Contemporary Literature [pp. 729-761]

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE.
United States Publishing Co. To be completed in twelve monthly parts.
Parts I, 2, 3. Brought out in very good style, and containing concise and
interesting sketches of men and events. The services rendered by colleges
are fitly and fully characterized.
Votes on t]ee Epistles to the Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
By A.LBERT BARNES. Revised edition. Harper & Bros. $1.50.
Prairie and Forest. A Description of the Game of North America, with
Personal Adventures in their Pursuit. By PARKER GILLMORE, " Ubique."
New York: Harper & Bros. Illustrated. $1.50. An entertaining book,
and instructive to those for whom it is designed. among whom may prehaps be reckoned the "sporting clergy," subdivided by Conybeare into
Ram-rods, Fishing-rods, and Nimrods.
Salem. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century. By D. R. CASTLETON. Same
publishers. A spirited story, founded on the Salem witchcraft.
The Carters send us Doors Outward, a tale by the author of the "Win
and Wear" series; The Giants, and How to Fight Them, and Wonderful
Things, by the Rev. RICHARD NEWTON, ID.D.; Sceiptres and Crown,s, by the
author of "Wide Wide World," and Golden A4pf1les, or Fair Words for the
Young, by Rev. EDGAR WOODS.
The Harpers also publish the following important works, which we have
not space to notice in this number. LEONARD BACON: The Genesis of the
New Egzzland Czhurches. With illustrations. $2.50. Some Leading
Princities of Political Economzy, newly expounded, by J. E. CAmNES, M.A.,
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in University College, London.
$2.50. Lfe of Azndrew Hull Foote, Rear-Admiral U. S. Navy. By Prof.
JAMES MI. HopPIN, Yale College, with a portrait and illustrations.
1874.]
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