The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-24


Farmers Library including "4Esop's Fabes.w
'Gulvers Travely' and several tales by Hans chris
tian Andersen.
sheldon & Co. publish many of the best and most
popular chldren's books. Among these are 'srhe
Rouo Books,n s.lhe Roilo story Books" "Rollo's
Tours IN Larope" by jacob Abbott Aserles OF eight
and emitted '.sIeataces for Young Eyes,' by MISS
> w Lander, sister of the late General Lander; and
particularly most accurate and valuable work iDE
SIX volumes, with 500 wood engravings pictures
and Stories OF Animals for the Little ones at Homer
by Mrs. Sanborn Tenny Wife OF Professor Tenny,
lately Of vassar College now Of Williams College.
Fields, Osgood 70. successors OF TicAnor n
Fields, OF Boston and New York; manilesty Intend
predecessors. Their illustrated "HonGay Catalogue
Oh Beautiful Juvenile Books by the best Authors and
t Art,ss American and Foreign" alone contains
u are Hawthorne's yrrue Stories from History and
Biography" wonder Book for Boys and Girls, and
Miss Helen s. Commits .'Butteray Hunters, i Miss
Alice Cary's "Snow Berrles,n Grace Greenwood's
Juvenile Books,o Gail Hamiiton's "Red Letter
Day. Mrs. Horace Mannis ssFiower Peoole y Mrs.
Harriet Beecher stoves "Queer Little Peoplei
CAPTAIN Mayns Feas rst an ~ X IL soaard
TALES OF Adventure w. j. Lintons "Fiewer and
Sa The Fs,rv Rev Ia,ss %asys Heroes q
Howilt's "Boys Australia Thomas Hughes, .rom
Brown at Rugby and tom Brown at oxford y and
"Chld Pictures from Dickens.n The '.Select List OF
Holiday Books" published by Fled Osgood Il Co.,
comprises works written by Robert browning, VIII
liam Cullen Bryant Alice Cary, Lydia Maria Child,
biSncno, OH'ch WSAoOh iVllHts, IL. We
Longlellow, J. r. Lowell. "Owen Mere nth, y John
G: SAKE, Harriet Beecher stowe !. &. Whittier, Sir
tatve writers" OF England and America, and illus
trated by Samuel Colman. barley, Du Maurier, SOL
Eytinge, Harry Fem. Gilbert VIM. Hart, Hennessy,
Stanfeld vedder and other equally rep seentative
artists" OF the two countries. The Six mort re lent
Of this a house ia s
trati0ns py Sol Eytinge, the wen and
Dickens" Tennyson's "Locksley Hail." with
nineteen Illustrations by w J. Hennessy; .'rha rho
t0gapc nyPPeon by dons a Rn, sstraes BY
and the Tyrol by Francis Firth; The Red Line WHIT
tier" with twelve full page pictures by varousar-
and Courtshp;n Longrellow's "Poems, comple0e,n
and Longfellow's incompatible Translation OF
Dante's 'Divina COmmedia.'n
The finest illustrated catalogue which has fallen
under our notice is that OF Cassel Peter Galpn,
OF Ludgate Hin, London, whose agent on Broadway.
bic collection OF lustra ell subscription works serial
issues and other volumes; gilt books for young
people and children, popular handbooSs, educational
works, scientific manuals, aliases and maps. The
ILLUSTRATED Catalogue OF this firm would be
ut ornament for any centre table. 1t Includes
The Bible" Milton's paradise Lost" Dante's IN
fernO," Chateaubrand's "Ataa," Cervantey 'Don
Qulxote," Tom Hoods "History Of Croquemilaine,
and "Fary Realm" "Baron Munchauseli's rravelsD
La Fontaine's "Faples' waiter Thornbury's YER
sion all and each illustrated by Gustaye Dore's In
miable pencil; Cassells Popular Natural iiistory,w
Cassell's "Hstory Of England Bayne's '.i5ooK OF
Sacred Poems,n Cassell's ILLUSTRATED GulliverO
FeR
"Godsmith" and "Bunyan," and we have not space
to enumerate how many other authors variously
Chidren's Album and "The Nursery Picture Boog',
as SURPRISING anything else Of their kind.
those who seek literary and artistic present OF
high character the following superb ornamental
b0oks:-"The Illustrated Book Of The ARTISTS COM
artists from the earliest period 70 the present
time, by II. 7. Tuckerman; ''The Landscape Book"
Cend Of st. Gwendoline, )" with eight photographs
pictures from drawings expressly made lot this work
by J. w Ehrringer, A.; "Ihe Ten Dollar copy o.
by DIR. Chaplin Child; s.POrtla, and Other Tales OF
Shakspeare's Heroinesn by Mrs. Cowden Clarkei
Miss Cooper's "Rural Hours;, 'Trving's Life and
Letters,n irving's .'Christmas in England" and "a
General Atlas for Family Use." "Madame Caves
Method OF Drawing" which the most dlstngu shed
French and American artists have pronounced to be
.the best and only successful method mas likewise
been recently published. in elegant style, by this
en an Ru @De ~ Arc Of Popular
Poets.' Bryant, Longieow, Irving, Tennyson,
Goethe, Schiller, DC, would also be acceptable h0L
day gifts aud they can be purchased only from Put
Harper 4 Brothers do not attempt any special pub
LEGATIONS Tor the holidays, but among the nnumcra-
BILE issues from their busy press such standard DO ks
the historical works of Motley and Prescott and
War; Lossing's .Field Books,r and Guernsey and
Alden's Pictorial History Of the Great RepeilIon.
together with Du Chaillu's "Ashango Landv AMI
'Wild Life Under the Equator" as well as the two
volumes already published of McCnntock and
Strong's invaluable encyclopaedia OF biblical, The,-
logical and Ecclesiastical Lterature;r Henry Ward
Beechcrs sermons" and Lyman Abbott's Ellie OF
Christ with designs by Fem, Dore, DE aroche and
other celebrated artists, would be highly approDr-
ate gifts for this as for any other season.
ii. w. Derby has made such arrangements with
nearly all the principal American publishers that
can offer TO the public the choice OF their finest
holiday books, with the added chance OF winning "a
prize one OF the many pictures exhibited at TIN
Athengum by our foremost American artists.
The Leggat Brothers can also supply their nume-
rous customers with the largest possible variety OF
holiday books and OF standard books bound in
holiday splendor. The most prominent pnDshi 4
firms Of Great Britain and America represent III
at their well known book store In Nassau street.
Al Christern's and ut the Office OF the Courier des
Eats Unts the finest illustrated editions Of the
classical and the popular authors OF Francois ar
Westermann's those OF the distinguished authors II
Germany-may be procured.
In fine. our American and orr foreign booksellers.
only few OF whom our limited space allows us to
designate can abnndantiy supply the present active
demand for holiday books.