The National tribune., 1886-11-11


than this. What more could the story and
picture-loving six-year-olds ask for than this
charming volume, which fairly runs over with
good things. Seyenty-fve full-page illustra-
lions, and twice as many smaller ones. with the
jOlliest kind Of stories by choice contributors,
about all sorts Of things and all sorts of places,
with poetry Just such as will catch the ear and
fancy. Let the fathers and mothers who are
looking for bright book for the little ones.
turn over the leaves Of the bound volume Of
Little Men aud Women for 1856
THE CHILDREN OF THE WEEK New York:
Dodd, Mead 4 Co. Sold in Washington by Bal
lantyne.
A very delightful book for the little ones. 1t
contains a story for each day in the week, &" be-
ing the honest and only authentic account of
certain stories, as related by the Red Indian to
Alexander Selkirk, jr., herein truthfully set
down by William Theodore Peters. with pic
lures thereunto by Clinton Peters" The vol
ume is superbly gotten up. The illustrations
are prOfuse and exquisite.
BLUE JACKETS OF 81: n History of the Navy
in the War of Secession. by Willis J. Abbot.
New York: DOdd, Mead & Co. Sold in Wash
ington by Baantyne.
Too much cannot be said for this beautiful
volume. 1t is beyond praise. Ii is written in
style most attractive to young people, giving
all the important operations by the naval forces
of the United States during the war. 1t has a
wealth of illustrations, the large number Of
full page pictures being especially fine. The
hoys will devOur this book with avidity, and
when they get through it they will have learn
ed great deal.
BABYLAND FOR 1886. Boston: D. Lothrop &
Co. Price IS cents
If there is anything brighter, jolIier or pref
tier than the annual volume of Babyland"
we should like to see it. The stories are Just
such stories rs the babies can understand the
jinges are admirably suited TO baby's ears, and
the pictures furnish an inexhauStble source Of
delight to baby's eyes. The tales OF dogs and
kitties and good boys and naughty boys, and
rabbits, and dolls, and donkeys and the magic
pear which turns into elephants, and birds, and
frogs, the Crib Curtain stories, and the lovely
rhymes! Truly. Babyland" is as much a
necessity in a house where there is baby as
baby itself
WIDE AWAKE. Annual volume Boston: ID.
LOthrop * Co. Price Sf.75.
Half dozen years ago it seemed impossible
| for Wide Awake" to be more beautiful or
| more attractive, yet year after year it has gone
on, adding new features and developing old
ones, until it seems at last excellence can no
| further GO Its wealth of stories, sketches
poetry and illustrations furnishes an mex
| haustible reservoir of entertainment and iu-
| struction for the members of the family circle
/ old as well rs young and it's monthly visit is
/ like ray of golden sunshine in the household.
/ 1t has among its contributors many of our best
/ known writers, and nothing more bright, pure,
| instructive and attractive can be placed in the
| hands of our youth.
Sis.
The readers for whom "Pansy" is specially
| prepared are too young to thoroughly enjoy and
| appreciate Wide Awake and too old for Baby
| land. They want stories, and they want to
| ahn tbss nj nd
places in the world, just as much their big
brothers and sisters, and this is what Mrs. AL
! den, who knows just what they like and just
what they can understand provides for them in
"Pansy." She believes they are entitled to
the best that can be had and she spares no
pains in securing it. The IL numbers for the
present year have been put into beautiful
cover, and make, altogether. one of the hand
soonest volumes Of the year.
FRANCATELLTs MODERN COOK. BY Charles
Elme Francatelli. Reprinted from the 18th Lon
don edition Philadelphia: Il. b. Peterson &
Bros. Price s..
This is perhaps the best and most complete
cook book in the world. 1t comprises. in adj
diton to English cookery the most approved
systems of French, Italian and German cook
cry. adapted for the use of all cooks and fami-
lies, large or small. as well as for all hotels
restaurants. cake bakers, eonfectioncrs, club:
and boarding houses-in fact, for all place:
Wnerc COOKING Is requlreus Wnlle at the same
time, all who use it, as well as every lady and
every family. large or small. will save money
by referring TO its pages 1t is a large rOya
octave volume of 600 pages, printed on tinteC
paper and strongly bound in beveled boards
making it the largest and most complete work
on all kinds of cookery, of various dishes an(
bills of fare for every day in the year ever pub
lished.
NOTES.
DIR. John S. Newberry, the distinguished
Professor of Geology in Columbia College, will
open the November number of The Popular Sci
eHee Monthly with the story of the great ancien
ice-sheet which once covered half our continent
and which, more than any other single cause
gave to it its present surface eon!iguratiOn
With the aid of illustrations the record left by
this mighty agency of the past is very clearly
interpreted for the general reader, who will
obtain from the account insight into tn,
mode Of working of Natures forces that only
years of special study could afford.
WOrthington's Company announce WOrthing
toms Annual for the approaching holiday season
Ii is out in gOC time, and it will certainly
| suSf1in the renutqtinn which ha uravinua unI