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tertaining, at least in some of its chapters, to the general reader."--_N.Y. Tribune_. Thornbury's (Walter) Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Founded on Letters and Papers furnished by his friends and fellow-academicians. With illustrations, fac-similed in colors, from Turner's original drawings. $2.75. "The author has told fully and fearlessly the story of Turner's life as far as he could learn it, and has filled his pages with anecdotes which illustrate the painter's character and habits, and his book is, therefore, one of great interest."--_N.Y. Evening Post_. Lewes (George Henry) on Actors and the Art of Acting. $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.... Perhaps the best work in English on the actor's art."--_Nation_. Berlioz' Autobiography and Musical Grotesques. $2.00 _PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT & CO._ ALBEMARLE'S (GEORGE THOMAS EARL OF) FIFTY YEARS OF MY LIFE. With a Portrait by JEENS. Large 12mo. $2.50. "Lord Albemarle has done wisely to publish his Recollections, for there are few men who have had the opportunities of seeing so much of life and character as he has, and still fewer who at an advanced age could write an Autobiography in which we have opinions without twaddle, gossip without malice, and stories not marred in the telling."--_London Academy_. HOUGHTON'S (LORD) MONOGRAPHS, PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. With Portraits of WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, CHARLES BULLER, HARRIET LADY ASHBURTON, and SULEIMAN PASHA. 12mo. $2.00. "An extremely agreeable volume.... He writes so as to adorn everything which he touches,"--_London Athenaeum_. "He has something new to tell of every one of his subjects. His book is a choice olio of fine fruits."--_London Saturday Review_. JOHNSON'S (ROSSITER) COLLECTIONS OF POEMS. SINGLE FAMOUS POEMS. Collected and Edited by ROSSITER JOHNSON. Square 12mo, gilt. $2.00. A pretty volume fit for presentation, made up of celebrated English poems that have hitherto been printed only in periodicals and other fugitive places, or are in only such works as are not generally at hand. The lover of poetry who is tryi
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