Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13
Books and Periodicals.


THE ATLANTIC ALMANAC, Edited by Oh
liver Wendell Holmes and Donald @. Mitch
eu.-NIessrs. Ticknor & Fields have Just pub
lished an ILLUSTRATED ALMANAC for 1855,
upon a plan and in q style entirely new in
this country. 1t contains siXty-four royal
octave, double column pages. over hfty OF
which are filled with original matter. The
literary character of the Almanac is alto
gether superiOr'tO that Of any similar Alma
nae ever before published, as viii be seen
from the following list of topics and authors;
The Seasons, by the 'tAutocrat Of the Break
Tennyson. Winter TaIk, By Donald G.
Mitchell. January by Alice Cary. The Rag
nan and tae nag Woman, " t1e 91thor OF
'sThe Man without O Country" Domestic
Life, by r W. Emerson. Spring Talk, BY
Donald G. Mitchell. Summer Talk, by Don
Lowell. The Glorious Fourth in Applethorpe,
by Gail Hamilton. Visit to Rn Old English
Abbey, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Fire
Flies, by Elizabeth Akers Allen. Ny Ravens,
by Charles Dickens, Planting the Apple
Tres, by William Cullen Bryant, Lucille,
by owen Meredith Apples, by George W
Curtis, Dinner among the AmazOnian In
dians, by Mrs. AgaSsiz. Autumn DAYS by
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Nov ember, by.
Thomas Hood Autumn Talk by Donald 6.
Mitchell. The Mahogany Tree, by W. NJ
Bound, "A Winter Moonlight; Building
the Fire, by ]. G.. Whittier.
The Almanac contains four full-page IL
lustratiOns, in cOlors, Of The Seasons, repro
duced from paintings by Mr.. A. F. Bellows,
the well known landscape artist. In addi-
try In the general charRctaE- of its- -ltteT1-
ture, the AtfauUIc Almanac may be regarded
as q Christmas number OF the Atlantic
Monthly, while it is rendered additionally
attractive by the number and beauty Of its
illustrations. A beautiful cOlOred cover adds
to the attraetiveness Of the Almanac. It is
sold at so cents by all booksellers and news
dealers, sent postpaid by the publishers,
TICRNOR & FIELDS, Boston.
THE LADIES' REPosIToRY.-The December
issue Of the Ladies' Repository published
BY Poe & Hitchcock Cincinnati, completes
Lake in the Wilderness" T" and "JOhn Bald
Wlns founder Of the University at Bereas o.
The reading matter includes thirteen prose
articles and six poems, together with ed1bo-
I rial contributions and q variety OtmaGber
suitable for juveniles. The publish erspr ON
/ ise in creased ATTRACTIONS for the next vol
/ ume, and VIII add is pages to each mum Der.
/ without any increase Of price.
/ THE NEW PUTNAaf-P -Putnafr's Monthly,
! which IA or Is years ago WOs the leading lit
/ eraTy magazine of the country, and ceased
! to exist because transferred from Its slZ1llful
| founders to incompetent managers, has
] been revived. The drst number, dated jan
| uary, 1868, is uIJOn our table. It contains 15t
/ pages. is handsomely printed, and has the
/ neat green covers OF the first series. Inc
! reading matter consists, among other art1-
| cles, of very lively letters from @. F. Briggs
] again, the editor, and George William Cur
/ It's. Putnam can be had at the Post Once
/ news depot, by James Atgen, Wko is always
/ prepared to furnish the public with all the
| popular and standard periodicals Of the day