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ELEGANT JUVENILE GIFT BOOKS

THE LITTLE FOLKS' PICTURE GALLERY.

The Finest Illustrated Juvenile Gift-Book Published this Year.

Quarto, full gilt sides and edges. Retail, $2.50.

It has Illustrations upon every page, and is printed on heavy laid paper in the best possible

manner.

CHATTERBOX.

NEW VOLUME FOR 1875.

Quarto, 412 pp., boards, handsome colored cover, $1.50;

Same in cloth, full gilt side and back, $2.50.

No other juvenile has ever attained so wide and so well-deserved a popularity as this. It is profusely and handsomely illustrated, and its stories, sketches, etc., are carefully selected to afford instruction as well as amusement to children. The publishers have spared no pains to make this volume fully equal to its predecessors.

LITTLE FOLKS.

NEW FALL VOLUME. A COMPANION TO CHATTERBOX.

Quarto, 460 pp., boards, colored cover, $1.50; in cloth, sides and back in black and gilt, title in bright colors, red, blue and gilt, $2.50.

Containing funny stories, interesting narratives, facts from natural history, and other reading calculated to amuse, instruct, and make children happy. Beautiful Illustrations on every page.

SUNDAY READING FOR THE YOUNG.

NEW VOLUME FOR 1875.

Quarto, Uniform with Chatterbox. Boards, handsome colored cover, $1.50. Same in cloth, full gilt sides and back, $2.50.

All who are interested in making the Sabbath a bright and happy day, as well as a sacred one, to children, will be pleased with this new publication. Sunday-school Teachers and others who wish to secure wholesome Sunday literature for the young, will find this book exactly suited to their purpose. It contains first-class engravings, orginal stories, poetry, and readings suitable for use in Sunday-school or home.

THE CHILDREN'S PRIZE.

NEW VOLUME FOR 1875.

Small quarto, boards, colored cover, 75 cents.

Full of rich engravings, stories, sketches, poetry, music, etc., suitable for the edification and instruction of children.

THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY,

NEW-YORK.

JENNY JUNE'S

AMERICAN COOKERY-BOOK.

Revised and Enlarged Edition, in New and Handsome Binding.

This Book is accepted as one of the most practical and useful of its class, and there is a constant demand for it. It contains upward of twelve hundred carefully tested Receipts, the best results of modern science reduced to a simple and practical form.

ALSO

A Chapter for Invalids and one for Infants, and much General Information of Practical Value to Housekeepers.

BOUND IN CLOTH, WITH BLACK AND GOLD SIDE STAMPS.

PRICE, $1.75.

DICK'S

ENGLISH

CLASSICS.

Printed on good paper from new, clear type, and in all respects the finest edition in the market for the price.

DICK'S SHAKESPEARE.

Containing all the great Poet's Plays, thirty-seven in number, from the Original Text. The whole of his Poems, with Memoir and Portrait, and 37 illustrations by Gilbert, Wilson, etc. Paper..

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A new edition of the Works of Lord Byron. 480 pages, 16 illustrations by F. Gilbert. Paper..
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DICK'S SCOTT.

A new edition of the Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated by F. Gilbert. Paper..
Cloth

DICK'S GOLDSMITH.

The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, with Memoir and Portrait. New and complete illustrated edition. Paper.....
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DICK'S BURNS.

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This new and complete edition of the Poetical Works of Robert Burns is elaborately illustrated, and contains the
whole of the Poems, Life, and Correspondence of the great Scottish Bard.
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DICK'S ARABIAN NIGHTS.

A new translation, complete, with numerous illustrations. Paper.....
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DICK'S MILTON.

Milton's Works, new edition, with Memoirs, Portrait, and Frontispiece. Paper.
Cloth......

DICK'S COWPER.

Cowper's Works, new edition, with Memoirs, Portrait, and Frontispiece. Paper..
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DICK'S WORDSWORTH.

Wordsworth's Works, new edition, with numerous illustrations. Paper..
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DICK'S MOORE.

Moore's Works, new edition, with numerous illustrations. Paper..

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THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY,

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Agents for the United States.

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New Books in Preparation for the Autumn of 1875.

I.

JEAN INGELOW..

FATED TO BE FREE. A Novel. By JEAN INGELOW. 1 vol., 160, uniform with "Off the Skelligs," to
which popular book it is a sequel. $1.75. (Ready July 1st.)

II.

LOUISA M. ALCOTT.

EIGHT COUSINS; or, The Aunthill. By LOUISA M. ALCOTT. With numerous illustrations by Addie Ledyard and
Sol Eytinge.
I vol., 16mo. Uniform with "Little Women," "Little Men,"
""An Old-Fashioned Girl."

$1.50.

III.

SUSAN COOLIDGE.

NINE LITTLE GOSLINGS. BY SUSAN COOLIDGE. With illustrations by J. A. Mitchell.
Uniform with "The New-Year's Bargain,'
," "What Katy Did," "What Katy Did at School,'
giving." $1.50.

IV.

PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON.

I vol., square 16mo.
"Mischief's Thanks-

ROUND MY HOUSE: About the Neighborhood where I live in Peace and War Time. By PHILIP GILBERT
HAMERTON. With illustrations by the author. 1 vol., square 12mo. Uniform with "The Intellectual Life," etc.

V.

NEIL FOREST.

MICE AT PLAY: "When the Cat's away, the Mice will play." A story for the whole fa nily. By Neil Forest.
With illustrations by Sol Eytinge. Square 12mo.

VI.
P. THORNE.

JOLLY GOOD TIMES; or, Child-Life on a Farm. By P. THORNE. With illustrations by Addie Ledyard. I
vol., square 16mo. $1.50.

VII.

JULIANA HORATIA EWING.

SIX TO SIXTEEN. A Girl's Book. By JULIANA HORATIA EWIN, author of "The Brownies." 1 vol., 16mo.
VIII.

MADAME RECAMIER AND HER FRIENDS. From the French of Madame LENORMANT, by the
Translator of "Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame Récamier." 16mo.

Messrs. ROBERTS BROTHERS hope to have all of the above new books ready on or before the first of Oc-
tober next, and orders from the trade are solicited.

No. 299 (old No. 143) Washington St., Boston.

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CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST!"

THE WORLD PUBLISHING HOUSE,

No. 139 Eighth Street, New-York,

DESIRE TO CALL THE

SPECIAL ATTENTION

OF THE TRADE TO THE FOLLOWING LINES OF

STANDARD AND POPULAR BOOKS.

ALL NEW AND COMPLETE EDITIONS, WELL PRINTED ON SUPERIOR
PAPER, AND BOUND IN ENTIRELY NEW AND VERY
ATTRACTIVE STYLES.

IT IS BELIEVED THEY WILL BE FOUND TO BE

The Best and Cheapest Editions in the Market for Popular Jobbing Trade.

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Of STANDARD AUTHORS. Octavo Series, 30 Volumes, Illustrated.

Being the Cheapest Complete Editions ever Published in the World.

BOUND IN

Fancy English Cloth, Black and Gold,
Roxburgh, Library Style, in imitation Half Calf, Marble Edges,
Best Library, Sheep, Marble Edges,

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Price per vol.

$2.00

2.25
2.75

Rollin's Ancient History. From the London
edition. 2 vols.

Fleetwood's Life of Christ and the|Apos-
tles.

Chambers' Cyclopedia of English Litera-
ture. A selection of the choicest productions of English
authors, from the earliest to the present time, and a critical
and biographical history. 2 vols. 1425 pages.
D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature.
Rotteck's History of the World. From the
creation to the present time. Containing a history of the
rise, progress, wars, revolutions, and great events of all the
nations of the earth; the origin and history of the Jewish,
Christian, Mohammedan, and Pagan religions, etc. By
CHARLES VON ROTTECK, D.D. With continuations by
CHARLES J. PETERSON, Esq. Four volumes in 2, of 1750
pages.

Platts' Cyclopedia of Curiosities. Contain-
ing ten thousand wonders and curiosities of nature and art:
and of remarkable and astonishing places, persons, animals,
customs, experiments, phenomena of ancient and modern
times. By Rev. J. PLATTS. 952 pages.

Lives of Great and Eccentric Characters
of all Past Ages. Comprising monarchs, heroes,
statesmen, authors, artists, and extraordinary men, and cu-
riosities of human nature in all conditions of life. 800 pages.
Cyclopedia of Eminent Christians. Contain-
ing the lives of one hundred and twenty-five men and wo-
men of all denominations, who were remarkable for their
piety and philanthropic works. 672 pages.

The Illustrated History of England.
page.

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THE WORLD PUBLISHING HOUSE-Continued.

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Lady of the Lake and Howitt. 556 pp.
Milton. Complete in one volume. 546 pp.
Hemans and Wordsworth. In one volume. 648 pp.
Goldsmith and Southey. In one volume. 606 pp.
Pollock and Montgomery. In one volume. 640 pp.
Young and Campbell. In one volume. 614 pp.
Cowper and Rogers. In one volume. 628 pp.
Lalla Rookh and Thomson. In one volume.
550 pp.

Tupper and Johnson. In one volume.
Pope and Sterne. In one volume.

592 pp.

668 pp.

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Five Years Before the Mast and Paul
Blake. In one volume.

Australian Crusoes and Wolf-Boy. In one
volume. 852 pp.

Child's Own Book of Fairy Tales. With
500 illustrations. Edited by Madame DE CHATELAINE.
536 pp.
The Favorite Fairy Tales. In words of one syl-
lable. By Miss HATTIE AUDUBON. With illustrations in
oil colors. 832 pp.

Boys' Own Book. A complete encyclopedia of all
athletic, scientific, recreative, out-door and in-door exer-
cises and diversions. Profusely illustrated. 714 pp.
The Child's Edition of Arabian Nights,
Robinson Crusoe, Esop's Fables, and
Gulliver's Travels. Four books in one volume.

700 pp.

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Illustrated, and bound in Cloth, Black and Gold.

Price

per vol.,

$0.85.

320 pp.

Illustrated, and bound in Cloth, Black and Gold.
Edge. Price per vol.,

Gilt

From the Creation to Moses.
from the Old Testament.
1.12.

Bible stories

320 pp.

542 PP.

Sigourney and Norton. In one volume.
Scott and Coleridge. In one volume. 544 PP.

From Joshua to Daniel. A second series of Bible stories from the Old Testament. 320 pp.

Children's Bible Picture Book. 252 pp.

With a view of making these new styles known to the Trade and Public, sample sets only as follows:

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Will be sold for the purpose of introduction, at ONE-HALF THE RETAIL PRICES; thus, ninety-five volumes, aggregate retail price, $153,84, net price, $76.92.

As we shall not exchange or trade our publications for those of other publishers, jobbers will please send their orders to us direct. Complete Catalogues to be had on application. Soliciting your orders, we are, yours respectfully,

H. S. ALLEN, Manager.

THE WORLD PUBLISHING HOUSE, 139 Eighth St., New-York.

Late GEO. A. LEAVIT.

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