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Books and Authors

With Special Reference to Christmas Purchases

REALLY, IF books should be wiped out of existence, would not Christmas have to be given up? For books, for countless thousands, young and old, are the ideal gift, satisfying equally pride and taste and sentiment. And never has choice been so wide or so delightful as now.

Yes, do send me a book. Not a bargain book, bought from a haberdasher, but a beautiful book,

a book to caresspeculiar, distinctive, individual: a book that hath first caught your eye and then pleased your fancy, written by an author with a tender whim, all right out of his heart. We will read it together in the gloaming, and when the gathering dusk doth blur the page, we 'll sit with hearts too full for speech and think it

ESPECIALLY HAPPY selections for the friend who has traveled are Edith Wharton's "Italian Villas and Their Gardens" and James Eugene Farmer's "Versailles and the Court Under Louis XIV." Most of the fifty illustrations that beautify "Italian Gardens" are reproduced in the colors of the original, paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Exquisite in makeup, too, is this new record of Versailles, bound in rich blue cloth, with seventy illustrations in tint. And for the stay-at-home friend these are books to open up wonderful new worlds. A book less pretentious in form but rich in meat is Charles H. Caffin's "How to Study Pictures," just what the title would indicate. The friend who loves pictures could have no more acceptable gift.

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Dorothy Wordsworth in a letter to Coleridge.

IS THERE Some one to be remembered to whom a book of fiction would most appeal? The rich and unusual humor of "The Fugitive Blacksmith" commends it strongly. Give it to any man, and find how hard a time he has to snatch his own reading from the importunities of family and friends. "Plain Mary Smith" is full of riotous fun; "Jules of the Great Heart" is fresh and strong; and then there is Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's powerful story, "Constance Trescot," a book which physicians and lawyers find of peculiar interest. Other novels of the day include "The Northerner," "Under Rocking Skies," "Sabina ” (by the author of "Tillie"), "The Wheat Princess" (by the author of "When Patty Went to College"), and "Żal," Rupert Hughes's international romance. And there are the ever-welcome books by Alice Hegan Rice,

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WOULD YOU make an addition to home or friend's library of enduring value, what better than a standard biography? Andrew D. White's Autobiography is perhaps the most notable biographical work of the year; and young and old find it inspiring and delightful reading. Consider also the short life of Lincoln, condensed by John G. Nicolay from the great ten-volume history of Nicolay and Hay. And the "Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson" will recall many delightful evenings spent under the sway of the master-comedian of the American stage.

WOULD YOU know more of these and scores of other books? An exceedingly attractive catalog, printed in color, with full details, may be had for the asking. It has in it a classified list of books for children from six to ten, from ten to fourteen, etc. A postal-card request to The Century Co., Union Square, New York City, will bring it by return mail.

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IMPORTANT HOLIDAY BOOKS

LETTERS OF HENRIK IBSEN

A strikingly interesting correspondence, covering a period of fifty years, and constituting a continuous autobiography of the great dramatist. With a portrait. $2.50 net; postage extra.

MAN AND THE EARTH

By NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER, Professor of Geology in

Harvard University.

A study of the earth's inhabitants and its material resources for taking care of them. $1.50 net; postage 10 cents.

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A practical book of art criticisms by one of the foremost American painters and decorative artists.

$1.50 net; postage 10 cents. Illustrated edition. $2.50 net; postage extra.

AN EYE FOR AN EYE

By CLARENCE S. DARROW, of Chicago.

The story of a murder and its penalty.

AT THE SIGN OF THE DOLLAR

By WALLACE IRWIN

Pictures by E. W. KEMBLE. Racy satires on American topics.

MORE MISREPRESENTATIVE MEN

By Captain HARRY GRAHAM

Pictures by MALCOLM STRAUSS. More verses on celebrities.

CRANFORD: A Play

By MARGUERITE MERINGTON

$1.50.

$1.00.

$1.00.

Frontispiece in color by EDWIN WALLICK. A comedy made from Mrs. Gaskell's famous novel.

VERSES FOR JOCK AND JOAN

By HELEN HAY WHITNEY

$1.25.

Pictures in color by CHARLOTTE HARDING. Poems for children by the daughter of the late John Hay, Secretary of State.

$1.50.

FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

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IN THE TRACK OF THE MOORS Sketches in Spain and Northern
Africa. By SYBIL FITZGERALD. With fifty colored and many line drawings by
AUGUSTINE FITZGERALD. Large 8vo, 104 x734 in., net

THE CASENTINO AND ITS STORY BY ELLA NOYES. Illustrated in
color and line by DORA NOYES. 8vo, 9x7 in., net
SKETCHES ON THE OLD ROAD THROUGH FRANCE TO
FLORENCE By A. H. HALLAM MURRAY. Many illustrations in color and
black and white by the author. 8vo, 7 x 9 in., net

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THE HIGH ROAD OF EMPIRE Sketches in India and Elsewhere. By A. H. HALLAM MURRAY, author of "Sketches on the Old Road through France to Florence." 46 colored plates and many line drawings by the author. 8vo, 7 x 9 in., net NORMANDY The scenery and romance of its ancient towns depicted by GORDON HOME. Many illustrations in color and black and white. 8vo, 7 x 9 in., net. . 3.50 LHASA AND ITS MYSTERIES By L. AUSTIN WADDELL. 200 illustrations in color and half tone. Large 8vo, net

Any of the above sent prepaid on receipt of price.

6.00

E. P. DUTTON & CO., 31 West 23d Street, NEW YORK

BOOKS FOR PRESENTS

"THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF LAMB"

The Life of Charles and Mary Lamb

Two volumes, 8vo, 50 illustrations. Net, $6.00.

By E. V. LUCAS Editor of "The Works and Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb."

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"A perfect book about Charles Lamb, his sister and his friends. . . Might have been written by a contemporary of Lamb's so far as its vivid reality is concerned. A biography which for its comprehensiveness as a record, its store of anecdote, its sympathetic tone, and its winning style promises to take rank as a classic."-New York Tribune. Louis XIV. and La Grande Mademoiselle

By ARVÈDE BARINE

Authorized English Version. 8vo, illustrated. Net, $3.00 (by mail, $3.25). "It is bewildering to think of the many crowns and coronets that might have rested on the brow of this dramatic heroine, a heroine who appears and disappears in clouds of dust, with regiments of cavalry wheeling and whirling around her to the sound of the trumpetsthe stern devotee of reason who dismissed one of her maids because she married for love, the philosopher who debated in her mimic court whether an accepted lover is more unhappy than a rejected lover in the absence of the beloved."-London Times.

Portraits of the 18th Century

Translated by KATHARINE P. WORMELEY and G. B. IVES.

HISTORICAL AND
LITERARY

By C. A. SAINTE-BEUVE

Two parts, 8vo, with about 30 illustrations. Sold separately, each $2.50, net. The quality, the discernment and balance, intuitive grasp of essentials, the grace, force, and justice, of Sainte-Beuve's critical work have placed him in the front rank it would be better to say, have given him a place alone in the history of critical literature.

Romance of the French Abbeys

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By ELIZABETH W. CHAMPNEY Author of "Romance of Feudal Châteaux," "Renaissance Châteaux," etc Svo, with 2 colored, 9 photogravure, and 50 other illustrations. Net, $3.00 (by mail, $3.25).

A delightful blending of history, art, and romance. tion, "If you are fond of romance, read history."

The Life of Goethe

Translated by W. A. COOPER.

It fully carries out Guizot's sugges

By ALBERT BIELSCHOWSKY

To be complete in 3 parts. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Each, net, $3.50. PART 1.-1749-1788. FROM BIRTH TO THE RETURN FROM ITALY. Now Ready. Dr. Bielschowsky was acknowledged as the foremost authority on Goethe, and it is generally conceded that this is the most important life of Goethe, from the standpoint of scholarship, sympathetic interpretation, and literary art in fact, the most important biography of any man written in German for many years.

Kate Greenaway

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By M. H. SPIELMANN aud G. S. LAYARD

Large 8vo, with 53 full-page colored and 125 other illustrations. Net, $6.50. Those who think of Kate Greenway merely as the designer of pretty pictures for children will be surprised to learn what an interesting and important personage she was. Mr. Spielmann shows that among the best artists and critics of Europe, Miss Greenaway is regarded as one of the artist geniuses of the Nineteenth Century. This book is something more than a personal biography. It is rather a peep behind the scenes, led by Kate Greenaway, into the intimate converse of the foremost artists and writers of our times. The St. Lawrence River

HISTORICAL, LEGENDARY

PICTURESQUE,

8vo, 100 illustrations. Net, $3.50. By GEORGE WALDO BROWNE This work presents in a consecutive narrative the most important historic incidents connected with the river, combined with descriptions of some of its most picturesque scenery and delightful excursions into its legendary lore.

NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

LONDON

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