We have received from Messrs. Cobb, Pritchard & Co., booksellers and publishers, Nos. 81 and 83 Lake street, Chicago, the following handsomely bound books, published by Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1868-9.

BOOKS.

NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES, by Longfellow. This volume contains two tragedies: the first, entitled John Endicottscene in Boston in the year 1665; the other, Giles Corey, of the Salem Farms -scene in Salem in 1692.

AMONG THE HILLS, and other poems, by John Greenleaf Whittier, including The Clear Vision; The Two Rabbis; The Meeting; The Answer; G. L. S.; Freedom in Brazil; Divine Compassion; Lines on a Fly-leaf; and Hymn for the House of Worship at George

town.

Nothing that we can write, relative to the merits of the foregoing works, will add a particle of luster to the already bright names of America's talented sons-Longfellow and Whittier. The works of their hand become standard as soon as given to the world, and every line is read with increasing interest by the literati of the age. Indeed, no American can be considered a scholar who is not familiar with the productions of these two great writers. The works before us do not, in the least, detract from the reputation of their authors, already earned; but on the contrary, add another leaf to their respective crowns of laurel. "The Tragedies" carry the reader baok some two hun

dred years, to the dark hours of witchcraft and superstition, while "Among the Hills" is one of those beautiful little rural poems which only an American author can write and only an American reader appreciate.

PLAIN THOUGHTS ON THE ART OF LIVING, by Washington Gladden. This is a handsomely bound volume of 236 pages, containing fifteen essays, intended to benefit the young men and women of our land. The subjects embrace, The Messenger without a Message; Work for Women; Dress; Manners; Conversation; Habits; Health and Physical Culture; Mind Culture; Success; Stealing as a Fine Art; Companionship and Society; Amusement; Respectability and Self-respect; Marriage; and The Conclusion of the Whole Matter. These essays are, indeed, plain thoughts plainly and fearlessly expressed-effectual thrusts at many of the popular conventional errors at present existing in the education of young people-and ought to be read by the educator as well as the educated.

Also, from the same source, but published by James Miller, (successor to C. S. Francis & Co.,) 552 Broadway, New York:

THE SCHOOL FOR CRITICS.-A comedy, being in completion of the fourth volume of the dramatic series, by Laughton Osborn. Several volumes of beautifully illustrated and illuminated holiday books, for the little folks, have also found their way to our table, from the same publishers.

Liberal Triumvirate of England, by Justin McCarthy; A Belt of Asteroids, by Edmund C. Stedman; The DreamChild, by Richard H. Stoddard; The Lanman Scandal, by Mrs. W. H. Palmer; The Waking of the Cid, by Edna Dean Proctor; Edwin Booth, by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun; Edwin Booth (a Poem), by Anne M. Crane; The Flight of Diomed, by William Cullen Bryant; Our Crime Land Excursion, by A. Oakley Hall; English Grammar: a Chapter of Words and their Uses, by Richard Grant White; Swallows, by T. W. Parsons; The Gal axy Miscellany. Shelden & Co.: 498 Broadway, New York.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for January contains the opening chapters of the original American novel, written expressly for that magazine, entitled Beyond the Breakers: A Story of the Present day, with a full page illustration; Poems for a Golden Wedding; Christmas Pantomimes, by T. C. de Leon; The Blue Cabinet: a Christmas Story, by Lucy Hamilton Hooper; The Old Year and the New, by F. W. Clarke; The Secret Agent (of Napoleon III); Justice for Blue-beard, by Miss M. Á. Campbell; Cross and Crown: a Poem, by Edward Fawcett; Pearl of Great Price, by Rebecca Harding Davis; The Parisian's New Year, by George M. Towle; Nor Dead, Nor Living: a Love Story, by Jane G. Austin; Will Spain be a Republic? by Karl Blind; Golden Dreams: a Christmas Story, by Albert Fabre; Our Monthly Gossip; Literature of the Day. J. B. Lippincott & Co.: Boston.

PUTNAM'S for January contains: Today-a Romance, chapters I, II; Among the Trees; Tent-life with the Wandering Kuraks; Treasure: a Christmas Story; Christmas Eve Chant of Breton Peasants; The Battle of Plattsburg Bay: unpublished MSS. of Fenimore Cooper; Three Pictures and One Portrait; The Literature of the Coming Controversy; Fainting at Noontide Steam Travel in Cities-What has been Done in London and Paris, and What may be Done in New York; The Story Teller of Copenhagen; A Sketch of Hans Christian Andersen; Popular Lectures in England; Literature, Art and Science Abroad; Monthly Chronicle of Current Events; Literature; Fine Arts; Table Talk.

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LUCIUS FARR Wisconsin, is one of

the marked and representative men of the Northwest. He came from that "Western Reserve" in Ohio which has contributed so much of population and of intelligence to his adopted State, and from a parentage marked by strength of character and by a certain hospitality and largeness of nature. Born at Franklin Mills, in Portage county, Ohio, December 27, 1831, he resided at Cleveland in that State from an early age antil 1846, when he came to Wisconsin, and, with the other members of his father's family, shortly after found a home at Madison, the beautiful capital of that State. Soon the newly-discovered gold region of California attracted ? enterprising spirits, and the restless energy of the youth of seventeen drove him to the land of promise. In March, 1849, with an ox team, he started from Madison, in company with others from that vicinity, for a journey across the Plains. He remained in California until the summer of 1855, most of the period being spent in the mountains, in the hard, rough life of a miner, whose severe tolls finally yielded him a reasonable degree of financial success. Various business occupied his attention after his return to Madison, in 1855, until the fall of 1858, when, as the Democratic candidate, he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court for his County. The du

great acceptance, his promptitude, energy and business habits being no less conspicuous than his courtesy toward attorneys and all others doing business in the Court. In the autumn of 1860 he was admitted to the Bar.

In the spring of 1861, after the surrender of Fort Sumter, the subject of this sketch was one of the earliest who hastened to the defense of an imperiled country. He enlisted promptly as a private in the "Governor's Guard," a wellknown independent company of Madison, which was among the first to tender its services under the President's first call for three months' troops. Elected captain of this company, which was assigned as Company K to the First (three months) Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, he declined the position of lieutenant-colonel offered him by Gov. Randall, not feeling himself qualified by military knowledge or training for that office. The regiment served its three months, from June 9, 1861, in Eastern Virginia, where, on the 2d of July, it skirmished at Falling Waters with a part of Joe Johnston's force-a skirmish remembered only as one of the earliest of the war, and the first in which Wisconsin troops were engaged.. In August, 1861, President Lincoln appointed FAIRCHILD captain in the 16th Regulars, and about the same time he received from Gov. Randall a commission as major in