Part 21 (1/2)
HOW TO DO IT 16mo. $1.00
”Good sense, very practical suggestions, telling ill.u.s.trations (in words), lively fancy, and delightful humor combine to make Mr. Hale's hints exceedingly taking and stimulating, and we do not see how either s.e.x can fail, after reading his pages, to know How to Talk, How to Write, How to Read, How to go into Society, and How to Travel. These, with Life at School, Life in Vacation, Life Alone, Habits in Church, Life with Children, Life with your Elders, Habits of Reading, and Getting Ready, are the several topics of the more than as many chapters, and make the volume one which should find its way to the hands of every boy and girl. To this end we would like to see it in every Sabbath-school library in the land.”--_Congregationalist._
CRUSOE IN NEW YORK, and other Stories, 16mo. $1.00
”If one desires something unique, full of wit, a veiled sarcasm that is rich in the extreme, it will all be found in this charming little book.
The air of perfect sincerity with which they are told, the diction, reminding one of 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' and the ludicrous improbability of the tales, give them a power rarely met with in 'short stories.' There is many a lesson to be learned from the quiet little volume.”
HIS LEVEL BEST. 16mo. $1.25.
”We like Mr. Hale's style. He is fresh, frank, pungent, straightforward, and pointed. The first story is the one that gives the book its t.i.tle, and it is related in a dignified manner, showing peculiar genius and humorous talent. The contents are, 'His Level Best,' 'The Brick Moon,'
'Water Talk,' 'Mouse and Lion,' 'The Modern Sinbad,' 'A Tale of a Salamander,'”--_Philadelphia Exchange._
GONE TO TEXAS; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman, 16mo. $1.00.
”There are few books of travel which combine in a romance of true love so many touches of the real life of many people, in glimpses of happy homes, in pictures of scenery and sunset, as the beautiful panorama unrolled before us from the windows of this Pullman car. The book is crisp and bright, and has a pleasant flavor; and whatever is lovely in the spirit of its author, or of good report in his name, one may look here and find promise of both fulfilled.”--_Exchange._
WHAT CAREER? or, The Choice of a Vocation and the Use of Time. 16mo.
$1.25.
”'What Career?' is a book which will do anybody good to read; especially is it a profitable book for young men to 'read, mark, and inwardly digest.' Mr. Hale seems to know what young men need, and here he gives them the result of his large experience and careful observation. A list of the subjects treated in this little volume will sufficiently indicate its scope: (1) The Leaders Lead; (2) The Specialties; (3) n.o.blesse Oblige; (4) The Mind's Maximum; (5) A Theological Seminary; (6) Character; (7) Responsibilities of Young Men; (8) Study Outside School; (9) The Training of Men; (10) Exercise.”--_Watchman._
UPS AND DOWNS. An Every-Day Novel, 16mo. $1.50.
”This book is certainly very enjoyable. It delineates American life so graphically that we feel as if Mr. Hale must have seen every rood of ground he describes, and must have known personally every character he so cleverly depicts. In his hearty fellows.h.i.+p with young people lies his great power. The story is permeated with a spirit of glad-heartedness and elasticity which in this hurried, anxious, money-making age it is most refres.h.i.+ng to meet with in any one out of his teens; and the author's sympathy with, and respect for, the little romances of his young friends is most fraternal.”--_New Church Magazine_.
_Sold everywhere. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers_,
ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote A: After Chapman.]
[Footnote B: After Cowper and Pope. Long after!]
[Footnote C: Iliad, vi.]
[Footnote D: Iliad, vi--POPE.]
[Footnote E: Iliad, xii., after Sotheby.]
[Footnote F: I do not know that this explanation is at all clear. Let me, as the mathematicians say, give an instance which will ill.u.s.trate the importance of this profession. It is now a few months since I received the following note from a distinguished member of the Cabinet:--