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A series of papers descriptive, historical and pictorial on Abbeys and Churches of England and Wales, under the editorial charge of Rev. T. G. Bonney, has been issued by Cassell & Co. The chapters come from many hands, but the same spirit pervades them all.

Randolph Caldecott's Last Graphic Pictures, issued in large oblong form, is brimful of humorous sketches characteristic of Caldecott, with a very thin thread of text to give them apparently a reason for existing as illustrations, instead of as mere pictures.

The Iliad of Homer, translated by George Chapman, has been issued by the Routledges in a fine edition, with twenty-four full-page illustrations by Henry Motte, printed in the best style of heliogravure, the text prefaced with an introduction by Henry Morley.

Andersen's ever popular Fairy Tales and Stories, are presented in beautiful form in Estes and Lauriat's holiday edition, translated from the Danish by Carl Siewers, with more than two hundred illustrations, drawn solely for this edition by eminent Scandinavian artists.

The Song of the Brook has been illustrated with fifteen photographs in tint from original drawings by William J. Mozart. The tinting is in soft, melting colors that appear to stand out by reflected light. They seem hardly to have the crloring applied to them directly at all.

Randolph & Co. have ready a new edition of The Celestial Country, from the rhythm of Bernard of Cluny, translated by John Mason Neale, D.D., with four photographic illustrations from original designs, the book being put up in Whatman paper and tied with silk cord.

The literary three-dollar time-piece for young folks is The Wonder Clock of four-and-twenty marvellous tales, being one for each day, written and illustrated with one hundred and sixty drawings by Howard Pyle, with the assistance of Katharine Pyle, who supplies the verse.

Walter Scott's Christmas in the Olden Time appears in a fine edition, illustrated from designs by Harry Fenn, Edmund H. Garrett, J. S. Davis, Henry Sandham, Childe Hassam and H. P. Barnes; the engraving and printing being under the supervision of Geo. T. Andrew.

G. P. Putnam's Sons have just issued Egyptian Archæology, translated from the French of G. Maspero by Amelia B. Edwards. The subjects treated of are architecture, civil, military, and religious, tombs, painting and sculpture and industrial arts, with three hundred illustrations.

A Book of the Tile Club, issued a year ago. appear on the list of this season. It contains forty-one phototypes of paintings and bas-reliefs by members of The Tile Club of New York, with numerous pen-and-ink illustrations in the text, including portraiis of many of the artists.

A graphic account of the navies of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Germany, Austria and the United States is given In Modern Ships of War, with valuable statistics and data as to guns, torpedoes, cannon and other barbarous implements by which humanity defers the millenium.

John Ashton, whose pleasant finds and collections have been so well received, has ready A Century of Ballads, illustrative of the life, manners, and habits of the English nation during the seventeenth century, with numerous and quaint pictures, taken in fac-simile from the originals.

A new and revised edition of Raphael, His Life, Works and Times, has been issued in a large octavo volume, with one hundred small engravings and forty-one full-page plates, including exquisite fac-similes of Raphael's rarer drawings and a profusion of studies for his greater masterpieces.

Frank T. Merrill, who last year illustrated Thackeray's Mahogany Tree, has this season concentrated his energies on Rip Van Winkle, issued in two editions. In the édition de luxe, the fifty photogravures are printed on Japanese paper and skillfully mounted, either in the text or on separate full pages.

Those who like American landscape art will be interested in The Picturesque Coast of New England, a series of twelve photo-gravures from drawings by L. K. Harlow, enclosed in a portfolio of dark brown mottled boards, upon which, in relief, stands out a white sail, bearing in Pompeian red letters, the title.

Nature and Art, compiled by Louise Reid Estes, is a selection of poems from noted poets, illustrated with fourteen etchings by Rajon, Forberg, R. Swain Gifford, H. Farrar, A. F. Bellows, Moran, Garrett and others, and fifty wood engravings from designs by Fuller, Hunt, Woodward Perkins and others.

Through the Year, a series of studies in the four seasons, is a collection of verses from noted poets, illustrated by delicate mono-tints, rich, easy and true, that seem somehow to make the eye feel the very atmosphere of the scenes they represent. The printing and paper have been able coadjutants with the artists.

A very pretty set of booklets, as the critics would call them, is Humorous Tid-Bits from Various Sources, a selection of witticisms from English, Irish, Scottish and American authors of note, printed in four 8vo volumes. If "brevity 's the soul of wit," perhaps smallness may be too, but this is not their sole wit.

The artists in their Christmas work seem to have selected Tennyson for special honor. Of the illustrated editions of his poems, and among the best, is The Holy Grail. The illustrations, fourteen in number, are tinted photogravures from designs by W. L. Taylor. The binding is quiet, yet strikingly artistic and original.

Twenty engraved etchings by noted artists of the Düsseldorf school, comprising Volkhart, Leisten, Grotiohann, Hoff, Stegman, Irmer Jutz, Bosch, Meissner, von Eckenbrecker, Fahrbach, Deiters and Krohner are contained in the Düsseldorf Gallery. It is royal quarto in size, bound in rich cloth, with photo-etching on the cover

An interesting supplement to a set of Irving is The Land of Sleepy Hollow, a series of photogravure representations of scenes about the home of Washington Irving, with descriptive letter-press and notes by J. L. Williams, with a reprint of Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow and selections from the Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost.

M. B. Toland, author of Egle and the Elf, has prepared for the holiday season Endora, a tale of love, illustrated by charming illustrations by H. Siddons Mowbray and W. Hamilton Gibson, with dainty decorations in the text by L. S. Ipsen, whose artistic treatment of Sonnets from the Portugese, received such complimentary notices last year.

Treasures of Art and Song, a monotint artbook, printed by the celebrated Nister of Nüremberg, is a collection of pictures and verses by English artists and authors. Many of the verses are original in this volume, the others are selected with fine taste and judgment, the illustrations in low soft tints, are studies in scenes and figures.

An important work on literary biography is Histoire des Eeuvres de Théophile Gautier, just issued in Paris. It represents thirty years' work on the the part of Chas. de Lovenjoul, the editor, and comprises all Gautier's scattered writings in newspapers and periodicals, on fiction, travel, drama, art, music and literature, with notes and gossip as to the time of writing, the occasion and interesting incidents connected therewith. It includes several new poems and an unpublished play.

Longfellow's Evangeline has been made into a novel and attractive book of the season by the odd conceit of printing it in oblong form in blue ink with decorative initials, with a margin of autumn leaves in bright and mellow tints and skeletonized leaves, so gracefully placed and so naturally colored as almost to tempt one's fingers to touch them.

Frederick A. Stokes has issued, as his principal holiday work, Representative Etchings by American artists of to-day. The series consists of original plates by Church, Blum, Parish, Hyneman, Freer, Gregory, Ferris, Calahan and Mielatz, with an essay on Etching in America by Ripley Hitchcock, who also writes a critical note on each picture.

Among the notable art works of the season is Recent French Art, containing sixteen photoetchings from Meissonier, Leloir, Dupré, Garnier, Kaemmerer, Zamacois, Lhermitte, Béraud, Breton, Fichel, Butin, Sautai and Vauquelin, and a biographical text by Warren F. Kellogg. Each illustration is printed in a different tint, from copper-plates made in Paris.

Among the pretty holiday books is Flower Idyls, by Gertrude Strohm, a clever adaptation of many flowers to people and their occupations, suggested by beautiful poems of wellknown writers, printed in a unique style, and illustrated by charming photo-etchings of the different flowers, printed in the colors of the original, and bound in a jacqueminot vellum.

Ten etchings by Charles Méryon, with preface and illustrative notes by Stopford A. Brooke, M.A., have been collected for publication under the title Méryon's Old Paris, and of the whole edition but one hundred sets have been published for America. The plates, beautifully printed on rich Japan paper, are inserted in Whatman paper without mounts, while the text is bound separately.

There is a special appropriateness in making the story of the search for the Holy Grail a Christmas volume, as has been done by two of our publishers-Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal, issued by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., is an artistic volume, simple, rich and refined. It contains a new portrait of Mr. Lowell, from a charcoal drawing of Alexander, and nine full-page and many smaller illustrations by J. W. Alexander, Bruce Crane, F. W. Freer, R. Swain Gifford, Alfred Kappes, H. S. Mowbray, Walter Shirlaw and F. Hopkinson Smith; the full-page illustrations, engraved by Frederick Yuengling, on India paper, mounted, bound with binding designed by Mrs. Henry Whitman.

Two new books, illustrated by Stephen Collins Foster, that one would naturally mention together because of their unity in time, place and sympathy, are My Old Kentucky Home and The Swanee River. The sketches are happy, easy pictures of the gay times that at least the colored children enjoyed "before de wah, sah!" whether the conditions of their parents were joyous or sad.

The Modern School of Art, edited by Wilfrid Meynell, gives biographical sketches of Leighton, Nicol, Millais, Thornycroft, Hook, Boughton, Haswelle, Legros, Herkomer, Filder, Poynter, Hunt, Meissonier, Jopling, Orchardson, Yeames, Bonnat and Johnson, with portraits, illustrations of their studios and their works, with a running criticism of their styles, personality and peculiarities.

When people die in this world it is quietly said "They are 'gathered in.'" Such is the end of the life of all that is best and lasting in the magazines of the day, they are "gathered in" to book form at the year's end to permanently minister to the delights of many. The Brownies after cutting up their merry pranks in St. Nicholas are now collected, and marshalled in full force in a holiday volume.

Greek myths, retold in Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales, with a modern free, half realistic and half fanciful tone, is the text which Mr. Edwards has illustrated with full-page pictures, strong and virile for the most part as touching the heroes of old, gentle and delicate with the heroines of the time. This is an excellent volume by which to introduce young people into the beauties of Grecian mythology.

Our Wedding Souvenir, a gift-book for those who are married, who hoped to be, who wish to be, or who may be, consists of a series of beautiful lithographed floral designs, pretty landscapes in sepia and tint by Louis K. Harlow, and is intended as a sovenir for the preservation of the signatures of the persons interested, relatives and guests, spaces being reserved for photographs, wedding cards and newspaper notices.

The young folks have in the publishers, authors, and artists of the day, slaves to minister to their wants as untiringly as ever did fairies of old. The thought is suggested by the Young Folks' Golden Treasury of Poems, containing selected poems from the best poets, as well as original poems by Whittier, Mrs. Whitney, Rosetti, Miss Phelps, Hayne, Miss Thaxter and others, with three hundred illustrations from riginal designs by American artists.

C. M. Seyppel, projector of He, She, It, the witty archæological sham perpetrated two or three years ago, has a new curiosity, My Book, an odd Egyptian manuscript printed on stained ragged leaves, giving the appearance of a very badly damaged, water-stained, moth-eaten diary bound in soiled canvas with rusty iron hinges and padlock. It forms quite a contrast to the exquisite art works of this holiday-tide.

Geraldine, the dainty, happy romance that excited such discussion and interest years ago, has been issued in a beautiful edition for the holidays. The story of love and love-making on a trip down the St. Lawrence, with the grand scenery along the shore, was written by the author in a way thoroughly appreciative of merest trifles, and the artists have caught the inspiration in their clever pictures set in the text.

To the excellent "Pen and Pencil" series has been added Pictures from Holland, filled with illustrations of the public buildings, noted cities and scenes in the home life of the people, supplemented by and supplementing an able text, showing what Hollanders have done to benefit the world in the great departments of architecture, art, politics and municipal life, and in the battle for freedom of thought and worship.

The popular, intense and instinctive appreciation of an additional pleasure in all landscape or scenery that is associated with great names, has provided our artists with an ever new field for their pencil. With this in view, Prof. Wm. Knight of St. Andrews University has prepared a charming work, Through the Wordsworth Country, with fifty six etchings of Lake scenery by Harry Goodwin, printed on Japanese paper.

Enoch Arden, which must ever remain Tennyson's most popular poem for its direct appeal to heart and sympathy, has been published this year by Dutton & Co. in a quarto volume, with scenes in the Isle of Wight, the sea in storm and calm, the quaint streets, gentle flelds, and the truer pictures of life in the fisherman's cottage. The beautiful designs by Garrett are set off by a frame-work of faint, delicate flower traceries and arabesques in cream tint.

Odes and Sonnets of Keats, another superb volume by Will H. Low, who so successfully illustrated Lamia two years ago. The artist has spared no effort to surpass his former achievement, having given fifteen months' time and study in Florence, Italy in the prosecution of his work, which is ably represented by sixteen full-page drawings and one hundred pages of text embellished with floral decorations, bound with an elaborate design in gold.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton and Jos. Pennell have united their literary and artistic ability in The Saone, a description of a summer's voyage down this river, jottings on the scenery, the cities and places on the route, gossip of incidents in travel, notes on the character of the people, and those other items that make up the sum of observation and reflection of wide awake travellers. Many of the hundred and forty-eight illustrations are light, rapid sketches scattered through the text.

Kingsley's pure, simple Song of the River, from its lonely birth in the woods, its journey through the forest, hurrying over the stones, flowing placidly through the country, widening and changing its course as it moves past the dark and sinful town till it loses itself in the infinite main, "like a soul that has sinned and is pardoned again," is an excellent subject for artistic treatment Its varied possibilities are all appreciated in the holiday edition, containing sixteen photo-etchings on vellum paper, and printed in delicate colors by hand.

To give a true picture of the Mexicans of today and to correct current false impressions made from hasty generalizations, Mrs. F. C. Gooch has spent three years in their country in the preparation of her Face to Face with the Mexicans. None of the matter has ever before appeared in print. Each chapter is a complete detailed picture of one phase of the life of the people, domestic, historical, financial, social, literary, while the separate views are artistically merged into one composite photograph, faithful and sympathetic. The work, published by subscription, consists of six hundred pages with two colored plates and two hundred original illustrations, including many bright ones by Cusachs, scattered through the text.

The distinctively American book of the year,. the book that from peculiarities and special excellence could be produced in no other country, is Engravings on Wood. The superb engravings, twenty-five in number, are, with one exception, from American paintings, representing the best work of the best engravers, and it cannot but make a genuine American brag a little more loudly than usual and then feel a little backward for fear he has not said enough. The members of the Society of American Wood Engravers contributing to the work are: V. Bernstrom, T. Cole, W. B. Closson, John P. Davis, Frank French, T. Johnson, F. S. King, Elbridge Kingsley, G. Kruell, R. A. Muller, Miss C. H. Powell, P. G. Putnam, John Tinkey, F. H. Wellington, Henry Wolf, while the letter-press is written by Wm. M. Laffan.

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.....C. H. Peck-Mag. Amer. Hist.
Canterbury's Waxworks. ...Amy E. Miller-Young Eng.
Catechism of the Locomotive. . M. N. Forney-R. R. & Eng. J.
Comments on Light on the bath......
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County Characteristics.. .W. H. Tregellas-XIX. Cent.
Crack Country, A..... Mrs. Edw. Kennard-London Society.
Difficult Question, A..
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Diner Chez Talma, Un........J. Claretie-(Oct. 1) Rev. Illust.
Edric the Norseman........J. F. Hodgetts-Boy's Own Paper.
Electrotyping for Amateurs....C. A. Parker-Amateur Work.
Emily, A Story of Public School Life........Boy's Own Paper.
Enchanted Horns, The.....R. Whittingham—(Oct. 27) Indep.
Etudes d'Histoire Israelite.
Felton, John.

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.(Oct. 15) Rev. d. Deux M. ..........(Sept.) Antiquary. Rev. P. B. Power-Quiver. .L. G. Yates-(Sept.) West. Amer. Sci. Fragmentary Notes on Japanese Ceramics........(Oct.) Curie. Frau und Braut... .E. Taubert-(Oct.) Unsere Zeit. ..(Oct.) Unsere Zeit.

Fremdes u. Angeeignetes....
Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters.......Leisure Hour.
Ghost's Revenge, A...... .Tighe Hopkins—(Oct.) Lucifer.
Graysons, The..
Edward Eggleston-Century.
Harry Treverton... ..Lady Broome-Boy's Own Paper.
Heraldry, Applied to Decoration..A. Yorke-Amateur Work.
Homes for Our East End Poor....G. S. Reaney-Sunday Mag.
House in Bowling Green, The.... Edgar Fawcett-Peterson's.
How God Preserved the New Testament........
Improved House Build'g in Puenos Ayres..(Oct. 22)Building.
In the Sick Room
E. R. Scovil―(Oct. 29) Good Housek.
Italien u. das Papstthum.....
........(Oct) Unsere Zeit.
Johannes Brahms........O. Gumpfrecht-(Oct ) Westerman's.
Locomotive Boiler Explosions..................R. R. & Eng. J.
Marguerite....
H. Kruger-(Oct. 1) Rev. Crét.
...(Oct. 6) Nature.

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Modern Views of Electricity.
Not All in Vain..
. Lambert Shields-Quiver.
Old Sign Boards...... E. de Lancey Pierson-(Oct.) Curio.
One Little Vein of Dross.... Ruth Lamb-Girl's Own Paper.
Our Vagrant and Criminal Classes. Henry Solly-Leisure Hour.
Philosophy of Living....H. M. Poole-(Nov. 12) Good Housek.
Practical Tin Plate Work'g.. D. N. Feastow-Amateur Work.
Preussen u. Deutschland 1879-87...(Oct.) Unsere Zeit.
Prince Lucifer.....
Etta W. Pierce-F. L.Pop. Mo.
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..C. D. Jameson-R. R. & Eng. J.
R.W. Burke-(Oct.) Vet. Jour.
Anne Beale-Girl's Own Paper.
.G. Rohlfs-(Oct.) Westermann's.
Siberia and the Exile System..........Geo. Keenan-Century.
Some Miniatures at So. Kensington Museum..(Sept.) Portfolio.
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..By one who has met him-Hour Glass.
Study of Latin........
..J. W. Macdonald-Academy.
.......Flora L. Shaw-Sunday Mag.
Terra-Cotta Bust, The.... Virginia W. Johnson-Lippincott's.
Theosophical Meaning of Goethe's Faust...
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Alsace and Lorraine: past and future, by G. de St. C. Stevenson, R. Hardwicke, London, 1873: Tales from Alsace: scenes in the days of the Reformation, Carter Bros., New York, 1869; Among the Alsatian Mountains, by Katherine Lee, London, 3.60; Shea's Guide Book to Belgium, Lorraine and Alsace, London, 2.00; Voyage aux Pays Annexés, by Victor Tissot, Paris, E. Dentu, 1877, 1.25.

100. Can you tell me if there is any History of Mathematics in existence. It may be in English, French or German, English preferred. NEW YORK. J. D. Histoire des Mathematiques, by J. F. Montucla, published in 1802, 4 vols. 4to., is a very valuable work, but is difficult to obtain. Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik is excellent, but is, we think, not yet completed. The first volume large 8vo, appeared in 1880. Probably the very best book on the subject is Max Marie's Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques, published by Gauthier-Villas in Paris. The ten volumes which have already appeared bring the work down to the time of Fourier

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See Lays and Legends by E. Nesbit, page 102, Longmans, London, 2.00.

103. Can you direct me to a story in verse about the finding of a dead body in opening a mine in Wales. An old lady recognizes the body as that of her lover, lost sixty years before. BROOKLYN, N. Y. C. A. D.

See Lost and Found, by Hamilton Aidé, in Elocutionists' Annual No. 5, page 37, and Beecher's Recitations, Page 7.

104. Where can I get a list of American books of society verse by American authors. HANTS, ENGLAND.

G. W.

We know of no such list published. Space permits our noting only the principal collections.

Society Verse by American Authors, Selected by Ernest De L. Pierson, 12mo., cloth, 1.25. Constance's Fate, and From Dawn to Noon, by Violet, Fane. Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler, 12m10., clo., 1.00. Maurine and Other Poems, by Ella Wheeler, 12mo., clo., 1.25. Madrigals and Catches, by Frank D. Sherman, 16mo., clo., 1.00. Point Lace and Diamonds, by Geo. A. Baker, 16mo., clo., 1.00. Airs From Arcady-H. C. Bunner, 12mo., cloth 1.25. XXXVI. Lyrics and XII. Sonnets, by T. B. Aldrich, 16mo., vellum, 1.00. Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book, by T. B. Aldrich, 16mo., vellum, 1.00. Cap and Bells, by Samuel M. Peck, 16mo., cloth, 1.00. Cruise of the Mystery, &c., by Celia Thaxter, 16mo., vellum, 1.00. Ballads and Other Verses, by Jas. T. Fields, 16mo., clo., 1.00. With Reed and Lyre, by Clinton Scollard, 16mo., clo., 1.00. Pictures in Song, by Clinton Scollard, 16mo., clo., 1.25. The Humbler Poets, a collection of newspaper and periodical verse from 1870 to 1885, 12mo., 4.50. Pipes from Prairie Land, by Minnie Gilmore, 12mo., clo., 1.00. Later Lyrics, by Julia Ward Howe, 12mo., clo., 1.00. Thistle-Drift, by J. V. Cheney, 16mo., clo., 1.00. Verses, selected from Life, Two Series, 4to., clo., 1.50 each. After the Ball, Her Lover's Friend, New Songs and Ballads, by Nora Perry, 1.50 each,

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