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min, is another book of much interest, a quarto with 36 illustrations, at $1.50, containing sketches with portraits, studio views, and reproductions of works, of twelve of our leading artists. Among previous volumes still fresh because of their intrinsic excellence may be named the large book of Miss Lathbury, "Out of Darkness into Light," the two small quarto illustrated hymns, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," and "The Ninety and Nine," and the two volumes of Poets' Homes." The Idle Hour Series with its taking cover, including "How Two Girls Tried Farming," by Ella Farman, editor of Wide Awake, has proved a decided hit. For religious readers, we may note "Thoughts that

notable of those by the author, and the new edition is presented as "the best, cheapest and handsomest" in the market. The Dickens is intended to be one of the most comprehensive of editions, including even the Child's History of England and the smaller miscellaneous pieces, and for this, as for the other, it is claimed that it cannot be surpassed by any edition at so low a price. Mr. Lovell's list also includes some of the best standard English works: Macaulay, Knight, Rollin, Plutarch's Lives, Taine's English Literature, Schmitz, etc., all of which are in excellent type at the lowest possible prices. MACMILLAN & Co. have on their list a number

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Breathe," from Dean Stanley's writings, with introduction by Phillips Brooks, the first volume of the Spare Minute Series; and the works of the Rev. Nehemiah Adams.

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J. W. LOVELL has just ready for holiday purchasers a new edition both of Thackeray's and of Dickens' complete works, in which these two master novelists are presented in uniform shape. The feat of getting out complete editions of these two prolific writers in a single season is something worthy of note. Thackeray edition, which is but just ready, is in eleven volumes, averaging 800 pages each, at the remarkably low price of $1.50 a volume, and has the merit of being the only large-type edition printed in this country. The illustraions, over 200 in number, include the most

of handsomely illustrated books already favorably known, among which one of the most recent is Alfred Rimmer's "Ancient Streets and Homesteads of England," a beautiful book of a type now very popular. Those old friends,

Holland House" and Mrs. Oliphant's "The Makers of Florence," still retain well-won popularity. A new edition, at a cheaper price, of Waterton's "Wanderings in South America,' illustrated, is promised. The pretty Golden Treasury series of this house, to which Shakespeare's Songs and Sonnets, edited by F. T. Palgrave, and Wordsworth's Select Poems, edited by Matthew Arnold, are the most recent additions, should be noted, and the cheap and excellent Globe editions of the standard poets and other writers are among the best of cheap books.

JAMES MILLER has made this year a reissue in new shape of Blair's famous poem on "The Grave," which, although this edition contains some of the masterpieces of William Blake, facile princeps among the mystics, has been out of print for years. The illustrations are on steel, and the volume is reproduced in excellent shape. The new editions of Burns, Macaulay, and other poetical works similar to the series of Riverside poets, may especially be mentioned, while of the various editions of Mrs. Browning, Mr. Miller is the sole American publisher. "Evenings with the Poets," a book which appeared so late last year as to be overlooked by many, may be noticed as one of the most tasteful red-line collections of the day.

and Pencil series, which include already French, English, Swedish, American, etc., Pictures, one called "Through Bible Lands," in which the Holy Land is most interestingly described and fully illustrated with the same attractiveness that characterized the previous volumes of the series. This house, as the publishers of the Oxford series of Bibles and Prayer-Books, present some of the most beautiful lines possible of these staple goods. The Oxford Bibles, and notably the "Thin Bible" and the "Smallest Bible," are the perfection of their kind, and are to be found in all varieties of bindings and prices. The Prayers and Hymnals are as usual cased together in various attractive styles, many of them in novel fashion in sealskin,

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A volume of "Illustrated Fables of Esop and La Fontaine," contains many full-page illustrations by Doré and others.

J. MURPHY & Co., Baltimore, call attention to their many editions, in 150 different stylessome of them of very novel character-of standard Catholic prayer-books. These must not be overlooked by those buying presents for members of that Church.

THOMAS NELSON & SONS have one of the most sumptuous books of the season in "Famous Parks and Gardens of the World," a folio volume with abundant and rich illustrations, picturing the gardens, public and private, of both ancient and modern times. A more detailed description of this beautiful book will be found elsewhere. They add also to their Pen

morocco, etc., and those asking for Oxford editions of either Bibles or Prayer-Books will not be disappointed in what they find.

PORTER & COATES have on their list one of the very best works, of a kind in season at holiday time and always, in "The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry," edited by Mr. Henry T. Coates, who has thus combined the functions and experience of both editor and publisher. The work contains a remarkably rich selection of the favorite and most interesting poems both of English and American poets, classified by their subjects, furnished with admirable indexes and illustrated by numerous steel plates, and is to be had in many styles of binding. It is already in a seventh edition. A new volume of remarkable novelty, The Prehistoric

World," by Elie Berthet, gives, in the form of fiction, a graphic series of pictures of human kind in its earlier days; it is fully illustrated from French designs. The new volume of the poems of Ethel Lynn Beers, "All Quiet along the Potomac," has a double interest in its memories of the war and in its association with the author, who died, sadly enough, just as her book saw the light. The several cheap standard editions of Dickens and other authors issued by this house should also be mentioned.

L. PRANG & Co. are publishing a most interesting and valuable work for all interested in art, in a series of "Illustrations of the History of Art," comprising 2000 woodcuts from the finest of German and French books on art, and forming a universal atlas of the subject, that can be used in connection with any work on art topics. Mr. S. R. Koehler, the editor of the new American Art Review, has prepared this American authorized edition, which is issued in series, comprising forty or more plates each in large folio size. The beautiful volume on "Art in the House," by Dr. J. Von Falke, which was gotten out late last year, should not be overlooked by those interested in house decorations. The author himself has borne his tribute to the superiority of this beautiful American edition. There are still other art-books on their list which are now as always notable.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS present a most fitting and beautiful book for the holiday season in the new volumes by the child-poets, the Goodale sisters. Their "In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers" consists of a charming series of poems on common flowers, illustrated with beautiful and accurate designs from them by W. H. Gibson. This book and its companion, "Apple Blossoms," are more fully spoken of elsewhere. We may note also Linton's beautifully illustrated editions of Mr. Bryant's "Thanatopsis" and "The Flood of Years," Prof. Moses Coit Tyler's excellent "History of American Literature," Bayard Taylor's posthumous" Studies in German Literature," the other works of this lamented writer and those of Irving and other American authors, as notable books for gifts on this list.

A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co. offer this year three new volumes of religious poetry compiled by Mr. Randolph himself, whose taste as an editor of such books has been made known to hundreds and thousands of readers through "The Changed Cross," and its companion compilations. "At the Beautiful Gate," "Unto the Desired Haven," and "The Palace of the King," collect the religious waifs that everybody wants and can never find, into beautiful little volumes at seventy-five cents each, or, painted by hand, the three in a box of novel style, at $5 the set. A larger volume is "Our Home in Song, from the Poets of To-day," a new collection of poems about the home, issued also in a larger paper edition, with blue line. "The Changed Cross" itself is also issued in a new stereotyped edition. There is also a new edition of Keble's "Christian Year," with twelve illustrations by Overbeck, reproduced in permanent photography; this, also, is furnished in an edition painted by hand. The several books, "Red-Letter Days," "The Ministry of Song," etc., by the late Frances Ridley Havergal, will be desired by many. The new edition of " Bogatzsky's Golden Treasury," the new "Biblical Atlas,"

imported by this house, and still others of their publications, will be found valuable as gifts of religious significance.

ROBERTS BROS. make no special offering of new gift-books, as such, this year, but their list continues rich in standard books very acceptable as presents. They import, however, an edition of that charming book, "The Gamekeeper at Home," as illustrated delightfully by Whymper. Some copies may still be had of Retsch's famous "Outlines from Shakespeare," well known to art-lovers. One of the best of works on etching is Hamerton's "Etching and Etchers," as now issued with twelve illustrative etching-plates, printed in Paris under his personal supervision; and the "Life of Turner," "Intellectual Life," and other works of this charming and admirable writer, are now to be had in uniform sets. To the long list of works by the modern English poets issued from this house is added "The Light of Asia," Edwin Arnold's great poem, already in a third edition, and a timely volume of "One Hundred Holy Songs, Carols, and Sacred Ballads," by a distinguished but unnamed English poet. The poems of Jean Ingelow, who has also a new novel, "Sarah de Berenger," and of William Morris, the Rossettis, and others, are not to be overlooked. The Wisdom Series of selections from the meditative writers is very suitable for holy-day giving. A new book of travels,

A-lo-ha," about the Sandwich Islands, by Rev. Geo. L. Chaney, of Boston, promises to be a charming volume.

GEO. ROUTLEDGE & SONS issue this year in new shape some old favorite poetical selections: "Golden Leaves from the American Poets," "from the British Poets," "Later English Poets," and "Dramatists," at the low price of $4 the set. Among other books on their list printed in this country are new octavo editions of Smollet, Fielding and Bulwer; a large-type edition of Bogatzky's "Golden Treasury," etc. The centenary edition of Thomas Moore, and Spencer and Keats in their well-known RedLine Poets, may also be named. It is almost impossible to give any adequate idea of the rich list of English-printed books offered by this house.

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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS have just ready remarkable work of artist biography in "The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart," an excellent biography of this early American painter, by George C. Mason, illustrated with admirable photogravure reproductions of his most remarkable portraits, including those of Washington and Martha Washington, and with a vignette portrait of the artist himself, engraved by Cole. The book has been carefully prepared with the co-operation of Miss Jane Stuart, and includes the interesting material used in her papers in Scribner's Monthly, besides other fresh matter, and an important feature of the book is the comprehensive list of the historical and other portraits of this artist. For more popular sale there is from this house a sumptuous edition of the complete poetical writings of Dr. J. G. Holland, a poet who is honored and loved wherever there are true New England hearth-stones. It is more fully described elsewhere. The volume on "Brazil," the fruits of the Scribner's Monthly expedition to that country, by Mr. Herbert Smith, and illustrated by Champney, will make an interesting and finely illustrated book of

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Beautiful" is not to be forgotten. The list of this house is especially strong in books of theological bearing or of popular religious interest; and those who desire choice gifts for their pastor cannot do better than look along the shelves of publications devoted to this house. "Lange's Commentary," "The Speaker's Commentary," and such works, head the list, which includes, also, the writings of Stanley and others of the foremost theological writers. Mrs. Dodge's new volume of poems, "Along

wood engravings of the architecture, history and the various beauties of the City of the Sea. This is indeed one of the livres de luxe, and for those who have $18 to spend is a book "worth while." Another edition de luxe is of "The Pilgrim's Progress," a limited edition on Dutch paper, with a hundred illustrations by Barnard, engraved by the Dalziels, in proofs on Japanese paper. Blackburn as writer and Caldecott as illustrator, join in a fine book description of 'Breton Folk." The new series of "Illustrated

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