Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-12

The double.number December issue of the
that publication should not be overlooked In
making up a list OF periodicals to be taken next
year. II is a tine illustration of what its con-
tributors and artists can do, and some OF it's
wood cuts are second 10 none. Particularly
noticeable are the ideal female heads after
Burne Jones, Leighton, Seymour and Watts.
The literary calendar-that is the tablet
almanac, with a quotation from some popular
author printed upon the date sheet for each day
In the year,-is becoming as much of a feature
OF the holiday season as the Christmas card,
and is likely to become more permanent favor
tie than that pretty but useless tribe Hough-
ton, Mlff1in Co.. who we're among the first TO
occupy that particular field, have reissued the
tracts, and have added to their list a new one
the whitney Calendar, with selections from
Mrs. AID T. Whitney. The card OF the latter is
seasons symbolised by Is many figures OF little
girls, dressed in Greenaway style, and il alto
gether an attractive souvenir. The J. b. Lap
pincott Company have also published one OF
the same character called The Golden Treasury
Calendar" The design Of the card for this
angelic figure, beautiful In form and feature,
upon the robe of which the signs Of the zodiac
are ingeniously introduced TO simulate en-
graves "Golden Treasury" "Cupid's Calen-
dar' Is pretty little heart-shaped device with
tender sentiment for each day In the year, Sc
lected from q wide range OF authors, BY Kate
Sanborn Another pretty and unique affair is
the '.Ruling Lights Calendar (received through
sine, BostonJ arranged by Miss +. n. Little.
This Is an attractive combination of em blemati
devices and suitable texts SO arranged as 10 be
perpetual.
Other almanacs. for which there will be a
special demand, on account OF the sectarian
character OF their literary contents, are the
Catholic Family Annual and the "Catholic
Rome Almanac received from Mrs. ID. A
Brosnan, and .StalPs Lutheran Year Book,
edited and published by Rev. Sylvanus Stall,
Lancaster, Pa, each OF which furnishes u great
variety Of Information In regard 10 its demon
ination.
White. Stokes Allen have published three
pretty little brochures i'm handsome decorated
covers, entitled, respectively, "Spring Bios
sons, midsummer Flowers" and Flower.
LOT inter Days Each contains number O
well-chosen selections Of poetry and four beau
particular season, and either Would make AZ n
acceptable Christmas present. Washington:
Loring Whittington.l
Other Publications.
The RESOURCES OF ARIZONA: It's Mineral
EARNING, Grazing and Timber Lands; its History
Ruins E a2S
tons BY PATRICK HAMILTON. Phoenix, Ariz.
| MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITEr
STATES Calendar Years 1888 and 1854 AL
BERT WILLIAMS. jr., Chief of Division Of Mimi,
Statistics and echnology. department of IN,
Interior; United States Geological Survey. j. w
Powell Director.l Washington: Government
Printing Office.
THE IRREi RESSIBLE BOOK A Controversy be
tween Herbert Spencer and Frederic Harrison
from the Nineteenth Century and " Pail Nal
Sazette, with comments by GAIL HAMILTON
Boston: = r. Casino Il Co. Washington: Bren
tano Bro;hers
THE HISTORY OF BIMETALLTSM IN TIL
| UNITED STATS. ByJ. LAwRENCE LAueHIIN
In D. Assistant Professor of Political Economy i!
Harvard University. New York: ID. Appleton 4
Co.
THE SILENT SOUTH. Together with the Freed
mans Case in Equity. and the Convict Lease Sys
lem By GEORGE w. CABLE With Portrait
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Washington
Brentano brothers.
THE WOMEN FRIENDS OF JESUS A Course o
Popular Lectures, based upon the Lives and Char
acters ofthe Holy Women of Gospel History.
HEStY g. MCCooIS. II. IL. New York: Ford How
ard d Hubert Washington: Brentan0 Broth ers
THE FINAL SCIENCE; or, SPIRITUAL MATERIAL
ISM Being a strict Application of the most AZ
proved Modern Scientific Principles the Solu
ton, of the Deepest Problems Of the Age. Ne,
York: Funk & Wayuas
THE COMING OF THE LORD. BY Rev. JOHN
RANKIN, DID, New York: Funk q Wagnals