Let the reader be as adverse as he may to the writer's philosophy, let him be as devoted to the obstructive as Mr.Buckle is to the progress party, let him be as orthodox in church creed as the other is heterodox, as dogmatic as his author is sceptical,--let him, in short, find his prejudices shocked at every turn of the argument, and all his prepossessions whistled down the wind,--still, there is so much in this extraordinary volume to stimulate reflection, and excite to inquiry, and provoke to earnest investigation, perhaps (to this or that reader) on a track hitherto untrodden, and across the virgin soil of untilled fields, fresh woods and pastures new--that we may fairly defy the most hostile spirit, the most mistrustful and least sympathetic, to read it through without being glad of having done so, or, having begun it, or even glanced at almost any one of its 854 pages, to pass it away unread .-- _New Monthly (London) Magazine_.
* * * * * Legends and Lyrics.

By Anne Adelaide Proctor, (Daughter of the Poet, Barry Cornwall.) One very neat volume, 12mo.

Second edition.

75 cents.
This is the charming volume of fresh and tender poems, by the daughter of one of England's most honored and popular poets, which has lately been received with so hearty a welcome in England and America.

Choice portions of it, copied by the press with lively praises, have found their way to the firesides.
* * * * * The Household Book of Poetry.