essay, from the pen of Henry T. King, a wellknown Philadelphia legal authority, which will be interesting to lovers of literature. To their cheap standards is newly added Voltaire's "Life of Charles XII.," long out of print. THOMAS Y. CROWELL has on his list an excellent line of popular standard historical works, Macaulay, Knight, Rollin, Plutarch, Taine and others, all at low prices, and in good editions for the money. His well-known series of British poets in the one dollar edition, and also in a red-line edition, and his complete and cheap Shakespeare should be remembered. An excellent line of commentaries and Bible literature for the people, includes the "Portable Commentary," a cheap edition of Smith's Bible Dictionary, Conybeare and Howson's "Life and Epistles of St. Paul" and Foster's "Encyclopædia of Illustrations." This list affords abundant opportunity to those who want a present either for the home library or for their pastor. DODD, MEAD & Co. have been disappointed this year in obtaining in time for the holiday trade the promised "History of Painting in all Ages," of Woltmann and Wörman, but this gives opportunity for many who have hitherto been restricted by the hard times to now make the desired purchase of Lübke's great "History of Art," a work which is already in its fourth edition and stands most excellently the test of time. This has been received as by far the most satisfactory work of its comprehensiveness, affording a complete sketch of art history from the earliest days. Its two volumes are presented in various attractive bindings. Their new art book of the year will be "The Print Collector," a large volume edited by Robert Hoe, Jr., an excellent authority, being a complete treatise on ancient and modern prints, including etchings, and on print collecting. This is illustrated with many exquisite etchings and other plates, and is likely to take the position in present art literature, which the books on ceramics have been holding for two or three years past. The interest in print collecting is rapidly growing and is likely to be one of the notable manias of the day. Mr. Arthur Gilman's book," Shakespeare's Morals," giving parallel passages from the plays and from the Scriptures and other books, will interest scholars. Although Mr. Roe will not make his usual contribution to fiction this fall, his previous books are still rapid of sale; and the many who have not read his several religious novels will do well to devote a corner of their purses to the purchase for themselves or for a friend of one of these books. For cheap books their Hearthstone Series contains some of the most desirable things in the market. E. P. DUTTON & Co, have a notable religious work which should find thousands of buyers at Christmas, in Canon Farrar's "Life and Work of St. Paul," a continuation, as it were, of the great Life of Christ," by the same author, of which so many editions have already been sold by this house. The new book by the Rev. Phillips Brooks, "The Influence of Jesus," and the sermons of himself, Dr. Morgan Dix, Bishop Stevens and others, published within the year or just previously, will commend themselves to the several classes of Episcopalians. The "New Testament Commentary for English Readers," edited by Bishop Ellicott, is now complete with the third volume, as is also that important work, Blunt's "Annotated Bible." This house has about ready for publication also a volume for Family Prayers" prepared under the authority of the English House of Convocation, and corresponding for private worship to the "Book of Common Prayer," for public worship. It will be found of value to numerous American Episcopal families, as well as to those for whom it was specially prepared. ESTES & LAURIAT have for their leading holiday-book a large quarto volume," The World's Worship in Stone: Temple, Cathedral, and Mosque," in which 150 illustrations of the finest religious architecture of the world are accompanied by descriptive text from M. M. Ripley. To those interested in art, we may heartily commend the translation just ready of the work, "Lallanne on Etching," of "the greatest of living etchers," made by Mr. S. R. Koehler, editor of the new American Art Review, with a prefatory chapter on the first principles of the art by the translator. This valuable work will have ten fine etchings, illustrative of methods and styles, by Lallanne, printed in Paris, and two additional plates. The finest engravings from the London Art Journal have been grouped in portfolios, each of the three containing fifty fine plates after the first English and earlier masters, at $7.50 for each portfolio. There is, also, a new edition, at a reduced price, of "The Home Book of Poetry," a well known compilation from the best English and American poets, printed in red line and with many illustrations on steel. FIRMIN DIDOT & CIE., the well-known Paris publishers of sumptuous illustrated books, issue this year several notable volumes which may, perhaps, be ordered, if not already on the shelves, in time for Christmas gift-giving. Foremost among these is the fifth volume, although each is an independent work, of Paul Lacroix's superb work on the manners, customs and dress of what may be called modern antiquity, from the middle ages down. The new work is on "The Seventeenth Century, its Institutions. Manners and Dress," and one more on the literature, science and art of the same century will complete the series, and give us a remarkable picture of the details of life from the middle ages down to our own time. Each of these books, it will be remembered, is illustrated with sixteen chromo-lithographs, admirable examples of the art, and several hundred engravings on wood-they are, in fact, the perfection of book-making. other beautiful volume is Eber's great work on Egypt, originally published in German. production of the leading Egyptian scholar of the time, is richly illustrated with 300 wood engravings of Egyptian scenes and objects. "An Illustrated Album of the Chase," comprising forty plates representing various phases of the sports of hunting and fishing, will also be found of interest to sporting men, for whom it is oftentimes difficult to suggest satisfactory gifts among books. An This THE FINE ART PUBLISHING COMPANY, a new candidate for public favor, issue a number of richly illustrated gift-books, reproducing by means of the photo-engraving process the finest works of foreign art. Their specialty is "The Doré Bible Gallery," one of the most elegant holiday books ever published at so low a price, which includes a hundred full-page illustrations, each faced by appropriate text from the Scripture and descriptive notes. The Scripture selections have been carefully made, so that the book will be acceptable alike to Catholic and Protestant. Their list includes also the Doré edition of the "Wandering Jew," and of Chateaubriand's American story of "Atala," each of these having the illustrations of Doré, and the latter including his interpretations of American scenery. 44 FORDS, HOWARD & HULBERT call attention to the new books just published by them, of which "A Fool's Errand, by one of the Fools," is the most notable, as containing actual experiences in the South by a distinguished Northern settler. There is a vigorous discussion going on as to who the fool may be. The two novels by Judge Tourgee, Toinette" and "Figs and Thistles," may also be especially noted. A new book by Prof. Rossiter W. Raymond, in Little Classic style, gives, under the title of "Camp and Cabin," interesting sketches of his experiences as U.S. Mining Commissioner in the far West. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Footsteps of the Master," a book following the seasons through the year with appropriate religious reflections, and her " Bible Heroines," are two books that may well be remembered at this time. HARPER & BROTHERS have one of the notable books of the year in "Art in America," by S. G. W. Benjamin, in which he gives a comprehensive critical and historical survey of American painting and sculpture from the earliest period to our own time, with a sketch of the present tendencies of American art. The book is illustrated with nearly a hundred wood engravings of representative works, and is more fully described elsewhere. They are the American publishers of the new book of the "Songs from the Published Writings of Alfred Tennyson," the music by Arthur Sullivan, Gounod, Liszt, and other masters. In issuing an American edition, the English original being without illustrations, they have added original designs by Winslow Homer, Reinhart, Fredericks, and Miss Curtis, and have made of it a book altogether worthy of the poet. But one of the best possible gifts at holiday time this year is one or the other of the superb series of historical works, the Macaulay, Hume and Motley, which they have been issuing in splendid style, though at a wonderfully low price. These elegant library editions will take rank as the American standards, and there is no scholar who would not be the happier for the gift of one of these. In addition to their well-known Household Edition of Dickens they put now on their list several illustrated editions of the "Waverley Novels" at various reasonable prices, the entire series comprising more than two thousand illustrations. Their lists, as will be found elsewhere, are full of many other books acceptable at any time to all, and we can only refer readers to these. HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & Co. present this year no successor in the popular series of which "The School-Boy" of Dr. Holmes was the last -books that should be still of interest to hosts of book buyers-and their chief holiday-book is a series of larger" Outlines from Hawthorne's 'Scarlet Letter"" (a $10 book), by F. O. C. Darley, similar to those for Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and Judd's "Margaret," which made him famous a generation ago. These are large plates, of most interesting character, in his well-known style, and are reproduced in admirable fac-simile of the artist's own hand by the heliotype process. Another book that will please a very wide circle, young as well as old, is a popular illustrated edition of the "Pilgrim's Progress," from a new set of plates, with sixty engravings on wood. The edition includes Archdeacon Allen's memoir and Macaulay's essay. The popular "Artist Biographies" of C. H. Sweetser are now issued in a new style, four in one book, making a beautiful set of five volumes, each with twelve heliotype reproductions of great paintings of the masters described. The Riverside "British Poets" make a superb set of books, now completed by the issue of Mr. Arthur Gilman's admirable edition of Chaucer. To the favorite Household Editions of American poets the complete poetical works of the lamented Bayard Taylor and Emerson's "Parnassus" are added, and the Red-line and Illustrated Library poets are offered at reduced prices. The new Fireside Editions of Emerson and Hawthorne, the "Little Classics" in new shape, and the marvellously cheap Globe editions of Waverley, Dickens, Cooper, and other standards, should not be overlooked by Christmas buyers. 64 G. I. JONES & Co., St. Louis, ask holiday buyers to make a note of Prof. Hosmer's Short History of German Literature," which gives a comprehensive outline of the development of that literature and of its great works, which should peculiarly interest those who take delight in literary study. LEE & SHEPARD, as more fully described in a previous page, make Mrs. Hemans' famous Pilgrim hymn, "The Breaking Waves Dashed High," their chief holiday book, matching it in beautiful illustrations and attractive binding with the previous popular illustrated hymns, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," "Rock of Ages," "Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Frazer's" Practical Boat-Sailing," Mr. Calvert's 'Shakespeare," and his previous literary biographies. The list of this house is rich not only in the long lines of juveniles which is published almost by the hundred thousand, but in a great variety of miscellaneous books, whose range is such as to suit all classes of readers. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. have ready this year the new volume in Dr. Allibone's excellent series, of which his "Dictionaries of Poetical" and" of Prose Quotations" are the first-a compilation of selections from the prose works of "Great Authors of All Ages," from the time of Pericles to our own. Made by one so well acquainted with the wealth of literature as he is, this volume, a large octavo in handsome binding, will be very acceptable as a parlor table book. They also present an edition of a beautiful art work on "The Early Teutonic, Italian LITTLE, BROWN & Co. have recently issued a volume of the "Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster," including Mr. Edwin P. Whipple's essay on Webster as a master of English style-a large octavo, including fortynine of the most noted speeches and State papers of this first of American orators. To a lawyer, student, or literary man, this work is of the first importance, presenting many of the finest specimens of modern oratory. The "Memoirs and Writings of Benjamin R. Curtis," of the United States Supreme Bench, is another book of interest to the legal fraternity. To general readers the volumes of Francis Parkman, one of the greatest of our historians, are among the most desirable of American historical works, and his "La Salle," recently issued, embodying, but enlarging, "The Discovery of the Great West," is one and French Masters," as translated and edited by A. H. Keane, from the German series of art biographies edited by Dr. Dohme, librarian to the Emperor William. Sketches by the several German writers are given of all the leading masters of the early days of art, and the one hundred and fifty fine illustrations represent themselves and their work. Another beautiful book is the édition de luxe of Thackeray's ballads, which includes the illustrations by the author, and others by Miss Elizabeth Thompson, the battle painter; Du Maurier, Punch's most popular illustrator; and still other leading artists. In this connection the admirable popular edition of Thackeray, in twenty-four volumes, at $1.25 each, just completed by this house, is worthy of note. On their list will also be found various works of reference, exceedingly suitable for presents, as the " Unabridged Worcester," Allibone's great Dictionary of Authors," the several Chambers' books and the like. Various edi of the most notable of these. tions of Bancroft, and other books on their list are also worthy of attention; we may specially name, as useful gifts for the student and general readers, Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations," Bartlett's Americanisms," and Soule's "Synonyms." 64 D. LOTHROP & Co. address themselves to the patriotism of Christmas book buyers in offering the national hymn, "America"-"My country, 'tis of thee!"-as their chief holiday book for adults. The hymn was composed in 1832, by Rev. Dr. S. F. Smith, a Harvard graduate of Dr. Holmes' famous class, who now lives in Newton Centre, Mass. It has been taken as text for an illustrated gift-book, of large octavo size, with full-page designs corresponding to the stirring strains of the poem, and in effectively stamped cloth binding, at the very low price of $2. "Our American Artists," first series, of which the text is supplied by the industrious and capable pen of Mr. S. G. W. Benja |