From "Earliest Days in America." Copyright, 1897, by The Morse Co.

COLUMBUS ON DECK.

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS (Limited) offer a series of thirty-two pictures by Phil May. drawn by this skilful artist for the pages of The London Graphic, which illustrate many types of life and have a festive appearance in their colored print. Any lover of dogs would be delighted to receive Edward Mayhew's Dogs: their management," which has long been recognized as an authoritative work on dogs, and is now partly rewritten by A. J. Sewell, Canine Surgeon to Queen Victoria. This book bases the treatment of a dog in health and disease upon a consideration of natural temperament, and illustrates its theories with many wo dcuts of dogs suffering various diseases, and then charms its possessor with full-page plates from photographs of health, champion, and prize dogs. The Routledge house also issues a Shakespeare, which holds its own with all the legion of new-comers year after year. It can be had in every style of binding artistic ingenuity can suggest. It is not necessary to dwell specially upon the attractions of the Handy Volume Shakespeare, but purchasers may bear in mind that there is now also an Illustrated edition of these pretty books. Pretty gifts may be chosen from the Quarto Classics, which contain Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress," "Robinson Crusoe," "Swiss Family Robinson," "Illustrated Poems and Songs." and Wood's "Natural History"; and also from the series of twelvemos known as One Hundred Immortals.

R. H. RUSSELL'S imprint is seen each year on a select number of notable art-books, and his publications for the present holiday season more than maintain the standard of former years. Charles Dana Gibson, whose laurels have been won as a delineator of modern society, has shown this year that his art is confined within no narrow limits, by his series of characteristic and beautiful drawings of "The People of Charles Dickens." These, which delighted thousands in their serial issue in the Ladies' Home Journal, have been preserved for permanent enjoyment in a rich portfolio, and may be had in the fine regular edition; in the luxury of a limited Japan paper edition, each print numbered, and signed by the artist; or in single proofs, signed or unsigned. There are six of the drawings, which have been reproduced with exquisite care, each proof being carefully printed by hand. It is from a widely different field that Frederic Remington draws his inspiration, and the collection of his "Drawings," beautifully reproduced and issued in form similar to the Gibson portfolio, combine the charm, life-likeness and accuracy of detail so characteristic of all this artist's work, with permanent historic value as presentments of the picturesque life of the West, now almost a thing of the past. It is a far cry from Remington's vivid portrayal of typical American scenes to the British types set forth by the original pencil of Mr. William Nicholson, who has been characterized by Whistler as the greatest English artist since Hogarth. Some of his most characteristic work is shown in the twenty-six designs for his illuminated "Alphabet," which is issued in a popular edition on cartridge paper, a library edition on Dutch handmade paper, and a magnificent édition de luxe, printed from the original wood blocks, hand-colored, and signed by the artist; while the famous London portrait color-prints of Queen Victoria, Lord Roberts, Sara Bernhardt, Whistler, and Kipling, may now be had mounted in gray cardboard and suitable for framing. Another English artist who has won a wide audience is Phil May, the successor of Du Maurier on Punch, from whose sketches of London slum scenes there have been chosen fifty cartoons, which are grouped in "Phil May's Sketch-Book." A superb volume has been made of Alfred Stieglitz's remarkable art photographs, depicting "Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies," which reveal the wonderful artistic possibilities of the camera. Twelve of these have been gathered into a handsome portfolio, which is also issued in a limited édition de luxe, while single proofs are obtainable as well. No more attractive little books can be found for holiday purposes than those coming from Will Bradley's "Wayside Press," for which this house is agent; these now include "Rip Van Winkle," "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the "Rubaiyat," and "The Book of Ruth and the Book of Esther," each being a model of quaint and artistic bookmaking, with original title-pages and ornamental designs. Calendars are always welcome, and there is no lack of choice in the attractive assortment presented. In the first rank for originality and art interest is William Nicholson's unique" Almanac of Twelve Sports for 1898," consisting of twelve colored prints illustrating hunting, racing, coaching, fishing, golf, and similar sports for successive sea

sons, each being accompanied by an appropriate bit of original verse from Rudyard Kipling. Some of the most representative of Remington's drawings have been made up into the "Remington Calendar," accompanied by an extra photogravure suitable for framing; while the "Sports and Seasons Calendar," with color designs by well-known artists, and Penfield's clever "Poster Calendar for 1898," are also sure of continued popularity.

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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS have made a leading holiday book of London: as seen by C. D. Gibson," which is fully described elsewhere in this issue. George W. Cable's "Old Creole Days" has also been prepared for holiday purposes. The series of tales comprehended under this title possess unique charm which has been truly felt by Albert Herter, as his eight full-page illustrations amply testify. These are reproduced in photogravure, with an original cover design by the same artist. A special limited edition on Japan paper shows the delicacy and firmness of the artist's work in all its rare beauty. "The First Christmas Tree," by Henry Van Dyke, is most welcome, so few publications nowadays seeming to have the original idea of Christmas as their foundation. The triumph of the gospel of peace over the rude savagery of heathenism is poetically described in this strong story of the substituting of the first Christmas tree for the gloomy oak of Geisnar, at whose foot human sacrifices were offered by the German barbarians until dramatically interrupted by the Wessex monk Winifred. This book is illustrated by Howard

Pyle, and has decorative borders, illuminated titles, and a striking cover design. There is also offered a second series of "Life's Comedy," containing nearly 150 drawings from the pages of Life, handsomely printed and showing the variety of illustrative methods employed by our clever illustrators, including W. H. Hyde, C. D. Gibson, Henry Mayer, A. B. Wenzell, C. H. Johnson, F. O. Small, A. J. Keller, and many others. There is a sparkle and flippancy about this collection of humorous and satirical pictures that is entertaining and distinctively American. "Social Life in Old Virginia," by Thomas Nelson Page, with illustrations by the Misses Cowles from original photographs, presents picturesque and pleasing aspects of antebellum Virginia, and the lovable peculiarities of "befo'-de-wah" Virginia gentlefolk. The artists gleaned the whole State for photographs and daguerreotypes, and have produced a series of pictures which are illustrations in the true sense of that misused word. Lovers of history may be pleased with "The History of Our Navy," by John R. Spears, published in four volumes, with about 300 illustrations. Spears has amply demonstrated in his stories of the sea his ability to grasp the thrill and romance of ocean faring and fighting. He is peculiarly fitted to tell the tale of the American navy, and he has made of it a story of absorbing interest which every American should read with pride. The earlier volumes are profusely illustrated with reproductions of contemporary engravings, portraits, and documents, many of them of exceptional rarity and interest, while in the later ones the resources of photography and

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RAND, MCNALLY & Co. have a Holiday edition, in two volumes, of Blackmore's "Lorna Doone," which well deserves to be put before Christmas shoppers once more. Few books have delighted so many intellectual lovers of nature and appreciators of true literature as this beautiful love-story of the seventeenth century, which is supposed to have taken place in the counties of Devonshire and Somersetshire. The charming Exmoor scenery is depicted in forty photogravures from original photographs, and the volumes are put forth in polished English linen, with gold tops, deckel edges, and special cover design, making a most artistic gift-book. There are 170 standard books to select from in the

Twentieth Century Series, looking quite festive and suitable for presentation in their pretty uniform of red polished buckram, with richly ornamented gold sides and back stamps and gilt tops. In this shape can be had the most noted works of George Eliot, Bulwer Lytton, Hall Caine, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hughes, Marie Corelli, Walter Scott, Stanley J. Weyman, W. Clark Russell, Anthony Hope, and many others and Continental authors are also included, such as Dumas, Maurus Jokai, Georges Ohnet, Ludovic Halévy, etc. There is also the Alpha Library, bound in green silk corded cloth, which offers 150 standards at very reasonable price. Titles of other novels are entered in the book list elsewhere in this issue. Atlases and guide-books are a specialty with this house, and no gift can exceed in value their "Pictorial Atlas of the World." One of the sensations of the year has been the Klondike boom. If you have any friend interested offer him "Glimpses of Alaska and the Klondike," compiled by Miss Esther Lyons, with 100 photographic views from originals by Veazie Wilson; or one or more of their "Maps and Illustrated Guides of Alaska and the Klondike Regions."

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY offer as their chief holiday publication Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop's new book, "Korea and Her Neighbors," a narrative of travel and an account of the vicissitudes and present condition of the country, with thirty illustrations from photographs by the author, maps, appendixes, and excellent index. Reaching Korea immediately after it had been ceded to Japan, Mrs. Bishop had a rare chance to study the political and social condition of the Far East. She travelled around much country never before traversed or written about, and she takes us into her confidence and tells us little items of curious information that never would have been picked up by a less experienced traveller. A second edition is ready of the first volume of "Christian Missions and Social Progress," a sociological study of foreign missions by James S. Dennis, an epoch-making book; and also of "The Gist of Japan," by Rev. R. B. Perry, who shows the catholic mind of a modest and scholarly student. Another study of social progress among heathen peoples under the influence of Christian men and Christian principles is "Christianity and the Progress of Man," by Prof. W. Douglas MacKenzie; "A Concise History of Missions" is by Edwin Munsell Bliss, probably more closely connected than any one else with the general subject of mission work, he being the compiler of the well-known reference-book, "An Encyclopædia of Missions"; and the story of the missionary work of William A. B. Johnson, by Rev. A. T. Pierson, is entitled "Seven Years in Sierre Leone." A set of volumes making a handsome gift for a church library includes "Persian Life and Customs," by S. G. Wilson; "From Far Formosa," by G. L. Mackay; "Chinese Characteristics," by A. H. Smith; and "The Gist of Japan," mentioned above. To the shelves of a Sunday-school library may also be added the second edition of "On the Indian Trail," by Rev. Egerton R. Young, stories of missionary work among the Cree and Saulteaux Indians; 'Ruth Bergen's Limitations," by Marion Harland; "She Got All That!" by Cora Reese; and "John and I and the Church," by Elizabeth Grinnell, a delightful story of the

duties, responsibilities, and opportunities of a pastor's wife. There is a new popular edition, at reduced price, of Rev. John Brown's "The Pilgrim Fathers"; and a second edition also of "The Culture of Christian Manhood," by W. H. Sallmon, with sixteen portraits and a picture of Battell Chapel, Yale University, where these Sunday morning sermons were preached. A new volume of F. B. Meyer's powerful series of biographies is devoted to "Paul, a Servant of Jesus Christ"; and there is a pretty year-book compiled by Rose Porter, entitled "The Pilgrim's Staff."

ROBERTS BROTHERS have no distinctive holiday book this year, all their energies having gone into the putting out of the wonderfully beautiful de luxe edition of Balzac, of which a few sets can still be furnished. Grosvenor's

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Constantinople," their holiday book of two years ago, has not been overshadowed by the new books of the year. Professor Grosvenor has translated from the original Greek of Stephanos Theodoros Xenos a historical romance entitled "Andronike, the Heroine of the Greek Revolution," which is among the most important books on the Roberts list this year. It offers a complete and faithful picture of Greek life of today by a writer who, though inspiringly patriotic, is just and impartial, and has a quaint, graphic style which the scholarly translator has

succeeded in reproducing. The actors in the interesting plot include Markos Botsaris, Byron, the native and foreign leaders and the common people of the resurrected Greece. Samuel J. Barrows also has prepared a book on this part of the globe, entitled "The Isles and Shrines of Greece." The posthumous work of Philip Gilbert Hamerton, entitled "The Quest of Happiness," will be eagerly welcomed by all who have the works of this artist-author, who was engaged in writing the final words in this volume two hours before his death. A volume reprinted from Helen Hunt. Jackson's "Bits of Travel at Home," and put under the title "The Procession of Flowers in Colorado," is illustrated by Louise B. Graves, and makes a pretty holiday book, the first of a series of souvenirs on Colorado life and scenery. Chessplayers may be made happy with "The Grand Tactics of Chess," by Franklin B. Young, whose "Minor Tactics of Chess" has already been received by experts as authoritative. The book is said to be destructive of fads, idiosyncrasies, and inaccuracies, and at the same time to be constructive in its exposition of the laws and

Copyright, 1897, by A. C. McClurg & Co.

A COUNCIL.

principles of chess strategetics and the practical application of these laws. It puts into language for the first time that system of chess play by which Morphy, Anderssen, De la Bourdonnais, Philidor, Deschapelles, and the other great masters achieved their dazzling victories. Several religious works of great intrinsic importance are available for Christmas presentation to clergymen and thinking laymen. "Antichrist," by Ernest Renan, covering the period from the arrival of the Apostle Paul at Rome to the end of the Jewish Revolution, A.D. 61-73, including the persecution under Nero, has been translated and edited by Joseph Henry Allen; "The Christ of Yesterday, To-day and Forever," is a volume of sermons by Ezra Hoyt Byington, author of "The Puritan in England and New England"; and Adolph Harnack's "History of Dogma" is carried through the third volume. In choosing gifts, "Molière's Dramatic Works," in Miss Wormeley's translation, must not be forgotten. For admirers of the noble work of Miss Kate Field, Lilian Whiting's tribute, entitled "After Her Death," will be an appropriate gift. It is festively clad in white and gold.

From "Earliest Days in America." Copyright, 1897, by The Morse Co.

COLUMBUS ON DECK.

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS (Limited) offer a series of thirty-two pictures by Phil May. drawn by this skilful artist for the pages of The London Graphic, which illustrate many types of life and have a festive appearance in their colored print. Any lover of dogs would be delighted to receive Edward Mayhew's "Dogs: their management," which has long been recognized as an authoritative work on dogs, and is now partly rewritten by A. J. Sewell, Canine Surgeon to Queen Victoria. This book bases the treatment of a dog in health and disease upon a consideration of natural temperament, and illustrates its theories with many wo dcuts of dogs suffering various diseases, and then charms its possessor with full-page plates from photographs of health, champion, and prize dogs. The Routledge house also issues a Shakespeare, which holds its own with all the legion of new-comers year after year. It can be had in every style of binding artistic ingenuity can suggest. It is not necessary to dwell specially upon the attractions of the Handy Volume Shakespeare, but purchasers may bear in mind that there is now also an Illustrated edition of these pretty books. Pretty gifts may be chosen from the Quarto Classics, which contain Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," "Robinson Crusoe," "Swiss Family Robinson," "Illustrated Poems and Songs." and Wood's "Natural History"; and also from the series of twelvemos known as One Hundred Immortals.

R. H. RUSSELL's imprint is seen each year on a select number of notable art-books, and his publications for the present holiday season more than maintain the standard of former years. Charles Dana Gibson, whose laurels have been won as a delineator of modern society, has shown this year that his art is confined within no narrow limits, by his series of characteristic and beautiful drawings of "The People of Charles Dickens." These, which delighted thousands in their serial issue in the Ladies' Home Journal, have been preserved for permanent enjoyment in a rich portfolio, and may be had in the fine regular edition; in the luxury of a limited Japan paper edition, each print numbered, and signed by the artist; or in single proofs, signed or unsigned. There are six of the drawings, which have been reproduced with exquisite care, each proof being carefully printed by hand. It is from a widely different field that Frederic Remington draws his inspiration, and the collection of his "Drawings," beautifully reproduced and issued in form similar to the Gibson portfolio, combine the charm, life-likeness and accuracy of detail so characteristic of all this artist's work, with permanent historic value as presentments of the picturesque life of the West, now almost a thing of the past. It is a far cry from Remington's vivid portrayal of typical American scenes to the British types set forth by the original pencil of Mr. William Nicholson, who has been characterized by Whistler as the greatest English artist since Hogarth. Some of his most characteristic work is shown in the twenty-six designs for his illuminated "Alphabet," which is issued in a popular edition on cartridge paper, a library edition on Dutch handmade paper, and a magnificent édition de luxe, printed from the original wood blocks, hand-colored, and signed by the artist; while the famous London portrait color-prints of Queen Victoria, Lord Roberts, Sara Bernhardt, Whistler, and Kipling, may now be had mounted in gray cardboard and suitable for framing. Another English artist who has won a wide audience is Phil May, the successor of Du Maurier on Punch, from whose sketches of London slum scenes there have been chosen fifty cartoons, which are grouped in "Phil May's Sketch-Book." A superb volume has been made of Alfred Stieglitz's remarkable art photographs, depicting "Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies," which reveal the wonderful artistic possibilities of the camera. Twelve of these have been gathered into a handsome portfolio, which is also issued in a limited édition de luxe, while single proofs are obtainable as well. No more attractive little books can be found for holiday purposes than those coming from Will Bradley's "Wayside Press," for which this house is agent; these now include "Rip Van Winkle," "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the "Rubaiyat," and "The Book of Ruth and the Book of Esther," each being a model of quaint and artistic bookmaking, with original title-pages and ornamental designs. Calendars are always welcome, and there is no lack of choice in the attractive assortment presented. In the first rank for originality and art interest is William Nicholson's unique "Almanac of Twelve Sports for 1898," consisting of twelve colored prints illustrating hunting, racing, coaching, fishing, golf, and similar sports for successive sea