Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-21
Price Four Cents.

 is the title of a beautiful holiday book pub lished by Lee & Shepard. These gems are fifty reproductions from artists of the last generation, such as Kaulbach, Piloty, Hay don, Constable Faed, Eastlake, G. H. Boughton and others. Each picture is &C., companied with appropriate letter-press The binding shows an elaborate combination of gold, green, red and brown. For sale in this city by c. R. Coan.
 Home, Sweet Home," by John Howard Payne, is published by Lee & Shepard in a volume uniform in style with that containing 70, why should the spirit of mortal be proud9" The song is given entire, and in the title sketch of the author it is stated that while travelling in Italy he heard 8 poor peas ant woman humming and singing an air that arrested his attention at once and impressed him as sweet and tender He induced the woman to repeat it, while he took down the notes. With the melody in his mind, he says, 'I wrote the words as expressive of my own longing for home" He gave the story to Sir Henry Bishop, who set it to music. It came at once into popular favor, and the first season 1OO 600 copies were sold
 
 ilized country and in England and America it is still recognized the sweetest song in the English language. The volume is taste fully bound and the Illustrations are appro- priate and beautiful For sale in this city by c. R. Coan.
 "A Guernsey Lily: or, How the Feud was Healed" by Susan Coolidge" author of 'eWhat Katy Did, ''The New Years Bar gain, ' etc., is story for girls and boys, and a delightful one, too. On the inner cover is a map of Guernsey, and the broad pages of the handsome book are bright with very pleasing pictures finely engraved nearly two hundred in all, pictures that will not only amuse but instruct. The child that gets "A Guernsey Lily for a Christmas or New Years gift will be fortunate. Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, and for sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 Ten volumes of the Harvard edition of Shakespeare's complete works, prepared by Rev. Benry N. Hudson, Professor of Shake speare in Boston University, are out, and ten more are to come. This edition is careful judicious convenient and amply sufficient for all library and working purposes. There are
 
 explaining the text, and printed at the foot of the page the other mostly occupied with matters of textual comment and criticism, and printed at the end of each play. Of course the purpose of this double annotation is to suit the work as far as practicable, to the uses both of the general reader and the special student As MT. Hudson remarks, whatever of explanation general read CTS may need they naturally prefer to have it directly before them and in at least nine cases out of ten they will pass over an obscure word or phrase or allusion without understanding it rather than stay to look up the explanation either in another vol ume or in another part of the same volume. Often, too, in case the explanation be not di- rect1y at hand, they will go elsewhere in quest of it, and then find, after all, that the editor has left the matter unexplained, so that the search will be to no purpose; whereas, with the plan of foot-notes, they will commonly see at once how the matter stands and what they have to expect, and will be spared the labor and vexation of fruitless quest. We should like to give the whole of MT. Hudson's very interesting preface, but have only room for this extract:
 But what seems specially needful to be kept in mind is that when common people read Shakespeare it is not to learn etymology, or grammar, or philology, or hngual antiqui- ties, or criticism, or the technicalities of scholarisnl, but to learn Shakespeare himself to understand the things he puts before them, to take in his thoughts, to taste his wisdom, to feel his beauty, to be kindled by his fire, to be refreshed with his humor, to glow with his rapture, and to be stolen from themselves and transported into his moral and intellectual whereabout; ill word, to live, breathe, think and feel with him. am so simple and ld-fashioned as to hold that in so reading the Poet, they are putting him to the very best and highest use of which he is ca pablo. Even their intellects, I think, will thrive far better than by straining them selves to course of mere intellectualism. All which means, to be sure that far more real good will come, even to the mind, by foolishly enjoying Shakespeare than by learnedly parsing him.
 The edition is very convenient size for holding in the hand, is printed with excellent type on good paper, and is attractively bound in pleasing brown covers The ten volumes now out are sent in two boxes Give in box). The contents of the volumes are as follows l., The Comedy of Errors The Two Gentle men of Verona H., Love's Labor Lost, The Tanning of the Shrew; IT., Midsummer Nights Dream The Merchant of Venice Iv., AIS Well that Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing; ", AS You Like It, What You Will; VI, The Merry Wives of Wind sor, Measure for Measure; VII, The Tenn pest, The Winters Tale. VIII, King Henry the Sixth, Part First and Part Second K, King Henry the Sixth, Part Third, King Richard the Third; K, King John, Richard the Second.
 The edition is published by Ginn & Heath, Boston, and is for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.