Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-09
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

''The Fairport Nine" by Noah Brooks, au- thor of ''The Boy Emigrant," etc, is a book which boys will enjoy, and which many of the elders who have been boys will find pleas ure in Playing ball is not the only fun the
 mine" have. The story begins with lark on the night before the Fourth of July, when | they ring the meeting house bell in spite of the sexton's precautions to prevent it. They camp out, hold military muster, go hunting and have all sorts of jolly adventures, such as wide awake boys always delight in. They come out with the championship, in the end. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 For the little folks Dodd, Mead < Co.,, of New York, publish handsome little book entitled Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads. :" The book is profusely and gorgeously illus trated, and will be very pleasing to the chil- dren fortunate enough to have copy of it given them. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Montezuma and the Conquest of Mexico, :" by Edward Eggleston and Lillie Eggleston Seelye, is the title of volume in the Famous American Indian series, published by Dodd, Mead & Co, New York and it bids fair to be perhaps the most popular volume in the series. A contemporary says, with truth: ''There is no other story in the annals of American discovery, conquest and settlement so glowingly romantic as that of Montezuma and the Spanish conquest there is no figure in the history of the American Indians so fascinatingly interesting as that of the Aztec Emperor. He represents to us a strange, aboriginal civilization overthrown by the brute force of European civilization too little superior to it to understand its value or even to make adequate record of its charac- ter for the later elucidation of the mysteries that surrounded it's origin. The Aztec state is one of the worlds unread riddles, and the tinge of romance that is mingled with it's mystery gives it unique and entrancing inter est This book furnishes in brief compass and in an entertaining form the history of the Aztec emperor, who was the central fig ure of that strange civilization at the time of its discovery by Europeans. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Charles Scribner's Sons publish a revised edition or marlOn -'COm1QOn Sense in the Household It is not quite ten years since the first edition was published, and the fact that nearly 100. 900 copies have been sold is striking testimony to it's value and popularity. The new edition contains many alterations and additions. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ssRoy and Viola" by Mrs. Forester, the author of s.viva, 1" 'sMignon" and other popu- lar novels, will add to it's authors fame. The story is strong in plot, well written, and the characters are finely drawn. Publishedby J. B. Lippincott & Co.,, Philadelphia, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 A very appropriate and pleasing holiday gift would be the third volume of the series entitled .sOur Poetical Favorites," just pub lished by J. R. Osgood Co.,, Boston One peculiarity of the volume is that it endeavors especially to recognize the claims of new poets, not few of whom have come into publicity since the first volume of the series appeared, ten years ago. Many of the best poems in the collection are from authors who have presented no volume to the public.