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 propose to issue, under the above heading, a Series of Handy Volumes, which shall be at once various, valuable, and popular,—their size a most convenient one, their typography of the very best, and their price extremely low. They will entertain the reader with poetry as well as with prose; now with fiction, then with fact; here with narration, there with inquiry; in some cases with the works of living authors, in others with the works of those long since dead. It is hoped that they will prove to be either amusing or instructive, sometimes curious, often valuable, always handy. Each Volume will, as a rule, form a work complete in itself.

The Handy Volume Series will be neatly bound in cloth, flexible covers, and also in illuminated paper covers.

HANDY VOLUME SERIES.

1.

HAPPY THOUGHTS. By author:Francis Cowley Burnand. Price in cloth, $1.00; paper covers, 75 cents.

2.

DOCTOR JACOB. A Novel. By author:Matilda Betham-Edwards. Price in cloth, 1.00; paper covers, 75 cents.

3.

PLANCHETTE; or, The Despair of Science. Being a full account of Modern Spiritualism. Price in cloth, $1.25; paper covers, $1.00.

Other volumes will follow the above at convenient intervals. ROBERTS BROTHERS,,.

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