MONTMORENCI Leaf From W. D. Howells's "Their Wedding Journey." appreciate Mr. Vedder's designs. It has been found practicable to reproduce these in a smaller form, without loss of artistic excellence, by reproducing directly from the original drawings. These now ap pear in a handsome volume, bound with the same design as the original edition, and accompanied by Mr. Fitzgerald's great translation of the Rubáiyát, and a life of Omar Khayyám; altogether it is a beautiful Holiday book. tributed so bountifully not only to "the gayety of nations" but to their enlightenment as well, that on festival occasions he should always be gratefully remembered. Last year he figured The Last as the perennially welcome Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. This year his popular poem The Last Leaf appears in a small volume like Dorothy Q. and The One-Hoss Shay, with excellent illustrations by Mr. Hopkinson Smith and Mr. Geo. Wharton Edwards. These are carefully reproduced from the designs made some years since for the large edition, which enjoyed much popular favor. This edition is beautifully printed and bound, but perhaps its principal attraction for many is the prefatory note by Dr. Holmes, which appears in facsimile of his handwriting. is exceedingly touching in its allusion to himself as illustrating his own poem, and sweet in the tender serenity which marks every word of it. It IT has always been certain that Mr. Aldrich's unsurpassed Story The Story of a Bad Boy of a Bad Boy would some time be fully illustrated, that some artist would avail himself of the host of suggestions which the story contains, and with his skillful pencil bring before the eye the dramatic and humorous and interesting scenes which Mr. Aldrich's skillful pen has already pre Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Holiday Bulletin sented to the mind of a multitude of delighted readers. _The time has now come, and the competent artist is Mr. A. B. Frost, who has so fully entered into the spirit and fun of the story as almost to astonish Mr. Aldrich that he had written a story so full of action and of delightful incidents. It is pleasant to state that Mr. Aldrich is wholly satisfied with the pictures, and that he takes a fresh interest in the adventures of Tom Bailey as he recalls the memory of them in Mr. Frost's effective designs. It is safe to say that thousands will share Mr. Aldrich's satisfaction, and while enjoying Mr. Frost's pictures will be newly grateful to the author of the fascinating story. Paper, print, and binding are all that can be asked to make the book irresistible as a Holiday gift. A WRITER so popular as Mrs. Wiggin is sure to become a victim to the pleasant demands of the Holiday season; and a book so popular as her Timothy's Quest could not fail to be selected for the interesting sacrifice. Mr. Oliver Herford, who has gained an enviable reputation by his designs in Life and in book illustrations, has made a large number of pictures for Timothy's Quest, some of them allegorical, others directly illustrating the incidents of the story, but all drawn with great delicacy of appreciation, insight, and artistic touch. The book is carefully printed, and bound in very attractive style, and cannot fail to be a most popular Holiday book. FOR young people Miss Edith M. Timothy's a of a Bad Boy." Illustrated by A. B. Frost. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Holiday Bulletin choice of subjects and a simplicity of treatment which make them both intelligible and engaging to children, while they have a touch of imagination and a literary quality which make them interesting to older readers. Miss Katharine Pyle, sister of Mr. Howard Pyle the famous illustrator, has made several very charming designs for the book, which render it more engaging and especially available for Holiday purposes, and the binding is peculiarly attractive. COUNTLESS books are written for young children, but com paratively few are at once really interesting and of noteworthy literary excellence. One of them is When Molly was Six, by Miss Eliza Orne When Molly White, au AS HE PASSED BY THE DOOR. By George Wharton Edwards. From Dr. Holmes's " The Last Leaf." THE was Six thor of the delightful novel Winterborough, who tells twelve stories, one for each month of Molly's new year, and weaves into these incidents of special interest to small girls, going to the seashore and the country, having a new doll and a cat, a fine Thanksgiving, and an out-door Christmas. The stories are told with charming simplicity, yet with decided literary skill; and the book is made additionally attractive by illustrations from the cunning pencil of Miss Katharine Pyle. HE new Holiday octavo editions of Childe Harold, Geraldine, Lucile, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and The Princess, are far the most attractive inexHoliday pensive editions yet produced of these famous poems. 8vo Paper and printing are excellent; each volume has an engraved frontispiece and titlepage, with many artistic illustrations; and they are bound in a very tasteful style. Editions THE HE new Holiday 16mo editions of Childe Harold, Lucile, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, The Princess, and Enoch Arden, are very inviting little vol Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Holiday Bulletin umes, carefully printed, equipped Holiday with illus- 16mo trations, in Editions including four of the best and most popular American books, - Mr. drich's Marjorie Daw, Mr. Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp, Mr. Warner's Backlog Studies, and Miss Jewett's Tales of New England. Each volume has CHESTERTOWN SANDFORD REEDVILLE BINGHAM SKAGGSTOWN FROM MISS THOMAS'S "IN SUNSHINE LAND." Illustrated by an etched ESBURK SCRATCH CORNER HILLSIDE MOUNTAIN VIEW EDGEWOOD PLEASANT RIVER New Books of Poetry ONE NE of the best volumes of verse the Poems. "1 GUESS WE'LL GO THERE." From Mrs. Wiggin's " Timothy's Quest." Illustrated by Oliver Herford. crown OC Unguarded tavo, containing most of the poetry written. by Mr. Aldrich in the last six years. He is not a prolific poet, few poets are prolific whose poems the world remembers long after they are published, if Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Holiday Bulletin indeed it reads them at all. But Mr. Aldrich's poetry is always marked by the most scrupulous literary conscientiousness as well as the finest fancy. It is perfectly finished, but not at the cost of perfect naturalness; and the result is that lovers of poetry welcome his work, in which nature and art coöperate to produce perfection. Whittier's Poems, The Cambridge Edition of Longfel Cambridge low's Complete PoEdition etical Works in a single volume, which was published last year, has proved so thoroughly acceptable and so increasingly popular, that the Complete Poetical Works of Mr. Whittier have now been brought out in the same form. The large type, the opaque paper, the portrait of the poet, and the equipment of notes, index of first lines, etc., make it an ideal inexpensive one-volume edition of Whittier's poems. Agnes Repplier. A Handy-Volume Edition of Whittier's Poetical Works, in four volumes, has been issued in the same style as the Handy-Volume THE SUNDAY DINNER. By Marcia O. Woodbury. From Miss Jewett's " Deephaven." |