Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
HOLIDAY BOOKS.
Selections From the Catalogue Of
Noted House.

As the holidays come on thousands
Of people begin to think about buying
something as a present for some one
who is neal and dear or highly es-
teemed. A good book is always in
order, whether for a grown person or
a child, and such is the progress in
the art Of book making hal all classes
and conditions Of people may be
suited. Instruction and entertain
mont, wisdom and fancy, are so happily
blended that all may be made happier
and wiser by the bestowal Of a suit
able book. d. Lothrop & Co., corner
of Franklin and Hawley streets, Bos-
ton, have issued a holiday catalogue,
from which we Gull the names of a
few new and attractive books calcu-
lated to instruct as well as amuse and
refine the masses Of reading people.
Wide Awake Pleasure Books,
issued as a holiday volume, With lith-
osraph cover, prize design in ten colors.
.Quarto boards, $3.50; extra cloth
binding, $500.
A Family Flight Through France,
Germany, Norway and Switzerland,
by Rev. ZEE. Hale aud Miss Susan B.
Hale, a popular aud desirable book
for the juvsniles'of the year-S2. 80.
Babyland. 1881, with prize cover
drawing by ROsina Emmett fully and
finely illustrated, zoe and SLIGO, ae-
cording to binding.
Under Foot or, What Harry and
Nellie Learned of the Earth's Treas
ures, by Laura D. Nichols, an anus
ing story and valuable information
combined-$1.25.
Exploits Of NJ. Peterkin Paul as
Traveller Adventurer, Knight, Astron-
omcr and Politician. This volume
presents in n volume the complete
exploits of the redOubtable hero as far
as recorded-S100 (.
Little Folks Every Day Book, a
charming book with colored pictures,
twelve ofthem being full page pictures
illustrating the months-$l.O0 and
$500 according to style of binding.
On Board the Rocket, the thrilling
story of an East Indian sea voyage
with amusing incidents, beautifully
covered and illustrated, quarto-$l.OO
On the Tree Tops, a most popular
color book profusely illustrated-s1.25
All Aboard for Sunrise Lands
81. % and 1925.
King Grimalkun and Pussy
anita or, the Cats Arabian
Knights, told in Miss A. NJ. Disz's
best humor-Sl.25.
Childrens' Prize Stories, written by
children under sixteen years old
$3.50.
The Little Folks Reader-s1.OO.
Outline Drawings for Little Paint
Brushes-50 cents.
Beautiful Wild Flowers, text by
Rev. A. B. Hervey, with extracts
from LoDgiellow, Bryant, Holmes,
Whittier and many others. Original
water-cOlor drawings after nature, by
Isaac Sprague. This superb gift book
contains fourteen oil the most beautiful
Of our common American Wild Flow
ers ever produced by chrome -litho
graphy. Quarto, II colored plates.
Elegant cloth-$6.0O.
Beautiful Ferns, with fourteen su-
porb colored plates, life-size, from
drawings by j. II. Emerton and G. Z.
Faxon. Quarto; elegant cloth-S6.0O.
Our American Artists, second Sc
ries, by S. G. w. Benjamin. Mr..
Benjamin, than whom no one is more
conversant with the past and present
of American art, has here carried
forward his work in making American
young people acquainted with the
works and history Of the prominent
living painters OF our native land, the
artists furnishing sketches Of their
studios and finished drawings of their
paintings, and, in several cases, their
own portraits drawn in pen and ink by
themselves. Forty illustrations. 4to,
cloth, full gilt, $500.
Shakespeare Birthday Text Book.
Twelve 6uc illustrations. Illuminated
title and frontispiece. 18mo, cloth,
plain, Zoe; gilt, SOC; Turkey morocco,
$3.50.