National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-11-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE CHILDREN's BOOK OF POETRY. Care
fully selected from the works Of the best and
most popular writers for children BY HARRY T.
COATES editor Of "The Fireside Encyclopedia Of
Poetry" Illustrated with nearly 200 enGravings
from designs by Gustave Dore, Harrison Weir, ].
f. Millais, George n. Thomas, Giacomelli and
other distinguished artists. Philadelphia Porter
q Coates. Washington d. c.; Robert Beall.
This work, exquistely printed and elegantly
bound, is harbinger of the coming holidays.
1t wears the extcrnals Of a souvenir of the first
water for the mature, but its contents com
prise great variety of juvenile literature
adapted to the young between the ages of six
and fourteen. The matter is happily classified
under subject headings, which is great con-
venience, rs follows "Baby Days" "Play
Days" ,""Lessons of Life,"" animals and Birds"
"Trees and Flowers" Mature" Religion,"
christmas aud New Year." "old Tales and
Ballads" and some famous poems for the older
children. The work contains over Ave hun
dred pages, aud we are frank to say, comprises
in its makeup aud style merit and elegance
rarely found in works for the young. We can
say to the young folk, this work is great temp
tatiou "to your sisters, cousins and aunts"
from which you may be the gamers. The
"Childrcu's Book of Poetry" is a valuable prize
for any one.
ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC, AND
OTHER POEMS. by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Phila-
deiphia; Porter d Coates Washington, d. c.:
Robert Beall.
The contents of this work are tho CLEAN
ings OF good things and desirable productions
of poetic character from Harper's Maga=ine
aud Weekly, and the New York Leger, aud af.
ford II rich menu for the lover of descriptive and
sentimental poety. We commend il to those
who are prospecting for the holidays.
THF PREHISTORIC WORLD BY Ellie BER-
THIEF. Translated from the French by Mary j.
SatIOrd. PhiladelphlG Potter q COutcs. Wash.
ingtou ID. g.: Robert Beall.
Tho author of this interesting yolumn has
undertaken to penetrate that epoch in the
human family which has no recorded history,
by the agency of fiction. This is very safe
undertaking. for the reason that where the rec
ord of history has not placed its metes aud
bounds, romance can exercise its widest flights
of fancy without endanPering its own veracty,
for there is no power Of detection, no fear OF
exposure. OF course the production is fig.
mont Of the brain, and for that reason 1t will
have its thousands Of curious readers, who
never leave their thumb'prints upon the page
OF nlslpIlG lldlitbiNN Inv NbAh hl'i HSNb hll
extensive reading and each reader will add a
| fraction 10 what will aggregate public senti
ment as toits real merits.
TOIN ETTE: A Tale Of the South, By ALEIoN W
TouRGEE New York FOrds, Howard x Hurl-
burt Washington, d. c. William BaAantynC
d Son,
The FORMER edition of this work having
been exhausted, another has just bocn issued,
| IL is, us its title indicates, tale of the Soutl
written from II Southern standpoint, and wear
features that are not altogether comely to the
Northorn reader who has an ideal Of Southern
life formed of hearsay and tradition never
having been there. II should be a Gvorite il
the South. II is written in style rs vivid
as the lightning, aud is based upon persona
observation,
FIGS AND THiSTLEs: Western story. BY Al
HOS w. TuuRGEE author Of "fuineitG: Tai
| of the south" New York Fords. Howard
HuhburL Washington, D. Ca William Ballan
tyne & SON.
Judge 1omgee who has filed an importan
niche In North Carolina on the bench an'
otherwise, has already made his mark as a vivid
graphic powerful aud skillful deineator 0
incident aud character and In this little vol
ume has added to his reputation as a writer q