Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-25
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began by the offer Of some kittens with pedi-
gree, whose mother or grandmother had lived
with an English peer, and imbbed aristocratic
tastes and manners, but as this supply was eX
tremely limited, and democratic kittens, who
didn't even know their own father, were just as
pretty just as frisky, and just as graceful, they
brought the same price and found ready buyers.
Now the great woman-sulrage fair is going on
Music hall fairs are never so pretty as those in
horticultural hail, but this one is full and rich,
with great many bright and earnest people
working for its success.
OF course shops and streets are crowded; and
every imaginable and unima@inable thing is
offered rs Suitable for holiday present" AT
Hoyey's the signs on the difierentdcpartment are
more fanciful than ever Santa Claus drives his
RENDERS diagonally across one of them; appears
at full length on another; poles his head with
most persuasive look over the corner of a third;
while others are pretty with holly and other
signs of Christmas. The new books open Il
wide field for argument, protest and commenda-
ton. Chromo-lithography holds prominent
place in them. The books about Norway
and the Nile Ct don't recall their exact illes are
not quite satisfactory in colorng; they look
rather crude and glaring; but Examinations in
chromo-lithography are really beautiful. The
sermon on the mount" has twenty-five pages,
all different all handsome. 1t is a pleasure TO
look at their graceful combinations of leaves.
flowers and fanciful forms. aud at their gorgeous
and harmonious colors. But the frontispiece Of
Christ, as the centre of listening rroup. is nm
affront to taste and quite out of keeping with
the rest of the book. Fortunately. it can
be easily taken ont. With ssTbe TN.
known River Good Night aud Good
Morning." and "Arabesaues." no fault can
be found. Each is a beautiful specimen of its
kind "The Unknown River" is a charming
story of canoe voyage, illustrated with ex.
pressive etchings; Good Night aud Good
Morning" sets each verse of Lord Houghton's
poem in a frame of exquisite beauty, made of il
lustration and illumination; of delicate draw
ings, painted flowers aud bright letters Every
page shows Imagination sentiment and tender
feeling; the pictures are poems; the poem is
picture There is no alloy in the pleasure this
book gives As to the stories in Mrs. Green
ough's "Arabesques" tastes will differ. They
are absurd and impossible: but they are infer
estina and well told; and tbe book itself in
printing and ornament is a model of good taste.
These are a few only of Roberts Brothers books
for this season. Little & Brown have fine edi.
lions of standard books and all the galleries of
art Every wear brings immense Numbers of
standard Illustrations If the eSpres,;oo, is al
lowable.) with new bindings and tbe latest date.
but people know all about those. and do MOI
count them as novelties. Osgood & Co. pub
fish great many illustrated editions of hooks
which have appeared in other forms; ALI sizes
of Tennvson. Whittier Ionotelloy and so ON
They dclace Howell's .'Weddino JourneyD with
some very poor scratcly nictures Ma hool
was ever less in need oe illustration. i,s wora
mixtures are perlprt. il is tboronobI, daliohtf,l
and lis Illustrations are like of,.ring a chnd,s
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