Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-12
REGENT PUBLICATIONS.

6 handsome Work for children. The story IS simple narrative of the adventures of a party of English children at home, on g. farm, at the seaside and in the woods, pro fusely but not gaudily illustrated. The mar rative, which is written for very young read CTS, is as attractive as the pictures. Pub lished by Cassell, Petter, Galpin $ Co.,, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Tho bound volume of "Chatterbox'' for 1882 has been received from Estes & Lauriat, Boston, and is as full as ever of thoroughly enjoyable things, in prose, verse and illustra- tions, as any of it's admired predecessors A better book to give the boys and girls cannot be found. For sale in this city by c. R. Coan.
 Sunday Reading for the Young" is the title of profusely illustrated book published by E. P. Dutton & Co, New York. Both the stories and pictures would please chil- dren on Sunday any other day. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''The Book of Forty Puddings," by Susan Anna Brown, is an odd but useful little book. It contains recipes for forty toothsome pud dings and ten sauces and is very attractively printed and bound Published by Charles ScrlDn6fS s sons, N6W 1OrK, ana 1Oc Sale 1n this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''The Boys Percy, being Old Ballads of War, Adventure and Love, from Bishop Thomas Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient Eng fish Poetry together with an Appendix con- taining two Ballads from the Original Percy Folio Ms.," edited for boys with introduc- ton by Sidney Lanier, is a book which others than boys read with pleasure and profit. It contains fifty illustrations from original designs by E. B. BenseI is beautifully print ed and bound and would make an appropriate gift to boy. Published by Charles Scrib- ner's Sons, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller
 'Poems of Amv..ean Patriotism" by J. Brander Matthews, Is a very interesting and valuable collection. The chronological ar 1 rangement reveals the fact that almost every telling incident in our history has been put into verse, and that this work has been shared among all our leading poets, scarcely one of whom is unrepresented in the volume. Published by Charles Scribners Sons, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Home Life in tue Bible," by Henrietta Lee Palmer, author of '"The Stratford Gal | lery," is a unique work. Among the sub jects treated are ''Habitations and Homes" Furniture and Utensils,' Marriage, Wid owhood and Divorce," "ChiIdren Their Training and Schooling" The Higher Edu- cation,'' ''Employments and Servants. :" l Harder, Kitchen and Table," "Dress and l Ornaments" ," 'The Toilet and the Bath, !" p,7t1 cio Sacred and Secular,' ''Alms and Hospital | ties" <" 'Seedtimo and Harvest" 'Flocks and Herds" ," Sickness and Deatb,'' Burial and Mourning" Those who wish to know how 1 ssthe Bible people, really lived can get moro and clearer information from this book than l from any othertwith which we are acquaint- ed There are two hundred and twenty il- lustrations. Published by James k. Osgood 1 & Co.,, Boston, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 s'The Old Masters of Belgium and Hol- 1 land," by Eugene Fromentin (translated by Mrs. Mary c. Robbins) will delight all in 1 terested in art. The author says of the pur- pose which guided him in preparing the vol ume ''I warn you that there will be no | method no course pursued in these studies You will find here many gaps, preferences and omissions, without this want of balance l detracting at all from the importance or the value of the works of which I may have spoken. * It is possible that some of my opinions may conflict with those general l 1y received. I shell not seek, but shall not avoid, any revision of ideas which may arise from these disagreements. For the 1 apt will ke fn thing which has been said on this subject ; my aim, to raise questions, to produce wish to think about them and to inspire in those who would be capable of rendering us such l a service the curiosity to solve them" There are several beautiful illustrations, comprising well known works of Ilubens, Paul Potter and Rembrandt. Published by James R
 Osgood < Go Boston, and for sale ill thi
 city by Judd the bookseller.
 It does not seem quite right to publish low
 letters, but tho collection mado by Abby Sage ] Richardson under the title ''Old Love Let
 ters" and published by James R. Osgood
 Co, Boston, is exceedingly interesting I
 includes some of the most graceful epistle
 written by Laurence Sterne, Alexander Pope
 st: .: xiis:::a Steele nS@:: &::es .!"h. NAnte
 Robert Burns, Leigh Hunt Mary Wollstone
 craft and Mary Pierrepont The book vii
 doubtless meet with large sale. !-ua 1ai / in t'.is city by Judd the bookseller
 'Tnuis The Land and *he People," b
 the Chevaler do Hesse- Wartegg, yer entertaining descrir ticn of E oc;- ..tcy SiI ! people which are comparatively little known
 The Chevaier writes in an attractive styl
 and his book will please anu ;:,1,ruc. i,s read
 ern Published by Dodd Mead < O., NeN . l York, and for gate ill this city by Judd th bookseller.
 ''Parisian Art and Artists,' by l!errv Ea
 con, is very bright book. A critic we says of it 'He does not go into high 'e'
 thetic ecAtacias,- he does not oven describ
 the great French artists Gerome Cabane NIeissonier, Bougereau, etc, whose fame . worldwide. His subject Is the colony ( minor artists ill Paris, very many of them c 7 foreign birth, Bastien Le Page, Munkacs! Madrazo, Sargent and the rest, and he d. ' scribes them very entertainingly, telling | something of their dramatic career and the 7 ] principal works, and, best of all, giving | 1 an animated full page sketch of one or tw of their pictures, which is reproduced some photo -lithographic process. Some ( | them are very pretty, and some are vel