D. APPLETON & Co. present one of the most beautiful books of the year, in "Landscape in American Poetry," an exquisite volume in which the text is drawn by Lucy Larcom, herself a poetess, from the works of American poets, with pleasant interweavings of her own comment and suggestion, and for which the illustrations have been made by Mr. J. Appleton Brown, of Boston. The richness and variety of these last are such as to make it seem impossible that the one hand has drawn them all; so far as it has been possible, the artist has brought into the book the actual scenes associated with poems of our master poets. Another new work is "The Homes of America," edited by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, whose capability as a writer is demonstrated in her "History of the City of New York." This book gives no less than a hundred wood engravings of notable and representative examples of our domestic architecture, from the colonial period down to the most recent country residences of our millionaires and our authors, both of whom seem to be represented in an adequate degree. Their "American Painters" of last year, with its biographies of fifty artists, and eighty-three full-page wood engravings from their works,

costing in its preparation nearly $13,000, is still one of the most beautiful of books. The old favorite "Poet and Painter," with its abundant steel engravings printed with the text; Mr. Wyllys Elliot's comprehensive work on "Pottery and Porcelain" and Geikie's "Life and Works of Christ," are also books that appeal at this time to purchasers of these respective tastes, while Mr. Bryant's poetical works, in their several editions, of which Messrs. Appleton are the publishers, commend themselves always to gift-buyers of all degrees. Appletons' American Cyclopædia, and the several periodicals of this house, led by the North American Review and including Appletons' Fournal, should not go unnoticed.

A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON offer to holiday buyers, in their Cambridge Editions of various standard works, some of the most desirable books in the market for library shelves. These include choice editions of Hallam, May, Milman, the elder Disraeli, Macaulay, Charles Lamb, "quaint old Burton," Sidney Smith, and others of historical and classical writers. Of new books the volume of sermons by Rev. Dr. Taylor, of New York City, on "The Limitations of Life," will appeal to many sympathiz

"The Etcher" is another interesting work publishing in the same manner. The second and concluding volume is received of the "Encyclopædia of Costume," by J. R. Planché, which is a dictionary of dress from the earliest times in England to the present day, finely illustrated with plates in color and gold and many hundred woodcuts. In such books as these, and in others commending themselves to the artlover and the book collector, his list is rich.

ROBERT CARTER & BRO. import this year, as their chief holiday book, the illustrated edition of "The Book of Job," with fifty engravings from the drawings of Sir John Gilbert, put on wood by Dalziel, Whymper, and other leading English engravers. This work has for years been out of print, though it comprises one of the most admirable series of Gilbert's drawings. The text used is the authorized version, thrown into verse-lines to convey a more adequate idea of the poetic nature of the original; but this is accompanied with notes, paraphrases and more accurate renderings of the original of the oldest poem in the world. The binding is very notable in its design. This house has also prepared a new edition, at the remarkably low price of $5 for the huge volume, of "Family Devotion," by Rev. Dr. Alex. Fletcher, which gives in large type a portion of Scripture with appropriate reflections and prayers for each morning and evening through the year, a work that may fittingly be placed alongside the Bible in many homes as a gift to the elders of the household. New editions of D'Aubigné's Histories, in very neat shape, at a low price; of that world-wide standard, "Henry's Commentaries," and of Dr. McCosh's works, and still other volumes, are also to be noted.

CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & Co. have their piece de resistance in a brilliant volume on 'Morocco," written by Edmundo de Amicis, and full of hundreds of illustrations by an Italian artist who has made that his special work for two years-a book which is more fully described and illustrated on another page. An other sumptuous and interesting book on their list is the "Magazine of Art Gift-Book," made up from their admirable art periodical and presented in attractive binding. The series of six character sketches from Charles Dickens, lithographed from drawings by the English artist, Barnard, who had already made his mark as an illustrator of Dickens, will take rank as offering new and remarkably striking and effective realizations of some of the most notable of Dickens' characters, which it might have been thought could not be drawn with any novelty at all. These large drawings in a portfolio form one of the most interesting publications of the year. The Leopold Shakspere, presented in elegant styles and in a variety of bindings, remains, with Mr. Furnivale's excellent introductions, with the new version of the text in view of the latest criticism, and with its many illustrations, large and small, one of the best one-volume editions of the great dramatist that can be had. This is specially noteworthy in the novelty of tree calf dyed in rich colors, crimson, blue and others. The volume, Native Wild Flowers," so popular last year, is another work presented in this new style of binding. To the previous volumes of Cassell's Library of English Literature, edited by Prof. Henry Morley, is now added a fourth, comprising the "Shorter Prose Works" of the language, rich,

as are those preceding it, in its reproduction of early book decorations, etc. The new cheap editions of "Adams' Dictionary of English Literature," and of Prof. Morley's "First Sketch of English Literature," may here be mentioned as excellent books to give to the student or school-boy. "Living Pages From Many Ages" is a finely and fully illustrated book, graphically describing, both with pen and pencil, the great events of history. "Animal Life Described and Illustrated," by Perceval Wright, is of interest to those delighting in natural history. Among works of which they have ready initiated additional volumes

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Handy Commentary" so far published are especially notable, New editions of the finely illustrated" Arabian Nights" and Doré "Don Quixote' are among the many other books numerous beyond our space, but too captivating to holiday buyers to be overlooked.

S. E. CASSINO, Boston, calls attention to his interesting publications as to ferns and flowers, which combine scientific value with artistic and popular interest. The superb series of chromoplates picturing "The Wild Flowers of America," originally an enterprise of Hurd & Houghton; the sumptuous similar work on "The Ferns of North America," and the more modest little volume on "Ferns in Their Homes and Ours," are all worthy of a note. Few more beautiful books than those first named have ever been produced.

ROBERT CLARKE & Co. have just issued a work on "The Mound Builders," fully illustrated, which will commend itself to those interested in archæology, while two or three of their previous publications, Miss McLaughlin's well-known "Manual of China Painting," the interesting volume for housekeepers giving the recipes of "Housekeeping in the Blue Grass," and Mansfield's " Personal Memories" of American political life, will attract their several classes of readers.