Selected Etchings. With accompanying text by Ripley Hitchcock.-The etchings gathered in this volume are: A Story, by Stephen J. Ferris, A Winter's Day, by Stephen Parrish, After the Hounds by W. M. Skelton, Ça Pince, by J. J. Calahan, Lucile, by W. St. John Harper, Old Mill near Newport, R. I., by C. F. W. Mielatz, The Wanderer's Return, by F. S. Church, The Lily Pond, by Kruseman van Elten, Moorish Incense Burner, by J. L. Gerome Ferris, and the Old Bridge by Leroy Milton Yale, M. D. -F. A. Stokes & Bro., 7.50.

American Religious Leaders.-A series of biographies of men who have exerted great influence on the religious thought and life of America. The series is designed to serve the same purpose with regard to religious history of America which the series of American

Statesmen serves with regard to its political history. Among the earlier issues will be: Jonathan Edwards, by Prof. A. V. G. Allan ; Wilbur Fiske, by Prof. George Prentice; Archbishop John Hughes, by John G. Shea, L. L. D.; Theodore Parker, by John Fiske, etc.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1.25, ea.

Living Leaders of the World.-A series of biographical sketches of living leaders the world over. Besides Mr. Gladstone, Ferdinand de Lesseps, John G. Whittier, von Bismark, Edison, Tennyson, Bancroft, James Russell Lowell, Stanley, and Meissonier, can be found the Baby King of Spain and General Boulanger; also Mr. Wanamaker, Mr. Worth, of Paris, the Prince of Wales, and other leaders of fashion and Sunday-schools. Every sketch is accompanied by a picture of its subject, excepting Alexander III, who is represented by his father, Alexander II. The latter undoubtedly was the greater leader of the two, though his true worth and important services to humanity are but little known.— Hubbard Bros.

Face to Face with the Mexicans. By Fanny Chambers Gooch.-A faithful and felicitous picture of the domestic life, educational, social and business ways, statesmanship and literature, legendary and general history of the Mexican people, as seen and studied by the author during seven years of intercourse with them. Mrs. Gooch has succeeded in attaining the aim with which she began this work, that of "acquainting her own countrymen more intimately with the Mexicans, not only in the broad traits which characterize nationality, but in the minutiae of domestic life, which escape the eye of men, yet are fraught with suggestive hints." The work is profusely illustrated.— Fords Howard, & Hulbert, N.Y., 4.00.

"The Quiet Life.". With Drawings by Edwin A. Abbey and Alfred Parsons.-"Certain Verses by various Hands: the Motive set forth in a Prologue and Epilogue by Austin Dobson." The charming prologue by Mr. Dobson introduces the following poems: The Garden, by Andrew Marvell; That Wish, by Abraham Cowley; Quince, by Winthrop Macworth Praed; The Vicar by Winthrop Macworth Praed; Ode to Solitude, by Alexander Pope; The Married Man, (Author Unknown); and To Master Anthony Stafford, by Thomas Randolph. Mr. Dobson's Epilogue is short and pithy and exquisitely appropriate after the dreamy verse of "The Quiet Life." The vol.ume is tastefully bound in ornamental leather. -Harper & Bro., N. Y. 4 to, in Box, 7.50.

Cathedrals and Abbeys in Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive text by Richard Wheatly, D. D.-A chapter on the cathedral system introduces pictures and descriptions of Salisbury Cathedral, St. Paul's Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Litchfield Cathedral, York Minster, Chichester Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral, Heresford Cathedral, Wells Cathedral, Llandaff Cathedral, St. Asaph Cathedral, Bangor Cathedral, St. David's Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, Bath Abbey Cathedral Church, Chester Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, Rochester Cathedral, Peterborough Cathedral, St. Albans Cathedral, Liverpool Cathedral, Truro Cathedral, Glasgow Cathedral, Melrose Abbey, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, York Cathedral, etc., etc. In an uncommonly, tasteful cover in gray linen and gold.-Harper Bros., 10.00.

Classic Tales: Lively and Serious. Edited by Leigh Hunt.-The classic tales are taken from Voltaire, Hawkesworth, Marmontel, Johnson and Goldsmith, each author occupying a separate volume.-White & Allen, 5 volumes, in quarter cloth, brocaded paper, in box, 2.50; in half polished morocco, extra, gilt tops, in box, 7.50; in full crushed levant, full gilt edges, 10.00 To the same series belong:

Humorous Tit-Bits from Various Sources: American, English, Scottish, and Irish-4 volumes, same bindings as above, 2.50; 6.00; 8.00, and:

Weird Tit-Bits from Various Sources: American, English, Scottish, Irish, and German, 5 vols., same bindings, at: 5.50; 7.50; 10.00.

Apart from the value of their contents, these little volumes are remarkable as dainty specimens of the bookmaker's art. They are veritable things of beauty, and will gladden the heart of every bibliophile who shall feast his eyes upon them.

Fac-similes of Aquarelles by American Artists. -Percy Moran, W. Hamilton Gibson, Maude Humphrey, James M. Barnsley, James Lymington, and Paul Nimmo Moran are the artists represented. The reproductions of the watercolors are exquisite. The text is from the pen of Ripley Hitchcock, who has also written the essay on Water Color Painting in America prefacing the book. To each description has been added a portrait of the artist and a sketch in black-and-white.-F. A. Stokes & Bro. Edition de luxe (artist proof edition), 35.00; regular edition, 15.00; 12.50.

The New Ballad Series.-The favorite folkballads issued this year are: Old Uncle Ned, with the original music, and illustrated with 36 illustrations by G. W. Brenneman; Sally in Our Alley, with the original music, and 35 illustrations by Joseph Lauber; The Blue Bells of Scotland, with the original music, and 32 illustrations by Frank M. Gregory, and Shandon Bells, with new music by Burdett Mason, and 36 illustrations by Joseph Lauber. Three or four pictures in each book are reproductions in fac-simile of the original water-color drawings by the artists.-White & Allen, 1.25; cloth, gilt edges, etc., 3.00.

The Viking Age.-The Early History, Manners and Customs of the Ancestors of the Englishspeaking Nations. Illustrated from the antiquities discovered in mounds, cairns, and bogs, as well as from the ancient sagas and eddas. By Paul B. Du Chaillu. With 1,400 illustrations. The materials used in these volumes, in describing the cosmogony, the mythology, the life, religion, laws, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations of to-day, are mainly derived from records found in Iceland. These parchments upon which the history of the North is written, and which are begrimed by the smoke of the Icelandic cabin, and worn by the centuries that have passed over them, recount to us the history and the glorious deeds of the race. No land has bequeathed to us a literature giving so minute and comprehensive an account of the life of a people. The testimony of archæology, as corroborating the Sagas, forms one of the most important links in the chain of argument; parchments and written records form but a portion of the material from which has been derived the account of the "Viking Age." During the last fifty years the History of the Northmen has been unearthed, as it were -like that of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Romans-by the discovery of almost every kind of implement, weapon, and ornament produced by that accomplished race. -Scribner's Sons, 2 vol., 7.50.i

The Tragedy of Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. The text used in this edition is taken from the 1623 (first folio) edition. Notes are added to indicate the chief alterations adopted in modern editions. The introduction contains, besides other matter, a description of the costume, armor, furniture, decoration, and architecture of Scotland during the period of Macbeth by J. Moyr Smith, who has also furnished the illustrations: 27 etchings and others.-White & Allen, N. Y., Artists' Proof Edition, Limited to 50 copies, each copy signed by the Artist, with the etchings in various suitable colors on Japanese vellum paper, aud text printed on hand-made paper, etc., royal folio appropriately bound, $25.00. Regular Edition limited to 250 copies, cloth, gilt top, 12.50.

Literary Gems. A series of literary productions, complete in small compass, which have been accepted as classics of their kind, and which are entitled to the most attractive form that can be given to them. The first six volumes of the series are: The Gold Bug. By Edgar Allan Poe; Rab and his Friends. By John Brown, M.D.; The Good-Natured Man. By Oliver Goldsmith; The Culprit Fay. By Joseph Rodman Blake; Our Best Society. By George William Curtis; Sweetness and Light. By Matthew Arnold. Each "Gem" is presented in a separate volume, tastully printed and attractively bound. morocco, gilt top, with a frontispiece in photogravure from an original design prepared expressly for the series.-Putnam's Sons, .75 ea.

In full

Pen Drawings and Pen Draughtsmen. Their Work and their Methods. A study of the Art today, with technical illustrations. By Joseph Pennell. With nearly two hundred illustrations.The artists represented in this volume are: Titian, Dürer, Van Dyke, Rembrandt, Martin Rico, Henry Weber, Lalanne, D. G. Rossetti, Casanova y Estorach, Menzel, Haug, Oberländer, Edouard Detaille, Madeleine Lemaire, Leloir, H. Scott, Mars, Caran d'Ache, Ford Madox Brown, Sir Fred. Leighton. W. L. Wyllie, du Maurier, Harry Furniss, Walter Crane, Caldecott, Alfred Parsons, Edwin A. Abbey, Fred. Remington, Alfred Brennan, Hugh Tomson, Heywood Sumner, Unger, and many others. Besides the regular edition,a special edition has been printed of twenty five copies only, each containing an original pen drawing by the author, no two copies being alike. The price of this edition is 50.00.-Macmillan & Co. small 4to, handsomely bound, 20.00.

Christmas Books.

FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

REVIEWED IN OTOBER ISSUE.

Lothrop's Annual.-Lothrop Co., 1.50. Paddling in Florida. By St. George Rathbone. Illustrated.-G. W. Dillingham, 1.25. Famous Men of Science. By Sarah K. Bolton. -T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1.50.

By Con

Young America's Painting Book. stance Haslewood.-F. Warne & Co., 50.

Within the Enemy's Lines. By Oliver Optic. -Lee & Shepard, 1.50.

Redeeming the Republic. By Charles Carleton Coffin.-Harper & Bro., 3.00.

Follies, Foibles, and Fancies of Fish, Flesh and Fowl. Figured by Foster.-F. Warne, .35.

The Boy Travellers in Mexico, By Thos. W. Knox.-Harper & Bro., 3.00.

A Short History of the French Revolution. By Lydia Hoyt Farmer.-T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1.50. Christmas Stories and Poems for Little Ones.— Lippincott Co., 1.00.

Jed. A Boy's Adventures in the Army of '61'65. By W. L. Goss.-T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1.50. Personally Conducted. By Franck R. Stockton.-Scribner's, 2.00.

A Colonial Boy. By Mrs. Nellie Blessing Eyster.-Lothrop Co., 1.25.

Daddy Jake the Runaway; and, Short Stories told after Dark. By Uncle Remus.-Century Co., 1.50.

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Zig Zag Journeys in the British Isles. Hezekiah Butterworth.-Lee & Shepard, 1.75. Old Mother Goose's Rhymes and Tales. Illustrated by Constance Haslewood.-F. Warne & Co., 1.00.

The Adventures of Captain Mago; or, a Phonician Expediton B. C. 1000. By Léon Cahun, -Scribner's, 1.50.

Chatter Box. 1889.

Edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M. A.-The contents of the new volume are as diversified, instructive and amusing as were its predecessors.-Estes & Lauriat.

Fogarty's Fairy and Other Tales. By W. S. Gilbert.-The book contains nineteen tales, several of which served subsequently as the foundation for the author's successful plays.— Routledge, 1.50.

Three Vassar Girls in Russia and Turkey. By Elizabeth W. Champney.-Sallie Benton's brother Gus has successfully passed the Harvard examinations, and is sent with her on a tour through Europe. Sally decides to go to Turkey, chiefly because her old friend, Alice Newton, has gone there as a missionary. The RussoTurkish war breaks out, and the three girls, reunited once more, have many exciting adventures.-Estes & Lauriat, 1.50.

The Knockabout Club in Spain. By Fred A. Ober. The club has dwindled down to two: the Historian and the Professor. After mature deliberation they choose Spain as the object of their new trip, and resolve to visit that country principally to study the history of America, and to visit the homes of the early Conquistadores. Around this central idea of history are grouped the adventures and incidents of travel.-Estes & Lauriat, 1.50.

The Story of a Mountain. By Uncle Lawrence.-Prof. Morian has retired to his villa in the Alps, there to pursue his studies as a geographer. Some pieces of wood, floating on the little stream near by, awaken his curiosity, and he starts with his two boys to learn their meaning. The title of the story refers both to its amusing and to its instructive side.Lippincott Co., 1.50.

Joe Bently, Naval Cadet. By H. H. Clark, U. S. N. Illustrated.-Joe Bently, Harry Edgerton and Swem, alias Schopenhauer, are assigned to active duty on board Commander Farradale's ship. Their adventures, and principally the doings of the hero, form the subject of the story, which smacks strongly of the sea and is well calculated to excite the interest of young readers.-Lothrop Co., 1.50.

True to his Colors. By Harry Castlemon. With eight Illustrations by Geo. G. White.In the beginning of March, 1861, the cadets at the Barington Military Institute are divided into two camps over the secession question. Rodney Gray, the son of a Louisiana planter, is for pulling down the Union flag, while his cousin Marcy, a North Carolinian, is true to his colors, and loudly proclaims his adherence to the Union.-Porter & Coates, 1.25.

The Old, Old Fairy Tales. Collected and Edited by Mrs. Valentine. With many colored Illustrations and numerous Woodcuts.-Mme. d'Aulnoy, Perrault, Mddle. de la Force, and the Princesse de Beaumont have contributed to this feast of old-time tales.-Warne & Co., 3.00.

Our Baby's Book.-A handsome, illuminated book of record for the baby, from the day and hour of his birth till the solemn moment when he first talks. There is also space for baby's first picture, and an entire page for "Baby's Own Wise Sayings"-the latter not for publication, we hope.-Lee & Shepard, 1.50.

Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers. Penned and pictured by Walter Crane.-Queen Flora calls the flowers from their long sleep at the end of winter. The illustrations are allegoric of the seasons of the different flowers.-Cassell & Co., 1.50.

Nursery Finger Plays. By Emilie Poulsson. Illustrations by J. L. Poulsson. Music by Cornelia C. Roeske.-Eighteen games to be played with the little ones, equally well adapted for the nursery and the kindergarten. The plays first appeared in Babyland.-Lothrop Co.. 1.25.

On Duty. A Story for Children. By Angelica Selby. Illustrated by E. J. Reynolds.-The story of a soldier's little daughter who bravely does battle with misfortune, and whose watchword under all circumstances is "on duty."-F. Warne & Co., 1.25.

Blown to Bits. By R. M. Ballantyne.-During the year 1883 a large brig, owned and commanded by Captain Roy and his son Nigel, is disabled, and puts in at the Cocos-Keeling Islands for repairs. The story is laid in the Malay Archipelago, about which much interesting information is given, while a lone man and the eruption at Krakatoa play an important part in the plot.-Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1.50

Chatterbox. For 1889. Edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M. A.-The Stories, poems and pictures are as plentiful and good as in former years. -Estes & Lauriat, 1.75.

Hairbreadth Escapes of Major Mendax. By F. Blake Crofton.-Major Mendax is a mighty hunter and can tell many wondrous stories of adventure. His meetings with lions, snakes, wolves, bears, and other animals are as astonishing as are his experiences among the cannibals, aboard ships, and elsewhere. The Major is always ready to speak of his experiences and relates with an air of candor that makes his awful "whoppers" the more enjoyable. The illustrations are many and good.-Hubbard Bros., 1.50.