Copyright, 1895, by THE CENTURY Co. ready for publication. It is a comprehensive and graphically written history of the United States, from the discovery of the New World by the Northmen to the present time, embracing the principal incidents in the national annals, with such features of the social, political, and industrial history as lend themselves to instructive comment, suited to the comprehension of intelligent youth, and enriched by a high standard of pictorial art. This splendid history is the result of the labors of Edward S. Ellis, M. A., widely known as the author of books of adventure for young people, histories, and other works. He has been engaged on this history for many years, and the work has also had the benefit of painstaking literary revision. and historical verification by other skilled writers, whose labors have enriched the history by the addition of illustrative notes, by a general introduction and particularly by prefacing each chapter with a list of authorities and the sources of enlarged and supplementary reading. The work will contain about one thousand original illustrations specially prepared for this work, including over forty original photogravures and colored illustrations; also many portraits and maps. The history will be sold only by subs ription. (The Woolfall Company, 114 Fifth avenue, N. Ý.) WASHINGTON DIRECTING THE ARTILLERY AT TRENTON. Two of the foremost writers of history and adventure of the present day, Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt have collaborated in the preparation of Hero Tales from American History. It is not a mere book of anecdotes; the narrative, for the most part, deals with historical events of great importance. There is a sprinkling of biography. Appropriately enough the book begins with the story of Washington and ends with Lincoln. Between these two are given inspiring lessons from the career of many of the nation's heroes; Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Mad Anthony Wayne, Stephen Decatur, David Crockett, Lieutenant Cushing, and Admiral Farragut. The authors do not confine themselves to those who have won wide fame and undying glory, but take up many of the humbler heroes, whose deeds were nevertheless worthy of admiration and emulation. It is a stirring record of heroism throughout, of which any country might well be proud. (The Century Co.. New York. 12mo., 340 pp. $1.50.) The long projected and elaborately illustrated work, The Young People's Standard History of the United States, is now Admirers of Paul and Virginia, that beautiful story by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, will be glad to see it put in such attractive shape as in the edition just published. The illustrations, which are very numerous, were furnished by Maurice Leloir. Especially noticeable are the marginal designs all through the book in flowers, leaves. etc. It is bound in white with elaborate gilt scrolls and other ornaments, and enclosed in a paper box, the outside of which is an imitation of flowered satin. (T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York and Boston.) If the Scottish Chiefs is capable of giving the same pleasure to every youth that it gave to the writer when he read it at the age of thirteen then unfortunate is he who fails to read it in early life. Wallace is a hero to arouse most any boy's enthusiasm to the highest pitch and his daring deeds are such as to inspire the highest admiration. In this story history and romance have been blended by a master. ic A new and magnificent 12mo. edition of this standard novel has been issued in two volumes. It has numerous illustrations, including Wallace's monument, Alnwick castle, Sterling, Edinburgh, and Carlisle castles, Loch Katrine, Dumburton rock and castle, etc. The binding is green cloth adorned with scrolls and lettering in gilt. (T. Y. Crowell & Co, New York and Boston.) art- the adventures of the mosaic workers of St. Mark's. Aside from the literary style, of which the author was such a master, and the interest of the story, it will have an interest for the student of art The controvery which forms the main theme of the sketch seems to have arisen while Francisco and Valerio were employed upon the vestibule of St. Mark's. The work of these skilled artisans AULD BRIG O' DOON, AYR. Vol. I. page 209. From "Scottish Chiefs." (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) One of the most interesting writers of the time in the field of biography is Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. She has the faculty of presenting in the most attractive manner the life and work of prominent people. In her new book, Famous Leaders Among Women, she writes sympatheticalty and enthusiastically of Madame de Maintenon, the Empress Catharine of Russia, Madame Le Brun, Dolly Madison, Catherine Booth, Lucy Stone, "the gentle leader From "The Master Mosaic Workers." (Little, Brown & Co.) was done after designs of Titian and other excellent painters. who made colored cartoons of the same; hence its high quality. The story has been translated from the French by Charlotte C. Johnston and brought out in a handsomely printed edition with a frontispiece portrait of Titian. It is bound in green cloth with an appropriate gilt cover design. (Little, Brown & Co., Boston.) J. M. Barrie has obtained a strong hold on the public lately by his vivid pictures of Scotch life and character. In A Widow of Thrums we have a gallery of quaint and curious Scotch personages. An edition has just been issued, beautifully printed and bound, with illuminated title-page and many fine illustrations by THE HEART OF THRUMS. From T. M. Barrie's "A Widow of Thrums." (R. F. Fenno & Co.) John Keats is a magnificent edition in two volumes, edited with notes and appendices, by H. Buxton Forman. The poems are given from his own editions and other authentic sources and collated with many manuscripts. The volumes are beautifully illustrated with photogravures and other illustrations and the printing and make-up are excellent. The binding is very ornamental consisting of white back and corners with elaborate gilt design, the remainder of the cover being daisies on a delicately tinted background. (T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York and Boston. 2 vols., 12mo., boxed.) In the painting of pictures of Southern life, through the medium of negro dialect, there is no one that surpasses Thomas Nelson Page. His stories have plenty of action and yet they are full of tenderness, pathos, and humor. His colored people are undoubtedly idealized, and yet we recognize the substantial truth of the picture. His latest story is Unc' Edinburg, in which a colored individual of that name tells in his own peculiar way of the fortunes in business and love of himself and Marse George. The narrative is warranted to produce some broad smiles and some hilarious laughter. It is a vivid picture of Southern life before the war swept away over that section and changed the social condition of both the whites and the blacks. The book is elegantly illustrated by B. West Clinedinst, many of the illustrations covering a whole page. It is one of the most attractive of the holiday books. (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.) A White Baby is a story by James Walsh, the scene of which is laid near the Ashley river. The plot is interesting and the colored people who figure in the story, with their quaint ways and queer talk, are cleverly drawn. One can see that the author is thoroughly acquainted with the manners of the people of that region. The frontispiece was furnished by William McCullough. (Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 50 cents) "THERE SHE STOOD ABOUT A YOUNG BIRD'S FLUTTER FROM A WOOD." page 226. From "The Poetical Works of John Keats." (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) of a great reform," Lady Henry Somerset, Queen Victoria, and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. Her selection embraces great variety and an opportunity of chronicling wonderful events. It is by all odds the most charming of Mrs. Bolton's " Famous" books. (T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York and Boston. 12mo., cloth, $1.50.) In spite of ill health and other discouragements, probably no other man whose life was so brief ever accomplished more in literature than John Keats. His is one of those names that the world will not willingly let die. His fame is about as secure as any of the others of the long and glorious list of the British isles. Despite the defects in his poems due to youth and experience, the beautiful passages and poems are so numerous that no true lover of poetry can afford to overlook them. The Poetical Works of From Uue Edinburg." (Charles Scribner's Sons. 64 LIKE A SILVER CROSS DIVINELY JEWELED." From "A White Baby." (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) A collection of the poems of Edith M. Thomas, one of the most elegant writers of verse of the present day, has been issued in a little volume. Most of these poems are on nature and are full of bright fancies that will please young and old. The long poem, "Silvia and the Flowers." is a dialogue in which the child holds communion with these children of nature. "Under Green Boughs" is a collection of short poems dealing with various aspects of nature, and with the poet's animal and plant friends. "When Winter Comes" deals with features of that season, including Christmas. "What My Thought is Like" comprises a number of poems of a meditative cast. The book is adorned with beautiful initials and headpieces and tailpieces. In the Young World will certainly attract a wide circle of readers. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston. $1.50.) which has such a charming sound to the ears of most people is used freely, yet the English in the many beautiful descriptions scattered through the book is pure and correct. The plot of the story is well worked out and the love making has a happy ending. The story will attract readers on this side of the Atlantic because not only because it is the work of an expert literary craftsman, but because it describes unusual scenes and characters. (R. F. Fenno & Co., New York.) From "A Child of Tuscany." (A. C. McClurg & Co.) Hundreds of readers have become acquainted with Marguerite Bouvet's charming style in "My Lady," Sweet William, etc., historical and romantic pictures of child life in former centuries. In her latest story, A Child of Tuscany, she depicts life in that wonderful Italian city, Florence The story is told with truth, vividness, and dramatic force. The gay, careless life in "Florence, the fairest and most famous of the daughters of Rome," described, will be attractive to poetically minded readers. The book is illustrated by Will Phillips Hooper. (A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. $1.50.) Grace Le Baron, the author of Little Miss Faith, has produced another child's story, Little Daughter, that will help to make many bright eyes sparkle with pleasure. Its tone is good, so no parent can hesitate about placing it in a child's hands. The story of "Little Daughter is one of moral teaching and general instruction, so interwoven with incidents of pleasure as to make it of interest to older readers as well as the children. It tells of the child life of a girl and shows that little people not only have a place but an influence in the world, and much good can be accomplished by the little word of kindness. "Little Daughter is an independent story, the second in the Hazlewood series. (Lee & Shepard, Boston. 75 cents.) Among the novelists that have come to the front in the British isles recently by no means the least important is S.R.Crockett. Starting in as a short story writer, he has now launched out in a broader field, where he is meeting with success. About the best of his longer stories is A Galloway Herd, a story of Scotch life and character. It is the work of one who is thoroughly acquainted with the ways and the language of the people described and the country n which they live. The Scotch dialect S. R. CROCKET. From A Galloway Herd." (R. F. Fenno & Co.) Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, who has written some delightful books regarding colonial times, has produced a book for young people entitled A Last Century Maid and Other Stories. She has studied that period so thoroughly as to be familiar with life as it existed then; hence the book will be not only entertaining, but valuable reading for the young. They have been told that the grown people of a hundred years ago wore ruffles and powdered wigs and danced the minuet; in these stories they learn of the life of children of that time. In addition to the story that gives the title to the book there are "Kanichungo's Story,' Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six," "Roy's Christmas Eve." "A Dog and a Sunbeam în Prison," and "Little Peacemaker." The book is well illustrated and very handsomely bound in rose pink with an elegant design in white on the front cover and gilt letters. (J.B.Lippincott Co.,Philadelphia. $1.50) 66 All who are familiar with Shakespeare's works have noticed how many and vari ous are the female characters. In the representation of these the highest talent has been required on the stage, and scores of bright women have made their mark thereby. To give the history of each character and to show how it was handled by each actress has been the task performed by Charles E. L. Wingate in his volume Shakespeare's Heroines on the Stage. This has required much searching among dust covered shelves where rested antique play-bills and motheaten records. His labor is rewarded in the production of a volume that is valuable to the Shakespearean critic and interesting to the general reader. He details the history of Juliet, Beatrice, Viola, Imogen, Rosalind, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Portia, Ophelia, Desdemona, and others, and speaks of the acting of Fanny Kimble, Mary Anderson, Ellen Tree, Modjeska. Julia Marlowe, Adelaide Neilson, Ada Rehan, Janauschek, Ellen Terry, and many others in the different characters. The book is liberally illustrated. (T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York and Boston.) A beautiful picture of the life and times of our Lord is contained in the story by Annie Fellows Johnston, entitled Joel; A Boy of Galilee. The principal character in the story is a little Jewish boy who has been made a cripple by an older companion, and thereafter he cherishes a deadly hatred towards the author of his misfortune. He hears Christ's preaching, touches his hand, and is healed. Then he learns how to forgive his enemies, for the Master has taught it to him. The raising of Lazarus, the entry into Jerusalem, the crucifixion, and the resurrection, and other scenes with which we are familiar are wrought into the story, along with various passages from the sacred narrative. The ten full-page illustrations were furnished by Victor A. Searles. Certainly nothing could be more appropriate for a gift at the holiday season than this little book. (Roberts Brothers, Boston.) In Notes in Japan, Alfred Parsons, in text and illustrations, has presented exquisite studies of mountain and grove and temple, of flower and of quaint humanity, in a land that, suddenly and unexpectedly commanding attention, is now receiving it in a large measure from all the world. The author gives us glimpses of Japan at different seasons of the year under the following heads: "The Japanese Spring," "Early Summer in Japan," "The Time of the Lotus" and "Autumn in Japan," a feature very unusual in books of travel. While thus presenting to us pictures of the changing landscapes, he has not forgotten the manners and customs of the people, the cities, and other things of interest. (Harper & Bros., New York.) ELLEN TERRY AS OPHELIA. From "Shakespeare's Heroines on the Stage." (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) |