New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-14
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS.
WHAT ONE MAY GET AND WHERE TO GETIT.

WHAT ONE MAY GET AND WHERE TO GETlT.
DECLINE IN TIE NUMBER Oh DIsTINCIIvELY HOLIDAY
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND USEFUL BOOKS
IN NEW AND BEAUTIFUL sTYLEs-THE NOTABLE
WORKS OF The YEAR.
OF late years the style of holiday DOCKS mas
been rapidly changing. The period OF snowy volumes
filed with multitude OF pictures and much msceahe-
ous song made spaciay for Christmas and OF little IN
terest or value when Christmas Is gone IS paSsIu6
away The wise public long ago saw the vanity OF l'h'
and the publishers find that they do rot pay The at
fractions Of book shelves have not been injured ny
this change To those who desire book according 10
what 1t contains Of printed words and appropriate Illus
tratlons there are attractions now which have seldom
been surpassed Room is found Tor standard works
which have multiplied INTO many beautiful EDITIONS
English classics offered in new ana rchrr bhuI'-s'
and on paper and type that delight the artist nud tue
scholar. Books that have been put mp III handsome
leather are many and The variety OF Ezca and material
is unexamped The past year has brought forth hu-
erOus throng series for the hour the half hour the
leisure hour and sunday hour These, and faVorte
prnts of the poets have been bound in morocco, plain
antique and evant; in russia, full half and heDle and
in cali, full, half aud tree.
Nor have illustrated books in the modern decorative
arts ana in older arts Of Europe, books OF travel ana
recoections Of navel books for the permanent delight
of friend and the wise instruction OF chi dren been Tor
gotten OF these there Is infuite variety. and Their
wholesome character not OF the least signs ot al
III the nciuB OF hOiluay literature
Few New-YOrk publishers hut have all the choice
Illustrated books OF The year. as well works OF stable
value and Importance whether published by themselves
OF not so that almost any welknown book OF the day
NAV be had any store. In the following paragraph
will be seen that books mentioned only under the
name of the firm which publishes or imports Them al
though tney may be purchased at other places.
HARPER & BROTHERS.
There have been III past years many Deauu-
full books art ard books that were works "i aI ho
selves from the Old and wIielyknOwn house OF Harper
Brothers many o. which survived long after the hoi-
day. and have enjoyed sustained popularity throu@h
several seasons In this respect DoIes Ancient MARI
ner" is particularly memorable. To the rich list OF past
years tdere been added several volumes al
ready secure of wide popularity. FIRST among them Is
ClasSed Mas YOuugs Ceramic Art" which supcm MS
in excellent fashion the Pottery anu Poice-
lain" by William c. PRIME which the same house pub
nshed a year or Two ago. Miss Young's book is Illus
trated by nearly 500 wood engraving and has novel
binding green veliuIn cloth, ornmehted with japan
ese designs Staney's Through the Dark Comment
tells story OF exploration and adventure OF which
there are few If equals in recent times, The booa
has already enjoyed sale that has carried Ito name far
and wide. "The China Hunters CuO," story told by
"its youngest member" second book OF the year on
ceramic art. Mrs SpOfords art Decoration Applied
90 Furniture followed by another practical BOOK TINS
year in Mr.. II. Hudson Hoy's "MOdern Dwellings in
Town and Country" with 100 illustrations represent
ing cottages villas and Nor should George
Ward NIchOls's "Art Education Applied to Industry
Mr. Berymans Contemporary Art III Europe" with It's
100 superb illustrations; and James ParOn's CaIrca-
ture and Comic Art" with 203 illustrations represent
ing those arts in all lands and times be forgott,n
they are among the best gift books to be found or
books in the narrow domain of choice literature there
are four volumes out in the English Men OF Let
tiers series-Hume Shelley, Scott and DR.. Johnson
new edition Of Macdulay's History of England, which
promises to be the best published in America will be out
next Tuesday II will comprise five Volumes and will be
bound in black cloth like Trevayaus Lie and Letters
OF Macaulay but will have paper label No catalogue
has larger range OF books than the great catalogue OF
Harper Brothers from which many works Of standard
value and permanent interest may be chosen for gftS
Rarper's Hagazine, The Weekly and The Bozar ranking
among The Oldest and most widey-knOwn periodicals OF
the time offer an excellent opportunity for Gift which
would be all the year coming and would remind friend
Of the giver every week month"; perhaps both &C
corGing 70 the subscription. Few books are more
frequently in the windows OF book stores now
adays than c. c. Collins "StOry Of Liberty which be-
ginning with Magma Charta relates the story OF human
freedom in all lends and many times. 1t has rich album
dance OF Illustrations There many other books for
the young at Harper Brothers, including JACOB Alb
bott's and Du Chaillu's books for boys.
THE SCRIBNER HOUSE.
There is countless number of home and
foreign books the three departments which now com
pose this widely known house. Few counters are more
attractive or familiar TO city purchasers than
scrtbners. English publications in particular arc no.
where seen greater variety First in Importance on
scribner & Weford's list is "Switzerand an imperial
Quarto volume, uniform with the well-known IialV,
"IndIa and Spain" This book has no fewer than
AIS Illustrations many Of them full page, all prepared
from original rawlings and is printed in large type,
heavy paper and bound in gilt cloth, half morocco, ul
morocco aud full levant morocco. Miss MtfOrd's Our
Village il offered in q edition with wood cuts on
nearly every page, leading The Saturday Reeiep 10 re-
mark that there books resttul, few 20 rich
in of England before science defaced It and
trade defled it." Another beautiful large quartO
Illustrated book is French Pictures" and st another
Mature Pictures" while the list might be prolonged
Art has many representatives. There JacQuemarts
"Cerainc Art" in cloth, calf. tree calf and full
morocco Jewitt's Ceramic Art Of Great Britain the
Munich Gallery" folio work on Modern British
Art" the works OF John Ruskin in the English imperial
octave edition. and his "FOrs Clsvgera," in eight
volumes, printed and bound by himself; Fergussons
Architecture" Mrs. JamesOn's Sacred and Le-
gendaFy Christian Art" long list of extra illustrated
books and fifteen editions OF Shakespeare including q
reprint first folio and the handy volume editions
Children" and "spenser for Children superb editions
chausen aud series OF Bible and other Pictures for
Our Pets"
The American house-Chares 6crbner's sOns-oher
Mr. Clarence Cooks House Beautiful" in extra gilt
cloth and rcn leather bindings, ana ScDHCuanuS NY
cena "-books of last year, whose value for presents
continues through the four seasons, and good
one Christmas as another. Donald q. MitchclPs latest
work About Old story-Tcllers," has proved choice
holiday book boys and girls and still TO be had in
It's bright and pretty binding The two Epochs OF His
tory series, advanced TO dozen or twenty vol
umes have been put into rich bindings as the Sans
souci aud Brc-a-Brac series and ready in
handsome cases. Among other late books are Recoec
tons Of Writer'S" by Charles and Mary COwden Clarke
Professor BoyeseD's Goethe and Schiller" and Ed
ward Egglcston's Roxy" which completes with L. +.