the pen of Susan Coolidge. The charm of that story was felt quite as much by older readers as by those to whom it was directly addressed. Fortunately for both these classes, another book from the same hand finds its way among the multitude of autumnal publications, under the attractive title of 'What Katy Did Next.' Of course everybody remembers what Katy has already done at home and at school. and every one will be anxious, therefore, to follow her further history; especially as that history takes one into some of the most delightful localities of the world. Stories of travel are common enough of late, but this kind of transatlantic story for young readers has certainly not been overdone. The freshness of spirit, charm of style, warm sympathy with and large knowledge of childhood, which have characterized all Susan Coolidge's stories for young readers reappear in this latest volume. The young people who travel through England and about the Continent in What Katy Did Next' are just the sort of young people with whom it is pleasant to have other young people associate; that is to say, they are boys and girls of good manners, intelligent purpose, and delightful naturalness.' (Roberts. $1.50.) The The Peterkin Papers.-Messrs. Ticknor & Co. have republished "The Peterkin Papers," contributed to Our Young Folks and St. Nicholas by Lucretia P. Hale, and issued in book-form some years ago. These sketches have gone through several editions, and have wholly sustained the popularity that has attended them from their first appearance. In response to the continued demand, Ticknor & Co. have issued this edition, in small folio (uniform with "Davy and the Goblin "). The cover represents Mrs. Peterkin and her coffee, the struggle of the Peterkin family with their summerresort trunk, and the memorable rubber boots. book is handsomely printed on fine paper, in large type. Several of the clever, full-page illustrations made by Attwood for the earlier editions have been redrawn for this work; and there are also two hundred entirely new pictures, drawn by F. Myrick, and scattered through the text. This edition is also made additionally interesting by a hitherto unpublished paper, "The Peterkins at the Farm," one of the most mirthful of the entire series. Miss Lucretia P. Hale is the sister of Edward Everett Hale. (Ticknor. $1.50.) The Last of the Peterkins.-The friends of the Pe terkin family-and there are a host of them-will note with unaffected regret the title of Miss Lucretia P. Hale's latest book, "The Last of the Peterkins, with Others of Their Kin." It is certainly a sad fact, if it be true, that we have seen the last of this delightful family; their adventures, their blunders, their refreshing naïveté, have won a lasting place in our affections, and we shall part from them with a sense of loss. If they have to go, however, it is very pleasant that they leave behind them this last record of their wander ings abroad, and that hereafter we shall be able to mitigate the antiquity and severity of the Pyramids themselves with thoughts of the inimitable Peterkins. (Roberts. $1.25.) The Key-Hole Country.-This is still another of the many stories that owe their origin to "Alice in Wonderland." In it, Gertrude Jordan, with active imagination, and fascinating style, tells of a little girl who was enabled by a little old woman to "smallify" herself and follow her strange leader through a key-hole, whereupon she reached a land of wonders inhabited chiefly by the heroes and heroines of the nursery literature in which she delighted. The story is a bright attempt in nonsense literature and occasionally has a dash of satire that will tickle the imagination of older readers. The book is quaintly illustrated, and the pictures cleverly sustain its fanciful mirth. (Roberts. $1.) MAGAZINE BOOKS. Harper's Young People.-" This is the seventh volume of the periodical, and," says the Boston Beacon, "so popular is the series that the first three volumes are out of print. Popular and public libraries, therefore, should not fail to order what there is left, lest they be left themselves. The volume contains more than six hundred illustrations, and a judicious commingling of imagination, verse, fun, natural history, and other good pabulum for the mind of the young. Matthew Scott, his keeper, gives personal reminiscences of Jumbo, whose name has enriched our vocabulary. Howard Pyle continues his work à la Till Eulenspiegel. Lieutenant Schwatka tells of Thanksgiving day in the arctic region. Mrs. Lucy L. Lillie and others contribute stories. C. L. Norton tells of ice-yachts, and sport is amply provided for. Even music is offered, and every weekly number contains two pages of letters contributed by the readers of Young People. Truly, the volume is a treasure." An excellent feature of the periodical is the department of exchanges, and many a boy has made a good swap" through this medium. (Harper. $3.50.) St. Nicholas.-What more can be said, what descrip tive, eulogistic adjective is left that has not been Volume almost worn out in praise of St. Nicholas? XIII. now lies upon the counters ready for all good aunts to buy for their favorite nieces and nephews. In the first place, it contains "Little Lord Fauntleroy" complete, of which masterpiece of Mrs. Burnett's it is impossible to say a new word and equally impossible not to keep on saying the old ones. The short stories of St. Nicholas are all little gems. Much instruction and much amusement are given in its handsome pages. The historical biography of "George Washington," by Horace E. Scudder; "When Shakespeare Was a Boy," by Rose Kingsley; "Ready for Business," by George J. Manson, describing what is required to be a good boat-builder; the account of the From "Story of the Saracens," in " The Story of the Nations" series." (Putnam.) "Children's Industrial Exposition," etc., are just one or two of the mass of good articles that we happen to call to mind this moment. This volume also contains Palmer Cox's" Brownies," those little marvels of genius in facial expression, always all on hand, always preserving their individual characteristics, and always wholly occupied with the matter in hand, whether it be bicycling, tobogganing, going to the circus, in the menagerie, playing base-ball or lawn-tennis, or on roller skates. The "Brownies" alone are worth the price of this volume of St. Nicholas. (Century Co. $3.50.) Wide Awake Literature.-Almost all the stories brought out in book-form by D. Lothrop & Co. first delight the children in the pages of Wide Awake, which is constantly increasing in popularity, and is this year reduced in price ($2.40 a year). E. S. Brooks' "In No Man's Land," modelled on "Alive in Wonderland" (75 c.), is always fresh and good. "All Among the Lighthouses," by Mary Bradford Crowninshield (wife of Commander Crowninshield), tells how Johnny Braine and Cortland Delano are invited by their uncle, Captain Grimes, who is Government Lighthouse Inspector, to go with him on one of his quarterly trips. The volume is profusely illustrated from photographs and original drawings, and is elegantly bound. Laura D. Nichols tells the story of "Nellie Marlow in Washington;" Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont has ready "Souvenirs of My Time," a large book full of personal reminiscences of famous people, celebrated places, and notable events; and Mary E. Bamford, of California, offers "My Land and Water Friends," full of facts about animals of all kinds, told in a way to make children care to read it again and again. Young people can learn in a delightful way from "Stories of American History" and "Stories of Foreign Lands," by Pansy; "The Story-Book of Science," by Mary Hoyt Farmer; "Adventures of Columbus," by Mrs. F. A. Humphrey; and "Real Fairy Folks," by Lucy J. Rider, who has succeeded in arranging a series of object lessons on chemistry that give scientific facts in a charming way, the author claiming to evolve the fairies out of the liquids, solids, and gases. In "The Adventures of Ann," Mary E. Wilkins relates the events of colonial times; "Golden Year" is a great quarto of short stories; and "Pansy's Sunday Book" is brimming over with good things to read to the little ones when it is nurse's "Sunday out." The same publishers have a dainty little volume in drab, ornamented in silver; it is a translation from the German of Johanna Spyri, by Lucy Wheelock, of a story entitled "Uncle Titus." The scene of the story is laid in Carlsruhe. A feature of the book is the considerable number of riddles, skilfully interwoven in the text, which will afford much amusement, the more especially as the answers are also to be found in close proximity, and nothing is left unsolved. (Lothrop.) ELIZABETH ELIZA. From the "Peterkin Papers." (Ticknor.) 46 ESTES & LAURIAT'S JUVENILES.-These are quite up to the good record of former years in their bountiful provision for young people's enjoyment. Dickens' "Child's History of England" is brought out in a new edition, with all the illustrations by A. de Neuville, Emile Bayard, F. Lix, and others, and a most gayly decorated cover, with knights and chargers on one side, and a view of the Castle of Chillon on the other. "Young Folks' History of the Netherlands" is by Alexander Young, and designed for mature as well as young readers. It gives an independent view of the researches of Dutch and Belgian scholars, although acknowledging the author's indebtedness to Motley, Prescott, Davies, Grattan, etc. It is profusely illustrated. By means of much pleasure very important information can be acquired in reading "Three Vassar Girls on the Rhine." These fortunate travellers have now reached this historic river, so famed in song and story, and the indefatigable Champ" has again made all they see real by copious and appropriate illustrations. After travelling through Europe, Classic Lands, the Orient, the Occident, Northern Lands, the Levant and Acadia, the restless" Zigzagers" now take a "Zigzag Journey in the Sunny South," and visit the scenes and feel the associations of the early American settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies. The book is full of historic anecdotes and full of pictures of the chief cities of Florida, Mexico, and the West Indies, and also of the natives and their daily occupations. For the younger children there are many square, highly-colored quartos, containing exciting stories of "Queer Dollies," "How a Village Full of Children Ran Away," "The Pigs' Chowder Party," "The Little Cookie Boy," "Pussie's Queer Babies," and "A Trip to the Moon." The periodicals that charm faithfully from week to week are gathered into books and bound in fetching outside covers. The Prize" opens every month with a highly colored illustration, and takes its fascinating pictures from every kind of topic interesting to children; "The Nursery" gives one hundred and ninety original illustrations, and a very pretty cover trimmed with children of all ages; and "Our Little Ones and the Nursery" shows Oliver Optic's skilful editorship, and is beautified by 375 original illustrations. The authorized "Chatterbox" is fully up to its well-established fame, and contains reading for a year. Kroak's Kaleidoscope" has verses by Laura Richards and illustrations by A. Hochstein; and "Tell Tale from Hill and Dale" is one. of the sweetest colorbooks of this season. GEO. ROUTLEDGE & SONS' JUVENILES.-Their name is legion, but we take pattern by the Irish editor who printed, "Owing to press of matter our outside page remains blank this morning," and merely mention the special attractions of "One Hundred Famous Americans, biographical sketches peculiarly interesting to enterprising boys, by Helen Ainslie Smith; also her two books on natural history for very young people, called "Animals: Wild and Tame," and "Birds and Fishes ;" and a companion volume to the "Baby's Opera," which created such furore among mothers, "Baby's Own Esop," exquisitely illustrated and printed in colors. 44 THE WORTHINGTON Co.'s JUVENILES.-"Worthington's Natural History" makes a delightful basis for the little ones' first instruction in this fascinating study. Beginning with the familiar dog, cat, and goat, simple stories accompanied by full-page pictures initiate the young reader into the ways and habits of a large number of our domestic and wild animals. The pictures are printed in colored inks, and the cover has a bold design of animals and birds. 'Worthington's Annual for 1887" is as usual anxiously looked for by a host of young readers. Of this popular volume, the Mail and Express says: "It makes a handsome octavo of 216 pages, with a brilliant cover, a colored frontispiece, and upwards of three hundred illustrations, large and small, including many full-page ones, and a world of good reading in the shape of biography, papers on natural history, interesting stories, pleasant poems, and whatever else goes to the making of an entertaining, instructive, and thoroughly enjoyable book for young people. It is a library of good reading and a gallery of good pictures." Picturesque Tours in America of the Junior United Tourists Club," edited by the Rev. Edward T. Blomfield, and "How? or, spare hours made profitable for boys and girls," by Kennedy Holbrook, belong to the order of instructive books that should be in all juvenile libraries. "Ginevra," an entirely new Christmas book in a rich dress of scarlet and gold, receives from the Christian Union the following commendation: Mrs. Susan E. Wallace has retold in prose, and with many added and picturesque original touches, the old legend of 'Ginevra,' so familiar to us through Samuel Rogers' famous poem. The illustrations, which are gracefully drawn and expressive in feeling, are the work of General Lew. Wallace, the author of 'Ben-Hur.' Among the other desirable juveniles of this house are: "Sunday Chatterbox," "Christmas Elves," "Chatterbox Junior for 1885-86," "American Chatterbox," "Golden Chatterbox," "Children's Friend," "In Fields," and " Baby Chatterbox." AN EARTHLY PARADISE. From Life's Verses," ad ser. (White, Stokes & Allen.) From Home Fairies and Heart Flowers." (Copyright, 1886, by Harper & Bros.) The following names ana figures refer to the publishers and to the pages on which may be founa aescriptive notices of their more prominent books: American Art. 25 pl. Text by S. R. Koehler. $15. Book of the Tile Club. F. Hopkinson Smith. Photogravures. $25. .Houghton, M. Breezes from the Fields. Kennedy. 75 c.: pap., 50 c. Cassino. Fairy Flowers from Ocean Bowers. Shaw. $1. Cassino. Favorite Hymn Series. Ea. 75c.. Cassino. ..Lee & S. Greece and Rome. $10; full mor., $21... White, S. & A. Happy Christmas Time. $1.25... .Randolph. Happy Hunting Grounds. Hamilton Gibson, $7.50. Home Fairies and Heart Flowers. Sangster. Il. by Nelson. Lady of the Lake. Scott. $6; $10; $25.... Ticknor. Land and the Book. Thomson. 3 v. $9. .....Harper. Legendary History of the Cross. $3.75 ....Armstrong. Life and Times of Queen Victoria. Barnett-Smith. $3. Routledge. Houghton, M. Ticknor. ..White, S. & A. Longfellow's Complete Works. 11 v. Ea. $1.50; the set, Lyrics of Love. Kennedy. 75 c.; pap., 50 c... Cassino. Cassino. ..Harper. |