The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-10-26
D. lorHRop & co.'s NEW PUBLICATIONS.

attractive than ever before, and will
appeal strongly to that class of buyers
who demand good insides as we'll as
beautiful outsldes to the books which
are to lie upon their tables or fill their
shelves. No publishers In the country
pay stricter attention to the character
of the works they issue than the Messrs.
Lothrop, and the result is that in their
entire catalogue of one thousand differ
ent titles, there Is not a stupid book, an
uninteresting book, or o book which
does not serve some useful purpose. The
parent or teacher can select from 1t in
perfect confidence, and commend the
catalogue to the attention of all who are
buying for home or school libraries.
Besides the entirely new books, new
editions have been made of some Of the
more important of those In last year's
list. Those who purchase for general
reading will find rich field from which
to choose In standard stories there 10
nothing better than the books of Ella
FaTman, Pansy, and Julia A. Eastman
Then there are the almost countless
" Series" and . Libraries" OF the latter
the most important is the new Fgreside
Library, consisting of 100 volumes care
fully selected from the entire list, and
intended to form perfect home library. !
The selections are graduated to suit the<
tastes and needs of the entire family,
from the Oldest readers down to the little
tot who Is just beginning to pick out her
letters. The price of the library puts II
within the reach of most people, and
even when one does not feel like bearing
the whole expense, half dozen families
can easily club together for its purchase.
OF the lesser libraries there are The
Pussy WilLotO, the Spare Minute, the
George Macdonald, and multitude Of
Others whose names can be learned from
the catalogue.
One of the most charming holiday
volumes of the year will be Mrs. Aman-
da B. Harris's HOaU We Went Birde'-
Nesting, elegantly printed on heavy
paper, with wide margins, and iIlustrat-
ed by twelve superb full page drawings
by g. F. Barnes. The binding will be
in harmony with its contents, and alto
getheT it promises to be the book of the
season. Another beautiful volume will
be the second in the american Artists
Series, brought out in the same style as
the first. 1t will contain forty-six illus.
trations. Still another is The NetO Eng
land story Book, made up of representa-
tive stories by popular New England
authors, richly illustrated and bound
Clara Doty Bates, an indefatigable
worker for the children, presents a
charmingly written story, Hearts Con-
tent; Mrs. A. M. Diaz little book cram
med with short stories and illustrations,
called Christmas Morning, and there is
new Art in the Nursery, with thirty
more pictures than in the first edition.
George f. Barnes has series of Nursery
Tiles consisting of "a original drawings,
bound in oblong quarto form, with
for onIa ri nd fe. r,
new volume of Babytand, In bright and
attractive covers.
More attention, perhaps, is paid to the
very little children than to their elders
in the way of providing for them fasci-
mating stories and illustrated literature.
Some of the issues of the Messrs. 10th
rop are perfect marvels of beauty in out
ward appearance, while some Of our
most popular authors contribute their
best work for the delight of the little
men and women of the family.
A new edition of Pdnsy's Picture Book
is brought out in boards, and q new
volume is added to the Vide A1oake
Pleasure Book series, collection which
now numbers eight in all. There is also
new issue of that delightful volume,
Poems for Our Ddrlings, and the Chill
drell's Funny Book takes fresh lease of
life in revised form. Large Print for
Little Readers is just what the three
year. olds will delight in, and the same
little ones will find in On the Tree 7bp
and Stories for Language Lessons untold
pleasure.
For those little older are Don Q,sixote,
.jr., The Dogber7y Blnch-one of the
most delightful stories published for a
long time; The Ctilclre1a's Isle-a new
story by the popular English writer,
Eliza Meteyard; The Sisters of Glencoe,
q remarkably powerful story fresh
Pansy book, A Nea0 Graft on The Fam
iy Tree, and other works from favorite
pens, richly and beautifully illustrated.
Fannie Roper Feudge's India, the
initial volume in Lothrop's Library Of
Entertaining History, claims attention,
and so, too,i i'm a marked degree, does True
Mdnliness, the fourth volume in the
Spare Minute Series. 1t is made up
from gems of thought selected from the
works of Thomas Hughes, the author Of
SchooLddys at Rugby, and contains an
introduction from the pen of James
Russell Lowell, and an autobiograpbical
sketch by Mr.. Hughes.
OF the books which boys and girls
never tire of reading are Johnny's Dis
cOUeries, by Adam Stwin, and -Four
Feet, Wings, and Fins. by Mrs. Ander-
son-Maskell. Each of these may be
had in three volumes or one. OUerheud
is another volume of the same kind, and
is commended by Prof. Waldo of Har<
ward College as one of the best books
published for teaching young pupils
lessons in astronomy.
The gIft-books issued by this house
are perennially popular, and In steady
demand. The well-known Golden Tres
sury series IN six volumes, red line and
full gilt, qu2rto form, form decided
feature of the list. They include The
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