FEB. 1, 1867. The Diamond Dickens. Just Published: THE PICKWICK PAPERS. DIAMOND EDITION. This edition differs from any other offered to the public by affording a combination of elegance and cheapness never before attempted in any of DICKENS' WORKS, and comparatively new in book-making. It is similar in style to the "DIAMOND TENNYSON,' lately ifsued by TICKNOR & FIELDS, and is in all respects the equal of that beautiful volume in paper, typography, and binding-"a model of elegance, compactness, and cheapness." The Publishers aim to make the DIAMOND DICKENS a book suitable in style for the parlor table or the library, while its low price shall commend it to the favor of all who desire to own the incomparable writings of THE GREATEST LIVING NOVELIST. PLAIN EDITION, in crimson morocco cloth, $1 25. ILLUSTRATED EDITION, containing a fine new Portrait of DICKENS, and sixteen full-page illustrations by EYTINGE, made expreffly for this edition; bound in green morocco cloth, $1 50. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS will be issued in "Diamond" style, at the rate of one volume each month. The edition will comprise twelve or thirteen volumes. Both the Plain and the Illustrated Editions will be printed at the University Prefs, on tinted paper, and the utmost care will be taken to secure elegance and plainness of typographical execution. "The type is a marvel of clearness, when its smallness is considered. In addition to an excellent portrait of Dickens, there are sixteen illustrations by Eytinge, which are thoroughly original in conception, and reproduce neither Cruikshank, Gilbert, Darley, nor any other illustrator of Pickwick. Among these, Miss Wardle and her Nieces,' 'Mr. Alfred Jingle and Job Trotter,' 'Dodson and Fogg,' 'The Fat Boy,' and 'Old Weller and the Coachman,' are specially good."-Boston Transcript. "Both in point of pictorial embellishment and mechanical workmanship, the volume must be regarded as a decided success, and highly creditable to the book-making art in this country."-New York Tribune. "A prominent attraction of this handsome little volume is the illustrations by MR. EYTINGE, who certainly excels in the humorous line, and who, in some of these designs, fairly surpasses himself. * * * Taking the Pickwick Papers as a specimen, it is safe to say that this edition must stand unrivalled by any other, English or American, in neatness of typography and convenience of size, combined with cheapness."-New York Times. "Mr. Eytinge has seized the spirit of Dickens' characters with wonderful skill, and his sketches give new zest to the enjoyment of the novel he illustrates."-New York Evening Post. "It will be, we think, the handiest and neatest edition of the works of that romancist of nature and the streets that has yet been designed and carried out in this country. The Pickwick is a model of miniature book-making." -New York Express. * *For sale by all Booksellers. * TICKNOR & FIELDS, Publishers, Boston. FEB. 1, 1867. JOSEPH II. AND HIS COURT. D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 443 & 445 Broadway, New York, JOSEPH II. AND HIS COURT. BY MRS. L. MUHLBACH. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.' One vol. 8vo. Paper covers, $1 50; cloth, $2. FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY TIMES. "The history of the introduction of Mrs. Muhlbach's works into this country is at once curious and interesting. While the war was in progress, a lady of Mobile received by one of the steamers which succeeded in running the blockade, a copy of 'Joseph II. and his Court.' She had the enterprise to translate it, and a publisher at Mobile, Alabama, we believe, brought it out. Although poorly printed, and on dingy paper, it had an extensive sale, both on account of its intrinsic merits and because of the scarcity of reading matter in the South. Copies of the work afterward found their way to the North, and attracted the attention of lovers of light literature of the more substantial sort. Shortly after Messrs. Appleton & Co. determined to republish all of Mrs. Muhlbach's productions, and commencing but a month or two ago with 'Frederick the Great and his Court,' they now follow up that volume with The Merchant of Berlin.' "Mrs. Muhlbach evidently does not aim to teach history through the medium of fiction. She simply uses the material that it places ready to her hand because it is available, and also for the reason that to some readers tales Ostensibly founded upon fact are more entertaining than those which are purely fictitious. In 'Frederick the Great' she exaggerated the faults or virtues of her leading characters to suit her own purposes, and because she thereby heightened the interest of the narrative; and in 'The Merchant of Berlin' she takes the same license, although to an extent less perceptible, because the actors introduced are not so prominent in history, and are, therefore, less popularly known. There is, however, quite enough of accuracy in her delineations to give her works decided value as pictures of the periods in which their scenes are respectively laid; and she, moreover, writes with a vigor so decidedly masculine that numerous critics have made the very natural mistake of supposing the writer to be a man-a delusion which she apparently aims to foster, by announcing herself simply as L. Muhlbach upon the titlepage of her works." D. APPLETON & CO. have just published: FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS COURT. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. BY MRS. L. MUHLBACH. Translated from the German by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and her Daughters. THE MERCHANT OF BERLIN. AN HISTORICAL NOVEL. By MRS. L. MUHLBACH, Author of "Frederick the Great and his Court." One vol. 12mo. Cloth, $2. Either of the above sent free by mail on receipt of the price. FEB. 1, 1867. "As soon as the contents of this book are known, its circulation will far exceed that of the most popular novel of the season.' LONDON READER. THE HUGUENOT GALLEY SLAVE. BEING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FRENCH PROTESTANT CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS FOR THE SAKE OF HIS RELIGION. Translated from the French. 12mo. $1 50. To be published about February 10th. Early orders solicited. FROM THE LONDON READER. "Open the book where you will, and it is almost impossible to lay it down again. 'It is,' says M. Michelet, 'a book of the first order, distinguished by the charming naiveté of the recital, by its angelic sweetness, written as if between earth and heaven. We congratulate the publishers on their good fortune in associating themselves with such a book. Records like these do honor to religion and to humanity, and teach, above all, the great lesson that the sweat and suffering of the martyr is the best seed of Christianity.' FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW (LONDON). "We do not hesitate to say that a more valuable contribution to the records of genuine martyrology could hardly be found. The style of the narrative in its graphic simplicity reminds us of Defoe; but the well authenticated facts which it relates are more interesting than fiction, and the incidents not less strange." JUST PUBLISHED. KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. A DANISH LYRICAL DRAMA. BY HENRIK HERTZ. TRANSLATED BY THEODORE MARTIN. 16mo., gilt top, $1 25. "It will be a welcome gift to our literature."-Oliver Wendell Holmes. "The play is one of the sweetest that was ever conceived."-Albion. "One of the most simply beautiful little dramas in any literature. No one can read the play once without a disposition to return to it again and again, and he may do so with the full assurance that each time he will be rewarded with the discovery of new beauties."-Round Table. POEMS BY ROBERT K. WEEKS. 16mo., gilt top, $1 25. "We are constrained to admit that not only in promise, but in performance, they are indeed remarkable. Should Mr. Weeks never write another line, his claim to an honorable mention among American poets would be secure."-Springfield Republican. "A work which deserves, and we believe will receive, at the hands of those whose appreciation is the student's great reward, the recognition and homage due to the vital spirit of poetry.”—Round Table. WHO BREAKS PAYS. 12mo., cloth, $1 25. THIRD EDITION NOW READY. "A love tale told with exquisite pathos and poetry. There is a freshness and originality about the book which give it a place among the standard works of the day."-Publishers' Circular. LEYPOLDT & HOLT, 451 Broome St., New York. WILLIAM RUTTER & CO., Corner Seventh and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. Having removed from our old stand to the large and commodious building, corner Seventh and Cherry Streets, where we have fitted up, with new machinery of the latest improvements, one of the most complete Binderies in the country, and with our greatly increased facilities we are prepared to bind promptly, and at low prices, large or small editions in all styles, from the substantial School-book to the finest calf and Turkey morocco bindings. We shall keep constantly on hand a full assortment of POCKET BIBLES and EPISCOPAL PRAYER BOOKS, in a great variety of plain and elegant bindings. Send for our Catalogue. JANUARY, 1867. THE NEW YORK NEWS COMPANY, Wholesale Dealers in NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, MAGAZINES, LITHOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHS, PLAYS, Standard Works, School Books, Cheap Novels, Song Books, Ballads, Dime and Ten Cent Publications, Comic Books, AND ALL ARTICLES REQUIRED BY BOOKSELLERS AND NEWS DEALERS. 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In Seven large Octavo Volumes, in Cloth, of near 6000 pages. Price $20. 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