tone pictures from life. All Presbyterians will welcome the handsome volume of "Addresses Delivered at the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Westminster Assembly," containing the twelve addresses delivered at the Winona Lake convention, held in May, 1898; while a helpful little book for earnest readers is "At the Evening Hour," a series of simple talks to young men, by Dr. E. D. Warfield, of Lafayette College. Among books announced for publication are "The Best Hymns," a text-book for memorizing favorite sacred poetry, and "The Best Church Hymns," both by Rev. L. F. Benson; and a valuable doctrinal exposition of "The Fundamental Principles of the Roman Catholic Church," by Rev. Hugh Foster. This firm issues a large and varied line of attractive booklets, Bible text-books, and simple tracts, appropriate for Sunday-school and Bible classes, and those who wish to mark the Christmas season by such suitable mementos cannot do better than to avail themselves of the opportunity for choice here offered.

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G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS bring out the concluding volume of their handsome edition of Washington Irving, which is devoted to "The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A." Of this there will be a Pawnee and a Colorado edition, both of which have already been fully described in the preceding pages. The Tappan Zee edition of "Irving's Belles-Lettres Works," in twelve volumes, is also admirably adapted for presentation purposes. It includes The Sketch-Book," Knickerbocker," "Bracebridge Hall,' 'Traveller," Alhambra," "Crayon," and "Wolfert's Roost," all beautifully printed and bound in a new style that is very attractive. In selecting for friends of historic and biographic interests the books of this house offer excellent variety. "Historic Towns of New England," edited by Rev. Lyman P. Rowell, is made up of twelve separate papers, devoted each to a special town and written by a recognized authority on the subject. The towns included are Portland, Rutland, Salem, Bos

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ton, Cambridge, Concord, Plymouth, Cape Cod Towns, Deerfield, Newport, Providence, Hartford, and New Haven; and their respective chroniclers are S. T. Pickard, Edwin D. Mead, Geo. D. Latimer, T. W. Higginson and E. E. Hale, S. A. Eliot, Frank B. Sanborn, Ellen Watson, Katherine Lee Bates, George Sheldon, Susan Coolidge, William B. Weeden, Mary K. Talcott, and F. H. Cogswell. The book, with its 150 illustrations, forms a contribution of distinct and permanent value to the history of New England and of the country. "Historic New York" is the collective title of the second series of Half-Moon Papers, so cleverly edited by Maud Wilder Goodwin, Ruth Putnam, Alice Carrington Royce, and Eva Palmer Brownell ; and Elbert Hubbard, after having taken readers year by year to the homes of "Famous Women," "Good Men and Great," and "American Authors," this year is guide in "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen," and has brought together delightfully interesting information on George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John Jay, William H. Seward, and Abraham Lincoln. An admirable collection of immortal papers is the Citizens' edition, edited by Paul L. Ford, of "Great Words of Great Americans," comprising the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Washington's Circular Letter to the Governors of the thirteen States, Washington's two Inaugurals and his Farewell Address, and Lincoln's first and second Inaugural and his Gettysburg addresses. Nothing better could be presented to a young man who has just come into his rights as citizen. Under the rather gruesome title of "Where Ghosts Walk," Marion Harland (Mrs. Terhune) has prepared a series of papers devoted to historic places closely connected with characters familiar in history and literature. The clever idea is cleverly carried out, and all Mrs. Terhune's words prove her to have gained her material by close personal observation. Thirtythree illustrations further brighten her already bright pages. Elizabeth Luther Cary has had

the courage to make another book about "Tennyson: His Homes, His Friends, and His Work," and has shown good critical judgment and an effective literary style. Twenty illustrations of places that have known Tennyson have been made for the pretty book. "The Romance of the House of Savoy, 1005-1519" tells the history of the present royal house of Italy, as studied by Alethea Weil. The work is in two volumes, illustrated from contemporary sources. A very dainty set of year-books is also ready, a reissue in new style of binding of "About Men: What Women Have Said"; "About Women: What Men Have Said"; "About Children: What Men and Women Have Said," all Rose Porter's tasteful arrangements, to which has now been added "Concerning Friendship," compiled by Eliza Atkins Stone. A volume of selections from the poets is also ready under the title "Wit and Wisdom from Many Minds," which is brought out in two volumes placed side by side in a flat box uniform with "Short Sayings of Famous Men," makes a very pretty offering for young and old. "The Encyclopædia of Sport," edited by the Earl of Suffolk, is invaluable as a book for constant reference, and comes in two sumptuous volumes, with illustrations specially designed for. the work. The Library of Famous Novels has reached ten volumes, each having sixteen original illustrations on Japan paper. In this handsome shape may be had "Hypatia," "Henry Esmond,' "Last Days of Pompeii," "Cranford," "Jane Eyre,' Shirley," "Ivanhoe," "Rob Roy," "A Tale of Two Cities," etc., etc.

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RAND, MCNALLY & Co. have a holiday offering sure of wide popularity in their fine twovolume edition of George Eliot's "Romola." With its fifty full-page monogravure illustra

tions in soft-toned browns, its clear, attractive pages, its elaborate cover designs in Florentine traceries of delicate green and gold, this edition in its neat box is a worthy setting for the famous romance of old Florence. Of new novels there are a dozen or more titles that will tempt those who seek to delight a novel-reading friend. Stanley Waterloo has followed up his brilliant "Story of Ab" with "Armageddon," a powerful romance set in the twentieth century, picturing the results of the AmericanSpanish war of 1898 in a great international conflict, with America, England, and Japan ranged against the other powers of the world, and setting forth the triumph of invention over brute force in the great final battle of Armageddon. In "Enoch, the Philistine," Le Roy Hooker has gone as far back in the past as Waterloo has gone in the future, for his tale, which is supposedly told in the traditional," roll of Enoch," is set in Egypt under the shadow of the great pyramid, and carries the reader into the days of the Philistines, and of the despotism and triumphs of the Pharaohs. There are two capital stories of English history in "The Fifth of November," by Charles S. Bentley and F. Kimball Scribner, who have woven a web of love and adventure about the famous Gunpowder Plot, and "At the Blue Bell Inn," a volume of picturesque stories of the stirring Cromwellian days, by J. S. Fletcher. Helen M. Bowen's romance, "A Daughter of Cuba," deals with a subject in which nowadays all Americans are interested; "A Maid of the Frontier," by Henry Spofford Canfield, tells of the dangers and daring of pioneer life in the Southwest; and Mrs. Frank Pope Humphreys in "Phoebe Tilson" gives a keen and characteristic study of New England village life. There are two important new books

of travel. "Along the Bosphorus," by Mrs. Lew Wallace, is a volume of pleasant reminiscences of journeyings in Turkish cities, illustrated with full-page monogravures from original photographs, and showing not only keen appreciation of natural beauties and picturesque scenes, but giving interesting glimpses of the social and domestic life in Turkey, the status of women, and the strength and weaknesses of Islamism. Oriental also is Charles Warren Stoddard's narrative of "A Cruise Under the Crescent," full of quiet humor and ready wit, and abounding in excellent descriptions, which are rendered more vivid by many fine illustrations by Denslow.

FLEMING H. REVELL Co. offer a gift-book that cannot be surpassed in appropriateness of sentiment and that is also a very beautiful specimen of bookmaking. "Friendship," by Rev. Hugh Black, of Free St. George's, Edinburgh, perhaps at the moment the most popular preacher in Scotland, has put together a series of very thoughtful, beautifully written essays on friendship, all leading up to the highest friendship-that of Christ, to which is devoted a rarely poetic essay. The book is printed in red and black, and has marginal and other decorations by F. Berkeley Smith, and a very appreciative note by Rev. Dr. W. Robertson Nicoll. A devotional study of the Beatitudes, by J. R. Miller, is entitled "The Master's Blesseds," and contains what its popular author considers Christ's secret of happiness. In its mechanical details-deckle-edged paper, ample margins, with artistic illuminations, ornamental chapter headings and title-page, decorated covers-the book is worthy of its author and its subject. The Hon. Edwin S. Wallace, United States Consul for Palestine, has written "Jerusalem the Holy," which has been illustrated by Archibald Dickie, of the Protestant Exploration Society, and has very accurate maps and diagrams. The author has been four or five years in Palestine, and his opportunities for daily personal observation, combined with extensive reading, have specially qualified him for his task. Rev. Duncan Campbell has prepared an exhaustive work on Hymns and Hymn Makers"; and Rev. J. Elder Cummings has a treatise on "Consecrated Work and the

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Preparation for It," which might be given to any young man contemplating a minister's profession. Many books are ready relating to missions in all parts of the world, notably the third volume of the "Autobiography of Rev. John G. Paton," the indefatigable missionary, still working among the people of the New Hebrides; and "The Redemption of Africa," which is issued with illustrations, statistical tables, and a most valuable bibliography. The Revell Company make a specialty of devotional and other booklets, which they get up in very pretty shape in an endless variety of bindings. Of such are The Looking Upward Booklets, The Christian Life Series, The Spirit-Filled Life Series, Little Books for Life's Guid ance, etc., all of which have received additions lished in former years have been reduced in this season. Many of these booklets pubprice this season. mirably fitted for exchange of gifts between Sunday-school teachers and scholars.

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GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED, have ready the twenty-third edition, new and enlarged, of "A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry," selected and arranged by Charles Mackay, with a striking design of beautifully blended ink and gold, one of the best anthologies in the English language and just the thing to present to a teacher always on the lookout for quotations for her best reciters. A Presentation edition is also ready of "King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table," with illustration by F. A. Fraser; and a new illustrated edition of Robert Southey's "Life of Nelson" is sure of appreciation at a time when naval warfare is in the thoughts of old and young. Nothing more useful can be given this year than a good atlas by which to understand the political geography of the world. Bartholomew's Handy Reference Atlas, with 160 folio colored plates, with complete index, is an ideal one controlled by the Routledge house. The Routledge house also controls a "Shakespeare" which holds its own, no matter what the attractions of the legions of newcomers. The illustrated edition of "The Handy Volume Shakespeare," in eleven volumes, can be had in every color and every quality of binding.

R. H. RUSSELL has, as usual, several rich and attractive gift-books, representing some of the most characteristic work of American and English artists. The charm of Gibson's pictures is still potent, and the handsome volume of his "Sketches and Cartoons" will be welcomed by many who have delighted in its predecessors, the " Drawings" and 'Pictures of People." This third and latest book in the Gibson series is, like its fellows, an imposing oblong quarto, rich in its white parchment covered boards, and containing a typical selection of the artist's latest work. The drawings, mirthful, pathetic and cynical, cover a wide range, from the hunt ball, the stately dinnerparty, or the golf links, to bits of Oriental life, street scenes, and the striking pictures made for Anthony Hope's "Rupert of Hentzau"; and their preservation in this worthy fashion will rejoice those who have followed them and watched for them in scattered periodicals. Notable for its art treatment is the beautiful edition of the "Idylls of the King," with drawings and designs by the brothers Rhead. The first edition of the "Idylls," containing the stories of Vivian, Elaine, Enid and Guinevere,

has been chosen for presentment, and illustrated with sixty-four full-page drawings, with headbands, initials and illuminations in red and black, all breathing the spirit of Celtic art in their interweaving of lavish symbolic detail with strong and simple outlines. The handsome volume is bound in buckram, with a rich cover design, showing the dragon shield and the sword Excalibar, and it is not only beautiful in itself but valuable in the rich historical detail of its ornamentation. From the Britain of Arthurian days, as interpreted by the Rheads, it is not so long a step to William Nicholson's striking and characteristic drawings of "London Types," which form, indeed, one of the most striking art volumes of the season. Nicholson's bold wood-block prints are, in a measure, a revival of the past, and his genius has found full play in delineating the "beef-eater" in all his regalia, the quaint blue-coat boy, the swaggering guardsman, the London "bobby," the barmaid, flower-girl, coster, and similar types of London life. Of each of these three books there will be éditions de luxe, limited, and with special features. Another artistic volume is "Sporting Rhymes and