GEO. H. ELLIS, Boston, has ready for Christmas shoppers two new books by Protap Chunder Mozoomdar, "The Dispensation of the Spirit" and "Heart-Beats," a book of meditations. Among the recently issued books sure to be called for are a new edition of "The Oriental Christ," by the same author as the two new books mentioned above; "The Spiritual Life," studies of devotion and worship; "Discourses," by Edward H. Hall; "Jesus and Modern Life," by M. J. Savage; and "Uplifts of Heart and Will," religious aspirations in prose and verse, by James H. West.

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ESTES & LAURIAT have several publications this year, manufactured with a special view to pleasing holiday shoppers."The Queen of the Adriatic," a most interesting compilation describing Venice, is uniform with "The Lily of the Arno" and " Genoa, the Superb," brought out in former years, and is fully described in our front pages. An Illustrated Holiday Edition of "Ivanhoe is in two volumes, the text printed on fine paper in a small page from new and large type set off by ample margins. There are twenty illustrations in etching and photogravure. The twelve etchings were drawn and engraved in Paris by the celebrated French artist, Ad. Lalauze, and are printed on imperial Japan paper. The binding is stamped in gold and colors and the volumes are neatly boxed. There is also a Parchment Edition of Walter Scott's masterpiece, limited to 150 numbered copies, printed on Enfield hand-made paper, with impressions of the illustrations on India

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The Parchment Edition of "Hudson's Illustrated Shakespeare" is in twelve volumes, illustrated with thirty-six etchings, printed on imperial Japan paper from designs by the celebrated French artist, H. Pillé, etched by L. Monzies, which are here used for the first time in an American edition of Shakespeare. The paper used has a fine laid surface and the binding is full genuine French parchment, enclosed in a fine undressed glove-leather case. Encouraged by the success of the handsome edition of William Ware's "Zenobia," Estes & Lauriat have this year put "Aurelian, Emperor of Rome," into the same shape, printed it from new plates, and illustrated it with half-tone plates from photographs of scenes and places in Rome described in this once very popular novel. Another important souvenir of Rome is "Rome of To-Day and Yesterday," by John Dennie, describing the city as it now appears-its ruins, castles, palaces and cathedrals-a romance, history and guide-book combined, illustrated with twenty half-tone reproductions of photographs. Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" is ready in five volumes, illustrated with etchings, photogravures, and over 120 half-tone plates from drawings by noted Parisian artists, uniform with the "Hans of Iceland" and NôtreDame," published in former years in the Illustratea Holiday Edition; and his great drama,

Ruy Blas," is for the first time produced in book form in English, embellished with etchings by the Paris artist Champollion, from drawings by the painter Adrian Moreau, and printed throughout on parchment linen drawing

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paper. Only 500 copies of the latter work have been printed, and they are sure to be wanted by theatre-goers who have heard many favorite actors speak its noble lines. It would be a most suitable gift to admirers of Edwin Booth who achieved some of his greatest triumphs in the rôle "Ruy Blas." Owen Meredith's "Lucile," perhaps the most popular of English poems, is this year brought out with photogravures from landscape views and authentic photographs of the scenes and localities mentioned in the charming love-song. A charming ideal of the heroine by W. C. Taylor, reproduced in photogravure, forms the frontispiece. A fine work of art which these publishers have year after year is the edition with French text of "The Paris Salon" of the year. The volume for 1893, prepared by Ludovic Baschet, has been manufactured entirely in Paris, and has been printed and bound in red silk cloth, with design in colors by skilled French craftsmen. This magnificent collection of 100 photogravures printed in colors by hand surpasses almost any other volume in variety of subject and perfection of execution.

FORDS, HOWARD & HULBERT have no distinctive holiday publications, but have some works of value to historians and Bible students. A very interesting work is "Two German Giants," by John Lord, the celebrated author of "The Beacon-Lights of History," who under that title

writes of Frederick the Great and Prince Bismarck, founder and builder of the great German Empire. To Doctor Lord's words are added a character sketch of Bismarck by Bayard Taylor and Bismarck's great speech on the enlargement of the German army in 1888, and the text of the Austro-German treaty referred to in Bismarck's speech. Among works of religious importance are the "Interwoven Gospels," by William Pittenger, making a continuous story of the life of Jesus; "The Pilgrim in Old England," being the Southwick Lectures for 1892, at Andover Theological Seminary, which contained a history of the Congregational Church in England; and "The Sistine Madonna," a Christmas meditation, by Dr. Amory H. Bradford, of Montcalm, N. J., made into a pretty booklet on Japan paper. The works of Henry

Ward Beecher, published by this firm, may always be profitably drawn upon for Christmas presents.

FUNK & WAGNALLS Co. publish in their American Reformers Series " Henry Ward Beecher, the Shakespeare of the Pulpit," a compact and succinct biography by Rev. John H. Barrows, presenting a graphic picture of the personality of the great Brooklyn preacher; and "John B. Gough, the Apostle of Cold Water," by Dr. Carlos Martyn, already favorably known as the biographer of Wendell Phillips. The Columbian Historical Novels, which have appeared in regular order throughout the year, are now drawing to a close. "Sustained Honor," the tenth volume of the series, deals in a thoroughly interesting way with the War of 1812; it will

tions of some of the representative works of the masters of engraving at different stages of the development of the art. The works of Albert Dürer, of Hans Holbein, and of the other famous wood-cutters of the sixteenth century, and even those of Bewick and the engravers who aided in the revival of the art at the beginning of the present century, are brought into sharp contrast with the delicate specimens of workmanship produced by living American artists. The work is a royal octavo, with uncut edges, and is sumptuously bound in ornamental leather. A most appropriate Christmas offering is "The ChristChild in Art," by Henry Van Dyke, who has interpreted the meaning of the Gospel narrative of the infancy of Jesus and touched upon many of the legends which have gathered about it, proving how much less they are worth than the primitive record in the simple language of Matthew and Luke. He illustrates his work with the bestknown pictures by the great old and great new masters who have made the "old, old story" live on their canvases from generation to generation. The volume makes a showy giftbook in its ornamental cloth cover, with uncut edges, gilt top. Still another handsome illustrated work of which the subject is fresh and the treatment exceptionally gcod is Lieut.Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge's work on "Riders of Many Lands," illustrated with numerous drawings by Frederic Remington and from photographs of Oriental subjects. This beautiful volume embraces a series of descriptive and historical chapters on equestrianism in America, and on Arabian, Egyptian, Turkish and other Oriental riders, and contains a vast amount of curious information never before collected within a single volume. Mr. Remington is peculiarly in sympathy with his subject, and his illustrations add not a little to both the interest and value of the volume. Among books recently issued by the Harpers which can be advantageously used for gift purposes may also be mentioned Julian Ralph's "Our Great West," profusely illustrated; A. Conan Doyle's "The Refugees," a story of consummate interest, containing situations of great power, illustrated by T. de Thulstrup; and General Lew Wallace's remarkable work, "The Prince of India." A long and eagerly expected work of enduring value has been made ready just at the Christmas season and will give untold pleasure to all lovers of American literature. "The Letters of James Russell Lowell," edited by Charles Eliot Norton, are published in two volumes illustrated with portraits. The letters, chiefly familiar, cover a very wide range in Mr. Lowell's friendships and career. Among the letters are those to Henry W. Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Hughes, W. D. Howells, C. F. Briggs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leslie Stephen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mrs. J. T. Fields, J. L. Motley, including the editor of the work, and many other life-long friends of the dead

be followed by "Humbled Pride," a story of the Mexican War and "Union," the concluding volume, which will deal with the Civil War and bring the record of the Stevens family down to the present time. All the volumes of the series are from the pen of John R. Musick, whose idea of tracing in this way the history of a single family from the days of Columbus to our own time, and weaving a network of historical fact about this central subject, has been felicitously carried out. Two books of interest recently published are "Sleep and Dreams," a pleasantly written dissertation on an interesting scientific subject, by Dr. Friedrich Scholz, of the Bremen Insane Asylum, translated by H. M. Jewett, and "Humanics," a volume of essays on many topics of the time, by John Staples White.

HARPER & BROTHERS have some specially fine holiday books. Their tasteful edition of Charles Reade's "Cloister and the Hearth" is fully described in our front pages. Among the books that will be prized by art-lovers is a sumptuous volume devoted to "Masters and Masterpieces of Engraving," the text written by Willis O. Chapin, comprising a history of the art of engraving from the earliest rude efforts to the wonderfully perfect achievements of our own time, illustrated by sixty engravings and heliotypes, consisting chiefly of reproduc

poet. Green's "Short History of the English People," of which the fourth and concluding volume is just ready, is one of the greatest publishing undertakings of the day and a marvellous success. Its beauty of text and illustration is beyond all praise, and this fine specimen of book-making is an inexhaustible mine of information on all subjects connected with the every-day life of our English ancestors. No handsomer gift is on the list of any publisher this season. The Harpers also have several neat little volumes of poems and dainty specimens of book-making which are mentioned in our front pages.

A. J. HOLMAN & Co. have Bibles in every language, in every type, in every size and in every kind of binding. Their newest kind of Bible is the "Self-Pronouncing Sunday-School Teachers' Bible," in which all the proper names are divided into syllables, with the diacritical markings given, which indicate the correct use of the variable vowel and consonant sounds used in their pronunciation-a feature of great value to Bible students, which in this "Teachers' Bible" is taken from most reliable sources, and is already in receipt of testimonials from Bible experts. In addition to this distinctive feature this Bible has concordances, maps, indexes and all helps required for the most advanced SundaySchool classes. This Bible can be had in bindings ranging from the cheapest to the most sumptuous. The Holmans also have an edition of "The Book of Common Prayer" according to the Standard of 1892, and have put it into most tempting holiday bindings.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have made beautiful Holiday Editions of Holmes' "Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table;" Mrs. Deland's "The Old Garden, and other verses;" Longfellow's

"The Hanging of the Crane, and other poems of home;" and Sarah Orne Jewett's "Deephaven." The dear old "Autocrat" is fully noticed in our front pages. "The Old Garden" since it first appeared in 1886 has been steadily growing in popular favor. The subjects of the poems appeal to lovers of nature, especially lovers of flowers, and their fresh and thoughtful treatment and their lyrical grace give to them an enduring charm. They lend themselves admirably to decorative illustration, especially to a master like Mr. Walter Crane. His designs (which number 100) for these poems are simply exquisite. He has never done anyThe binding of the book is in a new and interesting thing more attractive or more artistic. style, admirably suited to show to the best advantage Mr. Crane's charming designs. A limited Large-Paper Edition is also on hand. Longfellow's always musical poem has photogravure illustrations from designs by E. H. Garrett, W. L. Taylor, F. T. Merrill, I. H. Caliza and Clifford Carleton. Nine other poems with the popular editions of "Sir Launfal" ard are included in the volume, which is uniform 'Snow-Bound," published in former seasons. Miss Jewett's Deephaven" offers many a salient situation to tempt an artist's pencil, and Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury have designed about fifty sketches for this Holiday Edition that indicate the tone and atmosphere of the story and represent with fidelity the phases of New Engcally describes. The book is carefully printed and has a pretty cover design by Mrs. Henry Whitman. Besides these distinctively festive books this house can be drawn upon for an endless supply of remarkably well written biography and American history with which to please friends in whom such literary taste is

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uppermost. Among this class of books we briefly mention Collingwood's "Life of John Ruskin;" Herbert B. Adams' "Life and Writings of Jared Sparks ;" George E. Woodberry's Life of James Russell Lowell;" "Letters of Asa Gray," America's great botanist, edited by Jane Loring Gray; "Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott," edited by David Douglas; J. T. Morse's "Life of Abraham Lincoln;" Alfred M. Williams' "Sam Houston and the War of Independence in Texas," etc. Two works of Japan may also be used to advantage as presents to interested friends: Alice M. Bacon's "A Japanese Interior," in artistic binding, and Lafcadio Hearn's Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan," in two volumes, a work of great value and written in Mr. Hearn's most brilliant English. Several poetical works are also made ready for the Christmas book-shelves: "The Dayspring from on High," by Emma Forbes Cary; "A Roadside Harp," by Louise Imogen Guiney; "The Poems of Thomas William Parsons; "In Sunshine Land," by Edith M. Thomas, and "White Memories," three poems on Bishop Brooks, Whittier and Mrs. Lucy Larcom, written by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. Several of these are marvels of pretty bookmaking and are more fully referred to under Dainty Books elsewhere in this issue. Sets of our greatest American writers are among the publications of this house, and always make most acceptable but unfortunately rather too expensive gifts for average bookbuyers. A new edition of Mrs. Whitney's stories and other writings is mentioned in detail under New Editions of Standard Works elsewhere in this issue.

HUNT & EATON have several volumes of selections, among which the most important are "Thoughts for the Thoughtful," selected and edited by Adelaide S. Seaverns; and "Thoughts on God and Man," selections from the works of Frederick William Robertson "of Brighton," edited by Joseph B. Burroughs. The latter little book is very neatly gotten up and contains a portrait of Dr. Robertson. A most interesting work for a clergyman of any persuasion is

"Mexico in Transition from the Power of Political Romanism to Civic and Religious Liberty," by William Butler; and for Sunday-school teachers the "Illustrative Notes to the SundaySchool Lessons for 1894." edited by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut and Robert Remington Doherty, always make a useful and most appreciated present. Other works that can be given with the certainty of being pleasing to the right recipient are Pulpit and Platform," sermons and addresses by Rev. O. H. Tiffany; "Annotations upon Popular Hymns," by Charles Seymour Robinson; "The Epic of Life," by John Clark Ridpath, illustrated by Will Vawter; and "The Prophecies of Daniel Expounded," by Milton S. Terry.

HURST & Co. have included in an interesting series entitled the Woodcliffe Series "The Woman's Story," edited by Laura C. Holloway, twenty short stories by twenty famous American authors, short biographies of whom are included; and "From the Nile to Norway," by Theodore L. Cuyler, who pleasantly describes things he saw, giving special attention to temperance, noted preachers, famous churches, etc.

THE INTERNATIONAL BIBLE AGENCY, New York City, have about 250 styles of "Teachers' with new helps, new maps, fine bindings and Bibles," the smallest large-type Bibles published clear print. The new illustrated helps and aids in these Bibles are prepared by both American who have worked on them include some of the and English scholars, and the names of those most noted Biblical scholars of the world.

W. R. JENKINS makes a specialty of pretty French stories gotten up with vocabularies to aid those still struggling with the mysteries of the language to enjoy the works that have for long been favorites in France. A few of these stories would be most acceptable offerings for young college girls. This house also has editions of the "Goupil Paris Salon" for 1893, with text in French and English. A fine edition of "Victor Hugo's Novels is also on the lists