Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-12-17

Many of the choicest books of tbe
season published by L. Lothrop & Co,
Boston, are for sale at our bookstores.
The following deserve special mention
Heroines of the Poets with superb il
Illustrations by Lungren.
Wonderful Christmases of Old. exouis
itely illustrated, and elegantly bound
enclosed in an artistic box bearing :
unique design of the Shepherds guideC
by the Star of Bethlehem.
The Stabat Mater and The Old Arm
Chair, illustrated aud in fine binding.
are now ready. Illustrated editions Of
Ideal Poems. Wild Flowers and Where
they Grow, Our National HYMN, Ont Of
Darkness, Ode to Immortality. Ro,
nance in Song are choice Gift Books.
Two new Books of Travel, The Gold
en- West, by Margaret Sidney, and A
Family Flight through Mexico, by Ed
ward Everett Hale and Miss Susan
Hale, are of course very popular.
All Amateur Artists should read Art
for Young Folks. An elegant quartc
with hundreds of illustrations, practical
directions and much general informa.
ton. One OF the most admirable books
of It's kind is Helps by the WAY. Read
ing in prose and verse for every dav in
the year, from all sources, with an in.
PRODUCTION by Phillips Brooks.
/ Up Hill and Down Dale IS very
beautiful new guarto OF The Illustrated
| Science Series. Overhead, Underfoo,
and Eyes Right are issued in new Gov.
/ a nj ~ \.
| A new edition of Child Lore with six.
ty-four new pages and exquisite new
cover is now ready.
ID. Lothrop and Co.'S Annals for
Young People scarcely need an intro.
duction. They are brought out this
year with covers that are works of Art.
being perfect reproductions of exquisite
water-cslor paintings, preserving Their
original pebbled appearance.
| Wide Awake I is handsomer than ii.
predecessors, its frontispiece alone
worth the price of the volume.
Our Little Men and Women for 1885
is more bright and winsome than ever
The Pansy for 1885 is a storehouse OF
COED things, including serials by Pansy
and Margaret Sidney.
Chautauqua Young Folks Annual for
1885 is, at once, instructive, practical
and fascinating.
Babyland always dainty and refined
is more beautiful this year than ever.
! These ANIMALS contain the choicest
and most costly illustrations.
Choice New Books for Young Folks
Libraries are Wonder Stories OF
Science, Boy Life in the United States
Navy. In No-Man's Land, A Wonde,
Story for Children, by Elbridge S.
Brooks, Boys Heroes, by E. E. Hale,
Children Of Westminster Abbey. by
Rose Kingsley, Dean Stanley with the
Children, bv Mrs. Francis A. Humpb.
rey, How They Went to Europe, by
Margaret Sidney. Great Composers, by
Hezekiah Butterworth.
Among the Choice Books for Girls
are the Yensie Walton Books, Marie
divers and Julia A. Eastman's Books.
Margaret Sidney's What the Seven Did
and Pansy's Christie's Christmas.
The boys are delighted with the
Rocky Fork Library, Plucky Boys Lib.
rary. DISCOVERIES and Conquerors, Our
Club Library and the Peace Island Sc
ries.
Boys and girls as well as older folks
never tire of Beautifully Illustrated
Histories of Miss Yonge. The sale Of
these books is something marvellous
Other Series for boys and girls quite
new yet SO we'll known as to become
household words, are The Child Life
Series, % vols, Fern Glen Series. 2(
vols, and The Young Folks, so vols.
| -Four volumes of the New Series Win.
ter Evening rales, now ready, are the
best books in every particular for IS cts
we have yet seen.
| Books of unusual merit have beer
added to the V. l. +. Series. The To
Day Library, The Reading Union Lib
rary, lothrop's Historical Library,
Spare Minute Series, and the Pansy
Books, all of which should be specially
noticed.
| For fuller information send for ID.
Lothrop and Company's Catalogue. II
contains list of thousand Choice
Books for Home and Town Libraries
and of the most desirable Holiday
| Books.
D. Lothrop & Co also publish five H.
Illustrated magazines for the family
adapted to different ages. All booksel-
iers receive subscriptions for them