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THE DETROIT REE TRESS MONDAY DECEMBER 5 1892 8 THE BOOK TABLE it cated Jan his wild plum thickets Lay the prairie evening beamlets That the summer of a John 1 of and can me her sacred never dim Rdfcl rowder plot book Nevins who has readable book with pictures of and of most of fine qual His work care and prove of the of Pub book All the night long And the whizzing Still Increased of pretty little McClurg which Mac cer The the the the same from the and the stirring and the whirring the title work of mile to the Meniorie of Denn Hole a century or more of life In Ox depicted in the of Dean who seems to have enjoyed the Gave the token storm was broke: de Wet and soddei grass untrodden may They Shir and Times of the by the is a com A Me in Detroit gathered collection ill us num pub A arrer himself as the author in de and mountains OTES ON CURRENT PUBLICATIONS AND PROMISES Co oh prominent who sinks plume of which ure of success It is no mere rehasfe of the conventional hand book but a veritable recreative text book prepared by such experts in the several subjects as little miss watching a pretty little at while on the last page his my Lee has Eugllnli Literature History of Early English Litera by Stopford A Brooke Is the his tory of English poetry from its beginning to the accession of King Aelfred It is the beginning also of the history of all that poetry which the author hopes to finish in the years to come The volume begins with the earliest poets in our language with Widsith Deor and Beowulf It ends with the accession to the throne of Ael fred in S71 at a time when literature both Latin and English had perished The au thor has confined himself to the poetry of the period because the literature of the period is poetry not of a very ity but frequently remarkable has been done with painstaking indefatigable industry and will great value to the students of English lit erature The publishers are Macmillan Co New York and Macfarlane has it Half ford is personal acquaintance not only of every Ox ford man worth knowing but of all the prominent Englishmen of his time He is a charming and one can hardly realize that the breezy gossipy sketches which he gives of Oxford life and Oxoni ans comes from a staid and venerable dean The volume will be appreciated by college men everywhere although the author him self regards it only as holiday task of an old boy who desires and hopes that he deserves rest but is too fond of work to be quite The frontispiece of the volume is an excellent portrait from a photograph of the author Macmillan Co New York are the publishers and Macfarlane has it art student jand the with the beautiful7 after ths Ma Ru is Land ables and fellow) is playing Lover Good redericks with on the subject of readers of current It is an attempt Chnrlng Cross to St Paul A volume of sketches of London in the form of notes by Justin McCarthy is entitled "Charing Cross to St This seems at first to indicate that it is a small por tion of London which is covered by the volume but those who have ever visited the great British metropolis will realize that it is a very important section of the city It is a good deal of London one sees in a walk or ride from Trafalgar Square to St Cathedral and one gets an excellent idea of it even when the journey is made in imagination only with so graphic a narrator as Justin McCarthy The illustrations are vignettes by Joseph Pennell Macmillan Co New York are the publishers and Macfarlane has it perhaps Ode read ceremonies Exposition on of the collection is The publications for young people except as above noted are for sale by John Mac farlane Lee Shephard of Boston publish the North Shore Publishing Company Salem in Salem Village It is the old and oft told story a most remarkable delusion a full history of the Salem with some account of some craft prosecutions in New elsewhere The story of the witch trials is prefaced by an account of the settle ment of Salem and its growth from 1626 to 1692 and by a picture descriptive of the court that tried the accused persons The author is Winfield tainly made a most volume is illustrated localities mentioned prominent people referred to The fron tispiece is the monument reared in Dan vers to Rebecca Nourse in at Dripped And the And the quails thor of the are familiar in Life need ies are very and not at all like the originals with which they were familiar in childhood's fancy hour They are quite as interesting how ever as the old kind and in some re spects a good deal funnier All the holiday books described except as otherwise noted can be found at Mac farlanes Down in Dixie The history of the late war has yet to be written at least that is the general impression but pending that there is a good deal of material being gathered An interesting of it may be found in a volume published by Lothrop Com pany Boston and entitled in It is a story told by Stanton Allen of the irst Massachusetts Cavalry of life in a cavalry regiment in the war days from the Wilderness to Appomattox It is not a history of the war but a pour ing together in an approach to chronologi cal order of personal recollections of events in which the writer participated during the past civil conflict Incidents of soldier life in camp and bivouac on the march and on the battlefield are given as recalled with accounts of everyday happenings how the soldiers lived and how they saw things It is a gossipy and admirably told story and valuable from the very fact that it tells what historians for the most part leave un told The volume is handsomely illustrated by Laskey who was hanged July 1692 as a witch It can be found and house of can be Book In paper covers from Co New York con rom rrutn Johanna Staats as readers of The new number of Magazine opens with a beautifully ilustrated sketch of the artist Alma Tadema (New York rank Munsey) Charles Webster Co New York announce that they have arranged with Henry George for the publication of his new work "A Perplexed be ing an examination of Mr Herbert Spen ably known The illustrations in color and in black and white are by Weekes "Cab and a story of a railroad boy is by Kirk Munroe and is the third story of the and series The boy is Rodney Blake and the story of the troubles and trials through which he passes under four Thirty Score Three Seven Tlie Drama lets A companion to the "Tales rom Is a series in four volumes rom the by Charles Morris Like the "Tales rom the its plan is to present in simple form the story upon which the dramas which have been best known during the last century are founded The first volume reproduces the foundations upon which Ben Jonson Beaumont and letcher Massinger Susan na Centlivre and early dramatists built beginning with Man In His In the second volume we find the stories which Goldsmith Holme HoTcroft and Sheridan wrought into their dramas while the third does the same ser vice for George Coleman Thomas Morton John Tobin Sheridan Knowles Talfourd and Richapd Lalor Shell The fourth deals with more modern dramas those of Bulwer Lytton Tom Taylor Dion Boucicault George Boker and Martin Hayden The work owes its suggestion to from but deals with the sub ject in a less juvenile manner The pub lishers are The Lippincott Company Philadelphia and the series can be found at where he has Through the dismal afternoon Held the banks of cloud aloof As the smoke in frontier cabins Hugs the rafters in the roof Broke the clouds and ceased the dripping And the red elms by the streamlets caugnt tne tauing That in proof and recreations and has been pre as a needed complement of the fa Games and has achieved so gratifying a meas ccess It is no hand book recreative Missing By Mary A (Good Company Series)' Boston: "st Shepard Detroit: John Macfar exposition of the physical basis of musical harmony To enable the reader more readily to understand the various topics treated illustrations of many of the in struments used in the lectures have been Inserted to the great increase of the value of the work for students It is an emi nently practical treatise and should com mand a wide reading Macfarlane has is a some fif although The New New a study of Israel in Russia is by Harold whose recent writings the Russian Jew most literature are familiar to explain so far as that may be done within the limits of a single volume the position of the Jew in Russia and the causes which have led to his being exiled It is a painful but deeply interesting story and the high confidence with which Mr redericks has inspired the general pub lic is likely to be much increased by this careful and apparently truthful account The volume is illustrated with portraits of the Russian emperors and other promi nent Russians and with Russian peasant types It can be found at second appears the third the transported to published by A Co is a collection of every Sunday in the year and words of Jesus of Naz Baker It is in eight Betore tne 'Ministering" Glory Macfarlane to those whe by the artist purely ideal anniversary ica The greatly has a don Stables Rev Wood and many others Each subject is treated with suf ficient fullness of detail and thoroughness of exposition to gi educational value Hutchinson and number over 300 artists as against it and its sale was slow Ten years ago it was reissued with its present title and since that date has enjoyed very great popularity It is the work of Miss Gertrude Sifllon whose sister's writings described is a fasci the adventures traveling through the New Hampshire with fishing publishers print a volume of Tales by 1 A Mitchell au Those who with these tales as published scarcely be told that the fair modern in their character of poetry is to insure for him one source of happiness in a not too happy of the Gathered Years' pilation by published by Chicago and sold Macfarlane represented in heads the the second Highest of all in Leavening Power Latest Report Irene latest one of gift books of the season an established favorite popularity ings by well known English illustrators Estes Lauriat also publish the VV by Capt Charles who has firmly established best ana most competent scribing the woods lakes of New England The present volume is the result of over two careful jrep aration and briefly nating narrative party of young woods of Maine stories of their ing etc It is sess the daughter suggests for of in of and contains prosecutions other witch England and Columbus from publishers is a series of pictures life of Columbus by a young ai tor A Searles A pretty little calendar of the "ring chain and tassel bears the suggestive name around the The designs in colors are by Sunter and entirely new The cover shows a pretty cupid "warming his an open fireplace this same cupi 1 (or sweetly bye The publishers are Shepard Boston and Hudson it In the prepara the collection regard has been had to literary excellence without neg however biographical value All giving pictures of and especially those which admit the read of that distin exiles with have has allow also Shepard is a poem by Julia illustrated with reproductions sketches by Zu! ma be Lacy most ardent admirers of the poets have thus been prosified author true of admirers to whom ob scurity and the lack of a clearly under stood story Is his chief charm There will be quite enough readers however in the outer circle of admirers to i what Mr Morris has done to them with a knowledge of the originals of these prose versions nines are embellished with the several authors them Till all sorrow Yielded to the brilliant morrow Although not a volume of poetry Best Letters of Percy fairly be put in the poetical class are edited with an introduction by ley Carter Hughson and constitute the sixth in a series of volumes devoted to Crowned tion of With a nimbus like a saint Rose the white moon in the east And the grass all rose together As the guests do at a feast: publishing house of Lee Shepard is for the the latest of the and series It is another stir ring thrilling tale of struggle adventure daring hairnreadth escapes jolly reunions glowing reminiscences of perils dared and shared together all told with such strength such simplicity and such effectiveness that it wins the author hosts of fresh as well as attaches more firmly scores of old friends It can be found at Vassar Girls in the Holy is by Elizabeth Champney whose an nual report of what these adventurous young ladies have done is always looked for with interest Their summer traveling tour as here set down embodies a most in teresting story interwoven with bits of eastern life historic incidents and accounts of travel from Egypt and the mouth of the Nile through Palestine to Jerusalem mak ing one of those thoroughly instructive and entertaining volumes of travel and history for which the author is noted The trations of which there are 3 great her are by well known artists The lishers are Estes Lauriat Boston The same publishers issue by Laqra Richards the talented daughter of Julia Ward Howe It Is a charming idyl of New England coast life full of pathos refined and delicate senti ment and its popularity has been well at tested by the fact that in the past two years over thirteen editions of the plain text edition have been sold in this country jtlone The illustrated edition nas been issued in response to a very eager public demand and the publishers have been fortunate in securing the services of Mr rank Mer rill to portray the characters so vividly described by the author It Is a beautiful and altogether charming holiday book rom the same publishers comes Boys of Mirthfield edited by Lawrence rancis one of the brightest books for boys published this year It deals with the trials and tribulations of a new boy at school his sports and pastimes and Chicago have a tale by MargueriteSweet etc story and has been charm fifth the Englishman charter in his in his left followed in the the Dutchman in holiday his long clay pipe In the the renchman in direc hat in one hand and mus The eighth shows from over the the Irish which was teen years Boot and The week collection of seasonable books for young people opens very appropriately with the volume for 1S92 of Harper's Young People a publication which has estab lished itself firmly in the hearts of Amer ican children The contents included in 872 pages embrace every department of juvenile literature in story sport fun game puzzle and poetry and are illus trated by hundreds of pictures in the best style of modern pictorial art The pub lishers are Harper Bros New York Boy's own Outdoor is a popular encyclopaedia for boys of outdoor games pared HOLIDAY BOOKS AND BOOKS OR THE YOUNG PEOPLE which A publish and sale They are essential prairie but of the prairie South! and Music A large volume from the press McClurg Co Chicago bears and and is the the Rev A Zahn professor of physics in the University of Notre Dame It has grown out of a course of lectures given a year ago in the Catholic University at Washington and its main purpose is to give the reader and especially the mu sical reader an exact knowledge based on experiment of the laws of acoustics and to present at the same time a brief sors and of the progress which has made in the art of illustration "Short Stories About by trude Sellon comes from the Cassell lisliing Company New York It originally published ago under the title of Other but A good many poems "smack of the Such are Kansas Kansas Cow Catch "John Old and Medicine One entitled Prairie Illustrates as well as any the style and to some extent capacity and limitations THE PRAIRIE STORM With the daylight came the storm And the clouds like ragged veils Trailed the prairie until noontide 1 I iC The the first Two the third and the fourth The special char selections in each is indl chapter heading The intro ductory poem is the by Lucy Larcom The poets honored by selec tion are almost exclusively American and the table of contents shows the names of nearly every American poet of promi nence It is a dainty' little volume in blue and white Rhymes of Ironquill have been incorporated in a crimson volume Co of Chicago farlane has for ly poems of the at its best after it has been brought un der cultivation and been modified some what by civilization The verse is strong rather than fine but it will be on that account no less acceptable to the American people and especially to the people of the west of that excellent em from December lt91 volume of nearly all familiar with the fond In the Prince Tip Top and in Prince and Princess are the Rainbow Valley The rederick A Stokes Y'ork from half dozen collection The same appreciate acquaint familiar The vol portraits of Macfarlane has other entertaining sketches It is a of mingled adventure and romance is embellished with 112 illustrations Poetry The poetical offerings of the season open very appropriately with a volume entitled and Other by Harriet Miss Monroe has not heretofore poet but has fame through Monroe been widely known as a achieved popularity if not the authorship of the cantata sung at the dedication of the Chicago Auditorium in December 1889 and still more through the Commemoration and sung at the dedicatorial of the World's Columbian the four hundredth discovery of Amer not calculated to fi rne She i making but not very high rank er into the inner circles gulshed coterie of English which Shelley was associated in Italy been carefully retained The object been to give the best letters of the poet and at the same time make the volume a complete and ready work of reference for those who desire to consult rec ords of his own life and the lives of his poet friends Among the notes are some which were contributed to early editions by Mrs Shelley Lady Shelley and Thomas Love Peacock The volume is published by A McClurg Co Chicago and can be found at The Lippincott Company Phila delphia publishes in a neat little collection of three volumes "Tales rom Ten by Harrison Morris It is a presenta tion in prose of the basal stories which the poets have wrought into verse In the first volume we have Browning's Ring and the "The Prin Dante Gabriel Rosetti's and William "The Lovers of In the second are "Enoch Browning's Blot on the Airs Browning's Matthew "Sohrab and and Robert Two In the third are Swinburne's of Owen Meredith's and George Spanish It is not quite certain that the who will thank the for this work 'This is especially Trang's Columbian Publication Prang Co Poston the well known publishers have made a new de parture for the Christmas season of the year One of their publica tions is a work by the great illustrator Walter Crane entitled Court It is a picture history of the United States in twelve emblematic colored de signs with accompanying verses The first plate shows America as the belie sauvage fancy an Indian maiden leaning against a tree surrounded by shells and looking out to the ocean In the second Norseman Eric the Viking stepping ashore from his war ship The third illustration gives us Colum bus standing on a ladder on board of his vessel shading his eyes with his hand and eagerly looking for the coveted land The fourth shows Spain a knight in armor clad grasping the hand of the Indian maid as conqueror In the steps ashore King right a musket sixth plate by attire smoking seventh we see toire costume ket in the other suitors man German Russian Chinese and negro In the ninth we see America with the eagle in her left hand holding a scroll with the words of the maid being draped with the American flag In the tenth we see her now changed to a white woman in modern costume In the next plate we see her ordering her united state coach and forty four until she comes to the climax in the last illustration where is conducted by Chicago to the world in fancy Cuckoo in the Pv Mrs Oliphant (New York: The United States Book Company Detroit: John Macfar a lane) "Japan in History olk Lore and By William Elliot Griffis (Boston: Hough ton Mifflin Co Detroit: John Mac farlane) a Pathfinder in American By 5 Cordy and I TwitchelL Part (Boston: Lee Shepard Detroit: I Hudson) rom rench and Spanish writers By Antoinette Ogden (Chicago: A McClurg Co Detroit John Macfarlane) "Where Duty By Silas Hock Ing With original illustra tions (New Y'ork: rederick Warne A Co Detroit: John Macfarlane) "rom Dusk to By Katherine Pearson Woods author of "Metzerott (New Y'ork: Appleton A Co Detroit: John Macfarlane) isher Girl of rom the rench of ernand Calmettes With illus trations by the author (New York: Dodd Mead Co Detroit: John Macfarjane) "Hygienic Measures In Relation to In fectlous By George Nut tall Ph (New York: Sons Detroit: John Maxtfar lane) Company New increases the Calendar list by one by Maud Humphrey The aquarelles make a beautiful and considerable imagina tion but not sufficient of either to give her very high rank among the poets of the nineteenth century 'The sonnets with which the volume closes are among the best of its contents One which we quote is entitled: TY LAKE MICHIGAN Blue as eternity bright as smile Pure as the folded wings of seraphim the white learned to The publishers are A McClurg Co Chicago and Macfarlane has it A volume from the Boston Houghton Mifflin Co which found at it entitled of amous selected by Agnes Rep plier 'The selection has been made with great care and nice discrimination and covers the field of English verse beginning with Scott and coming down to our own time with liberal drafts upon the Ameri can poets Longfellow Whittier Emerson Aldrich Holmes and others The aim has been simply to give pleasure to the children for whom the book is intended and she has tried she says study their tastes feelings and I she adds "my reward will be very great for to help a child to the love paradise ull many a mile on some goltlen cratt might bear isle Where solemn Sappho sings hymn Where love is ever voumr eves And truth a shining splendor all the while Surely my soul might sail into thy blue And be so purged of earthly dross and stain That one I loved would take the form I knew And speak to me and clasp my hand again Stooping with winged throngs for retinue rom various utterances on the land ques tion with incidental reference to his syn thetic philosophy They have also arranged with Mr George for the control of his for mer books and will issue them tn a uniform edition The Christmas number of the Publish Weekly is entitled "The Christmas Book and is beautifully gotten up (New York: 28 Elm street) The full page portrait in the Illustrated American for the week is of Mr Richard Mansfield who is numbered 73 in the "Gallery of The article by Mlllcent Shinn on Lick Astronomical Department of the University of which appeared in the November Overland Monthly has been printed in pamphlet form Two Tales for the week are Uncov enanted by John Becket and Babes in the by Kate Wood bridge Michaelis (Boston: Two Tales Pub lishing Company 6 Beacon street) The December Table Talk (Philadelphia: Table Talk Publishing Company) is full of timely suggestions tor tne montn menus for Christmas dinners and other matters of interst to housekeepers and dinner givers Madame Adelaide Rlstorl the famous tragedienne has written for the Home Journal two important autobiograph ical papers in which she will tell I Became an and describe Methods of My Before sailing for Europe Maj Gen Howard saw his new book through the press The title fs and this interesting biography is the second volume in the "Great series published by Appleton Co New York by Imogen Clark is a pathetic sketch of New England life with a few clearly cut characters and a goodly sprinkling of the homely dialect of that section It is cleverly illustrated A Randolph Co New are the pub lishers and Macfarlane has it Lee Shepard publish the fourth revised edition of by A Ingersoll a book which deals chiefly with the relations of the sexes and the influence of the Hja nvar fho nhvfiirfl1 The volume is embellished with the portrait of the author and is for sale by Hunt Eaton and Hudson Yuletide for 1892 the Christmas Annual of the Cassell Publishing Company New York is a gorgeous number with an un usually attractive table of contents and some beautiful illustrations The large col ored plate of the season is "The Rose the Shamrock and the from the painting by George Joy "Up and Down the by Anna Warner is a little book of home life chiefly for women but with some thoughts for men It deals with woman In her various capacities as wife help meet housekeeper conqueror saint mother queen of the house etc The publishers are A Randolph Co New York Macfarlane has it "The Christmas Book published by Charles Sons New has for its frontispiece the Madonna and Child in Glory by Correggio from the painting in the Uffizi gallery lorence It is an il lustration of Mr "Old Italian Mas by Charles Norton The number is full of excellent illustrations from current publications "Our Elder Randolph thoughts for from the life areth bv Sara parts entitled respectively World "A Crucified Risen ing and "In has it A neat little volume the nress of Nocton tains "Sketches rom by that charming writer Johanna Staats The sketches as readers of Truth are aware are right and full of the most playful fancy and those included in this collection are of the brightest They are embellished some very attractive half tones Two volumes on "The Supernatural Its Origin Nature and by John King come from the publishing house of Williams Norgate London and are is sued in New by Sons The work covers a wide range of fact and theory and will prove of great interest and value in the investigation of a subject which is attracting at this time a great deal of attention Macfarlane has it Mr Clifford Lanier a brother of the late Sidney Lanier has written a story en titled "Love and Loyalty at It is an episode of Spanish adventure in lor ida in the seventeenth century and is pro nounced by Hezekiah Butterworth as a great historical study and a much needed book for the It is to ap pear as a serial in Goodform magazine Chicago beginning in the ebruary issue The latest issue of the edi tion of Waverly Novels is Mannering or The The volume is embellished with ten illustrations drawn by Gordon Brown and engraved on wood by Cooper who has caught very happily the distinguished characteristics of Meg Merrilies Dominie Sampson Julia Man nering Lucy Bertram and Dandy Dinmont The publishers are Macmillan Co New and Macfarlane has it The December number of Jenness Miller Illustrated Monthly contains many special features some pertaining to Christmastide Mrs Jenness Miller has three pages of matter about dress books and chat partic ularly interesting to women and young girls There are numerous timely articles of interest to the housewife Miss Mabel sterling book on Cul is still given as a premium to sub scribers (New 114 ifth avenue) Macmillan Co New announce the publication of a new work on the heavens and their origin under the title of Visible by Ellard Gore A the author of etc The book is a discussion of the theories which have been advanced from time to time as to the construction of the heavens celestial chemistry stellar dis tances and motions etc and is illustrated by stellar photographs and lithographic plates The frontispiece of the Arena for Decem ber the Number" is made up of two portraits Whittier and Tennyson The most remarkable contribution is a by Rev David Swing Sir Edwin Arnold Thomas Knox and Col Clavton McMichael on Notable Book of Trav the being Mrs Mav rench "rom Sultan to Sultan recently noticed at length in The ree Press (Boston: The Arena Publishing Company) In the December North American the prominent papers are New House of Commons and the Irish by the Right Hon Arthur Balfour and of bv Dr Henrv Smith Wllltanw a paper of general interest is one on rom a rench Point of by Al fred Naquet of the Chamber of Deputies and one of special interest for women is Alcoholism Increasing Among American by Crothers (New Y'ork: North American Review) "The Business Hand Book nub lished by Pcttingill Newspaper Ad vertising Agency contains a valuable sum mary of business laws plainly stated and a valuable collection of tables for the use of business men In addition there is a carefully selected list of representative dally weekly religious agricultural news papers and publications in the United States and Canada with interesting data concern ing the same The book is edited by Rexford Dodd Mead Co New Y'ork add two volumes to their series of "The Makers of The first is a biography of the RV' Jon Archbishop of New York by Rev Henry Brand rector of St Church The second is a sketch of the life and times of Bishop White the first Bishop of the American Episcopal Church in the English line Both of the volumes are illustrated with portraits that of Bishop White being from the portrait painted by Inman Macfarlane has it Stories of All form the distinguishing feature of the December by vacillating gales red elms by the streamlets upon tne thickets Lnnd of the The is a bird which formerly In habited the Sandwich Islands in great num bers but is now practically extinct It has not ceased to be useful owover us it serves for the title to a very clever and entertaining book written by a business man of Cleveland his identity under the noin Ash Slivers Lumberman The full title of the book of the acts igures and it is a narrative of the au thor's wanderings in the Sandwich Islands where he seems to have seen everything that was to be seen all of which he de scribes with a breezy effectiveness that shows him to be a born story teller in the better sense of that sometimes abused term The book will have a special interest for Detroit readers from the fact that the author had for a fellow passenger on his trip in the Mariposa Mr rederick Stearns with whose interesting papers on the Sand wich Islands readers of The ree Press are familiar Those who know Mr Stearns will appreciate the description of him as a man who created on first intro duction the impression "hands off in an impression soon changed into the conviction that "a more agreeable chatty or better informed companionable man it would be difficult to The volume is beautifully Illustrated the frontispiece being a colored picture of the It is published at Cleveland by tlie Cleveland Printing and Publishing Company the railway president is very graphically and entertainingly told The publishers are citing adventures and gaining a great deal of practical information The scene is laid for the most part in the West Indies rom the same publishers comes Marvelous Underground by Ingersoll Lock wood who has a pro prietary Interest in Baron Trump through his discovery of that character and his wonderful dog Bulger The little baron in reading Don book on "A World ithin a immediately starts on a voyage of discovery and investigation The story of his adventures in the Polyphemus Tunnel the entrance to this wonderful underground world and among the Mick amenkies Soodopsies and other strange peoples who live in the center of the earth is a wonderful chronicle of the mar velous brimming with bright ideas quaint conceits and wholesome fun The volume has twenty six full page illustrations by Charles Howard Johnson and original cov er designs by the same artist The Lee Shepard books above described are for sale in Detroit by Hunt Eaton Another of Oliver books from the Books Received a Millbrook Romance and Other Tales By A Donaldson (New York: Thomas I Whitaker) "The Tower of By'Oulda (NeW York: Horendon Company: Detroit: Johat' Macfarlane) By Jeanette Pemberton wyu (New Dodd Mead Co Detroit John Macfarlane) "Two Men and a By rankly Lee (The Golden Library) St Paul: The Price McGill Co) "A amily Bv Croker (Series of Select Novels) (Philadelphia: Lippincott Co) Stumble on the Threshold By James Payn (New Appleton A Co Detroit: John Macfarlane) Norvelle von Gottfried Kel 5 ler With introduction and notes By Gus tav Greiner (Boston: Ginn Co "The Black A riddle By ergus Hume (New York: National Company Detroit: John Macfarlane) "Socialism: rom Genesis to Revela By Rev Sprague (Boston Lee Shepard Detroit: Hudson) Hatch Lee lane) lished in book form with all the original and dainty illustrations nearly 100 in num ber which appeared in the magazine The story briefly told is an imaginary visit of a little girl to the "Realm of and the "Abode of Santa The story is printed in a large fiat quarto and bound in cloth with a unique and appropriate cover design for 1892 93 also from the publishing house of Estes Lauriat is a volume whose name has been a household word in every home in the land for two generations The readers of the early vol umes are now men and women who know that no books will delight their children more or instruct them to a greater extent than those dear old volumes 'I'he current volume is entirely worthy of its predeces been and by ortunes of Tony by Trowbridge comes from the publishing house of Lee Shepard Boston The hero is not an impossibly good boy but a boy with manly instincts who is kept from follies and mistakes by the counsels of an excellent mother The story is in Mr best vein and is adorned with twenty four full page illustrations 'I'he same publishers issue Young Knight by Oliver Optic (William Adams) who has the happj faculty of presenting to the young the and beauty of an upright life which is altogether his own has won for him a world wide In this his latest story which the Over the ngland village and country life accom panied by an appropriate text The vol ume is divi'l into four parts Times on the New England New England of To England as the Traveler Sees and Among New England Every son and daugh ter of New England and all lovers of rural life and scenery will be delighted with it The tasteful cover design like the other illustrations is by Mr Johnston Hudson and Jchn Macfarlane have it allow also from Lee Dorr of charcoal Steele Airs The poem is inscribed POETRY THE DRAMA LITERARY The editor is Andrew the illustrations which are by such well known Boot Edwards Alfred Pearse Charles Whymper and oth ers The publishers are the Lippin cott Company Philadelphia rom the Lothrop Company Boston we have volume juvenile periodical bracing the numbers to May 1892 It is a pages and those at periodical referred to need no introduction to its merits Appleton it Co New Y'ork publish by Madame Co lomb author of Heiress of The holiday books continue to multiply tut there is no diminution in beauty or ex cellence A very handsomely printed and bound one is an edition of the for immortal comedy il lustrated by rank Gregory The illus trations are five aquarelles and a number of half tones The volume is prefaced with the cast of the comedy as originally acted at Drury Lane Theater in 1777 and with portrait addressed by the author to Mrs Crewe with the The pub lishers are Dodd Mead Co New Y'ork Macmillan Co New Y'ork contribute to the holiday list a beautifully illustrated edition of Mrs Oliphant's Makers of Venice Conquerors Painters and Men of It is a large octavo with un cut leaves and a superb binding and is il lustrated with the portrait of Leonardo Lo redano engraved by Lacour forty eight illustrations by Holmes A and thirty plates of palaces churches and other buildings in Y'enice As a literary production the book is too well known to require any commendation and in the illus trated form will commend itself to allwho like a fine gt properly set rom Estes Lauriat the Boston pub lishers comes a daintily bound series in four volumes with the general title mas in Many The volumes are by lorence and Edith Scannell and each con sists of a charming Christmas story beau tifully illustrated with half tone plates from original drawings typical of some particular country and people Thus is a story of Christmas in rance of Christmas in England Little of Christ mas in Italy and the of Christmas in Germany The series comes in a neat box The same publishers have Issued a holi day edition of by YVilliam YVare The work which is well known as a standard tells of the history and fall of Palmyra and of the life and reign of its treat queen Zenobia who at one time ruled the eastern world It is told in the form of romance but has the merit of being his torically accurate which detracts nothing the intense interest of the dramatic woven around the characters The is beautifully printed embellished half tone illustrations from photo graphs recently taken in Palmyra and artistically bound The cover is decorated w'ith the fac simile of a cameo represent ing Queen Zenobia All the foregoing are for sale by Macfa rlane Lee Shepard Boston add to the Jerome collection that book Prints in Sky the most artistic Miss Jerome is an established having achieved remarkable with her Year's Sketch which has been increased with each succeedingpublication In her new volume she has departed from the beaten path and achieved a book which is wholly unique The pages are printed in a delicious tint of blue by which the lights and shadows are delicately brought out and full expression given to (the drawings The cover design by the iauthor is novel and attractive The sketches were made directlj from nature without the aid of the camera and their character is finely preserved by the artis tic work of the engraver on wood There are thirty of the sketches each accom panied by an appropriate selection in proseand verse The volume can be found at and The same publishers issue New England the text and illustra tions of which are both by Clifton John ston The illustrations over one hundred in number are or views and scenes of New men and camp life fishing shoot profusely illustrated with over engravings chiefly of scenery in New England though there are a few spirited pictures of hunting experiences Y'isit to Cloud Land and the Moon or Tricks of the ma ji na shun" by rancis Y'eseelius is from the same publishers and is a strikingly original fairy story which has appeared in the St Nich olas Magazine and attracted wide spread number of Romance nearly every eountrv A which celebrates the greatest of festlvd I days being represented in this remnrlrta 1 collection Here are stories of Christinas i angels and stories of Christmas begnnr stories with a laugh in every line stories which touch the fount of tears but i all of them pure strong and fascinating There Is also a large variety of other tales for those who do not care for the Christmas element among them a true ghost story a brilliant society sketch the history an interesting cat and a vivid picture of southern protracted meeting (New York: Romance Publishing Company) Dodd Mead Co New York publish a 7 volume on of orm and Grace of' by rancis Mary Steele and Elizabeth Livingston Steele Adams principal aim of the book is to win pilgrims 7 into the right way by offering Ideals the uvt vaoiui i wuiuu iicucBBaruy means health rather than to horrify by painting out the consequences of following wrong ideals Among the illustrations aro's some of the well known characters of his tory including Queen Louise and some the fine works of art including the THann of Praxiteles the Three ates Artemis and the Venus De Medeci Macfarlane has it In the December number of the Atlantis Monthly Mr Crawford brings1 his serial story to an unexpected and striking close and In the final pas sages of his novel tells us that In his here3 we see a sketch of the young man of the transition period in Italian life He In timates that this Is the end of his series of histories of the Saraclnesca family 7 The chief attraction of this number is a collection of letters that James Russell Lowell addressed to Stillman which V'! are very delightful reading full of ths genial sunny disposition and the quick touches of humor and feeling which were so characteristic of the man (Boston: As Houghton Mifflin Co) 5 Striking features of the December Cos i mopolitan are Sir Edwin anese Watering and twenty four 7 portraits of Paris journalists with sketches of their work The frontispiece is a dou vs ble one representing on one side the mar velous painting of by ritel which attracted so much attentioa at the last Paris salon and on the otherjfe by Anton Dietrich ia the one the heroes of war moving down the vista of the centuries in magnificent arrays between ghastly lines of naked corpses other the unfortunate of all times and lands flocking beneath the gentle hand od'vi the loving Christ (New York: The Cos mopolitan) The December Wide Awake Is a Christmas number It has the full Christ mas flavor from the brilliantly colored frontispiece that opens it to the antastie flower piece that ends it On the opening reading page a smoking plum pudding holly decorated sends its grateful steam 1 in a mass of tint over the whole page Mifej serves as the Initial to Margaret quaint ode the One Whoever He Be" who discovered the toothsome plum pud ding Among the contents not spectally 7 de voted to Christmas is a description by Louise Imogen Guiney of Blue Coat the famous school in which Charles 8 Lamb and Thackeray and other famous Englishmen were educated (Boston: Du Lothrop Company) i The December number of the Magasfais of American History just Issued concludes the twenty eighth volume of this noWsy monthly which has done more than any other publication to awaken the present overwhelming interest in the history of oar own beautiful country The bound volumes: '7 of this valuable publication are constaaHy consulted in all the principal schools and libraries of the land and they 7 are increasing in value with every TbUiac year The number opens with a handsome a :7 ly illustrated article on of Independence by a Colonial Church InJ North by Dr Richard Dillard? and contains a great deal that is Interest Ing and Instructive to the student of Ji American history (New York: 743 Bowery) The Review of Reviews for December sustains with remarkable enterprise and fiw ability the great reputation this magazine Sa has won for timeliness exact pertinency and wide range of interest Among itsi'sj almost countless illustrations saie groups Including some thirty of the newly elected Governors of states No other could possibly have secured and made such Illustrations and actually embodied them in Its December number for in many in if nnt rlrxfqyriif'olxr IrTYrxxxrr im41 the middle of November who were actually 4 elected as Governors The review of the election and his discussion of ths results will attract wide attention The 7 editorial department entitled "The Progress as of the is unusually extended this month The November number of the Art Ama K'V teur completes the twenty seventh half yearly volume of this admirable practical art magazine and is fairly crammed with gooa tnings xor tne art lover beginning frontispiece the painting by Renoir just bought by Potter Palmer of Chicago In Noto the editor Montague Marks tells some very unpalatable truths about the failure artistically speaking of our late i Columbian civic display and indulges to other pungent criticisms on New so called Academy of Design no less timely The number gives as usual profusely Illustrated lessons In painting to oil and water colors and on china art needlework wood carving free hand draw ing pen drawing for illustration and kindred topics (New York: Montagna 7' Marks) 5 excellences in a style and which reputation belongs to series Louie Belgrave the hero of the two preceding volumes continues his voyage around the interpretation The poem is what words The illustra tions are helps because they show ana logous phases in the world of nature cor responding to the subtle ideas of the poem The sketches were made in charcoal and reproduced xn half tones special care be ing taken to preserve the character of the work 'I'he volume contains about thirty full pages anil vignettes stanzas are separately engraved in a The volume is an oblong be found at Hudson's Putnam's Sons New publish a handsome volume in crimson gold and white of rom the Life of pictured in the holy word and sacred art The work is edited by Jessica Cone and the illustrations are remarkably fine re productions from old pictures The frontis piece is the Madonna by Von Boden hausen and among the other illustrations are th Annunciation by Guido Reni the Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da ab riano tlie Presentation in the Temple by ra Dartollommeo the light into Egvpt by Bougnereau Leonardo DeVinci's donna of the Lily and Last Supper Raising of Lazarus Ary Schael The Temptation and others as well kn There are some illustrations In cluding views of Bethlehem NazarethTiberias and Capernaum The same publishers contribute to the holiday collection six volumes of their "Literary series pretty little vest pocket editions with flexible covers and illustr itions The volumes are Van YVinkle" in a Country Church etc Thackeray's "Charity and and Sheridan's "The A McClurg Co dainty little holiday book entitled Tip a fairy Bouvet author of It is a charmin: ingly illustrated by Helen Maitland Arm strong In the first chapter the reader is Introduced to Princess Cerulea most income baby girl that ever blessed two AIWM nrivBiina.