The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-13
NEW BOOKS.
The Holiday on-Books for GSIfts
and for Use.

the book publishers. The good old custom ol
remembering ones friends in holiday week, OF
. choosing agreeable gifts for them, of paying
regard TO their tastes, and of reviving pleasant
memories, is never forgotten. Books always
form large part the presents in demand, and
our publishers engage in an eager competition
for the custom they are sure to receive. This
year. while the dealers in fancy goods enjoy a
thriving trade, the book-shelves also are un-
usually full, and the purchaser must be re.
markably fastidious and exacting who fails to
find something to suit his TASTE if not his pocket
for it must be confessed that the prices of the
choicest wares in the book market are high.
"A FLOWER BOOK.
Charles Scribner q Co., OF New York, lead the
list with magnificent illustrated folio-"Floral
Bellies, from the Greenhouse and Garden
I Painted from Nature by Mrs. @. NJ. Badger,
titully colored, present a tempting array of
azalias cameas, fuchsias, passion-howers,
roses, tulips, lilies, asters, and other flowers,
native and exotic, carefully colored and exqus-
\ itely finished IN every respect. Mrs. Badger
has not only performed the artistic part of her
task with fidelity and skill, but has also dis
Aplayed good taste in the selection of the de-
= scriptlye verses which form the text. The pub
ashers have done their part by printing the
fbook on heayy-laid paper, and by presenting 1t
in style OF binding which is in itself an excel
" lent specimen of American workmanship. Few
kof the gift books of the season will be more ac-
4 ceptable than this.
THE CoTTER's SATURDAY NIGHT-"FoLK SONGS"
Charles Scrbner & Co., of New York, also
= issue handsome holiday edition of the "Cotter's
Saturday Might" illustrated from designs by
Chapman. OF this edition the publishers say
cit has never before been detached from the
collected works of Burns, to receive the adorn-
ments of art which have been so bountifully
and lovingly bestowed on Gray's 'Eegy,' Gold
smiths Deserted Village Coleridges An.
cient Mariner Thomson,s Seasons, and
other kindred treasures OF English verse"
The same house issues q new edition OF "Folk
! Songs edited by DR.. j. W. Palmer. This book
was published two or three years ago, and Its
reproduction in handsome form is welcome. Its
fdc-SinnlleS of the manuscript of eighteen famous
! poets add much to its value.
Il LEGEND-"CHRIsTMAs HOLLY"
y Laboulayes beautiful little legend of Brit
tany, called "Finette,n is republished in Bos-
4 ton by j. E. Tilton & Co. 1t is handsomely
''The Christmas Holly" by Marion Harland
published by Sheldon Il Co., is pleasant con-
! tribution to the holiday catalogue. One of its
chapters is "a Christmas Talk with Mothers"
which is plea for the babies. Doting parents
will find it interesting
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.
The Christmas collections of pleasant little
stories for the young people are increasing very
sThee Kettle Club" is a collection of stories
somewhat in the Dickens manner, published in
Boston, by Nichols Il Noyes. 1t relates what
the saucepan did, what the cricket thought,
what the kettle said, and what the teapot told
"The Wheel OF Fortune; or, the Dignity of
Labor" by Mrs. Madeline Leslie-for sale by
Lippincott d Co.'s intended to show boys how
happiness and profit come from industrious ap-
colbert Starr and his Lessons" by Glance
Gaylord, is one of the Raintord Series.of boys'
ton, struggles into good position sfter sundry
nps-and-dowDs; morai-help yourself.
!, l.. Prang Co., OF Boston, have issued one of
4 has yet appeared-"A New Yerson of Mother
Hubbard" by Ruth Chesterfield. This, although
only child's book, is an exquisite bit of color
printing and illumination. The lithographic
work is thoroughly artistic.
New editions of cinderella" and Little Red
Riding Hood" with fullpage. colored illustra-
tons by Dore, are published by D. Appleton &
The author of "The schonberg. Gotta
Family" has written another booK-"The Dray-
lished here by NJ. w. Dodd, OF New York. 1t is
a story OF the civil wars In England in which
the fortunes OF two families are traced, The
the book will find many readers among the
admirers of this popular writer. The volume
will be followed next year by a tale of the
I Commonwealth and the Restoration, embracing
incidents connected with the early historn ol
England
"Darryl Gap; or, Whether it Paid" by virginia
F. Townsend, is published = in Boston by vii
vanla farm; its owner discovers petroleum upon
his property, sells out at a prodigious profit
becomes exceedingly rich, and then begins Q
new life. But the speculation does not "pay, ;
and after variety OF crimes and misfortunes, il
Is discovered by an unhappy family that wealth
when suddenly acquired and badly used, pro
duces nothing but misery. The plot is by nc
means new, but the incidents of the story are
told with vigor.
ga Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life" By
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, is published by Ticknol
n Fields, of Boston, with characteristic etching,
by Hoppin. A pleasant story.
'The Merchant OF Berlin" by L. Muhlbach
is ar historical novel, OF the time of the Ions
- War in Germany-pubshed by d. Appleton d
II Co. An interesting book.
"Guy Hamilton" by Miss J. H Mathews is
story OF our civil war, published by the Ameri
4 all II deserves.
madonna Nary by Mrs. Oliphant. is ISSUED
Il by Harper Brothers, as No. 282 of thei
Library OF Select Novels.
PETROLEUM v. Massey.
The badly spelled but funny productions o
"Petroleum V. Nasby,n rescued from thei
ephcmeral existence in the newspapers anC
published in book form by II. W. Carroll & Co
OF Cincinnati, have passed to a sixth edi
ton. The Pastor of the Church of the New
D1spensauon expresses his views and opinions
and utters his prophecies, in an oracular weir
q which is very amusing The dedication of hi
Il book runs thus:-
"Dedikashen to that steIlin patryot and uukor
fnpnpe Chrlschen gentleman, FernandywO0d "
Mo York; to that hitOned man ana woOl-dieC
dimekrat Franklin Peerse nv Moo Hampshire; Il
that longsufrin but pashent dimekrat, Jesse ID
Brite Nv lDjeany whose highest recommendation
is that he Wuz eckspelled frum Ablishu SENT bu
Al who wood heV resned he'd ther ever bin preseden
for O dlmekrat reslnln and to the CRATE ValIan
dignm, NV ono, VINO went to the stake with kan