The Portland daily press., 1868-11-24
BOOKS m Pnrss.-oharles scribner s. Co.,

Books IN PREss.-Charles Scribner Is Co.,
New York. will publish next week Madame
Therese. historical novel translated from the
French of that double headed author Erck-
man. Chatrian. This name, which until re-
Gently has been supposed to belong to single
individual, is now known to represent sort
of literary partnership, something like that of
Beaumont and Fletcher. The best produc-.
tions ofsMM. Erckman- Chatrian have been
historical novels, which in the original have
enjoyed an extraordinary popularity. There
is a vividness combined with simplicity in
their style, and graphic reality in their de-
scriptions of historic events which makes
them very fascinating reading. Madame The
reese is the first of these novels presented to
the American public. 1t is translated by Miss
Charlotte l.. Forth, and has an Introductory
preface by Col. I. w Higginson. 1t VIII De IL
Illustrated.
u. Apnleton &, Co. have in preparation for
| the annroscbiug holiday season number of
varv elegant gift books. First on the list is
| The Poet and the Painter; or Genus Of art
! and Song, a large imperial volume of four
hundred pages, containing nearly two hundred
of the best minor poems in our language, and
just ninety nine choice steel plates, carefully
printed on the page with the text The illus
trations include number of fine landscapes
from paintings by Church, Kensett, Durand,
Huntington, Cropsy, Cole, and others of our
leading artists; and a gallery Of rarely beau
tiful ideal heads of women.
A companion volume to the above, in size
| and general elegance, is The Schiller Gallery
which comprises fifty illustrations ON STEEL
representing the principal characters in the
works of the great German poet each plate
accompanied by descriptive text from the pen
of Frederick Pecht. The engravings are fine
and the book is every way elegant
| A smaller volume than either of these is
Woodside and Seaside Illustrated By Pen and
| Pencil The illustrations are on wood, but ex-
cellently engraved and printed, and mainly
from drawings by Birket Foster and John
Hows. 1t is choice little volume, and con.
tans some of the most admirable rural poems,
by Bryant, Tennyson, and others. These
| books will be among the most sumptuous aid
| beautiful which the season will produce. The
same publishers are also issuing number Of
attractive juvenile books.
''The Catalogue of Illustrated and Holiday
Books" issued and in preparation bv Fields.
Osgood & Co., Boston, is an attractive one.
| Among the most beautiful of the books q
this kind on their list is The Photographic
| Hyperion, an elegant edition of Longtellow's
Hyperion, illustrated with "a photographs Of
the Rhine, Switzerland and the Tyrol. The
beautiful illustrated Christmas Carol, and the
| Locksley Hall we have before referred to-
There are also elegant holiday editions of the
works of Whittier Longtellow, Adelaide
Proctor, j. G. SAKE and Others This house
| have also published an illustrated Catalogue
of juvenile Books" issued by them, which
will be found to offer rich variety of books
for young people, and should be consulted by
all before making any purchases for the holt
days. Copies of these catalogues will be sent
postpaid TO any address on application,