature of
this romance does not often appear in works of fiction.... Some of Mr.
Wallace's writing is remarkable for its pathetic eloquence. The scenes
described in the New Testament are rewritten with the power and skill of
an accomplished master of style.--_N.Y. Times._

Its real basis is a description of the life of the Jews and Romans at
the beginning of the Christian era, and this is both forcible and
brilliant.... We are carried through a surprising variety of scenes; we
witness a sea-fight, a chariot-race, the internal economy of a Roman
galley, domestic interiors at Antioch, at Jerusalem, and among the
tribes of the desert; palaces, prisons, the haunts of dissipated Roman
youth, the houses of pious families of Israel. There is plenty of
exciting incident; everything is animated, vivid, and glowing.--_N.Y.
Tribune._

From the opening of the volume to the very close the reader's interest
will be kept at the highest pitch, and the novel will be pronounced by
all one of the greatest