ILLUSTRATED POETICAL GEMS. ROCK OF AGES. By AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY. Beautiful as are the words and sentiment of this hymn, so dear to all believing souls, the setting to the bright jewel seems worthy of it. The illustrations are full of purity, tenderness, and spirituality. The book is printed on the finest of paper, beautifully bound, and contains a brief sketch of the author.- Church Union. Illustrated 4to. Cloth. Full gilt. $1.50. ABIDE WITH ME. By HENRY FRANCIS LYTE, ABIDE WITH ME. - The beautiful poem which gives the title to this volume is rendered none the less touching and impressive by the very elegant shape in which it is presented to the reader. Poet, designer, engraver, and printer each seem to have striven to outdo the other; and the result is a volume which, for purity and elevation of sentiment, for beauty and appropriateness of illustration, and for general elegance of finish, need yield the palm to none which have yet come under our observation. It would make an admirable Christmas present, and deserves a prominent place on the table or the shelves of the lover of beautiful publications. OME not in terrors, as the King of Kings; healing in Thy wings; Tears for all woes, a heart for every plea; Come, Friend of sinners, and thus bide with me! LEE & 4to, illust. Cloth. Full gilt. $1.50. SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston. The Twin Beauties of Christian Song. "The best beloved of sacred hymns." Nearer, my God, to Thee. By SARAH FLOWER ADAMS. ted by Miss L. B. HUMPHREY. "A FAMILIAR HYMN IN A BEAUTIFUL GUISE. Lee & Shepard publish for the holidays an illustrated edition of the favorite and tenderly beautiful hymn, 'Nearer, my God, to Thee.' The designs, by Miss Humphrey, are carefully engraved. The form and size of the book, the purity of the tint, and the clearness of the letter-press, make the volume a tasteful and valuable Christmas gift. The hymn is too well known to need any words of praise, for its universal use on occasions of bereavement shows that the true spirit of submission and devotion breathed in every line touches a sympathetic chord in every sorrowing heart." -Providence Journal. SPECIMEN OF ILLUSTRATIONS. "One of the daintiest gift-books of the season is the edition just put out by Lee & Shepard, of Abraham Lincoln's favorite poem, 'Oh! why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?' The poem, grave and tender in theme, and sad in the mournful swing of its rhythm, is one that impresses many as it impressed the lofty and melancholy spirit of Lincoln-many who will be glad to possess it in this beautiful dress. The typographical execution of the volume is thoroughly excellent, the designs, beautiful and appropriate."Portland Press. LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston. RECORD OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE. Camps in the Caribbees: A remarkably entertaining and instructive narrative of the adventures and discoveries of the author on a two years' expedition under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institute, in the Lesser Antilles, in which he secured eighteen new species of birds hitherto unknown except to the natives, and including the heretofore invisible "sunset bird." The book is illustrated with cuts from pho tographs of the superb scenery, the natives, towns, and spots of local interest, and is in all respects a reliable book of reference for libraries, as well as entertaining for Crown 8vo. Cloth. With many Illustrations. $2.50. THE NEW VOYAGE OF THE PAPER CANOEIST. FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. A BOAT VOYACE OF 2600 MILES, Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and along the Gulf of Mexico, by NATH'L H. BISHOP, In the "Voyage of a Paper Canoe," The author visited "the oystermen and fishermen living along the lonely beaches of the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia; the surfmen and lighthouse-keepers of Albemarle, Pamplico, and Core Sounds, in North Carolina; the ground-nut planters who inhabit the uplands that skirt the network of creeks, marshes, ponds, and sounds from Bogue Inlet to Cape Fear; the piny-woods people, lumbermen, and turpentine distillers on the little bluffs that jut into the fastnesses of the great swamps of the crooked Waccamaw River; the representatives of the once powerful rice-planting aristocracy of the Santee and Peedec Rivers; the colored men of the beautiful seaislands along the coast of Georgia; the Floridians living between the St. Mary's River and the Suwanee, the wild river of song; the islanders on the Gulf of Mexico, where he terminated his long journey;-all have contributed to make the 'Voyage of the Paper Canoe' a success." In "Four Months in a Sneak-Box," The author procured one of the smallest and most comfortable of boats, - a purely American model, developed by the baymen of the New Jersey coast of the United States, and recently introduced to the gunning fraternity as the "Barnegat Sneak-Box." This curious and stanch little craft, though only twelve feet in length, proved a most comfortable and serviceable home while the author rowed in it more than 2,600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, until he reached the goal of his voyage, the mouth of the wild Suwanee River, which was the terminus of his "Voyage of the Paper Canoe." The kind reception by the American people of the author's first journey to the great southern sea, and its republication in Great Britain and in France within so short a time of its appearance in the United States, have encouraged him to give the public a companion volume. Crown 8vo. Cloth. Illustrated. $2.50. 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