Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-13
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

An elegant holiday volume is entitled
 Some Modern Artists" It consists of 8
 series of sketches by leading artists. There ! is also portrait of each artist. The artists | who are given place in the book are: Sir Frederick Leighton, Sir John Gilbert, G. H. Boughton, Vicat Cole, Joseph Edgar Boehm, Meissonier, Sir Joseph Noel Patton, Henry
 Stacy Marks, Mrs. Butler, Laurens Alma Tadema, Luke Fildes, Rosa Bonheur, Will liam Frederick Yeames, George Dunlap Les
 lie, Michael Munkacsy, Briton RIviere, Frs kine Nicol, Eastman Johnson, James Clarke Hook, Frank Holl, Professor Legros, Haynes
 Williams, William H. Beard, John Petite,
 Louis Jopling, Marcus Stone, Richard Ans
 dell, George Frederick Watts, Philip Her l mogenes Calderon and Joseph Fluggens. It 1 is book of very high artistic value. The text is by MT. s. R. Koehler. Published by
 Cassell & Co.,, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 A hero of history and of legend was Rodri-
 go Diaz of Bivar, the Cid Campeador, who lived in Spain in the 11th century. The won derful and many adventures which are attrib-
 uted to him, but which he never took a hand
 in, arc celebrated in chronicles and ballads.
 ''The Chronicle of the Cid" is the latest addi-
 ton to Cid literature and is edited by Richard Markham. MT. Markhanlsdraws freely from
 Southey, inserting descri ptions taken from
 Frere and Ormsby, and the.stirring Lockhart ballads are to be found at the conclusion.
 The illustrations are quite good, MT. Bren-
 nsn's sketches showing an appreciation of ~zI, &oc of
 that misty period when the Cid, mounted on 1 his great horse Baviecca, beat back King Blu | car, the Miramolin of Morocco, at Valencia. | The book has a gaudy cover. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co.,, New York, and for sale in 1 this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Blanche Willis Howard has written 8 book | called ':Guenn" which is a valuable contribu- 1 ton to current literature of a light order. 1 Miss Howard has made use of en American artist, priest, an ugly father, disputatioIs | fisherman, an eerie brother. reluctant and finally disappointed model who met her death in the ocean, and among them are one | or two fine creations. The book is full of readable incidents. It is quiet narrative, I but some parts of it exhibit much dramatic I force. There is one fault in the story, it's length. Noyelists will have to learn the art | of abbreviation. Readers don't like to wade l through long and dreary wastes of moralizing and insipid conversation. 'Guenn" is from
 the press of James R. Osgood & Co.,, Boston, | and for sale in this city by Judd the book seller.
 A collection of readable extracts from the
 standard works of literature in our own and
 other languages is being edited by w. J. Lin l ton and R. H. Stoddard. The first three volumes are Dramatic Scenes and Chsrao- ters," :" s'Translations' and Ballads and Ro- mances" In the first we have selections
 from about fifty writers beginning with
 Chaucer and coming down to Kingsley,
 Browning and Swinburne In the ''Transla-
 tions" are specimens of the Greek, Latin,
 Italian, Portuguese, French, Irish, British, Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Norwegian and so on down through Persian and Chinese. Thes
 lections make the circuit of the globe. In the
 'sBallads'' we have the most familiar volume
 with numerous extracts from both the Eng
 fish and American poets of to day. Published
 by Charles Seribner's Sons, New York, and
 for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.