if done at the right time. Every grapegrower will be profited by the study of this book. MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHS. An Album for Confessions of Tastes, Habits, and Convictions. Edited by Robert Saxton. New York: Leypoldt & Holt. 1869. S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. Price, $1.50. This book, as its title indicates, is intended to serve as a record for the tastes and characteristics of friends; in short, for their mental photographs, just as another class of albums serves to keep their physical ones. It has a place for an ordinary carte de visite on a page where questions like the following are asked, with blank space for answers: Your favorite color; flower; tree; object in nature; hour in the day; season of the year; perfume; gem; style of beauty; name- male and female; painters; musicians; piece of sculpture; poets; poetesses; prose authors; character in romance; in history; book; amusement; occupation; trait of character in man; in woman; what the saddest words; the sweetest words; your aim in life; your motto, etc. The volume is handsomely gotten up, with room for about forty photographs, and must serve well the purpose for which it is published. BOOKS RECEIVED. THE GATES WIDE OPEN; or, Scenes in another World. By George Wood. Boston: Lee and Shepard. 1869. Cobb, Pritchard & Co., Chicago. Pp. 354; 12mo. Price, $1.50. VILLA EDEN: THE COUNTRY HOUSE ON THE RHINE. By Berthold Auerbach. Part II. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1869. S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. Price, 50 cents. PETERSON'S TWENTY-CENT EDITION OF SCOTT'S WAVERLEY NOVELS. Complete in 26 volumes, at 20 cents each, or $5 for the complete set. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Co. S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. MONEY: ITS USES AND ABUSES. Coinage, National Bonds, Currency and Banking, Illustrated and Explained. By Lyman E. De Wolf. Chicago: Published by the author. 1869. Pp. 200. Price, $1.50. |