Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-13
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

uted to s'Our Young Folks" and ''St.
Nicholas" +" and were received with great and
increasing applause until the unfortunate
Mrs. Peterkin, who put salt in her coffee,
and the benignant lady from Philadelphia,
and the sapient Solomon John and Agamem-
non, and Elizabeth Eliza, and the two little
boys with rubber boots became familiar
characters in thousands of happy households.
In 1880 these funny stories were brought out
in book form and have since passed through
several editions. In response to the general
demand Ticknor & Co. have issued new
edition, which will take conspicuous place
among the holiday books for children and
the lovers of children. The cover is con-
spicuous with the representation of Mrs. Pc
terkin and her coffee, the struggle of the
family with their summer resort trunk and
the worthy hv-to-be-remembered rubber boots.
The new edition contains new paper, "The
Peterkins at the Farm one of the most
funny of the whole series. The writer is
the sister of Edward Everett Hale. Ticknor
& Co., publishers, Boston. For sale in this
city by Judd the bookseller.
"The Children of the Week." being the
honest and only authentic account of GER
tain stories as related by the Red Indian to
Alexander Selkirk, jr., herein truthfully set
down by William Theodore Peters. The
work includes an introduction: ''The Fall
of the Great Chung Kee," Mondays story;
tThe Christmas Party in the Back Yard and
Who Were Invited" Tuesdays story; "The
Grammar Court Wednesdays story; esThe
Laughing Gas Brownies" Thursdays story;
81. Frost, ESQ.," Fridays story: "The An
gel and the Pansies, +" Saturdays story; "Tiny
Link" Sundays story and conclusion. The
stories amusing and well illustrated with
numerous drawings and sketches. It will be
valuable book for the amusement of the
young It will fix their attention for hours.
nodd, Mead & Co., publishers. For sale in
this city by Judd the bookseller.
'sThe Blue Jackets of '61' is a history of
the navy in the war of secession, by Willis
J. Abbott. It is an excellent history for
boys, printed in large, clear type and fur
nished with admirable illustrations by W.
G. Jackson. Beginning with the opening of
the conflict, the work progresses in detail
through the navy skirmishes and expedi-
tions to the fall of Fort Fisher and the COM
pletion of the navy's work. The blockade
runners, the work of the cruisers, the histo-
ry of iron-clad vessels, the blockade and con-
hicts, furnish ample resources for the de-
scriptive power of the author to do its work,
and the illustrations it would seem could
not be better. There are nineteen chapters
in the work, with nearly sixty illustrations.
The cover of the book is very tasty, being
made of blue canvas with part of vessels
nainsail in white canvas set in it. Every
boy should have the book and older people
will find it to be attractive and interesting.
Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers, New York.
For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
'sThe Boys Book of Sports and Outdoor
Life" edited by Maurice Thompson, is
book which aims to give the boys and youth
of America volume of healthful amuse-
ment as we'll as of useful instruction. The
story of "Marvin and His Boy Hunters"
which opens the volume, was prepared for
the purpose of teachiny boys how to proper
ly use the shotgun. The rules are safe and
valuable-just what the beginner needs.
All bows cannot become successful natural
ists but all can improve and enjoy life to a
greater or less extent. With this in mind
the editor has striven to put into his book
the cheer and help of bright spirit and the
purity of an outdoor atmosphere, SO that his
readers feel the influence of wind and sun
and water, of woods and of birds. Nothing
in the book encourages idleness; harmless
fun only is INDUCED in and vigorous exercise
in the open air is approved. The articles
are all written by experts and illustrated by
eminent artists. The boys will find much in
the book to interest, amuse and instruct
them and nothing that can have bad effect
in any way. The Century Co., publishers,
New York For sale in this city by Judd
the bookseller.
''Uncle Bayard's Banner" is story of the
days of chi 'alry, by Henry Firth, author of
s'For Queen and King" son the Wings of
the Wind" etc. In it are combined features
of war and peace, of love and romance and
historical facts. The author has succeeded
in crowding half days enjoyable reading
into four hundred pages. The days of chiv-
airy should be more or less familiar to every
i - -
ascertaining the main features of those days
from this thread of story. great deal of
it is fiction; the characters and chain of Sc
quence are evidently manufactured and the
points of detail are absent. It gives, how
ever, in light reading good general con sep-
tion of the subject which constitutes its title
Boys will be delighted with it. The book is
all that its author seems to claim for 1t.
Cassell & Co., publishers, New York. For
sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
Footprints in the Forest" by Edward S.
Ellis, author of 'eNed in the Block-House,"
stNed in the Woods" "Ned on the River"
etc., and ''Helping Himself, or Grant Thorn
toms Ambition by Horatio Alger, jr., au-
thor of 'fRagged Dick, +" "Tattered Tom,"
ETC., are excellent stories of adventure and
travel for boys. The authors are well known
by their series of books, with which every
boy Ia familiar. The stories are of high
moral tone and combine scenes of the de-
scription of country and of character. The
illustrations are to the point and the tales
throughout are lively and full of interest.
No boy can be lured away from either of
them until he has read the entire story. The
startling situations will furnish food for
thought for long time. Porter & Coates,
publishers, Philadelphia. For sale in this
city by Judd the bookseller.
-sFellow Travellers a story by Edward
Fuller, is work abounding in interesting
chapters. The general outline of the tale
can be read in its title. ttThe Young Man
From Salem" "Miss Damon at Home" "Ep-
isode at Posett," etc., are chapters which
mark the steps in the first part of the plot.
From these it is carried on to an enjoyable
crisis. There is enough of humor to sustain
interest and enough of seriousness to make
it profitable. Readers OF light fiction will
thoroughly enjoy it. Cupples, Upham &
Co., publishers, Boston. For sale in this
city by Judd the bookseller
'tKlaus Brewers Wife," from the German
of Paul Lindan, by Clara S. Fleishman, is
the latest work in the Leisure Hour series
published by Henry Holt & Co. AS all the
novels in this series, this one is exciting and