Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-18
RR0ENT PUBLICATIONS.


 A. F. Blaisde1l, is properly an introduction to the masterpieces of Scott, and the evil dent purpose of the compiler, to produce a book which may serve as basis to thorough study of Scott's famous works. is well req 1ized. The selections and notes are from the best of the novels, and a careful reading of the book is likely to stimulate taste for a more extended review of the original novels. Lee & Shepard, Boston, publishers. For | sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. J. B. Lippincott & Co.,, of Philadelphia, publish neat set of four volumes of "Half Hours with the Best Foreign Authors" Volume one deals with Greek and Roman l authors. volume two with German volume ! three with French and volume four with Italian, Spanish, etc. The selections are made and arranged by Charles Morris, and much taste and discrimination are shown in the work The set would make @ valuable holiday gift. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 The Burrows Brothers company, Chicago, publish the Pocket Gem Pronouncing Dic~ tionary containing eleven thousand words in common use, valuable tables of weights, measures, etc. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "Spirit and Life," by Amory H. Brad ford, is a volume of sermons which will well repay careful reading. Published by Fords, Howard & Hubert, New York, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. Another valuable volume of sermons is entitled "Westminster and Other Sermons,' by Archbishop French. They are selected from sermons preached in Westminster Alb bsy and ia Ireland. Published by D. Apple ton & Co.,, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ssThe Advance Guard of Western Civili- zation," by James R. Gilmore (Edmund Kirke), is published by D. Appleton & Go. | It is a full narrative of an episode which is perhaps the most unique and remarkable in | American history. It is very readable and | instructive book. For sale in this city by ] Judd the bookseller.
 | A very gay little book tor children is 1 'Barnum's Circus, Museum and Menagerie," :" containing aa account, with striking illus 1 trations, of some of the wonders of the great moral show.
 s'Wide Awake' is the twenty fifth volume
 of D. Lothrop & Co.'s excellent magazine
 for the young. Two special articles in it
 make it 8 book to be placed in all libraries:
 ''The Boyhood Pursuits and Companions of | George Washington" !" by William F. Carne,
 of Alexandria, Va, and 'tThe Centennial of
 the Constitution" with fourteen historical I pictures made at Independence Hall, Phila- l delphia, and fac-similes of all the "signers' ,"
 names. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 One of the oldest books published this season, or any season for that matter, is
 ''The Hottentot Blue Book" sent out by 1 White & Allen, New York. It has one l hundred and eighteen illustrations, and both l they and the text are decidedly funny. The l same publishers give us more comic matter 1 in ''The Mott Street Paper Club' and ''The Thompson Street Paper Club" For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "Under the Greenwood Tree with Shake speare" is pretty little holiday book pub 1 lished by Dodd, Mead & Co.,, New York. 1 The selections and illustrations are by We'd 1 worth Wadsworth. Another book of the l same nature by the same compiler is "Thro' Wood and Field with Tennyson," also pub l lished by Dodd, Mead te Co. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 That charming ballad, "The Old Folks at
 Home," is published in charming form by | White & Allen, New York. It makes one of the prettiest little books of the season. For
 sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Dodd, Mead & Co.,, who have previously
 published ftBlue Jackets of '61" and ''Biue
 Jackets of 1S12," send out in the same gor-
 geous covering "Blue Jackets of '76," his-
 tory of the naval battles of the American
 revolution, together with a narrative of the
 war with Tripoli. The author, Willis J. Alb
 bot, has done his work well and the illustra-
 tions are fine. For sale in this city by Judd
 he bookseller.
 Three of the dsintiest publications for the
 holiday season are sent out by Lee & Shep
 ard, of Boston. These are "A Christmas
 Carol" by Dinah Maria Mulock; "A Friend Stands at the Door," by the same author
 and "All Around the Year." a unique calen. dar. The illustrations in these three books
 are by J. Pauline Sumter, and are worthy
 their setting. The same publishers do the 1 little folks 8 service, and not few of the
 older ones too, by publishing "The King o1
 the Golden River" by John Ruskin; ''Th'
 Last of the Huggernuggers, by Christopher
 Pearse Cranch; and "Kobbaltazo," a seque to the preceding, by the same author. TheJ
 are all we'll illustrated and are welcome little
 books. For sale in this city by Judd th'
 bookseller.
 "A Modern Adam and Eve in @ Garden,
 by Amanda Douglass, author of "A Woman Inheritance" "From Hand to Mouth" ant numerous other favorites of American Move I readers, is bright, fascinating story whicl 1 we'll sustains the authors reputation. It il | written in Miss Douglass easy, natural stylt
 and is full of interest to the end. Lee 6 Shepard, Boston, publishers. For sale il , this city by Judd the bookseller. ) "Fireslde Saints," by Douglass Jerrold, i @ collection of the spiciest writings of al
 author whose satire is sometimes as biting a
 one cares to read, but withal there is can } dor which comments itself to every thought 1 full reader. Several of the stories are exceed ingly pleasant to read and their variety add much to the readers interest in the collec tion. Lee & Shepard, Boston, publishers f 1 For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller l 'sWishing Gap Paper," another of tn , "Good Company Series" is the title of col lection of Lsigh Hunts stories and sketches which have appeared in various English pub 3 lications. The compiler has selected some o Mir. Hunts brightest pieces hitherto uncol , lected, aud the result Of his efforts is an at ! tractive little volume abounding in wit ant humor of no mean order. Lee & Shepard . Boston, publishers. For sale in this city b. . Judd the bookseller.
 sour Children and Their Friends" b, Evelyn Shepard, is collection of illustrates , short stories for very young folks. It is got
 ten up neatly printed in large type and
 well calculated to attract children who hay . just learned to read. Cassell & company :. New York, publishers. For sale in this cit by Judd the bookseller.
 esThe Stories Mother Nature Told" b
 Jane Andrews, is one of the numerous book
 published at this season for juvenile readers
 "Seven Little Sisters, "ren Boys Wh Q Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now 8 and other similar stories have been highl I recommended by the poet Whittier, and th : author needs no further introduction. Le & Shepard, Boston, publishers. For sal F by Judd the bookseller.
 - Broken Lights" and Religious Duty,