Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-13
REGENT PUBLICATIONS.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS. ''Our Boys in India The Wanderings of l Two Young Americans in Hindustan, with 1 their Adventures on the Sacred Rivers and 1 White Mountains, etc D by Harry W. French, is an entertaining book. Mr. French has hit 1 upon a novel plan for interesting young ] folks. In the first chapter there is child missing and as one reads along he is inform 1 cd as to bank robbery, of which the kid | mapping of the child is an indirect result 1 By the aid of detective, older brother, a 1 lad of 1G, traces him to India. The adven- | lures of the two, ono as captive, the other | as @ rescuer, in different parts of the Indian l empire, are exceedingly thrilling. The au- | thor's purpose, however, was not to tell 8 story, but rather to unfold some of the won derful sights and scenes in the land of TO nance and adventure. These sights are shown as in panorama, and the reader is easily led to imagine himself in the midst of snake charmers, jugglers, royal personages, tiger hunts, elephant and rhinoceros en- counters and fights. The pictures of scenery, customs and wonders graphic, and of
 
 Shepard, Boston, and for sale in this city by H. H. Peck.
 s'The Prize For Girls and Boys'' is an attractive little volume of sketches and illus trations. The child who gets it Christmas or New Years will find much entertainment in it. Published by Estes < Lauriat, Boston, and for sale in this city by c. R. Coan.
 Two Tea Parties,'' by Rosalie Vanderwa' ter, illustrated by Wilson de Mega, is an and the pictures are beautiful. Published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 sPussy Willow and Other Child Songs" is published by White & Stokes, New York. It is collection of songs just adapted to chil- dren and calculated to interest them in the beautiful things of nature. The words are by Henriette Cushing and the masic by Gexr trude Clement Photographic pictures and borders and emblernatic designs from the pencil of Gertrude Clement adorn every page. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. sThe Artists Year. is the title of a novel and charming volume containing original and selected poems of the months, by Margaret F. Jones, and illustrated by such artists as Arthur Quartly, J. w. Casilear, J. R. Ere voort, R. M. Shurtleff, Julia Dillon David Johnson James M Hart, H. Bolton Jones, l Thomas Moran, R Swain Clifford, George Fl. Smillie and A. F. Bellows. The volune is published in first class style and is thing of beauty. Published by White X Stokes New l York and for sale in this city by Judd the 1 bookseller.
 1 Few, if any, more magnificent books have I been published for the holiday season than | the edition of Dante's Inferno" published
 by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,, with illus
 trations by Gustave Dore. A critic well
 says: ''rhe theme is one where the imagina- | tion is at liberty to take full swing and cer'
 tainly Dore has improved his opportunity.
 The pictures are wonderful in their power. Whether the force and malignity of @ devil or l the airy grace of spirit is to be represented,
 each is given with equal skill, and the human 1 figures with which the cuts abound are fine studies in anatomy. The especial features, 1 though of the artist sowork are in the details l of the horrible. The unnatural, the grotes- | que, and the almost inconceiyable scenes of | horror are given here with fidelity of detail and vividness that mako an impression as distinct that of the work of Hogarth.
 The book is elegantly bound, is printed on large, rich paper, and is gilt-edged and in
 every way beautifully made up. For sale in
 this city by Judd the bookseller.
 The latest volume in the popular ''Zigzag"
 series is entitled "Zigzag Journeys in the l Occident." The wanderings here recounted
 are in our own country mainly in its western
 part, and arc full of interest. Published by
 Estes & Lauriat, Boston, and for sale in this
 city by II. H. Peck.
 ''The New Arabian Nights: Select Tales
 not included by Gailand or Lane,'' translated
 and edited by W. F. Kirby, includes half [
 dozen tales. The first two are derived iron Wells German version, and believed tt have never appeared in English before. Th'
 remainder were translated by Jonathan Scot
 at the beginning of the present century, the
 first from an Indian and the rest from Syr
 ian manuscript. All of them are very enter
 taining Published by J. B, Lippincott
 Co.,, Philadelphia and for sale in this city b.
 Judd the bookseller.
 White .S Stokes, of New York, publish collection of "College Cuts'' chosen fror
 the Columbia Spectator during 1880 -8G them are very poor. For sale in this cit
 by Judd tho bookseller.
 "Janet: Poor Heiress," by Sophie May is q story cast in the mould of the precedin , volumes in the same series but with tn
 difference, that the leading characters are a , older in years. There is 4'.:lz'cl;g2ant { , love running through the story, which .-rra{iS>: Ny t:,e t>nlc 'rrttyHt, chc-rs .:-.
 shine that we find in the authors earlie
 books Though entirely free from the SCI 1 sational and the impossible, the story is or - which holds the reader enchained by it's lit t perplexites of home.life it's love-dream I and it's thoroughly brave, frank ard unco r ventional heroine. The interest of the stol Q IS still further enhanced by a number a beautiful Illustrations. Published by Lee . Shepard, Boston, and for sale in this city l j; c. R. Coan.
 l "Grandmother Normandy" by the auth, @ of ''Silent Tom'' is added to the V. I. a 1eries It deals more directly with some n the vital points of Christianity than eith s of it's predecessors, and shows how the bitt 0 things in ones experience may be turned r good and lasting account. It teaches tn IT life lived selfshly is curse; but that givil l. sympathy, love, help and hope to othe 1t makes one grow grandiy strong, and fits ol }, for great things in the hereafter. It sho, e that to one who works earnestly and co J. scientiously life is vast, undiscovered oou