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both points can expect. A full list of these latest juveniles is given elsewhere. There is a new edition of "Mother Goose," the great success of last year, with music by Effie I. Lane and illustrations by J. Louis Webb beautifully printed in lithographic colors. "Boys and Girls of Marbledale," by Mary D. Brine, "Legends for Lionel in Pen and Pencil," by Walter Crane, and "Flora's Feast," a masque of flowers penned and pictured by the same artist, make attractive and really artistic books. Specially for girls is "The Palace Beautiful," by L. T. Meade; and younger children will delight in "Gleeful Days for Our Little Darlings," "Summer Play for Our Little Pets,"

Ups and Downs of a Donkey's Life," "Heroes of Every Day Life," etc., etc.

THE CENTURY Co. have brought out a volume of short stories, by Joel Chandler Harris, of which the first, "Daddy Jake, the Runaway," was first published as a three-part serial in St. Nicholas. It tells the story of a slave, who runs away because he was hit by an overseer, and who is searched for by two of his master's little children, who meet with some childish adventures and hear some quaint stories. A few of the stories are printed for the first time, and some were originally published in the Atlanta Constitution. Many of them introduce animals, amongst which our old friend, "Brer Rabbit," holds his own and adds to his ever-increasing popularity. All the fun is thoroughly understood and made more funny by the illustrations of E. W. Kemble. A subscription to St. Nicholas for next year, or a bound volume of that magazine for last year always makes a most acceptable Christmas gift.

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chosen to give to Sunday-school libraries and individual scholars who have earned a reward for good attendance, good behavior, and, above all, for "learning the text." 'Yours and Mine," by Miss Warner, teaches that selfishness leads to misery; "Little Radiance," by Jennie Chappell, "Never and Forever," by Grace Stebbing, "It Might Have Been," by Miss Holt, " Crowns" and "Golden Silence," by Miss Marshall, and "Lilian's Hope," by Miss Shaw, all teach practical, common-sense lessons that girls especially can make useful in their daily home and school lives. The Golden Butterfly Series, in twenty volumes, Round the Fire Series, in ten volumes, and the four volumes thus far issued in the Rock Cove Series are all good purchases for any Christian denomination.

CASSELL & Co. publish a whole raft of pretty juveniles, which will give as much pleasure for as little money as the most exacting on

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SOCIETY offer in their Pilgrim Prize Series six prettily made and illustrated volumes, of a literary quality quite above the average of this class of books. "Rose and Thorn," by Katherine Lee Bates, received the highest prize, and "A Titled Maiden," by Caroline Atwater Mason, took the second prize. "The Hermit of Livry," by M. R. Housekeeper, "A Knot of Blue," by Lottie E. Street, My Lady Nell," by Emily Weaver, and How He Made His Fortune," by Julia A. W. De Witt, are all, says Amanda B. Harris, "an acquisition of positive good and of stimulus and help to a higher life." The series is eminently desirable for Sunday-schools. Each book contains a complete story, and there is a remarkable variety of plot, character, and purpose in the series. The books are sold separately or as a

T. Y. CROWELL & Co. have several instructive and most entertaining books, covering a variety of subjects, from which boys and girls can get useful information about men, things, and events. In "The Walks Abroad of Two Young Naturalists," a translation by David Sharp of Charles Beaugrand's French work, zoology is treated in narrative form, and all readers can learn with the physician's son and nephew the scientific facts about almost every known animal in their walks by the seashore, in different lands, and their visits to museums. Sarah K. Bolton has added "Famous Men of Science" to her well-known biographies, and includes Galileo, Newton, Linnæus, Cuvier, William and Caroline Herschel, Alexander von Humboldt, Sir Humphry Davy, Audubon, Morse, Sir Charles Lyell, Joseph Henry, Agassiz, Darwin, and Buckland; and Lydia Hoyt Farmer has prepared "A Short History of the French Revolution for Young People," making wise use of the works of Mignet, Michelet, Thiers, Lamartine, Taine, Louis Blanc, Henri Martin, Van Laun, and Carlyle, and facilitating the use of her excellent material by a first-class index. Boys can learn the history of the late Civil War in "Jed a boy's adventures in the army of '61-'65," a story telling of two boys coaxed to enlist as drummer-boys in the regular army in 1855, who went into the ranks in 1861, and had many adventures on battlefield and in prison, brightened by many scenes of merry camp life. "Talks About a Fine Art," by Elizabeth Glover, is a delightful book for girls, in form of a dialogue, which teaches how even girls with no talent for arts and sciences may all acquire the fine art of being lovely in their homes. "Rolf and

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that a healthy boy needs sympathy and encour. agement as well as good, firm discipline, and that ability to learn is not found only under a white skin. For healthy boys and girls the Crowell publications offer a good selection.

DODD, MEAD & Co. have another volume by Willis J. Abbot, of "Blue Jacket" fame, this time devoted to "The Battlefields of '61," giving a narrative of the military operations of the war for the Union from its outbreak to the end of the Peninsular campaign, with many illustrations by W. C. Jackson; and "What Might Have Been Expected," by Frank R. Stockton, a delightful book for young people, full of the brightest humor of the inimitable author of "Rudder Grange." As in the latter years, there is an Elsie book on these publishers' list, this year telling of "Elsie and the Raymonds." In the course of this story twins are brought into the Elsie surroundings, so that there promises to be material for many more Elsie narratives while these newcomers in the Elsie world are fitting themselves for an independent existence. Many girls have spent happy hours crying over the Elsie books.

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E. P. DUTTON & Co. have their usual lavish provision of fine art color-books for children. The Juvenile Gem Series is a set of little beauties in six volumes christened respectively "Pets and Playmates," "A Great Pet," "Robby Robin," Rock-a-Bye," "Snow-Flakes," and "Wee Pussies;" "Hobby-Horse" is a companion volume to "Snow Baby" of last year; Funny Friends" gives humorous stories and verses of animals with original illustrations in color by G. H. Thompson; "Round the Hearth," by Harriet M. Bennett, contains fifty-two pages of color and

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monotint in the style of that exquisite favorite, "All Around the Clock;" "Childhood Valley," by John Lawson, has forty pages of illustration; and I'll Tell You a Story" is by Lizzie Mack. "Granny's Story Box" is a pretty collection of bedtime tales with many illustrations by Marie Seymour Lucas, beautifully printed in gay colors, and "Christmas Rhymes and New Year's Chimes," by Mary D. Brine, are verses with the sort of jingles to make them echo in little brains. ESTES & LAURIAT always provide lavishly for the instruction and entertainment of the young people. Youngsters all over the land are await ing a new volume in the Zigzag Series. Hezekiah Butterworth in the eleventh volume of his series takes "Zigzag Journeys in the British Isles," visiting the haunts of Moore and Goldsmith in Ireland, the lake district in England, and the scenes of King Arthur's legends. The ostensible purpose of these journeys is to prove that the American Hampdens are descended from the historic English house of Hampden, and that the English statesman, John Hampden, visited America in 1623. Three Vassar Girls in Turkey and Russia gives the report of these indefatigable travellers and tells of the exciting scenes and events of the late Turko-Russian war in an interesting manner. Fred A. Ober tells in

life for children which, under the title "Feathers, Furs, and Fins," has been made up from sketches by Miss Cheney, Miss Kate Tannatt Woods, Mrs. Sanford, and others. The book is profusely illustrated and the little sketches are full of interest. In "Queen Hildegarde" Laura E. Richards, author of "Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet," has written a new book for girls in their early teens which can be safely given to them, and which will prove a delightful and bracing tonic at the peculiar age for which it is just as good as it has been for seven years, and intended. "Oliver Optic's Annual for 1890" is this well-known periodical needs no further

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HARPER & BROS. have their usual supply of books for the young, which make the hard facts of history and geography palatable, and also of those that feed their imaginations and their love of fun and humor. This year the hard-worked Bronsons and Frank Bassett have again been allowed no rest, and Knox's "Boy Travellers in Mexico" have learned and are prepared to teach facts about Northern and Central Mexico, Campeachy, Yucatan, Central America, and the Nicaragua Canal. A profusion of pictures brightens the text, which describes the chief points of interest in the lands of the Aztecs, their social and

From "Christmas Rhymes and New Year's Chimes." E. P. Dutton & Co. (Copyright, 1882, by G. W. Harlan & Co.)