The Press., 1885-12-03

m"nJ of tho choicest books of the season pupllshed by ID. Lothrap & Co.,, Boston, are for sale at our book stores. The fol lowing deserve special mention
 Heroines of the Poets with superb illustra- tions by Lungren.
 Wonderful Christmases of Old, exquisitely illustrated, and elegantly bound, enclosed in an an artistic box bearing unique design of the Shepherds guided by the Star of Bethlehem
 The Stabat Mater and The Old Arm Chair, illustrated and in fine bindings, are now ready. Illustrated editions of Ideal Poems, Wlld Flowers and Where They Grow, our National Hymn, Out of Darkness, Ode to I'm mortality, Romance In Song re'choice Gilt Books .. .
 Two new Books of Travel, The Golden West, by Margaret Sidney and A Family Flight through Mexico, by Edward Everett Hale and Miss Susan Hale, are of course very popular. .-.-s..zs,,..-
 All amateur artists should read Art for Young Folks. An elegant quarto with hun dreds of illustrations, practical directions and much general information. One of the most admirable books of it's kind is Helps by the Way. Reading in prose and verse for every day in the year, from all sources, with an in troduction by Phillips Brooks.
 Up Hill and Down Dale is very beautiful new quarto of The Illustrated Science Series. Overhead Underfoot and Eyes Right are is- sued in new covers uniform with this new volume.
 A new edition of Child Lore with sixty-four new pages and exquisite new cover is now ready.
 D. Lothrop & Co.'s Annuals for Young People scarcely need an introduction. They are brought out this year with covers that are works of Art, being perfect reproductions of exquisite water-color paintings, preserving their original pebbled appearance.
 Wide Awake T is handsomer than it's pre- decessors, it's frontispiece alone worth the price of the volume
 Our Little Men and Women for 1885 is more bright and winsome than ever.
 The Pansv for 1885 is storehouse of good things, including serials by Pansy and Mar garet Sidney.
 Chautauqua Young Folks Annual for 1885 is, at once, instructive, practical, and fasci- hating.
 Baby'and, always dainty and refined, is more beautiful this year than ever.
 These Annuals contain the choicest aud most costly Illustrations.
 Choice new books for young folks are Won der Stories of Science, Boy Life in the United Story for Children, by Elbridge s. Brooks, Boys Heroes, by E E. Hale, Children of Westmins CT Abbey, by Rose Kingsley, Dean Stanley with the Children, by Mrs. Francis A. Humphrey, 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, Plucl1y Boys Library, Discov- erers and Conquerors, Our Club Library and the Peace Island Series.
 Boys and girls as we'll as the 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 well known as to become household words, are The Chi Life Series, 25 vols. Fern Glen Series, 26 vols, and The Young Folks, 30 vols.
 Four volumes of the New Series Winter Evening Tales, now ready, are the best books in every particular for 75 cts. we have yet sien.
 Books of unusual merit have been added to the V. I. F. Series. The To-Day Library, The Reading Union Library, Lothrop's His torical Library, Spare Minute Series, and the Pansy Books, all of which should be specially noticed
 For fuller information send for D. Lotkrop & Co.'s catalogue. It contains list of Thousand Choice Books for Home and Town Books.
 D. Lothrop X Go. al>o publish five illus trated magazines for the family adapted to different ages. All bookse lers receive sub scriptiops for them.