Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-04
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

If anybody wants to make an appropriate
 and valuable present to member of fam
 fly where singing is in favor he can find
 in beautiful book published by Henry Hol
 6 Co.,, entitled ''Our Familiar Songs ant Those Who Made Them" This book con tains more than three hundred standard l songs of the English speaking race, arranged 1 with piano accompaniment and preceded b.
 sketches of the writers and histories of tn,
 songs. The compiler, Helen Kendrick John son, says of these songs: ''They need nt I introduction they come with the latch
 string assurance of old and valued friends ] whose separate welcomes have encouraged them to drop in all together. They are no | popular songs merely, nor old songs exclus | lively, but well known songs, of various times
 on almost every theme of human interest They are the songs we have all sung ol 1 wished we could sing; the songs our mothers crooned over our cradles and our fathers hummed at their daily toil the songs cur
 sisters sang when they were the prima donnas
 of our juvenile world the songs of our
 sweethearts and our boon companions; the
 songs that have swayed popular opinion, in-
 spirited armies, sustained revolutions, hon.
 ored kings, made presidents and marked his
 torical epochs." This veW attractive book
 is for sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 Part I. and Part II. ofs Volume VIII. of
 St. NichoZas have been sent to us by the pub
 fishers, the Century Company. These vol
 umes are beautiful outside and filled with all
 manner of good and entertaining reading
 Happy are the boys and girls Of this genera
 ton in that they have St. Nic7tolas to cheer
 and instruct them. The index to the eighth
 volume contains the names of some of the
 foremost writers of the land and among its
 serial stories are two or three which are like
 ly to become classics with the girls and boys
 of the United States. Here we find the
 breezy and wholesome story of "Phaeton
 Rogers," by Rossiter Johnson, who has
 struck an entirely new vein in story-writing for boys. William O. Stoddard's ''Saltillo
 Boys' is another capital series of sketches and pictures for young folks and the pa- pers entitled 'In Natures Wonderland" by Felix l.. Oswald, are almost as good as any, thing in that famous book of adventures on which so many boys of a past age were brought up, '"The Swiss Family Robinson. :. One of the charms of the volume is found in the delicious bits that are scattered so richly through it's varied pages. MT. Frank Stock tons irresistibly funny fairy tales, Mrs. Dodge's ''Jingles," :" and the clever sketches contributed by Emily Huntington Miller, Lucretia P. Hale, Susan Coolidge and others, are enough to make the reputation of any magazine for young people. The volume can be obtained in this city of Judd the book seller.
 Oliver Ditson & Co.,, of Boston, send us from their large issue of new music, ten specimens Rochester Bells," by Marzials, is fine English sea-song. ''Craigie Burn Wood," by Strachauer, is Scotch ballad in excellent taste. Starlight on the River' is a neat popular ballad by Edwin Christie. s'A Funeral Anthem,'' by Tuckerman, has Scripture words and is impressive and beau tiful. President Garfield March' is good march, with an excellent portrait. ''Ar- menian Parade March," by Michaelis, is and pretty. "Wst! Wst Wst. Galop' is one of Coote's agreeable pro- auctions "Chirping Birds Polka" by Le Baron, IS most attractive one for young players and the "Quadrille from Billie Fay lor' will carry it's own recommendations
 ''A Pickwickian Pilgrimage is the taking title of 8 collection of letters written by Mir. J. G. Hassard to the New York Tribune about his rambles in the London of Dickens. These letters are very agreeable reading, and would serve as pleasant guide to any seek CTS after the great company of queer people whom Dickens found in the lanes and alleys of London. Published by James R. Osgood $ Co.,, Boston, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 IA Story of Four Acorns," by Alice B. Engle, with original illustrations by Mary A. will please the children. It is a fairy tale, and very agreeable and ingenious one. The cover of the book is artistic. Pub lished by D. Lothrop Co.,, Boston, and for sale in this city byJudd the bookseller.