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The same, in neat box, per set 5.00 In half calf, per set 12.50 Of the "Life of Liszt," the _Herald_ (Boston) says: "It is written in great simplicity and perfect taste, and is wholly successful in all that it undertakes to portray." Of the "Life of Haydn," the _Gazette_ (Boston) says: "No fuller history of Haydn's career, the society in which he moved, and of his personal life can be found than is given in this work." Of the "Life of Mozart," the _Standard_ says: "Mozart supplies a fascinating subject for biographical treatment. He lives in these pages somewhat as the world saw him, from his marvellous boyhood till his untimely death." Of the "Life of Wagner," the _American_ (Baltimore) says: "It gives in vigorous outlines those events of the life of the tone poet which exercised the greatest influences upon his artistic career." Of the "Life of Beethoven," the _National Journal of Education_ says: "Beethoven was great and noble as a man, and his artistic creations were in harmony with his great nature. The story of his life is of the deepest interest." _Sold by all booksellers, or mailed, on receipt of price by_ JANSEN, McCLURG, & CO., PUBLISHERS, COR. WABASH AVE. AND MADISON ST., CHICAGO. SHORT HISTORY OF FRANCE, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, By Miss E.S. KIRKLAND, author of "Six Little Cooks," "Dora's Housekeeping," etc. 12MO., EXTRA, CLOTH, BLACK AND GILT, $1.25. "The narrative is not dry on a single page, and the little history may be commended as the best of its kind that has yet appeared," --_Bulletin, Philadelphia._ "A book both instructive and entertaining. It is not a dry compendium of dates and facts, but a charmingly written history." --_Christian Union, New York._ "After a careful examination of its contents, we are able to conscientiously give it our heartiest commendation. We know no elementary history of France that can at all be compared with it." --_Living Church._ "A spirited and entertaining sketch of the French people and nation,--one that will seize and hold the attention of all bright boys and girls who have a chance to read it." --_Sunday Afternoon, Springfield (Mass.)._ "We find its descriptions universally good, that it is admirably simple and direct in style, without waste of words or timidity of opinion. The book represents a great deal of patient labor and conscientious study." --_Courant, Hartford (Conn.)._ "Miss Kirklan
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