Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

ing and fascinating story of prison life which
has made ESantine's (Boniface's) name immOrss
tai, and which here appears most graphically
illustrated, with Flameng's exquisite designs,
and great variety of bead and tail pieces, into
each Of which is wrought with admirable taste,
the humble gillihOwer-the 'Pduore Pieeioid'
whose discovery, growth, care and fate are SO
beautifully told by the author.
But these enterprising publishers must needs
try their hands also at illuminated books, and
succeeded most admirably, The TwEYTY-THIRD
PSALM, with emblematic illumination In
coors. is worthy place beside thesbest Missall
Of the Middle Ages. Nor is ''THE THREE KINGS
OF ORIENT whit behind its companion vol
ume in beauty, though IN a somewhat different
style Of illumination. The words and music
Cloth exquisite,) and the outline of the designs
are by the gifted editor of the "Church Jour
nal" Rev. John II. Hopkins, Jr.
Our readers do not need to be told what is the
rank which F. o. c. barley holds as delinea
tor of character, whether grave or humorous;
but he has done nothing which will render his
reputation more enduring in the future than the
designs by which he has illustrated the ''SRLEc-
lion OF WAR LYRICS" and Trowbridge's eX-
qusIte descriptive poem "THE VAGABoSDs."-
''IHE VIsIr FROM ST. NICHOLAS" in which Mr.
barley has translated into actual life, DR.. c. C.
MOore's famous Twas the Night before Christ
mas, Is fine example of his power of depict
ing the humorous phase of life.
Mr.. Henry L. Stephens is another artist, in
still different walk, who possesses abilities Of
very high order, and whom this house has first
brought prominently before the public Mr.
Stephens speciality is the presentation of the
grOtesque legends and fairy tales which have
amused our childhood, in an effective guise, and
with an ideality which elevates them from toy
books to the rank Of works of high art. In this
style he has illustrated CINDERELLA; Puss in
Boots, and Beauty and the Beast, in colors; and
The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin; A
Frog he would WOoing 60; The House that
Jack Built; Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog;
The Fox and the Geese, and The Five Little Pigs.
in tint Mr.. Stephens has found an engraver on
stone, capsule of approaching his designs, and
reproducing them with wonderful fidelity and
skill, in Mr.. Julius Bien.
Time would fail us TO speak Of the large col
lection Of admirably printed and illustrated
| Juvenile books published by this house, dc
| partment Of literature in which they stand pre-
eminent Suffice It to say, that beside editions
| of unsurpassed beauty, of Robinson Crusoe,
| Swiss Family Robinson, Hans Andersen's Tales,
Adventures Of a Little French Boy, -Esop's
| Fables, Sanford and Merton, Parents Assistant,
/ Evenings At Home, and Tales from Shakespeare
for the Young, by Charles and Mary Lamb, al
standard Juveniles of the highest merit. they
have large number equally beautiful in typOg-
raphy and illustration, especially prepared fol
them, and some hundred varieties OF Picture
Books, Toy Books, and Panoramas on linen and
paper, colored and uncolorel, illuminated and
unIlluminated
The mandatory Of this house at Cambridge
Mass, where not these alone, but scores Of other
choice and elegant books are stereotyped, cleo
tro;yped, printed and bound, has become famou.
all over this Continent as The Riverside Press, -
and the perfection and beauty Of the work which
emanates from it is its best and highest recon
mendation. Two hundred persons are constant
~ employed in the establishment in the vsriou:
processes Of book-rnaking. and the work IN al
stages of completeness passes constantly undei
the eye of the experienced head ofthe establish
ment, Mr.. II. o. Houghton, than whom there i
not a more accomplished book manufacturer il
the United States.