Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-23
D. LOTHROP & CO.'S NEW PUBLIOA-
TIONS.

tall and holiday season is longer and
more attractive than ever before, ana
will appeal strongly to that class OF
BUYERS who demand good insides, as
well az beautiful outsides to the
books which are to lie upon their
tables or fill their shelves. No pub
fishers i'll the country pay strlcter at
tentiOu 10 the character of the works
they issue than The Mcssrs. Lothrop,
and the result is that in their entire
catalogue of one thousand different
titles, there is not a stupid book, an
uninteresting book, or book which
does not serve some useful purpose.
The parent or teacher can select from
it in perfect confidence, and we COM
mend 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 i'll
last YEARS. list Those who purchase
for general reading will find rich
field from which to choose. In
standard stories there is nothing bet
tcr than the books of Ella Farman,
Pausy, and julia A. Eastman-all
bright. full of life, and entertaining.
Then there are the almost countless
series" and sLibrarles." OF the
latter the most important is the new
Fireside Library, consisting OF lOO
volumes carefully selected from the
entire list, and intended to form q
perfect home library. The selections
are graduated to suit tie tastes and
needs of the entire family, from the
oldest readers down to the little tot
W hu Is just beginning to pick out her
letters. The price of the library puts
| il within the reach OF most people,
and even when one does not feel like
hearing the whole expense, half a
! dozen families can easily club to-
yethcr for its purchase. Or the lesser
libraries there are The Pussy Willow,
| the Spare Minute, the George Mac
Donald, and a multitude of others
| whose names can be learned from the
| catalogue. ...
One Of tie most charming holiday
volumes of the year will be Mrs.
Amanda b. Harms How We Went
Blrds'-Ncsting, elegantly printed on
heavy paper, with wide margins. and
illustrated by twelve superb full page
drawings by G. f. Barnes. The
binding will be i'll harmony with the
contents, and altogether it promises
10 be the book of the season. An
other beautiful volume will be the
second in the American Artists
Series, brought out in the same style
as the first. 1t will contain forty
illustrations. Still another is The
New England Story Book, made up
tot representative stories by popular
1 81,
Lrated and bound.
| Clara Doty Bates, an indefatigable
worker for the children, presents q
charmingly written story, Hearts
Content; Mrs. A. NJ. Diaz little
book crammed with short stories and
illustrations, called Christmas Morn-
ing, 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 i'll oblong quarto form, with
directions for coloring, and there is
a new volume OF Babyland, 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 fascinating stories and illus
trated literature. Some of the issues
of the Messrs. Lothrop are perfect
marvels of beauty in outward ap-
pearance, 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 Pansy's Picture
Book is brought out in boards, and
"a new volume is added to the Wide
Awake Pleasure Book series, a col
lection which now numbers eight in
all. There is also new issue OF that
delightful volume, Poems for Our.
Darlings, and the Children's Funny
Book takes u fresh lease of life in re-
vised form. Large Print for Little
Readers is just what the three-year-
elds will delight in, and the same
little ones will find in On the Tree
Top and Stories for Language Les
sons untold pleasure.
For those little older are Don
Quixote, Jr., The Dogberry Bunch
one Of the most delightful stories
published for Il long time /; The Child.
ren's lsle-a new story by the popu.
} lar English writer, Eliza Meteyard
The Sisters of Glencoe, a remarkably
powerful story fresh Pansy book,
A New Graft on the Family Tree,
and other works from favorite pens,
richly and beautifully illustrated.
Fannie Roper Feudge's India, the
ibttlal volume in Lothrop's Library
OF Entertaining History, claims at
tcntlon, and So, too, i'll a marked de-
gree, does rrue Manliness, the fourth
volume in the Spare Minute Series.
L: is mate up from gems OF thought
selected faom the works of Thomas
Hughes, the author Of School.days at
ltngby, and contains an introduction
from the pen of James Russell Low.
ell, aud an autebiographIcal sketch
by Mr.. Hughes.
} OF the books which bows and girls
never tire of reading are JOhnny's
Discoveries. by Adam Stwin, and
Four Feet, Wings, and Fins, by Mrs.
Anderson Maskell. Each of these
may be had in three volumes or enc.
Overhead is another volume of the
same kind, and is commended by
Prof. Waldo of Harvard College as
one of the best books published fer
teaching young pupils lessons is as.
tronOmy.
The gift-books issued by this house
are perennially popular, and in steady
demand. The well-known Golden
Treasury series in SIX volumes, red
line and full gilt, quarto form, form
a decided feature of the list. They
include The Golden Treasury, by
Francis Turner Palgrave; The Book
of Praise, by Lord Seborne !; Garland
from the Poets, by Coventry Pat
more The Ballard Book, by william
Aliingham, and He Leadeth Me. A
new edition OF America, SO success
fui last season, will be brought out,
aHd SO, too, will Miss Lathbury's
elegant volume Out of Darkness into
Light. The entire large edition OF
Snow Flakes was exhausted early
last season, and a new one III press.
Child Lore will renew its popularity,
and purchasers who wish for those