the long years of her association with Mr. Hunt, quoting in addition from the letters of many friends,and giving ap preciations from contemporaries, many anecdotes, and valuable material gathered from many obscure sources. This she has moulded into a clear, consecutive From "The Art-Life of William Morris Hunt." appeared in the English language, offers material gleaned in out-of-the-way places by a poetic and scholarly mind-material made attractive by illustrations of decidedly original character ($2). For friends whose leanings are to history ample provision is made. Puritan as a Colonist and as a Reformer." by Ezra Hoyt Byington, supplements_his "The Copyright, 1899, by Little, Brown & Co. MARGUERITE. narrative, full of fresh and varied interest and unfolding the story of his life from his birth in Brattleboro', Vermont, in March, 1824, to his sudden death in 1879. His art-life in Paris, his friendship with such men as Barye and Millet, and his long championship of high ideals in the face of discouragements are traced with patient fidelity and full sympathy. The work is richly illustrated with reproductions of the artist's most famous pictures, and to all artlovers it will give rare pleasure and inspiration. (Little, Brown & Co. $3.) Some of Little, Brown & Co.'s Christmas Books." In Ghostly Japan," by Lafcadio Hearn, lecturer in English literature in the Imperial University, Tokio, and the man who has written the most acute and profound appreciation of the Japanese of to-day that has "The Puritan in England and New England," which has been pronounced by high authorities a very important contribution to the early history of New England ($2). 46 From Kingdom to Colony," by Mary Devereux, with illustrations by Henry Sandham, is a charming story of the quaint old town of Marblehead in the early days of the Revolution ($1.50). An Illustrated Holiday edition of "Montcalm and Wolfe." by Francis Parkman, with forty fine photogravure plates, including illustrations by Howard Pyle, historical portraits, views of Quebec from contemporary prints, etc., published in two volumes and boxed, is a treasure for all time (2 v., $6); and "Under Three Flags in Cuba," by Captain George Clarke Musgrave, describes life in the Cuban, Spanish, and American camps with vivid and picturesque pen and the accuracy of an eye-witness ($1.50). "Voices" is a new volume of verses and sonnets by Katherine Coolidge ($1.25). "Out of the Nest," by Mary Fenollosa, displays strong emotional quality and an oriental atmosphere ($1.25). Poems by Keats and Shelley" are illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett ($1.50). "At the Wind's Will," by Louise Chandler Moulton, is an entirely new volume of sonnets ($1.25); and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," by F. W. Bourdillon, is also made beautiful by the pencil of Garrett ($1). Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis's Books.-Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis occupies the pulpit of historic Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. There he has been preaching a series of sermons now collected in book form under the title "Great Books as Life Teachers." Leaving to others the problem of literary criticism, these studies emphasize the importance of right thinking in leading to right conduct and character, and the use of great books as aids and incentives to the higher life. The masterpieces of literature he has studied are Tennyson's "Idylls of the King." Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture," George Eliot's "Romola," Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," Browning's "Saul." To these are added several studies of recent notable biographies. ($1.50.) A study of Channing's "Symphony of Life" is published, entitled "Right Living as a Fine Art (50 c.); and there are also ready the sixteenth edition of "A Man's Value to Society," studies in self-culture and character; and the tenth thousand of "The Investment of Influence" ($1.25), a study of social sympathy and service, books all making for individual independence and a nobler manhood. (Revell. $1.25.) Ralph Connor's Tales of the Selkirks.--"Ralph Connor captivates the reader's imagination and touches his heart from the outset by his simple, tender, sympathetic fashion of telling what he has seen and known. We are reminded of Ian Maclaren at his best," says the Christian Advocate. "Not since Ian Maclaren gave us the 'Bonnie Briar Bush' stories has any one produced so moving a series of sketches. Ralph Connor' has painted for us a picture of life in the lumber and mining camps of surpassing From "Village Life in China." Copyright, 1899, by Fleming H. Revell Co. A BRIDAL PAIR. 44 Village Life in China.-Arthur H. Smith, the author of Chinese Characteristics," now in its tenth thousand, has, from his more than a quarter of a century's experience, completed an equally unique work. It forms a worthy companion to his initial volume, which has fittingly been described as "the best book on the Chinese people." "Mr. Smith," says the London Spectator, "is evidently a man with that rare gift-racial diagnosis. He is able to discriminate between the fundamental and the merely superficial differences between Western and Chinese civilization. He not merely describes what is behind the curtain; he lifts it, and lets us look in." This book is of special timeliness to-day, when China is so prominent upon the stage of the world, and is a distinct contribution to sociology. It is fully illustrated. (Revell. $2.) The Bishop's Shadow.-Mrs. I. T. Thurston has taken Bishop Brooks as the model on which she has patterned the hero of her interesting story. The Beacon calls it "an interesting study of Boston slum life, fine and good in tone. The book gives realistic descriptions of the struggles the street boys have to make a living, how they rough it when without a home, how they form friendships and political combinations, and generously share their joys and sorrows.. One reads on, conscious at the time only of the story; but meanwhile one is getting many valuable suggestions on practical methods for reaching the poor and neglected classes of people." The illustrations by M. Eckerson are of great merit. (Revell. $1.25.) Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.-These two little classics from the pen of Irving, "The Father of American Letters," can never fail to interest the reader. The stories have been given a most artistic setting, the title-page, borders, and cover design having been designed by Miss Margaret Armstrong, and the illustrations by the well-known artist, Frederick Simpson Coburn. The two volumes contain fifteen full-page photogravures and numerous text-cuts, and have title-page and borders in colors. (Putnam. Ea., $1.75; per set, boxed, $3.50.) Woolf's Sketches of Lowly Life.-All who remember the delineations of child-life among the poorer classes, which for many years were such a feature of Judge and Life, will long to have a collection of those pictures with their peculiar combination of humor and pathos. Their designer was Michael Angelo Woolf, who died suddenly of heart disease in March of the present year. The drawings have been collected under the title of "Sketches of Lowly Life," by Joseph Henius, a personal friend of the artist, who dedicates his book to the artist's wife. Eighteen of these drawings have never before been published. (Putnam. $1.50.) The True William Penn.-Last year Sydney George Fisher wrote "The True Benjamin Franklin; "the year before Paul Leicester Ford had given readers "The True George Washington." The enthusiastic welcome which greeted these two volumes is sufficient testimony to the weariness of the public for the old biographical methods. The one-sided hero-worship, the distortion of a really great personality by the hiding of the qualities which proved him human, one of ourselves, is a thing of the past. What is now demanded in biography is the simple truth, and all of it. To these has now been added a new book by Sydney George Fisher, "The True William Penn," which at the same time tells the history of early Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was the only one of the colonies that in the beginning was the sole But it is a matter of property of one man. history that Charles II. gave the immense track of land now represented by the Keystone State to William Penn in payment of a debt of £16,000 he owed his father, Admiral Penn. The story of this royal favor is not without interest, for Charles was not in the habit of paying his debts. But when Admiral Penn and General Veneblas were in command of Cromwell's army and navy they sent word to Charles II., then living in exile on the Continent, that if he wished it they would turn the fleet and army over to him. Through this act of dishonorable treachery the fortunes of Admiral Penn and his son were made. Neither Charles nor his brother, James 11., ever forgot the offer, although it was not accepted. The J. B. Lippincott Company turn the volume out uniform in style with "The True Benjamin Franklin" and "The True George Washington," illustrating the text with portraits, views, etc., etc. (Lippincott. $2; $5.) J. B. Lippincott's Books of Travel.-People interested in almost every portion of the world can find books to tell them the very latest discoveries and developments in far countries. "The Heart of Asia" ($3.50) is a history of Russian-Turkestan from the earliest times, by Francis Henry Skrine and Edward Denison Ross, with many illustrations, several of them by the Russian artist Verestchagin; "Intimate China" ($5), by Mrs. Archibald Little, makes clear with 120 illustrations the mysteries of Chinese dress, housekeeping, servants, calls, marriage, religion, etc., while the text is so Jerusalem: pleasant that the book is simply fascinating; and Asiatic lore is also covered in " the City of Herod and Saladin" ($3), the fourth edition of the standard work of Walter Besant and E. H. Palmer, which has been brought up to date and put abreast of modern research and political changes. No book is more timely Sketches and Studies in South Africa" ($3). by W. J. Knox Little, describing Cape Town, Johannesburg, Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, the Transvaal, etc., a rich territory that naturally tempts the commercial and poA breath of cooler air can be caught litical gambling propensities of the European powers. in "A Russian Province of the North" ($6), by Alexander P. Engelhardt, with illustrations after photographs picturing the province of Archangel, which gives exhaustive descriptions of the White Sea and Arctic Oceans, and masses of statistics of a place of great commercial possibilities; and in "Twelve Months in the Klondike" ($2), by Robert C. Kirk, in which the descriptions of the Indian natives are a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the The illustrations number aboriginal tribes. 100, and there is a map showing the route from the sea-coast to Dawson. than 44 Books for Amateur Photographers. The Baker & Taylor Company have a revised and enlarged edition of W. I. Lincoln Adams's "Amateur Photography," which has been one of the great publishing successes, and deservedly so. It has become the standard handbook and guide for the beginner in photog. raphy, and has safely guided thousands of photographers through the first difficulties of the art. It is a revelation of all the latest processes, from the choice of subject and posing to the mounting of the finished picture ($1.25). For amateurs who wish to advance in pictorial photography, the same competent hand has written "Sunlight and Shadow" ($2.50), treating landscape and outdoor subjects principally. This is profusely illustrated, as is also "In Nature's Image ($2.50), written largely from the point of view of portraiture and figure composition. All three of these books are ideal gifts for friends who have cameras and are struggling with technical difficulties and artistic aspirations. Frederick A. Stokes's Christmas Books.--Their name is legion, and choice depends entirely on for whom they are intended. There are several important books of travel, any of which will appeal to those who like to range by proxy in strange lands: H. Cayley-Webster's story of his exploration "Through New Guinea and other Cannibal Countries" ($5); John W. Bookwalter's narrative of a recent journey in "Siberia and Central Asia" ($4.50); and "From Sphinx to Oracle," in which Arthur Silva White describes a trip through the Libyan desert to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon ($4). Those who care to follow the records of history in the making will welcome Oscar King Davis's brilliant journalistic story of "Our Conquests in the Pacific," his day-to-day narrative of life in the Philippines during the last eight months of 1898 ($1.25). Among the many attractive volumes on the holiday shelf the Christmas giver will linger over the quaint reprint of the famous Magic Mirror of Nostradamus," ($1.25), wherein we may infallibly read the future, or muse upon the "Divination by means of Figures or Arithmomancy," expounded by Count Cagliostro; the new volume in which Maud Humphrey's artistic pencil depicts the graceful athleticism of "The Golf Girl" ($1); "The Vicar of Wakefield " ($2), and "Henry Esmond" ($2) in holiday guise, with tinted illustrations by Bedford and artistic cover designs; and the four-volume edition of Shakespeare's works, daintily arranged in a bookshaped box, surely among the most delightful of Christmas presents ($3.50-$6.50.) Outdoor Pictures -Fashion smiles nowadays upon athletes, and there are few outdoor sports that have not their multitude of devotees. All ages and all classes alike have tasted the fresh invigoration of out-of-door recreations, and the her brother upon the links, awheel or afloat. modern young woman is a dangerous rival to Thus among the fine gift-books of the holiday door Pictures" takes its place not only as a season T. de Thulstrup's collection of "Outwork of art but as a panorama of Society at play. De Thulstrup's brilliant draughtsmanship finds full play in this varied field, and his series of spirited and artistic drawings are a revelation of one of the most fascinating phases of American life. There are in all twenty-four drawings, twelve beautiful colored reproductions, giving the very tone and spirit of the water-color originals- and thirteen fine halftones. In these we are introduced to the fortunes of the golf-links, to the brilliancy and elegance of coaching parade; to the dash of the hunting field after the hounds; to the breathless tangle of Intercollegiate Football; the excitement of horse races, etc.; and the pleasures of fair weather bicycling, canoeing, tobogganing and skating. The reproductions are remarkable for their depth of tone and richness of color, and the drawings breathe the very spirit of outdoor enjoyment. They are collected in a handsome oblong folio, and they will delight all who care for art and recreation, combined or singly. (Stokes. $5.) Recollections of an Old Musician.-Thomas Ryan, the author of this record, is a well-known member of the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston. The son of a private soldier in the English army, he early showed a capacity and taste for music. At sixteen he was playing as second clarinet in the Anacreontic Society of Belfast. He then began the study of the violin, and before he was eighteen had come to Boston and was engaged to play the flute in the orchestra of the Washington Street Theatre at a salary of seven dollars per week. From that time his development has kept pace with the musical development of Boston. His long life has brought him into intimate contact with every performer and actor of importance who has visited our shores, and he discourses of them after a discriminating fashion, which is always kindly and good-tempered. His volume is illustrated with many portraits, and its mass of anecdotes and personal recollections make it entertaining reading. (Dutton. $2.50.) 66 E. P. Dutton & Co.'s Fine Art Gift-Books.Representative Painters of the Nineteenth Century," by Mrs. Arthur Bell (N. D'Anvers), passes in review the chief painters of England, America, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Italy, and is illustrated by six photogravures and forty-four half-tone reproductions from characteristic examples of representative work of fifty of the greatest painters of the nineteenth century ($12); and "National Worthies" consists of 154 full-page plates, a selection from the National Portrait Gallery, with a historical description of each personage, bound in full leather, gilt-tooled in exact facsimile of a binding by Roger Payne in the British Museum, making one of the choicest holiday gifts of the year ($15). "Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters of the Nineteenth Century" are enclosed in a portfolio containing twelve woodcut portraits of noted authors, which the artist, R. Bryden, has cut on soft pear wood, each portrait standing out in strong relief from an appropriate background ($10), and "Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century," edited by Max Rooses, with biographical notices, is illustrated by six etchings, six photogravure plates, and upward of two hundred half-tone pictures ($15). One or all of the Illustrated English Poems, edited with introduction by Ernest Rhys, make pretty gifts. Among these are "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," "John Gilpin," etc. (Ea., $1.50.) Oxford University Press Bibles and PrayerBooks. Oxford University Press (American Branch), have in their Bibles and Prayer and Hymnals Christmas gift-books always appreciated and much coveted. Twenty new copyright editions are now ready of "Oxford' Teachers' Bibles" and authorized American editions, with new helps, maps, and 124 full-page plates, Bibles with the best paper, best binding, best printing. The "helps" are real helps. Unlike those of many other Bibles they are not simply thrown together in hodge-podge fashion, but represent the freshest and ablest work of the foremost modern scholars. A new line of "Oxford" India paper Text Bibles, in ruby, minion, bourgeois, and long primer, has been exquisitely printed on the famous "Oxford" paper and tastefully and strongly bound; and there are new editions of "Small Pica Text Bibles," "Revised Reference Bible," original "American Revised Bibles," and "Oxford' Testaments," in all styles. Every year these Bibles are put into bindings that show originality of design, and no one can go astray that chooses a Bible, a Prayer and Hymnal,' or a book of texts or a "Testament" from the endless variety provided by this house. Copyright, 1899, By E. P. Dutton & Co. BROUGHAM AND MCCULLOUGH. |