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Bulfinch's Mythology.

the age of Chivalry ; Or Legends of King Arthur. “Stories of the round Table,” “The Crusades,” “Robin Hood,” etc. By Thomas Bulfinch. A new and enlarged edition. Revised by Rev. E. E. Hale, Large 12mo. Illustrated. $2,50.

In “The age of Fable,” Mr. Bulfinch endeavored to impart the pleasure of classical learning to the English reader by presenting the stories of Pagan mythology in a form adapted to modern taste. in this volume the attempt has been made to treat in the same way the stories of the second “age of fable” --the age which witnessed the dawn of the several states of modern Europe.

the age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology. By Thomas Bulfinch. A new and enlarged edition, containing over too illustrations from ancient paintings and statuary. Revised by Rev. E. E. Hale. Large 12mo. $2.50.

Young readers will find this book a source of entertainment; those more advanced, a useful companion in their reading; those who travel and visit museums and gallaries of art, an interpreter of paintings and sculptures.

Legends of Charlemagne; Or, Romance of the Middle Ages, Stories of Paladin and Saracen. By Thomas Bulfinch. 12mo. Illustrated. $2.50.

Prof. Clark Murray's works.

Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. Translated from the German, with Additions and Notes, by Prof. J. Clark Murray. Cr. 8vo. Cloth. 307 pages. $2.00.

The London Spectator says: “Dr. Clark Murray has had the rare good fortune of first presenting this singularly vivid book in an English translation as pure and lively as f it were an original, and an original by a classic English writer.”

George Eliot, in “Daniel Deronda,” mentions it as “that wonderful bit of autobiography — the life of the Polish Jew, Solomon Maimon;” and Milman, in his “History of the Jews,” refers to it as a curious and rare book.

Handbook of Psychology. By Prof. J. Clark Murray, Ll.D., Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, McGill College, Mon. treat. Cr. 8vo. 2d edition, enlarged and improved. $1.75.

Clearly and simply written, with illustrations so well chosen that the dullest student can scarcely fail to take an interest in the subject.

Adopted for use in colleges in Scotland, England, Canada, and the United States.

Prof. Murray's good fortune in bringing to light the “Maimon Memoirs,” together with the increasing popularity of his “Handbook of Psychology,” has attracted the attention of the intellectual world, giving him a position with the leaders of thought of the present age. His writings are at once original and suggestive.

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