Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-18

This season one of their greatest sue
ceeses is an oblong book, containing ex-
uuisite illustrations in color and mono
tint, entitled Earth's Sweet Voice, by
Fred E. Weatherly, Clifton Bingham
and others = while the monochrome
drawings are selected and arranged by
Robert Ellice Mack.
The Beautiful World, by Helen F.
Wood, Helen Maude Warthman, and
Ethel Dawson is another book OF poems,
similar in content and illustrations, is-
sued by the same publishers. The COM
binations of expert artist printers are
such as to produce results that lead to
covetousness on the part OF the pur-
chaser. Some of the selections are the
well-known poems, At the Ferry, and
River Music. The Chlldren's Flower
Service forms a great contrast to the
Snow Storm. The most exquisite OF all
is The Day is Done, by Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow, in an elaborate dark
brown binding, the illustrations are in
keeping with the text, and make it one
of the desirable books of the season.
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Lee & Shepard can cater as we'll to the
elders as they can to the children, and
this year we welcome their new book,
which is decidedly artistic, er titled Sun
Prints in Sky Tints, by that noted
artist, Irene E. jerome, composed of
over 80 poems selected from the popular
poets, illustrated with her graceful draw
ings, all printed in blue and bound in a
pretty blue and gray cover, with decors-
tions of corn flowers.
AS we remember the holidays OF our
youth, how many of us associate with it
sleigh rides, SNOWFALL fights and snow
men and snow forts. Away back In the
central states or New England's hills
we are dreaming, and visions OF hap Ply
days gone by are fitting before our hail
closed eyes. A beautiful picture, or
series of pictures, are given in The New
England Country, text and illustrations
by Clifton johnson, published by the
above named firm. New England is
not perfect" says Mr.. johnson, "but
once to have known is always to love 1T,
no matter how far one wanders
or how fair new regions open
before ones eyes. Its changing
seasons, its rugged hills and tumbling
streams, it's winding roadways, its viii
lagos and little farms, cling to the
memory and sing siren songs OF entlce-
ment. Nature is sometimes harsh, but
che has many moods and nowhere more
than here; and if harsh sometimes, she
is at'other times exceedingly sweet. In
cold eer heat, storm or sunshine, New
England's rough fields are still the true
Arcadia to her sons and daughters
There are four divisions to the work,
varieusly entitled Old Times on New
England Farm, The New England of
Today, New England as the Traveller
Sees It and Camping Among the New
England Hills. Each is q complete and
charming picture of old and new times
in a section endeared by birth or asso-
citation to multitude in all parts OF the
country. Landscape, the changes OF
season, firm habits and methods, do
mestic aud social life, religious condi-
tiens, domestic industries, the old time
ways and the new time problems are all
presented in the narrative. The illus
trations are very generously distributed
and include old fire places of 30 years
ago, old fans and back combs, a loom,
the fax wheel, river boat before the
days of railroads, reels and all the ia
miliar object of home and farm life, and
crowning this is series forming q
charming collection of soft. dreamy
views of New England hills and valleys,
ferests and fields. The Fsllow Field,
from the same publishers, and
composed OF the word pictures, by Mrs.
Julia G. R. Dorr, of the country around
her home in Rutland, VT, and excel
lent reproductions of the charcoal illus,
trations by her daughter, Mrs. Tulma
de Lacy Steele, bound in neat green
cover with gold lettering, is a poem
purely ideal, and suggests what words
cannot adequately express. The reader
who is born with the power of poetic
perception feels what the lines convey,
and yet might find it difficult to frame
fer it what poets in former time called
an argument"
Raphael Tuck q Sons most successful
book in the finely illustrated ones is
The Arabian Nights. arranged by Helen
Marian Burnside and illustrated by w.
+. Brundage and J. Willis Grey. 1t in
cludes The Three Apples, Sinbad the
Sailor, The Queen of Beauty, .Alladin,
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the
Story of Habib, and The Enchanted
Horse. The workmanship on the Illus
trations is probably tine most artistic of
any work in colors produced this year.
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Harper Il Bros. selected in the early
fall avery desirable book for illustra-
tion for the poliday season. 1t was Prue
and L, and for the first time George
William Curtis dainty prose idyl has
been given a setting worthy of it's
graceful poetical text. While the
volume is beautiful specimen of book
making that will strongly tempt the
Christmas buyer, it is called upon to fill
a sad and unexpected Office as souve-
mir and remembrance of one of os,r rmost
widely loved and admired literary men,
the late editor of the Easy Chair in
Harper's Magazine. Prue and repre-
sents one of Mr., Curtis earliest literary
efforts, having appeared az series OF
papers in Putnam's Magazine o.er-40
years ago. The illustrations are by Mr..
Sterner and are 100 in number, includ-
ing frontispiece in tints, and appear as
full page pictures, or are set in the read
ing matter in novel and attractive
styles. They artistically interpret all
the little domestic and romantic pic
lures of Mr.. Curtis social idvl. The
binding of illuminated silk in pale green
ia new and beautiful. Altogether it ina
presses one with the same delightful
sensation that comes to the busy city
man when he seeks peace and quiet in
the most charming hauuts of nature.
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Houghton, Miffiin & Co. are publish
ing this season a splendid edition of
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, by Henry