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Elizabeth P. Peabody at the age of eighty-four years has made a book of a number of essays, written during fifty years of a most productive life, on subjects of lasting interest, published forgotten years ago in Emerson's Mag- azine, The Dial, Lowell's Pioneer, etc. Lasv Evening with Allston and Other Papers, 350 pages. $1.50. D. Lothrop Company, Boston. The wife of Fremont, the Pathfinder of forty years ago and almost President thirty years ago, has written a bookful of reminiscences. Souvenirs of My Time. By Jessie Benton Fremont. 393 pages. $1.50. D. Lo- throp Company, Boston. Mrs. Fremont has long been known as a brilliant con- verser and story-teller. Her later years have been given to making books ; and the books have the freshness and sparkle of youth. The literary editor of the Nation gathers together nearlv a hundred poems and parts of poems to read to children going to sleep. Bedside Poetry, a Parents' Assistant in Moral Discipline. 143 pages. Two bind- ings, 75 cents and $1. D. Lothrop Company, Boston. The poems have their various bearings on morals and graces ; and there is an index called a key to the mor- alities. The mother can turn, with little search, to verses that put in a pleasant light the thoughts the little one needs to harbor. Hence the sub-title. vii