Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-04
D. LothrOp & Co.'S. New Publications.

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and holiday season is longer and more
attractive than ever before, and will ap-
peal strongly to that class of buyers who
demand good insides as we'll as beauti-
full outsidcs 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 cata-
logue of one thousand different titles,
there is not stupid book, IN uninterest-
| ing book, or book which does not serve
some useful purpose. The parent or
teacher can select from it in perfect con-
lidence, and we commend the catalogue
to the attention of all who are buying
for home or school libraries.
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Besides the entirely new books, new
editions have been made of some of the
more important of those in last years
list. Those who purchase for general
reading will find a rich field from which
to choose. In standard stories there is
nothing better than the books of Ella
Farman, Pansy, and Julia A. Eastman
all bright, full of life, and entertaining.
Then there are the almost countless "Se-
ries' and Libraries" Of the latter the
most important is the new Fireside Ii
brary, consisting Of 100 volumes careful
ly selected from the entire list, and in
tended to form a perfect home library.
The selections are graduated to suit the
tastes and needs of the entire family,
from tie oldest readers down to the lit
tie tot who is just beginning to pick out
her letters. The price of the library
puts it within the reach of most people,
and even when one does not feel like
bearing the whole expense, half a dozen
families can easily club together for its
purchase. OF the lesser libraries there
are The Pussy Willow, the Spare Min
ute, the George Macdonald, and null
titude of others whose names can be
learned from the catalogue.
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One of the most charming holiday
volumes of the year will be Mrs. Aman-
da B. Harris's How We Went Birds
Nesting, elegantly printed on heavy pa
per, with wide margins, and illustrated
by twelve superb full page drawings by
G. F. Barnes. The binding will be in
harmony with the contents, and alto
gether 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 illustra-
tions. Still another is The New 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. NJ. Diaz a little book
crammed with short stories and illustra-
tions, called Christmas Morning, and
there is new Art in the Nursery, with
thirty more pictures than III the first
edition. George F. Barnes has series
of Nursery Tiles consisting of "a orig
inal drawings, bound in oblOng quarto
form, with directions for cOloring, and
there is a new volume of BabylaDd, 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
outward appearance, while some of our
most popular authors contribute their
best work for the delight of the little
men ahd women of the family.
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new edition of Pansy's Picture Book
is brought in boards, and new volume
is added TO the Wide Awake Pleasure
Book series, collection which now
numbers eight in all. There is also
new issue of that delightful volume,
Poems for our Darlings, and the Chill
dren's Funny Book takes a 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 Top
and Stories for Language Lessons untold
pleasure.
For those little older are Don Quix-
ote, Jr., the Dogberry Bunch-one of the
most delightful stories published for Il
long time; The Children'S Isle "a new
story by the popular 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
initial volume in LothrOp's Library of
Entertaining History, claims attention,
and so, too, in a marked degree, does
True Manliness, 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
School Days at Rugby, and contains an
introduction from the pen of James
Russell Lowell, and an photographed
sketch by Mr.. Hughes.
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Of the books which boys and girls
never tire of reading are Johnny's Dis
cOveries, by Adam Stwin, and Four
Feet, Wings and Fins, by Mrs. Anderson
Maskell. Each of these may be had in
three volumes or one. Overhead is an
other volume of the same kind, and is
commended by Prof. Waldo of Haruard
College as one of the best books pub
lished for teaching young pupils lessons
in astronomy.
The gift books issued by this house
are perenially popular, and in steady de-
mand. The well known Golden Treas
ury 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 Pal
grave; The Book of Praise, by Lord
Selborne; Garland from the Poets, by
Coventry Patmore; The Ballad Book, by
William Allingham, and He Leadoth Me.
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