which will always be a welcome gift to the lovers of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts. A new book deserving special mention is "The Story of the American Soldier," by E. S. Brooks, which is fully noticed elsewhere in this issue.

DAVID MCKAY has issued a companion volume to Joel Cook's "A Holiday Tour in Europe," which is called "An Eastern Tour at Home," a tour limited to that near-by region embraced in the Eastern States of our own country between Pennsylvania and Maine, including portions of the States of New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire-a region as important in all ways to every-day Americans as any country across the ocean ever can be. A new illustrated edition of Mr. Cook's first effort is

also ready to be pushed ahead by the fresh comer. The very neat American Classic Series is sure to find a resting-place in libraries. Thus far it includes the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the first American novelist, two volumes of essays by Emerson, Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse" and "Twice-Told Tales," and Bayard Taylor's "Views Afoot." Another name wholly American on the list of this house is that of Walt Whitman, whose terse, brilliant thoughts have been reviewed by Elizabeth Porter Gould, who has made a clever selection that has been neatly bound into a pretty little volume sure to please those who feel the deep earnestness of this strong American poet.

MACMILLAN & Co. have prepared a magnificent art-work, which they furnish at most modest prices, when all the difficulties of plan and man

into consideration. "Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen," by Joseph Pennell, is embellished with photogravures and other illustrations, covering work of such artists as Mariano Fortuny, J. F. Rafaelli, Adolph Menzel, W. Dietz, Albert Richter, Edouard Détaille, Madeleine Lemaire, Louis Leloir, A. Lalanze, Sir Frederick Leighton, Walter Crane, Rudolph Caldecott, Alfred Parsons, Edwin A. Abbey, C. S. Reinhart, Howard Pyle, E. W. Kemble, Harry Fenn, Kenyon Cox, Wyatt Eaton, etc., etc., and giving much instructive information on the subject of a kind of art-work of which the talented author has made so pleasing a specialty. The remainder of the books furnished for this season by this house are not what are now technically termed holiday books, but they are volumes to gladden the hearts of lovers of old, well-loved authors, and standard, well-made books. "The Select Essays of Dr. Johnson," edited by George Birkbeck Hill, with six etchings by Herbert Railton, are published in two volumes in the Temple Library, as are also "The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith," edited by Austin Dobson, with Railton and Jellicoe etchings, which may fairly rank as an édition de luxe. "The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth," edited by William Knight, are published in eight volumes; "The Life of William Wordsworth," by William Knight, is gotten out in three volumes, and special attention is called to "The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth," in one volume, edited by John Morley, who has prefixed an essay upon the great Lake poet, that the fastidious London Spectator says is "fresher and more vigorous" than almost anything he has written. Tennyson's Works" are also ready in a onevolume edition, for which the Laureate has revised the text. A new and revised edition is also ready

of "Amiel's Journal," translated by the celebrated author of "Robert Elsmere."

G. & C. MERRIAM & Co. are among the happy publishers who are sure of year by year selling the same book, and those who get the copies sold are to be envied. "Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" is about as satisfactory a present as can be thought of for man or woman., It is a library of information and keeps up to date with the lightning progress of the day. It is a solid foundation for any library, and no house where there are children growing up and asking questions can afford to be without it.

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THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN (Hunt & Eaton) have many new and desirable books that are most suitable for clerical friends of almost any Christian denomination, and also for painstaking and studious Sunday-school teachers who know the value of good books of reference. "Studies in Theology," by Bishop R. S. Foster, divided into three volumes under the separate headings of "Prolegomena," treating of the philosophic basis of theology and the rational principles of religious faith: "Theism," dealing with cosmic theism, or the theism of nature; and "Evidences of Christianity" is specially mentioned as a most exhaustive work of its kind. The house has also an edition of "The Pilgrim's Progress," with illustrations by Frederick Barnard and others, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, which makes a suitable Christmas gift-book.

THOMAS NELSON & SONS have made ready a new volume in the Pen and Pencil Series, this time devoted to "Russian Pictures," a full description of which is given in our foregoing pages. Pretty, inexpensive gift-books are "Silver Linings Behind Earth's Clouds," by E. A. Lemprière Knight, with landscape designs in colors and monochrome, and "The Storm's Gift," by the author of "The Rolling Stone." An excellent addition for the library of a Sunday-school teacher can be made by buying him "The Footsteps of St. Paul in Rome," by S. Russell Forbes, a good supplement to the larger lives of St. Paul, which pays special attention to the archæological questions involved in the journeyings of the great apostle. It is seldom any Christmas present gives a young or old member of the Protestant Episcopal Church keener pleasure than a really pretty set of "Prayers and Hymnals," and it is hard to conceive of a greater variety of choice in such combinations than is offered by this house. They range in price from 45 c. to $15, and in style from a paper cover to a binding that is in itself a work of art, and exhaust all the possibilities of cloth, sealskin, calf, morocco, and every combination of slip and patent case, with or without handles. If possible, an even greater variety is afforded in the untold and unnumbered editions of their world-renowned "Oxford Bibles," which can be had from 60 c. to $60, and are the marvels of the age in Bible publishing. There is also a line of little, compact, and clearly-printed "New Testament and Psalms" combination that should be examined in selecting a little keepsake for a theological student. Year by year some new kind of paper or some new design in binding is invented by the manufacturers of these Bibles and Prayer-Books, making them more and more attractive as books

and ornaments even to the most worldly Christian. Their intrinsic value and wealth of inforImation have been recommended by the most eminent English and American scholars and clergymen, and an "Oxford Teachers' Bible" is really equivalent to a good-sized religious library. NIMS & KNIGHT have devoted thought and capital to their holiday publications and offer several volumes of which they are justly proud. "Modern American Art" is a large volume, II X 14%, giving thirty photogravures of paintings and statuary by American artists, with text by Ripley Hitchcock, and others, noticed fully elsewhere. The text comprises critical articles on Winslow Homer, Olin L. Warner, William Hamilton Gibson, Stained-Glass Windows, and The Beauty of Paint, all remarkably well written and interleaved with the work of such artists as Wyatt Eaton, George T. Brewster, H. Bolton Jones, J. Alden Weir, M. F. De Haas, and many others. The volume is simply bound in green cloth with gilt border. A delicately pretty souvenir is "Life and Nature," ten photogravures from original studies by George B. Wood; and any architect would welcome 'Studies in Architecture at Home and Abroad," by D. C. Arnold, giving twenty photogelatine plates of noted buildings and interiors, twelve from French buildings, six situated in New York City, and the church at Edgware, England. Edward Staats De Grote Tompkins has written and illustrated another book, "Through David's Realm," dealing with "Those holy fields

trations are very numerous and pleasantly break up a very well-printed text. The old war-song of "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" written and composed by George F. Root, has been brought out this year by this Troy firm in a pretty ivorine binding, with illustrations by Copeland, continuing the interesting series formerly published by Ticknor & Co.

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PORTER & COATES have provided new editions in suitable holiday bindings of their two series of Bayard Classics, which contain Rochefoucauld's "Maxims and Moral Reflections;" "Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences, and Maxims;" "The Story of Chevalier Bayard;' 99 66 The Table-Talk of Napoleon the Great; ""Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; Abdallah; My Uncle Toby;" and The History of Caliph Vathek." The Windsor Edition of Shakespeare, in eight volumes, and the Library Edition of Knight's "Half-Hours with Best Authors," in six volumes, also are friends that have been "proved." This house also continues The Bells Series, favorite poems in charming bindings, that always come in handy as presents to some lady friend who looks in progress. in unexpectedly while family distributions are

JAMES POTT & Co. are the agents in America for " Bagster's Teachers' Bible," of which they now have eleven different editions in suitable and durable bindings. It would be difficult to suggest a more comprehensive and compact mass of information relative to the Bible than that furnished in the Aids appended to this Teachers' Bible. This house has also a long line of PrayerBooks and hymnals in very tasteful dress. Christmas-time would seem naturally to suggest Bibles and prayers, but comparatively few Christians decide upon a Bible or a Prayer-Book when deciding to give a handsome book to a specially dear friend, and they little know how much easier for them would be selection and how satisfying

to their friends would be a "Bagster Bible." Standard works for presentation are also Geikie's "Hours with the Bible" and "Holy Land and the Bible."

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L. PRANG & Co. have once more put L. K. Harlow's talents into requisition and turned out some attractive art souvenirs showing his steadily improving taste and technique. Of these "A Summer Day," a poem by Margaret Deland, of "John Ward, Preacher" fame; "Sunlight and Shadow and 66 Twilight Fancies," two poems by Mrs. Lyman H. Weeks; " Midnight Chimes," a poem by Julia C. A. Dorr; "Golden Sunsets;" Notes from Mendelssohn;" Mayflower Memories of Old Plymouth," by Mrs. He"Christmas Autographs;' Wayside Autographs;" "Evangeline Autographs," and "Haunts of the Poets," a delightful series of booklets, are all illustrated in monochrome and pen-drawing by this untiring artist. Another name signed to much good work this season is F. Schuyler Mathews, and we recommend for examination his "A Sea Idyl," "White Mountain Vistas," and "Ye Booke of Goode Lucke," in which latter Mr. Harlow and Mr. Mathews combine their handiwork. "The Yule-Log." by Celia Thaxter, "Christmas Morn," by M. J. Jacques, and "Christmas Tide," by E. Annie S. Page, are three poems richly illustrated in monochrome by the late Miss L. B. Humphrey. In more ambitious size and style are "Flower Fancies," by Alice Ward Bailey, profusely illustrated in colors by Lucie J. Bailey, E. C. Morse, O. E. Whitney, E. T. Fisher, F. Bridges, C. Ryan, and F. S. Mathews, bound in surah sateen, with original floral cover design by the latter artist; "The Night Cometh," a poem by Albert Stratson, with six full-page photogravures after charcoal drawings by W. Goodrich Beal, numerous vignettes in pen-work, and emblematic cover with moiré ribbon and metal ornaments; and last year's favorite "Baby's Lullaby Book," lullaby songs by Charles Stuart Pratt, with water-colors by W. L. Tabor, and music by G. W. Chadwick, which has been reduced in price and remains one of the most artistic publications of its kind.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS have in Literary Gems a series of productions which are fully described in our front pages, under the heading of "Some Dainty Books," and in the same place are mentioned the new Knickerbocker Nuggets, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," "The Boyhood of Goethe," "American War Ballads," "The Garden," O Sesame and Lilies,"

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Songs of Fairy Land," compiled by Edward T. Mason, and "Tales by Heinrich Zschokke.' "A Selection of Horace Walpole's Letters," with the introduction and notes by Charles Duke Yonge, and many portraits and fac-similes, has been issued in a two-volume limited letterpress edition, which would delight the heart of Sir Walter Scott, who commended Horace Walpole as "the best letter-writer in the English language." The French Pyrenees form one of the loveliest gardens in Europe, and a perfect place for a summer holiday, and yet few travellers seem to visit this section. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees," an unhistoric history, by Edwin Asa Dix, must give travellers a longing to see the hanging-gardens of France, and would be a good book for a friend intending to see something of Europe outside of

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the well-worn roads of Italy and Switzerland. As thoroughly American as the former is foreign is a little collection of "Great Words from Great Americans," and the citizen who owns the little collection will have a gem. "Epithalamium," Mrs. Mary Mathews Barnes' wedding hymn, has been illustrated by Dora Wheeler, and put into a bridal dress of white and gold. The old Greek word recalls the old Greek custom of the bridesmaids escorting the bride to her chamber, playing soft music on various instruments, and singing to her of her great happiness, and Miss Wheeler has given body to the romantic words.

A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co. have several works that would make most fitting gifts for persons of serious literary tastes. The new translation of The Imitation of Christ" is one of the notable books of the year and is fully noticed in our front pages. Mrs. Margaret J. Preston's "Handful of Monographs" has been issued in a large-paper copy in ornamental binding, and will be specially attractive to cultivated readers. New editions of the admirable collection of "Latter-Day Ballads,' of the "Biography of Samuel Wilberforce," of "Fifty Years of English Song," and of Dean Stanley's "Westminster Abbey" and "Memorials of Canterbury," have also been made ready, and may be sure of holding their own with this year's favorites. The name of Harriet McEwen Kimball is well known to readers of religious poetry and a complete collection has now been issued of her pretty thoughts; Mr. D. B. Duffield, in "The Stray Songs of Life," has collected his verses, and they are issued in tasteful form; and Miss Rose Porter has prepared a companion volume to her "Summer Driftwood" and "Winter Fire," which she has named “ Driftings from Mid-Ocean." Two exquisite stories full of Christian faith, hope, and charity are "How They Kept the Faith," by an anonymous Southern author, and " Fishin' Jimmy," by Mr. Slosson. The former is a tale of the Huguenots of Languedoc, and the latter a prose poem of a simple-hearted, devout old man, a lover of nature and nature's God, who teaches great truths to those who come in contact with him. It goes without saying that every book with the Randolph imprint is printed and bound as it should be, with that careful attention to detail for which this veteran house is justly noted.

FLEMING H. REVELL is the publisher of the only complete edition in America of "The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal," which they furnish in one volume in many styles of binding. Few writers possess Miss Havergal's talent for looking at the bright side of things, and her happy gift of counselling patience and submission in a hopeful, restful manner. She seems imbued with the Christian spirit of "peace on earth, good-will toward men;" and even those human souls who cannot accept her faith feel that they are "made whole" by the gentle humanity of her thoughts and advice. Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is also published by this house in three different editions, all illustrated, and parents and teachers should feel it their duty to make this great allegory something besides a name to the children for whom they buy books as holiday gifts. Although not issued as a juvenile, this old comfort of our grandmothers can be read aloud in the important bedtime exercises and become a dearly-loved book to both parent and child.