Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-28
REGENT PUBLICATIONS.

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 ular magazine edited by ''Oliver Optic" and | published by Lee & Shepard, is published | It contains $50 illustrations and is filled with
 reading, matter such as the very little folks | will appreciate. The book is beauty in ap- pearance and as entertaining as it is hand | some. For sale in this city by 0. R. Coan. "The Pocket Rife," by J, T. Trowbridge,
 is, like all of Mir. Trowbridge's stories, read
 able and wholesome ''The Pocket Ri1e' is offered in school prize for the best spell ing. It is won by one of two boys who are very intimate friends, and it causes much trouble Published by Lee < Shepard, Bt g. ton, and for sale in this city by c. R. Coan.
 My First Holiday or, Letters Home from Colorado, Utah and California" by Car oline H. Dall, is a very interesting book.
 Miss Dall is bright, clever woman, and she knows how to use her eyes and thoughts to good advantage. Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, and for sale in this city by H. H. Peck
 The Century for December is very reada ble number It opens with a biographical sketch of the late pr. Holland, by Edward Eggleston. Some Characteristics of Presi- dent Garfield" are related by E. V. Smalley. S G. W. Benjamin has one of his character istic papers, entitled "A Cruise in Pilot writer finds ample scope. In an interesting article on "A Colonial Monastery" Oswald Seidenstriker gives account of that curi- ous sect which. under the name of the Dunk CTS, still survives in the interior of Penns,1- vanis. An erudite essay, with illustrations, on the ''Hieroglyphics of Central America is by Edward s. Holden. Richard Whiteing contributes long and interesting paper on
 'Frhe American Student at the Beaux- Arts, iu which artist life in the Latin Quartier at the present day is cleverly delineated. Per
 haps the article in the number which will at- tract the most attention and be read with the
 greatest interest is that in which Dr. Bliss recites the story of President Garfeld's ill.,
 ness. Mrs. Burnett's serial, Through One
 A Afministration, is continued, and a new
 story. called IA Modern Instance,' is begun
 by W. D. Howells.
 Charles Scribner's Sons are publishing 8 new edition of the late Dr. Hollands writ iugs, printed from new plates, in a very at- tractive style in artistic binding, and at a greatly reduced price. It is believed that the aggregate sale of Dr. Hollands books,
 amounting as it does to half million vol
 umes, exceeds the circulation of the writings
 of any other American author. There is not a single book of his which has not had an unquestionable success and most of them
 have been in such constant and increasing Iof nfI Ixr Since s'The Bay Path" 'Bittersweet" and
 the "Titcomb Letters" were first published twenty millions of people have been added to our population, and an entire new gener- l ation of readers has come upon the stage For these reasons new edition has become imperatively necessary, and the publishers have done their best to make their part of the work correspond with the importance
 which the popular verdict has given to Dr. Hollands productions. The volumes thus far sent to us are the "Titcomb Letters, ,' ',Bittersweet" and ''Gold Foil" For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Before and After the Presidents Death' 1 is the title of little book published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, which contains two ser
 mons preached by Rev. Henry W. Bellows in I All Souls Church. New York, ,on the Sundays preceding and following the Presidents | death, the subject of the first being ''The 1 Lessons of the Presidents Sickness and the Nations Suspense that of the other, t'The Presidents Death and the Nations Submis-
 sion" For sale in this city by Judd the | bookseller
 | The Knockabout Club" papers relate the | adven ures of six young men in the wilds of Maine and Canada who travelled with their | bicycles from Boston. They were under the
 command of Captain Harold s. Dearborn, ''cFtizen of Boston, junior in college, in his
 twentieth year, an enthusiastio amateur sportsman, base ball player and sculler, and
 withal good shot.'' The rest were com panious who met for the first time at the | s'bicycle meet'' in Boston last summer. The book is full of wholesome life and spirit Published by Estes & Lauriat Boston, and
 for sale in this city by R. Coan
 Charles Scribner's Sons have begun the publication of an important contribution to
 American history. They will issue series
 of volumes, prepared at their solicitation by
 a number of leading actors and students of | view to bringing together full and authori- tative military history of the suppression of
 the Rebellion. The volumes of the series will be duodecimos of about 25o pages eas h' l Illustrated by maps and plans prepared under | the direction of the authors. They will ap-
 pear, as far as possible, in the chronological
 order of the campaigns of which they treat :; l and by their preliminary and concluding chapters will be so far connected that the completed work will practically cover the entire field of the war Two volumes of the
 series have been issued. Number one is en. titled '.The Outbreak of the Rebellion, '' and
 is written by John G. Nicolay, private secre- 1 tarv to President Lincoln. Mir. Nicolay sketches the early secession movements, the events following the call to arms, the scat l tered early campaigns in the West and South and the conduct of the war as far as the first
 battle of Bull Run. Mir Nicolay draws his
 information chiefly from official sources. His
 narrative is graphic and his style entertain l ing. The second volume, by Major General t r1