S. E. CASSINO's holiday publications show judgment in selection and taste in execution. "Artists of New England and Their Work" is compiled and edited by Frank T. Robinson, the well-known art amateur. Each artist represented has contributed a full-page illustration, presumed to be characteristic of his work, which have been reproduced by process. In addition a biography of each artist has been prepared by Mr. Robinson, each having a head and tail piece executed by the artist himself, and a portrait. Four different limited editions are issued in various styles and on different paper, and one edition gives the autograph signatures of all the artists. Two extremely pretty little folios of loose etchings are prepared by Louis K. Harlow. "Thames Sketches' gives many views of the working scenes and pleasure scenes on London's river, and "Coast Sketches" gives views of home scenes and happenings on the coasts of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Long Island, etc., The same artist has put very lovely work in the "Whittier Gems," containing full-page colored illustrations and many little pictures in the borders of the pages, on which verses from Whittier are printed on squares of a restful shade of gray surrounded by a contrasting red line. This is bound in rough parchment with a dainty little handpainting and makes a very charming souvenir. Miss Lurabel Harlow has done the text as well as the artistic work on a souvenir gotten up in the

style of the "Whittier Gems," in memory of Louisa May Alcott, giving a short sketch of her life and descriptions of her various books, with illustrations of the "little men" and "little women" who have so delighted their little and big brothers and sisters and taught so many useful lessons so charmingly. Four very pretty little booklets have been made ready by J. Pauline Sunter, composed of verses of favorite poets, with illustrations in monotint and pretty cover designs in color. The titles are: "Wandering Winds," "Summer Roses," "A Little Bird's Song on My Birthday," and "A Winter Song." Little booklets that might be used to advantage by Sundayschool teachers at the Christmas festivals have been made of the dear old hymns, " Jesus, Lover of My Soul," "Lead, Kindly Light," "Rock of Ages," and "Jerusalem, the Golden."

THE CENTURY Co., following the precedent of previous years, has not expended its great resources on the regulation Christmas book. It offers a volume always in season, and appealing directly to the lovers of wild sport and life in the far West. " Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail" is its title. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, the author of Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," and President of the Boone and Crockett Club of New York, a practical sportsman and an experienced and graceful writer, embraces in this handsome volume some of his most exciting and novel hunting

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Mr. Frederic Remington, a no less noted sportsman, furnishes the illustrations, which are drawn directly from life, and notably spirited and real.

ROBERT CLARKE & Co. have a book that will delight the heart of young amateur artists, although it is sufficiently technical to be of use to those who are starting in to make painting their profession. The title is "Painting in Oil," by Miss M. Louise McLaughlin, and it is the fourth in a series of art manuals by this writer which the firm is publishing. Every line in the book works towards its purpose and the author thoroughly understands her great subject. "Ohio," the poem written for the centennial celebration in 1888, by Bertha Monroe Rickoff, has been illustrated with many full-page pictures by E. J. Meeker, whose work has often been seen in the Century Magazine, and a pretty book has been prepared in white parchment covers. "Master Virgil," a series of studies by J. S. Tunison, is a scholarly work that will please a classical student mightily. T. Y. CROWELL & Co. have acquired promi

nence during the past few years by their translations of the best and highest class of works of foreign authors. Chief in magnitude and importance stands the edition of Victor Hugo's prose works in fifteen volumes, with upward of artists, including the weird sketches by the ausix hundred illustrations by distinguished French thor which were on exhibition in Paris last winter. The translations are entirely new and carefully done. Besides the enormous task of translating "Les Misérables," Miss Hapgood has finished "Nôtre-Dame," "Toilers of the Sea," and "By Order of the King." Mrs. Nathan Haskell Dole was entrusted with "Ninetythree" and Mr. Huntingdon Smith with "The History of a Crime." All these works have now been gotten up in cloth, half calf, and half crushed they have also been compressed into a popular edimorocco bindings in the 15-volume edition, and tion of six volumes, retaining every picture howthose who still must pass the finer edition by. A ever, and being a most excellent make-shift for uniform edition of Count Tolstol's works in thirteen volumes puts one of the greatest writers of the

century within the reach of every library, and shows his unique power as novelist, historian, religionist, and humanitarian, while giving an impression of the man himself that must be an inspiration and a help to every human being striving to assist his fellow-men. The Red Line Poets are all again ready in their various holiday costumes and always make pretty gifts. A little manual very neatly dressed is "Golden Words for Daily Counsel," giving on each page a Bible text, a prose selection, and a verse, selected and arranged by Anna Harris Smith and Huntingdon Smith. The authors range from Thomas à Kempis to Phillips Brooks, and nearly all literatures are represented. The book specially aims to teach personal duty and forbearance and will help any Christian, whether Catholic or Protestant.

CUPPLES & HURD have a new book of travel by W. H. H. Murray, author of "Adirondack Tales," which they have entitled "Daylight Land." Mr. W. H. H. Murray has chosen the northwestern side of the continent for the

scenes of this book and prcaced a volume full of information, with vivid descriptions of magnificent scenery, which has been illustrated with one hundred and fifty cuts in various colors, by many well-known artists. They have two or three more interesting works which hardly come under the head of gift-books, including a second edition of "Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos," from prose of Heinrich Heine; and Grimm's "Life of Raphael," with frontispiece after Braun of the recently discovered portrait, outlined by Raphael in chalk.

DE WOLFE, FISKE & Co. have now ready for of the months, by Margaret P. Janes and others, the holiday season "The Artist's Year," poems with an illustration for each month by a repre

sentative American artist; and a new edition of Songs of Bird Life," from the German, translated by Josephine Pollard, with illustrations by

Giacomelli

DODD, MEAD & Co. have some sumptuous art books this season. Their richest publication is

"Etchings by French Artists," which they bring out in book-form with short descriptions of each of the ten etchings, and also fifty impressions on Japan paper of the etchings only, which are put up in portfolios. It is a collection to make the mouth of an artist water, and considering its intrinsic value is sold very reasonably. "Rembrandt's Etchings" gives fifty of the most notable ones, reproduced in Paris, with a biography of the painter and notes to each painting by Charles B. Curtis. Of this the regular edition is in vellum, but fifty copies are on Japan paper. An edition of Halévy's "Abbé Constantin," translated into English, but wholly manufactured in France, is limited to 750 copies, of which 500 have been bespoken for America. It has all the illustrations of the French édition de luxe of last year and appears in a silk wrapper. Two dainty books are offered in "Through the Woods and Fields with Tennyson” and “Under the Greenwood Tree with Shakespeare," each furnished with eighteen illustrations from dainty designs in colors by Wedworth Wadsworth, and gotten up in a neat box. There is also a new edition of "Nature's Serial Story," with all the original illustrations by Gibson, Dielman, and others, at a surprisingly low price.

E. P. DUTTON & Co. use all their facilities for holiday books in presenting colored and monotint publications of great beauty and finish. Twice during the year a member of the firm has crossed the ocean to make arrangements for the books that now bear its imprint. Most imposing volumes are "The Cathedrals of England and Wales," by Charles Whibley, with a preface by Bishop Potter, of New York, giving sixteen fullpage colored plates and sixty-four monotints; and Midsummer-Night's Dream," a companion volume to" Undine," by the same artist. "All Things Bright and Beautiful" must be seen to convey any idea of its beauty of get-up in cloth and also in Japanese calf. "Sweet Nature" is a companion

to the "Treasures of Art and Song" of last seaThere is a bewildering array of booklets, souvenirs, etc., all printed in monotint and color

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and bound with rare taste and finish. Of these

we rapidly mention: "Floral Friends," familiar flowers with appropriate verses by prominent poets; "Onward," a text-book for every day of the month; "As Thy Days So Shall Thy Strength Be," a text-book for a month, illustrated by Fred Hines; "Talking with Jesus ;" By the Right "The Better Land;" Way;" Life's Pathway;" "In the Service of the King;" Everlasting Love;""Songs of Love and Joy;" and "Songs for Life's Journey." Mary D. Brine, whose "Grandma's Attic Treasures" was so beautiful, has prepared a companion volume fully as bewitching, to be called "Grandma's Memories." A line of monotint books, booklets, and novelties, to be had at from 15 cents to $1.25 retail, includes an endless variety of pretty hymns and verses, classified as the Walking with God series; Heavenly Wisdom series; Poetic Gem series; In the Poet's Garden series, etc. Ways of PleasantElegy ;' Evening Bells;" Gray's

ness;"

Village Blacksmith "Falling Leaves; Christmas Roses; ""Violets Sweet;""Golden Leaves; Sweet Pansies; The Message of the Dove;" Christmas Song," etc., etc., ad infinitum, make a collection of pretty gifts and souvenirs that will satisfy every taste and desire both in literary matter and mechanical execution.

ESTES & LAURIAT have so many beautiful books

especially prepared for the season that words fail us in attempting to do them all justice. Their most superb publication, and the one of most original merit, is "Endymion," illustrated by W. St. John Harper. Truly may we apply to this exquisite edition the oft-quoted opening lines of Keats' beautiful poem >

A thing of beauty is a joy forever":
Its loveliness increases: it will never
Pass into nothingness."

The artist has surpassed himself in interpreting the graceful, poetical imaginings of the poet. It is a real delight to examine his work. Nothing excelling it in permanent value, real artistic merit, refinement of fancy, elegance and finish has passed through our hands this season. His designs appear as head and tail pieces, as portions of the text, and as full-page pictures. The originals were paintings, some forty-eight in number, and have been reproduced in photoetchings by Frank E. Barentzen, and beautifully printed in many lovely tints. The work is offered only in a limited edition de luxe of 250 copies, printed on imperial Japan paper, and enshrined in a rich yellow satin cover, lettered in gold. We take next in the order of review Tennyson's "Fairy Lilian," as another fine specimen of American art. F. S. Church, Hamilton Gibson, T. Moran, Edmund H. Garrett, Charles Copeland, W. St. J. Harper, Jessie C. Shepherd, and Maud Humphrey have made some charming pictures for "Fairy Lilian" and other poems of Tennyson. Each page has a delicate border in tint surrounding the text or illustrablue and white cloth, has an elaborate decoration printed in black. The cover, in delicate tion in gilt after a design by W. L. Taylor.

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European Etchings," a handsome volume, 18 x 13 inches, embraces a series of twenty-two original describes the pictures and gives some biographetchings by famous foreign artists. proofs on satin, on India paper, genuine parchVarious editions are issued, with ment, and Japan paper. Following this in order is "Recent Italian Art," a work equally large, and in a rich scarlet and gold cloth cover. The specimens here are photo-etchings in tints, printed very carefully. They are also accompanied by biographical and descriptive text from the "The Goupil Galpen of Walter Rowlands. lery of Photogravures" presents ten photogravures by Goupil et Cie., of Paris, from recent Salon favorites. It is a large quarto, and has some descriptive text. Poems of Tennyson, lustrated in a small quarto volume under the Goethe, Moore, Longfellow, and Scott are ilThe Bugle Song." The illustrations are by American artists and extremely pretty and graceful. The volume makes a most desirable low-priced gift. "Song-Birds and Seasons," a collection of essays in the style of Thoreau and Burroughs, on the charm of outdoor life, the beauties of nature, and the many inhabitants of the forests, is daintily gotten up, and illustrated with a number of Giacomelli's graceful plates. Among the many fine editions of standards this house gets up, we would call attention to the limited edition of " George Eliot's Poems," and the édition de luxe of Victor Hugo's "NôtreDame de Paris." They are both superb specimens of book-making in which collectors will take great delight. The first is printed on hand-made linen paper, and is illustrated with thirteen artist proofs, on Japan paper, of photo-etchings and etchings by the best known American artists. The "Nôtre

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