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Browning, Poet and Man

A Survey. By, author of "Tennyson; His Homes, His Friends, and His Works." With cover design by. With 25 illustrations in photogravure and some text illustrations. Large 8^o, gilt top (in a box), $3.75.

This volume forms a companion work to Miss Cary's book on Tennyson issued last year, and which met with such a cordial reception.

Tennyson

His Homes, His Friends, and His Work. By. With 18 illustrations in photogravure and some text illustrations. Second edition. Large 8^o, gilt top (in a box), $3.75.

"The multitudes of admirers of Tennyson in the United States will mark this beautiful volume as very satisfactory. The text is clear, terse, and intelligent, and the matter admirably arranged, while the mechanical work is faultless, with art work especially marked for excellence."—Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Petrarch

The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters. A Selection from his Correspondence with Boccaccio and other Friends. Designed to illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance. Translated from the original Latin together with Historical Introductions and Notes, by, Professor of History in Columbia University, with the Collaboration of , sometime Professor of Latin in Swarthmore College. Illustrated. 8^o, $2.00.

"Petrarch is widely known as a poet of the Italian language whose love for Laura is immortalized in a long series of sonnets. It was an admirable idea for Prof. Robinson to translate for us a selection from the letters of Petrarch, and to intersperse their thoughtful and scholarly, fresh and interesting, notes and comments."—N. Y. Times.

Literary Hearthstones

Studies of the Home Life of Certain Writers and Thinkers. By, author of "Some Colonial Homesteads and Their Stories," "Where Ghosts Walk," etc. Put up in sets of two volumes each, in boxes. Fully illustrated. 16^o.

The first issues will be:

Charlotte Brontë. William Cowper. Hannah More. John Knox.

In this series, Marion Harland presents, not dry biographies, but, as indicated in the sub-title, studies of the home-life of certain writers and thinkers. The volumes will be found as interesting as stories, and, indeed, they have been prepared in the same method as would be pursued in writing a story, that is to say, with a due sense of proportion.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,